●● IRC: #boycottnovell-social and #techpol @ Techrights IRC Network: Monday, August 31, 2026 ●● ● Aug 31 [00:42] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [00:46] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@xk49uzi5amp4u.irc) has joined #boycottnovell-social [00:56] *MinceR has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [00:58] *MinceR (~mincer@bringer.of.light) has joined #boycottnovell-social [00:58] *irc.techrights.org sets mode +a #boycottnovell-social MinceR ● Aug 31 [02:40] TR News Yesterday's #boycottnovell IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-300826.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-300826.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-300826.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-300826.txt [02:40] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | IRC: #boycottnovell @ Techrights IRC Network: Sunday, August 30, 2026 [02:41] TR News Yesterday's #techbytes IRC logs ready. 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HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-300826.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-300826.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techrights-300826.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techrights-300826.txt [02:43] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | IRC: #techrights @ Techrights IRC Network: Sunday, August 30, 2026 [02:49] *croissant (~croissant@ivwkextkdrzau.irc) has joined #boycottnovell-social [02:50] TR News Yesterday's Tux Machines bulletin is now ready! : http://news.tuxmachines.org/txt-archives/tuxmachines-2026-08-30.txt [02:50] *croissant` has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) ● Aug 31 [04:09] TR News "After accidentally nuking my backup [1] on the homelab and booting to a live USB, I decided I might as well reinstall my OS. It might seem heavy-handed, but I was planning on moving to NixOS at some point, and my server was already down, anyway." gemini://fwdudu.smol.pub/20260830gemini://fwdudu.smol.pub/20260830 [04:10] TR News "See I always wanted to make that old smelly thing useful again but if you ever had the joy of working on an EEE PC you'll know just how much of a hassle that can be. The poor thing barely has any juice in it." gemini://hwaldar.gemcities.com/blog/aug30.gmi [04:11] TR News "I publish very little online compared to how much I write in my notebooks and journals. I sometimes wonder why I even bother publishing anything online at all. I think I yearn to connect with people, despite for the most part being uninterested in a huge swathe of people I do encounter." gemini://buster.smol.pub/posting-online [04:12] TR News wellspring gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/wellspring [04:13] TR News Yesterday, we went to see the Rosenlaui gorge. Sadly, the thunderous roar cannot be heard in this blog post." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2026-08-29-rosenlaui [04:17] TR News Techrights https://techrights.org/ | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/ [04:17] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights [04:17] TR News Techrights Gemini Links 31/08/2026: Holidays, Stream of Consciousness, and Posting Online https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/31/Gemini_Links_31_08_2026_Holidays_Stream_of_Consciousness_and_Po.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/31/Gemini_Links_31_08_2026_Holidays_Stream_of_Consciousness_and_Po.gmi [04:17] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Gemini Links 31/08/2026: Holidays, Stream of Consciousness, and Posting Online [04:19] TR News Techrights IRC Proceedings: Sunday, August 30, 2026 https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/31/IRC_Proceedings_Sunday_August_30_2026.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/31/IRC_Proceedings_Sunday_August_30_2026.gmi [04:19] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights IRC Proceedings: Sunday, August 30, 2026 [04:20] TR News (NEW): Today in Techrights https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/31/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/31/Today_in_Techrights.gmi [04:20] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Today in Techrights [04:20] TR News Kernel prepatch 7.3-rc1 https://lwn.net/Articles/1091421/ [04:20] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Kernel prepatch 7.3-rc1 [LWN.net] [04:20] TR News Techrights Over at Tux Machines... https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/31/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/31/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi [04:20] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Over at Tux Machines... [04:30] TR News Techrights Richard Stallman Speaks to Christine Hall of FOSS Force, stallman.org is Down for Over a Day https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/31/Richard_Stallman_Speaks_to_Christine_Hall_of_FOSS_Force_stallma.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/31/Richard_Stallman_Speaks_to_Christine_Hall_of_FOSS_Force_stallma.gmi [04:30] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Richard Stallman Speaks to Christine Hall of FOSS Force, stallman.org is Down for Over a Day [04:43] TR News (NEW): OpenShot 4.0 Open-Source Video Editor Officially Released, Heres Whats New https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/31/OpenShot_4_0_Open_Source_Video_Editor_Officially_Released_Here_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/31/OpenShot_4_0_Open_Source_Video_Editor_Officially_Released_Here_.gmi [04:43] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines OpenShot 4.0 Open-Source Video Editor Officially Released, Heres Whats New [04:54] TR News Distribution Release: DragonOS Resolute_R1 https://sourceforge.net/projects/dragonos-focal/files/ [04:54] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://sourceforge.net/projects/dragonos-focal/files/ ) [04:55] TR News 500,000 US Retirees See Social Security Cheques Cut Each Year Because of This Little-Known Rule https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/understanding-retirement-earnings-test-impact-social-security-1816465 [04:55] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.ibtimes.co.uk | 500,000 US Retirees See Social Security Cheques Cut Each Year Because of This Little-Known Rule | IBTimes UK [04:56] TR News Can baby monitors protect children without https://theconversation.com/can-baby-monitors-protect-children-without-data-security-risks-290094 [04:56] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-theconversation.com | Can baby monitors protect children without data security risks? [04:56] TR News When it comes to email, "almost all anti-spam measures have worked intentionally or unintentionally towards extreme centralization." [04:58] TR News procrastinate https://theconversation.com/the-real-reasons-you-procrastinate-and-how-to-stop-according-to-science-289818 [04:58] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-theconversation.com | The real reasons you procrastinate and how to stop, according to science [04:58] TR News Could Mecha Comet's Linux PC-Phone Hybrid Be the Future of Linux Smartphones? https://linux.slashdot.org/story/26/08/24/0228216/could-mecha-comets-linux-pc-phone-hybrid-be-the-future-of-linux-smartphones [04:59] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-linux.slashdot.org | Could Mecha Comet's Linux PC-Phone Hybrid Be the Future of Linux Smartphones? - Slashdot [04:59] TR News CO Successor Xinuos Asks Court to Rehear Its Claims Against IBM/Red Hat Over Project Monterey ttps://linux.slashdot.org/story/26/08/24/037241/sco-successor-xinuos-asks-court-to-rehear-its-claims-against-ibmred-hat-over-project-monterey [04:59] TR News Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (34/2026): Amazing Progress https://linmob.net/weekly-update-34-2026/ [04:59] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-LINMOB.net - Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (34/2026): Amazing Progress [04:59] TR News China Joins Europe In Scrapping Windows For Linux https://linux.slashdot.org/story/26/08/21/2158246/china-joins-europe-in-scrapping-windows-for-linux [04:59] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-linux.slashdot.org | China Joins Europe In Scrapping Windows For Linux - Slashdot ● Aug 31 [05:31] TR News "Apple eliminates over 200 positions at Vision Pro" [05:33] TR News CPerl mode for Emacs is now on GNU ELPA https://blogs.perl.org/users/haj/2026/08/cperl-mode-for-emacs-is-now-on-gnu-elpa.html [05:33] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-CPerl mode for Emacs is now on GNU ELPA | haj [blogs.perl.org] [05:34] TR News War and Climate Breakdown: We owe Children More https://scheerpost.com/2026/08/26/war-and-climate-breakdown-we-owe-children-more/ [05:34] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-scheerpost.com | War and Climate Breakdown: We owe Children More [05:34] TR News climate-driven labor crisis https://www.dw.com/en/india-assam-tea-industry-faces-climate-driven-labor-crisis/a-78506414 [05:35] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.dw.com | India: Assam tea industry faces climate-driven labor crisis [05:35] TR News Climate minister distances herself from Lolland gas pipeline project in jeopardy https://cphpost.dk/2026-08-25/news/round-up/climate-minister-distances-herself-lolland-gas-pipeline-project-in-jeopardy/ [05:35] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-HTTP/2 stream 1 was not closed cleanly: PROTOCOL_ERROR (err 1) ( status 0 @ https://cphpost.dk/2026-08-25/news/round-up/climate-minister-distances-herself-lolland-gas-pipeline-project-in-jeopardy/ ) [05:41] TR News Not normal https://www.dw.com/en/no-this-wasn-t-a-completely-normal-summer-despite-far-right-climate-denial/a-78513682 https://www.thelocal.se/20260825/were-heading-for-catastrophe-the-summer-climate-change-hit-europe [05:41] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.dw.com | Was the heat of this summer really 'normal?' [05:41] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.thelocal.se | 'We're heading for catastrophe': The summer climate change hit Europe [05:42] TR News MAGA censorship https://jacobin.com/2026/08/woke-cancel-culture-maga-censorship [05:42] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-jacobin.com | If Woke 1 Was Crazy, MAGA Woke Is Absolutely Insane [05:42] TR News Vietnam's heavily censored internet https://www.dw.com/en/why-starlink-won-t-open-vietnam-s-heavily-censored-internet/a-78494983 [05:42] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.dw.com | Why Starlink won't open Vietnam's heavily censored internet [05:43] TR News Fired Federal Employees Are Bringing Climate Change Info Back to the People https://truthout.org/articles/fired-federal-employees-are-bringing-climate-change-info-back-to-the-people/ [05:43] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-truthout.org | Fired Federal Employees Are Bringing Climate Change Info Back to the People | Truthout [05:43] TR News Climate-Driven Droughts https://truthout.org/articles/climate-driven-droughts-may-be-accelerating-the-spread-of-infectious-diseases/ [05:43] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-truthout.org | Climate-Driven Droughts May Be Accelerating the Spread of Infectious Diseases | Truthout [05:44] TR News IN PICTURES: Record-breaking climate march draws 50,000 to streets of Stockholm https://www.thelocal.se/20260824/in-pictures-record-breaking-climate-march-draws-50000-to-streets-of-stockholm https://www.thelocal.se/20260823/thousands-expected-at-sweden-climate-demo-as-election-looms [05:44] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.thelocal.se | IN PICTURES: Record-breaking climate march draws 50,000 to streets of Stockholm [05:44] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.thelocal.se | Thousands expected at Sweden climate demo as election looms [05:46] TR News Barcelona https://bianet.org/haber/activist-jailed-in-turkey-over-anti-nato-summit-in-barcelona-322869 [05:46] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-bianet.org | Activist jailed in Turkey over anti-NATO summit in Barcelona ● Aug 31 [06:04] TR News Techrights German Government Sponsors IBM Because of GNU/Linux https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/31/German_Government_Sponsors_IBM_Because_of_GNU_Linux.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/31/German_Government_Sponsors_IBM_Because_of_GNU_Linux.gmi [06:04] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights German Government Sponsors IBM Because of GNU/Linux [06:05] TR News "Will the cuts be planned to complete ahead of 4Q2026? Do we expect cuts, whether as RA or PIP, to take effect (i.e. victim out of the company) at the end of September, before the start of 4Q2026? If so, when would the people affected likely find out?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m1ank8fd [06:05] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m1ank8fd ) [06:06] TR News Austin game developers push for union contract amid Microsoft's Xbox layoffs https://www.kxan.com/video/austin-game-developers-push-for-union-contract-amid-microsofts-xbox-layoffs/12118484/ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/30/Microsoft_Layoffs_Perpetual_But_Silent_People_Pushed_Out_Using_.shtml [06:06] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.kxan.com/video/austin-game-developers-push-for-union-contract-amid-microsofts-xbox-layoffs/12118484/ ) [06:06] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Microsoft Layoffs Perpetual But Silent, People Pushed Out Using Pressure or Incentive Schemes [06:15] TR News (NEW): Californias Age Attestation Bill to Exclude Linux and All Open Source OSes https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/31/California_s_Age_Attestation_Bill_to_Exclude_Linux_and_All_Open.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/31/California_s_Age_Attestation_Bill_to_Exclude_Linux_and_All_Open.gmi [06:15] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Californias Age Attestation Bill to Exclude Linux and All Open Source OSes [06:43] TR News 990 Days https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/31/990-days/ [06:43] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-schestowitz.com Blog Archive 990 Days [06:44] TR News "The Reg reports that only 450 of 600 votes in Debian were accepted. What kind of filtering is that? Can Daniel explain the intrigue going on?" [06:52] TR News Mass Layoffs at Microsoft Every Month https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/31/mass-layoffs-at-microsoft-every-month/ [06:52] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-schestowitz.com Blog Archive Mass Layoffs at Microsoft Every Month [06:58] TR News Injustice [06:59] TR News Richard Stallman: LLMs Lack Intelligence, Do Injustice https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/31/richard-stallman-llms-lack-intelligence-do-injustice/ [06:59] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-schestowitz.com Blog Archive Richard Stallman: LLMs Lack Intelligence, Do Injustice ● Aug 31 [07:02] TR News (NEW): Debian Project Formalizes Responsible Use of Generative AI https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/31/Debian_Project_Formalizes_Responsible_Use_of_Generative_AI.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/31/Debian_Project_Formalizes_Responsible_Use_of_Generative_AI.gmi [07:02] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Debian Project Formalizes Responsible Use of Generative AI [07:12] TR News Techrights SLAPP Censorship - Part 167 Out of 200: The Court of Appeal Might be the Next Step https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/31/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_167_Out_of_200_The_Court_of_Appeal_Might_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/31/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_167_Out_of_200_The_Court_of_Appeal_Might_.gmi [07:12] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights SLAPP Censorship - Part 167 Out of 200: The Court of Appeal Might be the Next Step [07:33] *Now talking on #boycottnovell-social [07:33] *Topic for #boycottnovell-social is: TechRights.org | Channel #boycottnovell-social for http://TechRights.org | Communication about anything, including Microsoft, Novell, and Free software :: please also join channels #techrights and #boycottnovell [07:33] *Topic for #boycottnovell-social set by schestowitz!~roy@haii6za73zabc.irc at Tue Jun 1 20:22:37 2021 [07:34] TR News (NEW): Review: The littlest web server https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/31/Review_The_littlest_web_server.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/31/Review_The_littlest_web_server.gmi [07:34] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Review: The littlest web server [07:35] *Now talking on #boycottnovell-social [07:35] *coulomb.oftc.net sets mode +n #boycottnovell-social [07:35] *coulomb.oftc.net sets mode +t #boycottnovell-social [07:35] *Now talking on #boycottnovell-social [07:35] TR News (NEW): vArch-OS Arch Linux-based distribution https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/31/vArch_OS_Arch_Linux_based_distribution.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/31/vArch_OS_Arch_Linux_based_distribution.gmi [07:35] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines vArch-OS Arch Linux-based distribution [07:35] *Now talking on #boycottnovell-social [07:40] TR News (NEW): 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: August 30th, 2026 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/31/9to5Linux_Weekly_Roundup_August_30th_2026.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/31/9to5Linux_Weekly_Roundup_August_30th_2026.gmi [07:40] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: August 30th, 2026 [07:49] TR News (NEW): Best Free and Open Source Software, and many more https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/31/Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Software_and_many_more.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/31/Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Software_and_many_more.gmi [07:49] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Best Free and Open Source Software, and many more ● Aug 31 [08:03] TR News Politicians Dont Understand Kids https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/31/politicians-dont-understand-kids/ [08:03] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-schestowitz.com Blog Archive Politicians Dont Understand Kids [08:07] TR News (NEW): GNOME Sushi File Previewer 51 RC Released with More Functions https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/31/GNOME_Sushi_File_Previewer_51_RC_Released_with_More_Functions.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/31/GNOME_Sushi_File_Previewer_51_RC_Released_with_More_Functions.gmi [08:07] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines GNOME Sushi File Previewer 51 RC Released with More Functions [08:11] TR News Techrights In the UK, Bing (Microsoft) Down to Lowest Level Since January https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/31/In_the_UK_Bing_Microsoft_Down_to_Lowest_Level_Since_January.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/31/In_the_UK_Bing_Microsoft_Down_to_Lowest_Level_Since_January.gmi [08:11] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights In the UK, Bing (Microsoft) Down to Lowest Level Since January [08:17] TR News (NEW): Linux is great for laptops, but it still struggles with these 5 hardware features https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/31/Linux_is_great_for_laptops_but_it_still_struggles_with_these_5_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/31/Linux_is_great_for_laptops_but_it_still_struggles_with_these_5_.gmi [08:17] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Linux is great for laptops, but it still struggles with these 5 hardware features [08:22] TR News (NEW): Microsoft said I cant install Windows 11 on my device, so I installed Linux instead https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/31/Microsoft_said_I_can_t_install_Windows_11_on_my_device_so_I_ins.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/31/Microsoft_said_I_can_t_install_Windows_11_on_my_device_so_I_ins.gmi [08:22] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Microsoft said I cant install Windows 11 on my device, so I installed Linux instead [08:25] TR News Another Year of Karma https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/31/another-year-of-karma/ [08:25] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-schestowitz.com Blog Archive Another Year of Karma [08:25] TR News (NEW): 3 tasks that are still easier on Linux than Windows https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/31/3_tasks_that_are_still_easier_on_Linux_than_Windows.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/31/3_tasks_that_are_still_easier_on_Linux_than_Windows.gmi [08:25] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines 3 tasks that are still easier on Linux than Windows [08:29] TR News (NEW): You need to try GNOME 50it's the most polished and impressive Linux desktop today https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/31/You_need_to_try_GNOME_50_it_s_the_most_polished_and_impressive_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/31/You_need_to_try_GNOME_50_it_s_the_most_polished_and_impressive_.gmi [08:29] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines You need to try GNOME 50it's the most polished and impressive Linux desktop today [08:30] TR News (NEW): 7 commands you should never run on Linux https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/31/7_commands_you_should_never_run_on_Linux.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/31/7_commands_you_should_never_run_on_Linux.gmi [08:30] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines 7 commands you should never run on Linux [08:33] TR News Nobody is Born Into Activism https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/31/nobody-is-born-into-activism/ [08:33] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-schestowitz.com Blog Archive Nobody is Born Into Activism [08:35] TR News Site of RMS still offline. It does not use a complicated stack, those are just static pages. [08:41] TR News (NEW): : Google Android Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/31/Android_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/31/Android_Leftovers.gmi [08:41] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Android Leftovers [08:56] TR News Techrights Essentiality of Rest and Killing Oneself for Vicious Companies https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/31/Essentiality_of_Rest_and_Killing_Oneself_for_Vicious_Companies.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/31/Essentiality_of_Rest_and_Killing_Oneself_for_Vicious_Companies.gmi [08:56] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Essentiality of Rest and Killing Oneself for Vicious Companies [08:59] TR News "Through the Motion Picture Association, anti-piracy coalition ACE has requested two DMCA subpoenas at California federal courts." https://torrentfreak.com/ace-targets-dozens-of-streaming-pirates-through-cloudflare-and-discord-subpoenas/ | Source: Torrent Freak [08:59] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-ACE Targets Dozens of Streaming Pirates Through Cloudflare and Discord Subpoenas * TorrentFreak ● Aug 31 [09:01] TR News Software Patents https://alexwlchan.net/2026/cat-confusion/ | Source: Alex Chan [09:01] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-alexwlchan.net | Why cant you combine .tar.gz files with cat? alexwlchan [09:01] TR News Digital Restrictions (DRM) https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/30/your-next-fan-may-never-search-for-you/ | Source: Digital Music News [09:01] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/30/your-next-fan-may-never-search-for-you/ ) [09:02] TR News "At 10:15 this morning I added a small feature to hofstede.it, my static personal website." https://blog.hofstede.it/i-wanted-an-ipv4-toast-and-accidentally-built-an-ip-service/ | Source: Christian Hofstede-Kuhn [09:02] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.hofstede.it | I Wanted an IPv4 Toast and Accidentally Built an IP Service | Larvitz Blog [09:16] TR News Techrights Debian Project Discards About 25% of the Votes on LLM Slop, Microsoft Votes in the General Resolution (GR) https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/31/Debian_Project_Discards_About_25_of_the_Votes_on_LLM_Slop_Micro.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/31/Debian_Project_Discards_About_25_of_the_Votes_on_LLM_Slop_Micro.gmi [09:16] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Debian Project Discards About 25% of the Votes on LLM Slop, Microsoft Votes in the General Resolution (GR) [09:20] TR News "Native American tribes who say construction is violating property rights and desecrating sacred Indigenous sites." https://www.lonestarlive.com/native-american-news/2026/08/trump-administration-starts-building-border-wall-project-in-arizona-over-tribes-objections.html | Source: Advance Local Media LLC [09:20] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.lonestarlive.com/native-american-news/2026/08/trump-administration-starts-building-border-wall-project-in-arizona-over-tribes-objections.html ) [09:21] TR News "The US government wrote off almost all the money it lent businesses during the pandemic." https://jacobin.com/2026/08/student-debt-trump-mcmahon-save-plan | Source: Jacobin Magazine [09:21] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-jacobin.com | The American Plutocracy Wants Workers Trapped in Debt [09:22] TR News "As The Economist points out, the scenario today is different. The predicted mass destruction of jobs coincides, in fact, with historically high employment." https://jacobin.com/2026/08/ai-job-loss-wages-capital | Source: Jacobin Magazine [09:22] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-jacobin.com | AI Isnt Coming for Our Jobs. Its Coming for Our Wages. [09:23] TR News "On Friday, U.S. District Judge Nol Wise ruled that statutes which Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the federal government used to deport legal immigrants" https://stanforddaily.com/2026/08/29/stanford-daily-wins-free-speech-suit/ | Source: Stanford University [09:23] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-stanforddaily.com | Stanford Daily wins free speech lawsuit against Trump admin [09:23] TR News "But during his second term, those attacks have increasingly been accompanied by demands for government action against the outlets responsible." https://www.salon.com/2026/08/30/trumps-answer-to-bad-press-fcc-to-the-rescue/ | Source: Salon [09:23] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Trumps answer to bad press? FCC TO THE RESCUE! - Salon.com [09:26] TR News "Rights groups have warned that recent opposition arrests risk further narrowing political space in Zambia." https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/zambias-opposition-leader-charged-with-treason-791290815 | Source: RTL [09:26] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-today.rtl.lu | Zambia's opposition leader charged with treason - RTL Today [09:27] TR News "attracting venture capital funding for their startups in a move that echoes the rise of celebrity-backed businesses." https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/funding/social-media-influencers-don-entrepreneurial-hat-launch-vc-backed-consumer-brands/articleshow/133616136.cms | Source: India Times [09:27] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-economictimes.indiatimes.com | Social media influencers don entrepreneurial hat; launch VC-backed consumer brands - The Economic Times [09:28] TR News "A pro-Israel messaging website badged with the name of a thinktank that does not exist has published more than half a million words in nine days" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/26/fake-thinktank-israel-ai-propaganda | Source: The Guardian UK [09:28] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.theguardian.com | Fake US thinktank set up and funded by Israel sought to game AI for propaganda | Israel | The Guardian [09:28] TR News "Serbia has become an oasis for Russian propaganda. Pro-Russian narratives are spread not only through official Russian media but also through a complex web of aggregator websites, which often serve the interests of the Serbian authorities." https://www.rferl.org/a/how-kremlin-propaganda-is-spreading-through-serbia/33841742.html | Source: RFERL [09:28] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.rferl.org | How Kremlin Propaganda Is Spreading Through Serbia [09:40] TR News General Resolution: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board. GR voted on ALSO by Microsoft staff. [09:53] TR News Techrights Stallman Has Explained Slop is "Marketing Hype Campaign" and Torvalds Agreed. The Difference is the Bribes. https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/31/Stallman_Has_Explained_Slop_is_Marketing_Hype_Campaign_and_Torv.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/31/Stallman_Has_Explained_Slop_is_Marketing_Hype_Campaign_and_Torv.gmi [09:53] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Stallman Has Explained Slop is "Marketing Hype Campaign" and Torvalds Agreed. The Difference is the Bribes. [09:56] TR News "In Europe, there is an ongoing public discussion about how the continent can keep up in global race to stay competitive with the other two next largest economic blocs" https://rtl.chrisadams.me.uk/2026/07/is-this-really-a-good-reason-to-triple-datacentre-capacity-in-europe/ | [09:56] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-rtl.chrisadams.me.uk | Is this *really* a good reason to triple datacentre capacity in Europe? - Reads, Takes and Links [09:57] TR News "This framework is keyed to how much and how consequentially the workers interact with AI. Instead of looking at peoples job titles, seniority or technical background, the framework proposes the following three tiers: [...]" https://www.interface-eu.org/publications/ai-literacy-workplace-framework | [09:57] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.interface-eu.org | An operational framework for AI literacy in the workplace [09:57] TR News "No evidence yet shows that these trainings work, and three gaps might explain the reason." https://www.interface-eu.org/publications/download/ai-literacy-workplace-framework | [09:57] TR News "just a tool" https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/no-such-thing-as-just-a-tool | [09:57] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-There's no such thing as Just a Tool | deadSimpleTech [09:58] TR News "Somehow, the Old Google, which was respectable, has turned into New Google, which, well, not so much. But when did it happen?" https://blog.zgp.org/when-was-google-s-heel-turn/ | Source: Don Marti [09:58] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.zgp.org | When was Googles heel turn? [09:58] TR News "You can just ignore the bad pundits. You dont have to read them. You can just carry right on with your life." https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/you-can-ignore-the-bad-pundits | Source: Hamilton Nolan [09:58] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.hamiltonnolan.com | You Can Ignore the Bad Pundits - by Hamilton Nolan [09:58] TR News "None of it ran on its own. Someone wrote the post. Someone senior cleared it." https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/deadnaming-the-lake | Source: Mike Brock [09:58] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.notesfromthecircus.com | Deadnaming the Lake - by Mike Brock - Notes from the Circus [09:59] TR News "Would a defunded Internal Revenue Service defunded in large part because the modern Republican Party is effectively pro-tax-evasion have the resources to go after him?" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/oligarchy-and-the-great-evasion | Source: Paul Krugman [09:59] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-paulkrugman.substack.com | Oligarchy and the Great Evasion - Paul Krugman [09:59] TR News thought [09:59] TR News "This is a scary thought. But youre not doing yourself any favors by pretending that LLMs cant actually write code and its all just a scam" https://www.seangoedecke.com/you-have-to-beat-the-models-at-something/ | Source: Sean Goedecke [09:59] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.seangoedecke.com | You have to beat the models at something ● Aug 31 [10:00] TR News "In a Saturday blog post, Google explained that U.S. users would see Lake America displayed over the Great Lake, which straddles the U.S.-Canada border." https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/lake-america-google-maps-ontario-trump-b3041814.html | Source: The Independent UK [10:00] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.independent.co.uk | Google Maps accused of bending knee to Trump by changing name of Lake Ontario to Lake America | The Independent [10:00] TR News "Google, Apple, Microsoft, and other maps providers adopted the Gulf of America naming as soon as the US Department of the Interior updated its records, which came a couple of weeks after Trumps order." https://www.wired.com/story/google-maps-now-shows-lake-america-instead-of-lake-ontario/ | Source: Wired [10:00] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Google Maps Now Shows Lake America Instead of Lake Ontario | WIRED [10:01] TR News "Opposition to data centers crosses political, geographic and cultural lines as they become a stand-in for much larger anxieties over AI, jobs and economic inequality." https://www.axios.com/2026/08/27/data-center-backlash-pr-strategy | Source: Axios [10:01] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.axios.com/2026/08/27/data-center-backlash-pr-strategy ) [10:01] TR News "Tech executives, as a result, are having to make a calculated decision to change their tune, from AI doomsaying to something more palatable to the everyman." https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/panicking-tech-executives-pivot-ai-data-center-narrative | Source: Futurism [10:01] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-futurism.com | Panicking Tech Execs Try to Pivot Message on AI Data Centers [10:02] TR News "what if you want to drive at max speed a bit longer and you are still 20-30% short?" https://aigarius.com/blog/2026/08/30/half-a-year-with-iX3/ | Source: Aigars Mahinovs [10:02] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Half a year with iX3 | Aigarius Blog [10:02] TR News "The data was sourced from several internationally maintained databases as well as Chinese government and archival records." https://tech.marksblogg.com/china-hydro.html | Source: Mark Litwintschik [10:02] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-tech.marksblogg.com | Hydropower Stations in China in 2026 [10:02] TR News "Plug-in solar panels will be hitting the shelves of DIY shops and High Street retailers after the government changed the rules to allow them to be legally sold in the UK." https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g3y6398nwo | Source: BBC [10:02] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.bbc.com | Plug-in solar panels are coming to a shop near you - what to know [10:13] TR News After the Heroes Move On https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/31/after-the-heroes-move-on/ [10:13] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-schestowitz.com Blog Archive After the Heroes Move On [10:14] TR News "Now, researchers at EPFL have found a way to make GaN handle more than 3.4 kilovolts by turning one of the materials natural properties into a built-in defense against electrical breakdown." https://interestingengineering.com/science/new-gan-transistor-can-handle-3-4-kv | Source: Interesting Engineering [10:14] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-interestingengineering.com | Next-gen power chips top 3,400 volts in 5x voltage leap for future EVs [10:14] TR News "The US government continues to drag its feet on any meaningful cryptocurrency regulations" https://futurism.com/future-society/crypto-bro-280-years-prison-crimes | Source: Futurism [10:14] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-futurism.com | Crypto Bro Facing 280 Years in Prison Over Astonishing Range of Crimes [10:17] TR News "The United States is becoming increasingly electrified to support rising demand from artificial intelligence (AI), supply chain reshoring, and reindustrialization." https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/energysource/electricity-demand-is-rising-how-can-the-us-secure-energy-for-its-dual-military-and-civilian-needs/ | Source: Atlantic Council [10:17] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.atlanticcouncil.org | Electricity demand is rising. How can the US secure energy for its dual military and civilian needs? - Atlantic Council [10:17] TR News "In the past two years, EV sales in Africa have surged." https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/africasource/africas-next-technological-leapfrog-could-lie-in-electric-vehicles-and-solar/ | Source: Atlantic Council [10:17] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.atlanticcouncil.org | Africa's next technological leapfrog could lie in electric vehicles and solar - Atlantic Council [10:18] TR News "Nepal is paying an extraordinarily disproportionate price for a crisis it did not create, one of its lawmakers told The New Yorker." https://www.semafor.com/article/08/30/2026/nepal-disaster-highlights-climate-geopolitical-plight | Source: Semafor Inc [10:18] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Nepal disaster highlights climate, geopolitical plight | Semafor [10:18] TR News "The fish industry has been hit especially hard, with damage estimated in the millions of euros (dollars)." https://fortune.com/2026/08/29/europe-summer-drought-desertification-threat-rivers-fish/ | Source: Fortune [10:18] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat | Fortune [10:28] TR News Windows Measured at 48.3% on This Domain https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/31/windows-measured-at-48-3-on-this-domain/ [10:28] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-schestowitz.com Blog Archive Windows Measured at 48.3% on This Domain [10:30] TR News Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root https://0xcc.io/posts/omarchy-root-creds/ [10:30] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-0xcc.io | Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root [10:33] TR News "Putting Jared Moskowitz in charge of Middle East policy isnt just a slap in the face to Democratic voters" https://jacobin.com/2026/08/moskowitz-democratic-establishment-israel-iran | Source: Jacobin Magazine [10:33] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-jacobin.com | Centrist Dems Are at War With Their Own Voters on Israel [10:35] TR News If you take a mortgage on a place (i.e. it is owned by the bank) and live in a shack in a forest, then you still live in a shack in a forest and legally that place is not yours, it is mortgaged [10:36] TR News But puppy breaker is clearly triggered, his legal team made a mess of their own drafts [10:38] TR News Not the first embarrassment with drafts, it might be pointed out. They take templates, forget to change these, then send them to the other side. Clearly chronically inexperienced. Techrights will show examples in the future. [10:39] TR News [Old] "Based on the above proof of concept, I can say that, even without operating a proper backend server" https://ckardaris.com/blog/2026/02/07/encrypted-email.html | Source: Charalampos Kardaris [10:39] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-ckardaris.com | The P in PGP isnt for pain: encrypting emails in the browser | Charalampos Kardaris [10:40] TR News "Flock, based in Georgia and valued at $8.4bn, says its cameras scan license plates billions of times each month in about 6,000 communities in nearly every state in the US." https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jul/25/flock-surveillance-cameras | Source: The Guardian UK [10:40] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.theguardian.com | Inside the growing vigilante movement to knock out Flock surveillance cameras | US news | The Guardian [10:41] TR News "This realization led me to prepare an official report on how digital surveillance affects the rights to assemble and associate, which I am presenting today to the Human Rights Council." https://www.techpolicy.press/the-quiet-erosion-of-collective-action-under-digital-surveillance/ | Source: Tech Policy Press [10:41] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-The Quiet Erosion of Collective Action Under Digital Surveillance | TechPolicy.Press [10:41] TR News "Browser-level consent cuts cookie consent rates by at least 60-65% and reduces ad effectivelness, consting European businesses a third of their ad revenue, or EUR 40-50 billion." https://noyb.eu/sites/default/files/2026-06/Gone%20in%20one%20click_impacts%20of%20Browser%20Level%20Consent%20proposal%20on%20advertiser%20...5%202026.pdf | Source: NYOB [10:44] TR News "In 2017 I installed a Pi-hole into my network and routed all my DNS traffic through it." https://connortumbleson.com/2026/08/31/pi-hole-2/ | Source: Connor Tumbleson [10:44] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-connortumbleson.com | Pi-hole: 8 years later [10:44] TR News "Even after the masked ICE goons wearing body armor left Minnesota, the dead enders from HSI appear to have kept breaking the law." https://emptywheel.net/2026/08/29/the-surveillance-crimes-in-the-cities-church-case-keep-stacking-up/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler [10:44] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-emptywheel.net | The Surveillance Crimes in the Cities Church Case Keep Stacking Up - emptywheel [10:45] TR News "Also, has the city considered / does the city intend to install Flock cameras or other ALPRs in the future?" https://tracydurnell.com/2026/08/29/i-asked-my-city-about-their-street-cameras/ | Source: Tracy Durnell [10:45] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-tracydurnell.com | I asked my city about their street cameras Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden [10:45] TR News "Another 35 people sent written comments to the Airport Commission on the same subject." https://papersplease.org/wp/2026/08/30/sfo-evades-criticism-of-its-role-in-immigration-enforcement/ | Source: Papers Please [10:45] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-papersplease.org | SFO evades criticism of its role in immigration enforcement Papers, Please! [10:45] TR News "Drug money, as it turns out, though its not exactly what you might think." https://futurism.com/health-medicine/opioid-settlement-money-poor-communities-police-flock-cameras | Source: Futurism [10:45] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-futurism.com | Instead of Using Opioid Settlement Money to Help Poor Communities, Police Are Buying Flock Cameras to Play With [10:46] TR News Windows TCO https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/site-provides-instructions-to-get-up-to-usd175-back-for-your-pre-installed-windows-11-license-new-portal-provides-legal-forms-but-warns-buyers-not-to-wipe-storage-first | Source: Tom's Hardware [10:46] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tomshardware.com | Get up to $175 back for your pre-installed Windows 11 license new portal provides legal forms, but warns buyers not to wipe storage first | Tom's Hardware [10:46] TR News "He has used that platform to support dozens of progressive candidates in the midterm elections" https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/29/us/politics/campaigns-paid-influencers.html | Source: New York Times [10:46] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/29/us/politics/campaigns-paid-influencers.html ) [10:47] TR News "The settlement was quickly compared to the tobacco lawsuits of the nineties, a moment of public clarity during which a ubiquitous product came to be seen as a scourge." https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/09/07/mark-zuckerbergs-social-reckoning | Source: New Yorker [10:47] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.newyorker.com | Mark Zuckerbergs Social Reckoning | The New Yorker [10:47] TR News "Under the settlement, Meta will: [...]" https://epic.org/meta-reaches-18-billion-settlement-with-states-over-youth-social-media-harms/ | Source: EPIC [10:47] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-epic.org | Meta Reaches $18 Billion Settlement with States over Youth Social Media Harms EPIC Electronic Privacy Information Center [10:47] TR News "we spend more CPU cycles rendering commits for scrapers than we spend on all other kinds of legitimate access, including git clones." https://people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/creepy-crawlies | Source: Linux [10:47] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-people.kernel.org | Creepy crawlies Konstantin Ryabitsev [10:50] TR News "The word inevitable is rhetorically misleading, because it quantifies over the entire future of humanity" https://borretti.me/article/on-inevitability | Source: Fernando Borretti [10:50] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-borretti.me | On Inevitability [10:50] TR News "his book is a collection of short stories by the Polish author Stanisaw Lem originally published in 1964. Its English title is The Cyberiad." https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2026/08/stanisaw-lem-foretold-current-llm-mania.html | Source: Jussi Pakkanen [10:50] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-nibblestew.blogspot.com | Nibble Stew: Stanisaw Lem foretold the current LLM mania in 1964 [10:50] TR News "The fact that not every computer user is running Linux is proof enough of that." https://hackaday.com/2026/08/30/llm-moats-quickly-evaporating/ | Source: Hackaday [10:50] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-LLM Moats Quickly Evaporating | Hackaday [10:51] TR News "A recent study in the journal Technology, Mind, and Behavior found that those who relied heavily on large-language-model tools felt no sense of ownership over the output they created with them" https://www.thenation.com/article/society/confessions-of-an-ai-editor/ | Source: The Nation [10:51] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.thenation.com | Confessions of an AI Editor | The Nation [10:57] TR News "Xing confirmed his car was running FSD 14.3.7, which is noteworthy." https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/teslas-are-still-driving-into-oncoming-freight-trains | Source: Futurism [10:57] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-futurism.com | Teslas Are Still Driving Into Oncoming Freight Trains [10:57] TR News "In tests involving 2,965 people across six different experiments, participants preferred art created by humans over art created by AI, even though both images looked identical." https://www.bhaskarenglish.in/tech-science/news/ai-boom-human-made-art-authenticity-study-138879091.html | Source: Bhaskar English [10:57] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.bhaskarenglish.in | Human Touch vs AI Art: Why Authenticity Matters | CHI Conference 2026 [10:57] TR News "This is not the first time, nor will it be the last, that headlines have been dominated by the prospect of AI models waking up and rebelling against their human programmers." https://english.elpais.com/technology/2026-08-29/ai-swarms-turn-on-their-creators-its-the-first-incident-that-has-made-my-stomach-churn.html | Source: El Pas [10:57] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-english.elpais.com | AI swarms turn on their creators: Its the first incident that has made my stomach churn | Technology | EL PAS English ● Aug 31 [11:07] TR News "Everybody is on about plans for how to break up Google, so heres my version. Im trying to keep two awkward considerations in mind." https://blog.zgp.org/how-to-break-up-google/ | Source: Don Marti [11:07] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.zgp.org | how to break up Google [11:07] TR News "And then suddenly one day, they stopped sending me these ride credits. I counted my receipts and figured out that I got 77 rides for free, averaging one every couple weeks." https://ironicsans.ghost.io/the-mystery-of-why-uber-gave-me-77-free-rides/ | Source: David Friedman [11:07] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-ironicsans.ghost.io | The Mystery Of Why Uber Gave Me 77 Free Rides [11:09] TR News "For years now, Google has been tweaking its search formula to prop up AI and bury actual links. Now its rounding into its final formand changing the [Internet] forever." https://www.theringer.com/2026/08/04/tech/google-search-ai-internet | Source: Spotify Inc [11:09] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.theringer.com | The End of Google Searchand the Internetas We Know It - The Ringer [11:09] TR News "First, lets talk about how macOS gets MDM commands from an MDM server. It receives them through a push-notification mechanism rather than by polling the MDM server directly." https://derflounder.wordpress.com/2026/08/29/checking-apns-communication-on-macos-tahoe/ | Source: Rich Trouton [11:09] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-derflounder.wordpress.com | Checking APNS communication on macOS Tahoe | Der Flounder [11:11] TR News "Everybody asks me why my phone is in grayscale. I tell them the story and show them my setup. At some point I got tired of repeating myself, so I wrote it down." https://cemrehancavdar.com/2026/08/30/making-the-internet-boring/ | Source: Cemrehan avdar [11:11] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-cemrehancavdar.com | Making the internet boring - Cemrehan avdar [11:11] TR News "What I wouldnt give to have some popular cookbooks like Rombauers The Joy of Cooking" https://boffosocko.com/2026/08/29/cook-books-published-as-recipe-cards/ | Source: Chris Aldrich [11:11] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 500 @ https://boffosocko.com/2026/08/29/cook-books-published-as-recipe-cards/ ) [11:12] TR News "I used to stock emergency ration bars and cans of veggies that I never cook with (mushrooms, beets, green beans, peas), and then I would throw it all away when it hit its Best By date." https://tracydurnell.com/2026/08/30/my-emergency-food-supply/ | Source: Tracy Durnell [11:12] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-tracydurnell.com | My emergency food supply is extra normal food Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden [11:14] TR News "Research led by Oakes and Virginia Cooperative Extension agents Robbie Longest and Turner Minx offers growers a clearer path forward." https://phys.org/news/2026-08-wheat-growers-unpredictable-weather.html | Source: Omicron Limited [11:14] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://phys.org/news/2026-08-wheat-growers-unpredictable-weather.html ) [11:14] TR News "Every step, ankle flex, or rise onto your toes activates a remarkable pump below your knees." https://www.sciencealert.com/your-body-has-a-second-heart-and-its-crucial-you-keep-it-pumping | Source: Science Alert [11:14] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Your Body Has a 'Second Heart', And It's Crucial You Keep It Pumping : ScienceAlert [11:15] TR News "I like the idea of having various tiny notebooks inside, so that I can swap them in and out as needed as I go about my day." https://binarydigit.net/posts/babys-first-travelers-notebook | Source: BinaryDigit [11:15] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-binarydigit.net | Babys First Travelers Notebook - Raging Against the Machines [11:16] TR News "In essence, this is substantially behind even the H100 from Nvidia, which is now 4 years old." https://martinalderson.com/posts/glm-5-3-flash-chinese-hardware/ | Source: Martin Alderson [11:16] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-martinalderson.com | What GLM-5.3 Flash running on Chinese hardware actually means - Martin Alderson [11:16] TR News "The first exciting discovery is that when you plug any of its three sets of connectors into an outlet, the others become live at the same voltage." https://hackaday.com/2026/08/30/dissecting-a-lethal-universal-travel-adapter/ | Source: Hackaday [11:16] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Dissecting A Lethal Universal Travel Adapter | Hackaday [11:17] TR News "The proverb recommends finding a middle ground in dealing with other people. Be too harsh and people will reject you; be too accommodating and they may take advantage of you." https://www.medievalists.net/2026/08/25-greek-proverbs-from-the-middle-ages-and-beyond/ | Source: Medievalists.net [11:17] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-25 Greek Proverbs from the Middle Ages and Beyond - Medievalists.net [11:18] TR News "must tackle a set of deeper questions about the structure, meaning, and value of an MIT education in an era in which AI is one of several factors complicating the Institutes mission" https://aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/ | [11:18] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-aiandeducation.mit.edu | Report AI and Education [11:18] TR News "One of its most alarming conclusions: that AI is now able to credibly complete most undergraduate assignments." https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/mit-warns-ai-undergrad-assignments | Source: Futurism [11:18] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-futurism.com | MIT Warns That AI Can Now Credibly Complete Pretty Much Any Undergrad Assignment, Considers Overhaul of Entire Educational Model [11:19] TR News Yes, plagiarism does work, but how to tackle plagiarism is not a new problem. It's not "AI", it's better veiled plagiarism. [11:19] TR News "The telescope, which will park itself in orbit beyond the moon, is designed to investigate cosmic enigmas such as dark energy and dark matter" https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/nasa-launches-nancy-grace-roman-space-telescope-9.7326011 | Source: CBC [11:19] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.cbc.ca | NASA launches $4B Roman astronomical observatory to explore depths of space | CBC News [11:19] TR News "When high or low tide occurs, the water does not necessarily rise and fall uniformly along the entire coastline." https://phys.org/news/2026-08-tides-locally-method-based-satellite.html | Source: Omicron Limited [11:19] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://phys.org/news/2026-08-tides-locally-method-based-satellite.html ) [11:20] TR News "While I am slowly getting back up on my feet after a tough time" https://blog.avas.space/links-august/ | Source: Ava [11:20] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.avas.space | link dump - catching up on my online reading ava's blog [11:21] TR News "This has not discouraged me from writing. My goal is to share projects that I am developing and to express some of my thoughts when I feel like it." https://ckardaris.com/blog/2026/08/30/front-page.html | Source: Charalampos Kardaris [11:21] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-ckardaris.com | Front page | Charalampos Kardaris [11:21] TR News (NEW): Brazilian Desktop/Laptop Users and GNU/Linux https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/31/Brazilian_Desktop_Laptop_Users_and_GNU_Linux.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/31/Brazilian_Desktop_Laptop_Users_and_GNU_Linux.gmi [11:21] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Brazilian Desktop/Laptop Users and GNU/Linux [11:21] TR News Techrights Debian: Plagiarism OK, Just be "Responsible" About It https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/29/Debian_Plagiarism_OK_Just_be_Responsible_About_It.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/29/Debian_Plagiarism_OK_Just_be_Responsible_About_It.gmi [11:21] TR News Techrights Don't Let Them Kill Activism https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/29/Don_t_Let_Them_Kill_Activism.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/29/Don_t_Let_Them_Kill_Activism.gmi [11:21] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Debian: Plagiarism OK, Just be "Responsible" About It [11:21] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Don't Let Them Kill Activism [11:21] TR News Techrights IBM is "Taking the PIP" (Piss), People 'Retire' 'Voluntarily' to "Focus on Family" https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/29/IBM_is_Taking_the_PIP_Piss_People_Retire_Voluntarily_to_Focus_o.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/29/IBM_is_Taking_the_PIP_Piss_People_Retire_Voluntarily_to_Focus_o.gmi [11:21] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights IBM is "Taking the PIP" (Piss), People 'Retire' 'Voluntarily' to "Focus on Family" [11:21] TR News Techrights It Should be Uncontroversial to Say That Social Control Media is a Weapon https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/29/It_Should_be_Uncontroversial_to_Say_That_Social_Control_Media_i.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/29/It_Should_be_Uncontroversial_to_Say_That_Social_Control_Media_i.gmi [11:21] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights It Should be Uncontroversial to Say That Social Control Media is a Weapon [11:22] TR News "Now think again about money as a false idol. We realise that it too, qua idol, is as real as you and me." https://protesilaos.com/books/2026-08-30-idols-symbols/ | Source: Protesilaos Stavrou [11:22] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-About idols | Protesilaos [11:23] TR News "The couple acquired land near Pawnee, Oklahoma (Blue Hawk Peak)." https://www.vintag.es/2026/08/pawnee-bill-may-lillie.html | Source: Vintage Everyday [11:23] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.vintag.es | The Story of Gordon Pawnee Bill Lillie and May Lillie, One of the Old Wests Most Unique Romances and Enduring Business Partnerships ~ Vintage Everyday [11:25] TR News "Theres also an accompanying video containing typical hijinks and a demonstration of this system." https://hackaday.com/2026/08/30/giving-the-nes-an-optical-data-storage-add-on/ | Source: Hackaday [11:25] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Giving The NES An Optical Data Storage Add-On | Hackaday [11:25] TR News "The concept is straightforward[Efe]s tool manipulates pixel clocks in order to create spurious transmissions from your computers graphics hardware." https://hackaday.com/2026/08/30/get-your-monitor-transmitting-vhf-with-a-browser-tool/ | Source: Hackaday [11:25] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Get Your Monitor Transmitting VHF With A Browser Tool | Hackaday [11:25] TR News "After an enormous amount of fiddling I was able to recreate something similar: [...]" https://xania.org/202608/recreating-a-2010-experiment | Source: Matt Godbolt [11:25] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-xania.org | Recreating a 2010 Experiment Matt Godbolts blog [11:26] TR News "Spacelab was a reusable laboratory that could be carried in the Space Shuttle's cargo bay, providing lab space for astronauts and experiments." https://www.righto.com/2026/08/spacelab-core-memory.html | Source: Ken Shirriff [11:26] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.righto.com | Cores in space: The core memory module from a 1980 Spacelab computer [11:26] TR News "This Mactini was a super-small laptop, with just a single button that did everything, befitting the overpriced more-money-than-sense status symbol vibe that [Jony Ive] brought to Apple." https://hackaday.com/2026/08/27/the-mactini-a-computer-that-does-almost-nothing/ | Source: Hackaday [11:26] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-The Mactini: A Computer That Does Almost Nothing | Hackaday [11:29] TR News (NEW): Open Hardware/Modding: GNU-like Mobile Linux, Pi-hole, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/31/Open_Hardware_Modding_GNU_like_Mobile_Linux_Pi_hole_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/31/Open_Hardware_Modding_GNU_like_Mobile_Linux_Pi_hole_and_More.gmi [11:29] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Open Hardware/Modding: GNU-like Mobile Linux, Pi-hole, and More [11:31] TR News Techrights Links 31/08/2026: "Teslas Are Still Driving Into Oncoming Freight Trains" and "LLM Moats Quickly Evaporating" https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/31/Links_31_08_2026_Teslas_Are_Still_Driving_Into_Oncoming_Freight.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/31/Links_31_08_2026_Teslas_Are_Still_Driving_Into_Oncoming_Freight.gmi [11:31] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Links 31/08/2026: "Teslas Are Still Driving Into Oncoming Freight Trains" and "LLM Moats Quickly Evaporating" [11:53] TR News norwich https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08/10/row-listed-pub-convert-muslim-mosque-norwich/ [11:53] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 402 @ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08/10/row-listed-pub-convert-muslim-mosque-norwich/ ) [11:53] TR News "Get Up To $60 Back For Your Pre-Installed Windows 11 License - SoylentNews" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/08/30/1326251 [11:53] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-soylentnews.org | Get Up To $60 Back For Your Pre-Installed Windows 11 License - SoylentNews [11:53] TR News "Fundraiser by Christine Hall : FOSS Force's 2026 Independence Drive" https://www.gofundme.com/f/foss-forces-2026-independence-drive [11:53] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.gofundme.com | Fundraiser by Christine Hall : FOSS Force's 2026 Independence Drive [11:53] TR News ""It's Better to Be on TV than by Phone:" Corruption Is a Process - emptywheel" https://emptywheel.net/2026/08/30/its-better-to-be-on-tv-than-by-phone-corruption-is-a-process/ [11:53] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-emptywheel.net | "It's Better to Be on TV than by Phone:" Corruption Is a Process - emptywheel [11:54] TR News "Trump renames Canadian Geese to American Geese" https://lzon.ca/posts/series_duck-digest/trump-geese/ [11:54] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-lzon.ca | Trump renames Canadian Geese to American Geese [11:54] TR News "Indonesia Still Hasnt Come to Terms With Suhartos Crimes" https://jacobin.com/2026/08/indonesia-suharto-dictatorship-monuments-memory [11:54] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-jacobin.com | Indonesia Still Hasnt Come to Terms With Suhartos Crimes [11:54] TR News "Just say no to Trump the drug, that is - Salon.com" https://www.salon.com/2026/08/30/just-say-no-to-trump-the-drug-that-is/ [11:54] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Just say no to Trump the drug, that is - Salon.com [11:55] TR News "Saudi firms pull IPO plans | Semafor" https://www.semafor.com/article/08/27/2026/saudi-firms-pull-ipo-plans [11:55] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Saudi firms pull IPO plans | Semafor [11:55] TR News "This article was created in collaboration with DMN partner Cosynd." https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/28/us-copyright-fees-rising-2026/ digitalmusicnews now publishing spam [11:55] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/28/us-copyright-fees-rising-2026/ ) [11:55] TR News "NATO's Arctic activity poses 'direct threat' to Russia, Lavrov warns - France 24" https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260831-nato-arctic-activity-direct-threat-russia-lavrov [11:55] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260831-nato-arctic-activity-direct-threat-russia-lavrov ) [11:56] TR News "Russland om Nato-velser i Arktis: En direkte trussel Siste nytt NRK" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&u=https://www.nrk.no/nyheter/russland-om-nato-ovelser-i-arktis___-en-direkte-trussel-1.18008541 [11:56] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www-nrk-no.translate.goog | Russland om Nato-velser i Arktis: En direkte trussel Siste nytt NRK [11:56] TR News "Slut p rttslsheten fr YouTubes kreatrer?" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/08/30/slut-pa-rattslosheten-for-youtubes-kreatorer/ [11:56] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-femtejuli-se.translate.goog | Slut p rttslsheten fr YouTubes kreatrer? [11:56] TR News "Russia's war will not end until Putin accepts Ukrainian independence - Atlantic Council" https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/russias-war-will-not-end-until-putin-accepts-ukrainian-independence/ [11:56] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.atlanticcouncil.org | Russia's war will not end until Putin accepts Ukrainian independence - Atlantic Council ● Aug 31 [12:08] TR News "Instead, websites are stored directly on user devices, and transferred between them through the ultimate fallback infrastructure: physical storage media" https://sneakerweb.org/ | [12:08] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-sneakerweb.org | sneakerweb [12:08] TR News "In building an NTP time demo on old Macs for VCF Midwest, I came across RFC 867 and RFC 868, for the 'Daytime' and 'Time' Protocols, respectively." https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/rfc-867-868-time/ | Source: Jeff Geerling [12:08] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.jeffgeerling.com | Before NTP there were Time and Daytime - Jeff Geerling [12:09] TR News "EVE continues to evolve, as a part of the EVE Evolved initiative, and it is time to cast the spotlight on the code itself! " https://www.eveonline.com/news/view/the-move-to-python-3-begins | [12:09] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.eveonline.com | The Move to Python 3 Begins! | EVE Online [12:10] TR News "Another pure maintenance release of the random package for truly (hardware-based) random numbers as provided by random.org is now on CRAN." https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/08/30/#random_0.2.7 | Source: Dirk Eddelbuettel [12:10] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-dirk.eddelbuettel.com | Thinking inside the box [12:10] TR News "In this post, we will explore: [...]" https://fortune9.netlify.app/2026/08/30/r-understanding-position-dodge-and-position-dodge2-in-ggplot2/ | [12:10] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-fortune9.netlify.app | [R] Understanding position_dodge() and position_dodge2() in ggplot2 [12:10] TR News "The error message was pointing at one line. That was the mercy of it. Not the volume, which was ridiculous." https://lospino.so/blog/sunday-field-notes/the-error-message-was-local/ | Source: Josh Lospinoso [12:10] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-lospino.so | The Error Message Was Local | Josh Lospinoso [12:11] TR News "This reminded me of something Ive been experimenting with lately. Instead of updating my config," https://chrismaiorana.com/dont-go-bankrupt-go-local/ | Source: Chris Maiorana [12:11] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-chrismaiorana.com | Don't go bankrupt, go local - Chris Maiorana [12:11] TR News "[Philo]s proof of concept was a smartphone camera set on a chair and rotated around a room." https://hackaday.com/2026/08/28/panoramic-photography-with-a-linear-scanner/ | Source: Hackaday [12:11] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Panoramic Photography With A Linear Scanner | Hackaday [12:11] TR News [Old] "I have been working with C++ throughout my still-young software engineering career." https://ckardaris.com/blog/2024/11/17/hello-cpp-community.html | Source: Charalampos Kardaris [12:11] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-ckardaris.com | std::cout Goodbye Meeting C++. Hello C++ Community.; | Charalampos Kardaris [12:13] TR News "The first thing I noticed when I gave up American technology was the silence." https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-digital-sovereignty-experiment-living-without-us-tech-for-72-hours/ | Source: Politico [12:13] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.politico.eu | Flipping the kill switch: I survived 72 hours without US tech POLITICO [12:17] TR News "Ive learned so much over the years from the [Internet], thanks to other people who shared that information in ope" https://hamatti.org/posts/a-lot-of-what-ive-learned-ive-learned-from-open-web/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala [12:17] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-hamatti.org | A lot of what Ive learned, Ive learned from open web : Juha-Matti Santala [12:20] TR News "Im moving markdown files from an Obsidian vault to a private Hugo site, and I needed something that did text transformations." https://lmika.org/2026/08/29/vibelog-md-treatment-trying-out.html | Source: Leon Mika [12:20] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-lmika.org | Vibelog: MD Treatment - Trying Out Pi and Kimi k3 - Leon Mika [12:20] TR News [Old] "Another method is therefore needed to receive the comments and provide them as input to the static site generator, in my case jekyll." https://ckardaris.com/blog/2026/01/22/my-comments-run-on-email.html | Source: Charalampos Kardaris [12:20] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-ckardaris.com | My comments run on email | Charalampos Kardaris [12:21] TR News "Octo now allows such a column to be defined and indexed." https://yottadb.com/access-vista-lab-chemistry-data-from-octo/ | Source: YottaDB [12:21] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Access VistA Lab Chemistry Data from Octo - YottaDB [12:21] TR News "This has far too few opportunities for surprise." https://deployer.org/blog/elephpantdb | Source: The Deployer Times [12:21] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-deployer.org | ElephpantDB: A Database in One PHP File | Deployer [12:22] TR News "This article presents a set of Emacs Dired configuration changes to enhance file management." https://www.jamescherti.com/emacs-dired-configuration/ | Source: James Cherti [12:22] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.jamescherti.com | Fixing Emacs Dired Defaults: Settings for Better File Management | James Cherti [12:23] TR News "This article was inspired by the Emacs Carnival on the search for knowledge." https://sachachua.com/blog/2026/08/emacs-carnival-aug-2026-information-management-and-knowledge-graphs/ | Source: Sacha Chua [12:23] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-sachachua.com | Emacs Carnival Aug 2026: Information management and knowledge graphs :: Sacha Chua [12:24] TR News "The rules of the vote saw community members asked to rank each of the eight proposals." https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/30/debian-votes-to-let-contributors-code-with-ai/5293421 | Source: The Register UK [12:24] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.theregister.com | Debian votes to let contributors code with AI [12:24] TR News "Unfortunately, one of the things that Debian is, is almost unable to manage packaging modern dependency trees." https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/Debian_and_the_sirens/ | Source: Joey Hess [12:24] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-joeyh.name | Debian and the sirens [12:27] TR News "[...] Plus we are pleased to summarize last week's releases and list the torrents we are seeding" https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20260831 | Source: Distro Watch [12:27] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20260831 ) [12:27] TR News "In this second Forgejo Hack installment I'll tell you how to connect a git repository that lives in your self-hosted Forgejo instance to Read the Docs" https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/forgejo-hack-2-integration-with-read-the-docs | Source: Miguel Grinberg [12:27] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.miguelgrinberg.com | Forgejo hack #2: Integration with Read The Docs - miguelgrinberg.com [12:32] TR News Before NTP there were Time and Daytime https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/rfc-867-868-time/ [12:33] TR News MIT Warns That Hey Hi (AI) Can Now Credibly Complete Pretty Much Any Undergrad Assignment, Considers Overhaul of Entire Educational Model https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/mit-warns-ai-undergrad-assignments [12:33] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-futurism.com | MIT Warns That AI Can Now Credibly Complete Pretty Much Any Undergrad Assignment, Considers Overhaul of Entire Educational Model [12:34] TR News Jussi Pakkanen: Stanisaw Lem foretold the current LLM mania in 1964 https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2026/08/stanisaw-lem-foretold-current-llm-mania.html [12:34] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-nibblestew.blogspot.com | Nibble Stew: Stanisaw Lem foretold the current LLM mania in 1964 [12:35] TR News Instead of Using Opioid Settlement Money to Help Poor Communities, Police Are Buying Flock Cameras to Play With https://futurism.com/health-medicine/opioid-settlement-money-poor-communities-police-flock-cameras [12:35] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-futurism.com | Instead of Using Opioid Settlement Money to Help Poor Communities, Police Are Buying Flock Cameras to Play With [12:36] TR News Panicking Tech Execs Try to Pivot Message on Hey Hi (AI) Data Centers https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/panicking-tech-executives-pivot-ai-data-center-narrative [12:36] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-futurism.com | Panicking Tech Execs Try to Pivot Message on AI Data Centers [12:38] TR News GNOME Sushi File Previewer 51 RC Released with More Functions https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/08/gnome-sushi-file-previewer-51-rc-released-with-more-functions/ [12:38] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-ubuntuhandbook.org | GNOME Sushi File Previewer 51 RC Released with More Functions | UbuntuHandbook [12:40] TR News vArch-OS Arch Linux-based distribution https://www.linuxlinks.com/varch-os-arch-linux-based-distribution/ [12:40] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-vArch-OS Arch Linux-based distribution - LinuxLinks [12:48] TR News Africa 5% GNU/Linux https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=28d&loc=africa&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP [12:48] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=28d&loc=africa&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP ) [12:49] TR News South America same https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=14d&loc=south-america&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP [12:49] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=14d&loc=south-america&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP ) [12:55] TR News Bougie Health Startups Offering Full-Body Diagnostic Scans for Rich People While the Rest of Us Suffer a Crumbling Healthcare System https://futurism.com/health-medicine/health-startup-full-body-scan-rich-healthcare [12:55] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-futurism.com | Bougie Health Startups Offering Full-Body Diagnostic Scans for Rich People While the Rest of Us Suffer a Crumbling Healthcare System [12:56] TR News The Link Between Your Workplace Situation and Your Mental Health https://danielmiessler.com/blog/workplace-situation-mental-health [12:56] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-danielmiessler.com | The Link Between Your Workplace Situation and Your Mental Health | Daniel Miessler [12:56] TR News S. Koreas medical tourism continues double-digit growth https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/s-koreas-medical-tourism-continues-double-digit-growth [12:56] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.straitstimes.com | S. Koreas medical tourism continues double-digit growth | The Straits Times [12:57] TR News Air quality worsens in Sarawak as 2 areas hit hazardous levels https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/air-quality-worsens-in-sarawak-as-2-areas-hit-hazardous-levels [12:57] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.straitstimes.com | Air quality worsens in Sarawak as 2 areas hit hazardous levels | The Straits Times [12:57] TR News Malaysia PM unveils measures to tackle living costs, support local businesses https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-pm-unveils-measures-to-tackle-living-costs-support-local-businesses [12:57] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.straitstimes.com | Malaysia PM unveils measures to tackle living costs, support local businesses | The Straits Times [12:58] TR News Postcard from PIF: Pacific leaders gather as China looms https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/postcard-from-pif-pacific-leaders-gather-as-china-looms/ [12:58] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.aspistrategist.org.au | Postcard from PIF: Pacific leaders gather as China looms | The Strategist [12:58] TR News Rescuers dig into tunnel as missing toll from Nepal, China flood exceeds 3,000 https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/nepal-rescuers-send-air-pipe-into-tunnel-with-trapped-workers [12:58] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.straitstimes.com | Rescuers dig into tunnel as missing toll from Nepal, China flood exceeds 3,000 | The Straits Times [12:59] TR News Rescuers race to find thousands missing after Nepal-China glacier collapse https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/nepal-tibet-death-toll-750-from-himalayan-flood-3000-missing [12:59] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.straitstimes.com | Rescuers race to find thousands missing after Nepal-China glacier collapse | The Straits Times [12:59] TR News Vietnamese coffee farmers ride Chinas durian wave https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/vietnamese-coffee-farmers-ride-chinas-durian-wave [12:59] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.straitstimes.com | Vietnamese coffee farmers ride Chinas durian wave | The Straits Times ● Aug 31 [13:00] TR News Nepal-Tibet floods: 91 Malaysians still uncontactable, says government https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/nepal-tibet-floods-91-malaysians-still-uncontactable-says-government [13:00] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.straitstimes.com | Nepal-Tibet floods: 91 Malaysians still uncontactable, says government | The Straits Times [13:00] TR News Before flood catastrophe, Nepal asked China for early warnings as risks mounted https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/before-flood-catastrophe-nepal-asked-china-for-early-warnings-as-risks-mounted [13:00] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.straitstimes.com | Nepal and China seek better glacier disaster warnings | The Straits Times [13:00] TR News Nepal floods expose gaps in warning systems, China data-sharing https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/nepal-floods-expose-gaps-in-warning-systems-china-data-sharing [13:00] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.straitstimes.com | Nepal floods expose gaps in warning systems, China data-sharing | The Straits Times [13:01] TR News China's top DRAM maker CXMT sues Pentagon over its blacklisting argues chips are standard civilian JEDEC spec, not defense hardware https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/chinas-top-dram-maker-cxmt-sues-pentagon-over-its-blacklisting-argues-chips-are-standard-civilian-jedec-spec-not-defense-hardware [13:01] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tomshardware.com | China's top DRAM maker CXMT sues Pentagon over its blacklisting argues chips are standard civilian JEDEC spec, not defense hardware | Tom's Hardware [13:01] TR News Rescuers dig into tunnel as missing toll from Nepal, China flood tops 3,000 https://hongkongfp.com/2026/08/30/rescuers-dig-into-tunnel-as-missing-toll-from-nepal-china-flood-tops-3000/ [13:01] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-hongkongfp.com | Rescuers dig into tunnel as missing toll from Nepal, China flood tops 3,000 [13:02] TR News Ferry carrying more than 260 people capsizes off northern Cyprus https://www.france24.com/en/ferry-carrying-more-than-260-people-capsizes-off-northern-cyprus [13:02] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/ferry-carrying-more-than-260-people-capsizes-off-northern-cyprus ) [13:04] TR News Our Fat Tissue May 'Remember' Obesity, Even After We've Lost Weight https://www.sciencealert.com/our-fat-tissue-may-remember-obesity-even-after-weve-lost-weight [13:04] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Our Fat Tissue May 'Remember' Obesity, Even After We've Lost Weight : ScienceAlert [13:04] TR News Deep Sleep Brain Waves Offer Protection Against Alzheimer's Disease, New Research Shows https://www.sciencealert.com/could-the-next-alzheimers-treatment-be-encoded-in-deep-sleep [13:04] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Deep Sleep Brain Waves Offer Protection Against Alzheimer's Disease, New Research Shows : ScienceAlert [13:05] TR News Abandoned Oil And Gas Pipes Are Still Contributing TONS of Microplastics Into The Ocean Each Year https://www.sciencealert.com/abandoned-oil-and-gas-pipes-are-still-contributing-tons-of-microplastics-into-the-ocean-each-year [13:05] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Abandoned Oil And Gas Pipes Are Still Contributing TONS of Microplastics Into The Ocean Each Year : ScienceAlert [13:05] TR News The FDA Just Approved The First US Freeze-Dried Plasma, Ready in Minutes https://www.sciencealert.com/the-fda-just-approved-the-first-us-freeze-dried-plasma-ready-in-minutes [13:05] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-The FDA Just Approved The First US Freeze-Dried Plasma, Ready in Minutes : ScienceAlert [13:05] TR News people who can afford coffee are well off in general... so maybe that pattern isn't the full picture https://www.sciencealert.com/coffee-drinkers-have-less-fat-more-muscle-and-surprising-sex-hormone-differences [13:05] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Coffee Drinkers Have Less Fat, More Muscle, And Surprising Sex Hormone Differences : ScienceAlert [13:06] TR News Far Right Is Poised to Win in a German State, but Fight Over Power Wont End There https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/world/europe/germany-afd-saxony-anhalt.html [13:06] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/world/europe/germany-afd-saxony-anhalt.html ) [13:06] TR News Building Trade Unions Now Threatening to Withhold Support for Anti-Data Center Politicians https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/building-trade-workers-unions-data-center-politicians [13:06] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-futurism.com | Building Trade Unions Now Threatening to Withhold Support for Anti-Data Center Politicians [13:07] TR News Hong Kongs indie bookstores come under scrutiny amid a broader crackdown on dissent https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2026/0830/Hong-Kong-s-indie-bookstores-come-under-scrutiny-amid-a-broader-crackdown-on-dissent [13:07] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Hong Kongs indie bookstores come under scrutiny amid crackdown on dissent - CSMonitor.com [13:08] TR News 'The People Will Have the Last Say': Iceland Rejects EU Talks Despite Convicted Felon's Arctic Ambitions https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/iceland-rejects-eu-membership-talks-1817042 [13:08] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.ibtimes.co.uk | 'The People Will Have the Last Say': Iceland Rejects EU Talks Despite Trump's Arctic Ambitions | IBTimes UK [13:08] TR News Pacific Summit opens amid Taiwan row https://www.france24.com/en/pacific-summit-opens-amid-taiwan-row [13:08] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/pacific-summit-opens-amid-taiwan-row ) [13:10] TR News Needle 2 on Raspberry Pi: The 14MB Hey Hi (AI) Agent for Local Tool-Calling (Benchmark & Guide) https://peppe8o.com/needle-2-raspberry-pi-benchmark-guide/ [13:10] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-peppe8o.com | Needle 2 on Raspberry Pi: The 14MB AI Agent for Local Tool-Calling (Benchmark & Guide) [13:12] TR News Debian Hey Hi (AI) Vote has Divided the Community https://itsfoss.com/news/debian-allows-ai-contribution/ [13:12] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-itsfoss.com | Debian AI Vote has Divided the Community [13:12] TR News Utkarsh Gupta: FOSS Activities in August 2026 https://utkarsh2102.org/posts/foss-in-aug-26/ [13:12] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-utkarsh2102.org | FOSS Activities in August 2026 utkarsh2102 [13:14] TR News Aigars Mahinovs: Half a year with iX3 http://aigarius.com/blog/2026/08/30/half-a-year-with-iX3/ [13:14] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Half a year with iX3 | Aigarius Blog [13:14] TR News Mark Kapo-bergs Social Reckoning https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/09/07/mark-zuckerbergs-social-reckoning [13:14] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.newyorker.com | Mark Zuckerbergs Social Reckoning | The New Yorker [13:14] TR News How Chromium is built (for now) https://blog.slackware.nl/how-chromium-is-built-for-now/ [13:14] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.slackware.nl | How Chromium is built (for now) Alien Pastures [13:17] TR News Faking 'performance', faking 'productivity' when the employer conflates slop with "work" https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-employee-ai-spending [13:17] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-futurism.com | Microsoft Tokenmaxxing King Spent $28,000 on AI in a Single Month as Company Begs Employees to Tone Down the Ludicrous Costs [13:17] TR News The Bogus Narratives https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/30/the-bogus-narratives/ [13:17] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-schestowitz.com Blog Archive The Bogus Narratives [13:28] TR News DIY archivists push budget Nikons to 902,000 clicks to save 1,800 rare books team trains neural net on Photoshop edits to process 526,000 scans https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/diy-archivists-push-budget-nikons-to-902-000-clicks-to-save-1-800-rare-books-team-trains-neural-net-on-photoshop-edits-to-process-526-000-scans [13:28] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tomshardware.com | DIY archivists push budget Nikons to 902,000 clicks to save 1,800 rare books team trains neural net on Photoshop edits to process 526,000 scans | Tom's Hardware [13:29] TR News YARA-X 1.20.0 Release, (Sun, Aug 30th) https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/33288 [13:29] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-isc.sans.edu | YARA-X 1.20.0 Release - SANS Internet Storm Center [13:29] TR News New Steam Games Playable on the Steam Deck, with Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy, and Smack Talk - 2026-08-29 Edition https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-playable-on-the-steam-deck-2026-08-29-edition/index.html [13:29] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-boilingsteam.com | New Steam Games Playable on the Steam Deck, with Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy, and Smack Talk - 2026-08-29 Edition [13:30] TR News At least three exhibitors got robbed at Gamescom 2026 laptops and handhelds with unfinished game builds stolen from locked cabinets https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/at-least-three-exhibitors-got-robbed-at-gamescom-2026-laptops-and-handhelds-with-unfinished-game-builds-stolen-from-locked-cabinets [13:30] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tomshardware.com | At least three exhibitors got robbed at Gamescom 2026 laptops and handhelds with unfinished game builds stolen from locked cabinets | Tom's Hardware [13:30] TR News Junichi Uekawa: Email is hard. http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/diary/daily/2026-Aug-30.html.en#2026-Aug-30-16:04:30 [13:30] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.netfort.gr.jp | Email is hard. [13:31] TR News Binary function coverage part 2: scaling up, fixing daemons, and asking the kernel https://bzoltan1.github.io/binary-function-coverage-part-2-scaling-up-fixing-daemons-and-asking-the-kernel/ [13:31] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-bzoltan1.github.io | Binary function coverage part 2: scaling up, fixing daemons, and asking the kernel - Zoltn's Blog [13:31] TR News Kernel prepatch 7.3-rc1 https://lwn.net/Articles/1091421/ [13:31] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Kernel prepatch 7.3-rc1 [LWN.net] [13:32] TR News An Ordinary Word: T-Mobile v. KAIFI and What Counts as a Patent Case https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/08/an-ordinary-word-t-mobile-v-kaifi-and-what-counts-as-a-patent-case.html [13:32] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-patentlyo.com | An Ordinary Word: T-Mobile v. KAIFI and What Counts as a Patent Case | Patently-O [13:32] TR News Radxa Linkr A USB drive-sized IP KVM with USB-C, Ethernet, and WiFi support https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/08/30/radxa-linkr-a-usb-drive-sized-ip-kvm-with-usb-c-ethernet-and-wifi-support/ [13:32] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.cnx-software.com | Radxa Linkr - A USB drive-sized IP KVM with USB-C, Ethernet, and WiFi support - CNX Software [13:33] TR News Site publishes how to "stop your Hey Hi (AI) agents from going rogue"... maybe... don't use 'em?? https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/29/Misuse_of_Bots_Now_Sold_as_Agents_Hey_Hi_Automation_and_Efficie.shtml [13:33] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Misuse of Bots (Now Sold as "Agents", "Hey Hi", "Automation", and "Efficiency") [13:34] TR News SiriusXM Eliminates Howard Sterns Extra Channel Howard 101 Following Dozens of Layoffs https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/30/siriusxm-eliminates-howard-stern-101-channel/ [13:34] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/30/siriusxm-eliminates-howard-stern-101-channel/ ) [13:34] TR News KDE Connect redesign is ready for testing https://tintotint.eu/programming/kde-connect2/ [13:34] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-tintotint.eu | KDE Connect redesign is ready for testing | tintotint's site [13:34] TR News HardenedBSD 15-build-20 https://distrowatch.com/hardenedbsd [13:34] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/hardenedbsd ) [13:35] TR News Stop wasting GPU allocation in Kubernetes with GPU-pruner https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/08/31/stop-wasting-gpu-allocation-in-kubernetes-with-gpu-pruner [13:35] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/08/31/stop-wasting-gpu-allocation-in-kubernetes-with-gpu-pruner ) [13:43] TR News Dihydroxyacetone Man Admin Used Customs Law to Obtain Journalist's Phone Records Without Prior Judicial Approval https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/dhs-customs-law-journalists-records-controversy-1817039 [13:43] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.ibtimes.co.uk | Trump Admin Used Customs Law to Obtain Journalist's Phone Records Without Prior Judicial Approval | IBTimes UK [13:44] TR News OpenShot 4.0 adds colour grading, recording dock and Qt 6 support https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/openshot-4-0-release [13:44] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.omgubuntu.co.uk | OpenShot 4.0 adds colour grading, recording dock and Qt 6 support [13:45] TR News ACEMAGIC Kron Mini K5 (Core 3 304) review Part 1: Specifications, unboxing, teardown, and first boot https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/08/29/acemagic-kron-mini-k5-core-3-304-review-part-1-specifications-unboxing-teardown-and-first-boot/ [13:45] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.cnx-software.com | ACEMAGIC Kron Mini K5 (Core 3 304) review - Part 1: Specifications, unboxing, teardown, and first boot - CNX Software [13:45] TR News How to Install Darktable 5.6.1 via DEB in Ubuntu 26.04, 24.04, 22.04 https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/08/install-darktable-5-6-1-deb-ubuntu/ [13:45] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-ubuntuhandbook.org | How to Install Darktable 5.6.1 via DEB in Ubuntu 26.04, 24.04, 22.04 | UbuntuHandbook [13:47] TR News Linux 7.3-rc1 arrives, clocking in at a total of 40.98 million lines https://www.neowin.net/news/linux-73-rc1-arrives-clocking-in-at-a-total-of-4098-million-lines/ [13:47] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.neowin.net/news/linux-73-rc1-arrives-clocking-in-at-a-total-of-4098-million-lines/ ) [13:47] TR News YET _another_ "MIMIX" https://www.itjungle.com/2026/08/31/precisely-to-add-ransomware-protection-in-mimix-11/ [13:47] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.itjungle.com | Precisely To Add Ransomware Protection In MIMIX 11 - IT Jungle [13:48] TR News Radxa C201 exposes dual 2.5GbE, NVMe and serial I/O for VMARC-Q9075 https://linuxgizmos.com/radxa-c201-exposes-dual-2-5gbe-nvme-and-serial-i-o-for-vmarc-q9075/ [13:48] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/radxa-c201-exposes-dual-2-5gbe-nvme-and-serial-i-o-for-vmarc-q9075/ ) [13:48] TR News ArchEZ 2026.08.10 https://distrowatch.com/archez [13:48] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/archez ) [13:48] TR News GParted 1.8.1-6 https://distrowatch.com/gparted [13:48] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/gparted ) [13:49] TR News Video: Linux - 35 years in 35 facts in 35 minutes http://www.montanalinux.org/video-linux-35-years-in-35-facts-in-35-minutes.html [13:49] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Video: Linux - 35 years in 35 facts in 35 minutes | www.montanalinux.org [13:50] TR News zero Hey Hi (AI) code https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/donkey-kong-64-finally-gets-a-fully-native-pc-port-written-in-c-dk64-rekongpiled-brings-ultrawide-support-uncapped-framerates-and-zero-ai-code [13:50] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tomshardware.com | Donkey Kong 64 finally gets a fully native PC port written in C DK64 ReKONGpiled brings ultrawide support, uncapped framerates, and zero AI code | Tom's Hardware [13:51] TR News Linux Saloon 217 | Application Potluck https://cubiclenate.com/2026/08/29/linux-saloon-217-application-potluck/ [13:51] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Linux Saloon 217 | Application Potluck CubicleNate.com [13:52] TR News Linux Just Escaped Californias Mandatory Age Checks backdoored Windows and macOS Didnt https://linuxstans.com/linux-just-escaped-californias-mandatory-age-checks-windows-and-macos-didnt/ [13:52] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-linuxstans.com | Linux Just Escaped Californias Mandatory Age Checks - Windows and macOS Didnt [13:53] TR News [R] Understanding position_dodge() and position_dodge2() in ggplot2 https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/08/r-understanding-position_dodge-and-position_dodge2-in-ggplot2/ [13:53] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-[R] Understanding position_dodge() and position_dodge2() in ggplot2 | R-bloggers [13:54] TR News Nepal begins mass burials of unidentified flood victims as families seek missing https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/nepal-begins-mass-burials-of-unidentified-flood-victims-as-families-seek-missing [13:54] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.straitstimes.com | Nepal begins mass burials of unidentified flood victims as families seek missing | The Straits Times [13:55] TR News How to Install aaPanel Control Panel on Debian 13 https://linuxhostsupport.com/blog/how-to-install-aapanel-control-panel-on-debian-13/ [13:55] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-How to Install aaPanel Control Panel on Debian 13 | LinuxHostSupport [13:56] TR News Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music Sue Anthropic, Alleging Blatant Theft of Intellectual Property https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/30/sony-warner-sue-anthropic-blatant-ip-theft/ https://cybershow.uk/content/blog/ipharms/ipharms.html [13:56] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/30/sony-warner-sue-anthropic-blatant-ip-theft/ ) [13:56] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-cybershow.uk | Why I'm Not Suing Anthropic [13:57] TR News After 25 years, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization faces an uncertain future https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/after-25-years-the-shanghai-cooperation-organization-faces-an-uncertain-future/ [13:57] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.aspistrategist.org.au | After 25 years, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization faces an uncertain future | The Strategist [13:57] TR News Niger junta puts down mutiny with help from Russia's Africa Corps https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20260830-niger-junta-aided-by-russian-paramilitary-forces-regains-control-after-mutiny [13:57] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20260830-niger-junta-aided-by-russian-paramilitary-forces-regains-control-after-mutiny ) [13:57] TR News NATO's Arctic activity poses 'direct threat' to Russia, Lavrov warns https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260831-nato-arctic-activity-direct-threat-russia-lavrov [13:57] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260831-nato-arctic-activity-direct-threat-russia-lavrov ) [13:58] TR News Death Toll From Russian Strike On Kyiv Region Rises To 38 https://www.rferl.org/a/death-toll-from-russian-strike-on-kyiv-region-rises-to-27/33843071.html [13:58] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.rferl.org | Death Toll From Russian Strike On Kyiv Region Rises To 38 [13:58] TR News Amid Setbacks, Putin Looks To Restore Russia's Standing At Bishkek SCO Summit https://www.rferl.org/a/bishkek-kyrgyz-sco-putin-russia-china-iran-summit/33843584.html [13:58] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.rferl.org | Amid Setbacks, Putin Looks To Restore Russia's Standing At Bishkek SCO Summit [13:59] TR News Oops! All Shells! | LINUX Unplugged 682 https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/linux-unplugged/682/ [13:59] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.jupiterbroadcasting.com | Oops! All Shells! | LINUX Unplugged 682 | Jupiter Broadcasting [13:59] TR News Massive 12TB Steam leak reveals decades of unreleased games archived files include unseen Half-Life 2: Episode 3 builds and assets https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/massive-12tb-steam-leak-reveals-decades-of-unreleased-games-archived-files-include-unseen-half-life-2-episode-3-builds-and-assets [13:59] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tomshardware.com | Massive 12TB Steam leak reveals decades of unreleased games archived files include unseen Half-Life 2: Episode 3 builds and assets | Tom's Hardware ● Aug 31 [14:00] TR News The FOSS Force Interview With Richard Stallman https://fossforce.com/2026/08/the-foss-force-interview-with-richard-stallman/ [14:00] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-fossforce.com | The FOSS Force Interview With Richard Stallman - FOSS Force [14:00] TR News Thousands of Endangered Species Are Being Sold on Facebook, TikTok, And EBay https://www.sciencealert.com/online-marketplaces-increasingly-endanger-biodiversity-study-finds [14:00] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Thousands of Endangered Species Are Being Sold on Facebook, TikTok, And EBay : ScienceAlert [14:36] TR News (NEW): Audiocasts/Shows: Linux Kernel @ 35 Years, LINUX Unplugged, and Linux Saloon https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/31/Audiocasts_Shows_Linux_Kernel_35_Years_LINUX_Unplugged_and_Linu.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/31/Audiocasts_Shows_Linux_Kernel_35_Years_LINUX_Unplugged_and_Linu.gmi [14:36] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Audiocasts/Shows: Linux Kernel @ 35 Years, LINUX Unplugged, and Linux Saloon [14:36] TR News (NEW): Databases: ElephpantDB and YottaDB https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/31/Databases_ElephpantDB_and_YottaDB.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/31/Databases_ElephpantDB_and_YottaDB.gmi [14:36] 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I notice this common pattern with exec hiring. They fire the people below them and bring their bros from previous employers who are loyal to them. Jay, hayette and mustafa appear to be doing that here at msft." [15:03] TR News Also Microsoft: "Its how financial services companies work. They think hiring a tech leader will fix this. They dont realize its their process and not necessarily people that are the problem. Happens everywhere" https://www.teamblind.com/post/finally-detoxed-from-visa-inc-ra8ruzj0 [15:03] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.teamblind.com | Finally Detoxed from Visa Inc. | Tech Industry - Blind [15:10] TR News Techrights Microsoft: Work Weekends Too https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/31/Microsoft_Work_Weekends_Too.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/31/Microsoft_Work_Weekends_Too.gmi [15:10] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Microsoft: Work Weekends Too [15:14] TR News Still: "Firefox cant establish a connection to the server at stallman.org." [15:17] TR News Monopolies on nature http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/08/uk-eyes-unitary-plant-variety-right.html [15:17] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-ipkitten.blogspot.com | UK eyes unitary plant variety right with the EU - The IPKat [15:17] TR News bad faith http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/08/angry-birds-crash-into-bad-faith.html [15:17] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-ipkitten.blogspot.com | Angry Birds crash into bad faith - The IPKat [15:18] TR News Thy shalt be known as MortgageBoy [15:19] TR News or foreclosureboi [15:19] TR News "y not both!" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreclosure https://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0510/the-6-phases-of-a-foreclosure.aspx [15:19] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-en.wikipedia.org | Foreclosure - Wikipedia [15:19] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0510/the-6-phases-of-a-foreclosure.aspx ) [15:21] TR News Is Perlmonks Dead? https://blogs.perl.org/users/silent11/2026/08/is-perlmonks-dead.html [15:21] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Is Perlmonks Dead? | silent11 [blogs.perl.org] [15:21] TR News ANNOUNCE: Perl.Wiki V1.53, Mojo.Wiki V1.24 https://blogs.perl.org/users/ron_savage/2026/08/announce-perlwiki-v153-mojowiki-v124.html [15:21] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-ANNOUNCE: Perl.Wiki V1.53, Mojo.Wiki V1.24 | Ron Savage [blogs.perl.org] [15:21] TR News PerlOnJava 5.44.1 released https://blogs.perl.org/users/flavio_s_glock/2026/08/perlonjava-5441-released.html [15:21] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-PerlOnJava 5.44.1 released | Flvio S. Glock [blogs.perl.org] [15:24] TR News Coca-Cola Company layoffs [15:27] TR News Also terminations and "last days" at HashiCorp / IBM. [15:30] TR News EU rules Rovaniemi is Santa's hometown | Yle News | Yle https://yle.fi/a/74-20243804 Source: YLE | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//yle.fi/a/74-20243804 [15:30] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-yle.fi | EU rules Rovaniemi is Santa's hometown | Yle News | Yle [15:34] TR News Santa & Deer went "to the next world" after hit head-on by someone with driver's licence from GTA [15:40] TR News tankers supply drinking water https://www.dw.com/en/in-drought-stricken-france-tankers-supply-drinking-water/a-78420016 [15:40] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.dw.com | In drought-stricken France, tankers supply drinking water [15:40] TR News water conflict around Berlin https://www.dw.com/en/extreme-heat-feeds-water-conflict-around-berlin/a-78428993 [15:40] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.dw.com | Industry and residents clash over water near Berlin [15:53] TR News Techrights IBM's Cuts Are Worsening Security in GNU/Linux https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/31/IBM_s_Cuts_Are_Worsening_Security_in_GNU_Linux.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/31/IBM_s_Cuts_Are_Worsening_Security_in_GNU_Linux.gmi [15:53] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights IBM's Cuts Are Worsening Security in GNU/Linux [15:56] *wallacer has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [15:56] *wallacer (~quassel@2x2w4qfz3wksg.irc) has joined #boycottnovell-social ● Aug 31 [16:06] TR News Techrights Richard Stallman's GNU Turns 43 in 4 Weeks, FSF Growing https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/31/Richard_Stallman_s_GNU_Turns_43_in_4_Weeks_FSF_Growing.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/31/Richard_Stallman_s_GNU_Turns_43_in_4_Weeks_FSF_Growing.gmi [16:06] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Richard Stallman's GNU Turns 43 in 4 Weeks, FSF Growing [16:35] TR News Cars Dont Always Save Time https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/31/cars-dont-always-save-time/ [16:35] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-schestowitz.com Blog Archive Cars Dont Always Save Time [16:49] TR News Thoreaus Guide to Living More by Spending Less - Business Insider https://www.businessinsider.com/thoreaus-guide-to-living-more-by-spending-less-2011-6 Source: Business Insider [16:49] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.businessinsider.com | Thoreaus Guide to Living More by Spending Less - Business Insider [16:51] TR News Zomato layoffs: 250 jobs cut as company shuts customer support centre in Hyderabad ● Aug 31 [17:05] TR News "Dear Smol Friends, the Autumnal equinox draws near! Once again it is time for those who observe the yearly practice of ROOPHLOCH to venture outdoors, devices in hand." gemini://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/~solderpunk/gemlog/announcing-roophloch-2026.gmi [17:05] TR News Announcing ROOPHLOCH 2026 gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space:70/0/~solderpunk/phlog/announcing-roophloch-2026.txt [17:07] TR News "So, a few days ago I joined kunulo on the geminispace bbs to discuss how and where to chat about smol.pub posts. It seems like the conclusion was...why not on the main feed itself?" gemini://nullish.smol.pub/replying-to-smol-pub-user-posts [17:09] TR News "I was in my late 20's when I first decided that I wanted to start running. There was a group of guys at the office that went on 30-40 minute runs over their lunch breaks, and I wanted to join them." gemini://nullish.smol.pub/how-to-run [17:10] TR News "In the last post about patches I wrote how I move code into air-gapped VMs with a simple `.patch` file. Turns out that was a gateway drug." gemini://gemini.maksymdziuba.xyz/blog/2026-08-31-github-pr-in-terminal.gmi [17:11] TR News "I find it very reassuring to know that you don't perceive my writing that way and I am flattered that you find it interesting. I must admit I have quietly been following you on here for a few days and I find your perspective very refreshing." gemini://buster.smol.pub/at-nullish-re-replying-to-smol-pub-user-posts [17:12] TR News "I have five computers in my living room. At some point, it seemed like a good idea to make them work together. So, naturally, I installed Docker and used it's swarm feature." gemini://sava.rocks/blog/how-to-create-a-docker-swarm-cluster/ [17:13] TR News "After reading Michael's recent entry regarding an "AI" (read: LLM) MCP server for gemini/gopher space, I was immediately irritated. While I was taking a piss, imagining some billionaire's face was there instead of the urine cake, I thought why not just encrypt posts?" gemini://enemy.org/mrfusion/rants/2026-08-31.gmi [17:14] TR News "How will we cope with the inevitable disagreements when they come? We surely can't be positive about one another all the time. That would be a pretence, not real community." gemini://kunulo.smol.pub/2026-08-31-replying [17:40] TR News wildfires https://www.dw.com/en/how-europe-can-better-protect-against-extreme-wildfires/a-78435243 [17:40] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.dw.com | How Europe can better protect against extreme wildfires [17:41] TR News Drought https://www.dw.com/en/drought-in-germany-and-europe-are-driving-up-costs/a-78447266 [17:41] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.dw.com | Drought in Germany and Europe are driving up costs [17:41] TR News wildfires https://www.dw.com/en/what-to-do-when-wildfires-trigger-trauma/a-78449930 [17:41] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.dw.com | What to do when wildfires trigger trauma [17:42] TR News Swiss tourist jailed https://www.dw.com/en/swiss-tourist-jailed-in-bali-for-insulting-hindu-holiday/a-78459089 [17:42] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.dw.com | Swiss tourist jailed in Bali for insulting Hindu holiday ● Aug 31 [18:17] TR News The Net is a Mess, LLMs Are Partly to Blame https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/31/the-net-is-a-mess-llms-are-partly-to-blame/ [18:17] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-schestowitz.com Blog Archive The Net is a Mess, LLMs Are Partly to Blame [18:41] TR News Techrights Gemini Links 31/08/2026: Announcing ROOPHLOCH 2026, smol.pub Discussion, and LLM Plagiarism Engines Target Geminispace https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/31/Gemini_Links_31_08_2026_Announcing_ROOPHLOCH_2026_smol_pub_Disc.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/31/Gemini_Links_31_08_2026_Announcing_ROOPHLOCH_2026_smol_pub_Disc.gmi [18:41] TR News Techrights PIPocalypse at IBM https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/31/PIPocalypse_at_IBM.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/31/PIPocalypse_at_IBM.gmi [18:41] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Gemini Links 31/08/2026: Announcing ROOPHLOCH 2026, smol.pub Discussion, and LLM Plagiarism Engines Target Geminispace [18:41] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights PIPocalypse at IBM [18:41] TR News Techrights Spending Over a Million Bucks on Lawsuits Abroad When There's a Big Mortgage to Pay in America https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/31/Spending_Over_a_Million_Bucks_on_Lawsuits_Abroad_When_There_s_a.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/31/Spending_Over_a_Million_Bucks_on_Lawsuits_Abroad_When_There_s_a.gmi [18:41] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Spending Over a Million Bucks on Lawsuits Abroad When There's a Big Mortgage to Pay in America [18:46] TR News China will stop Russia from going nuclear, Finlands Stubb says https://www.politico.eu/article/china-wont-let-russia-use-nukes-finlands-alexander-stubb-says/ [18:46] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.politico.eu | China will stop Russia from going nuclear, Finlands Stubb says POLITICO [18:47] TR News "Instead of simply replacing battlefield losses, it is creating a defence industry that combines Soviet-era industrial capacity with the demands of 21st-century warfare." https://www.ft.com/content/369558d0-357c-41e7-aa1e-dc1c1c07457d [18:47] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.ft.com/content/369558d0-357c-41e7-aa1e-dc1c1c07457d ) [18:48] TR News "The new-model Shahed drones have a cruising speed of 200mph to 250mph, about double the 115mph achieved by the piston-engine version and beyond the speed of Ukraines cheap interceptors, making them harder to stop." https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/31/russia-fires-jet-powered-drones-ukraine [18:48] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.theguardian.com | Kyiv suffers hours of daytime air raids as Russia deploys new jet-powered drones | Ukraine | The Guardian [18:52] TR News End of Summer https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/31/end-of-summer/ [18:52] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-schestowitz.com Blog Archive End of Summer [18:52] TR News "For nearly 30 years, part of Sonoma was ruled by Tsarist Russia, and it played a pivotal if little-known role in shaping the US." https://www.bbc.co.uk/travel/article/20260828-when-russia-colonised-california [18:52] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.bbc.co.uk | 'The forgotten empire': When Russia colonised California - BBC Travel [18:54] TR News "While some Americans may recall that the US's largest state, Alaska, was part of Russia for nearly 70 years, the Russian Empire's only permanent overseas colony, known as Russian America, also extended into California from 1812-1842. In fact, Russians settled in California decades before newly independent Americans did." [18:56] TR News stallman.org down for about 2 days now [18:59] TR News "Last time, I sent an email to info@fsf.org for improvement for a web page on FSF.org and they responded to my email. I hope this helps. Sincerely yours, Malsasa" https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2026-08/msg00011.html [18:59] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Connection timed out after 10002 milliseconds ( status 0 @ https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2026-08/msg00011.html ) ● Aug 31 [20:55] TR News (NEW): Mozilla Firefox 155 Is Now Available for Download, Heres Whats New https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/31/Mozilla_Firefox_155_Is_Now_Available_for_Download_Here_s_What_s.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/31/Mozilla_Firefox_155_Is_Now_Available_for_Download_Here_s_What_s.gmi [20:55] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Mozilla Firefox 155 Is Now Available for Download, Heres Whats New ● Aug 31 [23:01] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #boycottnovell-social [23:03] *psydruid has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [23:47] TR News (NEW): Firefox 156 Enters Beta Testing with Improved Memory and CPU Usage https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/31/Firefox_156_Enters_Beta_Testing_with_Improved_Memory_and_CPU_Us.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/31/Firefox_156_Enters_Beta_Testing_with_Improved_Memory_and_CPU_Us.gmi [23:47] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Firefox 156 Enters Beta Testing with Improved Memory and CPU Usage ● Aug 31 [00:56] *MinceR has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [00:58] *MinceR (~mincer@bringer.of.light) has joined #techpol ● Aug 31 [02:49] *croissant (~croissant@ivwkextkdrzau.irc) has joined #techpol [02:50] *croissant` has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) ● Aug 31 [07:31] Tcl interface unloaded [07:31] Python interface unloaded [07:33] *Now talking on #techpol ● Aug 31 [10:33] TR News "Putting Jared Moskowitz in charge of Middle East policy isnt just a slap in the face to Democratic voters" https://jacobin.com/2026/08/moskowitz-democratic-establishment-israel-iran | Source: Jacobin Magazine [10:33] -TechPolBot/#techpol-jacobin.com | Centrist Dems Are at War With Their Own Voters on Israel ● Aug 31 [11:53] TR News norwich https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08/10/row-listed-pub-convert-muslim-mosque-norwich/ [11:53] -TechPolBot/#techpol- ( status 402 @ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08/10/row-listed-pub-convert-muslim-mosque-norwich/ ) [11:54] TR News "Trump renames Canadian Geese to American Geese" https://lzon.ca/posts/series_duck-digest/trump-geese/ [11:54] -TechPolBot/#techpol-lzon.ca | Trump renames Canadian Geese to American Geese [11:54] TR News "Indonesia Still Hasnt Come to Terms With Suhartos Crimes" https://jacobin.com/2026/08/indonesia-suharto-dictatorship-monuments-memory [11:54] -TechPolBot/#techpol-jacobin.com | Indonesia Still Hasnt Come to Terms With Suhartos Crimes [11:54] TR News "Just say no to Trump the drug, that is - Salon.com" https://www.salon.com/2026/08/30/just-say-no-to-trump-the-drug-that-is/ [11:54] -TechPolBot/#techpol-Just say no to Trump the drug, that is - Salon.com [11:55] TR News "NATO's Arctic activity poses 'direct threat' to Russia, Lavrov warns - France 24" https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260831-nato-arctic-activity-direct-threat-russia-lavrov [11:55] -TechPolBot/#techpol- ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260831-nato-arctic-activity-direct-threat-russia-lavrov ) [11:56] TR News "Russland om Nato-velser i Arktis: En direkte trussel Siste nytt NRK" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&u=https://www.nrk.no/nyheter/russland-om-nato-ovelser-i-arktis___-en-direkte-trussel-1.18008541 [11:56] -TechPolBot/#techpol-www-nrk-no.translate.goog | Russland om Nato-velser i Arktis: En direkte trussel Siste nytt NRK [11:56] TR News "Russia's war will not end until Putin accepts Ukrainian independence - Atlantic Council" https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/russias-war-will-not-end-until-putin-accepts-ukrainian-independence/ [11:56] -TechPolBot/#techpol-www.atlanticcouncil.org | Russia's war will not end until Putin accepts Ukrainian independence - 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