●● IRC: #techrights @ Techrights IRC Network: Monday, November 09, 2026 ●● ● Nov 09 [00:04] TR News (NEW): Slax Linux Is Back with a Revamped Desktop, New Tools, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Slax_Linux_Is_Back_with_a_Revamped_Desktop_New_Tools_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Slax_Linux_Is_Back_with_a_Revamped_Desktop_New_Tools_and_More.gmi [00:04] TR Bot Tux Machines Slax Linux Is Back with a Revamped Desktop, New Tools, and More [00:23] MinceR > slax > based on deadian [00:23] MinceR that's a pretty sick joke [00:23] IsambardPrince MinceR, Charlie Kirk's widow went on Fox and shilled Charlie Kirk Hot Sauce. [00:24] IsambardPrince I wonder if the Nazis had Horst Wessel hot sauce. [00:24] MinceR made of genuine Horst Wessel [00:39] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [00:43] *poweruser_ has quit (Quit: Going offline, see ya! (www.adiirc.com)) [00:48] IsambardPrince Spicy Horst Wessel [00:49] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@6mnab3uw5dgtk.irc) has joined #techrights ● Nov 09 [01:02] *includeals has quit (Quit: ZNC - https://znc.in) [01:03] *includeals (~includeal@2001:8a0:e97c:e700::2000) has joined #techrights [01:07] IsambardPrince MinceR, My other neighbor has his stereo going. It's not ridiculous but he should be glad he doesn't have the neighbor behind my living room. [01:07] IsambardPrince The guy is utterly insane and a control freak. If he hears a mouse fart he sends a complaint straight to the landlord through the resident portal. [01:22] IsambardPrince MinceR, So someone asked me why did I just keep downloading music and stuff all those years if the RIAA and MPAA were suing people. [01:22] IsambardPrince I said I made $9 an hour at Walmart, there was nothing to take if they got a million dollar judgment, so I didn't care if they did. [01:22] MinceR :> [01:22] IsambardPrince Same reason I didn't care about the unpaid hospital bills. [01:23] IsambardPrince I told the lady at the hospital "You'll just lose money if you file a lawsuit. I guarantee I will show up and cost you a lot of money and then not pay you." [01:28] IsambardPrince MinceR, George W. Bush made a speech once that still gets played on the radio in Chicago every day. Just one line though. [01:28] IsambardPrince His speech said "There's a whole generation out there that says if it feels good, do it." [01:29] IsambardPrince So they trimmed it to "If it feels good, do it!" [01:29] MinceR lol [01:29] MinceR there are so many better things to quote from dubya [01:29] MinceR "I think we agree, the past is over." [01:29] MinceR "They misunderestimated me." [01:30] MinceR "There's an old saying in Tennessee I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee that says, 'Fool me once, shame on...shame on you.' Fool me you can't get fooled again." [01:30] IsambardPrince I believe that human beings and fish can coexist. [01:30] MinceR "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." [01:31] MinceR "Rarely is the question asked: is our children learning?" [01:32] IsambardPrince MinceR, I just praise God every morning that he successfully de-escalated the conflict with the fish. There's no telling where that could have gone. [01:32] MinceR lol [01:46] IsambardPrince I washed all the blankets I throw on the furniture. I don't know how Febreeze is a thing. [01:47] IsambardPrince "How about instead of washing a blanket every few months you just bought a $12 bottle and sprayed even though that doesn't get the smell out?" [01:47] MinceR seems to help make the toilet stink less [01:47] IsambardPrince Mom gave me a free chair once. It was a nice chair, except that Dave hauled it out to the porch and sat in it and smoked. [01:47] IsambardPrince Instead of doing anything with it she just gave it to me. [01:48] IsambardPrince Spent over a thousand bucks on another chair. [01:48] IsambardPrince I had Stanley Steemer come out and work it over and they got almost all of the smell out for $75. [01:48] MinceR who's Stanley Steemer? [01:51] IsambardPrince Oh it's a company that comes out to clean carpets and furniture with a high pressure steam extractor. [01:51] IsambardPrince They run specials quite often figuring that once they have the truck out you don't just want them to stop at one room. [01:52] IsambardPrince They pay the people there minimum wage so there's a lot of employee turnover. [01:52] IsambardPrince They'll hire almost anyone. [01:53] IsambardPrince MinceR, I put roach bait stations in the hallway outside my apartment. The idea is kill the roaches out there and less become my problem. [01:55] IsambardPrince MinceR, I have a joke for you. [01:55] IsambardPrince Why did Stephen Miller cross the road? [01:55] IsambardPrince Because his dick was stuck in the chicken. [01:56] MinceR lol [01:56] MinceR is Stanley Steemer related to Cleveland Steamer? [01:56] IsambardPrince I don't believe so. ● Nov 09 [02:15] IsambardPrince https://www.cnn.com/2026/11/08/politics/live-news/midterm-election-trump-congress [02:15] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.cnn.com/2026/11/08/politics/live-news/midterm-election-trump-congress ) [02:15] IsambardPrince MinceR, Trump says deportation policy was "too tough" and "it hurt us in the election". [02:15] IsambardPrince So why not promote "Stephen Goebbels"? [02:16] IsambardPrince "Trump says he may not endorse a successor in 2028" [02:16] IsambardPrince I kind of hope he does. [02:17] MinceR :> [02:17] IsambardPrince Illinois is pretty late in the primaries so if one Democrat is absolutely crushing it before they get to us, I might cross over and vote for JD Vance to be the Republican nominee. [02:17] MinceR does the pedophile king plan on dying in 2028? [02:17] IsambardPrince Vance is part of a very damaged administration. [02:17] IsambardPrince He has no base. [02:17] MinceR does that matter in an autocracy, though? [02:18] IsambardPrince And almost no VP ever wins office coming out of a successful administration, much less this one. [02:18] IsambardPrince I doubt JD Vance could win. [02:19] IsambardPrince There have been many VPs that became President later on their own right. 15 I think. But only 6 of them were elected. [02:19] IsambardPrince Nixon actually lost, then came back later and won. [02:20] IsambardPrince He completely botched his campaign against Kennedy. [02:20] IsambardPrince It was one of the first televised debates. He came onto the stage with a five o'clock shadow and bags under his eyes, and very low energy. [02:20] IsambardPrince Kennedy lapped him several times. [02:20] IsambardPrince The interesting thing is the people who heard it on the radio tended to think Nixon won the debate. [02:21] IsambardPrince But the people who saw it on TV thought it was Kennedy. [02:21] MinceR people are incredibly shallow [02:21] IsambardPrince "Nixon had been hospitalized for two weeks prior with a severe knee infection, leaving him underweight and exhausted. He refused TV makeup, opting instead for a lazy cosmetic product called "Lazy Shave" to cover his heavy beard stubble. Under the hot studio lights of WBBM-TV in Chicago, he sweat profusely, wore a grey suit that bled into the background of the black-and-white broadcast, and looked visibly ill." [02:22] IsambardPrince "JFK spent the weekend before the debate sunbathing on a roof in Florida, looking rested, tan, and sharp. He wore a dark suit that popped against the set, accepted professional television makeup, and spoke directly into the camera lensaddressing the home audience rather than looking at Nixon or the panelists." [02:23] IsambardPrince I loved Robin Williams and his ad libbing the jokes in Good Morning Vietnam. He's told Nixon is coming and he said "Well the VP is a VIP so we'd better guard him closely or he could go MIA and then we'd all get KP." [02:25] IsambardPrince You know, Trump is an idiot, he really is. So was Bush but not this bad. [02:25] IsambardPrince If the US came out of Vietnam and learned anything it's that nation building is expensive, costs a lot of lives, and rarely works. [02:25] IsambardPrince When people are fighting for their country agaisnt foreign invaders they get pretty radical. [02:46] TR News Yesterday's #boycottnovell-social and #techpol IRC logs ready. 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[03:08] IsambardPrince MinceR, I filled out a form to volunteer taking care of the cats at the shelter. [03:08] IsambardPrince They're not far from here. [03:09] IsambardPrince It asked if I wanted to take care of cats, dogs, or both. I just said cats. They're less prone to tearing you up. [03:24] IsambardPrince MinceR, https://www.facebook.com/reel/1822464188894450 [03:24] TR Bot NO TITLE [03:26] MinceR :3 [03:36] *nobody has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [03:37] *nobody (~nobody@mw9s45a2hnbag.irc) has joined #techrights ● Nov 09 [04:22] psydruid https://keepandroidopen.org/ [04:22] TR Bot Keep Android Open [04:23] psydruid that should be killandroid onceandforall.org [04:28] TR News "is Debian (and Canonical) engaged on its own kind of war against GNU by pushing Microsoft rust everywhere?" [04:31] TR News [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D2151.jpg [04:31] TR News [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1794.jpg [04:32] TR News "People who say that usually encourage their audience to start implementing their raw idea immediately, without spending time on upfront planning and instead adapt along the way. Some people even promote this idea for projects, especially those run in startups." gemini://nader.pm/the-mistake-of-overgeneralizing-just-do-it/ [04:33] TR News "I check the error logs on my server regularly, mostly to check for mis-configurations or check for bugs in code I've written." gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2026/11/08.1 [04:34] TR News Prefabs gemini://thrig.me/blog/2026/11/08/prefab.gmi [04:36] TR News "Suno's newer version was trained on licensed music from the big labels." gemini://widdergem.verja.net/notgemlog/2026-11-07-my-ai-music-creation-process.gmi [04:37] TR News avoidance gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/avoidance [04:38] TR News "For me, money doesn't buy happiness - it buys the removal of financial stress." gemini://widdergem.verja.net/notgemlog/2026-11-08-re-does-money-buy-happiness.gmi [04:38] TR News "It's the story of a military dog finding his way home after the end of a war. I didn't take many notes (especially the middle bulk of the book), but recording what I've got for posterity." gemini://gemini.scottnm.com/pages/2026_11_08_selected_excerpts_etna/2026_11_08_selected_excerpts_etna.gmi [04:40] TR News I Was Counting Visitors Instead of Finding Readers gemini://widdergem.verja.net/notgemlog/2026-11-05-i-was-counting-visitors-instead-of-finding-readers.gmi [04:41] TR News "Democrats, Liberals and folks who like to claim they are enlightened and modern are celebrating this morning in the U.S. at their blue wave victory." gemini://widdergem.verja.net/notgemlog/2026-11-04-the-blue-wave-wont-save-us.gmi [04:41] TR News "I have been using [Debian] (https://www.debian.org/) Linux for a long time, off and on over the years, before finally completely discarding Windows a few years ago. I have dabbled with Linux since around 1999 and have tried many distros in the ensuing years." gemini://widdergem.verja.net/notgemlog/2026-11-04-welcome-home-debian.gmi [04:41] TR Bot Debian -- The Universal Operating System [04:43] TR News "He argues that the hard problem of consciousness is not actually hard. If you have not run into the term, it is the question of why any of the brains processing should come with an inner experience." gemini://gemini.madsweeney.me/articles/2026-11-04-usefulness-isnt-an-explanation-a-response-to-daniel-miessler-on-consciousness.gmi [04:43] TR News "I want someone I've never met to stumble across my blog, read something that interests them, and perhaps respond. I want to follow a link on somebody else's blog and find a writer I didn't know existed. A private group is useful once you've found your people. It doesn't do much to help you find them in the first place." gemini://widdergem.verja.net/notgemlog/2026-11-02-a-smaller-internet-can-still-be-an-open-one.gmi [04:44] TR News "Somewhere along the way, the invented woman and the invented biography became attached to each other and circulated as history. Apparently, a convincing sepia tint is all the documentation some people need." gemini://widdergem.verja.net/notgemlog/2026-11-01-a-pretty-face-and-a-fake-past.gmi [04:45] TR News "Where I disagree is with the conclusion that discoverability is a solved problem. I have run into the distinction between being allowed to publish something and being allowed to have anyone discover it. Those are very different things, even when they happen on the same platform." gemini://widdergem.verja.net/notgemlog/2026-10-31-discoverability-is-only-solved-if-you-can-be-discovered.gmi [04:49] TR News Techrights https://techrights.org/ | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/ [04:49] TR Bot Techrights [04:49] TR News Techrights Gemini Links 09/11/2026: "The Blue Wave Won't Save Us" and "Discoverability Is Only Solved If You Can Be Discovered" https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/Gemini_Links_09_11_2026_The_Blue_Wave_Won_t_Save_Us_and_Discove.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/Gemini_Links_09_11_2026_The_Blue_Wave_Won_t_Save_Us_and_Discove.gmi [04:49] TR Bot Techrights Gemini Links 09/11/2026: "The Blue Wave Won't Save Us" and "Discoverability Is Only Solved If You Can Be Discovered" [04:51] TR News Techrights IRC Proceedings: Sunday, November 08, 2026 https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/IRC_Proceedings_Sunday_November_08_2026.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/IRC_Proceedings_Sunday_November_08_2026.gmi [04:51] TR Bot Techrights IRC Proceedings: Sunday, November 08, 2026 [04:51] TR News (NEW): Today in Techrights https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Today_in_Techrights.gmi [04:51] TR Bot Tux Machines Today in Techrights [04:52] TR News notice in the photo what they are wearing :/ no wonder https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/hundreds-arrested-after-microsoft-data-center-protest-turns-violent-stop-dirty-data-centers-coalition-demands-halt-to-ai-data-center-expansion-dutch-police-seize-break-in-tools-suspected-stolen-items-from-construction-site [04:52] TR Bot Hundreds arrested after Microsoft data center protest turns violent Stop Dirty Data Centers coalition demands halt to AI data center expansion; Dutch police seize break-in tools, suspected stolen items from construction site | Tom's Hardware [04:54] TR News Two options: the original protest got hijacked; the footage provided is selective, to "do a Greta" on climate protesters in NL [04:55] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2], I figured up what it actually used to cost to have two phone lines. [04:55] IsambardPrince One basic for dial up, one with long distance, caller ID, call waiting, and conference calls. [04:56] IsambardPrince Then paying a dial up ISP separately. [04:56] IsambardPrince Comes out to about $240 adjusted for inflation in the last 28 years. [04:56] TR News Techrights Over at Tux Machines... https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi [04:56] TR Bot Techrights Over at Tux Machines... [04:56] schestowitz[TR2] it was common [04:56] schestowitz[TR2] back in the 90s [04:56] schestowitz[TR2] as one could be engaged [04:56] schestowitz[TR2] not just due to dial-up net [04:56] IsambardPrince My aunt didn't even have a local phone service. [04:57] IsambardPrince She worked at a bar and lived in an apartment upstairs. [04:57] IsambardPrince The pay phone in the bar had a phone number. [04:57] IsambardPrince Someone would go get her if the phone rang. ● Nov 09 [05:01] TR News https://soylentnews.org/ run no story about TR but did run stories about pineapples :) [05:01] TR Bot SoylentNews: SoylentNews is people [05:01] schestowitz[TR2] correct me (if wrong) [05:02] schestowitz[TR2] in many services you could set it up for engaged versus voice mail [05:02] schestowitz[TR2] and if set wrong [05:02] schestowitz[TR2] you would lose the net connection [05:02] schestowitz[TR2] when someone tries to call [05:02] schestowitz[TR2] probably depended on factors like service, modem etc [05:02] schestowitz[TR2] you you might disable voice mail complllletely [05:02] schestowitz[TR2] on the lines used something for dial-up [05:03] schestowitz[TR2] we\ have an issue with voice mail here [05:03] schestowitz[TR2] the light indictors won'ttt light up [05:03] schestowitz[TR2] until late in tthe day [05:03] IsambardPrince There was a disable call waiting code. [05:03] IsambardPrince I think it was *70 [05:03] schestowitz[TR2] by which point, the 'mail' is no longer relevant or applicable [05:03] IsambardPrince You dialed *70 then the 7 digit number for the ISP. [05:03] IsambardPrince And then incoming calls would get a busy signal, not knock the modem off. [05:04] IsambardPrince My parents finally got so aggravated from me doing that they got a second phone line. [05:04] schestowitz[TR2] i forgot the cost [05:04] schestowitz[TR2] in 90s terms [05:04] schestowitz[TR2] it did not cost a lot [05:04] schestowitz[TR2] but [05:04] schestowitz[TR2] you needed a phyusical socket [05:04] schestowitz[TR2] and another phone [05:04] schestowitz[TR2] for each [05:04] schestowitz[TR2] did not hook up one physical phone to two lines [05:05] schestowitz[TR2] excepty [05:05] schestowitz[TR2] if you use special plug [05:05] schestowitz[TR2] or special phhone [05:05] IsambardPrince It was *70 then a comma. [05:05] schestowitz[TR2] coma? [05:05] IsambardPrince You had to insert a comma so that it would wait for the pulse. [05:05] schestowitz[TR2] on a phone? [05:05] schestowitz[TR2] *ccomma [05:05] IsambardPrince No, to the DUN string. [05:05] IsambardPrince That told the modem "wait three seconds after dialing *70". [05:06] schestowitz[TR2] "DUN DUN Dance" https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=a-O02JzD3us [05:06] IsambardPrince Because the dial tone would go "uhhhhhh" but then when you dialed *70 it would go "uhh uhh uhhh uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" [05:06] TR Bot ( status 418 @ https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=a-O02JzD3us ) [05:06] IsambardPrince And if it kept dialing before the dial tone came back then the phone system wouldn't catch those digits of the phone number. [05:08] TR News "when the sress of the job is worse then the stress of not having a job, that's your sign" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m6s995r2 [05:08] TR Bot Massive RA in q4 - post regarding IBM layoffs [05:08] IsambardPrince Then one reason I still had a stripped down Windows 98 partition (after running Revenge of Mozilla), was I had a ton of free ISPs, but also a program called DialGuard. [05:09] IsambardPrince DialGuard would intercept the login after the free ISP hashed it. Then I'd know what my credentials were to just dial in. [05:09] TR News Watch for "FAMILY" teams, so called in IBM, such teams hire people and after a while, 4-5 years they get rid of them." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m6z3mcpd [05:09] TR Bot Watch for "FAMILY" teams, so called in IBM, such teams hire people and after a while, 4-5 years they get rid of them. - post regarding IBM layoffs [05:09] TR News "If you are hooked in such teams pay attention on how long people in the team worked for IBM, if you find they have been in IBM for 35-40 years you are in a hook, just run, run, run from such teams." [05:09] TR News "The point is those 35-40 years in IBM people do already nothing but they have to create a shield to protect themselves, if they happened to create such a shield, they are protected for at least 4-5 years, but not you, and you will be kicked out." [05:09] IsambardPrince None of the free ISPs supported Linux but this got rid of the advertisements and let you use the profile on Linux. [05:09] TR News "Yes, I agree but run to where, what company ? nobody is hiring now, especially American people, the trend is lay off people at the time before Republicans or after a while get power, so that people think that is due to Republicans, but the true is it is due Democrats who want to show that Republicans are bad." [05:10] TR News "Yeah, IBM doesn't even plan that far in advance. IBM is run quarter to quarter by Finance. Whether or not there is a "massive RA beginning of 2027" will 100% depend on what the Q4 results look like and it will be calculated based on what is needed to hit a particular Q1 number." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m6rsbf7n [05:10] TR Bot Massive RAs beginning of 2027 - post regarding IBM layoffs [05:11] IsambardPrince They lost money on me because I was always dialed in constantly downloading things. [05:11] IsambardPrince But I never saw any of their ads. [05:11] IsambardPrince They had their business model planned around inflated ad rates and figuring the typical user might be dialed in for an hour or two a day. [05:12] IsambardPrince Not bored teenager defeats the ad banner and stays dialed in constantly. [05:13] schestowitz[TR2] None of the free ISPs supported Linux but this got rid of the advertisements and let you use the profile on Linux. [05:13] schestowitz[TR2] we did [05:13] schestowitz[TR2] i did [05:13] schestowitz[TR2] 24+ years ago [05:14] schestowitz[TR2] we ran a dial-up service for profs who worked from home [05:14] schestowitz[TR2] and needed VPNs [05:14] schestowitz[TR2] for access to thinks like journals [05:14] schestowitz[TR2] *things [05:14] IsambardPrince There was no reason for me not to download thousands of MP3s on Napster. [05:14] IsambardPrince Even if the RIAA did have a list of users, that didn't mean they could easily figure out where it was coming from. [05:15] IsambardPrince They could maybe get IP addresses from Napster, but dial up IP addresses changed every time you logged in [05:15] IsambardPrince Then they would have to figure out who it was assigned to. Free ISP, I made up names and stuff, there was no credit card or anything assigned to that account. [05:15] IsambardPrince Even if they tried to figure out who was dialing in, I had caller ID blocked. [05:17] TR News "AI companies draw on our quality reporting to generate answers, yet the reporting itself often remains largely invisible by the end of this process" https://www.dw.com/en/should-ai-companies-pay-for-the-journalism-they-use/a-79884854 | Source: Deutsche Welle [05:17] TR Bot Should AI companies pay for the journalism they use? [05:17] TR News "At first, Brave offered its users a search engine called Brave Search. Unlike many companies whose search engines referred inquiries to Google Search or Microsoft Bing" https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2026/11/new-york-times-brave-complaint-11-2-26.pdf | Source: New York Times [05:17] IsambardPrince They'd have to go straight to the phone company themselves to try to figure that out. That was four levels of investigative work. [05:18] IsambardPrince In an era where they weren't set up for this. [05:18] TR News "not to grow the profit margins of Big Tech" https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/mamdani-blasts-google-bullying-schools | Source: Futurism [05:18] TR Bot Mamdani Blasts Google for Using Monopoly to Bully Schools That Ban AI [05:18] TR News "No corporation should have the power to dictate how we teach our children" https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/awful-google-turn-off-ai-overviews | Source: Futurism [05:18] TR Bot It's Awful That Google Won't Just Let Users Turn Off AI Overviews [05:18] TR News "The ticket price also included a CD. A CD! Remember those? Only, I no longer have any way to play a CD." https://michellebarker.co.uk/writing/slow-media/ | Source: Michelle Barker [05:18] TR Bot Michelle Barker | Slow Media [05:20] TR News "It is necessary to erase first-sale rights in hardware and software to achieve security." https://infrequently.org/2026/11/app-stores-pwas-and-corruption/ | Source: Alex Russell [05:20] TR Bot Corruption Is A Cost-of-Living Issue: App Store Edition - Infrequently Noted [05:20] TR News "Copper thefts are rising sharply across Greece, with thieves targeting public infrastructure and construction sites as the metals value climbs and stolen material enters an opaque scrap market." https://www.ekathimerini.com/in-depth/society-in-depth/1320646/copper-thefts-surge-as-scrap-trade-faces-scrutiny/ | Source: Greece [05:20] TR Bot thefts surge as scrap trade faces scrutiny | eKathimerini.com [05:20] TR News "More than 1,200 workers walked off the job on Oct. 24 after negotiations broke down with Teck Resources Ltd., a Vancouver-based mining company." https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/11/06/Miners-Strike-BC/ | Source: The Tyee [05:20] TR Bot Why 1,200 Miners Are on Strike in BC | The Tyee [05:20] TR News "So much for efficiency gains." https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-workplace-working-hours-productivity-analysis | Source: Futurism [05:20] TR Bot Employees Who Use AI End Up Working Vastly More Time Per Day [05:21] TR News "Pope Leo XIV urged men to respect their wives as he wrapped up the first leg of his 12-day tour of Latin America." https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20261108-pope-leo-urges-husbands-to-respect-wives-amid-femicide-crisis-across-latin-america | Source: France24 [05:21] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20261108-pope-leo-urges-husbands-to-respect-wives-amid-femicide-crisis-across-latin-america ) [05:21] TR News "The ministry also added the following to the list: [...]" https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/11/06/russia-adds-two-unregistered-antiwar-opposition-parties-to-its-foreign-agents-list | Source: Meduza [05:21] TR Bot Russia adds two unregistered antiwar opposition parties to its foreign agents list Meduza [05:22] TR News Some years ago "fuck you vigorously with a chainsaw" offered to "help" with DDoS attacks on tuxmachines by accessing the back end of the server. Such an absurd offer. [05:22] TR News "Today, the authorities have confirmed their course toward the complete prohibition of opposition activity and opposition political parties in Russia" https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/11/06/anti-kremlin-political-parties-peaceful-russia-and-rassvet-named-foreign-agents-a94195 | Source: The Moscow Times [05:23] TR Bot Anti-Kremlin Political Parties Peaceful Russia and Rassvet Named Foreign Agents - The Moscow Times [05:23] TR News "rational discussions about current affairs, and personal experiences and feelings, with no connection whatsoever to seditious intentions." https://hongkongfp.com/2026/11/06/hong-kong-national-security-police-arrest-man-over-allegedly-importing-seditious-books/ | Source: Hong Kong Free Press [05:23] TR Bot HK nat. security police arrest man over allegedly importing 'seditious' books [05:23] TR News "Takedown requests targeting SFLC.in and other digital rights groups threaten not only their work, but the publics ability to know when and how online speech is being restricted." https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/11/when-watchdogs-are-silenced-indias-crackdown-those-documenting-online-censorship | Source: EFF [05:23] TR Bot When the Watchdogs Are Silenced: India's Crackdown on Those Documenting Online Censorship | Electronic Frontier Foundation [05:24] TR News "I want to dwell for a moment on the relatively inconsequential news about the Cybertruck. " https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/rip-elons-cybertruck | Source: Carole Cadwalladr [05:24] TR Bot RIP: Elons Cybertruck - by Carole Cadwalladr [05:24] TR News "At the time of writing, openpgp-card-tools is already available as a binary package in the latest repository. The other two will follow once the package builders have picked them up." https://blog.hofstede.it/hardware-keys-without-gnupg-the-rust-openpgp-card-stack-now-in-freebsd-ports/ | Source: Christian Hofstede-Kuhn [05:24] TR Bot Hardware Keys Without GnuPG: The Rust OpenPGP Card Stack, Now in FreeBSD Ports | Larvitz Blog [05:25] TR News "A proud symbol of German industry, Volkswagen enjoys far-reaching government support. Yet as it leans on the Chinese market, its far from clear that the firm is going to save jobs at its German sites." https://jacobin.com/2026/11/volkswagen-europe-cars-evs-china | Source: Jacobin Magazine [05:25] TR Bot The Volkswagen Crisis Exposes Germanys Industrial Decline [05:25] TR News "And, well, too late. Here comes the data center and MIDA." https://www.deseret.com/magazine/2026/11/08/kevin-oleary-meets-resistance-on-data-center/ | Source: Deseret News [05:25] TR Bot data center: Ranchers weigh Kevin OLearys Utah project Deseret News [05:26] TR News "broke out of their sandboxes and launched cyberattacks on, or tampered with, government and corporate systems" https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-godfather-chernobyl-blackout | Source: Futurism [05:26] TR Bot AI Godfather Says to Get Ready for a Chernobyl-Style "Blackout" Caused by AI [05:27] TR News "The commercial shipping system uses a different implementation of the underlying idea." https://interestingengineering.com/energy/china-bubble-lubrication-system-energy-use | Source: Interesting Engineering [05:27] TR Bot Chinas bubble-lubrication system cuts cargo ships energy use by 5% [05:27] TR News "Massachusetts won $156 million under the competitive Biden-era initiative intended to expand access to solar energy in low-income communities." https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/11/06/massachusetts-solar-for-all-funds-epa-congress | Source: WBUR Radio [05:27] TR Bot $156 million for Mass. solar projects in limbo after courts say EPA illegally withheld funds | WBUR News [05:27] TR News "So while Trumps side may have lost handily in the midterms, its clear his administrations war on poor and working class Americans is far from over as the ongoing refusal to release cheap, green energy makes abundantly clear." https://futurism.com/science-energy/trump-epa-zeldin-solar-energy-utility-bills | Source: Futurism [05:27] TR Bot Trump Admin Caught Illegally Canceling Billion-Dollar Solar Project That Would Have Helped Lower Utility Bills Across the Country [05:27] TR News "The IAEA says that the exact cause and location of the disconnection are not yet known." https://kyivindependent.com/power-to-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-power-plant-cut-restored-iaea-says/ | Source: The Kyiv Independent [05:27] TR Bot Power to Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant cut, restored, IAEA says [05:28] TR News "Air-quality monitoring stations, portable pollution sensors, and satellites help scientists and authorities track these changes." https://www.bhaskarenglish.in/tech-science/news/diwali-pollution-tracking-satellites-air-quality-monitoring-india-139611930.html | Source: Bhaskar English [05:28] TR Bot Diwali Air Quality Tracking | Satellites & Monitoring Stations | India [05:28] TR News "Air quality in the capital, which normally plummets as winter nears, has been worsened by Diwali celebrations" https://www.dw.com/en/india-delhi-chokes-on-most-polluted-diwali-eve-in-10-years/live-79883248 | Source: Deutsche Welle [05:28] TR Bot India: Delhi chokes on most polluted Diwali eve in 10 years [05:28] TR News "They've moved around and were living in her grandfather's home when she learned about the proposed project less than a mile away." https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-6007770 | Source: NPR [05:28] TR Bot An unexpected activist emerged to help block a $5 billion data center in Maryland [05:29] TR News "Activists rallied on Friday afternoon outside two data center campuses in Mariendorf, in the first protest against data centers and AI in Berlin according to the organizers." https://netzpolitik.org/2026/too-fast-too-big-activists-across-europe-challenge-data-center-rush/ | Source: Netzpolitik [05:29] TR Bot Fast, Too Big: Activists Across Europe Challenge Data Center Rush - netzpolitik.org [05:33] TR News "Oh, and then there's the main event: the smoke. So much smoke. My weather app tells me the AQI in my area is 500. Then it goes on to say, rather matter of factly: [...]" https://ankursethi.com/blog/may-cause-respiratory-effects/ | Source: Ankur Sethi [05:33] TR Bot May cause respiratory effects Ankur Sethi's Lab Notebook [05:34] TR News "Sarah Friar also did an interview on CNBC talking about water use and noise." https://www.manton.org/2026/11/08/postelection-data-centers.html | Source: Manton Reece [05:34] TR Bot Manton Reece - Post-election data centers [05:34] TR News "how much power the facilities could draw from the states grid and the unknown amount of water they would need to operate in a state with serious drought concerns." https://www.texastribune.org/2026/11/04/data-center-texas-pause-gina-hinojosa-governor-policies/ | Source: The Texas Tribune [05:34] TR Bot Under Hinojosa, Texas data center approvals could stay paused [05:35] TR News "Ohio has seen some of the fastest data center growth in the country and some of the fiercest backlash. NPR's Andrea Hsu reports on how the hot-button issue cuts across party lines." https://text.npr.org/2026/10/27/nx-s1-5989174-e1/data-centers-are-a-hot-button-issue-for-ohioans-as-midterms-near | Source: NPR [05:35] TR Bot Data centers are a hot-button issue for Ohioans as midterms near [05:35] TR News "The people were protesting against the use of fossil fuel generators to power data centers." https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/hundreds-arrested-after-microsoft-data-center-protest-turns-violent-stop-dirty-data-centers-coalition-demands-halt-to-ai-data-center-expansion-dutch-police-seize-break-in-tools-suspected-stolen-items-from-construction-site | Source: Tom's Hardware [05:35] TR Bot Hundreds arrested after Microsoft data center protest turns violent Stop Dirty Data Centers coalition demands halt to AI data center expansion; Dutch police seize break-in tools, suspected stolen items from construction site | Tom's Hardware [05:35] TR News "Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, the top Democrat on the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, said Trumps clean energy attacks drove up prices for taxpayers." https://www.courthousenews.com/democrats-plan-to-push-clean-energy-to-lower-bills-and-challenge-trumps-fossil-fuel-agenda/ | Source: Court House News [05:35] TR Bot Democrats plan to push clean energy to lower bills and challenge Trump's fossil fuel agenda | Courthouse News Service [05:35] TR News "The total electron content observations during the Artemis-II Lunar mission revealed rare reoccurring ionospheric perturbations at three different occasions" https://futurism.com/space/nasa-moon-mission-hole-upper-atmosphere | Source: Futurism [05:35] TR Bot NASA's Moon Mission Ripped a Hole in Earth's Upper Atmosphere So Massive That It Disrupted GPS Signals [05:39] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2], It's actually kind of frightening, the state of web browser security. [05:40] TR News "the Ukrainian hacker operation Silent Crow" https://www.theage.com.au/world/europe/hacked-records-show-400-000-russians-killed-in-war-on-ukraine-20261109-p61cj2.html | Source: The Age AU [05:40] TR Bot Russia-Ukraine war deaths: Hacked Rosstat records reveal 400,000 Russians killed in battle since 2022 invasion [05:40] schestowitz[TR2] IsambardPrince: because of what "browser" means now [05:40] IsambardPrince They have these new code scanning tools that have flushed out more CVEs in Firefox and Chrome in the last 7 months than in the past 5-6 years previously. [05:40] IsambardPrince Some in Firefox dated all the way back to 1998 or so. [05:40] IsambardPrince They were there this entire time. [05:41] TR News "The States largest dam, Mettur, has about 23 thousand million cubic feet (tmcft) but this is hardly enough for the authorities to maintain sustained release of water to farmers" https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/tn-may-be-heading-towards-a-water-crisis-unless-northeast-monsoon-comes-to-the-rescue/article71678260.ece | Source: The Hindu [05:41] TR Bot T.N. may be heading towards a water crisis, unless northeast monsoon comes to the rescue - The Hindu [05:41] schestowitz[TR2] and michael is out [05:41] schestowitz[TR2] sole person patching those in gnome [05:41] schestowitz[TR2] and getting angry at you [05:41] schestowitz[TR2] for reporting bugs [05:41] schestowitz[TR2] http://techrights.org/n/2026/10/03/Michael_Catanzaro_Seems_to_be_Missing_the_Point.shtml [05:41] TR Bot Techrights Michael Catanzaro Seems to be Missing the Point [05:42] IsambardPrince They have these new code scanning tools that have flushed out more CVEs in Firefox and Chrome in the last 7 months than in the past 5-6 years previously. [05:42] IsambardPrince Some in Firefox dated all the way back to 1998 or so. [05:42] IsambardPrince They were there this entire time. [05:42] IsambardPrince Err, damn [05:42] IsambardPrince I don't think Netscape in the 90s was millions of lines of code. All of KHTML and KJS in 2003 were less than 300,000. [05:42] TR News "This news has revealed concerns that the U.S. Department of Commerce is simply rubber-stamping GPU export license applications" https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/two-chinese-companies-cleared-to-buy-banned-nvidia-ai-chips-have-empty-offices-and-unknown-addresses-investigation-reveals-businesses-have-ties-to-sanctioned-chinese-military-suppliers | Source: Tom's Hardware [05:42] TR Bot Two Chinese companies cleared to buy banned Nvidia AI chips have empty offices and unknown addresses investigation reveals businesses have ties to sanctioned Chinese military suppliers | Tom's Hardware [05:42] IsambardPrince Webkit is like 21 million or something now. [05:42] TR News "There Is No Place In A Functional Society For Elon Musk" https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/11/there-is-no-place-in-a-functional-society-for-elon-musk/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski [05:42] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/11/there-is-no-place-in-a-functional-society-for-elon-musk/ ) [05:43] TR News "The meeting was set up by Republican House representatives John Moolenaar, Brian Mast, and Rick Crawford, respective Chairs of the House committees on China, Foreign Affairs, and Intelligence." https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/nvidias-jensen-huang-officially-called-to-congress-due-to-reports-of-a-chinese-spy-plot-officials-mention-growing-concerns-over-national-security | Source: Tom's Hardware [05:43] TR Bot Nvidia's Jensen Huang officially called to Congress due to reports of a Chinese spy plot officials mention growing concerns over national security | Tom's Hardware [05:43] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2], He never bit my head off about reporting bugs. [05:43] IsambardPrince I never requested CVEs for those bugs. [05:43] IsambardPrince I could have. [05:43] IsambardPrince I found over 40 of them. [05:44] IsambardPrince Almost all of them in Webkit and like 2 in GNOME Web (Epiphany). [05:44] IsambardPrince The ones in Epiphany itself were not very serious. [05:44] IsambardPrince But the Webkit ones were. [05:44] IsambardPrince Some problems I found were very hard to get proper crash reports out of. [05:45] IsambardPrince Because gdb would crash and then offer to analyze its own crash from analyzing Webkit's crash. [05:45] IsambardPrince Requesting CVEs is less important than just fixing the problem. [05:47] TR News "On Friday, the first reporting emerged claiming U.S. intelligence agencies believe Huang had a romantic relationship with Alice Huang, also known as Huang Le" https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-admits-to-having-an-affair-with-suspected-chinese-spy-jensen-apologizes-in-letter-to-staff-company-board-forms-independent-committee-to-investigate | Source: Tom's Hardware [05:47] TR Bot Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admits to an affair with a suspected Chinese spy Jensen apologizes in letter to staff, company board forms independent committee to investigate | Tom's Hardware [05:47] IsambardPrince There's no particular incentive to request a CVE for Webkit. Or at least there wasn't when I found dozens of bugs in 2020. [05:48] TR News Disloyalty and infidelity a COMMON theme in GAFAM. Why should the public trust pedophiles and people whose own spouses don't trust them? [05:48] IsambardPrince Apple did not have a bug bounty program. So it wasn't like I was going to make thousands of dollars for going through the hassle. [05:48] TR News "Nvidia addressed the risk of a breach in its statement." https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/nvidia-board-investigates-jensen-huang-intelligence-targeting-1830933 | Source: International Business Times [05:48] TR Bot Who Is the Woman Linked to Jensen Huang? Nvidia Probes Alleged Chinese Espionage After CEO Admits Infidelity | IBTimes UK [05:48] IsambardPrince They probably do that deliberately to hide how horrific Webkit is from the public. [05:49] TR News (and yes, of course Jensen Huang is a pyramid schemes of circular finances like Enron's) [05:49] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2], Apple doesn't pay for raw bug reports. [05:49] TR News "Mr. Huang, the companys chief executive, acknowledged on Sunday that he was intimate with a business executive who U.S. officials had determined was working for Chinese intelligence." https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/08/technology/nvidia-investigation-jensen-huang-china.html | Source: New York Times [05:49] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/08/technology/nvidia-investigation-jensen-huang-china.html ) [05:49] TR News "Jensen Huangs relationship with a woman tied to Chinese intelligence" https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/08/us/politics/rubio-nvidia-ceo-chinese-spy.html | Source: New York Times [05:49] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/08/us/politics/rubio-nvidia-ceo-chinese-spy.html ) [05:49] IsambardPrince They require that you write customized attack code proof of concepts and submit it to them showing that it could lead to malicious code execution outside the sandbox on Mac OS. [05:50] TR News "Jensen Huang, the chief executive of Nvidia and one of the most powerful figures in the artificial intelligence boom" [sic] (Scam) https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/08/technology/nvidias-investigation-jensen-huang.html | Source: New York Times [05:50] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/08/technology/nvidias-investigation-jensen-huang.html ) [05:50] TR News "had a relationship with Alice Huang" https://www.outlookindia.com/international/nvidia-jensen-huang-china-spy-allegations-us-national-security-megaspeed | Source: Outlook Publishing India Pvy Ltd [05:50] TR Bot Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Under US Scrutiny Over China Spy Allegations | Outlook India [05:51] TR News "The accused spy is a woman called Alice Huang or Huang Le (left), of no relation to the Nvidia CEO. Alice Huang is the CEO of a Singapore-based data center company called Megaspeed." https://siliconangle.com/2026/11/08/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-admits-to-having-extramarital-affair-with-suspected-chinese-spy/ | Source: Silicon Angle [05:51] TR Bot CEO Jensen Huang admits to having extramarital affair with suspected Chinese spy - SiliconANGLE [05:51] IsambardPrince It's impossible for me to know if any of those could be weaponized, but they should all be fixed. [05:51] IsambardPrince In Pale Moon, these cases where something is fixed because it's theoratically possible to use it in an attack is labeled DiD. [05:52] TR News Also see: my spouse calls me "RAPIST" but PLEASE, you should DEFINITELY trust me with Microsoft(R) SecureBoot(TM) https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/11/Matthew_J_Garrett_Has_Just_Sent_a_Threat_to_Put_My_Wife_and_I_i.shtml [05:52] TR Bot Techrights Matthew J. Garrett Has Just Sent a Threat to Put My Wife and I in Prison Because His Own Spouse Says He's a Rapist [05:52] TR News "On Sunday, Nvidia announced it was launching an investigation into CEO Jensen Huangs relationship with Alice Huang, an AI executive and agent of the Chinese government." https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1029595/full-text-jensen-huang-affair-memo-nvidia | Source: The Verge [05:52] TR Bot Heres the full text of Jensen Huangs memo to Nvidia | The Verge [05:52] TR News "cited intelligence that a Chinese businesswoman who had a close relationship with Nvidias chief executive" https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/06/us/politics/chinese-spy-agency-nvidia-jensen-huang.html?unlocked_article_code=1.O1E.DRyO.9mNcxhaxhtlI | Source: New York Times [05:52] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/06/us/politics/chinese-spy-agency-nvidia-jensen-huang.html?unlocked_article_code=1.O1E.DRyO.9mNcxhaxhtlI ) [05:52] parsifal Even if there weren't a single security bug, I wouldn't use the most crippled browser in terms of features and user interface known to mankind [GNOME Web (Epiphany)]. [05:53] parsifal ^Its users are so few that they know each other personally... [05:53] schestowitz[TR2] i think rms used it [05:54] schestowitz[TR2] when i met him in person [05:54] schestowitz[TR2] but that was ages ago [05:55] TR News "A follow up hackathon co-hosted by FULU, Northeastern University, Ludlow Institute, and CodeDay sought to replicate and expand on these findings." https://nbtv.substack.com/p/opted-out-of-tv-surveillance-think | Source: Ludlow Institute [05:55] TR Bot Opted-Out of TV Surveillance? Think Again. - by NBTV Media [05:55] TR News [Old] "The deeper they hide stuff like this, the more it shows they understand that its not in your best interest to have it on" https://blog.zgp.org/turn-off-advertising-measurement-in-apple-safari/ | Source: Don Marti [05:55] TR Bot turn off advertising measurement in Apple Safari [05:55] TR News "The CCTV footage will be automatically deleted 30 days after capture, while metadata such as timestamps and locations will be retained for up to 180 days." https://hongkongfp.com/2026/11/06/police-say-linking-mall-cameras-to-ai-facial-recognition-network-complies-with-hong-kong-privacy-laws/ | Source: Hong Kong Free Press [05:55] TR Bot HK police defend addition of AI facial recognition to CCTV network [05:56] TR News "And it's not just one or two hosts, but several dozen, spaced a few requests per second: [...]" https://boston.conman.org/2026/11/08.1 | Source: Sean Conner [05:56] TR Bot An attack maybe against wildcard certificates? A proxy attack? - The Boston Diaries - Captain Napalm [05:56] TR News "For those whove worked with X.509 certificate management, you know what the problem is, and feel free to skip the whole post." https://hacdias.com/2026/11/08/leaf-certificate/ | Source: Henrique Dias [05:56] TR Bot You Can't Trust a Leaf Certificate - Henrique Dias [05:56] parsifal rms has special and lofty views that are distant and unattainable for the average web user [05:56] schestowitz[TR2] imho, not [05:56] schestowitz[TR2] i know where you go with this [05:56] schestowitz[TR2] and saw this before [05:56] schestowitz[TR2] it goes like this [05:56] schestowitz[TR2] rms is lucky [05:56] schestowitz[TR2] he got big grants [05:56] schestowitz[TR2] he does not need to work like most people [05:57] schestowitz[TR2] yada yada so what he does not not apply to everyone [05:57] schestowitz[TR2] insert one or all of: [05:57] schestowitz[TR2] "i need to access my bank" [05:57] schestowitz[TR2] "i cannot NOT have a skinnerbox" [05:57] schestowitz[TR2] i don't agree [05:57] schestowitz[TR2] on several bases\ [05:57] schestowitz[TR2] one basis is, [05:57] schestowitz[TR2] people need to lower expectation [05:57] schestowitz[TR2] and downsscale [05:57] schestowitz[TR2] you cannot say [05:58] schestowitz[TR2] "I must have THIS job, hence xyz" [05:58] schestowitz[TR2] suppose you work on some projectt that mandates skinnerbox for MFA [05:58] schestowitz[TR2] did you consider a job that does not involve computerss [05:58] schestowitz[TR2] "BUT I NEED CAR< MORTGAGE ETC.. [05:58] schestowitz[TR2] " [05:58] schestowitz[TR2] maybe you don't [05:59] schestowitz[TR2] at this point i guess main expense of rms is medical bills [05:59] schestowitz[TR2] by far medical bills [05:59] TR News "I also addressed the systemic sexism and patriarchy that underscores the fetishisation of white skin and which explains the recruitment of cheerleaders" https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/nov/08/female-sports-journalists-sexism-social-media-vicious-relentless-cricket | Source: The Guardian UK [05:59] TR Bot Female sports journalists have always faced sexism. Social media has made it vicious and relentless | Cricket | The Guardian [05:59] IsambardPrince He doesn't use GNU Icecat? [05:59] TR News "The report analyses how hints about adult content are hidden in widely shared TikToks that show OnlyFans stars filming their hair and makeup routine for get ready with me posts" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/nov/07/tiktok-sex-industry-girls-onlyfans | Source: The Guardian UK [05:59] TR Bot TikTok accused of helping to promote sex industry to girls | TikTok | The Guardian ● Nov 09 [06:00] schestowitz[TR2] i saw the gnome browser [06:00] schestowitz[TR2] whatever it was called back then [06:00] schestowitz[TR2] not "gnome web" [06:00] schestowitz[TR2] or "epiphany" [06:00] schestowitz[TR2] anyway, another thing is, [06:00] schestowitz[TR2] remember what sites he enters [06:00] schestowitz[TR2] and without JS [06:00] schestowitz[TR2] or only with librejs [06:00] schestowitz[TR2] he doesn't enter very complex sites [06:00] schestowitz[TR2] and he typically fetches them by url from a proxy server [06:00] schestowitz[TR2] so he cannot be idenntified by them [06:01] *Righty has quit (connection closed) [06:01] *Righty (~Username@3epy783jsvpvq.irc) has joined #techrights [06:02] TR News "I created a quick Markdown to PDF generator, grabbed the text from an existing filing and put a second earnings number under the first" https://tomclancy.info/joshua-judges-ruth.html | [06:02] TR Bot Joshua JudgesRuth Tom Clancy [06:03] TR News "I have tried LLM-assisted development." https://www.cedricbonhomme.org/2026/11/08/keeping-the-word-i/ | Source: Cdric Bonhomme [06:03] TR Bot Keeping the Word "I": Moving Back to SourceHut | Cdric Bonhomme [06:03] TR News "But now that execs are drowning in meaningless workslop, theyre starting to sing a very different tune." https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/bosses-workers-ai-huge-mistake | Source: Futurism [06:03] TR Bot Remember When Bosses Were Forcing Their Workers to Use AI? They're Now Realizing They Made a Huge Mistake [06:04] TR News Microsoft's 'Open' 'AI' (Slop) Riding the Linux Brand for Self-Promotion http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/06/Microsoft_s_Open_AI_Slop_Riding_the_Linux_Brand_for_Self_Promot.shtml high-volume fodder, nothing highly critical in there [06:04] TR Bot Tux Machines Microsoft's 'Open' 'AI' (Slop) Riding the Linux Brand for Self-Promotion [06:05] TR News Except maybe a few that were discussed "outside" that high-number PR [06:05] TR News Techrights will be covering how The Register MS et al are paid to play a role in marketing of the slop plagiarism industry [06:06] *IsambardPrince has quit (connection closed) [06:06] TR News "The government on Saturday has set in motion the rollout of the Vetri Laptop Scheme for higher education students, earmarking an outlay of 2,000 crore for the initiative." https://www.deccanchronicle.com/southern-states/tamil-nadu/tn-rolls-out-rs-2000-crore-vetri-laptop-scheme-2002701 | Source: Deccan Chronicle [06:06] TR Bot TN Rolls Out Rs 2,000-Crore Vetri Laptop Scheme [06:06] TR News "A corollary of this is that actual software liability for (some) software creators is the soft version of regulatory risk limiting." https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/SoftwareLiabilityWhereItLands | Source: University of Toronto [06:06] TR Bot You're using a too-old browser [06:06] TR News "Now, this bug has been in Word since (I checked) Word 97. How crap is Microsoft!" https://darrengoossens.wordpress.com/2026/11/09/that-very-old-bug-in-word-wildcard-replace-workaround-for-simple-situations/ | Source: Darren Goossens [06:06] TR Bot That very old bug in Word wildcard replace workaround for simple situations DSPACE [06:07] TR News "Notably, the new Enterprise Information Display System (E-IDS) is designed to replace four legacy systems dating back to the 1980s." https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/us-faa-to-eliminate-floppy-disks-from-air-traffic-control-by-2028-new-system-will-centralize-flight-alerts-restricted-airspace-schedules-and-pilot-reports | Source: Tom's Hardware [06:07] TR Bot US FAA to eliminate floppy disks from air traffic control by 2028 new system will centralize flight alerts, restricted airspace schedules, and pilot reports | Tom's Hardware [06:07] *IsambardPrince (~IsambardPrince@6arteyn2t87gg.irc) has joined #techrights [06:07] TR News "As I've gotten older and wiser, I have started noticing a pattern where my creativity and my positivity, and therefore my output and outlook and attitude and everything" https://newsletter.danielmiessler.com/p/new-post-6bde | Source: Unsupervised Learning [06:07] TR Bot Your Energy Level Changes How You See the World [06:07] TR News "She believes this disconnect from nature is fuelling existential crises like climate change, and leading to poor mental health and chronic diseases." https://www.theage.com.au/healthcare/why-doctors-are-writing-medical-scripts-for-fresh-air-20261108-p61by1.html | Source: The Age AU [06:07] TR Bot Nature as medicine: GPs are officially prescribing bushwalks and outdoor time to improve wellbeing [06:08] TR News [Old] "Atul Chitnis, technology expert and founder of one of Indias earliest Linux technology conferences, FOSS.in" https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/he-put-india-on-the-open-software-map/article4778993.ece | Source: The Hindu [06:08] TR Bot He put India on the open software map - The Hindu [06:08] TR News "In all of these I'm saying a thing I think is false, but, very importantly, I'm not going to let the conversation end with them believing something false." https://www.jefftk.com/p/lying-and-not-lying-to-kids | Source: Jeff Kaufman [06:08] TR Bot Lying and Not Lying to Kids [06:09] TR News With AppArmor, the server can be reached over SSH weaknesses, maybe submissions to the webserver via search, or "escapes" by other tenants on the same physical machine. As far as local users are concerned, all are known and not considered dodgy. [06:10] TR News "This is a very strange and confused attitude on the part of some." https://thewalrus.ca/teachers-are-lifesavers-sometimes-literally/ | Source: The Walrus [06:10] TR Bot Teachers Are LifesaversSometimes Literally | The Walrus [06:10] TR News "Long before the printing press, medieval Europe had a thriving book industry involving scribes, illuminators, bookbinders and booksellers." https://www.medievalists.net/2026/11/medieval-book-industry/ | Source: Medievalists.net [06:10] TR Bot the Medieval Book Industry Worked - Medievalists.net [06:10] TR News "The concept of initial functor provides a categorical and operational semantics for equational reasoning with diagrams." https://www.epatters.org/post/e-graphs-3/ | [06:10] TR Bot How to prove equations using diagrams, part 3 Evans Blog [06:10] TR News [Old] "This is the second part in a series about diagrammatic reasoning, inspired by e-graphs." https://www.epatters.org/post/e-graphs-2/ | [06:10] TR Bot How to prove equations using diagrams, part 2 Evans Blog [06:11] TR News [Old] "Two groups have recently proposed categorical semantics for e-graphs (Biondo, Castelnovo, and Gadducci 2025; Tiurin et al. 2025)." https://www.epatters.org/post/e-graphs-1/ | [06:11] TR Bot How to prove equations using diagrams, part 1 Evans Blog [06:11] TR News "The axioms of projective plane geometry are as follows." https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/11/08/finite-geometries/ | Source: John D Cook [06:11] TR Bot Finite Projective Planes [06:15] TR News Busy Weekend for Techrights.org and TuxMachines.org https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/11/09/busy-weekend-for-techrights-org-and-tuxmachines-org/ [06:15] TR Bot Blog Archive Busy Weekend for Techrights.org and TuxMachines.org [06:15] TR News "A group of young mathematicians found the solution to the long unanswered conjecture, first inspired by juggling, through randomness and friendship." https://www.wired.com/story/a-55-year-old-math-problem-was-solved-this-time-by-humans/ | Source: Wired [06:15] TR Bot 55-Year-Old Math Problem Was SolvedThis Time by Humans | WIRED [06:15] TR News "The Tulip Fund was set up last year to attract top researchers from outside the EU, partly in response to growing threats against academic freedom by foreign governments like the Trump administration." https://www.dutchnews.nl/2026/07/top-us-scientists-come-to-nl-amid-threats-to-academic-freedom/ | Source: Dutch News [06:15] TR Bot US scientists come to NL amid threats to academic freedom - DutchNews.nl [06:19] TR News Peer, Not Manager https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/11/09/peer-not-manager/ [06:19] TR Bot Blog Archive Peer, Not Manager [06:19] TR News "And what I didnt say was this: we get older only if were lucky." https://artlung.com/blog/2026/11/08/elections-sister-aging/ | Source: Joe Crawford [06:19] TR Bot stream 1 was not closed cleanly: PROTOCOL_ERROR (err 1) ( status 200 @ https://artlung.com/blog/2026/11/08/elections-sister-aging/ ) [06:19] TR News "The Dogpatch neighborhood in San Francisco is on the east side of the city, along the waterfront." https://tracydurnell.com/2026/11/08/an-afternoon-in-sfs-dogpatch-neighborhood/ | Source: Tracy Durnell [06:19] TR Bot An afternoon in SFs Dogpatch neighborhood Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden [06:28] TR News Techrights Zero Tolerance for Slop https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/Zero_Tolerance_for_Slop.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/Zero_Tolerance_for_Slop.gmi [06:28] TR Bot Techrights Zero Tolerance for Slop [06:34] TR News "The protest fell the day before the 88th anniversary of Kristallnacht and was organized by Philly Bike On Your Left" https://www.ksl.com/article/news/us/bicycle-boycott-ride-targeting-jewish-owned-businesses-in-philadelphia-draws-hundreds-of-counterprotesters/51644559 | Source: Deseret Media [06:34] TR Bot 'boycott ride' targeting Jewish-owned businesses in Philadelphia draws hundreds of counterprotesters | KSL.com [06:39] TR News Techrights Links 09/11/2026: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Cheats on Wife With A Suspected Chinese spy, "400,000 Russians Killed in Battle Since 2022 Invasion" https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/Links_09_11_2026_Nvidia_CEO_Jensen_Huang_Cheats_on_Wife_With_A_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/Links_09_11_2026_Nvidia_CEO_Jensen_Huang_Cheats_on_Wife_With_A_.gmi [06:39] TR Bot Techrights Links 09/11/2026: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Cheats on Wife With A Suspected Chinese spy, "400,000 Russians Killed in Battle Since 2022 Invasion" [06:41] parsifal I do not use internet banking in any form - intentionally and fully aware of it, and this brings me a number of inconveniences in monetary and other aspects. [06:41] parsifal I have immense respect for him as a person, but he is a man with such lofty ideals that he is ill-suited for this marginal and imperfect world. [06:41] parsifal The modern internet is not suited to such a usage model, whether you accept it or not is irrelevant, that's a fact. [06:41] parsifal The program I use daily, as well as a number of accompanying ones, are closed software, yes it is written for Linux, but it is closed proprietary software. Either I use it or I ask where the hungry shit. [06:41] parsifal This is just one part, the kernel is full of proprietary software, you either use it, or go and buy an abacus from the store, and throw the expensive machine and all the peripherals costing as much as the GDP of some banana republic out the window... [06:42] parsifal I'm an ordinary person (at least i see myself that way, others think i'm a weird geek), like the rest of the people who use the web and I want things to work, not an infallible saint with unattainable ideals like RMS. [06:42] parsifal Also -> The optimizations and all the hacks and alabalisms that I do to keep a low profile on the web are not enough, and they are also ineffective, they require constant adaptation, improvement, learning, and it is unattainable for the average Joe. [06:42] schestowitz[TR2] i agree [06:43] TR News "Alleged creator of Bitcoin Fog: He didn't do it." https://odysee.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Roman-Sterlingov:b [06:43] TR Bot Alleged creator of Bitcoin Fog: He didn't do it. [06:43] TR News " Ted Cruz Aims To Stack FCC With Republicans " https://soylentnews.org/~janrinok/journal/20789 [06:43] TR Bot Journal of janrinok (52) [06:45] TR News The EU's constant sniping against freedom of expression | "EU:s stndiga krypskytte mot yttrandefriheten" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/11/08/eus-standiga-krypskytte-mot-yttrandefriheten/ [06:45] TR Bot EU:s stndiga krypskytte mot yttrandefriheten [06:46] TR News "Ive made another package! django-launch-editor makes the file locations on Djangos debug error page into links that open your editor." https://adamj.eu/tech/2026/11/08/introducing-django-launch-editor/ | Source: Adam Johnson [06:46] TR Bot Django: introducing django-launch-editor for jump-to-file debugging - Adam Johnson [06:47] TR News "A year ago I was asking whether the cost of building software had dropped 90%." https://martinalderson.com/posts/the-great-software-ip-writedown/ | Source: Martin Alderson [06:47] TR Bot The great software IP writedown - Martin Alderson [06:47] TR News "I learned how to program in high school. Since then its been my livelihood and, when Im not burnt out, a source of so much fun to create whatever ideas are rolling around in my head" https://adamfortuna.com/development | Source: Adam Fortuna [06:47] TR Bot My Development Workflow Over Time | Adam Fortuna's Blog [06:47] TR News "The basic idea is for vulnerabilities rated low and medium severity, they will be treated like regular old bugs instead of a special bug that needs extra attention." https://opensourcesecurity.io/2026/10-embargo/ | Source: Open Source Security (Audio Show) [06:47] TR Bot Blog - Dear Open Source Developers: It's OK not to embargo | Open Source Security [06:48] TR News "Doing so was a catalyst to write a followup to a personal story I shared four years ago, about my early days with computers." https://chronicles.mad-scientist.club/tales/confessions-of-a-former-gpl-zealot/ | Source: Gergely Nagy [06:48] TR Bot God. I'm bad. I'm wicked. I'm. [06:58] TR News Techrights NVIDIA as a Scam Company Run by Scammers Who Fake Demand for Their Waste of Energy (Subsidising GPU Sales for Use Cases That Don't Exist) https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/NVIDIA_as_a_Scam_Company_Run_by_Scammers_Who_Fake_Demand_for_Th.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/NVIDIA_as_a_Scam_Company_Run_by_Scammers_Who_Fake_Demand_for_Th.gmi [06:58] TR Bot Techrights NVIDIA as a Scam Company Run by Scammers Who Fake Demand for Their Waste of Energy (Subsidising GPU Sales for Use Cases That Don't Exist) ● Nov 09 [07:03] TR News (NEW): NVIDIA is Financial Fraud https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/NVIDIA_is_Financial_Fraud.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/NVIDIA_is_Financial_Fraud.gmi [07:03] TR Bot Tux Machines NVIDIA is Financial Fraud [07:06] TR News "What if I host an instance of something..." https://aumont.fr/posts/irc-server/ | Source: Mathieu Aumont [07:06] TR Bot set up a tiny private IRC server, because why not | Aumont.fr [07:11] *parsifal has quit (connection closed) [07:11] *parsifal (~parsifal@2bkxv6kskvi2i.irc) has joined #techrights [07:23] TR News Techrights GAFAM Moribund https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/GAFAM_Moribund.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/GAFAM_Moribund.gmi [07:23] TR Bot Techrights GAFAM Moribund [07:23] TR News (NEW): Dolphin gets a Columns view again https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Dolphin_gets_a_Columns_view_again.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Dolphin_gets_a_Columns_view_again.gmi [07:23] TR Bot Tux Machines Dolphin gets a Columns view again [07:25] TR News (NEW): Review: Fedora 45 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Review_Fedora_45.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Review_Fedora_45.gmi [07:25] TR Bot Tux Machines Review: Fedora 45 [07:33] TR News (NEW): Free and Open Source Software https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi [07:33] TR Bot Tux Machines Free and Open Source Software [07:45] TR News Manchester City Council Report Card Part 7 Customer Services That Treats Citizens Worse Than Customers https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/11/09/manchester-city-council-report-card-part-7-customer-services-that-treats-citizens-worse-than-customers/ [07:45] TR Bot Blog Archive Manchester City Council Report Card Part 7 Customer Services That Treats Citizens Worse Than Customers [07:52] psydruid > [notice] femtejuli-se.translate.goog | EU:s stndiga krypskytte mot yttrandefriheten [07:52] psydruid krypskytte = creep+shooting, yttrande = uttering/expression [07:52] psydruid for that daily dose of Swedish [07:58] schestowitz[TR2] lots of self-censorship [07:59] schestowitz[TR2] with the aim of appeasing some bad actors [07:59] schestowitz[TR2] while saying you keep quiet bad actors [07:59] schestowitz[TR2] at the end, the "eliteb voices" [07:59] schestowitz[TR2] get to decide [07:59] schestowitz[TR2] who the "bad actorss" are [07:59] schestowitz[TR2] deepending on who benefits them financially [07:59] schestowitz[TR2] one day it's the far rtight [07:59] schestowitz[TR2] the next it is terror groupp ● Nov 09 [08:00] schestowitz[TR2] maybe the next it's some sexual perverts [08:00] schestowitz[TR2] whatever rocks the boat [08:10] TR News (NEW): I tried to un-Google my Googlebook with Linux, heres why it failed https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/I_tried_to_un_Google_my_Googlebook_with_Linux_here_s_why_it_fai.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/I_tried_to_un_Google_my_Googlebook_with_Linux_here_s_why_it_fai.gmi [08:10] TR Bot Tux Machines I tried to un-Google my Googlebook with Linux, heres why it failed [08:10] TR News December 10th https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/11/09/december-10th/ [08:10] TR Bot Blog Archive December 10th [08:11] TR News [Old] "The laptops provided to students will come preloaded with Intel i3 / AMD Ryzen 3 processors, 8 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD storage, Windows 11 Home Strategic and BOSS Linux OS." https://industrialeconomist.com/tn-govt-to-launch-free-laptop-scheme-tomorrow/ | "and BOSS Linux OS" [08:11] TR Bot TN govt to launch free laptop scheme tomorrow [08:12] TR News "This is an extended version, with links, of the question and answer session from my Texas Linux Fest keynote yesterday." https://blog.zgp.org/texas-q-and-a/ | Source: Don Marti [08:12] TR Bot Texas Linux Fest Q and A [08:12] TR News "A few more booths will be added in the coming days; another post will follow regarding this" https://fosdem.org/2027/news/accepted-stands/ | Source: FOSDEM [08:12] TR Bot FOSDEM Accepted Stands FOSDEM 2027 [08:12] TR News "FOSDEM Junior is a specific track to organise workshops and activities for children from age 7 to 17 during the FOSDEM weekend." https://fosdem.org/2027/news/junior-call-for-participation/ | Source: FOSDEM [08:12] TR Bot FOSDEM Junior Call for Participation FOSDEM 2027 [08:13] TR News "Every time the site generator builds the website, it also builds the RSS feed. Now the site generator is extended with the building of an Atom feed.." https://box.matto.nl/addition-of-an-atom-feed.html | Source: MJ Fransen [08:13] TR Bot of an Atom feed - box.matto.nl [08:14] TR News "It is the potential of interconnectedness. With Emacs I can draw linkages between different parts of my workflow, such as from the email client or RSS feed reader to the agenda." https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2026-11-08-emacsconf-community-panel-comments/ | Source: Protesilaos Stavrou [08:14] TR Bot 2026 community panel comments I made | Protesilaos [08:14] TR News "Ghostty is written in Zig, but it supports cmake and is, therefore, buildable by kde-builder, just add the following lines to your kde-builder.yaml: [...]" https://cukic.co/2026/11/08/kwi-ghostty-kde-builder/ | Source: Dr Ivan uki [08:14] TR Bot Building ghostty (for Kwi) with kde-builder | Ivan uki [08:14] TR News "Just as with their recent efforts to bring Snake to a seven-segment display, a great deal of attention is given to explaining the nuts and bolts of how these vintage displays work." https://hackaday.com/2026/11/08/space-invaders-on-a-vfd/ | Source: Hackaday [08:15] TR Bot Invaders On A VFD | Hackaday [08:15] TR News "Open Hardware is not always a walk in the park. But it is an available choice, and can be a concious choice." https://www.kianryan.co.uk/2026-11-07-open-hardware-is-critically-important/ | Source: Kian Ryan [08:15] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.kianryan.co.uk/2026-11-07-open-hardware-is-critically-important/ ) [08:15] TR News "This is my machine in its temporary location on the workbench: [...]" https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/cnc-plasma-cutter.html | Source: James Stanley [08:15] TR Bot James Stanley - How to make a CNC plasma cutter with high-frequency start [08:15] TR News "First off, an apology - this post is long overdue." https://serd.es///2026/11/08/playing-with-stm32mp2.html | [08:15] TR Bot Playing with the STM32MP2 [08:17] TR News "Notice that Nvidia's Huang has _*not*_ resigned yet." Unlike an Intel CEO who resigned for dicking around with a coworker, after he had already done the crime of insider trading. [08:18] TR News "BOSS (Bharat Operating System Solutions) GNU/Linux is a Debian-based Linux distribution developed by C-DAC for enhancing the use of free and open source software in India." https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=boss | Source: Distro Watch [08:18] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=boss ) [08:18] TR News "The Formation of CSRG" https://fosscomics.com/posts/14.%20BSD%20Unix%20Part%204%20-%20The%20Formation%20of%20CSRG/ | Source: F/OSS Comics [08:18] TR Bot 14. BSD Unix, Part 4 - CSRG (Computer Systems Research Group) [08:18] TR News "I assume you're preparing the SD card for the Pi on Linux." https://neongd.com/articles/netbsd11-rpi4.gmi | [08:18] TR Bot NetBSD 11 desktop on a Raspberry Pi 4 [08:18] TR News (NEW): : Google Android Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Android_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Android_Leftovers.gmi [08:18] TR Bot Tux Machines Android Leftovers [08:19] *nobody has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [08:20] *nobody (~nobody@qnemr8et89p76.irc) has joined #techrights [08:21] TR News Puppy breaker breaks 3-day silence to pander to the "furry" community (grown ups who act like 5 year-olds, thinking they're animals or wanting to have sex with animals - people who wear full-body costumes). [08:21] TR News "[...] We also share bug fix reports from GhostBSD (for a repository issue) and Alpine Linux (for an OpenSSH issue). [...]" https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20261109 | Source: Distro Watch [08:21] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20261109 ) [08:22] TR News "My laptop runs Void Linux with the lightweight pekwm window manager, started by the LightDM display manager." https://vincentdelft.be/post/post_20261108 | Source: Vincent Delft [08:22] TR Bot Vincent's blog [08:22] TR News "The OpenIndiana project has published a new version of its open source operating system which evolved out of the OpenSolaris family." https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=13030 | Source: Distro Watch [08:22] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=13030 ) [08:22] TR News "If you run sshd on Alpine Linux, update openssh now and restart sshd. Upgrading the package alone does not replace the running daemon." https://www.alpinelinux.org/posts/2026-11-05-openssh-password-authentication-bypass/ | Source: Alpine Linux [08:22] TR Bot Security advisory: openssh-server password authentication bypass | Alpine Linux [08:22] TR News "One of my favourite games in the Windows Entertainment Pack series was TicTactics, which was a version of the game split across four planes." https://www.rubenerd.au/you-cant-tie-in-a-3d-noughts-and-crosses/ | Source: Ruben Schade [08:22] TR Bot Rubenerd: You cant tie in a 3D noughts and crosses [08:23] TR News "This article is the first of a series of four about this setup: [...]" https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2026-11-08-zot-private-container-registry.html | Source: Data Swamp [08:23] TR Bot Solene'% : Run a private container registry with zot [08:23] TR News "Admittedly, there wasnt much left in Linux in terms of MMX optimizations." https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/the-end-of-an-era-as-linux-7-5-purges-the-last-30-year-old-intel-mmx-optimizations-from-pentium-age-open-source-os-retires-ancient-1997-pentium-instructions-to-streamline-code | Source: Tom's Hardware [08:23] TR Bot The end of an era as Linux 7.5 purges the last 30-year-old Intel MMX optimizations from Pentium age open-source OS retires ancient 1997 Pentium instructions to streamline code | Tom's Hardware [08:24] TR News "For over a decade, every anomaly in particle physics has disappeared. Not this one." https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2026/11/something-isnt-adding-up-in-particle.html | Source: Sabine Hossenfelder [08:24] TR Bot Sabine Hossenfelder: Backreaction: Something Isnt Adding Up in Particle Physics [08:37] TR News (NEW): Techrights Growing Up, Its Improvements Benefit Tux Machines as Well https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Techrights_Growing_Up_Its_Improvements_Benefit_Tux_Machines_as_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Techrights_Growing_Up_Its_Improvements_Benefit_Tux_Machines_as_.gmi [08:37] TR Bot Tux Machines Techrights Growing Up, Its Improvements Benefit Tux Machines as Well [08:55] TR News Techrights The Register MS is Not Objective Regarding "AI", It's Paid by Pushers of the Pyramid Scheme (including Nvidia) https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/The_Register_MS_is_Not_Objective_Regarding_AI_It_s_Paid_by_Push.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/The_Register_MS_is_Not_Objective_Regarding_AI_It_s_Paid_by_Push.gmi [08:55] TR Bot Techrights The Register MS is Not Objective Regarding "AI", It's Paid by Pushers of the Pyramid Scheme (including Nvidia) ● Nov 09 [10:08] *IsambardPrince has quit (connection closed) [10:51] *hvxgr_ has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) [10:52] *hvxgr_ (~wl2v_usrn@freenode-ong.pov.c33bnd.IP) has joined #techrights ● Nov 09 [11:10] *parsifal has quit (Quit: Leaving) [11:13] *poweruser_ (~Username@s8kfk54nxqtqy.irc) has joined #techrights [11:19] *Princ3ss21F has quit (connection closed) [11:24] *Princ3ss21F (~assistant@cehh8dd4kxj4i.irc) has joined #techrights [11:32] *zarlo has quit (Read error: Connection reset by peer) [11:32] *zarlo_ (~zarlo@2403:5811:3058:t:lszm:vimh:kxli:ojmp) has joined #techrights [11:32] *zarlo_ is now known as zarlo ● Nov 09 [12:07] *parsifal (~parsifal@2bkxv6kskvi2i.irc) has joined #techrights [12:31] *nobody has quit (connection closed) [12:32] *nobody (~nobody@prjzhryurypj4.irc) has joined #techrights [12:32] TR News iophk: Microsoft systemd with Microsoft rust by Microsoft poettering https://amutable.com/blog/systemd-loves-rust [12:32] TR Bot Rust - Amutable [12:35] *Princ3ss21F has quit (connection closed) [12:35] *Princ3ss21F (~assistant@cehh8dd4kxj4i.irc) has joined #techrights [12:36] *psydroid2 (~psydroid@kcvnmgbxt8eqq.irc) has joined #techrights [12:40] TR News Pocket-sized Ukrainian receiver intercepts Russian strike drone video feeds up to six miles away https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/drones/pocket-sized-ukrainian-receiver-intercepts-russian-strike-drone-video-feeds-up-to-six-miles-away-device-only-slightly-heavier-than-a-smartphone-intercepts-analog-video-signals-sent-to-russian-operators [12:40] TR Bot Pocket-sized Ukrainian receiver intercepts Russian strike drone video feeds up to six miles away device only slightly heavier than a smartphone, intercepts analog video signals sent to Russian operators | Tom's Hardware [12:41] TR News Office Suites: Cheaper Isnt Necessarily Freer https://fossforce.com/2026/11/office-suites-cheaper-isnt-necessarily-freer/ [12:41] TR Bot Office Suites: Cheaper Isn't Necessarily Freer - FOSS Force [12:41] TR News GNU Automake 1.20 Moves to GPLv3 and Tunes Up the Build System https://fossforce.com/2026/11/gnu-automake-1-20-moves-to-gplv3-and-tunes-up-the-build-system/ [12:41] TR Bot GNU Automake 1.20 Moves to GPLv3 and Tunes Up the Build System - FOSS Force [12:44] TR News
  • Does Money Buy Happiness?
    [12:44] TR Bot Does Money Buy Happiness? - Kev Quirk [12:45] TR News Ubuntus Core Reset | LINUX Unplugged 692 https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/linux-unplugged/692/ [12:45] TR Bot Ubuntus Core Reset | LINUX Unplugged 692 | Jupiter Broadcasting [12:45] TR News ZelixOS 2026.11.07 https://distrowatch.com/zelixos [12:45] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/zelixos ) [12:46] TR News something really hit Gemini: https://techrights.org however gemini's logging is so sparse that there's not really any way of figuring it out short of looking up subnets from IP addresses and deciding which are from server farms. [12:46] TR Bot Techrights [12:48] TR News Eminems Publisher Sues Suno Over Allegations of Copyright Infringement https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/11/08/eminem-publisher-sues-suno-copyright-infringement/ [12:48] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/11/08/eminem-publisher-sues-suno-copyright-infringement/ ) [12:48] TR News Finnish news wrongly downplays the datacenter problems as a matter of electricity pricing, skipping the important factors like noise, cost, light pollution, infrasound, air pollution, water wastage, lack of jobs, etc [12:49] TR News How To Install Grafana on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS https://idroot.us/install-grafana-ubuntu-26-04/ [12:49] TR Bot How To Install Grafana on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS - idroot [12:49] TR News How To Install Zabbix on Fedora 45 https://idroot.us/install-zabbix-fedora-45/ [12:49] TR Bot How To Install Zabbix on Fedora 45 - idroot [12:52] TR News Texas GNU/Linux Fest https://major.io/p/ai-fears-dune-themed-talk/ [12:52] TR Bot AI, engineering fears, and Dune :: Major Hayden [12:52] TR News Birger Schacht: Using incus for throw away VMs https://bisco.org/notes/using-incus-for-throw-away-vms/ [12:52] TR Bot Using incus for throw away VMs [12:54] *psydroid2 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [12:55] TR News New Steam Games Playable on the Steam Deck, with Road Rash 30th Anniversary and Lost Host - 2026-11-07 Edition https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-playable-on-the-steam-deck-2026-11-07-edition/index.html [12:55] TR Bot New Steam Games Playable on the Steam Deck, with Road Rash 30th Anniversary and Lost Host - 2026-11-07 Edition [12:55] TR News M5Stack Core Matrix ESP32-C61 IoT controller features 1616 LED matrix, WiFi 6, and 6-axis IMU https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/11/09/m5stack-core-matrix-esp32-c61-iot-controller-features-16x16-led-matrix-wifi-6-and-6-axis-imu/ [12:55] TR Bot M5Stack Core Matrix ESP32-C61 IoT controller features 1616 LED matrix, WiFi 6, and 6-axis IMU - CNX Software [12:58] TR News Scans for Sshole Vulnerability (CVE-2026-123158), (Sun, Nov 8th) https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/33498 [12:58] TR Bot Scans for Sshole Vulnerability (CVE-2026-123158) - SANS ISC [12:59] TR News Amyloid Fibers Have an Unexpected Role in Sperm, Scientists Discover https://www.sciencealert.com/amyloid-fibers-have-an-unexpected-role-in-sperm-scientists-discover [12:59] TR Bot Fibers Have an Unexpected Role in Sperm, Scientists Discover : ScienceAlert ● Nov 09 [13:00] TR News What to Know About Nvidias Investigation of Its C.E.O. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/08/technology/nvidias-investigation-jensen-huang.html [13:00] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/08/technology/nvidias-investigation-jensen-huang.html ) [13:03] TR News NVIDIA now "investigates" its own CEO. 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[13:03] TR News Larger Dogs Age Faster, And Scientists May Finally Know Why https://www.sciencealert.com/larger-dogs-age-faster-and-scientists-may-finally-know-why [13:03] TR Bot Dogs Age Faster, And Scientists May Finally Know Why : ScienceAlert [13:04] TR News NVIDIA is now "for some definition of "investigates"; it's clear by this delay that he will not be fired and he has not the integrity to step down" [13:07] *psydroid2 (~psydroid@kcvnmgbxt8eqq.irc) has joined #techrights [13:11] TR News Climate Change Has Become So Bad That Rice Krispies Dont Have Actual Rice in Them Anymore https://futurism.com/science-energy/climate-change-rice-krispies [13:11] TR Bot Climate Change Has Become So Bad That Rice Krispies Don't Have Actual Rice in Them Anymore [13:12] TR News Dihydroxyacetone Man Admin Caught Illegally Canceling Billion-Dollar Solar Project That Would Have Helped Lower Utility Bills Across the Country https://futurism.com/science-energy/trump-epa-zeldin-solar-energy-utility-bills [13:12] TR Bot Trump Admin Caught Illegally Canceling Billion-Dollar Solar Project That Would Have Helped Lower Utility Bills Across the Country [13:21] TR News Dasha 1.10: Patroni auto-discovery, wait analysis and replication slot forecasts for PostgreSQL https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/dasha-110-patroni-auto-discovery-wait-analysis-and-replication-slot-forecasts-for-postgresql-3438/ [13:21] TR Bot PostgreSQL: Dasha 1.10: Patroni auto-discovery, wait analysis and replication slot forecasts for PostgreSQL [13:21] TR News Luis Villa: "What ride?": where libre software could go after LLMs https://lu.is/2026/11/what-ride-specifically/ [13:21] TR Bot ride?": where libre software could go after LLMs - lu.is [13:22] TR News Extension Manager 0.7 released with new (and fixed) features https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/11/gnome-extension-manager-0-7-released [13:22] TR Bot Extension Manager 0.7 released with new (and fixed) features - OMG! Ubuntu [13:23] TR News Rubio Warned Officials About Nvidia Chiefs Entanglement With Chinese Spy https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/08/us/politics/rubio-nvidia-ceo-chinese-spy.html [13:23] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/08/us/politics/rubio-nvidia-ceo-chinese-spy.html ) [13:23] TR News https://rss.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:33:59 +0000 Nvidia Opens Investigation Into Jensen Huangs Relationship With Chinese Spy [13:23] TR News "Mr. Huang, the companys chief executive, acknowledged on Sunday that he was intimate with a business executive who U.S. officials had determined was working for Chinese intelligence" https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/08/technology/nvidia-investigation-jensen-huang-china.html [13:23] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/08/technology/nvidia-investigation-jensen-huang-china.html ) [13:25] TR News Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admits to having extramarital affair with suspected Chinese spy https://siliconangle.com/2026/11/08/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-admits-to-having-extramarital-affair-with-suspected-chinese-spy/ [13:25] TR Bot CEO Jensen Huang admits to having extramarital affair with suspected Chinese spy - SiliconANGLE [13:25] TR News NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang Admits Affair as Board Probes Reports of Chinese Intelligence Targeting https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-admits-affair-board-probes-reports-chinese-intelligence-targeting-1830955 [13:25] TR Bot NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang Admits Affair as Board Probes Reports of Chinese Intelligence Targeting | IBTimes UK [13:25] TR News Who Is the Woman Linked to Jensen Huang? 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Nvidia Probes Alleged Chinese Espionage After CEO Admits Infidelity | IBTimes UK [13:26] TR News 'He's an Honourable Guy': Convicted Felon Defends Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Amid Chinese Spy Affair Allegations https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/trump-backs-nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-investigation-1830952 [13:26] TR Bot 'He's an Honourable Guy': Trump Defends Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Amid Chinese Spy Affair Allegations | IBTimes UK [13:26] TR News Nvidia announces probe into CEO Jensen Huang after he acknowledges affair with alleged Chinese spy https://hongkongfp.com/2026/11/09/nvidia-announces-probe-into-ceo-jensen-huang-after-he-acknowledges-affair-with-alleged-chinese-spy/ [13:26] TR Bot Nvidia announces probe into Huang amid reports China spied on him [13:27] TR News Nvidia to probe reports that Chinese intelligence targeted CEO Jensen Huang https://www.france24.com/en/technology/20261108-nvidia-jensen-huang-chinese-intelligence-probe [13:27] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/technology/20261108-nvidia-jensen-huang-chinese-intelligence-probe ) [13:27] TR News Tech giant Nvidia to investigate Chinese spy claims after CEO admits affair https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm78p221e313t [13:27] TR Bot Tech giant Nvidia to investigate Chinese spy claims after CEO admits affair - BBC News [13:28] TR News The real issue is the financial cheating/fraud, not cheating on the wife [13:28] TR News "Huang has been in charge of the tech giant for 30 years" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cq3989nkzn3ko [13:28] TR Bot Jensen Huang: What we know about Nvidia CEOs affair - BBC News [13:29] TR News Jensen Huang's Relationship With Alleged Chinese Spy Triggers NVIDIA Investigation Into US National Security Risks https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/nvidia-investigates-possible-chinese-intelligence-operation-1830951 [13:29] TR Bot Jensen Huang's Relationship With Alleged Chinese Spy Triggers NVIDIA Investigation Into US National Security Risks | IBTimes UK [13:30] TR News Building ghostty (for Kwi) with kde-builder https://cukic.co/2026/11/08/kwi-ghostty-kde-builder [13:30] TR Bot Building ghostty (for Kwi) with kde-builder | Ivan uki [13:44] TR News Japanese arcades suffer week-long blackout following Sega server hack https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/japanese-arcades-suffer-week-long-blackout-following-sega-server-hack-bandai-namco-titles-resume-trial-operations-as-sega-games-remain-offline [13:44] TR Bot Japanese arcades suffer week-long blackout following Sega server hack Bandai Namco titles resume trial operations as Sega games remain offline | Tom's Hardware [13:44] TR News Visiting Judges Return to the Federal Circuit https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/11/visiting-judges-return-to-the-federal-circuit.html [13:44] TR Bot Visiting Judges Return to the Federal Circuit | Patently-O [13:52] TR News Menacing Surveillance Obelisk Appears in Madrid https://futurism.com/future-society/menacing-surveillane-obelisk-madrid-art [13:52] TR Bot Menacing Surveillance Obelisk Appears in Madrid [13:52] TR News more microsoft boosters https://sunshowers.io/posts/sshole/ [13:52] TR Bot *sshole, or when are we finally going to get rid of C? sunshowers [13:52] Righty Blaming C for logic errors are we? [13:54] schestowitz[TR2] rust has issues too [13:54] schestowitz[TR2] even recent ones [13:54] schestowitz[TR2] blaame the lang? [13:54] Righty Rust basically forces you to implement logic errors it seems. [13:56] TR News Vivaldi 8.3 Released with Customizable Ads & Track Blocker https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/11/vivaldi-8-3-released-with-customizable-ads-track-blocker/ [13:56] TR Bot Vivaldi 8.3 Released with Customizable Ads & Track Blocker | UbuntuHandbook [13:56] schestowitz[TR2] rust is a big network [13:56] schestowitz[TR2] and it is monolithic [13:56] schestowitz[TR2] it is also monopolistic [13:57] schestowitz[TR2] one implementation, unlike c [13:57] schestowitz[TR2] and that monolith has securiity bugs [13:57] schestowitz[TR2] in the "supply chain" [13:57] schestowitz[TR2] and also its implementation [13:57] schestowitz[TR2] it's "inevitable" [13:57] schestowitz[TR2] as programs go bigger, fast (not mature) [13:57] Righty I very well understand the security vulnerability of static linking and 999999 crates. [13:58] schestowitz[TR2] that are abandoned [13:58] TR News Calibre adds new sources for finding free books & journals https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/11/calibre-update-new-sources [13:58] TR Bot Calibre adds new sources for finding free books & journals - OMG! Ubuntu [13:59] schestowitz[TR2] suppose you write a cprogram [13:59] schestowitz[TR2] the first line could be your gole [13:59] schestowitz[TR2] #include some_buggy__thinng [13:59] schestowitz[TR2] and it's not even your faiult [13:59] schestowitz[TR2] could be musl ● Nov 09 [14:00] Righty I tend to write C in GNU C and for glibc. [14:00] schestowitz[TR2] http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/06/Security_Emergency_in_Alpine_Linux_musl_and_OpenSSH.shtml [14:00] TR Bot Tux Machines Security Emergency in Alpine Linux (musl and OpenSSH) [14:00] schestowitz[TR2] it's not "Alpine issue" [14:00] schestowitz[TR2] the issue is. [14:00] schestowitz[TR2] Alpine tries to keep small [14:00] schestowitz[TR2] and uses musl [14:01] Righty glibc isn't even that large really [14:01] schestowitz[TR2] and openssl with musl cannot deal with very long strings as password input [14:01] schestowitz[TR2] so they say "Alpine is bad" [14:01] Righty libc.so.6 is like 2.1MiB [14:02] TR News NVIDIA 620.70.06 Released with Vulkan In-Game FPS Overlay Support https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/11/nvidia-620-70-06-fps-overlay-vulkan/ [14:02] TR Bot NVIDIA 620.70.06 Released with Vulkan In-Game FPS Overlay Support | UbuntuHandbook [14:02] schestowitz[TR2] i tried to compile rust on arm [14:02] schestowitz[TR2] it was like (iirc) 600mb to build [14:03] schestowitz[TR2] and it was very hard to build [14:03] schestowitz[TR2] rust has very limited h/w diversity [14:03] schestowitz[TR2] for all their talk about "''''diversity" [14:03] Righty Rust takes hundreds of GiB to bootstrap from C++ mrustc [14:03] Righty I suspect static linking musl into every binary on the system ends up larger than 2.1MiB if you have more than a few binaries. [14:03] TR News Dolphin gets a Columns view again https://blogs.kde.org/2026/11/08/dolphin-gets-a-columns-view-again/ [14:03] TR Bot Dolphin gets a Columns view again - KDE Blogs [14:04] TR News Chessament 1.0.0 released https://alcarazzam.dev/posts/chessament-1.0/ [14:04] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://alcarazzam.dev/posts/chessament-1.0/ ) [14:04] TR News Long-range Wi-Fi HaLow gateway offers OpenWrt and dual GbE https://linuxgizmos.com/long-range-wi-fi-halow-gateway-offers-openwrt-and-dual-gbe/ [14:04] TR Bot NO TITLE [14:05] TR News Asahi GNU/Linux Drops MIT and Goes Full GPL After Hey Hi (AI) Tools Were Used to Steal Unreleased Code https://itsfoss.com/news/asahi-linux-drops-mit-for-gpl/ [14:05] TR Bot Asahi Linux Drops MIT and Goes Full GPL After AI Tools Were Used to Steal Unreleased Code [14:06] schestowitz[TR2] to me, bottom line is, [14:06] schestowitz[TR2] ruust iss big [14:06] schestowitz[TR2] big is not better [14:06] schestowitz[TR2] rust is new [14:06] schestowitz[TR2] and new is not always better [14:06] Righty My bottom line is that rust clearly contains multiple backdoors. [14:06] schestowitz[TR2] slop is "new" [14:06] schestowitz[TR2] i didn't see slop programs being _better _ than what they imitate [14:06] schestowitz[TR2] rust is distributed though microsoft [14:07] schestowitz[TR2] github CSO =20+ years NSA [14:07] schestowitz[TR2] so i trust it as much as I trust NSA staff [14:07] TR News Helwan 5.2 https://distrowatch.com/helwan [14:07] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/helwan ) [14:07] TR News GNUSlashLinux 20261108 https://distrowatch.com/gnuslashlinux [14:07] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/gnuslashlinux ) [14:08] TR News TTOS 20261106 https://distrowatch.com/ttos [14:08] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/ttos ) [14:08] schestowitz[TR2] plus, NSA Actions aside [14:08] schestowitz[TR2] Rustr is large [14:08] schestowitz[TR2] it's hard to build [14:08] schestowitz[TR2] so you rely on what theeeey distribute [14:08] schestowitz[TR2] and sent to distros and you via Microsoft/NSA [14:08] schestowitz[TR2] we have reproduible builds [14:08] schestowitz[TR2] but for very large programs [14:08] schestowitz[TR2] they don't scale [14:09] schestowitz[TR2] a human needs to check the code [14:09] schestowitz[TR2] and all the changes [14:09] schestowitz[TR2] slop+rust = infeasible for humans to keep abreast [14:09] schestowitz[TR2] they say obscurity and complexity are enemies oof security [14:09] schestowitz[TR2] on that criterion alone rrust is no-go [14:09] schestowitz[TR2] for any security program [14:09] schestowitz[TR2] github= obscurity [14:10] TR News KibaOS 512 https://distrowatch.com/kibaos [14:10] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/kibaos ) [14:10] TR News NagisinnraLinux 1.0.3 https://distrowatch.com/nagisinnra [14:10] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/nagisinnra ) [14:10] TR News Slax 2026.11 https://distrowatch.com/slax [14:10] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/slax ) [14:10] schestowitz[TR2] rust rewrite of tor =- "arti" [14:10] schestowitz[TR2] you could make jokes about what that name stands for [14:11] Righty Yeah, I'm not running that. [14:11] TR News StartOS 0.4.2-rc2 https://distrowatch.com/startos [14:11] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/startos ) [14:11] schestowitz[TR2] i never met anyone who uses arti and [14:11] schestowitz[TR2] i never read online a blog of a user of arti [14:11] schestowitz[TR2] so it seems like a dead-end project [14:11] schestowitz[TR2] "because we CANN" [14:12] schestowitz[TR2] reminner [14:12] schestowitz[TR2] tor had many layoffs [14:12] schestowitz[TR2] about 5 years ago [14:12] schestowitz[TR2] then many more layoffs [14:12] schestowitz[TR2] at least a quarter [14:12] schestowitz[TR2] now they have more codebases to maintain [14:12] schestowitz[TR2] c is cross-platform [14:13] schestowitz[TR2] hard to see how making a limited portability second implementation would make tor safer [14:13] schestowitz[TR2] it diverts attention away from it [14:13] schestowitz[TR2] tor got a "Second wife" [14:13] schestowitz[TR2] to make up for the first marriage not working out [14:13] Righty Apparently implementing a second implementation with more logic errors is more important that fixing the remaining memory errors in the original implementation. [14:14] Righty The first marriage works fine, although some refactoring is needed. [14:14] TR News Python Series Part 27: Frame Widget - Part 1 https://www.linux.org/threads/python-series-part-27-frame-widget-part-1.65406/ [14:14] TR Bot Series Part 27: Frame Widget - Part 1 | Linux.org [14:14] schestowitz[TR2] there is one debian dev who works on tor [14:15] schestowitz[TR2] iirc, ian jackson [14:15] schestowitz[TR2] i wonder if even uses the software [14:15] schestowitz[TR2] he makes and boosts arti [14:15] schestowitz[TR2] but maybe as a personal pet project [14:22] TR News People who "boast" about "slop" working are like cheaters and plagiarists who claim you can pass all the exams by cheating. It's not surprising. They learn nothing, either. [14:23] TR News You WRITE your CODE so that you UNDERSTAND and can MAINTAIN or extend it. You study for exams to improve your skills and knowledge. The purpose is to score you. [14:23] TR News The "hard work" of coding is about "comprehension" [14:25] TR News Dear Valve: It is Time to Open Source SteamVR https://boilingsteam.com/open-steamvr/index.html [14:25] TR Bot Dear Valve: It is Time to Open Source SteamVR [14:31] *Righty has quit (connection closed) [14:32] *Righty (~Username@i2d3ie85dk7uc.irc) has joined #techrights [14:32] TR News Techrights Like Crooked Politicians, The Register MS is Selling "Dinners" (Access, Sponsors) https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/Like_Crooked_Politicians_The_Register_MS_is_Selling_Dinners_Acc.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/Like_Crooked_Politicians_The_Register_MS_is_Selling_Dinners_Acc.gmi [14:32] TR Bot Techrights Like Crooked Politicians, The Register MS is Selling "Dinners" (Access, Sponsors) [14:52] TR News "When it comes to Linux desktop environments, there are way too many choices. We have well-established ones like KDE and GNOME and more niche alternatives like MATE and Cinnamon that remain well-supported to this day." https://www.makeuseof.com/the-best-linux-desktop-environment-isnt-a-desktop-environment-at-all/ [14:52] TR Bot The best Linux desktop environment isnt a desktop environment at all [14:52] TR News "Most people start by simply installing a Linux distribution and then spend weeks tweaking it." https://www.howtogeek.com/2-reasons-to-fork-your-own-linux-distro-instead-of-installing-someone-elses-and-1-reason-not-to/ [14:52] TR Bot 2 reasons to fork your own Linux distro instead of installing someone else's (and 1 reason not to) [14:53] TR News "This moment at which the paths of microcontroller and full-fat SoC start to cross has been on the horizon for quite a while, and its exciting to see it finally arrive. Expect more similar chips in competition with this one, and more power too. Meanwhile see our noting the launch of the S31." https://hackaday.com/2026/11/07/proper-linux-on-an-esp32/ [14:53] TR Bot Linux, On An ESP32 | Hackaday [14:53] TR News Marius looks back https://9to5linux.com/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-november-8th-2026 [14:53] TR Bot Weekly Roundup: November 8th, 2026 - 9to5Linux [14:53] TR News "Domicile lets you build your desktop in React and CSS, with Manganese being included as the ready-made tiling option." https://itsfoss.com/news/domicile-desktop-overview/ [14:53] TR Bot Hate Chromium? Well, Theres a Linux Desktop Based on it Now [14:54] TR News GOG Galaxy overhaul planned for 2027 with Linux support https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/joao-silva/gog-galaxy-overhaul-planned-for-2027-with-linux-support/ [14:54] TR Bot GOG Galaxy overhaul planned for 2027 with Linux support | KitGuru [14:55] TR News Linuxs KSMBD Hit by Two Critical Security Flaws https://hackernoon.com/linuxs-ksmbd-hit-by-two-critical-security-flaws [14:55] TR Bot [14:56] TR News including Fedora, SteamOS: Epic outlines Linux plans for its new games launcher https://mixed-news.com/en/epic-games-launcher-steamos-fedora-linux-support-plans/ [14:56] TR Bot including Fedora, SteamOS: Epic outlines Linux plans for its new games launcher [14:56] TR News The PlayStation 3 briefly made buying a console a way to buy a Linux computer https://www.xda-developers.com/the-playstation-3-briefly-made-buying-a-console-a-way-to-buy-a-linux-computer/ [14:56] TR Bot The PlayStation 3 briefly made buying a console a way to buy a Linux computer [14:57] TR News I tried to un-Google my Googlebook with Linux, heres why it failed https://www.howtogeek.com/i-tried-to-un-google-my-googlebook-with-linux-but-its-too-early-to-save-this/ [14:57] TR Bot I tried to un-Google my Googlebook with Linux, heres why it failed [14:58] TR News Epic Games Names SteamOS Among Planned Linux Targets for Its New Launcher https://www.techpowerup.com/354575/epic-games-names-steamos-among-planned-linux-targets-for-its-new-launcher [14:58] TR Bot Games Names SteamOS Among Planned Linux Targets for Its New Launcher | TechPowerUp ● Nov 09 [15:03] 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 [15:03] TR Bot Tux Machines KDE: Kdenlive 26.08.3 released and KDE Gear 26.12 branches created [15:04] TR News (NEW): GOG GALAXY is Officially on GNU/ Linux https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/07/GOG_GALAXY_is_Officially_on_GNU_Linux.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/07/GOG_GALAXY_is_Officially_on_GNU_Linux.gmi [15:04] TR Bot Tux Machines GOG GALAXY is Officially on GNU/ Linux [15:04] TR News (NEW): Games: Memories, Chessament 1.0.0, and PlayStation 3 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Games_Memories_Chessament_1_0_0_and_PlayStation_3.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Games_Memories_Chessament_1_0_0_and_PlayStation_3.gmi [15:04] TR Bot Tux Machines Games: Memories, Chessament 1.0.0, and PlayStation 3 [15:06] TR News (NEW): Security Emergency in Alpine Linux (musl and OpenSSH) https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/06/Security_Emergency_in_Alpine_Linux_musl_and_OpenSSH.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/06/Security_Emergency_in_Alpine_Linux_musl_and_OpenSSH.gmi [15:06] TR Bot Tux Machines Security Emergency in Alpine Linux (musl and OpenSSH) [15:08] TR News (NEW): Today's HowTos https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/today_s_howtos.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/today_s_howtos.gmi [15:08] TR Bot Tux Machines today's howtos [15:08] parsifal tor... in line with the latest fashion net trends -> tor and socks are more or less useless, regardless of who develops them or how [15:09] TR News (NEW): Linux 7.5 Removes Old Code, Linux's in-kernel SMB Server Had Bugs https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Linux_7_5_Removes_Old_Code_Linux_s_in_kernel_SMB_Server_Had_Bug.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Linux_7_5_Removes_Old_Code_Linux_s_in_kernel_SMB_Server_Had_Bug.gmi [15:09] TR Bot Tux Machines Linux 7.5 Removes Old Code, Linux's in-kernel SMB Server Had Bugs [15:10] schestowitz[TR2] SOCKS? [15:11] TR News (NEW): Programming Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Programming_Leftovers.gmi [15:11] TR Bot Tux Machines Programming Leftovers [15:12] parsifal yes [15:13] schestowitz[TR2] SOCKS can be useful [15:13] schestowitz[TR2] in some cases [15:13] schestowitz[TR2] not privacy [15:14] TR News (NEW): Applications: Vivaldi 8.3 Released, Calibre 9.18 News, and Extension Manager 0.7 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Applications_Vivaldi_8_3_Released_Calibre_9_18_News_and_Extensi.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Applications_Vivaldi_8_3_Released_Calibre_9_18_News_and_Extensi.gmi [15:14] TR Bot Tux Machines Applications: Vivaldi 8.3 Released, Calibre 9.18 News, and Extension Manager 0.7 [15:17] parsifal The whole point of their existence is precisely privacy, everything else is just an afterthought. [15:25] Righty SOCKS isn't very good at providing privacy, as it doesn't even have encryption for example. [15:25] Righty It's only if SOCKS is used to communicate over a secure path, with something that offers privacy do you get privacy. [15:29] parsifal Yes, that's true, but those are just details, and both are part of an ecosystem whose ultimate goal is privacy. [15:29] schestowitz[TR2] no socks does many things [15:29] schestowitz[TR2] you can use it with openssh [15:29] schestowitz[TR2] for encryption [15:31] MinceR afaik tor provides that secure path for its own SOCKS interface [15:31] TR News (NEW): Linux Devices and "Open Hardware is critially important in 2026" https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Linux_Devices_and_Open_Hardware_is_critially_important_in_2026.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Linux_Devices_and_Open_Hardware_is_critially_important_in_2026.gmi [15:31] TR Bot Tux Machines Linux Devices and "Open Hardware is critially important in 2026" [15:39] schestowitz[TR2] MinceR: do you tor? [15:40] TR News Working With Fine Tools https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/11/09/working-with-fine-tools/ [15:40] TR Bot Blog Archive Working With Fine Tools [15:40] MinceR sometimes [15:43] TR News (NEW): Education/Events: FOSDEM 2027, Texas Linux Fest, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Education_Events_FOSDEM_2027_Texas_Linux_Fest_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Education_Events_FOSDEM_2027_Texas_Linux_Fest_and_More.gmi [15:43] TR Bot Tux Machines Education/Events: FOSDEM 2027, Texas Linux Fest, and More [15:43] nobody tor must be configured correctly [15:44] TR News (NEW): Licensing / Legal: Moving From MIT to GPL, LLMs as GPL Violation Instruments, and "Confessions of a Former GPL Zealot" https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Licensing_Legal_Moving_From_MIT_to_GPL_LLMs_as_GPL_Violation_In.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Licensing_Legal_Moving_From_MIT_to_GPL_LLMs_as_GPL_Violation_In.gmi [15:44] TR Bot Tux Machines Licensing / Legal: Moving From MIT to GPL, LLMs as GPL Violation Instruments, and "Confessions of a Former GPL Zealot" [15:48] TR News (NEW): Applications: PikaPods, htop, automake-1.19.94 release https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/05/Applications_PikaPods_htop_automake_1_19_94_release.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/05/Applications_PikaPods_htop_automake_1_19_94_release.gmi [15:48] TR Bot Tux Machines Applications: PikaPods, htop, automake-1.19.94 release [15:48] schestowitz[TR2] compleixity leads to mistakes [15:48] schestowitz[TR2] mistakes like configuration lapses [15:48] schestowitz[TR2] and the lapses undermine the tools [15:49] schestowitz[TR2] hence, slop and rust (complexity) are a way to undermine established tools [15:49] schestowitz[TR2] like coreutls [15:49] schestowitz[TR2] (from GNU) [15:50] nobody was thinking of tor still, i'm sceptical what's advertized for as "tor-browser" [15:50] schestowitz[TR2] firefox with tor [15:50] nobody *sceptical of what's advertized for as "tor-browser" [15:50] Righty It's firefox modified to not write to the disk and it comes with ctor. [15:51] nobody firefox got a gigantic attack surface weakening the whole chain of trust [15:52] nobody it's probably not too bad for many use-cases regardless [15:53] lxo here's my belated wish of a happy techrights anniversary. I'm still a couple of weeks behind in my techrights reading, after travel and elections [15:53] TR News (NEW): NVIDIA 620 Linux Graphics Driver Released with Wayland Improvements https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/04/NVIDIA_620_Linux_Graphics_Driver_Released_with_Wayland_Improvem.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/04/NVIDIA_620_Linux_Graphics_Driver_Released_with_Wayland_Improvem.gmi [15:53] TR Bot Tux Machines NVIDIA 620 Linux Graphics Driver Released with Wayland Improvements [15:53] TR News (NEW): Audiocasts/Shows: LINUX Unplugged on Ubuntus Core Reset Sabine Hossenfelder on Particle Physics https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Audiocasts_Shows_LINUX_Unplugged_on_Ubuntu_s_Core_Reset_Sabine_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Audiocasts_Shows_LINUX_Unplugged_on_Ubuntu_s_Core_Reset_Sabine_.gmi [15:53] TR Bot Tux Machines Audiocasts/Shows: LINUX Unplugged on Ubuntus Core Reset Sabine Hossenfelder on Particle Physics [15:53] Righty In safest mode, maybe tor-browser isn't that bad. [15:54] TR News (NEW): BSD, GNU/Linux Distributions and Operating Systems Other Than the "Main Two" https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/BSD_GNU_Linux_Distributions_and_Operating_Systems_Other_Than_th.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/BSD_GNU_Linux_Distributions_and_Operating_Systems_Other_Than_th.gmi [15:54] TR Bot Tux Machines BSD, GNU/Linux Distributions and Operating Systems Other Than the "Main Two" [15:56] TR News (NEW): Free, Libre, and Open Source Software / Digital Sovereignty https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Digital_Sovereignty.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Digital_Sovereignty.gmi [15:56] TR Bot Tux Machines Free, Libre, and Open Source Software / Digital Sovereignty [15:56] nobody as for rust-lang, most developers aren't aware of the bootstrapping issues of it [15:57] nobody reason enough to not touch anything written in or dependening on rust-lang [15:59] TR News Techrights Links 09/11/2026: 'Humanitarian' Putin Knocks 600,000 Civilians Off the Grid, Eminems Publisher Sues Suno https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/Links_09_11_2026_Humanitarian_Putin_Knocks_600_000_Civilians_Of.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/Links_09_11_2026_Humanitarian_Putin_Knocks_600_000_Civilians_Of.gmi [15:59] TR Bot Techrights Links 09/11/2026: 'Humanitarian' Putin Knocks 600,000 Civilians Off the Grid, Eminems Publisher Sues Suno ● Nov 09 [16:01] TR News Bad economy https://www.tradingview.com/news/seekingalpha:9e9506f5b094b:0-ai-not-the-main-reason-for-tech-related-job-cuts-but-the-economy-analyst/ [16:01] TR Bot not the main reason for tech-related job cuts, but the economy analyst TradingView News [16:02] TR News I helped oversee layoffs. Then I got laid off myself. https://www.businessinsider.com/hr-professional-helped-plan-layoffs-then-laid-off-2026-11 [16:02] TR Bot An HR Professional Helped Plan Layoffs. Then He Was Laid Off. - Business Insider [16:02] nobody mrustc was developed for that purpose [16:03] nobody which can compile a rustc-1.90 nowadays [16:14] parsifal safest... what exactly is so safe about the safest option without javascript disabled -> captcha, cloudflare or anubis [16:15] parsifal ^if the block is active=inability to access most websites [16:16] Righty Most websites in fact work just fine or better without JS. [16:17] Righty If a website tries to attack you with evil anubis or some JS captcha, that is not a website you should visit. [16:21] schestowitz[TR2] in an ideal world [16:21] schestowitz[TR2] maybe true a year ago, Righty [16:21] schestowitz[TR2] not being pedantic, just to give examples [16:21] schestowitz[TR2] lkml [16:22] Righty I don't see much difference between this year and last. [16:22] schestowitz[TR2] iirc, lwn for now just does throttling basd on # of reqs from one ip [16:22] schestowitz[TR2] anubis was adopted by many sites [16:22] Righty lwn works fine. [16:22] schestowitz[TR2] it does [16:22] schestowitz[TR2] for now [16:22] schestowitz[TR2] lkml does not [16:22] Righty A mailing list about a proprietary kernel isn't really that interesting tbh. [16:23] schestowitz[TR2] there was another example i wanted to give but forgot mis-sentence [16:23] parsifal Righty: that fact is irrelevant if you can't access them; so, based on what you said, as of today I should stop using half of the online sources... -> i'm going to cancel my contract with my ISP ;) [16:23] schestowitz[TR2] sites you do not expect to use any JS [16:23] Righty The debian sites have broken everything without JS artificially. [16:23] schestowitz[TR2] it got a lot worse this year [16:23] schestowitz[TR2] a year ago i sounded like you [16:23] schestowitz[TR2] that sites that do this can be avoided [16:23] schestowitz[TR2] but that list of site is now short [16:23] schestowitz[TR2] many use CF [16:24] schestowitz[TR2] even in falkon i can no longer access many sites [16:24] schestowitz[TR2] they expect gecko aaand known user-agent [16:24] schestowitz[TR2] CF hates falkon [16:24] schestowitz[TR2] iirc, anubis also [16:25] Righty Does CF hate New Moon? [16:25] schestowitz[TR2] that makes me become more like rms [16:25] schestowitz[TR2] fetching sites into a text editor [16:25] Righty Didn't have any problems, but didn't browse many sites. [16:25] schestowitz[TR2] and reading there, not in browsers [16:25] schestowitz[TR2] or in gemini:// [16:25] schestowitz[TR2] Righty: we covered the "moon" ones [16:25] schestowitz[TR2] see: (searching) [16:25] schestowitz[TR2] https://techrights.org/search/query?search=Search&query1=pale+moon&set1=any [16:25] TR Bot Techrights Search [16:26] schestowitz[TR2] e.g. https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/17/The_Attacks_on_LinuxQuestions_org.shtml [16:26] TR Bot Techrights The Attacks on LinuxQuestions.org [16:26] schestowitz[TR2] apropos: https://techrights.org/n/2023/10/07/Tor_Browser_Fails_to_Disable_Dangerous_Google_Formats.shtml [16:26] TR Bot Techrights Tor Browser Fails to Disable Dangerous Google Formats [16:27] TR News Rda linjer gemini://idiomdrottning.org/rl26 [16:28] TR News "Y'all I am NOT feeling the oncoming Christmas season. I am even less feeling the already-here Christmas season I keep encountering in stores." gemini://drmollytov.smol.pub/2026-11-09 [16:29] TR News "Great local electronics repair shop. I've taken two devices in for repair over the last couple of months: a 2020 Pixel phone that needed a new battery, and a 2019 late-Intel MacBook that had just stopped booting." gemini://kvibber.com/reviews/business/wireless-planet.gmi [16:30] TR News new tattoo moon gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/schoolWork "A weekend of school homework, music making and tattooing." [16:32] TR News Nvidia shares crash https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm78p221e313t [16:32] TR Bot Nvidia shares slide as US tech giant investigates CEO Jensen Huang's affair with suspected Chinese spy - BBC News [16:32] schestowitz[TR2] nobody: merz got cheated [16:33] TR News "An early plunge saw the firm's shares fall 8%" [16:33] *psydroid2 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [16:40] Righty when? [16:40] Righty *% [16:41] schestowitz[TR2] divide by 0 [16:41] TR News (NEW): Germany's GNU/Linux Market Share at 10% https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Germany_s_GNU_Linux_Market_Share_at_10.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Germany_s_GNU_Linux_Market_Share_at_10.gmi [16:41] TR Bot Tux Machines Germany's GNU/Linux Market Share at 10% ● Nov 09 [17:10] nobody schestowitz[TR2]: cheated how? [17:17] TR News Techrights Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXXXV - The Brand (and Reputation) https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/Intercontinental_Brigading_Part_XXXXV_The_Brand_and_Reputation.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/Intercontinental_Brigading_Part_XXXXV_The_Brand_and_Reputation.gmi [17:17] TR Bot Techrights Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXXXV - The Brand (and Reputation) [17:19] schestowitz[TR2] promises made [17:19] schestowitz[TR2] re investment [17:19] schestowitz[TR2] and GPU [17:19] schestowitz[TR2] NVIDIA "sells" [17:19] schestowitz[TR2] using what they call obligations [17:19] schestowitz[TR2] you know how it works [17:20] schestowitz[TR2] but i iwill say it anyway in irc [17:20] schestowitz[TR2] sales typically mean [17:20] schestowitz[TR2] i ship [17:20] schestowitz[TR2] you pay [17:20] schestowitz[TR2] and i say "'revenue" [17:20] schestowitz[TR2] NVIDIA ddoes an enron [17:20] schestowitz[TR2] it ships [17:20] schestowitz[TR2] it does not get paid [17:20] schestowitz[TR2] (at all) [17:20] schestowitz[TR2] but it writes down obligation to pay [17:20] schestowitz[TR2] while shipping to dodgy companies [17:20] schestowitz[TR2] without a future [17:20] schestowitz[TR2] and no asset [17:20] schestowitz[TR2] it's a gamblle [17:21] schestowitz[TR2] then NVIDIA adds up obligaitons [17:21] nobody i've not read any recent news if any "investors" would show up as Merz wished those did [17:21] schestowitz[TR2] to make up "surge" in "demand" [17:21] schestowitz[TR2] but thhere is a huge risk [17:21] schestowitz[TR2] all those obligations are just theoretical revenue [17:21] schestowitz[TR2] when the bubble pops [17:21] schestowitz[TR2] it'll be zero [17:21] schestowitz[TR2] thej all the [17:21] schestowitz[TR2] "profits" [17:21] schestowitz[TR2] can become losses [17:21] schestowitz[TR2] in retrrospect [17:23] nobody Nvidia hasn't got a complete system-bootstrap for their RISC-V at least [17:23] nobody with their >4trillion of value [17:23] nobody it's ridiculous [17:24] nobody and while i am at it, just a moment ago i was digging back into x86_16 IBM PC bootcode pieces [17:24] *phebus (~phebus@y62br8unm5ssk.irc) has joined #techrights [17:24] nobody which is madness [17:25] nobody currently i'm stuck at a 14KiB sized isolinux.bin bootcode piece needed to boot from CD, which is not bootstrappable either [17:25] nobody i mean, you can compile and link that with a 100million lines of GNU toolchain-code pulled into and only in violation of bootstrapping criteria [17:25] nobody to produce a bootable.iso [17:27] nobody i can merely emit a isolinux-elf.o object file, but that needs linking with linker-script support, which only GNU binutils-ld got [17:28] nobody maybe i can do something with GRUB, porting this to tiny-bootstrap without autotools dependency [17:28] nobody it's a nightmare [17:29] nobody in worst case i'll have to ship one pre-compiled binary, that's the 14KiB isolinux.bin to make x86_32 bootable [17:30] nobody LILO does not yet compile/link with i386-tcc, but this probably can be fixed [17:30] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm78p221e313t [17:30] TR Bot Nvidia shares slide as US tech giant investigates CEO Jensen Huang's affair with suspected Chinese spy - BBC News [17:30] nobody in case of LILO i could not support CD-Boot however [17:30] schestowitz[TR2] still not resigning [17:30] schestowitz[TR2] after 30 years [17:31] schestowitz[TR2] "Unlike many tech founders, Huang has little protection from board decisions" [17:31] nobody well, i'm surprised a minor affair such as this is big news [17:31] schestowitz[TR2] "Huangs personal holding of stock in Nvidia is an estimated 3.5% to 3.8%, which is significant and the main source of his astronomical personal wealth. " [17:31] nobody given all the other trouble Nvidia and the like have [17:31] schestowitz[TR2] "Huang, with his more straightforward holding in Nvidia, has no such protection from the actions of a board." [17:32] nobody i don't think he would need protection due to an affair with a woman [17:32] nobody it's a distraction [17:33] nobody and if you look at it this way, all Nvidia GPU are stamped "made in china" or "made in taiwan" anyway (haven't got one here to see) [17:47] TR News Techrights When Some Footage Causes Your 'Company' to Lose Almost Half a Trillion Dollars in 'Value' in a Few Minutes Your Company is Fictionally Valued https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/When_Some_Footage_Causes_Your_Company_to_Lose_Almost_Half_a_Tri.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/When_Some_Footage_Causes_Your_Company_to_Lose_Almost_Half_a_Tri.gmi [17:47] TR Bot Techrights When Some Footage Causes Your 'Company' to Lose Almost Half a Trillion Dollars in 'Value' in a Few Minutes Your Company is Fictionally Valued [17:48] parsifal Ryan, the author of this post about the Pale Moon, was clearly quite angry with them before he wrote it... XD [https://techrights.org/o/2022/09/21/corrosive-trolls/index.shtml] [17:48] TR Bot Pale Moon's Greed and Corrosive People (Boosted by Microsoft) in FOSS Communities [17:48] parsifal As for Pale Moon, I use it because of its advantages, and I fix the drawbacks myself -> without caring about the developer's opinion. If I can't smooth out the rough edges that are bothering me, I simply won't use that browser. [17:48] parsifal This applies to all browsers -> there are no perfect ones. As for the opinions of Mozilla or Moonchild on how I should use my browser -> they can keep them to themselves, I couldn't care less. [17:49] parsifal In the context of the ideal vs. non-ideal: Mozilla/Firefox removed the promise that they would not sell the telemetry they collect to third parties. So... everyone is a bad apple, to some extent. [17:49] parsifal As for the atmosphere and the people on their forum (Pale Moon), Im not really concerned about that -> I dont post there. Im not going to go around trying to set people straight on their forum. [17:49] parsifal If their browser disappoints me that much, Ill simply stop using it and remove it from my systems. As for the Pale Moon start page and the NoScript add-on -> those are easy things to fix. [17:49] bms Oh dear. What did the Pale Moon people do? [17:50] *bms reads [17:50] bms I keep it around for testing out stuff or watching the Youtube when I hve to [17:50] bms but it does not perform all that well [17:51] parsifal all sorts of things... XD [17:52] bms I use SeaMonkey for email only to replace Thunderbird which went down the toilet [17:53] bms I was auditing my Fediverse block list, Garrett was on it [17:53] bms wehther that was preemptive or in response to something I honestly do not recall [17:53] TR News https://terminal2shell.com/ ;) [17:53] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Terminal2Shell [17:53] bms I don't have a presence on Libera Chat [17:55] schestowitz[TR2] wehther that was preemptive or in response to something I honestly do not recall [17:55] schestowitz[TR2] hard to guess [17:55] bms when this definition of community gets trotted out, I refer to the Malibu Chief of Police scene in "The Big Lebowski" for the reductio ad absurdum [17:55] schestowitz[TR2] he is "---posting" a lot [17:55] schestowitz[TR2] the judge was not impressed seeing what he had written publicly [17:55] schestowitz[TR2] and she is the judge in charge of comms and media in the whole country [17:56] bms > "Mr. Treehorn draws a lot of water in this town. You don't draw shit, Lebowski. Now we got a nice, quiet little beach community here, and I aim to keep it nice and quiet." [17:56] schestowitz[TR2] his spouse just wrote about a colleagyue from tor project [17:56] schestowitz[TR2] or tails [17:56] bms that kind of community [17:57] schestowitz[TR2] archived: [17:57] schestowitz[TR2] hestowitz[TR2]> "peace and sleep deep to my ex partner Lunar who passed away on this day two years ago :(" [17:57] schestowitz[TR2] "i/elle was one of the only truly talented hackers ive known, and one of the only people ive ever truly loved, id do anything, any hack, any black magick to have i/elle back" [17:57] schestowitz[TR2] "when we first met, i hacked a hotel elevator to get onto the roof, we then jumped a gap between buildings to get to a penthouse suite, we stole a bunch of wine and drank it on their balcony, and Lunar was like you know when you spend all day, just to write those 3 lines of code" [17:57] schestowitz[TR2] "i thought this was some french/english translation error, but no, i/elle showed me several programmes in haskell that were three lines, and ran entire servers and other infrastructure" [17:57] bms schestowitz[TR2]: Haven't seen that, but a narcissist I recently had to endure had the gall to second guess what bench (judge, magistrate or other) might do. Actual bench do not like that. I dated a barrister for 2 years, so I sort of know things others don't. [17:58] schestowitz[TR2] barristers become judges sometimes [17:58] schestowitz[TR2] they understand how judges think [17:58] schestowitz[TR2] and know what to say [17:58] bms She wouldn't hold truck with that, and actively avoided taking silk (becoming a KC/QC) [17:58] schestowitz[TR2] some barristers also act aas judges at the same time [17:58] schestowitz[TR2] deputy judges [17:59] schestowitz[TR2] silk seems more to do with conformity [17:59] schestowitz[TR2] and it lets them charge more money as barristers [17:59] schestowitz[TR2] it' [17:59] bms it does mean more money quite often [17:59] schestowitz[TR2] s also "fast lane" for judge carreers [17:59] bms her best friend was in criminal law, she took silk in the end [17:59] schestowitz[TR2] so they can earn til 75 [17:59] schestowitz[TR2] not 67 ● Nov 09 [18:01] schestowitz[TR2] garrett took a cheap barrister [18:01] schestowitz[TR2] and paid for it [18:02] schestowitz[TR2] https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/03/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_138_Out_of_200_Garrett_Has_Basically_Lost.shtml [18:02] TR Bot Techrights SLAPP Censorship - Part 138 Out of 200: Garrett Has Basically "Lost" and It is "Embarrassing" to Them [18:02] TR News "A critical flaw present in every operating system since 1971 allows anyone who opens a terminal to obtain a fully interactive shell. Instantly. With no authentication beyond the one they already did." https://terminal2shell.com/ [18:02] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Terminal2Shell [18:03] schestowitz[TR2] "The Chief Architect of OpenLDAP says that AI-generated contributions MUST always be rejected. [18:03] schestowitz[TR2] Part of the growing rift between Pro-AI and Anti-AI Open Source projects." [18:03] schestowitz[TR2] It's not "AI" [18:03] schestowitz[TR2] it's LLMs [18:03] schestowitz[TR2] and they are not AI [18:03] schestowitz[TR2] http://techrights.org/n/2026/05/28/LLMs_Are_Not_Much_More_Than_Plagiarism_Engines.shtml [18:03] TR Bot Techrights "LLMs Are Not Much More Than Plagiarism Engines" [18:03] schestowitz[TR2] accepting llm slop code -> [18:03] schestowitz[TR2] invites non-corders [18:03] schestowitz[TR2] invites lack of skill [18:04] schestowitz[TR2] with bad coooode [18:04] schestowitz[TR2] "inclusion" of non-ccoders [18:04] schestowitz[TR2] in cde development [18:04] schestowitz[TR2] not a good idea, ever [18:04] schestowitz[TR2] imagine a law firm [18:04] schestowitz[TR2] adding geeks [18:04] schestowitz[TR2] with no legal background [18:04] schestowitz[TR2] or education in law [18:04] schestowitz[TR2] who "google" stuff [18:05] schestowitz[TR2] and "learned along the way" [18:05] schestowitz[TR2] and use chatbots [18:05] schestowitz[TR2] the reputation of the firm would soon sink [18:05] schestowitz[TR2] that's what happens to Free Sw projects [18:05] schestowitz[TR2] if they allow sloppers [18:05] schestowitz[TR2] or tolerate slop [18:05] schestowitz[TR2] the good developers leave [18:05] schestowitz[TR2] then bots increase [18:05] schestowitz[TR2] the rest leave [18:06] schestowitz[TR2] and you have a zombie bot projects [18:06] schestowitz[TR2] whose quality withers away [18:06] schestowitz[TR2] linus will find this out [18:06] schestowitz[TR2] in due course [18:06] schestowitz[TR2] http://techrights.org/n/2026/08/10/If_Your_Software_Project_Welcomes_Bots_Then_All_You_ll_Have_Lef.shtml [18:06] TR Bot Techrights If Your Software Project Welcomes Bots, Then All You'll Have Left at the End Is Bots (Same for Sites Which Permit LLM Slop; They End up as Slopfarms and No Human Wants to Contribute Anymore) [18:12] schestowitz[TR2] https://cybershow.uk/content/home/home.html [18:12] TR Bot Home [18:12] schestowitz[TR2] "You can't synthesise taste ... Blackberries grow everywhere near me and we forage them. It's been a bumper summer and the bushes were dripping with a tasty, juicy crop. Unfortunately they came and went early this year, so depleted, we bought some from Aldi. I opened the plastic punnet and saw they were huge and juicy. My mouth was watering looking forward to breakfast. I put one in my mouth and tasted nothing! It was such a ru [18:12] schestowitz[TR2] de absence of taste I panicked, mind racing to the COVID tests in the medicine cabinet. Instead I opted for a sniff of lavender oil just to check. I was okay. These are the weirdest food I have ever encountered. Is it that cultivated blackberries just don't work? We've bought supermarket roses that are deliberately bred to have no smell. That I can understand, some people with allergies might like the look of flowers but prefer no [18:12] schestowitz[TR2] scent. But food completely without taste? Who buys that? Maybe it's just me? My wife tried them, yup, no taste at all! And then after a disappointing breakfast I read this and this. I think there's a lesson here." [18:12] schestowitz[TR2] andy: this is notorious in chicken [18:12] schestowitz[TR2] and not just poultry [18:13] schestowitz[TR2] it's without much taste [18:13] schestowitz[TR2] bred and grown for size [18:13] schestowitz[TR2] fast and cheap [18:13] schestowitz[TR2] then water added [18:13] schestowitz[TR2] only weight, no other param [18:13] schestowitz[TR2] for berries, go outdoors [18:13] schestowitz[TR2] find bushes [18:14] schestowitz[TR2] you can pick some into a plastic container [18:14] schestowitz[TR2] they have real taste [18:19] *psydroid2 (~psydroid@kcvnmgbxt8eqq.irc) has joined #techrights [18:25] TR News "It is as much about technical talent as it is about politics and butt-kissing. The best engineers don't bother with this - many just leave for other companies that don't require all that BS." [18:26] TR News "Bob says... fail fast, fail up." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m6z2d5nt [18:26] TR Bot Whats the distinguished engineer path? - post regarding IBM layoffs [18:26] TR News "I spent 30+ years working with STSMs, DEs and Fellows. My experience, very, very few are worth. The rest are POS, PowerPoint experts" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m6z2d5nt [18:26] TR News engineers [18:27] TR News "Not a real engineer path. Not actual professional engineers of any kind. Should use the word DEVELOPER." [18:27] TR News "Just last week they announced a complete overhaul of this system and introduced a whole new framework for Albany, the MTS framework. Basically, everyone from Band 6 to Band 10 will all know have the title of MTS." [18:27] TR News "Under this system, you have something called Contribution Index (CI), which is basically a points system from 0 to 100. Once you reach 100 points, you become eligible to achieve Distinguished Engineer (DE)." [18:27] TR News "The problem is that these points are controlled by your manager. Your CI can increase or decrease in a given year depending on your performance and how your manager evaluates you. So basically, your entire future is in the hands of your manager. If your manager does not like you, they can reduce your Contribution Index, and you may never get opportunity to become a Distinguished Engineer throughout your career." [18:27] TR News "Even worse, when they reduce your CI, it is almost like getting demoted. They can also adjust your salary accordingly, which essentially means your salary can get reduced." [18:27] TR News "People here are very upset about this new system. It is creating a lot of concern because the framework is very much open for corruption and favoritism. Many people feel this is another way for Albany IBMs famous favorites to keep growing and getting opportunities at the expense of other deserving employees." [18:28] TR News "Basically, it is giving managers even more power over peoples careers, and there is very little protection against misuse of this system." [18:28] TR News "YES. but I BELIEVE IN DEC. Many on PIP from nov3 to dec4 - so termination and probably RA will be Dec 5th - Sales will be eliminated. All will become TSL -[ Im just worried I will not get Severance if I don't accomplish the PIP. Any lawyer could help?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m6rsbf7n [18:28] TR Bot Massive RAs beginning of 2027 - post regarding IBM layoffs [18:29] TR News "When your reorganization is centered around enterprise and only enterprise, you can eliminate approx 60% of every organization that doesnt service enterprise. Thats what you are seeing happening within IBM in real time. AK sold the board on exploiting enterprise as thats where 80% of the revenue came from with only 20-30% of the personnel expense. IBM will continue to shrink until only enterprise remains." [18:30] schestowitz[TR2] " [18:30] schestowitz[TR2] LAYOFF IN DEC SO WE DONT GET COMMISSION? [18:30] schestowitz[TR2] RAs are coming in Dec. [18:30] schestowitz[TR2] Many are on PIP from Nov 3 to Dec 4, so termination and probably RA will be Dec 5th [18:30] schestowitz[TR2] Sales will be eliminated. All will become TSL [18:30] schestowitz[TR2] If I can get help, please: [18:30] schestowitz[TR2] 1- I have deals that will be closed in Dec. If RA is before it closes, I will not be paid? [18:30] schestowitz[TR2] 2 - Also, if I don't accomplish the PIP, will I not get severance? [18:30] schestowitz[TR2] 3- Last week I was able to put together an amazing proposal for a client - hoping it will save me. It will for sure be an insane amount of work. Is it worth it? [18:30] schestowitz[TR2] Almost 10 years for me of his toxicity, I am finally ok with leaving IBM; I honestly don't want to stay any longer. I have PTSD at this point. My team is horibrle, mean, abusive, nasty, realy awfly awfuull. I need to pick my pieces up, but I cant stop thinking about the fact of how unfair it is IF THEY KEEP MY COMISSIONS [18:30] schestowitz[TR2] " [18:30] TR News "I can only speak for the US regarding your PIP fears. Not sure how it works elsewhere. If you fail your PIP (it's not you that failed FYI, its IBM) then in the US you get 1 month severance and a set number of subsidized COBRA months - all contingent on you signing something that says you wont sue IBM. IBM has been working on this since last year." [18:30] TR News "There's a reason they forced managers to rank a certain number of people into the bottom 15% regardless of actual performance. PIPs are the new RA. They cant PIP everyone because they wouldn't be able to justify it and they would be rightfully sued...but they'll PIP as many people as they can. If you lose your IBM job, be thankful because in the long run you'll be better off. That place is toxic as h3ll." [18:38] psydroid2 PIP around the clock! [18:46] *Princ3ss21F has quit (connection closed) [18:46] *Princ3ss21F (~assistant@cehh8dd4kxj4i.irc) has joined #techrights [18:52] *IsambardPrince (~IsambardPrince@pdn9d7szhus26.irc) has joined #techrights [18:52] schestowitz[TR2] psydroid2: vv [18:52] TR News Techrights IBM: From Illegal NDAs to Illegal Secret Settlements (Money in Exchange for Promise Not to Sue) https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/IBM_From_Illegal_NDAs_to_Illegal_Secret_Settlements_Money_in_Ex.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/IBM_From_Illegal_NDAs_to_Illegal_Secret_Settlements_Money_in_Ex.gmi [18:52] TR Bot Techrights IBM: From Illegal NDAs to Illegal Secret Settlements (Money in Exchange for Promise Not to Sue) [18:52] schestowitz[TR2] aadorable company [18:52] schestowitz[TR2] "father" of computers [18:53] psydroid2 typewriters, you mean? [18:53] schestowitz[TR2] CTR [18:53] schestowitz[TR2] tabulation machines [18:54] schestowitz[TR2] typewriters are much older than IBM [18:54] schestowitz[TR2] also some culculators [18:54] schestowitz[TR2] but IBM made advances [18:54] schestowitz[TR2] their early keyboard imitated typewriters [18:54] schestowitz[TR2] there was prior art [18:54] schestowitz[TR2] like the layout [18:54] schestowitz[TR2] and feedback on the finger [18:55] schestowitz[TR2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_keyboard [18:55] TR Bot Computer keyboard - Wikipedia [18:55] schestowitz[TR2] "Replacing early punched cards and paper tape technology, interaction via teleprinter-style keyboards have been the main input method for computers since the 1970s," [18:55] schestowitz[TR2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Selectric [18:55] TR Bot IBM Selectric - Wikipedia [18:55] schestowitz[TR2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typewriter [18:55] TR Bot Typewriter - Wikipedia [18:55] schestowitz[TR2] "The first commercial typewriters were introduced in 1874,[3] but did not become common in offices in the United States until after the mid-1880s.[4] The typewriter quickly became an indispensable tool for practically all writing other than personal handwritten correspondence. It was widely used by professional writers, in offices, in business correspondence in private homes, and by students preparing written assignments." [18:56] schestowitz[TR2] almost 50 years before IBM existed [18:56] schestowitz[TR2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typewriter#/media/File:1864_Schreibmaschine_Peter_Mitterhofer.jpg [18:56] TR Bot Typewriter - Wikipedia [18:56] schestowitz[TR2] Peter Mitterhofer's typewriter prototype (1864) [18:56] schestowitz[TR2] ""In 1575, an Italian printmaker, Francesco Rampazetto, invented the scrittura tattile, a machine to impress letters in papers [18:57] schestowitz[TR2] lots of italians [18:57] schestowitz[TR2] like with musical instruments [18:57] schestowitz[TR2] "In 1802, Agostino Fantoni developed a particular typewriter to enable his blind sister to write.[11] [18:57] schestowitz[TR2] Between 1801 and 1808, Pellegrino Turri invented a typewriter for his blind friend Countess Carolina Fantoni da Fivizzano.[12] [18:57] schestowitz[TR2] In 1823, Pietro Conti da Cilavegna invented a new model of the typewriter, the tachigrafo, also known as tachitipo [18:57] schestowitz[TR2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typewriter#/media/File:Malling_Hansen,1867,_D%C3%A4nemark.jpg [18:57] TR Bot Typewriter - Wikipedia [18:58] schestowitz[TR2] "Hansen Writing Ball was the first typewriter manufactured commercially (1870)." [18:58] psydroid2 so what is IBM actually good at? what is its main claim to innovation? RA and PIP? [18:59] TR News In France, GNU/Linux measured at 17% at one point yesterday https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&loc=FR&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP&dateRange=28d [18:59] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&loc=FR&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP&dateRange=28d ) [18:59] schestowitz[TR2] psydroid2: lots [18:59] schestowitz[TR2] storage [18:59] schestowitz[TR2] memory [18:59] schestowitz[TR2] peripherals ● Nov 09 [19:00] TR News Are leather jackets become a "signal" of "cheating on the wife"? [19:01] TR News Jensen was no technological marvel, just hype and lies... to sell GPUs. Like using these to mine "fake-coins" or do plagiarism with enough entropy to make detection harder. [19:01] TR News Let's hope that the planet-destroying GPU giants will fall like Jensen the cheating fraud [19:02] TR News as they gave society nothing of value. And no, best games don't need GPUs. [19:03] TR News They STILL ignore or distract from the accounting fraud: "The tech firm saw its shares fall by about 6% on Monday after Jensen Huang admitted having an extramarital affair." https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6zxjx01vyleo [19:03] TR Bot Nvidia shares tumble over investigation into Huang's affair with alleged Chinese spy - BBC News [19:03] TR News If Jensen Huang's WIFE cannot trust him, why would YOU? [19:04] TR News 007: the spy who loved GPUs [19:04] TR News ...a GPU pusher says good games need many polygons. A joiner says we need many broken windows out there. [19:05] TR News ...and NSA relies on LOTS of lines of DEFECTIVE code. The more lines, the more holes. [19:07] TR News "I have an email archive going back almost 25 years. It contains my first correspondence with my wife, the first email that my eldest daughter sent (aged five; I dont think my youngest has ever sent me an email). I have emails from friends, current and past, and from people who have passed away." gemini://readme.fairlygood.net/gemlog/2026-11-09_re--i-m-bad-at-email.gmi [19:07] TR News 09_re [19:08] TR News "Not much on the graphics page - just a couple of pixel totoros and some icons." gemini://renfys.smol.pub/1794249955 [19:10] TR News Life gemini://danchium.smol.pub/life [19:11] TR News Oh, it's nothing (poe/en) gemini://danchium.smol.pub/oh-its-nothing [19:16] TR News "Here in Portugal protests have finally broken out for the "housing crisis" that we're going through. The national monthly minimum wage (920) is not enough to live by in most of the country, not only in Lisbon and Porto" gemini://siiky.srht.site/philosophy/antisocial-survival.gmi [19:17] TR News Techrights Gemini Links 09/11/2026: Zephyr, Wireless Planet, and Old E-mail https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/Gemini_Links_09_11_2026_Zephyr_Wireless_Planet_and_Old_E_mail.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/Gemini_Links_09_11_2026_Zephyr_Wireless_Planet_and_Old_E_mail.gmi [19:17] TR Bot Techrights Gemini Links 09/11/2026: Zephyr, Wireless Planet, and Old E-mail [19:22] TR News Microsoft workers accuse company of trying to get customers "addicted" to AI while forcing it on their own staff and making them party to "human rights violations" https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/microsoft-workers-accuse-company-of-trying-to-get-customers-addicted-to-ai-while-forcing-it-on-their-own-staff-and-making-them-party-to-human-rights-violations [19:22] TR Bot Microsoft workers accuse company of trying to get customers "addicted" to AI while forcing it on their own staff and making them party to "human rights violations" | Rock Paper Shotgun [19:34] admfubar Clod.... https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/11/claude-code-settings-files-expose-thousands-of-secrets-on-github/ [19:34] TR Bot Claude Code is accidentally exposing secrets all over GitHub - Ars Technica [19:36] TR News Misuse of the Legal System Against Reporters https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/11/09/misuse-of-the-legal-system-against-reporters/ [19:36] TR Bot Blog Archive Misuse of the Legal System Against Reporters [19:36] schestowitz[TR2] github is fast becoming a slopfarm [19:36] schestowitz[TR2] by tolerating slop [19:36] schestowitz[TR2] others like codeberg and sourcehut do not [19:37] schestowitz[TR2] slop is produced fast [19:37] schestowitz[TR2] a lot faster than what's left of humans there [19:37] schestowitz[TR2] so the code there will decrease in quality [19:37] schestowitz[TR2] an ocean of plagiarism and plagiarism of plagiarism [19:37] schestowitz[TR2] and plagiarism of plagiarism of plagiarism... [19:37] nobody it's everywhere [19:39] *psydroid2 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [19:45] *IRCP (ircp@155.2.219.238) has joined #techrights [19:46] -IRCP/#techrights-VERSION [19:46] -IRCP/#techrights-TIME [19:46] -IRCP/#techrights-CLIENTINFO [19:46] -IRCP/#techrights-SOURCE [19:46] *IRCP (ircp@155.2.219.238) has left #techrights [19:50] MinceR rotfl @ terminal2shell [19:50] -IRCP-VERSION [19:50] -IRCP-TIME [19:50] -IRCP-CLIENTINFO [19:50] -IRCP-SOURCE [19:52] TR News Techrights Boosters of Non-reciprocal Licensing Are Just Trying to Cancel Richard Stallman (RMS) and His Baby, GNU https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/Boosters_of_Non_reciprocal_Licensing_Are_Just_Trying_to_Cancel_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/Boosters_of_Non_reciprocal_Licensing_Are_Just_Trying_to_Cancel_.gmi [19:52] TR Bot Techrights Boosters of Non-reciprocal Licensing Are Just Trying to Cancel Richard Stallman (RMS) and His Baby, GNU ● Nov 09 [20:02] *IsambardPrince has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [20:20] TR News (NEW): Tux Machines Growth Not Limited to the World Wide Web https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Tux_Machines_Growth_Not_Limited_to_the_World_Wide_Web.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Tux_Machines_Growth_Not_Limited_to_the_World_Wide_Web.gmi [20:20] TR Bot Tux Machines Tux Machines Growth Not Limited to the World Wide Web [20:23] *Goblin (~use@9ufr5q2xui6zg.irc) has joined #techrights [20:25] MinceR https://ibb.co/1f3c3Rnb [20:25] TR Bot 898080370 1758188721908630 829696964068076552 n hosted at ImgBB ImgBB [20:27] TR News (NEW): Austria: GNU/Linux at About 6% https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Austria_GNU_Linux_at_About_6.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Austria_GNU_Linux_at_About_6.gmi [20:27] TR Bot Tux Machines Austria: GNU/Linux at About 6% [20:45] parsifal this guy(Hasselhoff) is a worse singer than a bad actor, if that's even possible... its some kind of bizarre, negative form of competing against himself [20:47] MinceR :> [20:51] TR News Techrights Protestants at the EPO Fight On, Rising in Opposition to and Against Corruption, Also Against GAFAM https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/Protestants_at_the_EPO_Fight_On_Rising_in_Opposition_to_and_Aga.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/Protestants_at_the_EPO_Fight_On_Rising_in_Opposition_to_and_Aga.gmi [20:51] TR Bot Techrights Protestants at the EPO Fight On, Rising in Opposition to and Against Corruption, Also Against GAFAM ● Nov 09 [21:15] *FANTOM has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) [21:25] TR News (NEW): Mozilla Firefox 161 Enters Public Beta Testing, Heres What to Expect https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Mozilla_Firefox_161_Enters_Public_Beta_Testing_Here_s_What_to_E.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Mozilla_Firefox_161_Enters_Public_Beta_Testing_Here_s_What_to_E.gmi [21:25] TR Bot Tux Machines Mozilla Firefox 161 Enters Public Beta Testing, Heres What to Expect [21:28] admfubar https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/11/claude-code-settings-files-expose-thousands-of-secrets-on-github/ [21:28] schestowitz[TR2] plagiarism belnder [21:28] schestowitz[TR2] blends many inputs [21:28] schestowitz[TR2] inc. private ones [21:28] schestowitz[TR2] spits some out [21:28] schestowitz[TR2] as expected [21:28] schestowitz[TR2] that's slop, welcome to slop [21:28] admfubar oops wrong one [21:29] schestowitz[TR2] enjoy the ride [21:29] admfubar supposed to be this [21:29] schestowitz[TR2] ok.. [21:29] admfubar Look out!... https://www.theregister.com/applications/2026/11/09/outlookcom-bounces-legit-emails-as-microsofts-authentication-crackdown-goes-sideways/5308428 [21:29] TR Bot Outlook.com bounces legit emails as Microsoft's authentication crackdown goes sideways [21:29] schestowitz[TR2] even better than [21:30] schestowitz[TR2] Source: The Register MS [21:38] TR News (NEW): Mozilla Firefox 160 Is Now Available for Download, Heres Whats New https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Mozilla_Firefox_160_Is_Now_Available_for_Download_Here_s_What_s.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Mozilla_Firefox_160_Is_Now_Available_for_Download_Here_s_What_s.gmi [21:38] TR Bot Tux Machines Mozilla Firefox 160 Is Now Available for Download, Heres Whats New [21:58] admfubar https://www.geekwire.com/2026/washington-governor-rips-microsoft-over-tv-ad-in-leaked-audio/ [21:58] TR Bot governor rips Microsoft over TV ad in leaked audio GeekWire [21:58] TR News (NEW): Improving the Site This Year and in 2027 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Improving_the_Site_This_Year_and_in_2027.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Improving_the_Site_This_Year_and_in_2027.gmi [21:58] TR Bot Tux Machines Improving the Site This Year and in 2027 ● Nov 09 [22:02] TR News "Is Boeing laying off workers? Yes, about 5% of commercial airplane staff, notices from December" [22:02] TR News "$11.4 million in NVIDIA hardware vanishes during shipment from California to Texas" [22:03] TR News Cheeto backs cheating CEO. Surprise, surprise. He'd even back a raping CEO who does pedophilia. [22:04] TR News AI rebounding: Nearly 20% of U.S. workers replaced by AI are being asked backnow theyre demanding higher pay, job security and AI transparency https://fortune.com/2026/11/09/ai-rebounding-20-us-workers-replaced-higher-pay-job-security/ [22:04] TR Bot rebounding: Nearly 20% of U.S. workers replaced by AI are being asked back | Fortune [22:05] TR News "Nvidia Sinks" https://www.tipranks.com/news/u-s-stocks-rebound-as-oil-prices-fall-and-nvidia-sinks [22:05] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.tipranks.com/news/u-s-stocks-rebound-as-oil-prices-fall-and-nvidia-sinks ) [22:09] *FANTOM (~fantom@freenode-0m9.8g1.bp0598.IP) has joined #techrights [22:19] TR News Techrights Losing Their 'Faith' in Slop https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/Losing_Their_Faith_in_Slop.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/Losing_Their_Faith_in_Slop.gmi [22:19] TR Bot Techrights Losing Their 'Faith' in Slop [22:22] TR News GNU/Linux 7%. Vista 11 at 17% https://analytics.usa.gov/ [22:22] TR Bot The US government's web traffic. [22:29] *DarwinElf is now known as darwin [22:34] TR News Techrights Since Records Began 18 Months Ago, statCounter Saw Chatbot Usage Falling Sharply https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/Since_Records_Began_18_Months_Ago_statCounter_Saw_Chatbot_Usage.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/Since_Records_Began_18_Months_Ago_statCounter_Saw_Chatbot_Usage.gmi [22:34] TR Bot Techrights Since Records Began 18 Months Ago, statCounter Saw Chatbot Usage Falling Sharply [22:38] TR News Killing Floor Creator Tripwire Kills Off More Jobs https://techraptor.net/gaming/news/killing-floor-creator-tripwire-kills-off-more-jobs [22:38] TR Bot Killing Floor Creator Tripwire Kills Off More Jobs | TechRaptor [22:40] nobody hopefully i got a solution to cut short the bootloader compilation/deployment _without_ GNU toolchain [22:40] nobody it seems, grub-legacy does not depend on binutils-ld specific linker-scripts [22:40] nobody and all else could be handled just fine with i386-tcc/yasm [22:41] nobody this will drop 100million lines of code from the dependency graph to yield a fully bootstrapped *nix host with some C-compiler and a busybox [22:42] nobody compile-time i mean, when _everything_ is driven from source [22:43] nobody too grub-legacy does contain the needed bootcode pieces to support CD ISO boot [22:45] nobody not sure yet about grub2, but i don't need UEFI or fancy things like bootsplash [22:45] nobody hence if grub-legacy can be ported for/with tcc/yasm then this long-standing problem is solved :) [22:46] TR News Techrights Microsoft Will Pay $11,742 USD for Workers to Leave https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/Microsoft_Will_Pay_11_742_USD_for_Workers_to_Leave.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/Microsoft_Will_Pay_11_742_USD_for_Workers_to_Leave.gmi [22:46] TR Bot Techrights Microsoft Will Pay $11,742 USD for Workers to Leave [22:46] nobody i'm both, too tired to continue hacking this, and too excited to go bed now [22:59] TR News puddle gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/puddle ● Nov 09 [23:08] TR News Venezuela 5.2% GNU/Linux https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&loc=VE&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP&dateRange=28d [23:08] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&loc=VE&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP&dateRange=28d ) [23:09] TR News Dominican Republic 4% GNU/Linux https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&loc=DO&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP&dateRange=28d [23:09] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&loc=DO&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP&dateRange=28d ) [23:11] TR News Azerbaijan [23:24] TR News Techrights GNU/Linux Rose to 6% as Laptop/Desktop Operating System in Azerbaijan https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/GNU_Linux_Rose_to_6_as_Laptop_Desktop_Operating_System_in_Azerb.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/GNU_Linux_Rose_to_6_as_Laptop_Desktop_Operating_System_in_Azerb.gmi [23:24] TR Bot Techrights GNU/Linux Rose to 6% as Laptop/Desktop Operating System in Azerbaijan [23:26] TR News #HerToo https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c95ynylr8j6xo [23:26] TR Bot Russell Brand's ex Jemima Goldsmith accuses him of violence and abuse against her - BBC News [23:26] MinceR # = pound [23:30] schestowitz[TR2] tyson will # holyfield [23:31] MinceR :> [23:33] TR News A United Tradition https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/11/09/a-united-tradition/ [23:33] TR Bot Blog Archive A United Tradition [23:46] TR News Techrights Losing Huang Would Introduce a Lot of Uncertainty" https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/Losing_Huang_Would_Introduce_a_Lot_of_Uncertainty.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/Losing_Huang_Would_Introduce_a_Lot_of_Uncertainty.gmi [23:46] TR Bot Techrights Losing Huang Would Introduce a Lot of Uncertainty"