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"but Krabanaugh eats like a wart hog in heat, and behaves like one since his girth increased.

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Is RT still teaching him to upskill as a co-k su-ka ?"

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> Never dated anyone else in the picture? Such a bizarre thing to say.

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Yes.

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<h5><a href="https://linuxiac.com/open-source-pogocache-pushes-beyond-redis-and-memcache/">Open Source Pogocache Pushes Beyond Redis and Memcache</a></h5>

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<p>In benchmarks shared by the developer, Pogocache consistently outperforms long-established tools like Redis, Memcache, Valkey, Dragonfly, and Garnet. The gains are evident in both throughput and latency tests, indicating that it can handle more requests per second while maintaining low response times. </p>

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-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-linuxiac.com | Open Source Pogocache Pushes Beyond Redis and Memcache

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<h5><a href="https://linuxiac.com/gimp-3-2-takes-shape-with-link-and-vector-layers/">GIMP 3.2 Takes Shape With Link and Vector Layers</a></h5>

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<p>Link layers allow you to import external files—such as an SVG you’re editing in Inkscape—and have them update automatically within GIMP. You can scale or rotate the layer without damaging the original, and if you prefer a simpler approach, you can always rasterize it later. </p>

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-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-linuxiac.com | GIMP 3.2 Takes Shape With Link and Vector Layers

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<h5><a href="https://linuxiac.com/kde-virtual-machine-manager-moves-forward/">KDE’s Virtual Machine Manager Moves Forward</a></h5>

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<p>According to Derek Lin, Kartoon’s lead developer, one of the most important changes in this cycle is the removal of the dependency on virt-install. Instead, it now generates libvirt domain XML directly, using libosinfo to identify the installation media and fill in the required configuration details, such as UUIDs, MAC addresses, and virtual hardware setup. </p>

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-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-linuxiac.com | KDE’s Virtual Machine Manager Moves Forward

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<li><h5><a href="http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/09/no-claim-interpretation-summersaults.html?showComment=1756732418063#c4782930041666166634">Interesting, Santa. What provision of the UK Paten...</a></h5><blockquote>Interesting, Santa. What provision of the UK Patents Act does a UKIPO Exr rely on, when refusing an application for an uncured descrn/claim disconformity? Is it that the claim is not clear, or that it lacks support, o

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r perhaps it varies from case to case and Exr to Exr? I ask because, within the EPO, there might be different opinions on this.<br /><br />And yes, I'm in good health, thanks.</blockquote></li>

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█████ http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default?alt=rss ██████████████████████ Mon, 01 Sep 2025 12:57:00 +0000 ███████ "And anyway, for those of

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<li><h5><a href="http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/09/no-claim-interpretation-summersaults.html?showComment=1756731420438#c1550233674465284963">"And anyway, for those of us tasked to write ...</a></h5><blockquote>"And anyway, for those of us tasked to write FTO opinions on the basis of a WO-A publication, I doubt whether all tht work of "conforming" the description makes it any easier to write an FTO opinion aft

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er the patent monopoly issues. How does it help?"<br /><br />This is something I think the vast majority of us would agree with.<br /><br />Description amendments do not make the granted</blockquote></li>

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<li><h5><a href="http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/09/no-claim-interpretation-summersaults.html?showComment=1756717040269#c5300474625955126703">Rose, your report leaves me gobsmacked. For decade...</a></h5><blockquote>Rose, your report leaves me gobsmacked. For decades the EPO has been warning Applicants "Be it on your own Art 123(2) head, if you make any amendments in prosecution. It's 100% YOUR responsibility" but at th

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e same time insisting (the only Patent Office in the world to do so) that Applicants must strictly "conform" their descriptions to the allowable claims. Do we see here</blockquote></li>

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-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-ipkitten.blogspot.com | No claim interpretation summersaults for the EPO (T 2027/23) - The IPKat

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"Brian Kernighan -- UNIX and C legend -- was asked about the Rust programming language replacing C.

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“Ohhh, Rust! I have written only one Rust program, so you should take all of this with a giant grain of salt. And I found it a — pain… I just couldn’t grok the mechanisms that were required to do memory safety, in a program where memory wasn’t even an issue!”

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"The support mechanism that went with it — this notion of crates and barrels and things like that — was just incomprehensibly big and slow. And the compiler was slow, the code that came out was slow…”

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"When I tried to figure out what was going on, the language had changed since the last time somebody had posted a description! And so it took days to write a program which in other languages would take maybe five minutes!"

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"I’m probably unduly cynical. But I’m... I don’t think it’s gonna replace C right away, anyway."

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[These statements were made at the Vintage Computer Festival East in April, 2025.]"

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> Has there been any response to the CIA question? Is that something he's

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> added to sue you over?

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> https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/08/Many_Lawyers_for_Microsoft_and_1_316_Pages_to_Pick_on_a_Litigan.shtml <https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/08/Many_Lawyers_for_Microsoft_and_1_316_Pages_to_Pick_on_a_Litigan.shtml>

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No, but the site will document everything when the time is appropriate.

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We will fight as far/long as needed.

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x https://etiikka.fi/essays/social-media-in-governmental-crisis-communication/

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x https://www.ulosottolaitos.fi/en/about-us/current-issues/national-enforcement-authority-finland-on-social-media/

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if it were not so sad it would be cute that they think they control

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the narrative on social control media

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https://old.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/1n6he0i/psa_do_not_use_ubuntu_and_redhat_based_distros/

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-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-old.reddit.com | PSA: Do not use UBUNTU and Redhat based distros, this imcludes MINT : linuxquestions

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I have been warning people here and there about the danger of using these sell-out distros for a while.

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However, about two years ago, while testing out the newest UBUNTU, I discovered my trusty 20+ years old Sony wasn't able to handle the new UBUNTU, it was really sluggish having only 4GB memory. So I switched it back to AntiX which ran smoothly except that I can no longer run multiple processes in the terminal. In particular, I couldn't run firefox from the terminal. It would simply crash after running a while because firefox uses m

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ultiple threads as it opens webpages and runs various javascripta simultaneously, aka worker threads when you use 'ps'.

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Upon further investigation, I discovered my coredump limit ('ulimit -c' has beem set to a low value for some reasons. I try to increase it and I can't. The value was fixed for some reason.

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As some of you may know coredump is what happens when your program commits a SegFault. This typically means a memory violation but it could be other stuff too like a race condition or hardware pollong errors. Basically all things related to some problem with the memory. For example, if you buy a faulty memory card, your programs including the kernel itself will segfault all the time and you would get kernel-panic repeatedly. But, I

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wasn't getting keenel panic, I was getting segfaulta when I ran my programs as subprocesses. I can open firefox as a main process and it would still segfault eventually, it just lasted a bit longer.

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I decided there was nothimg I could do and I thought it had something to do with my machine being too old, so I switched to another old machine that I bought around 2010, a slightly less older machine, an Acer with 8GB memory this time. Around the same time, I watched a video of Richard Stallman giving a talk and he recommended using Manjaro Linux because it respects user freedom. And I thought why not. I installed Manjaro.

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So this distro is a rolling distro and the first thing it did was destroyed my new old laptop's internal speaker and then all my bluetooth speakers when I try to use external speakers with it. It was a slow process that took over a few month each. But it happened because I was watching certain youtube videos that contains certain frequencies that would create a sharp screaching sound on my speaker. A few times this happened my spea

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ker actually smelled something was burned. Ny conclusion is that something in these videos were causing an electrical surge to my speakers and not Manjaro. But once I switched to wired through the earphone jack, everything is fine.

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I would later discover that indeed there were something hiding in these videos. It is something I can hear but it doesn't show up as anything odd if you look at its spectrum insdie the audacity program. It basically looked like the video/audio was intentionally sped up for just a brief second to produce this effedt. I do not know why any content producers would do this. My suspicion is that it was embedded by Google to activate som

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e sleeper program through the audio's device drivers. And, on Manjaro, this translates into burnt out speakers. By using the earphone jack I basically setup a surge protector for my soeaker since you can onlybpass so much electricity through the jack. Anyway, I am a lazy person like the creator of PERL As long as it works I will keep going with it.

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Recwntly I hear about the newly discovered bug related to UEFI which my understanding is basically how the new machines, including mine, get bootup these days. It reminded me of these boot virus that one would get in the early days of PC in the 80s. And it occured to me that what if my old Sony caught a boot virus and thus its memory was corrupted right at boot time. That would explain all the problems it had and why I can't change

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the coredump limit because the kernel was reading how much memory I actually have. This means the virus has taken over the rest. So I reasoned the only way it could have gotten there was through UBUNTU befause that was when the trouble stated.

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Anyway, to keep the story short, it all has something to do with rust and the way it handles memory to keep programs safe from lroframmer eerors. Interested party can read my posts about my complaints about rust. The short story is anything made by rust is automatically a virus And with UBUNGU this virus is directly installed into your boot ROM instead of being run in ram during run time.

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As for the speaker issues, I suspect Google is trying to make the virus to do something through these video by calling on the audio drivera to access the memory virus, literally a whistle call. One possibility is to gain access to all the bouetooth devices connected to your computer that you may have around the house, including your phone.

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As an aside, here is something people should know about your android phones. The way each app is run is as a microservice inside a microcontainer like a docker. Each is basically a tiny Linux with its own memory isolated and protected from other microservices, aka apps, including the IO apps provided by default through Google -- this is why you should use a trusted third party keyboard app instead of the defualt, otherwise your pas

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swords are basically meaningless and since Google controls your gmail, it means double authentication is all just an illusion to make you think you are safe. The only thing protecting your behind is your password. This is also why you shouldn't trust any online password manager, including the one offered by Mozilla foundation. The one local inside firefox is fine because it is stored in an encrypted sqlite file on your computer.

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Sorry for the digression. The only way for Google to get inside the memory of these apps is to gain hardware level access through the kernel. But the kernel is Linux which is controlled by Linus, our computer God. Thus Google can't do it through a microservice inside a container running inside basically a VM running in the user space. But it it can corrupt the memory throught the bluetooth devices through the drivers that were impl

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anted with the virus which were there due to the nature of anything written and compiled with rust, then it can gain access to device level memory. At that point, it can basically do anything including taking over the whole phone. Of course it would get reaetted once you restadt your phone since Linis still controls Linux, for now.

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This is why the recent decision by Linus to allow binary drivers compiled with rust compiler to be incorporated into the core is stupid. Interestingky enough I think the Manjaro team knows about this vulnerability because I am using the 6 series of kernel which supposedly include some kf these drivers but my memory is fine. They may have replaced the new device drivers woth the old one instead of the mew.

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I know this is totally confusng but the TLDR; is the title.

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Rust has other issues as well. People interested should look for keywords like 'gpl', 'copyright', 'Oracle', 'virttual machine', 'java', and 'Sxratch' iin ny comments. And if you are a biologist or a medical doctor, please read my post on COVID, mRNA vaccine, Alzheimer and Windex.

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TSS is slowly fading away and will eventually be partnered or sold off. Every quarter it’s revenue shrinks just a little bit more. IBM likes its profit margin (approx 35%), but as goes the install base so goes TSS. (Intel is good enough) I fully expect Infrastructure to spin off / partner off almost all of scale out (commodity offerings) and focus exclusively on Enterprise offerings (Where IBM holds a monopoly) Yes that means 2/3

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’s of Infrastructure will go. The remaining 1/3 of infrastructure (eg all things enterprise (products, services, cloud, and TSS) will be absorbed into consulting. You are watching IBM consolidate into what it knows best (Monopoly offerings with a LINUX twist)

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TSS was absorbed & rebranded by the IBM Borg 2 yrs ago and did not go to kyndryl etc. IBM GTS Global Technology Services went to kyndryl. The big IBM svcs biz is now called TLS Technology Lifecycle Services and the old TSS is wandering around in TLS. This TLS guy from IBM posted this in LinkedIn 2 yrs ago:

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TSS is no more. Introducing TLS.... Technology Lifecycle Services.

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IBM Technology Lifecycle Services can help you with support and services to plan, deploy, optimize, support and refresh IBM Systems products, Red Hat, and leading third-party systems and software.

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Technical Support Services. Used to be part of the GTS. It provides L1 support services. It will be sold, just a matter of time.

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