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● Dec 09
[01:27]	MinceR	https://crzysdrs.net/dv/victim/275-our-new-office-passtime-is-messin-with-the-guy-who-plays-majestic/
[01:27]	TR Bot	 Daily Victim Archive
● Dec 09
[02:21]	TR News	self-hosting gemini://sl1200.dystopic.world/art/selfhosting.gmi
[02:22]	TR News	Call by value but the value is two pointers gemini://idiomdrottning.org/cbv-push
[02:23]	TR News	"I woke up a little earlier than usual this morning and realized that I could spare about 30 minutes or so for some stargazing. The moon was high and bright, so instead of stargazing I decided to focus on lunar observing." gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20251208-0.gmi
[02:25]	TR News	"Zorin OS is raking in Windows users." https://www.howtogeek.com/this-linux-distro-is-seeing-record-downloads-as-people-flee-windows/
[02:25]	TR Bot	 This Linux distro is seeing record downloads as people flee Windows
[02:26]	TR News	"Linux is no longer how you remember it to be." https://www.howtogeek.com/reasons-people-gave-up-on-linux-and-why-it-is-time-to-come-back/
[02:26]	TR Bot	 5 reasons people gave up on Linux (and why its time to come back)
[02:26]	TR News	"Linux is not just for servers and hobbyistsit's also for working professionals." https://www.howtogeek.com/real-work-i-do-on-my-linux-pc/
[02:26]	TR Bot	 5 ways I use Linux for actual work
[02:27]	TR News	How stats made programming click for me https://www.howtogeek.com/why-stats-is-my-programming-project-of-choice/
[02:27]	TR Bot	 How stats made programming click for me
[02:30]	TR News	"A new simplified word processor, spreadsheet tool, and presentation editor for you to try." https://www.howtogeek.com/libreoffice-based-collabora-online-arrives-on-linux-windows-and-mac/
[02:30]	TR Bot	 LibreOffice-based Collabora Office gets a reboot on Linux, Windows, and Mac
[02:31]	TR News	"Installing Linux is only half the jobyou've got to set it up to accommodate your workflow as well." https://www.howtogeek.com/apps-you-should-install-on-day-one-of-installing-linux/
[02:31]	TR Bot	 5 Linux apps you should install on day one
[02:31]	TR News	"Uncover why digital feng shui is truly a senseless pursuit." https://www.howtogeek.com/im-not-a-distro-hopper-and-heres-why-its-a-waste-of-time/
[02:31]	TR Bot	 Why distrohopping is truly a waste of time
[02:31]	TR News	"Wayland is becoming the future of KDE." https://www.howtogeek.com/after-30-years-kde-says-goodbye-to-x11/
[02:31]	TR Bot	 After 30 years, KDE says goodbye to X11
[02:32]	TR News	"These are some updates to make things better." https://www.howtogeek.com/rocky-linux-101-release-brings-soft-reboots-and-new-toolchains/
[02:32]	TR Bot	 Rocky Linux 10.1 release brings soft reboots and new toolchains
[02:32]	TR News	"Its probably the best TUI Ive used, and it looks great too." https://www.howtogeek.com/this-open-source-linux-app-got-me-to-ditch-the-git-command/
[02:32]	TR Bot	 This open-source Linux app got me to ditch the git command
[02:33]	TR News	"Just when you thought you had all the Linux jargon down pat." https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-terms-youre-probably-pronouncing-wrong/
[02:33]	TR Bot	 You're probably pronouncing Ubuntu wrongand these 7 other Linux terms
[02:33]	TR News	"That is why I built my own NAS for a fraction of the cost using components from an old PC and some used pieces I bought on the internet for half off." https://www.howtogeek.com/turned-old-windows-pc-into-inexpensive-nas/
[02:33]	TR Bot	 Don't throw away your old PCit makes a better NAS than anything you can buy
[02:34]	TR News	Homelab projects to try this weekend (November 28 - 30) https://www.howtogeek.com/homelab-projects-to-try-this-weekend-november-28-30/
[02:34]	TR Bot	 Homelab projects to try this weekend (November 28 - 30)
[02:41]	TR News	Raspberry Pi projects to try this weekend (November 28 - 30) https://www.howtogeek.com/raspberry-pi-projects-to-try-this-weekend-november-28-30/
[02:41]	TR Bot	 Raspberry Pi projects to try this weekend (November 28 - 30)
[02:42]	TR News	"Canonical is retiring Totem and System Monitor for a modern look." https://www.howtogeek.com/ubuntu-is-replacing-some-legacy-tools-in-2604-lts/
[02:42]	TR Bot	 Ubuntu is replacing some legacy tools in 26.04 LTS
[02:42]	TR News	"A hotfix completes a massive week for Proton Experimental." https://www.howtogeek.com/valve-proton-update-will-fix-regressions-for-many-broken-games/
[02:42]	TR Bot	 Valve just fixed several broken games on Linux with a Proton Experimental update
[02:44]	TR News	"Give your distro-hopping a new tool" https://www.xda-developers.com/glim-ventoy-alternative-linux-enthusiasts-should-use-instead/
[02:44]	TR Bot	 Glim is the Ventoy alternative Linux enthusiasts should use instead
[02:44]	TR News	"You have to know where to cut back" https://www.xda-developers.com/made-old-laptop-feel-new-these-linux-tweaks/
[02:44]	TR Bot	 I made my old laptop feel like new with these 6 Linux tweaks
[02:45]	TR News	7 shell aliases that save me more time than any GUI utility https://www.xda-developers.com/shell-aliases-save-more-time-than-any-gui-utility/
[02:45]	TR Bot	 7 shell aliases that save me more time than any GUI utility
[02:45]	TR News	"This no-bloat life isn't for me." https://www.xda-developers.com/i-used-modern-day-250mb-linux-os-real-struggle/
[02:45]	TR Bot	 I used a modern-day 250MB Linux OS, and it was a real struggle
[02:46]	TR News	Yesterday's #boycottnovell-social and #techpol IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-081225.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-081225.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-social-081225.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-social-081225.txt
[02:46]	TR Bot	 IRC: #boycottnovell-social and #techpol @ Techrights IRC Network: Monday, December 08, 2025
[02:46]	TR News	4 of the strangest (yet extremely useful) Proxmox LXCs anyone can run https://www.xda-developers.com/strangest-yet-extremely-useful-proxmox-lxcs-anyone-can-run/
[02:46]	TR Bot	 4 of the strangest (yet extremely useful) Proxmox LXCs anyone can run
[02:47]	TR News	Yesterday's #techrights IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-081225.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-081225.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techrights-081225.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techrights-081225.txt
[02:47]	TR Bot	 IRC: #techrights @ Techrights IRC Network: Monday, December 08, 2025
[02:47]	TR News	"It won't be for a while." https://www.xda-developers.com/my-favorite-linux-desktop-environment-finally-canning-x11/
[02:47]	TR Bot	 My favorite Linux desktop environment is finally canning X11 for good, but don't panic just yet
[02:48]	TR News	"Do you like scrobbling your music? Check this out." https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-apps-to-try-this-weekend-november-28/
[02:48]	TR Bot	 3 cool Linux apps to try this weekend (November 28 - 30)
[02:48]	TR News	Yesterday's #boycottnovell IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-081225.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-081225.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-081225.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-081225.txt
[02:48]	TR Bot	 IRC: #boycottnovell @ Techrights IRC Network: Monday, December 08, 2025
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[02:48]	TR News	The Raspberry Pi 500+ channels the spirit of my first home computer, and I love it https://www.howtogeek.com/the-raspberry-pi-500-channels-the-spirit-of-my-first-home-computer-and-i-love-it/
[02:48]	TR Bot	 The Raspberry Pi 500+ channels the spirit of my first home computer, and I love it
[02:49]	TR News	Yesterday's #techbytes IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-081225.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-081225.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techbytes-081225.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techbytes-081225.txt
[02:49]	TR Bot	 IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Monday, December 08, 2025
[02:49]	TR News	Setting up a Raspberry Pi from scratch just got easier https://www.howtogeek.com/setting-up-a-raspberry-pi-from-scratch-just-got-easier/
[02:49]	TR Bot	 Setting up a Raspberry Pi from scratch just got easier
[02:49]	TR News	Yesterday's bulletin is now ready! : http://techrights.org/txt-archives/techrights-2025-12-08.txt | gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/techrights-2025-12-08.txt (tentative address, to work an hour from now)
[02:50]	TR News	Yesterday's Tux Machines bulletin is now ready! : http://news.tuxmachines.org/txt-archives/tuxmachines-2025-12-08.txt
[02:50]	TR News	enjoy every day" https://www.howtogeek.com/open-source-projects-that-secretly-power-your-favorite-apps/
[02:50]	TR Bot	 5 open-source projects that secretly power your favorite apps
[02:51]	TR News	"You've heard that the world's infrastructure runs on Linux, and how important Free and Open Source (FOSS) software is to just about all the technology..."
[02:51]	TR News	"You don't need to set up Linux manually every time." https://www.howtogeek.com/turnkey-distros-set-up-linux-for-you/
[02:51]	TR Bot	 Don't set up Linux from scratch, these Turnkey distros do it for you
[02:52]	TR News	"Learn about the ISO files I prefer to always keep on my cherished Ventoy drive." https://www.xda-developers.com/operating-systems-to-keep-on-a-ventoy-usb-drive/
[02:52]	TR Bot	 I keep these operating systems on a Ventoy USB drive
[02:52]	TR News	"I grew weary of Xfce's menu bar's constraints, and this lightweight, customizable drop-in proved the perfect answer to that frustration." https://www.xda-developers.com/replaced-linux-xfce-menu-never-looked-back/
[02:52]	TR Bot	 I replaced my Linux Xfce menu with this and never looked back
[02:53]	TR News	"You won't get far without these commands when it comes to networking with Linux" https://www.xda-developers.com/5-linux-networking-commands-everyone-should-know/
[02:53]	TR Bot	 5 Linux networking commands everyone should know
[02:54]	TR News	"No more messing around with drivers." https://www.xda-developers.com/endeavouross-latest-update-makes-nvidia-gaming-linux-easier-set-up/
[02:54]	TR Bot	 EndeavourOSs latest update makes Nvidia gaming on Linux much easier to set up
[02:54]	TR News	"That's a lot of downloading." https://www.xda-developers.com/this-gaming-linux-os-just-shifted-1000000-gb-of-iso-downloads-in-a-single-month/
[02:54]	TR Bot	 One of the best gaming Linux OSes just shifted 1,000,000 GB of ISOs in a single month
[02:55]	TR News	"Go on, give it a go." https://www.xda-developers.com/installing-arch-linux-just-got-a-whole-lot-less-intimidating/
[02:55]	TR Bot	 Installing Arch Linux just got a whole lot less intimidating
[02:55]	admfubar	apina.biz/211501.:P :P :P :P :P
[02:55]	TR News	Linux achieves the highest user count it has ever reached on Steam again https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-achieves-highest-user-count-steam-again/
[02:55]	TR Bot	 Linux achieves the highest user count it has ever reached on Steam again
[02:56]	TR News	Here's why Zorin OS 18 is a solid pick for Windows escapees https://www.xda-developers.com/heres-why-zorin-os-18-perfect-for-windows-escapees/
[02:56]	TR Bot	 Here's why Zorin OS 18 is a solid pick for Windows escapees
[02:57]	TR News	"Sometimes you just need your apps from the get-go." https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-apps-i-always-run-at-startup-and-why-theyre-worth-it/
[02:57]	TR Bot	 6 Linux apps I always run at startup (and why theyre worth it)
[02:57]	TR News	"Is it for real this time?" https://www.howtogeek.com/why-everyone-suddenly-cares-about-linux-gamingand-its-not-just-the-steam-deck/
[02:57]	TR Bot	 Why everyone suddenly cares about Linux gamingand it's not just the Steam Deck
[02:58]	TR News	"What is the price of freedom?" https://www.howtogeek.com/i-dont-use-linux-for-free-anymore-and-you-shouldnt-eitherheres-why/
[02:58]	TR Bot	 I don't use Linux for free anymore, and you shouldn't eitherhere's why
[02:58]	TR News	"Proxmox makes self-hosting less risky and more approachable." https://www.howtogeek.com/only-linux-distro-recommend-elf-hosting/
[02:58]	TR Bot	 This is the only Linux distro I recommend for self-hosting
[02:59]	TR News	"The developers released a security advisory stating these releases are not safe on public networks." https://www.howtogeek.com/these-versions-of-kde-connect-are-vulnerable-to-exploit/
[02:59]	TR Bot	 These versions of KDE Connect are vulnerable to exploit
[02:59]	admfubar	https://futurism.com/future-society/king-gizzard-spotify-ai-knockoff
[02:59]	TR Bot	 King Gizzard Pulled Their Music From Spotify in Protest, and Now Spotify Is Hosting AI Knockoffs of Their Songs
● Dec 09
[03:00]	TR News	Ive used this Neovim setup for over a year, and its perfect for programmers https://www.howtogeek.com/ive-been-rocking-this-neovim-distro-for-ages-and-programmers-will-love-it/
[03:00]	TR Bot	 An introduction to LazyVim, a fantastic Neovim distro
[03:00]	TR News	Be careful when using privileged LXCs on Proxmox https://www.xda-developers.com/be-careful-when-using-privileged-lxcs-on-proxmox/
[03:00]	TR Bot	 Be careful when using privileged LXCs on Proxmox
[03:01]	TR News	These command-line tools replaced my entire GUI monitoring setup https://www.xda-developers.com/command-line-tools-replaced-gui-monitoring-setup/
[03:01]	TR Bot	 These command-line tools replaced my entire GUI monitoring setup
[03:02]	schestowitz[TR2]	admfubar: CG music
[03:02]	schestowitz[TR2]	not a new concept
[03:02]	TR News	My favorite Proxmox cluster management tool just hit v1.0, and I'm excited https://www.xda-developers.com/my-favorite-proxmox-cluster-management-tool-just-hit-v10-and-im-excited/
[03:02]	TR Bot	 My favorite Proxmox cluster management tool just hit v1.0, and I'm excited
[03:04]	TR News	Forget Zorin, this is the Linux distro I'm using to replace Windows https://www.xda-developers.com/forget-zorin-this-what-im-using-windows-replacement/
[03:04]	TR Bot	 Forget Zorin, this is the Linux distro I'm using to replace Windows
[03:05]	TR News	 (NEW):  Replacing Windows With Zorin OS and AnduinOS https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/09/Replacing_Windows_With_Zorin_OS_and_AnduinOS.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/09/Replacing_Windows_With_Zorin_OS_and_AnduinOS.gmi 
[03:05]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Replacing Windows With Zorin OS and AnduinOS
[03:06]	TR News	"Linux 6.18 prepares for long-term duty with Apple M2 and Intel upgrades." https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-kernel-618-has-arrived-heres-whats-new/
[03:06]	TR Bot	 Linux kernel 6.18 has arrived: Here's what's new
[03:06]	TR News	500
[03:06]	TR News	5 things you should know before buying the Raspberry Pi 500+ https://www.howtogeek.com/things-you-should-know-before-buying-the-raspberry-pi-500/
[03:07]	TR Bot	 5 things you should know before buying the Raspberry Pi 500+
[03:09]	TR News	 (NEW):  Recent HowTo Geek Articles on Raspberry Pi https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/09/Recent_HowTo_Geek_Articles_on_Raspberry_Pi.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/09/Recent_HowTo_Geek_Articles_on_Raspberry_Pi.gmi 
[03:09]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Recent HowTo Geek Articles on Raspberry Pi
[03:10]	TR News	"Install them only if you hate yourself." https://www.makeuseof.com/avoid-these-4-linux-distros/
[03:10]	TR Bot	 These 4 Linux distros are a bad idea avoid them at all costs
[03:10]	TR News	You dont need to wait for the Steam Machine you can build your own today https://www.makeuseof.com/you-dont-need-to-wait-for-steam-machine-build-your-own-today/
[03:10]	TR Bot	 You dont need to wait for the Steam Machine you can build your own today
[03:12]	TR News	"But it's the extension ecosystem that really makes me choose Neovim over something ultra-minimal like Vim or Nano. You can go through the plugin directory and find pretty much anything you can think of, like themes, UI tweaks, LSP clients" https://www.makeuseof.com/my-terminal-feels-like-a-full-ide-after-these-changes/
[03:12]	TR Bot	 My terminal feels like a full IDE after these changes
[03:12]	TR News	"Sometimes, the old ways are better." https://www.makeuseof.com/hidden-linux-commands-that-are-ridiculously-useful/
[03:12]	TR Bot	 These 4 hidden Linux commands are ridiculously useful once you learn them
[03:13]	TR News	This Linux file manager is so good it ruined File Explorer for me https://www.makeuseof.com/this-linux-file-manager-is-so-good-it-ruined-file-explorer-for-me/
[03:13]	TR Bot	 This Linux file manager is so good it ruined File Explorer for me
[03:15]	TR News	 (NEW):  GNU/Linux Software and How It's Better Than What's on Windows https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/09/GNU_Linux_Software_and_How_It_s_Better_Than_What_s_on_Windows.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/09/GNU_Linux_Software_and_How_It_s_Better_Than_What_s_on_Windows.gmi 
[03:15]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines GNU/Linux Software and How It's Better Than What's on Windows
[03:16]	TR News	"I should probably stop distro-hopping now." https://www.makeuseof.com/linux-distros-i-trust-on-my-main-pc/
[03:16]	TR Bot	 After testing over 20 Linux distros, these are the ones I trust on my main PC
[03:17]	TR News	 (NEW):  Games: Steam Phone, GNU/Linux Growing on Steam, and Making a "Steam Machine" With GNU/Linux https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/09/Games_Steam_Phone_GNU_Linux_Growing_on_Steam_and_Making_a_Steam.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/09/Games_Steam_Phone_GNU_Linux_Growing_on_Steam_and_Making_a_Steam.gmi 
[03:17]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Games: Steam Phone, GNU/Linux Growing on Steam, and Making a "Steam Machine" With GNU/Linux
[03:19]	TR News	 (NEW):  New Release of Proxmox and How It's Used With LXCs https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/09/New_Release_of_Proxmox_and_How_It_s_Used_With_LXCs.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/09/New_Release_of_Proxmox_and_How_It_s_Used_With_LXCs.gmi 
[03:19]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines New Release of Proxmox and How It's Used With LXCs
[03:19]	TR News	 (NEW):  Programming With Statistical Task and Neovim https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/09/Programming_With_Statistical_Task_and_Neovim.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/09/Programming_With_Statistical_Task_and_Neovim.gmi 
[03:19]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Programming With Statistical Task and Neovim
[03:30]	admfubar	https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/08/x_european_commission_ad/
[03:30]	TR Bot	 X terminates European Commission ad account after 120M fine The Register
[03:31]	TR News	Techrights Welcome to the New Techrights https://techrights.org/ | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/ 
[03:31]	TR News	Techrights IRC Proceedings: Monday, December 08, 2025 https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/09/IRC_Proceedings_Monday_December_08_2025.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/09/IRC_Proceedings_Monday_December_08_2025.gmi 
[03:31]	TR Bot	 Techrights Welcome to the New Techrights
[03:31]	TR Bot	 Techrights IRC Proceedings: Monday, December 08, 2025
[03:32]	TR News	 (NEW):  Today in Techrights https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/09/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/09/Today_in_Techrights.gmi 
[03:32]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Today in Techrights
[03:33]	TR News	Techrights Over at Tux Machines... https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/09/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/09/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi 
[03:33]	TR Bot	 Techrights Over at Tux Machines...
[03:36]	admfubar	the title was just not worded correctly... https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ae1ae4
[03:36]	TR Bot	using bad/illegal format or missing URL ( status 0 @ https://validate.perfdrive.com/fb803c746e9148689b3984a31fccd902/?ssa=7f99c4b0-9507-4085-84fa-39ddccff464c&ssb=08177246466&ssc=https%3A%2F%2Fiopscience.iop.org%2Farticle%2F10.3847%2FPSJ%2Fae1ae4&ssi=19c4965b-cnvj-4bbf-9d6c-dd084f4c8740&ssk=botmanager_support@radware.com&ssm=15195539011557670103730289586212&ssn=5bbe2e7ff6cb72cb95efad5e4024faac2aad8ea4f7b4-b68d-4446-bfe3e5&sso=6 ...
[03:39]	TR News	IBM drops $11B on Confluent to feed next-gen AI ambitions https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/08/ibm_drops_11b_on_confluent/
[03:39]	TR Bot	 IBM drops $11B on Confluent to feed next-gen AI ambitions The Register
[03:40]	admfubar	https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/08/uptime_institute_datacenter_grid/
[03:40]	TR Bot	 Datacenters accused of hoarding grid capacity The Register
[03:54]	admfubar	now that's a security improvement!!! ... https://www.ghacks.net/2025/12/08/new-outlook-for-windows-is-reportedly-not-starting-anymore-for-some-users/
[03:54]	TR Bot	 New Outlook for Windows is reportedly not starting anymore for some users - gHacks Tech News
[03:55]	TR News	Techrights IBM's Total Debt is About to Hit Almost 80 Billion Dollars, the Company Can Only Raise $14.8 Billion Within 3 Months https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/09/IBM_s_Total_Debt_is_About_to_Hit_Almost_80_Billion_Dollars_the_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/09/IBM_s_Total_Debt_is_About_to_Hit_Almost_80_Billion_Dollars_the_.gmi 
[03:55]	TR Bot	 Techrights IBM's Total Debt is About to Hit Almost 80 Billion Dollars, the Company Can Only Raise $14.8 Billion Within 3 Months
[03:56]	admfubar	https://www.alternet.org/farmers-under-stress/
[03:56]	TR Bot	to mental health hotlines rise as farmers buckle under stress - Alternet.org
[03:58]	TR News	SUEPO: "Thank you to all members who participated in the ballot. Your engagement and feedback are greatly appreciated. The results will be reviewed by the committee, and we will inform you as soon as the outcome is available."
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[04:02]	admfubar	https://oilprice.com/Geopolitics/International/Industrialized-Cybercrime-Targets-Trust-in-Public-and-Private-Sectors.html
[04:02]	TR Bot	Cybercrime Targets Trust in Public and Private Sectors | OilPrice.com
[04:02]	TR News	"We hope to provide an updated version of the picture gallery next week which will include E-mail addresses to allow readers to contact the representatives directly to express their concerns about the management of the European Patent Office."
[04:05]	TR News	"Since we last wrote we have made progress and expect to be able to complete the list of E-mail addresses for the Administrative Council members later this week."
[04:09]	TR News	"We hope to be able to forward the updated photo-gallery with E-mail addresses later this week."
[04:20]	TR News	Techrights Tomorrow the EPO Administrative Council is Meeting to Discuss the EPO, Contact Your National Representative Today https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/09/Tomorrow_the_EPO_Administrative_Council_is_Meeting_to_Discuss_t.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/09/Tomorrow_the_EPO_Administrative_Council_is_Meeting_to_Discuss_t.gmi 
[04:20]	TR Bot	 Techrights Tomorrow the EPO Administrative Council is Meeting to Discuss the EPO, Contact Your National Representative Today
[04:41]	TR News	Techrights BetaNews Still a Dodgy Site, It Seems to be Partly Run by Chatbots https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/09/BetaNews_Still_a_Dodgy_Site_It_Seems_to_be_Partly_Run_by_Chatbo.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/09/BetaNews_Still_a_Dodgy_Site_It_Seems_to_be_Partly_Run_by_Chatbo.gmi 
[04:41]	TR Bot	 Techrights BetaNews Still a Dodgy Site, It Seems to be Partly Run by Chatbots
[04:43]	TR News	Torvalds blames Windows crashes on muppet-grade hardware https://fudzilla.com/news/pc-hardware/62173-torvalds-blames-windows-crashes-on-muppet-grade-hardware http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/05/Windows_Blue_Screen_of_Death_is_a_Windows_Issue_Not_a_Hardware_.shtml
[04:43]	TR Bot	 Torvalds blames Windows crashes on muppet-grade hardware
[04:43]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Windows' Blue Screen of Death is a Windows Issue, Not a Hardware Issue
[04:44]	MinceR	someone must have swapped the RAM every time i dual-booted, then
[04:45]	MinceR	also, MICROS~1 must have used "muppet-grade hardware" to demonstrate their shitty excuse for an OS several times
[04:45]	TR News	 (NEW):  Linus Torvalds and Another Linus (Sebastian) Build GNU/Linux PC https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/02/Linus_Torvalds_and_Another_Linus_Sebastian_Build_GNU_Linux_PC.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/02/Linus_Torvalds_and_Another_Linus_Sebastian_Build_GNU_Linux_PC.gmi 
[04:45]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Linus Torvalds and Another Linus (Sebastian) Build GNU/Linux PC
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[05:07]	schestowitz[TR2]	MinceR:  not a new concept
[05:07]	schestowitz[TR2]	blame "drivers"
[05:07]	schestowitz[TR2]	for everything
[05:11]	TR News	Techrights Slopwatch May be Doomed https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/09/Slopwatch_May_be_Doomed.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/09/Slopwatch_May_be_Doomed.gmi 
[05:11]	TR Bot	 Techrights Slopwatch May be Doomed
[05:27]	TR News	Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-12-09.gmi
[05:37]	TR News	 (NEW):  Gemini Protocol Grew a Lot in 2025 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/09/Gemini_Protocol_Grew_a_Lot_in_2025.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/09/Gemini_Protocol_Grew_a_Lot_in_2025.gmi 
[05:37]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Gemini Protocol Grew a Lot in 2025
● Dec 09
[06:04]		*Guest57k (oclmuf6rn@masked-3db.oiq.244.154.IP) has joined #techrights
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[06:27]	TR News	Techrights The Year of the New Dark Age https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/09/The_Year_of_the_New_Dark_Age.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/09/The_Year_of_the_New_Dark_Age.gmi 
[06:27]	TR Bot	 Techrights The Year of the New Dark Age
[06:32]	TR News	 (NEW):  Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/09/Free_and_Open_Source_Software_howtos_and_Installations.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/09/Free_and_Open_Source_Software_howtos_and_Installations.gmi 
[06:32]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations
[06:42]	TR News	 (NEW):  Snap vs. Flatpak: #HowTo decide which Linux package manager is right for you https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/09/Snap_vs_Flatpak_How_to_decide_which_Linux_package_manager_is_ri.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/09/Snap_vs_Flatpak_How_to_decide_which_Linux_package_manager_is_ri.gmi 
[06:42]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Snap vs. Flatpak: How to decide which Linux package manager is right for you
[06:46]	TR News	 (NEW):  Manjaro 25.1 Preview Released, but Users Are Urged Not to Update Yet https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/09/Manjaro_25_1_Preview_Released_but_Users_Are_Urged_Not_to_Update.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/09/Manjaro_25_1_Preview_Released_but_Users_Are_Urged_Not_to_Update.gmi 
[06:46]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Manjaro 25.1 Preview Released, but Users Are Urged Not to Update Yet
[06:46]	psydruid	muppets blame their muppet-grade hardware instead of themselves
[06:52]	TR News	Techrights LibreWolf Will Turn Six in March, It Already (Probably) Has Millions of Users https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/09/LibreWolf_Will_Turn_Six_in_March_It_Already_Probably_Has_Millio.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/09/LibreWolf_Will_Turn_Six_in_March_It_Already_Probably_Has_Millio.gmi 
[06:52]	TR Bot	 Techrights LibreWolf Will Turn Six in March, It Already (Probably) Has Millions of Users
[06:53]	TR News	Media does not like to talk about this because Scam Altman became notorious for sending threatening letters to media https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/technology/sam-altman-sister-lawsuit.html
[06:53]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/technology/sam-altman-sister-lawsuit.html )
[06:58]	TR News	Techrights UbuntuPIT Started Experimenting With LLM Slop and a Month Ago It 'Died' https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/09/UbuntuPIT_Started_Experimenting_With_LLM_Slop_and_a_Month_Ago_I.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/09/UbuntuPIT_Started_Experimenting_With_LLM_Slop_and_a_Month_Ago_I.gmi 
[06:58]	TR Bot	 Techrights UbuntuPIT Started Experimenting With LLM Slop and a Month Ago It 'Died'
[06:59]	TR News	 (NEW):  Read More: https://www.slashgear.com/2044477/android-pixnapping-cyberattack-how-to-stay-safe/ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/09/Android_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/09/Android_Leftovers.gmi 
[06:59]	TR Bot	timed out after 10000 milliseconds ( status 0 @ https://www.slashgear.com/2044477/android-pixnapping-cyberattack-how-to-stay-safe/ )
[06:59]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Read More: https://www.slashgear.com/2044477/android-pixnapping-cyberattack-how-to-stay-safe/
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[07:14]	TR News	=
[07:14]	TR News	"Linux Foundation Leader: We're Not in an AI Bubble" https://thenewstack.io/linux-foundation-leader-were-not-in-an-ai-bubble/ liar liar hats on fire. And his wife ran a fraud https://techrights.org/n/2024/03/17/Jim_Zemlin_Says_Linux_Foundation_Should_Combat_Fraud_Together_W.shtml
[07:14]	TR Bot	 Linux Foundation Leader: We're Not in an AI Bubble - The New Stack
[07:14]	TR Bot	 Techrights Jim Zemlin Says Linux Foundation Should Combat Fraud Together With the Gates Foundation. Maybe They Should Start With Jim's Wife.
[07:14]	TR News	Follow-up: The "Dead" SSD is a Zombie (Consumer SSDs in Ente..." https://soylentnews.org/~kolie/journal/20011
[07:14]	TR Bot	 Journal of kolie (2622)
[07:15]	TR News	iophk: this will _*intentionally*_ screw the hundreds of downstream distros https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/12/07/1514234
[07:15]	TR Bot	 Debian's APT Will Require a Rust Compiler - SoylentNews
[07:20]	TR News	Techrights They Won't Tell You This ("Revolution Won't Be Televised"), But the Slop Bubble Already Burst https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/09/They_Won_t_Tell_You_This_Revolution_Won_t_Be_Televised_But_the_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/09/They_Won_t_Tell_You_This_Revolution_Won_t_Be_Televised_But_the_.gmi 
[07:20]	TR Bot	 Techrights They Won't Tell You This ("Revolution Won't Be Televised"), But the Slop Bubble Already Burst
[07:20]		*psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techrights
[07:32]	TR News	Techrights Linux Foundation Has Found a New Business: Pyramid Schemes https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/09/Linux_Foundation_Has_Found_a_New_Business_Pyramid_Schemes.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/09/Linux_Foundation_Has_Found_a_New_Business_Pyramid_Schemes.gmi 
[07:32]	TR Bot	 Techrights Linux Foundation Has Found a New Business: Pyramid Schemes
[07:35]	TR News	From Artificial Intelligence to Mirror Molecules https://therevelator.org/conservation-horizon-2026/ | Source: The Revelator
[07:35]	TR Bot	 Conservations Hot Topics of 2026: From Artificial Intelligence to Mirror Molecules The Revelator
[07:36]	TR News	Frontex https://digit.site36.net/2025/12/08/modern-border-surveillance-frontexs-vision-becomes-sharper/ | Source: Site36
[07:36]	TR Bot	 Modern border surveillance: Frontex's techno-racist vision becomes sharper | Matthias Monroy
[07:37]		*psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techrights
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[07:47]	TR News	"Apple could ultimately have to pay up to an estimated 637 million euros to address the damage suffered by 14 million iPhone and iPad users in the Netherlands." https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/02/dutch-app-store-antitrust-case-proceeds/ | Source: MacRumors
[07:47]	TR Bot	Can't Escape Dutch App Store Antitrust Lawsuit, EU Court Rules - MacRumors
[07:47]	TR News	"The foundations argue that the fees charged by Apple for third-party apps on the App Store are excessive" https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/eu-court-rules-dutch-courts-can-handle-anti-trust-case-against-apples-app-store-2025-12-02/ | Source: Reuters
[07:47]	TR Bot	( status 401 @ https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/eu-court-rules-dutch-courts-can-handle-anti-trust-case-against-apples-app-store-2025-12-02/ )
[07:48]	TR News	"Here are the 2025 top ten domains from orders placed on the DNA Lounge store. Remember this the next time someone uses email as an example of a federation success story." https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/12/today-in-email-hegemony-2/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski
[07:48]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/12/today-in-email-hegemony-2/ )
[07:48]	TR News	"Carriage is the term for the method that books, movies, TV shows and other media get from the producers to the public. Its about who controls user access to the medium." https://seths.blog/2025/12/understanding-carriage/ | Source: Seth Godin
[07:48]	TR Bot	 Understanding carriage | Seth's Blog
[07:48]	TR News	"So why, last week, did I post a photo of myself with a curly black moustache growing out of my face to thousands of followers on social media?" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/consumer-affairs/i-pretended-man-linkedin-my-engagement-went-through-roof/ | Source: The Telegraph UK
[07:48]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/consumer-affairs/i-pretended-man-linkedin-my-engagement-went-through-roof/ )
[07:48]	TR News	"Whats striking to me now, listening to that conversation six years later" https://www.anildash.com/2025/12/08/what-about-nothing-about-us/ | Source: Anil Dash
[07:48]	TR Bot	 What about Nothing about us without us? - Anil Dash
[07:50]	psydroid3	welcome to Sesame Street, where muppets are truly muppets!
[07:53]	TR News	"They are not required by anyone to hire me or you to help them if they don't need that help. And the exact moment they can do the work themselves, they will, and not a second after." https://newsletter.danielmiessler.com/p/the-bubble-is-labor |
[07:54]	TR Bot	 The Bubble is Labor
[07:54]	TR News	"In our ongoing fight for internet freedom, it's important to remember who we're fighting for. Thats why in this blog post, were highlighting a story submitted by a Tor user and how Tor helps them circumvent government censorship." https://blog.torproject.org/Ramon's-Story-from-Cuba/ | Source: Tor
[07:54]	TR Bot	 Fighting for Internet Freedom: Ramon's Story from Cuba | The Tor Project
[07:54]	TR News	"A former Royal Marine has been banned from working with children after he protested against illegal migrants, The Telegraph can disclose." https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12/07/right-wingers-branded-danger-to-children/ | Source: The Telegraph UK
[07:54]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12/07/right-wingers-branded-danger-to-children/ )
[07:55]	TR News	"Heres a fun paper: The Naibbe cipher: a substitution cipher that encrypts Latin and Italian as Voynich Manuscript-like ciphertext: [...]" https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/12/substitution-cipher-based-on-the-voynich-manuscript.html | Source: Bruce Schneier
[07:56]	TR Bot	Cipher Based on The Voynich Manuscript - Schneier on Security
[07:56]	TR News	"According to their investigation, ten of Grok's responses returned accurate, current home addresses." https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/privacy-concerns-raised-as-grok-ai-found-to-be-a-stalkers-best-friend | Source: Bitdefender
[07:56]	TR Bot	 Privacy concerns raised as Grok AI found to be a stalker's best friend
[07:57]	TR News	"Earlier this year, LWN featured an excellent article titled Linuxs missing CRL infrastructure." https://jnsgr.uk/2025/12/addressing-linuxs-missing-pki-infra/ | Source: Jon Seager
[07:57]	TR Bot	 Addressing Linux's Missing PKI Infrastructure Jon Seager
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[08:00]	TR News	Said GCHQ?? http://techrights.org/n/2025/03/19/Is_Ubuntu_Compromised_Push_Away_From_GNU_and_GPL_Led_by_Army_Of.shtml
[08:00]	TR Bot	 Techrights Is Ubuntu Compromised? Push Away From GNU and GPL Led by Army Officers.
[08:00]	TR News	"Social media is fragile, and it can disappear quickly. Sites get sold, shut down or blocked." https://alexwlchan.net/2025/social-media-scrapbook/ | Source: Alex Chan
[08:00]	TR Bot	 The Internet forgets, but I dont want to alexwlchan
[08:01]	TR News	"People should know whether what theyre listening to is a human voice or not. You should be required to say that" https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/ai-country-songs-should-be-labeled-breland-1235477535/ | Source: Rolling Stone
[08:01]	TR Bot	 AI Songs Should Be Labeled Says Country Songwriter Breland
[08:01]	TR News	"pig swill" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/non-player-combat-youtube/ | Source: The Telegraph UK
[08:01]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/non-player-combat-youtube/ )
[08:02]	TR News	"Adobe even has a gallery of kids work with Adobe Express! You and I might wonder how on earth prompting an AI slop bot is supposed to teach kids anything" https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/12/08/la-unified-school-district-forces-unfiltered-ai-on-kids/ | Source: Pivot to AI
[08:02]	TR Bot	( status 503 @ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/12/08/la-unified-school-district-forces-unfiltered-ai-on-kids/ )
[08:02]	TR News	"One of the common criticisms of modern AI systems is that they arent sufficiently embodied." https://benjamincongdon.me/blog/2025/12/07/Embodied-Cognition-and-the-Tokenverse/ | Source: Ben Congdon
[08:02]	TR Bot	 Embodied Cognition and the "Tokenverse" | Ben Congdon
[08:03]	TR News	"The GenAI bubble is going to pop. Everyone knows that." https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/12/07/Thin-Spots-In-the-AI-Bubble | Source: Tim Bray
[08:03]	TR Bot	 ongoing by Tim Bray After the Bubble
[08:03]	TR News	"To me, the urgent and interesting questions are how widespread the damage will be and what the hangover will feel like. On that basis, I was going to post a link on Mastodon to Paul Krugmans Talking With Paul Kedrosky."
[08:03]	TR News	"Its great, but while I was reading it I thought This is going to be Greek to people who havent been watching the bubble details. So consider this a preface to the Krugman-Kedrosky piece. If you already know about the GPU-fragility and SPV-voodoo issues, just skip this and go read that."
[08:04]	TR News	"Which is very similar to my experience when trying to find the most suitable wood finish for my hand carved wooden spoons and coffee cups" https://alinpanaitiu.com/blog/developing-hardwax-oil/ | Source: Alin Panaitiu
[08:04]	TR Bot	 Developing a food-safe finish for my wooden spoons and cups
[08:04]	TR News	"It also caused me to reflect on something that has been happening over the past 5 years." https://ambersettle.wordpress.com/2025/12/08/its-not-always-about-me/ | Source: Amber Settle
[08:04]	TR Bot	 Its not always about me | Technology education and me
[08:04]	TR News	"District officials tell schools that students should use i-Ready for only 45 minutes per week in each subject." https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/la-parents-kids-school-issued-ipad-chromebook-los-angeles-rcna245624 | Source: NBC
[08:05]	TR Bot	 LA Parents say school-issued iPads and Chromebooks cause chaos
[08:05]	TR News	"The C Adventure only covered the very basics of C: variables, conditionals, loops, and functions." https://ankursethi.com/blog/my-first-online-shopping-experience/ | Source: Ankur Sethi
[08:05]	TR Bot	 My first online shopping experience, at the tender age of twelve Ankur Sethi's Internet Website
[08:05]	TR News	"If they had just taken 1 more off me at the time I paid it off" https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/student-loan.html | Source: James Stanley
[08:05]	TR Bot	 James Stanley - Student loan deductions
[08:06]	TR News	"In this blog post, the first of a series, well present a selection of non-technical but common issues that data professionals face in organizations." https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/12/true-stories-from-the-data-battlefield-part-1-communicating-about-data/ | Source: Rlang
[08:06]	TR Bot	Stories from the (Data) Battlefield Part 1: Communicating About Data | R-bloggers
[08:06]	TR News	"In the performance community, we spend a lot of time talking about tools, metrics, budgets, thresholds, regressions, and dashboards." https://calendar.perfplanet.com/2025/the-anatomy-of-a-web-performance-report/ | Source: Web Performance Calendar
[08:06]	TR Bot	 The Anatomy of a Web Performance Report - Web Performance Calendar
[08:07]	TR News	"To reinforce point 1: there are no exceptions. Everything that I touch or do MUST be documented in my JDex." https://johnnydecimal.com/20-29-communication/22-blog/22.00.0171-configuration-management/ | Source: Johnny Decimal
[08:07]	TR Bot	 22.00.0171 Configuration management Johnny.Decimal
[08:11]	TR News	"Im not the best sewer in the world, and very much a newbie by most definitions." https://cassidoo.co/post/sewing-e-reader/ | Source: Cassidy Williams
[08:11]	TR Bot	 Sewing an e-reader case
[08:12]	TR News	"In late 2025 IKEA started rolling out a series of Thread based / Matter compatible smart home devices." https://harrisonsand.com/posts/myggspray/ | Source: Harrison Sand
[08:12]	TR Bot	 IKEA MYGGSPRAY Wireless motion sensor teardown :: Harrison's Sandbox
[08:12]	TR News	"But unlike the Pi 4, this eats up 25 watts of power at idle, meaning the poor battery only lasts 2-3 hours." https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/dc-roma-ii-fastest-risc-v-laptop-and-odd | Source: Jeff Geerling
[08:12]	TR Bot	 The DC-ROMA II is the fastest RISC-V laptop and is odd | Jeff Geerling
[08:14]	TR News	 (NEW):  Open Hardware/Modding: RISC-V, Homelabs, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/09/Open_Hardware_Modding_RISC_V_Homelabs_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/09/Open_Hardware_Modding_RISC_V_Homelabs_and_More.gmi 
[08:14]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Open Hardware/Modding: RISC-V, Homelabs, and More
[08:16]	TR News	 (NEW):  Leftovers: GNU/Linux and Free, Libre, and Open Source Software News https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/09/Leftovers_GNU_Linux_and_Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_New.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/09/Leftovers_GNU_Linux_and_Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_New.gmi 
[08:16]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Leftovers: GNU/Linux and Free, Libre, and Open Source Software News
[08:18]	TR News	Techrights Gemini Links 09/12/2025: Lunar Observations and Programming https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/09/Gemini_Links_09_12_2025_Lunar_Observations_and_Programming.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/09/Gemini_Links_09_12_2025_Lunar_Observations_and_Programming.gmi 
[08:18]	TR Bot	 Techrights Gemini Links 09/12/2025: Lunar Observations and Programming
[08:20]	TR News	Techrights Links 09/12/2025: "After the Bubble" (of Slop), "The Internet Forgets" https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/09/Links_09_12_2025_After_the_Bubble_of_Slop_The_Internet_Forgets.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/09/Links_09_12_2025_After_the_Bubble_of_Slop_The_Internet_Forgets.gmi 
[08:20]	TR Bot	 Techrights Links 09/12/2025: "After the Bubble" (of Slop), "The Internet Forgets"
[08:29]	TR News	"It's not clear to me that waiting longer would have helped, either." https://sethmlarson.dev/deprecations-via-warnings-dont-work-for-python-libraries | Source: Seth Michael Larson
[08:29]	TR Bot	 Deprecations via warnings dont work for Python libraries Seth Larson
[08:30]	TR News	"Have you ever had the experience of having many subtests in a single test file, making it difficult to see the test results for the parts you want to check?" https://perladvent.org/2025/2025-12-09.html | Source: Perl
[08:30]	TR Bot	 Perl Advent Calendar 2025 - Run specific tests in Perl
[08:30]	TR News	"You are given an array of integers, @ints and a target element $k." https://theweeklychallenge.org/blog/advent-calendar-2024-12-09/ | Source: The Weekly Challenge
[08:30]	TR Bot	 Advent Calendar - December 9, 2024
[08:30]	TR News	"Rudoph had long wanted wanted to write a website he longed to share his hobbies and opinions with all the children" https://raku-advent.blog/2025/12/08/day-8-harc-the-herald-angels-sing/ | Source: Rakulang
[08:30]	TR Bot	 Day 8 HARC The Herald Angels Sing Raku Advent Calendar
[08:33]	TR News	"Its extra noise to me. Its not that I think menu items should never have icons. I think they can be incredibly useful (more on that below)." https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/icons-in-menus/ | Source: Jim Nielsen
[08:33]	TR Bot	 Icons in Menus Everywhere Send Help - Jim Nielsens Blog
[08:34]	TR News	"The movie theater has a big tile floor with an interesting pattern. Elves here are redecorating the theater by switching out some of the square tiles in the big grid they form." https://adventofcode.com/2025/day/9 | Source: AdventOfCode
[08:34]	TR Bot	 Day 9 - Advent of Code 2025
[08:34]	TR News	"Here are a few points of interest relating to the declarations here: [...]" https://qmacro.org/blog/posts/2025/12/08/a-simple-exploration-of-status-transition-flows-in-cap/ | Source: DJ Adams
[08:34]	TR Bot	 A simple exploration of status transition flows in CAP
[08:35]	TR News	"With push! from miscmacros you can cons onto that particular name whereas with mutate-cons! defined like this: [...]" https://idiomdrottning.org/cbv-push | Source: Idiomdrottning
[08:35]	TR Bot	 Call by value but the value is two pointers
[08:35]	TR News	"Like all blockchains, the Internet Computer relies on state machine replication for fault-tolerance." https://mmapped.blog/posts/02-ic-state-machine-replication | Source: Roman Kashitsyn
[08:35]	TR Bot	 IC internals: replicated state machine
[08:35]	TR News	"Ah yes, there it is. The 3D-grid. I was wondering when it would reappear from the depths of the Advent of Code caves." https://yordi.me/advent-of-code-2025-day-8/ | Source: Yordi Verkroost
[08:35]	TR Bot	 Advent of Code 2025 - Day 8 | Yordi - A Lifelong Journey of Growth
[08:38]	TR News	"Inference for non-probability samples with nonprobsvy package" https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/12/inference-for-non-probability-samples-with-nonprobsvy-package-in-r-workshop/ | Source: Rlang
[08:38]	TR Bot	for non-probability samples with nonprobsvy package in R workshop | R-bloggers
[08:38]	TR News	[Old] "I wrote the following document in 2008 as a guide for other developers" https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=172537700911789&w=2 | Source: Mailing list ARChives
[08:38]	TR Bot	 'Re: where to start with new arch' - MARC
[08:39]	TR News	"Unix has been enormously successful over the past 55 years." https://blog.gabornyeki.com/2025-12-usenet/ |
[08:39]	TR Bot	 One too many words on AT&T's $2,000 Korn shell and other Usenet topics | Gbor Nyki
[08:40]	TR News	"This page describes what XHTML is, why you should use it, and how to use it." https://www.nayuki.io/page/practical-guide-to-xhtml |
[08:40]	TR News	"To those of you new to building on the web, this is for you too, as you lucky things get to skip the old ways :)" https://www.htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2025/9/ | Source: Manuel Matuzovi
[08:40]	TR Bot	 Discover Dialog - HTMHell
[08:40]	TR News	"I am building a new configuration language and json query tool: RCL." https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/2025/adding-unpack-to-rcl | Source: Ruud van Asseldonk
[08:40]	TR Bot	 Adding unpack syntax to RCL
[08:40]	TR News	"In response to yesterday's entry on using systemd (service) units for easy capturing of log output, a commentator drew my attention to systemd-run and systemd-cat." https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/SystemdCatAndRunForLogging | Source: University of Toronto
[08:40]	TR Bot	 You're using a too-old browser
[08:41]	TR News	"One of the new additions to the GNOME 49 wallpaper set is Dithered Sun by Tobias. It uses dithering not as a technical workaround for color banding, but as an artistic device." https://blog.jimmac.eu/2025/dithering/ | Source: Jakub Steiner
[08:41]	TR Bot	 Dithering - Even a Stopped Clock
[08:45]	TR News	Pluralistic: MElon's Blue Tick scam (08 Dec 2025) https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/08/giant-teddybears/
[08:45]	TR Bot	 Pluralistic: Elon Musks Blue Tick scam (08 Dec 2025) Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
[08:45]	TR News	"Last year, the Firefox team set out to test something fans requested: choosing a custom app icon. The experiment was simple. Offer a small set of options and see how people use them." https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/momo-creator/ | Source: Mozilla
[08:45]	TR Bot	 Meet the artist behind Firefoxs new community-created app icon
[08:46]	TR News	"The below featured highlights listed on the communitys blog feed aggregator are from Nov. 29 to Dec. 6." https://news.opensuse.org/2025/12/08/planet-roundup/ | Source: OpenSUSE
[08:46]	TR Bot	 Planet News Roundup - openSUSE News
[08:49]	TR News	"This blog outlines todays primary 5G infrastructure challenges and highlights how modern open source cloud technologies from Canonical help operators address them." https://ubuntu.com//blog/how-telco-companies-can-reduce-5g-infrastructure-costs-with-modern-open-source-cloud-native-technologies | Source: Ubuntu
[08:50]	TR Bot	telco companies can reduce 5G infrastructure costs with modern open source cloud-native technologies | Ubuntu
[08:51]	TR News	Paid-for, fake 'studies' or glorified marketing: "The IDC paper,The Business Value of Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Solutions, validates that a unified hybrid cloud platformconsisting of a scalable operating system (OS)" https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/key-considerations-2026-planning-insights-idc | Source: Red Hat Official
[08:51]	TR Bot	 Key considerations for 2026 planning: Insights from IDC
[08:52]	TR News	Red Hat under IBM churning through buzzwords instead of improving its core business: "We'll share with you the guidelines we've established for Red Hat engineers, based on our use of open source principles in practice." https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/accelerating-open-source-development-ai | Source: Red Hat Official
[08:52]	TR Bot	 Accelerating open source development with AI
[08:52]		*Received a CTCP VERSION from StatServ
[08:52]	TR News	Lithuania preparing for surge in foreigners taking language exam as new rules take effect https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2769262/lithuania-preparing-for-surge-in-foreigners-taking-language-exam-as-new-rules-take-effect
[08:52]	TR Bot	 Lithuania preparing for surge in foreigners taking language exam as new rules take effect - LRT
[08:54]		*Received a CTCP VERSION from StatServ
● Dec 09
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[09:01]	TR News	I didn't think I'd be at Akademy 2025 https://blogs.kde.org/2025/12/08/i-didnt-think-id-be-at-akademy-2025/
[09:01]	TR Bot	 I didn't think I'd be at Akademy 2025 - KDE Blogs
[09:02]		*psydroid3 (~psydroid@7h7y9yu8y5zjw.irc) has joined #techrights
[09:03]	TR News	Manjaro 25.1 Preview Released, but Users Are Urged Not to Update Yet https://linuxiac.com/manjaro-25-1-preview-released-but-users-are-urged-not-to-update-yet/
[09:03]	TR Bot	 Manjaro 25.1 Preview Released, but Users Are Urged Not to Update Yet
[09:15]	TR News	Recoil real time strategy game engine https://www.linuxlinks.com/recoil-real-time-strategy-game-engine/
[09:15]	TR Bot	- real time strategy game engine - LinuxLinks
[09:15]	TR News	BOSGAME M6 HX370 Hey Hi (AI) PC running GNU/Linux Introduction to the Series https://www.linuxlinks.com/bosgame-m6-hx370-ai-pc-linux-introduction/
[09:15]	TR Bot	M6 HX370 AI PC running Linux - Introduction to the Series - LinuxLinks
[09:15]	TR News	AutoSubSync automatic subtitle synchronization tool https://www.linuxlinks.com/autosubsync-automatic-subtitle-synchronization-tool/
[09:15]	TR Bot	- automatic subtitle synchronization tool - LinuxLinks
[09:15]	TR News	15 Best Free and Open Source Replacements for ls https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-replacements-ls/
[09:15]	TR Bot	Best Free and Open Source Replacements for ls - LinuxLinks
[09:15]	TR News	fnox encrypted/remote secret manager https://www.linuxlinks.com/fnox-encrypted-remote-secret-manager/
[09:15]	TR Bot	- encrypted/remote secret manager - LinuxLinks
[09:16]	TR News	Volshell CLI tool for working with memory https://www.linuxlinks.com/volshell-cli-tool-working-memory/
[09:16]	TR Bot	- CLI tool for working with memory - LinuxLinks
[09:16]	TR News	carl calendar for the command-line https://www.linuxlinks.com/carl-calendar-command-line/
[09:16]	TR Bot	- calendar for the command-line - LinuxLinks
[09:18]	TR News	Flowblade Video Editor 2.24 added Auto Sync Trim Childs & UX Updates https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/12/flowblade-2-24-auto-sync-trim/
[09:18]	TR Bot	 Flowblade Video Editor 2.24 added Auto Sync Trim Childs & UX Updates | UbuntuHandbook
[09:18]	TR News	Radxa Rock 5T Review: A Powerful ARM Single Board Computer https://www.linux.org/threads/radxa-rock-5t-review-a-powerful-arm-single-board-computer.57752/
[09:18]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.linux.org/threads/radxa-rock-5t-review-a-powerful-arm-single-board-computer.57752/ )
[09:19]	TR News	Spotless keep your code spotless https://www.linuxlinks.com/spotless-keep-code-spotless/
[09:19]	TR Bot	- keep your code spotless - LinuxLinks
[09:19]	TR News	Jarl fast linter for R https://www.linuxlinks.com/jarl-fast-linter-r/
[09:19]	TR Bot	- fast linter for R - LinuxLinks
[09:20]	TR News	What I Learned, Loved and Lived at Akademy 2025 https://wiki.drquark.live/ComputerScience/Conferences/akademy2025
[09:20]	TR Bot	 What I Learned, Loved and Lived at Akademy 2025
[09:21]	TR News	Manage your Camel fleet on OpenShift https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/12/08/manage-your-camel-fleet-openshift
[09:21]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/12/08/manage-your-camel-fleet-openshift )
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● Dec 09
[12:56]	TR News	A brief history of specifiers and protocols https://macwright.com/2025/12/08/module-specifiers-and-protocols.html
[12:56]	TR Bot	brief history of specifiers and protocols - macwright.com
[12:57]	TR News	Dont let dictators decide the future of the internet. Fund the good fight! https://www.accessnow.org/fund-the-good-fight/
[12:57]	TR Bot	https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=vDyvok2pbjI
[12:57]	TR Bot	invidious.nerdvpn.de | Making sure you're not a bot!
[12:57]	TR News	#KeepItOn: Tanzanian authorities and Meta must reverse course and respect human rights https://www.accessnow.org/press-release/keepiton-tanzanian-authorities-and-meta-must-reverse-course-and-respect-human-rights/
[12:57]	TR Bot	 Access Now - #KeepItOn: Tanzanian authorities and Meta must reverse course and respect human rights
[12:57]	TR News	Critical Apache Tika Vulnerability Leads to XXE Injection https://www.securityweek.com/critical-apache-tika-vulnerability-leads-to-xxe-injection/
[12:57]	TR Bot	Apache Tika Vulnerability Leads to XXE Injection - SecurityWeek
[12:59]	TR News	Louvre workers announce strike over work conditions and security https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251208-louvre-workers-announce-strike-over-work-conditions-and-security
[12:59]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251208-louvre-workers-announce-strike-over-work-conditions-and-security )
● Dec 09
[13:01]	TR News	Press Release: EU stands up to Big Tech with 120 million fine to X https://edri.org/our-work/eu-stands-up-to-big-tech-with-e120-million-fine-to-x/
[13:01]	TR Bot	 Press Release: EU stands up to Big Tech with 120 million fine to X - European Digital Rights (EDRi)
[13:09]	TR News	Google Fortifies Chrome Agentic Hey Hi (AI) Against Indirect Prompt Injection Attacks https://www.securityweek.com/google-fortifies-chrome-agentic-ai-against-indirect-prompt-injection-attacks/
[13:09]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/google-fortifies-chrome-agentic-ai-against-indirect-prompt-injection-attacks/ )
[13:09]	TR News	Defense bill addresses secure phones, Hey Hi (AI) training, cyber troop mental health https://cyberscoop.com/2026-ndaa-cybersecurity-secure-phones-ai-training-cyber-troop-mental-health/
[13:09]	TR Bot	bill addresses secure phones, AI training, cyber troop mental health | CyberScoop
[13:09]	TR News	Dihydroxyacetone Man Stands in the Middle as DRM spreader Netflix and Paramount Vie for a Megadeal https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/business/media/trump-netflix-paramount-deal.html
[13:09]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/business/media/trump-netflix-paramount-deal.html )
[13:10]	TR News	Paramount Makes $108 Billion Hostile All-Cash Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery Though Either Mega-Merger Likely to Face Regulatory Scrutiny https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/12/08/paramount-hostile-bid-warner-bros-netflix/
[13:10]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/12/08/paramount-hostile-bid-warner-bros-netflix/ )
[13:10]	TR News	A Simple Way to Fake Blurred backdoored Windows on GNOME https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/12/2-wallpapers-gnome-extension
[13:10]	TR Bot	 A Simple Way to Fake Blurred Windows on GNOME - OMG! Ubuntu
[13:11]	TR News	Canonical Outsourcing Ubuntu to Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Results in Broken Ubuntu, Just as One Can Expect https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/08/Canonical_Outsourcing_Ubuntu_to_Microsoft_Results_in_Broken_Ubu.shtml
[13:11]	TR Bot	 Techrights Canonical Outsourcing Ubuntu to Microsoft Results in Broken Ubuntu, Just as One Can Expect
[13:11]	TR News	The SSD Super Cache https://hackaday.com/2025/12/08/linux-fu-the-ssd-super-cache/ | Source: Hackaday
[13:11]	TR Bot	Fu: The SSD Super Cache | Hackaday
[13:12]	TR News	Firefox 146 Is Out with Native Support for Fractional Scaled Displays on Wayland https://9to5linux.com/firefox-146-is-out-with-native-support-for-fractional-scaled-displays-on-wayland
[13:12]	TR Bot	146 Is Out with Native Support for Fractional Scaled Displays on Wayland - 9to5Linux
[13:12]	TR News	Firefox 146 Brings Native Fractional Scaling to GNU/Linux https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/12/firefox-146-release-linux-fractional-scaling-support
[13:12]	TR Bot	 Firefox 146 Brings Full Fractional Scaling Support on Wayland - OMG! Ubuntu
[13:12]	TR News	MakuluLinux 2025-12-05 is out https://distrowatch.com/makulu
[13:12]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/makulu )
[13:12]	TR News	Ventoy 1.1.08 released https://distrowatch.com/ventoy
[13:12]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/ventoy )
[13:20]	TR News	HackerOS 4.0 is also out https://distrowatch.com/hackeros
[13:20]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/hackeros )
[13:21]	TR News	9 GUI Search Tools for Desktop GNU/Linux Users Who Don't Want to Use Find, Grep and Xargs Commands https://itsfoss.com/linux-gui-search-tools/
[13:21]	TR Bot	 9 GUI Search Tools for Desktop Linux Users Who Don't Want to Use Find, Grep and Xargs Commands
[13:21]	TR News	Easily Install Binaries in GNU/Linux Terminal With This Tool https://itsfoss.com/eget/
[13:21]	TR Bot	 Easily Install Binaries in Linux Terminal With This Tool
[13:22]	TR News	This Could Be The GNU/Linux Phone We All Have Been Waiting For https://itsfoss.com/news/jolla-phone-returns/
[13:22]	TR Bot	 This Could Be The Linux Phone We All Have Been Waiting For
[13:24]	TR News	Ventoy 1.1.08 Adds Support for FreeBSD 15.0 https://linuxiac.com/ventoy-1-1-08-adds-support-for-freebsd-15-0/
[13:24]	TR Bot	 Ventoy 1.1.08 Adds Support for FreeBSD 15.0
[13:24]	TR News	Firefox 146 Now Available for Download, Heres Whats New https://linuxiac.com/firefox-146-web-browser-now-available-for-download/
[13:24]	TR Bot	 Firefox 146 Now Available for Download, Heres Whats New
[13:24]	TR News	Bcachefs 1.33 Delivers Its Biggest Upgrade Yet With Full Reconcile Support https://linuxiac.com/bcachefs-1-33-delivers-its-biggest-upgrade-yet-with-full-reconcile-support/
[13:24]	TR Bot	 Bcachefs 1.33 Delivers Its Biggest Upgrade Yet With Full Reconcile Support
[13:25]	TR News	Disconnected experiences for Red Bait Lightspeed are now available in Red Bait Satellite 6.18 https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/12/08/disconnected-experiences-red-hat-lightspeed-now-available
[13:25]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/12/08/disconnected-experiences-red-hat-lightspeed-now-available )
[13:26]	TR News	freeCount Bioinformatics Analysis Apps on Posit Cloud https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/12/freecount-bioinformatics-analysis-apps-on-posit-cloud/
[13:26]	TR Bot	Bioinformatics Analysis Apps on Posit Cloud | R-bloggers
[13:27]	TR News	Manjaro 25-pre1 is out https://distrowatch.com/manjaro
[13:27]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/manjaro )
[13:27]	TR News	HeadsetStatus lightweight headset battery monitor for GNU/Linux https://www.linuxlinks.com/headsetstatus-lightweight-headset-battery-monitor-linux/
[13:27]	TR Bot	- lightweight headset battery monitor for Linux - LinuxLinks
[13:27]	TR News	FlareSolverr proxy server to bypass Clownflare and DDoS-GUARD protection https://www.linuxlinks.com/flaresolverr-proxy-server-bypass-cloudflare-ddos-guard-protection/
[13:27]	TR Bot	- proxy server to bypass Cloudflare and DDoS-GUARD protection - LinuxLinks
[13:28]	TR News	Billboard, Rolling Stone Owner Penske Media Steps Up Surveillance Giant Google Antitrust Attack in Amended Suit, Alleges a Choice Between Permitting Underpayment or Suffering Existential Search Traffic Declines https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/12/05/penske-google-lawsuit-amended/
[13:28]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/12/05/penske-google-lawsuit-amended/ )
[13:29]	TR News	Nope, it is just a stupid buzzword, go back to saying "Server" https://cloudnativenow.com/features/you-can-stop-saying-cloud-but-you-cant-take-the-cloud-out/
[13:29]	TR Bot	 You Can Stop Saying Cloud, But You Cant Take the Cloud Out - Cloud Native Now
[13:30]	TR News	Security updates for Monday https://lwn.net/Articles/1049657/
[13:30]	TR Bot	updates for Monday [LWN.net]
[13:30]	TR News	JBoss EAP XP 6 is here https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/12/08/jboss-eap-xp-6-here
[13:30]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/12/08/jboss-eap-xp-6-here )
[13:31]	TR News	Learning that shapes the Internet: Highlights from APNIC 60 Academy training https://blog.apnic.net/2025/12/09/learning-that-shapes-the-internet-highlights-from-apnic-60-academy-training/
[13:31]	TR Bot	 Learning that shapes the Internet: Highlights from APNIC 60 Academy training | APNIC Blog
[13:31]	TR News	TWP books not in Fashion Company Apple Books in the EU https://mwl.io/archives/24504
[13:31]	TR Bot	 TWP books not in Apple Books in the EU Michael W Lucas
[13:33]	TR News	Thorsten Alteholz: My Debian Activities in November 2025 http://blog.alteholz.eu/2025/12/my-debian-activities-in-november-2025/
[13:33]	TR Bot	Debian Activities in November 2025 blog.alteholz.eu
[13:33]	TR News	The Rust Programming Language Blog: Making it easier to sponsor Rust contributors https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/12/08/making-it-easier-to-sponsor-rust-contributors/
[13:33]	TR Bot	 Making it easier to sponsor Rust contributors | Rust Blog
[13:34]	TR News	Quarky Intellio A LEGO-compatible AI, Augmented Reality, and IoT learning platform (Crowdfunding) https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/12/08/quarky-intellio-lego-compatible-ai-augmented-reality-iot-learning-platform/
[13:34]	TR Bot	 Quarky Intellio - A LEGO-compatible AI, Augmented Reality, and IoT learning platform (Crowdfunding) - CNX Software
[13:36]	TR News	"@fh Cash does not mean that it's not borrowed money , notwithstanding that even if it were from their FCF , it still add up to Debt , so yes topping 78 US Billion now , unsustainable IMHO [..] They have to borrow that money. They don't have an extra 11 billion dollars sitting around [...] IBM stated it is an all-cash transaction. No debt." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kby7g8nk
[13:36]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kby7g8nk )
[13:36]	TR News	"Load up the company with debt. Cut more people in 2026. Alvind gets 100 million. I won't be surprised if IBM does an Amazon style cut and goes for a 10% cut"
[13:39]	TR News	South Korea police raid e-commerce giant Coupang over data leak https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-police-raid-e-commerce-giant-coupang-over-data-leak
[13:39]	TR Bot	 South Korea police raid e-commerce giant Coupang over data leak | The Straits Times
[13:41]	TR News	Chinas PM Li says consequences of Convicted Felon tariffs increasingly evident https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinas-li-says-tariff-consequences-increasingly-evident
[13:41]	TR Bot	 Chinas Li Qiang criticises tariffs as record trade surplus irks export markets | The Straits Times
[13:42]	TR News	Why China is unlikely to fully bail out yet another troubled property developer as market jitters grow https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/why-china-is-unlikely-to-fully-bail-out-yet-another-troubled-property-developer-vanke-as-market
[13:42]	TR Bot	 Why China is unlikely to fully bail out yet another troubled property developer as market jitters grow | The Straits Times
[13:48]	TR News	"We love a good clock project, and [byeh_ in] has one with a design concept we dont believe we have seen before. The Trace Line Clock has smooth lines and a clean presentation, with no sockets or visible mechanical fixtures." https://hackaday.com/2025/12/08/trace-line-clock-does-it-with-magnets/ | Source: Hackaday
[13:48]	TR Bot	Line Clock Does It With Magnets | Hackaday
[13:49]	TR News	Nvidia running out of sellers to 'buy' its products at its own expense? https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/nvidia-reportedly-wins-h200-exports-to-china-us-department-of-commerce-set-to-ease-restrictions-for-full-hopper-ai-gpu http://techrights.org/n/2025/11/28/Circular_Financing_in_NVidia_NVidia_Pays_Its_Clients_to_Buy_Fro.shtml
[13:49]	TR Bot	 Nvidia reportedly wins H200 exports to China US Department of Commerce set to ease restrictions for full Hopper AI GPU | Tom's Hardware
[13:49]	TR Bot	 Techrights Circular Financing in NVidia (NVidia Pays Its Clients to Buy From NVidia) and "Lessons From the Dotcom Crash"
[13:50]	TR News	"Self-Cleaning" https://hackaday.com/2025/12/08/the-engineering-that-makes-a-road-cats-eye-self-cleaning/ | Source: Hackaday
[13:50]	TR Bot	Engineering That Makes A Road Cats Eye Self-Cleaning | Hackaday
[13:50]	TR News	"The Nintendo Switch dock set a new bar for handheld docking user experience just plug your console in to charge it, output image to your monitor, and keep it working with any USB peripherals of your choice." https://hackaday.com/2025/12/08/one-lucky-3ds-gets-a-switch-style-dock/ | Source: Hackaday
[13:50]	TR Bot	Lucky 3DS Gets A Switch-Style Dock | Hackaday
[13:51]	TR News	"Ever want a microcontroller addon for your laptops? You could do worse than match one of the new and powerful microcontrollers on the block to one of the most addon-friendly laptops, in the way the Framework RP2350 laptop card does it." https://hackaday.com/2025/12/08/rp2350-done-framework-style/ | Source: Hackaday
[13:51]	TR Bot	Done Framework Style | Hackaday
[13:52]	TR News	At the Kennedy Center Honors, Little Glitz and One Striking Accessory https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/style/melania-trump-kennedy-center-honors-style.html https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/13/Forbes_Already_Stopped_Being_a_News_Sites_Now_It_s_a_Spam_and_P.shtml Fake journalism
[13:52]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/style/melania-trump-kennedy-center-honors-style.html )
[13:52]	TR Bot	 Techrights Forbes Already Stopped Being a News Sites. Now It's a Spam and Propaganda Platform for "Paying Partners" (Companies).
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[13:53]	TR News	Forbes cuts up to dozens of contributing writers https://pressgazette.co.uk/north-america/forbes-cuts-up-to-dozens-of-contributing-writers/ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/13/Forbes_Already_Stopped_Being_a_News_Sites_Now_It_s_a_Spam_and_P.shtml Fake journalism
[13:53]	TR Bot	 Forbes cuts dozens of contributing writers - Press Gazette
[13:58]	TR News	Addressing Linux's missing PKI infrastructure https://lwn.net/Articles/1049663/
[13:58]	TR Bot	Linux's missing PKI infrastructure [LWN.net]
[13:59]	TR News	Controlled by spies? Only suggested by some? http://techrights.org/n/2025/03/19/Is_Ubuntu_Compromised_Push_Away_From_GNU_and_GPL_Led_by_Army_Of.shtml
[13:59]	TR Bot	 Techrights Is Ubuntu Compromised? Push Away From GNU and GPL Led by Army Officers.
● Dec 09
[14:01]	TR News	How to Install Open VM Tools on Debian GNU/Linux https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-open-vm-tools-on-debian-linux/
[14:01]	TR Bot	to Install Open VM Tools on Debian Linux - LinuxCapable
[14:01]	TR News	How To Install LocalSend on Debian 13 https://idroot.us/install-localsend-debian-13/
[14:01]	TR Bot	 How To Install LocalSend on Debian 13 - idroot
[14:01]	TR News	How To Install phpPgAdmin on Debian 13 https://idroot.us/install-phppgadmin-debian-13/
[14:01]	TR Bot	 How To Install phpPgAdmin on Debian 13 - idroot
[14:02]	TR News	How To Install Navidrome on Linux Mint 22 https://idroot.us/install-navidrome-linux-mint-22/
[14:02]	TR Bot	 How To Install Navidrome on Linux Mint 22 - idroot
[14:02]	TR News	New York Times Sues Perplexity Hey Hi (AI) in Latest IP Case Against GenAI Companies https://ipwatchdog.com/2025/12/08/new-york-times-sues-perplexity-ai-latest-ip-case-genai-companies/
[14:02]	TR Bot	York Times Sues Perplexity AI in Latest IP Case Against GenAI Companies - IPWatchdog.com | Patents & Intellectual Property Law New York Times Sues Perplexity AI in Latest IP Case Against GenAI Companies
[14:03]	TR News	TTABlog Test: How Did These Three Section 2(d) Appeals Turn Out? http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/12/ttablog-test-how-did-these-three.html
[14:03]	TR Bot	 The TTABlog: TTABlog Test: How Did These Three Section 2(d) Appeals Turn Out?
[14:03]	TR News	New York Times sues Perplexity Hey Hi (AI) over copyright monopoly infringement https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/12/new-york-times-sues-perplexity-ai-over-copyright-infringement/
[14:04]	TR Bot	 New York Times sues Perplexity AI over copyright infringement - JURIST - News
[14:04]	TR News	CRB Confirms 2026 Mechanical Royalty Rate Increase Cost of Living Bump Set to Reach Downloads and Physical Formats https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/12/08/mechanical-royalty-rate-2026-adjustment-crb/
[14:04]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/12/08/mechanical-royalty-rate-2026-adjustment-crb/ )
[14:08]	TR News	SSG Envy [n.]: when people deal with bloated and complex CMS that requires many updates and breaks sometimes, or has compatibility issues, whereupon a simpler, K.I.S.S. option is desirable. ex: Ron's Drupal site lost compatibility issue when Drupal 6 was out of support; he SSG-envied Dan's Ghost site.
[14:10]	TR News	UK government unveils AI-driven undersea surveillance network used to find enemy subs 'Atlantic Bastion' designed to counter Russian submarine activity https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/uk-unveils-atlantic-bastion-ai-driven-undersea-surveillance-network
[14:10]	TR Bot	 UK government unveils AI-driven undersea surveillance network used to find enemy subs 'Atlantic Bastion' designed to counter Russian submarine activity | Tom's Hardware
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[14:36]	TR News	21 years and counting of eight fallacies of distributed computing https://blog.apnic.net/2025/12/08/21-years-and-counting-of-eight-fallacies-of-distributed-computing/
[14:36]	TR Bot	 21 years and counting of 'eight fallacies of distributed computing' | APNIC Blog
[14:37]	TR News	"People enjoy retrocomputing for a wide variety of reasons sometimes its about having a computer you could fully learn, or nostalgia for chips that played a part in your childhood." https://hackaday.com/2025/12/08/cheap-and-aggressive-dram-chip-tester/ | Source: Hackaday
[14:37]	TR Bot	And Aggressive DRAM Chip Tester | Hackaday
[14:38]	TR News	Late Night Linux Episode 363 https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-363/
[14:38]	TR Bot	 Late Night Linux Episode 363 Late Night Linux
[14:39]	TR News	Linux User Space Episode 6:05: Plasma is the Way-Land https://www.linuxuserspace.show/605
[14:39]	TR Bot	 Linux User Space: Episode 6:05: Plasma is the Way-Land
[14:40]	TR News	The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 253: Guy Rub on the Unconvincing Case for a New Canadian Artists Resale Right https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2025/12/the-law-bytes-podcast-episode-253-guy-rub-on-the-unconvincing-case-for-a-new-canadian-artists-resale-right/
[14:40]	TR Bot	 The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 253: Guy Rub on the Unconvincing Case for a New Canadian Artists' Resale Right - Michael Geist
[14:41]	TR News	How Vivaldi Workspaces Turn Tabs Into Organized Projects https://fossforce.com/2025/12/how-vivaldi-workspaces-turn-tabs-into-organized-projects/
[14:41]	TR Bot	 How Vivaldi Workspaces Turn Tabs Into Organized Projects - FOSS Force
[14:41]	TR News	Police violence against state media journalists covering officer's suicide in Adyaman https://bianet.org/haber/police-violence-against-state-media-journalists-covering-officer-s-suicide-in-adiyaman-314301
[14:41]	TR Bot	 Police violence against state media journalists covering officer's suicide in Adyaman
[14:42]	TR News	IBM-sponsored AK "SEZ" piece https://www.itjungle.com/2025/12/08/ibms-ceo-says-genai-is-great-for-enterprise-but-it-will-not-be-agi/ see http://techrights.org/n/2025/12/04/IBM_s_AK_Sez_Campaign.shtml
[14:42]	TR Bot	 IBMs CEO Says GenAI Is Great For Enterprise, But It Will Not Be AGI - IT Jungle
[14:42]	TR Bot	 Techrights IBM's "AK Sez" Campaign
[14:44]	TR News	"I'm sure they way overpaid for it just like Ginni and AK paid $34B for Red Hat" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kby7g8nk
[14:44]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kby7g8nk )
[14:46]	TR News	"Workers Under Siege in Trump Economy, Layoffs Mount, Corporations Pocket Trump Tax Breaks"
[14:47]	TR News	"Microsoft killed the promising Perfect Dark reboot" .... "Microsoft cuts deeper into its workforce with another major round of layoffs"
[14:47]	TR News	"Graphing Weather Display" https://hackaday.com/2025/12/08/build-yourself-a-graphing-weather-display/ | Source: Hackaday
[14:47]	TR Bot	Yourself A Graphing Weather Display | Hackaday
[14:48]	TR News	Moving the Needle on Universal and Meaningful Access https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2025/12/moving-the-needle-on-universal-and-meaningful-access/
[14:48]	TR Bot	 Moving the Needle on Universal and Meaningful Access - Internet Society
[14:49]	TR News	Faked. Bribed-for. MARKETING. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/research-commissioned-by-openai-and-anthropic-claims-that-workers-are-more-efficient-when-using-ai-up-to-one-hour-saved-on-average-as-companies-make-bid-to-maintain-enterprise-ai-spending
[14:49]	TR Bot	 Research commissioned by OpenAI and Anthropic claims that workers are more efficient when using AI Up to one hour saved on average, as companies make bid to maintain enterprise AI spending | Tom's Hardware
[14:50]	TR News	There's a lot of money in LYING for the slop industry. Media, fake "analysts" etc. need money.
[14:52]	TR News	AI Research Papers Are Complete Slop, Experts Say https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-research-papers-slop
[14:52]	TR Bot	 The AI Research Sector Is Being Destroyed by Something Incredibly Ironic
[14:53]	TR News	European Union and Canada strengthen their digital partnership with a focus on SLOP (!!!), digital identity wallets and independent media https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_2974
[14:53]	TR Bot	 Press corner | European Commission
[14:55]	TR News	Live Nation Investors Contacted Ahead of Possible Class Action Lawsuit; Officers Probed for Breaching Their Fiduciary Duties https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/12/07/live-nation-investors-possible-lawsuit/
[14:55]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/12/07/live-nation-investors-possible-lawsuit/ )
[14:55]	TR News	Looks Like a Sony Music-Udio Settlement Will Have to Wait: Presiding Judge Officially Cancels Status Conference as Discovery Continues https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/12/08/sony-music-udio-lawsuit-impasse/
[14:55]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/12/08/sony-music-udio-lawsuit-impasse/ )
[14:56]	TR News	Latvia draws up guidelines for LLM Slop / Hey Hi (AI) use by public bodies https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/education/08.12.2025-latvia-draws-up-guidelines-for-ai-use-by-public-bodies.a625500/
[14:56]	TR Bot	 Latvia draws up guidelines for AI use by public bodies / Article
[14:58]	TR News	Rakudo Weekly 2025.49 Advent is Rolling https://rakudoweekly.blog/2025/12/08/2025-49-advent-is-rolling/
[14:58]	TR Bot	 2025.49 Advent is Rolling Rakudo Weekly News
[14:58]	TR News	Mocking a Software Developer for Using the Terminal or Programs Like Emacs https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/08/Mocking_a_Software_Developer_for_Using_the_Terminal_or_Programs.shtml
[14:58]	TR Bot	 Techrights Mocking a Software Developer for Using the Terminal or Programs Like Emacs
[14:59]	TR News	Valve's FEX-Emu Support Shows a Better Way to Fund Open Source https://itsfoss.com/news/valve-shows-a-better-way-to-fund-open-source/
[14:59]	TR Bot	 Valve's FEX-Emu Support Shows a Better Way to Fund Open Source
● Dec 09
[15:00]	TR News	Halozyme and Quinn Emanuel secure PI against MSD over Keytruda SC https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/halozyme-and-quinn-emanuel-secure-pi-against-msd-over-keytruda-sc/
[15:00]	TR Bot	 Halozyme and Quinn Emanuel secure PI against MSD
[15:00]	TR News	Control Sync Systems Display Patent Campaign Invalidity Charts Coming Soon https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/12/5/control-sync-systems-display-patent-campaign-invalidity-charts-coming-soon
[15:00]	TR Bot	 Control Sync Systems Display Patent Campaign Invalidity Charts Coming Soon Unified Patents
[15:01]	TR News	Light Guide Innovations backlight patent monopoly challenged https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/12/5/light-guide-innovations-backlight-patent-challenged
[15:01]	TR Bot	 Light Guide Innovations backlight patent challenged Unified Patents
[15:01]	TR News	Open Letter to the Administrative Council of the EPO Calls For Action as Salaries Decrease (Just Like Patent Validity) https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/08/Open_Letter_to_the_Administrative_Council_of_the_EPO_Calls_For_.shtml
[15:01]	TR Bot	 Techrights Open Letter to the Administrative Council of the EPO Calls For Action as Salaries Decrease (Just Like Patent Validity)
[15:02]	TR News	"I am sure the decision did not come as a surprise to Seagen. It is better to find ways to make money from invalid patents that do not involve actually litigating it." http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/12/strict-us-written-description-and.html?showComment=1765194078944#c6730594903698878258
[15:02]	TR News	"Unfortunately patentees do not always get the full spectrum of advice as to how to deal with an infringer, and too often the dispute goes on for far too long, and ends up with revocation of the patent."
[15:02]	TR Bot	 Strict US written description and enablement requirement applied to ADCs and platform inventions (Seagen v Daiichi Sankyo) - The IPKat
[15:02]	TR News	Verdict Deflated: Fed Circuit Punctures Codas $64M Win Over Goodyear https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/12/deflated-punctures-goodyear.html
[15:02]	TR Bot	 Verdict Deflated: Fed Circuit Punctures Codas $64M Win Over Goodyear | Patently-O
[15:04]	TR News	Freexian Collaborators: Debian's /usr-move transition has been completed (by Helmut Grohne) https://www.freexian.com/blog/usr_move/
[15:04]	TR Bot	/usr-move transition has been completed | Freexian
[15:04]	TR News	Traefik on Raspberry PI: Application Proxy for Docker to Manage Exposed Services https://peppe8o.com/traefik-raspberry-pi/
[15:04]	TR Bot	 Traefik on Raspberry PI: Application Proxy for Docker to Manage Exposed Services
[15:08]	TR News	Social Security budget: Olivier Faure calls on the Socialists to vote in favor https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251208-social-security-budget-olivier-faure-calls-on-the-socialists-to-vote-in-favor
[15:08]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251208-social-security-budget-olivier-faure-calls-on-the-socialists-to-vote-in-favor )
[15:09]	TR News	UK cyber agency warns LLMs will always be vulnerable to prompt injection https://cyberscoop.com/uk-warns-ai-prompt-injection-unfixable-security-flaw/
[15:09]	TR Bot	cyber agency warns LLMs will always be vulnerable to prompt injection | CyberScoop
[15:10]	TR News	Winners in the Month of LibreOffice, November 2025 Grab your free sticker pack https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/12/08/winners-in-the-month-of-libreoffice-november-2025-grab-your-free-sticker-pack-%f0%9f%98%8a/
[15:10]	TR Bot	 Winners in the Month of LibreOffice, November 2025 Grab your free sticker pack - TDF Community Blog
[15:14]	TR News	Modern Thumbnails!! Modern !!!! LIKE RUST !! https://www.phoronix.com/news/gst-thumbnailers-1.0-alpha
[15:14]	TR Bot	Project Aims To Provide Modern Thumbnails For Audio/Video Files On GNOME - Phoronix
[15:14]	TR News	If it's not Rust, then it is NOT SECURE!!!
[15:15]	TR News	Listen to the people, Hell Toupe they really DO feel economic pain https://nypost.com/2025/12/08/opinion/listen-to-the-people-president-trump-they-really-do-feel-economic-pain/
[15:15]	TR Bot	 Listen to the people, President Trump they really DO feel economic pain | New York Post
[15:16]	TR News	App That Tracks ICE Raids Sues U.S., Saying Officials Pressured Fashion Company Apple to Remove It https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/business/apple-iceblock-lawsuit.html
[15:16]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/business/apple-iceblock-lawsuit.html )
[15:17]	TR News	'Abolish the EU': MElon clashes with Europe over X's transparency violations https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/truth-or-fake/20251208-abolish-the-eu-elon-musk-clashes-with-europe-over-x-s-transparency-violations
[15:17]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/truth-or-fake/20251208-abolish-the-eu-elon-musk-clashes-with-europe-over-x-s-transparency-violations )
[15:18]	TR News	This scratch-built, period-correct Portable Commodore 64 is a love letter to an alternate Commodore history https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/this-scratch-built-period-correct-design-portable-commodore-64-is-a-love-letter-to-an-alternate-commodore-history-nokis-cleverly-designed-homage-to-the-era-merges-commodore-apple-and-raspberry-pi
[15:18]	TR Bot	 This scratch-built, period-correct Portable Commodore 64 is a love letter to an alternate Commodore history Noki's cleverly designed homage to the era merges Commodore, Apple, and Raspberry Pi | Tom's Hardware
[15:21]	TR News	Substitution Cipher Based on The Voynich Manuscript https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/12/substitution-cipher-based-on-the-voynich-manuscript.html
[15:21]	TR Bot	Cipher Based on The Voynich Manuscript - Schneier on Security
[15:22]	TR News	AI Craze Just Made Your New PC Build Way More Expensive https://itsfoss.com/news/ai-causes-ram-prices-skyrocket/
[15:22]	TR Bot	 AI Craze Just Made Your New PC Build Way More Expensive
[15:22]	TR News	February report from researcher found Chinese KVM had undocumented microphone and communicated with China-based servers, but many of the security issues are now addressed [Updated] https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/researcher-finds-undocumented-microphone-and-major-security-flaws-in-sipeed-nanokvm
[15:22]	TR Bot	 February report from researcher found Chinese KVM had undocumented microphone and communicated with China-based servers, but many of the security issues are now addressed [Updated] | Tom's Hardware
[15:23]	TR News	Radxa C200 Orin Developer Kit An NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX 8GB devkit with three M.2 PCIe 4.0 slots https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/12/09/radxa-c200-orin-developer-kit-an-nvidia-jetson-orin-nx-8gb-devkit-with-three-m-2-pcie-4-0-slots/
[15:23]	TR Bot	 Radxa C200 Orin Developer Kit - An NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX 8GB devkit with three M.2 PCIe 4.0 slots - CNX Software
[15:24]	TR News	So many people leave Apple. Weeks ago... MASS layoffs.
[15:25]	TR News	Apple's chief chip architect for the last decade has reportedly talked to CEO Tim Cook about leaving (Updated) https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/apples-chief-chip-architect-for-the-last-decade-has-reportedly-talked-to-ceo-tim-cook-about-leaving
[15:25]	TR Bot	 Apple's chief chip architect for the last decade has reportedly talked to CEO Tim Cook about leaving (Updated) | Tom's Hardware
[15:25]	TR News	Johny Srouji ready to leave Apple: a departure that could shake the entire silicon strategy https://hackwarenews.com/johny-srouji-ready-to-leave-apple-a-departure-that-could-shake-the-entire-silicon-strategy/
[15:25]	TR Bot	 Johny Srouji ready to leave Apple: a departure that could shake the entire silicon strategy
[15:26]	TR News	Hurray! This German State Decides to Save 15 Million Each Year By Kicking Out Abusive Monopolist Microsoft for Open Source https://itsfoss.com/news/german-state-ditch-microsoft/
[15:26]	TR Bot	 Hurray! This German State Decides to Save 15 Million Each Year By Kicking Out Microsoft for Open Source
[15:28]	TR News	The House Throws Spaghetti at the Wall with Messy Kids Online Safety Package https://publicknowledge.org/the-kids-package-december-2025-hearing/
[15:28]	TR Bot	 The House Throws Spaghetti at the Wall with Messy Kids Online Safety Package - Public Knowledge
[15:29]	TR News	Tri-Century Eye Care Data Breach Impacts 200,000 Individuals https://www.securityweek.com/tri-century-eye-care-data-breach-impacts-200000-individuals/
[15:29]	TR Bot	Eye Care Data Breach Impacts 200,000 Individuals - SecurityWeek
[15:30]	TR News	lwn doing "post-quantum" blahblahblahblahblahblah.... says a lot about lwn
[15:31]	TR News	Exploitation of React2Shell Surges https://www.securityweek.com/exploitation-of-react2shell-surges/
[15:31]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/exploitation-of-react2shell-surges/ )
[15:31]	TR News	Ransomware Payments Surpassed $4.5 Billion: US Treasury https://www.securityweek.com/ransomware-payments-surpassed-4-5-billion-us-treasury/
[15:31]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/ransomware-payments-surpassed-4-5-billion-us-treasury/ )
[15:32]	TR News	"Ubuntu might be considered the face of Linux, but that doesn't mean it's the best distro. In fact, some of Ubuntu's own spin-off flavors offer tools and features that can make them better suited for certain users and use cases. Here are three such Ubuntu flavors that can actually outperform the original." https://www.howtogeek.com/ubuntu-flavors-that-i-like-better-than-the-original/
[15:32]	TR Bot	 3 Ubuntu flavors that I like more than the original
[15:33]	TR News	Craig Wright: I invented bitcoin. Shiva Scamadurai: I invented E-mail. SFC: we invented GPL and speak for software freedom. Parasites. All of them.
[15:34]	TR News	I rediscovered my longtime Linux favorite - thanks to a spin I didn't see coming https://www.zdnet.com/article/i-rediscovered-my-longtime-linux-favorite-thanks-to-a-spin-i-didnt-see-coming/
[15:34]	TR Bot	rediscovered my longtime Linux favorite - thanks to a spin I didn't see coming | ZDNET
[15:36]	TR News	This device runs Sailfish OS 5 https://www.techradar.com/phones/forget-android-vs-ios-this-new-privacy-focused-linux-phone-promises-to-be-the-alternative-we-need-but-it-still-runs-android-apps
[15:36]	TR Bot	Android vs iOS this new privacy-focused Linux phone promises to be the alternative we need, but it still runs Android apps | TechRadar
[15:37]	TR News	Hardening the Backbone: Strengthening Linux Server Security with Preemptive Defense https://www.morphisec.com/blog/hardening-the-backbone-strengthening-linux-server-security-with-preemptive-defense/
[15:37]	TR Bot	( status 502 @ https://www.morphisec.com/blog/hardening-the-backbone-strengthening-linux-server-security-with-preemptive-defense/ )
[15:37]	TR News	 (NEW):  Open Standards, Microblogging Protocols Update, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/08/Open_Standards_Microblogging_Protocols_Update_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/08/Open_Standards_Microblogging_Protocols_Update_and_More.gmi 
[15:37]	TR News	 (NEW):   Programming Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/08/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/08/Programming_Leftovers.gmi 
[15:37]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Open Standards, Microblogging Protocols Update, and More
[15:37]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Programming Leftovers
[15:38]	TR News	Linux Foundation-sponsored chaff from SJVN https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-new-linux-platform-will-let-you-update-your-next-car-at-home-as-soon-as-2027/
[15:38]	TR Bot	new Linux platform will let you update your next car at home - as soon as 2027 | ZDNET
[15:38]	TR News	"Are you sitting bored at your Linux machine and looking for a quick gaming session? Tired of playing those online card games that bombard you with ads or push microtransactions? Well, here are five open-source card games that are completely free and deliver a fun gaming experience." https://www.howtogeek.com/free-open-source-card-games-for-bored-linux-users/
[15:38]	TR Bot	 5 free and open source card games on Linux
[15:39]	TR News	"It's a debate Linux users love to argue over, and there's no easy answer - but here's my take." https://www.zdnet.com/article/snap-vs-flatpak-how-to-decide-which-linux-package-manager-is-right-for-you/
[15:39]	TR Bot	vs. Flatpak: How to decide which Linux package manager is right for you | ZDNET
[15:39]	TR News	"Their first product, the Jolla Phone, launched in November 2013 after a successful crowdfunding campaign. It ran Sailfish OS, a gesture-based Linux system that Jolla continues developing to this day." https://itsfoss.com/news/jolla-phone-returns/
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[15:39]	TR Bot	 This Could Be The Linux Phone We All Have Been Waiting For
[15:40]	MinceR	yes, i was totally waiting for a phone with a proprietary UI
[15:40]	schestowitz[TR2]	sailfish is still nonf-ree u?
[15:40]	MinceR	the main problem with Android was always that it just wasn't proprietary enough
[15:40]	MinceR	isn't it?
[15:41]	TR News	But GitHub itself is a problem - lots of malware and state-connected malware vendors https://itsfoss.com/eget/
[15:41]	TR Bot	 Easily Install Binaries in Linux Terminal With This Tool
[15:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	android has many problems
[15:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	aside from the licence and EULA
[15:43]	TR News	Report made with proprietary software by companies looking to sell proprietary things https://www.opensourceforu.com/2025/12/linux-foundation-warns-of-security-gaps-amid-japans-oss-boom/ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/08/Linux_Foundation_Research_Marketing_Has_New_Report_About_Open_S.shtml
[15:43]	TR Bot	 Linux Foundation Warns Of Security Gaps Amid Japans OSS Boom - Open Source For You
[15:43]	TR Bot	 Techrights 'Linux' Foundation 'Research' (Marketing) Has New Report About "Open Source" and It Was Made Using Proprietary Software and Not Linux
[15:44]	TR News	This Is What I Used to Automate My Linux Desktop, Without Touching the Terminal https://www.maketecheasier.com/automate-linux-desktop-with-actiona/
[15:44]	TR Bot	 Use Actiona to Automate Your Linux Desktop Without Touching the Terminal - Make Tech Easier
[15:45]	MinceR	replacing it with a less free OS is going to solve 0 of those problems
[15:47]	TR News	 (NEW):  Devices/Embedded: RP2350, Radxa, and More LF Output/Marketing PR From Japan https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/09/Devices_Embedded_RP2350_Radxa_and_More_LF_Output_Marketing_PR_F.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/09/Devices_Embedded_RP2350_Radxa_and_More_LF_Output_Marketing_PR_F.gmi 
[15:47]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Devices/Embedded: RP2350, Radxa, and More LF Output/Marketing PR From Japan
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[15:49]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Applications: Flowblade, HeadsetStatus, FlareSolverr, and Actiona
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[15:50]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Security Leftovers
[15:52]	TR News	 (NEW):  Debian: Thorsten Alteholz's Debian Activities and Helmut Grohne on Freexian Work https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/09/Debian_Thorsten_Alteholz_s_Debian_Activities_and_Helmut_Grohne_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/09/Debian_Thorsten_Alteholz_s_Debian_Activities_and_Helmut_Grohne_.gmi 
[15:52]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Debian: Thorsten Alteholz's Debian Activities and Helmut Grohne on Freexian Work
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[15:54]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Red Hat Leftovers
[15:54]	TR News	 (NEW):  Two New Reports From Akademy 2025 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/09/Two_New_Reports_From_Akademy_202.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/09/Two_New_Reports_From_Akademy_202.gmi 
[15:54]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Two New Reports From Akademy 2025
[15:55]	TR News	 (NEW):  Audiocasts/Shows: Late Night Linux and Linux User Space https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/09/Audiocasts_Shows_Late_Night_Linux_and_Linux_User_Space.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/09/Audiocasts_Shows_Late_Night_Linux_and_Linux_User_Space.gmi 
[15:55]	TR News	 (NEW):  Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/09/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/09/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.gmi 
[15:55]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Audiocasts/Shows: Late Night Linux and Linux User Space
[15:55]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
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[15:57]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers
[15:59]	TR News	Techrights Links 09/12/2025: Tariffs Causing Great Harm and "#HowTo Leave the U.S.A." https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/09/Links_09_12_2025_Tariffs_Causing_Great_Harm_and_How_to_Leave_th.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/09/Links_09_12_2025_Tariffs_Causing_Great_Harm_and_How_to_Leave_th.gmi 
[15:59]	TR Bot	 Techrights Links 09/12/2025: Tariffs Causing Great Harm and "How to Leave the U.S.A."
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[16:02]	TR News	"when I was a kid, whenever my parents would bring me to restaurants or events they would let me have a bit of cranberry juice with carbonated water." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2753
[16:03]	TR News	SpellBinding ACEGTOI Wordo: EDITS gemini://spell.ddns.net/games/gemlog/2025-12-09.gmi
[16:03]	TR News	 xkcd Hyperacute Interdynamics #3178 gemini://8by3.net/~xkcd/3178.gmi
[16:04]	TR News	K.I.S.S. model gemini://omg.pebcak.club/~cage/archive/le-mie-disavventure-con-una-sveglia-2.gmi
[16:05]	TR News	[japan] [food] gemini://higeki.jp/nikki/2025-12-08.gmi
[16:07]	TR News	"Considering Stallman worked in the MIT AI lab in the era of symbolic AI, and has written GCC (an optimizing compiler is a kind of symbolic reasoner imo), I think he has a deeper understanding of the question than most famous people in tech." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46203591
[16:07]	TR Bot	 Richard Stallman on ChatGPT | Hacker News
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[16:31]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kby7g8nk
[16:31]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kby7g8nk )
[16:31]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[16:31]	schestowitz[TR2]	IBM's total debt fluctuates slightly depending on the reporting period, but recent figures show it around $58 billion to $67 billion USD, with sources pointing to figures like $66.57 billion (Sept 2025 estimate), $67.72 billion (June 2025), and $58.40 billion (Dec 2024). This total includes both short-term and long-term obligations, with substantial cash reserves often held against it.
[16:31]	schestowitz[TR2]	13 minutes ago by Anonymous
[16:31]	schestowitz[TR2]	| no reactions | Reply
[16:31]	schestowitz[TR2]	Post ID: @gg+1kby7g8nk
[16:31]	schestowitz[TR2]	 0 
[16:31]	schestowitz[TR2]	The 17 billion IBM is carrying on their books comes down by 11 billion There is no borrowing (from a financial view point) going on
[16:31]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
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[16:49]	TR News	Techrights Google Still Promotes Plagiarism From WebProNews and Prolific Slopfarms https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/09/Google_Still_Promotes_Plagiarism_From_WebProNews_and_Prolific_S.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/09/Google_Still_Promotes_Plagiarism_From_WebProNews_and_Prolific_S.gmi 
[16:49]	TR Bot	 Techrights Google Still Promotes Plagiarism From WebProNews and Prolific Slopfarms
[16:57]	MinceR	(cat) https://ircz.de/p/1403030
[16:57]	TR Bot	( status 308 @ http://ircz.de/d?from=%2Fp%2F1403030 )
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[17:07]	TR News	IBM: We Lay Off Tens of Thousands of People the Very Same Week We Spend 11 Billion Dollars (Debt) on "AI" Fantasies, Hiring About 8,000 People at Cost of 1.3+ Million Dollars Per Employee https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/09/IBM_We_Lay_Off_Tens_of_Thousands_of_People_the_Very_Same_Week_W.shtml
[17:07]	TR Bot	 Techrights IBM: We Lay Off Tens of Thousands of People the Very Same Week We Spend 11 Billion Dollars (Debt) on "AI" Fantasies, Hiring About 8,000 People at Cost of 1.3+ Million Dollars Per Employee
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[17:17]	nobody	meanwhile, i've made a little progress, backporting GNU onto linux2/tinycc
[17:17]	nobody	a self-hosting compilation run passed already, there's alot of cleanup work remaining to announce
[17:18]	nobody	at the horizon, besides GNU/Linux a TinyCC/Linux is feasible, it compiles and boots already
[17:18]	nobody	and passed notable runtime testing with self-hosting compilation
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[17:57]	MinceR	https://crzysdrs.net/dv/victim/277-those-fewls-insist-i-abandon-the-glove-and-the-dark-feedbackforcing-arts-it-embodies/
[17:57]	TR Bot	 Daily Victim Archive
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[19:12]	admfubar	we want moar! and of course hilarity ensues! ... https://www.vitallaw.com/news/defense-bill-would-require-new-cyber-requirements-for-some-dod-telecom-contracts/cspd010bece91debea44bbbd215f12daec3e5d?refURL=https%3A%2F%2Fdatabreaches.net%2F#.
[19:12]	TR Bot	 Wolters Kluwer
[19:13]	admfubar	https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/latest-steam-client-beta-backport-keeps-windows-7-and-windows-8-gaming-pcs-on-life-support-unofficial-solution-gives-a-lifeline-to-legacy-users
[19:13]	TR Bot	 Latest Steam Client Beta backport keeps Windows 7 and Windows 8 gaming PCs on life support unofficial solution gives a lifeline to legacy users | Tom's Hardware
[19:18]	MinceR	https://crzysdrs.net/dv/victim/278-i-solicited-spam-mail-to-stop-the-lonliness/
[19:18]	TR Bot	 Daily Victim Archive
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[19:36]	admfubar	no he has looneyness
[19:36]	MinceR	:>
[19:37]	admfubar	now =no
[19:39]	admfubar	no go waymos... https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/waymo-crashed-into-each-other
[19:39]	TR Bot	 Two Self-Driving Waymos Just Crashed Into Each Other, Trapping a Third Waymo
[19:40]	MinceR	:)
[19:45]	admfubar	https://www.poynter.org/tech-tools/2024/willy-wonka-glasgow-artificial-intelligence/
[19:45]	TR Bot	 Welcome to Willys AI catastrophe - Poynter
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[20:04]	admfubar	yeah they are so secure even the owners cant use them... https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/09/porsche_bricked_russia/
[20:04]	TR Bot	 Porsche panic in Russia as cars mysteriously bricked The Register
[20:06]	MinceR	that's nice, helps keep others safe
[20:07]	admfubar	yeah all those non porsche owners and cars...
[20:09]	MinceR	and pedestrians
[20:28]	admfubar	small animals
[20:30]	admfubar	https://blog.patentology.com.au/2025/12/are-patent-offices-being-inundated-with.html
[20:30]	TR Bot	 Are Patent Offices Being Inundated with Low-Quality AI-Generated Slopplications? ~ patentology
[20:32]	admfubar	https://www.planetary.org/articles/best-of-2025-winners
[20:32]	TR Bot	 The Planetary Society's Best of 2025 Winners | The Planetary Society
[20:37]	admfubar	https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/08/giant-teddybears/#
[20:37]	TR Bot	 Pluralistic: Elon Musks Blue Tick scam (08 Dec 2025) Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
[20:38]	admfubar	who wouldnt want to get ticks? especially blue ones? they wont clash with the fleas...
[20:59]	admfubar	https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/12/09/1612202/the-rarest-of-all-diseases-are-becoming-treatable.
[20:59]	TR Bot	 The Rarest of All Diseases Are Becoming Treatable - Slashdot
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[21:00]	admfubar	https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/12/09/1511224/colleges-oversold-education-now-they-must-sell-connection?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
[21:00]	TR Bot	 'Colleges Oversold Education. Now They Must Sell Connection' - Slashdot
[21:04]	admfubar	https://techxplore.com/news/2025-12-classical-indian-ways-robots.html
[21:04]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://techxplore.com/news/2025-12-classical-indian-ways-robots.html )
[21:10]	admfubar	https://thedebrief.org/new-warp-drive-propulsion-concept-moves-fictional-starships-closer-to-engineering-reality/
[21:10]	TR Bot	 New Warp-Drive Propulsion Concept Moves Fictional Starships Closer to Engineering Reality - The Debrief
[21:14]	admfubar	https://thedebrief.org/new-ultrasonic-acoustic-attack-targeting-microphones-and-voice-assistants-gives-remote-access-to-most-smart-devices/
[21:14]	TR Bot	 New Ultrasonic Acoustic Attack Targeting Microphones and Voice Assistants Gives Remote Access to Most Smart Devices - The Debrief
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[23:06]	MinceR	https://engrish.com/2024/04/why-dont-we-do-it-in-the-road/
[23:06]	TR Bot	 Why dont we do it in the road