●● IRC: #techrights @ Techrights IRC Network: Friday, February 06, 2026 ●● ● Feb 06 [00:01] MinceR (cat) https://imgur.com/gallery/w500V4K [00:01] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://imgur.com/gallery/w500V4K ) [00:04] *IsambardPrince (~isambardprince@8xntp9i7yykq8.irc) has joined #techrights [00:05] IsambardPrince I had another back spasm. [00:05] IsambardPrince A friend managed to work it out with his elbow. [00:05] IsambardPrince These are incredibly painful. [00:05] IsambardPrince MinceR, I'm going to order a theracane on Amazon. [00:06] IsambardPrince They look stupid as hell but my physical therapist handed me one and it was great. [00:07] MinceR "Do you read Sutter Cane?" [00:09] MinceR it's funny how theracane.com has a carousel of small photos but the entire section of the page rotates out, taking most of the guy standing on the right out, and then back in [00:09] MinceR he doesn't change, just keeps getting rotated out and back in [00:12] IsambardPrince MinceR, I got a Citizen Eco-Drive Star Wars watch. LOL [00:12] MinceR lol [00:12] MinceR y tho [00:12] IsambardPrince It has the Rebel Alliance logo in the center and other stuff. [00:13] IsambardPrince MinceR, American Express gave me another card. [00:13] IsambardPrince This one I couldn't resist. [00:13] IsambardPrince It said "You've been selected." [00:13] MinceR they gave you an offer you couldn't refuse? [00:14] IsambardPrince It said that I would get $500 as a sign up bonus. [00:14] IsambardPrince How do you say no to $500? [00:14] IsambardPrince You know, I love AmEx. [00:14] MinceR "i'm too fucking rich to care about $500. give me $500000." [00:14] MinceR that's how [00:14] IsambardPrince They've given me $2300 in bonuses alone in the last year, I've never paid them any interest. [00:14] IsambardPrince And they want to give me another $500. [00:15] MinceR though i probably wouldn't, because i'm poor [00:15] MinceR also, AmEx left orbanistan long ago [00:15] IsambardPrince They have standards. [00:15] IsambardPrince Orbanistan doesn't. [00:16] MinceR :> [00:16] IsambardPrince They looked around and saw that most people live in Communist-era concrete shitheaps and drill into floors and bang your car with their car doors. [00:16] IsambardPrince And that somehow, Orban is worse than Communism. [00:16] IsambardPrince Then they up and left. [00:16] IsambardPrince Imagine that. [00:17] IsambardPrince Russia has plenty of influence over the EU. [00:17] IsambardPrince They have countries that sell citizenship and with it the right to live and work anywhere in the Eurozone, and they control a member state called Hungary and use it to sabotage and veto things Russia doesn't want. [00:19] MinceR :> [00:19] MinceR i'm not sure if AmEx cares about that [00:20] IsambardPrince Well, Dave Ramsey calls them American Excess. [00:20] IsambardPrince Then there's MASTER card. [00:20] MinceR :> [00:20] IsambardPrince And Discover bondage. [00:20] IsambardPrince "Capital One, what's in your wallet? MONEY!" [00:21] IsambardPrince MinceR, This one is a business credit card. [00:21] IsambardPrince So the spend to get the bonus is quite high. [00:21] MinceR apparently AmEx partnered with the bank with the shittiest customer service (OTP Bank) [00:21] IsambardPrince But so is the bonus. [00:21] MinceR and they couldn't get merchants to accept AmEx cards [00:21] MinceR also the bank whined about high interchange fees [00:21] IsambardPrince MinceR, American Express cards are the bank, the network, and the issuer. [00:21] IsambardPrince But they do license out the network. [00:21] TR News "February 5, 2026. ChatGPT told another old friend to take their life. Someone intervened. Others haven't been so lucky." gemini://gemini.njms.ca/gemlog/peak-oil-high-technology.gmi [00:21] MinceR also, apparently AmEx has withdrawn from the EU in general [00:21] IsambardPrince So the network is used by a few other licensed banks. [00:22] IsambardPrince One is for people with really shitty credit, called Credit One. [00:22] IsambardPrince If you see something called a Credit One AmEx, they issue low credit line fee harvesters to people with lousy credit. [00:22] IsambardPrince It's not a real AmEx. [00:22] IsambardPrince They also license it to Comenity Bank, which issues some decent rewards cards called a Bread AmEx. [00:22] IsambardPrince There's two different Bread cards. [00:23] IsambardPrince Then they work with some foreign banks. [00:23] TR News "Home Assistant's Franck Nijhof has announced the release of Home Assistant 2026.2, which brings with it a shift to the new Home Dashboard default display, a rebranding of add-on packages, redesigned quick search, and the ability to opt-in to data gathering for a planned public device database." gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202602/20260205-homeass.gmi [00:23] IsambardPrince US issued AmEx cards usually do not work in China. You might have a terminal here or there that can take them if it's places American businessmen go. [00:23] IsambardPrince But AmEx also partners with Chinese banks to issue American Express cards. [00:23] MinceR what a wonderful mess [00:24] IsambardPrince They're red in China, and they give 1% in rewards, which is odd for a Chinese card apparently. [00:24] MinceR "do you want an AmEx card? here's an AmEx card. only it's not an AmEx card, but an AmEx card." [00:24] IsambardPrince Most of the cards in the US are blue, except for the metal ones which are green, gold, platinum, and black. [00:24] IsambardPrince The black one is invite only and only for millionaires on up. [00:24] schestowitz[TR2] Hopefully the same happens to hey hi [00:24] schestowitz[TR2] already happening [00:24] schestowitz[TR2] many GPUs are not even connected [00:24] schestowitz[TR2] it was a gold rush [00:25] IsambardPrince MinceR, The direct-issue AmEx cards use American Express National Bank. [00:25] IsambardPrince They're happy to be the network on co-branded cards because they generate merchant fees without taking any credit risk. [00:25] schestowitz[TR2] CNBC is explaining the tech bubble now as "AI fatigue" [00:26] schestowitz[TR2] slop is not HEY HI [00:26] IsambardPrince I have a Blue Cash Everyday, a Gold, and (coming in the mail) a Blue Business Cash. [00:26] IsambardPrince You don't have to be a business to get a business credit card. [00:26] MinceR "do you want an AmEx card instead of this AmEx card? too bad, you can't have an AmEx card, only an AmEx card." [00:26] IsambardPrince I have a ton of Capital One and Discover cards too. [00:27] IsambardPrince And a Barclays card. [00:27] schestowitz[TR2] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights- arstechnica.com | Nvidia's $100 billion OpenAI deal has seemingly vanished - Ars Technica [00:27] schestowitz[TR2] i saw reports of it a week ago [00:27] schestowitz[TR2] the jensen pretended, no, we ARE serioius\ [00:27] schestowitz[TR2] then nothing [00:27] schestowitz[TR2] they cannot bail out their bubble makers [00:27] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2], Trump forced the FHA (Fannie and Freddie) to consider cryptocurrency as an asset for getting a mortgage. [00:27] schestowitz[TR2] not for long [00:28] IsambardPrince Then Bitcoin crashed by 44% from its peak. [00:28] MinceR fanny! (but in british) [00:28] IsambardPrince How's that work? Hey Mr. Banker Gimme a Mortgage. I gots me a million in buttcoin. [00:28] IsambardPrince Then in 15 months it's only $560,000. [00:28] IsambardPrince But who needs to price risk with 30 year loans, right? [00:29] schestowitz[TR2] a pedophiles protector [00:32] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2], The Medicare scammers are calling the elevators here. [00:32] IsambardPrince All the elevators have an emergency number, so the light flashes and it's a Medicare scammer. [00:32] IsambardPrince Usually a robot. [00:33] IsambardPrince MinceR, They're Schindler elevators. [00:33] IsambardPrince Good thing it's not the UK. [00:33] MinceR Schindler's Lift [00:33] IsambardPrince Yep [00:34] IsambardPrince You know, oddly, in old texts they used f in place of s. [00:34] MinceR no, that's a different letter [00:34] MinceR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s [00:34] TR Bot Long s - Wikipedia [00:34] IsambardPrince Is it? [00:34] MinceR of course my brain still wants to read it as 'f', and it's hilarious [00:34] MinceR but technically it's a medial s [00:35] IsambardPrince Congreff has determined that Bill Clinton will tell them why he was in a hot tub with little girls. [00:35] IsambardPrince But Trump won't. [00:35] MinceR it's Congrefs [00:35] MinceR the final s is still s [00:35] IsambardPrince Oh. [00:35] MinceR (more accurately Congres) [00:36] IsambardPrince So it's not we the people in Congreff assembled? [00:36] IsambardPrince :) [00:36] MinceR not if they use the letterforms correctly [00:36] MinceR but who knows if they do [00:36] IsambardPrince MinceR, I got psyched years ago. [00:36] IsambardPrince I was told that it was The People v. Me. [00:36] MinceR especially if you consider that people happily turned into y [00:36] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techrights [00:36] IsambardPrince And apparently even with all The People, I still emerged alive somehow. [00:37] IsambardPrince MinceR, They style that as a work of fiction. [00:37] IsambardPrince I doubt that all of The People in this state would have approved of their tax money being used to oppress me. [00:37] IsambardPrince Or even most of them. [00:37] IsambardPrince If they even knew it was happening at all. [00:38] MinceR only the majority :> [00:38] IsambardPrince MinceR, The IRS said we owe them money this year. [00:38] IsambardPrince So that's going on the credit card. [00:38] IsambardPrince Might as well get closer to the bonus. [00:39] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techrights [00:40] MinceR (also, other people took the ligature of +s, , and decided that it has to have an uppercase variant too...) [00:41] MinceR oh, apparently it was + [00:42] MinceR i clearly haven't figured out all of this [00:43] MinceR maybe it was +s, it's confusing as hell [00:45] TR News Techrights Welcome to the New Techrights https://techrights.org/ | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/ [00:45] TR News Techrights Living in Freedom When 'False Flag Operations' Like EFF Get Captured by Billionaires to Take Freedom Away https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/06/Living_in_Freedom_When_False_Flag_Operations_Like_EFF_Get_Captu.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/06/Living_in_Freedom_When_False_Flag_Operations_Like_EFF_Get_Captu.gmi [00:45] TR Bot Techrights Welcome to the New Techrights [00:45] TR Bot Techrights Living in Freedom When 'False Flag Operations' Like EFF Get Captured by Billionaires to Take Freedom Away [00:49] IsambardPrince MinceR, was saved by Hitler, according to Wikipedia. [00:49] MinceR lol [00:49] IsambardPrince So you can thank him I guess. [00:50] MinceR another one of his crimes, then [00:50] IsambardPrince The other Nazis wanted rid of it. [00:50] IsambardPrince But Hitler stepped in and saved it. [00:52] IsambardPrince MinceR, I made Brenda from Capital One laugh the other day. [00:53] IsambardPrince They pre-approved me for a Venture X and then when I gave them my driver's license which it asked for, it said it validated me, yet could not determine if I existed. [00:53] IsambardPrince I said that's weird. You gave me other credit cards and I existed then. Tell your computer don't flaunt it if it's not gonna give it up. [00:53] IsambardPrince :) [00:54] MinceR :> [00:54] MinceR "Computer says you don't exist anymore." [00:55] *includeals has quit (Quit: ZNC - https://znc.in) [00:55] MinceR maybe they have credit cards for people who may or may not exist, and credit cards for existing people only [00:55] *includeals (~includeal@2001:8a0:e95a:4e00::1c47) has joined #techrights ● Feb 06 [01:00] TR News Techrights Google News Drowning in Slop About "Linux" (Slopfarms Galore) https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/06/Google_News_Drowning_in_Slop_About_Linux_Slopfarms_Galore.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/06/Google_News_Drowning_in_Slop_About_Linux_Slopfarms_Galore.gmi [01:00] TR Bot Techrights Google News Drowning in Slop About "Linux" (Slopfarms Galore) [01:01] IsambardPrince MinceR, Do you have Capital One in Hungaristan? [01:01] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2] called them vicious. [01:01] IsambardPrince They're not the most vicious bank. [01:01] IsambardPrince Any bank gets vicious when you owe them a lot of money you haven't paid. [01:02] IsambardPrince Citi was a lot more vicious than Capital One. [01:02] MinceR i don't think we do [01:03] IsambardPrince Citi was calling me like 12 times a day while I was in their collections department. [01:03] IsambardPrince They call their collections people your "personal account manager". [01:03] IsambardPrince I said, "Why didn't I have one of these when I was paying them? Makes me sound important!" [01:03] MinceR lol [01:04] IsambardPrince Kia called me 7 times a day. [01:04] IsambardPrince I said, "Look, I'm broke. I already told you I'm broke. I told you where the car is. Come get it." [01:04] IsambardPrince They kept calling. [01:04] IsambardPrince I said, "Can I voluntarily surrender the car?" [01:04] IsambardPrince They wouldn't let me do that without John signing it too. [01:05] IsambardPrince So I abandoned it at the dealership, dropped the insurance, took the plates off, threw the keys to the general manager. [01:05] MinceR citi also largely left orbanistan in 2014~2017 [01:05] IsambardPrince Called Kia and said "It's sitting on that lot with no plates and uninsured. Get it if you want it." [01:05] IsambardPrince They got it. [01:06] IsambardPrince John had to pay $5,000 in repo fees, all my missed payments, and late fees. [01:06] IsambardPrince Then my responsibility was discharged and he had to make a $12 payment to the bankruptcy dept every time he made a payment. [01:06] IsambardPrince Eventually it got stolen by "a crackhead" in Seattle and crashed. [01:07] MinceR from where? [01:07] IsambardPrince Car values went up because of COVID, so the car was worth more than John owed. [01:07] IsambardPrince So he calls me "Are you going to sign it over to my insurance company." [01:07] IsambardPrince I said, "I don't know. I just had to pay $2,000 for an expungement lawyer after paying $2,000 for a criminal defense lawyer a couple years ago." [01:07] IsambardPrince "How much of that $12,000 is mine?" [01:08] IsambardPrince So he wouldn't give me any money. [01:08] IsambardPrince The Kia sat on the insurance company's lot for three months. [01:08] IsambardPrince He had to keep paying Kia. [01:08] IsambardPrince Eventually the adjuster threatened to give it back and cancel the claim. [01:08] IsambardPrince So John sent me $4,000 and I sent him my signature. [01:09] IsambardPrince Then Kia took the last few payments as an overage and sent them on a check to me. [01:09] IsambardPrince :) [01:10] IsambardPrince MinceR, "I don't know. Sounds like you're about to get what's left of a car back. I hope you have somewhere to put it." [01:10] IsambardPrince :P [01:10] MinceR :> [01:12] IsambardPrince MinceR, I thought it was funny. [01:13] IsambardPrince He was furious in 2020. [01:13] IsambardPrince Because after Kia got it back they wanted the deficiency balance from me. [01:13] IsambardPrince And I said, well, you're not getting it from me no matter what you do. [01:13] TR News Techrights IBM Isn't a Serious Company Anymore, It's a Ponzi Scheme Operated by a Clique and It Misuses Companies It Acquires to Prop Up or Legitimise the Scheme https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/06/IBM_Isn_t_a_Serious_Company_Anymore_It_s_a_Ponzi_Scheme_Operate.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/06/IBM_Isn_t_a_Serious_Company_Anymore_It_s_a_Ponzi_Scheme_Operate.gmi [01:13] TR Bot Techrights IBM Isn't a Serious Company Anymore, It's a Ponzi Scheme Operated by a Clique and It Misuses Companies It Acquires to Prop Up or Legitimise the Scheme [01:13] IsambardPrince But John works at the TSA at O'Hare, and he has a lot of money for you. Have fun with him. [01:14] IsambardPrince MinceR, So then Kia got chased out of their offices because of COVID lockdowns. [01:15] IsambardPrince And they weren't there to respond to my credit bureau disputes. [01:15] IsambardPrince So the repossessed car got deleted. [01:15] TR News "This occurs throughout IBM, but its far more blatant and egregious in Albany. [...] its just what you describe in albany" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kg3ctq05 [01:15] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kg3ctq05 ) [01:15] IsambardPrince MinceR, My probation officer called me. [01:16] TR News IBM the buzzwords company. "plz shut up. THERE IS NO QUANTUM. ONE BIG @55 SCAM." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kgh1yb6n [01:16] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kgh1yb6n ) [01:16] IsambardPrince She said "John's calling me and he's really mad because you're destroying his credit by not paying on that car." [01:16] MinceR :> [01:16] IsambardPrince I said, "That doesn't sound like a probation issue because I was not ordered to do anything regarding a car. Is there something I can help you with?" [01:20] IsambardPrince MinceR, The Prosecutor thought my psychiatrist was a therapist, so the order said to go see him and have him write a treatment plan and anything he said was what I had to do to finish probation. [01:21] IsambardPrince I told my attorney "He just does medication management, but they don't know that do they? I think I'll sign this." [01:21] IsambardPrince So my psychiatrist wrote "He comes to see me once every six months for medication refills and that's the treatment plan. [01:21] MinceR :) [01:21] IsambardPrince And I handed it to the probation officer. [01:21] MinceR the sad part is that that plan is indefinite [01:22] MinceR so, unless there's a time limit, you can't finish probation [01:22] IsambardPrince They closed the probation and let me go. I also got the court to agree to give me $400 in probation fees back because I finished early. [01:22] MinceR :) [01:23] IsambardPrince MinceR, I'm not stupid. [01:23] IsambardPrince :) [01:23] IsambardPrince I threatened an insanity defense, but then never had to use it. [01:24] IsambardPrince Because at that point they wanted rid of it quickly. [01:24] IsambardPrince So I got my FOID card back because you can't get the FOID back if you were "convicted" of "a crime of violence" or "were found not guilty by reason of mental defect". [01:25] IsambardPrince But since I was not convicted, got the charge changed to disorderly conduct, and never used an insanity defense, I appealed and got my FOID back. [01:25] IsambardPrince MinceR, Disorderly Conduct can mean "fighting" but it's not listed as a violent crime in the FOID Act. [01:25] IsambardPrince And I was not convicted. [01:26] TR News "Amazon, Google and Microsoft Shares Fall 3% Amid AI Spending Concerns" [01:26] IsambardPrince MinceR, I tied them in knots and eventually got everything deleted. [01:26] IsambardPrince And John got his credit destroyed. [01:26] TR News "Expedia announces 100 job cuts at Austin offices" [01:26] IsambardPrince He told me by the time I was done with him his credit was so bad he might as well have filed bankruptcy. [01:28] IsambardPrince MinceR, I moved out the day after he did his shopping. I turned the electric off and left the freezer door open. [01:36] IsambardPrince MinceR, I was thinking of joining AARP for the discounts. [01:36] IsambardPrince If Brandon Lobsta can identify as a woman I can identify as retired I guess. [01:36] MinceR :> [01:37] IsambardPrince MinceR, The government said I wasn't suffering enough and ended my prescription drug subsidy. [01:37] IsambardPrince So I had to sign up for GoodRX Gold. [01:43] TR News Techrights Claims That IBM Will Lay Off 20% (or 15%) of Its Workforce This Year Unless It Finds a Way to Push Them All Out by Threats, Shame, Guilt https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/06/Claims_That_IBM_Will_Lay_Off_20_or_15_of_Its_Workforce_This_Yea.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/06/Claims_That_IBM_Will_Lay_Off_20_or_15_of_Its_Workforce_This_Yea.gmi [01:43] TR Bot Techrights Claims That IBM Will Lay Off 20% (or 15%) of Its Workforce This Year Unless It Finds a Way to Push Them All Out by Threats, Shame, Guilt [01:43] *cow_20012 has quit (Quit: ) [01:51] *cow_20012 (~username@wusiwah4aa7ye.irc) has joined #techrights [01:56] TR News Techrights Changes at the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/06/Changes_at_the_Solicitors_Regulation_Authority_SRA.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/06/Changes_at_the_Solicitors_Regulation_Authority_SRA.gmi [01:56] TR Bot Techrights Changes at the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) [01:57] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) ● Feb 06 [02:00] TR News Xen at FOSDEM: Real-World Conversations About Xen and KVM https://xenproject.org/blog/xen-at-fosdem-real-world-conversations-about-xen-and-kvm/ [02:01] TR Bot Xen at FOSDEM: Real-World Conversations About Xen and KVM [02:01] TR News Did Zendesk get popped? https://xeiaso.net/notes/2026/zendesk-popped/ [02:01] TR Bot Did Zendesk get popped? - Xe Iaso [02:04] IsambardPrince "Expedia announces 100 job cuts at Austin offices" [02:04] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2], I have a comment on that. [02:05] IsambardPrince American Express currently has an offer where if you use a co-branded link and pay with an AmEx card, the booking is 25% less expensive than the public price. [02:05] IsambardPrince But it's still more expensive than using Priceline. [02:05] IsambardPrince So it's not hard to see why Expedia is having problems. [02:06] IsambardPrince Priceline has great prices especially on opaque bookings and there's always coupons for those too. [02:06] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@kcb99h722ua4g.irc) has joined #techrights [02:06] IsambardPrince And they have the Priceline VIP Rewards Credit Card, which gives you automatic VIP Gold (better coupons, priority support, etc.) and 5% back on Priceline.com and 10% off Priceline bookings for Avis or Budget rental cars. [02:07] IsambardPrince So nobody is going to beat Priceline if you use them like that. [02:07] IsambardPrince They've gotten to be the biggest online travel agency because nobody beats their prices. [02:07] schestowitz[TR2] not sure we have Priceline here [02:07] IsambardPrince Even American Express Travel doesn't beat them even if you're using an American Express travel credit card. [02:07] schestowitz[TR2] not sure what Priceline even does [02:08] IsambardPrince And AmEx was basically the OG travel agency/financial services company in America. [02:08] IsambardPrince They did travel agencies, traveler's checks, all kinds of travel stuff. [02:08] IsambardPrince And now they're kind of a joke really. [02:08] IsambardPrince They're better at banking than travel. [02:08] TR News Techrights Bitcoin crash: opportunity or the end game? https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/06/Bitcoin_crash_opportunity_or_the_end_game.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/06/Bitcoin_crash_opportunity_or_the_end_game.gmi [02:08] TR Bot Techrights Bitcoin crash: opportunity or the end game? [02:09] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2], Even the hotel loyalty programs are not worth using. [02:09] IsambardPrince None of them are going to beat Priceline even if you value the hotel's points system and member prices. [02:10] IsambardPrince Whatever cash value they might have, when it costs $113 a night to book that way and only $60 through Priceline as an opaque booking and the credit card, they can't beat their own wholesale inventory they sell to Priceline. [02:10] IsambardPrince The whole idea is market segmentation, price discrimination. [02:11] IsambardPrince Even if you get one of the Hilton cards that pays 17 points per dollar and automatic diamond status (so you earn multiples on the booking itself), it wouldn't be cheaper than booking the same Hilton hotel on Priceline. [02:11] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2], Basically Priceline is a dumping ground for rooms they don't think they can sell. [02:11] TR News Techrights Blackmail evidence: Debian social engineering exposed in ClueCon 2024 talk on politics https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/06/Blackmail_evidence_Debian_social_engineering_exposed_in_ClueCon.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/06/Blackmail_evidence_Debian_social_engineering_exposed_in_ClueCon.gmi [02:11] TR Bot Techrights Blackmail evidence: Debian social engineering exposed in ClueCon 2024 talk on politics [02:12] IsambardPrince They tend to throw them at Priceline a month to a few weeks before the date. [02:12] IsambardPrince Because unsold inventory "spoils" and risks going empty. [02:12] IsambardPrince This lets them hurry up and make a sale and it's Priceline's problem if they pay and can't move the inventory. [02:12] IsambardPrince Priceline bookings contractually obligate the hotel to treat you exactly like someone that booked direct. [02:13] IsambardPrince If they let their own guests do something, they have to let you do it. [02:13] IsambardPrince Including free breakfast, fitness centers, business centers, pools, everything. [02:13] IsambardPrince You can even save more on opaque bookings by saying room assigned at check-in. [02:14] IsambardPrince It varies at the hotel, but like, most of them will have either a king bed or two queens. Or you might get an accessible room. [02:14] IsambardPrince It's whatever they have when you show up, you can request a certain type at check in if they still have that. [02:14] IsambardPrince But you might save another 75 cents to $2.50 a night if you're not picky. [02:14] TR News "What exactly the command does depends on the flavor of ex. The first order of business is to know that ex commands can have optional : before them and it's pretty easy to skip over a lot of those." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2026/02/06/valid-ex-commands.gmi [02:14] IsambardPrince I've done that before, saved $8 on a booking, and got upgraded to a suite that would have cost $60 more direct. [02:15] IsambardPrince You might also get handicapped rooms, but those are fine too. [02:15] IsambardPrince Nicer in fact. [02:15] IsambardPrince Like, extra grab bars in the shower and a shower bench, roll in shower, electronic controls for the blinds. [02:16] MinceR "I'm always the blind!" [02:16] IsambardPrince It's a nicer room. You should always get the accessible room if they haven't booked it to someone who needs it. [02:16] MinceR what if someone who needs tries to book it after you've booked it? [02:16] MinceR s/needs/needs it/ [02:17] IsambardPrince That usually doesn't happen. [02:17] IsambardPrince Because it's assigned at check-in. [02:17] IsambardPrince This hotel has 16 accessible rooms. [02:17] IsambardPrince So if you get randomly assigned to one it means that they're not all booked. [02:18] admfubar https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/neocities-founder-stuck-in-chatbot-hell-after-bing-blocked-1-5m-sites/ [02:18] TR Bot Neocities founder stuck in chatbot hell after Bing blocked 1.5 million sites - Ars Technica [02:19] IsambardPrince MinceR, There's very little to lose with room assigned at check-in. [02:19] IsambardPrince The worst that happens is you get the cheapest room, but you paid less than the cheapest room anyway. [02:19] IsambardPrince So you might randomly get a suit or an accessible. [02:20] IsambardPrince MinceR, I asked the manager about late check outs. [02:20] MinceR ic [02:20] IsambardPrince They said that their contract with Priceline requires them to let you do 1 PM instead of 11 AM without paying extra. [02:20] IsambardPrince Because that's what they give their rewards members. [02:22] IsambardPrince Priceline really is pretty good. [02:22] IsambardPrince I think everyone who travels should be using it. [02:22] IsambardPrince I've never made an opaque booking where I couldn't easily figure out before I hit the button what the hotel was. [02:23] IsambardPrince But because they take the hotel's name off, they can sell them way cheaper than the hotel, using discounts and coupons. [02:23] admfubar wait till you see the bill for that international call... https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/02/nasa-will-finally-allow-astronauts-to-bring-their-iphones-to-space/ [02:23] TR Bot NASA will finally allow astronauts to bring their iPhones to space - Ars Technica [02:24] IsambardPrince Typically, if a hotel is advertising $113, for example, I can get $60 on Priceline. [02:24] IsambardPrince There's one that advertises about $67-70 on their own site for rewards members. [02:25] IsambardPrince That one's always on Priceline for $49, and you can take 8% off that with a coupon and get 5% back with the Priceline card. [02:25] IsambardPrince If you're willing to stay in a Motel 6, they usually advertise a price nobody will beat, but if you show them an AARP card, you can take 10% off that. [02:26] IsambardPrince MinceR, I've never stayed in a Motel 6. I've always viewed them as more of a place to go when you "need a room" for legal reasons. [02:27] IsambardPrince You know, like because sex in public is illegal and a $39 motel room is good enough for an hour or two. [02:27] IsambardPrince :P [02:28] IsambardPrince MinceR, A lawyer made me laugh. Someone asked if sex in a locked single stall bathroom was legal because it wasn't a public place. [02:28] IsambardPrince The lawyer said a motel 6 is $40 and it's $6,000 to hire him to defend you and make that argument. [02:28] TR News Techrights Gemini Links 06/02/2026: Slop/Microslop, Home Assistant, and Valid Ex Commands https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/06/Gemini_Links_06_02_2026_Slop_Microslop_Home_Assistant_and_Valid.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/06/Gemini_Links_06_02_2026_Slop_Microslop_Home_Assistant_and_Valid.gmi [02:28] TR Bot Techrights Gemini Links 06/02/2026: Slop/Microslop, Home Assistant, and Valid Ex Commands [02:35] admfubar BIC is prized for its smooth, chocolaty flavor, and it is less bitter than regular coffee.<< bet it is... https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/02/02/1453203 [02:35] TR Bot Exploring How Gut Bacteria Alter the Flavor of Black Ivory Coffee Beans - SoylentNews [02:35] MinceR i was thinking BiC ballpoint pens [02:39] IsambardPrince MinceR, I got a passphrase where one group of letters was "FUKD" this morning. [02:39] IsambardPrince I laughed. "Hahaha, FUKD" [02:39] MinceR :) [02:39] MinceR systemd-fukd [02:41] admfubar https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2026/02/03/badnas/ [02:41] *nobody has quit (connection closed) [02:41] TR Bot When internal hostnames are leaked to the clown [02:42] *nobody (~nobody@dafzvvhavnewq.irc) has joined #techrights [02:42] *nobody has quit (connection closed) [02:44] *nobody (~nobody@8ise9qnzd8mps.irc) has joined #techrights [02:46] TR News Yesterday's #boycottnovell-social and #techpol IRC logs ready. 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HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-050226.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-050226.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techbytes-050226.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techbytes-050226.txt [02:49] TR Bot IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Thursday, February 05, 2026 [02:49] TR News Yesterday's bulletin is now ready! : http://techrights.org/txt-archives/techrights-2026-02-05.txt | gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/techrights-2026-02-05.txt (tentative address, to work an hour from now) [02:50] TR News The orgy guy https://www.tomshardware.com/software/most-of-you-steal-your-software-bill-gates-complained-about-software-piracy-50-years-ago-and-was-openly-irked-by-communitys-altair-basic-theft [02:50] TR Bot Most of you steal your software Bill Gates complained about software piracy 50 years ago, and was openly irked by community's Altair BASIC theft | Tom's Hardware [02:50] TR News Yesterday's Tux Machines bulletin is now ready! : http://news.tuxmachines.org/txt-archives/tuxmachines-2026-02-05.txt [02:51] TR News The new Valve Steam Machine is 'on track' https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/the-new-valve-steam-machine-is-on-track-to-begin-shipping-early-this-year-says-amd-ceo-suggests-new-4k-mini-gaming-pc-powered-by-semi-custom-zen-4-cpu-to-launch-soon [02:51] TR Bot The new Valve Steam Machine is 'on track' to begin shipping early this year, says AMD CEO suggests new 4K mini gaming PC, powered by semi-custom Zen 4 CPU, to launch soon | Tom's Hardware [02:51] TR News US Declassifies Information on JUMPSEAT Spy Satellites https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/02/us-declassifies-information-on-jumpseat-spy-satellites.html [02:51] TR Bot Declassifies Information on JUMPSEAT Spy Satellites - Schneier on Security [02:52] TR News Techrights IRC Proceedings: Thursday, February 05, 2026 https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/06/IRC_Proceedings_Thursday_February_05_2026.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/06/IRC_Proceedings_Thursday_February_05_2026.gmi [02:52] TR Bot Techrights IRC Proceedings: Thursday, February 05, 2026 [02:53] TR News How Democracy for Sale is making investigative journalism pay on Substack https://pressgazette.co.uk/newsletters/peter-geoghegan-democracy-for-sale-investigative-journalism-substack-newsletters-slapps/ [02:53] TR Bot Peter Geoghegan on rapid growth of investigative newsletter Democracy for Sale - Press Gazette [02:53] TR News Jobs at risk as Sun set to merge features desk and Fabulous team https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/nationals/jobs-at-risk-as-sun-set-to-merge-features-desk-and-fabulous-team/ [02:53] TR Bot Jobs at risk as Sun set to merge features desk and Fabulous team - Press Gazette [02:55] TR News (NEW): Today in Techrights https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/06/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/06/Today_in_Techrights.gmi [02:55] TR Bot Tux Machines Today in Techrights [02:55] TR News Washington Post to cut one-third of all staff https://pressgazette.co.uk/north-america/washington-post-cuts-one-third-of-all-staff-newsroom-sports-books-foreign/ [02:55] TR Bot Washington Post to cut one-third of all staff - Press Gazette [02:55] TR News Journalism job cuts in 2026 tracked: Washington Post announces biggest media layoffs of year so far https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/journalism-job-cuts-in-2026-updates/ [02:55] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2], https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/04/business/melinda-bill-gates-epstein-reaction-intl-hnk [02:55] TR Bot Journalism job cuts in 2026 tracked: Rolling updates - Press Gazette [02:56] TR Bot Melinda French Gates says Bill Gates has questions to answer over Epstein ties | CNN Business [02:56] schestowitz[TR2] nobody will punish him [02:56] schestowitz[TR2] the system can only attain real effect [02:57] TR News Techrights Over at Tux Machines... https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/06/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/06/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi [02:57] schestowitz[TR2] i.e. the elite cracking down on themselves [02:57] TR Bot Techrights Over at Tux Machines... [02:57] schestowitz[TR2] when there is huge rebellion [02:57] schestowitz[TR2] the conditions for thatb mean [02:57] schestowitz[TR2] - no foot on shelves [02:57] schestowitz[TR2] -no salaries coming in [02:57] schestowitz[TR2] and no certainty for one's "tomorrow" [02:57] schestowitz[TR2] this whole thing will be bnrushed aside [02:57] schestowitz[TR2] Bill will buy more "PR" [02:57] schestowitz[TR2] back to business as usual [02:58] schestowitz[TR2] "detailing her her ex-husband and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates' ties with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were released last week." [02:58] schestowitz[TR2] typo i summary [02:58] schestowitz[TR2] her her [02:59] schestowitz[TR2] CNN sloppy [02:59] MinceR speaking of CNN being sloppy >> https://imgur.com/gallery/crazy-talk-DPiCyst [02:59] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://imgur.com/gallery/crazy-talk-DPiCyst ) ● Feb 06 [03:00] schestowitz[TR2] "Content not available in your region." [03:00] schestowitz[TR2] wow, still [03:00] schestowitz[TR2] they blocked the whole UK [03:00] schestowitz[TR2] over ofcom, IIRC [03:00] MinceR lol [03:00] schestowitz[TR2] and still so... [03:00] schestowitz[TR2] maybe indefinitely [03:00] MinceR maybe this works >> https://rimgo.bloat.cat/gallery/crazy-talk-DPiCyst [03:00] TR Bot Just a moment... [03:00] schestowitz[TR2] https://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/articles/41592665292443-Imgur-access-in-the-United-Kingdom [03:00] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/articles/41592665292443-Imgur-access-in-the-United-Kingdom ) [03:01] schestowitz[TR2] MinceR: i will write about this in TR [03:03] MinceR :> [03:05] *Righty has quit (connection closed) [03:05] *Righty (~Username@3sedrzpw5rzss.irc) has joined #techrights [03:13] schestowitz[TR2] MinceR: http://techrights.org/i/2026/02/cia-venezuela.png [03:13] schestowitz[TR2] no geoblocking, no clwonflare [03:13] TR News Techrights Corrupt Media Won't Hold Accountable Rich People for Role in Pedophilia https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/06/Corrupt_Media_Won_t_Hold_Accountable_Rich_People_for_Role_in_Pe.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/06/Corrupt_Media_Won_t_Hold_Accountable_Rich_People_for_Role_in_Pe.gmi [03:13] TR Bot Techrights Corrupt Media Won't Hold Accountable Rich People for Role in Pedophilia [03:13] MinceR :) [03:30] TR News Techrights End of the 'GPU Bubble' and NVIDIA Finally Admits It Won't Bail Out Microsoft OpenAI Anymore https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/06/End_of_the_GPU_Bubble_and_NVIDIA_Finally_Admits_It_Won_t_Bail_O.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/06/End_of_the_GPU_Bubble_and_NVIDIA_Finally_Admits_It_Won_t_Bail_O.gmi [03:30] TR Bot Techrights End of the 'GPU Bubble' and NVIDIA Finally Admits It Won't Bail Out Microsoft OpenAI Anymore [03:47] TR News Techrights "Going to be a large number of Microsoft layoffs announced soon" https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/06/Going_to_be_a_large_number_of_Microsoft_layoffs_announced_soon.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/06/Going_to_be_a_large_number_of_Microsoft_layoffs_announced_soon.gmi [03:47] TR Bot Techrights "Going to be a large number of Microsoft layoffs announced soon" ● Feb 06 [04:06] TR News Central Staff Committee Confronted Antnio Campinos for Giving His Cocaine-Addicted Friend Over 100,000 Euros to Do Nothing, Just Pretend to be Ill, While Cutting the Salaries of Everybody Else http://techrights.org/n/2026/02/06/Central_Staff_Committee_Confronted_Antonio_Campinos_for_Giving_.shtml [04:06] TR Bot Techrights Central Staff Committee Confronted Antnio Campinos for Giving His Cocaine-Addicted Friend Over 100,000 Euros to Do Nothing, Just Pretend to be Ill, While Cutting the Salaries of Everybody Else [04:23] TR News Techrights Growing Focus on Publication https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/06/Growing_Focus_on_Publication.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/06/Growing_Focus_on_Publication.gmi [04:23] TR Bot Techrights Growing Focus on Publication [04:31] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [04:32] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@kcb99h722ua4g.irc) has joined #techrights [04:34] TR News (NEW): Microsoft Windows Measured at Less Than 1% in American Samoa https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/06/Microsoft_Windows_Measured_at_Less_Than_1_in_American_Samoa.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/06/Microsoft_Windows_Measured_at_Less_Than_1_in_American_Samoa.gmi [04:34] TR Bot Tux Machines Microsoft Windows Measured at Less Than 1% in American Samoa [04:35] IsambardPrince I told Paul this. [04:35] IsambardPrince A car loan was the worst thing I ever signed, other than a marriage license. [04:35] IsambardPrince MinceR, ^ [04:36] MinceR :> [04:38] IsambardPrince I was going over all the horrible things about a car loan. [04:39] IsambardPrince Including losing all the money you paid the bank forever, if they repossess it, and they'll still come up with money you owe them after you have no car. [04:48] TR News Techrights Amutable is a Microsoft Siege Against Freedom in GNU/Linux, Just Like the People Who Brought You 'Secure Boot' Controlled by Microsoft https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/06/Amutable_is_a_Microsoft_Siege_Against_Freedom_in_GNU_Linux_Just.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/06/Amutable_is_a_Microsoft_Siege_Against_Freedom_in_GNU_Linux_Just.gmi [04:48] TR Bot Techrights Amutable is a Microsoft Siege Against Freedom in GNU/Linux, Just Like the People Who Brought You 'Secure Boot' Controlled by Microsoft [04:56] TR News On IBM: "I am hoping it will plummet soon" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kgj7w26n [04:56] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kgj7w26n ) [04:56] TR News 15% of IBM to be laid off? "It is revolting to think, a worthless, useless piece of sh1t manager, like the one I have, is going to set the 15-70-15 rule and destroys people lives. The id1ot is a sc-mbag." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kgqs2dpd [04:56] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kgqs2dpd ) [04:57] TR News "IBM pays for these articles from advertising and marketing budgets. Its like Astro turfing" "It is a paid for advertisement. Someone paid www.economist.com to run an advertisement." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kgr7szx1 [04:57] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kgr7szx1 ) [04:58] TR News "kiss of death micron, qualcomm, intel is infested, the list goes on and on and on it is an army of zombie companies passing money up to a parasitic shareholder" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kgd3fjc9 [04:58] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kgd3fjc9 ) [04:58] TR News "Count your blessings -- do you prefer a company run by Ballmer or Rometty? Btw, I am more associated with MSFT" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kgd3fjc9 [04:59] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kg3ctq05 [04:59] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kg3ctq05 ) [04:59] schestowitz[TR2] " [04:59] schestowitz[TR2] He very clearly has favorites. Just look at the way they promoted the newest senior manager in the etch area. It seems very suspicious and does not make sense when you look closely. [04:59] schestowitz[TR2] Watch what happens and ask yourself: Does this make sense? Was it earned? What accomplishments justify this promotion? If you can point to any, then okay. [04:59] schestowitz[TR2] He speaks very little and explains even less. He is calm and does not use many words, but actions show what really matters. Look at the results and ask: Does it make sense? Was it deserved? Are there measurable contributions that support this promotion? If not, it is clear what really happened.' ● Feb 06 [05:00] TR News Men with big beards who add "he/him" are trying to ensure you don't mistake them for women. [05:01] TR News Epstein files and Lithuania: contacts with artists and Lithuanian ancestry https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2826301/epstein-files-and-lithuania-contacts-with-artists-and-lithuanian-ancestry [05:01] TR Bot Epstein files and Lithuania: contacts with artists and Lithuanian ancestry - LRT [05:03] *SomeGoat has quit (connection closed) [05:04] TR News UPC is illegal and this is yet more of JUVE endorsing a corrupt system run by actual cocaine addicts (or promoted by them) https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/dusseldorf-local-division-hears-dolby-vs-beko/ [05:04] TR Bot Dsseldorf local division hears Dolby vs Beko [05:06] TR News UN experts condemn conviction of human rights defenders in Pakistan https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/02/un-experts-condemn-conviction-of-human-rights-defenders-in-pakistan/ [05:06] TR Bot UN experts condemn conviction of human rights defenders in Pakistan - JURIST - News [05:06] TR News Rights group raises concern about freedom crackdowns in West Africa https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/02/rights-group-raises-concern-about-freedom-crackdowns-in-west-africa/ [05:06] TR Bot Rights group raises concern about crackdown on freedoms in West Africa - JURIST - News [05:08] TR News Rights group decries detention of Chinese investigative journalists Liu Hu and Wu Yingjiao https://hongkongfp.com/2026/02/04/rights-group-decries-detention-of-chinese-investigative-journalists-liu-hu-and-wu-yingjiao/ [05:08] TR Bot Rights group decries detention of 2 Chinese investigative journalists [05:08] TR News Public health is part of national security, police officer tells trial of Hong Kong Tiananmen vigil activists https://hongkongfp.com/2026/02/04/public-health-is-part-of-national-security-police-officer-tells-trial-of-hong-kong-tiananmen-vigil-activists/ [05:08] TR Bot HK Tiananmen vigil trial: Police officer defends blocking 2020 vigil [05:09] TR News Hong Kong man gets 80 hours community service for tearing off fingertip-sized corner of election poster https://hongkongfp.com/2026/02/05/hong-kong-man-gets-80-hours-community-service-for-tearing-off-fingertip-sized-corner-of-election-poster/ [05:09] TR Bot HK man gets 80 hours community service for election poster damage [05:10] TR News Human Rights Watch warns US heading to 'authoritarianism' https://www.france24.com/en/human-rights-watch-warns-us-heading-to-authoritarianism Just "heading"? [05:10] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/human-rights-watch-warns-us-heading-to-authoritarianism ) [05:11] TR News Digital sovereignty (3/3): Are European citizens trapped into using US Big Tech? https://www.france24.com/en/technology/20260204-digital-sovereignty-european-citizens-trapped-into-using-us-big-tech [05:11] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/technology/20260204-digital-sovereignty-european-citizens-trapped-into-using-us-big-tech ) [05:12] TR News Four out of every 10 cancer cases are preventable: WHO https://www.france24.com/en/four-out-of-every-10-cancer-cases-are-preventable-who [05:12] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/four-out-of-every-10-cancer-cases-are-preventable-who ) [05:13] TR News Bezos pretends to have financial strain https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260204-washington-post-announces-major-job-cuts [05:13] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260204-washington-post-announces-major-job-cuts ) [05:14] TR News Prevention is power: 'We do have the technology and the knowledge, we need to work together' https://www.france24.com/en/prevention-is-power-we-do-have-the-technology-and-the-knowledge-we-need-to-work-together [05:14] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/prevention-is-power-we-do-have-the-technology-and-the-knowledge-we-need-to-work-together ) [05:16] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2], AARP has a discount on interview prep from Indeed. [05:16] IsambardPrince Indeed is laying off employees. [05:16] *bleb has quit (Ping timeout: 264 seconds) [05:16] schestowitz[TR2] indeed [05:17] *bleb (~cm@user/bleb) has joined #techrights [05:19] MinceR :> [05:22] IsambardPrince MinceR, I'd like to sew together one of those You Need Indeed commercials then have Teal'c saying "Indeed I do." [05:23] schestowitz[TR2] somehow i expecetedxc you to say indeed before me, MinceR [05:23] schestowitz[TR2] and was about to metjon you proactively [05:23] schestowitz[TR2] MinceR: tj kirk amazingatheist is still going [05:23] schestowitz[TR2] just vastly smaller audience [05:23] IsambardPrince Those job posting websites are all laying people off. [05:23] IsambardPrince LinkedIn is utter trash. [05:23] MinceR i was busy otherwise [05:23] IsambardPrince They're the worst. I've never known anyone who "networked" on LinkedIn to productive effect. [05:23] nobody in germany Xing is a prominent mudhole - i hate it [05:24] IsambardPrince More like MARISOL rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. [05:24] MinceR XingMPEG? [05:24] schestowitz[TR2] https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=tOOKvhTpkm4 [05:24] TR Bot ( status 418 @ https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=tOOKvhTpkm4 ) [05:24] schestowitz[TR2] listening to it in the kitchen [05:24] schestowitz[TR2] it's quite good actually [05:24] nobody no MinceR, xing.com, it's an HR website like linkedin an other junk [05:24] IsambardPrince Xing was extended to Helix MP3. [05:24] MinceR :> [05:24] schestowitz[TR2] IsambardPrince will like it [05:24] IsambardPrince And then Helix MP3 was open sourced. [05:25] schestowitz[TR2] as it covers some points he made before [05:25] IsambardPrince We're watching Godzilla vs. King Kong. [05:25] nobody meanwhile, let me say, i have deployed my linux-2.4/tinycc kernel fork and the complete distribution into production as my main developent host [05:26] nobody even my tiny little web site is hosted atop linux/tcc system [05:26] nobody almost all of the most recent software versions i have backported is working [05:27] nobody whic is fascinating, because it's both kernel abi swapped AND fully detangled from GNU toolchain, instead 100% driven by tinycc [05:28] nobody i've had no luck with job placement inquiries regardless, probably because Xing.com/LinkedIn/Indeed and the like are full of AI bot shit [05:30] schestowitz[TR2] pre-rust linux [05:31] nobody and, pre-c++ [05:32] nobody i would throw rust-lang and c++ into the same bag, both rely upon a similar unstable development model, violate standards, and need a heavyweight c++-based compiler/toolchain infrastructure [05:34] nobody i've been talking about this before, what fundemental fork that is, to detangle all of it to retain sanity [05:34] nobody and most important, i got a development system deployed, up and running as my main development host, in production, 24/7 [05:35] nobody because, this is another difference to various other, to finalize a complete system integration with such a fork [05:36] nobody it's too a highly relevant development baseline, for entire foss, to approach any other variant than i586-tinycc-linux-musl [05:36] nobody such as aarch64-tinycc-linux-musl, for example, or swapping tinycc to scc compiler/toolchain [05:37] nobody which offers something else again then, that is FREEDOM of choice with "free software" [05:38] nobody of cause, GNU-toolchain is important, but it can't cover all niches such as embedded self-hosting development, and it's not nice if GNU left you no choice [05:38] nobody llvm/clang/rust, that's no choice made either, it's just another attack on software-freedom to leave you with none, no freedom of choice [05:39] nobody linux kernel, could be swapped for fiwix, for example, with regards to freedom [05:40] nobody but i had to re-establish a development baseline first, to see at least one test-vector remaining which guarantees just that, freedom of choice [05:56] TR News "There are no mass layoffs or nothing I have heard so far! Everyone I talk to are just chillin and enjoying their paychecks lol" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kgqs2dpd [05:56] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kgqs2dpd ) [05:57] TR News Trolls in the forums now: "WHATEVER IT IS THERE WILL BE NO LAYOFFS IN IBM !!!" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kgd3fjc9 [05:57] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kgd3fjc9 ) ● Feb 06 [06:06] *croissant has quit (Quit: Leaving) [06:07] TR News Techrights AI Used to Save Lives, Now "AI" is a Grifting Scheme That Burns the Planet and Will Crash the Economy https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/06/AI_Used_to_Save_Lives_Now_AI_is_a_Grifting_Scheme_That_Burns_th.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/06/AI_Used_to_Save_Lives_Now_AI_is_a_Grifting_Scheme_That_Burns_th.gmi [06:07] TR Bot Techrights AI Used to Save Lives, Now "AI" is a Grifting Scheme That Burns the Planet and Will Crash the Economy [06:13] *croissant (~croissant@yf8bqngk29h22.irc) has joined #techrights [06:29] TR News Techrights More Than 99% of "AI" Companies Aren't AI, They're Pure BS https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/06/More_Than_99_of_AI_Companies_Aren_t_AI_They_re_Pure_BS.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/06/More_Than_99_of_AI_Companies_Aren_t_AI_They_re_Pure_BS.gmi [06:29] TR Bot Techrights More Than 99% of "AI" Companies Aren't AI, They're Pure BS [06:46] *IsambardPrince has quit (Quit: Leaving) [06:47] TR News (NEW): The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), Even If Now Run by a Lady, is Failing Ladies https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/06/The_Solicitors_Regulation_Authority_SRA_Even_If_Now_Run_by_a_La.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/06/The_Solicitors_Regulation_Authority_SRA_Even_If_Now_Run_by_a_La.gmi [06:47] TR Bot Tux Machines The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), Even If Now Run by a Lady, is Failing Ladies ● Feb 06 [07:01] TR News (NEW): Calibre 9.2 Ebook Manager Improves the Bookshelf View, Ebook Viewer, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/06/Calibre_9_2_Ebook_Manager_Improves_the_Bookshelf_View_Ebook_Vie.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/06/Calibre_9_2_Ebook_Manager_Improves_the_Bookshelf_View_Ebook_Vie.gmi [07:01] TR Bot Tux Machines Calibre 9.2 Ebook Manager Improves the Bookshelf View, Ebook Viewer, and More [07:07] TR News Techrights #HowTo Win Lawsuits in 5 Simple Steps https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/06/How_to_Win_Lawsuits_in_5_Simple_Steps.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/06/How_to_Win_Lawsuits_in_5_Simple_Steps.gmi [07:07] TR Bot Techrights How to Win Lawsuits in 5 Simple Steps [07:10] TR News Live Nation Scoops Up Italys ForumNet Group in $100 Million+ Deal https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/02/04/live-nation-forumnet-deal/ [07:10] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/02/04/live-nation-forumnet-deal/ ) [07:12] TR News reComputer Jetson AGX Orin Developer Kit GMSL Bundle features 8x GMSL2 camera interfaces, 10GbE networking https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/02/04/recomputer-jetson-agx-orin-developer-kit-gmsl-bundle-features-8x-gmsl2-camera-interfaces-10gbe-networking/ [07:12] TR Bot reComputer Jetson AGX Orin Developer Kit GMSL Bundle features 8x GMSL2 camera interfaces, 10GbE networking - CNX Software [07:12] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techrights [07:13] TR News AMD Kintex UltraScale+ Gen 2 mid-range FPGA family to be available until at least 2045 https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/02/04/amd-kintex-ultrascale-gen-2-mid-range-fpga-family-to-be-available-until-at-least-2045/ [07:13] TR Bot AMD Kintex UltraScale+ Gen 2 mid-range FPGA family to be available until at least 2045 - CNX Software [07:14] TR News (NEW): As of 2026, this is my favorite Linux distro of all time - and I've tested them all https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/06/As_of_2026_this_is_my_favorite_Linux_distro_of_all_time_and_I_v.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/06/As_of_2026_this_is_my_favorite_Linux_distro_of_all_time_and_I_v.gmi [07:14] TR Bot Tux Machines As of 2026, this is my favorite Linux distro of all time - and I've tested them all [07:15] TR News WordPress is becoming laughing stock in service of plagiarism and Ponzi scheme: Piloting the Hey Hi (AI) Leaders Micro-Credential https://wordpress.org/news/2026/02/ai-leaders-credential/ [07:15] TR Bot Piloting the AI Leaders Micro-Credential WordPress News [07:16] TR News (NEW): Linux updates don't scare me anymore thanks to this immutable distro (and it's easy to use) https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/06/Linux_updates_don_t_scare_me_anymore_thanks_to_this_immutable_d.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/06/Linux_updates_don_t_scare_me_anymore_thanks_to_this_immutable_d.gmi [07:16] TR Bot Tux Machines Linux updates don't scare me anymore thanks to this immutable distro (and it's easy to use) [07:17] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techrights [07:17] TR News Typing for Love or Money: The Hidden Womens Labor behind Modern Literary Masterpieces https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/typing-for-love-or-money [07:17] TR Bot Typing for Love or Money: The Hidden Womens Labor behind Modern Literary Masterpieces The Public Domain Review [07:17] TR News Sekka Zusetsu: A Book of Snowflakes (1832) https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/japanese-snowflake-book [07:17] TR Bot *Sekka Zusetsu*: A Book of Snowflakes (1832) The Public Domain Review [07:19] TR News (NEW): Tech Savvy Meets Principles in Emmabunts Debian 6 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/06/Tech_Savvy_Meets_Principles_in_Emmabuntus_Debian_6.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/06/Tech_Savvy_Meets_Principles_in_Emmabuntus_Debian_6.gmi [07:19] TR Bot Tux Machines Tech Savvy Meets Principles in Emmabunts Debian 6 [07:19] TR News [Repost] Wash Post Reports ... Wash Post punished by its pervy owner https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2026-01-27/us-national-parks-told-to-remove-signs-on-mistreatment-of-native-americans-climate-wash-post-reports [07:19] TR Bot stream 1 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2) ( status 0 @ https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2026-01-27/us-national-parks-told-to-remove-signs-on-mistreatment-of-native-americans-climate-wash-post-reports ) [07:21] TR News "The fallout from the 550+ fired from WaPo (this year and earlier) is terrible because _*so many*_ other titles used to republish their material." Not much is left in English after BBC took bribes from Epsteingate, got sued Epstein's pizza buddy, Cheeto, then there's VOA, NPR, PBC and Radio Free Asia/Europe. Autocrats like Orban know media's "threat". [07:22] TR News They idea is to dish slop... via social control media curated (censored) for Nazi-saluting maniacs. While kicking to the curb or SLAPPing any remaining media. [07:24] TR News "The letter kicked off a war that would shape the tech industry." https://boingboing.net/2026/02/04/50-years-ago-a-20-year-old-bill-gates-called-hobbyists-thieves-for-sharing-software.html | Source: BoingBoing [07:24] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://boingboing.net/2026/02/04/50-years-ago-a-20-year-old-bill-gates-called-hobbyists-thieves-for-sharing-software.html ) [07:25] TR News Patents: "Instead of licensing the technology, Ford (and eventually the rest of the Big Three) rejected Kearns proposal." https://www.vintag.es/2026/02/robert-kearns-vs-ford.html | Source: Vintage Everyday [07:25] TR Bot The Legal Battle of Robert Kearns, Who Invented the Intermittent Windshield Wiper, vs. Ford Motor Company ~ Vintage Everyday [07:25] TR News "Adafruit's Phillip Torrone breaks down why this won't work." https://boingboing.net/2026/02/05/new-york-bill-would-require-kill-switches-on-all-3d-printers.html | Source: BoingBoing [07:25] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://boingboing.net/2026/02/05/new-york-bill-would-require-kill-switches-on-all-3d-printers.html ) [07:26] TR News "Assuming that Apple didnt change the coding system, this reveal lets us know that yes, Apple is testing a Mac with an M5 Ultra chip." https://www.macworld.com/article/3053758/apples-m5-ultra-secret-may-have-been-spilled.html | Source: Macworld [07:26] TR Bot M5 Ultra secret may have been spilled | Macworld [07:26] TR News "A California federal court has issued a ruling that could have serious implications for the YouTube "reaction" videos that are created with stream-ripping tools." https://torrentfreak.com/ripping-clips-for-youtube-reaction-videos-can-violate-the-dmca-court-rules/ | Source: Torrent Freak [07:26] TR Bot Clips for YouTube Reaction Videos can Violate the DMCA, Court Rules * TorrentFreak [07:28] TR News Too late, as the damage it already done, no regulation administered https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/sra-intervenes-into-pm-law-group-to-protect-client-interests/5125802.article [07:28] TR Bot SRA intervenes into PM Law and its network of firms to protect client interests | Law Gazette [07:29] TR News Where was the SRA until now? Doing nothing, as usual? https://www.insidermedia.com/news/midlands/sra-intervenes-of-group-of-law-firms-following-unexpected-closure-we-are-working-quickly-to-gather-all-the-relevant-information-and-provide-answers [07:29] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.insidermedia.com/news/midlands/sra-intervenes-of-group-of-law-firms-following-unexpected-closure-we-are-working-quickly-to-gather-all-the-relevant-information-and-provide-answers ) [07:29] TR News (NEW): Free and Open Source Software https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/06/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/06/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi [07:29] TR Bot Tux Machines Free and Open Source Software [07:53] TR News Mobbing at the European Patent Office (EPO) - Part IV - EPO Can Get Away With Murders, Suicide Clusters, and Systematic and Prolonged Bullying by 'Team Campinos' ("Alicante Mafia" as Insiders Call It) http://techrights.org/n/2026/02/06/Mobbing_at_the_European_Patent_Office_EPO_Part_IV_EPO_Can_Get_A.shtml [07:53] TR Bot Techrights Mobbing at the European Patent Office (EPO) - Part IV - EPO Can Get Away With Murders, Suicide Clusters, and Systematic and Prolonged Bullying by 'Team Campinos' ("Alicante Mafia" as Insiders Call It) [07:54] TR News "Best Free Usenet Trials 2026" https://greycoder.com/best-free-usenet-trials-2026/ | Source: GreyCoder [07:54] TR Bot Free Usenet Trials 2026 - GreyCoder [07:54] *psydroid3 (~psydroid@7h7y9yu8y5zjw.irc) has joined #techrights [07:54] TR News "The majority of the internet is going to be bot traffic in the future" https://www.wired.com/story/ai-bots-are-now-a-signifigant-source-of-web-traffic/ | Source: Wired [07:54] TR Bot Bots Are Now a Significant Source of Web Traffic | WIRED [07:55] TR News "In 2020 I noted the AWWWards site wrapped every letter" https://adrianroselli.com/2026/02/you-know-what-just-dont-split-words-into-letters.html | Source: Adrian Roselli [07:55] TR Bot You Know What? Just Dont Split Words into Letters Adrian Roselli [07:56] TR News "We teach our students to build features in three steps: [...]" https://cydstumpel.nl/why-we-teach-our-students-progressive-enhancement/ | [07:56] TR Bot Why we teach our students progressive enhancement | Blog Cyd Stumpel [07:56] TR News "The fuller context of her statement captures her frustration with her unsuccessful efforts to get ICE prisoners released." https://emptywheel.net/the-minnesota-lawyer-backlog-arises-from-ice-kidnappings/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler [07:56] TR Bot The Minnesota Lawyer Backlog Arises from ICE Kidnappings - emptywheel [07:57] TR News "Our days are riding on the learning edge of a whirlwind crisis management, harm mitigation, helping everyone come to terms with new conditions and new impossible choices that theyre faced with" https://organizingmythoughts.org/minneapolis-community-defense-is-riding-on-the-learning-edge-of-a-whirlwind/ | Source: Kelly Hayes [07:57] TR Bot Minneapolis Community Defense Is Riding on the Learning Edge of a Whirlwind [07:58] TR News "A group of sociologists inside the country also commented on the violence and repression, emphasizing that preserving human life takes precedence over any political expediency." https://www.en-hrana.org/day-40-of-the-protests-domestic-reactions-continued-arrests-and-forced-confessions/ | Source: Human rights Activists News Agency [07:58] TR Bot Day 40 of the Protests: Domestic Reactions, Continued Arrests, and Forced Confessions - Hrana ● Feb 06 [08:02] TR News "Marimar Martinez was shot multiple times by Border Patrol agents." https://truthout.org/video/us-citizens-describe-being-shot-harassed-and-threatened-by-immigration-agents/ | Source: TruthOut [08:02] TR Bot US Citizens Describe Being Shot, Harassed, and Threatened by Immigration Agents | Truthout [08:04] TR News "The layoffs hit more than 300 journalists." https://kyivindependent.com/jeff-bezos-washington-post-shuts-down-kyiv-bureau-fires-staff/ | Source: The Kyiv Independent [08:04] TR Bot Kyiv bureau among those axed by Jeff Bezos' Washington Post, hundreds of journalists laid off [08:04] TR News "Bezos may be tiring of the Post, but he has not seemed inclined to sell the paper. Nor is it clear that would be a better, or at this point even feasible, outcome." https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-communications/how-jeff-bezos-brought-down-the-washington-post | Source: New Yorker [08:04] TR Bot How Jeff Bezos Brought Down the Washington Post | The New Yorker [08:05] TR News "This is a bloodbath. The purging of 300 journalists from one of the most important news titles in America is an incalculable loss." https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/fight | Source: Carole Cadwalladr [08:05] TR Bot Fight! - by Carole Cadwalladr [08:05] TR News "A new Pew Research Center survey gets much more specific: How do Americans feel about 30 of the countrys major news sources?" https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2025/06/10/the-political-gap-in-americans-news-sources/ | Source: Pew Reseach Center [08:05] TR Bot Which News Sources Republicans and Democrats Use and Trust: Report | Pew Research Center [08:06] TR News "About 240 staffers left via buyouts offered at the end of 2023, and another chunk of staffers took buyouts last year, which were offered to any employee with more than 10 years of experience." https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/04/washington-post-layoffs | Source: The Guardian UK [08:06] TR Bot Its an absolute bloodbath: Washington Post lays off hundreds of workers | Washington Post | The Guardian [08:06] TR News "The Post is a symbol, both for journalism and America, and for Jeff Bezos and Will Lewis to axe 300 of you in a single day, including those currently reporting in war zones, feels like an augury." https://pressgazette.co.uk/comment-analysis/a-letter-to-the-300-axed-washington-post-staffers-from-carole-cadwalladr/ | Source: Press Gazette [08:06] TR Bot A letter to the 300 axed Washington Post staffers from Carole Cadwalladr - Press Gazette [08:11] TR News (NEW): I added these 3 applets to Linux Mint, and now its a productive workstation https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/06/I_added_these_3_applets_to_Linux_Mint_and_now_its_a_productive_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/06/I_added_these_3_applets_to_Linux_Mint_and_now_its_a_productive_.gmi [08:11] TR Bot Tux Machines I added these 3 applets to Linux Mint, and now its a productive workstation [08:14] TR News (NEW): Ubuntu on RISC-V might actually be good thanks to this chip https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/06/Ubuntu_on_RISC_V_might_actually_be_good_thanks_to_this_chip.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/06/Ubuntu_on_RISC_V_might_actually_be_good_thanks_to_this_chip.gmi [08:14] TR Bot Tux Machines Ubuntu on RISC-V might actually be good thanks to this chip [08:28] TR News (NEW): : Google Android Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/06/Android_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/06/Android_Leftovers.gmi [08:28] TR Bot Tux Machines Android Leftovers [08:36] TR News "As countries step up their use of [Internet] shutdowns to muzzle dissent, some are also taking advantage of the blackouts to increase censorship firewalls" https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/countries-using-internet-blackouts-to-boost-censorship-proton-356521821 | Source: RTL [08:36] TR Bot Supercharged ability: Countries using internet blackouts to boost censorship: Proton - RTL Today [08:36] TR News "Following the enactment of the Beijing-imposed national security law, some student unions at Hong Kong universities have disbanded or halted their operation." https://hongkongfp.com/2026/02/05/breaking-hong-kong-federation-of-students-to-disband-after-68-years-citing-increasing-pressure/ | Source: Hong Kong Free Press [08:36] TR Bot BREAKING: Hong Kong Federation of Students to disband after 68 years, citing 'increasing pressure' [08:37] TR News "The Snowflake network is currently overloaded and we need more Snowflake proxies." https://lists.torproject.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/tor-relays@lists.torproject.org/thread/IWZFD5T24AGQ4MVRZFXOEZ6L3DG2D3C2/ | Source: Tor [08:37] TR Bot for more Snowflake proxies! - tor-relays - lists.torproject.org [08:37] TR News "The New York Times collected and analyzed hundreds of videos of a crackdown on anti-government protests that Iranians shared despite an internet blackout." https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/middleeast/100000010672177/how-we-know-iran-crushed-protests-with-lethal-force.html | Source: New York Times [08:37] TR Bot How We Know Iran Crushed Protests with Lethal Force - The New York Times [08:37] TR News "Hong Kongs pro-democracy former media tycoon Jimmy Lai will be sentenced Monday following his conviction in December under a Beijing-imposed national security law" https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2026-02-05/hong-kong-ex-media-tycoon-jimmy-lai-will-be-sentenced-monday-after-national-security-conviction | Source: US News And World Report [08:37] TR Bot stream 1 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2) ( status 0 @ https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2026-02-05/hong-kong-ex-media-tycoon-jimmy-lai-will-be-sentenced-monday-after-national-security-conviction ) [08:38] TR News "The Apple Daily founder will face judges handpicked to oversee national security cases at West Kowloon Law Courts." https://hongkongfp.com/2026/02/06/breaking-jimmy-lai-sentencing-set-for-10am-monday-media-tycoon-faces-up-to-life-in-prison/ | Source: Hong Kong Free Press [08:38] TR Bot Jimmy Lai sentencing set for 10am Mon - media tycoon faces up to life jail [08:38] TR News "At least 12 Georgian protesters with unpaid fines accrued from blocking the road during demonstrations have had their bank accounts seized." https://oc-media.org/bank-accounts-seized-from-over-12-georgian-protesters/ | Source: Open Caucasus Media [08:38] TR Bot Bank accounts seized from over 12 Georgian protesters [08:38] TR News "The press went wild! Stock prices got quite the boost! 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We now have reverse-cycle air conditioning, heat pump hot water systems, and even heat pump dryers." https://hackaday.com/2026/02/05/big-heat-pumps-are-doing-big-things/ | Source: Hackaday [08:55] TR Bot Heat Pumps Are Doing Big Things | Hackaday [08:55] TR News "His meeting with the founder of 4chan and his quest to profit off the end of democracy" https://www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-how-epstein-broke-the-internet | Source: Garbage Day [08:55] TR Bot Here's how Epstein broke the internet ● Feb 06 [09:19] TR News Techrights Jeff Bezos Isn't Just Killing the Washington Post, He's Killing Thousands of News Sites/Newsrooms (in Dozens of Languages) That Rely on It for Many Decades Already https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/06/Jeff_Bezos_Isn_t_Just_Killing_the_Washington_Post_He_s_Killing_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/06/Jeff_Bezos_Isn_t_Just_Killing_the_Washington_Post_He_s_Killing_.gmi [09:19] TR Bot Techrights Jeff Bezos Isn't Just Killing the Washington Post, He's Killing Thousands of News Sites/Newsrooms (in Dozens of Languages) That Rely on It for Many Decades Already [09:32] TR News "More often, it erodes through small failures that are minimized" https://tennesseelookout.com/2026/02/05/when-a-glitch-blocks-the-ballot-democracy-is-already-in-danger/ | Source: Tennessee Lookout [09:32] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://tennesseelookout.com/2026/02/05/when-a-glitch-blocks-the-ballot-democracy-is-already-in-danger/ ) [09:33] TR News "When veteran journalist Christopher Mathias set out to write a book about fascism" https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/to-catch-a-fascist-christopher-mathias-excerpt | Source: Marisa Kabas [09:33] TR Bot 'To Catch A Fascist' [09:33] TR News "Youll see I have three apps so far as that start and they are all based in Europe " https://ljpuk.net/2026/02/05/the-start-to-a-move-away-from-us-tech/ | Source: Lee Peterson [09:33] TR Bot Moving away from US tech LJPUK [09:34] TR News "During remote learning, phones became a primary way kids entertained themselves and stayed connected" https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2026/02/03/repub/as-school-cellphone-bans-gain-in-popularity-lawmakers-say-its-time-to-go-bell-to-bell/ | Source: Nebraska Examiner [09:34] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2026/02/03/repub/as-school-cellphone-bans-gain-in-popularity-lawmakers-say-its-time-to-go-bell-to-bell/ ) [09:34] TR News "This led to a broader conversation about stateless relays and remote attestation." https://lists.torproject.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/tor-relays@lists.torproject.org/thread/TGYZX5AAZIPYWWJIIEKEZLA6YDHESKOK/?noscript | Source: Tor [09:34] TR Bot Relay Operator Meetup at FOSDEM 2026 - tor-relays - lists.torproject.org [09:35] TR News "The core difference between smart IDs, which are currently replacing the green ID book, and digital IDs lies in their format and application." https://techcentral.co.za/estonia-digital-id-lesson-for-south-africa/277211/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa) [09:35] TR Bot Estonia's digital ID lesson for South Africa [09:36] TR News "In November, Pavan Davuluri,President of Windows and Devices, proclaimed Microsofts Agentic Operating System future!" https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/04/microsoft-walks-back-ai-in-windows-11-yeah-right/ | Source: Pivot to AI [09:36] TR Bot ( status 503 @ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/04/microsoft-walks-back-ai-in-windows-11-yeah-right/ ) [09:40] TR News "While EU governments are pushing to continue the mass screening of private messages by US tech companies, the European Parliaments position remains undecided." https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/chat-control-1-0-civil-society-mobilizes-against-extending-mass-surveillance-eu-parliament-decision-imminent/ | Source: Patrick Breyer [09:40] TR Bot Chat Control 1.0: Civil Society Mobilizes Against Extending Mass Surveillance EU Parliament Decision Imminent Patrick Breyer [09:40] TR News "Fraud exists in many forms, and the copyright arena is no exception." https://blogs.loc.gov/copyright/2026/02/beware-of-copyright-scams-how-to-spot-fraud-and-protect-yourself/ | Source: US Library of Congress [09:40] TR Bot Beware of Copyright Scams: How to Spot Fraud and Protect Yourself | Copyright [09:47] *psydroid3 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [09:51] *psydroid3 (~psydroid@7h7y9yu8y5zjw.irc) has joined #techrights [09:54] TR News "We say no and so does US law." https://papersplease.org/wp/2026/02/05/cbp-keeps-its-app-for-us-visitors-secret/ | Source: Papers Please [09:54] TR Bot CBP keeps its app for US visitors secret Papers, Please! [09:55] TR News "Face recognition technology is so dangerous that government should not use it at allleast of all these out-of-control immigration agencies." https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/yes-ice-out-my-face-act | Source: EFF [09:55] TR Bot Yes to the ICE Out of Our Faces Act | Electronic Frontier Foundation ● Feb 06 [10:00] *techrights-sec4 has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) [10:00] *techrights-sec3 has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) [10:00] *Techrights-sec has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) [10:00] *techrights-sec1 has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) [10:01] *techrights-sec4 (~quassel@freenode-up5ahb.ldvb.0amm.hij1op.IP) has joined #techrights [10:01] *techrights-sec1 (~quassel@freenode-up5ahb.ldvb.0amm.hij1op.IP) has joined #techrights [10:01] *techrights-sec3 (~quassel@freenode-up5ahb.ldvb.0amm.hij1op.IP) has joined #techrights [10:01] *Techrights-sec (~quassel@freenode-up5ahb.ldvb.0amm.hij1op.IP) has joined #techrights [10:17] TR News Techrights Linux Foundation Operative Says We and Our Software All "Owe an Enormous Debt of Gratitude" to a Software Patents Reinforcer https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/06/Linux_Foundation_Operative_Says_We_and_Our_Software_All_Owe_an_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/06/Linux_Foundation_Operative_Says_We_and_Our_Software_All_Owe_an_.gmi [10:17] TR Bot Techrights Linux Foundation Operative Says We and Our Software All "Owe an Enormous Debt of Gratitude" to a Software Patents Reinforcer [10:22] schestowitz[TR2] https://github.com/stenzek/duckstation/commit/64d13882479e5598a1276e273d231c95a094158c [10:22] schestowitz[TR2] " [10:22] TR Bot Add additional unit tests stenzek/duckstation@64d1388 GitHub [10:22] schestowitz[TR2] # Refuse to build in hostile package environments. The code and build script licenses do not allow for [10:22] schestowitz[TR2] # packages, and I'm sick of dealing with people complaining about things broken by packagers, and then [10:22] schestowitz[TR2] # being attacked by package maintainers who violate their distribution's codes of conduct." [10:37] TR News Techrights GNU/Linux Measured at 6% in One of the World's Largest Nations https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/06/GNU_Linux_Measured_at_6_in_One_of_the_World_s_Largest_Nations.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/06/GNU_Linux_Measured_at_6_in_One_of_the_World_s_Largest_Nations.gmi [10:37] TR Bot Techrights GNU/Linux Measured at 6% in One of the World's Largest Nations [10:42] TR News "Codespaces is essentially VS Code running in the cloud, backed by Ubuntu containers, with built-in GitHub authentication and repository integration." https://www.securityweek.com/vs-code-configs-expose-github-codespaces-to-attacks/ | Source: Security Week [10:42] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/vs-code-configs-expose-github-codespaces-to-attacks/ ) [10:43] TR News "With GitHub Actions, youre renting Microsofts runners." https://www.iankduncan.com/engineering/2026-02-05-github-actions-killing-your-team/ | Source: Ian Duncan [10:43] TR Bot GitHub Actions Is Slowly Killing Your Engineering Team - Ian Duncan - Ian Duncan [10:43] Sompi_ At the same time when more free software projects are increasing their hardware requirements so that they require newer hardware than Windows, I see that there's an increasing amount of important free software projects that don't even have a web page anymore [10:43] TR News "The "SaaSpocalypse" began on the 3rd of February 2026 - with $285bn wiped off technology companies on the public markets." https://martinalderson.com/posts/wall-street-lost-285-billion-because-of-13-markdown-files/ | Source: Martin Alderson [10:43] TR Bot Wall Street just lost $285 billion because of 13 markdown files - Martin Alderson [10:43] Sompi_ For example: Abiword [10:44] Sompi_ It seems to be still maintained (at least the newest version is not old) but its webpage has ceased to exist [10:45] Sompi_ How am I supposed to find any information about it when all I can find is some forked github repository and some random webpages that are behind Anubis wall? [10:45] schestowitz[TR2] Abiword is very old [10:46] schestowitz[TR2] was it not connetced to GNOME.MS? [10:46] TR News "Two content creators visited Epstein Island to see what was going on there. However, according to their testimonies" https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/tiktokers-who-visited-epstein-island-feel-theyre-being-targeted-black-suvs-stalk-their-homes-1776734 | Source: International Business Times [10:46] TR Bot TikTokers Who Visited Epstein Island Feel They're 'Being Targeted' as Black SUVs Stalk Their Homes | IBTimes UK [10:47] Sompi_ schestowitz[TR2]: I don't know? Gnome has started using Anubis and it doesn't let me through... [10:47] TR News "Nonetheless, many users on the subreddit were left with a bad taste in their mouths" https://futurism.com/space/reddit-deleted-photo-nasa-astronaut-blurry | Source: Futurism [10:47] TR Bot Reddit Mod Deleted Breathtaking Photo Taken by NASA Astronaut From Space Because It Was "Blurry" [10:47] TR News [Old] "I'm deep into a career built around craft." https://crowprose.com/blog/competence-as-tragedy/ | [10:47] TR Bot Competence as Tragedy [10:48] TR News "OpenAI swears their ads won't do what every single other ads platform has done" https://birchtree.me/blog/openai-swears-their-ads-wont-do-what-every-single-other-ads-platform-has-done/ | Source: Matt Birchler [10:48] TR Bot OpenAI swears their ads won't do what every single other ads platform has done [10:48] schestowitz[TR2] https://techrights.org/o/2009/01/08/abiword-embrace-odf/index.shtml [10:48] TR Bot AbiWord's Embrace of OpenDocument Format Increased, Gets Funding from NLnet [10:48] schestowitz[TR2] https://techrights.org/o/2009/06/09/china-spying-obligatory/index.shtml [10:48] TR Bot Links 09/06/2009: AbiWord v2.7.3 Released, China Spying Obligatory [10:49] schestowitz[TR2] https://techrights.org/o/2007/11/25/gnome-foundation-ooxml/index.shtml [10:49] TR Bot NOOOXML: GNOME Foundation in Kahoots? (Updated) [10:49] schestowitz[TR2] " Hey I just opened Abiword, and dont see import/export for ODF but see .doc coming up.. And I saw the import filter for OOXML for Abiworld on Brian Jones's site as "Support for OOXML" " [10:49] schestowitz[TR2] " [10:49] schestowitz[TR2] How you can not see, or will not admit that the perceptions from all GNOME activities can aid OOXML becoming an ISO is beyond me. [10:49] schestowitz[TR2] ECMA TC45 is Microsoft play ground, both Chairman and Co-Chairman are Microsoft emplyees. No one is there to hold thier feet to the fire. "The work to standardise OpenXML has been carried out by Ecma .....Gnome......Novell.....Microsoft...." and by GNOME's activities of getting documents, and others...... you are helping that process. [10:49] schestowitz[TR2] So just because of your users, none of which need .docx right now, you go against the rest of the community and corporations supporting ODF and potentially ruining thier cause... GNOME ROCKS BABY [10:50] TR News "An early analysis of Moltbook posts by the Columbia professor David Holtz suggests that the bots are not particularly sophisticated." https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/02/what-is-moltbook/685886/ | Source: The Atlantic [10:50] TR Bot The Chatbots Appear to Be Organizing - The Atlantic [10:50] Sompi_ Doesn't it just open .odt files natively? No need for importing? [10:50] Sompi_ I'm not sure tbh [10:51] Sompi_ Abiword seems less user-hostile than LibreOffice in its current form. The default builds of the latter already require newer CPU than Windows [10:52] Sompi_ Of course there's then also OpenOffice, which is more stable than LibreOffice [10:52] TR News "OpenAIs competitors saw the reversal as a golden opportunity to strike." https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-anthropic-ads | Source: Futurism [10:52] TR Bot Sam Altman Is Spiraling [10:52] schestowitz[TR2] did you try openoffice? [10:53] Sompi_ But I don't see any mention about system requirements in OpenOffice's webpage [10:53] schestowitz[TR2] the average schmuk never touches openoffice [10:53] schestowitz[TR2] it's not up to date [10:53] Sompi_ schestowitz[TR2]: It's no different than LibreOffice was some years ago [10:53] schestowitz[TR2] it's just a trademark at this point [10:53] schestowitz[TR2] like old IBM Pymfony [10:53] schestowitz[TR2] S*ym [10:53] Sompi_ The latest version of OpenOffice is from November 2025 [10:54] schestowitz[TR2] https://techrights.org/o/2021/09/16/corporate-libreoffice/ [10:54] TR Bot Deleted Post: LibreOffice is Becoming Dominated by a Bunch of Corporates, and Has no Place for the Enthusiastic Amateur. [10:54] schestowitz[TR2] openoffice= cheeto oracle [10:54] Sompi_ I have noticed that LibreOffice is being infiltrated by corporatists [10:54] Sompi_ That's why I'm searching for alternatives [10:55] TR News "Tim Crooks triumphalism, however, deserves qualification." https://cafetechinenglish.substack.com/p/why-apples-ai-delay-has-yet-to-hurt | Source: Jrme Marin [10:55] TR Bot Why Apples AI delay has yet to hurt iPhone sales [10:55] TR News "Its not a grand gesture. Just a small recalibration. The [Internet] will keep moving. People will keep optimizing. And I can just be here, doing my hobbies and habits, thinking and living at my own pace." https://krabf.com/offline-but-not-really/ | Source: Kushaiah Felisilda [10:55] TR Bot Offline, but not really | Kushaiah Felisilda [10:55] TR News "PBMs rake in big profits by controlling the pharmaceutical market and siphoning off some of the profits to the biggest insurance companies, from which they extract rebates." https://robertreich.substack.com/p/congress-and-my-prostate | Source: Robert Reich [10:55] TR Bot Congress and My Prostate - Robert Reich [10:56] schestowitz[TR2] the formats are to complkicated [10:56] schestowitz[TR2] so the applications must be b,oated [10:56] schestowitz[TR2] it's like browsers [10:56] schestowitz[TR2] sure, you can write a letter in abiword [10:56] schestowitz[TR2] but don't try to open some ODF file or OOXML file [10:56] Sompi_ I remember when OpenOffice used to be the free AND LIGHTWEIGHT alternative to Microsoft Office, which especially was a thing when Microsoft changed the UI in Office to the current weird one [10:56] schestowitz[TR2] "modern" one [10:56] schestowitz[TR2] like trying to open "modern "js "app") site in netsurf [10:57] Sompi_ Abiword also has its own edit format [10:57] TR News "Timing also matters. In many cities, outdoor pollution is highest during the morning and evening commute and lower late at night or in the middle of the day." https://www.sciencealert.com/burping-your-home-really-could-be-good-for-your-health-says-expert | Source: Science Alert [10:57] TR Bot Your Home Really Could Be Good For Your Health, Says Expert : ScienceAlert [10:57] Sompi_ It can save to pdf and postscript [10:57] TR News "Three years ago, Esther Rohr and her husband decided to start thinking about pregnancy." https://www.wired.com/story/pregnancy-zero-trimester-influencers/ | Source: Wired [10:57] TR Bot Are Some Women Training for Pregnancy Like Its a Marathon? | WIRED [10:58] Sompi_ .odf is just an edit format anyway so it isn't a big deal if there is no 100% support for it [10:59] Sompi_ schestowitz[TR2]: Isn't it weird that in 2018 Microsoft released an update that changed the entire CPU target of Windows 7 breaking many systems (it suddenly started requiring SSE2) and at the same time many free software projects started doing the same [10:59] Sompi_ Rustaceans added that same SSE2 requirement to everything ● Feb 06 [11:00] Sompi_ It seems like they are making sure that people cannot use free software as an alternative when proprietary software stops working on their computers [11:01] Sompi_ At that time many libraries in the typical GNU/Linux userland also started suddenly requiring SSE2 regardless of the build target - even if you try to build it to i686, i586, or even i386, the build scripts still add the SSE2 flag there and it's impossible to disable without making many changes [11:01] Sompi_ And the maintainers go great lengths to hide those things in there so that it's difficult to fix [11:02] TR News "Category theory has been describe as the mathematics of formal analogy making." https://danmackinlay.name/notebook/categorical_systems_theory.html | Source: Dan MacKinlay [11:02] TR Bot Categorical systems theory The Dan MacKinlay stable of variably-well-considerd enterprises [11:02] Sompi_ For some reason they are working very hard to make free software a less viable option [11:02] schestowitz[TR2] who is they? [11:02] schestowitz[TR2] in this context? [11:02] Sompi_ Ubuntu requires x86-64-v2, RHEL requires x86-64-v3 [11:02] schestowitz[TR2] name the culprits [11:02] TR News "Palaeoverse, a grassroots organization that develops R packages for paleontology" https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/02/paleontology-r-packages-to-benefit-from-software-sustainability-institute-grant/ | Source: Rlang [11:02] Sompi_ Corporate infiltrators in the free software community [11:02] TR Bot R Packages to Benefit from Software Sustainability Institute Grant | R-bloggers [11:03] schestowitz[TR2] IBM? [11:03] schestowitz[TR2] Google? [11:03] schestowitz[TR2] microslop? [11:03] Sompi_ I don't know all the names [11:03] Sompi_ I just see this happening to more and more projects [11:03] schestowitz[TR2] find out [11:03] schestowitz[TR2] this can help [11:03] schestowitz[TR2] to see who does this damage [11:04] TR News "I am lucky to be allowed to touch computers for good as a dayjob, since I do believe working on KDE software benefits humans." https://akselmo.dev/notes/tech-meh/ | Source: Akseli Lahtinen [11:04] TR Bot Tech industry, meh [11:04] Sompi_ It's incredibly how quickly we went from "linux works on anything!" to "you need a 64-bit x86 machine that is newer than even windows requires" [11:05] Sompi_ incredible* [11:05] Sompi_ runs on anything* [11:07] nobody what's x86_64-v3? [11:08] Sompi_ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64 [11:08] TR Bot x86-64 - Wikipedia [11:08] Sompi_ "Features match the 2013 Intel Haswell architecture, excluding Intel-specific instructions." [11:08] nobody i see [11:10] Sompi_ also, I see many people toxicly arguing that because the oldest CPUs that have those instruction set extensions are from $year (in this case 2013), it would mean that every CPU that is made at least in $year has those instructions, which obviously isn't true [11:10] TR News "I have almost 1400 directories and an untold number of notes. Thats just here, so there are more on other platforms. The way I see it, I can do two things: [...]" https://mtwb.blog/posts/2026/notes/a-mess-of-notes/ | Source: Matthew Weber [11:10] TR Bot A Mess Of Notes - Matt's Blog [11:10] Sompi_ Hmm, I didn't know that even AVX2 actually belongs to x86-64-v3 and not to -v2 [11:11] TR News "Heres a number worth thinking about: 10,000 years of civilization against 3 million years of tribal human existence." https://tautvilas.medium.com/the-10-000-year-anomaly-a00da373a0d7 | [11:11] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://tautvilas.medium.com/the-10-000-year-anomaly-a00da373a0d7 ) [11:11] nobody i'm mostly concerned about real-mode boot / uefi [11:11] Sompi_ So the AVX2 requirement that now seems to be the thing actually excludes more CPUs that I thought [11:11] nobody those "optimizations" (vendor-locks) into specific features can be avoided by re-compilation [11:11] TR News "The term Luddite has changed in meaning over the years. These days, it is a near-synonym for technophobe, someone who is afraid of or doesnt trust new technology" https://thelibre.news/im-a-proud-luddite-thats-why-i-use-linux/ | Source: LibreNews [11:11] TR Bot I'm A Proud Luddite. That's Why I Use Linux. [11:12] Sompi_ But already x86-64-v2 has patent problems [11:12] Sompi_ So LibreOffice, Ubuntu and RHEL require x86-64-v3 now [11:12] Sompi_ Not x86-64-v2... [11:12] TR News "According to Flashpoints Global Threat Intelligence Index Midyear 2025 Edition" https://federalnewsnetwork.com/commentary/2026/02/why-primary-source-collection-is-the-future-of-threat-intelligence/ | Source: Federal News Network [11:12] TR Bot Why primary source collection is the future of threat intelligence | Federal News Network [11:13] Sompi_ I don't know when Intel and AMD made their last CPUs that don't have x86-64-v3 specific instructions. Maybe somewhere in 2020'ish? [11:13] schestowitz[TR2] can you elaborate on this patent proiblem? [11:13] schestowitz[TR2] if you mentioned it before, then i forgot the details [11:13] TR News (NEW): I'm A Proud Luddite. That's Why I Use Linux. https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/06/I_m_A_Proud_Luddite_That_s_Why_I_Use_Linux.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/06/I_m_A_Proud_Luddite_That_s_Why_I_Use_Linux.gmi [11:13] TR Bot Tux Machines I'm A Proud Luddite. That's Why I Use Linux. [11:13] Sompi_ According to some internet sources CMPXCHG16B is patented [11:13] TR News "Rigidity is important for 3D printing and this robot has that in spades." https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/02/04/3d-printing-with-a-4000-pound-industrial-robot/ | Source: Arduino [11:13] TR Bot 3D printing with a 4,000-pound industrial robot | Arduino Blog [11:13] TR News "Macropads can be as simple as a few buttons hooked up to a microcontroller to do the USB HID dance and talk to a PC." https://hackaday.com/2026/02/05/diy-macropad-rocks-a-haptic-feedback-wheel/ | Source: Hackaday [11:13] TR Bot Macropad Rocks A Haptic Feedback Wheel | Hackaday [11:13] Sompi_ So implementing it in CPUs outside of the intel-amd patent cartel is impossible [11:14] nobody i am not aware of other vendors anymore nowadays (Via, cyrix etc didn't make any x86_64 iirc) [11:14] Sompi_ And surely there are more patented things too, especially in x86-64-v3 and -v4 (CMPXCHG16B is -v2) [11:15] Sompi_ nobody: Yeah, those other vendors are still making pre-SSE2 CPUs because the patents of SSE2 only just expired not so long ago [11:15] Sompi_ And many important free software projects were already requiring SSE2 when it was restricted by patents [11:15] nobody although that's not news either, it's been a hack and slay with malicious extensions ever since MMX [11:15] Sompi_ You couldn't compile Mozilla browsers without it [11:15] nobody and 3DNow at that time [11:16] nobody then they're cheating with benchmarks, because optimized code paths (for say MMX) do exist for decades [11:16] nobody but when they compare old CPUs against news they don't ensure the old optmized code paths are active [11:16] Sompi_ The usual excuse for those SSE2/AVX2 requirements is "faster memcpys", which is complete bullshit [11:17] nobody and then compare an old CPU _without_ any optimized code path against new ones with AVX2 - no wonder the newer on is that much greater better whatever [11:17] Sompi_ New CPUs are unable to read smaller chunks of data than the size of cache line is [11:17] Sompi_ So the memcpys are not going to be any faster, even if the logical instruction seems to move more data atomically [11:17] TR News "Because Raspberry Pi 500+ was built with customisation in mind, recreating this look was easy; the keycaps could easily be swapped out using the removal tool included with every purchase." https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/beige-is-back-remembering-the-bbc-micro-with-raspberry-pi-500-plus/ | Source: Raspberry Pi [11:17] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/beige-is-back-remembering-the-bbc-micro-with-raspberry-pi-500-plus/ ) [11:18] nobody in reality, AVX barely outcompeted SSE, it's marginal, with higher power consumption too [11:18] nobody even worse, X86_64 is missing something which an ancient DEC VAX (32bit) already offered: general purpose 128bit data types [11:19] nobody MMX/AVX/SSE etc. are NOT general purpose [11:19] Sompi_ In anything newer than a 486 those "faster memcpys" really aren't a thing [11:19] nobody well, of cause a 128bit (dual channel memory) data bus is faster than a 32bit data bus [11:20] Sompi_ On a 486 rep movsd is twice as fast as rep movsw, but in Pentium Pro and newer there is no difference [11:20] Sompi_ With Pentium there may be a difference depending on the multiplier of CPU/memory clock [11:21] Sompi_ But with anything that actually supports SSE2, using logical instructions that copy 64 bits instead of 32 bits is not going to any faster in a loop [11:22] Sompi_ The CPU always reads one cache line at a time and it's much larger than those SSE2 or AVX2 registers [11:23] TR News "Hi Nickle ! How is it t be lodged so deep in the Arvinds Anal Cavity ?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kgdcc5k7 [11:23] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kgdcc5k7 ) [11:23] nobody the only relevant criteria for anything newer than some 2013 dated system: lower power consumption [11:23] nobody maybe not the only, but the most relevant [11:25] nobody nowadays some powerfull quadcore that's rated at ~5W TDP (e.g. Intel N97), 10 years ago that was ~50W [11:25] nobody and THIS would make a difference, since my computer is running 24/7 [11:25] *psydroid3 has quit (Quit: KVIrc 5.2.6 Quasar http://www.kvirc.net/) [11:26] nobody but it's no use if intel is phasing out CSM/real-mode, because this is what i'm booting my systems with still [11:26] nobody besides, something else, with lower heat emission a computer can be absolutely silent, no ventilation necessary [11:27] nobody funnily, some cheapo thin client (HP T620 for example), accomplishes this, for $30 on ebay [11:27] nobody a complete computer [11:28] nobody although that's not the target audience of whom RedHat/IBM whoever are selling their stuff [11:28] nobody i couldn't afford some of their license anyway, and most important, i don't care anymore [11:29] nobody with tinycc i can compile my stuff on my own just fine, on slowest low budget hardware there is [11:29] Sompi_ A 486 is also less than 5 W :) [11:29] Sompi_ I mean the original one [11:29] Sompi_ And those modern clone CPUs that have a pre-SSE2 instruction set are also very power efficient [11:29] nobody btw. there is some corner-cases remaining with the tinycc driven system here [11:29] nobody i can't yet support softfloat [11:30] Sompi_ 13:10 < nobody> the only relevant criteria for anything newer than some 2013 dated system: lower power consumption [11:30] Sompi_ still, it should be up to the user to decide how much electricity they want to use [11:30] nobody that's something else which cought my attention for a moment, if softloat really was that slow if efficient asm was hacked for it [11:31] Sompi_ I don't like it when some snob says to me that no, you cannot run this program because your computer is not efficient enough [11:31] nobody Sompi_: ironically, Intel(R) was soaking billions of subsidies of taxpayer's money in germany [11:31] nobody from some "climate transformation fund" [11:32] nobody don't know Sompi_ [11:32] Sompi_ While at the same time it's their program that has became so bloated that it is a problem [11:32] nobody all i can say, the cheapest AMD bulldozer there was, some quadcore @1.5GHz, that's a very powerful system still, with single channel DDR3 "only" [11:32] Sompi_ An average CPU _used to_ consume less than 5 watts and we did the exact same things with computers back then as we do now [11:33] Sompi_ word processing, web browsing, chatting in IRC [11:33] nobody back to AVX with 512bit wide data-bus whatever - it's extremely power-hungry [11:33] Sompi_ and now suddenly we need 2000 times more computing power for the same stuff [11:34] nobody it's no coincidence the more interesting INtel systems (N97 etc. Alder Lake) got some single channel memory bus "only" [11:34] Sompi_ every bit in a physical bus has to consume some electricity to function [11:34] nobody and consume MUCH less electricity, there's some octocore even, which fits into a rather small power budget [11:34] nobody don't know N300 or something, 8cores, ~10W TDP, that's not bad [11:35] nobody but useless, if Intel phases out real-mode boot [11:35] Sompi_ There seems to be a push to get rid of everything that Windows 11 doesn't use [11:37] TR News Techrights IBM: Cheapening Code, Cheapening Staff, Cheapening Everything https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/06/IBM_Cheapening_Code_Cheapening_Staff_Cheapening_Everything.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/06/IBM_Cheapening_Code_Cheapening_Staff_Cheapening_Everything.gmi [11:37] TR Bot Techrights IBM: Cheapening Code, Cheapening Staff, Cheapening Everything [11:40] TR News (NEW): Open Hardware/Modding: Jetson, FPGA, Raspberry Pi, Arduino and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/06/Open_Hardware_Modding_Jetson_FPGA_Raspberry_Pi_Arduino_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/06/Open_Hardware_Modding_Jetson_FPGA_Raspberry_Pi_Arduino_and_More.gmi [11:40] TR Bot Tux Machines Open Hardware/Modding: Jetson, FPGA, Raspberry Pi, Arduino and More [11:40] TR News Overwatch returns on February 10th with the '2' gone and some massive upgrades | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/overwatch-returns-on-february-10th-with-the-2-gone-and-some-massive-upgrades/ Source: GamingOnLinux [11:40] TR Bot returns on February 10th with the '2' gone and some massive upgrades | GamingOnLinux [11:45] nobody it's just a cartell dictating market [11:46] nobody i'm not in the mood anymore for driver backports and kernel hacking [11:46] nobody another fact, i'm not interested in anything new [11:46] nobody just recently, i've done a few rebasings onto linux-2.4, for usb-ethernet and onboard gigabit [11:47] nobody no more, i'm tired of this never ending nonsense [11:49] nobody the industry is attacking this with the unavoidable transition to ever more expensive development tools [11:49] Sompi_ Since at least 2018 it seems that everything "new" just means more restrictions [11:49] nobody you can't keep any distro up and running nowadays, without c++, without rust-lang etc. [11:50] Sompi_ And more complex things that do the same stuff that the earlier more simple things did, but more inefficiently [11:50] nobody that's how my tiny little hacker thing is different, i succeeded to fully detangle this [11:50] Sompi_ That's one reason why I made ST-DOS [11:50] nobody ST-DOS? [11:50] nobody moment [11:50] Sompi_ yes [11:53] nobody couldn't find much, maybe it was an Atari thing [11:54] nobody in any case 16bit systems are relevant to this day [11:54] nobody their importance is greatly underestimated [11:55] nobody beginning with the fact i consider it possible with 16bit systems _only_ to design and implement hardware from scratch [11:55] nobody without monstrosities such as Altera Quartus [11:56] nobody let's say "hardware bootstrapping", doing hardware/digital-circuit design _without_ a computer (CAD) system available [11:56] Sompi_ At least for me my project is the first search result on Google [11:56] Sompi_ http://sininenankka.dy.fi/leetos/doskernel.php [11:56] TR Bot ST-DOS - lEEt/OS [11:57] nobody weird, in germany st-dos is referring to some water chemistry company in switzerland [11:57] nobody google #1 hit [11:57] Sompi_ Nowadays Google is completely unusable for many stuff [11:58] nobody it's rare to meet some 16bit hacker [11:59] nobody with my tinycc project i considered re-writing 16bit boot-code in linux kernel back to AS86/intel syntax [11:59] nobody to avoid the gigantic binutils dependency [11:59] TR News Techrights Does Linux Torvalds Regret Having Dinners With Bill 'Russian Girls' Gates? https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/06/Does_Linux_Torvalds_Regret_Having_Dinners_With_Bill_Russian_Gir.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/06/Does_Linux_Torvalds_Regret_Having_Dinners_With_Bill_Russian_Gir.gmi [11:59] TR Bot Techrights Does Linux Torvalds Regret Having Dinners With Bill 'Russian Girls' Gates? ● Feb 06 [12:00] nobody it's a few lines of 16bit real mode boot code "only", why i need to compile dozens of millions of lines of code for binutils [12:01] nobody in this regard, too GNU/FSF are a little misguided, to argue for their "free software" binutils [12:01] nobody if you developed for a 16bit 65KiB adress space, you couldn't do so without a 32bit gigabyte RAM system to handle the development utilities for this [12:02] nobody *64KiB [12:04] nobody i see ST-DOS is spawn from OpenWatcom toolchain, sigh [12:06] TR News Poker Night at the Inventory returns with a remaster in March | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/poker-night-at-the-inventory-returns-with-a-remaster-in-march/ Source: GamingOnLinux [12:06] TR Bot Night at the Inventory returns with a remaster in March | GamingOnLinux [12:07] nobody nonetheless, it's fascinating [12:08] TR News GOG did an AMA and here's some highlights - like how they'll continue using generative AI | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/gog-did-an-ama-and-heres-some-highlights-like-how-theyll-continue-using-generative-ai/ Source: GamingOnLinux [12:08] TR Bot did an AMA and here's some highlights - like how they'll continue using generative AI | GamingOnLinux [12:09] TR News GeForce NOW celebrates six years with new games like Delta Force and PUBG: BLINDSPOT | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/geforce-now-celebrates-six-years-with-new-games-like-delta-force-and-pubg-blindspot/ Source: GamingOnLinux [12:09] TR Bot NOW celebrates six years with new games like Delta Force and PUBG: BLINDSPOT | GamingOnLinux [12:10] Sompi_ Other compilers are not so good for developing 16-bit code [12:10] Sompi_ Watcom has __based pointers [12:11] TR News Check out the demo for Wireworks, a tower defense where you wire up modules to make weapons dance | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/check-out-the-demo-for-wireworks-a-tower-defense-where-you-wire-up-modules-to-make-weapons-dance/ Source: GamingOnLinux [12:11] TR Bot out the demo for Wireworks, a tower defense where you wire up modules to make weapons dance | GamingOnLinux [12:11] TR News Zellah Games revealed the "next-gen" modding-friendly Skate Style for PC | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/zellah-games-revealed-the-next-gen-modding-friendly-skate-style-for-pc/ Source: GamingOnLinux [12:11] TR Bot Games revealed the "next-gen" modding-friendly Skate Style for PC | GamingOnLinux [12:12] TR News REMOTE CONTROL looks like Alien: Isolation if it was a retro-styled typing adventure | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/remote-control-looks-like-alien-isolation-if-it-was-a-retro-styled-typing-adventure/ Source: GamingOnLinux [12:12] TR Bot CONTROL looks like Alien: Isolation if it was a retro-styled typing adventure | GamingOnLinux [12:12] TR News PlayStation Publishing reveal Horizon Hunters Gathering, Guerrilla's new co-op action game | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/playstation-publishing-reveal-horizon-hunters-gathering-guerrillas-new-co-op-action-game/ Source: GamingOnLinux [12:12] TR Bot Publishing reveal Horizon Hunters Gathering, Guerrilla's new co-op action game | GamingOnLinux [12:13] TR News (NEW): Games: Steam Machines, Wireworks, Skate Style, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/06/Games_Steam_Machines_Wireworks_Skate_Style_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/06/Games_Steam_Machines_Wireworks_Skate_Style_and_More.gmi [12:13] TR Bot Tux Machines Games: Steam Machines, Wireworks, Skate Style, and More [12:16] TR News Techrights Links 06/02/2026: Voter Intimidation and Press Shutdowns in US, Web Traffic Warped by LLM Sludge https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/06/Links_06_02_2026_Voter_Intimidation_and_Press_Shutdowns_in_US_W.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/06/Links_06_02_2026_Voter_Intimidation_and_Press_Shutdowns_in_US_W.gmi [12:16] TR Bot Techrights Links 06/02/2026: Voter Intimidation and Press Shutdowns in US, Web Traffic Warped by LLM Sludge [12:21] TR News "If you want to see a specific configuration example, or read about how the feature was implemented, read on!" https://blog.mjbots.com/2026/02/05/biss-c-encoder-support/ | Source: Robotic Systems LLC [12:21] TR Bot BiSS-C encoder support - 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Theyre nice tools that we recommend trying out, but we gain nothing from any links or signups" https://piccalil.li/blog/the-open-source-design-stack/?ref=main-rss-feed | Source: Andy Bell [12:23] TR Bot The open source design stack - Piccalilli [12:27] TR News "Bad news from the CIA. I mean, probably not what Senator Ron Wyden was referring to and, on a relative scale for the CIA" https://pxlnv.com/linklog/cia-world-factbook/ | Source: Nick Heer [12:27] TR Bot The CIA Killed the World Factbook Pixel Envy [12:27] TR News "WCAG-EM is the most commonly used accessibility reporting methodology in The Netherlands." https://hidde.blog/wcag-em-apps/ | Source: Hidde de Vries [12:27] TR Bot 2.0 lets you report on accessibility of more than just websites | hidde.blog [12:33] TR News Bandits in suits (and T-shirts) | "Banditter i habitter (og T-shirts) | Version2" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&u=https://www.version2.dk/holdning/banditter-i-habitter-og-t-shirts [12:33] TR Bot Banditter i habitter (og T-shirts) | Version2 [12:34] TR News "Contributor: Why does the Trump family always get a pass?" https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2026-02-03/trump-family-crypto-world-liberty [12:34] TR Bot Contributor: Why does the Trump family always get a pass? - Los Angeles Times [12:34] TR News "Amutable: Systemd Creator Lennart Poettering Launches New Linux Security Venture" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/02/02/1520246 see https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/06/Amutable_is_a_Microsoft_Siege_Against_Freedom_in_GNU_Linux_Just.shtml [12:34] TR Bot Amutable: Systemd Creator Lennart Poettering Launches New Linux Security Venture - SoylentNews [12:34] TR Bot Techrights Amutable is a Microsoft Siege Against Freedom in GNU/Linux, Just Like the People Who Brought You 'Secure Boot' Controlled by Microsoft [12:35] TR News "State of the Bots" https://tollbit.com/state-of-the-bots/ [12:35] TR Bot State of the Bots [12:35] TR News "CBP keeps its app for US visitors secret Papers, Please!" https://papersplease.org/wp/2026/02/05/cbp-keeps-its-app-for-us-visitors-secret/ [12:35] TR Bot CBP keeps its app for US visitors secret Papers, Please! [12:40] TR News "Tesla Stock Plummeting Since Musk Busted in Epstein Files" https://futurism.com/future-society/tesla-stock-plummeting-musk-epstein-files https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/11/With_Net_Income_of_One_Billion_Dollars_Tesla_Claims_It_Can_Pay_.shtml [12:40] TR Bot Tesla Stock Plummeting Since Musk Busted in Epstein Files [12:40] TR Bot Techrights With Net Income of One Billion Dollars Tesla Claims It Can Pay a Fake Founder (Who Paid for This Lie) 1,000 Billions [12:41] TR News Fewer electric cars in Tnsberg because the municipality does not facilitate | "Frre elbiler i Tnsberg fordi kommunen ikke tilrettelegger | Lars Egelands blogg" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&u=https://larsegeland.com/2026/02/05/faerre-elbiler-i-tonsberg-fordi-kommunen-ikke-tilrettelegger/ [12:41] TR Bot Frre elbiler i Tnsberg fordi kommunen ikke tilrettelegger | Lars Egelands blogg [12:42] TR News "It was January 25th of 1979, at an unassuming Michigan Ford Motor Company factory." https://hackaday.com/2026/02/05/how-industrial-robot-safety-was-written-in-blood/ | Source: Hackaday [12:42] TR Bot Industrial Robot Safety Was Written In Blood | Hackaday [12:42] TR News "Whether you plan to join a local event, organize one or join us online, youll find everything you need on days.arduino.cc!" https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/02/05/save-the-date-arduino-days-2026-is-coming/ | Source: Arduino [12:43] TR Bot Save the date: Arduino Days 2026 is coming! | Arduino Blog [12:43] TR News "FOSDEM, the largest open hardware and open software conference, took place last weekend in Brussels." https://olimex.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/fosdem-2026-the-biggest-open-source-hardware-and-software-event-in-europe/ | Source: Olimex [12:43] TR Bot FOSDEM 2026 the biggest Open Source Hardware and Software event in Europe | olimex [12:43] TR News "It's the time of the year again. FOSDEM came around again and I had something to talk about." https://clehaxze.tw/gemlog/2026/02-05-again-at-fosdem.gmi | Source: Martin Chang [12:43] TR Bot Again at FOSDEM (2026) - Martin's website/blog thingy [12:43] TR News "Coolest Projects is the worlds leading technology showcase for young people, a space where creativity, curiosity, and problem-solving come together through code." https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/a-day-with-young-creators-at-coolest-projects-mzansi-2025/ | Source: Raspberry Pi [12:43] TR Bot A day with young creators at Coolest Projects Mzansi 2025 - Raspberry Pi Foundation [12:44] TR News "We have started the release process for the next feature release of Krita today! This release is the culmination of years of hard work." https://krita.org/en/posts/2026/krita-6.0.0-beta1-released/ | Source: Krita [12:44] TR Bot First beta for Krita 5.3 and Krita 6.0 | Krita [12:46] TR News "SpacemiT (Hangzhou) Technology Co., Ltd. today announced a collaboration with Canonical to make Ubuntu available on SpacemiTs new K3 SoC" https://canonical.com/blog/spacemit-announces-availability-of-ubuntu-on-k3-k1-series | Source: Canonical [12:46] TR Bot SpacemiT announces the availability of Ubuntu on K3/K1 series RISC-V AI computing platforms [12:47] TR News "Over the past couple of years with the Jennys Daily Drivers series, weve looked at a number of unusual or noteworthy operating systems." https://hackaday.com/2026/02/05/three-decades-of-reactos/ | Source: Hackaday [12:47] TR Bot Decades Of ReactOS | Hackaday [12:48] TR News "The Nintendo eReader was a peripheral released for the Game Boy Advance in 2001." https://sethmlarson.dev/dumping-nintendo-ereader-card-roms | Source: Seth Michael Larson [12:48] TR Bot Dumping Nintendo eReader Card ROMs Seth Larson ● Feb 06 [13:04] TR News "After explaining an inductors behavior the video digs into how a typical inductor coil actually achieves this." https://hackaday.com/2026/02/05/a-deep-dive-into-inductors/ | Source: Hackaday [13:04] TR Bot Deep Dive Into Inductors | Hackaday [13:05] TR News "One of the classic challenges in web security is DNS rebinding." https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/LocalhostSurpriseAccessViaAny | Source: University of Toronto [13:05] TR Bot You're using a too-old browser [13:05] TR News "ZFS Scrubs and Data integrity, Propolice, FreeBSD vs Slackware and more." https://www.bsdnow.tv/649 | Source: The BSD Now Podcast [13:05] TR Bot BSD Now 649: The Desk Review [13:06] TR News "The much requested Zitron/Gerard crossover, at last Hater Season: Openclaw with David Gerard" https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/04/im-on-ed-zitrons-better-offline-podcast-talking-about-openclaw-and-moltbook/ | Source: Pivot to AI [13:06] TR Bot ( status 503 @ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/04/im-on-ed-zitrons-better-offline-podcast-talking-about-openclaw-and-moltbook/ ) [13:06] TR News "Tomorrow, I'll be interviewed live on Fireside Fedi at 9:00 AM (GMT-5)! (That's 15:00 Paris time & 9:00 AM New York time... fingers crossed I got it right)" https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1120/livestream-interview-on-fireside-fedi | Source: David Revoy [13:06] TR Bot Livestream Interview on Fireside Fedi - David Revoy [13:09] TR News "The Mudi 7 is built around Qualcomms Dragonwing MBB Gen 3 (X72) platform and supports 3GPP Release 17 5G NR operation in both standalone and non-standalone modes." https://linuxgizmos.com/mudi-7-travel-router-runs-5g-nr-alongside-tri-band-wi-fi-7/ | Source: Linux Gizmos [13:09] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/mudi-7-travel-router-runs-5g-nr-alongside-tri-band-wi-fi-7/ ) [13:09] TR News IBM Red Hat propping as mindless slop and hype, as usual https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/ai-insights-with-actionable-automation-accelerate-the-journey-to-autonomous-networks | Source: Red Hat Official [13:09] TR Bot AI insights with actionable automation accelerate the journey to autonomous networks [13:13] TR News Red Hat CEO wearing ALL BLUE https://www.redhat.com/en/summit [13:13] TR Bot Red Hat Summit 2026 Homepage [13:14] TR News 'Virtue-signalling' to his MASTERS (IBM) [13:15] TR News For a rare change, "AI" not written https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/achieve-more-red-hat-openshift-421 [13:15] TR Bot Achieve more with Red Hat OpenShift 4.21 [13:17] TR News "senior principal product manager for RHEL Server" writes an 'article' (ad) for slop in a site that does slop https://www.infoworld.com/article/4119285/ai-agents-and-it-ops-cowboy-chaos-rides-again.html http://techrights.org/n/2025/06/16/IDG_s_NetworkWorld_Seems_to_Have_Just_Become_LLM_Slop.shtml [13:17] TR Bot agents and IT ops: Cowboy chaos rides again | InfoWorld [13:17] TR Bot Techrights IDG's NetworkWorld Seems to Have Just Become LLM Slop [13:19] TR News Red Hat is a meme company promoting buzzwords https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/cracking-inference-code [13:19] TR Bot Cracking the inference code: 3 proven strategies for high-performance AI [13:38] TR News Techrights IBM's CEO Speaks of Layoffs, Resorts to Mythical (False) Excuses https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/06/IBM_s_CEO_Speaks_of_Layoffs_Resorts_to_Mythical_False_Excuses.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/06/IBM_s_CEO_Speaks_of_Layoffs_Resorts_to_Mythical_False_Excuses.gmi [13:38] TR Bot Techrights IBM's CEO Speaks of Layoffs, Resorts to Mythical (False) Excuses [13:39] TR News "Who said no layoffs? Then are all low performers getting fired through PIP?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kgqs2dpd IBM misuses the law [13:39] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kgqs2dpd ) [13:41] TR News "One day, our team lead was saying that he is no longer required to write code or fix defects. His tasks are mainly to make charts to be promoted to "STSM". That is IBM in the last 15 years." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kgsbwe69 [13:41] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kgsbwe69 ) [13:56] TR News Techrights Economies Crashing Not Because of Slop Improving 'Efficiency' (That's a False Excuse) and 'Expensive' (Read: Qualified) Workers Discarded in Race to the Bottom https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/06/Economies_Crashing_Not_Because_of_Slop_Improving_Efficiency_Tha.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/06/Economies_Crashing_Not_Because_of_Slop_Improving_Efficiency_Tha.gmi [13:56] TR Bot Techrights Economies Crashing Not Because of Slop Improving 'Efficiency' (That's a False Excuse) and 'Expensive' (Read: Qualified) Workers Discarded in Race to the Bottom ● Feb 06 [14:00] TR News FFII on OIN (GAFAM front group for software patents): I made a "lightning lightning talk" at Fosdem on Sunday, the video is online, will make a blog post about it. We can troll the European Commission, asking for a fine like Poland. [14:18] TR News Techrights Benjamin Henrion Warned About the Illegal and Unconstitutional Unified Patent Court (UPC) in FOSDEM 2026 https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/06/Benjamin_Henrion_Warned_About_the_Illegal_and_Unconstitutional_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/06/Benjamin_Henrion_Warned_About_the_Illegal_and_Unconstitutional_.gmi [14:18] TR Bot Techrights Benjamin Henrion Warned About the Illegal and Unconstitutional Unified Patent Court (UPC) in FOSDEM 2026 [14:21] *nobody has quit (connection closed) [14:22] *nobody (~nobody@7hvjqzwbc6mra.irc) has joined #techrights ● Feb 06 [15:00] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techrights [15:15] TR News Pluralistic: Justin Key's "The Hospital at the End Of the World" (04 Feb 2026) https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/04/slice-bees/ [15:15] TR Bot Pluralistic: Justin Keys The Hospital at the End Of the World (04 Feb 2026) Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow [15:16] TR News Dirk Eddelbuettel: rfoaas 2.3.3: Limited Rebirth http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/02/04#rfoaas_2.3.3 [15:16] TR Bot Thinking inside the box [15:17] TR News Finally! Firefox Is Getting a Kill Switch for Its (Unwanted) Hey Hi (AI) Features https://itsfoss.com/news/firefox-ai-features-toggle/ [15:17] TR Bot Finally! Firefox Is Getting a Kill Switch for Its (Unwanted) AI Features [15:18] MinceR when is it getting a kill switch for the rest of its enshittification, like trying to shove poetteringaudio down users' throats? [15:18] MinceR or at least for the memory leaks... [15:18] TR News Not Kidding! Bash Shell Manual is Part of Epstein Files https://itsfoss.com/news/bash-manual-in-epstein-files/ [15:18] TR Bot Not Kidding! Bash Shell Manual is Part of Epstein Files [15:20] MinceR (cat) https://desu-usergeneratedcontent.xyz/int/image/1769/02/1769022033582.jpg [15:21] schestowitz[TR2] MinceR: create problems [15:21] schestowitz[TR2] invent solutions [15:21] schestowitz[TR2] ignore the real issues [15:23] TR News Logic for Programmers New Release and Next Steps https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/logic-for-programmers-new-release-and-next-steps/ [15:23] TR Bot for Programmers New Release and Next Steps Buttondown [15:23] TR News COSMIC Epoch 2 and 3 Roadmap https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-epoch-2-and-3-roadmap [15:23] TR Bot COSMIC Epoch 2 and 3 Roadmap - System76 Blog [15:25] TR News Dirk Eddelbuettel: littler 0.3.23 on CRAN: More Features (and Fixes) http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/02/04#littler_0.3.22 [15:27] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techrights [15:27] TR News Why is strangulation not considered a specific offense in male violence cases? https://bianet.org/haber/why-is-strangulation-not-considered-a-specific-offense-in-male-violence-cases-316334 http://techrights.org/n/2025/04/23/Never_Try_to_Justify_Strangulation_of_Women_Not_in_the_US_and_N.shtml [15:27] TR Bot Why is strangulation not considered a specific offense in male violence cases? [15:27] TR Bot Techrights Never Try to Justify Strangulation of Women (Not in the US and Not in the UK) [15:28] TR News Iranian refugee journalist Kaveh Taheri faces deportation https://bianet.org/haber/iranian-refugee-journalist-kaveh-taheri-faces-deportation-316342 [15:28] TR Bot Iranian refugee journalist Kaveh Taheri faces deportation [15:30] TR News Fastmails donation to Perl! https://rubenerd.com/fastmails-donation-to-perl/ [15:30] TR Bot Fastmails donation to Perl! [15:49] TR News Life pro tip: a Steam Deck can be a bluetooth speaker https://xeiaso.net/notes/2026/steam-deck-bluetooth-speaker/ [15:49] TR Bot Life pro tip: a Steam Deck can be a bluetooth speaker - Xe Iaso [15:50] TR News Review: Libre Computer Solitude AML-S905D3-CC Single Board Computer https://www.linux.org/threads/review-libre-computer-solitude-aml-s905d3-cc-single-board-computer.59022/ [15:50] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.linux.org/threads/review-libre-computer-solitude-aml-s905d3-cc-single-board-computer.59022/ ) [15:50] TR News Qt for Android Automotive 6.10.2 is released https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-for-android-automotive-6.10.2-is-released [15:50] TR Bot Qt for Android Automotive 6.10.2 is released [15:56] TR News Windows TCO: Backdoor in Notepad++ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/02/backdoor-in-notepad.html [15:56] TR Bot in Notepad++ - Schneier on Security [15:57] TR News SystemBC Infects 10,000 Devices After Defying Law Enforcement Takedown https://www.securityweek.com/systembc-infects-10000-devices-after-defying-law-enforcement-takedown/ [15:57] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/systembc-infects-10000-devices-after-defying-law-enforcement-takedown/ ) [15:58] TR News Joint Statement on Internet Shutdowns in the Islamic Republic of Iran https://www.accessnow.org/press-release/joint-statement-on-internet-shutdowns-in-the-islamic-republic-of-iran/ [15:58] TR Bot Joint Statement on Internet Shutdowns in the Islamic Republic of Iran - Freedom Online Coalition [15:58] TR News Artificial Insecurity: how Hey Hi (AI) tools compromise confidentiality https://www.accessnow.org/artificial-insecurity-compromising-confidentality/ [15:58] TR Bot Artificial Insecurity: how AI tools compromise confidentiality - Access Now [15:58] TR News Almost 1,600 EPO Employees Went on Strike Last Week (updated) https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/05/Almost_1_600_EPO_Employees_Went_on_Strike_Last_Week.shtml [15:58] TR Bot Techrights Almost 1,600 EPO Employees Went on Strike Last Week [15:59] TR News Garden Party manage your garden https://www.linuxlinks.com/garden-party-manage-garden/ [15:59] TR Bot Party - manage your garden - LinuxLinks [15:59] TR News 3 Top Free and Open Source D Web Frameworks https://www.linuxlinks.com/free-open-source-d-web-frameworks/ [15:59] TR Bot Top Free and Open Source D Web Frameworks - LinuxLinks ● Feb 06 [16:01] TR News Kickoff Minimalistic program launcher https://www.linuxlinks.com/kickoff-minimalistic-program-launcher/ [16:01] TR Bot - Minimalistic program launcher - LinuxLinks [16:02] TR News 5 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux MAC/RBAC Tools https://www.linuxlinks.com/mac-rbac-tools/ [16:02] TR Bot Best Free and Open Source Linux MAC/RBAC Tools - LinuxLinks [16:02] TR News ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H Running Linux: BIOS https://www.linuxlinks.com/asrock-industrial-nuc-box-255h-running-linux-bios/ [16:02] TR Bot Industrial NUC BOX-255H Running Linux: BIOS - LinuxLinks [16:03] TR News SnipText screen capture OCR tool https://www.linuxlinks.com/sniptext-screen-capture-ocr-tool/ [16:03] TR Bot - screen capture OCR tool - LinuxLinks [16:03] TR News pnana modern terminal text editor https://www.linuxlinks.com/pnana-modern-terminal-text-editor/ [16:03] TR Bot - modern terminal text editor - LinuxLinks [16:04] TR News Hamr desktop launcher https://www.linuxlinks.com/hamr-desktop-launcher/ [16:04] TR Bot - desktop launcher - LinuxLinks [16:04] TR News FTB terminal-based file browser https://www.linuxlinks.com/ftb-terminal-based-file-browser/ [16:04] TR Bot - terminal-based file browser - LinuxLinks [16:05] TR News pproftui terminal-based diagnostic tool https://www.linuxlinks.com/pproftui-terminal-based-diagnostic-tool/ [16:05] TR Bot - terminal-based diagnostic tool - LinuxLinks [16:06] TR News This Week In Rust: This Week in Rust 637 https://this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2026/02/04/this-week-in-rust-637/ [16:06] TR Bot This Week in Rust 637 This Week in Rust [16:20] *Righty has quit (connection closed) [16:20] *Righty (~Username@p4vs6vu2f7ege.irc) has joined #techrights [16:36] TR News Techrights It's Not About Speed, It's About the Message (or Its Depth) https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/06/eoIt_s_Not_About_Speed_It_s_About_the_Message_or_Its_Depth.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/06/eoIt_s_Not_About_Speed_It_s_About_the_Message_or_Its_Depth.gmi [16:36] TR Bot Techrights It's Not About Speed, It's About the Message (or Its Depth) [16:37] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techrights [16:39] TR News "Richard Stallman Exposes the AI Lie; He Calls It Pretend Intelligence. The 2-hour Stallman's speech most provocative claim: LLMs don't know anything" https://medium.com/@tsecretdeveloper/coding-isnt-the-cure-for-anxiety-a61957284416 [16:39] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://medium.com/@tsecretdeveloper/coding-isnt-the-cure-for-anxiety-a61957284416 ) [16:42] TR News Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2026-02-06.gmi [16:43] TR News "The Charging Board V2 arrived this week so I tried to make the device work once again." gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/jirka/Phlog/2026_02_02.txt [16:45] TR News "I saw a post about using git send-email (thank you Ploum!) and it looked like a thing I should know how to do. I didnt actually have sendmail (or msmtp) installed on my development system. Crazy, right? I had been using protonmail for so long that I didnt bother. Mutt with proton uses the Protonmail bridge. So I had a little more setup to do to get ready." gemini://thatit.be/2026-02-05-22-03-16.gmi [16:47] TR News "I enjoyed this chess variant made by eapl. You can only see the squares near your pieces." gemini://freeshell.de/gemlog/2026-02-06_Chess_with_fog_of_war.gmi [16:52] TR News "Grateful for all the healing she brought me, my sadness is transforming in a gentle longing." gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/waiting [16:53] TR News The trickster gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/poetry/trickster [16:53] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techrights [16:55] TR News Sudo maintainer, handling utility for more than 30 years, is looking for support https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/03/sudo_maintainer_asks_for_help/ [16:55] TR Bot Sudo's maintainer needs resources to keep utility updated The Register [16:55] TR News Papers adds handwriting & text annotations in latest Nightly builds https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/02/papers-gnome-app-annotations-signature [16:55] TR Bot Papers adds handwriting & text annotations in latest Nightly builds - OMG! Ubuntu [16:56] TR News "Both Linux kernel 6.17 and Mesa 25.2 will be included by default in the Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS release, due out on February 12th, 2026." https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-24-04-lts-users-get-linux-6-17-and-mesa-25-2-ahead-of-ubuntu-24-04-4-lts [16:56] TR Bot 24.04 LTS Users Get Linux 6.17 and Mesa 25.2 Ahead of Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS - 9to5Linux [16:56] TR News New Raspberry Pi 4 models splits RAM across dual chips https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/02/raspberry-pi-4-rev-1-5-dual-ram [16:56] TR Bot New Raspberry Pi 4 models splits RAM across dual chips - OMG! Ubuntu [16:57] TR News Ubuntu on RISC-V might actually be good thanks to this chip https://www.howtogeek.com/ubuntu-coming-to-spacemit-k3-rva23-risc-v-soc/ [16:57] TR Bot Ubuntu on RISC-V might actually be good thanks to this chip [16:57] TR News Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS HWE update is now available https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/02/ubuntu-24-04-4-lts-hwe-now-available [16:57] TR Bot Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS HWE update is now available - OMG! Ubuntu [16:58] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techrights ● Feb 06 [17:00] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techrights [17:01] TR News The $0 Linux "Swiss Army Knife" every developer should install today https://www.howtogeek.com/this-linux-tool-boosted-my-developer-productivity/ [17:01] TR Bot The $0 Linux "Swiss Army Knife" every developer should install today [17:02] TR News VTube Studio Alternative Designed For Linux Users https://80.lv/articles/vtube-studio-alternative-designed-for-linux-users [17:02] TR Bot New 2D VTubing Software For Linux Users [17:03] TR News Zephyr Project Welcomes BeagleBoard.org, https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/zephyr-project-welcomes-beagleboardorg-chengdu-jingrong-lianchuang-technology-embedd-openeuler-savoir-faire-linux-sevenlab-and-schneider-electric-to-its-growing-ecosystem-302679903.html [17:03] TR Bot Zephyr Project Welcomes BeagleBoard.org, Chengdu Jingrong Lianchuang Technology, Embedd, openEuler, Savoir-faire Linux, SevenLab and Schneider Electric to its Growing Ecosystem [17:03] TR News The fastest ways to find files from the command-line on Linux https://www.howtogeek.com/the-fastest-ways-to-find-files-from-the-command-line-on-linux/ [17:03] TR Bot The fastest ways to find files from the command-line on Linux [17:04] TR News Kali Linux vs. Parrot OS: Which security-forward distro is right for you? 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The era of paying for software seats may be ending. - The New Stack [22:40] MinceR yay [22:41] admfubar what? no torpedoes?? ... https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/06/darpa_seeking_physicsdefying_photonic_computers/ [22:41] TR Bot DARPA asks labs to outsmart physics with photonic circuits The Register [22:41] MinceR outcomes are starting to be delivered alright, but i don't think most people are going to like the outcomes that get delivered [22:41] MinceR they like poverty, suffering, misery and injustice, but they don't like dying out [22:55] *Isambard_Prince (~Isambard_Prince@xjc4ymi2t4i96.irc) has joined #techrights ● Feb 06 [23:02] admfubar https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-to-shut-down-exchange-web-services-in-cloud-in-2027/ [23:02] TR Bot Microsoft to shut down Exchange Online EWS in April 2027 [23:05] MinceR (cat) https://desu-usergeneratedcontent.xyz/int/image/1769/11/1769111346595.jpg [23:05] Isambard_Prince MinceR, Now I have an American Express Business Card. 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