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● Aug 05
[00:12]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], Called the fire department to ask if we're really getting a fire inspection tomorrow. They said yes.
[00:12]	IsambardPrince	Mark said it was the fire department and it turned out to be The Syndicate.
[00:12]	IsambardPrince	:P
[00:12]	IsambardPrince	Hey man, does that air conditioner work?
[00:12]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, ^
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[00:27]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, "I went to Dunkin' and got my spouse a matcha with light ice.
[00:27]	IsambardPrince	One employee brought it to the window, cup full.
[00:27]	IsambardPrince	Then another got onto her and the first one went and poured half the matcha down the drain and handed me half an empty cup.
[00:27]	IsambardPrince	I asked "What the hell is this?"
[00:27]	IsambardPrince	She said, "It's a new policy. You ordered light ice, so you only get that much!"
[00:27]	IsambardPrince	I said, "It's a new policy that after you filled it full you pour half down the sink? Are you people stupid or something?"
[00:27]	IsambardPrince	She slams the window."
[00:29]	MinceR	lol
[00:36]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, I sat there for about a minute and she opens the window again and we kept arguing. Then Mandy wouldn't drink it because he said "What if they spit in it because you got mad at them?" and so I turned to the woman who had the window open again and said "None of them are smart enough to think of that, and if they were, they still aren't ambitious enough because it would require effort."
[00:37]	IsambardPrince	I was piseed. I was letting out F bombs by this point like "You poured the fucking drink down the fucking drain. You already made the drink and you poured it down the goddamned drain. Do you realize how idiotic that is?"
[00:37]	IsambardPrince	*pissed
[00:48]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, Added:
[00:48]	IsambardPrince	"Also, had to wait at the drive through for over half an hour for this even though there were like four employees in there and three cars including mine.
[00:48]	IsambardPrince	
[00:48]	IsambardPrince	What were you doing in there that takes $80 an hour of payroll where you can't make drinks for three cars, and you think you're "saving money" getting miserly with the matcha, by pouring half a finished drink down the drain?"
[00:48]	IsambardPrince	"As you can see, I was miffed. What is going on these days where... Service workers were not like this in the 90s, and they made like three dollars an hour. Now they make like twenty and they can't make drinks at Dunkin' Donuts for three cars, in an hour.
[00:48]	IsambardPrince	
[00:48]	IsambardPrince	The only reason I didn't leave was right after I pulled in, someone came in behind me trapping me in the drive through.
[00:48]	IsambardPrince	
[00:48]	IsambardPrince	This business is operating, somehow?"
[00:48]	MinceR	maybe those $3 were worth more than the $80 today
[00:49]	IsambardPrince	Well, there were four people in there.
[00:49]	IsambardPrince	I assume they make about $20 because that seems to be the wage floor around here.
[00:49]	MinceR	:>
[00:49]	MinceR	then maybe those $3 were worth more than the $20 today
[00:50]	IsambardPrince	I don't think so.
[00:51]	IsambardPrince	I asked my mom why the boss didn't come in and fire these people.
[00:51]	IsambardPrince	She said because there's nobody to replace them with.
[00:51]	IsambardPrince	They all want to be high and on their phone all the time instead of working.
[00:51]	IsambardPrince	She's right.
[00:52]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, I put like $30-some worth of gas in my car one day and paid with my AmEx.
[00:52]	IsambardPrince	I drove off and my phone beeped and said "You paid $275 at Murphy."
[00:53]	IsambardPrince	I pulled over real fast and was like "SAY WHAT!?!?"
[00:53]	IsambardPrince	And it turns out it's just Google saying that.
[00:53]	IsambardPrince	:/
[00:53]	MinceR	lol
[00:54]	IsambardPrince	I was wondering if I didn't hang the nozzle up and just paid for everyone's gas behind me too.
[00:55]	IsambardPrince	It's some sort of quirk in Google.
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● Aug 05
[01:00]	IsambardPrince	https://www.uscis.gov/newsroom/news-releases/uscis-updating-policy-to-protect-womens-sports
[01:00]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.uscis.gov/newsroom/news-releases/uscis-updating-policy-to-protect-womens-sports )
[01:02]	IsambardPrince	https://finance.yahoo.com/news/rolex-luxury-watchmakers-brace-for-trumps-tariffs-on-swiss-imports-181704258.html
[01:02]	TR Bot	 Rolex, luxury watchmakers brace for Trump's tariffs on Swiss imports
[01:02]	IsambardPrince	It's actually cheaper to just take a vacation to Switzerland and buy a Rolex than it is to buy a Rolex now, thanks to Trump's insane tariffs.
[01:03]	MinceR	but it's even cheaper to buy a casio instead, and as a bonus, you'll end up with a better watch
[01:09]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NVgVql7LOs
[01:09]	TR Bot	https://yewtu.be/watch?v=4NVgVql7LOs
[01:09]	TR Bot	( status 503 @ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=4NVgVql7LOs )
[01:09]	IsambardPrince	Part of Defending Your Life.
[01:09]	IsambardPrince	Not the best video quality
[01:11]	IsambardPrince	"Switzerland keeps the time, not Japan!"
[01:11]	IsambardPrince	"You need a society that's built around precision!"
[01:11]	MinceR	lol
[01:12]	IsambardPrince	Oh yeah, it's so precise that the watch gains or loses several minutes a week and you STILL have to spend a few hundred bucks getting it serviced every few years or it stops working completely.
[01:13]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, You know, it's sealed up perfectly so you can jump in the ocean with a $30,000 watch.
[01:13]	IsambardPrince	In theory.
[01:14]	IsambardPrince	But even then it needs greased and cleaned all the time, why?
[01:14]	IsambardPrince	Because it's perfectly sealed!
[01:14]	MinceR	lol
[01:41]	admfubar	https://www.firstpost.com/india/punishment-appeasement-indians-react-to-delhi-fuel-ban-on-end-of-life-vehicles-13902043.html
[01:42]	TR Bot	appeasement... Indians react to Delhi fuel ban on end-of-life vehicles Firstpost
[01:45]	admfubar	interesting... https://www.firstpost.com/tech/nvidia-executives-sell-off-over-1-billion-in-stock-amid-soaring-valuation-13901556.html
[01:45]	TR Bot	executives sell-off over $1 billion in stock amid soaring valuation Firstpost
[01:45]	IsambardPrince	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7fEVMLpUfQ
[01:45]	TR Bot	https://yewtu.be/watch?v=o7fEVMLpUfQ
[01:45]	TR Bot	( status 503 @ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=o7fEVMLpUfQ )
[01:45]	admfubar	https://www.firstpost.com/tech/teslas-european-sales-drop-for-fifth-straight-month-unnerving-investors-13900572.html
[01:45]	TR Bot	European sales drop for fifth straight month, unnerving investors Firstpost
[01:45]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, I love how the joke is since he's dead and in the afterlife, the food is perfect and he can eat all he wants and not get fat. Everything is amazing. But as soon as he takes a bite, someone always comes and pulls him away from it.
[01:47]	IsambardPrince	I think the only restaurants he gets to visit there where nobody bothers him are lunch with his defender where he eats a whole roast chicken with all the sides, and the Japanese restaurant with the tuna.
[01:48]	IsambardPrince	But he goes to this Italian place and orders a big plate of shrimp and he gets to eat one, and it's amazing, then in walks his prosecutor.
[01:49]	IsambardPrince	I liked what "Bob Diamond" said "Everyone on Earth uses 3-5% of their brain. Once you use more than 5% you don't want to be on Earth anymore, believe me."
[01:49]	IsambardPrince	Bob uses 48% of his.
[01:49]	IsambardPrince	Daniel asks Bob if he can have a bite of what he's eating (which looks like salisbury steak with gravy) and Daniel spits it out and Bob says "A little like horseshit isn't it?"
[01:50]	IsambardPrince	Daniel asks how Bob can eat that. Bob says, as you get smarter, you learn to manipulate your sense "This tastes very different to me than it does to you."
[01:50]	IsambardPrince	*senses
[01:51]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, I think that does explain why some people are very adventurous eaters, and other people are like pepperoni pizzas and canned ravioli (like John).
[01:51]	IsambardPrince	I think that smarter people learn to like new things, inherently.
[01:51]	IsambardPrince	And people that are not so smart never get much past hotdogs.
[01:53]	IsambardPrince	My mother asked how I could stand to eat this Korean chicken with Gochujang sauce. She said "It just burns your mouth. There's no other flavor to it."
[01:53]	IsambardPrince	I said, "There's plenty of flavor, and you can just choose to ignore some of the heat if you want to."
[01:55]	IsambardPrince	You can choose to concentrate on other aspects of almost any experience.
[01:55]	IsambardPrince	That's probably why some people like spicy dishes and others don't.
[01:57]	MinceR	or you can gradually get used to the heat
[01:57]	MinceR	i think that's what usually happens
[01:59]	IsambardPrince	When I was about 6-7 my dad got mad at me for getting up one Saturday morning to watch cartoons. I got a big bowl of hot Jalapeo peppers out of the fridge and was sitting there eating them one by one.
● Aug 05
[02:00]	MinceR	:)
[02:00]	IsambardPrince	Those were on the hotter end of the scale for a Jalapeo.
[02:00]	IsambardPrince	The ones that they sell in jars today are a lot milder.
[02:01]	IsambardPrince	They had a spicy A1 sauce for a while but I can't find it anymore.
[02:01]	TR News	skwee-rell gopher://sdf.org:70/1/users/xiled/phlog/2025/20250804_sqrl
[02:01]	IsambardPrince	https://www.walmart.com/ip/A-1-Bold-Spicy-Sauce-with-Tabasco-10-oz-Bottle/10309015
[02:01]	TR Bot	 Robot or human?
[02:02]	IsambardPrince	You can special order it apparently.
[02:02]	IsambardPrince	Hmm, might have to make steaks in the air fryer.
[02:02]	TR News	Switched to NixOS: the path of the samurai begins gopher://hoi.st:70/0/posts/2025-08-04-switched-to-nixos.txt
[02:03]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, I watched The Jungle Book the other day.
[02:03]	IsambardPrince	When it got to that snake singing "Trust in meeeee....just....in meeeeeee." while it's trying to hypnotize the kid, I was like "Whoa there, Peter Bright."
[02:04]	MinceR	:>
[02:05]	TR News	"Some players have been surprised in "Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead" that zombies can show up around their "safe" base that, in theory, had been cleared of all the local zombies." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2025/08/04/zombie-threat.gmi
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[02:06]	TR News	in full colour gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/in_full_colour
[02:11]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41927446
[02:11]	schestowitz[TR2]	"The ethical activists & philosophers like Richard Stallman & Jaron Lanier offer un-realistic solutions that normal people cannot adopt.
[02:11]	schestowitz[TR2]	- I can't turn off JavaScript because 80% of my websites won't work,
[02:11]	schestowitz[TR2]	- I can't ditch Apple because GNU wants me to use a 15 year old computer with completely "libre" software impractical for work
[02:11]	schestowitz[TR2]	- I need a cellphone to communicate. I can move without a cellphone like RMS."
[02:11]	TR Bot	 Such garbage is only possible because there has been a strong deviation between ... | Hacker News
[02:17]	MinceR	strange, i can somehow use a less than 2 year old laptop without relying on crApple
[02:17]	MinceR	i can run GNU on it, i can run OpenBSD on it...
[02:19]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, There was that episode of SG-1 where they run into an advanced alien culture that passes out a vaccine that cures everyone of everything, but causes sterility.
[02:19]	IsambardPrince	So maybe that's a product of Canadian vaccine paranoia.
[02:19]	MinceR	are they the Aschen?
[02:19]	IsambardPrince	They wonder why Alberta with 5 million people had more Measles cases than the US with over 340 million people this year.
[02:19]	IsambardPrince	Yeah.
[02:20]	IsambardPrince	Alberta has "universal healthcare" and they only vaccinate 79% of their children.
[02:20]	IsambardPrince	The US doesn't and we still get to 92.1%.
[02:22]	TR News	Techrights Microsoft Layoffs Continue in August 2025 https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/Microsoft_Layoffs_Continue_in_August_2025.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/Microsoft_Layoffs_Continue_in_August_2025.gmi 
[02:22]	TR Bot	 Techrights Microsoft Layoffs Continue in August 2025
[02:22]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], Several months ago, the landlord sent a message saying Chase closed his bank account and send the rent to Bank of America.
[02:22]	IsambardPrince	It was about a month or two later the city came out to shut off the water.
[02:22]	IsambardPrince	Because he didn't set up autopay correctly.
[02:22]	IsambardPrince	They hit him with a $100 late fee.
[02:23]	IsambardPrince	If Chase throws you out there's something going on with your bank accounts they didn't like.
[02:23]	schestowitz[TR2]	right
[02:23]	schestowitz[TR2]	like I said
[02:23]	schestowitz[TR2]	pay per day or week
[02:23]	schestowitz[TR2]	if that is possible
[02:23]	schestowitz[TR2]	he uses yoru rent as a "cash cow"
[02:23]	schestowitz[TR2]	to cover other fees
[02:24]	schestowitz[TR2]	examples
[02:24]	schestowitz[TR2]	sirius stealking workers' pension money
[02:24]	schestowitz[TR2]	to cover who knows what (!!)
[02:24]	schestowitz[TR2]	or Microsoft paying worker in "shares" (stock)
[02:24]	schestowitz[TR2]	to give "them" money
[02:24]	IsambardPrince	Yep
[02:24]	schestowitz[TR2]	when in fact paying that money to Microsoft
[02:24]	schestowitz[TR2]	to "invest in HEY HI"
[02:24]	schestowitz[TR2]	so it does not pay money
[02:24]	schestowitz[TR2]	it pays itself
[02:24]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], He finally got an eviction on that guy that went to mediation.
[02:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	in the name of "paying workers"
[02:25]	IsambardPrince	They said it will be carried out on September 4th.
[02:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	(not only MSFT does this
[02:25]	IsambardPrince	He sent Chris to take down the eviction letter.
[02:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	for sure AMZN does this also
[02:25]	IsambardPrince	But I saw it before they took it off the main door.
[02:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	and they pat massive taxes and rerstriction
[02:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	to avoid them cashing in those stocks
[02:25]	IsambardPrince	He has to evict a lot of people.
[02:25]	IsambardPrince	He's not screening them properly.
[02:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	IsambardPrince: imaghine you worked for me and.....
[02:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	I'd pay you in stock
[02:25]	IsambardPrince	I think landlords should just use TransUnion SmartMove.
[02:26]	schestowitz[TR2]	each day worked you earn 0.1% of my company
[02:26]	IsambardPrince	It compiles most of what you should be aware of.
[02:26]	schestowitz[TR2]	or3% per month
[02:26]	schestowitz[TR2]	after a year about 40
[02:26]	schestowitz[TR2]	%
[02:26]	schestowitz[TR2]	then the company turns out to be useless
[02:26]	IsambardPrince	Then you find out.
[02:26]	IsambardPrince	Yeah, the company isn't worth anything.
[02:26]	IsambardPrince	And you worked for free.
[02:26]	schestowitz[TR2]	like they did to mr. kink in Sirus
[02:26]	schestowitz[TR2]	they told him he "owned" the company
[02:26]	schestowitz[TR2]	because they could not pay him more
[02:27]	schestowitz[TR2]	then rianne and I quit
[02:27]	schestowitz[TR2]	and spoke about the pension fraud
[02:28]	schestowitz[TR2]	he quit as soon as he could
[02:28]	schestowitz[TR2]	he could be liabile for the company's fraud
[02:28]	schestowitz[TR2]	then the CEO fled also
[02:30]	TR News	GNU under DDOS again?
[02:32]	TR News	"The current IBM management is dishonorable and is severely lacking in business ethics." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k1rdcxmw
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[02:32]	TR News	"I hate to break this to you but Top executives at IBM NEVER had a moral compass to begin with. That's why the company is such a mess and they need to burn in HE-L for eternity. Top executives at IBM have lost their moral compass. Bad karma and it will come around to bite them eventually - both here and in the afterlife." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k1rdcxmw
[02:33]	MinceR	you don't get to be a top executive if you have a moral compass
[02:33]	MinceR	unless you own the company
[02:38]	admfubar	https://www.firstpost.com/tech/disney-universal-lawsuit-midjourney-ai-image-generator-copyright-infringement-ws-d-13896321.html
[02:38]	TR Bot	movie studios join fight against AI as Disney, Universal sue image-generator Midjourney Firstpost
[02:38]	admfubar	ibm was built on revenge
[02:40]	TR News	Techrights Dr. Andy Farnell Explains How Google Turned From "Librarian" Into "Oracle", Telling Us What to Think Instead of Where to Look https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/Dr_Andy_Farnell_Explains_How_Google_Turned_From_Librarian_Into_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/Dr_Andy_Farnell_Explains_How_Google_Turned_From_Librarian_Into_.gmi 
[02:40]	TR Bot	 Techrights Dr. Andy Farnell Explains How Google Turned From "Librarian" Into "Oracle", Telling Us What to Think Instead of Where to Look
[02:42]	admfubar	https://www.firstpost.com/world/cant-wait-macron-says-france-will-ban-social-media-for-under-15-in-coming-months-13896190.html
[02:42]	TR Bot	wait: Macron says France will ban social media for under-15 in coming months Firstpost
[02:43]	admfubar	https://www.firstpost.com/tech/openals-chatgpt-service-faces-massive-outage-leaves-users-frustrated-13895977.html
[02:43]	TR Bot	ChatGPT service faces massive outage, leaves users frustrated Firstpost
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[02:48]	schestowitz[TR2]	admfubar: oh, nice
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[02:49]	admfubar	https://www.firstpost.com/tech/denmark-construction-giant-drops-tesla-fleet-over-elon-musks-political-views-13889829.html
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[02:52]	admfubar	thomas watson used to work for NCR corporation , (National Cash Register, the computer of the day) they had watson some into a city and set up a repair shop, as customers would bring their registers for repair, he'd give them a price that was higher then a new NCR register.
[02:52]	admfubar	the customers would instead get a shiny new ncr register instead with a lowballed price.
[02:52]	schestowitz[TR2]	<admfubar> https://www.firstpost.com/tech/openals-chatgpt-service-faces-massive-outage-leaves-users-frustrated-13895977.html
[02:53]	schestowitz[TR2]	this is from june
[02:53]	admfubar	oopser... didnt see the date..
[02:53]	schestowitz[TR2]	np
[02:53]	schestowitz[TR2]	^_^
[02:53]	admfubar	this drove the other repair shops and sales out of business
[02:54]	admfubar	once ncr store was established watson would move on to another city.
[02:54]	admfubar	start over.. taking over the market from the competition
[02:55]	admfubar	sometime later the the government figured out what was happening and took ncr to court
[02:56]	admfubar	ncr through watson under the bus, saying they didnt know what he was doing.. (sure they didnt)
[02:58]	admfubar	after this fiasco played out, watson was befriended by a character that looked like the monocled character from the game monopoly (with the money to boot) and helped for ibm
[02:59]	admfubar	for=form
[02:59]	admfubar	with the intent to get even with ncr for making him pay for their crime.
● Aug 05
[03:00]	admfubar	this is why there are antitrust law in the us, from the government's case against ncr.
[03:01]	MinceR	evil vs evil, as is usual for human society
[03:01]	MinceR	whoever wins, most of us loses
[03:01]	admfubar	that would be just the lawyers who win
[03:03]	admfubar	if you can find it, as it is out of print, the book "Big Blue" details the case the us gov was going to break up ibm. written by one of the prosecutors that was involved.
[03:03]	TR News	Techrights ChatGPT in Trouble https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/ChatGPT_in_Trouble.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/ChatGPT_in_Trouble.gmi 
[03:03]	TR Bot	 Techrights ChatGPT in Trouble
[03:04]	admfubar	ShatGPT
[03:04]	MinceR	:>
[03:04]	schestowitz[TR2]	William ShatGPT
[03:05]	MinceR	just, put, a, comma, after, every, word
[03:05]	MinceR	https://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/William_Shatner_Syndrome
[03:05]	TR Bot	 William Shatner Syndrome - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
[03:06]	schestowitz[TR2]	no, thanks, sir
[03:06]	MinceR	:>
[03:07]	IsambardPrince	I got in trouble in fourth grade for wearing a button that said "He's dead, Jim. You get his tricorder, and I'll grab his wallet."
[03:07]	TR News	Techrights IRC Proceedings: Monday, August 04, 2025 https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/IRC_Proceedings_Monday_August_04_2025.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/IRC_Proceedings_Monday_August_04_2025.gmi 
[03:07]	TR Bot	 Techrights IRC Proceedings: Monday, August 04, 2025
[03:07]	TR News	Techrights Over at Tux Machines... https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi 
[03:07]	TR Bot	 Techrights Over at Tux Machines...
[03:07]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, ^
[03:07]	MinceR	lol
[03:08]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, I can see all my old Capital One credit cards that went into the bankruptcy.
[03:08]	IsambardPrince	I called into customer service one day and they asked why I had grouped them under "He's dead, Jim."
[03:08]	TR News	 (NEW):  Today in Techrights https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/05/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/05/Today_in_Techrights.gmi 
[03:08]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Today in Techrights
[03:09]	MinceR	:)
[03:09]	IsambardPrince	brb.
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[03:10]	TR News	Picture Page gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-08-05.gmi
[03:12]	admfubar	https://www.geekwire.com/2025/amazon-lays-off-staff-and-reshuffles-wondery-podcast-unit/
[03:12]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.geekwire.com/2025/amazon-lays-off-staff-and-reshuffles-wondery-podcast-unit/ )
[03:12]	MinceR	https://i.pinimg.com/originals/91/d3/5c/91d35cf3dcaa0e5440af5e30ba19335b.jpg
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[03:12]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, https://ibb.co/DfgTNjb7
[03:12]	TR Bot	 Screenshot-2025-08-04-9-10-32-PM hosted at ImgBB ImgBB
[03:13]	IsambardPrince	:)
[03:14]	TR News	Techrights Gemini Links 05/08/2025: Zombie Threat and Switching to NixOS https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/Gemini_Links_05_08_2025_Zombie_Threat_and_Switching_to_NixOS.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/Gemini_Links_05_08_2025_Zombie_Threat_and_Switching_to_NixOS.gmi 
[03:14]	TR Bot	 Techrights Gemini Links 05/08/2025: Zombie Threat and Switching to NixOS
[03:14]	admfubar	https://www.geekwire.com/2025/amazon-web-services-profits-squeezed-as-ai-arms-race-drives-spending-surge/
[03:14]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.geekwire.com/2025/amazon-web-services-profits-squeezed-as-ai-arms-race-drives-spending-surge/ )
[03:15]	admfubar	https://www.ghacks.net/2025/08/01/google-loses-its-appeal-against-epic-games/
[03:15]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.ghacks.net/2025/08/01/google-loses-its-appeal-against-epic-games/ )
[03:18]	schestowitz[TR2]	lo,, "ai arms race"
[03:18]	schestowitz[TR2]	go fight!!
[03:18]	schestowitz[TR2]	it's the HEY HI ARMS RACE !!!
[03:19]	schestowitz[TR2]	cloud!! HEY HI!!!
[03:19]	schestowitz[TR2]	what next, quantum cloud hey hir ace?
[03:20]	schestowitz[TR2]	IsambardPrince: screenshot context?
[03:20]	MinceR	IsambardPrince: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/91/d3/5c/91d35cf3dcaa0e5440af5e30ba19335b.jpg
[03:20]	schestowitz[TR2]	suffocation risk
[03:20]	schestowitz[TR2]	irresponsible owners
[03:22]	TR News	Steam data reveals PC gamers shifting from Windows to Linux https://www.tweaktown.com/news/106795/steam-data-reveals-pc-gamers-shifting-from-windows-to-linux/index.html
[03:22]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.tweaktown.com/news/106795/steam-data-reveals-pc-gamers-shifting-from-windows-to-linux/index.html )
[03:24]	TR News	openwashing https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ai-ran-alliance-linux-foundation-160000335.html
[03:24]	TR Bot	 AI-RAN Alliance and Linux Foundation Collaborate on Advancing AI-RAN
[03:25]	TR News	 (NEW):  Gaming More Mainstream Among GNU/Linux Users https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/05/Gaming_More_Mainstream_Among_GNU_Linux_Users.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/05/Gaming_More_Mainstream_Among_GNU_Linux_Users.gmi 
[03:25]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Gaming More Mainstream Among GNU/Linux Users
[03:28]	TR News	 (NEW):  GNU/Linux Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/05/GNU_Linux_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/05/GNU_Linux_Leftovers.gmi 
[03:28]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines GNU/Linux Leftovers
[03:30]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], charged off credit card account.
[03:35]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], Meanwhile, Gulag Noise floats this: https://www.unilad.com/news/health/ozempic-masturbation-libido-reduction-expert-advice-971968-20250803
[03:35]	TR Bot	 'Ozempic masturbation' explained as people share their experience after taking the drug
[03:37]	IsambardPrince	Also: https://www.tmz.com/2025/08/04/texas-cop-give-writing-tickets-lack-of-sex-under-investigation/
[03:37]	TR Bot	 Female Cop Under Investigation for Vowing to Ticket 'Everyone' Over Lack of Sex
[03:37]	admfubar	https://xkcd.com/3124/
[03:37]	TR Bot	Grounded
[03:40]	TR News	Techrights About a Quarter of Today's "linux" News in Google News Came From One Domain and It's a Slopfarm https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/About_a_Quarter_of_Today_s_linux_News_in_Google_News_Came_From_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/About_a_Quarter_of_Today_s_linux_News_in_Google_News_Came_From_.gmi 
[03:40]	TR Bot	 Techrights About a Quarter of Today's "linux" News in Google News Came From One Domain and It's a Slopfarm
[03:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	<IsambardPrince> schestowitz[TR2], Meanwhile, Gulag Noise floats this
[03:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	in what context?
[03:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	what did you seacrn for
[03:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	pls
[03:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	go back to ther search results
[03:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	take a screenshot
[03:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	we can cover this
[03:43]	TR News	Ponzi scheme coordinator https://mynorthwest.com/local/bellevue-mansion-microsoft/4117139 see https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/03/Definitely_Not_a_Ponzi_Scheme.shtml
[03:43]	TR Bot	 Microsoft CTO sold multi-million Bellevue waterfront mansion
[03:43]	TR Bot	 Techrights Definitely Not a Ponzi Scheme
[03:43]	admfubar	the second article is funnier...  https://www.unilad.com/news/health/ozempic-side-effects-trapped-gas-wind-reddit-767921-20250620
[03:43]	TR Bot	 Ozempic gas explained as Reddit users stop being able to do one normal thing
● Aug 05
[04:02]	schestowitz[TR2]	"At UNILAD we use cookies to give you the best experience and most relevant advertising possible"
[04:04]	TR News	No videos added in ages already https://www.gnu.org/audio-video/philosophy-recordings.html
[04:04]	TR Bot	 Recordings about GNU Philosophy and History - GNU Project - Free-Software Foundation
[04:04]	MinceR	relevant advertising always makes my experience great
[04:04]	MinceR	there's no need for articles even, just relevant advertising, please!
[04:04]	TR News	Plus, some gnu.org subsites are not accessible, probably due to ddos by LLM bots
[04:05]	MinceR	GNU is obsolete anyway, it's being replaced by systemd.
[04:05]	schestowitz[TR2]	MinceR: https://analognowhere.com/_/mini/jsydwekj.png
[04:05]	schestowitz[TR2]	system.de\
[04:07]	TR News	"The connection has timed out" https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/
[04:08]	TR Bot	to connect to lists.gnu.org port 443 after 10000 ms: Timeout was reached ( status 0 @ https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/ )
[04:14]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, Someone laughed that a car pulled up behind me during the dunkin donuts thing trapping me in the drive thru for half an hour so they could pour out half of Mandy's drink.
[04:14]	IsambardPrince	So I continued:"At least the Dunkin' over by Walmart gets you in and out, although the coffee is tepid if you order it hot. But the matcha is just a powder so I think it's the same everywhere.
[04:14]	IsambardPrince	
[04:14]	IsambardPrince	I may pull up there next month and ask if they also have a policy of making an entire drink and then pouring half of it down the drain because you ordered less ice. Smiley Happy
[04:14]	IsambardPrince	
[04:14]	IsambardPrince	Although presumably if you order a hot matcha, which has no ice at all, they give it to you full?
[04:14]	IsambardPrince	
[04:14]	IsambardPrince	I don't know where this "policy" is coming from. The worker actually got into an argument with me where she started drawing me a diagram on the cup swith her fingers and the lines saying "If it's light ice you fill the drink to this line." and I said "No no no, if it's light ice it means give me a whole cup full of matcha that starts with half as much ice. I don't need this in my life today."
[04:14]	IsambardPrince	
[04:14]	IsambardPrince	Finally I accepted that I lost and just went to my physical therapy. 
[04:14]	IsambardPrince	
[04:14]	IsambardPrince	Note to self. Just set up the coffee maker tomorrow."
[04:15]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, Lost over half an hour of my day and got into an argument with a fast food employee who thought she was smart for dumping out half a cup of tea and arguing with me about the lines.
[04:15]	IsambardPrince	When I could have just set everything up at home.
[04:21]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, You know, maybe I am too hard on black people.
[04:22]	IsambardPrince	I saw a black woman get pissed and grab that COVID sneeze guard at McDonald's and beat a McDonald's worker over the head and run out of the store.
[04:22]	IsambardPrince	Maybe she was also missing the tomato on her QPC Deluxe.
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[04:35]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], Fire inspection tomorrow.
[04:35]	IsambardPrince	I told mom I called the fire dept to ask if they were doing an inspection.
[04:35]	IsambardPrince	I said the landlord lies when his lips move.
[04:36]	IsambardPrince	If he tells you fish swim in the sea and the sky is blue, go check for yourself.
[04:36]	IsambardPrince	I'm going to put the striker plate lock on the door again in case they decide to barge right in without waking me up.
[04:37]	IsambardPrince	That is one nice thing about owning instead of renting. You don't necessarily have people barging right in the front door.
[04:37]	IsambardPrince	Maybe even letting your cats out.
[04:37]	IsambardPrince	Or climbing in bed with you.
[04:37]	IsambardPrince	(Joy)
[04:38]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, I'm glad I stockpile cat food.
[04:38]	IsambardPrince	I think I have every cat in the neighborhood here now.
[04:39]	IsambardPrince	I went to give them some kibble today and there were 7 of them. There were only 3 to begin with.
[04:39]	IsambardPrince	I used my Wishmaster voice and said "Tell your friends."
[04:41]	IsambardPrince	I can do a good impersonation of Andrew Divoff as The Wishmaster.
[04:42]	IsambardPrince	"Run insect! Run and tell those you will what you will! Tell them there is something loose in their city. Something that feeds on wishes.....but tell them quickly, while you still have a soul!"
[04:43]	IsambardPrince	<schestowitz[TR2]> <IsambardPrince> schestowitz[TR2], Meanwhile, Gulag Noise floats this
[04:43]	IsambardPrince	<schestowitz[TR2]> in what context?
[04:43]	IsambardPrince	<schestowitz[TR2]> what did you seacrn for
[04:43]	IsambardPrince	<schestowitz[TR2]> pls
[04:43]	IsambardPrince	<schestowitz[TR2]> go back to ther search results
[04:43]	IsambardPrince	<schestowitz[TR2]> take a screenshot
[04:43]	IsambardPrince	<schestowitz[TR2]> we can cover this
[04:43]	IsambardPrince	The "For You" page.
[04:43]	IsambardPrince	I blacklisted two more sites, including The Street.
[04:44]	IsambardPrince	They're slopping and also floating "sponsored content" for Walmart products.
[04:44]	IsambardPrince	Errr, three.
[04:44]	IsambardPrince	I also blacklisted HHS.gov and TMZ.
[04:46]	MinceR	05 053707 < IsambardPrince> That is one nice thing about owning instead of renting. You don't necessarily have people barging right in the front door.
[04:46]	MinceR	as long as there's no police or other armed forces, or state, sure
[04:46]	MinceR	better yet, living on a planet with no humans on it
[04:50]	IsambardPrince	Occupy Mars!
● Aug 05
[05:08]	MinceR	well, i wouldn't be able to live for long there
[05:08]	MinceR	so i guess that's a plus
[05:14]	IsambardPrince	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KFH--_cdiI
[05:14]	TR Bot	https://iv.ggtyler.dev/watch?v=-KFH--_cdiI
[05:14]	TR Bot	nyc1.iv.ggtyler.dev | Making sure you're not a bot!
[05:14]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, ^
[05:14]	IsambardPrince	"Total Recall - Two Weeks [HD]"
[05:14]	IsambardPrince	My mom said "two weeks" the other day and I started saying "two weeks" a bunch of times like this scene.
[05:14]	IsambardPrince	Then I had to explain.]
[05:14]	IsambardPrince	:(
[05:15]	IsambardPrince	Then I said "Get ready for a surprise!"
[05:15]	IsambardPrince	Like the head before it exploded.
[05:22]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, I'm having fun killing roaches at least.
[05:22]	IsambardPrince	That fly zapper kills them quickly.
[05:22]	IsambardPrince	It makes a "zapzapzapzapzap" noise.
[05:23]	IsambardPrince	So I quoted Robert Downey Jr. from A Scanner Darkly while I was electrocuting one and it was zapping.
[05:23]	IsambardPrince	"No! It is you you you you who are fu fu fucked up!"
[05:30]	TR News	Windows at 22% https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/bangladesh/#monthly-200902-202508
[05:30]	TR Bot	 Operating System Market Share Bangladesh | Statcounter Global Stats
[05:31]	TR News	Windows down sharply https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/kenya/#monthly-200902-202508
[05:31]	TR Bot	 Operating System Market Share Kenya | Statcounter Global Stats
[05:44]	TR News	Techrights Mongolia: Microsoft Windows at All-Time Low https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/Mongolia_Microsoft_Windows_at_All_Time_Low.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/Mongolia_Microsoft_Windows_at_All_Time_Low.gmi 
[05:44]	TR Bot	 Techrights Mongolia: Microsoft Windows at All-Time Low
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[05:59]	TR News	Techrights Shouting is an Indication of a Lack of Convincing Argument https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/Shouting_is_an_Indication_of_a_Lack_of_Convincing_Argument.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/Shouting_is_an_Indication_of_a_Lack_of_Convincing_Argument.gmi 
[05:59]	TR Bot	 Techrights Shouting is an Indication of a Lack of Convincing Argument
● Aug 05
[06:07]	TR News	Techrights Why We Also Include Gopher Links in Our Gemini (Protocol) Links https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/Why_We_Also_Include_Gopher_Links_in_Our_Gemini_Protocol_Links.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/Why_We_Also_Include_Gopher_Links_in_Our_Gemini_Protocol_Links.gmi 
[06:07]	TR Bot	 Techrights Why We Also Include Gopher Links in Our Gemini (Protocol) Links
[06:17]	TR News	Techrights Microsoft Windows Fell to 19% "Market Share" in Montenegro https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/Microsoft_Windows_Fell_to_19_Market_Share_in_Montenegro.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/Microsoft_Windows_Fell_to_19_Market_Share_in_Montenegro.gmi 
[06:17]	TR Bot	 Techrights Microsoft Windows Fell to 19% "Market Share" in Montenegro
[06:18]	TR News	NOTHING to do with "HEY HI"! https://hrsea.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/industry/atlassian-announces-layoffs-amid-ai-integration-controversy/123093713
[06:18]	TR Bot	 Atlassian Announces Layoffs Amid AI Integration Controversy, ETHRWorldSEA
[06:18]	TR News	Samsung has begun laying off US staff, claims employee; dont know how far-reaching it is https://www.financialexpress.com/trending/samsung-has-began-laying-off-us-staff-claims-employee-dont-know-how-far-reaching-it-is/3936161/
[06:18]	TR Bot	 Samsung has begun laying off US staff, claims employee; dont know how far-reaching it is | Tech layoffs - Trending News | The Financial Express
[06:19]	TR News	"Amazon cuts more than 100 jobs in Wondery overhaul amid major audio division restructuring"
[06:29]	schestowitz[TR2]	I have no problem with offensive humour, but oppressive "jokes" are
[06:29]	schestowitz[TR2]	something else that should not be tolerated in the *universal* operating
[06:29]	schestowitz[TR2]	system. (making fun of cis-het white males can be offensive, and its
[06:29]	schestowitz[TR2]	OK, while making fun of people already suffering from discrimination is
[06:29]	schestowitz[TR2]	oppressive, and thats not OK)
[06:29]	schestowitz[TR2]	If on the other hand I misunderstood and what youre trying to preserve
[06:29]	schestowitz[TR2]	is non-oppressive offensive jokes, then I have no strong opinion on the
[06:29]	schestowitz[TR2]	matter.
[06:29]	schestowitz[TR2]	quoting:
[06:29]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=no&bug=1109167
[06:29]	TR Bot	 #1109167 - Offensive fortunes have been removed in English. This package has no place in Debian - Debian Bug report logs
[06:29]	schestowitz[TR2]	Antoine Le Gonidec
[06:30]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[06:30]	schestowitz[TR2]	I don't know how the history of where you are from, but in my country,
[06:30]	schestowitz[TR2]	there was a time when the prevailing view was something along lines of
[06:30]	schestowitz[TR2]	"all men are created equal, but some are more equal than others", which
[06:30]	schestowitz[TR2]	resulted in *exactly* this same kind of thinking specifically
[06:30]	schestowitz[TR2]	normalizing the mistreatment of certain groups of people.
[06:30]	schestowitz[TR2]	I have a very hard time understanding how in two adjacent paragraphs you
[06:30]	schestowitz[TR2]	can say both "Sexism, racism and such are not, never were, and can not
[06:30]	schestowitz[TR2]	be funny." and also "making fun of cis-het white males can be offensive,
[06:30]	schestowitz[TR2]	and its OK." You sound like a hypocrite."
[06:31]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[06:31]	schestowitz[TR2]	So, are sexism, racism and such *never* OK, or are they only OK when
[06:31]	schestowitz[TR2]	they're directed at whatever group or groups you happen to think it is
[06:31]	schestowitz[TR2]	acceptable to oppress? Society has been there before (some group decides
[06:31]	schestowitz[TR2]	that another group should be oppressed, marginalized, exploited,
[06:31]	schestowitz[TR2]	eradicated, or whatever) and the results were not good. It doesn't make
[06:31]	schestowitz[TR2]	sense for you to claim a commitment to non-oppression and then make
[06:31]	schestowitz[TR2]	allowance for it at the same time.
[06:31]	schestowitz[TR2]	I ask because it sounds like you are speaking out of both sides of your
[06:31]	schestowitz[TR2]	mouth, saying that jokes of such a nature must be deplored but then also
[06:31]	schestowitz[TR2]	that their use against some groups is acceptable.
[06:31]	schestowitz[TR2]	Am I, as a member of a marginalized group, not permitted to make jokes
[06:31]	schestowitz[TR2]	about my own group? If that's the case, no thanks, I don't need someone
[06:31]	schestowitz[TR2]	telling me that I can't make fun of myself or of others in my group.
[06:31]	schestowitz[TR2]	Regards,"
[06:33]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[06:33]	schestowitz[TR2]	With the hope of being able to give you a hand as I'd really like to 
[06:33]	schestowitz[TR2]	keep both the italian and the sicilian *offensive* fortunes package in 
[06:33]	schestowitz[TR2]	Debian, I went peeking at the package and, unless I'm completely missing 
[06:33]	schestowitz[TR2]	something, the second offensive italian fortune says that women's "no"s 
[06:33]	schestowitz[TR2]	should be interpreted as "yes", while the third one explicitly calls for 
[06:33]	schestowitz[TR2]	violence on women [1]. Like, it literally says women should be beaten on 
[06:33]	schestowitz[TR2]	a regular basis. I'm afraid I can't help you here, sorry."
[06:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=no&bug=1109166
[06:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	""
[06:34]	TR Bot	 #1109166 - English offensive fortunes already removed. This package has no place in Debian - Debian Bug report logs
[06:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	I am not current fortunes-es maintainer, but did some work in initial steps
[06:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	of the package and have been tracking it since then. I prepared initial
[06:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	version of the off section trying to strip everything that I considered
[06:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	not apropriate even for this section (explicit calls for violence should not
[06:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	be here, as well as things of too low quality). I added some fortunes with
[06:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	fun on males or females that I considered could even get a smile from
[06:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	supposed target. They are in the off package only because some people have a
[06:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	very low offense threshold and this helps to deal with this.
[06:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	So Debian exercises censorship
[06:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	not only over code
[06:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	but also words
[06:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	they get to decide what to sayu
[06:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	and what not to say
[06:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	even as jokes
[06:35]	schestowitz[TR2]	in packages made by other people
[06:35]	schestowitz[TR2]	this can go very wrong
[06:37]	TR News	Buzzwords and openwashing https://www.thefastmode.com/technology-solutions/43734-ai-ran-alliance-linux-foundation-team-up-for-ai-ran-innovation
[06:37]	TR Bot	 AI-RAN Alliance, Linux Foundation Team Up for AI-RAN Innovation
[06:39]	TR News	The issue here is the malware, not "Linux backdoor" https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/05/plague_linux_backdoor/ http://techrights.org/n/2025/08/04/Microsoft_and_Windows_Have_Many_Back_Doors_But_LLM_Slop_Keep_Cl.shtml
[06:39]	TR Bot	 Antivirus vendors fail to spot persistent Linux backdoor The Register
[06:39]	TR Bot	 Techrights Microsoft and Windows Have Many Back Doors, But LLM Slop Keep Claiming That Linux Has "Backdoor"
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[06:47]	TR News	"Slackware isn't exactly the most user-friendly, but Slackel opens it up to the masses - offering four spins to choose from." https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-linux-distro-makes-slackware-easier-than-ever/
[06:47]	TR Bot	Linux distro makes Slackware easier than ever | ZDNET
[06:47]	TR News	Techrights When The Register MS Says "Linux Backdoor" It Actually Talks About Malware https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/When_The_Register_MS_Says_Linux_Backdoor_It_Actually_Talks_Abou.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/When_The_Register_MS_Says_Linux_Backdoor_It_Actually_Talks_Abou.gmi 
[06:47]	TR Bot	 Techrights When The Register MS Says "Linux Backdoor" It Actually Talks About Malware
[06:48]	TR News	"For a long time, Windows was the only serious choice for PC gaming. But according to a recent Steam survey, the landscape is starting to change. The open-source operating system Linux is gaining ground in the gaming world and with good reason." https://www.notebookcheck.net/Linux-is-becoming-more-appealing-for-gamers-here-s-why.1078308.0.html
[06:48]	TR Bot	is becoming more appealing for gamers here's why - NotebookCheck.net News
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[06:49]	TR News	Mobile Linux Distro postmarketOS Gets iPhone X Port, More Improvements https://www.howtogeek.com/mobile-linux-distro-postmarketos-gets-iphone-x-port-more-improvements/
[06:49]	TR Bot	 Mobile Linux Distro postmarketOS Gets iPhone X Port, More Improvements
[06:50]	TR News	Not a back door https://cyberinsider.com/new-plague-backdoor-for-linux-hijacks-ssh-using-malicious-pam-module/ see http://techrights.org/n/2025/08/04/Microsoft_and_Windows_Have_Many_Back_Doors_But_LLM_Slop_Keep_Cl.shtml
[06:50]	TR Bot	 New Plague Backdoor for Linux Hijacks SSH Using Malicious PAM Module
[06:51]	TR News	New Arch Installer Update Adds U2F Authentication and Bluetooth Support https://news.itsfoss.com/arch-installer-3-0-9/
[06:51]	TR Bot	 New Arch Installer Update Adds U2F Authentication and Bluetooth Support
[06:58]	TR News	More buzzword and hype https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-linux-foundation-marks-2025-momentum-of-lf-india-with-expanding-ecosystem-engaged-communities-and-ai-fueled-innovation-302521424.html
[06:58]	TR Bot	 The Linux Foundation Marks 2025 Momentum of LF India with Expanding Ecosystem, Engaged Communities and AI-Fueled Innovation
[06:59]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], I bought a new air purifier.
● Aug 05
[07:00]	IsambardPrince	True HEPA variety.
[07:00]	IsambardPrince	Those people next door are smoking something truly foul.
[07:01]	TR News	AMD breaks through 40 %, Linux reaches record value on Steam https://www.igorslab.de/en/amd-breaks-40-linux-reaches-record-on-steam/
[07:01]	TR Bot	 AMD breaks through 40 %, Linux reaches record value on Steam | igorsLAB
[07:02]	TR News	 (NEW):  'Linux' Foundation Still All About Buzzwords, Mindless Hype (or Plagiarism), and Openwashing https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/05/_Linux_Foundation_Still_All_About_Buzzwords_Mindless_Hype_or_Pl.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/05/_Linux_Foundation_Still_All_About_Buzzwords_Mindless_Hype_or_Pl.gmi 
[07:02]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines 'Linux' Foundation Still All About Buzzwords, Mindless Hype (or Plagiarism), and Openwashing
[07:04]	IsambardPrince	Whatever it is they're smoking makes my nose run and my throat sore.
[07:04]	IsambardPrince	I don't want to be trapped in here with a busted arm breathing that shit in.
[07:05]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], Those little H13 HEPA filter systems help a bit, but not much. Mom sent me one years ago. So I moved it in here and sat it next to the door.
[07:06]	IsambardPrince	HomeLabs stopped making the little H13 pods, so I got some from Nispira. The problem is that they're so small and cost so much for what they are, that you may as well step it up to a bigger air purifier because the replacement filters are only a few bucks more.
[07:11]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], I sprayed for the roaches.
[07:11]	IsambardPrince	I did it correctly, unlike that idiot landlord.
[07:12]	IsambardPrince	I also got the trim inside my apartment.
[07:12]	IsambardPrince	Then for good measure I set out a couple of dozen bait stations where any that the spray doesn't fence off will kill them if they eat it.
[07:22]	schestowitz[TR2]	  anW.
[07:26]	TR News	Techrights Tesla's Debt More Than Doubled in 2 Years and the Company Will Operate in a Loss Soon https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/Tesla_s_Debt_More_Than_Doubled_in_2_Years_and_the_Company_Will_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/Tesla_s_Debt_More_Than_Doubled_in_2_Years_and_the_Company_Will_.gmi 
[07:26]	TR Bot	 Techrights Tesla's Debt More Than Doubled in 2 Years and the Company Will Operate in a Loss Soon
[07:28]	TR News	 (NEW):  Fostering Constructive Communication in Open Source Communities https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/05/Fostering_Constructive_Communication_in_Open_Source_Communities.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/05/Fostering_Constructive_Communication_in_Open_Source_Communities.gmi 
[07:29]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Fostering Constructive Communication in Open Source Communities
[07:32]	TR News	 (NEW):  Try Xfce on Wayland with openSUSE Leap 16.0 RC https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/05/Try_Xfce_on_Wayland_with_openSUSE_Leap_16_0_RC.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/05/Try_Xfce_on_Wayland_with_openSUSE_Leap_16_0_RC.gmi 
[07:32]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Try Xfce on Wayland with openSUSE Leap 16.0 RC
[07:36]	TR News	Techrights The Debian Language Police Department (PD) https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/The_Debian_Language_Police_Department_PD.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/The_Debian_Language_Police_Department_PD.gmi 
[07:36]	TR Bot	 Techrights The Debian Language Police Department (PD)
[07:47]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], This is not WAAAAR this is PEST CONTROL!!!!
[07:47]	IsambardPrince	EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINAAAAATE!!!!
[07:47]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, ^
[07:48]	IsambardPrince	:)
[07:48]	IsambardPrince	I think it's working. I have not seen any roaches today.
[07:48]	IsambardPrince	They clearly don't like that spray.
[07:49]	IsambardPrince	The goal is to isolate, contain, and kill straggler.
[07:49]	IsambardPrince	*stragglers
[07:49]	IsambardPrince	We do this by establishing the perimeter which would be the spray that kills them if they go in or out of walls.
[07:50]	IsambardPrince	By painting the baseboards and trim with a coating of this stuff, it limits their movement.
[07:50]	IsambardPrince	Then once the ones that made it into my apartment are confined, you destroy them by making sure the humidity is very very low and that the only food that they gan get is poison.
[07:52]	IsambardPrince	Of course if I do see one I'll be sure to crush it or zap it with the electric bug zapper.
[07:52]	IsambardPrince	That's an opportunistic kill.
[07:52]	TR News	Techrights IBM is Shutting Down (Piecewise) https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/IBM_is_Shutting_Down_Piecewise.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/IBM_is_Shutting_Down_Piecewise.gmi 
[07:52]	TR Bot	 Techrights IBM is Shutting Down (Piecewise)
[07:55]	IsambardPrince	I have more of this stuff than I need.
[07:55]	IsambardPrince	So I also sprayed the trim in the hallways too, which should help stop them from moving across the hallway as freely.
[07:56]	IsambardPrince	So if I did this right, eventually the infestation should be contained to the ungbungbung lady. That would be the fat woman next door that passed by me and said "ungbungbung".
[07:57]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], I'm turning into you with the birds, only with cats.
[07:57]	IsambardPrince	All the neighborhood cats know that I'm feeding them now.
● Aug 05
[08:09]	TR News	Techrights Rumours of Mass Layoffs at Red Hat Next Week (August 11th, 2025) https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/Rumours_of_Mass_Layoffs_at_Red_Hat_Next_Week_August_11th_2025.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/Rumours_of_Mass_Layoffs_at_Red_Hat_Next_Week_August_11th_2025.gmi 
[08:09]	TR Bot	 Techrights Rumours of Mass Layoffs at Red Hat Next Week (August 11th, 2025)
[08:11]	schestowitz[TR2]	what do you feed those cats?
[08:14]	TR News	 (NEW):  Free and Open Source Software https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/05/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/05/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi 
[08:14]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Free and Open Source Software
[08:17]	IsambardPrince	Purina Naturals kibble.
[08:20]	schestowitz[TR2]	you will run out fast
[08:20]	schestowitz[TR2]	if you feed 100 birds even a 50 pound sack lasts maybe a few weeks
[08:23]	TR News	"Dear players of Heroes of Might and Magic 2! Today we are happy to announce a new version of the fheroes2 game engine" https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/heroes-of-might-and-magic-2-project-fheroes2-version-1-1-10-has-been-released/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
[08:23]	TR Bot	of Might and Magic 2 project fheroes2 version 1.1.10 has been released | GamingOnLinux
[08:24]	TR News	"NVIDIA have released the first Beta for the 580 driver series, with NVIDIA Beta driver 580.65.06 bringing mostly bug fixes. There's also an additional bit of Wayland protocol support included." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/nvidia-beta-driver-580-65-06-released-for-linux-with-bug-fixes-and-expanded-wayland-support/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
[08:24]	TR Bot	Beta driver 580.65.06 released for Linux with bug fixes and expanded Wayland support | GamingOnLinux
[08:24]	IsambardPrince	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_of_Watch
[08:24]	TR Bot	 End of Watch - Wikipedia
[08:25]	TR News	"ZOOM Platform that sell a lot of retro games, as well as publish upgrades for retro games, announced they've also been a target of payment processors for adult games" https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/zoom-platform-also-had-payment-processor-issues-say-they-have-no-plans-to-remove-any-titles/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
[08:25]	TR Bot	Platform also had payment processor issues, say they "have no plans to remove any titles" | GamingOnLinux
[08:25]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], We know End of Watch is just a movie because in the end the cops actually get into a shootout and most die trying to get the bad guys.
[08:26]	schestowitz[TR2]	and in reality..
[08:26]	TR News	"At a time where supporting creators of anything that might be deemed adult content or NSFW is more important than ever, the Queer Games Bundle 2025 is live." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/queer-games-bundle-2025-is-live-on-itch-io/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
[08:26]	TR Bot	Games Bundle 2025 is live on itch.io | GamingOnLinux
[08:27]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], One of the safest jobs in America.
[08:27]	schestowitz[TR2]	source?
[08:27]	schestowitz[TR2]	i think you make this up
[08:27]	schestowitz[TR2]	"One of the safest jobs in America."
[08:28]	IsambardPrince	"While policing involves inherent risks, it does not consistently rank among the most dangerous jobs in the US when considering on-the-job fatalities. Occupations like fishing, logging, and roofing consistently rank higher in terms of fatalities per 100,000 workers. In 2020, police officers ranked 18th in on-the-job fatalities among all industries."
[08:28]	IsambardPrince	https://medium.com/technology-taxes-education-columns-by-david-grace/being-a-police-officer-is-not-even-in-the-top-10-most-dangerous-jobs-1e985540c38a
[08:28]	TR Bot	A Police Officer Is Not Even In The Top 10 Most Dangerous Jobs | by David Grace | TECH, GUNS, HEALTH INS, TAXES, EDUCATION | Medium
[08:28]	IsambardPrince	"For every police officer who was killed by a civilian in 2019, 21 civilians were killed by cops in 2019."
[08:29]	IsambardPrince	"Lets average that and say 14 on-the-job deaths/100,000 officers."
[08:29]	IsambardPrince	"Now, lets look at the top ten most dangerous jobs in America expressed as deaths per 100,000 workers:
[08:29]	IsambardPrince	Loggers 136 fatalities/100,000. 136 minus 14 =122/14. Its 870% more dangerous to be logger than a cop
[08:29]	IsambardPrince	Fisherman 86/100K. Its 514% more dangerous to be a fisherman than a cop
[08:29]	IsambardPrince	Pilots 55.5/100K. Its about 300% more dangerous to be a pilot than a cop
[08:29]	IsambardPrince	Roofers 48.6/100K. Its about 250% more dangerous to be a roofer than a cop
[08:29]	IsambardPrince	Refuse & Recyclable Material Collectors 34.1/100K. Its about 144% more dangerous to be a trash collector than a cop
[08:29]	IsambardPrince	Structural Iron and Steel Workers 25.1/100K. Its about 80% more dangerous to be an iron workers than a cop
[08:29]	IsambardPrince	Truck Drivers 24.7/100K. 24.7/14. Its about 76% more dangerous to be a truck driver than a cop
[08:29]	IsambardPrince	Agricultural Workers 23.1/100K. Its about 65% more dangerous to be a farmer/rancher than a cop
[08:29]	IsambardPrince	Construction Workers 18/100K. Its about 29% more dangerous to be a construction worker than a cop
[08:29]	IsambardPrince	Maintenance & Grounds Workers 17.4/100K. Its about 24% more dangerous to be a maintenance/grounds keeper than a cop"
[08:29]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], People who drive semi trucks have a higher on the job fatality rate than police officers.
[08:30]	IsambardPrince	And so do repair men and construction workers and airline pilots.
[08:30]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], The police are much more dangerous to the public than the public is to the police.
[08:30]	TR News	"The second game from Geert Verhoeff that's only meant to be played on a Steam Deck is Game With Balls, a collection of handcrafted mazes to gyro through. A demo is available for the game right now to get a taste of it." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/gyro-through-a-collection-of-handcrafted-mazes-in-the-steam-deck-exclusive-game-with-balls/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
[08:30]	TR Bot	through a collection of handcrafted mazes in the Steam Deck exclusive Game With Balls | GamingOnLinux
[08:31]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], "Killed while reaching for...."
[08:31]	IsambardPrince	His car insurance card?
[08:31]	IsambardPrince	DING DING DING
[08:31]	TR News	"With a fresh demo released, Dice A Million looks like it will grab a lot of my time in future. It gives off Balatro vibes for the design, as you roll dice and attempt to break the game with all sorts of combinations to watch numbers go up. Delicious." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/dice-a-million-channels-balatro-vibes-into-game-breaking-dice-rolling/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
[08:31]	TR Bot	A Million channels Balatro vibes into game-breaking dice rolling | GamingOnLinux
[08:31]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], The cops around here usually don't even pull you over for reckless speeding.
[08:31]	IsambardPrince	It's not worth their time.
[08:32]	IsambardPrince	Everyone's doing it. It takes two squad cars to pull someone over.
[08:32]	IsambardPrince	The cops would rather let 1,000 people go 50 miles an hour in a 30 than risk pulling over the 1 guy who has an Uzi.
[08:33]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], The cops don't take risks with their lives.
[08:33]	TR News	"If you love your chilled casual clicker games, Unboxathon could be a good one for you with a demo available to try." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/click-through-the-joy-of-opening-up-mystery-boxes-in-unboxathon/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
[08:33]	TR Bot	through the joy of opening up mystery boxes in Unboxathon | GamingOnLinux
[08:33]	IsambardPrince	They let the criminals run amok and move in on them when it's safe.
[08:33]	TR News	"Okay, now this is cool. Frostliner puts you in charge of a train in this survival city builder on rails that's practically Snowpiercer. I also only just realised today that Snowpiercer's final Season 4 did actually releaselast year." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/frostliner-announced-recently-is-basically-snowpiercer-as-a-survival-city-builder/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
[08:33]	TR Bot	announced recently is basically Snowpiercer as a survival city-builder | GamingOnLinux
[08:33]	IsambardPrince	Like, there's a ton of cops and they can kill him now.
[08:33]	IsambardPrince	Or wait until he's done killing people and does himself.
[08:33]	IsambardPrince	Their only job is contain the situation, prevent suspect from escaping, and ensure no police officers die.
[08:34]	IsambardPrince	That's why they never stop school shooters, ever.
[08:34]	TR News	"We really are in the era of remasters aren't we? Sacred 2 Remaster was just recently revealed by THQ Nordic. It was announced during their recent publisher showcase event to show off their games." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/sacred-2-remaster-announced-from-thq-nordic/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
[08:34]	TR Bot	2 Remaster announced from THQ Nordic | GamingOnLinux
[08:34]	IsambardPrince	Anyone who walks into a school will literally kill until they're almost out of bullets and then turn the gun on themselves, but the police don't move in until THAT happens.
[08:34]	IsambardPrince	When it's safe for the police, and all the children are dead, the heroic cops move in.
[08:34]	IsambardPrince	See?
[08:34]	IsambardPrince	Heroic!
[08:35]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], But it's a big country.
[08:35]	IsambardPrince	So in a country with 340 million people what happens?
[08:36]	IsambardPrince	Occasionally there's an officer that gets shot and killed.
[08:36]	IsambardPrince	They use that on you. 
[08:36]	IsambardPrince	They flood the airwaves with it.
[08:36]	IsambardPrince	They give them a state funeral, almost like the president died.
[08:36]	IsambardPrince	It's made to get the public to believe that the police have the most dangerous job in the world.
[08:37]	IsambardPrince	And do they ever tell you why the cop died? Well, it's not always doing something noble.
[08:37]	IsambardPrince	Sometimes they walk in on a man whose wife left him, took everything, took his money, took his children.
[08:37]	IsambardPrince	And the cop is holding a restraining order.
[08:37]	IsambardPrince	And so he shoots the cop because he's already at the end of his rope.
[08:37]	IsambardPrince	And then, you get the state funeral.
[08:37]	IsambardPrince	But why did the cop die?
[08:38]	IsambardPrince	Well, it's because this guy had been fucked so badly by the state that he was a disaster waiting for a place to happen.
[08:38]	IsambardPrince	And the cop walked in at the wrong moment.
[08:40]	TR News	"FEX is one way to run x86 appps and games on ARM64, with the latest release 2508 bringing some pretty striking performance improvements." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/x86-on-arm64-emulator-fex-gets-some-huge-gaming-improvements/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
[08:40]	TR Bot	on ARM64 emulator FEX gets some huge gaming improvements | GamingOnLinux
[08:40]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], The problem with, I think, Europe, is that they're better about getting buy-in from the public that the government is legitimate.
[08:40]	IsambardPrince	Look what's happening right now in Texas.
[08:40]	IsambardPrince	The Republicans are stealing Congressional seats by using an illegal map and redistricting process, because they think the Republican Supreme Court will finally allow it.
[08:40]	IsambardPrince	Law and order, and any semblence of government legitimacy is breaking down here.
[08:41]	IsambardPrince	When you get an election, but it makes no difference.
[08:41]	TR News	"Need some more games to play with your crew? Humble's Better with 4 Friends Co-Op Bundle is live with some highly rated games for you. It's 9.06 for all 8 items." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/grab-some-friends-for-some-gaming-in-the-humble-co-op-bundle/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
[08:41]	TR Bot	some friends for some gaming in the Humble Co-Op Bundle | GamingOnLinux
[08:41]	IsambardPrince	That's the kind of election the Republicans in Texas are moving towards, and so the Democrats are saying "game on" and they're going to use the same tactics in states where they can do it.
[08:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	MElon bougt votes
[08:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	nobody ever punished him  for this felony
[08:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	never
[08:42]	IsambardPrince	This is worse than Elon.
[08:42]	IsambardPrince	This is literally even if every voter woke up and smelled the horseshit, they COULD NOT CHANGE ANYTHING by voting.
[08:42]	TR News	"Heroic is one of the best ways to run games from Epic Games, GOG and Amazon on Linux, SteamOS / Steam Deck. v2.18.1 brings bug fixes to make it even smoother." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/heroic-games-launcher-v2-18-1-brings-more-bug-fixes-for-gog-and-epic-games-on-linux-steamos/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
[08:42]	TR Bot	Games Launcher v2.18.1 brings more bug fixes for GOG and Epic Games on Linux / SteamOS | GamingOnLinux
[08:42]	IsambardPrince	This is much worse than Elon.
[08:43]	schestowitz[TR2]	the country of "landowners"
[08:43]	schestowitz[TR2]	at least some dewcades ago salaries were better
[08:43]	schestowitz[TR2]	could get a couple of cars and some kids and dogs and..
[08:43]	schestowitz[TR2]	still sleep at night
[08:43]	schestowitz[TR2]	with only one 9 to 5 job
[08:44]	TR News	"The Drifter from Powerhoof has released, and it is something truly special for the point and click adventure genre that's one not to be missed. Note: a key was provided to GamingOnLinux." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/the-drifter-is-easily-my-new-favourite-point-and-click-adventure/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
[08:44]	TR Bot	Drifter is easily my new favourite point and click adventure | GamingOnLinux
[08:45]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], Yep.
[08:45]	IsambardPrince	They're back for the crumbs.
[08:45]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], American Express reached out to us to offer us a Business Platinum card.
[08:45]	IsambardPrince	They said we're already approved.
[08:45]	IsambardPrince	I said "Now all I need is a business.
[08:45]	IsambardPrince	Maybe I can meet the guy at the coffee shop.
[08:45]	TR News	 (NEW):  Games: The Drifter, Heroic Games Launcher 2.18.1, FEX, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/05/Games_The_Drifter_Heroic_Games_Launcher_2_18_1_FEX_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/05/Games_The_Drifter_Heroic_Games_Launcher_2_18_1_FEX_and_More.gmi 
[08:45]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Games: The Drifter, Heroic Games Launcher 2.18.1, FEX, and More
[08:45]	IsambardPrince	And get some cash cows.
[08:46]	schestowitz[TR2]	holy animal
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[08:46]	schestowitz[TR2]	the secret of business success is the guy who cannot drink a hot brew at home
[08:47]	TR News	"SharePoint ZERO-DAY Lets Hackers Walk Straight In" https://odysee.com/@davidbombal:0/sharepoint-zero-day-lets-hackers-walk:3
[08:47]	TR Bot	 SharePoint ZERO-DAY Lets Hackers Walk Straight In
[08:47]	TR News	"Rust Rewrites Won't Fix All Your Problems" https://odysee.com/@BrodieRobertson:5/rust-rewrites-won't-fix-all-your:a
[08:47]	TR Bot	 Rust Rewrites Won't Fix All Your Problems
[08:47]	TR News	"Death Stranding Photo Mode Beats Discord Age Check" https://odysee.com/@davidbombal:0/death-stranding-photo-mode-beats-discord:d
[08:47]	TR Bot	 Death Stranding Photo Mode Beats Discord Age Check
[08:48]	TR News	Dobrindts security package disregards fundamental rights | "Palantir und biometrische berwachung: Dobrindts Sicherheitspaket missachtet Grundrechte" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=https://netzpolitik.org/2025/palantir-und-biometrische-ueberwachung-dobrindts-sicherheitspaket-missachtet-grundrechte/
[08:48]	TR Bot	 Palantir und biometrische berwachung: Dobrindts Sicherheitspaket missachtet Grundrechte
[08:48]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], They met in the bathroom.
[08:48]	IsambardPrince	The landlord sez....
[08:49]	IsambardPrince	"Are you also married?"
[08:49]	IsambardPrince	And the other one sez....
[08:49]	IsambardPrince	"Bend over and let me introduce you to real estate."
[08:49]	TR News	"Firing the BLS Commissioner Won't Help Trump's Economy" https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/08/trump-economy-bls-commissioner/683746/
[08:49]	TR Bot	 Firing the BLS Commissioner Won't Help Trump's Economy - The Atlantic
[08:51]	schestowitz[TR2]	IsambardPrince: him: shit's getting real !
[08:51]	TR News	"Stoppa Chat Control 2 skriv ett vykort" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/08/04/stoppa-chat-control-2-skriv-ett-vykort/
[08:51]	TR Bot	 Stoppa Chat Control 2 skriv ett vykort
[08:51]	TR News	"Epstein victim condemns political warfare in Trump administrations effort to release grand jury transcripts" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/epstein-files-victim-trump-release-b2801900.html http://techrights.org/o/2020/01/10/gates-sponsored-mit/
[08:51]	TR Bot	 Epstein victim condemns political warfare in Trump administrations effort to release grand jury transcripts | The Independent
[08:51]	TR Bot	 Massachusetts Institute of Tall Tales (MIT) Covers Up Bill Gates Bribery of MIT Through a High-Profile Pedophile, Citing No Evidence Other Than Representatives of Gates Himself
[08:52]	TR News	"Open source i Jesu navn: Derfor droppede kristen kmpe-NGO Amazon | Ingeniren" https://ing.dk/artikel/open-source-i-jesu-navn-derfor-droppede-kristen-kaempe-ngo-amazon paywall
[08:52]	TR Bot	 Open source i Jesu navn: Derfor droppede kristen kmpe-NGO Amazon | Ingeniren
[08:54]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], My physical therapist, unprompted, said double fisting today.
[08:54]	IsambardPrince	Because I had coffee in one hand and water in the other.
[08:54]	IsambardPrince	So I explained Peter Bright, after I closed the door.
[08:54]	IsambardPrince	I said that term is ruined forever after that guy.
[08:54]	IsambardPrince	And they should keep him in prison forever.
[08:54]	TR News	Conservation https://therevelator.org/global-conservation-report-sharks/ | Source: The Revelator
[08:54]	TR Bot	 What Does It Take to Write a Global Conservation Report? A New Assessment of Sharks Offers Answers The Revelator
[08:55]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], So what do you think of this app?
[08:55]	IsambardPrince	It's called too good to go.
[08:55]	IsambardPrince	They sell random food that restaurants were going to throw out at the end of the day for a discount.
[08:55]	IsambardPrince	But you have no idea what it will be.
[08:55]	IsambardPrince	But it's cheap and they list what they usually sell it for.
[08:56]	IsambardPrince	Gimmick?
[08:58]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], Surgery is on the board btw.
[08:58]	IsambardPrince	Recliner being delivered on Friday.
[08:59]	IsambardPrince	"That which is eternal cannot die....but if it's any consolation my sweet Alexandra......THAT HURT LIKE HELLLLLL!!!!!!"
[08:59]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, ^
● Aug 05
[09:01]	TR News	"$14 billion tech megamerger" https://jacobin.com/2025/08/big-tech-justice-department-trump/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine
[09:01]	TR Bot	 The Big Tech Lobby Has the DOJ in a Stranglehold
[09:02]	TR News	"growth stocks." https://blog.zgp.org/living-with-a-bigger-ad-duopoly/ | Source: Don Marti
[09:02]	TR Bot	 living with a bigger ad duopoly
[09:03]	schestowitz[TR2]	IsambardPrince: app is a warning label
[09:03]	schestowitz[TR2]	it's a term not to trust
[09:03]	schestowitz[TR2]	typically means something that wants access to  x y z
[09:03]	schestowitz[TR2]	like your clal history
[09:03]	schestowitz[TR2]	camericva
[09:03]	schestowitz[TR2]	mic
[09:04]	IsambardPrince	Yeah. I have a physical therapy app I'm using.
[09:04]	IsambardPrince	She told me I'd made some progress but limited. She said she figured that would happen just because of the extent of the injury.
[09:04]	IsambardPrince	But it makes it easier to document the necessity of the surgery.
[09:05]	IsambardPrince	This surgery is like light years ahead of anything they've been able to do before.
[09:05]	IsambardPrince	Even ten years ago they may have had to go straight to a joint replacement.
[09:05]	IsambardPrince	They've had more experience doing these on knees.
[09:06]	IsambardPrince	They haven't been using this method on shoulders for very long so there's not even a specific billing code for it.
[09:06]	IsambardPrince	They have to say unlisted code for shoulder and then specify what they did.
[09:06]	IsambardPrince	And why that was necessary.
[09:07]	IsambardPrince	And why nothing else would have worked.
[09:07]	IsambardPrince	Right, they have to document that this was the least extreme of the options.
[09:07]	IsambardPrince	And the only way you get more extreme is to replace the joint.
[09:08]	IsambardPrince	But the doctor says it's not that far gone so he doesn't want to do that.
[09:08]	IsambardPrince	He said I'm too young and the replacement joint would work okay for a while probably but I'd likely live long enough to need another one.
[09:08]	IsambardPrince	And that's not something he says I'll want to do in my 60s.
[09:08]	IsambardPrince	I agree.
[09:09]	IsambardPrince	So it sounds like a kindness. They do a transplant and it'll probably live and fuse to the joint and then I do PT and just go on living.
[09:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	good luck with allll dat
[09:10]	IsambardPrince	Yeah, thanks. :)
[09:10]	IsambardPrince	I have been trying to think of this objectively. Like, if it was Mandy would I tell him he should do it.
[09:11]	IsambardPrince	He had the eardrum surgery, I told him he should do that, it worked out rather well.
[09:11]	IsambardPrince	He went from being almost stone deaf in his right ear to almost normal hearing, and no more infections.
[09:11]	TR News	"A few months ago, Amazon announced that Kindle users would no longer be able to download and back up their book libraries to their computers." https://www.drewlyton.com/story/the-future-is-not-self-hosted/
[09:11]	TR Bot	 The Future is NOT Self-Hosted
[09:11]	TR News	"The streaming company is also benefiting from Apple's (AAPL.O), opens new tab approval of its U.S. app update to show subscription prices and external payment links, after a judge barred the iPhone maker from charging commission on off-app purchases." https://www.reuters.com/business/spotify-raise-premium-subscription-price-select-markets-september-2025-08-04/ | Source: Reuters
[09:11]	TR Bot	( status 401 @ https://www.reuters.com/business/spotify-raise-premium-subscription-price-select-markets-september-2025-08-04/ )
[09:12]	TR News	"Spotify announced on Monday that its premium subscription prices will increase for users in multiple markets across the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the Asia-Pacific region." https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/04/spotify-raises-subscription-prices/ | Source: TechCrunch
[09:12]	TR Bot	raises subscription prices | TechCrunch
[09:12]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], That's what happens when you've lived a hard life in a poor country.
[09:12]	schestowitz[TR2]	who?
[09:13]	schestowitz[TR2]	oh, mandy
[09:13]	IsambardPrince	Nobody there does anything at all for you unless you can pay money up front.
[09:13]	TR News	"We also tend to call this connection racing, since it is like a competition where multiple attempts compete trying to win" https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/08/04/even-happier-eyeballs/ | Source: Daniel Stenberg
[09:13]	TR Bot	happier eyeballs | daniel.haxx.se
[09:13]	IsambardPrince	I looked at all the bills coming in for his ear, schestowitz[TR2] 
[09:13]	IsambardPrince	$68,000.
[09:13]	IsambardPrince	Insurance paid (or negotiated) all of it.
[09:14]	IsambardPrince	They negotiated about 40,000 of it away, paid the rest.
[09:14]	IsambardPrince	We're not as bad as the Philippines.
[09:14]	IsambardPrince	You can at least GET health insurance here.
[09:14]	IsambardPrince	And if you can get insurance, you can usually figure out how to get healthcare.
[09:15]	IsambardPrince	In the Philippines, from what I understand, they will literally watch you fucking die on the ground.
[09:15]	IsambardPrince	And if you don't have any money, that's what you get.
[09:15]	TR News	"There may be some randomness involved, and algorithms arent perfectly instructive of how a system has been trained" https://www.techdirt.com/2025/08/04/substacks-algorithm-accidentally-reveals-what-we-already-knew-its-the-nazi-bar-now/ | Source: Techdirt
[09:15]	TR Bot	Algorithm Accidentally Reveals What We Already Knew: Its The Nazi Bar Now | Techdirt
[09:18]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], The US was a lot more cruel not that long ago.
[09:18]	IsambardPrince	Before Obamacare I had to deal with years of having no insurance at all.
[09:18]	IsambardPrince	If I needed surgery nobody was required to do it unless I would die without it that day.
[09:19]	IsambardPrince	One reason I'm doing this shoulder operation now is Trump is attacking Medicare, but it looks like it's going to take them a couple of years to enshittify it.
[09:19]	IsambardPrince	They have this thing called "WISeR" that's going to use "AI" to deny claims.
[09:19]	IsambardPrince	(All India?)
[09:19]	IsambardPrince	And they will just say everything you need is "low value" or "likely to cause harm".
[09:20]	IsambardPrince	And "that's why we're not paying for it".
[09:20]	IsambardPrince	On paper, nothing about Medicare has changed. But...
[09:20]	IsambardPrince	"We're not paying for that. It's low value."
[09:21]	IsambardPrince	"AI says you're not worth it. Low value."
[09:21]	IsambardPrince	"Operational Improvements"
[09:21]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], So yes, this is on topic.
[09:21]	IsambardPrince	They claim they'll use "AI".
[09:21]	IsambardPrince	The whole world has gone batshit insane, hasn't it?
[09:21]	TR News	"in the coming weeks" https://www.courthousenews.com/smithsonian-denies-white-house-pressure-to-remove-trump-impeachment-references/ | Source: Court House News
[09:21]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.courthousenews.com/smithsonian-denies-white-house-pressure-to-remove-trump-impeachment-references/ )
[09:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	ai smart app?
[09:23]	TR News	"coming in cold" https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/us/politics/university-virginia-appoints-interim-president.html | Source: New York Times
[09:23]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/us/politics/university-virginia-appoints-interim-president.html )
[09:24]	TR News	"Parnells characterization of the new policy was vague, but it represented an abrupt departure from long-established DOD practices" https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/archive/2025/08/hegseth-pentagon-conferences/683743/ | Source: The Atlantic
[09:24]	TR Bot	 The Pentagons New Isolationism - The Atlantic
[09:24]	TR News	"Keywords and tags have never been a useful metric for distilling nuance. Pushing for regulations based on them is repeating a 30-year history of porn panic online." https://www.404media.co/steam-itchio-collective-shout-nsfw-games-campaign/ | Source: 404 Media
[09:24]	TR Bot	 The Anti-Porn Crusade That Censored Steam and Itch.io Started 30 Years Ago
[09:25]	TR News	"The number of cases tied to FBK donations is growing. In 2022, courts received two such cases; in 2023, four; and in 2024, 25. In the first seven months of 2025, Mediazona identified 34 new donation-related cases filed in Russian courts." https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/08/04/russia-has-opened-76-criminal-cases-over-donations-to-navalny-founded-anti-corruption-foundation-in-past-three-years | Source: Meduza
[09:25]	TR Bot	 Russia has opened 76 criminal cases over donations to Navalny-founded Anti-Corruption Foundation in past three years Meduza
[09:26]	TR News	"It barely works." https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/08/04/meta-fact-check-community-notes-test-facebook-instagram/ | Source: The Washington Post
[09:26]	TR Bot	stream 1 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2) ( status 0 @ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/08/04/meta-fact-check-community-notes-test-facebook-instagram/ )
[09:26]	TR News	"It was cited twice as often as Wikipedia in the top ten most cited domains across AI [sic] (LLMs) in the three months ending 30 June, 2025, the platform said." https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/reddit-claims-top-spot-as-most-cited-domain-in-ai-generated-answers/ | Source: Press Gazette
[09:26]	TR Bot	 Reddit claims top spot as most cited domain in AI-generated answers - Press Gazette
[09:27]	TR News	"NEPLP tracks such resources through residents complaints, reports from government reports, and its own monitoring." https://kyivindependent.com/latvia-blocks-10-websites-spreading-russian-propaganda/ | Source: The Kyiv Independent
[09:27]	TR Bot	 Latvia blocks 10 websites spreading Russian propaganda
[09:29]	TR News	"Bezos has used a portion of his accumulated wealth on such things as The Washington Post newspaper (2013), a divorce (2019), and a Venice destination wedding for his second wife (2025), among other splurges. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos" https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/04/jeff_bezos_space_web_untangled/ | Source: The Register UK
[09:29]	TR Bot	 Jeff Bezos' space web untangled The Register
[09:30]	TR News	"Many of them have fallen back on more traditional models." https://werd.io/silicon-valleys-dream-tech-job-is-disappearing/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller
[09:30]	TR Bot	 Silicon Valleys Dream Tech Job Is Disappearing
[09:30]	TR News	"Federal agencies have done all of this without any advance notice, without any explanation to the state recipients and in direct contravention of the will of Congress" https://kansasreflector.com/briefs/kansas-governor-joins-lawsuit-against-trump-administration-for-federal-funding-losses/ | Source: Kansas Reflector
[09:30]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://kansasreflector.com/briefs/kansas-governor-joins-lawsuit-against-trump-administration-for-federal-funding-losses/ )
[09:31]	TR News	"Experts and economists interviewed by The Times paint a more nuanced picture." https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-08-04/companies-are-leaving-california-is-the-state-a-bad-place-to-do-business-tesla-in-n-out-texas-chevron-taxes | Source: Los Angeles Times
[09:31]	TR Bot	 In-N-Out's owner is leaving California. Is the state a bad place to do business? - Los Angeles Times
[09:32]	TR News	"Under the pay plan, Musk would receive 96 million shares valued at around $300 each as long as he remains in an executive position at Tesla for the next two years." https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-08-04/tesla-awards-elon-musk-29-billion-in-stock-amid-compensation-battle | Source: Los Angeles Times
[09:32]	TR Bot	 Tesla awards Elon Musk $29 billion in stock amid compensation battle. What to know - Los Angeles Times
[09:35]	TR News	"According to the BLS, May needed to be revised down by 125,000 jobs to just 19,000 added jobs; June had to be revised down by even more, with 133,000 erroneous new jobs added to company payrolls that month. That meant just 14,000 new jobs were added in June." https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/04/it_job_market_july/ | Source: The Register UK
[09:35]	TR Bot	 IT firing spree: Shrinking job market now looks worse The Register
[09:35]	TR News	"Business highlights in the quarter included the U.S. Army consolidating 75 legacy Palantir software contracts into a single 10year enterprise agreement with a ceiling of up to $10billion, signaling a shift to a la carte, volumebased artificial intelligence procurement." https://siliconangle.com/2025/08/04/palantir-posts-48-revenue-growth-beats-expectations-across-board/ | Source: Silicon Angle
[09:35]	TR Bot	posts 48% revenue growth and beats expectations across the board - SiliconANGLE
[09:36]	TR News	"Some time ago I hypothesized that all Democratic Senators are using the same text-spam contractor, and wondered whether there was some way to block the entire network. This resulted in many, many replies from people incorrecting me and each other with their zero-information theories." https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/08/the-mothership-vortex/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski
[09:36]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/08/the-mothership-vortex/ )
[09:36]	TR News	"In its report, Blair's think tank says Brtain lacks the resources to keep up with the US, China and the Gulf States" https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/04/tony_blair_institute_says_uk/ | Source: The Register UK
[09:36]	TR Bot	 UK needs bit barns to lead AI deployment, says Blair group The Register
[09:37]	TR News	"The Met claims that the guitar was owned by Adrian Miller in 1971. How Miller acquired the guitar is unclear." https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/former-rolling-stones-musician-mick-taylor-claims-his-stolen-guitar-is-at-the-met-180987096/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine
[09:37]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/former-rolling-stones-musician-mick-taylor-claims-his-stolen-guitar-is-at-the-met-180987096/ )
[09:39]	TR News	"working closely with the intelligence community to develop a framework for managing a layered moving target" https://www.c4isrnet.com/space/2025/08/04/space-force-preps-infrastructure-operators-for-target-tracking-mission/ | Source: C4ISRNET
[09:39]	TR Bot	 Space Force preps infrastructure, operators for target-tracking mission
[09:42]	TR News	"But this misses a key part of the story." https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/08/kids-smartphones-play-freedom/683742/ | Source: The Atlantic
[09:42]	TR Bot	 One Way Parents Can Fight the Phone-Based Childhood - The Atlantic
[09:42]	TR News	"The British government is looking to pass new legislation to clamp down on people smugglers who use social media to promote their services" https://www.dw.com/en/uk-social-media-people-smugglers-to-face-jail/a-73514568 | Source: Deutsche Welle
[09:42]	TR Bot	Social media people smugglers to face jail DW 08/03/2025
[09:42]	TR News	"Smugglers sent three key messages to potential migrants in Libya: Tunisia has closed its borders as a route to Lampedusa" https://www.ekathimerini.com/politics/foreign-policy/1277058/countering-smugglers-on-social-media/ | Source: Greece
[09:42]	TR Bot	smugglers on social media | eKathimerini.com
[09:44]	TR News	"But the people who understand how the internet works, engineers and security experts, are not impressed. In fact, many say this is how you break the internet, thinking youre saving it" https://www.techzim.co.zw/2025/08/data-verification-laws-privacy-concerns/ | Source: Zimbabwe
[09:44]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.techzim.co.zw/2025/08/data-verification-laws-privacy-concerns/ )
[09:46]	TR News	"Some recent privacy news: Meta violated privacy law, jury says in menstrual data fight by Margaret Attridge on Courthouse News Service." https://blog.zgp.org/common-sense-one-bullshit-documents-zero/ | Source: Don Marti
[09:47]	TR Bot	 common sense one, bullshit documents zero
[09:47]	TR News	"Yet a recent paper from researchers at the University of Californian-Irvine found that, of 543 data brokers in Californias data broker registry at time of publishing, 43 percent failed to even respond to requests to access data." https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/08/data-brokers-are-ignoring-privacy-law-we-deserve-better | Source: EFF
[09:47]	TR Bot	 Data Brokers Are Ignoring Privacy Law. We Deserve Better. | Electronic Frontier Foundation
[09:47]	IsambardPrince	<schestowitz[TR2]> ai smart app?
[09:47]	IsambardPrince	Contractors will use "AI".
[09:47]	TR News	"And so, if leadership is the art of prioritisation, it is unclear why Keir Starmers party is spending so much energy on the Online Safety Act. As an exercise it does not appear to support any of the main goals." https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2025/08/the-online-safety-act-humiliates-us-all | Source: New Statesman
[09:47]	TR Bot	 The Online Safety Act humiliates us all - New Statesman
[09:47]	IsambardPrince	They get paid per claim to figure out some way to make sure you don't get healthcare.
[09:47]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], You will only get to talk to a person during an appeal.
[09:48]	IsambardPrince	Eventually you'll win but they want to bog you down./
[09:48]	TR News	Windows TCO https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/04/einhaus_group_ransomware_collapse/ | Source: The Register UK
[09:48]	TR Bot	 German phone repair biz collapses following 2023 cyberattack The Register
[09:48]	IsambardPrince	Some people never appeal it, thus don't get the procedure, then don't cost the government money.
[09:48]	IsambardPrince	That's the goal.
[09:48]	schestowitz[TR2]	maybe
[09:48]	schestowitz[TR2]	that is one method
[09:48]	IsambardPrince	with WISeR
[09:48]	schestowitz[TR2]	attrititon
[09:48]	schestowitz[TR2]	boiling down to
[09:48]	schestowitz[TR2]	who loses patience
[09:48]	schestowitz[TR2]	or reckons it can no longer tolerate loss of time, money, emotion
[09:49]	IsambardPrince	Right, if you're persistent you'll get what you want eventually.
[09:49]	IsambardPrince	But they're going to turn it into a process.
[09:49]	schestowitz[TR2]	they reckon fakes give up at first instance
[09:49]	schestowitz[TR2]	like,
[09:49]	schestowitz[TR2]	"it ain't gonna work
[09:49]	schestowitz[TR2]	the problem is
[09:49]	schestowitz[TR2]	they would ahve false pos's
[09:49]	schestowitz[TR2]	l;ike, people on meag er means
[09:49]	schestowitz[TR2]	who are not fakers and cheats
[09:50]	schestowitz[TR2]	so they turn legitimacy tests
[09:50]	schestowitz[TR2]	into endurance tests
[09:50]	schestowitz[TR2]	like psychometic exams
[09:50]	schestowitz[TR2]	they don't measure intelligence
[09:50]	schestowitz[TR2]	but how much one is willing to train and practice
[09:50]	schestowitz[TR2]	and then mental ensuranc
[09:51]	schestowitz[TR2]	enot sure what SATs are like
[09:51]	schestowitz[TR2]	afaik, they are just standard knowledge tests
[09:51]	TR News	"It was the AI software that identified some pixels of a different color in the images taken on Tuesday" https://www.wired.com/story/missing-hiker-ai-drone-recovery/ | Source: Wired
[09:51]	TR Bot	Hiker Was Missing for Nearly a YearUntil an AI System Recognized His Helmet | WIRED
[09:51]	TR News	"Between the lines: AI-generated oddities are showing up in our feeds more often because they're lucrative for creators" https://www.axios.com/2025/08/03/ai-slop-viral-videos-content-scrolling | Source: Axios
[09:51]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.axios.com/2025/08/03/ai-slop-viral-videos-content-scrolling )
[09:51]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], It's like immigration, right?
[09:52]	IsambardPrince	5 years later we get what we wanted.
[09:52]	IsambardPrince	After millions of papers and lots of fees.
[09:52]	TR News	"And finally what do you think is going to happen? That microwaves are just going to go away someday? That well all go back to cooking exactly the way we used to?" https://www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-the-future-all-food-will-be-cooked-in-a-microwave-and-if-you-cant-deal-with-that-then-you-need-to-get-out-of-the-kitchen/ |
[09:52]	TR Bot	 In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Cant Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen Random Thoughts
[09:52]	TR News	"The Metaverse only made sense if youd never heard of the hype around Second Life in the late 2000s." https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/04/wear-metas-ai-creepshot-glasses-or-be-left-behind/ | Source: Pivot to AI
[09:52]	TR Bot	 Wear Metas AI creepshot glasses or be left behind! Pivot to AI
[09:52]	schestowitz[TR2]	IsambardPrince: guess who
[09:52]	schestowitz[TR2]	*so
[09:52]	schestowitz[TR2]	not sure of the us process
[09:52]	IsambardPrince	The reason they do that is to make people who don't really want it or who can't afford it go away.
[09:53]	TR News	"Formally, the first group are "centaurs" (people assisted by machines) and the latter are "reverse-centaurs" (people conscripted into assisting machines): [...]" https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/04/bad-vibe-coding/#maximally-codelike-bugs | Source: CoryDoctorow
[09:53]	TR Bot	 Pluralistic: AI software assistants make the hardest kinds of bugs to spot (04 Aug 2025) Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
[09:53]	IsambardPrince	if they made it really easy you'd have the whole world banging down the front door
[09:53]	IsambardPrince	So they make it hard.
[09:53]	schestowitz[TR2]	cory doctorow had to study for exam
[09:53]	IsambardPrince	That's what they're doing with Medicare.
[09:53]	schestowitz[TR2]	life in the uk or something
[09:53]	schestowitz[TR2]	iirc, he is canadian
[09:53]	schestowitz[TR2]	and hiswife is british
[09:53]	TR News	"Last week, Krea launched an open model, FLUX.1-Krea, thats built to avoid the AI Look. Their writeup is tremendous: it details the problem, suggests root causes, and details how they overcame the challenge all while providing necessary context. You should read the whole thing, but heres the recap: [...]" https://www.dbreunig.com/2025/08/04/the-rise-of-opinionated-models.html | Source: Drew Breunig
[09:53]	TR Bot	 FLUX.1-Krea & the Rise of Opinionated Models | Drew Breunig
[09:54]	schestowitz[TR2]	<IsambardPrince> That's what they're doing with Medicare.
[09:54]	schestowitz[TR2]	or pensions
[09:54]	schestowitz[TR2]	good luck trying to withdraw 'your' money
[09:54]	schestowitz[TR2]	i did some vides about that
[09:54]	schestowitz[TR2]	after i left sirius
[09:54]	schestowitz[TR2]	and the pension fraud
[09:54]	schestowitz[TR2]	it's like tryin t to cancel aol
[09:55]	schestowitz[TR2]	and they won't let you simply come and take the money
[09:55]	schestowitz[TR2]	it's like "retention" team
[09:55]	TR News	"I've been thinking about vibe coding (probably overthinking) and how that might effect development in odd ways." https://boston.conman.org/2025/08/04.1 | Source: Sean Conner
[09:55]	TR Bot	 When vibe coding, isn't the source code the prompt? - The Boston Diaries - Captain Napalm
[09:56]	TR News	"Once I started studying computer science, I was exposed to the HCI kids. They studied Jef Raskins The Humane Interface. I toiled away in COBOL, C++, and database design." https://nazhamid.com/journal/different-think/ | Source: Naz Hamid
[09:56]	TR Bot	 Naz Hamid Different Think
[09:56]	TR News	"So, I know that I shouldnt be on my phone as much in front of my toddler but I do look at my phone." https://cassidoo.co/post/wooden-phone-for-babies/ | Source: Cassidy Williams
[09:56]	TR Bot	 Making a customizable wooden phone for my toddler
[09:56]	TR News	"The Defense Department operates slot machines on US military bases overseas" https://www.wired.com/story/us-military-on-base-slot-machines-gambling-addiction/ | Source: Wired
[09:56]	TR Bot	US Military Is Raking in Millions From On-Base Slot Machines | WIRED
[09:57]	TR News	"Listening is essential. What the other person with whom I am talking says gives me more information to tailor my understanding." https://jamesg.blog/2025/08/03/communication-and-understanding | Source: James G
[09:57]	TR Bot	 Communication and understanding | James' Coffee Blog
[09:57]	TR News	"In some ways the librarian is the opposite of the enigmatic oracle." https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/librarian/ | Source: The Cyber Show
[09:57]	TR Bot	 The Oracle and the Librarian
[09:58]	TR News	"Recently, a study using 3D modeling with MakeHuman, Blender and CloudCompare has added more evidence to the debate." https://phys.org/news/2025-08-shroud-turin-image-relief-statue.html | Source: Omicron Limited
[09:58]	TR Bot	( status 422 @ https://phys.org/news/2025-08-shroud-turin-image-relief-statue.html )
[09:58]	TR News	"Science should not be a game of strategy, but a process of discovery. Yet when dissemination systems are gamed, the integrity of that process is at risk." https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/08/04/guest-post-how-science-is-gamed/ | Source: Society for Scholarly Publishing
[09:58]	TR Bot	 Guest Post How Science Is Gamed - The Scholarly Kitchen
[09:58]	TR News	"This scientist is now 80 years old, having spent 50 of those years as an astrophysicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), one of the countrys top universities" https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-03/claude-canizares-nasa-astrophysicist-if-scientists-cant-speak-the-truth-society-really-isnt-in-a-very-good-place.html | Source: El Pas
[09:58]	TR Bot	 Claude Canizares, NASA astrophysicist: If scientists cant speak the truth, society really isnt in a very good place | U.S. | EL PAS English
● Aug 05
[10:01]	TR News	"For a time, I served as Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Computation Theory, and in this role I had to deal regularly with submissions that claimed to resolve the P vs NP problem." https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2025/08/some-thoughts-on-journals-refereeing.html | Source: Computational Complexity
[10:01]	TR Bot	 Computational Complexity: Some thoughts on journals, refereeing, and the P vs NP problem
[10:01]	TR News	"The Mars flyby in March was primarily to use the planet's gravitational pull to tweak the Europa Clipper's trajectory." https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/04/europa_clipper_mars_flyby/ | Source: The Register UK
[10:01]	TR Bot	 Mars says hello as NASA's Europa Clipper warms up radar The Register
[10:01]	TR News	"When I click on a Story on the BBC homepage, the URL in the browser URL bar stays as bbc.co.uk. I dont have a link to the Story." https://jamesg.blog/2025/08/04/stories-and-links | Source: James G
[10:01]	TR Bot	 We need to define best practices for Stories and links | James' Coffee Blog
[10:02]	TR News	"This is the better of utility. Finding something that does the job it sets out to do." https://seths.blog/2025/08/what-sort-of-better/ | Source: Seth Godin
[10:02]	TR Bot	 What sort of better? | Seth's Blog
[10:04]	TR News	 (NEW):  Today's Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/02/today_s_leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/02/today_s_leftovers.gmi 
[10:04]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines today's leftovers
[10:08]	TR News	Scarlett Gately Moore: Fostering Constructive Communication in Open Source Communities https://www.scarlettgatelymoore.dev/fostering-constructive-communication-in-open-source-communities/
[10:08]	TR Bot	 Fostering Constructive Communication in Open Source Communities Scarlett Gately Moore
[10:08]	TR News	Techrights Links 05/08/2025: Samsung and Microsoft Layoffs https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/Links_05_08_2025_Samsung_and_Microsoft_Layoffs.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/Links_05_08_2025_Samsung_and_Microsoft_Layoffs.gmi 
[10:08]	TR Bot	 Techrights Links 05/08/2025: Samsung and Microsoft Layoffs
[10:09]	TR News	"The biggest challenge for the Release Team prior to Autumn release is source code management" https://news.opensuse.org/2025/08/04/leap-16-rc/ | Source: OpenSUSE
[10:09]	TR Bot	 Try Xfce on Wayland with openSUSE Leap 16.0 RC - openSUSE News
[10:10]	TR News	Fixit highly configurable linting framework https://www.linuxlinks.com/fixit-highly-configurable-linting-framework/
[10:10]	TR Bot	- highly configurable linting framework - LinuxLinks
[10:10]	TR News	tinifier image compression tool https://www.linuxlinks.com/tinifier-image-compression-tool/
[10:10]	TR Bot	- image compression tool - LinuxLinks
[10:14]	TR News	Pigsty 3.6, the meta-distribution for PostgreSQL https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pigsty-36-the-meta-distribution-for-postgresql-3111/
[10:14]	TR Bot	 PostgreSQL: Pigsty 3.6, the meta-distribution for PostgreSQL
[10:15]	TR News	There's a New GNU/Linux Hey Hi (AI) Assistant in Town http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/There-s-a-New-Linux-AI-Assistant-in-Town
[10:15]	TR Bot	 There's a New Linux AI Assistant in Town Linux Magazine
[10:15]	TR News	In Many Countries Vista 11 Adoption Stalled or Became Negative https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/04/In_Many_Countries_Vista_11_Adoption_Stalled_or_Became_Negative.shtml
[10:15]	TR Bot	 Techrights In Many Countries Vista 11 Adoption Stalled or Became Negative
[10:15]	TR News	Microsoft and backdoored Windows Have Many Back Doors, But LLM Slop Keep Claiming That GNU/Linux Has "Backdoor" (updated) https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/04/Microsoft_and_Windows_Have_Many_Back_Doors_But_LLM_Slop_Keep_Cl.shtml
[10:15]	TR Bot	 Techrights Microsoft and Windows Have Many Back Doors, But LLM Slop Keep Claiming That Linux Has "Backdoor"
[10:16]	TR News	KDE Plasma prepares crackdown on focus-stealing window behavior under Wayland https://www.neowin.net/news/kde-plasma-prepares-crackdown-on-focus-stealing-window-behavior-under-wayland/
[10:16]	TR Bot	 KDE Plasma prepares crackdown on focus-stealing window behavior under Wayland - Neowin
[10:18]	TR News	Planning implies it's not there yet https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/08/chrome-140-wayland-auto-detection-linux
[10:18]	TR Bot	 Chrome 140 Plans to Play Nicer with Wayland on Linux - OMG! Ubuntu
[10:18]	TR News	Newelle, Hey Hi (AI) Assistant for GNOME, Hits Version 1.0 https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/08/newelle-ai-assistant-ubuntu-linux-desktop
[10:18]	TR Bot	 Newelle, AI "Assistant" for GNOME, Hits Version 1.0 - OMG! Ubuntu
[10:19]	TR News	"This is where we hit the first snag." https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/08/apple-makes-it-hard-to-load-audiobooks-purchased-elsewhere/ | Source: Six Colors
[10:19]	TR Bot	 Sideloading audiobooks to an iPhone Six Colors
[10:20]	TR News	"Here is the code the data race detector struggles with: [...]" https://doublefree.dev/go-race-mutex-blindspot/ |
[10:20]	TR Bot	 Go's race detector has a mutex blind spot | Double Free Dev
[10:20]	TR News	"Recently I saw this example Go code" https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/GoReadAllFromChannelWithTimeout | Source: University of Toronto
[10:20]	TR Bot	 You're using a too-old browser
[10:20]	TR News	"There a tones of zsh config on internet, but I've decided to build mine and to share it with you." https://www.vincentdelft.be/post/post_20250803 | Source: Vincent Delft
[10:20]	TR Bot	 Vincent's blog
[10:29]	TR News	"We need regexp of course, but also text/template for interpolation." https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/regexpo | Source: Ted Unangst
[10:29]	TR Bot	 regexp/o
[10:30]	TR News	"I screwed something up the other day and figured it had enough meat on its bones to turn into a story. So, okay, here we go." https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2025/08/03/scope/ | Source: Rachel
[10:30]	TR Bot	 Squashing my dumb bugs and why I log build ids
[10:30]	TR News	"So it was time to replace the hardware. At the same time we moved to another colocation with better network connectivity." https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/new_build_cluster_speeds_up | Source: NetBSD
[10:30]	TR Bot	 NetBSD Blog
[10:31]	TR News	"Originally known as FORTRAN, but written in lower case since the 1990s with Fortran 90, this language was developed initially by John Backus as a way to make writing programs for the IBM 704 mainframe easier." https://hackaday.com/2025/08/04/a-gentle-introduction-to-fortran/ | Source: Hackaday
[10:31]	TR Bot	Gentle Introduction To Fortran | Hackaday
[10:31]		*psydroid3 (~psydroid@36imbvshpgubk.irc) has joined #techrights
[10:32]	TR News	"Here's what I did to be able to filter out certain diagnostic messages in Neovim." https://qmacro.org/blog/posts/2025/08/04/excluding-specific-diagnostics-in-neovim/ | Source: DJ Adams
[10:32]	TR Bot	 Excluding specific diagnostics in Neovim | DJ Adams
[10:32]	TR News	"Swift 6.2 introduces a new Observations type to stream state changes from an Observable type. Lets see an example of why that can be useful." https://useyourloaf.com/blog/swift-observations-asyncsequence-for-state-changes/ | Source: Keith Harrison
[10:32]	TR Bot	 Swift Observations AsyncSequence for State Changes
[10:33]	TR News	Open Data https://fedscoop.com/statistics-public-data-leaders-condemn-trump-order-fire-bls-commissioner/ | Source: Scoop News Group
[10:33]	TR Bot	public data leaders condemn Trumps order to fire BLS commissioner | FedScoop
[10:33]	TR News	"Ive been building applications with relational databases for years." https://thenewstack.io/when-your-relational-database-isnt-the-right-tool-anymore/ | Source: The New Stack
[10:33]	TR Bot	 When Your Relational Database Isn't the Right Tool Anymore - The New Stack
[10:35]	TR News	"Its well-designed" https://fantinel.dev/blog/arc-browser-replacement | Source: Matt Fantinel
[10:35]	TR Bot	 The Quest for a Good Arc Replacement - Matt Fantinel
[10:35]	TR News	"As usual, weve made some progress on the Web Platform Tests. Weve added 13,090 passing tests for a new total of 1,831,856." https://ladybird.org/newsletter/2025-07-31/ | Source: The Ladybird Browser Initiative
[10:35]	TR Bot	 This Month in Ladybird - July 2025 - Ladybird
[10:36]	TR News	"Christian Peri Fractic Simpson has confirmed that his much touted community-led acquisition of Commodore has been signed, sealed, and paid for." https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/commodore-corporation-bv-acquisition-completed-by-fan-led-consortium-prepare-for-new-retro-futurist-products-with-the-deal-signed-sealed-and-paid-for-ahead-of-schedule | Source: Tom's Hardware
[10:36]	TR Bot	 Commodore Corporation BV acquisition completed by fan-led consortium prepare for new retro futurist products with the deal signed, sealed, and paid for ahead of schedule | Tom's Hardware
[10:37]	TR News	"The second stage was having a modern Mac tell the Arduino what keyboard and mouse inputs to send. Jakobs programmed an application in Swift to do that and the user can activate it via a click on a little desktop widget." https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/08/05/this-inexpensive-adapter-brings-apple-universal-control-to-vintage-macs/ | Source: Arduino
[10:37]	TR Bot	 This inexpensive adapter brings Apple Universal Control to vintage Macs | Arduino Blog
[10:37]	TR News	"Dan converted a motionless Star Wars toy without motors or wheels into a fully animated R2-D2 robot; Raspberry Pi 3, gearing, and parts from existing VEX Robotics construction kits made it walk and turn its head" https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/r2-d2-vex-robot/ | Source: Raspberry Pi
[10:37]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/r2-d2-vex-robot/ )
[10:38]	TR News	"The use of snapshots has been routine in both Debian and Ubuntu for several years nowor more than 15 years for Debian, to be precise." https://aigarius.com/blog/2025/08/04/snapshot-mirrors/ | Source: Aigars Mahinovs
[10:38]	TR Bot	mirroring in Debian (and Ubuntu) | Aigarius Blog
[10:39]	TR News	"KDE Linux isn't based on Ubuntu or Debian. It's built using Arch Linux, but it's different enough" https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/04/kde_linux_prealpha/ | Source: The Register UK
[10:39]	TR Bot	 KDE Linux reaches pre-alpha, and you can test it The Register
[10:40]	TR News	"No promises, but we will try to make this one of the shortest release cycles ever... " https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_11_0_release_process | Source: NetBSD
[10:40]	TR Bot	 NetBSD Blog
[10:40]	TR News	"I use an eccentric X 'desktop' that is not really a desktop as such in the usual sense but instead a window manager and various programs" https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/MyXSessionHowItExits | Source: University of Toronto
[10:42]	TR News	"Oh, and one last thing: its been almost a year that that site has been up, and good news: I dont hate the name." https://lmika.org/2025/08/04/moving-til-computer-to-quartz.html | Source: Leon Mika
[10:42]	TR Bot	 Moving TIL Computer To Quartz | Leon Mika
[10:42]	TR News	"Three quick CSS tips" https://jamesg.blog/2025/08/04/three-quick-css-tips | Source: James G
[10:42]	TR Bot	 Three quick CSS tips | James' Coffee Blog
[10:42]	TR News	"But I also found some things I didnt know about (or only vaguely knew about) so I wrote them down in an attempt to remember them." https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/href-value-possibilities/ | Source: Jim Nielsen
[10:42]	TR Bot	 A Few Things About the Anchor Elements href You Might Not Have Known - Jim Nielsens Blog
[10:42]	TR News	"There were two online HTML Day events yesterday, one for the Oceania timezone which was in the morning for me here in the UK" https://jamesg.blog/2025/08/03/what-i-made-for-html-day | Source: James G
[10:42]	TR Bot	 What I made for HTML Day | James' Coffee Blog
[10:44]	TR News	"Starting with 7.4.1-2, the following Zabbix system user accounts (previously shipped by their related packages) will no longer be used." https://archlinux.org/news/zabbix-741-2-may-requires-manual-intervention/ | Source: ArchLinux
[10:44]	TR Bot	 Arch Linux - News: zabbix >= 7.4.1-2 may require manual intervention
[10:45]	TR News	"Large language models (LLMs) have enormous potential, but their hidden deployment costs are a major challenge." https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/future-now-13-top-ai-reads-q2 | Source: Red Hat Official
[10:45]	TR Bot	 The future is now: 13 top AI reads from Q2
[10:45]	TR News	"The challenge with Confidential Containers is in getting started. Making the decision to deploy a pod into a confidential container is a single line change to a pod manifest." https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/validated-patterns-confidential-container-deployment | Source: Red Hat Official
[10:45]	TR Bot	 Zero trust starts here: Validated patterns for confidential container deployment
[10:47]	TR News	Event Wrap: PHNOG 2025 https://blog.apnic.net/2025/08/05/event-wrap-phnog-2025/
[10:47]	TR Bot	 Event Wrap: PHNOG 2025 | APNIC Blog
[10:49]	TR News	How to use Red Bait Quay as a proxy cache https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/08/04/how-use-red-hat-quay-proxy-cache
[10:49]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/08/04/how-use-red-hat-quay-proxy-cache )
[10:50]	TR News	Optimize workloads with right-sizing recommendations https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/08/04/optimize-workloads-right-sizing-recommendations
[10:50]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/08/04/optimize-workloads-right-sizing-recommendations )
[10:51]	TR News	NetBSD 11.0 release process underway http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_11_0_release_process
[10:51]	TR Bot	 NetBSD Blog
[10:53]	TR News	Thibault Martin: Over engineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers https://ergaster.org/posts/2025/08/04-overegineering-homelab/
[10:53]	TR Bot	 Over engineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers
[10:56]	TR News	Parabola GNU/Linux-libre: 'zabbix' users: manual intervention may be required https://parabolagnulinux.org/news/zabbix-users-manual-intervention-may-be-required-1/
[10:56]	TR Bot	 Parabola GNU/Linux-libre - News: 'zabbix' users: manual intervention may be required
[10:57]	TR News	Brendan Gregg: When to Hire a Computer Performance Engineering Team (2025) part 1 of 2 http://www.brendangregg.com/blog//2025-08-04/when-to-hire-a-computer-performance-engineering-team-2025-part1.html
[10:57]	TR Bot	 When to Hire a Computer Performance Engineering Team (2025) part 1 of 2
[10:57]	TR News	 (NEW):  Fedora for Architects: Open Source Tools for Architectural Design https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/05/Fedora_for_Architects_Open_Source_Tools_for_Architectural_Desig.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/05/Fedora_for_Architects_Open_Source_Tools_for_Architectural_Desig.gmi 
[10:57]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Fedora for Architects: Open Source Tools for Architectural Design
[10:58]	TR News	Announcing Incus 6.15 https://stgraber.org/2025/08/03/announcing-incus-6-15/
[10:58]	TR Bot	 Announcing Incus 6.15 | Stphane Graber's website
[10:59]	TR News	About a Quarter of Today's "linux" News in Surveillance Giant Google News Came From One Domain and It's a Slopfarm https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/About_a_Quarter_of_Today_s_linux_News_in_Google_News_Came_From_.shtml
[10:59]	TR Bot	 Techrights About a Quarter of Today's "linux" News in Google News Came From One Domain and It's a Slopfarm
● Aug 05
[11:00]	TR News	16 Best Free and Open Source Email Servers https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-email-servers/
[11:00]	TR Bot	Best Free and Open Source Email Servers - LinuxLinks
[11:00]	TR News	Tamari fully-featured recipe manager https://www.linuxlinks.com/tamari-fully-featured-recipe-manager/
[11:00]	TR Bot	- fully-featured recipe manager - LinuxLinks
[11:01]	TR News	Christian Hergert: Week 31 Status https://blogs.gnome.org/chergert/2025/08/04/week-31-status/
[11:01]	TR Bot	 Week 31 Status Happenings in GNOME
[11:02]	TR News	"Open Source 5-Axis Printer Has Its Own Slicer" https://hackaday.com/2025/08/04/open-source-5-axis-printer-has-its-own-slicer/ | Source: Hackaday
[11:02]	TR Bot	Source 5-Axis Printer Has Its Own Slicer | Hackaday
[11:02]	TR News	Dr. Andy Farnell Explains How Surveillance Giant Google Turned From "Librarian" Into "Oracle", Telling Us What to Think Instead of Where to Look https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/Dr_Andy_Farnell_Explains_How_Google_Turned_From_Librarian_Into_.shtml
[11:02]	TR Bot	 Techrights Dr. Andy Farnell Explains How Google Turned From "Librarian" Into "Oracle", Telling Us What to Think Instead of Where to Look
[11:03]	TR News	How Tech Firms Like Surveillance Giant Google and GAFAM Are Embracing the Military https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/technology/google-meta-openai-military-war.html
[11:03]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/technology/google-meta-openai-military-war.html )
[11:07]	TR News	Associate of child trafficking for sex gets corrupt media to repeat lies for him https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250804-gates-foundation-pledges-2-5-billion-to-ignored-underfunded-women-s-health see what he wants to distract from http://techrights.org/o/2019/12/21/police-report-bill-gates/
[11:07]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250804-gates-foundation-pledges-2-5-billion-to-ignored-underfunded-women-s-health )
[11:07]	TR Bot	 Mansion of Pedophilia - Part II: Dr. Stallman Defamed in the Media One Day After Request Made for King County Sheriffs Office to Divulge Information About Pedophilia in Home of Bill Gates
[11:07]	TR News	Plastic-clogged 'Thinker' sculpture highlights pollution crisis as UN treaty talks begin https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250804-a-thinker-drowns-in-plastic-garbage-as-un-treaty-talks-open
[11:07]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250804-a-thinker-drowns-in-plastic-garbage-as-un-treaty-talks-open )
[11:12]	TR News	South Korea pulls plug on Hey Hi (AI) [LLM Slop] textbooks, leaving schools, companies without funding for them https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-pulls-plug-on-ai-textbooks
[11:12]	TR Bot	 South Korea pulls plug on AI textbooks, leaving schools, companies without funding for them | The Straits Times
[11:13]	TR News	Malaysian police to seek help from Meta in Singapore over defamatory post on artiste: Reports https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-police-to-seek-meta-in-singapore-for-help-after-defamatory-post-made-against-artiste
[11:13]	TR Bot	 Malaysian police to seek help from Meta in Singapore over defamatory post on artiste: Reports | The Straits Times
[11:14]	TR News	Australia lifts foreign student cap to 295,000 and prioritises South-east Asia https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/australia-lifts-foreign-student-cap-to-295000-and-prioritises-south-east-asia
[11:14]	TR Bot	 Australia lifts foreign student cap to 295,000 and prioritises South-east Asia | The Straits Times
[11:21]	TR News	Free Cybersecurity Training and a $100m Russian Tech Hub? The Plan to Make Zim a Cyber Power https://www.techzim.co.zw/2025/08/free-cybersecurity-training-zimbabwe-cyberus-cyberdom/
[11:21]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.techzim.co.zw/2025/08/free-cybersecurity-training-zimbabwe-cyberus-cyberdom/ )
[11:21]	TR News	Details emerge on BlackSuit ransomware takedown https://cyberscoop.com/blacksuit-ransomware-takedown/
[11:21]	TR Bot	emerge on BlackSuit ransomware takedown | CyberScoop
[11:25]	TR News	Original Amiga prototype spotted at VCF West 2025 vintage computing show rarely seen forerunner to Amiga 1000 from early 1984 https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/original-amiga-prototype-spotted-at-vcf-west-2025-vintage-computing-show-rarely-seen-forerunner-to-amiga-1000-from-early-1984
[11:25]	TR Bot	 Original Amiga prototype spotted at VCF West 2025 vintage computing show rarely seen forerunner to Amiga 1000 from early 1984 | Tom's Hardware
[11:37]	TR News	BUZZWORD OVERLOAD!! https://siliconangle.com/2025/08/04/d-wave-releases-open-source-toolkit-integrate-quantum-computing-ai-training/
[11:37]	TR Bot	releases open-source toolkit to integrate quantum computing into AI training - SiliconANGLE
[11:37]	TR News	"Quantum" + openwashing + Hey Hi (AI)
[11:38]	TR News	Late Night Linux Episode 345 https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-345/
[11:38]	TR Bot	 Late Night Linux Episode 345 Late Night Linux
[11:39]	TR News	Destination Linux 430: Interview with John Overton of Kove, Software Defined Memory https://destinationlinux.net/430
[11:39]	TR Bot	( status 404 @ https://tuxdigital.com/podcasts/destination-linux/dl-430/ )
[11:40]	TR News	Dear Mr. District Attorney, Fight 3D Printed Guns the Right Way https://fossforce.com/2025/08/dear-mr-district-attorney-fight-3d-printed-guns-the-right-way/
[11:40]	TR Bot	 Dear Mr. District Attorney, Fight 3D Printed Guns the Right Way - FOSS Force
[11:40]	TR News	An invitation to reflect https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/From-the-Editors/2025/0804/An-invitation-to-reflect
[11:40]	TR Bot	the wake of the pandemic, an invitation to reflect - CSMonitor.com
[11:41]	TR News	Pluralistic: Hey Hi (AI) software assistants make the hardest kinds of bugs to spot (04 Aug 2025) https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/04/bad-vibe-coding/
[11:41]	TR Bot	 Pluralistic: AI software assistants make the hardest kinds of bugs to spot (04 Aug 2025) Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
[11:44]	TR News	SANDF terms disinformation a threat to national security https://www.defenceweb.co.za/sa-defence/sa-defence-sa-defence/sandf-terms-disinformation-a-threat-to-national-security/ "This time around its an offensive video on Fentanylware (TikTok) and other unnamed social control media platforms attracting the ire of Defence Corporate Communication head Rear"
[11:44]	TR Bot	 SANDF terms disinformation a threat to national security - defenceWeb
[11:45]	TR News	"filming video in front of burning oil depot" https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/08/04/russian-police-arrest-three-in-sochi-for-filming-video-in-front-of-burning-oil-depot | Source: Meduza
[11:45]	TR Bot	 Russian police arrest three in Sochi for filming video in front of burning oil depot Meduza
[11:46]	TR News	A powerful new tool that could change how we access decades of creative history https://federalnewsnetwork.com/it-modernization/2025/08/a-powerful-new-tool-that-could-change-how-we-access-decades-of-creative-history/
[11:46]	TR Bot	 A powerful new tool that could change how we access decades of creative history
[11:47]	TR News	LibreOffice project and community recap: July 2025 https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/08/04/libreoffice-project-and-community-recap-july-2025/
[11:48]	TR Bot	 LibreOffice project and community recap: July 2025 - The Document Foundation Blog
[11:48]	TR News	"removing "offensive" packages" https://lunduke.substack.com/p/debian-has-gone-full-woke
[11:48]	TR Bot	 Debian Has Gone Full Woke - by Bryan Lunduke
[11:51]	TR News	How To Install FreeRADIUS on AlmaLinux 10 https://idroot.us/install-freeradius-almalinux-10/
[11:51]	TR Bot	 How To Install FreeRADIUS on AlmaLinux 10 - idroot
[11:52]	TR News	How To Install Opera Browser on Linux Mint 22 https://idroot.us/install-opera-browser-linux-mint-22/
[11:52]	TR Bot	 How To Install Opera Browser on Linux Mint 22 - idroot
[11:52]	TR News	How To Install UNetbootin on Rocky GNU/Linux 10 https://idroot.us/install-unetbootin-rocky-linux-10/
[11:52]	TR Bot	 How To Install UNetbootin on Rocky Linux 10 - idroot
[11:52]	TR News	How To Install Zenmap on Linux Mint 22 https://idroot.us/install-zenmap-linux-mint-22/
[11:52]	TR Bot	 How To Install Zenmap on Linux Mint 22 - idroot
[11:53]	TR News	"How To Design 3D-Printed Parts With Tolerance In Mind" https://hackaday.com/2025/08/04/how-to-design-3d-printed-parts-with-tolerance-in-mind/ | Source: Hackaday
[11:53]	TR Bot	To Design 3D-Printed Parts With Tolerance In Mind | Hackaday
[11:55]	TR News	Disable the darn thing, abolish it https://www.freexian.com/blog/debusine-secure-boot-signing/ https://techrights.org/o/2022/07/29/richard-hughes-secure-boot-sham/
[11:55]	TR Bot	boot signing with Debusine | Freexian
[11:55]	TR Bot	 GNOME (IBM/Red Hat Staff) Promoting Microsoft's 'Security' Scam With the 'Secure' Boot Sham
[11:56]	TR News	Firefox Nightly: Custom Profile Avatars Arrive in Nightly These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 186 https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2025/08/04/custom-profile-avatars-arrive-in-nightly-these-weeks-in-firefox-issue-186/
[11:56]	TR Bot	 Custom Profile Avatars Arrive in Nightly These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 186 Firefox Nightly News
[11:57]	TR News	bill gates says.... hamas says https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250804-hamas-says-it-will-allow-aid-for-hostages-if-israel-opens-humanitarian-corridors-halts-airstrikes
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● Aug 05
[12:02]	TR News	Model Rocket Performance https://hackaday.com/2025/08/04/a-simple-simulator-for-model-rocket-performance/ | Source: Hackaday
[12:02]	TR Bot	Simple Simulator For Model Rocket Performance | Hackaday
[12:03]	TR News	The Tape Speed Keyboard https://hackaday.com/2025/08/04/the-tape-speed-keyboard/ | Source: Hackaday
[12:03]	TR Bot	Tape Speed Keyboard | Hackaday
[12:03]	TR News	"Smart Glasses" https://hackaday.com/2025/08/04/brilliant-labs-has-new-smart-glasses-with-a-new-display/ | Source: Hackaday
[12:03]	TR Bot	Labs Has New Smart Glasses, With A New Display | Hackaday
[12:04]	TR News	What Happens if Every Light in The World Is Switched on at Once? https://www.sciencealert.com/what-happens-if-every-light-in-the-world-is-switched-on-at-once
[12:04]	TR Bot	Happens if Every Light in The World Is Switched on at Once? : ScienceAlert
[12:05]	TR News	siliconangle keeps endorsing many ponzi schemes and scams in exchange for a fee; siliconangle is like tech mafia
[12:06]	TR News	IBM Kyndryl "stock down more than 13% in extended trading."
[12:06]	TR News	Image on The Shroud of Turin May Not Belong to a Real Human https://www.sciencealert.com/image-on-the-shroud-of-turin-may-not-belong-to-a-real-human
[12:06]	TR Bot	on The Shroud of Turin May Not Belong to a Real Human : ScienceAlert
[12:07]	TR News	Study Reveals How Many IVF Babies Have Been Born Worldwide https://www.sciencealert.com/study-reveals-how-many-ivf-babies-have-been-born-worldwide
[12:07]	TR Bot	Reveals How Many IVF Babies Have Been Born Worldwide : ScienceAlert
[12:08]	TR News	TTABlog Test: Is BUFFALO CITY for Alcoholic Beverages Confusable with BUFFALO TRACE for Bourbon? http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/08/ttablog-test-is-buffalo-city-for.html
[12:08]	TR Bot	 The TTABlog: TTABlog Test: Is BUFFALO CITY for Alcoholic Beverages Confusable with BUFFALO TRACE for Bourbon?
[12:10]	TR News	Rakudo Weekly 2025.31 Snappy Turtles https://rakudoweekly.blog/2025/08/04/2025-31-snappy-turtles/
[12:10]	TR Bot	 2025.31 Snappy Turtles Rakudo Weekly News
[12:10]	TR News	"For Five decades; For freedoms; For all users" (Original EMACS Turns 50 Next Year) https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/04/For_Five_decades_For_freedoms_For_all_users_Original_EMACS_Turn.shtml
[12:10]	TR Bot	 Techrights "For Five decades; For freedoms; For all users" (Original EMACS Turns 50 Next Year)
[12:11]	TR News	Why Android 15 Makes Some Phones 30% Faster, And Why You Might Miss Out https://www.techzim.co.zw/2025/08/android-15-speed-boost-software-updates/
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[12:11]	TR News	Google addresses six vulnerabilities in Augusts Android security update https://cyberscoop.com/android-security-update-august-2025/
[12:11]	TR Bot	addresses six vulnerabilities in Augusts Android security update | CyberScoop
[12:12]	TR News	"Oil Companies Withhold Millions in Royalties From ND Mineral Owners" https://www.propublica.org/article/north-dakota-mineral-owner-royalty-deductions | Source: Pro Publica
[12:12]	TR Bot	 Oil Companies Withhold Millions in Royalties From ND Mineral Owners ProPublica
[12:13]	TR News	Status lights should stop blinding me https://rubenerd.com/status-lights-should-stop-blinding-me/
[12:13]	TR Bot	Status lights should stop blinding me
[12:14]	TR News	Flameshot Screenshot App Gets First Major Update in 3 Years https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/08/flameshot-13
[12:14]	TR Bot	 Flameshot Screenshot App Gets First Major Update in 3 Years - OMG! Ubuntu
[12:15]	TR News	Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 903 https://ubuntu-news.org/2025/08/04/ubuntu-weekly-newsletter-issue-903/
[12:15]	TR Bot	 Ubuntu Fridge | Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 903
[12:15]	TR News	Flameshot Screenshot Tool Released 13.0.0 After 3 Years of Development https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/08/flameshot-released-13-0-0/
[12:16]	TR Bot	 Flameshot Screenshot Tool Released 13.0.0 After 3 Years of Development | UbuntuHandbook
[12:16]	TR News	FSF Blogs: July GNU Spotlight with Amin Bandali featuring seventeen new GNU releases: Bash, Cflow, and more! http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/2025-july-gnu-spotlight
[12:16]	TR Bot	 July GNU Spotlight with Amin Bandali featuring seventeen new GNU releases: Bash, Cflow, and more! Free Software Foundation Working together for free software
[12:17]	TR News	Best GNU/Linux Remote Administration Tools 2025 Complete Guide https://www.blackmoreops.com/best-linux-remote-administration-tools-2025/
[12:17]	TR Bot	 Best Linux Remote Administration Tools 2025 - Complete Guide - blackMORE Ops
[12:17]	TR News	brokefetch neofetch clone https://www.linuxlinks.com/brokefetch-neofetch-clone/
[12:17]	TR Bot	- neofetch clone - LinuxLinks
[12:18]	TR News	Expanding battery charge control support in GNU/Linux https://vdwaa.nl/charge-types-api-upower.html
[12:18]	TR Bot	 Jelly's blog Expanding battery charge control support in Linux
[12:19]	TR News	Security updates for Monday https://lwn.net/Articles/1032371/
[12:19]	TR Bot	updates for Monday [LWN.net]
[12:25]	TR News	The Power of Volunteers: Connecting an Indigenous Community in Panama https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2025/08/the-power-of-volunteers-connecting-an-indigenous-community-in-panama/
[12:25]	TR Bot	 The Power of Volunteers: Connecting an Indigenous Community in Panama - Internet Society
[12:25]	TR News	As the US retreats from internet governance, Europe must step up https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/as-the-us-retreats-from-internet-governance-europe-must-step-up/
[12:25]	TR Bot	 As the US retreats from internet governance, Europe must step up - Atlantic Council
[12:26]	TR News	Tariffs may sting LA docks. Deeper changes are coming to this blue-collar bastion. https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2025/0804/trump-tariffs-LA-docks
[12:26]	TR Bot	may sting LA docks. Deeper changes are coming to this blue-collar bastion. - CSMonitor.com
[12:26]	TR News	Unreported $3.5 billion Bitcoin hack from 2020 dwarfs Mt. Gox in value, is worth $14.5 billion today intelligence firm uncovers heist that shuttered 6th-largest bitcoin mining pool https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cryptocurrency/usd3-5-billion-bitcoin-hack-from-2020-dwarfs-mt-gox-in-value-is-worth-usd14-5-billion-today-intelligence-firm-uncovers-heist-that-shuttered-6th-largest-bitcoin-mining-pool
[12:26]	TR Bot	 Unreported $3.5 billion Bitcoin hack from 2020 dwarfs Mt. Gox in value, is worth $14.5 billion today intelligence firm uncovers heist that shuttered 6th-largest bitcoin mining pool | Tom's Hardware
[12:28]	TR News	A lot of the online media is a scam. What does that mean? Well, there is a scam, like some fake coins, and some media chooses to help boost and promote this scam. It basically becomes an unregulated participant in the scam. It never gets penalised for doing so.
[12:29]	TR News	AWS accused of a digital execution after it deleted 10 years of users' data without warning https://www.tomshardware.com/software/cloud-storage/aws-accused-of-a-digital-execution-after-it-deleted-10-years-of-users-data-without-warning-software-engineer-details-complete-digital-annihilation-at-the-hands-of-aws-admins-claims-false-excuses-given-for-account-deletion
[12:29]	TR Bot	 AWS accused of a digital execution after it deleted 10 years of users' data without warning software engineer details complete digital annihilation at the hands of AWS admins, claims false excuses given for account deletion | Tom's Hardware
[12:29]	TR News	NetEase Cloud Music Sues SM Entertainment Over Alleged Market Abuse Trial Reportedly Set for August 6th https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/08/04/netease-cloud-music-sm-entertainment-lawsuit/
[12:29]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/08/04/netease-cloud-music-sm-entertainment-lawsuit/ )
[12:33]	TR News	Highly evasive Vietnamese-speaking hackers stealing data from thousands of victims in 62+ nations https://cyberscoop.com/highly-evasive-vietnamese-speaking-hackers-stealing-data-from-thousands-of-victims-in-62-nations/
[12:33]	TR Bot	timed out after 10000 milliseconds ( status 0 @ https://cyberscoop.com/highly-evasive-vietnamese-speaking-hackers-stealing-data-from-thousands-of-victims-in-62-nations/ )
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[12:38]	TR News	Gene Sequencing Giant Illumina Settles for $9.8M Over Product Vulnerabilities https://www.securityweek.com/gene-sequencing-giant-illumina-settles-for-9-8m-over-product-vulnerabilities/
[12:38]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/gene-sequencing-giant-illumina-settles-for-9-8m-over-product-vulnerabilities/ )
[12:39]	TR News	Northwest Radiologists Data Breach Impacts 350,000 Washingtonians https://www.securityweek.com/northwest-radiologists-data-breach-impacts-350000-washingtonians/
[12:39]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/northwest-radiologists-data-breach-impacts-350000-washingtonians/ )
[12:41]	TR News	Tellico 4.1.3 Released https://tellico-project.org/tellico-4-1-3-released/
[12:41]	TR Bot	 Tellico 4.1.3 Released Tellico
[12:41]	TR News	nytimes is running a ponzi scheme-boosting series this monday. How much was it paid to do so?
[12:44]	TR News	 (NEW):  Flameshot Screenshot Tool Updated https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/05/Flameshot_Screenshot_Tool_Updated.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/05/Flameshot_Screenshot_Tool_Updated.gmi 
[12:44]	TR Bot	not resolve host: tuxmachines.org ( status 0 @ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/05/Flameshot_Screenshot_Tool_Updated.shtml )
[12:49]	TR News	IBM is running marketing junk for Microsoft https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/08/04/net-container-troubleshooting-openshift-4
[12:49]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/08/04/net-container-troubleshooting-openshift-4 )
[12:50]	TR News	NVIDIA Releases GNU/Linux Display Driver v580 Beta https://linuxiac.com/nvidia-releases-linux-display-driver-v580-beta/
[12:50]	TR Bot	 NVIDIA Releases Linux Display Driver v580 Beta
[12:50]	TR News	Big Changes Ahead for MX GNU/Linux 25 https://linuxiac.com/big-changes-ahead-for-mx-linux-25/
[12:50]	TR Bot	 Big Changes Ahead for MX Linux 25
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[12:53]	TR News	$2,000 for Jeffrey M. Gross entity, Conexus, network security patent monopoly prior art https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/8/4/2000-for-jeffrey-m-gross-entity-conexus-network-security-patent-prior-art
[12:53]	TR Bot	 $2,000 for Jeffrey M. Gross entity, Conexus, network security patent prior art Unified Patents
[12:53]	TR News	On Window Activation https://blog.broulik.de/2025/08/on-window-activation/
[12:53]	TR Bot	 On Window Activation Kai Uwe's Blog
[12:55]	TR News	14 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Gemini Clients https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-terminal-based-gemini-clients/
[12:55]	TR Bot	Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Gemini Clients - LinuxLinks
[12:55]	TR News	astronaut Gemini browser for the terminal https://www.linuxlinks.com/astronaut-gemini-browser-terminal/
[12:55]	TR Bot	- Gemini browser for the terminal - LinuxLinks
[12:57]	TR News	Flagging or Tagging Slop That We Find Online https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/04/Flagging_or_Tagging_Slop_That_We_Find_Online.shtml
[12:57]	TR Bot	 Techrights Flagging or Tagging Slop That We Find Online
[12:57]	TR News	Microsofters' Lawyers Are Name-calling and Insulting Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Critics, Even Their Spouses https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/04/Microsofters_Lawyers_Are_Name_calling_and_Insulting_Microsoft_C.shtml
[12:57]	TR Bot	 Techrights Microsofters' Lawyers Are Name-calling and Insulting Microsoft Critics, Even Their Spouses
[12:57]	TR News	Microsoft Layoffs Continue in August 2025 https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/Microsoft_Layoffs_Continue_in_August_2025.shtml
[12:57]	TR Bot	 Techrights Microsoft Layoffs Continue in August 2025
[12:57]	TR News	Microsoft's Stock is Like a Religion, Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Goes Into 'Hiding' (From Shareholders) https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/04/Microsoft_s_Stock_is_Like_a_Religion_Microsoft_Goes_Into_Hiding.shtml
[12:57]	TR Bot	 Techrights Microsoft's Stock is Like a Religion, Microsoft Goes Into 'Hiding' (From Shareholders)
[12:58]	TR News	Groklaw Static Site Relaunches With New Theme, But Many Pages and All the Comments Are Missing https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/04/Groklaw_Static_Site_Relaunches_With_New_Theme_But_Many_Pages_an.shtml
[12:58]	TR Bot	 Techrights Groklaw Static Site Relaunches With New Theme, But Many Pages and All the Comments Are Missing
[12:58]	TR News	In Spain, Microsoft's Search Engine Market Share Fell to 2% https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/04/In_Spain_Microsoft_s_Search_Engine_Market_Share_Fell_to_2.shtml
[12:58]	TR Bot	 Techrights In Spain, Microsoft's Search Engine Market Share Fell to 2%
[12:58]	TR News	They Tell Us That "Clown Storage" is Safe and Robust to Incidents Like Fires https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/03/They_Tell_Us_That_Cloud_Storage_is_Safe_and_Robust_to_Incidents.shtml
[12:58]	TR Bot	 Techrights They Tell Us That "Cloud Storage" is Safe and Robust to Incidents Like Fires
[12:58]	TR News	Online Safety Act Tries to Accomplish the Impossible https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/03/Online_Safety_Act_Tries_to_Accomplish_the_Impossible.shtml
[12:58]	TR Bot	 Techrights Online Safety Act Tries to Accomplish the Impossible
● Aug 05
[13:00]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k1wyh1yc
[13:00]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k1wyh1yc )
[13:00]	schestowitz[TR2]	"  0 
[13:00]	schestowitz[TR2]	Why is Alvind always angry
[13:00]	schestowitz[TR2]	Ever notice hes always sounds like hes yelling on his Office hours
[13:00]	schestowitz[TR2]	That fat b0z0 should be the happiest man on earth
[13:00]	schestowitz[TR2]	Gifted 87 million dollars worth of stock for being a fat incompetent g00ber
[13:00]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[13:01]	schestowitz[TR2]	He is a fu--ing id--t... That's for sure!
[13:01]	schestowitz[TR2]	But he is on his way out... I would be more concerned about who comes next!
[13:01]	schestowitz[TR2]	Dinero doesn't buy happiness? I think there has to be some sort of meaning in the process, and a knowing that you achieved it due to hard work, qualifications, good ethics, honesty to make it truly fulfilling. The janitor may be way happier.... (this is to praise the janitor, not to say that it's negative to be one at all, of course).
[13:01]	schestowitz[TR2]	Yesterday someone asked about why AK and Krap_anaugh were chubby (not in good shape) and the thread was removed. Go figure... So, maybe it's because they don't have much time to go to the gym and look coolio?
[13:01]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[13:01]		*teknutr (~teknutr@sambgdmsawkyw.irc) has joined #techrights
[13:01]	TR News	"GOOD. Hire and Pay based on performance." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jre2ja5n
[13:01]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jre2ja5n )
[13:02]	TR News	ChatGPT in Trouble https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/ChatGPT_in_Trouble.shtml
[13:02]	TR Bot	 Techrights ChatGPT in Trouble
[13:02]	TR News	The Register MS Links to the Wrong statCounter Page https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/The_Register_MS_Links_to_the_Wrong_statCounter_Page.shtml
[13:02]	TR Bot	 Techrights The Register MS Links to the Wrong statCounter Page
[13:02]	teknutr	I cannot find anything on whether Microsoft scans email payloads for advertising purposes. They have a reputation for not doing that.
[13:02]	teknutr	I found this https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/4681056/ad-content-drawn-from-private-email-messages
[13:02]	TR Bot	 Ad content drawn from private email messages - Microsoft Q&A
[13:02]	schestowitz[TR2]	where?
[13:02]	schestowitz[TR2]	who said they don't ballmer?
[13:02]	teknutr	but that's just a bit here-sayish
[13:03]	schestowitz[TR2]	that's their siter
[13:03]	teknutr	what's ballmer?
[13:03]	schestowitz[TR2]	*site
[13:03]	schestowitz[TR2]	they lie
[13:03]	schestowitz[TR2]	who said they don't, ballmer?
[13:03]	schestowitz[TR2]	he said "google read your mail, we don't"
[13:03]	schestowitz[TR2]	around 2007
[13:03]	schestowitz[TR2]	of course microsoft reads that too
[13:03]	schestowitz[TR2]	se:
[13:03]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://money.cnn.com/2014/03/21/technology/security/microsoft-email/
[13:03]	TR Bot	( status 502 @ https://money.cnn.com/2014/03/21/technology/security/microsoft-email/ )
[13:03]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/21/microsoft-tightens-privacy-policy-journalists-emails
[13:03]	TR Bot	 Microsoft tightens privacy policy after admitting to reading journalist's emails | Microsoft | The Guardian
[13:04]	schestowitz[TR2]	even worse:
[13:04]	teknutr	the cnn page is dead
[13:04]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.computerweekly.com/opinion/Microsofts-ICC-email-block-reignites-European-data-sovereignty-concerns
[13:04]	TR Bot	 Microsoft's ICC email block reignites European data sovereignty concerns | Computer Weekly
[13:04]	schestowitz[TR2]	http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/07/26/Microsoft_anybody_home.shtml
[13:04]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Microsoft, anybody home?
[13:05]	TR News	UK university free speech law comes into force https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/08/uk-university-free-speech-law-comes-into-force/
[13:05]	TR Bot	 UK university free speech law comes into force - JURIST - News
[13:06]	TR News	A truce over free speech in Iran? https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2025/0804/A-truce-over-free-speech-in-Iran
[13:06]	TR Bot	truce over free speech in Iran? - CSMonitor.com
[13:06]	TR News	North Macedonia Investigates After Anti-Albanian Chants At Basketball Match https://www.rferl.org/a/anti-albanian-chants-north-macedonia-basketball/33494070.html
[13:06]	TR Bot	 North Macedonia Investigates After Anti-Albanian Chants At Basketball Match
[13:06]	psydroid3	what kind of bs article is this?
[13:06]	psydroid3	https://www.techspot.com/article/2994-red-flag-cheap-pc-parts-v2/
[13:06]	TR Bot	Red Flags When Choosing Cheap PC Components | TechSpot
[13:07]	psydroid3	hardware shaming on online tech websites now?
[13:07]	psydroid3	feeling the pinch?
[13:07]	schestowitz[TR2]	which ones are shamed?
[13:07]	schestowitz[TR2]	it's probably a bloated web page
[13:07]	schestowitz[TR2]	i remember that as a "do not open" domain
[13:08]	TR News	How the Economic Case for International Students Lost Steam https://www.chronicle.com/article/how-the-economic-case-for-international-students-lost-steam
[13:08]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.chronicle.com/article/how-the-economic-case-for-international-students-lost-steam )
[13:09]	teknutr	schestowitz[TR2]: thanks for the links but I dont see where any state that MS does surveillance advertising from email. They have been caught doing targetting snooping, but thats not the same thing.
[13:09]	psydroid3	the points addressed dualcore CPUs, single-channel RAM, slow storage, "balding" motherboards and disposable cases
[13:09]	psydroid3	none of which are even a thing anymore for anyone but the most budget-conscious
[13:10]	TR News	New Feature: Daily Trends Report, (Mon, Aug 4th) https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32170
[13:10]	TR Bot	 New Feature: Daily Trends Report - SANS Internet Storm Center
[13:10]	psydroid3	they do have some good articles occasionally, but the M$ (lack of) culture is strong
[13:11]	TR News	First Sentencing in Scheme to Help North Koreans Infiltrate US Companies https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/08/first-sentencing-in-scheme-to-help-north-koreans-infiltrate-us-companies.html
[13:11]	TR Bot	Sentencing in Scheme to Help North Koreans Infiltrate US Companies - Schneier on Security
[13:11]	psydroid3	PSU and graphics card are addressed too
[13:12]	TR News	Nvidia Triton Vulnerabilities Pose Big Risk to Hey Hi (AI) Models https://www.securityweek.com/nvidia-triton-vulnerabilities-pose-big-risk-to-ai-models/
[13:12]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/nvidia-triton-vulnerabilities-pose-big-risk-to-ai-models/ )
[13:12]	teknutr	i always just assumed MS was snooping on email contents on a mass scale and was going to roast them for it in a privacy complaint over another thing MS did, but I dont see anything that solidly pins email snooping onto MS.
[13:13]	psydroid3	it isn't unique to MS, but they aren't holier than thou either
[13:13]	psydroid3	even if they say they are, which is a lie
[13:13]	TR News	Peter Hutterer: unplug - a tool to test input devices via uinput http://who-t.blogspot.com/2025/08/unplug-tool-to-test-input-devices-via.html
[13:13]	TR Bot	 Who-T: unplug - a tool to test input devices via uinput
[13:14]	teknutr	psydroid3: ok, but I need proof. Its not me that needs convincing. I already distrust MS entirely, and wholly boycott them. But my report to a regulator needs to link MS to mass-snooping on email or I cannot mention it.
[13:15]	psydroid3	how can you prove what happens inside their black box?
[13:15]	teknutr	i think it's well proven that Google does this.  Perhaps from leaks from disgruntled employees
[13:16]	teknutr	if MS has not been /caught/, then there is nothing to report to the regulator
[13:18]	TR News	 (NEW):  Newelle, GNU, Tellico, and More Applications https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/05/Newelle_GNU_Tellico_and_More_Applications.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/05/Newelle_GNU_Tellico_and_More_Applications.gmi 
[13:18]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Newelle, GNU, Tellico, and More Applications
[13:18]	TR News	 (NEW):  Today's HowTos   https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/05/today_s_howtos.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/05/today_s_howtos.gmi 
[13:18]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines today's howtos
[13:20]	TR News	 (NEW):  Audiocasts/Shows: Late Night Linux and Destination Linux https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/05/Audiocasts_Shows_Late_Night_Linux_and_Destination_Linux.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/05/Audiocasts_Shows_Late_Night_Linux_and_Destination_Linux.gmi 
[13:20]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Audiocasts/Shows: Late Night Linux and Destination Linux
[13:20]	teknutr	Google claims it quit scanning email for ad purposes, but still scans email for other purposes: https://variety.com/2017/digital/news/google-gmail-ads-emails-1202477321/
[13:20]	TR Bot	 Google Stops Gmail Ad Personalization, But Still 'Reads' Emails
[13:20]	schestowitz[TR2]	maybe they call it "hey hi" now
[13:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	and say it will enhance experience
[13:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	with the hey hi "things"
[13:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	whatever they may be
[13:21]	TR News	 (NEW):  X and Wayland Picks https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/05/X_and_Wayland_Picks.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/05/X_and_Wayland_Picks.gmi 
[13:21]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines X and Wayland Picks
[13:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	they will call these LLM models
[13:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	which are actually profiling
[13:23]	TR News	 (NEW):  Open Hardware/Modding: Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/05/Open_Hardware_Modding_Arduino_Raspberry_Pi_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/05/Open_Hardware_Modding_Arduino_Raspberry_Pi_and_More.gmi 
[13:23]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Open Hardware/Modding: Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and More
[13:25]	TR News	 (NEW):  Latest Red Hat Official Site https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/05/Latest_Red_Hat_Official_Site.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/05/Latest_Red_Hat_Official_Site.gmi 
[13:25]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Latest Red Hat Official Site
[13:25]	TR News	 (NEW):  PostgreSQL Pigsty 3.6 is Out and "When Your Relational Database Isn't the Right Tool Anymore" https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/05/PostgreSQL_Pigsty_3_6_is_Out_and_When_Your_Relational_Database_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/05/PostgreSQL_Pigsty_3_6_is_Out_and_When_Your_Relational_Database_.gmi 
[13:25]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines PostgreSQL Pigsty 3.6 is Out and "When Your Relational Database Isn't the Right Tool Anymore"
[13:26]	TR News	 (NEW):   Programming Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/05/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/05/Programming_Leftovers.gmi 
[13:26]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Programming Leftovers
[13:28]	TR News	 (NEW):  GNU/Linux and NetBSD Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/05/GNU_Linux_and_NetBSD_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/05/GNU_Linux_and_NetBSD_Leftovers.gmi 
[13:28]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines GNU/Linux and NetBSD Leftovers
[13:30]	TR News	 (NEW):  Free, Libre, and Open Source Software, Security, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/05/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Security_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/05/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Security_and_More.gmi 
[13:30]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Free, Libre, and Open Source Software, Security, and More
[13:33]	TR News	Techrights Links 05/08/2025: Hey Hi (AI) Passing Fads and GAFAM "Embracing the Military" https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/Links_05_08_2025_Hey_Hi_AI_Passing_Fads_and_GAFAM_Embracing_the.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/Links_05_08_2025_Hey_Hi_AI_Passing_Fads_and_GAFAM_Embracing_the.gmi 
[13:33]	TR Bot	 Techrights Links 05/08/2025: Hey Hi (AI) Passing Fads and GAFAM "Embracing the Military"
[13:50]	ZedHedTed	"prompt-driven development"...more like "letting AI do all your coding for you, poorly"
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[13:56]	psydroid3	vibing and coding
[13:57]	psydroid3	good vibrations and bad coding
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[14:37]	psydroid3	https://www.techspot.com/news/108925-battlefield-6-anti-cheat-system-requires-secure-boot.html
[14:37]	TR Bot	6 anti-cheat system requires Secure Boot, shutting out Linux and legacy PCs | TechSpot
[14:37]	psydroid3	more enshittification
[14:37]	psydroid3	imposed by the M$ mafia
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[15:12]	ZedHedTed	welp, there goes the steam deck market. but then again, controllers are at a disadvantage in FPS games.
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[15:12]	psydroid3	these companies do it on purpose
[15:13]	psydroid3	because M$-connected revenue is sacred
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[15:22]	TR News	"I've been thinking about vibe coding (probably overthinking) and how that might effect development in odd ways. And by vibe coding I mean in its original meaning [1], where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists." gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2025/08/04.1
[15:24]	TR News	Lagrange v1.18.6 released gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/s/Lagrange/30918
[15:25]	TR News	SpellBinding: ACHWNSI Wordo: EASED gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-08-05.gmi
[15:26]	TR News	 xkcd: Grounded #3124 gemini://8by3.net/~xkcd/3124.gmi
[15:27]	TR News	"Occasionally, blog entries note degraded performance when org files grow to a big number of lines." gopher://box.matto.nl/0/one-big-org-text-file.txt
[15:30]	MinceR	the best FPS-es don't come with rootkits anyway
[15:35]	TR News	Microsoft lays off 40 more employees in Washington state https://www.cnbctv18.com/technology/microsoft-layoffs-washington-state-2025-19649002.htm
[15:35]	TR Bot	 Microsoft lays off 40 more employees in Washington state - CNBC TV18
[15:36]	TR News	Microsoft confirms another round of layoffs at its Redmond campus https://mynorthwest.com/local/microsoft-layoffs-redmond/4119076
[15:36]	TR Bot	 Microsoft confirms 40 more layoffs at Redmond campus
[15:36]	TR News	Microsoft layoffs: Windows maker cuts more jobs amid AI investments https://www.moneycontrol.com/europe/?url=https://www.moneycontrol.com/technology/microsoft-layoffs-windows-maker-cuts-more-jobs-amid-ai-investments-article-13391690.html/amp
[15:36]	TR Bot	 Microsoft layoffs: Windows maker cuts more jobs amid AI investments
[15:37]	TR News	Microsoft Layoffs Continue in August 2025 https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/Microsoft_Layoffs_Continue_in_August_2025.shtml
[15:37]	TR Bot	 Techrights Microsoft Layoffs Continue in August 2025
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[16:03]	TR News	Techrights Slopwatch: WebProNews, LinuxSecurity, and Some Success Stories https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/Slopwatch_WebProNews_LinuxSecurity_and_Some_Success_Stories.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/Slopwatch_WebProNews_LinuxSecurity_and_Some_Success_Stories.gmi 
[16:03]	TR Bot	 Techrights Slopwatch: WebProNews, LinuxSecurity, and Some Success Stories
[16:06]	geert	supsupsup :)
[16:06]	geert	psydroid, people shouldnt expect much 'serious solutions' from market designed to enslave and to pay egoism moar than quality :(
[16:07]	geert	schesto since i got to say something about it, would you maybe push me some subject to write article about? :)
[16:11]	schestowitz[TR2]	we <a <hi
[16:11]	schestowitz[TR2]	hi
[16:18]	TR News	Techrights Introducing Mission:Libre and FreeXR (and BreakXR) https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/Introducing_Mission_Libre_and_FreeXR_and_BreakXR.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/Introducing_Mission_Libre_and_FreeXR_and_BreakXR.gmi 
[16:18]	TR Bot	 Techrights Introducing Mission:Libre and FreeXR (and BreakXR)
[16:38]	TR News	Techrights Some Cola Formulas Aren't Secret, But the Barrier is the Branding https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/Some_Cola_Formulas_Aren_t_Secret_But_the_Barrier_is_the_Brandin.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/Some_Cola_Formulas_Aren_t_Secret_But_the_Barrier_is_the_Brandin.gmi 
[16:39]	TR Bot	 Techrights Some Cola Formulas Aren't Secret, But the Barrier is the Branding
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[17:15]	TR News	Techrights The Register is Desperate for Money, According to The Register https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/26/The_Register_is_Desperate_for_Money_According_to_The_Register.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/07/26/The_Register_is_Desperate_for_Money_According_to_The_Register.gmi 
[17:15]	TR Bot	 Techrights The Register is Desperate for Money, According to The Register
[17:25]	TR News	Techrights The Register's Editor in Chief (Who Left for Google) Told Me "AI" Was a Bubble, But Now The Register Gets Paid to Participate in Inflating This Bubble https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/The_Register_s_Editor_in_Chief_Who_Left_for_Google_Told_Me_AI_W.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/The_Register_s_Editor_in_Chief_Who_Left_for_Google_Told_Me_AI_W.gmi 
[17:25]	TR Bot	 Techrights The Register's Editor in Chief (Who Left for Google) Told Me "AI" Was a Bubble, But Now The Register Gets Paid to Participate in Inflating This Bubble
[17:31]	TR News	"There's been some discussion (via Antenna and on the BBS) about supposed stagnation in Gemini." gemini://gemini.ucant.org/gemlog/2025-08-05_there-is-no-stagnation.gmi
[17:32]	TR News	"minor cat scratch infection but not from my cat :(" gemini://xavi4u.flounder.online/gemlog/2025-08-05.gmi
[17:34]	TR News	"The concept that AI prompts "are the source code" isn't really far fetched. At least not when you think about who actually uses Vibe Coding as a "useful tool."" gemini://gemini.sh0.xyz/log/2025-08-05_re_when_vibe_coding_isnt_the_source_code_the_prompt.gmi
[17:37]	TR News	Techrights Gemini Links 05/08/2025: Lagrange v1.18.6, No Stagnation in Geminispace, and Fake Coding (Slop) https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/Gemini_Links_05_08_2025_Lagrange_v1_18_6_No_Stagnation_in_Gemin.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/Gemini_Links_05_08_2025_Lagrange_v1_18_6_No_Stagnation_in_Gemin.gmi 
[17:37]	TR Bot	 Techrights Gemini Links 05/08/2025: Lagrange v1.18.6, No Stagnation in Geminispace, and Fake Coding (Slop)
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[18:03]	schestowitz[TR2]	<a iut
[18:12]	TR News	Techrights Microsoft's Washington Layoffs Aren't Everything, They're Definitely Not Happening in Just One State in the US https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/Microsoft_s_Washington_Layoffs_Aren_t_Everything_They_re_Defini.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/Microsoft_s_Washington_Layoffs_Aren_t_Everything_They_re_Defini.gmi 
[18:12]	TR Bot	 Techrights Microsoft's Washington Layoffs Aren't Everything, They're Definitely Not Happening in Just One State in the US
[18:14]	TR News	Windows at 2% in Sudan https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/sudan/#monthly-200902-202508
[18:15]	TR Bot	 Operating System Market Share Sudan | Statcounter Global Stats
[18:15]	TR News	Down to 15% in Ethiopia https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/ethiopia/#monthly-201503-202508
[18:15]	TR Bot	 Operating System Market Share Ethiopia | Statcounter Global Stats
[18:22]	geert	<3
[18:27]	TR News	Techrights Zimbabweans Aren't Into Windows or Microsoft https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/Zimbabweans_Aren_t_Into_Windows_or_Microsoft.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/Zimbabweans_Aren_t_Into_Windows_or_Microsoft.gmi 
[18:27]	TR Bot	 Techrights Zimbabweans Aren't Into Windows or Microsoft
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[18:44]	TR News	Techrights Geminispace Promises Simplicity But Also Provides a "bunch of forums that get flood-filled by agitation against the very essence of Gemini itself" https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/Geminispace_Promises_Simplicity_But_Also_Provides_a_bunch_of_fo.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/Geminispace_Promises_Simplicity_But_Also_Provides_a_bunch_of_fo.gmi 
[18:44]	TR Bot	 Techrights Geminispace Promises Simplicity But Also Provides a "bunch of forums that get flood-filled by agitation against the very essence of Gemini itself"
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[18:59]	TR News	Techrights Calling Plagiarism "Intelligence" is Pure Genius, Brilliance! https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/Calling_Plagiarism_Intelligence_is_Pure_Genius_Brilliance.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/Calling_Plagiarism_Intelligence_is_Pure_Genius_Brilliance.gmi 
[18:59]	TR Bot	 Techrights Calling Plagiarism "Intelligence" is Pure Genius, Brilliance!
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[19:01]	MinceR	https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/early
[19:01]	TR Bot	 Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Early
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[19:21]	TR News	Techrights Stricter Enforcement of Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act is Sorely Needed https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/Stricter_Enforcement_of_Worker_Adjustment_and_Retraining_Notifi.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/Stricter_Enforcement_of_Worker_Adjustment_and_Retraining_Notifi.gmi 
[19:21]	TR Bot	 Techrights Stricter Enforcement of Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act is Sorely Needed
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[19:26]	schestowitz[TR2]	<b>
[19:37]	TR News	Techrights Shortly After a Microsofter Took Over The Register as Editor in Chief Microsoft Tim (Tim Anderson) is Back and It's Still Microsoft Propaganda, Sometimes Funded by Microsoft https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/Shortly_After_a_Microsofter_Took_Over_The_Register_as_Editor_in.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/Shortly_After_a_Microsofter_Took_Over_The_Register_as_Editor_in.gmi 
[19:37]	TR Bot	 Techrights Shortly After a Microsofter Took Over The Register as Editor in Chief Microsoft Tim (Tim Anderson) is Back and It's Still Microsoft Propaganda, Sometimes Funded by Microsoft
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[20:00]	admfubar	https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/08/red-meat-allergy-from-tick-bites-is-spreading-both-in-us-and-globally/
[20:00]	TR Bot	 Red meat allergy from tick bites is spreading both in US and globally - Ars Technica
[20:06]	TR News	Techrights IRC Turns 37 https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/IRC_Turns_37.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/IRC_Turns_37.gmi 
[20:06]	TR Bot	 Techrights IRC Turns 37
[20:08]	admfubar	they should get a couple of points for recycling..... https://databreaches.net/2025/08/04/thai-hospital-fined-1-2-million-baht-for-data-breach-via-snack-bags/
[20:08]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://databreaches.net/2025/08/04/thai-hospital-fined-1-2-million-baht-for-data-breach-via-snack-bags/ )
[20:13]	MinceR	https://www.talkandroid.com/512861-eu-age-verification-app-google/
[20:13]	TR Bot	 EU Age Verification App Sparks Ban on Non Google Licensed Android Apps - Talk Android
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[21:00]	admfubar	https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/08/05/dell-laptops-firmware-vulnerabilities-revault-attacks/
[21:00]	TR Bot	 Millions of Dell laptops could be persistently backdoored in ReVault attacks - Help Net Security
[21:03]	schestowitz[TR2]	Drew Revault
[21:04]	MinceR	:>
[21:04]	schestowitz[TR2]	pay us or we unleash the loillies
[21:09]	admfubar	perplexing or  not... https://news.itsfoss.com/perplexity-ignores-blocking/
[21:09]	TR Bot	 Perplexity is a Shameless AI Company That Won't Take No for an Answer
[21:10]	schestowitz[TR2]	slop company
[21:11]	MinceR	> This was discussed on lobste.rs about a week ago. Some dude found an EU template app repository on github and assumed this was gonna be the EU age verification app. Without any solid proof.
[21:15]	MinceR	(cat) https://ircz.de/p/25062126
[21:15]	TR Bot	 WHOOPSIE
[21:25]	IsambardPrince	Mandy found the red roach that was taunting me this morning and electrocuted it.
[21:26]	IsambardPrince	From the heart of Hell I stab at thee!!!!!
[21:37]	IsambardPrince	REDROACH
[21:37]	IsambardPrince	RED ROOOOAAAACH
[21:38]	MinceR	REDRUM
[21:44]	TR News	Techrights Microsoft v Planet Earth https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/Microsoft_v_Planet_Earth.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/Microsoft_v_Planet_Earth.gmi 
[21:44]	TR Bot	 Techrights Microsoft v Planet Earth
[21:47]	schestowitz[TR2]	IsambardPrince: your life is insected
[21:49]	IsambardPrince	Yeah, the neighbors across the hallway put out a roach motel.
[21:49]	IsambardPrince	I'm happy that I'm not the only one trying to get this under control.
[21:49]	IsambardPrince	If they can trap some that's less for me to worry about.
[21:49]	IsambardPrince	I'd say what we're doing is better than the landlord's indiscriminate carpet bombing of the hallway with roach spray.
[21:54]	TR News	Techrights The Inflammatory Influence of Social Control Media Giants https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/The_Inflammatory_Influence_of_Social_Control_Media_Giants.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/The_Inflammatory_Influence_of_Social_Control_Media_Giants.gmi 
[21:54]	TR Bot	 Techrights The Inflammatory Influence of Social Control Media Giants
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[21:56]	TR News	"We spend our Sunday at the Opel Zoo near Frankfurt and junior had an absolute blast there. I swear, he was running every minute we were there!" gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/ralfwause/phlog/050825.txt
[21:57]		*IsambardPrince (~isambardprince@8zghqrupr4xbs.irc) has joined #techrights
[21:57]	TR News	"I've been thinking about adding last.fm integration to my site for a while now, but I've never been able to fit it with the style. It's really just not a great thing for my website, because most of my online "personality" is on bsky(1), so I decided to put it on my bsky profile." gemini://gemini.soap.systems/blog/bsky-bio-music.gmi
[21:58]	TR News	"My take on small web solutions is driven by two key ideas, statically generated text content and distributed ownership based on a consistent format. The gemlog format, which is primarily concerned with the log index with entries following" gemini://8by3.net/~sbr/log/2025-08-05.cookbook.gmi
[21:59]	TR News	[japan] [jp] gemini://higeki.jp/nikki/2025-08-05.gmi
● Aug 05
[22:00]	TR News	"Alhena 5.2.5 dropped yesterday. It has support for printing (and therefore PDFs). There's optional favicon.txt support for the many sites that have them. Did I mention favicon.txt is optional?" gemini://ultimatumlabs.com/gemlog/20250805.gmi
[22:01]	TR News	wool shawl gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/wool_shawl
[22:03]	TR News	"There are 4549 capsules. We successfully connected recently to 3112 of them." gemini://gemini.bortzmeyer.org/software/lupa/stats.gmi
[22:06]	TR News	Techrights Gemini Links 05/08/2025: Opel Zoo near Frankfurt and Alhena 5.2.5 https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/Gemini_Links_05_08_2025_Opel_Zoo_near_Frankfurt_and_Alhena_5_2_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/Gemini_Links_05_08_2025_Opel_Zoo_near_Frankfurt_and_Alhena_5_2_.gmi 
[22:06]	TR Bot	 Techrights Gemini Links 05/08/2025: Opel Zoo near Frankfurt and Alhena 5.2.5
[22:08]	schestowitz[TR2]	"Thrilled for @37signals
[22:08]	schestowitz[TR2]	 to be the first corporate sponsor of Hyrpland! @vaxryy
[22:08]	schestowitz[TR2]	 has built something incredibly special, and I think it's key we accelerate to offer developers an easy, compelling, and sexy-as-hell alternative to computing with Windows or macOS "
[22:08]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://x.com/dhh/status/1952800955386462340
[22:08]	TR Bot	( status 400 @ https://x.com/dhh/status/1952800955386462340 )
[22:22]	TR News	 (NEW):  KDE Plasma 6.4.4, Bugfix Release for August https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/05/KDE_Plasma_6_4_4_Bugfix_Release_for_August.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/05/KDE_Plasma_6_4_4_Bugfix_Release_for_August.gmi 
[22:22]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines KDE Plasma 6.4.4, Bugfix Release for August
[22:24]	TR News	Techrights On "Tragedy of the Commons in the Production of Digital Artifacts" https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/On_Tragedy_of_the_Commons_in_the_Production_of_Digital_Artifact.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/On_Tragedy_of_the_Commons_in_the_Production_of_Digital_Artifact.gmi 
[22:24]	TR Bot	 Techrights On "Tragedy of the Commons in the Production of Digital Artifacts"
[22:34]	TR News	Techrights Openwashing Slop... Using Slop! https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/Openwashing_Slop_Using_Slop.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/Openwashing_Slop_Using_Slop.gmi 
[22:34]	TR Bot	 Techrights Openwashing Slop... Using Slop!
[22:36]	TR News	https://lists.gnu.org is offline again. Second time (at least second) today.
[22:36]		-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-lists.gnu.org
[22:36]	TR News	Or maybe it's flapping at this stage. A lot of the day it was unreachable for hours.
[22:50]	admfubar	https://www.rawstory.com/elon-musk-tesla-2673859465/
[22:50]	TR Bot	 This massive corporate bonus reveals everything about Trump's America - Raw Story
[22:51]	MinceR	https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/grawl
[22:51]	TR Bot	 Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Grawl
● Aug 05
[23:28]	IsambardPrince	https://www.npr.org/2025/08/05/nx-s1-5490447/ai-chatgpt-couples-therapy-advice
[23:28]	TR Bot	 A new couples experiment with ChatGPT : NPR
[23:28]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], ^
[23:28]	IsambardPrince	Couple's therapy from ChatGPT.
[23:28]	IsambardPrince	One recent evening, my new boyfriend and I found ourselves in a spat.
[23:28]	IsambardPrince	I accused him of giving in to his anxious thoughts.
[23:28]	IsambardPrince	"It's hard to get out of my head," David said. "Mental spiraling is part of the nature of sensitivity sometimes there's emotional overflow from that."
[23:28]	IsambardPrince	"Well, spiraling is bad," said I, a woman who spirals.
[23:28]	IsambardPrince	---
[23:28]	IsambardPrince	Does this sound like anything an actual man would say?