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● Feb 02
[01:15]	MinceR	https://pleated-jeans.com/2025/10/13/deathtrap-staircases-youll-go-head-over-heels-for-eventually/
[01:15]	TR Bot	 35 Deathtrap Staircases You'll Go Head Over Heels For...Eventually
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[01:49]	Isambard_Prince	The computer said you don't have a mortgage. Womp womp
[01:49]	Isambard_Prince	I know a lot of people that got foreclosed on.
[01:49]	Isambard_Prince	Some that are struggling but haven't lost the house, yet.
[01:49]	Isambard_Prince	0 that paid it off.
● Feb 02
[02:17]	Isambard_Prince	MinceR, Now I have a credit card with William Shatner on it.
[02:18]	Isambard_Prince	Ho ho ho.
[02:18]	MinceR	ho, ho, ho.
[02:18]	Isambard_Prince	It is an open loop Visa card called "Priceline VIP Rewards".
[02:19]	MinceR	oops, i forgot a comma
[02:19]	MinceR	ho, ho, ho,.
[02:19]	MinceR	( https://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/William_Shatner_Syndrome )
[02:19]	TR Bot	 William Shatner Syndrome - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
[02:46]	TR News	Yesterday's #boycottnovell-social and #techpol IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-010226.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-010226.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-social-010226.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-social-010226.txt
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[02:49]	TR News	Yesterday's bulletin is now ready! : http://techrights.org/txt-archives/techrights-2026-02-01.txt | gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/techrights-2026-02-01.txt (tentative address, to work an hour from now)
[02:50]	TR News	Yesterday's Tux Machines bulletin is now ready! : http://news.tuxmachines.org/txt-archives/tuxmachines-2026-02-01.txt
● Feb 02
[03:00]	admfubar	if you belive in peanut butter clap your hands.... https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/feb/01/peanut-butter-raises-lazy-practice
[03:00]	TR Bot	 Employers are spreading raises like peanut butter and workers are paying the price | Gene Marks | The Guardian
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[03:21]	admfubar	https://www.seas.upenn.edu/stories/penn-and-umich-create-worlds-smallest-programmable-autonomous-robots/
[03:21]	TR Bot	 Penn and Michigan Create Worlds Smallest Programmable, Autonomous Robots | Penn Engineering
[03:24]	admfubar	well 'cause they ran out of ideas.... https://apple.slashdot.org/story/26/01/31/2038231/apple-switches-to-build-to-order-systems-on-its-web-site
[03:24]	TR Bot	 Apple Switches to Build-to-Order Systems on Its Web Site - Slashdot
[03:26]	Isambard_Prince	schestowitz-pi, The Visa and Mastercard settlement in the US could make US credit cards more like UK credit cards.
[03:26]	Isambard_Prince	Good reason to diversify credit card networks.
[03:27]	Isambard_Prince	I have American Express and Discover cards too.
[03:27]	Isambard_Prince	So they're not part of that settlement.
[03:33]	admfubar	https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Hurd-In-2026
[03:33]	TR Bot	Hurd Is "Almost There" With x86_64, SMP & ~75% Of Debian Packages Building - Phoronix
[03:33]	admfubar	https://www.phoronix.com/news/Dolby-Digital-Plus-E-AC3-2026
[03:33]	TR Bot	timed out after 10000 milliseconds ( status 0 @ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Dolby-Digital-Plus-E-AC3-2026 )
[03:34]	Isambard_Prince	https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Hurd-In-2026
[03:34]	Isambard_Prince	Errr
[03:34]	Isambard_Prince	Yeah, the Hurd is interesting.
[03:34]	Isambard_Prince	But I don't think it works much outside of a VM.
[03:34]	Isambard_Prince	Even after all these years.
[03:36]	MinceR	they're working on making it even worse
[03:43]	Isambard_Prince	"The Justice Department published dozens of unredacted nude images on its website, showing young women or possibly teenagers whose photos were contained in files related to the wealthy sex offender Jeffrey Epstein."
[03:43]	Isambard_Prince	-NYTimes
[03:44]	Isambard_Prince	"The New York Times came across nearly 40 unredacted images that appeared to be part of a personal photo collection, showing both nude bodies and the faces of the people portrayed."
[03:51]	TR News	 (NEW):  Today in Techrights https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/Today_in_Techrights.gmi 
[03:51]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Today in Techrights
[03:52]	TR News	Techrights IRC Proceedings: Sunday, February 01, 2026 https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/02/IRC_Proceedings_Sunday_February_01_2026.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/02/IRC_Proceedings_Sunday_February_01_2026.gmi 
[03:52]	TR Bot	 Techrights IRC Proceedings: Sunday, February 01, 2026
[03:52]	TR News	Techrights Over at Tux Machines... https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/02/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/02/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi 
[03:52]	TR Bot	 Techrights Over at Tux Machines...
[03:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights- nerds.xyz | AI is quietly changing how people judge websites
[03:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	admfubar: this site is a slopfarm
[03:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	all fake
● Feb 02
[04:00]	TR News	Techrights in Spanish: Huelga en Oficina Europea de Patentes fue contundente y se establece Plan de Lucha https://arsenalterapeutico.com/2026/02/01/huelga-en-oficina-europea-de-patentes-tuvo-participacion-mayoritaria/
[04:00]	TR Bot	 Huelga en Oficina Europea de Patentes fue contundente y se establece Plan de Lucha Arsenal Teraputico
[04:03]	TR News	humble algae https://www.dw.com/en/how-bringing-back-a-humble-algae-to-arctic-waters-makes-all-the-difference/a-75182003
[04:03]	TR Bot	 How restoring kelp forests in the Arctic boosts marine life
[04:04]	TR News	Neofetch Developer Actually Became A Farmer https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=HFJoU07hFrQ
[04:04]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=HFJoU07hFrQ )
[04:05]	TR News	EndeavourOS Explained: A Linux Distro That Makes Arch Simple https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=jvue_sMOT24
[04:05]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=jvue_sMOT24 )
[04:05]	TR News	Microsoft FORCES Online Accounts https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=aEWb1otLVPo
[04:05]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=aEWb1otLVPo )
[04:05]	TR News	Is Distro Hopping Bad? Heres Why Its Actually Great! https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=zl97Ou2ggg8
[04:05]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=zl97Ou2ggg8 )
[04:06]	TR News	Add Oomph to Your Linux Terminal With These 7 Tools https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=SGVnnRsF14E
[04:06]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=SGVnnRsF14E )
[04:06]	TR News	I Used Linux for 8 Years: Here's What They Don't Tell You https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=EcKSdZ_ENeg
[04:06]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=EcKSdZ_ENeg )
[04:06]	TR News	Slop ruins these https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=DjJb3lmJfG0
[04:06]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=DjJb3lmJfG0 )
[04:07]	TR News	This is Why Linux Mint DESTROYS Windows for Productivity! https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=B7nvDZR-a3A
[04:07]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=B7nvDZR-a3A )
[04:07]	TR News	Linux Mint 22.3 Zena Cinnamon overview https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=3-AOxmt4lKQ
[04:07]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=3-AOxmt4lKQ )
[04:10]	TR News	 (NEW):  Recent GNU/Linux Videos https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/Recent_GNU_Linux_Videos.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/Recent_GNU_Linux_Videos.gmi 
[04:10]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Recent GNU/Linux Videos
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[04:15]	TR News	YouTube enjoys safe-harbour protection despite not removing further infringing content, says US Court of Appeals http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/01/youtube-enjoys-safe-harbour-protection.html
[04:15]	TR Bot	 YouTube enjoys safe-harbour protection despite not removing further infringing content, says US Court of Appeals - The IPKat
[04:15]	TR News	Attack U.S. Patent and Copyright Monopolies https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/01/22/time-for-europe-to-use-the-nuclear-option-attack-u-s-patent-and-copyright-monopolies/
[04:15]	TR Bot	for Europe to Use the Nuclear Option: Attack U.S. Patent and Copyright Monopolies - CounterPunch.org
[04:16]	TR News	Copyrightability of Fonts https://matthewbutterick.com/chron/the-copyrightability-of-fonts-revisited.html
[04:16]	TR Bot	 The copyrightability of fonts revisited: Matthew Butterick
[04:18]	TR News	DOGE Employees Shared Social Security Data, Court Filing Shows https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/us/politics/doge-employees-social-security-data.html
[04:18]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/us/politics/doge-employees-social-security-data.html )
[04:19]	TR News	Germany news: Berlin vows aggressive cybersecurity stance https://www.dw.com/en/germany-news-berlin-vows-aggressive-cybersecurity-stance/live-75639462
[04:19]	TR Bot	 Germany news: Majority see Trump as threat to nation
[04:24]	TR News	Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (04/2026): Hardware in the Loop https://linmob.net/weekly-update-04-2026/
[04:24]	TR Bot	- Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (04/2026): Hardware in the Loop
[04:25]	TR News	The Android 'NexPhone': Linux on Demand, Dual-Boots Into Windows 11 - and Transforms Into a Workstation https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/26/01/25/060240/the-android-nexphone-linux-on-demand-dual-boots-into-windows-11---and-transforms-into-a-workstation
[04:25]	TR Bot	 The Android 'NexPhone': Linux on Demand, Dual-Boots Into Windows 11 - and Transforms Into a Workstation - Slashdot
[04:25]	TR News	Laziness https://linux.slashdot.org/story/26/01/24/2332205/former-canonical-developer-advocate-warns-snap-store-isnt-safe-after-slow-responses-to-malware-reports
[04:26]	TR Bot	 Former Canonical Developer Advocate Warns Snap Store Isn't Safe After Slow Responses to Malware Reports - Slashdot
[04:28]	MinceR	The train station is where the train stops. On my desk, I have a work station.
[04:37]	TR News	"Making a return as of 25.1 is a dual-init setup with both systemd and SysVInit on the same ISO image. This drastically cuts the number of builds we do and also brings back a feature that was uniquely MX and many users enjoyed" https://mxlinux.org/blog/mx-25-1-infinity-isos-now-available/
[04:37]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://mxlinux.org/blog/mx-25-1-infinity-isos-now-available/ )
[04:38]	TR News	https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/01/Gemini_Links_01_02_2026_Zdzis%C3%85%C2%82aw_Beksinski_and_Disconnected_Git.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/01/Gemini_Links_01_02_2026_Zdzis%C3%85%C2%82aw_Beksinski_and_Disconnected_Git.gmi 
[04:38]	TR Bot	( status 404 @ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/01/Gemini_Links_01_02_2026_Zdzis%C3%85%C2%82aw_Beksinski_and_Disconnected_Git.shtml )
● Feb 02
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[05:12]	TR News	Techrights Gemini Links 01/02/2026: Zdzisaw Beksiski and Disconnected Git Workflow https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/01/Gemini_Links_01_02_2026_Zdzis%C5%82aw_Beksinski_and_Disconnected_Git.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/01/Gemini_Links_01_02_2026_Zdzis%C5%82aw_Beksinski_and_Disconnected_Git.gmi 
[05:12]	TR Bot	 Techrights Gemini Links 01/02/2026: Zdzisaw Beksiski and Disconnected Git Workflow
[05:14]	Isambard_Prince	MinceR, I've been using that line from The Wishmaster going over my Prescription Drug list.
[05:14]	Isambard_Prince	"Did I get fucked?" "Royally."
[05:17]	Isambard_Prince	About the only thing this junk Medicare Part D plan does pay for is my cholesterol and blood pressure medicine.
[05:17]	Isambard_Prince	For some reason those are on Tier 1 and nothing else I take is, and Tier 1 means no co-pay.
[05:17]	Isambard_Prince	So I'll be using it for the free blood pressure and cholesterol medicine.
[05:19]	Isambard_Prince	"$275.59 / 3-month supply"
[05:19]	Isambard_Prince	That's what one of my psych meds costs with my Part D Plan. That's on Tier 2.
[05:19]	Isambard_Prince	I can get that for $51 at CVS with GoodRX Gold.
[05:20]	Isambard_Prince	Each GoodRX fill gets me 1,000 points (which is good for $1 off per 1,000 points when I redeem them, and it will all come off my next GoodRX fill.
[05:20]	Isambard_Prince	So whatever the GoodRX price is for a drug, subtract another $1 to account for the rewards points towards a future fill.
[05:24]	TR News	Techrights Slopless Weekend https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/02/Slopless_Weekend.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/02/Slopless_Weekend.gmi 
[05:24]	TR Bot	 Techrights Slopless Weekend
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[05:45]	TR News	Techrights Submit Your Suggestions for EU's Embrace of Software Freedom by Tomorrow https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/02/Submit_Your_Suggestions_for_EU_s_Embrace_of_Software_Freedom_by.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/02/Submit_Your_Suggestions_for_EU_s_Embrace_of_Software_Freedom_by.gmi 
[05:45]	TR Bot	 Techrights Submit Your Suggestions for EU's Embrace of Software Freedom by Tomorrow
[05:57]	TR News	Cyber criminals called THEMSELVES "Stallman", now people find a way to blame it on RMS or associate him with terrorism https://www.instagram.com/p/DUOkyHQiG0M/
[05:57]		-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Instagram
● Feb 02
[06:14]	TR News	 (NEW):  9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: February 1st, 2026 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/9to5Linux_Weekly_Roundup_February_1st_2026.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/9to5Linux_Weekly_Roundup_February_1st_2026.gmi 
[06:14]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: February 1st, 2026
[06:20]	TR News	Techrights A Can of WORMS - Part II - Darkening the Name of RMS, Associating It With Crime https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/02/A_Can_of_WORMS_Part_II_Darkening_the_Name_of_RMS_Associating_It.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/02/A_Can_of_WORMS_Part_II_Darkening_the_Name_of_RMS_Associating_It.gmi 
[06:20]	TR Bot	 Techrights A Can of WORMS - Part II - Darkening the Name of RMS, Associating It With Crime
[06:31]	Isambard_Prince	MinceR, Discover is already changing.
[06:31]	Isambard_Prince	There never used to be hold music.
[06:31]	Isambard_Prince	The representatives never used to be rude.
[06:32]	Isambard_Prince	I was rude back at least.
[06:32]	Isambard_Prince	I said, "Well, you keep coming up with more reasons why you won't raise my credit line. I guess not having a mortgage is new, if bizarre."
[06:35]	TR News	Techrights Mobbing at the European Patent Office (EPO) - Part II - Racism, Cocaine Use and White-Collar Corruption https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/02/Mobbing_at_the_European_Patent_Office_EPO_Part_II_Racism_Cocain.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/02/Mobbing_at_the_European_Patent_Office_EPO_Part_II_Racism_Cocain.gmi 
[06:35]	TR Bot	 Techrights Mobbing at the European Patent Office (EPO) - Part II - Racism, Cocaine Use and White-Collar Corruption
[06:52]	TR News	 (NEW):  Always Obeying Just Laws https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/Always_Obeying_Just_Laws.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/Always_Obeying_Just_Laws.gmi 
[06:52]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Always Obeying Just Laws
[06:59]	darwin	ArenaBG (major public torrent tracker) was seized
[06:59]	TR News	 (NEW):  Review: Manjaro Linux 26.0 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/Review_Manjaro_Linux_26_0.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/Review_Manjaro_Linux_26_0.gmi 
[06:59]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Review: Manjaro Linux 26.0
● Feb 02
[07:04]	TR News	 (NEW):  Free and Open Source Software https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi 
[07:04]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Free and Open Source Software
[07:27]	TR News	Techrights Doing More Detailed Series (Long-Form Works) https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/02/Doing_More_Detailed_Series_Long_Form_Works.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/02/Doing_More_Detailed_Series_Long_Form_Works.gmi 
[07:27]	TR Bot	 Techrights Doing More Detailed Series (Long-Form Works)
[07:27]	schestowitz[TR2]	darwin: on copyright grounds?
[07:27]	schestowitz[TR2]	maybe they just put out links
[07:28]	schestowitz[TR2]	there are site that put links to youtube
[07:28]	schestowitz[TR2]	like streams of things
[07:28]	schestowitz[TR2]	so instead of targetting youtube
[07:28]	schestowitz[TR2]	they'd target the sites which merely LINK to youtube
[07:28]	schestowitz[TR2]	because... well... that's how the state works
[07:32]	TR News	"Epstein Notes Suggested Bill Gates Engaged in Extramarital Sex" https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/us/bill-gates-epstein.html http://techrights.org/n/2026/01/30/The_Epstein_Files_Don_t_Say_the_Ages_of_Those_Russian_Girls_Bil.shtml
[07:32]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/us/bill-gates-epstein.html )
[07:32]	TR Bot	 Techrights The Epstein Files Don't Say the Ages of Those "Russian Girls" Bill Epsteingate Exploited
[07:32]	TR News	"The Path to a Sovereign Tech Stack is Via a Commodified Tech Stack" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/01/31/0058200
[07:32]	TR Bot	 The Path to a Sovereign Tech Stack is Via a Commodified Tech Stack - SoylentNews
[07:35]	TR News	With unclear rules, the government can silence uncomfortable voices | "Med oklara regler kan makten tysta obekvma rster" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/01/31/med-oklara-regler-kan-makten-tysta-obekvama-roster/
[07:35]	TR Bot	 Med oklara regler kan makten tysta obekvma rster
[07:37]	TR News	theverge took Microsoft bribes and made Bill Gates its editor; now it does "bill sez" pieces (lies) https://www.theverge.com/tech/871879/bill-gates-epstein-files-absolutely-absurd same as BillBC, the pedophiles' protector http://techrights.org/n/2026/01/31/BBC_Gaslights_Women_Sexually_Exploited_Many_Under_Legal_Age_for.shtml
[07:37]	TR Bot	 Bill Gates says accusations contained in Epstein files are absolutely absurd | The Verge
[07:37]	TR Bot	 Techrights BBC Gaslights Women Sexually Exploited (Many Under Legal Age) for Its Rich Sponsor, Bill Epsteingate (Gates)
[07:37]	darwin	schestowitz[TR2], all I know is Bulgaria asked for USA help for takedown.  I don't know how legal or not the sites (three actually) nor takedown were
[07:37]	darwin	some legal sites were taken down just due to rich industry
[07:37]	TR News	Microsofters push slop plagiarism as "code" https://taoofmac.com/space/notes/2026/02/01/2130 https://techrights.org/o/2023/02/10/copilot-in-court/
[07:37]	TR Bot	 Thoughts on AI-Assisted Software Development in 2026 - Tao of Mac
[07:37]	TR Bot	 Microsoft GitHub Expos Part XXVII The Future of OpenAI May Depend on the Fate of GitHub's Copilot in Court ($9 Billion in Damages)
[07:38]	TR News	iophk: FUD. The problem is the same for closed source AI [sic] too https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/01/opensource_ai_is_a_global/
[07:38]	TR Bot	 Too much open-source AI is exposing itself to the web The Register
[07:38]	darwin	but if anyone has torrent files of various stuff, it's likely arenabg is in some those
[07:39]	schestowitz[TR2]	lawfare
[07:39]	schestowitz[TR2]	the person who attackjed my wife and I did the same
[07:39]	schestowitz[TR2]	i put him in the box under sworn oath\he them admitted he had done the same to other sites
[07:39]	schestowitz[TR2]	inc. on "copyright" grounds
[07:39]	schestowitz[TR2]	bullying people to censor things
[07:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	iirc, he said he did this 5 times
[07:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	but  maybe i remember the number wrong
[07:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	it's in the typed up court transcript anyway
[07:43]	TR News	"I cancelled Disney Plus in September (though my annual sub runs until March)." https://chrismcleod.dev/blog/my-changing-media-landscape/ | Source: Chris McLeod
[07:43]	TR Bot	 My Changing Media Landscape Chris McLeod
[07:44]	TR News	"an email to the University community" https://www.michigandaily.com/news/government/we-want-ice-out-of-sight-thousands-rally-for-salt-the-earth-protest/ | Source: University of Michigan
[07:44]	TR Bot	 We want ICE out of sight: Thousands rally for Salt the Earth protest
[07:44]	TR News	"hundreds of business shut down and thousands take to the streets" https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/us/weekend-ice-protests-strike-shutdown.html | Source: New York Times
[07:44]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/us/weekend-ice-protests-strike-shutdown.html )
[07:44]	TR News	"On Jan. 24, 2026, CBP agents shot and killed 37-year-old Pretti, a U.S. citizen, on a public street in Minneapolis." https://michiganadvance.com/2026/01/31/im-a-former-fbi-agent-federal-agents-in-minneapolis-are-undermining-law-enforcement-principles/ | Source: Michigan Advance
[07:44]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://michiganadvance.com/2026/01/31/im-a-former-fbi-agent-federal-agents-in-minneapolis-are-undermining-law-enforcement-principles/ )
[07:45]	TR News	"During the tumultuous period that preceded the Civil War, the United States passed a series of bills that came to be collectively known as the Compromise of 1850." https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/what-ice-should-have-learned-from-the-fugitive-slave-act | Source: New Yorker
[07:45]	TR Bot	 What ICE Should Have Learned from the Fugitive Slave Act | The New Yorker
[07:45]	TR News	"Organisers handed out plastic whistles, which participants blew as music blared from a van." https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260131-creeping-fascism-milan-protesters-slam-ice-deployment-at-winter-olympics | Source: France24
[07:45]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260131-creeping-fascism-milan-protesters-slam-ice-deployment-at-winter-olympics )
[07:46]	TR News	"During the same period, the number of injured civilians was recorded at 11,021, student arrests at 94 cases, forced confessions at 296 cases, and summonses at 11,046 cases." https://www.en-hrana.org/day-thirty-six-of-the-protests-government-releases-list-of-names-and-state-tv-insults-those-killed/ | Source: Human rights Activists News Agency
[07:46]	TR Bot	 Day Thirty-Six of the Protests; Government Releases List of Names and State TV Insults Those Killed - Hrana
[07:46]	TR News	"Both men were assigned to Operation Metro Surge, an immigration enforcement dragnet launched in December that sent scores of armed and masked agents across the city." https://www.propublica.org/article/alex-pretti-shooting-cbp-agents-identified-jesus-ochoa-raymundo-gutierrez | Source: Pro Publica
[07:46]	TR Bot	 CBP Agents Jesus Ochoa, Raymundo Gutierrez IDd in Alex Pretti Shooting ProPublica
[07:57]	TR News	"The situation is no less shocking for having been at least partly predictable." https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/02/09/why-the-dhs-disaster-in-minneapolis-was-predictable | Source: New Yorker
[07:57]	TR Bot	 Why the D.H.S. Disaster in Minneapolis Was Predictable | The New Yorker
[07:58]	TR News	"The federal governments decision last week to arrest the journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort for covering a protest that took place in a Minnesota church was bad." https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-press-is-the-governments-enemy | Source: Hamilton Nolan
[07:58]	TR Bot	 The Press Is the Government's Enemy and That Is Good
[07:58]	TR News	"On January 18th, protesters interrupted services at a Minnesota church after discovering its pastor leads a nearby ICE field office." https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/30/journalists-don-lemon-georgia-fort-arrested-for-covering-mn-pop-up-church-protest/ | Source: Techdirt
[07:58]	TR Bot	Arrests Journalists Don Lemon & Georgia Fort For Acts Of Journalism, Even After Courts Rejected Arrest Warrants | Techdirt
[07:58]	TR News	"Agents use facial recognition, social media monitoring and other tech tools not only to identify undocumented immigrants but also to track protesters" https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/technology/tech-ice-facial-recognition-palantir.html | Source: New York Times
[07:58]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/technology/tech-ice-facial-recognition-palantir.html )
[07:59]	TR News	"Protesters around the world have since 2014 regularly gathered outside Russian embassies to demand that troops withdraw from Ukraine." https://www.thebarentsobserver.com/news/moscows-diplomats-asknbsposlo-to-stop-antiwar-protesters/444105 | Source: The Barents Observer
[07:59]	TR Bot	 Moscow's diplomats ask Oslo to stop anti-war protesters
[07:59]	TR News	"Although the film has performed better than expected, it is still unlikely to recoup the $40 million Amazon MGM paid for it." https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/melania-movie-box-office-results-b2911500.html | Source: The Independent UK
[07:59]	TR Bot	 Melania box office results revealed as divisive documentary defies predictions | The Independent
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[08:00]	TR News	"To be fair, most people involved with Melania do seem to feel shame, if not the ones who matter." https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/01/melania-trump-documentary-review/685829/ | Source: The Atlantic
[08:00]	TR Bot	 The Melania Trump Documentary Is a Disgrace - The Atlantic
[08:00]	TR News	"money you spent on your ticket will be funneled to Amazon, which might put it toward a seat at the inaugural high table for Mr. Jeff Bezos and Ms. Lauren Snchez Bezos." https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2026/01/melania-trump-documentary-horror-movie/685843/ | Source: The Atlantic
[08:00]	TR Bot	 'Melania' Is a Horror Movie - The Atlantic
[08:01]	TR News	"it's political propaganda" https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2026-01-31/melania-documentary-amazon-political-propaganda | Source: Los Angeles Times
[08:01]	TR Bot	 'Melania' isn't a documentary, it's political propaganda - Los Angeles Times
[08:02]	TR News	"general risk move" https://futurism.com/future-society/experts-bitcoins-crash-getting-started | Source: Futurism
[08:02]	TR Bot	 Experts Say Bitcoin's Crash Is Only Getting Started
[08:02]	TR News	"These high-speed corridors will connect Mumbai and Pune, Hyderabad and Pune, Hyderabad and Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Chennai, Chennai and Bengaluru" https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/union-budget-2026-india-to-develop-7-high-speed-rail-corridors-nirmala-sitharamans-budget-10923356#publisher=newsstand | Source: NDTV
[08:02]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/union-budget-2026-india-to-develop-7-high-speed-rail-corridors-nirmala-sitharamans-budget-10923356#publisher=newsstand )
[08:03]	TR News	"Muilenburgs objectives were never met. In July 2018, the US Air Force awarded Boeing a contract to deliver two mission-ready presidential airplanes by 2024, fixing the price at $3.9 billion." https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/trump-boeing-severe-delays | Source: Vanity Fair
[08:03]	TR Bot	 Air Force None: Why Trump's Big, Beautiful Boeings Can't Fly Yet | Vanity Fair
[08:03]	TR News	How
[08:03]	TR News	"How Can States Bring Costs Down?" https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/business/energy-environment/energy-bills-costs-states-trump-power-plants.html | Source: New York Times
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[08:03]	TR News	"Renewable energy is growing and setting world records" https://english.elpais.com/climate/2026-01-31/what-trump-cant-stop-renewable-energy-is-growing-and-setting-world-records.html | Source: El Pas
[08:03]	TR Bot	 What Trump cant stop: Renewable energy is growing and setting world records | Climate | EL PAS English
[08:04]	TR News	"The files, posted to the departments website, include some of the several million pages of records that officials said were withheld from an initial release in December." https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2026/0131/Largest-batch-yet-of-Epstein-files-released.-They-may-not-satisfy | Source: CS Monitor
[08:04]	TR Bot	batch yet of Epstein files released. They may not satisfy. - CSMonitor.com
[08:05]	TR News	"Theyve turned up a series of emails that Epstein wrote about Bill Gates and then sent to himself in 2013" https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/01/new-epstein-files/685837/ | Source: The Atlantic http://techrights.org/n/2026/01/31/Is_Nobel_Prize_for_Peace_a_Sick_Person_s_Code_Word_for_Gangbang.shtml
[08:05]	TR Bot	 America Will Be Reading the Epstein Files for Decades - The Atlantic
[08:05]	TR Bot	 Techrights Is "Nobel Prize for Peace" a Sick Person's 'Code Word' for Gangbanging Now? Ask Bill Gates.
[08:06]	TR News	"Well, he's dead" (so I can lie about what happened) - Bill Espteingate to PBS (which he bribes)
[08:06]	TR News	"The DOJ said it identified over 6 million potentially responsive pages but is releasing only about 3.5 million after review and redactions." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/31/jeffrey-epstein-unreleased-files | Source: The Guardian UK
[08:06]	TR Bot	 Jeffrey Epstein files: dont be fooled. Millions of files are still unreleased | Moira Donegan | The Guardian
[08:06]	TR News	"Those efforts didn't begin when the Act was signed, Vanity Fair reported last March." https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/epstein-files-release-doj-delay | Source: Vanity Fair
[08:07]	TR Bot	 Epstein Files Release Delayed By Redactions, Department of Justice Says | Vanity Fair
[08:11]	TR News	"The National Crime Agency (NCA) Online Communications Centre will trawl through thousands of social media accounts as part of the campaign." https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/illegal-migration-home-office-social-media-b2911708.html | Source: The Independent UK
[08:11]	TR Bot	 Social media users who tout illegal routes into UK face up to five years in prison | The Independent
[08:12]	TR News	"rollout of techno-fascism in america" https://abyss.fish/all_eyes_on_minneapolis |
[08:12]	TR Bot	 abyss * all_eyes_on_minneapolis
[08:12]	TR News	"Teboe said that tech leaders across the political spectrum are starting to realize their complicity in current events" https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/tech-right-minnesota-shooting | Source: Vanity Fair
[08:12]	TR Bot	 Has the Tech Right Reached Its Breaking Point? | Vanity Fair
[08:16]	TR News	"Most of the contributions we found fell into one of the two following categories: [...]" https://mako.cc/copyrighteous/what-do-people-do-when-they-edit-wikipedia-through-tor | Source: Benjamin Mako Hill
[08:16]	TR Bot	 What do people do when they edit Wikipedia through Tor? copyrighteous
[08:16]	TR News	"In this post, Ill share the steps I took and what I learned along the way." https://brandonrozek.com/blog/on-the-tor-network/ | Source: Brandon Rozek
[08:16]	TR Bot	 Bringing this website to the Tor network | Brandon Rozek
[08:17]	TR News	[Old] "Post Office figures revealed the company handled a record 801m in personal cash withdrawals in July, with more than 3.3bn in cash deposited and withdrawn over the counter" https://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Article/2022/08/08/Consumers-turn-to-cash-to-manage-household-and-holiday-budgets/ |
[08:17]	TR Bot	 Consumers turn to cash to manage household and holiday budgets
[08:17]	TR News	[Old] "A recent poll conducted by the Morning Advertiser (MA) found of the 97 respondents 54 (56%) stated cash accounted for less than 25% of transactions in their pubs" https://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Article/2022/08/11/Cash-accounts-for-less-than-25-of-payments-in-pubs/ |
[08:17]	TR Bot	 Cash accounts for less than 25% of payments in pubs
[08:18]	TR News	"He is offering all customers in his pubs who pay by cash through the next two months, a full five per cent off their bill." https://www.ledburyreporter.co.uk/news/25764191.pub-landlords-discount-cash-payments-card-fees/ |
[08:18]	TR Bot	 Pub landlord's discount for cash payments over card fees | Ledbury Reporter
[08:18]	TR News	"Davies said the cost of the transactions meant him losing about 5 for every 50 made." https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy1xxywlw9o | Source: BBC
[08:18]	TR Bot	 Herefordshire pub landlord offers discount for cash payments as card charges soar
[08:19]	TR News	Windows TCO: "Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks have become an unfortunate routine part of the modern internet" https://www.tomshardware.com/service-providers/network-providers/botnet-smashes-ddos-traffic-record-at-31-4-tb-s-equivalent-to-streaming-2-2-million-netflix-4k-movies-at-once-attack-was-large-enough-to-take-entire-countries-offline | Source: Tom's Hardware
[08:19]	TR Bot	 Botnet smashes DDoS traffic record, equivalent to streaming 2.2 million Netflix 4K movies at once 31.4 Tb/s attack was large enough to take entire countries offline | Tom's Hardware
[08:20]	TR News	"Courts across the country, including the U.S. Supreme Court, have made this clear: when officials use social media to conduct official business" https://kentuckylantern.com/2026/01/31/social-media-is-the-new-public-square-and-kentucky-law-lags-behind/ | Source: Kentucky Lantern
[08:20]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://kentuckylantern.com/2026/01/31/social-media-is-the-new-public-square-and-kentucky-law-lags-behind/ )
[08:21]	TR News	 (NEW):  5 things you can do on Linux but not on Windows https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/5_things_you_can_do_on_Linux_but_not_on_Windows.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/5_things_you_can_do_on_Linux_but_not_on_Windows.gmi 
[08:21]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines 5 things you can do on Linux but not on Windows
[08:21]	TR News	"planning to go on the offensive with a lobbying blitz" https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-tech-industry-ads-data-center | Source: Futurism
[08:21]	TR Bot	 You Will Laugh Out Loud When You Hear What the Tech Industry Is Spending a Swimming Pool's Worth of Money to Convince the Public
[08:21]	TR News	"We have a major challenge ahead of us in figuring out what chatbots are suitable for in the long term." https://erikjohannes.no/posts/20260130-outsourcing-thinking/index.html |
[08:21]	TR Bot	 Outsourcing thinking Erik Johannes Husom
[08:21]	TR News	"in the year of our lord 2026, were still dealing with these PRs, but we have far more data points about whats going on and what the consequences are." https://basta.substack.com/p/the-imminent-risk-of-vibe-coding |
[08:21]	TR Bot	 The imminent risk of vibe coding - by Matt Basta
[08:22]	TR News	"The Wicked star and pop singer is the cover subject of the magazines latest issue. But people quickly spotted a problem with the original Vogue Japan cover photo: Ariana is sporting an uncanny six fingers on her left hand." https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/ariana-grande-vogue-cover-six-fingers-ai-1236646450/ | Source: Variety
[08:22]	TR Bot	 Ariana Grande Reacts to Vogue Cover of Her With 6 Fingers: 'Holy Shit'
[08:22]	TR News	"The second thing is that the claim in the abstract is about learning outcomes, skill formation, and efficiency gains." https://www.sicpers.info/2026/02/opinionated-read-how-ai-impacts-skill-formation/ | Source: SICP
[08:22]	TR Bot	 Opinionated Read: How AI Impacts Skill Formation | Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programmers
[08:22]	TR News	 (NEW):  I struggled with Hyprland for months, until this Arch-based distro fixed it https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/I_struggled_with_Hyprland_for_months_until_this_Arch_based_dist.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/I_struggled_with_Hyprland_for_months_until_this_Arch_based_dist.gmi 
[08:22]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines I struggled with Hyprland for months, until this Arch-based distro fixed it
[08:22]	TR News	"better than average" https://www.psypost.org/sycophantic-chatbots-inflate-peoples-perceptions-that-they-are-better-than-average/ | Source: PsyPost
[08:22]	TR Bot	 Sycophantic chatbots inflate peoples perceptions that they are "better than average"
[08:23]	TR News	"New research flagged by PsyPost suggests that the sycophantic machines are warping the self-perception and inflating the egos of their users" https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-chatbots-dunning-kruger-machines | Source: Futurism
[08:23]	TR Bot	 Evidence Grows That AI Chatbots Are Dunning-Kruger Machines
[08:23]	TR News	"And beneath the official jobs data is a growing accessibility crisis." https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/job-ai-applications-markup | Source: Futurism
[08:23]	TR Bot	 If You're a Real Person Looking for a Job, the Flood of Fake AI Job Applications Will Make Your Blood Boil
[08:24]	TR News	"In early 2024, executives at artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic ramped up an ambitious project they sought to keep quiet." https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/01/27/anthropic-ai-scan-destroy-books/ | Source: The Washington Post
[08:24]	TR Bot	stream 1 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2) ( status 0 @ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/01/27/anthropic-ai-scan-destroy-books/ )
[08:25]	TR News	"Anthropic shredded millions of physical books to train its Claude AI model and new documents suggest that it was well aware of just how bad it would look if anyone found out." https://futurism.com/future-society/anthropic-destroying-books | Source: Futurism
[08:25]	TR Bot	 Anthropic Knew the Public Would Be Disgusted by How It Was Destroying Physical Books, Secret Documents Reveal
[08:26]	TR News	 (NEW):  This is the one Linux distro I recommend to every Windows 11 user https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/This_is_the_one_Linux_distro_I_recommend_to_every_Windows_11_us.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/This_is_the_one_Linux_distro_I_recommend_to_every_Windows_11_us.gmi 
[08:26]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines This is the one Linux distro I recommend to every Windows 11 user
[08:26]	TR News	"That is equal to 3.0 percent of GDP" https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-bubble-wages-economy | Source: Futurism
[08:26]	TR Bot	 Tech CEOs Say AI Is Ushering in an Age of Abundance, But Instead the Evidence Shows That It's Pushing Down Wages
[08:27]	TR News	[Old] "I want to focus on Salt Typhoon, obviously." https://www.commerce.senate.gov/services/files/10E90402-9702-4677-941C-379465C3D0C3 | Source: US Senate
[08:27]	TR News	"Just months after his 20th birthday, Bill Gates had already angered the programmer community." https://thenewstack.io/50-years-ago-a-young-bill-gates-took-on-the-software-pirates/ | Source: The New Stack
[08:27]	TR Bot	 50 years ago, a young Bill Gates took on the 'software pirates' - The New Stack
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[08:27]	TR News	"Telegram is a messaging app that sits somewhere between WhatsApp, Discord, and a minimalist social network." https://greycoder.com/telegram-a-modern-cross-platform-messaging-app/ | Source: GreyCoder
[08:27]	TR Bot	A Modern, Cross-Platform Messaging App - GreyCoder
[08:27]	TR News	"But in 2017, Uber abruptly decided that if you wanted them to deliver something, you also had to allow them to operate your online store, and let them take a percentage of that" https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/02/01.html | Source: DNA Lounge
[08:27]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/02/01.html )
[08:28]	TR News	"After some research, I found out that the issue is with Apples unilateral decision to change their SMB defaults (without apparently notifying anyone), and came across a few possible fixes." https://taoofmac.com/space/til/2026/02/01/1630 | Source: Rui Carmo
[08:28]	TR Bot	 TIL: Apple Broke Time Machine Again On Tahoe - Tao of Mac
[08:28]	TR News	"I check my phone a lot, often for no real reason. Maybe you do, too. Now, instead of finding incremental updates on todays news" https://chrisamico.com/blog/2026-02-01/bookscrolling-doomscrolling/ | Source: Chris Amico
[08:28]	TR Bot	 Bookscrolling is better than doomscrolling
[08:29]	TR News	"My daughter will be born soon, and Im reflecting on what that means for my OpenSource work." https://carlosbecker.com/posts/less/ | Source: Carlos Becker
[08:29]	TR Bot	 Doing less, for her
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[08:29]	TR News	"Internet fiber optic cables have layers of protection, including conduits or ducting, casing, and insulation" https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/u-k-broadband-provider-bailout-scuppered-because-rats-chewed-through-its-cables-companys-fiber-network-reportedly-damaged-by-rodents-will-require-an-expensive-fix-to-get-it-up-and-running-again | Source: Tom's Hardware
[08:29]	TR Bot	 U.K. internet provider's bailout cancelled because rats chewed through its fiber optic cables biodegradable cable jackets use soy- or corn-based materials, attracting hungry rats | Tom's Hardware
[08:29]	TR News	"It was a 6 x 6cm single-lens reflex camera similar to the Hasselblad in design, style and size, but with several improvements over the original models." https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/cameras/film-cameras/this-japanese-hasselblad-does-things-that-the-original-swedish-camera-simply-cant | Source: Digital Camera World
[08:29]	TR Bot	 This "Japanese Hasselblad" does things that the original Swedish camera simply can't | Digital Camera World
[08:31]	TR News	 (NEW):   : Google Android Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/Android_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/Android_Leftovers.gmi 
[08:31]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Android Leftovers
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[08:32]	TR News	"I just need some right-angled patch cables to save on space." https://colinwalker.blog/?date=2026-02-01#p1 | Source: Colin Walker
[08:32]	TR Bot	 Colin Walker - Feb 1, 2026
[08:32]	TR News	"For about 7 years Typewriter Muse has been operating out of a home-like space, but this weekend they opened a lovely brick and mortar location in Riverside" https://boffosocko.com/2026/02/01/grand-opening-of-typewriter-muse/ | Source: Chris Aldrich
[08:32]	TR Bot	 Grand Opening of Typewriter Muse | Chris Aldrich
[08:33]	TR News	"I occasionally speak at conferences and meetups. Below are some of my active talks that I am presenting." https://www.arjenwiersma.nl/talks | Source: Arjen Wiersma
[08:33]	TR Bot	 Talks Arjen Wiersma
[08:33]	TR News	"He invites participants also to post the Q&A on their own blogs, so here are his five questions and my five answers." https://bix.blog/posts/2026-02-01-indieweb-carnival-host-interview/ | Source: Bix Frankonis
[08:33]	TR Bot	 IndieWeb Carnival: Host Interview Bix dot Blog
[08:33]	TR News	"Of course, two significant things changed since then: [...]" https://danq.me/2026/02/01/without-bloganuary/ | Source: Dan Q
[08:33]	TR Bot	 Without Bloganuary Dan Q
[08:34]	TR News	"I dont want all the hard work to disappear in a puff of smoke once I snuff it, so Ive been thinking. Could this blog become a family heirloom?." https://kevquirk.com/blog/will-they-inherit-our-blogs/ | Source: Kev Quirk
[08:34]	TR Bot	 Will They Inherit Our Blogs? | Kev Quirk
[08:35]	TR News	"The final action in this very minimal shortcut is to copy it to the clipboard. This is useful since its easy to paste in the tools that I use to post my stuff, including the Drafts app." https://jarunmb.com/posts/shortcut-for-alt-txt | Source: MB
[08:35]	TR Bot	for ALT TXT - jarunmb.com
[08:35]	TR News	"I feel like Ive careened between all of these extremes over the past 15 years." https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/01/15-years-of-blogging/ | Source: Nolan Lawson
[08:35]	TR Bot	 15 years of blogging | Read the Tea Leaves
[08:35]	TR News	"He was first licensed on March 15, 1954, as KN2HHR." https://www.arrl.org/news/view/former-fcc-official-john-b-johnston-w3be-silent-key | Source: ARRL
[08:35]	TR Bot	 Former FCC official John B. Johnston, W3BE, Silent Key
[08:36]	TR News	"This creates a new shell session which maintains a runtime history so, its possible to navigate around but nothing is saved to .bash_history" https://twdev.blog/2026/02/bash_incognito/ | Source: Tomasz Wisniewski
[08:36]	TR Bot	quick tips: Bash incognito mode - twdev.blog
[08:36]	TR News	"Your background jobs crash on deployment, fail silently, and corrupt data." https://lorbic.com/building-production-ready-background-workers-in-python/ | Source: Vikash Patel
[08:36]	TR Bot	Production-Ready Background Workers in Python | Lorbic
[08:37]	TR News	"The old saying points at a more general phenomenon: our engineering solutions to problems invariably add complexity." https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/01/31/ashby-taught-us-we-have-to-fight-fire-with-fire/ | Source: Lorin Hochstein
[08:37]	TR Bot	 Ashby taught us we have to fight fire with fire Surfing Complexity
[08:39]	TR News	"The results vary quite a bit depending on the numbers being converted. But we find that the two implementations tend to do best: Dragonbox by Jeon and Schubfach by Giulietti." https://lemire.me/blog/2026/02/01/converting-floats-to-strings-quickly/ | Source: Daniel Lemire
[08:39]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://lemire.me/blog/2026/02/01/converting-floats-to-strings-quickly/ )
[08:39]	TR News	"If we ponder this question, we quickly realize that technical debt is about cognitive load." https://www.ufried.com/blog/forget_technical_debt/ | Source: Uwe Friedrichsen
[08:39]	TR Bot	 Forget technical debt
[08:39]	TR News	"For those unfamiliar, lld is the LLVM linker, supporting PE/COFF, ELF, Mach-O, and WebAssembly ports." https://maskray.me/blog/2026-02-01-lld-22-elf-changes | Source: MaskRay
[08:39]	TR Bot	 lld 22 ELF changes | MaskRay
[08:39]	TR News	"I have been using Git for all my career in the tech. I am habitual of the basic commands such as git add, commit, status, log and a few more that I use consistently." https://amanhimself.dev/blog/til-about-git-shortlog/ | Source: Aman Mittal
[08:39]	TR Bot	about git shortlog | amanhimself.dev
[08:39]	TR News	"Version 0.121 of Game of Trees has been released (and the port updated): [...]" https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260201110851 | Source: Undeadly
[08:39]	TR Bot	 Game of Trees 0.121 released
[08:42]	TR News	"The printers built around a 2000-Watt fiber laser welder from Skyfire, and the motion system came from a defunct secondhand 3D printer built by an out-of-business insole printing company." https://hackaday.com/2026/02/01/building-a-metal-3d-printer-with-a-laser-welder/ | Source: Hackaday
[08:42]	TR Bot	A Metal 3D Printer With A Laser Welder | Hackaday
[08:42]	TR News	"This DIY headset is known as the Persephone 3 Lite, and is intended for use with SteamVR. Its got the requisite motion tracking thanks to a Raspberry Pi Pico, paired with an MPU6500 inertial measurement unit." https://hackaday.com/2026/02/01/a-diy-headset-for-steamvr/ | Source: Hackaday
[08:42]	TR Bot	DIY Headset For SteamVR | Hackaday
[08:42]	TR News	"Commands get from the UNO Q to the users computer through the onboard microcontroller. That sends commands to an RP2040-based development board, which appears as a standard USB HID to the computer." https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/02/01/this-stream-deck-alternative-runs-on-an-arduino-uno-q/ | Source: Arduino
[08:42]	TR Bot	 This Stream Deck alternative runs on an Arduino UNO Q | Arduino Blog
[08:42]	TR News	 (NEW):   Programming Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/Programming_Leftovers.gmi 
[08:42]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Programming Leftovers
[08:44]	TR News	 (NEW):  Open Hardware/Modding: Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux, NexPhone, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/Open_Hardware_Modding_Weekly_GNU_like_Mobile_Linux_NexPhone_and.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/Open_Hardware_Modding_Weekly_GNU_like_Mobile_Linux_NexPhone_and.gmi 
[08:44]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Open Hardware/Modding: Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux, NexPhone, and More
[08:46]	TR News	 (NEW):  I switched to this tiling window manager and cant go back to normal desktops https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/I_switched_to_this_tiling_window_manager_and_can_t_go_back_to_n.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/I_switched_to_this_tiling_window_manager_and_can_t_go_back_to_n.gmi 
[08:46]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines I switched to this tiling window manager and cant go back to normal desktops
[08:51]	TR News	Techrights Links 02/02/2026: 'Melania' a Horror Movie "Will They Inherit Our Blogs?" https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/02/Links_02_02_2026_Melania_a_Horror_Movie_Will_They_Inherit_Our_B.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/02/Links_02_02_2026_Melania_a_Horror_Movie_Will_They_Inherit_Our_B.gmi 
[08:51]	TR Bot	 Techrights Links 02/02/2026: 'Melania' a Horror Movie "Will They Inherit Our Blogs?"
[08:51]	TR News	"Somewhere in the Alaska series by Nick Zentner the feed turned to swearing and beeps and bonks from the Mac, along with such statements as "never upgrade"." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2026/02/01/workflow.gmi
[08:52]	TR News	Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2026-02-02.gmi
[08:53]	TR News	"I spend some time in Cursor Agent (the CLI version of the Cursor IDE, I don't like really the IDE), and I also jump between Claude Code CLI, Ampcode, Gemini CLI, OpenAI Codex CLI, OpenCode, and Aider just to see how things are evolving. But for the next month I'll be with Cursor Agent." gemini://foo.zone/gemfeed/2026-02-02-tmux-popup-editor-for-cursor-agent-prompts.gmi
[08:56]	TR News	"At almost-the-start of the new year, January 2nd, I got an email from an old friend: she'd moved her life and her family across the country, and was now living (roughly) where I was, a little ways out of the city; apologies for it having been so very long; would I like to get together and catch up?" gemini://tilde.club/~winter/gemlog/2026/2-01.gmi
● Feb 02
[09:12]	TR News	Techrights Oligarchs' 'Speech Zones' Are Not the "Public Square" https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/02/Oligarchs_Speech_Zones_Are_Not_the_Public_Square.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/02/Oligarchs_Speech_Zones_Are_Not_the_Public_Square.gmi 
[09:12]	TR Bot	 Techrights Oligarchs' 'Speech Zones' Are Not the "Public Square"
[09:19]	TR News	"Its a neat mod that both increases safety, but keeps the battery on hand to let the system ride through minor power outages." https://hackaday.com/2026/02/01/limiting-battery-risk-on-repurposed-smartphones-with-postmarketos/ | Source: Hackaday
[09:19]	TR Bot	Battery Risk On Repurposed Smartphones With PostmarketOS | Hackaday
[09:19]	TR News	"postmarketOS is an Alpine-based Linux distribution for mobile devices and desktop computers" https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=postmarketos | Source: Distro Watch
[09:19]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=postmarketos )
[09:19]	TR News	"However, most BGP communities are not standardized or documented, leaving researchers and operators no reliable way to interpret them" https://blog.apnic.net/2026/02/02/towards-understanding-city-level-routing-using-bgp-location-communities/ | Source: APNIC
[09:19]	TR Bot	 Towards understanding city-level routing using BGP location communities | APNIC Blog
[09:20]	TR News	[Old] "However, sometimes a feed URL cant be found automagically." https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2021/automatically-discoverable-rss-feeds/ | Source: Jim Nielsen
[09:20]	TR Bot	 Making Your RSS Feeds Automatically Discoverable - Jim Nielsens Blog
[09:20]	TR News	[Old] "Earlier this week I had a need to manually find a bunch of people's RSS feed links." https://rknight.me/blog/please-expose-your-rss/ | Source: Rob Knight
[09:20]	TR Bot	 Please, Expose your RSS Robb Knight
[09:24]	TR News	"If you're blogging and you want people to be able to subscribe to your content via RSS, it's important to make your RSS feed easily discoverable. Here are some resources that can help you add visible RSS links to your site: [...]" https://bobmonsour.com/blog/seeking-rss-links-favicons-and-descriptions/ | Source: Bob Monsour
[09:24]	TR Bot	 Seeking RSS links, favicons, and descriptions
[09:25]	TR News	"Two years ago I added a simple XSL transformation to prettify RSS feed as it is shown when opened by a direct link." https://victor.kropp.name/blog/2026/site-update/ | Source: Victor Kropp
[09:25]	TR Bot	 Site update
[09:25]	TR News	"then theres the third way: you open the binary in ghidra and start naming functions." https://banteg.xyz/posts/crimsonland/ |
[09:25]	TR Bot	 banteg - Resurrecting Crimsonland
[09:26]	TR News	"As I have mentioned earlier, there are a number of ways to find potential spamtrap material" https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-rest-is-trash.html | Source: BSDly
[09:26]	TR Bot	 That grumpy BSD guy: The Rest Is Trash
[09:29]	TR News	"In this article we will cover one of the newest features in Ironclad, type 2 virtualization support, design choices, uses, and the interfaces used." https://blog.ironclad-os.org/introducing-virtualization-support-to-ironclad/ |
[09:29]	TR Bot	 Ironclad's Blog - Introducing Virtualization Support to Ironclad
[09:29]	TR News	"working for yourself means a career full of change, even when that change is bittersweet." https://512pixels.net/2026/02/leaving-mpu/ | Source: Stephen Hackett
[09:29]	TR Bot	 The One Where I Announce Im Stepping Back From Mac Power Users - 512 Pixels
[09:38]	TR News	"Layoffs? Which is really surprising for MSFT because they make so much more money than IBM!" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kgd3fjc9
[09:38]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kgd3fjc9 )
[09:40]	TR News	"Fu-k no! I commute on IBMs dime. You have to be smart about it." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kgc0nzhn
[09:40]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kgc0nzhn )
[09:40]	TR News	"If this is Ayman, he was with IBM for 32 years. During that time, people were in the office and expected to be in-person at meetings. People even drove between buildings to ensure they were in the room because if you joined remotely, you were forgotten. People who wanted to move-up knew they needed to be in the office everyday to have scheduled and informal interactions with the leaders." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kgc0nzhn
[09:41]	TR News	IBM hiding misconduct. "without giving names can you share the kind of misconduct? Ive heard a lot of references to this at the Albany site" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kg3ctq05
[09:41]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kg3ctq05 )
[09:41]	TR News	"sorry to hear that. Take it as a sign. Your manager is not letting you move down a level because he knows in 6 months or less he will need names for the next layoff and he is already thinking of adding your name. Suggest you start looking for a new position now."
[09:42]	TR News	"IBM could easily install tracking software remotely on all laptops that tracks your work location and IP address. Alot of companies use https://www.activtrak.com/ " https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kf7gk191
[09:42]	TR Bot	Analytics for Productivity Management | ActivTrak
[09:42]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kf7gk191 )
[09:44]	TR News	"Arvind's entire focus is on quarterly financial engineering and PR soundbites. He doesn't have a strategic visionary bone in his entire body." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kgdcc5k7
[09:44]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kgdcc5k7 )
[09:45]	TR News	"The only reason IBM "seems" to be doing ok now is because they sc--wed it's employees by getting rid of the 401k match and giving them the finger with an IOU." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kgdcc5k7
[09:46]	TR News	"Are IBM Strategies Aligned to 2026 IEEE Technology Predictions? Does [sic] IBM's products and services strategies align where technology is predicted to go in 2026 and beyond? See https://ieeecs-media.computer.org/media/tech-news/tech-predictions-report-2026.pdf?source=2026lp " https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kge3nvz5
[09:46]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kge3nvz5 )
[09:47]	TR News	"Blockchain" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kgccc8xd "Can't wait to see how much sales shrink in a few years when customers lose their appetites for AI. Perhaps quantum will be all the rage by that point."
[09:47]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kgccc8xd )
[09:47]	TR News	"The $12.5B AI number is pure fiction. Just tagging legacy stuff as AI. Same as IBM did with CAMSS a decade ago and got sued over. Shareholders will figure it out eventually but AK/JK will be long gone by then and it will be the next guy's problem."
[09:49]	TR News	Nothing to do with "hey hi", just an excuse for commercial failures and soaring debt https://gulfnews.com/technology/oracle-mulls-laying-off-up-to-30000-employees-to-fund-ai-infra-report-1.500428620 https://finbox.com/NYSE:ORCL/explorer/total_debt/
[09:49]	TR Bot	not resolve host: gulfnews.com ( status 0 @ https://gulfnews.com/technology/oracle-mulls-laying-off-up-to-30000-employees-to-fund-ai-infra-report-1.500428620 )
[09:49]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://finbox.com/NYSE:ORCL/explorer/total_debt/ )
[09:56]	TR News	Techrights Oracle's Debt Rose Over 20 Billion Dollars in Just 3 Months https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/02/Oracle_s_Debt_Rose_Over_20_Billion_Dollars_in_Just_3_Months.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/02/Oracle_s_Debt_Rose_Over_20_Billion_Dollars_in_Just_3_Months.gmi 
[09:56]	TR Bot	 Techrights Oracle's Debt Rose Over 20 Billion Dollars in Just 3 Months
● Feb 02
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● Feb 02
[14:46]	TR News	"There have been no updates since, although it probably should get a rewrite for clarity one of these days as its clarity peters out at the end." gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/yaml/hyphens-alone/
[14:47]	TR News	"I use Homebrew to get a lot of random small programs that I otherwise never would have bothered to get. However, the output of `brew list | wc -l` is currently up to the mid-200s, and a lot of these are mere dependencies of things I actually care about." gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/programs/from-homebrew/
[14:48]	TR News	"This is in response to the post from SoftwarePagan. I found the bash script! You have to export a cookie and store it seperately and call it to log in. It's all done with curl basically. Hoping it now posts!" gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2783
[14:49]	TR News	"I chose gemini because otherwise I tend to obsess about CSS or whatever and then I don't end up really writing. Even if my thoughts are scrambled and jumbled and next to no one reads them, it's still fun to write." gemini://gem.kai.gay/yokohama/day1.gmi
[14:50]	cow_20012	hmm?
[14:51]	TR News	"Earthly life can be categorized into roughly three stages: Young Age (0-30), Middle Age (30-60), and Old Age (60-90)." gemini://gemini.zachdecook.com/capsule/2026-02-01-middle-age.gmi
[14:51]	cow_20012	oh you've tripped one of my highlight words "yokohama"
[14:51]	schestowitz[TR2]	whose blog?
[14:51]	schestowitz[TR2]	or irc clients?
[14:52]	schestowitz[TR2]	why do you follow it?
[14:52]	cow_20012	about gemini - https://kaka.farm/posts/2024/01/17/the-gemini-protocol-is-a-dadaist-multimedia-art-installation-impotently-raging-against-the-enshittification-of-the-world-wide-web.html
[14:52]	TR Bot	 Kaka Farm's The Scheming Jew Blog! - The Gemini protocol is a Dadaist multimedia art installation impotently raging against the enshittification of the World Wide Web.
[14:52]	TR News	"A quick look at some stats about gemini capsules. For those that aren't aware, gemini is a largely text-based, minimal internet protocol. It is part of what is sometimes called the "smolnet", an alternative to the mainstream web." gemini://spool-five.com/gemlog/2026-02-02_counting_capsules.gmi
[14:52]	cow_20012	schestowitz[TR2]: oh, i think it's because of a comics called yokohama shopping trip.  i don't remember why i've added it.
[14:56]	TR News	Techrights Gemini Links 02/02/2026: Stages of Age, Workflows, and Counting Capsules https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/02/Gemini_Links_02_02_2026_Stages_of_Age_Workflows_and_Counting_Ca.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/02/Gemini_Links_02_02_2026_Stages_of_Age_Workflows_and_Counting_Ca.gmi 
[14:56]	TR Bot	 Techrights Gemini Links 02/02/2026: Stages of Age, Workflows, and Counting Capsules
● Feb 02
[15:01]	TR News	This Stream Deck alternative runs on an Arduino UNO Q https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/02/01/this-stream-deck-alternative-runs-on-an-arduino-uno-q/
[15:01]	TR Bot	 This Stream Deck alternative runs on an Arduino UNO Q | Arduino Blog
[15:01]	TR News	Converting floats to strings quickly https://lemire.me/blog/2026/02/01/converting-floats-to-strings-quickly/
[15:01]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://lemire.me/blog/2026/02/01/converting-floats-to-strings-quickly/ )
[15:02]	TR News	Towards understanding city-level routing using BGP location communities https://blog.apnic.net/2026/02/02/towards-understanding-city-level-routing-using-bgp-location-communities/
[15:02]	TR Bot	 Towards understanding city-level routing using BGP location communities | APNIC Blog
[15:04]	TR News	Benjamin Mako Hill: What do people do when they edit Wikipedia through Tor? https://mako.cc/copyrighteous/what-do-people-do-when-they-edit-wikipedia-through-tor
[15:04]	TR Bot	 What do people do when they edit Wikipedia through Tor? copyrighteous
[15:06]	TR News	httpx fast and multi-purpose HTTP toolkit https://www.linuxlinks.com/httpx-fast-multi-purpose-http-toolkit/
[15:06]	TR Bot	- fast and multi-purpose HTTP toolkit - LinuxLinks
[15:06]	TR News	Anvil streamline tool installation and team onboarding https://www.linuxlinks.com/anvil-streamline-tool-installation-team-onboarding/
[15:06]	TR Bot	- streamline tool installation and team onboarding - LinuxLinks
[15:15]	TR News	Linux Lite 7.8 Released as New Lightweight & Ubuntu 24.04 Based Distro https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/02/linux-lite-7-8-released/
[15:15]	TR Bot	 Linux Lite 7.8 Released as New Lightweight & Ubuntu 24.04 Based Distro | UbuntuHandbook
[15:15]	TR News	 (NEW):  Leftovers Regarding Web Browsers/Web Servers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/01/Leftovers_Regarding_Web_Browsers_Web_Servers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/01/Leftovers_Regarding_Web_Browsers_Web_Servers.gmi 
[15:15]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Leftovers Regarding Web Browsers/Web Servers
[15:15]	TR News	 (NEW):  Linux 6.19-rc8 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/Linux_6_19_rc8.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/Linux_6_19_rc8.gmi 
[15:15]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Linux 6.19-rc8
[15:15]	TR News	Gentoo 20260201 is out https://distrowatch.com/gentoo
[15:15]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/gentoo )
[15:16]	TR News	Senpai 20260201 is out as well https://distrowatch.com/senpai
[15:16]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/senpai )
[15:16]	TR News	s3fs mount an S3 bucket via FUSE https://www.linuxlinks.com/s3fs-mount-s3-bucket-fuse/
[15:16]	TR Bot	- mount an S3 bucket via FUSE - LinuxLinks
[15:16]	TR News	3 Top Free and Open Source Perl Web Frameworks https://www.linuxlinks.com/free-open-source-perl-web-frameworks/
[15:16]	TR Bot	Top Free and Open Source Perl Web Frameworks - LinuxLinks
[15:17]	TR News	Flow static type checker https://www.linuxlinks.com/flow-static-type-checker/
[15:17]	TR Bot	- static type checker - LinuxLinks
[15:17]	TR News	11 Best Free and Open Source Ray Tracing Software https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-ray-tracing-software/
[15:17]	TR Bot	Best Free and Open Source Ray Tracing Software - LinuxLinks
[15:17]	TR News	qq jq but an interoperable configuration format transcoder https://www.linuxlinks.com/qq-jq-interoperable-configuration-format-transcoder/
[15:17]	TR Bot	- jq but an interoperable configuration format transcoder - LinuxLinks
[15:21]	TR News	6 Top Free and Open Source Ruby Web Frameworks https://www.linuxlinks.com/free-open-source-ruby-web-frameworks/
[15:21]	TR Bot	Top Free and Open Source Ruby Web Frameworks - LinuxLinks
[15:21]	TR News	Alternatives to popular CLI tools: jq JSON processor https://www.linuxlinks.com/alternatives-popular-cli-tools-jq/
[15:21]	TR Bot	to popular CLI tools: jq - JSON processor - LinuxLinks
[15:21]	TR News	12 Best Free and Open Source Digital Audio Workstations https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-digital-audio-workstations/
[15:21]	TR Bot	Best Free and Open Source Digital Audio Workstations - LinuxLinks
[15:22]	TR News	Stratis local storage management https://www.linuxlinks.com/stratis-local-storage-management/
[15:22]	TR Bot	- local storage management - LinuxLinks
[15:22]	TR News	9 Best Free and Open Source Elixir Static Site Generators https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-elixir-static-site-generators/
[15:22]	TR Bot	Best Free and Open Source Elixir Static Site Generators - LinuxLinks
[15:22]	TR News	wvkbd on-screen keyboard for wlroots https://www.linuxlinks.com/wvkbd-on-screen-keyboard-wlroots/
[15:22]	TR Bot	- on-screen keyboard for wlroots - LinuxLinks
[15:25]	TR News	YuFi lightweight Wi-Fi manager https://www.linuxlinks.com/yufi-lightweight-wi-fi-manager/
[15:25]	TR Bot	- lightweight Wi-Fi manager - LinuxLinks
[15:25]	TR News	11 Best Free and Open Source Virtual Keyboards https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-virtual-keyboards/
[15:25]	TR Bot	Best Free and Open Source Virtual Keyboards - LinuxLinks
[15:26]	TR News	Best Free and Open Source Software: January 2026 Updates https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-software-january-2026-updates/
[15:26]	TR Bot	Free and Open Source Software: January 2026 Updates - LinuxLinks
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[15:32]	TR News	zigfetch system profiler https://www.linuxlinks.com/zigfetch-system-profiler/
[15:32]	TR Bot	- system profiler - LinuxLinks
[15:32]	TR News	Vipnix 20260201 is out https://distrowatch.com/vipnix
[15:32]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/vipnix )
[15:33]	TR News	Puppy 260201 is out as well https://distrowatch.com/puppy
[15:33]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/puppy )
[15:34]	TR News	Sparky news 2026/01 https://sparkylinux.org/sparky-news-2026-01/
[15:34]	TR Bot	 Sparky news 2026/01 - SparkyLinux
[15:35]	TR News	 (NEW):  Liya Linux proves high performance doesnt require a command line https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/Liya_Linux_proves_high_performance_doesn_t_require_a_command_li.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/Liya_Linux_proves_high_performance_doesn_t_require_a_command_li.gmi 
[15:35]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Liya Linux proves high performance doesnt require a command line
[15:36]	TR News	AgarimOS 20260201 is released https://distrowatch.com/agarimos
[15:36]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/agarimos )
[15:36]	TR News	blendOS 2026.02.01 is released as well https://distrowatch.com/blendos
[15:36]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/blendos )
[15:37]	TR News	Linux Release Roundup (January 2026) https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/02/linux-release-roundup-january-2026
[15:37]	TR Bot	 Linux Release Roundup (January 2026) - OMG! Ubuntu
[15:37]	TR News	Resources 1.10 can now monitor AMD NPU usage on GNU/Linux https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/02/resources-amd-npu-monitoring-linux
[15:37]	TR Bot	 AMD NPU monitoring arrives on Linux in Resources 1.10 update
[15:40]	TR News	Here's the most played games on Steam Deck for January 2026 | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/here-s-the-most-played-games-on-steam-deck-for-january-2026/ Source: GamingOnLinux
[15:40]	TR Bot	the most played games on Steam Deck for January 2026 | GamingOnLinux
[15:41]	TR News	DietPi January 2026 Update Introduces Uptime Kuma, ownCloud Infinite Scale, and Debian 12 Baseline https://linuxgizmos.com/dietpi-january-2026-update-introduces-uptime-kuma-owncloud-infinite-scale-and-debian-12-baseline/
[15:41]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/dietpi-january-2026-update-introduces-uptime-kuma-owncloud-infinite-scale-and-debian-12-baseline/ )
[15:41]		*psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techrights
[15:41]	TR News	 (NEW):  Raspberry Pi OS alternative DietPi just got a big update https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/26/Raspberry_Pi_OS_alternative_DietPi_just_got_a_big_update.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/26/Raspberry_Pi_OS_alternative_DietPi_just_got_a_big_update.gmi 
[15:42]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Raspberry Pi OS alternative DietPi just got a big update
[15:42]	TR News	Tria launches Linux-ready OSM-LF-IMX95 45 45 mm module https://linuxgizmos.com/tria-launches-linux-ready-osm-lf-imx95-45-x-45-mm-module/
[15:42]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/tria-launches-linux-ready-osm-lf-imx95-45-x-45-mm-module/ )
[15:42]	TR News	Compact SMARC module combines Linux, AI, and vision on i.MX 8M Plus https://linuxgizmos.com/compact-smarc-module-combines-linux-ai-and-vision-on-i-mx-8m-plus/
[15:42]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/compact-smarc-module-combines-linux-ai-and-vision-on-i-mx-8m-plus/ )
[15:42]	TR News	Dr.Parted 26.02 is released https://distrowatch.com/drparted
[15:42]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/drparted )
[15:42]	TR News	Calam 2026-02 is released as well https://distrowatch.com/calam
[15:42]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/calam )
[15:43]	TR News	Arch 2026.02.01 is released https://distrowatch.com/arch
[15:43]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/arch )
[15:48]	TR News	Indonesia Lifts Ban on Grok After New Assurances From X Corp https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/world/asia/indonesia-lift-grok-ban.html
[15:48]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/world/asia/indonesia-lift-grok-ban.html )
[15:48]	TR News	Graft busters freeze $320k in accounts over e-waste probe in Malaysia, seize $54k https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/graft-busters-freeze-320k-in-accounts-over-e-waste-probe-in-malaysia-seize-54k
[15:48]	TR Bot	 Graft busters freeze $320k in accounts over e-waste probe in Malaysia, seize $54k | The Straits Times
[15:49]	TR News	Malaysia police probe exFree Malaysia Today journalist, Chinese daily under Sedition Act https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-police-probe-ex-journalist-rex-tan-chinese-daily-under-sedition-act
[15:49]	TR Bot	 Malaysia police probe exFree Malaysia Today journalist, Chinese daily under Sedition Act | The Straits Times
[15:50]	TR News	Chinese cash in jewellery at automated gold recyclers as prices soar https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinese-cash-in-jewellery-at-automated-gold-recyclers-as-prices-soar
[15:50]	TR Bot	 Chinese cash in jewellery at automated gold recyclers as prices soar | The Straits Times
[15:53]	MinceR	https://pleated-jeans.com/2025/10/17/funniest-dungeons-and-dragons-memes-that-passed-their-humor-check-this-month/
[15:53]	TR Bot	 35 Funniest Dungeons And Dragons Memes That Passed Their Humor Check This Month
[15:58]	TR News	Utkarsh Gupta: FOSS Activities in January 2026 https://utkarsh2102.org/posts/foss-in-jan-26/
[15:58]	TR Bot	 FOSS Activites in January 2026 utkarsh2102
[15:59]	TR News	AgarimOS 20260201 is released https://distrowatch.com/agarimos
[15:59]	TR News	AfagOS 20260201 is also released https://distrowatch.com/afagos
[15:59]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/afagos )
● Feb 02
[16:00]	TR News	Shotcut 26.1 Released with Hardware Decoder for Export & Preview https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/02/shotcut-26-1-released-with-hardware-decoder-for-export-preview/
[16:00]	TR Bot	 Shotcut 26.1 Released with Hardware Decoder for Export & Preview | UbuntuHandbook
[16:02]	TR News	 (NEW):  Shotcut 26.1 Open-Source Video Editor Released with Hardware Video Decoding https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/31/Shotcut_26_1_Open_Source_Video_Editor_Released_with_Hardware_Vi.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/31/Shotcut_26_1_Open_Source_Video_Editor_Released_with_Hardware_Vi.gmi 
[16:02]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Shotcut 26.1 Open-Source Video Editor Released with Hardware Video Decoding
[16:06]	TR News	New Study Examines How Often Hey Hi (AI) Psychosis Actually Happens, and the Results Are Not Good https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/new-study-anthropic-psychosis-disempowerement
[16:06]	TR Bot	 New Study Examines How Often AI Psychosis Actually Happens, and the Results Are Not Good
[16:08]	TR News	Egypts crackdown on online Religion discussions violates fundamental freedoms, Rights Group warns https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/02/egypts-crackdown-on-online-religion-discussions-violates-fundamental-freedoms-rights-group-warns/
[16:08]	TR Bot	 Egypts crackdown on online discussion of religion violates fundamental freedoms, Amnesty International warns - JURIST - News
[16:08]	TR News	freedom is not the end https://blog.lx.oliva.nom.br/2026-02-01-freedom-is-not-the-end.en.html
[16:08]	TR Bot	 freedom is not the end
[16:09]	TR News	15 years of blogging https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/01/15-years-of-blogging/
[16:09]	TR Bot	 15 years of blogging | Read the Tea Leaves
[16:10]	TR News	Mamdani Forces Delivery Apps to Pay Back $4.6 Million Cheated From Drivers https://futurism.com/future-society/mamdani-nyc-delivery-apps
[16:10]	TR Bot	 Mamdani Forces Delivery Apps to Pay Back $4.6 Million Cheated From Drivers
[16:14]	TR News	The Government Published Dozens of Nude Photos in the Epstein Files https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/us/nude-photos-epstein-files.html
[16:14]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/us/nude-photos-epstein-files.html )
[16:19]	TR News	This Photo of Mars at Night Is Straight Up Haunting https://futurism.com/space/photo-mars-night-curiosity
[16:19]	TR Bot	 This Photo of Mars at Night Is Straight Up Haunting
[16:20]	TR News	New Steam Games Playable on the Steam Deck, with Cairn - 2026-01-31 Edition https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-playable-on-the-steam-deck-2026-01-31-edition/index.html
[16:20]	TR Bot	 New Steam Games Playable on the Steam Deck, with Cairn - 2026-01-31 Edition
[16:21]	TR News	DSTIKE Hey Hi (AI) Home Security Sidekick ESP32-S3 hacking tool with Wi-Fi, display, camera, and voice interaction https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/02/02/dstike-ai-home-security-sidekick-esp32-s3-hacking-tool-with-wi-fi-display-camera-and-voice-interaction/
[16:21]	TR Bot	 DSTIKE AI Home Security Sidekick ESP32-S3 hacking tool with Wi-Fi, display, camera, and voice interaction - CNX Software
[16:21]	TR News	Living behind firewalls https://alirezahayati.com/2026/02/living-behind-firewalls/
[16:21]	TR Bot	 Living behind firewalls | Ali Reza Hayati
[16:22]	TR News	Junichi Uekawa: Got rid of documents I had for last year's Tax return. http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/diary/daily/2026-Feb-1.html.en#2026-Feb-1-14:54:23
[16:22]	TR Bot	 Got rid of documents I had for last year's Tax return.
[16:23]	TR News	Fusion HAT+ Review Adding Hey Hi (AI) voice and servo/motor control to Raspberry Pi for robotics, Smart Home, or education https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/02/01/fusion-hat-review-adding-ai-voice-and-servo-motor-control-to-raspberry-pi-5-for-robotics-smart-home-and-education/
[16:23]	TR Bot	 Fusion HAT+ Review - Adding AI voice and servo/motor control to Raspberry Pi for robotics, Smart Home, or education - CNX Software
[16:23]	TR News	Kernel prepatch 6.19-rc8 https://lwn.net/Articles/1056812/
[16:23]	TR Bot	prepatch 6.19-rc8 [LWN.net]
[16:23]	TR News	Open source IDE-ATAPI drive emulator launches for vintage computers drop-in 3.5-inch bay solution can save oodles of optical and HDD images to a microSD https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/microsd-cards/open-source-ide-atapi-drive-emulator-launches-for-vintage-computers-drop-in-3-5-inch-bay-solution-can-save-oodles-of-optical-and-hdd-images-to-a-microsd
[16:23]	TR Bot	 Open source IDE-ATAPI drive emulator launches for vintage computers drop-in 3.5-inch bay solution can save oodles of optical and HDD images to a microSD | Tom's Hardware
[16:24]	TR News	Opinionated Read: How Hey Hi (AI) Impacts Skill Formation https://www.sicpers.info/2026/02/opinionated-read-how-ai-impacts-skill-formation/
[16:24]	TR Bot	 Opinionated Read: How AI Impacts Skill Formation | Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programmers
[16:24]	TR News	Season of KDE 2026: Week 1 Progress for Automating Promo Data Collection https://blogs.kde.org/2026/02/01/season-of-kde-2026-week-1-progress-for-automating-promo-data-collection/
[16:24]	TR Bot	 Season of KDE 2026: Week 1 Progress for Automating Promo Data Collection - KDE Blogs
[16:25]	TR News	Former Surveillance Giant Google engineer convicted of stealing GPU and TPU trade secrets for 'Chinese interests' tried to raise funding for his own start-up https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/former-google-engineer-convicted-of-stealing-gpu-and-tpu-trade-secrets
[16:25]	TR Bot	 Former Google engineer convicted of stealing GPU and TPU trade secrets for 'Chinese interests' tried to raise funding for his own start-up | Tom's Hardware
[16:26]	TR News	The Browsers Little White Lies https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/browsers-white-lies/
[16:26]	TR Bot	 The Browsers Little White Lies - Jim Nielsens Blog
[16:27]	TR News	signal of awareness https://blog.lx.oliva.nom.br/2026-02-01-signal-of-awareness.en.html
[16:27]	TR Bot	 signal of awareness
[16:32]	TR News	 (NEW):  United Kingdom: ChromeOS and GNU/Linux at About 7%, Windows All-Time Low https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/United_Kingdom_ChromeOS_and_GNU_Linux_at_About_7_Windows_All_Ti.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/United_Kingdom_ChromeOS_and_GNU_Linux_at_About_7_Windows_All_Ti.gmi 
[16:32]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines United Kingdom: ChromeOS and GNU/Linux at About 7%, Windows All-Time Low
[16:36]	TR News	Malicious OpenClaw skill targets crypto users on ClawHub 14 malicious skills were uploaded to ClawHub last month https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/malicious-moltbot-skill-targets-crypto-users-on-clawhub
[16:36]	TR Bot	 Malicious OpenClaw skill targets crypto users on ClawHub 14 malicious skills were uploaded to ClawHub last month | Tom's Hardware
[16:37]	TR News	Tiling Shell 17.3 adds new tiling modes, touchscreen support https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/02/tiling-shell-17-3-gnome-adaptive-snapping-update
[16:37]	TR Bot	 Tiling Shell 17.3 adds new tiling modes, touchscreen support - OMG! Ubuntu
[16:38]	TR News	Ubuntu 26.04 Snapshot 3 is Available to Download https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/02/ubuntu-26-04-snapshot-3-is-available-to-download/
[16:38]	TR Bot	 Ubuntu 26.04 Snapshot 3 is Available to Download | UbuntuHandbook
[16:38]	TR News	Fix open HTML filename with space char https://bkhome.org/news/202602/fix-open-html-filename-with-space-char.html
[16:38]	TR Bot	 Fix open HTML filename with space char
[16:38]	TR News	 (NEW):  Canonical/Ubuntu: Ubuntu 26.04 Snapshot 3 and Old Bug Which "makes it impossible to print on Tuesdays" https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/01/Canonical_Ubuntu_Ubuntu_26_04_Snapshot_3_and_Old_Bug_Which_make.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/01/Canonical_Ubuntu_Ubuntu_26_04_Snapshot_3_and_Old_Bug_Which_make.gmi 
[16:38]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Canonical/Ubuntu: Ubuntu 26.04 Snapshot 3 and Old Bug Which "makes it impossible to print on Tuesdays"
[16:42]	TR News	How to Install Docker on Arch GNU/Linux https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-docker-on-arch-linux/
[16:42]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-docker-on-arch-linux/ )
[16:42]	TR News	How to Install PostgreSQL on Arch GNU/Linux https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-postgresql-on-arch-linux/
[16:42]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-postgresql-on-arch-linux/ )
[16:43]	TR News	How to Install SQLite on Arch GNU/Linux https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-sqlite-on-arch-linux/
[16:43]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-sqlite-on-arch-linux/ )
[16:43]	TR News	How to Install Perl on Arch GNU/Linux https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-perl-on-arch-linux/
[16:43]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-perl-on-arch-linux/ )
[16:44]	TR News	How To Install Feishin on Rocky GNU/Linux 10 https://idroot.us/install-feishin-rocky-linux-10/
[16:44]	TR Bot	 How To Install Feishin on Rocky Linux 10 - idroot
[16:44]	TR News	How To Install Pikaur on Manjaro https://idroot.us/install-pikaur-manjaro/
[16:44]	TR Bot	 How To Install Pikaur on Manjaro - idroot
[16:44]	TR News	How To Install OneNote on Debian 13 https://idroot.us/install-onenote-debian-13/
[16:44]	TR Bot	 How To Install OneNote on Debian 13 - idroot
[16:44]	TR News	How To Install Realtek Wifi Drivers on Fedora 43 https://idroot.us/install-realtek-wifi-drivers-fedora-43/
[16:44]	TR Bot	 How To Install Realtek Wifi Drivers on Fedora 43 - idroot
[16:48]	TR News	data disappears once it is read, requiring special handling https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/usb-flash-drives/researcher-builds-bizarre-128-byte-usb-drive-the-size-of-a-dinner-plate-using-ancient-pre-semiconductor-magnetic-core-memory-technology-data-disappears-once-it-is-read-requiring-special-handling
[16:48]	TR Bot	 Researcher builds bizarre 128-byte USB drive the size of a dinner plate using ancient pre-semiconductor magnetic core memory technology data disappears once it is read, requiring special handling | Tom's Hardware
[16:49]	TR News	California tech company moving headquarters to Florida in another devastating blow https://nypost.com/2026/02/01/tech/california-tech-company-moving-headquarters-to-florida/
[16:49]	TR Bot	 California tech company moving headquarters to Florida
[16:50]	TR News	Wasm at 10, What Lies Ahead https://cloudnativenow.com/features/wasm-at-10-what-lies-ahead/
[16:50]	TR Bot	 Wasm at 10, What Lies Ahead - Cloud Native Now
[16:53]	TR News	Have Your Bot Call My Bot | LINUX Unplugged 652 https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/linux-unplugged/652/
[16:53]	TR Bot	 Have Your Bot Call My Bot | LINUX Unplugged 652 | Jupiter Broadcasting
[16:55]	TR News	freq-modern: I wanted freq51 back https://azouhr.wordpress.com/2026/02/01/freq-modern-i-wanted-freq51-back/
[16:55]	TR Bot	 freq-modern: I wanted freq51 back | azouhr
[16:55]	MinceR	https://pleated-jeans.com/2025/10/16/funny-cooking-fails/
[16:55]	TR Bot	 25 Funny Cooking Fails From This Month That'll Make Your Kitchen Skills Shine
[16:56]	TR News	Microsoft Systemd https://www.howtogeek.com/ditch-cron-3-ways-to-schedule-scripts-with-systemd-timers-on-ubuntu/
[16:56]	TR Bot	 3 reasons to dump cron for systemd timers on Ubuntu
[16:57]	TR News	Ive tested dozens of Linux distros, and these 3 are the only ones Id put on a laptop https://www.howtogeek.com/best-linux-distros-for-laptops/
[16:57]	TR Bot	 3 Best Linux Distros for Laptops
● Feb 02
[17:00]	TR News	This cool Linux app lets you play YouTube music from your terminal https://www.xda-developers.com/this-cool-linux-app-lets-you-play-youtube-music-from-your-terminal/
[17:00]	TR Bot	 This cool Linux app lets you play YouTube music from your terminal
[17:00]	TR News	Linux has a price, it's just not money https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-has-a-price-its-just-not-money/
[17:00]	TR Bot	 Linux has a price, it's just not money
[17:02]	TR News	Galaxy S26 Ultra may run full version of Linux Terminal https://www.sammobile.com/news/galaxy-s26-ultra-may-offer-linux-terminal-support/
[17:02]	TR Bot	S26 Ultra may offer Linux Terminal support - SamMobile
[17:02]	TR News	8 hidden terminal features that make Linux feel like a power-user OS https://www.howtogeek.com/hidden-terminal-features-that-make-linux-feel-like-a-power-user-os/
[17:02]	TR Bot	 8 hidden terminal features that make Linux feel like a power-user OS
[17:03]	TR News	The Galaxy S26 Ultra might finally get this Android feature the S25 missed https://www.androidauthority.com/galaxy-s26-ultra-android-virtualization-framework-linux-terminal-apk-teardown-3636977/
[17:03]	TR Bot	 The Galaxy S26 Ultra might get this Android feature the S25 missed - Android Authority
[17:05]	TR News	 (NEW):  Today's HowTos   https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/today_s_howtos.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/today_s_howtos.gmi 
[17:05]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines today's howtos
[17:07]	TR News	 (NEW):  Valnet on GNU/Linux and Music in the Terminal https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/Valnet_on_GNU_Linux_and_Music_in_the_Terminal.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/Valnet_on_GNU_Linux_and_Music_in_the_Terminal.gmi 
[17:07]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Valnet on GNU/Linux and Music in the Terminal
[17:11]	TR News	Techrights GNU/Linux Measured at More Than 4% in Russia https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/02/GNU_Linux_Measured_at_More_Than_4_in_Russia.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/02/GNU_Linux_Measured_at_More_Than_4_in_Russia.gmi 
[17:11]	TR Bot	 Techrights GNU/Linux Measured at More Than 4% in Russia
[17:12]	TR News	 (NEW):  Season of KDE 2026: Week 1 Progress for Automating Promo Data Collection https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/Season_of_KDE_2026_Week_1_Progress_for_Automating_Promo_Data_Co.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/Season_of_KDE_2026_Week_1_Progress_for_Automating_Promo_Data_Co.gmi 
[17:12]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Season of KDE 2026: Week 1 Progress for Automating Promo Data Collection
[17:15]	TR News	 (NEW):  Games: Steam and Crimsonland https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/Games_Steam_and_Crimsonland.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/Games_Steam_and_Crimsonland.gmi 
[17:15]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Games: Steam and Crimsonland
[17:15]	TR News	 (NEW):  Web Browsers/Web Servers Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/Web_Browsers_Web_Servers_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/Web_Browsers_Web_Servers_Leftovers.gmi 
[17:15]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Web Browsers/Web Servers Leftovers
[17:16]		*psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techrights
[17:16]	schestowitz[TR2]	lxo: "problem of LLM agents's "
[17:16]	schestowitz[TR2]	>> agents'
[17:18]	lxo	oh?  I thought the thing of dropping the final s in s's had fallen in disuse
[17:18]	TR News	 (NEW):  FSF's Alex Oliva on Software Freedom and Lack of Privacy https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/FSF_s_Alex_Oliva_on_Software_Freedom_and_Lack_of_Privacy.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/FSF_s_Alex_Oliva_on_Software_Freedom_and_Lack_of_Privacy.gmi 
[17:19]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines FSF's Alex Oliva on Software Freedom and Lack of Privacy
[17:20]	TR News	 (NEW):  Free and Open Source Software https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.1.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.1.gmi 
[17:20]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Free and Open Source Software
[17:20]	TR News	 (NEW):  Linux Hardware/Modding and Mobile Linux https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/Linux_Hardware_Modding_and_Mobile_Linux.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/Linux_Hardware_Modding_and_Mobile_Linux.gmi 
[17:20]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Linux Hardware/Modding and Mobile Linux
[17:20]	TR News	 (NEW):  New Releases: Tiling Shell 17.3, Resources 1.10, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/New_Releases_Tiling_Shell_17_3_Resources_1_10_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/New_Releases_Tiling_Shell_17_3_Resources_1_10_and_More.gmi 
[17:20]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines New Releases: Tiling Shell 17.3, Resources 1.10, and More
[17:21]		*psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techrights
[17:22]	TR News	 (NEW):  Today's Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/today_s_leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/today_s_leftovers.gmi 
[17:22]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines today's leftovers
[17:28]	TR News	Techrights Links 02/02/2026: Cultural Cleansing by China and 'Living Behind Firewalls" in Iran https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/02/Links_02_02_2026_Cultural_Cleansing_by_China_and_Living_Behind_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/02/Links_02_02_2026_Cultural_Cleansing_by_China_and_Living_Behind_.gmi 
[17:28]	TR Bot	 Techrights Links 02/02/2026: Cultural Cleansing by China and 'Living Behind Firewalls" in Iran
[17:39]	TR News	 (NEW):  Fed up with Ubuntu? Why Debian should be your daily driver https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/Fed_up_with_Ubuntu_Why_Debian_should_be_your_daily_driver.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/Fed_up_with_Ubuntu_Why_Debian_should_be_your_daily_driver.gmi 
[17:39]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Fed up with Ubuntu? Why Debian should be your daily driver
[17:42]	TR News	 (NEW):  I ditched my NAS OS for Ubuntu Desktop, and Im never going back https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/I_ditched_my_NAS_OS_for_Ubuntu_Desktop_and_I_m_never_going_back.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/I_ditched_my_NAS_OS_for_Ubuntu_Desktop_and_I_m_never_going_back.gmi 
[17:42]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines I ditched my NAS OS for Ubuntu Desktop, and Im never going back
[17:47]	TR News	 (NEW):  Linux Mint isn't the answer for Windows refugees anymore https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/Linux_Mint_isn_t_the_answer_for_Windows_refugees_anymore.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/Linux_Mint_isn_t_the_answer_for_Windows_refugees_anymore.gmi 
[17:47]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Linux Mint isn't the answer for Windows refugees anymore
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[17:54]	TR News	 (NEW):  How immutable Linux can stop you from breaking your system https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/How_immutable_Linux_can_stop_you_from_breaking_your_system.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/How_immutable_Linux_can_stop_you_from_breaking_your_system.gmi 
[17:54]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines How immutable Linux can stop you from breaking your system
[17:55]	TR News	 (NEW):  Git 2.53 Released with New Features and Performance Improvements https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/Git_2_53_Released_with_New_Features_and_Performance_Improvement.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/Git_2_53_Released_with_New_Features_and_Performance_Improvement.gmi 
[17:55]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Git 2.53 Released with New Features and Performance Improvements
[17:56]	TR News	Techrights Chatbots Didn't Do Any Good for Microsoft https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/02/Chatbots_Didn_t_Do_Any_Good_for_Microsoft.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/02/Chatbots_Didn_t_Do_Any_Good_for_Microsoft.gmi 
[17:56]	TR Bot	 Techrights Chatbots Didn't Do Any Good for Microsoft
● Feb 02
[18:02]	TR News	 (NEW):   : Google Android Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/Android_Leftovers.1.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/Android_Leftovers.1.gmi 
[18:02]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Android Leftovers
[18:04]	TR News	 (NEW):  Turn off these 3 annoying Ubuntu defaults in 5 minutes https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/Turn_off_these_3_annoying_Ubuntu_defaults_in_5_minutes.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/Turn_off_these_3_annoying_Ubuntu_defaults_in_5_minutes.gmi 
[18:04]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Turn off these 3 annoying Ubuntu defaults in 5 minutes
[18:05]	TR News	 (NEW):  South America Keeps Marching Towards GNU/Linux https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/South_America_Keeps_Marching_Towards_GNU_Linux.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/South_America_Keeps_Marching_Towards_GNU_Linux.gmi 
[18:05]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines South America Keeps Marching Towards GNU/Linux
[18:07]	TR News	 (NEW):  3 Linux features that make my daily work faster than Windows 11 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/3_Linux_features_that_make_my_daily_work_faster_than_Windows_11.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/3_Linux_features_that_make_my_daily_work_faster_than_Windows_11.gmi 
[18:07]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines 3 Linux features that make my daily work faster than Windows 11
[18:10]	admfubar	https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/02/tiktok_service_restored_us/
[18:10]	TR Bot	 US TikTok service restored after Oracle cloud went down The Register
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[18:21]	TR News	Techrights Carmen-Lisandrette Maris (Mission:Libre) Explains to Adolescents and Young Adults How Free Software Improves Privacy https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/02/Carmen_Lisandrette_Maris_Mission_Libre_Explains_to_Adolescents_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/02/Carmen_Lisandrette_Maris_Mission_Libre_Explains_to_Adolescents_.gmi 
[18:21]	TR Bot	 Techrights Carmen-Lisandrette Maris (Mission:Libre) Explains to Adolescents and Young Adults How Free Software Improves Privacy
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[18:58]	TR News	Techrights I Still Like Drawing and Various Other Arts (They Help My Activism and Journalism), Slop is an Enemy of Creative People https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/02/I_Still_Like_Drawing_and_Various_Other_Arts_They_Help_My_Activi.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/02/I_Still_Like_Drawing_and_Various_Other_Arts_They_Help_My_Activi.gmi 
[18:58]	TR Bot	 Techrights I Still Like Drawing and Various Other Arts (They Help My Activism and Journalism), Slop is an Enemy of Creative People
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[19:01]	TR News	Windows down big time https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share#monthly-200902-202602
[19:01]	TR Bot	 Operating System Market Share Worldwide | Statcounter Global Stats
[19:01]	TR News	All-time lows in some places https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/australia/#monthly-200902-202602
[19:01]	TR Bot	 Desktop Operating System Market Share Australia | Statcounter Global Stats
[19:07]	MinceR	(cat) (video) (audio:unimportant) https://imgur.com/gallery/hat-HLRef7Z
[19:07]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://imgur.com/gallery/hat-HLRef7Z )
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[19:12]	TR News	 (NEW):  GNU/Linux at All-Time High in Chile and Brazil (Almost 5%) https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/GNU_Linux_at_All_Time_High_in_Chile_and_Brazil_Almost_5.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/GNU_Linux_at_All_Time_High_in_Chile_and_Brazil_Almost_5.gmi 
[19:12]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines GNU/Linux at All-Time High in Chile and Brazil (Almost 5%)
[19:12]	TR News	 (NEW):  What a Difference Four Years Make https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/What_a_Difference_Four_Years_Make.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/What_a_Difference_Four_Years_Make.gmi 
[19:12]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines What a Difference Four Years Make
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[19:28]	TR News	Techrights Americans Move to GNU/Linux https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/02/Americans_Move_to_GNU_Linux.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/02/Americans_Move_to_GNU_Linux.gmi 
[19:28]	TR Bot	 Techrights Americans Move to GNU/Linux
[19:30]	TR News	OSI Europe peddles MS GitHub: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/16213-European-Open-Digital-Ecosystems/F33369993_en bribed by Microsoft, so....
[19:30]	TR Bot	 Have your say
[19:31]	TR News	"Young people follow daily news [sic] more actively than before, survey finds"; iophk: ... for some values of 'news' ; on ByteDance's Tiktok it's propaganda dressed as news https://yle.fi/a/74-20207798
[19:31]	TR Bot	 Young people follow daily news more actively than before, survey finds | Yle News | Yle
[19:32]	TR News	tuxmachines is linked to quite a lot by google's slop "overviews", which moreover replicate what tuxmachines is publishing
[19:47]	TR News	 (NEW):  Google is Not Your Friend (Even If It Uses Linux a Lot) https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/Google_is_Not_Your_Friend_Even_If_It_Uses_Linux_a_Lot.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/Google_is_Not_Your_Friend_Even_If_It_Uses_Linux_a_Lot.gmi 
[19:47]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Google is Not Your Friend (Even If It Uses Linux a Lot)
[19:51]	TR News	"Its always behind as well chasing the trends or just trying to catch up" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kge3nvz5
[19:51]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kge3nvz5 )
[19:51]	TR News	"IBM is an entity, led by a tribe of cabal thieves. The current Indians tribe running IBM does not care about predictions by some academics. The cabal of IBM executives cares mostly about short term gains for themselves to collect fat bonuses. The Indians move most of the technology and know-how to India, They most likely plans to return to India to profit from the loot (stolen from the US workforce)."
[19:53]	TR News	"Spot On ! Alvind is just another worthless Indian CEO who likes to show off that he knows more than he actually does, and that he is driving force behind the technologies of tomorrow. He talks a good game on the chat shows but there is no substance behind what he says about IBM. IBM descends into mediocrity and isn't anywhere to be considered one of the Top 10 technology companies."
[19:53]	TR News	"The situation is simply IBM executives playing musical chairs on the sinking IBM Titanic." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kgdcc5k7
[19:53]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kgdcc5k7 )
● Feb 02
[20:07]	TR News	Techrights Great News, IBM 'Gained' Almost 10% in "Goodwill" Value After Firing Tens of Thousands in 2025 https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/02/Great_News_IBM_Gained_Almost_10_in_Goodwill_Value_After_Firing_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/02/Great_News_IBM_Gained_Almost_10_in_Goodwill_Value_After_Firing_.gmi 
[20:07]	TR Bot	 Techrights Great News, IBM 'Gained' Almost 10% in "Goodwill" Value After Firing Tens of Thousands in 2025
[20:09]	TR News	Microsoft running low on cash https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/MSFT/microsoft/cash-on-hand
[20:09]	TR Bot	 Microsoft Cash on Hand 2012-2025 | MSFT | MacroTrends
[20:18]	TR News	Techrights Microsoft Lost 20% of Its Money in the Past 6 Months https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/02/Microsoft_Lost_20_of_Its_Money_in_the_Past_6_Months.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/02/Microsoft_Lost_20_of_Its_Money_in_the_Past_6_Months.gmi 
[20:18]	TR Bot	 Techrights Microsoft Lost 20% of Its Money in the Past 6 Months
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[21:32]	MinceR	https://pleated-jeans.com/2025/10/16/hilarious-pictures-of-accidental-comedy-gifted-to-us-from-the-humor-gods/
[21:32]	TR Bot	 40 Hilarious Pictures Of "Accidental Comedy" Gifted To Us From The Humor Gods
[21:35]	admfubar	https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/02/02/trusttunnel-open-source-high-performance-vpn-protocol-thats-hard-to-detect-and-block/
[21:35]	TR Bot	 TrustTunnel is an open-source, high-performance VPN protocol that's harder to detect and block - CNX Software
● Feb 02
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[22:13]	TR News	 (NEW):  Firefoxs AI Kill Switch Lands in Firefox Nightly, Slated for Firefox 148 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/Firefox_s_AI_Kill_Switch_Lands_in_Firefox_Nightly_Slated_for_Fi.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/02/Firefox_s_AI_Kill_Switch_Lands_in_Firefox_Nightly_Slated_for_Fi.gmi 
[22:13]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Firefoxs AI Kill Switch Lands in Firefox Nightly, Slated for Firefox 148
[22:15]	admfubar	https://www.discovermagazine.com/cats-rarely-meow-at-other-cats-do-they-save-their-voices-for-us-here-s-what-we-know-48602
[22:15]	TR Bot	 Cats Rarely Meow at Other Cats Do They Save Their Voices for Us? Here's What We Know | Discover Magazine
[22:15]	MinceR	you've linked this on the 29th :>
[22:22]	admfubar	oh??.... :P
[22:22]	admfubar	https://futurism.com/future-society/elon-musk-crashing-out-epstein
[22:22]	TR Bot	 Elon Musk Not Doing Well After Epstein Files Reveal
[22:25]	admfubar	https://www.geekwire.com/2026/t-mobile-layoffs-telecom-giant-cuts-393-jobs-across-washington-state-including-vp-roles/
[22:25]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.geekwire.com/2026/t-mobile-layoffs-telecom-giant-cuts-393-jobs-across-washington-state-including-vp-roles/ )
[22:49]	admfubar	https://hackaday.com/2026/02/01/cpu-scheduler-divines-the-will-of-the-heavens/
[22:49]	TR Bot	Scheduler Divines The Will Of The Heavens | Hackaday
[22:50]	admfubar	https://hackaday.com/2026/02/02/how-vibe-coding-is-killing-open-source/
[22:50]	TR Bot	Vibe Coding Is Killing Open Source | Hackaday
[22:51]	admfubar	https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/02/02/2025-notepad-supply-chain-compromise/
[22:51]	TR Bot	 How state-sponsored attackers hijacked Notepad++ updates - Help Net Security
[22:53]	admfubar	https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/02/02/open-source-ai-pentesting-tools-test/
[22:53]	TR Bot	 Open-source AI pentesting tools are getting uncomfortably good - Help Net Security
[22:56]	MinceR	https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/confess-2
[22:56]	TR Bot	 Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Confess
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[23:56]	Isambard_Prince	https://edition.cnn.com/2026/02/02/tech/spacex-acquires-xai-elon-musk
[23:56]	TR Bot	 Elon Musks SpaceX acquires xAI, merging his two most ambitious companies | CNN Business
[23:56]	Isambard_Prince	xAI is losing tons of money.
[23:56]	MinceR	:>
[23:56]	Isambard_Prince	They had to fire 500 people a couple months ago.
[23:57]	Isambard_Prince	Other than generating lies and child pornography, what does it do?
[23:57]	MinceR	it consumes power
[23:57]	Isambard_Prince	True.
[23:57]	MinceR	and maybe it also helps withhold GPUs and RAM from people, like "open"ai
[23:57]	MinceR	also, it helps manipulate really really gullible people
[23:57]	MinceR	the sort who believe that an LLM that likes to call itself "MechaHitler" would be an impartial editor for a wiki
[23:58]	Isambard_Prince	https://www.reddit.com/r/tacobell/comments/1qsgiye/is_this_a_new_thing/
[23:58]	TR Bot	- The heart of the internet
[23:58]	Isambard_Prince	It costs more to eat disgusting Taco Bell food now than it does to go to a real sit-down Mexican restaurant.
[23:58]	MinceR	taco bell is losing the restaurant wars to kfc?
[23:58]	Isambard_Prince	I can't even tell you the last time I went to Taco Bell at this point.
[23:59]	Isambard_Prince	I just go to a Mexican restaurant that has actual Mexican food.
[23:59]	Isambard_Prince	It's always cheaper than Taco Bell.
[23:59]	Isambard_Prince	They don't take credit cards.
[23:59]	Isambard_Prince	They would have to pass along the slide fees which are very high.
[23:59]	MinceR	slide?
[23:59]	Isambard_Prince	Most banks put their credit cards on the "highest level" of Visa or MasterCard now to charge outrageous fees.
[23:59]	Isambard_Prince	The slide fees are higher on like Mastercard World Elite.