●● IRC: #techrights @ Techrights IRC Network: Wednesday, November 12, 2025 ●● ● Nov 12 [00:40] *themusicfactory (~Hidamari@t3kjghgqtc4wn.irc) has joined #techrights [00:41] *Sompi_ (~sami@ygead2m2g5t56.irc) has joined #techrights [00:42] *Sompi has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [00:45] TR News "One of my all-time favorite Raspberry Pi projects was the PirateBox. First created in 2011, the PirateBox was a self-contained, offline network server that allowed users to share files, stream media, chat with others, and even post on a local image board." gemini://jsreed5.org/log/2025/202511/20251111-software-survival.gmi [00:46] TR News [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1472.jpg [00:47] TR News [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1822.jpg [00:51] TR News "Any big name departures so far ? Or is it the usual divide and hide strategy ? Come out, come out wherever you are. Uncle Alvind won't be kept waiting..." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k9t4n1df [00:51] TR News "Does anyone know if the IBM Cloud VMware team in North America (U.S./Canada) was affected by the recent layoffs, or if there are still team members remaining?" [00:53] TR News Gameskart Layoffs: Bengaluru-Based Gaming Firm Lays Off Over 400 Employees So Far Amid RMG Ban in India, Says Report https://www.latestly.com/technology/gameskart-layoffs-bengaluru-based-gaming-firm-lays-off-over-400-employees-so-far-amid-rmg-ban-in-india-says-report-7200278.html/amp [00:53] TR Bot Layoffs: Bengaluru-Based Gaming Firm Lays Off Over 400 Employees So Far Amid RMG Ban in India, Says Report | LatestLY [00:55] *includeals has quit (Quit: ZNC - https://znc.in) [00:55] *includeals (~includeal@bl18-27-126.dsl.telepac.pt) has joined #techrights [00:56] *\join_subline (~join_subline@x58kccsbytrv6.irc) has joined #techrights ● Nov 12 [01:00] TR News Slop ruins this article https://lundi.am/Logiciel-libre-et-economie-de-l-ubique [01:00] TR Bot Logiciel libre et conomie de l'ubique [01:03] TR News Pro-Russian hackers target Belgian telecom websites in DDoS attack https://www.belganewsagency.eu/pro-russian-hackers-target-belgian-telecom-websites-in-ddos-attack [01:03] TR Bot Pro-Russian hackers target Belgian telecom websites in DDoS attack [01:03] TR News Online Searches for 'Extremist' Material https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-11-07/russia-opens-first-known-investigation-into-online-searches-for-extremist-material [01:03] TR Bot stream 1 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2) ( status 0 @ https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-11-07/russia-opens-first-known-investigation-into-online-searches-for-extremist-material ) [01:09] TR News Widow of late Russian opposition leader Navalny unveils memorial plaque in The Hague https://nltimes.nl/2025/11/09/widow-late-russian-opposition-leader-navalny-unveils-memorial-plaque-hague [01:09] TR Bot Widow of late Russian opposition leader Navalny unveils memorial plaque in The Hague | NL Times [01:10] TR News Teenage Russian Street Musician Jailed Over Anti-Kremlin Songs Is Detained as She Leaves Jail https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-11-10/teenage-russian-street-musician-jailed-over-anti-kremlin-songs-is-detained-as-she-leaves-jail [01:10] TR Bot stream 1 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2) ( status 0 @ https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-11-10/teenage-russian-street-musician-jailed-over-anti-kremlin-songs-is-detained-as-she-leaves-jail ) [01:12] TR News Fact check: AI videos of crying Ukrainian soldiers are fake https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-ai-videos-of-crying-ukrainian-soldiers-are-fake/a-74659145 [01:12] TR Bot check: Videos of crying Ukrainian soldiers are fake DW 11/10/2025 [01:13] TR News TikTok Star's Public Execution https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/who-mariam-cisse-brother-was-crowd-tiktok-stars-public-execution-1753760 [01:13] TR Bot Who Is Mariam Cisse? Brother 'Was in the Crowd' for TikTok Star's Public Execution | IBTimes UK [01:14] TR News education battleground? https://www.theage.com.au/education/tiktok-generation-meets-socrates-is-this-the-new-education-battleground-20251029-p5n656.html [01:14] TR Bot Sydney Catholic schools: Embracing liberal arts education with classical texts and virtue-based behaviour [01:14] TR News Germany cracks down on 'TikTok Islamism' https://www.dw.com/en/germany-cracks-down-on-tiktok-islamism/a-74630321 [01:14] TR Bot cracks down on 'TikTok Islamism' DW 11/05/2025 [01:15] TR News TikTok https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/white-house-uses-taylor-swift-song-tiktok-about-trump-fans-howl-irony-1752619 [01:15] TR Bot White House Uses Taylor Swift Song In TikTok About Trump Fans Howl At Irony | IBTimes UK [01:15] TR News Metric Tip https://xkcd.com/3164/ [01:15] TR Bot Metric Tip [01:15] TR News Earthquake Prediction Flowchart https://xkcd.com/3165/ [01:15] TR Bot Earthquake Prediction Flowchart [01:17] TR News Apples notarisation https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20251105-01.en.html FSFE [sic] won't pick on Microsoft anymore; because it's a top sponsor [01:17] TR Bot Legal Corner: Apples notarisation blocking software freedom of developers and users - FSFE [01:17] TR News They are not alone in their work for software freedom https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20251106-01.en.html [01:17] TR Bot They are not alone in their work for software freedom - FSFE [01:17] TR News Jean-Baptiste Kempf receives the European SFS Award 2025 at SFSCON https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20251107-01.en.html [01:17] TR Bot Jean-Baptiste Kempf receives the European SFS Award 2025 at SFSCON - FSFE [01:18] TR News Can you treat a narcissist? https://theconversation.com/can-you-treat-a-narcissist-268504 [01:18] TR Bot Can you treat a narcissist? 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[03:22] *whatA____ (~chatzilla@qnjnrbiaw9qfs.irc) has joined #techrights [03:51] TR News (NEW): Firefox and I https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/12/Firefox_and_I.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/12/Firefox_and_I.gmi [03:51] TR Bot Tux Machines Firefox and I [03:53] TR News Techrights The Issue With Firefox is Not Its Brand https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/12/The_Issue_With_Firefox_is_Not_Its_Brand.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/11/12/The_Issue_With_Firefox_is_Not_Its_Brand.gmi [03:53] TR Bot Techrights The Issue With Firefox is Not Its Brand ● Nov 12 [04:21] *whatA____ has quit (connection closed) [04:43] *whatA____ (~chatzilla@s6f3fcas33ywc.irc) has joined #techrights [04:56] TR News Getty Images v Stability: Long-awaited judgment rejects majority of Getty's claim http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/11/getty-images-v-stability-long-awaited.html [04:56] TR Bot Getty Images v Stability: Long-awaited judgment rejects majority of Getty's claim - The IPKat [04:56] TR News Right of Publicity http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/11/berlin-regional-court-indirectly.html [04:56] TR Bot Berlin Regional Court indirectly exclaims Yippee-ki-yay to AI-voice cloning Bruce Willis German dubbing artists voice - The IPKat [04:57] TR News Kangaroo Courts of EPO http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/11/insufficiency-resulting-from-mutually.html [04:57] TR Bot Insufficiency resulting from mutually exclusive definitions: The repercussive effect of dependent claims (T 0878/23) - The IPKat ● Nov 12 [05:01] TR News psychology of generation Alpha https://theconversation.com/the-psychology-of-generation-alpha-268500 [05:01] TR Bot The psychology of generation Alpha [05:01] TR News Londons skyscrapers deprive marginalised people of light https://theconversation.com/daylight-robbery-how-londons-skyscrapers-deprive-marginalised-people-of-light-267332 [05:01] TR Bot Daylight robbery? How Londons skyscrapers deprive marginalised people of light [05:12] whatA____ 15 years ago http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2010/04/what-does-open-source-have-to-say-about.html [05:12] TR Bot What Does Open Source Have to Say about Cloud Computing? - The IPKat [05:13] whatA____ recent http://techrights.org/n/2025/10/21/Richard_Stallman_is_Having_a_Good_Week_Already_Stallman_Was_Rig.shtml [05:13] TR Bot Techrights Richard Stallman is Having a Good Week Already (Stallman Was Right About 'Clown Computing') [05:13] whatA____ outsourcing is a joke [05:14] whatA____ especially to a nonfree, proprietary prison (notorious: GAFAM) [05:15] TR News Techrights Slopwatch Turns 1 Next Month https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/12/Slopwatch_Turns_1_Next_Month.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/11/12/Slopwatch_Turns_1_Next_Month.gmi [05:15] TR Bot Techrights Slopwatch Turns 1 Next Month [05:15] whatA____ his warning is disregarded until it's too late (AWS and Azure outage not a few months ago) [05:16] schestowitz[TR2] whatA____: i didn't know ipkat covered it [05:17] schestowitz[TR2] when it said "open source" who/what did it mean? [05:17] schestowitz[TR2] not rms, i hope [05:18] TR News Old, in Chile. Richard Stallman en Beauchef: "Hemos construido este muro de libertad en la informtica" https://uchile.cl/noticias/146197/richard-stallman-realiza-charla-en-beauchef [05:18] TR Bot Richard Stallman en Beauchef: "Hemos construido este muro de libertad en la informtica" [05:18] whatA____ http://theguardian.com/technology/2008/sep/29/cloud.computing.richard.stallman [05:18] TR Bot Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder Richard Stallman | Computing | The Guardian [05:18] whatA____ http://cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/stallman-cloud-computing-is-stupidity/ [05:18] TR Bot Cloud computing is 'stupidity' - CNET [05:18] whatA____ those are the original links before IPKat [05:18] TR News "Virtual Richard M. Stallman. This is hilarious, I'd never heard of this. Thanks for sharing. No surprises on my system except for the firmware-intel-* packages. I thought those were free software? Must be binary blobs. Yup. Which is why the real Richard M. Stallman has often used MIPS laptops." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45741855 [05:18] TR Bot Virtual Richard M. Stallman. This is hilarious, I'd never heard of this. Thanks ... | Hacker News [05:19] schestowitz[TR2] so they must have mean free software [05:19] schestowitz[TR2] "open source" is not "the cloud" opponent [05:19] schestowitz[TR2] the "cloud" pushers like "open source" [05:19] schestowitz[TR2] it's something they exploit as code that they don't need to give back [05:19] schestowitz[TR2] just to build prisons cheaply [05:45] whatA____ speaking of clown http://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=32045 [05:45] TR Bot Making sure you're not a bot! [05:45] whatA____ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42953508 [05:46] TR Bot Tell HN: Cloudflare is blocking Pale Moon and other non-mainstream browsers | Hacker News [05:46] whatA____ http://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/02/07/044225 [05:46] TR Bot Cloudflare Browser Integrity Check Blocking Many Non-Mainstream Browsers Again - SoylentNews [05:46] whatA____ http://techrights.org/n/2025/02/20/Instead_of_DoS_Protection_Cloudflare_is_Allegedly_Conducting_Do.shtml [05:46] TR Bot Techrights Instead of 'DoS Protection' Cloudflare is Allegedly Conducting 'DoS Attacks' on Users of Browsers Other Than Firefox and GAFAM's DRM Sandboxes (Chrome, Safari and Others) [05:46] whatA____ "Drain the swap, you're doing it wrong" [05:47] whatA____ (swap being our disk drive turned into RAMdisk) [05:48] whatA____ and speaking of browsers http://techrights.org/n/2025/10/12/The_Way_Things_Are_Going_They_May_Soon_Stop_Saying_Web_Address_.shtml [05:48] TR Bot Techrights The Way Things Are Going, They May Soon Stop Saying "Web Address" and Instead Say "Chrome Address" [05:49] whatA____ Anything which is not chrom* is going to be flagged as "non-mainstream browser" [05:49] whatA____ the second Firefox is killed [05:52] schestowitz[TR2] i am writing aboutt FF atm ● Nov 12 [06:01] TR News Techrights Groklaw Won't be the Latest (Nor the Last) Major Site We Lose https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/12/Groklaw_Won_t_be_the_Latest_Nor_the_Last_Major_Site_We_Lose.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/11/12/Groklaw_Won_t_be_the_Latest_Nor_the_Last_Major_Site_We_Lose.gmi [06:01] TR Bot Techrights Groklaw Won't be the Latest (Nor the Last) Major Site We Lose [06:08] TR News (NEW): This Week in Plasma: Virtual desktops only on the primary screen https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/08/This_Week_in_Plasma_Virtual_desktops_only_on_the_primary_screen.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/08/This_Week_in_Plasma_Virtual_desktops_only_on_the_primary_screen.gmi [06:08] TR Bot Tux Machines This Week in Plasma: Virtual desktops only on the primary screen [06:11] TR News (NEW): Want to try Linux but prefer the Windows UI? 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[06:28] TR News BBC News says it received legal threat from Cheeto Mussolini over speech edit https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/bbc-news-trump-edit-9.6973215 http://techrights.org/n/2025/11/11/Like_the_Serial_Strangler_From_Microsoft_Donald_Trump_is_Out_of.shtml [06:28] TR Bot Trump threatens to sue as BBC admits erroneous speech edit | CBC News [06:28] TR Bot Techrights Like the Serial Strangler From Microsoft, Donald Trump is Out of Time and Has Jurisdiction Issues in the UK [06:28] TR News BBC Faces Leadership Crisis After News Bosses Quit Over Cheeto Mussolini Speech Edit and Bias Claims https://www.usnews.com/news/entertainment/articles/2025-11-10/bbc-faces-leadership-crisis-after-news-bosses-quit-over-trump-speech-edit-and-bias-claims [06:28] TR Bot stream 1 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2) ( status 0 @ https://www.usnews.com/news/entertainment/articles/2025-11-10/bbc-faces-leadership-crisis-after-news-bosses-quit-over-trump-speech-edit-and-bias-claims ) [06:28] TR News BBC News Says It Received Legal Threat From Cheeto Mussolini Over Speech Edit https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2025-11-10/bbc-news-says-it-received-legal-threat-from-trump-over-speech-edit [06:28] TR Bot stream 1 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2) ( status 0 @ https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2025-11-10/bbc-news-says-it-received-legal-threat-from-trump-over-speech-edit ) [06:29] TR News BBC Chairman Apologises for 'Error of Judgment' in Cheeto Mussolini Speech Edit https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-11-10/bbc-chairman-apologises-for-error-of-judgment-in-trump-speech-edit [06:29] TR Bot stream 1 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2) ( status 0 @ https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-11-10/bbc-chairman-apologises-for-error-of-judgment-in-trump-speech-edit ) [06:29] TR News BBC director, head of news resign after criticism of Cheeto Mussolini speech edits https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/bbc-director-resigns-9.6972781 [06:29] TR Bot BBC director, head of news resign after criticism of Trump speech edits | CBC [06:29] TR News (NEW): Fish Shell 4.2 Released with Improved Autosuggestions https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/10/Fish_Shell_4_2_Released_with_Improved_Autosuggestions.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/10/Fish_Shell_4_2_Released_with_Improved_Autosuggestions.gmi [06:29] TR Bot Tux Machines Fish Shell 4.2 Released with Improved Autosuggestions [06:30] TR News censorship against women journalists increased in October https://anfenglishmobile.com/freedom-of-the-press/mkg-pressure-and-censorship-against-women-journalists-increase-in-october-82066 [06:30] TR Bot ANF | HDP'li Geveri hakknda arlatrlm mebbet istendi [06:31] TR News When Algorithms Break the News https://www.projectcensored.org/when-algorithms-break-the-news/ [06:31] TR Bot stream 1 was not closed cleanly: PROTOCOL_ERROR (err 1) ( status 0 @ https://www.projectcensored.org/when-algorithms-break-the-news/ ) [06:31] *whatA____ (~chatzilla@zzt25hwjz3n58.irc) has joined #techrights [06:33] TR News (NEW): LMDE 7 Will Be Based on Debian 13 Trixie, Linux Mint 22.3 Planned for December https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/09/12/LMDE_7_Will_Be_Based_on_Debian_13_Trixie_Linux_Mint_22_3_Planne.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/09/12/LMDE_7_Will_Be_Based_on_Debian_13_Trixie_Linux_Mint_22_3_Planne.gmi [06:33] TR Bot Tux Machines LMDE 7 Will Be Based on Debian 13 Trixie, Linux Mint 22.3 Planned for December [06:34] TR News (NEW): I replaced my Linux desktop with Fedora Silverblue, and it feels futuristic https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/12/I_replaced_my_Linux_desktop_with_Fedora_Silverblue_and_it_feels.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/12/I_replaced_my_Linux_desktop_with_Fedora_Silverblue_and_it_feels.gmi [06:34] TR Bot Tux Machines I replaced my Linux desktop with Fedora Silverblue, and it feels futuristic [06:37] whatA____ ICBM Feedollar 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Buy a New PC! [06:39] *SomeGoat has quit (connection closed) [06:44] TR News (NEW): Linuxs Slickest System Monitor App Gets Updated https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/12/Linux_s_Slickest_System_Monitor_App_Gets_Updated.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/12/Linux_s_Slickest_System_Monitor_App_Gets_Updated.gmi [06:45] TR Bot Tux Machines Linuxs Slickest System Monitor App Gets Updated [06:46] TR News Techrights Improving Clarity When Presenting LLM Slop and Slop Images https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/12/Improving_Clarity_When_Presenting_LLM_Slop_and_Slop_Images.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/11/12/Improving_Clarity_When_Presenting_LLM_Slop_and_Slop_Images.gmi [06:46] TR Bot Techrights Improving Clarity When Presenting LLM Slop and Slop Images [06:48] TR News (NEW): GNU/Linux and Hardware Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/11/GNU_Linux_and_Hardware_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/11/GNU_Linux_and_Hardware_Leftovers.gmi [06:48] TR Bot Tux Machines GNU/Linux and Hardware Leftovers [06:50] TR News (NEW): This free Linux distro replaced 5 of my most-used networking tools https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/12/This_free_Linux_distro_replaced_5_of_my_most_used_networking_to.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/12/This_free_Linux_distro_replaced_5_of_my_most_used_networking_to.gmi [06:50] TR Bot Tux Machines This free Linux distro replaced 5 of my most-used networking tools [06:50] schestowitz[TR2] whatA____: http://techrights.org/n/2025/11/12/Improving_Clarity_When_Presenting_LLM_Slop_and_Slop_Images.shtml [06:50] TR Bot Techrights Improving Clarity When Presenting LLM Slop and Slop Images [06:50] schestowitz[TR2] thanks for suggesting it [06:51] TR News (NEW): qBittorrent 5.1.3 Adds Native Wayland Support to the AppImage, Fixes More Bugs https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/11/qBittorrent_5_1_3_Adds_Native_Wayland_Support_to_the_AppImage_F.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/11/qBittorrent_5_1_3_Adds_Native_Wayland_Support_to_the_AppImage_F.gmi [06:51] TR Bot Tux Machines qBittorrent 5.1.3 Adds Native Wayland Support to the AppImage, Fixes More Bugs [06:53] TR News (NEW): Plasma Mobile 6.5 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/11/Plasma_Mobile_6_5.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/11/Plasma_Mobile_6_5.gmi [06:53] TR Bot Tux Machines Plasma Mobile 6.5 [06:54] whatA____ is the "SLOP Fake Work" overlay still a bash script or to put it into GIMP/Inkscape/Krita manually? [06:54] whatA____ that time I sent a SVG image so I expect the writers use Inkscape to overlay those [06:56] *croissant_ has quit (Quit: Leaving) [06:56] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techrights [06:56] *whatA____ has quit (connection closed) [06:56] TR News (NEW): Podman 5.7 Adds Full TLS and mTLS Encryption for Remote Connections https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/12/Podman_5_7_Adds_Full_TLS_and_mTLS_Encryption_for_Remote_Connect.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/12/Podman_5_7_Adds_Full_TLS_and_mTLS_Encryption_for_Remote_Connect.gmi [06:56] TR Bot Tux Machines Podman 5.7 Adds Full TLS and mTLS Encryption for Remote Connections ● Nov 12 [07:00] TR News (NEW): Fastfetch 2.55 Introduces Dynamic Refresh and Media Cover Logos https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/12/Fastfetch_2_55_Introduces_Dynamic_Refresh_and_Media_Cover_Logos.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/12/Fastfetch_2_55_Introduces_Dynamic_Refresh_and_Media_Cover_Logos.gmi [07:00] TR Bot Tux Machines Fastfetch 2.55 Introduces Dynamic Refresh and Media Cover Logos [07:01] TR News (NEW): Rspamd 3.14 Launches with Dark Mode, Postfix Wizard https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/12/Rspamd_3_14_Launches_with_Dark_Mode_Postfix_Wizard.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/12/Rspamd_3_14_Launches_with_Dark_Mode_Postfix_Wizard.gmi [07:01] TR Bot Tux Machines Rspamd 3.14 Launches with Dark Mode, Postfix Wizard [07:06] TR News Techrights Mandrake's Gal Duval Debunks Clickbait Nonsense From ZDNet, a Non-Coder Pushing Bot-Made 'Code' (Plagiarism Done Poorly) https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/12/Mandrake_s_Gael_Duval_Debunks_Clickbait_Nonsense_From_ZDNet_a_N.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/11/12/Mandrake_s_Gael_Duval_Debunks_Clickbait_Nonsense_From_ZDNet_a_N.gmi [07:06] TR Bot Techrights Mandrake's Gal Duval Debunks Clickbait Nonsense From ZDNet, a Non-Coder Pushing Bot-Made 'Code' (Plagiarism Done Poorly) [07:16] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techrights [07:20] *whatA____ (~chatzilla@2sha2jeyksfcy.irc) has joined #techrights [07:22] *whatA____ has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [07:27] TR News Techrights What Kind of Bubble is AI? We'll Find Out Very Soon https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/12/What_Kind_of_Bubble_is_AI_We_ll_Find_Out_Very_Soon.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/11/12/What_Kind_of_Bubble_is_AI_We_ll_Find_Out_Very_Soon.gmi [07:27] TR Bot Techrights What Kind of Bubble is AI? We'll Find Out Very Soon [07:27] *whatA____ (~chatzilla@8vs3q4sn8txdc.irc) has joined #techrights [07:29] TR News "yes and plus the jobs system su-ks very cryptic, always crashes never gets updated" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k9bz3eyn [07:29] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k9bz3eyn ) [07:29] TR News "Good take, it does seem that some outside like useless consultants are running things. These people don't even seem to have any industry experience and no idea what they're doing." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k9k23j8h [07:29] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k9k23j8h ) [07:29] TR News ""Know that your 1st or 2nd line manager may have been coerced to sign a justification for laying you off written by higher ups and certify it as their own assessment." Yes that was how it went down for me it seems...you are right on the money." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k9qytv2q [07:29] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k9qytv2q ) [07:30] TR News "Way overpaid for Red Hat" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k9s5v379 [07:30] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k9s5v379 ) [07:30] TR News IBM "JP Lab? Any word on the Japan lab? Did it get hit this week?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k9tx439x [07:30] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k9tx439x ) [07:32] TR News "Major tech firms like Amazon, Meta, and IBM have announced layoffs. While South Koreas stricter labor laws make layoffs less visible, the job market has undeniably tightened. A statistic from August revealed that one in three young people had given up seeking work, classified as discouraged workersa trend likely linked to this shift." https://www.chosun.com/english/opinion-en/2025/11/11/BZ4AVQOM4JGZZLD57BPTKVXTTM/ [07:32] TR Bot The Truth Tech Leaders Don't Tell [07:34] whatA____ IBM http://techrights.org/n/2024/10/03/Wikileaks_Revelations_About_the_History_of_IBM_and_Its_Role_in_.shtml [07:34] TR Bot Techrights Wikileaks Revelations About the History of IBM and Its Role in the Cold War [07:38] whatA____ Microsoft http://techrights.org/o/2023/02/15/azure-and-linkedin-layoffs/ [07:38] TR Bot Yet More Azure and LinkedIn Layoffs at Microsoft (While the Media is Busy Cashing in on Microsoft Puff Pieces, Mindless Marketing That Distracts From These Layoffs) [07:38] whatA____ Azure backdoors http://techrights.org/o/2023/08/21/seamonkey-dumps-azure/ [07:38] TR Bot Mozilla Finishes Sabotaging SeaMonkey. Highlights From IRC and SeaMonkey Meeting Minutes. [07:39] whatA____ and more that TR have but mainstream media won't tell [07:40] whatA____ bonus: BANKS http://baronhk.wordpress.com/2022/08/29/your-bank-and-other-web-sites-are-running-creepy-javascript-that-records-your-every-action-noscript-can-block-that-from-running-bonus-web-rot/ [07:40] TR Bot Your bank and other Web sites are running creepy JavaScript that records your every action. NoScript can block that from running. Bonus: Web Rot | BaronHK's Rants [07:40] whatA____ http://techrights.org/n/2025/07/28/Nonfree_Software_in_My_Bank_by_Richard_Stallman.shtml http://techrights.org/n/2025/07/29/Cash_Machines_ATMs_Make_Mistakes_and_They_re_Proprietary_Softwa.shtml [07:40] TR Bot Techrights Nonfree Software in My Bank, by Richard Stallman [07:40] TR Bot Techrights Cash Machines (ATMs) Make Mistakes and They're Proprietary Software [07:44] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techrights [07:52] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techrights ● Nov 12 [08:02] TR News Techrights Trying to Cancel People and Projects That You Don't Like by Changing the Focus to Politics https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/12/Trying_to_Cancel_People_and_Projects_That_You_Don_t_Like_by_Cha.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/11/12/Trying_to_Cancel_People_and_Projects_That_You_Don_t_Like_by_Cha.gmi [08:02] TR Bot Techrights Trying to Cancel People and Projects That You Don't Like by Changing the Focus to Politics [08:03] *psydroid3 (~psydroid@7h7y9yu8y5zjw.irc) has joined #techrights [08:07] TR News "Ive been let go. Im on H-1B, laid-off employee seeks advice online; MAGA wants him to go home" [08:09] TR News iophk: I wonder if one the terms of Henrik Alexandersson's release was that he not write in English or German. [08:10] TR News Sentry gets improved crash reporting for games running via Proton / Wine on SteamOS / Linux | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/sentry-gets-improved-crash-reporting-for-games-running-via-proton-wine-on-steamos-linux/ Source: GamingOnLinux [08:10] TR Bot gets improved crash reporting for games running via Proton / Wine on SteamOS / Linux | GamingOnLinux [08:11] TR News The classic Unreal Tournament gets a big upgrade with the v469e patch from OldUnreal | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/the-classic-unreal-tournament-gets-a-big-upgrade-with-the-v469e-patch-from-oldunreal/ Source: GamingOnLinux [08:11] TR Bot classic Unreal Tournament gets a big upgrade with the v469e patch from OldUnreal | GamingOnLinux [08:11] TR News Final Sentence is a unique horror battle royale where you're all on typewriters | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/final-sentence-is-a-unique-horror-battle-royale-where-youre-all-on-typewriters/ Source: GamingOnLinux | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/final-sentence-is-a-unique-horror-battle-royale-where-youre-all-on-typewriters/ [08:11] TR Bot Sentence is a unique horror battle royale where you're all on typewriters | GamingOnLinux [08:12] whatA____ Trying to reduce politics so much that Daily Links almost have no polnotes http://stallman.org/archives/polnotes.html [08:12] TR Bot 2025: September - December Political Notes [08:14] TR News "Skrota Chat Control 2 istllet fr att ndra i frslaget" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/11/10/skrota-chat-control-2-istallet-for-att-andra-i-forslaget/ [08:14] TR Bot Skrota Chat Control 2 istllet fr att ndra i frslaget [08:15] TR News "Reuters confirmed in March that the story originated from a satirical website , but apparently no one bothered to brief the guy who has access to nuclear codes." https://boingboing.net/2025/11/10/nations-leader-gets-pranked-by-website-designed-to-mock-gullible-people.html [08:15] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://boingboing.net/2025/11/10/nations-leader-gets-pranked-by-website-designed-to-mock-gullible-people.html ) [08:15] TR News MangoHud performance overlay for Linux gets a first v0.8.2 release candidate | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/mangohud-performance-overlay-for-linux-gets-a-first-v0-8-2-release-candidate/ Source: GamingOnLinux | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/mangohud-performance-overlay-for-linux-gets-a-first-v0-8-2-release-candidate/ [08:15] TR Bot performance overlay for Linux gets a first v0.8.2 release candidate | GamingOnLinux [08:16] TR News Instead of racing in Backseat Champions you manage an AI driver like an auto-battling racer | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/instead-of-racing-in-backseat-champions-you-manage-an-ai-driver-like-an-auto-battling-racer/ Source: GamingOnLinux [08:16] TR Bot of racing in Backseat Champions you manage an AI driver like an auto-battling racer | GamingOnLinux [08:16] whatA____ "Hey Hi driver" [08:16] schestowitz[TR2] whatA____: daily links has politics [08:16] schestowitz[TR2] and sometimes editorial comments [08:17] TR News Pill-popping medical horror Side Effects from Free Lives arrives November 21 | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/pill-popping-medical-horror-side-effects-from-free-lives-arrives-november-21/ Source: GamingOnLinux [08:17] TR Bot medical horror Side Effects from Free Lives arrives November 21 | GamingOnLinux [08:19] TR News KDE Plasma 6.6 to get a great new feature - limit virtual desktops to the primary screen | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/kde-plasma-6-6-to-get-a-great-new-feature-limit-virtual-desktops-to-the-primary-screen/ Source: GamingOnLinux [08:19] TR Bot Plasma 6.6 to get a great new feature - limit virtual desktops to the primary screen | GamingOnLinux [08:19] *whatA____ has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [08:23] TR News (NEW): Games: Side Effects, Final Sentence, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/12/Games_Side_Effects_Final_Sentence_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/12/Games_Side_Effects_Final_Sentence_and_More.gmi [08:23] TR Bot Tux Machines Games: Side Effects, Final Sentence, and More [08:23] *whatA____ (~chatzilla@k9kj6udjnunh8.irc) has joined #techrights [08:24] TR News "BBC-gate: Gr public service skbart" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/11/11/bbc-gate-gor-public-service-sokbart/ http://techrights.org/n/2025/11/11/Like_the_Serial_Strangler_From_Microsoft_Donald_Trump_is_Out_of.shtml [08:24] TR Bot BBC-gate: Gr public service skbart [08:24] TR Bot Techrights Like the Serial Strangler From Microsoft, Donald Trump is Out of Time and Has Jurisdiction Issues in the UK [08:25] TR News "support charity" https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/former-humble-bundle-staff-launch-new-bundle-site-digiphile-to-benefit-users-creators-publishers-and-charity/ [08:25] TR Bot Humble Bundle staff launch new bundle site Digiphile to "benefit users, creators, publishers, and charity" | GamingOnLinux [08:26] whatA____ Code of Conduct is basically politics http://nocodeofconduct.com/ http://techrights.org/o/2019/11/01/sw-ethics-decoy/ http://techrights.org/o/2023/07/10/conclusion-re-cancel-culture-industry/ [08:26] TR Bot No Code of Conduct [08:26] TR Bot The 'Ethics in Software' Decoy [08:26] TR Bot The Corporate Cancel Culture Industry Part VIII: In Conclusion [08:28] whatA____ http://techrights.org/o/2020/01/03/social-engineering-in-debian/ https://techrights.org/o/2020/06/04/corporate-criteria-for-views/ [08:28] TR Bot Canceling Free Software Developers for 'Wrongthink' [08:28] TR Bot Social Engineering of Free Software, Based on Corporate Criteria [08:31] *whatA____ has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [08:34] *whatA____ (~chatzilla@j27dury352yqs.irc) has joined #techrights [08:48] *whatA____ has quit (connection closed) [08:48] TR News Techrights The EPO's Own 'Drug Bust': Berenguer is Gone, But Who Else? https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/12/The_EPO_s_Own_Drug_Bust_Berenguer_is_Gone_But_Who_Else.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/11/12/The_EPO_s_Own_Drug_Bust_Berenguer_is_Gone_But_Who_Else.gmi [08:48] TR Bot Techrights The EPO's Own 'Drug Bust': Berenguer is Gone, But Who Else? ● Nov 12 [09:36] *psydroid3 has quit (Quit: KVIrc 5.2.6 Quasar http://www.kvirc.net/) [09:36] *psydroid3 (~psydroid@7h7y9yu8y5zjw.irc) has joined #techrights [09:42] *Cavalier (ecwduoead@masked-e5k.evd.210.88.IP) has joined #techrights [09:43] *Cavalier (ecwduoead@masked-e5k.evd.210.88.IP) has left #techrights [09:47] *psydroid3 has quit (Quit: KVIrc 5.2.6 Quasar http://www.kvirc.net/) ● Nov 12 [10:27] *themusicfactory (~Hidamari@t3kjghgqtc4wn.irc) has joined #techrights [10:31] *themusicfactory has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [10:34] *themusicfactory (~Hidamari@t3kjghgqtc4wn.irc) has joined #techrights [10:35] *themusicfactory has quit (Quit: Leaving) ● Nov 12 [11:03] TR News What Larry Ellison Doesnt Want You To Know https://yewtu.be/watch?v=K7wufpKdCGc https://yewtu.be/watch?v=K7wufpKdCGc [11:03] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=K7wufpKdCGc ) [11:04] TR News Anon: Speaking of those who belong in jail: https://yle.fi/a/74-20193589 ("Wolt co-founder Miki Kuusi tops Finland's tax-paying charts for third consecutive year") [11:04] TR Bot Wolt co-founder Miki Kuusi tops Finland's tax-paying charts for third consecutive year | Yle News | Yle [11:06] TR News "In its final written argument to the Supreme Court, Cox Communications accuses the major record labels of "distancing" themselves from the "two-notices-and-terminate" rule that was the basis of their trial victory." https://torrentfreak.com/cox-accuses-labels-of-distancing-themselves-from-two-strike-piracy-theory/ | Source: Torrent Freak [11:06] TR Bot Accuses Labels of 'Distancing' Themselves From "Two-Strike" Piracy Theory * TorrentFreak [11:06] TR News "gross violations of copyright, including violating the right of publicity of more than 100 aggrieved female actors relating to their artistic integrity" https://www.404media.co/danish-redditor-charged-klammerefyr-sedetforplottet/ | Source: 404 Media [11:06] TR Bot Danish Redditor Charged for Posting Nude Scenes from Films [11:06] TR News "SeDetForPlottet" https://torrentfreak.com/redditor-convicted-for-sharing-nude-scenes-in-landmark-moral-rights-copyright-case/ | Source: Torrent Freak [11:06] TR Bot Convicted for Sharing Nude Scenes in Landmark 'Moral Rights' Copyright Case * TorrentFreak [11:07] TR News "The German association GEMA that seeks to defend authors' rights brought the lawsuit." https://www.dw.com/en/openai-loses-song-lyrics-copyright-case-in-german-court/a-74698240 | Source: Deutsche Welle [11:07] TR Bot loses song lyrics copyright case in German court DW 11/11/2025 [11:09] TR News Digital Restrictions (DRM) https://www.autoblog.com/news/hyundai-is-now-locking-diy-owners-out-of-their-own-brake-repairs | [11:09] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.autoblog.com/news/hyundai-is-now-locking-diy-owners-out-of-their-own-brake-repairs ) [11:09] TR News "CNBC says this amount is roughly twice that of the 2022-2024 spend, and much as you'd expect, it's driven primarily by the big tech companies, including Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google." https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/undersea-comms-cable-investments-double-to-usd13-billion-in-over-two-years-ever-growing-danger-of-cable-cuts-looms | Source: Tom's Hardware [11:09] TR Bot Undersea comms cable investments double to $13 billion in over two years ever-growing danger of cable cuts looms | Tom's Hardware [11:09] TR News "The risk of the [Internet] fragmenting into national "splinternets" will likely be averted in a UN vote next month, the head of the authority that manages web addresses told AFP on Tuesday." https://today.rtl.lu/news/business-and-tech/a/2353821.html | Source: RTL [11:09] TR Bot RTL Today - As UN reviews internet rules: 'Splinternets' threat to be avoided, says web address controller [11:10] TR News "Icasa regulations require 30% of the equity of local telecoms licensees to be in the hands of historically disadvantaged groups" https://techcentral.co.za/spacex-grows-impatient-over-licensing-delays-for-starlink-in-south-africa/274055/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa) [11:10] TR Bot SpaceX grows impatient over licensing delays for Starlink in South Africa [11:10] TR News "This article is based on a presentation I made to the ARIN 56 meeting in October 2025." https://blog.apnic.net/2025/11/12/where-the-evolution-of-the-internet-may-be-heading/ | Source: APNIC [11:10] TR Bot Where the evolution of the Internet may be heading | APNIC Blog [11:11] TR News "The UPR is a key UN mechanism where all member states conduct candid, equal exchanges on human rights issues and seek constructive dialogue and cooperation." https://www.telesurenglish.net/the-u-s-withdraws-from-the-universal-periodic-review-of-human-rights/ | Source: teleSUR [11:11] TR Bot The U.S. Withdraws from the Universal Periodic Review of Human Rights - teleSUR English [11:11] TR News "Officers tried to speak with Waltson, but he refused. Body camera video captured the pivotal moment that led to his wrongful arrest." https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2025/11/10/metro-atlanta-man-wrongfully-arrested-after-police-mishear-threat/ | Source: Gray Media Group [11:11] TR Bot Inside the threat that almost landed an innocent man in prison [11:12] TR News "For months, border agents have been brutalizing civilians [sic] and making absurd excuses for their barbarity." https://www.jezebel.com/dhs-just-pepper-sprayed-a-baby | Source: Paste Media Group [11:12] TR Bot Just Pepper-Sprayed a Baby - Jezebel [11:12] TR News "Gregory Bovino's Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago has hit a new low: [...]" https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/11/dhs-just-pepper-sprayed-a-baby/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski [11:12] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/11/dhs-just-pepper-sprayed-a-baby/ ) [11:12] TR News "Frontex is planning to set up a Quick Reaction Force. It is intended to operate beyond direct border protection and could be deployed against the will of a member state." https://digit.site36.net/2025/11/11/new-police-unit-for-frontex-could-also-be-deployed-at-sporting-events-and-summit-meetings/ | Source: Site36 [11:12] TR Bot New police unit for Frontex could also be deployed at sporting events and summit meetings | Matthias Monroy [11:13] TR News German attack on Channel route: Government wants to punish illegal migration to Great Britain https://digit.site36.net/2025/11/11/german-attack-on-channel-route-government-wants-to-punish-illegal-migration-to-great-britain/ | Source: Site36 [11:13] TR Bot German attack on Channel route: Government wants to punish "illegal migration" to Great Britain | Matthias Monroy [11:13] TR News "More than 3,000 people have been abducted by ICE across Chicagoland since early September. For those of us responding to that crisis, it can be hard to respond to anything else." https://truthout.org/articles/chicagoans-refuse-to-be-cowed-in-the-face-of-unrelenting-state-violence/ | Source: TruthOut [11:13] TR Bot Chicagoans Refuse to Be Cowed in the Face of Unrelenting State Violence | Truthout [11:13] TR News "The Taliban has barred female patients, visitors, and medical staff who do not wear the all-encompassing burqa from entering public hospitals in western Afghanistan, the latest restriction by the hard-line Islamist group targeting women." https://www.rferl.org/a/afghanistan-taliban-herat-women-burqa/33587547.html | Source: RFERL [11:13] TR Bot Taliban Bars Women Without A Burqa From Entering Hospitals In Afghanistan [11:14] TR News "this is far from the first time that Trump has threatened a media company with legal action over perceived damages to his reputation." https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-sue-bbc-media-b2862554.html | Source: The Independent UK [11:14] TR Bot Every time Trump has sued the media after he threatens $1 billion BBC legal action | The Independent [11:14] TR News "What stands out in so many of the examples cited in Prescotts memo is that there has been a failure to ask the most basic questions: is what I am being told true? Might this be down to something else?" https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/media/2025/11/the-bbc-is-worth-fighting-for | Source: New Statesman [11:14] TR Bot The BBC is worth fighting for - New Statesman [11:15] TR News "Lets focus on the first map, as the second has less to do with new media and more to do with the political funding of certain media outlets." https://www.8ball.report/p/is-new-media-a-term-we-should-still | Source: Sean Monahan [11:15] TR Bot is new media a term we should still be using? [11:15] TR News "But the British Broadcasting Corporation is not CBS or ABC, both of which settled lawsuits brought by Mr. Trump over their coverage of him." https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/world/europe/bbc-news-trump.html | Source: New York Times [11:15] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/world/europe/bbc-news-trump.html ) [11:15] TR News "Tech scion David Ellison marked his 96th day running Paramount by disclosing an upbeat financial outlook for next year and a plan to reduce an additional 1,600 workers." https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2025-11-10/paramount-more-layoffs-david-ellison | Source: Los Angeles Times [11:15] TR Bot Paramount sheds another 1,600 workers as David Ellison team digs in - Los Angeles Times [11:16] TR News "Three paintings from famously chill public television legend Bob Ross sold Tuesday for more than $600,000 at auction." https://www.usnews.com/news/entertainment/articles/2025-11-11/a-happy-circumstance-bob-ross-paintings-sell-for-more-than-600k-to-help-public-tv-stations | Source: US News And World Report [11:16] TR Bot stream 1 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2) ( status 0 @ https://www.usnews.com/news/entertainment/articles/2025-11-11/a-happy-circumstance-bob-ross-paintings-sell-for-more-than-600k-to-help-public-tv-stations ) [11:16] TR News "The Kyiv Independent was born out of a fight for freedom of speech. It was founded on November 11 by the team that got fired from another Ukrainian publication for defending editorial independence." https://kyivindependent.com/the-kyiv-independent-marks-its-4-year-anniversary-and-launches-its-biggest-membership-drive/ | Source: The Kyiv Independent [11:16] TR Bot The Kyiv Independent marks its 4-year anniversary and launches its biggest membership drive [11:17] TR News "as a profession, we have decided that we are better off not talking about it. We don't want to get extra attention. But this has proven to be more harmful that good (just like all soft censorship-- and yes, not talking about how we craft collections is a form of soft censorship)." https://raforall.blogspot.com/2025/11/how-booksellers-decide-what-to-sell-why.html | Source: Becky Spratford [11:17] TR Bot RA for All: How Booksellers Decide What to Sell: Why Aren't We Getting This Info Out About Libraries? [11:19] TR News "issued a stern warning to Sony Pictures over the development of Aaron Sorkin's upcoming project, which is set to probe the social media giant's alleged role in the seismic events of 6 January 2021 at the US Capitol." https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/mark-zuckerberg-threatens-sony-over-aaron-sorkins-jan-6-sequel-insiders-allege-1754204 | Source: International Business Times [11:19] TR Bot Mark Zuckerberg 'Threatens' Sony Over Aaron Sorkin's Jan 6 Sequel, Insiders Allege | IBTimes UK [11:19] *whatA____ (~chatzilla@mp66st5k7ta2c.irc) has joined #techrights [11:20] TR News "Imamoglu is President Recep Tayyip Erdogans main political rival and seen as the only politician capable of beating him at the ballot box, with his arrest in March sparking Turkeys worst bout of street unrest since 2013." https://www.courthousenews.com/turkey-seeks-more-than-2000-years-behind-bars-for-erdogan-rival/ | Source: Court House News [11:20] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.courthousenews.com/turkey-seeks-more-than-2000-years-behind-bars-for-erdogan-rival/ ) [11:20] TR News "gag law" https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-11-11/ortega-and-murillo-intensify-internet-censorship-the-last-bastion-of-freedom-of-expression-in-nicaragua.html | Source: El Pas [11:20] TR Bot Ortega and Murillo intensify internet censorship, the last bastion of freedom of expression in Nicaragua | International | EL PAS English [11:21] TR News "demonetize disinformation" https://www.rferl.org/a/33587394.html | Source: RFERL [11:21] TR Bot Wider Europe Briefing: A New EU Effort To Fight Disinfo, And The Next Country To Join The Club [11:21] TR News "Kattis departure is a terrible look for Intel, which has struggled to develop competitive AI accelerators to match those from established rivals Nvidia and AMD." https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/11/intel_ai_cto_quits_joins_openai/ | Source: The Register UK [11:21] TR Bot Intel CTO and AI boss quits to join OpenAI The Register [11:21] TR News "Global stablecoin issuer Tether Ltd. also offered an agreement to buy services from Rumble with an initial commitment to buy $150 million in graphics processing unit services over two years after closing the Northern Data deal." https://siliconangle.com/2025/11/10/rumble-plans-acquire-ai-infrastructure-company-northern-data-expand-cloud-operations/ | Source: Silicon Angle [11:22] TR Bot plans to acquire AI infrastructure company Northern Data to expand cloud operations - SiliconANGLE [11:22] TR News "There are three ways this is hurting hard enough to threaten Americas imperial dominance over enterprise IT" https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/10/three_most_important_factors_in/ | Source: The Register UK [11:22] TR Bot Tech's Control Grab Fuels Flight to Open Source The Register [11:22] TR News "Anti-consumerism is a social and ethical stance that challenges the idea that happiness and success come from owning more." https://cultureofconsumerism.com/anti-consumerism-examples/ | [11:22] TR Bot Anti-Consumerism Examples That Challenge Modern Materialism - CULTURE OF CONSUMERISM [11:25] TR News "This Black Friday, I'd advise you not to buy a damn thing. There are no deals when the economy is so tight that some people are forced to choose between food and shelter. And to be clear, there are precious few decent deals when times are good." https://boingboing.net/2025/11/10/the-dirty-truth-about-black-friday-from-someone-who-worked-the-con.html | Source: BoingBoing [11:25] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://boingboing.net/2025/11/10/the-dirty-truth-about-black-friday-from-someone-who-worked-the-con.html ) [11:25] whatA____ Anti-32bit is materialism http://techrights.org/n/2025/09/07/Throwing_Away_Old_Computers_Mozilla_and_Other_Climate_Deniers.shtml [11:25] TR Bot Techrights Throwing Away "Old" Computers (Mozilla and Other Climate Deniers) [11:25] TR News "to introduce hard Rust dependencies and Rust code into APT, no earlier than May 2026. This extends at first to the Rust compiler and standard library, and the Sequoia ecosystem." https://thenewstack.io/debian-mandates-rust-for-apt-reshaping-ubuntu-and-other-linux-distros/ | Source: The New Stack [11:25] TR Bot Debian Mandates Rust for APT, Reshaping Ubuntu and Other Linux Distros - The New Stack [11:25] TR News "The Japanese company said in its latest financial earnings report today that it sold all 32.1 million shares it held in Nvidia last month, raising $5.83 billion." https://siliconangle.com/2025/11/11/softbank-offloads-5-8b-stake-nvidia-free-cash-openai-investment/ | Source: Silicon Angle [11:26] TR Bot offloads $5.8B stake in Nvidia to free up cash for OpenAI investment - SiliconANGLE [11:26] TR News "The move has further stoked concerns among some investors that the rally in artificial intelligence stocks was overdone." https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/business/dealbook/softbank-nvidia-divest.html | Source: New York Times [11:26] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/business/dealbook/softbank-nvidia-divest.html ) [11:26] whatA____ rust people http://techrights.org/n/2025/09/05/Brian_Kernighan_Only_Third_to_Dennis_Richie_and_Ken_Thompson_UN.shtml [11:26] TR Bot Techrights Brian Kernighan, "Only Third to Dennis Richie and Ken Thompson" (UNIX), Agreed With Someone Who Said Rust Was Just Hype, Should Not Replace C [11:26] TR News Will TikTok stars short-form video talents translate into long-form audio success? Were about to find out, as the app has finalized a multiplatform partnership deal, extending to radio, podcasts, and more, with iHeartMedia."" https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/11/10/iheartmedia-tiktok-partnership/ | Source: Digital Music News [11:26] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/11/10/iheartmedia-tiktok-partnership/ ) [11:27] TR News "Nearing its 25th anniversary, the online encyclopedia faces multiple challenges: accusations of 'woke' bias, threats to contributors, AI-generated content and declining readership. Despite these issues, Wikipedia remains resilient." https://www.lemonde.fr/en/pixels/article/2025/11/11/wikipedia-under-fire-from-conservatives-and-shaken-by-ai-faces-growing-pressure_6747330_13.html | Source: Le Monde [11:27] TR Bot Wikipedia, under fire from conservatives and shaken by AI [11:27] *whatA____ has quit (connection closed) [11:28] TR News "You can now crowdfund me! As I mooted a while back, I have gone part-time on my academic job and am exploring new ways to help get my research done." https://www.humprog.org/~stephen/blog/2025/11/11/#support-stephen-in-coffee-spoons | Source: Stephen Kell [11:28] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.humprog.org/~stephen/blog/2025/11/11/#support-stephen-in-coffee-spoons ) [11:28] TR News "Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have shown for the first time that an insectthe bumblebee Bombus terrestris" https://phys.org/news/2025-11-bees-simple-morse-code.html | Source: Omicron Limited [11:28] TR Bot ( status 422 @ https://phys.org/news/2025-11-bees-simple-morse-code.html ) [11:28] TR News "Carnivorous plants of the genus Pinguicula (butterworts) from Mexico apparently use the same water-saving photosynthesis type as many succulent plants" https://phys.org/news/2025-11-cam-photosynthesis-carnivorous.html | Source: Omicron Limited [11:28] TR Bot ( status 422 @ https://phys.org/news/2025-11-cam-photosynthesis-carnivorous.html ) [11:29] TR News "Ratepayers across the U.S. are facing rising electric bills a trend that could be turbocharged by Wall Streets growing effort to capture the electric utilities we all depend on." https://truthout.org/articles/data-centers-devour-electricity-private-equity-is-buying-utilities-to-cash-in/ | Source: TruthOut [11:29] TR Bot Data Centers Devour Electricity. Private Equity Is Buying Utilities to Cash In. | Truthout [11:31] TR News EPO coverage in MSM imminent. Spoke on phone to journalists today. [11:32] TR News "Hundreds of billions is being lavished on datacenter construction across the country" https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/11/us_taxpayers_dc_subsidies/ | Source: The Register UK [11:32] TR Bot US taxpayers kept in the dark over datacenter subsidies The Register [11:34] TR News "essential to prevent and redress disproportionate human rights harm on those in most vulnerable situations." https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/11/un-experts-say-cop30-must-use-human-rights-approach-in-climate-action/ | Source: JURIST [11:34] TR Bot UN experts say COP30 must use human rights approach in climate action - JURIST - News [11:34] TR News "The carbon cost of Black Friday and Cyber Monday is high." https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/retailers/boycott-black-friday-cyber-monday | [11:34] TR Bot Boycott Black Friday and Cyber Monday | Ethical Consumer [11:34] TR News "The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA), which has a track record of successfully advocating for proposals in the state legislature, approved the three draft bills on Friday." https://therecord.media/california-data-privacy-agency-whistleblower-protections-proposal | Source: The Record [11:34] TR Bot Data privacy whistleblowers would get expanded protections under California proposal | The Record from Recorded Future News [11:35] TR News "Yet the media isnt covering his mental deterioration. Why not? When I ask in the media, I usually get one of the following responses: [...]" https://robertreich.substack.com/p/office-hours-why-isnt-the-media-reporting-dec | Source: Robert Reich [11:35] TR Bot Office Hours: Why isn't the media reporting on Trump's dramatic mental decline? [11:35] TR News "With Grijalvas signature the vote would be forced to the House floor as privileged legislation. With the votes of every Democrat in the chamber, and several Republicans, its expected to pass in an embarrassing defeat for the Trump administration." https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/grijalva-swearing-in-mike-johnson-epstein-b2863333.html | Source: The Independent UK [11:35] TR Bot Swearing in of Democrat Adelita Grijalva 7 weeks after winning House election could force vote on releasing Epstein files | The Independent [11:36] TR News "first-of-its-kind report" https://www.projectcensored.org/water-scarcity-27-million-united-states/ | Source: Project Censored [11:36] TR Bot stream 1 was not closed cleanly: PROTOCOL_ERROR (err 1) ( status 0 @ https://www.projectcensored.org/water-scarcity-27-million-united-states/ ) [11:36] TR News "The warnings on November 8 came a day after President Masud Pezeshkian said the Iranian capital might have to be evacuated" https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-drought-tehran-water-crisis/33585463.html | Source: RFERL [11:36] TR Bot Iranian Officials Plan Major Water Cuts For Tehran Amid Drought Crisis [11:37] TR News "partisan shutdown emails" https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/11/judge-rules-us-education-department-violated-workers-rights-with-partisan-shutdown-emails/ | Source: JURIST [11:37] TR Bot Judge rules US Education Department violated workers' rights with partisan shutdown emails - JURIST - News [11:38] TR News "Australia's spy chief has expressed concern about the potential for AI to take online radicalisation and disinformation to new levels" https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/how-russia-uses-ai-to-spread-disinformation/h4kf3947p | Source: SBS [11:38] TR Bot Australia's spy boss warned of a Russian threat and it's unfolding in real time | SBS News [11:38] TR News "it was likely a coordinated effort to amplify Beijings preferred narrative through state media, social accounts and a farm news network." https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/the-digital-battlefield-around-australias-south-china-sea-patrols/ | Source: The Strategist [11:38] TR Bot The digital battlefield around Australias South China Sea patrols | The Strategist [11:39] TR News "The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Spring 2026." https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/11/us-supreme-court-to-decide-if-states-can-count-mail-in-ballots-received-after-election-day/ | Source: JURIST [11:39] TR Bot US Supreme Court to decide if states can count mail-in ballots received after election day - JURIST - News [11:39] *whatA____ (~chatzilla@iu3dgu93m6mbn.irc) has joined #techrights [11:39] TR News "Republicans hold all the cards and are indifferent to the suffering of the American people." https://explodingcomma.com/posts/there-wasnt-much-else-the-senate-democrats-could-have-done-but-that-is-beside-the-point | Source: Pete Brown [11:39] TR Bot There wasnt much else the Senate Democrats could have done, but that is beside the point. - Exploding Comma [11:41] whatA____ yay more spyware http://9to5linux.com/firefox-146-is-now-available-for-public-beta-testing-heres-what-to-expect http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/09/07/Infiltration_GNU_Linux_and_Reproducible_Builds.shtml [11:41] TR Bot 146 Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing, Here's What to Expect - 9to5Linux [11:41] TR Bot Tux Machines Infiltration, GNU/Linux, and Reproducible Builds [11:41] TR News "I, ___, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; [...]" https://www.thenextmove.org/p/four-veterans-perspectives-for-veterans | Source: The Next Move [11:41] TR Bot Four Veterans Perspectives for Veterans Day [11:41] TR News "Roughly 117 million people are displaced by violence or persecution today." https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/11/un-commission-warns-climate-change-exacerbates-refugee-crisis/ | Source: JURIST [11:41] TR Bot UN commission warns climate change exacerbates refugee crisis - JURIST - News [11:42] TR News "The piece is too recognizable for the black market for art, the expert affirmed, warning of a wave of thefts of outdoor sculptures in the Nordic country." https://www.plenglish.com/news/2025/11/11/iconic-sculpture-stolen-in-sweden/ | Source: La Prensa Latina [11:42] TR Bot Iconic sculpture stolen in Sweden - Prensa Latina [11:42] TR News (NEW): : Google Android Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/12/Android_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/12/Android_Leftovers.gmi [11:42] TR Bot Tux Machines Android Leftovers [11:42] TR News "Friendship is a strange feeling forged over the course of years, but it can also develop in two and a half hours through extreme experiences." https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-11-11/david-fritz-victim-of-2015-mass-shooting-at-bataclan-in-paris-the-worst-wound-for-a-survivor-is-guilt.html | Source: El Pas [11:42] TR Bot David Fritz, victim of 2015 mass shooting at Bataclan in Paris: The worst wound for a survivor is guilt | International | EL PAS English [11:42] TR News "As Europe races to strengthen its defenses against the mounting threat posed by Russian drones, more and more countries are looking to learn from Ukraines experience." https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/ukraines-drone-war-lesson-for-europe-technology-is-nothing-without-training/ | Source: Atlantic Council [11:42] TR Bot Ukraine's drone war lesson for Europe: Technology is nothing without training - Atlantic Council [11:43] TR News "Iran has stepped up construction at a site buried in Pickaxe Mountain near Natanz." https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-pickaxe-mountain-nuclear-uranium-enrichment/33587304.html | Source: RFERL [11:43] TR Bot Expert Tells RFE/RL Iran Accelerating Construction of Underground Nuclear Site After US Strikes [11:44] TR News "They removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died fighting fascism. They did it quietly. They thought you wouldnt notice or wouldnt care." https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/theyre-not-hiding-it-and-its-not | Source: Mike Brock [11:44] TR Bot Theyre Not Hiding It and It's Not Irony - by Mike Brock [11:45] *whatA____ has quit (connection closed) [11:48] TR News "proclivity for violence" https://www.projectcensored.org/ice-social-media-surveillance-critics-2/ | Source: Project Censored [11:48] TR Bot stream 1 was not closed cleanly: PROTOCOL_ERROR (err 1) ( status 0 @ https://www.projectcensored.org/ice-social-media-surveillance-critics-2/ ) [11:49] TR News "Public records show DHS is deploying the "Homeland Security Information Network" at college protests and football games." https://www.404media.co/dhs-is-deploying-a-powerful-surveillance-tool-at-college-football-games/ | Source: 404 Media [11:49] TR Bot DHS Is Deploying a Powerful Surveillance Tool at College Football Games [11:49] TR News "Under the Algorithmic Pricing Disclosure Act, businesses operating in or serving customers within New York must disclose if they use personalized algorithmic pricing defined as dynamic pricing set by an algorithm that uses personal data" https://thecyberexpress.com/personalized-algorithmic-pricing-law/ | Source: Cyble Inc [11:49] TR Bot Personalized Algorithmic Pricing Law Takes Effect In New York [11:50] TR News "He compared the approach to Trump administration tactics, arguing the proposals masquerade as small business relief while actually benefiting tech and advertising giants." https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/11/eu_leaked_gdpr_ai_reforms/ | Source: The Register UK [11:50] TR Bot EUs leaked GDPR, AI reforms slated by privacy activists The Register [11:50] TR News "Algorithmic pricing allows firms to automatically change prices based on data like consumers income, previous shopping behaviors and location." https://therecord.media/enforcement-begins-new-york-pricing-law | Source: The Record [11:50] TR Bot Enforcement begins for New Yorks algorithmic pricing law | The Record from Recorded Future News [11:50] TR News "In response, the EU is preparing a series of revisions, collectively known as the Digital Omnibus, aimed at easing some of these concerns and adapting the framework to a rapidly evolving industry." https://siliconangle.com/2025/11/10/eu-set-relax-data-protection-rules-boost-ai-growth/ | Source: Silicon Angle [11:50] TR Bot set to relax data protection rules to boost AI growth - SiliconANGLE [11:51] TR News "As gradually leaked the last days by various news outlets, the EU Commission has secretly set in motion a potentially massive reform of the GDPR." https://noyb.eu/en/eu-commission-about-wreck-core-principles-gdpr | Source: NYOB [11:51] TR Bot EU Commission about to wreck core principles of the GDPR [11:51] TR News "noyb has joined forces with EDRi and the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) to send an open letter to the EU Commission." https://noyb.eu/en/open-letter-digital-omnibus-brings-deregulation-not-simplification | Source: NYOB [11:51] TR Bot Open letter: Digital omnibus brings deregulation, not simplification [11:52] TR News "deceptive sleight of hand" https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/chat-control-2-0-through-the-back-door-breyer-warns-the-eu-is-playing-us-for-fools-now-theyre-scanning-our-texts-and-banning-teens/ | Source: Patrick Breyer [11:52] TR Bot CHAT CONTROL 2.0 THROUGH THE BACK DOOR Breyer warns: The EU is playing us for fools now theyre scanning our texts and banning teens! Patrick Breyer [11:53] TR News Openwashing https://siliconangle.com/2025/11/11/google-debuts-new-open-source-ai-tools-gke-pod-snapshots/ | Source: Silicon Angle [11:53] TR Bot debuts new open-source AI tools, GKE Pod Snapshots - SiliconANGLE [11:54] TR News Windows TCO: "Effective immediately, I am temporarily disabling all site-based contact forms and the newsletter subscription function." https://www.eliseomartelli.it/blog/2025-11-11-contact-and-newsletter-temporarily-offline | Source: Eliseo Martelli [11:54] TR Bot Contact and Newsletter temporarily offline | Eliseo Martelli [11:54] TR News Windows TCO: "For this investigation, Mandiant received a composite detection alert identifying potential threat actor activity on a customer's Triofox server." https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/triofox-vulnerability-cve-2025-12480/ | Source: Google [11:54] TR Bot Unauthenticated Remote Access via Triofox Vulnerability CVE-2025-12480 | Google Cloud Blog [11:54] *whatA____ (~chatzilla@fxsbfjxnxtcmn.irc) has joined #techrights [11:55] TR News "After thirty years online, it seems to me that converting an online relationship to an offline one is a rarity." https://danq.me/2025/11/11/two-modes-of-internet-use/ | Source: Dan Q [11:55] TR Bot Two modes of Internet use Dan Q [11:55] TR News "Reuters shed light on Metas lucrative business built on selling fraudulent ads on its platforms Facebook and Instagram." https://manualdousuario.net/en/facebook-instagram-scam-reuters/ | Source: Rodrigo Ghedin [11:55] TR Bot Facebook and Instagram are paradises for scammers, reveal Metas internal documents Manual do Usurio [11:56] TR News "I Led Product Safety at OpenAI. Dont Trust Its Claims About Erotica." https://www.wired.com/story/the-big-interview-podcast-steven-adler-openai-erotica/ | Source: Wired [11:56] TR Bot Former Staffer Calling Out OpenAIs Erotica Claims | WIRED [11:56] TR News "Prompt Injection in AI Browsers" https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/11/prompt-injection-in-ai-browsers.html | Source: Bruce Schneier [11:56] TR Bot Injection in AI Browsers - Schneier on Security [11:56] TR News "Black Friday started as a day for bargain sales, but has evolved into a global shopping phenomenon. But the bigger the participation, the more attractive it all becomes for criminals." https://www.pcworld.com/article/2967560/black-friday-traps-new-ai-scams-are-plaguing-this-shopping-season.html | Source: PC World [11:56] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.pcworld.com/article/2967560/black-friday-traps-new-ai-scams-are-plaguing-this-shopping-season.html ) [11:57] TR News "To survive the transition, it might be helpful to at least sound like you are up on the latest terminology" https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/10/ai_credibility_buzzwords/ | Source: The Register UK [11:57] TR Bot Bluff your way to AI credibility with the right buzzwords The Register [11:57] TR News "While parents may be hearing about AI in their work or in the news, they may not realize it is also being introduced into their child's classrooms." https://phys.org/news/2025-11-child-school-generative-ai.html | Source: Omicron Limited [11:57] TR Bot ( status 422 @ https://phys.org/news/2025-11-child-school-generative-ai.html ) [11:58] TR News "The vulnerability to such prompt injection attacks exists because large language models, the backbone of chatbots that digest hordes of user text to generate responses, cannot distinguish between malicious and trusted user instructions." https://www.c4isrnet.com/land/2025/11/10/military-experts-warn-security-hole-in-most-ai-chatbots-can-sow-chaos/ | Source: C4ISRNET [11:58] TR Bot Military experts warn security hole in most AI chatbots can sow chaos [11:58] TR News "The new offer, announced Monday ahead of Veterans Day, is available to service members who are within 12 months of separation or retirement, and any veteran within their first year of leaving service." https://fedscoop.com/openai-offers-year-of-free-chatgpt-to-service-members-veterans/ | Source: Scoop News Group [11:58] TR Bot offers year of free ChatGPT to service members, veterans | FedScoop [11:58] TR News "Wikipedia has sent a clear message to AI developer companies: stop scraping its pages and start using its paid API service." https://www.hindustantimes.com/technology/wikipedia-warns-ai-companies-to-stop-scraping-and-pay-for-data-use-or-lose-access-101762858734934.html | Source: Hindustan Times [11:58] TR Bot Wikipedia warns AI companies to stop scraping and pay for data use or lose access | Technology News (HT Tech) [11:59] *whatA____ has quit (connection closed) [11:59] TR News "Music recommendation algorithms were supposed to help us cut through the noise, but they just served us up slop." https://www.theverge.com/column/815744/music-recommendation-algorithms | Source: The Verge [11:59] TR Bot The algorithm failed music | The Verge [11:59] TR News "Call me skeptical." https://robertreich.substack.com/p/an-urgent-message-what-you-need-to | Source: Robert Reich [11:59] TR Bot An Urgent Message: What You Need to Know About AI [11:59] TR News "The vulnerability to such prompt injection attacks exists because large language models, the backbone of chatbots that digest hordes of user text to generate responses, cannot distinguish between malicious and trusted user instructions." https://www.armytimes.com/land/2025/11/10/military-experts-warn-security-hole-in-most-ai-chatbots-can-sow-chaos/ | Source: Sightline Media Group [11:59] TR Bot Military experts warn security hole in most AI chatbots can sow chaos ● Nov 12 [12:00] TR News " OpenAIs determination to shift from the nonprofit model was apparently motivated in part by the desire to fundraise." https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/11/openai-lawsuit-subpoenas/684861/ | Source: The Atlantic [12:00] TR Bot The New Brutality of OpenAI - The Atlantic [12:00] TR News "I've been thinking about webapps lately, especially as I watch the endless cycle of software updates, permission requests, and the nagging feeling that every binary I download might be doing something I didn't agree to in the background." https://afranca.com.br/thoughts-on-webapps | Source: Andre Franca [12:00] TR Bot Thoughts on Webapps Andre Franca [12:01] TR News "Researchers arent very concerned about the dozens of undisclosed F5 vulnerabilities a nation-state attacker stole during a prolonged attack on F5s internal systems." https://cyberscoop.com/f5-vulnerabilities-theft-muted-concerns/ | Source: Scoop News Group [12:01] TR Bot left to worry (and not worry) about in the F5 breach aftermath | CyberScoop [12:01] TR News "Over the past year or so, Ive found comfort in realising that its OK to just shut myself away from the Internet and get stuff done." https://colly.com/journal/the-texture-of-the-work | Source: Simon Collison [12:01] TR Bot Simon Collison | The texture of the work [12:02] TR News "In a presentation by Adam Zabrocki and Marko Mitic of NVIDIA at DEF CON, they discuss the challenge of securing a proprietary" https://blog.adacore.com/proving-safety-at-scale-spark-risc-v-and-nvidias-security-strategy | Source: AdaCore [12:02] TR Bot Proving Safety at Scale: SPARK, RISC-V, and | The AdaCore Blog [12:03] TR News "The most subversive and hard to implement feature of this arrangement is that all participants are actually together" https://bertrandmeyer.com/2025/11/11/a-revolutionary-approach-to-university-teaching/ | Source: Bertrand Meyer [12:03] TR Bot A revolutionary approach to university teaching - Bertrand Meyer's technology+ blog [12:06] TR News "With attendees from 8 months old to over 80, our Spring type-in was so successful, were hosting another one before the end of the year." https://boffosocko.com/2025/11/11/youre-invited-to-another-southern-california-type-in-november-29-2025/ | Source: Chris Aldrich [12:06] TR Bot Youre Invited to Another Southern California Type-In! | Chris Aldrich [12:06] TR News "The article was amazing but I was captivated by the adverts" https://www.404media.co/byte-magazine-zoomable-map-archive/ | Source: 404 Media [12:06] TR Bot Visualize All 23 Years of BYTE Magazine in All Its Glory, All at Once [12:06] TR News "80s BASIC type-in mags are back, but this time for HTML!" https://vole.wtf/doctype/ | [12:06] TR Bot DOCTYPE magazine [12:06] *themusicfactory (~Hidamari@t3kjghgqtc4wn.irc) has joined #techrights [12:09] *themusicfactory has quit (Quit: Leaving) [12:13] *whatA____ (~chatzilla@34aa5fc9p7s8k.irc) has joined #techrights [12:14] TR News "Given the above motivations, when I started I decided that each post should be a polished and timeless document that people would come back to and still find useful for many years to come." https://vijayprema.com/perfectionism-and-courage/ | [12:14] TR Bot Perfectionism and Courage [12:14] TR News "Anyway, the analogy to file paths also illustrates the way that DNS has ossified." https://computer.rip/2025-11-11-dot-us.html | Source: J B Crawford [12:14] TR Bot memories of .us [12:15] TR News "There is one academic paper that Ive seen cited about bettas needing larger tanks. What it actually shows is that bettas, not surprisingly, dont thrive in unenriched cups and bowls" https://derekkedziora.com/notes/2025-11-11-the-academic-hobbyist-divide-in-fish-keeping | Source: Derek Kdziora [12:15] TR Bot The academic-hobbyist divide in fish keeping [12:15] TR News "Every element that makes us - oxygen, nitrogen, iron, calcium etc. were forged in the heart of a star through nuclear fusion." https://kevquirk.com/blog/what-happens-after-we-die/ | Source: Kev Quirk [12:15] TR Bot What Happens After We Die? | Kev Quirk [12:15] TR News "All of this is hosted on your own website, (optionally, but strongly encouraged) at your own domain name. Ive never seen anything else like it." https://heydingus.net/blog/2025/11/micro-blog-offers-an-indie-alternative-to-youtube-with-its-studio-video-hosting-plan | Source: Jarrod Blundy [12:15] TR Bot Micro.blog offers an indie alternative to YouTube with its Studio video hosting plan - HeyDingus [12:15] TR News "Some of the old commands have already been removed from the current distributions. However, others are still included." https://www.pcworld.com/article/2960504/old-insecure-inefficient-which-linux-commands-you-should-avoid-today.html | Source: PC World [12:15] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.pcworld.com/article/2960504/old-insecure-inefficient-which-linux-commands-you-should-avoid-today.html ) [12:17] TR News "One of the most defining incidents of the 20th century took place on November 9, 1989, when the Berlin Wall, a concrete symbol of the Cold War that had divided East and West Berlin for 28 years, was opened." https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/history-today-how-fall-of-the-berlin-wall-shaped-modern-germany-13948370.html | Source: Firstpost [12:17] TR Bot Today: How fall of the Berlin Wall shaped modern Germany Firstpost [12:19] TR News "It doesnt have to be so complicated!" https://dbushell.com/2025/11/10/pikaday/ | Source: David Bushell [12:19] TR Bot Reimagine the Date Picker David Bushell Web Dev (UK) [12:19] TR News "In both events I gave the talk that I worked on the first half of this year about modernising and maintaining CSS. Now that this is all done, I want to write out all my feelings" https://ohhelloana.blog/css-talk-final-act/ | Source: Ana Rodrigues [12:19] TR Bot Oh Hello Ana - Talking around about CSS: The final act [12:21] *whatA____ has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [12:22] TR News How To Install Fish Shell on Debian 13 https://idroot.us/install-fish-shell-debian-13/ [12:22] TR Bot How To Install Fish Shell on Debian 13 - idroot [12:23] TR News How To Install Gradle on Linux Mint 22 https://idroot.us/install-gradle-linux-mint-22/ [12:23] TR Bot How To Install Gradle on Linux Mint 22 - idroot [12:23] TR News How To Install GStreamer on Debian 13 https://idroot.us/install-gstreamer-debian-13/ [12:23] TR Bot How To Install GStreamer on Debian 13 - idroot [12:26] TR News How To Install NTP Server and Client on Fedora 43 https://idroot.us/install-ntp-server-and-client-fedora-43/ [12:26] TR Bot How To Install NTP Server and Client on Fedora 43 - idroot [12:28] TR News How To Install Asterisk on Manjaro https://idroot.us/install-asterisk-manjaro/ [12:28] TR Bot How To Install Asterisk on Manjaro - idroot [12:29] TR News How To Install Apache NetBeans on Fedora 43 https://idroot.us/install-apache-netbeans-fedora-43/ [12:29] TR Bot How To Install Apache NetBeans on Fedora 43 - idroot [12:32] TR News (NEW): Today's HowTos https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/12/today_s_howtos.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/12/today_s_howtos.gmi [12:32] TR Bot Tux Machines today's howtos [12:34] TR News Too Much of Today's Web is Fake, Not Just Fake News https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/11/Too_Much_of_Today_s_Web_is_Fake_Not_Just_Fake_News.shtml [12:34] TR Bot Techrights Too Much of Today's Web is Fake, Not Just Fake News [12:34] TR News (NEW): 7 Best Linux Distros to Switch from Windows 10 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/12/7_Best_Linux_Distros_to_Switch_from_Windows_10.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/12/7_Best_Linux_Distros_to_Switch_from_Windows_10.gmi [12:34] TR Bot Tux Machines 7 Best Linux Distros to Switch from Windows 10 [12:37] *whatA____ (~chatzilla@f473mn3av2swa.irc) has joined #techrights [12:37] TR News (NEW): Debians APT Package Manager to Integrate Rust Code by May 2026 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/02/Debian_s_APT_Package_Manager_to_Integrate_Rust_Code_by_May_2026.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/02/Debian_s_APT_Package_Manager_to_Integrate_Rust_Code_by_May_2026.gmi [12:37] TR Bot Tux Machines Debians APT Package Manager to Integrate Rust Code by May 2026 [12:38] whatA____ reminder: http://techrights.org/n/2025/11/03/Debian_is_Non_Free.shtml http://techrights.org/n/2025/11/06/Microsoft_and_Microsoft_GitHub_and_Rust_Microsoft_GitHub_the_Fu.shtml [12:38] TR Bot Techrights Debian is Non-Free [12:38] TR Bot Techrights Microsoft and Microsoft GitHub (and Rust @ Microsoft GitHub) the Future of Ubuntu, They Want the Same for Debian [12:40] TR News Death of an iPod https://jxself.org/ipod.shtml [12:40] TR Bot Death of an iPod [12:42] TR News Useful Ubuntu Touch Apps PodCat https://www.linuxlinks.com/useful-ubuntu-touch-apps-podcat/ [12:42] TR Bot Ubuntu Touch Apps - PodCat - LinuxLinks [12:45] TR News Linux Matters 68: Frameworks, Filesystems and Fixes https://linuxmatters.sh/68/ [12:45] TR Bot Frameworks, Filesystems and Fixes [12:46] TR News Val Town 2023-2025 Retrospective https://macwright.com/2025/11/11/val-town.html "When I initially joined, we had a prototype and a bit of hype. The interface was heavily inspired by Ex-Twitter - every time that you ran code, it would save a new val and add it to an infinite-scrolling list" [12:46] TR Bot Town 2023-2025 Retrospective - macwright.com [12:47] whatA____ look at the rust people http://github.com/uutils/coreutils/discussions/3712 [12:47] TR Bot this work eventually be upstreamed? uutils/coreutils Discussion #3712 GitHub [12:49] schestowitz[TR2] what is the gist of this? [12:49] schestowitz[TR2] it's shithub [12:49] schestowitz[TR2] so i want to know without opening just yet [12:49] TR News Man Builds Huge Battery Bank From 500 Disposable Vapes to Power His Entire House https://futurism.com/science-energy/vapes-battery-power-house [12:49] TR Bot Man Builds Huge Battery Bank From 500 Disposable Vapes to Power His Entire House [12:50] whatA____ here's their plan: "I wonder whether you, developers, intend to upstream the work at all. Not merely because this project is being modernly rewritten in Rust, but, primarily, because it is cross-platform!" [12:50] whatA____ what they get: "I really doubt that the GNU project will want to upstream it. The most important reason is that they probably don't like the license (uutils is MIT, GNU always uses GPL and we can't change it without asking every contributor who has a line of code in the latest version)." [12:50] whatA____ TL;DR Licensing [12:50] TR News (NEW): Hear ye, hear ye! The GNU Press Shop is open now through New Years' Day https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/05/Hear_ye_hear_ye_The_GNU_Press_Shop_is_open_now_through_New_Year.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/05/Hear_ye_hear_ye_The_GNU_Press_Shop_is_open_now_through_New_Year.gmi [12:51] TR Bot Tux Machines Hear ye, hear ye! The GNU Press Shop is open now through New Years' Day [12:52] schestowitz[TR2] rust is not "because it is cross-platform!"" [12:52] schestowitz[TR2] rust is not at all [12:52] schestowitz[TR2] it limits this [12:52] schestowitz[TR2] iirc, based on Sompi_, there is not even a plan to support 32--bit [12:53] schestowitz[TR2] because of some crappy code or deps in their "crates" [12:53] schestowitz[TR2] so ubuntu won't work on many perfectly ok embedded devices [12:53] schestowitz[TR2] those don't need 64-bit widths [12:56] TR News (NEW): GNU/Linux and Free Software Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/12/GNU_Linux_and_Free_Software_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/12/GNU_Linux_and_Free_Software_Leftovers.gmi [12:56] TR Bot Tux Machines GNU/Linux and Free Software Leftovers [12:56] whatA____ speaking of Anti-32bit people http://techrights.org/n/2025/09/07/Throwing_Away_Old_Computers_Mozilla_and_Other_Climate_Deniers.shtml [12:56] TR Bot Techrights Throwing Away "Old" Computers (Mozilla and Other Climate Deniers) [12:56] whatA____ http://techrights.org/n/2025/09/09/The_UEFI_9_11_Part_IX_Shunning_Old_Computers_in_2023_the_Certif.shtml [12:57] TR Bot Techrights The UEFI 9/11 - Part IX - Shunning Old Computers (in 2023 the Certificate Was Updated/Overridden, Underlying Aim May Be Herding/Forcing People to Get TPM and Other 'Novel' Restrictions) [12:57] schestowitz[TR2] they might say it is not "modern" [12:57] schestowitz[TR2] but that is dumb [12:57] schestowitz[TR2] there are many computers [12:57] schestowitz[TR2] some are very tiny [12:57] schestowitz[TR2] and don't need whatever "modern" means [12:58] schestowitz[TR2] they think of their laptop [12:58] schestowitz[TR2] "RUNS ON M LAPTOPS!!' [12:58] schestowitz[TR2] as if that's what the systems boil down to [12:58] schestowitz[TR2] "MA LAPTOPS" [12:58] schestowitz[TR2] go to nigeria [12:58] schestowitz[TR2] they have old laptops there [12:58] schestowitz[TR2] 32-bit only [12:58] schestowitz[TR2] in classrooms [12:58] schestowitz[TR2] not "modern" [12:59] schestowitz[TR2] https://techrights.org/n/2024/07/17/Billions_of_Computers_Run_Linux_and_Many_Use_Debian_or_a_Deriva.shtml [12:59] TR Bot Techrights Billions of Computers Run Linux and Many Use Debian (or a Derivative of It) [12:59] schestowitz[TR2] https://techrights.org/o/2019/12/02/the-thoughts-of-bruce-perens-on-systemd/index.shtml [12:59] TR Bot What Former Debian Project Leader (Second to the Late Ian Murdock) Thinks About SystemD in Debian GNU/Linux ● Nov 12 [13:00] schestowitz[TR2] perens on github (ms) systemd [13:00] schestowitz[TR2] https://techrights.org/n/2023/12/28/_Kill_off_Debian_with_SystemD_and_the_whole_Debian_derivative_t.shtml [13:00] TR Bot Techrights "Kill off Debian with SystemD, and the whole Debian derivative tree comes crashing down." [13:01] TR News Rspamd 3.14 Launches with Dark Mode, Postfix Wizard https://linuxiac.com/rspamd-3-14-launches-with-dark-mode-postfix-wizard/ [13:01] TR Bot Rspamd 3.14 Launches with Dark Mode, Postfix Wizard [13:01] TR News Fastfetch 2.55 Introduces Dynamic Refresh and Media Cover Logos https://linuxiac.com/fastfetch-2-55-introduces-dynamic-refresh-and-media-cover-logos/ [13:01] TR Bot Fastfetch 2.55 Introduces Dynamic Refresh and Media Cover Logos [13:02] TR News Podman 5.7 Adds Full TLS and mTLS Encryption for Remote Connections https://linuxiac.com/podman-5-7-adds-full-tls-and-mtls-encryption-for-remote-connections/ [13:02] TR Bot Podman 5.7 Adds Full TLS and mTLS Encryption for Remote Connections [13:02] TR News Decman declarative package and configuration manager for Arch https://www.linuxlinks.com/decman-declarative-package-and-configuration-manager-arch/ [13:02] TR Bot - declarative package and configuration manager for Arch - LinuxLinks [13:03] TR News 13 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Task Managers https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-terminal-based-task-managers/ [13:03] TR Bot Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Task Managers - LinuxLinks [13:03] TR News Gooroom Platform Debian-based open source operating system https://www.linuxlinks.com/gooroom-platform-debian-based-open-source-operating-system/ [13:03] TR Bot Platform - Debian-based open source operating system - LinuxLinks [13:03] TR News Alternative Timezone Naming in Calamares https://euroquis.nl/calamares/2025/11/11/timezones.html [13:03] TR Bot Alternative Timezone Naming in Calamares | [bobulate] [13:04] TR News Plasma Setup Security Improvements https://merritt.codes/blog/2025/11/11/2025/_plasma-setup-security [13:04] TR Bot Plasma Setup Security Improvements | Merritt Codes [13:04] TR News Tired of Help Scout Pulling the Rug from Under You? Try This Free, Open Source Alternative https://itsfoss.com/freescout-open-source-help-desk/ [13:04] TR Bot Tired of Help Scout Pulling the Rug from Under You? Try This Free, Open Source Alternative [13:07] TR News Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-11-12.gmi [13:07] TR News Rve d'ermite gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2734 [13:08] TR News Programmes TV TNT Franaise gemini://spacemax.capsule.town/ProgTV/programme.gmi [13:09] TR News SpellBinding ACKRTWY Wordo: AISLE gemini://spell.ddns.net/games/gemlog/2025-11-12.gmi [13:10] TR News "Now, a 16-bit version of PEEK is nice, but it would also be nice to have a 16-bit version of POKE. But USRn only takes one parameter; if we want an aditional value, we're going to have to extend the BASIC parser" gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2025/11/11.1 [13:11] TR News "these days, my right eye twitches. it twitches the same way it did at the end of high school, or during any other midterm week. some days, it feels like the twitching, the rush, the worry may never go away. and then it does, precisely when it should. without any warning. and then I understand." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2735 [13:11] *SomeGoat (~SomeGoat@r9ruxqydtdctn.irc) has joined #techrights [13:13] TR News "There is a clever personality type, Ive had several in my life, that become more susceptible to propaganda and myths when they are presented as some kind of secret insider knowledge or a way to get a leg up on what the general public knows." gemini://idiomdrottning.org/gullible-fox [13:20] *SomeGoat has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [13:25] *whatA____ has quit (connection closed) [13:25] TR News "Its disheartening that a lot of the things we get (rightly!) upset about in US politics we are just numb to and cowed under when it happens here in Sweden." gemini://idiomdrottning.org/sweden-and-america [13:27] TR News "Studies do show that the black-and-white mode is significantly less addictive but for me that effect wasnt nearly strong enough and Ive had to use other methods to try to not be on the tablet all day when Im at home." gemini://idiomdrottning.org/bw-screens [13:30] *whatA____ (~chatzilla@5y676fuwikcqy.irc) has joined #techrights [13:32] TR News "This probably has the quality of hashtag shower thoughts but the train connection between Zrich and Bern is the busiest of all of Switzerland and I cant help but think this must have an effect." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2025-11-12-trainsgemini://alexschroeder.ch/2025-11-12-trains [13:33] TR News "I still hope the vaccines will repel all vaccination-sceptics. Working from home, wearing a mask when I feel crowded in (I often feel I should do it more often), yearly vaccinations for both together these have really helped. Since 2020, I've been sick twice. Right now and once a few years ago." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2025-11-12-cold [13:44] TR News Techrights Gemini Links 12/11/2025: Trains in Switzerland, Software Survival, and More https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/12/Gemini_Links_12_11_2025_Trains_in_Switzerland_Software_Survival.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/11/12/Gemini_Links_12_11_2025_Trains_in_Switzerland_Software_Survival.gmi [13:44] TR Bot Techrights Gemini Links 12/11/2025: Trains in Switzerland, Software Survival, and More [13:47] TR News "Clearly, theres a major incentive to push 5G as the main technology for enterprise connectivity." https://siliconangle.com/2025/11/11/despite-hype-5g-theres-still-big-demand-high-density-wi-fi/ | Source: Silicon Angle [13:47] TR Bot the hype of 5G, there's still big demand for high-density Wi-Fi - SiliconANGLE [13:47] TR News Techrights Links 12/11/2025: A US President (Insurrectionist) Attacking British Media, Hyundai's Digital Restrictions (DRM) https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/12/Links_12_11_2025_A_US_President_Insurrectionist_Attacking_Briti.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/11/12/Links_12_11_2025_A_US_President_Insurrectionist_Attacking_Briti.gmi [13:47] TR Bot Techrights Links 12/11/2025: A US President (Insurrectionist) Attacking British Media, Hyundai's Digital Restrictions (DRM) [13:47] TR News "Today I learnt about a format call TOON: Token-Oriented Object Notation, which is a data interchange format like JSON, that is geared towards being more efficient for use with LLMs." https://lmika.org/2025/11/12/on-toon-and-human-readable.html | Source: Leon Mika [13:47] TR Bot On TOON And Human Readable Data Formats - Leon Mika [13:48] TR News "In a previous article, I shared my experience as an R developer diving into Python package development!" https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/11/python-package-development-for-r-developers-episode-2/ | Source: Rlang [13:48] TR Bot package development for R developers (episode 2 !) | R-bloggers [13:48] TR News "To measure your code, coverage.py needs to know what code got executed." https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/202511/three_releases_one_new_organization.html | Source: Ned Batchelder [13:48] TR Bot Three releases, one new organization | Ned Batchelder [13:54] TR News [Old] "So I tried to roll my own error union. Zig has tagged unions (like enums in Rust) after all, how hard could it be?" https://mikemikeb.com/blog/zig_error_payloads/ | [13:54] TR Bot How I learned to love Zig's diagnostic pattern | Mike Belousov's Website [13:54] TR News "Fantasy consoles like the Pico-8 are a great idea. A fantasy console provides a standardised and portable environment in which developers can explore ideas within creative constraints." https://entropicthoughts.com/advent-of-code-on-z-machine | Source: Chris [13:54] TR Bot Advent of Code on the Z-machine [13:55] TR News "Like many front-end developers, I dont have a formal computer science background." https://piccalil.li/blog/programming-principles-for-self-taught-front-end-developers/?ref=main-rss-feed | Source: Andy Bell [13:55] TR Bot Programming principles for self taught front-end developers - Piccalilli [13:55] TR News "Different compilers represent and track these effects differently. Ive been thinking about how to represent these effects all year, so I have been doing some reading. In this post I will give some summaries of the landscape of approaches. Please feel free to suggest more." https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/compiler-effects/ | Source: Max Bernstein [13:55] TR Bot A catalog of side effects | Max Bernstein [13:56] TR News "The Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP) just published its top 10 categories of application risks for 2025, its first list since 2021." https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/11/new_owasp_top_ten_broken/ | Source: The Register UK [13:56] TR Bot Broken access control still tops list of app sec top 10 The Register [13:56] TR News "In the past 10 years, the Centre has shared datasets with almost 500 academics across over 100 universities." https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2025/11/11/a-decade-of-data-sharing-celebrating-the-cambridge-cybercrime-centres-10-year-anniversary/ | Source: Light Blue Touchpaper [13:56] TR Bot A decade of data sharing: Celebrating the Cambridge Cybercrime Centres 10-year anniversary | Light Blue Touchpaper [13:56] TR News "Ive recently been given early access to a service that provides data on job listings published by a wide range of companies." https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/11/evaluating-a-new-job-market-data-feed/ | Source: Rlang [13:56] TR Bot a New Job Market Data Feed | R-bloggers [13:57] TR News "Ive been curious about how far you can push object storage as a foundation for database-like systems." https://www.shayon.dev/post/2025/314/a-hypothetical-search-engine-on-s3-with-tantivy-and-warm-cache-on-nvme/ | Source: Shayon Mukherjee [13:57] TR Bot A hypothetical search engine on S3 with Tantivy and warm cache on NVMe [13:57] TR News "The SQL standard working group discussed this feature informally at the June 2025 meeting, and there was consensus about going forward with it." https://peter.eisentraut.org/blog/2025/11/11/waiting-for-sql-202y-group-by-all | Source: Peter Eisentraut [13:57] TR Bot Waiting for SQL:202y: GROUP BY ALL | Peter Eisentraut [13:57] TR News "If you find a bug or have a suggestion for how we could improve this release, please let us know." https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-1501/ | Source: Tor [13:57] TR Bot New Release: Tor Browser 15.0.1 | The Tor Project [13:58] TR News "At my company (Evolved Binary) we recently had to address a series of bugs in Elemental that involved the Serialization and Deserialization of XDM" https://blog.adamretter.org.uk/refreshing-apache-xml-infrastructure/ | Source: Adam Retter [13:58] TR Bot Refreshing Apache XML Infrastructure [13:58] TR News "North Korean state-backed spies have found a new way to torch evidence of their own cyber-spying by hijacking Google's "Find Hub" service to remotely wipe Android phones belonging to their South Korean targets." https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/11/north_korean_spies_turn_googles/ | Source: The Register UK [13:58] TR Bot North Korean spies used Google Find Hub as remote-wipe tool The Register [13:59] TR News "I noticed something odd when I de-Googled and started running Lineage OS on my Samsung phones: photographs were not as clear or well-exposed as those from the stock Samsung camera app." https://kevinboone.me/degoogled-gcam.html | Source: Kevin Boone [13:59] *SomeGoat (~SomeGoat@r9ruxqydtdctn.irc) has joined #techrights [13:59] TR Bot timed out after 10000 milliseconds ( status 0 @ https://kevinboone.me/degoogled-gcam.html ) [13:59] TR News "About three weeks after the release of Plasma 6.5, the KDE team has detailed the numerous improvements that arrived in its mobile counterpart, Plasma Mobile 6.5, built on the same technology stack as the Plasma desktop environment KWin, Qt, and KDE Frameworks but optimized for touchscreen devices." [13:59] TR News From https://linuxiac.com/plasma-mobile-6-5-brings-faster-lockscreen-better-waydroid-integration/ | Source: Linuxiac [13:59] TR Bot Plasma Mobile 6.5 Brings Faster Lockscreen, Better Waydroid Integration ● Nov 12 [14:01] TR News "The ESP32-C5-Devkit-Lipo is a evaluation board built around the ESP32-C5-WROOM-N8R4 module from Espressif with 4MB PSRAM and 8MB Flash" https://olimex.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/new-open-source-hardware-board-in-stock-esp32-c5-devkit-lipo-dual-band-2-4ghz-and-5ghz-wifi-6-bluetooth-5-le-zigbee-thread-matter/ | Source: Olimex [14:01] TR Bot New Open Source Hardware board in stock: ESP32-C5-DevKit-Lipo Dual band 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz WiFi 6, Bluetooth 5 LE, Zigbee, Thread, Matter | olimex [14:01] TR News "Recapping is the process of removing the capacitors on the motherboard and replacing them with new ones." https://linuxjedi.co.uk/why-recapping-isnt-always-the-cure-and-amiga-1200-repair-story/ | Source: Andrew Hutchings [14:01] TR Bot Why Recapping Isnt Always the Cure: And Amiga 1200 Repair Story - LinuxJedi's /dev/null [14:01] TR News "The PDP-11/34 scored a lowly 240 in the Dhrystone 2.2 Benchmark, but a Mac Pro M2 Ultra achieves 47,808,764 in the same single-threaded test." https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/veteran-devs-newest-computer-is-200-000-times-faster-than-his-oldest-in-custom-benchmarks-single-thread-dhrystone-performance-charted-across-25-systems-released-between-1976-and-2023 | Source: Tom's Hardware [14:01] TR Bot Veteran devs newest computer is 200,000 times faster than his oldest in custom benchmarks single-thread Dhrystone performance charted across 25 systems released between 1976 and 2023 | Tom's Hardware [14:02] *whatA____ has quit (connection closed) [14:02] TR News "With pre-assembled hardware and a robust enclosure, you can skip mechanical design headaches and focus on building your solution right away." https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/11/11/meet-arduino-nesso-n1-the-future-of-iot-in-the-palm-of-your-hand/ | Source: Arduino [14:02] TR Bot Meet Arduino Nesso N1: the future of IoT in the palm of your hand | Arduino Blog [14:02] TR News Why Recapping Isnt Always the Cure: And Amiga 1200 Repair Story https://linuxjedi.co.uk/why-recapping-isnt-always-the-cure-and-amiga-1200-repair-story/ [14:03] TR News "Since we're talking about a 45 year old computer and with zero chance of a newer version of BASIC coming out any time sooner" https://boston.conman.org/2025/11/11.1 | Source: Sean Conner [14:03] TR Bot Extending the syntax when calling assembly language subroutines for Color BASIC - The Boston Diaries - Captain Napalm [14:04] TR News "The Discover software center received attention this cycle" https://linuxiac.com/kde-plasma-6-4-6-desktop-environment-released/ | Source: Linuxiac [14:04] TR Bot KDE Plasma 6.4.6 Desktop Environment Released [14:04] TR News "...with safer shutdown handling and better integration of end-of-session operations outside of Plasma, addressing long-standing issues that affect system restarts and shutdowns from within the Discover interface." https://linuxiac.com/kde-plasma-6-4-6-desktop-environment-released/ | Source: Linuxiac [14:05] TR News "The Ironclad OS project is writing a new Unix-like OS kernel, aimed at small-footprint and embedded systems, and planning to be realtime-capable. For stronger security, it supports Mandatory Access Control (MAC), which is a big-organization style sort of system, as the US National Institute of Standards and Technology describes." https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/10/ironclad_os_unix_like_kernel/ | Source: The Register UK [14:05] TR Bot Ironclad OS crafts Unix-like kernel in Ada and SPARK The Register [14:06] TR News "Discover how the Raspberry Pi Foundation designs inclusive, adaptable computing lessons for all learners." https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/designing-for-every-learner-in-every-classroom/ | Source: Raspberry Pi [14:06] TR Bot Designing for every learner in every classroom - Raspberry Pi Foundation [14:09] TR News (NEW): Systemd-Free Nitrux 5.0 Officially Released with Hyprland Desktop, Linux 6.17 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/12/Systemd_Free_Nitrux_5_0_Officially_Released_with_Hyprland_Deskt.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/12/Systemd_Free_Nitrux_5_0_Officially_Released_with_Hyprland_Deskt.gmi [14:09] TR Bot Tux Machines Systemd-Free Nitrux 5.0 Officially Released with Hyprland Desktop, Linux 6.17 [14:10] TR News "Simply put, not all prompts require the same level of reasoning." https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/bringing-intelligent-efficient-routing-open-source-ai-vllm-semantic-router | Source: Red Hat Official [14:10] TR Bot Bringing intelligent, efficient routing to open source AI with vLLM Semantic Router [14:11] TR News Red Hat trying to advance BS to help IBM prop up share value [14:11] TR News "The good news is thatRed Hat OpenShift is evolving to meet this demand head-on." https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/efficient-two-node-edge-infrastructure-red-hat-openshift-and-portworxpure-storage | Source: Red Hat Official [14:11] TR Bot Create an efficient two-node edge infrastructure with Red Hat OpenShift and Portworx by Pure Storage [14:13] TR News "And no one has heard of softlayer cloud anymore." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k9hypt3k [14:13] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k9hypt3k ) [14:16] TR News "This milestone validates KServes maturity, stability and role as the foundation for scalable, multi-framework model serving in production environments." https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/kserve-joins-cncf-incubating-project | Source: Red Hat Official [14:16] TR Bot KServe joins CNCF as an incubating project [14:17] TR News IBM 'openings': "yes and plus the jobs system su-ks very cryptic, always crashes never gets updated" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k9bz3eyn [14:17] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k9bz3eyn ) [14:17] TR News "Today's widely used public-key cryptosystems, such as RSA andelliptic curve cryptography (ECC), form the foundation of security-enhanced online communication." https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/deeper-look-post-quantum-cryptography-support-red-hat-openshift-420-control-plane | Source: Red Hat Official [14:17] TR Bot Post-quantum cryptography support in Red Hat OpenShift 4.20 control plane [14:19] TR News Sold based on mindless buzzwords, because why the heck not? "This articlehighlights the latest OpenShift 4.20 innovations and key enhancements. For a comprehensive list of updates and improvements, refer to theOpenShift 4.20 release notes." https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-openshift-42-what-you-need-to-know | Source: Red Hat Official [14:19] TR Bot Red Hat OpenShift 4.20: Accelerating Virtualization and AI Innovation [14:19] TR News "OpenShift 4.20 introduces support for five new Oracle cloud infrastructure services: [...]" https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-openshift-420-expanded-oracle-cloud-infrastructure-support | Source: Red Hat Official [14:19] TR Bot Red Hat OpenShift 4.20: Expanded Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Support [14:30] TR News Techrights Ethical Consumer Could Use a Mention of "Ethical Software" https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/12/Ethical_Consumer_Could_Use_a_Mention_of_Ethical_Software.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/11/12/Ethical_Consumer_Could_Use_a_Mention_of_Ethical_Software.gmi [14:31] TR Bot Techrights Ethical Consumer Could Use a Mention of "Ethical Software" [14:42] TR News Techrights The Second-Largest Institution in Europe (EPO) is Playing With Fire and Now It Puts the Largest One (EU) at Risk https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/12/The_Second_Largest_Institution_in_Europe_EPO_is_Playing_With_Fi.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/11/12/The_Second_Largest_Institution_in_Europe_EPO_is_Playing_With_Fi.gmi [14:42] TR Bot Techrights The Second-Largest Institution in Europe (EPO) is Playing With Fire and Now It Puts the Largest One (EU) at Risk ● Nov 12 [15:12] TR News Techrights The EPO's Central Staff Committee Complains About the EPO's Management Faking "Production" (Monopolies) to Make More Money https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/12/The_EPO_s_Central_Staff_Committee_Complains_About_the_EPO_s_Man.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/11/12/The_EPO_s_Central_Staff_Committee_Complains_About_the_EPO_s_Man.gmi [15:12] TR Bot Techrights The EPO's Central Staff Committee Complains About the EPO's Management Faking "Production" (Monopolies) to Make More Money [15:26] TR News "The reality is that running two separate virtualization stacks creates silos, complexity, and unnecessary operational cost what can be calledthe complexity tax" https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/strategic-shift-how-ford-and-emirates-nbd-stopped-paying-complexity-tax-virtualization | Source: Red Hat Official [15:26] TR Bot The strategic shift: How Ford and Emirates NBD stopped paying the complexity tax for virtualization [15:26] TR News "RHEL 9 was released in 2022 and was an important step forward from a security perspective." https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/prepare-post-quantum-future-rhel-97 | Source: Red Hat Official [15:26] TR Bot Prepare for a post-quantum future with RHEL 9.7 [15:29] TR News Startup Secretly Working to Gene-Hack Human Baby https://futurism.com/health-medicine/startup-altman-gene-hacking [15:29] TR Bot Startup Secretly Working to Gene-Hack Human Baby [15:35] *psydruid 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[16:08] TR Bot China clears parents in naked child case that sparked social media fury | The Straits Times [16:08] TR News Chinas Singles Day shopping fest loses its shine for weary consumers https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinas-singles-day-shopping-fest-loses-its-shine-for-weary-consumers [16:08] TR Bot Chinas Singles Day shopping fest loses its shine for weary consumers | The Straits Times [16:10] TR News Debian GNU/Linux Became the Most Popular (Most Distros Are Based on It) Owing to Richard Stallman https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/11/Debian_GNU_Linux_Became_the_Most_Popular_Most_Distros_Are_Based.shtml [16:10] TR Bot Techrights Debian GNU/Linux Became the Most Popular (Most Distros Are Based on It) Owing to Richard Stallman [16:10] TR News GNU/Linux Cannot Buy Fake Journalism and It Won't Bribe Large Publishers https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/11/GNU_Linux_Cannot_Buy_Fake_Journalism_and_It_Won_t_Bribe_Large_P.shtml [16:10] TR Bot Techrights GNU/Linux Cannot Buy Fake Journalism and It Won't Bribe Large Publishers [16:10] TR News Slopwatch: Many Fake Articles About "Linux" on Monday and Today https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/11/Slopwatch_Many_Fake_Articles_About_Linux_on_Monday_and_Today.shtml [16:10] TR Bot Techrights Slopwatch: Many Fake Articles About "Linux" on Monday and Today [16:10] TR News Articles About "Linux" That Are Actually Promotions of Abusive Monopolist Microsoft backdoored Windows (updated) https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/11/Articles_About_Linux_That_Are_Actually_Promotions_of_Microsoft_.shtml [16:10] TR Bot Techrights Articles About "Linux" That Are Actually Promotions of Microsoft Windows [16:10] TR News Firefox 145.0 is out! 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Removed 32-bit Linux Support | UbuntuHandbook [16:27] TR News Techrights The Open Web Has Fallen, It's Just Chrome https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/12/The_Open_Web_Has_Fallen_It_s_Just_Chrome.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/11/12/The_Open_Web_Has_Fallen_It_s_Just_Chrome.gmi [16:27] TR Bot Techrights The Open Web Has Fallen, It's Just Chrome [16:30] TR News Video: IncusOS Intro and Demo http://www.montanalinux.org/video-incusos-intro-and-demo-202511.html [16:30] TR Bot IncusOS Intro and Demo | www.montanalinux.org [16:32] TR News Introducing the external secrets operator for OpenShift https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/11/11/introducing-external-secrets-operator-openshift [16:32] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/11/11/introducing-external-secrets-operator-openshift ) [16:34] TR News Whats new for developers in Red Bait OpenShift 4.20 https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/11/11/whats-new-developers-red-hat-openshift-4-20 [16:34] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/11/11/whats-new-developers-red-hat-openshift-4-20 ) [16:38] TR News Firefox 145 released https://lwn.net/Articles/1046082/ [16:38] TR Bot 145 released [LWN.net] [16:38] TR News Security updates for Tuesday https://lwn.net/Articles/1046042/ [16:38] TR Bot updates for Tuesday [LWN.net] [16:39] TR News You Can Play Classic D3D7 Games on GNU/Linux With This New Project, But Dont Expect Perfection https://itsfoss.com/news/play-d3d7-games-on-linux/ [16:39] TR Bot You Can Play Classic D3D7 Games on Linux With This New Project, But Dont Expect Perfection [16:39] TR News A Retro Corner page for Lotus Organiser https://rubenerd.com/a-retro-corner-page-for-lotus-organiser/ [16:39] TR Bot A Retro Corner page for Lotus Organiser [16:40] TR News $500+ MINISFORUM MS-R1 Arm GNU/Linux Hey Hi (AI) mini PC features CIX CP8180 12-core SoC, up to 64GB LPDDR5x https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/11/11/500-minisforum-ms-r1-arm-linux-ai-mini-pc-features-cix-cp8180-12-core-soc-up-to-64gb-lpddr5x/ [16:40] TR Bot $500+ MINISFORUM MS-R1 Arm Linux AI mini PC features CIX CP8180 12-core SoC, up to 64GB LPDDR5x - CNX Software [16:41] TR News Common Networking Issues Every DevOps Engineer Encounters https://linuxhandbook.com/common-networking-issues/ [16:41] TR Bot Common Networking Issues Every DevOps Engineer Encounters [16:43] TR News 22 Best Free and Open Source Replacements for du https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-replacements-du/ [16:43] TR Bot Best Free and Open Source Replacements for du - LinuxLinks [16:43] TR News pacmixer PulseAudio tool similar to alsamixer https://www.linuxlinks.com/pacmixer-pulseaudio-tool-alsamixer/ [16:43] TR Bot - PulseAudio tool similar to alsamixer - LinuxLinks [16:43] TR News Phantom Player simple video player https://www.linuxlinks.com/phantom-player-simple-video-player/ [16:43] TR Bot Player - simple video player - LinuxLinks [16:43] TR News liz-desktop Rust-based shortcut helper https://www.linuxlinks.com/liz-desktop-rust-based-shortcut-helper/ [16:43] TR Bot - Rust-based shortcut helper - LinuxLinks [16:43] TR News ServiceMaster powerful terminal-based tool for managing systemd units https://www.linuxlinks.com/servicemaster-powerful-terminal-based-tool-managing-systemd-units/ [16:43] TR Bot - powerful terminal-based tool for managing systemd units - LinuxLinks [16:43] TR News SwayBG+ advanced multi-monitor background manager for sway https://www.linuxlinks.com/swaybg-advanced-multi-monitor-background-manager-sway/ [16:43] TR Bot - advanced multi-monitor background manager for sway - LinuxLinks [16:44] TR News How System76 & Red Bait Hope To Finally Improve The GNU/Linux Multi-GPU Experience https://www.phoronix.com/news/Better-Linux-Multi-GPU-2025 [16:44] TR Bot System76 & Red Hat Hope To Finally Improve The Linux Multi-GPU Experience - Phoronix [16:44] TR News Blade 24.6 is out https://distrowatch.com/blade [16:44] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/blade ) [16:45] TR News SparkyLinux 8.1 is out as well https://distrowatch.com/sparky [16:45] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/sparky ) [16:45] TR News Slimbook OS 24-r111 is out for particular machines https://distrowatch.com/slimbookos [16:45] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/slimbookos ) [16:46] TR News Engicam Showcases Computer Vision Hey Hi (AI) Kit Based on Renesas RZ/V2H Platform https://linuxgizmos.com/engicam-showcases-computer-vision-ai-kit-based-on-renesas-rz-v2h-platform/ [16:46] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/engicam-showcases-computer-vision-ai-kit-based-on-renesas-rz-v2h-platform/ ) [16:46] TR News Firefox 146 Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing, Heres What to Expect https://9to5linux.com/firefox-146-is-now-available-for-public-beta-testing-heres-what-to-expect [16:46] TR Bot 146 Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing, Here's What to Expect - 9to5Linux [16:46] TR News KDE Plasma 6.4.6 Released with Numerous Bug Fixes for Plasma 6.4 Users https://9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-6-4-6-released-with-numerous-bug-fixes-for-plasma-6-4-users [16:46] TR Bot Plasma 6.4.6 Released with Numerous Bug Fixes for Plasma 6.4 Users - 9to5Linux [16:47] TR News Installing Russian proprietary software doesn't sound even remotely like security https://www.neowin.net/news/linux-gets-malware-too-kaspersky-says-as-it-launches-antivirus-for-home-users/ [16:47] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.neowin.net/news/linux-gets-malware-too-kaspersky-says-as-it-launches-antivirus-for-home-users/ ) [16:47] TR News BellSofts3-in-1 Strategy for Container Security https://cloudnativenow.com/features/bellsofts-3-in-1-strategy-for-container-security/ [16:47] TR Bot BellSofts3-in-1 Strategy for Container Security - Cloud Native Now [16:48] TR News Rainfall https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/11/rainfall/ [16:48] TR Bot R-bloggers [16:48] TR News Little useless-useful R functions Finding substrings in number Pi https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/11/little-useless-useful-r-functions-finding-substrings-in-number-pi/ [16:48] TR Bot useless-useful R functions Finding substrings in number Pi | R-bloggers [16:49] TR News "Over on the [Behind The Code with Gerry] YouTube channel our hacker [Gerry] shows us how to emulate a 74LS48 BCD-to-7-segment decoder/driver using an Altera CPLD Logic Chip From 1998." https://hackaday.com/2025/11/11/emulating-a-74ls48-bcd-to-7-segment-decoder-driver-with-an-altera-max-7000-s-series-complex-programmable-logic-device/ | Source: Hackaday [16:49] TR Bot A 74LS48 BCD-to-7-Segment Decoder/Driver With An Altera MAX 7000 S Series Complex Programmable Logic Device | Hackaday [16:49] MinceR (no audio) https://images.apina.biz/full/208332.webm [16:49] TR News Disney Is Losing $4.3 Million a Day to YouTube TV Blackout, Morgan Stanley Estimates https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/11/11/disney-youtube-tv-blackout/ [16:49] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/11/11/disney-youtube-tv-blackout/ ) [16:51] TR News qBittorrent 5.1.3 Adds Native Wayland Support to the AppImage, Fixes More Bugs https://9to5linux.com/qbittorrent-5-1-3-adds-native-wayland-support-to-the-appimage-fixes-more-bugs [16:51] TR Bot 5.1.3 Adds Native Wayland Support to the AppImage, Fixes More Bugs - 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Subscribe Now! : ScienceAlert [16:53] TR News unrtf @ Savannah: unrtf 0.21.11 https://savannah.gnu.org/news/?id=10828 [16:53] TR Bot unrtf - News [Savannah] [16:53] TR News health @ Savannah: GNUHealthCon 2025 - December 20th https://savannah.gnu.org/news/?id=10829 [16:53] TR Bot GNU Health - News [Savannah] [16:54] TR News Canonical releases FIPS-enabled Kubernetes https://ubuntu.com//blog/canonical-releases-fips-enabled-kubernetes [16:54] TR Bot releases FIPS-enabled Kubernetes [16:59] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techrights ● Nov 12 [17:06] TR News Techrights British Army Officer Said Ubuntu Needed to Abandon Sudo for Rust's Imitation of Sudo and You Can Guess What Happened Next... https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/12/British_Army_Officer_Said_Ubuntu_Needed_to_Abandon_Sudo_for_Rus.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/11/12/British_Army_Officer_Said_Ubuntu_Needed_to_Abandon_Sudo_for_Rus.gmi [17:06] TR Bot Techrights British Army Officer Said Ubuntu Needed to Abandon Sudo for Rust's Imitation of Sudo and You Can Guess What Happened Next... [17:06] schestowitz[TR2] Sompi_: ^ [17:06] schestowitz[TR2] very secure [17:09] TR News 10 [17:10] TR News Rust Keeps Breaking Ubuntu in All Sorts of Extraordinary Ways (and All Distros Based on Ubuntu Will Break Also) (updated) https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/11/Rust_Keeps_Breaking_Ubuntu_in_All_Sorts_of_Extraordinary_Ways_a.shtml [17:10] TR Bot Techrights Rust Keeps Breaking Ubuntu in All Sorts of Extraordinary Ways (and All Distros Based on Ubuntu Will Break Also) [17:10] TR News sudo-rs Affected By Multiple Security Vulnerabilities - Impacting Ubuntu 25.10 https://www.phoronix.com/news/sudo-rs-security-ubuntu-25.10 [17:10] TR Bot Affected By Multiple Security Vulnerabilities - Impacting Ubuntu 25.10 - Phoronix [17:11] TR News Firefox 145 Brings Rounder Tabs, New PDF Edit Tools + More https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/11/firefox-145-released-new-features [17:11] TR Bot Firefox 145 Brings Rounder Tabs, New PDF Edit Tools + More - OMG! 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Ubuntu [17:12] TR News How to install Cloudpanel on Ubuntu 24.04 https://www.rosehosting.com/blog/how-to-install-cloudpanel-on-ubuntu-24-04/ [17:12] TR Bot to install Cloudpanel on Ubuntu 24.04 | RoseHosting [17:12] TR News GEMA Touts Landmark Ruling in Proprietary Chaffbot Company Infringement Suit Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot Developer Downplays the Decision As Involving A Limited Set of Lyrics, Says Its Considering Next Steps https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/11/11/gema-openai-lawsuit-verdict/ [17:12] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/11/11/gema-openai-lawsuit-verdict/ ) [17:12] TR News Artists Fire Back Against Sunos Legally Unsustainable Dismissal Motion in High-Stakes Copyright and Unfair Competition Class Action https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/11/11/tony-justice-suno-lawsuit-dismissal-motion-opposition/ [17:12] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/11/11/tony-justice-suno-lawsuit-dismissal-motion-opposition/ ) [17:13] TR News Todd Blanche asks Supreme Court to Hand Over the Copyright Office https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/11/blanche-supreme-copyright.html [17:13] TR Bot Todd Blanche asks Supreme Court to Hand Over the Copyright Office | Patently-O [17:13] TR News Open Hey Hi (AI) must pay GEMA licence fee for Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/open-ai-must-pay-gema-licence-fee-for-chatgpt/ [17:13] TR Bot Open AI must pay GEMA licence fee for ChatGPT - JUVE Patent [17:15] TR News "Eliminating Red Hat? We are both fairly separate.......still." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k9hypt3k " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_IBM It's like a tech graveyard." [17:15] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k9hypt3k ) [17:15] TR Bot List of mergers and acquisitions by IBM - Wikipedia [17:17] TR News Real-Time BART In A Box Smaller Than Your Coffee Mug https://hackaday.com/2025/11/11/real-time-bart-in-a-box-smaller-than-your-coffee-mug/ | Source: Hackaday [17:17] TR Bot BART In A Box Smaller Than Your Coffee Mug | Hackaday [17:17] TR News "Despite the best efforts of modern medicine, Huntingtons disease is a condition that still comes with a tragic prognosis." https://hackaday.com/2025/11/11/gene-therapy-aims-to-slow-huntingtons-disease-to-a-crawl/ | Source: Hackaday [17:17] TR Bot Therapy Aims To Slow Huntingtons Disease To A Crawl | Hackaday [17:19] TR News Bauer closes Modern Gardens magazine and ends Trail in print https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/magazines/bauer-closes-modern-gardens-magazine-and-ends-trail-in-print/ [17:19] TR Bot Bauer closes Modern Gardens magazine and ends Trail in print - Press Gazette [17:20] TR News Study Finds Humans Age Faster at 2 Sharp Peaks Here's When to Expect Them https://www.sciencealert.com/human-aging-two-sharp-peaks [17:20] TR Bot Finds Humans Age Faster at 2 Sharp Peaks Here's When to Expect Them : ScienceAlert [17:23] TR News OpenAI Is Reportedly Burning a Ludicrous Amount of Cash on Sora https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-burning-cash-ai-video-slop-sora [17:23] TR Bot OpenAI Is Reportedly Burning a Ludicrous Amount of Cash on Sora [17:23] TR News Dihydroxyacetone Man Threatened to Sue the BillBC for $1 Billion. What Are His Chances? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/world/europe/trump-bbc-lawsuit-hurdles.html [17:23] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/world/europe/trump-bbc-lawsuit-hurdles.html ) [17:28] TR News Frankly dangerous hot dog-based LED tester could be a Weiner in the 2025 Hackaday Component Abuse Challenge https://www.tomshardware.com/maker-stem/frankly-dangerous-hot-dog-based-led-tester-could-be-a-weiner-in-the-2025-hackaday-component-abuse-challenge [17:28] TR Bot Frankly dangerous hot dog-based LED tester could be a Weiner in the 2025 Hackaday Component Abuse Challenge | Tom's Hardware [17:29] admfubar unless of course you are on elon's speial list... https://futurism.com/future-society/elon-musk-optimus-criminals [17:29] TR Bot Elon Says His Robot Will Follow Criminals Around to Make Sure They Never Offend Again [17:29] admfubar special too [17:30] TR News Finding your path into DFIR https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/finding-your-path-into-dfir/ [17:30] TR Bot Finding your path into DFIR | Pen Test Partners [17:33] TR News Paid-for spam (not really journalism) about something they dub Hey Hi (AI) trust https://siliconangle.com/2025/11/11/red-hat-data-sovereignty-kubeconna/ [17:33] TR Bot sovereignty drives secure AI growth - SiliconANGLE [17:34] TR News Security Minister: Half of reported extortion lines are operating from prisons https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/half-reported-extortion-calls-prisons/ [17:34] TR Bot Half of recent extortion calls in Mexico traced to 12 prisons [17:34] TR News Whisper Leak LLM Side-Channel Attack Infers User Prompt Topics https://www.securityweek.com/whisper-leak-llm-side-channel-attack-infers-user-prompt-topics/ [17:34] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/whisper-leak-llm-side-channel-attack-infers-user-prompt-topics/ ) [17:35] TR News SAP Patches Critical Flaws in SQL Anywhere Monitor, Solution Manager https://www.securityweek.com/sap-patches-critical-flaws-in-sql-anywhere-monitor-solution-manager/ [17:35] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/sap-patches-critical-flaws-in-sql-anywhere-monitor-solution-manager/ ) [17:35] TR News Critical Triofox Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild https://www.securityweek.com/critical-triofox-vulnerability-exploited-in-the-wild/ [17:35] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/critical-triofox-vulnerability-exploited-in-the-wild/ ) [17:36] TR News KDE Plasma 6.4.6, Bugfix Release for November https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.4.6/ [17:36] TR Bot KDE Plasma 6.4.6, Bugfix Release for November - KDE Community [17:37] TR News Value Types: Reputation and Influence https://toscalix.com/2025/11/11/value-types-reputation-and-influence/ "forth article of the series describing the open source value flow model. We'll focus on the value types: Reputation and Influence. We'll cover how to measure and report on them." [17:37] TR Bot Types: Reputation and Influence toscalix [17:37] TR News Dirk Eddelbuettel: duckdb-mlpack 0.0.4: Added random forest and logistic regression http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/11/11#duckdb-mlpack_0.0.4 [17:37] TR Bot Thinking inside the box [17:38] TR News Facebook (Farcebook) posts: Time to rest when Im dead https://nypost.com/2025/11/11/us-news/man-murdered-outside-ritzy-long-island-yacht-club-left-haunting-trail-of-facebook-posts-time-to-rest-when-im-dead/ [17:38] TR Bot Man 'murdered' outside ritzy Long Island yacht club left haunting trail of Facebook posts: 'Time to rest when I'm dead' [17:39] TR News VLC Projects Champion Honored with European SFS Award in Italy https://fossforce.com/2025/11/vlc-projects-champion-honored-with-european-sfs-award-in-italy/ [17:39] TR Bot VLC Projects Champion Honored with European SFS Award in Italy - FOSS Force [17:39] TR News EasyOS Excalibur-series version 7.0.30 released https://bkhome.org/news/202511/easyos-excalibur-series-version-7030-released.html [17:39] TR Bot EasyOS Excalibur-series version 7.0.30 released [17:46] TR News Russian Musicians Get Third 13-Day Jail Term Over Performing Anti-War Songs https://www.rferl.org/a/naoko-loginova-stoptime-orlov-leontyev-russia-ukraine/33587613.html [17:46] TR Bot Russian Musicians Get Third 13-Day Jail Term Over Performing Anti-War Songs [17:46] TR News "Russia accuses journalist Christo Grozev of involvement in alleged Ukrainian-British plot to hijack fighter jet" https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/11/11/russia-accuses-journalist-christo-grozev-of-involvement-in-alleged-ukrainian-british-plot-to-hijack-fighter-jet | Source: Meduza [17:46] TR Bot Russia accuses journalist Christo Grozev of involvement in alleged Ukrainian-British plot to hijack fighter jet Meduza [17:50] TR News Windows TCO http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Another-Linux-Malware-Discovered http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/06/Blaming_Linux_for_Microsoft_and_Hyper_V_Breaches.shtml http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/05/Windows_TCO_and_Blaming_Linux_for_Microsoft_s_Hyper_V_Proprieta.shtml [17:50] TR Bot Another Linux Malware Discovered Linux Magazine [17:50] TR Bot Tux Machines Blaming "Linux" for Microsoft and Hyper-V Breaches [17:50] TR Bot Tux Machines Windows TCO and Blaming Linux for Microsoft's Hyper-V (Proprietary) [17:50] TR News Why advertise this? https://www.phoronix.com/news/Kaspersky-Linux-AV-Home-Users [17:50] TR Bot Brings Its Anti-Virus Software To Linux For Home Users - Phoronix [17:51] TR News Slop "to create a fake protest calling for mayors resignation" https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/11/11/russian-lawmaker-uses-ai-to-create-a-fake-protest-calling-for-mayor-s-resignation | Source: Meduza [17:51] TR Bot Russian lawmaker uses AI to create a fake protest calling for mayors resignation Meduza [17:53] TR News Firefox Developer Experience: Firefox WebDriver Newsletter 145 https://fxdx.dev/firefox-webdriver-newsletter-145/ [17:53] TR Bot Firefox WebDriver Newsletter 145 Firefox Developer Experience [17:53] TR News New Firefox Protections Halve the Number of Trackable Users https://www.securityweek.com/new-firefox-protections-halve-the-number-of-trackable-users/ [17:53] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/new-firefox-protections-halve-the-number-of-trackable-users/ ) [17:53] MinceR 12 185056 < techrights-news> Why advertise this? https://www.phoronix.com/news/Kaspersky-Linux-AV-Home-Users [17:53] MinceR finally, some orcish malware you can install on top of Linux [17:54] TR News Chinese censors order gay dating apps be pulled from online stores https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinese-censors-order-gay-dating-apps-be-pulled-from-online-stores [17:54] TR Bot Chinese censors order gay dating apps be pulled from online stores | The Straits Times [17:54] TR News Homosexuality is a Sina? https://hongkongfp.com/2025/11/11/chinese-censors-order-gay-dating-apps-be-pulled-from-stores-apple-says/ [17:54] TR Bot China censors order gay dating apps be pulled from stores: Apple [17:56] TR News Pooh-tin fell in love with Putin in a gay app after searching for "short" and "fuse" [17:57] TR News Kode Dot An easy-to-use, pocket-sized, battery-powered ESP32-S3 devkit (Crowdfunding) https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/11/11/kode-dot-an-easy-to-use-pocket-sized-battery-powered-esp32-s3-devkit/ [17:57] TR Bot Kode Dot - An easy-to-use, pocket-sized, battery-powered ESP32-S3 devkit (Crowdfunding) - CNX Software [17:57] TR News Rights group calls for release of Iran journalist, stronger free speech protections https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/11/rights-group-calls-for-stronger-speech-protections-and-release-of-iran-journalist/ [17:57] TR Bot Rights group calls for release of Iran journalist, stronger free speech protections - JURIST - News [17:58] TR News Salt-N-Pepa Use Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Speech to Broil UMG https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/11/10/salt-n-pepa-hall-of-fame-induction-speech-umg/ [17:58] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/11/10/salt-n-pepa-hall-of-fame-induction-speech-umg/ ) [17:58] TR News Pro-Erdoan social control media figure detained after criticizing president's Atatrk speech https://bianet.org/haber/pro-erdogan-social-media-figure-detained-after-criticizing-president-s-ataturk-speech-313436 [17:58] TR Bot Pro-Erdoan social media figure detained after criticizing president's Atatrk speech [17:59] Sompi_ schestowitz[TR2]: There's also suspiciously many dependencies in uutils [17:59] TR News Font recognition reimagined with FasterViT-2 https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2025/11/11/font-recognition-reimagined-with-fastervit-2/ [17:59] TR Bot Font recognition reimagined with FasterViT-2 [17:59] schestowitz[TR2] Sompi_: i am sure every single one of them is [17:59] schestowitz[TR2] 1) secure [17:59] schestowitz[TR2] 2) not abandoned ● Nov 12 [18:00] Sompi_ considering that the rust compiler is also always bootstrapped by itself and therefore inherently insecure [18:00] TR News WordPress 6.9 Release Candidate 1 https://wordpress.org/news/2025/11/wordpress-6-9-release-candidate-1/ [18:00] TR Bot WordPress 6.9 Release Candidate 1 WordPress News [18:01] Sompi_ I started thinking how the whole GNU/Linux userland has started accumulating a lot of bloat during only few recent years [18:01] TR News Microsoft Patches Actively Exploited backdoored Windows Kernel Zero-Day https://www.securityweek.com/microsoft-patches-actively-exploited-windows-kernel-zero-day/ http://techrights.org/wiki/Microsoft_and_the_NSA/ [18:01] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/microsoft-patches-actively-exploited-windows-kernel-zero-day/ ) [18:01] TR Bot Microsoft and the NSA [18:01] Sompi_ Basically from the 90's to the 2010s you could easily have a perfectly working graphical Linux desktop in less than 32 MB of RAM [18:02] TR News Software Patents: Algorithmic Recommendations and Section 230: Planet Green v. Amazon https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/11/algorithmic-recommendations-section.html [18:02] TR Bot Algorithmic Recommendations and Section 230: Planet Green v. Amazon | Patently-O [18:02] Sompi_ But something happened less than ten years ago and now everything suddenly requires many times that much [18:02] TR News EasyWeb Authorization Patent Campaign Invalidity Charts Coming Soon https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/11/11/easyweb-authorization-patent-campaign-invalidity-charts-coming-soon [18:02] TR Bot EasyWeb Authorization Patent Campaign Invalidity Charts Coming Soon Unified Patents [18:03] *estimated_gray_giraffe (~estimated@freenode-gb9.teg.rse7fe.IP) has joined #techrights [18:03] TR News Clickfraud spamnil is shilling software patents with his nose stuck up his sponsor's butt https://tfir.io/crogl-patent-ai-unstructured-security-data/ [18:03] TR Bot Crogl Patents AI for Unstructured Security Data [18:03] TR News The Cocaine Patent Office - Part IV: European Patent Office to Come Under Media and Political Scrutiny https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/11/The_Cocaine_Patent_Office_Part_IV_European_Patent_Office_to_Com.shtml [18:03] TR Bot Techrights The Cocaine Patent Office - Part IV: European Patent Office to Come Under Media and Political Scrutiny [18:04] TR News The European Patent Office (EPO) is Still Hiding From Scandals https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/11/The_European_Patent_Office_EPO_is_Still_Hiding_From_Scandals.shtml [18:04] TR Bot Techrights The European Patent Office (EPO) is Still Hiding From Scandals [18:04] estimated_gray_giraffe You can reach me on +44-7599248843 or maddyczura@gmail.com or madeleine.czura@arcadis.com anytime! [18:04] estimated_gray_giraffe Linkedin: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/maddy-czura [18:04] estimated_gray_giraffe Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maddy_czura/ [18:04] estimated_gray_giraffe Business Address: Top Floor, 164 Plashet Road, London, United Kingdom, E13 0QT [18:04] estimated_gray_giraffe Home Address: Comrie, 8 Southampton Road, Fareham, Hampshire, United Kingdom, PO16 7DY [18:04] *estimated_gray_giraffe (~estimated@freenode-gb9.teg.rse7fe.IP) has left #techrights [18:04] TR News Software Patents: InterDigital accelerate battle against Amazon in Europe, Brasil and the US https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/interdigital-accelerate-battle-against-amazon-in-europe-brasil-and-the-us/ [18:04] TR Bot InterDigital accelerate battle against Amazon in Europe, Brasil and the US - JUVE Patent [18:05] schestowitz[TR2] Sompi_: what about mx linus? [18:05] schestowitz[TR2] *linux [18:05] schestowitz[TR2] or DSL? [18:05] schestowitz[TR2] have you checked lately? [18:06] TR News Pure spam, just paid-for marketing in "news" clothing https://www.juve-patent.com/people-and-business/ones-to-watch-germany-2025-ronja-schregle/ [18:06] TR Bot Ones to watch Germany 2025: Ronja Schregle - JUVE Patent [18:06] Sompi_ The original purpose of MX Linux was to be a modern Linux distribution for smaller and older computers, but it seems to be deviating away from it and I have no idea what it's purpose is now [18:06] Sompi_ Especially when Debian seems to be intentionally breaking its portability and MX Linux is derived from Debian [18:07] TR News Windows TCO: Microsoft Patch Tuesday for November 2025, (Tue, Nov 11th) https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32468 "One of the vulnerabilities is already being exploited, and five are rated as critical." [18:07] TR Bot Microsoft Patch Tuesday for November 2025 - SANS ISC [18:07] Sompi_ The maintainers of DSL seem to have predicted this because they have made a version of DSL that is not based on Debian [18:07] TR News Adobe Patches 29 Vulnerabilities https://www.securityweek.com/adobe-patches-29-vulnerabilities/ [18:07] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/adobe-patches-29-vulnerabilities/ ) [18:07] Sompi_ But still, the whole Linux ecosystem is actively destroying itself at now [18:07] Sompi_ The new kernels don't even support PAE anymore [18:08] Sompi_ They are breaking stuff on purpose to get rid of those 32-bit machines which are still "too common" [18:08] TR News Paid-for spam with spurious buzzwords; this isn't journalism but ad space https://siliconangle.com/2025/11/11/red-hat-strengthens-openshift-ai-security-virtualization-upgrades/ [18:08] TR Bot Hat strengthens OpenShift with AI, security and virtualization upgrades - SiliconANGLE [18:08] TR News This is ALSO spam https://siliconangle.com/2025/11/11/inside-nvidias-push-self-service-infrastructure-scale-kubeconna/ [18:08] TR Bot powers self-service infrastructure with Portworx - SiliconANGLE [18:10] TR News LattePanda IOTA review An defective chip maker Intel N150 + RP2040 SBC tested with backdoored Windows 11, UPS expansion, PoE, NVMe SSD, and more https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/11/11/lattepanda-iota-review-an-intel-n150-rp2040-sbc-tested-with-windows-11-ups-expansion-poe-nvme-ssd/ [18:10] Sompi_ And in most cases it also means worse portability for other non-amd64 targets too [18:10] TR Bot LattePanda IOTA review - An Intel N150 + RP2040 SBC tested with Windows 11, UPS expansion, PoE, NVMe SSD, and more - CNX Software [18:11] TR News Hong Kong couple jailed for over a year for helping fugitive protesters evade authorities https://hongkongfp.com/2025/11/11/hong-kong-couple-jailed-for-over-a-year-for-helping-fugitive-protesters-evade-authorities/ [18:11] TR Bot HK couple jailed for over a year for helping fugitive protesters [18:11] TR News Pluralistic: Theodora Goss's 'Letters From an Imaginary Country' (11 Nov 2025) https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/11/athena-club/ [18:11] TR Bot Pluralistic: Theodora Gosss Letters From an Imaginary Country (11 Nov 2025) Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow [18:12] TR News Fun facts, aviation edition https://rubenerd.com/fun-facts-aviation-edition/ [18:12] TR Bot Fun facts, aviation edition [18:13] TR News J.P. Morgan calls out Hey Hi (AI) spend, says $650 billion in annual revenue required to deliver mere 10% return on Hey Hi (AI) buildout https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/usd650-billion-in-annual-revenue-required-to-deliver-10-percent-return-on-ai-buildout-investment-j-p-morgan-claims-equivalent-to-usd35-payment-from-every-iphone-user-or-usd180-from-every-netflix-subscriber-in-perpetuity [18:13] TR Bot J.P. Morgan calls out AI spend, says $650 billion in annual revenue required to deliver mere 10% return on AI buildout equivalent to $35 payment from every iPhone user, or $180 from every Netflix subscriber 'in perpetuity' | Tom's Hardware [18:14] TR News Dominion Harbor entity, Bunker Hill, fourth EV patent monopoly prior art found https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/11/11/dominion-harbor-entity-bunker-hill-fourth-ev-patent-prior-art-found http://techrights.org/wiki/Dominion_Harbor/ [18:14] TR Bot Dominion Harbor entity, Bunker Hill, fourth EV patent prior art found Unified Patents [18:14] TR Bot Dominion Harbor [18:14] TR News What a Shame! FlatHub is Ranking on Surveillance Giant Google for Po*nHub Downloads https://itsfoss.com/news/flathub-tag-exploited/ [18:14] TR Bot What a Shame! FlatHub is Ranking on Google for Po*nHub Downloads [18:15] TR News "Nano Banana" = Google is googlebombing competitors again https://siliconangle.com/2025/11/11/google-photos-adds-support-nano-banana-powered-ai-editing-features/ [18:15] TR Bot Photos adds support for Nano Banana-powered AI editing features - SiliconANGLE [18:17] TR News TTABlog Test: Is DUO for Personal Mobility Devices Confusable with DUOPOWER for Land Vehicles? http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/11/ttablog-test-is-duo-for-personal.html [18:17] TR Bot The TTABlog: TTABlog Test: Is DUO for Personal Mobility Devices Confusable with DUOPOWER for Land Vehicles? [18:18] TR News The 'worst-selling Abusive Monopolist Microsoft product of all time' sold just 11 times, and eight people returned it why you've never heard of OS/2 for the Mach 20 https://www.tomshardware.com/software/the-worst-selling-microsoft-product-of-all-time-sold-just-11-times-and-eight-people-returned-it-why-youve-never-heard-of-os-2-for-the-mach-20 [18:18] TR Bot The 'worst-selling Microsoft product of all time' sold just 11 times, and eight people returned it why you've never heard of OS/2 for the Mach 20 | Tom's Hardware [18:19] TR News Microsoft Patch Tuesday addresses 63 defects, including one actively exploited zero-day https://cyberscoop.com/microsoft-patch-tuesday-november-2025/ "a functional exploit exists in the wild" [18:19] TR Bot Patch Tuesday addresses 63 defects, including one actively exploited zero-day | CyberScoop [18:19] TR News ChatGPT Now Linked to Way More Deaths Than the Caffeinated Lemonade That Panera Pulled Off the Market in Disgrace https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-deaths-panera-lemonade [18:19] TR Bot ChatGPT Now Linked to Way More Deaths Than the Caffeinated Lemonade That Panera Pulled Off the Market in Disgrace [18:20] Sompi_ schestowitz[TR2]: Puppy Linux also seems to be based on Debian so I assume that the latest decisions by Debian's maintainers destroy it too [18:20] TR News Concluding the second consultation on the Draft RIR Governance Document https://blog.apnic.net/2025/11/11/concluding-the-second-consultation-on-the-draft-rir-governance-document/ [18:20] TR Bot Concluding the second consultation on the Draft RIR Governance Document | APNIC Blog [18:20] TR News Network edge design checklist: Part 2 Network edge design https://blog.apnic.net/2025/11/11/network-edge-design-checklist-part-2-network-edge-design/ [18:20] TR Bot Network edge design checklist: Part 2 Network edge design | APNIC Blog [18:21] schestowitz[TR2] no, check easyOS [18:21] schestowitz[TR2] it's the main project now [18:21] schestowitz[TR2] no systemd, still using X [18:21] schestowitz[TR2] or XLibre [18:21] schestowitz[TR2] http://techrights.org/n/2025/10/20/Barry_Kauler_Explains_That_Puppy_Linux_and_EasyOS_Exclude_Syste.shtml [18:21] TR Bot Techrights Barry Kauler Explains That Puppy Linux and EasyOS Exclude Systemd to Keep Things Simple [18:21] Sompi_ actually I seem to have remembered wrong. DSL is strictly based on Debian and Debian only. What was the third small Linux distribution again? [18:21] MinceR slitaz? [18:22] Sompi_ I'm sure there was some distribution that had both Debian- and Slackware-based variants [18:22] Sompi_ hmm [18:22] Sompi_ actually it was Puppy Linux: https://forum.puppylinux.com/puppy-linux-collection [18:22] TR Bot Puppy Linux Discussion Forum - Puppy Linux Distro Collection [18:22] MinceR there was also tinycore [18:22] Sompi_ So I just confused it with DSL [18:23] schestowitz[TR2] maybe firefox would struggle [18:23] schestowitz[TR2] looking for pulseaudio [18:23] schestowitz[TR2] and other such "modern" things [18:23] schestowitz[TR2] so no web browsing on "modern" web with these OSes [18:24] Sompi_ Mozilla is also breaking portability with 32-bit x86 on purpose [18:24] TR News Red Hat Adds Bevy of Updates to OpenShift Platform https://cloudnativenow.com/features/red-hat-adds-bevy-of-updates-to-openshift-platform/ [18:24] TR Bot Red Hat Adds Bevy of Updates to OpenShift Platform - Cloud Native Now [18:25] schestowitz[TR2] servo uses rust [18:25] schestowitz[TR2] mozilla adopted servo [18:25] schestowitz[TR2] or tossed it over at LF [18:25] schestowitz[TR2] does servo work with 32-bit archs? [18:25] Sompi_ No idea. Rustaceans don't like anything that has been around for a while [18:26] schestowitz[TR2] a lot of distros found a new bugfix category [18:26] schestowitz[TR2] that category is "BUY NEW YOU CHEAPSKATE" [18:26] schestowitz[TR2] and 'wontfix' [18:26] schestowitz[TR2] "it's not me, it's YOU" [18:27] schestowitz[TR2] another, older category is, [18:27] schestowitz[TR2] "you are a nazi, do away" [18:27] schestowitz[TR2] "won't fix because nazi" [18:27] MinceR someone needs to remind that computers have been around for decades [18:27] schestowitz[TR2] "i don';t like the reporter" [18:27] MinceR so they should abandon them [18:27] MinceR s/mind/mind the cargo cultists/ [18:27] schestowitz[TR2] they get rusted [18:29] TR News "The Slip Ring In Your Parts Bin" https://hackaday.com/2025/11/11/2025-component-abuse-challenge-the-slip-ring-in-your-parts-bin/ | Source: Hackaday [18:29] TR Bot Component Abuse Challenge: The Slip Ring In Your Parts Bin | Hackaday [18:29] TR News "The Bumble Berry Pi is the result." https://hackaday.com/2025/11/11/have-a-slice-of-bumble-berry-pi/ | Source: Hackaday [18:29] TR Bot A Slice Of Bumble Berry Pi | Hackaday [18:30] TR News (NEW): Valve Announces Steam Machines, Steam Controller, and Steam Frame VR Headset https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/12/Valve_Announces_Steam_Machines_Steam_Controller_and_Steam_Frame.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/12/Valve_Announces_Steam_Machines_Steam_Controller_and_Steam_Frame.gmi [18:30] TR Bot Tux Machines Valve Announces Steam Machines, Steam Controller, and Steam Frame VR Headset [18:30] TR News NO WAYLAND!! "All toolkits but one, that is, for the Wayland project keeps shooting down proposals. Most recently merge request #264 for the ext-zones protocol by [Matthias Klumpp] as it descended into a 600+ comments spree." https://hackaday.com/2025/11/11/waylands-never-ending-opposition-to-multi-window-positioning/ | Source: Hackaday [18:30] TR Bot Never-Ending Opposition To Multi-Window Positioning | Hackaday [18:30] TR News A Game From The 1980s https://hackaday.com/2025/11/11/resurrecting-conquer-a-game-from-the-1980s/ | Source: Hackaday [18:30] TR Bot Conquer: A Game From The 1980s | Hackaday [18:34] TR News "Linux offers many classic commands, but some are already outdated, insecure, or are now inefficient. We show you which commands you can leave behind and which you can switch to instead." https://www.pcworld.com/article/2960504/old-insecure-inefficient-which-linux-commands-you-should-avoid-today.html [18:34] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.pcworld.com/article/2960504/old-insecure-inefficient-which-linux-commands-you-should-avoid-today.html ) [18:34] TR News "But the even better plan is to have a single Linux distro that encompasses the networking tools I use most, plus hundreds of others, wrapped in a security-conscious package" https://www.xda-developers.com/free-linux-distro-replaced-my-most-used-networking-tools/ [18:34] TR Bot This free Linux distro replaced 5 of my most-used networking tools [18:34] TR News "The upcoming release of Linux Mint 22.3 includes a new tool that makes it easier to find out detailed System Information and it looks great." https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/11/linux-mint-new-system-info-app [18:34] TR Bot Linux Mint 22.3 is Adding New System Hardware Tool - OMG! Ubuntu [18:34] Sompi_ But it's infuriating how they dare to say that the new version is always "more efficient" than the old and that's why it needs to have those SSE2 instructions or be strictly 64-bit only [18:35] TR News (NEW): Moving From Windows To FreeBSD As The Linux Chaos Alternative https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/12/Moving_From_Windows_To_FreeBSD_As_The_Linux_Chaos_Alternative.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/12/Moving_From_Windows_To_FreeBSD_As_The_Linux_Chaos_Alternative.gmi [18:35] TR Bot Tux Machines Moving From Windows To FreeBSD As The Linux Chaos Alternative [18:35] TR News "FreeXP is a Q4OS spin with a decidedly Windows feel. If you want to jump on the Linux bandwagon, but prefer the Windows UI, this is the distribution for you." https://www.zdnet.com/article/want-to-try-linux-but-prefer-the-windows-ui-this-distro-is-for-you/ [18:35] TR Bot to try Linux but prefer the Windows UI? This distro is for you | ZDNET [18:35] Sompi_ When in reality everyone can clearly see that the new version is much more bloated, uses easily four times more memory and dozens more CPU time [18:35] schestowitz[TR2] Sompi_: : inhereited bloat [18:35] schestowitz[TR2] everything gets bigger [18:35] schestowitz[TR2] and bigger [18:35] schestowitz[TR2] with each reelease [18:35] schestowitz[TR2] crunches are rare [18:35] schestowitz[TR2] and are offset by bloat in other "areas" of the programs [18:36] schestowitz[TR2] see wordpress for instance [18:36] schestowitz[TR2] or drupal [18:36] schestowitz[TR2] bigger and bigger [18:36] schestowitz[TR2] more holes [18:36] schestowitz[TR2] more moving parts [18:36] schestowitz[TR2] chaos [18:36] Sompi_ Microsoft already started that with Windows 98. They advertised it as the new, faster and more efficient version of Windows, when the reality was exactly the opposite [18:36] TR News "MINISFORUM MS-R1 is an AI mini PC running Debian 12 Linux thats powered by a CIX P1 (CP8180) 12-core Arm Cortex-A720/A520 processor with up to 45 TOPS of AI performance." https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/11/11/500-minisforum-ms-r1-arm-linux-ai-mini-pc-features-cix-cp8180-12-core-soc-up-to-64gb-lpddr5x/ [18:36] TR Bot $500+ MINISFORUM MS-R1 Arm Linux AI mini PC features CIX CP8180 12-core SoC, up to 64GB LPDDR5x - CNX Software [18:36] Sompi_ Windows 95 is perfectly usable on a 80386 and 4 megabytes of RAM, but Windows 98 is barely usable with a Pentium and 32 megabytes [18:37] Sompi_ Now free software developers use that same tactic too [18:37] TR News "A new Vulkan-based translation layer brings old Windows games to Linux." https://itsfoss.com/news/play-d3d7-games-on-linux/ [18:37] TR Bot You Can Play Classic D3D7 Games on Linux With This New Project, But Dont Expect Perfection [18:38] TR News MX Linux 25 'Infinity' arrives with a cleaner look and easier installation https://betanews.com/2025/11/11/mx-linux-25-infinity-arrives-with-a-cleaner-look-and-easier-installation/ [18:38] TR Bot Linux 25 'Infinity' arrives with a cleaner look and easier installation - BetaNews [18:39] TR News "The popular MangoHud performance display for Linux has a new release coming that's now ready for testing, with v0.8.2-rc1 now up." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/mangohud-performance-overlay-for-linux-gets-a-first-v0-8-2-release-candidate/ [18:39] TR Bot performance overlay for Linux gets a first v0.8.2 release candidate | GamingOnLinux [18:39] Sompi_ Yeah, MX Linux seems to also have been abandoned 32-bit [18:39] TR News I automated my Proxmox VM deployment with Cloud-Init https://www.xda-developers.com/automate-proxmox-vm-creation-with-cloud-init/ [18:39] TR Bot I automated my Proxmox VM deployment with Cloud-Init [18:39] Sompi_ And only months ago they stated on their website that no, they will never abandon 32-bit [18:40] TR News "This release fixes crashes related to the getrandom() function on specific Linux setups." https://9to5linux.com/qbittorrent-5-1-3-adds-native-wayland-support-to-the-appimage-fixes-more-bugs [18:40] TR Bot 5.1.3 Adds Native Wayland Support to the AppImage, Fixes More Bugs - 9to5Linux [18:40] TR News (NEW): New Releases: EasyOS Excalibur-series Version 7.0.30 and MX Linux 25 'Infinity' https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/12/New_Releases_EasyOS_Excalibur_series_Version_7_0_30_and_MX_Linu.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/12/New_Releases_EasyOS_Excalibur_series_Version_7_0_30_and_MX_Linu.gmi [18:40] TR Bot Tux Machines New Releases: EasyOS Excalibur-series Version 7.0.30 and MX Linux 25 'Infinity' [18:40] schestowitz[TR2] like IBM kill -9ing xorg [18:40] schestowitz[TR2] or xserver/x11 [18:40] schestowitz[TR2] to vandalise it [18:40] schestowitz[TR2] for other distros [18:40] schestowitz[TR2] then the other distros are in peril/at risk [18:40] schestowitz[TR2] as key parts are abandonedddd [18:40] schestowitz[TR2] or worse [18:40] schestowitz[TR2] some parts become wayland-onlyu [18:41] schestowitz[TR2] or depend on 64-bit only [18:41] schestowitz[TR2] or "only wiith systemd" [18:41] schestowitz[TR2] they put up the heat [18:41] schestowitz[TR2] to get all the same stacks [18:41] schestowitz[TR2] in all distros [18:41] schestowitz[TR2] http://techrights.org/n/2023/10/12/OpenBSD_Founder_Theo_de_Raadt_Says_Wayland_is_an_Attack_Softwar.shtml [18:41] TR Bot Techrights OpenBSD Founder Theo de Raadt Says Wayland is an Attack Software Choice and a Push Towards "Vertical Software Monocultures" [18:41] schestowitz[TR2] " [18:41] schestowitz[TR2] The writing has been on the wall a very long time that some people believe [18:41] schestowitz[TR2] their role in the ecosystem is to reduce software choice and push everyone [18:41] schestowitz[TR2] into vertical software monocultures." [18:42] TR News "The work never ends to improve the KDE Plasma desktop environment for Linux, and with Plasma 6.6 a fun new feature is coming to tweak virtual desktops." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/kde-plasma-6-6-to-get-a-great-new-feature-limit-virtual-desktops-to-the-primary-screen/ [18:42] TR Bot Plasma 6.6 to get a great new feature - limit virtual desktops to the primary screen | GamingOnLinux [18:42] Sompi_ schestowitz[TR2]: See https://mxlinux.org/wiki/help-files/mx-faqs/ [18:42] TR Bot MX FAQs MX Linux [18:42] Sompi_ and https://web.archive.org/web/20240815060547/https://mxlinux.org/wiki/help-files/mx-faqs/ [18:42] TR News But author warns that Direct3D 7 is a land of highly cursed API inter-operability. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/11/new-project-brings-strong-linux-compatibility-to-more-classic-windows-games/ [18:42] TR Bot MX FAQs MX Linux [18:42] TR Bot New project brings strong Linux compatibility to more classic Windows games - Ars Technica [18:42] Sompi_ they have changed the text but not the date [18:43] TR News Valve engineer who keeps decade-old Radeon GPUs alive on Linux, now pushes for AMDGPU to become the default driver https://videocardz.com/newz/valve-engineer-who-keeps-decade-old-radeon-gpus-alive-on-linux-now-pushes-for-amdgpu-to-become-the-default-driver [18:43] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://videocardz.com/newz/valve-engineer-who-keeps-decade-old-radeon-gpus-alive-on-linux-now-pushes-for-amdgpu-to-become-the-default-driver ) [18:43] Sompi_ schestowitz[TR2]: And this forum thread clearly shows their attitude: https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=84698&sid=c6a12da5ccee859e33f9e1d8d7717bef [18:43] TR Bot The free software has a problem. - MX Linux Forum [18:44] Sompi_ schestowitz[TR2]: And now they have changed the text on their webpage, but not the timestamp. So they are trying to act like the paragraph about 32-bit version was never there [18:44] TR News Breaking my Linux install taught me more about computers than Windows ever did https://www.xda-developers.com/breaking-linux-install-taught-me-more-about-computers-than-windows/ [18:44] TR Bot Breaking my Linux install taught me more about computers than Windows ever did [18:45] TR News (NEW): Year of Linux on the Desktop Part 2: Mac It So https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/12/Year_of_Linux_on_the_Desktop_Part_2_Mac_It_So.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/12/Year_of_Linux_on_the_Desktop_Part_2_Mac_It_So.gmi [18:45] TR Bot Tux Machines Year of Linux on the Desktop Part 2: Mac It So [18:46] TR News The issue is WorkSpaces, not "Linux" https://www.scworld.com/brief/amazon-workspaces-for-linux-flaw-poses-token-theft-risk https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/07/Slopwatch_Brian_Fagioli_Targets_Linux_With_LLMs_Google_News_Hel.shtml [18:46] TR Bot ( status 403 @ 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Linux to normies many times, because it used to be the go-to easy-to-use distro without unreasonable hardware requirements [20:10] Sompi_ It was very easy to use and didn't need to make sure that the hardware where the normie is going to install it has high enough specs [20:10] Sompi_ Now it is suddenly 64-bit only and bloated as hell [20:11] Sompi_ What other easy-to-use lightweight Linux distributions are there? 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