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[00:04]	parsifal	Tux Machines Ian Murdock - by Larry Murdock Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 07, 2026 -> gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/07/Ian_Murdock_by_Larry_Murdock.gmi
[00:04]	parsifal	^Unglaciated: Notes from Faraway Farm: Ian Murdock And we learn about Debian by Larry Murdock -> https://larrymurdock.substack.com/p/ian-murdock-72d
[00:04]	TR Bot	 Ian Murdock - by Larry Murdock
[00:04]	parsifal	^ o7 m(_ _)m
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[00:18]	admfubar	https://www.theregister.com/a/5308059
[00:18]	TR Bot	 Bank of England pours cold water on AI productivity boom
[00:25]	admfubar	https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/11/07/0216257/vibrating-mattress-helps-clear-alzheimers-protein-from-the-brain
[00:25]	TR Bot	 Vibrating Mattress Helps Clear Alzheimer's Protein From the Brain - Slashdot
[00:26]	admfubar	https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/11/06/2051253/developer-pulls-rokus-popular-fish-tank-screensaver-following-fox-sale?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
[00:26]	TR Bot	 Developer Pulls Roku's Popular Fish Tank Screensaver Following Fox Sale - Slashdot
[00:27]	admfubar	https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/11/05/2230215/applebees-exposed-customers-personal-data-after-leaving-database-password-in-app
[00:27]	TR Bot	 Applebee's Exposed Customers' Personal Data After Leaving Database Password In App - Slashdot
[00:28]	admfubar	https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/11/05/1924217/want-to-rent-an-internet-address-at-the-white-house
[00:28]	TR Bot	 Want to Rent an Internet Address at the White House? - Slashdot
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[00:31]	parsifal	<Bank of England pours cold water on AI productivity boom>
[00:31]	parsifal	^If there is anything that can stop this global idiocy, it is money, namely the absence of such as returns, not as pouring such into this bottomless bucket...
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[00:48]	admfubar	https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/nov/07/israel-intelligence-cisco-gaza-palestine
[00:48]	TR Bot	 A customer success story: leaked documents show Cisco doubled down on Israeli military deals during Gaza war | Israel-Gaza war | The Guardian
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[01:03]	admfubar	https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/nov/07/freezer-meltdowns-airline-hoaxes-greyzone-aggression-europe
[01:03]	TR Bot	 Freezer meltdowns and airline hoaxes are a taste of things to come. Hoping for the best is no longer an option | Elisabeth Braw | The Guardian
[01:04]	admfubar	:)).. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/nov/06/ai-ceo-impersonation-theft
[01:04]	TR Bot	 Three men charged in US with using AI to impersonate CEOs and steal millions | US news | The Guardian
[01:07]	MinceR	a meteoroid or a GRB could stop this global idiocy
[01:07]	MinceR	permanently
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[02:23]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], I quoted Ramsey and added my own comment.
[02:23]	IsambardPrince	"Because one of the benefits of having gone broke is I no longer care what other people think."
[02:23]	IsambardPrince	"Let's just imagine you pay everything off, you don't have any payments, and you come into work on Monday and your boss is screaming and throwing a fit. You walk out... 'Where are you going?' I don't have any payments, bye!"
[02:23]	IsambardPrince	Bosses size people up during job interviews to see how likely they are to walk out because they don't need a low paying job with people who are screaming at them. That's why they ask you if you have a driver's license or a car, or family. They're not making chit chat, they're seeing how easy it will be to keep you broke and throw extra tasks at you.
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[03:17]	admfubar	https://hackaday.com/2026/11/04/the-first-business-computer-hits-75/
[03:17]	TR Bot	First Business Computer Hits 75! | Hackaday
[03:20]	MinceR	> I just assume this is the UK spelling, like colour. They do what they want.
[03:34]	IsambardPrince	Polar Bear
[03:34]	IsambardPrince	
[03:34]	IsambardPrince	Follow
[03:34]	IsambardPrince	16 hours ago
[03:34]	IsambardPrince	
[03:34]	IsambardPrince	Keep Fighting! Its Working! Nearly Half Of The Data Centers Planned For 2026 Have Now Been Delayed Or Canceled
[03:34]	IsambardPrince	Communities across the U.S. are pushing back as large data centers continue expanding into local areas. These facilities require enormous amounts of electricity, and many also depend on substantial water resources for cooling.
[03:34]	IsambardPrince	An estimate from Sightline Climate suggests that 30% to 50% of large U.S. data center projects planned for completion in 2026 could face delays or cancellations. Power shortages, equipment delays and infrastructure constraints are among the factors contributing to these setbacks.
[03:34]	IsambardPrince	Community opposition can also influence whether projects move forward, although not every delay or cancellation is directly caused by local residents. The growing debate is forcing communities, utilities and developers to examine how AI infrastructure affects electricity, water, land and local resources.
[03:35]	IsambardPrince	As AI expansion continues, public participation is becoming an increasingly important part of decisions about where and how new data centers are built.
[03:35]	IsambardPrince	----
[03:35]	IsambardPrince	The one planned in Joliet was voted down in a ballot referendum.
[03:35]	IsambardPrince	The local politicians didn't want to take the heat for passing it, so they kicked it to the voters.
[03:35]	IsambardPrince	And the voters passed an ordinance that gutted the tax credits and revoked the building permit.
[03:47]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, https://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/1xq6lky/warning_to_all_applecare_customers/
[03:47]		-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Reddit
[03:48]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], ^
[03:48]	MinceR	lol
[03:54]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, My favorite line from Apple customers is "it holds its value".
[03:54]	IsambardPrince	No it doesn't.
[03:54]	IsambardPrince	You spend $2000 on an iPhone Duo, even if it works in 5 years you'll get like $100 for it.
[03:55]	IsambardPrince	You will lose 95% of your money in 5 years.
[03:55]	IsambardPrince	That's not holding value.
[03:55]	MinceR	sure does
[03:55]	MinceR	it had negative value when it was designed
[03:55]	MinceR	it had negative value when it was manufactured
[03:55]	MinceR	it had negative value when it was bought
[03:55]	MinceR	and it still has negative value!
[03:55]	MinceR	it's garbage.
[03:56]	IsambardPrince	I could go out today and buy a Motorola android phone, $129. Use it for 5-6 years, admit I get nothing. I lost $129 of money for 5-6 years of phone. You bought an iPhone and lost $1900 for 5 years with a phone.
[03:56]	MinceR	> if it works
[03:56]	MinceR	if.
[03:56]	MinceR	the bar would have to be pretty low for it to count as working even when brand new
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[04:11]	admfubar	unless of course you fold wrong and it breaks the screen
[04:13]	MinceR	you don't even need to fold it wrong for the screen to break
[04:25]	parsifal	^Material fatigue is unforgiving, opening and closing it 100-200 times a day will surely break it sooner or later. 
[04:26]	parsifal	Whether it's the hinges themselves, the ribbon cable, or the crease in the middle of the display that will crack, or maybe all three together, this design is inherently unreliable.
[04:31]	IsambardPrince	Some places are saying it can survive over 300,000 bends usually.
[04:35]	MinceR	the rest of the industry has already developed this into something viable
[04:36]	MinceR	crApple is too arrogant to just contract some random manufacturer that has already figured things out
[04:36]	MinceR	and they don't really need to -- their cultists will buy anything that has a crApple logo on it anyway
[04:36]	admfubar	https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/11/british-soldier-ignored-order-to-pull-his-sim-card-then-got-blackmailed/
[04:36]	TR Bot	 British soldier ignored order to pull his SIM card, then got blackmailed - Ars Technica
[04:37]	admfubar	the hinge on the iphone duo was designed by ai. enough said...
[04:38]	MinceR	given how much the IT industry loves to replicate crApple's malfeatures and design flaws, it's surprising that there's no app for a folding android phone that simulates the same pattern of screen corruption yet...
[04:38]	admfubar	https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/11/artist-pulls-popular-screensaver-from-roku-os-because-of-fox-acquisition/
[04:38]	TR Bot	 Developer ends lucrative screensaver deal with Roku because Fox bought it - Ars Technica
[04:39]	MinceR	even the ginormous sensor continent is replicated by an app now, even though android phones are better designed than that in most cases
[04:40]	MinceR	https://www.makeuseof.com/i-added-iphones-best-feature-to-my-android-and-its-actually-useful/
[04:40]	TR Bot	 I added iPhones best feature to my Android and its actually useful
[04:46]	parsifal	300,000 is a generous marketing hot air balloon, this is in some sterile conditions that have nothing to do with reality
[04:46]	parsifal	dust, omnipotent particles, lint from pockets, who opens and closes the phone with what force, sun, water, sand, side stresses from carrying it in a pocket etc
[04:46]	parsifal	and the amount of money is ridiculous for something like this, this is not a device you use, but one you show off -> status symbol
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[05:59]	TR News	Techrights IRC Proceedings: Saturday, November 07, 2026 https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/08/IRC_Proceedings_Saturday_November_07_2026.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/11/08/IRC_Proceedings_Saturday_November_07_2026.gmi 
[05:59]	TR Bot	 Techrights IRC Proceedings: Saturday, November 07, 2026
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[06:01]	TR News	 (NEW):  Today in Techrights https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/Today_in_Techrights.gmi 
[06:01]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Today in Techrights
[06:02]	TR News	Techrights Over at Tux Machines... https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/08/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/11/08/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi 
[06:02]	TR Bot	 Techrights Over at Tux Machines...
[06:06]	TR News	GAFAM layoffs https://www.wionews.com/technology/meta-offers-voluntary-exits-to-french-employees-as-tech-layoffs-continue-1794074956365
[06:06]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.wionews.com/technology/meta-offers-voluntary-exits-to-french-employees-as-tech-layoffs-continue-1794074956365 )
[06:27]	schestowitz[TR2]	parsifal: ping
[06:35]	TR News	Techrights Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXXXIII - Weaponising Cops in Another Continent (Europe), Knowing They Cannot Come to Your Home in America, While Threatening Women https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/08/Intercontinental_Brigading_Part_XXXXIII_Weaponising_Cops_in_Ano.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/11/08/Intercontinental_Brigading_Part_XXXXIII_Weaponising_Cops_in_Ano.gmi 
[06:35]	TR Bot	 Techrights Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXXXIII - Weaponising Cops in Another Continent (Europe), Knowing They Cannot Come to Your Home in America, While Threatening Women
[06:41]	TR News	"there is poetry in the words you refuse to say." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2864
[06:41]	TR News	no shock gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/no_shock
[06:42]	TR News	"Today, I published "add-ledger", a small and simple terminal program to very quickly add entries to a ledger-cli file. If you just want to go to the Codeberg git repo, the link is at the very bottom of this Gemini page." gemini://small-tardis.dnshome.de/jnxx/microblog/2026-11-07_A_Tool_to_quickly_add_Ledger_Entries.gmi
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[06:43]	TR News	Running web sites makes me not want to gemini://lowkey.party/gemlog/20261108-running-web-sites-makes-me-not-want-to/ "Several years ago now I started self-hosting things. Initially the learning process and how to set up everything drove me to eagerly keep learning more and more, and even how to manage keeping everything up and reliable. But then the LLM Scrapers arrived."
[06:44]	TR News	"They meet in a train and spend the night in Vienna. And then they go their own ways, promising each other at the last moment to meet again, six months later. No exchange of addresses or phone numbers. Just a promise." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2026-11-06-movies
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[06:47]	TR News	Techrights Gemini Links 08/11/2026: "Before Sunrise" and LLM Scrapers Versus Self-Hosting (or Web in General) https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/08/Gemini_Links_08_11_2026_Before_Sunrise_and_LLM_Scrapers_Versus_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/11/08/Gemini_Links_08_11_2026_Before_Sunrise_and_LLM_Scrapers_Versus_.gmi 
[06:47]	TR Bot	 Techrights Gemini Links 08/11/2026: "Before Sunrise" and LLM Scrapers Versus Self-Hosting (or Web in General)
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[10:08]	parsifal	schestowitz[TR2]: pong ;)
[10:15]	schestowitz[TR2]	too late :)
[10:15]	schestowitz[TR2]	i was going to ask
[10:15]	schestowitz[TR2]	for more examples 
[10:16]	schestowitz[TR2]	of acid attackks or threats thereof against journalists in .bg
[10:16]	schestowitz[TR2]	see <techrights-news> Techrights Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXXXIII - Weaponising Cops in Another Continent (Europe), Knowing They Cannot Come to Your Home in America, While Threatening Women https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/08/Intercontinental_Brigading_Part_XXXXIII_Weaponising_Cops_in_Ano.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/11/08/Intercontinental_Brigading_Part_XXXXIII_Weaponising_Cop
[10:16]	schestowitz[TR2]	s_in_Ano.gmi 
[10:17]	TR News	"Portland Civic Lab is organizing a free screening of The Internets Own Boy, the documentary about Aarons life, work, and fight for an open internet." https://www.aaronswartzday.org/portland/ | Source: Aaron Swartz Day
[10:17]	TR Bot	 Portland | Aaron Swartz Day and International Hackathon
[10:17]	TR News	"Speaking of leaks: This weekend, as we do every year, were helping host Aaron Swartz Day, a hackathon in the name of the transparency advocate, champion of the open web" https://freedom.press/issues/new-congress-must-prioritize-press-freedom/ | Source: FPF
[10:17]	TR Bot	 New Congress must prioritize press freedom
[10:18]	TR News	"A total of 1,326 Dutch hotels have joined a collective lawsuit against Booking.com, the Dutch hospitality industry group KHN reported." https://nltimes.nl/2026/11/07/1325-dutch-hotels-join-mass-claim-lawsuit-bookingcom | Source: NL Times
[10:18]	TR Bot	 More than 1,325 Dutch hotels join mass claim lawsuit against Booking.com | NL Times
[10:18]	TR News	Got three bouquets of flowers for the Techrights anniversary
[10:19]	TR News	"One of the issues I skirted around in the original articles was how to handle the fact that both 32-bit and 64-bit EFI firmwares exist." https://kevinboone.me/efi32.html | Source: Kevin Boone
[10:19]	TR Bot	 Kevin Boone: Building a 32-bit EFI application on a 64-bit Linux system
[10:22]	TR News	"Italys top court has shut down the ILVA steel mill in Taranto, recognizing that it has become a disastrous health hazard" https://jacobin.com/2026/11/european-steel-production-health-environment-jobs | Source: Jacobin Magazine
[10:23]	TR Bot	 The Steel Disaster in Taranto, Italy, Is a Warning to Europe
[10:23]	TR News	"Against Tech Oligarchy" https://pluralistic.net/2026/11/07/aeiou-but-sometimes-why/#unrecognizable-playbook | Source: CoryDoctorow
[10:23]	TR Bot	 Pluralistic: JS Tan and Clarissa Redwines Against Tech Oligarchy (07 Nov 2026) Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
[10:23]	TR News	"On 6-7 November 2026 we are taking action across Europe to say Stop Dirty Data Centres." https://stopdirtydatacentres.eu/ |
[10:23]	TR Bot	 Stop Dirty Data Centres - Days of Action 6-7 Nov 2026
[10:27]	TR News	"Stephen Millers promotion" https://emptywheel.net/2026/11/07/one-less-person-in-the-room/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler
[10:27]	TR Bot	 One Less Person in the Room - emptywheel
[10:28]	TR News	[Old] "In 2018, Soon-Shiong purchased the L.A. Times, the San Diego Union-Tribune and several community newspapers in a $500-million deal." https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-21/soon-shiong-plan-to-take-los-angeles-times-public | Source: Los Angeles Times
[10:28]	TR Bot	 L.A. Times owner says he intends to take newspaper public in coming year - Los Angeles Times
[10:28]	TR News	"Things changed when he took his show to one of Istanbuls most prominent stages and uploaded the performance to YouTube, opening it to a much wider audience." https://jacobin.com/2026/11/turkey-goktas-comedy-free-speech-repression | Source: Jacobin Magazine
[10:28]	TR Bot	 In Turkey, When Does a Joke Become a Crime?
[10:29]	TR News	"stock rout" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/nov/06/us-tech-stock-ai-bubble-bursting-market-meltdown-explainer | Source: The Guardian UK
[10:29]	TR Bot	 US tech stock rout: is the AI bubble bursting? | Stock markets | The Guardian
[10:29]	TR News	"Over time, the computing Microsoft was renting became less useful because it no longer fit the companys specifications, said the people, who requested anonymity to discuss a private matter" https://www.deccanchronicle.com/technology/microsoft-winding-down-oracle-deal-to-rent-ai-cloud-capacity-2002715 | Source: Deccan Chronicle
[10:29]	TR Bot	 Microsoft Winding Down Oracle Deal to Rent AI Cloud Capacity
[10:29]	TR News	"The emergency package comes after dozens of companies and government agencies were hit by unauthorized access to their systems and leaks of client data, prompting uneasiness across Japan." https://www.securityweek.com/japan-announces-emergency-cybersecurity-package-following-a-wave-of-attacks/ | Source: Security Week
[10:29]	TR Bot	Announces Emergency Cybersecurity Package Following a Wave of Attacks - SecurityWeek
[10:30]	TR News	"The tech elite flocked to the state for its business-friendly politics. A Democratic wave is testing whether the state remains their political safe haven" https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/11/07/musk-fled-california-texas-now-his-red-state-refuge-is-revolt/ | Source: The Washington Post
[10:30]	TR Bot	stream 1 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2) ( status 0 @ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/11/07/musk-fled-california-texas-now-his-red-state-refuge-is-revolt/ )
[10:30]	TR News	"Roose: Totally. So let's talk about a few of the races that we were looking at and what happened in them." https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-6032000 | Source: NPR
[10:30]	TR Bot	 The Purple Tsunami Against Data Centers
[10:35]	TR News	[Old] "As soon as Lars Ruiter steps out of his car, he is confronted by a Microsoft security guard, who is already seething with anger." https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-netherlands-hyperscale-data-centers/ | Source: Wired
[10:35]	TR Bot	Angry Dutch Farmers Really Hate Microsoft | WIRED
[10:36]	TR News	"The demonstrations come days after the U.S. midterm elections ushered in a wave of Democrats promising to clamp down on data centers, which face resistance around the world due to the massive amounts of computing power and water they use." https://www.bostonherald.com/2026/11/06/protesters-microsoft-data-center-europe/ | Source: Boston Herald
[10:36]	TR Bot	 Protesters break into data center site in Amsterdam as backlash spreads
[10:36]	TR News	"Campaigners against data centers in Europe are expected to stage protests and other actions in several countries on Friday and Saturday" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/microsoft-protesters-europe-amsterdam-democrats-b3080635.html | Source: The Independent UK
[10:36]	TR Bot	 Protesters break into Microsoft data center site in Amsterdam as Europes backlash spreads | The Independent
[10:37]	TR News	"The demonstration was reportedly organized by the climate justice direction action group Geef Tegengas, a Rotterdam-based collective with a history of staging peaceful" https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/protestors-microsoft-data-center-construction | Source: Futurism
[10:37]	TR Bot	 Hundreds of Protestors Bust Into Construction Site to Stop Microsoft Data Center
[10:37]	TR News	"According to NRC, it will use as much electricity in a year as the whole of Amsterdam. " https://www.dutchnews.nl/2026/11/activists-occupy-site-of-microsoft-data-centre-in-amsterdam/ | Source: Dutch News
[10:37]	TR Bot	occupy site of Microsoft data centre in Amsterdam - DutchNews.nl
[10:38]	TR News	"We dont want it to be built. Nobody needs it" https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/data-centre-protesters-microsoft-amsterdam-europe-6531886 | Source: CNA
[10:38]	TR Bot	 Protesters break into Microsoft data centre site in Amsterdam as Europes backlash spreads - CNA
[10:38]	TR News	We dont want it to be built. Nobody needs it, Timmer said. The only thing this will be used for is AI slop. AI warfare, data surveillance, and committing genocides. We dont want that, he added, vowing to continue protesting until construction is halted.
[10:38]	TR News	"Opposition to the new data center in Amsterdam comes more than a year after the city banned new data centers until 2030, after a temporary stop that was announced at the end of 2023." https://www.theverge.com/news/1028549/protesters-microsoft-data-center-site-amsterdam | Source: The Verge
[10:38]	TR Bot	 Protesters break into Microsoft data center site in Amsterdam | The Verge
[10:38]	TR News	"Screw your data center." https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/protesters-storm-microsoft-ai-data-center-construction-site-amsterdam-reportedly-first-of-85-targeted-actions-across-europe | Source: Tom's Hardware
[10:38]	TR Bot	 Protesters storm Microsoft AI data center construction site Amsterdam reportedly first of 85 targeted actions across Europe | Tom's Hardware
[10:39]	TR News	"The action comes amid Europe-wide resistance to the rapid expansion of energy-hungry AI, with more than 100 groups involved in a two-day series of protests to demand moratoria on the construction of new datacentres." https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/nov/06/activists-break-into-building-site-of-microsoft-datacentre-in-amsterdam | Source: The Guardian UK
[10:39]	TR Bot	 Activists break into building site of Microsoft datacentre in Amsterdam | Activism | The Guardian
[10:39]	TR News	"Stop Dirty Data Centres" https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/activists-breach-microsoft-data-centre-construction-site-as-protests-spread-in-europe/articleshow/135608593.cms | Source: India Times
[10:39]	TR Bot	 Activists breach Microsoft data centre construction site as protests spread in Europe - The Economic Times
[10:39]	TR News	"Whats an active antenna do? Its main purpose is to provide useful reception with an antenna size much smaller than would normally be called for." https://hackaday.com/2026/11/07/active-antenna-runs-on-a-single-lithium-ion-cell/ | Source: Hackaday
[10:39]	TR Bot	Antenna Runs On A Single Lithium-Ion Cell | Hackaday
[10:40]	TR News	"The fact that Musk would just quietly put an end to the Cybertruck without any fanfare was a sign of how far it had fallen, not just in the eyes of the public" https://www.theverge.com/transportation/1029460/elon-musk-cybertruck-death-election-backlash | Source: The Verge
[10:40]	TR Bot	 Good riddance, Cybertruck! | The Verge
[10:40]	TR News	"designed to the specifications of one man, who made himself the richest person in the world through a savvy combination of government kickbacks, stock manipulation, and viral marketing stunts." https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-commentary/good-riddance-elon-musk-cybertruck-1235654079/ | Source: Rolling Stone
[10:40]	TR Bot	 Good Riddance to Elon's Musk Cybertruck
[10:41]	TR News	"security experts were to meet in Brussels next week to discuss measures to deal with the hoaxes." https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2026/1107/bomb-hoax-flights-europe | Source: CS Monitor
[10:41]	TR Bot	to know about the hoax bomb threats that targeted flights in Europe - CSMonitor.com
[10:41]	TR News	[Old] "Emissions from wildfires in Indonesia from January to September 2026 were among the highest of the past 24 years" https://wildfiretoday.com/indonesias-wildfires-impact-air-quality-for-much-of-region/ |
[10:41]	TR Bot	stream 1 was not closed cleanly: PROTOCOL_ERROR (err 1) ( status 0 @ https://wildfiretoday.com/indonesias-wildfires-impact-air-quality-for-much-of-region/ )
[10:42]	TR News	[Old] "Fires are persisting across Indonesia and causing transboundary haze and respiratory health problems for people in neighboring countries like Malaysia and Singapore" https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/news/worldview-image-archive/fires-causing-persistent-haze-across-southeast-asia |
[10:42]	TR Bot	 Fires Causing Persistent Haze Across Southeast Asia | NASA Earthdata
[10:43]	TR News	[Old] "Since late July 2026, wildfires burning across Indonesias forests, agricultural land and peatlands have released large quantities of smoke" https://eu-space.europa.eu/components/earth-observation-copernicus/image-of-the-day/indonesias-prolonged-wildfires-affect-regional-air-quality |
[10:43]	TR Bot	 Indonesias prolonged wildfires affect regional air quality | EU Space Support Office | EU Space Policy
[10:43]	TR News	"Smoke from fires in Indonesia has blanketed the Southeast Asian region with haze for months, turning cities like Singapore and Kuala Lumpur into the world's most polluted places." https://text.npr.org/2026/10/20/nx-s1-6004263/fires-in-indonesia-blanket-southeast-asian-region-with-haze | Source: NPR
[10:43]	TR Bot	 Fires in Indonesia blanket Southeast Asian region with haze
[10:44]	TR News	[Old] "Many of the fires begin as small-scale blazes." https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/21/indonesia-borneo-sumatra-fires-smoke-toxic-air | Source: The Guardian UK
[10:44]	TR Bot	 The physical toll is visceral: How Indonesias fire haze affects millions - visual guide | Indonesia | The Guardian
[10:44]	TR News	[Old] "Wildfires have torched some 1.9 million hectares across Indonesia since the start of the year" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqm2dzwdmmywo | Source: BBC
[10:44]	TR Bot	 Borneo burning: Life on the frontline of South East Asia's toxic haze
[10:44]	TR News	"Ongoing fires in Indonesia have prompted calls for legal action or boycotts in neighbouring countries." https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-11-03/indonesia-haze-crisis-reignites-regional-frustration/107329748 | Source: ABC
[10:44]	TR Bot	 Indonesia's smoke haze crisis ignites regional frustrations - ABC News
[10:47]	TR News	"Owning a home is billed as a way to build wealth, but amid climate-related disasters, for many it's beginning to feel like a trap." https://www.wired.com/story/the-american-dream-wasnt-built-for-climate-change/ | Source: Wired
[10:47]	TR Bot	American Dream Wasnt Built for Climate Change | WIRED
[10:47]	TR News	"The bill seriously weakens the Clean Water Act and Endangered Species Act and guts the National Environmental Policy Act and the National Historic Preservation Act." https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/public-citizen-opposes-senate-permitting-bill | Source: Common Dreams
[10:47]	TR Bot	 Public Citizen Opposes Senate Permitting Bill | Common Dreams
[10:47]	TR News	"Google announced the investment on Thursday to build its first data center in Wyoming, expanding its AI infrastructure despite growing political opposition to such projects in parts of the US." https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/startups/google-acquires-wyoming-data-center-site-from-ai-infrastructure-firm-crusoe/articleshow/135625592.cms | Source: India Times
[10:47]	TR Bot	 Google acquires Wyoming data center site from AI infrastructure firm Crusoe - The Economic Times
[10:48]	TR News	"Michigan senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed's Wikipedia page underwent a series of edits removing or softening references to campaign controversies before his 3 November election victory" https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/abdul-el-sayed-wikipedia-edits-michigan-election-1830803 | Source: International Business Times
[10:48]	TR Bot	 Abdul El-Sayed's Wikipedia Page Lost References to Controversies Before Senate Win, Researchers Say | IBTimes UK
[10:49]	TR News	"What little information can be found about New Matrix is concerning. Its owners have ties to a Chinese private equity firm that has been blacklisted by the US government since 2024" https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1029483/nvidia-ai-chips-china-blacklist-government | Source: The Verge
[10:49]	TR Bot	 The US let Nvidia sell chips to an empty office in China | The Verge
[10:56]	TR News	"The case, brought by AGs in Connecticut, New Jersey, New York and Michigan, targeted the medical transcription, coding and imaging subsidiaries of the Nevada-based Perry Johnson Companies." https://therecord.media/medical-services-company-settles-with-4-state-ags | Source: The Record
[10:56]	TR Bot	 Medical services company settles with 4 states over 2023 hack of sensitive patient records | The Record from Recorded Future News
[10:57]	TR News	"MindGeek, now called Aylo, also agreed to require government issued identification to verify that anyone who is depicted in videos, as well as the users who upload them, is over 18." https://www.courthousenews.com/pornhub-120-million-settlement-on-track-for-approval/ | Source: Court House News
[10:57]	TR Bot	 Pornhub $120 million settlement on track for approval | Courthouse News Service
[10:57]	TR News	"Regardless of the validity of the investigation, the mass-resignation exposes the hypocrisy of Georgia police, who have access to perhaps the largest public-private surveillance operation in US history." https://futurism.com/future-society/police-force-georgia-resigns-surveillance-tracking | Source: Futurism
[10:57]	TR Bot	 Entire Police Force Quits After Mayor Starts Surveilling Them and Tracking Their Movement
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[11:08]	TR News	"The management of Zimbabwes Traffic Management System is pure" https://www.techzim.co.zw/2026/11/my-experience-with-zimbabwes-new-traffic-camera-system-fined-for-driving-through-a-green-light/ | Source: Zimbabwe
[11:08]	TR Bot	( status 428 @ https://www.techzim.co.zw/2026/11/my-experience-with-zimbabwes-new-traffic-camera-system-fined-for-driving-through-a-green-light/ )
[11:10]	TR News	Windows TCO https://www.wired.com/story/kernel-panic-refrigeration-hacks-internet-of-things/ | Source: Wired
[11:10]	TR Bot	Fridge-Hacking Spree Is an Internet-of-Things Wake-Up Call | WIRED
[11:11]	TR News	Social Control Media: "harmful consequences" https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/vaishnaw-puts-onus-on-social-media-platforms-to-curb-online-harm-stops-short-of-safe-harbour-clarity/articleshow/135609932.cms | Source: India Times
[11:11]	TR Bot	 Vaishnaw puts onus on social media platforms to curb online harm, stops short of safe-harbour clarity - The Economic Times
[11:11]	TR News	"How TikTok Is Promoting, Normalising and Glamourising the Sex Industry" https://www.deccanchronicle.com/technology/tiktok-accused-of-promoting-sex-industry-to-young-girls-2002713 | Source: Deccan Chronicle
[11:11]	TR Bot	 TikTok Accused Of Promoting Sex Industry To Young Girls
[11:11]	TR News	"MWR harkens back to the World War I-era Army Morale Division." https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2026-11-06/mwr-returns-social-media-23382405.html | Source: Stars And Stripes
[11:11]	TR Bot	returns to Facebook after Army authorizes social media policy exemption | Stars and Stripes
[11:12]	TR News	"I originally drafted this in August, 2024." https://www.michaelgale.dev/blog/mastodon-for-everyone | Source: Michael Gale
[11:12]	TR Bot	 Mastodon for everyone | Michael Gale
[11:13]	TR News	"And they got it, years later, when a Scottish botanist snuck into China to steal tea seedlings." https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5935277 | Source: NPR
[11:13]	TR Bot	 Much of South Asia powers the day with chai. The tea's origins may surprise you
[11:14]	TR News	"In a new study, scientists showed that you can do this, and it's all thanks to human sewage." https://www.sciencealert.com/university-exams-produce-a-distinct-chemical-signature-in-sewage-study-suggests | Source: Science Alert
[11:14]	TR Bot	Exams Produce a Distinct Chemical Signature in Sewage, Study Suggests : ScienceAlert
[11:14]	TR News	"Today, most people expect to sleep for seven to nine hours without a lengthy interruption." https://www.medievalists.net/2026/11/how-people-sleep-middle-ages/ | Source: Medievalists.net
[11:14]	TR Bot	Did People Sleep in the Middle Ages? - Medievalists.net
[11:15]	TR News	"In some ways, the handpiece of an induction-heated soldering iron is simpler than a resistive iron." https://hackaday.com/2026/11/07/building-a-homemade-induction-soldering-iron/ | Source: Hackaday
[11:15]	TR Bot	A Homemade Induction Soldering Iron | Hackaday
[11:16]	TR News	"Some people forget rarely used possessions, and get minimal benefit from having them stored." https://www.jefftk.com/p/minimalism-stuff-and-brains | Source: Jeff Kaufman
[11:16]	TR Bot	 Minimalism, Stuff, and Brains
[11:17]	TR News	"I knew the job would involve substantial administration. When we wrote the application for the center" https://www.the-scientist.com/what-i-wish-i-had-asked-before-becoming-a-director-of-a-research-center-75250 | Source: LabX Media Group
[11:17]	TR Bot	 What I Wish I Had Asked Before Becoming a Director of a Research Center | The Scientist
[11:17]	TR News	"The Norse were among the most mobile peoples of the early Middle Ages, establishing settlements across the North Atlantic." https://www.medievalists.net/2026/11/why-did-the-vikings-stay-in-iceland-a-new-study-offers-answers/ | Source: Medievalists.net
[11:18]	TR Bot	Did the Vikings Stay in Iceland? A New Study Offers Answers - Medievalists.net
[11:18]	TR News	"As a whole, the impact on Artemis comes in waves." https://hackaday.com/2026/11/07/artemis-ii-rocket-was-powerful-enough-to-disrupt-gps/ | Source: Hackaday
[11:18]	TR Bot	II Rocket Was Powerful Enough To Disrupt GPS | Hackaday
[11:18]	TR News	"I see fitness as a combination of cardio, building muscle, flexibility, gut/body health, and mental health. They all complement each other in surprisingly strong ways." https://www.kashyapsuhas.com/blog/30 | Source: Suhas Kashyap
[11:18]	TR Bot	 30 things at 30 | Suhas Kashyap
[11:18]	TR News	"One of the problems is probably that I think faster than I can type." https://lostfocus.de/2026/11/07/writing/ | Source: Dominik Schwind
[11:18]	TR Bot	 Writing | LostFocus
[11:24]	TR News	Techrights Links 08/11/2026: Why Vikings Stayed in Iceland and "TikTok Accused Of Promoting Sex Industry To Young Girls" https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/08/Links_08_11_2026_Why_Vikings_Stayed_in_Iceland_and_TikTok_Accus.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/11/08/Links_08_11_2026_Why_Vikings_Stayed_in_Iceland_and_TikTok_Accus.gmi 
[11:24]	TR Bot	 Techrights Links 08/11/2026: Why Vikings Stayed in Iceland and "TikTok Accused Of Promoting Sex Industry To Young Girls"
[11:31]	TR News	SteamOS 0.5.8 Beta for Steam Frame and SteamVR Beta 2.19.2 released | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/11/steamos-0-5-8-beta-for-steam-frame-and-steamvr-beta-2-19-2-released/ Source: GamingOnLinux
[11:31]	TR Bot	0.5.8 Beta for Steam Frame and SteamVR Beta 2.19.2 released | GamingOnLinux
[11:32]	TR News	Give your brain a challenge with the Non Non Nonograms Humble Bundle | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/11/give-your-brain-a-challenge-with-the-non-non-nonograms-humble-bundle/ Source: GamingOnLinux | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/11/give-your-brain-a-challenge-with-the-non-non-nonograms-humble-bundle/
[11:32]	TR Bot	your brain a challenge with the Non Non Nonograms Humble Bundle | GamingOnLinux
[11:33]	TR News	"SparkFun today launched two ESP32-P4-based IoT RedBoards, offering either dual-band Wi-Fi 6 through an ESP32-C5 companion or wired Ethernet with Power over Ethernet." https://linuxgizmos.com/esp32-p4-development-boards-combine-risc-v-with-wi-fi-6-or-poe/ | Source: Linux Gizmos
[11:33]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/esp32-p4-development-boards-combine-risc-v-with-wi-fi-6-or-poe/ )
[11:33]	TR News	"Crowd Supply has introduced a campaign for LocalDot, an open-hardware board developed by AAElectronics that converts third-generation Amazon Echo Dots into Home Assistant voice devices" https://linuxgizmos.com/home-assistant-compatible-board-pairs-esp32-s3-and-esp32-p4/ | Source: Linux Gizmos
[11:33]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/home-assistant-compatible-board-pairs-esp32-s3-and-esp32-p4/ )
[11:34]	TR News	[Updated] "Most servers dont have a desktop at all, so when you connect over SSH, the terminal editor is the only way to change those files." https://www.tecmint.com/linux-command-line-editors/ | Source: TecMint
[11:34]	TR Bot	 7 Best Command-Line Text Editors for Linux
[11:35]	TR News	"'Stop Dirty Datacenters': Europe-Wide Protests Planned Demanding Building Moratorium - SoylentNews" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/11/06/0116253
[11:35]	TR Bot	 'Stop Dirty Datacenters': Europe-Wide Protests Planned Demanding Building Moratorium - SoylentNews
[11:37]		*psydroid2 (~psydroid@kcvnmgbxt8eqq.irc) has joined #techrights
[11:41]	TR News	"In my view, this sort of quick thing is what Perl is good at and is one of its strengths." https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/PerlEasyHacksCanBeGood | Source: University of Toronto
[11:41]	TR Bot	 You're using a too-old browser
[11:41]	TR News	"The last post here covered 4.080_05." https://blogs.perl.org/users/dean/2026/11/netaddrip-4080-08-another-trial-please-smoke-test.html | Source: Perl
[11:41]	TR Bot	4.080_08: another trial, please smoke test | dean [blogs.perl.org]
[11:42]	TR News	"Linux took nearly every aspect of this proprietary software development approach and threw it out the window." https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/from-linux-to-wikipedia-how-volunteers-build-the-internet/ | Source: uni MIT
[11:42]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/from-linux-to-wikipedia-how-volunteers-build-the-internet/ )
[11:42]	TR News	"As an open-source maintainer, you imagine the ideal contributor as an individual that is excited about your project, uses it and understands it" https://wasp.sh/blog/2026/08/13/advice-for-contributing-in-2026 |
[11:42]	TR Bot	 A Maintainer's Advice on Contributing to Open Source in 2026 | Wasp
[11:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	andy: "
[11:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	excellent
[11:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	we block with a triplet of AWK scripts which trigger on a few patterns
[11:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	but most of the bot get through I have not tried to block bots specificially
[11:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	just specific unwanted actions 
[11:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	Should we try to block bots?
[11:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[11:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	re your question
[11:43]	TR News	"We are having an IN PERSON hackathon in San Francisco at the Internet Archive on Sunday November 8th!" https://www.aaronswartzday.org/ | Source: Aaron Swartz Day
[11:43]	TR Bot	 Aaron Swartz Day and International Hackathon | November 8, 2026 10am-5pm Internet Archive and around the world!
[11:43]	TR News	"One idea for this is to try to find not just if there is a collision, but also the point within the intersection region which has the greatest combined depth to both surfaces." https://theorangeduck.com/page/simple-sdf-collisions | Source: Daniel Holden
[11:43]	TR Bot	 Simple SDF Collisions
[11:43]	TR News	"Shopping around for smaller Schemes, I found TinySCHEME. TinySCHEME is probably the most balanced of smaller Schemes, implementing most of R5RS in mere 6K lines of code." https://aartaka.me/teeny.html | Source: Artyom Bologov
[11:43]	TR Bot	 Teeny Scheme
[11:43]	TR News	"This sensitivity has served me well at work." https://krisshamloo.com/blog/008 | Source: Kris Shamloo
[11:43]	TR Bot	 Kris Shamloo
[11:44]	TR News	"The first problem with design systems is one of incentives. The engineering team that owns the design system is incentivized to produce elegant components that will look beautiful all the time." https://www.seangoedecke.com/working-with-designers/ | Source: Sean Goedecke
[11:44]	TR Bot	 Working with designers
[11:46]	TR News	"Liability and regulation has succeeded before on large, critical industries that were previously unregulated, such as the food industry." https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/SoftwareLiabilityTooLate | Source: University of Toronto
[11:46]	TR News	[Old] "The time is way overdue for IT engineers to be subject to professional liability, like almost every other engineering profession." https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3486590 | Source: ACM
[11:46]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3486590 )
[11:46]	TR News	[Old] "We have to do something that actually works" https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/2018396.2018412 | Source: ACM
[11:46]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/2018396.2018412 )
[11:50]	TR News	"DND told CBC News that Gotham brings together information from military databases and operates on closed, classified networks inside secure facilities in Canada." https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/palantir-canadian-military-9.7409099 | Source: CBC
[11:50]	TR Bot	 Canada's military is using Palantir software. What are the risks? | CBC News
[11:50]	schestowitz[TR2]	andy: "
[11:50]	schestowitz[TR2]	Should we try to block bots?  <-- ?
[11:50]	schestowitz[TR2]	Most bots don't identify themselves anyway
[11:50]	schestowitz[TR2]	So one has to guess based on behavior
[11:50]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[11:51]	TR News	"Its not just social media scams and deepfakes. Dishonest business practices from the sketchier corners of the Internet have gone mainstream." https://blog.zgp.org/txlf/ | Source: Don Marti
[11:51]	TR Bot	 Notes and links from my talk at Texas Linux Fest
[11:52]	TR News	"The JD CLI has been updated to v5. It now supports Bear as a JDex." https://johnnydecimal.com/blog/0263-cli-v5/ | Source: Johnny Decimal
[11:52]	TR Bot	 CLI v5, .config v2, supports Bear please update Blog Johnny.Decimal
[11:52]	TR News	"16 years ago I went for a walk with the family dog. When I returned home my computer's disk was full." https://koldfront.dk/solution_of_long_standing_emacs_and_gtk_problem_2000 | Source: Adam Sjgren
[11:52]	TR Bot	 Solution of long standing Emacs and GTK problem - koldfront
[11:53]	TR News	"Waterfox now checks digital signatures before installing browser updates." https://www.waterfox.com/releases/6.7.8/ | Source: Waterfox
[11:53]	TR Bot	6.7.8 iCloud Passwords and a Feeds sidebar Release Notes
[11:53]	TR News	"Waterfox now uses Gecko 160.0, up from 159.0, with upstream website compatibility and stability fixes." https://www.waterfox.com/releases/android/1.2.11/ | Source: Waterfox
[11:53]	TR Bot	Android 1.2.11 - Optional screen protection and Gecko 160
[11:53]	TR News	"Unlike the 1970s instant cameras that still used plenty of metal and such for the housing and mechanisms, this 600-series camera is pretty much an all-plastic affair" https://hackaday.com/2026/11/07/repairing-a-polaroid-630-sl-lightmixer-instant-camera/ | Source: Hackaday
[11:53]	TR Bot	A Polaroid 630 SL Lightmixer Instant Camera | Hackaday
[11:54]	TR News	"The ESP32 series of microcontrollers feature a lot on these pages, offering as they do a significantly powerful processor and in most cases, wireless connectivity" https://hackaday.com/2026/11/07/proper-linux-on-an-esp32/ | Source: Hackaday
[11:54]	TR Bot	Linux, On An ESP32 | Hackaday
[11:54]	TR News	"As such, we made the difficult decision to begin the process of transitioning all of our repositories to the GNU General Public License version 2 or later." https://asahilinux.org/2026/11/progress-report-7-3/ | Source: Asahi Linux
[11:54]	TR Bot	 Progress Report: Linux 7.3 - Asahi Linux
[11:55]	TR News	"On Linux distributions using musl libc without PAM, some accounts accept any password between 257 and 1024 characters." https://www.securityweek.com/openssh-rushes-patches-for-sshole-authentication-bypass/ | Source: Security Week
[11:55]	TR Bot	Rushes Patches for 'SSHole' Authentication Bypass - SecurityWeek
[11:55]	TR News	"Releases, advisories, and articles from across the package management world" https://nesbitt.io/2026/11/07/this-week-in-package-management.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt
[11:55]	TR Bot	 This Week in Package Management: 7 November 2026 | Andrew Nesbitt
[11:56]	TR News	"With a 2.9 e-paper screen, rotary encoder, and RGB LED that can provide mood lighting for the story, it can provide an estimated 20 hours of entertainment per charge" https://hackaday.com/2026/11/07/play-text-adventures-on-an-e-paper-handheld/ | Source: Hackaday
[11:56]	TR Bot	Text Adventures On An E-Paper Handheld | Hackaday
[11:57]	TR News	"This forced the MTA and MUA distinction: if the recipient's server isn't up when the email is set, the sending MTA will save the message and re-attempt delivery later." https://maurycyz.com/misc/email/ | Source: Maury
[11:57]	TR Bot	 A bit about email
[11:57]	TR News	"I've talked before about how it's possible to filter a set of elements, in response to user requests" https://danq.me/2026/11/06/dynamic-sorting-in-pure-css/ | Source: Dan Q
[11:57]	TR Bot	 Dynamic Sorting in Pure CSS Dan Q
[11:57]	TR News	"Of course not. So what follows is something that probably most of you already know, but that I was really excited to discover today so if at least one person gets excited about this as well" https://www.raymondcamden.com/2026/11/07/til-postman-and-oauth | Source: Raymond Camden
[11:57]	TR Bot	 TIL - Postman and OAuth
[11:58]	TR News	"A scrollable list reaches its last item, but the next wheel movement sends the page behind it scrolling. That hand-off is called scroll chaining." https://ronaldsvilcins.com/2026/11/07/prevent-scroll-chaining-with-overscroll-behavior/ | Source: Ronalds Vilci
[11:58]	TR Bot	 Prevent Scroll Chaining With overscroll-behavior Ronalds Vilci
● Nov 08
[12:03]	TR News	The Day After https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/11/08/the-day-after/
[12:03]	TR Bot	Blog Archive The Day After
[12:10]	TR News	 (NEW):  Our Efforts Appreciated https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/Our_Efforts_Appreciated.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/Our_Efforts_Appreciated.gmi 
[12:10]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Our Efforts Appreciated
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[12:16]	psydroid2	omelette du fromage
[12:23]	TR News	State of the (Linux) Slop, Late 2026 Edition https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/07/State_of_the_Linux_Slop_Late_2026_Edition.shtml
[12:23]	TR Bot	 Techrights State of the (Linux) Slop, Late 2026 Edition
[12:25]	TR News	Linux Saloon 227 | Devario OS https://cubiclenate.com/2026/11/07/linux-saloon-227-devario-os/
[12:25]	TR Bot	 Linux Saloon: CachyOS Gaming and Devario OS Discussion
[12:25]	TR News	Putin Just Killed Russias Last Independent Newspaper https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/08/opinion/novaya-gazeta-russia-putin-newspaper.html
[12:25]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/08/opinion/novaya-gazeta-russia-putin-newspaper.html )
[12:26]	TR News	Rock Legend Hits The Insurrectionist With a Massive $10M Lawsuit Over Playing His Rock Anthem at Rallie https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/neil-young-trump-rally-copyright-lawsuit-1830810
[12:26]	TR Bot	 Rock Legend Hits Donald Trump With a Massive $10M Lawsuit Over Playing His Rock Anthem at Rallie | IBTimes UK
[12:26]	TR News	HeapDeck: an on-call monitor for PostgreSQL on iPhone and iPad https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/heapdeck-an-on-call-monitor-for-postgresql-on-iphone-and-ipad-3436/
[12:26]	TR Bot	 PostgreSQL: HeapDeck: an on-call monitor for PostgreSQL on iPhone and iPad
[12:27]	TR News	automake @ Savannah: automake 1.20 released [stable] savannah.gnu.org/news/?id=10962
[12:28]	TR News	Kevin Fenzi: misc fedora bits: first week of november 2026 https://www.scrye.com/blogs/nirik/posts/2026/11/07/misc-fedora-bits-first-week-of-november-2026/
[12:28]	TR Bot	 misc fedora bits: first week of november 2026 | Kevin's musings
[12:29]	TR News	Andrew Cater: Arm Cambridge - Mini-Debconf Cambridge - day 1 20261107 http://flosslinuxblog.blogspot.com/2026/11/arm-cambridge-mini-debconf-cambridge.html
[12:29]	TR Bot	 FLOSSLinux: Arm Cambridge - Mini-Debconf Cambridge - day 1 20261107
[12:29]	TR News	Asahi Linux 7.3 progress report https://lwn.net/Articles/1105936/
[12:29]	TR Bot	Linux 7.3 progress report [LWN.net]
[12:30]	TR News	Microsoft EEE https://lwn.net/Articles/1105934/ http://techrights.org/n/2026/01/30/Amutable_s_Management_and_Founders_Are_100_Microsoft.shtml
[12:30]	TR Bot	Foundations: A Technical Overview [LWN.net]
[12:30]	TR Bot	 Techrights Amutables Management and Founders Are 100% Microsoft!
[12:35]	TR News	 (NEW):  Fedora Linux 45 Coverage (and Updates), Asahi Linux 7.3 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/Fedora_Linux_45_Coverage_and_Updates_Asahi_Linux_7_3.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/Fedora_Linux_45_Coverage_and_Updates_Asahi_Linux_7_3.gmi 
[12:35]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Fedora Linux 45 Coverage (and Updates), Asahi Linux 7.3
[12:36]	TR News	Hate Chromium? Well, Theres a GNU/Linux Desktop Based on it Now https://itsfoss.com/news/domicile-desktop-overview/
[12:36]	TR Bot	 Hate Chromium? Well, Theres a Linux Desktop Based on it Now
[12:38]	TR News	Spaced 11.26 https://distrowatch.com/spaced
[12:38]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/spaced )
[12:38]	TR News	SystemRescue 13.03 https://distrowatch.com/systemrescue
[12:38]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/systemrescue )
[12:38]	TR News	HackerOS 5.1 https://distrowatch.com/hackeros
[12:38]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/hackeros )
[12:38]	TR News	MODICIA 6.12.115 https://distrowatch.com/modicia
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[12:38]	TR News	AOSC 20261107 https://distrowatch.com/aosc
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[12:38]	TR News	This Week in GNOME: #273 Kanji & Colons https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2026/11/twig-273/
[12:38]	TR Bot	 #273 Kanji & Colons
[12:40]	TR News	Abora 2026.11.07 https://distrowatch.com/abora
[12:40]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/abora )
[12:40]	TR News	StartOS 0.4.2-rc1 https://distrowatch.com/startos
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[12:40]	TR News	Infinity 2026.11.2 https://distrowatch.com/infinity
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● Nov 08
[13:01]	TR News	Brume: FK-safe pseudonymization for PostgreSQL test and debug copies https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/brume-fk-safe-pseudonymization-for-postgresql-test-and-debug-copies-3434/
[13:01]	TR Bot	 PostgreSQL: Brume: FK-safe pseudonymization for PostgreSQL test and debug copies
[13:02]	TR News	Enthusiast abandons self-hosted Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Exchange after 27 years, moving mailboxes to Abusive Monopolist Microsoft 365 https://www.tomshardware.com/software/enthusiast-abandons-self-hosted-microsoft-exchange-after-27-years-moving-mailboxes-to-microsoft-365-replaces-final-on-premises-relay-with-postfix-starttls-and-lets-encrypt-certificates
[13:02]	TR Bot	 Enthusiast abandons self-hosted Microsoft Exchange after 27 years, moving mailboxes to Microsoft 365 replaces final on-premises relay with Postfix, STARTTLS, and Let's Encrypt certificates | Tom's Hardware
[13:03]	TR News	Evince PDF viewer replaced with Papers https://bkhome.org/news/202611/evince-pdf-viewer-replaced-with-papers.html
[13:03]	TR Bot	 Evince PDF viewer replaced with Papers
[13:03]	TR News	Osmo window has no close-box https://bkhome.org/news/202611/osmo-window-has-no-close-box.html
[13:03]	TR Bot	 Osmo window has no close-box
[13:04]	TR News	AgensGraph 2.18 Released: Graph Database on PostgreSQL 18 with Expanded ISO GQL Support https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/agensgraph-218-released-graph-database-on-postgresql-18-with-expanded-iso-gql-support-3437/
[13:04]	TR Bot	 PostgreSQL: AgensGraph 2.18 Released: Graph Database on PostgreSQL 18 with Expanded ISO GQL Support
[13:05]	TR News	France braces for more nationwide protests as Yellow Vests urge 'mass disobedience' https://www.france24.com/en/france-braces-for-more-nationwide-protests-as-yellow-vests-urge-mass-disobedience
[13:05]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/france-braces-for-more-nationwide-protests-as-yellow-vests-urge-mass-disobedience )
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[13:06]	TR News	Mike Gabriel: OpenAGPS - The New Kid on the Block https://sunweavers.net/blog/node/161
[13:06]	TR Bot	 OpenAGPS - The New Kid on the Block | sunweaver's NET
[13:07]	TR News	"Assisted by Surveillance Giant Google AI" = LLM slop https://dbaxps.blogspot.com/2026/11/online-setup-opensuse-leap-161-on-bare.html
[13:07]	TR Bot	 Openstack RDO && KVM Hypervisor: Online setup openSUSE Leap 16.1 on bare metal and tuning correct resolution for HDMI Monitor
[13:11]	TR News	"I'm based in Europe, I've worked in this industry for almost 30 years, 8 of them at IBM (left IBM 2018). In the probably 8 or so companies in this time I have worked for non of the European mgmt have done what you describe apart from when I was at IBM (part of reason I left),"
[13:11]	TR News	"also I say this behaviour with IBM mgmt around the globe including America (MGM promising something on a call not possible, then disappearing when what was promised was to be delivered). Don't confuse IBM Mgmt standard practice with how work actually operates in Europe."
[13:11]	TR News	"Ask yourself this, as a worker, would you rather be an "at will Employee" or actually have workplace protections? Maybe you should be looking at who actually wins when your an "at work employee" vs having workplace redundancy protection" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m6p5hkm8
[13:11]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m6p5hkm8 )
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[13:13]	TR News	International Buy Nothing Day is coming up rather soon. https://www.buynothingday.co.uk/
[13:13]	TR Bot	 BUY NOTHING DAY - NOVEMBER 27th 2026
[13:13]	TR News	Buy Nothing Day https://nationaldaycalendar.com/celebrations/buy-nothing-day-first-shopping-day-after-thanksgiving
[13:13]	TR Bot	 BUY NOTHING DAY - November 27, 2026 - National Day Calendar
[13:13]	TR News	On Buy Nothing Day https://www.britannica.com/topic/Buy-Nothing-Day
[13:13]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.britannica.com/topic/Buy-Nothing-Day )
[13:14]	TR News	"Andy had a very good post on that topic two years ago."
[13:15]	TR News	GhostBSD 26.3 https://distrowatch.com/ghostbsd
[13:15]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/ghostbsd )
[13:16]	TR News	Vibe Coding Isn't Using Hey Hi (AI) to Make Things https://danielmiessler.com/blog/vibe-coding-isnt-using-ai?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=website
[13:16]	TR Bot	 Vibe Coding Isn't Using AI to Make Things | Daniel Miessler
[13:16]	psydroid2	vibe coding = turning one pile of garbage into another pile of garbage?
[13:16]	TR News	XSAs released on 2026-11-06 https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2026/11/08/xsas-released-on-2026-11-06/
[13:17]	TR Bot	 XSAs released on 2026-11-06 | Qubes OS
[13:17]	schestowitz[TR2]	or plagiarism sold as "intelligence"
[13:17]	psydroid2	garbage collection and transformation
[13:17]	schestowitz[TR2]	brute force to hide sources
[13:17]	schestowitz[TR2]	and fuse together many things
[13:18]	TR News	Dirk Eddelbuettel: prrd 0.1.0 at CRAN: Now With Real Concurrency http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/11/07#prrd_0.1.0
[13:18]	TR Bot	 Thinking inside the box
[13:19]	TR News	Enshrouded Early Game Review: That's The Good Stuff https://boilingsteam.com/enshrouded-review/index.html
[13:19]	TR Bot	 Enshrouded Early Game Review: That's The Good Stuff
[13:19]	TR News	Kdenlive 26.08.3 released https://kdenlive.org/news/releases/26.08.3/
[13:19]	TR Bot	 Kdenlive 26.08.3 released - Kdenlive
[13:20]	TR News	PG Observability Map 1.0.0 Released https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pg-observability-map-100-released-3427/
[13:20]	TR Bot	 PostgreSQL: PG Observability Map 1.0.0 Released
[13:20]	TR News	AI Data centres face growing backlash https://www.france24.com/en/ai-data-centres-face-growing-backlash
[13:20]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/ai-data-centres-face-growing-backlash )
[13:22]	TR News	KDE Gear 26.12 branches created https://tsdgeos.blogspot.com/2026/11/kde-gear-2612-branches-created.html
[13:22]	TR Bot	 TSDgeos' blog: KDE Gear 26.12 branches created
[13:22]	TR News	SonicWall Patches Exploited SonicOS Vulnerability That Weakens VPN Logins https://www.securityweek.com/sonicwall-patches-exploited-sonicos-bug-that-weakens-vpn-logins/
[13:22]	TR Bot	Patches Exploited SonicOS Vulnerability That Weakens VPN Logins - SecurityWeek
[13:23]	parsifal	<schestowitz[TR2]> too late :) -> The human individual must eat and drink, and for that purpose, go to the store, in other words, I was busy with the tedious activity called shopping :)
[13:23]	TR News	Rapper RBX Files Ninth Circuit Appeal in Fraud-Focused Class Action Lawsuit Against Spotify https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/11/06/rbx-spotify-lawsuit-appeal/
[13:23]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/11/06/rbx-spotify-lawsuit-appeal/ )
[13:24]	parsifal	<schestowitz[TR2]> i was going to ask; <schestowitz[TR2]> for more examples; <schestowitz[TR2]> of acid attackks or threats thereof against journalists in .bg
[13:24]	parsifal	^Why are you interested in this nasty topic? During our previous conversation, I told you that the topic brings back unpleasant memories for me from those times. 
[13:24]	schestowitz[TR2]	why?
[13:24]	schestowitz[TR2]	read the URL
[13:25]	TR News	Remember When Bosses Were Forcing Their Workers to Use AI? Theyre Now Realizing They Made a Huge Mistake https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/bosses-workers-ai-huge-mistake
[13:25]	TR Bot	 Remember When Bosses Were Forcing Their Workers to Use AI? They're Now Realizing They Made a Huge Mistake
[13:26]	parsifal	which url
[13:26]	TR News	OpenAI Hears Voters Overwhelming Rebuke To Data Centers, Vows to Build More of Them https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-voters-more-data-centers
[13:26]	TR Bot	 OpenAI Hears Voters Overwhelming Rebuke To Data Centers, Vows to Build More of Them
[13:27]	schestowitz[TR2]	<schestowitz[TR2]> see <techrights-news> Techrights Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXXXIII - Weaponising Cops in Another Continent (Europe), Knowing They Cannot Come to Your Home in America, While Threatening Women https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/08/Intercontinental_Brigading_Part_XXXXIII_Weaponising_Cops_in_Ano.shtml  
[13:27]	TR Bot	 Techrights Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXXXIII - Weaponising Cops in Another Continent (Europe), Knowing They Cannot Come to Your Home in America, While Threatening Women
[13:27]	TR News	AI Godfather Says to Get Ready for a Chernobyl-Style Blackout Caused by Hey Hi (AI) https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-godfather-chernobyl-blackout http://techrights.org/n/2024/02/02/The_Great_LLM_Delusion_Part_VI_Hype_Agent_Geoff_Hinton_Would_Ne.shtml
[13:27]	TR Bot	 AI Godfather Says to Get Ready for a Chernobyl-Style "Blackout" Caused by AI
[13:27]	TR Bot	 Techrights The Great LLM Delusion - Part VI: 'Hype Agent' Geoff Hinton Would Need to Disclose Conflict of Interest (Regarding LLMs)
[13:28]	TR News	Targetting a scammer (pyramid schemer) using the vulnerability between his legs? https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/us-intelligence-believes-jensen-huang-had-romantic-relationship-with-chinese-spy-in-honeypot-operation-spy-suspect-linked-to-company-accused-of-smuggling-usd2-billion-in-ai-chips
[13:28]	TR Bot	 US intelligence believes Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had affair with Chinese spy in honeypot operation spy suspect linked to company accused of smuggling $2 billion in AI chips | Tom's Hardware
[13:29]	TR News	Feeling guilty: Price hikes a tough sell in Japan despite inflation https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/feeling-guilty-price-hikes-a-tough-sell-in-japan-despite-inflation
[13:29]	TR Bot	 Feeling guilty: Price hikes a tough sell in Japan despite inflation | The Straits Times
[13:30]	TR News	Belief in Magic Is Not Disappearing in The Modern World, Study Shows https://www.sciencealert.com/belief-in-magic-is-not-disappearing-in-the-modern-world-study-shows
[13:30]	TR Bot	in Magic Is Not Disappearing in The Modern World, Study Shows : ScienceAlert
[13:33]	TR News	How Cardiologists High Hopes for Two Drugs Were Dashed https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/07/science/heart-drugs-failed-novartis-novo-nordisk.html
[13:33]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/07/science/heart-drugs-failed-novartis-novo-nordisk.html )
[13:36]	parsifal	schestowitz[TR2]: I understand the idea, but I don't like to delve into this filth purposefully. The Zarkova case was almost 30 years ago. And all the other things that have happened over the years are also not pleasant.
[13:36]	parsifal	^Bulgaria is not what it was in those turbulent years filled with violence and death. To a large extent the scar is healed.
[13:39]	schestowitz[TR2]	marinova was rape-murdered 8 years ago
[13:40]	schestowitz[TR2]	> To a large extent the scar is healed.
[13:40]	schestowitz[TR2]	maybe because repoirters got the "message"
[13:40]	schestowitz[TR2]	and no longer wish to explore or expose corruption
[13:40]	schestowitz[TR2]	i hope not
[13:40]	schestowitz[TR2]	see:
[13:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	 Daphne Caruana Galizia, car-bombed 2017 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne_Caruana_Galizia
[13:41]	TR Bot	 Daphne Caruana Galizia - Wikipedia
[13:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	"Caruana Galizia focused on investigative journalism, reporting on political corruption, nepotism, patronage, and allegations of money laundering,[1] links between Malta's online gambling industry and organized crime,[2] Malta's citizenship-by-investment scheme, and payments from the government of Azerbaijan.[3] Her national and international reputation was built on her regular reporting of misconduct by Maltese politicians and po
[13:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	litically exposed persons."
[13:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	"Despite intimidation and threats, libel suits and other lawsuits, Caruana Galizia continued to publish articles for decades."
[13:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	""Caruana Galizia's investigations were published via her personal blog Running Commentary, which she set up in 2008.
[13:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	"Her blog consisted of investigative reporting and commentary, some of which was regarded as personal attacks on individuals, leading to a series of legal battles. In 2016 and 2017, she revealed controversially sensitive information and allegations relating to a number of Maltese politicians and the Panama Papers scandal"
[13:43]	schestowitz[TR2]	"Caruana Galizia was intimidated for her work and opinions.[2] The front door of her house was set on fire in 1996. The family dog had its throat slit and was laid across her doorstep. Years later, the neighbour's car was burned, possibly in a misdirected attack. There was a further incident in 2006, when the house was set on fire while the family was asleep inside. After Caruana Galizia started blogging, her terrier Zulu was pois
[13:43]	schestowitz[TR2]	oned, and her collie Rufus was put down after being found shot.[25] According to Matthew Caruana Galizia, threats were almost a daily occurrence. These took the form of phone calls, letters, notes pinned to the front door, text messages, emails, and comments on her blog."
[13:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	"In 2010, Caruana Galizia used her blog to criticise Magistrate Consuelo Scerri Herrera, who, together with Herrera's live-in partner, Labour government consultant Robert Musumeci, went on to file a criminal complaint with the police, forcing them to prosecute Caruana Galizia in the criminal courts.[41] The case was withdrawn in November 2011.[42]"
[13:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	"In May 2017, Pilatus Bank's owner and chairman, Ali Sadr Hasheminejad, sued Daphne Caruana Galizia in an Arizona court in his own name and in the name of Pilatus Bank.[43] The case was for US$40 million in damages. Caruana Galizia was never notified about it, and it was withdrawn within hours of her death."
[13:45]	schestowitz[TR2]	"At the time of her death, Daphne Caruana Galizia was facing 48 libel suits."
[13:45]	schestowitz[TR2]	"Caruana Galizia was in the driver's seat at the time, when the blast threw the car 80 metres (260 ft) into an adjacent field where her bodily remains were found by her son Matthew.[19] He wrote on Facebook, "I looked down and there were my mother's body parts all around me""
[13:47]	parsifal	schestowitz[TR2]: You are wrong, the answer is different - times change, methods too. Journalists are the same, those who have worked conscientiously - continue to do so, and those who haven't - don't.
[13:47]	parsifal	Do you know what every veteran who returns from the battlefield dreams of - oblivion. Oblivion and hope for a better future. But few get them.
[13:47]	schestowitz[TR2]	""WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange announced that he would pay a 20,000 reward "for information leading to the conviction of Caruana Galizia's killers".[66] A crowdfunding campaign was initiated with the aim of raising 1 million to be given as a reward for information that leads "to the successful prosecution of the assassin and the person or persons who ordered the assassination".[67] This was followed by a further state-sa
[13:47]	schestowitz[TR2]	nctioned reward of 1 million.[68]
[13:48]	schestowitz[TR2]	i see, parsifal 
[13:49]	schestowitz[TR2]	"Forensic teams and police investigators arrived at the crime scene soon after the explosion. The head of the magisterial inquiry was initially to be Magistrate Scerri Herrera, who had previously had the police prosecute Caruana Galizia for criminal libel in 201011. Caruana Galizia's family successfully challenged Scerri Herrera's role in the investigation, citing a conflict of interest. Scerri Herrera recused herself from the 
[13:49]	schestowitz[TR2]	investigation 17 hours later and was replaced by Magistrate Anthony Vella,[80] who was removed from the inquiry when he was appointed judge."
[13:49]	schestowitz[TR2]	"An inquiry by former judges "accused the Maltese state of creating a pervasive 'atmosphere of impunity' that allowed her killers to believe they'd face minimal consequences".[93]"
[13:50]	schestowitz[TR2]	"On 5 June 2025, following a trial that lasted more than six weeks, a jury convicted Jamie Vella and Robert Agius of supplying the car bomb used in Caruana Galizia's assassination, and sentenced them to life imprisonment.[96][97]"
[13:53]	TR News	Nasty, broken, obvious LLM slop. Why does Google prop up this plagiarism? https://xenospectrum.com/en/apt-verification-bypass-security-fix/
[13:53]	TR Bot	and Debian APT Flaw Could Let Attackers Bypass Package Verification and Run Code as Root | XenoSpectrum
[13:53]	TR News	Your Linux distro could be quietly costing you 30 minutes of battery life https://www.makeuseof.com/your-linux-distro-could-be-quietly-costing-you-30-minutes-of-battery-life/
[13:53]	TR Bot	 Your Linux distro could be quietly costing you 30 minutes of battery life
[13:54]	TR News	"Disclosure: This article was edited by Diego Almada Lopez." No, it's LLM slop. Handled a little, but still slop. https://cryptobriefing.com/openai-cyber-models-debian-ubuntu-flaw/
[13:54]	TR Bot	 OpenAI's cyber models find a root-level flaw in Debian and Ubuntu
[13:55]	TR News	Reading and editing slop is NOT "authoring". It's slop with a "touch".
[13:56]	TR News	GGG are violent people. Violent language, death threats, strangling women etc. They are what they are.
[13:57]	TR News	And puppy breaker is allegedly also violent against animals.
[13:57]	TR News	Slop https://www.zdnet.com/innovation/ai-linux-distros/
[13:57]	TR Bot	of my favorite Linux distros for AI - and why - ZDNET
[13:58]	TR News	3 Linux apps that fix Flatpak's most annoying permission and storage problems https://www.howtogeek.com/3-linux-apps-that-fix-annoying-flatpak-problems/
[13:58]	TR Bot	 3 Linux apps that fix Flatpak's most annoying permission and storage problems
[13:59]	TR News	I tried running my Windows apps and games on Linux with Bottles. Here's what worked https://www.howtogeek.com/bottles-just-got-an-update-so-i-tested-whether-linux-can-finally-run-my-favorite-windows-apps/
[13:59]	TR Bot	 Bottles just got an update, so I tested whether Linux can finally run my favorite Windows apps
● Nov 08
[14:00]	TR News	Alpine Linux and OpenSSH patch flaw thats as bad as it can get https://www.zdnet.com/tech/alpine-linux-openssh-patch-flaw/
[14:00]	TR Bot	Linux and OpenSSH patch flaw that's as bad as it can get - ZDNET
[14:00]	TR News	Docker isn't magic, it's these 5 Linux kernel features strapped together https://www.howtogeek.com/docker-isnt-magic-its-these-5-linux-kernel-features-strapped-together/
[14:00]	TR Bot	 Docker isn't magic, it's these 5 Linux kernel features strapped together
[14:01]	TR News	Its Alpine Linux, On A Kindle Paperwhite 3 https://hackaday.com/2026/11/06/its-alpine-linux-on-a-kindle-paperwhite-3/
[14:01]	TR Bot	Alpine Linux, On A Kindle Paperwhite 3 | Hackaday
[14:01]	TR News	Linux on the desktop marches on as GOG announces its Galaxy client is getting a revamp headed to Windows, macOS, and your distro of choice https://www.pcgamer.com/software/linux/linux-on-the-desktop-marches-on-as-gog-announces-its-galaxy-client-is-getting-a-revamp-headed-to-windows-macos-and-your-distro-of-choice/
[14:01]	TR Bot	 Linux on the desktop marches on as GOG announces its Galaxy client is getting a revamp headed to Windows, macOS, and your distro of choice | PC Gamer
[14:02]	TR News	GOG Galaxy Is Officially Coming to Linux in 2027 https://retrohandhelds.gg/gog-galaxy-is-officially-coming-to-linux-in-2027/
[14:02]	TR Bot	 GOG Galaxy Is Officially Coming to Linux in 2027 | Retro Handhelds
[14:02]	TR News	"Carl Richell, founder and CEO of US-based Linux hardware vendor System76, teased today an upcoming feature of the Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment, called COSMIC Theme Constellations." https://9to5linux.com/system76-teases-cosmic-theme-constellations-for-its-cosmic-desktop
[14:02]	TR Bot	Teases COSMIC Theme Constellations for Its COSMIC Desktop - 9to5Linux
[14:03]	TR News	Its official: The Epic Games Launcher is coming to Steam Deck https://www.notebookcheck.net/It-s-official-The-Epic-Games-Launcher-is-coming-to-Steam-Deck.1444777.0.html
[14:03]	TR Bot	 Its official: The Epic Games Launcher is coming to Steam Deck - Notebookcheck News
[14:03]	TR News	These are the 3 most chaotic Linux distros of all time https://www.howtogeek.com/these-are-the-3-most-chaotic-linux-distros-of-all-time/
[14:03]	TR Bot	 These are the 3 most chaotic Linux distros of all time
[14:05]	TR News	GOG Announces New Galaxy Launcher for Linux in 2027 With Faster Launching for macOS and Windows Also Coming https://www.techpowerup.com/354548/gog-announces-new-galaxy-launcher-for-linux-in-2027-with-faster-launching-for-macos-and-windows-also-coming
[14:05]	TR Bot	Announces New Galaxy Launcher for Linux in 2027 With Faster Launching for macOS and Windows Also Coming | TechPowerUp
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[14:11]	TR News	 (NEW):  Games: Enshrouded, E-Paper Handheld, Layoffs, Slop/Epic Games Launcher, Bottles https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/Games_Enshrouded_E_Paper_Handheld_Layoffs_Slop_Epic_Games_Launc.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/Games_Enshrouded_E_Paper_Handheld_Layoffs_Slop_Epic_Games_Launc.gmi 
[14:11]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Games: Enshrouded, E-Paper Handheld, Layoffs, Slop/Epic Games Launcher, Bottles
[14:13]	TR News	 (NEW):  Applications: Flatpak Issues, Command-Line Text Editors, and Changes in EasyOS https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/Applications_Flatpak_Issues_Command_Line_Text_Editors_and_Chang.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/Applications_Flatpak_Issues_Command_Line_Text_Editors_and_Chang.gmi 
[14:13]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Applications: Flatpak Issues, Command-Line Text Editors, and Changes in EasyOS
[14:13]	TR News	 (NEW):  Today's HowTos   https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/today_s_howtos.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/today_s_howtos.gmi 
[14:13]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines today's howtos
[14:15]	TR News	 (NEW):   Programming Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/Programming_Leftovers.gmi 
[14:15]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Programming Leftovers
[14:20]	TR News	 (NEW):  KDE: Kdenlive 26.08.3 released and KDE Gear 26.12 branches created https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/KDE_Kdenlive_26_08_3_released_and_KDE_Gear_26_12_branches_creat.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/KDE_Kdenlive_26_08_3_released_and_KDE_Gear_26_12_branches_creat.gmi 
[14:20]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines KDE: Kdenlive 26.08.3 released and KDE Gear 26.12 branches created
[14:22]	TR News	 (NEW):  Debian: Andrew Cater on Arm Cambridge Mini-Debconf and Mike Gabriel on OpenAGPS https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/Debian_Andrew_Cater_on_Arm_Cambridge_Mini_Debconf_and_Mike_Gabr.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/Debian_Andrew_Cater_on_Arm_Cambridge_Mini_Debconf_and_Mike_Gabr.gmi 
[14:22]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Debian: Andrew Cater on Arm Cambridge Mini-Debconf and Mike Gabriel on OpenAGPS
[14:23]	TR News	 (NEW):  Open Hardware/Modding: Polaroid Instant Camera, ESP32, and Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/Open_Hardware_Modding_Polaroid_Instant_Camera_ESP32_and_Weekly_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/Open_Hardware_Modding_Polaroid_Instant_Camera_ESP32_and_Weekly_.gmi 
[14:23]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Open Hardware/Modding: Polaroid Instant Camera, ESP32, and Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update
[14:25]	TR News	 (NEW):  Make Use Of on Saving Energy in GNU/Linux Distros, Jack Wallen Continues Promoting Slop Plagiarism in ZDNet https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/Make_Use_Of_on_Saving_Energy_in_GNU_Linux_Distros_Jack_Wallen_C.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/Make_Use_Of_on_Saving_Energy_in_GNU_Linux_Distros_Jack_Wallen_C.gmi 
[14:25]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Make Use Of on Saving Energy in GNU/Linux Distros, Jack Wallen Continues Promoting Slop Plagiarism in ZDNet
[14:27]	TR News	 (NEW):  Security Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/Security_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/Security_Leftovers.gmi 
[14:27]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Security Leftovers
[14:28]	TR News	 (NEW):  Licensing / Legal: Chris Siebenmann Opines It's "too late for meaningful software liability" https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/Licensing_Legal_Chris_Siebenmann_Opines_It_s_too_late_for_meani.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/Licensing_Legal_Chris_Siebenmann_Opines_It_s_too_late_for_meani.gmi 
[14:28]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Licensing / Legal: Chris Siebenmann Opines It's "too late for meaningful software liability"
[14:30]	TR News	 (NEW):  PostgreSQL: HeapDeck, PG Observability Map 1.0.0, Brume 2.1, and AgensGraph 2.18 Released https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/PostgreSQL_HeapDeck_PG_Observability_Map_1_0_0_Brume_2_1_and_Ag.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/PostgreSQL_HeapDeck_PG_Observability_Map_1_0_0_Brume_2_1_and_Ag.gmi 
[14:30]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines PostgreSQL: HeapDeck, PG Observability Map 1.0.0, Brume 2.1, and AgensGraph 2.18 Released
[14:32]	TR News	 (NEW):  Releases of Waterfox 6.7.8 and Waterfox Android 1.2.11 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/Releases_of_Waterfox_6_7_8_and_Waterfox_Android_1_2_11.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/Releases_of_Waterfox_6_7_8_and_Waterfox_Android_1_2_11.gmi 
[14:32]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Releases of Waterfox 6.7.8 and Waterfox Android 1.2.11
[14:35]	TR News	 (NEW):  Hate Chromium? Well, Theres a Linux Desktop Based on it Now https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/Hate_Chromium_Well_There_s_a_Linux_Desktop_Based_on_it_Now.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/Hate_Chromium_Well_There_s_a_Linux_Desktop_Based_on_it_Now.gmi 
[14:35]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Hate Chromium? Well, Theres a Linux Desktop Based on it Now
[14:35]	TR News	 (NEW):  Shows: Linux Saloon and Texas Linux Fest Talk by Don Marti https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/Shows_Linux_Saloon_and_Texas_Linux_Fest_Talk_by_Don_Marti.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/Shows_Linux_Saloon_and_Texas_Linux_Fest_Talk_by_Don_Marti.gmi 
[14:35]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Shows: Linux Saloon and Texas Linux Fest Talk by Don Marti
[14:37]	TR News	 (NEW):  GTK and GNU News https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/GTK_and_GNU_News.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/GTK_and_GNU_News.gmi 
[14:37]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines GTK and GNU News
[14:38]	TR News	 (NEW):  GNU/Linux and Digital Sovereignty Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/GNU_Linux_and_Digital_Sovereignty_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/GNU_Linux_and_Digital_Sovereignty_Leftovers.gmi 
[14:38]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines GNU/Linux and Digital Sovereignty Leftovers
[14:41]	TR News	Techrights Links 08/11/2026: Bosses Who Were Forcing Their Workers to Use Slop Change Mind, "Rapper RBX Files Ninth Circuit Appeal in Fraud-Focused Class Action Lawsuit Against Spotify" https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/08/Links_08_11_2026_Bosses_Who_Were_Forcing_Their_Workers_to_Use_S.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/11/08/Links_08_11_2026_Bosses_Who_Were_Forcing_Their_Workers_to_Use_S.gmi 
[14:41]	TR Bot	 Techrights Links 08/11/2026: Bosses Who Were Forcing Their Workers to Use Slop Change Mind, "Rapper RBX Files Ninth Circuit Appeal in Fraud-Focused Class Action Lawsuit Against Spotify"
[14:43]	TR News	 (NEW):  DMOS Portuguese Debian-based Linux distribution https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/DMOS_Portuguese_Debian_based_Linux_distribution.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/DMOS_Portuguese_Debian_based_Linux_distribution.gmi 
[14:43]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines DMOS Portuguese Debian-based Linux distribution
[14:45]	TR News	 (NEW):  LMG OS Debian-based Linux distribution with Xfce https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/LMG_OS_Debian_based_Linux_distribution_with_Xfce.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/LMG_OS_Debian_based_Linux_distribution_with_Xfce.gmi 
[14:45]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines LMG OS Debian-based Linux distribution with Xfce
[14:50]	TR News	 (NEW):  SparkyOS onUSB portable Linux distribution running from USB https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/04/SparkyOS_onUSB_portable_Linux_distribution_running_from_USB.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/04/SparkyOS_onUSB_portable_Linux_distribution_running_from_USB.gmi 
[14:50]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines SparkyOS onUSB portable Linux distribution running from USB
● Nov 08
[15:04]	TR News	GNU/Linux or...? https://www.deccanchronicle.com/southern-states/tamil-nadu/tn-rolls-out-rs-2000-crore-vetri-laptop-scheme-2002701 any word on which OS? I suspect it is bad news only but want to be sure
[15:04]	TR Bot	 TN Rolls Out Rs 2,000-Crore Vetri Laptop Scheme
[15:04]	TR News	"The system runs on Windows 11 Home, Strategic OS, or BOSS Linux." https://www.govtschemes.in/tamil-nadu-free-laptop-scheme
[15:04]	TR Bot	 Tamil Nadu Free Laptop Scheme | Govt Schemes India
[15:04]	TR News	"I wonder what percentage are allowed to run BOSS Linux and what percentage have Vista 11 shoved down their throats?"
[15:05]	TR News	Here is the unfortunate part: "Students will also get a one-year subscription to Microsoft services."
[15:05]	TR News	Instead of providing e-mail and file storage / sharing, the school is a marketing arm for Microsoft. But Microsoft "services" are largely incompatible with GNU/Linux.
[15:13]	TR News	Manchester City Council Report Card Part 6 Grotesque Misallocation of Staff or Human Resources https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/11/08/manchester-city-council-report-card-part-6-grotesque-misallocation-of-staff-or-human-resources/
[15:13]	TR Bot	Blog Archive Manchester City Council Report Card Part 6 Grotesque Misallocation of Staff or Human Resources
[15:15]	TR News	Overengineering applications and file systems is "enemy" of predictability. BTRFS, ZFS and Ceph are "risky", even before IBM took over the Red Hat options; not fond memories, based on direct hands-on experience. Many people still use TODO list for most thing. KISS can work.
[15:18]	TR News	"My biggest problem with the resurgence of the smolnet is that I can't possibly read it all." gemini://kobel.fyi/en/2026-11-08-i-cant-read-them-all.gmi
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[15:28]	TR News	 (NEW):  The best Linux desktop environment isnt a desktop environment at all https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/The_best_Linux_desktop_environment_isn_t_a_desktop_environment_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/The_best_Linux_desktop_environment_isn_t_a_desktop_environment_.gmi 
[15:29]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines The best Linux desktop environment isnt a desktop environment at all
[15:29]	TR News	Techrights Stop Looking for News About "Layoffs", Layoffs Are Over (They've Been Rebranded) https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/08/Stop_Looking_for_News_About_Layoffs_Layoffs_Are_Over_They_ve_Be.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/11/08/Stop_Looking_for_News_About_Layoffs_Layoffs_Are_Over_They_ve_Be.gmi 
[15:30]	TR Bot	 Techrights Stop Looking for News About "Layoffs", Layoffs Are Over (They've Been Rebranded)
[15:30]	TR News	 (NEW):  9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: November 8th, 2026 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/9to5Linux_Weekly_Roundup_November_8th_2026.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/9to5Linux_Weekly_Roundup_November_8th_2026.gmi 
[15:30]	TR News	 (NEW):  Zainium OS independent immutable Linux distribution https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/Zainium_OS_independent_immutable_Linux_distribution.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/Zainium_OS_independent_immutable_Linux_distribution.gmi 
[15:30]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: November 8th, 2026
[15:30]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Zainium OS independent immutable Linux distribution
[15:30]	TR News	"its all about their office leases. Check it out. Tons not being renewed." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m6rsbf7n
[15:30]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m6rsbf7n )
[15:56]	TR News	Techrights I Always Expect to Lose. I Fight Anyway, and Sometimes I Win. Richard Stallman https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/08/I_Always_Expect_to_Lose_I_Fight_Anyway_and_Sometimes_I_Win_Rich.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/11/08/I_Always_Expect_to_Lose_I_Fight_Anyway_and_Sometimes_I_Win_Rich.gmi 
[15:56]	TR Bot	 Techrights I Always Expect to Lose. I Fight Anyway, and Sometimes I Win. Richard Stallman
[15:59]	TR News	Killed? https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=boss
[15:59]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=boss )
● Nov 08
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[16:07]	TR News	 (NEW):  GNU/Linux Used a Lot in Weekends https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/GNU_Linux_Used_a_Lot_in_Weekends.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/GNU_Linux_Used_a_Lot_in_Weekends.gmi 
[16:07]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines GNU/Linux Used a Lot in Weekends
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[16:26]	TR News	15 Years https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/11/08/15-years/
[16:26]	TR Bot	Blog Archive 15 Years
[16:41]	TR News	Techrights Digitalisation Is Not Inevitable or Unavoidable https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/08/Digitalisation_Is_Not_Inevitable_or_Unavoidable.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/11/08/Digitalisation_Is_Not_Inevitable_or_Unavoidable.gmi 
[16:41]	TR Bot	 Techrights Digitalisation Is Not Inevitable or Unavoidable
[16:42]	TR News	 (NEW):  2 reasons to fork your own Linux distro instead of installing someone else's (and 1 reason not to) https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/2_reasons_to_fork_your_own_Linux_distro_instead_of_installing_s.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/2_reasons_to_fork_your_own_Linux_distro_instead_of_installing_s.gmi 
[16:42]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines 2 reasons to fork your own Linux distro instead of installing someone else's (and 1 reason not to)
[16:53]	TR News	Techrights Never a One-Person Project https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/08/Never_a_One_Person_Project.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/11/08/Never_a_One_Person_Project.gmi 
[16:53]	TR Bot	 Techrights Never a One-Person Project
● Nov 08
[17:00]	TR News	 (NEW):  Curation Isn't Easy https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/Curation_Isn_t_Easy.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/Curation_Isn_t_Easy.gmi 
[17:00]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Curation Isn't Easy
[17:09]	TR News	Yes, Women Can Buy Men Flowers https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/11/08/yes-women-can-buy-men-flowers/
[17:09]	TR Bot	Blog Archive Yes, Women Can Buy Men Flowers
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[17:19]	MinceR	https://respawnfirst.com/linux-script-emails-sam-altman-unused-ram-ram-altman/
[17:19]	TR Bot	 "Ram Altman" Is Now a Linux Script That Emails Sam Altman Daily to Report How Much Unused RAM Is in Your PC
[17:20]	TR News	 (NEW):  No Mobile Phones Anymore https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/No_Mobile_Phones_Anymore.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/No_Mobile_Phones_Anymore.gmi 
[17:20]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines No Mobile Phones Anymore
[17:29]	nobody	MinceR: there's an argument for utilizing precious equipment for science instead of wasting time and money with video games
[17:29]	MinceR	too late, humanity has given up on science in 2015
[17:30]	MinceR	enjoy the death march
[17:30]	TR News	Techrights GNU/Linux Measured at 7.4% in the UK This Weekend: Clownflare Radar https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/08/GNU_Linux_Measured_at_7_4_in_the_UK_This_Weekend_Clownflare_Rad.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/11/08/GNU_Linux_Measured_at_7_4_in_the_UK_This_Weekend_Clownflare_Rad.gmi 
[17:30]	TR Bot	 Techrights GNU/Linux Measured at 7.4% in the UK This Weekend: Clownflare Radar
[17:30]	nobody	MinceR: what's been the turning point in 2015?
[17:30]	MinceR	the world turned toward nazism, viktor orban suddenly found himself not a pariah, but a exemplar
[17:31]	MinceR	next year, nazi america elected the pedophile president
[17:31]	MinceR	and so the New Dark Ages begun
[17:31]	schestowitz[TR2]	orban is a science expertiment
[17:31]	schestowitz[TR2]	but he escaped the lab
[17:32]	schestowitz[TR2]	and blamed erdos and soros
[17:32]	schestowitz[TR2]	moonths ago this .hu experiment failed
[17:32]	MinceR	nobody: btw, none of what "open"ai does is science, it's mostly hardware hoarding, and the rest is dicking around with the hardware
[17:33]	schestowitz[TR2]	people decided orban didn't help .hu
[17:33]	schestowitz[TR2]	last week the us decided the       same
[17:33]	schestowitz[TR2]	regarding orange
[17:33]	schestowitz[TR2]	MinceR: yes
[17:33]	schestowitz[TR2]	LLMs were always possible
[17:33]	schestowitz[TR2]	but
[17:33]	schestowitz[TR2]	no use case
[17:33]	schestowitz[TR2]	very expensive
[17:33]	schestowitz[TR2]	both to
[17:33]	schestowitz[TR2]	1) train
[17:33]	schestowitz[TR2]	and
[17:33]	schestowitz[TR2]	2) prompt
[17:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	it's not like you pay a lot to train and that's it
[17:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	and then cheap to generate slop
[17:34]	nobody	MinceR: didn't mean to play devil's advocate
[17:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	both are expensive
[17:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	MinceR: llms are easy
[17:34]	nobody	schestowitz[TR2]: just had a short test-chat with one such AI agent (hooked in as bot into an IRC chan on Libera)
[17:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	that's why so many colmpanies made or make them
[17:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	while foolish VC is theere
[17:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	even "local" llms
[17:35]	schestowitz[TR2]	it's not a hard problem
[17:35]	nobody	and i must admit, the quality of this conversation was scary
[17:35]	schestowitz[TR2]	but what for?
[17:35]	schestowitz[TR2]	nobody: the standards are low
[17:35]	schestowitz[TR2]	for humans
[17:35]	schestowitz[TR2]	some can  communicate with smms
[17:35]	schestowitz[TR2]	or whatsapp
[17:35]	schestowitz[TR2]	and that's about it
[17:35]	schestowitz[TR2]	a
[17:35]	nobody	well, yes, in comparison, this "AI" was a pleasure to chat with in comparison to most humans
[17:35]	schestowitz[TR2]	bot can do better
[17:36]	schestowitz[TR2]	nobody: "most humans"
[17:36]	nobody	merely try to remain polite over today's standard level of intellect
[17:36]	MinceR	that's because the standard is so low
[17:36]	schestowitz[TR2]	if you want companion, get a cat
[17:36]	MinceR	the overwhelming majority of humans is scary stupid
[17:36]	schestowitz[TR2]	not some "agent"
[17:36]	MinceR	schestowitz[TR2]: why not both?
[17:36]	schestowitz[TR2]	cat agent
[17:37]	schestowitz[TR2]	training on meows
[17:37]	MinceR	a cat and some local models
[17:37]	schestowitz[TR2]	nobody: get a cat and  model
[17:37]	schestowitz[TR2]	claudi schiffer
[17:37]	schestowitz[TR2]	*ia
[17:37]	schestowitz[TR2]	claudeAI
[17:38]	nobody	well, the crows i'm feeding here show more compassion and social interaction
[17:38]	schestowitz[TR2]	she is a local model
[17:38]	schestowitz[TR2]	but she must be like 50 now
[17:38]	MinceR	i was thinking more along the lines of Arete and Fooocus
[17:38]	schestowitz[TR2]	about 5 years your senior, maaaybe more
[17:38]	MinceR	and maybe something that can generate 3D models out of 2D pictures
[17:38]	schestowitz[TR2]	for pov-ray?
[17:39]	MinceR	no, for videogames
[17:39]	schestowitz[TR2]	what would be the utility?
[17:39]	MinceR	for me, it would be building my own game
[17:39]	schestowitz[TR2]	games do sprites
[17:39]	MinceR	sprites are limited
[17:40]	MinceR	Doom has views from 8 directions (usually ~half of them mirrored) which is a lot of sprites but still won't give you good views from above or from below
[17:40]	schestowitz[TR2]	DOOM is still  funnn
[17:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	turns out
[17:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	the graphics are not everything
[17:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	and DDOOM also tales less ram and cpu
[17:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	just enough
[17:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	same for simccity
[17:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	or TIM
[17:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	those were fun
[17:42]	TR News	 (NEW):  Best Free and Open Source Software https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi 
[17:42]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Best Free and Open Source Software
[17:42]	MinceR	yes, it's fun, but it's not a sin to want more verticality
[17:45]	schestowitz[TR2]	:D
[17:45]	schestowitz[TR2]	did you play those games?
[17:45]	schestowitz[TR2]	(except DOOM)
[17:46]	MinceR	yes
[17:48]	nobody	which version? including doom i mean?
[17:49]	nobody	the original one was crazy
[17:49]	MinceR	Doom I and II v1.666, The Ultimate Doom v1.9, Final Doom v1.9
[17:49]	MinceR	i've seen a bit of the earlier versions too
[17:49]	MinceR	i think i started with v1.2
[17:49]	MinceR	later i've seen alphas/betas
[17:49]	schestowitz[TR2]	MinceR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredible_Machine_2
[17:49]	TR Bot	 The Incredible Machine 2 - Wikipedia
[17:50]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.mobygames.com/game//incredible-machine-2
[17:50]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.mobygames.com/game//incredible-machine-2 )
[17:50]	MinceR	i've played TIM, TIM2 and the demo of TIM3 (but TIM3 is just the windows port of TIM2) and there was also some cartoony version
[17:50]	MinceR	btw that "1.9" of final doom has a bug that teleporters don't set your z coordinate
[17:51]	nobody	don't remember
[17:52]	nobody	only kept the last known-good pure-C (libsdl1) prboom portable here
[17:52]	nobody	can't dedicate much time to this
[17:52]	nobody	there too is some pure-C codepath for darkplaces/q1, just as said i've had no time
[17:53]	MinceR	darkplaces can also run xonotic
[17:54]	nobody	GLSL severly impacts performance
[17:54]	nobody	ioquake/q3a got an OpenGL2 path instead, that's almost 10x faster
[17:54]	nobody	than opengl3
[17:55]	nobody	it's been a while ago, to compete in a bot-match on hardest difficulty
[17:55]	nobody	boring
[17:59]	TR News	Things Some People Do for Money (Its Ugly) https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/11/08/things-some-people-do-for-money-its-ugly/
[17:59]	TR Bot	Blog Archive Things Some People Do for Money (Its Ugly)
● Nov 08
[18:00]		*psydroid2 is waiting for Scam Altman to be dealt with properly
[18:02]	MinceR	i'm not holding my breath
[18:13]	TR News	Techrights The Register MS is Losing Hundreds of Thousands of Pounds a Year While Directors Pay Themselves Hundreds of Thousands of Pounds a Year in Dividends https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/08/The_Register_MS_is_Losing_Hundreds_of_Thousands_of_Pounds_a_Yea.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/11/08/The_Register_MS_is_Losing_Hundreds_of_Thousands_of_Pounds_a_Yea.gmi 
[18:13]	TR Bot	 Techrights The Register MS is Losing Hundreds of Thousands of Pounds a Year While Directors Pay Themselves Hundreds of Thousands of Pounds a Year in Dividends
[18:15]	schestowitz[TR2]	MinceR: :3 cat
[18:16]	psydroid2	some attempts were made, they just weren't successful
[18:16]	psydroid2	yet
[18:18]	TR News	"XBOX Cloud Gaming Is Going Pay-Per-Hour, and Microsoft Has Finally Revealed the Prices"
[18:18]	TR News	(aka YOU OWN nothing)
[18:19]	psydroid2	aka just bleed Microsoft financially to make it wither away and die
[18:19]	psydroid2	bleed dry*
[18:20]	TR News	Will Microsoft charge for Windows per hours of use? 1c/hour = $100/year.
[18:21]	TR News	GreatAndhra: "Microsoft Employees Revolt: AI Is Killing the Joy at Work!"
[18:21]	TR News	It's about deskilling, not joy
[18:22]	psydroid2	we're all happy in the joy division
[18:22]	TR News	"Xbox Will Get a New Owner, Analyst Explains Whats Happening at Microsoft"
[18:23]	TR News	Nadella: our debt increased tenfold, so we are 'worth' 10 times more
[18:24]	TR News	NEW name for LAYOFFS https://hbr.org/2026/10/are-microsofts-voluntary-buyouts-a-sign-of-whats-to-come
[18:24]	TR Bot	 Are Microsofts Voluntary Buyouts a Sign of Whats to Come?
[18:25]	TR News	Nadella: don't say slop, don't say layoffs
[18:26]	psydroid2	they're slop layoffs in Minecraft
[18:26]	TR News	"SUSE Layoffs Hit 10% of Staff as CEO Points to Automation"
[18:27]	TR News	Automation says nothing about quality. Automation of planes, without pilots, means many crashes.
[18:37]	MinceR	what joy did microslop drones get at work anyway? rewards for really crappy designs and implementations?
[18:37]	MinceR	cutler prize?
[18:40]	TR News	 (NEW):  ubuntubuzz.com Experimented With LLM Slop. The Experiment Was a Failure. https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/ubuntubuzz_com_Experimented_With_LLM_Slop_The_Experiment_Was_a_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/ubuntubuzz_com_Experimented_With_LLM_Slop_The_Experiment_Was_a_.gmi 
[18:41]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines ubuntubuzz.com Experimented With LLM Slop. The Experiment Was a Failure.
[18:44]	psydroid2	cutlery prize to accelerate cutler's child's demise
[18:54]	psydroid2	child = vista
● Nov 08
[19:01]	TR News	 (NEW):   : Google Android Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/Android_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/Android_Leftovers.gmi 
[19:01]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Android Leftovers
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[19:10]	TR News	Techrights Concerned Microsoft Workers Say Working at Microsoft Has Become Joyless and Demoralizing. (That's What Microsoft Wants, More Will Leave That Way) https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/08/Concerned_Microsoft_Workers_Say_Working_at_Microsoft_Has_Become.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/11/08/Concerned_Microsoft_Workers_Say_Working_at_Microsoft_Has_Become.gmi 
[19:10]	TR Bot	 Techrights Concerned Microsoft Workers Say Working at Microsoft Has Become Joyless and Demoralizing. (That's What Microsoft Wants, More Will Leave That Way)
[19:18]	TR News	Techrights Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXXXIV - Why the Swatting Failed https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/08/Intercontinental_Brigading_Part_XXXXIV_Why_the_Swatting_Failed.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/11/08/Intercontinental_Brigading_Part_XXXXIV_Why_the_Swatting_Failed.gmi 
[19:18]	TR Bot	 Techrights Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXXXIV - Why the Swatting Failed
[19:24]	TR News	"I wrote a few small programs for my home, mostly Prometheus exporters for IoT devices." gopher://dataswamp.org:70/1/~solene/article-zot-private-container-registry
[19:25]	TR News	"My dogs now sleep in our room. They used to sleep in their crates in a room downstairs, but my older dog started crying in the middle of the night. We think it's due to range - a touch of dementia? So we started letting them sleep with us." gemini://tilde.club/~winter/gemlog/2026/11-08.gmi
[19:27]	TR News	"I thought I was putting this behind me, yet it appears that there is still ongoing fallout. The fallout isn't exactly minor; my fuse is much shorter than it was and my attention span is still recovering, especially when it comes to listening." gemini://enemy.org/mrfusion/rants/2026-11-08.gmi
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[19:33]	TR News	Techrights Gemini Links 08/11/2026: "Back", Zot, and Information Overload https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/08/Gemini_Links_08_11_2026_Back_Zot_and_Information_Overload.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/11/08/Gemini_Links_08_11_2026_Back_Zot_and_Information_Overload.gmi 
[19:33]	TR Bot	 Techrights Gemini Links 08/11/2026: "Back", Zot, and Information Overload
[19:36]	TR News	Almost 7k signatures https://rms-support-letter.github.io/
[19:36]	TR Bot	 An open letter in support of Richard M. Stallman | An open letter in support of RMS.
[19:43]	TR News	Careful with apt upgrade: hackers can swap verified packages and deliver malware https://cybernews.com/security/apt-upgrade-attackers-swap-verified-packages-deliver-malware/
[19:43]	TR Bot	flaw lets hackers swap verified packages for malware | Cybernews
[19:46]	TR News	 (NEW):  Attack Path Found in APT, Patch Available https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/06/Attack_Path_Found_in_APT_Patch_Available.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/06/Attack_Path_Found_in_APT_Patch_Available.gmi 
[19:46]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Attack Path Found in APT, Patch Available
[19:53]	psydroid2	I just jumped ahead almost 20 units in the Duolingo Italian course with few enough mistakes that I could do easily so
[19:55]	schestowitz[TR2]	italy has issues atm
[19:55]	schestowitz[TR2]	political and economic
[19:55]	schestowitz[TR2]	afaik, few other countries use their lanuage
[19:55]	schestowitz[TR2]	except their diaspora
[19:55]	schestowitz[TR2]	us, argentna..
[19:58]	TR News	"This is by design. They are slow-rolling the cancellation of Stallman's connection to the OS because their first attempt failed. In 10 years, no one will have heard of GNU after all components have been replaced with corporate clones." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50399299
[19:58]	TR Bot	 This is by design. They are slow-rolling the cancellation of Stallman's connecti... | Hacker News
● Nov 08
[20:00]	TR News	"Stallman is being canceled because an MIT licensed program (sudo) is being replaced with a different MIT licensed program (sudo-rs)?"
[20:00]	TR News	"I can see that. I've been part of a conversation where GPL is treated like the son of satan because it requires giving back and no one seems to agree on the scope or what the license actually demands. So legal goes apeshit and management shits bricks because they might have to share some code."
[20:00]	TR News	"Further validation of our decision to move to Debian (as if the sluggish kernel updates and ramming of snaps down our throats werent enough). We migrated a few hundred lab machines this summer, and have around half of our servers and containers switched over. It has gone very smoothly."
[20:01]	TR News	"My employer has similar plans. Ubuntu 24.04 will be the last Ubuntu release in use for production. Once the support period ends, we are migrating to NixOS."
[20:02]	TR News	"I honestly don't understand why there isn't more people talking about debian. Ubuntu is always mentioned, but it's going down hill, and debian is the obvious alternative. When I went from Ubuntu to debian, I got way more recent versions of my software. That used to be the only complaint people had with debian."
[20:05]	TR News	"I started running decoded.legal - a small English law firm, focussing on Internet, telecoms, and tech law - on Free software, both client and server side, around five years ago. I have used Free software in my personal life for a lot longer than that." https://decoded.legal/blog/2026/11/running-a-law-firm-on-free-software-2026-edition/ Helped man whose spouse calls a "Rapist"
[20:05]	TR Bot	a law firm on Free software (2026 edition) | decoded.legal's blog
[20:06]	TR News	he also 'ousted' himself as having done so
[20:06]	psydroid2	I'm not learning Italian for Italy, but for the Italian part of Switzerland
[20:07]	TR News	"Today is Aarons birthday. I take time each year to remember and honor his work and life. His work still impacts mine on a daily basis. Loved and remembered, he left us too soon." https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1xr0lt9/remembering_aaron_swartz/
[20:07]		-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Reddit
[20:07]	psydroid2	although I don't mind visiting Italy once in a while
[20:07]	schestowitz[TR2]	psydroid2: i know someone who did this
[20:07]	schestowitz[TR2]	then wento a uni where they speak itlian
[20:07]	schestowitz[TR2]	lugano?
[20:07]	psydroid2	yes
[20:07]	schestowitz[TR2]	let me check if he is still ther
[20:08]	schestowitz[TR2]	" Graph representation learning, Geometric deep learning, Computer vision, Geometry processing, Computer graphics "
[20:08]	schestowitz[TR2]	still works in same area as me
[20:09]	psydroid2	yes
[20:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	no, he moved
[20:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	to oxford
[20:09]	psydroid2	some of my Italian professors from uni also left for Switzerland
[20:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	became google shill
[20:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	for deepmind
[20:09]	psydroid2	haha
[20:09]	psydroid2	well, at least he's getting paid well
[20:12]	schestowitz[TR2]	the wikipedia pages are ads
[20:13]	schestowitz[TR2]	it's getting ridiculous
[20:13]	schestowitz[TR2]	wikipedia is a sales platform
[20:13]	schestowitz[TR2]	it's liinked "linkedin"
[20:13]	schestowitz[TR2]	*like
[20:13]	schestowitz[TR2]	sort of
[20:13]	schestowitz[TR2]	for persons
[20:14]	psydroid2	what about old-fashioned encyclopedias? were they any better?
[20:14]	schestowitz[TR2]	" Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
[20:14]	schestowitz[TR2]	Nov 7, 06:00 GMT
[20:14]	schestowitz[TR2]	In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
[20:14]	schestowitz[TR2]	Nov 6, 21:00 GMT
[20:14]	schestowitz[TR2]	Scheduled - One of our fibre suppliers providing connectivity between our London Telehouse and London Slough data centres is conducting maintenance to their fibre path due to necessary cable re-routing in London.
[20:14]	schestowitz[TR2]	As we have diverse fibre connectivity between these locations we do not expect any disruption and traffic will fail over to other routes, but those routes will be at-risk during the maintenance window:"
[20:14]	schestowitz[TR2]	yes
[20:14]	schestowitz[TR2]	they were smaller
[20:14]	schestowitz[TR2]	the old encyclopedias had higher notability standards
[20:15]	schestowitz[TR2]	so not every random narcissist could enrol himself or herself into those
[20:15]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://techrights.org/n/2024/04/06/Fernanda_Weiden_Google_FSFE_Wikipedia_vanity_pages.shtml
[20:15]	TR Bot	 Techrights Fernanda Weiden, Google, FSFE & Wikipedia vanity pages
[20:15]	schestowitz[TR2]	"Reading Weiden's page is like reading a CV: she is doing the things her employer would expect her to do. Many professional women do the same tasks in their jobs and they don't have a Wikipedia entry."
[20:16]	schestowitz[TR2]	"Of particular concern, during her time at Google, Weiden was also a Vice President of the FSFE in Berlin. Google is FSFE's biggest donor, in other words, FSFE is perceived to be a mouthpiece or sockpuppet for Google, much like the sockpuppet account used to create Weiden's Wikipedia page."
[20:16]	schestowitz[TR2]	"Weiden, as a system administrator, is a user of free software. She is not a developer and we can't find any code that she publishes. Placing users on a pedestal, with copy-cat organizations like the FSFE and vanity pages, is an example of creating false prophets."
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[20:19]	TR News	"Today, they announced a new pay structure for XBOX Cloud Gaming, and although the service used to be free to use at your discretion with an XBOX Game Pass Ultimate subscription, with the change, the subscription now comes with 15 hours PER MONTH. The new XBOX Game Pass price structure can be seen below, as announced last month." https://www.cgmagonline.com/news/xbox-cloud-gaming-prices-are-confirmed/
[20:19]	TR Bot	 XBOX Cloud Gaming Is Going Pay-Per-Hour, and Microsoft Has Finally Revealed the Prices CGMagazine
[20:19]	TR News	"Game over" "pay more to subscribe" to the game you used to actually "own"
[20:21]	TR News	"I don't play that games" "I don't participate" - what people should say about social control media
[20:22]	TR News	In LinkedIn, everyone is a manager. In Facebook, everyone always seems to be on holiday "someplace nice". In Wikipedia, every mediocre person is a celebrity by virtue of tricking the editors to ignore notability standards.
[20:23]	TR News	People who are busy don't play "games" like Wikipedia, LinkedIn, and Facebook. They do real things.
[20:25]	TR News	"I am a retired oil industry geologist. Welcome to my world. I experienced what you are going through at least five times. My advice. When a company offers you money to walk out the door take it and dont look back." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m67dj2g9
[20:25]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m67dj2g9 )
[20:25]	TR News	"The next round wont be voluntary nor as generous. Most of your contracts will become your competition. The earlier out the better shot at an available job in a downturn. Consider a relocation to a non tech heavy local in a parallel industry where your skills are relevant. Prepare to make a lot less. Downsize and rationalize your life. Good luck." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m67dj2g9
[20:25]	TR News	"Anyone over 35 in any type of technology company is in for a brutal awakening. Worse if its a basic office job. 6 months max."
[20:26]	TR News	"You are on an island with 100 people and only 75 bananas. Networking, LinkedIn updates, etc won't solve anything. You need to leave the island. Leave the industry. Dead for next 10 years."
[20:30]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.teamblind.com/post/manager-keeps-highlighting-my-female-teammates-work-while-acting-like-i-barely-contribute-qsg2rt7z
[20:30]	TR Bot	 manager keeps highlighting my female teammate's work while acting like I barely contribute | India - Blind
[20:30]	schestowitz[TR2]	"manager keeps highlighting my female teammate's work while acting like I barely contribute
[20:30]	schestowitz[TR2]	I've started noticing a pattern on my Microsoft team that's honestly getting difficult to ignore.My manager regularly praises one teammate, gives her visibility in meetings and makes sure her contributions get noticed. Meanwhile, projects I've worked on and the impact I've delivered barely get acknowledged.I'm not saying she doesn't deserve recognition. What bothers me is feeling like my own work has become invisible, despite putt
[20:30]	schestowitz[TR2]	ing in the effort.With all the uncertainty around promotions and potential layoffs, I'm starting to wonder whether this is just favouritism or whether my manager is quietly building a case against me.Would you bring this up directly in a 1:1, document everything, or start looking for another team?"
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[20:37]	schestowitz[TR2]	"Arvinds YoY Raises +51% 
[20:41]	IsambardPrince	One of those maid company cars is outside the apartment building.
[20:41]	IsambardPrince	I looked into that one time. The place was something you could book through Amazon.
[20:41]	IsambardPrince	"I don't do dishes, I don't do toilets, I don't mop, I don't scrub showers, I don't take the trash out. I want $400."
[20:41]	IsambardPrince	Uhh, we'll call you.
[20:53]	TR News	Techrights IBM 'Robbery': No More Car Allowance in the UK, Severance Shredded, CEO Pay Up 51% in One Year While Thousands Laid Off in Secret https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/08/IBM_Robbery_No_More_Car_Allowance_in_the_UK_Severance_Shredded_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/11/08/IBM_Robbery_No_More_Car_Allowance_in_the_UK_Severance_Shredded_.gmi 
[20:53]	TR Bot	 Techrights IBM 'Robbery': No More Car Allowance in the UK, Severance Shredded, CEO Pay Up 51% in One Year While Thousands Laid Off in Secret
● Nov 08
[21:04]	TR News	 (NEW):  United States: GNU/Linux Measured at 14% on Desktops/Laptops This Weekend https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/United_States_GNU_Linux_Measured_at_14_on_Desktops_Laptops_This.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/United_States_GNU_Linux_Measured_at_14_on_Desktops_Laptops_This.gmi 
[21:04]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines United States: GNU/Linux Measured at 14% on Desktops/Laptops This Weekend
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[21:59]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], I wrote:
[21:59]	IsambardPrince	McDonald's and Capital One both show that we're in a recession.
[21:59]	IsambardPrince	McDonald's is giving out coupons that lower prices to levels I haven't seen since the 1990s.
[21:59]	IsambardPrince	Capital One is issuing credit cards with a $1000 spending limit to credit profiles that are Super Prime and would have gotten an $8000-$10000 limit a few years ago under Joe Biden.
[21:59]	IsambardPrince	They see the economy for what it is. Trump's tariffs, and Trump's Fed Chair Kevin Warsh have raised prices and interest rates to the point where the cost of doing business is intolerable and consumers have no money. Layoffs are higher than new jobs.
[21:59]	IsambardPrince	Microsoft alone let 60,000 people go this month. They won't count as unemployed for three months because there's a Voluntary Exit and Severance that has to be paid out, so for now they don't count, but since they started the bloodletting last year under Trump, they have laid off or "voluntary exited" over 100,000 people and that's just one company. One company.
[21:59]	IsambardPrince	The cost of doing business under Trump is so high that it's just laying waste to the real economy. He points to stocks that are denominated in inflated money that's lost almost all of its buying power and has been propped up by his taxpayer-funded stock market bailouts.
[21:59]	IsambardPrince	Some people think the stock market is the economy. But for 80% of Americans what it means is when it goes up, your boss gets a lot richer but you don't, and when it crashes, your boss fires you. That's the only connection most Americans have to the stock market.
[21:59]	IsambardPrince	While part of me is amused to see Microsoft panicking and in such fiscal distress and debt over AI "investments" that are not turning any profit, I do feel bad for the over 100,000 that have been laid off from this one company due to Trumponomics making everything so expensive and horrible that it sets us up for the worst economic catastrophe since the Great Recession.
[21:59]	IsambardPrince	If someone actually audited Microsoft's books, I wonder what they'd even look like. I wonder how many Securities laws are being flouted here if they have to lay off over 100,000 workers while they claim profits are good.
● Nov 08
[22:00]	IsambardPrince	May even be worse.
[22:00]	IsambardPrince	In terms of where we are right now, I think it's comparable to April or May of 2008. Everyone knew we were in trouble. They had been losing their jobs and getting nasty letters for about a year from their mortgage company and they were paying record gas and diesel prices (which in adjusted dollars, George W. Bush had us paying much higher prices for fuel than Donald Trump).
[22:00]	IsambardPrince	But the news said "there might be a recession but nobody knows" and we were two or three months away from Bear Sterns and Lehman Brothers failing. By August there was no hiding it anymore, not even telling the news to project happy happy thoughts.
[22:00]	IsambardPrince	People on the ground know what their financial situation is like. They see the rounds of layoffs. They don't need media that's too afraid to report it because Trump will threaten to take their broadcast license if they do.
[22:00]	IsambardPrince	People know what's going on and that's why the midterms happened the way it did.
[22:07]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, 
[22:07]	IsambardPrince	Apollo 11: "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
[22:07]	IsambardPrince	Artemis 2: "Uh, I have two Microsoft Outlooks open and neither one is working."
[22:10]	MinceR	lol
[22:55]	IsambardPrince	The landlord is burning me out of my apartment with that boiler heat.
[22:55]	IsambardPrince	It'll probably be nice in February but right now I have to leave my windows open because the system is so unbalanced.
[22:57]	IsambardPrince	They probably haven't replaced the valves since 1957.
[22:57]	IsambardPrince	America, where you get a Communist shitbox for $1800 a month.
[22:58]	IsambardPrince	Landlords go as long as it works at all and the city can't fine you for it, it doesn't get done.
[22:59]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, I'm considering making a wager on Kalshi.
● Nov 08
[23:00]	IsambardPrince	The Alaska Senate race currently costs 2.6 cents to bet that the Republican will win. If they win you get $1 for every 2.6 cents you bet.
[23:00]	IsambardPrince	It's entirely possible at this point that the instant runoff lobs enough votes to Dan Sullivan that it happens.
[23:01]	IsambardPrince	Daniel J Sullivan (the fake one) got 3600 votes so far.
[23:01]	IsambardPrince	The news says that about half of his voters didn't make a second choice.
[23:02]	IsambardPrince	About 70 of those 3600 votes won't count at all because they ranked Daniel J and Daniel S Sullivan both as "1".
[23:02]	IsambardPrince	So that creates an over vote that results in an invalid ballot.
[23:02]	MinceR	lol
[23:03]	IsambardPrince	It's a tiny sample size (~70 votes), but in tight elections where margins come down to fractions of a percent, self-inflicted overvote errors and ballot exhaustion are exactly why minor candidate name-clones can disrupt the final tabulation.
[23:04]	IsambardPrince	So you take 1800 with no second choice and 70 overvotes, you have about 1870 votes for people who thought they were voting for Daniel S Sullivan and their vote was wasted.
[23:05]	IsambardPrince	So in Alaska you probably have 2,000 Republicans that were too stupid to understand why Daniel S had "incumbent" and "Republican" next to his name.
[23:05]	IsambardPrince	And those who didn't know how to use ranked choice even though it's simple and has been in place for three elections so far.
[23:06]	MinceR	we might as well let plants vote at this point
[23:06]	IsambardPrince	This is exactly why the Furious Fhrer, Trump, was so mad he had the DOJ launch a criminal investigation over something that's certainly dishonest but surprisingly legal.
[23:08]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, At least 1.2% of the Republicans in Alaska had absolutely no idea what they were doing and couldn't fill out a simple ballot.
[23:08]	IsambardPrince	But they got a ballot anyway and filled it out wrong and botched it.
[23:08]	IsambardPrince	And this will cause Mary Peltola, the Democrat, to win.
[23:18]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, I was talking to my mom about all the stuff I've used in my hair.
[23:18]	IsambardPrince	I told her when I was a teenager it got so oily that they didn't make shampoo that worked.
[23:18]	IsambardPrince	So I just grabbed a bottle of Dawn dish soap in the kitchen and used that.
[23:18]	IsambardPrince	Now I usually just use Dove soap, same stuff I bathe in.
[23:18]	IsambardPrince	Shampoo is another thing that's gotten outrageous.
[23:19]	IsambardPrince	They did shrinkflation on that too.
[23:19]	IsambardPrince	Half as much for twice as much money.
[23:22]	admfubar	here i thought it was going to be about missing fashion... https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/11/physicists-listened-to-electrical-noise-to-crack-a-superconductor-mystery/
[23:22]	TR Bot	 Physicists listened to electrical noise to crack a superconductor mystery - Ars Technica
[23:23]	admfubar	only m$ agents only... https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-ai-ceo-agents-rights-evidence
[23:23]	TR Bot	 Microsoft AI CEO Says He's Open to Agents Deserving Rights If He Sees the Right Evidence
[23:24]	MinceR	corporations are people, my friend!
[23:26]	admfubar	so is soylent green
[23:26]	admfubar	what about if you lift a leg???... https://futurism.com/health-medicine/scientists-urology-pee-standing-sitting
[23:26]	TR Bot	 Scientists Study Difference Between Men Who Pee Standing Up and Sitting Down
[23:27]	admfubar	there is a whole new category for a job.. "slop polishers"... https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/bosses-workers-ai-huge-mistake
[23:27]	TR Bot	 Remember When Bosses Were Forcing Their Workers to Use AI? They're Now Realizing They Made a Huge Mistake
[23:28]	MinceR	bosses realizing they've made a mistake? that's got to be a first!
[23:28]	admfubar	only because it impacts their bonuses..
[23:29]	MinceR	that sounds more like their bosses realizing the first ones made a mistake
[23:29]	admfubar	snap. crackle and pop have been replaced because of "ai"... https://futurism.com/science-energy/climate-change-rice-krispies
[23:29]	TR Bot	 Climate Change Has Become So Bad That Rice Krispies Don't Have Actual Rice in Them Anymore
[23:30]	MinceR	"ai" is not responsible for all of climate suicide
[23:32]	admfubar	consume until it kills you!!...  https://futurism.com/health-medicine/richard-nortons-death-black-market-peptides
[23:32]	TR Bot	 Richard Norton's Death Linked to Black Market Peptides
[23:32]	admfubar	no poop!
[23:33]	admfubar	no bouncy ball to herd you... yet... https://futurism.com/future-society/menacing-surveillane-obelisk-madrid-art
[23:33]	TR Bot	 Menacing Surveillance Obelisk Appears in Madrid
[23:35]	admfubar	https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-workplace-working-hours-productivity-analysis
[23:35]	TR Bot	 Employees Who Use AI End Up Working Vastly More Time Per Day
[23:36]	MinceR	isn't that what their bosses wanted?
[23:40]	admfubar	Elon Musk, youre the worst thing South Africa has ever done, the bit went. When youre on TV, it feels like an episode of Hate on the Spectrum. Maybe if you have 100 more kids, one of them will talk to you.
[23:40]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, I always deliberately misspelled his name.
[23:40]	IsambardPrince	I called him Mitt Rmoney.
[23:40]	MinceR	:>
[23:41]	MinceR	didn't they misspell it the same way at some event?
[23:41]	IsambardPrince	I don't know.
[23:41]	IsambardPrince	I remember that happening during a space shuttle launch.
[23:41]	MinceR	https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/pcdr8/mitt_rmoney/
[23:41]		-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Reddit
[23:41]	MinceR	allegedly it's fake
[23:42]	MinceR	though the alleged evidence is never going to load because it's hosted on an abacus
[23:42]	IsambardPrince	NASA printed out a banner that spelled the Shuttle's name "Endeavor"
[23:42]	IsambardPrince	Which is the correct spelling in American English.
[23:43]	IsambardPrince	But it was named after a Royal Navy ship.
[23:43]	MinceR	:>
[23:43]	IsambardPrince	Technically the United States could join the Commonwealth of Nations.
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[23:43]	IsambardPrince	However, it would send a terrible message.
[23:44]	MinceR	is that allowed if the US has a different king?
[23:44]	IsambardPrince	It would mean recognizing King Charles.
[23:44]	IsambardPrince	Yeah, it would not give him any powers over our government.
[23:44]	IsambardPrince	Just ceremonial title.
[23:44]	MinceR	would king charles recognize the pedophile king of the pedophile king recognized king charles?
[23:45]	MinceR	s/of/if/
[23:45]	IsambardPrince	There's actually twelve countries that qualify to apply if they wanted to.
[23:45]	IsambardPrince	The US is one of them.
[23:45]	IsambardPrince	But it would never happen.
[23:46]	IsambardPrince	https://www.ft.com/content/8b1f96f2-05f5-4c59-af53-d35d058902b4?syn-25a6b1a6=1
[23:46]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.ft.com/content/8b1f96f2-05f5-4c59-af53-d35d058902b4?syn-25a6b1a6=1 )
[23:46]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, Apparently the US is in the "expressed an interest" list.
[23:46]	IsambardPrince	Because Donald Trump said he was interested.
[23:47]	MinceR	lol
[23:48]	IsambardPrince	I mean, it would be symbolic.
[23:48]	IsambardPrince	I wouldn't be infuriated over it.
[23:48]	IsambardPrince	I would be furious if our government was restructured like Canada's or something.
[23:48]	MinceR	symbolic of the fall of the usa?
[23:48]	IsambardPrince	Well, the Democratic Socialists of America won 6 House seats this cycle.
[23:49]	IsambardPrince	They say they want to abolish the US Senate.
[23:49]	IsambardPrince	That would be a terrible mistake.
[23:49]	IsambardPrince	The House is up every 2 years. There are no internal checks on what it can do. The Senate is that check.
[23:49]	IsambardPrince	On paper, if Democrats or the DSA took over a House that no longer had a Senate counterpart, they could do whatever they wanted to as long as the bill went to the President and was signed, or they overruled the veto.
[23:50]	IsambardPrince	However, a couple years later, the Republicans could get a slim House majority and undo everything.
[23:50]	IsambardPrince	It would be an even bigger mess than what we have now.
[23:51]	IsambardPrince	"We have national healthcare! We have universal income!" One or two years later, before it even goes into effect. "No you don't."
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[23:51]	IsambardPrince	"In fact, thanks for getting rid of the Senate, now we can repeal Obamacare, food stamps, Medicaid, and cut Social Security and Medicare and there will be nobody to stop us this time."
[23:51]	IsambardPrince	To add some Darth Vader at the end.
[23:52]	IsambardPrince	"We're also changing all of the election laws so nobody ever hears of Democrats again, and there's a national abortion ban."
[23:56]	admfubar	https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/companies-fired-workers-for-bots-now-they-want-them-back-and-it-wont-be-cheap.461217/
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