●● IRC: #techrights @ Techrights IRC Network: Saturday, February 14, 2026 ●● ● Feb 14 [00:55] *includeals has quit (Quit: ZNC - https://znc.in) [00:55] *includeals (~includeal@2001:8a0:e95a:4e00::1c47) has joined #techrights ● Feb 14 [01:04] IsambardPrince I recall Eli Lilly doing something totally nasty. [01:04] IsambardPrince They took two drugs where the patent expired, Prozac and Zyprexa, and they combined them into a combination pill called Symbyax, and they put a dosage of each drug that you couldn't get in a generic. [01:05] IsambardPrince The only point really is they could keep selling them as a brand name drug. ● Feb 14 [02:24] TR News Washington Post https://www.dw.com/en/washington-post-begins-large-scale-layoffs/a-75805313 [02:24] TR Bot Washington Post begins large-scale layoffs [02:25] TR News fossil https://www.dw.com/en/tiny-dinosaur-fossil-could-provide-evolutionary-clues-study/a-75801785 [02:25] TR Bot Tiny dinosaur fossil could provide evolutionary clues: study [02:27] TR News Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2026-02-14.gmi [02:27] TR News "Trying to be a good geminaut, the bot fetches robots.txt in order to respect capsule owners' wishes. Today I found bugs." gemini://freeshell.de/gemlog/2026-02-14_Being_a_good_robot.gmi [02:28] TR News "Smol friends! The third annual Offline-First Software Challenge begins on the 1st of March, which is two weeks away from today. There is a small wrinkle this year in that I will be travelling for most of the second half of February and most of the first half of March." gemini://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/~solderpunk/gemlog/advance-notice-of-offlfirsoch-2026.gmi [02:29] TR News Advance notice of OFFLFIRSOCH 2026 gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space:70/0/~solderpunk/phlog/advance-notice-of-offlfirsoch-2026.txt [02:30] TR News "Pseudonymous maker "dooglehead" has built a self-confessed "terrible VR headset," which throws back to the earliest attempts at the technology by swapping out the usual high-resolution flat-panel liquid-crystal displays (LCDs) or organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) for cathode-ray tubes (CRTs)." gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202602/20260213-vr.gmi [02:30] TR News [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1916.jpg [02:37] TR News Techrights Gemini Links 14/02/2026: "Throwback VR Headset" and OFFLFIRSOCH 2026 https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/14/Gemini_Links_14_02_2026_Throwback_VR_Headset_and_OFFLFIRSOCH_20.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/14/Gemini_Links_14_02_2026_Throwback_VR_Headset_and_OFFLFIRSOCH_20.gmi [02:37] TR Bot Techrights Gemini Links 14/02/2026: "Throwback VR Headset" and OFFLFIRSOCH 2026 [02:40] TR News "Careful she is super protected -a made person in Albany. IYKYK" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kg3ctq05 [02:40] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kg3ctq05 ) [02:41] TR News "Efficiency without a baseline measure of quality is absolutely meaningless. This is Matt Lyteson level of stupid. Rapacity without forethought. Flow velocity bullshirt." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khc42bmn [02:41] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khc42bmn ) [02:43] TR News "USA hiring is in part because of the current administration push for hiring American workers. IBM wants to stay on the good side of this administration. Of course, laying off (oops RA) older employees is a net gain for IBM." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kha4h3ef [02:43] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kha4h3ef ) [02:44] TR News "C'mon man! IBM has layoffs every day of every week of every month of every year going back to April Fools Day 4-1-93 when the G Man Gerstner came in. Line up a new jon and get out of there with your mind and body right while you still can!" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khcfn7v1 [02:44] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khcfn7v1 ) [02:45] TR News "Some brothers were talking about this after prayers today. God willing, we will be okay." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khcfn7v1 "With persecution from all sides, its easy to feel despair." [02:45] *SomeGoat has quit (connection closed) [02:46] TR News Yesterday's #boycottnovell-social and #techpol IRC logs ready. 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[02:51] TR News (NEW): Today in Techrights https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/14/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/14/Today_in_Techrights.gmi [02:51] TR Bot Tux Machines Today in Techrights [02:57] TR News forever chemical https://www.dw.com/en/tackling-forever-chemicals-could-save-money-and-our-health/a-75794494 [02:57] TR Bot Tackling forever chemicals could save money and our health ● Feb 14 [03:00] TR News Workers at Migros, one of Turkeys largest retailers, protest near-zero raise https://bianet.org/haber/workers-at-migros-one-of-turkeys-largest-retailers-protest-near-zero-raise-316302 [03:00] TR Bot Workers at Migros, one of Turkeys largest retailers, protest near-zero raise [03:01] TR News Turkey's textile industry crushed by China and Bangladesh https://www.dw.com/en/turkey-s-textile-industry-crushed-by-china-and-bangladesh/a-75684427 [03:01] TR Bot Turkey's textile industry crushed by China, Bangladesh [03:01] TR News Turkey Edges Towards Curbing Social Media Access to Minors Amid Global Push https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2026-02-06/turkey-edges-towards-curbing-social-media-access-to-minors-amid-global-push [03:01] TR Bot stream 1 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2) ( status 0 @ https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2026-02-06/turkey-edges-towards-curbing-social-media-access-to-minors-amid-global-push ) [03:11] TR News Under Pressure: Exploring the effect of legal and criminal threats on security researchers and journalists https://databreaches.net/2026/02/02/under-pressure-exploring-the-effect-of-legal-and-criminal-threats-on-security-researchers-and-journalists/ [03:11] TR Bot Pressure: Exploring the effect of legal and criminal threats on security researchers and journalists DataBreaches.Net [03:26] TR News Ransomware attack compromised 377,000 peoples Social Security and drivers license numbers from Texas gas station and convenience store chain https://www.foxnews.com/tech/ransomware-attack-exposes-social-security-numbers-major-gas-station-chain [03:26] TR Bot Texas gas stations hit by ransomware attack affecting 377,000+ people | Fox News [03:27] TR News Dallas County to pay $600,000 to security testers arrested in 2019 https://archive.is/VMTz4#selection-377.0-381.46 [03:27] TR Bot ( status 429 @ https://archive.is/VMTz4#selection-377.0-381.46 ) [03:29] TR News OIG audit of hospitals cybersecurity finds vulnerabilities in common web applications https://healthexec.com/topics/health-it/cybersecurity/oig-audit-hospitals-cybersecurity-finds-vulnerabilities-common-web-applications [03:29] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://healthexec.com/topics/health-it/cybersecurity/oig-audit-hospitals-cybersecurity-finds-vulnerabilities-common-web-applications ) [03:30] TR News Security Concerns and Skepticism Are Bursting the Bubble of Moltbook, the Viral [Slop] Social Forum https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2026-02-06/security-concerns-and-skepticism-are-bursting-the-bubble-of-moltbook-the-viral-ai-social-forum [03:30] TR Bot stream 1 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2) ( status 0 @ https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2026-02-06/security-concerns-and-skepticism-are-bursting-the-bubble-of-moltbook-the-viral-ai-social-forum ) [03:31] TR News Data Protection Authority in hot water: personal info leaked amidst security oversight https://nltimes.nl/2026/02/06/data-protection-authority-hot-water-personal-info-leaked-amidst-security-oversight [03:31] TR Bot Data Protection Authority in hot water: personal info leaked amidst security oversight | NL Times [03:34] TR News "This release also ships with the Mesa 25.2 graphics stack from the Ubuntu 25.10 (Questing Quokka) release." https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-24-04-4-lts-is-now-available-for-download-powered-by-linux-kernel-6-17 [03:34] TR Bot 24.04.4 LTS Is Now Available for Download Powered by Linux Kernel 6.17 - 9to5Linux [03:37] TR News
  • Premium: The Hater's Guide To Microsoft
    [03:37] TR Bot Premium: The Hater's Guide To Microsoft [03:38] TR News "We are witnessing the consequences of hubris those of a monopolist that chased out any real value creators from the organization, replacing them with an increasingly-annoying cadre of Business Idiots like career loser Jay Parikh and scummy, abusive timewaster Mustafa Suleyman. " [03:42] *oarion7 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) ● Feb 14 [04:00] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2], I think the market is realizing there never was any "there" there with the "AI" stuff. [04:00] MinceR where? [04:00] IsambardPrince The goal of the CEO class is to make skills go away. [04:01] IsambardPrince They would love to have a model where you just tell a computer program what you want a computer program to do, and out comes good code. [04:01] IsambardPrince They could fire everyone and there'd be no salaries. [04:02] IsambardPrince It's the same reason they want to remove skill from every job. Then if you need to hire someone at all, you can pay them very little, and they have no power to push back because you can replace them. [04:02] MinceR that might also be why corporations like microslop are so insistent on their own offerings being so crap and trying to police the market rather than compete [04:03] MinceR because it's impossible to compete with such worthless offerings made by such worthless people [04:05] *oarion7 (~ryan@ebmq5x6cde5zg.irc) has joined #techrights [04:09] schestowitz[TR2] right [04:12] TR News (NEW): 6 Months From Now It'll Be 5 Years After Vista 11 Came Out, Its "Market Share" in US Government Sites is 13.5% https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/14/6_Months_From_Now_It_ll_Be_5_Years_After_Vista_11_Came_Out_Its_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/14/6_Months_From_Now_It_ll_Be_5_Years_After_Vista_11_Came_Out_Its_.gmi [04:12] TR Bot Tux Machines 6 Months From Now It'll Be 5 Years After Vista 11 Came Out, Its "Market Share" in US Government Sites is 13.5% [04:14] MinceR (cat) (video) (audio:important) https://imgur.com/gallery/A9q0zlH [04:14] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://imgur.com/gallery/A9q0zlH ) [04:18] TR News GNU/Linux at 5.5% https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/iraq/#monthly-200902-202602 [04:18] TR Bot Desktop Operating System Market Share Iraq | Statcounter Global Stats [04:30] IsambardPrince https://www.axios.com/2026/02/13/wendys-stores-closing-mcdonalds [04:30] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.axios.com/2026/02/13/wendys-stores-closing-mcdonalds ) [04:34] MinceR they left orbanistan ages ago [04:34] TR News Techrights GitHub Cannot Survive for Much Longer https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/14/GitHub_Cannot_Survive_for_Much_Longer.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/14/GitHub_Cannot_Survive_for_Much_Longer.gmi [04:34] TR Bot Techrights GitHub Cannot Survive for Much Longer [04:34] schestowitz[TR2] MinceR: those who can, did [04:35] schestowitz[TR2] it seems like a really bad place for many activities [04:35] schestowitz[TR2] unless you are some pro-Kremlin activist\ [04:35] schestowitz[TR2] then it is a haven [04:35] schestowitz[TR2] orban also become a "safe place" for dictators and war criminals [04:35] schestowitz[TR2] i don't know why EU isn't harsher on him [04:35] schestowitz[TR2] they lowered their standards [04:35] schestowitz[TR2] i mean, [04:36] schestowitz[TR2] suppose cheeto threatens to annex EU [04:36] schestowitz[TR2] as he did (denmark/greenland) [04:36] schestowitz[TR2] what was hungary's position on that? [04:36] MinceR 14 053544 < schestowitz[TR2]> i don't know why EU isn't harsher on him [04:36] MinceR i know [04:36] MinceR it's because his party used to be a member of the EPP [04:36] MinceR and because nazis are gaining popularity in the EU [04:37] MinceR these dumb fucks have no idea what they're happily walking into [04:39] MinceR the EPP, ECR, ESN and patridiots for muscovy are all fascist parties [04:39] MinceR and their voters apparently have no problem with becoming slaves owned by putler, who is owned by the communist party of china [04:40] MinceR these parties hold 52% of the seats in the EP and the EPP is stopping the pretense that they aren't allied with the others [04:42] MinceR they hold at least 43.6% of the seats in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe [04:42] MinceR (not sure how many nazis are in NR) [04:46] MinceR europeans could have chosen to gang up and make something of themselves, stand up to muscovy, communist china and nazi america [04:46] MinceR instead they hold on to their precious nationalism and fascism and will be destroyed [04:49] schestowitz[TR2] "" [04:49] schestowitz[TR2] Youve absolutely got a new ally here at Georgia Tech through [04:49] schestowitz[TR2] us at LibreTech Collective, and youve also gained a new regular [04:49] schestowitz[TR2] reader in me. I already follow Phoronix and a few other tech blogs, [04:49] schestowitz[TR2] so when your Techrights post popped up in my newsreader a few [04:49] schestowitz[TR2] days ago, it genuinely made my night!" [04:54] admfubar https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/02/12/0319239 [04:54] TR Bot Google Recovers Deleted Nest Video in High-Profile Abduction Case - SoylentNews [04:54] MinceR allegedly ~55.6% of the Council of the EU are members of fascist parties [04:55] MinceR if EU citizens don't grow a brain in a hurry, the EU is doomed and so are all countries in europe [04:55] schestowitz[TR2] " [04:55] schestowitz[TR2] Be polite when responding to them so that it's them who seem rude and [04:55] schestowitz[TR2] unreasonably to any outsider/s. [04:55] schestowitz[TR2] " ● Feb 14 [05:14] TR News Techrights Richard Stallman in the United States - Part I - Huge Audience (Offline and Online), 'Cancel Culture' Attempted and Failed https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/14/Richard_Stallman_in_the_United_States_Part_I_Huge_Audience_Offl.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/14/Richard_Stallman_in_the_United_States_Part_I_Huge_Audience_Offl.gmi [05:14] TR Bot Techrights Richard Stallman in the United States - Part I - Huge Audience (Offline and Online), 'Cancel Culture' Attempted and Failed [05:52] TR News Techrights EPO "Cocaine Communication Manager" - Part I - Getting the Word Out About What the 'Alicante Mafia' Did to Europe's Second-Largest Institution https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/14/EPO_Cocaine_Communication_Manager_Part_I_Getting_the_Word_Out_A.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/14/EPO_Cocaine_Communication_Manager_Part_I_Getting_the_Word_Out_A.gmi [05:52] TR Bot Techrights EPO "Cocaine Communication Manager" - Part I - Getting the Word Out About What the 'Alicante Mafia' Did to Europe's Second-Largest Institution ● Feb 14 [06:07] *ewig has quit (Remote host closed the connection) ● Feb 14 [07:17] TR News videos are recycled for political purposes https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-how-videos-are-recycled-for-political-purposes/a-75589380 [07:17] TR Bot Fact check: How videos are recycled for political purposes [07:21] *IsambardPrince has quit (connection closed) [07:39] TR News Slop hype https://www.dw.com/en/moltbook-explained-where-ai-bots-meet-to-discuss-humans/a-75779970 [07:39] TR Bot Moltbook explained: Viral site for AI bots goes mainstream [07:46] TR News social inequality https://www.dw.com/en/germany-rising-concern-over-social-inequality/a-75836870 [07:46] TR Bot Germans increasingly concerned over social inequality [07:49] TR News German exports to US plummet, but Europe provides a boost https://www.dw.com/en/german-exports-to-us-plummet-but-europe-provides-a-boost/a-75842235 [07:49] TR Bot German exports to US plummet, but Europe provides a boost [07:49] TR News European nations gear up to ban social media for children https://www.dw.com/en/european-nations-gear-up-to-ban-social-media-for-children/a-75841184 [07:49] TR Bot European nations gear up to ban social media for children [07:50] TR News Instagram, YouTube Addiction Trial Kicks off in Los Angeles https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2026-02-09/instagram-youtube-addiction-trial-kicks-off-in-los-angeles [07:50] TR Bot stream 1 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2) ( status 0 @ https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2026-02-09/instagram-youtube-addiction-trial-kicks-off-in-los-angeles ) [07:53] TR News (NEW): Released: Helwan Linux Dev Cinnamon LTS V3.0 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/14/Released_Helwan_Linux_Dev_Cinnamon_LTS_V3_0.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/14/Released_Helwan_Linux_Dev_Cinnamon_LTS_V3_0.gmi [07:53] TR Bot Tux Machines Released: Helwan Linux Dev Cinnamon LTS V3.0 [07:53] TR News Release: Archcraft 2026.02.02 https://wiki.archcraft.io/news/57-news-release/ [07:53] TR Bot February 2026 Release | Archcraft [07:54] TR News Waydog update 26.01.17 Live https://sourceforge.net/p/lilidog/discussion/updates/thread/89d02e41c9/?page=6&limit=25#cbaa [07:54] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://sourceforge.net/p/lilidog/discussion/updates/thread/89d02e41c9/?page=6&limit=25#cbaa ) [07:56] TR News Corporate Media Repeats Its Failures While Empire Marches On https://www.projectcensored.org/deja-vu-corporate-media-failures-empire/ [07:56] TR Bot stream 1 was not closed cleanly: PROTOCOL_ERROR (err 1) ( status 0 @ https://www.projectcensored.org/deja-vu-corporate-media-failures-empire/ ) [07:57] TR News feminism censorship https://jacobin.com/2026/02/china-internet-protest-feminism-censorship/ [07:57] TR Bot How Chinas Counterculture Went Online [07:57] TR News The Governments Long War on Free Speech https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/02/03/the-governments-long-war-on-free-speech/ [07:57] TR Bot Government's Long War on Free Speech - CounterPunch.org [07:58] TR News Fifty Years Ago, the Supreme Court Said Money Is Speech https://jacobin.com/2026/02/citizens-united-campaign-finance-oligarchy/ [07:58] TR Bot Fifty Years Ago, the Supreme Court Said Money Is Speech [07:58] TR News Pakistan: Suppression of Free Speech, Civil Society https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/02/04/pakistan-suppression-of-free-speech-civil-society [07:58] TR Bot Pakistan: Suppression of Free Speech, Civil Society | Human Rights Watch ● Feb 14 [08:01] TR News Opponents Test the Limits of Free Speech https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2026-02-05/a-glimmer-of-hope-for-democracy-in-venezuela-as-opponents-test-the-limits-of-free-speech [08:01] TR Bot stream 1 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2) ( status 0 @ https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2026-02-05/a-glimmer-of-hope-for-democracy-in-venezuela-as-opponents-test-the-limits-of-free-speech ) [08:01] TR News With Maduro gone, Venezuelans test freedom to criticize leaders https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/venezuela-freedom-of-speech-criticize-leaders-9.7079330 [08:01] TR Bot With Maduro gone, Venezuelans test freedom to criticize leaders | CBC News [08:02] TR News spared jail for Facebook posts https://www.theage.com.au/national/queensland/sex-offender-vigilante-spared-jail-for-facebook-posts-20260205-p5o005.html [08:02] TR Bot Sex offender vigilante spared jail for Facebook posts [08:04] TR News Who on Earth still doesnt have electricity? https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/476083/energy-abundance-access-electricty-progress-africa-oceania-energy-poverty [08:04] TR Bot million people in the world live without power. Progress has stalled | Vox [08:05] TR News Does your website run on green energy? https://jamesg.blog/2026/02/06/green-energy/ [08:05] TR Bot Does your website run on green energy? | James' Coffee Blog [08:05] TR News Four in 10 Dutch homes now carry top energy labels https://nltimes.nl/2026/02/08/four-10-dutch-homes-now-carry-top-energy-labels [08:05] TR Bot Four in 10 Dutch homes now carry top energy labels | NL Times [08:06] TR News Cubans wonder if they could be next after Venezuela as rumours swirl about U.S. talks https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cuban-cia-castro-energy-collapse-9.7078628 [08:06] TR Bot Cubans wonder if they could be next after Venezuela as rumours swirl about U.S. talks | CBC News [08:07] TR News Cheeto Mussolinis Climate Policy Rollback Plan Relies on EPA Rescinding its 2009 Endangerment Finding, But Will Courts Allow It? https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/02/05/trumps-climate-policy-rollback-plan-relies-on-epa-rescinding-its-2009-endangerment-finding-but-will-courts-allow-it/ [08:07] TR Bot Climate Policy Rollback Plan Relies on EPA Rescinding its 2009 Endangerment Finding, But Will Courts Allow It? - CounterPunch.org [08:08] TR News We are are more prepared to face climate change than you think https://www.michigandaily.com/opinion/columns/we-are-are-more-prepared-to-face-climate-change-than-you-think/ [08:08] TR Bot We are are more prepared to face climate change than you think [08:08] TR News Climate activist group files second lawsuit against Sweden ttps://www.thelocal.se/20260207/climate-activist-group-files-second-lawsuit-against-sweden [08:09] TR News Use of AI in the patent industry http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/02/use-of-ai-in-patent-industry-are-you.html [08:09] TR Bot Use of AI in the patent industry: Are you behind the wheel or waiting for the bus? - The IPKat [08:10] TR News Nature should never be patented, nature is not an invention http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/02/patents-take-root-in-draft-ngt-plants.html [08:10] TR Bot Patents take root in the draft NGT Plants Regulation - The IPKat [08:14] TR News Techrights Links 14/02/2026: "Suppression of Free Speech" and "Climate Change Puts Winter Games on Thin Ice" https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/14/Links_14_02_2026_Suppression_of_Free_Speech_and_Climate_Change_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/14/Links_14_02_2026_Suppression_of_Free_Speech_and_Climate_Change_.gmi [08:14] TR Bot Techrights Links 14/02/2026: "Suppression of Free Speech" and "Climate Change Puts Winter Games on Thin Ice" [08:17] TR News "Matt Lyteson is the class id--t who gives other id--ts a bad name....the lights are on but no one is home." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khc42bmn [08:17] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khc42bmn ) [08:17] TR News IBM is cheating the market [08:19] TR News CBS News layoffs: Network to cut 15% of jobs amid major newsroom overhaul https://www.firstpost.com/tech/cbs-news-layoffs-network-to-cut-15-of-jobs-amid-major-newsroom-overhaul-13979430.html/amp [08:19] TR Bot News layoffs: Network to cut 15% of jobs amid major newsroom overhaul Firstpost [08:20] TR News Cheeto is scuttling US media, even UK media https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/11/Like_the_Serial_Strangler_From_Microsoft_Donald_Trump_is_Out_of.shtml [08:20] TR Bot Techrights Like the Serial Strangler From Microsoft, Donald Trump is Out of Time and Has Jurisdiction Issues in the UK [08:23] TR News (NEW): My 5 favorite Linux distros that are ready to use out of the box (no setup required) https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/14/My_5_favorite_Linux_distros_that_are_ready_to_use_out_of_the_bo.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/14/My_5_favorite_Linux_distros_that_are_ready_to_use_out_of_the_bo.gmi [08:23] TR Bot Tux Machines My 5 favorite Linux distros that are ready to use out of the box (no setup required) [08:30] *nobody (~nobody@e56aqnyrpnfiu.irc) has joined #techrights [08:30] *nobody has quit (Quit: connection closed.) [08:31] TR News (NEW): This Week in Plasma: Finalizing 6.6 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/14/This_Week_in_Plasma_Finalizing_6_6.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/14/This_Week_in_Plasma_Finalizing_6_6.gmi [08:31] TR Bot Tux Machines This Week in Plasma: Finalizing 6.6 [08:40] TR News (NEW): 800 Days Soon https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/14/800_Days_Soon.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/14/800_Days_Soon.gmi [08:40] TR Bot Tux Machines 800 Days Soon [08:40] TR News (NEW): Free and Open Source Software https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/14/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/14/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi [08:40] TR Bot Tux Machines Free and Open Source Software [08:41] TR News (NEW): Glacia OS New Ubuntu based Distro Features Unity Desktop https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/14/Glacia_OS_New_Ubuntu_based_Distro_Features_Unity_Desktop.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/14/Glacia_OS_New_Ubuntu_based_Distro_Features_Unity_Desktop.gmi [08:41] TR Bot Tux Machines Glacia OS New Ubuntu based Distro Features Unity Desktop [08:43] TR News Software Patents https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/apple-fends-off-4g-wireless-patent-lawsuit-at-third-trial/articleshow/128282821.cms | Source: India Times [08:43] TR Bot Apple fends off 4G wireless patent lawsuit at third trial - The Economic Times [08:44] TR News "Google, which has been fined billions of euros in Europe for antitrust violations in recent years, is the subject of several European Union antitrust investigations." https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/google-targeted-by-eu-over-its-search-advertising-auction-practices/articleshow/128284806.cms | Source: India Times [08:44] TR Bot Google targeted by EU over its search advertising auction practices - The Economic Times [08:44] TR News "Gail Slater, the Justice Department's assistant attorney general for antitrust, posted on X Thursday that it was with great sadness that she was leaving after just a year in the role." https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2026-02-12/top-trump-antitrust-official-leaves-post-following-disputes-over-big-mergers | Source: US News And World Report [08:44] TR Bot stream 1 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2) ( status 0 @ https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2026-02-12/top-trump-antitrust-official-leaves-post-following-disputes-over-big-mergers ) [08:45] TR News "Trump's antitrust agencies practiced "boss politics antitrust" in which favored courtiers were given free passes to violate the law, while Trump's enemies were threatened with punitive antitrust investigations until they fell into line: [...]" https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/13/khanservatives/#kid-rock-eats-shit | Source: CoryDoctorow [08:45] TR Bot Pluralistic: Trump antitrust is dead (13 Feb 2026) Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow [08:45] TR News "The SAVE America Act is voter suppression, plain and simple. It will make it harder and more expensive for American citizens especially women" https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-02-12/us-house-of-representatives-passes-election-law-requiring-proof-of-citizenship-to-vote.html | Source: El Pas [08:45] TR Bot SAVE America Act : US House of Representatives passes election law requiring proof of citizenship to vote | U.S. | EL PAS English [08:46] TR News "I reached out to Rep. Ramirez to ask how it feels to be vindicated in the worst possible way, talk about the likely impending DHS shutdown, and what future accountability looks like." https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/rep-delia-ramirez-illinois-abolish-prosecute-dhs-ice | Source: Marisa Kabas [08:46] TR Bot "The day of accountability will come": Rep. Delia Ramirez on abolishing and prosecuting DHS [08:46] TR News "CBP began piloting Clearview AIs technology in 2025, too, according to DHSs AI inventory." https://fedscoop.com/dhs-cbp-contract-biometric-facial-recognition-ai/ | Source: Scoop News Group [08:46] TR Bot to strengthen tactical targeting, counter-network analysis with Clearview AI | FedScoop [08:46] TR News "over 60+ billion publicly available images" https://www.wired.com/story/cbp-signs-clearview-ai-deal-to-use-face-recognition-for-tactical-targeting/ | Source: Wired [08:46] TR Bot Signs Clearview AI Deal to Use Face Recognition for Tactical Targeting | WIRED [08:46] TR News "It is recognition of anyone who has a face that has been photographed and shared even semi-publicly." https://pxlnv.com/linklog/cbp-clearview/ | Source: Nick Heer [08:46] TR Bot U.S. Customs and Border Protection Signs New Clearview A.I. Deal Pixel Envy [08:47] TR News "A judge has dismissed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseths attempts to retaliate against Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), a former Navy captain and astronaut who incurred the Pentagon chiefs ire when he reminded active-duty service members that they do not have to execute unlawful orders." https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/judge-quotes-bob-dylan-rebuke-hegseth-mark-kelly-1235515514/ | Source: Rolling Stone [08:47] TR Bot Judge Quotes Bob Dylan in Rebuke of Hegseth's Bid to Punish Mark Kelly [08:48] TR News "I want to be precise about what I am not arguing. I am not arguing that property is an illusion. I am not arguing that property rights should be abolished." https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-crisis-no-14 | Source: Mike Brock [08:48] TR Bot The Crisis, No. 14 - by Mike Brock - Notes From The Circus [08:48] TR News "The rule finalised by the Environmental Protection Agency rescinds a 2009 government declaration known as the endangerment finding that determined that carbon dioxide" https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-41792888.html | Source: Irish Examiner [08:48] TR Bot Trump condemned for revoking scientific finding on climate change [08:50] TR News (NEW): Putting Linux on a tablet? Here's 7 distros to try https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/14/Putting_Linux_on_a_tablet_Here_s_7_distros_to_try.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/14/Putting_Linux_on_a_tablet_Here_s_7_distros_to_try.gmi [08:50] TR Bot Tux Machines Putting Linux on a tablet? Here's 7 distros to try [08:51] TR News (NEW): AerynOS is the atomic Linux distro nobody is talking about https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/14/AerynOS_is_the_atomic_Linux_distro_nobody_is_talking_about.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/14/AerynOS_is_the_atomic_Linux_distro_nobody_is_talking_about.gmi [08:51] TR Bot Tux Machines AerynOS is the atomic Linux distro nobody is talking about [08:53] TR News "The EDPB (combining all independent data proction authorities) and the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) published a joint opinion expressing serious concerns about key elements of the proposed GDPR and ePrivacy changes in the so-called Digital Omnibus proposed by the European Commission." https://noyb.eu/en/digital-omnibus-eu-dpas-reject-many-proposed-changes-gdpr | Source: NYOB [08:53] TR Bot Digital Omnibus: EU DPAs reject many proposed changes to the GDPR [08:54] TR News "But there was a problem: I write about sensitive topics in my journal entries, and I dont want to share them with the big LLM providers." https://ankursethi.com/blog/i-used-a-local-llm-to-analyze-my-journal-entries/ | Source: Ankur Sethi [08:54] TR Bot I used a local LLM to analyze my journal entries Ankur Sethi's Internet Website [08:54] TR News "In the news: Californias attorney general issues largest CCPA fine to date." https://blog.zgp.org/yo-ho-yo-ho-a-data-sale-life-for-me/ | Source: Don Marti [08:54] TR Bot Yo ho, yo ho, a data sale life for me [08:54] TR News "What happened next alarmed me." https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/testing-reachy-mini-hugging-face-robot/ | Source: Jeff Geerling [08:54] TR Bot Testing Reachy Mini - Hugging Face's Pi powered robot - Jeff Geerling [08:55] TR News "Through no fault of Apple, Face ID is having a moment and not in a good way." https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/02/apple-should-rethink-face-id-settings-for-our-current-era/ | Source: Six Colors [08:55] TR Bot Apple should rethink Face ID settings for our current era Six Colors [08:55] TR News "I also saw this message when trying to sync, they have effectively made the watch pretty useless if you dont let it always have access to location." https://ljpuk.net/2026/02/13/casio-overstepping-the-privacy-barrier/ | Source: Lee Peterson [08:55] TR Bot Casio overstepping the privacy barrier LJPUK [08:55] TR News Openwashing https://petewarden.com/2026/02/13/announcing-moonshine-voice/ | Source: Pete Warden [08:55] TR Bot Announcing Moonshine Voice Pete Warden's blog [08:56] TR News Windows TCO: "According to the Polish CERT report, hackers deployed wiper malware that destroyed data on computer systems, corrupted firmware on operational technology devices" https://www.fortra.com/blog/urgent-warnings-uk-and-us-cyber-agencies-after-polish-energy-grid-attack | Source: Fortra LLC [08:56] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.fortra.com/blog/urgent-warnings-uk-and-us-cyber-agencies-after-polish-energy-grid-attack ) [08:56] TR News Windows TCO: "KB5077181 is causing devices to restart over 15 times in an infinite loop. Users also report network issues and error codes." https://www.neowin.net/news/windows-11-update-kb5077181-is-causing-critical-boot-loops-for-some-users/ | Source: Neowin [08:56] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.neowin.net/news/windows-11-update-kb5077181-is-causing-critical-boot-loops-for-some-users/ ) [08:59] TR News "MJ Rathbun later posted an apology. It continues to submit pull requests across open-source projects." https://boingboing.net/2026/02/12/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-the-developer-who-rejected-it.html | Source: BoingBoing [08:59] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://boingboing.net/2026/02/12/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-the-developer-who-rejected-it.html ) [08:59] TR News "This represents a first-of-its-kind case study of misaligned AI behavior in the wild, and raises serious concerns about currently deployed AI agents executing blackmail threats." https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/ | [08:59] TR Bot An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me The Shamblog ● Feb 14 [09:00] TR News Beiermeister [09:00] TR News "Beiermeister was vice president of OpenAIs product policy team, which develops rules and safeguards for how its products can be used." https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-fires-safety-exec-opposed-adult-mode | Source: Futurism [09:00] TR Bot OpenAI Fires Top Safety Exec Who Opposed ChatGPT's "Adult Mode" [09:00] TR News "Anyone who has worked with queues knows this: if input grows faster than throughput, you have an accumulating failure." https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/2/13/the-final-bottleneck/ | Source: Armin Ronacher [09:00] TR Bot The Final Bottleneck | Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings [09:00] TR News "Todays word is SaaSpocalypse. A pile of overvalued enterprise software companies stock price number went down, and theyre blaming AI." https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/12/saaspocalypse-investors-overspend-badly-on-software-companies-and-blame-ai/ | Source: Pivot to AI [09:00] TR Bot ( status 503 @ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/12/saaspocalypse-investors-overspend-badly-on-software-companies-and-blame-ai/ ) [09:01] TR News "Beneath this cultural difference, there is a deeper substantive divide over AI. Its not one disagreement. Its really more like four distinct divides." https://www.derekthompson.org/p/why-americas-ai-discourse-feels-so | Source: Derek Thompson [09:01] TR Bot The Doomsday Scenario for AI and Jobs - Derek Thompson [09:01] TR News "Let me point out that both things can be true. A thick cloud of hustlers, grifters, and the greediest monsters on earth surround the AI industry like flies surround a butchered corpse." https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/minimum-standards-for-taking-ai-seriously | Source: Hamilton Nolan [09:01] TR Bot Minimum Standards for Taking AI Seriously [09:01] TR News "The question was never open. Human dignity is not a benchmark. It is not subject to scaling laws. It does not depreciate when a machine passes a test." https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-crisis-no-15 | Source: Mike Brock [09:01] TR Bot The Crisis, No. 15 - by Mike Brock - Notes From The Circus [09:02] TR News "I would like to ask you to please stop using AI tools to summarise my blog posts." https://rubenerd.com/please-dont-use-ai-summary-tools-here/ | Source: Ruben Schade [09:02] TR Bot Please dont use AI Summary tools here [09:02] TR News "It should go without saying that this behavior is unacceptable and that the deployment of generative AI agents" https://sethmlarson.dev/automated-public-shaming-of-open-source-maintainers | Source: Seth Michael Larson [09:02] TR Bot Automated public shaming of open source maintainers Seth Larson [09:02] TR News "There has been quite an explosion of Generative AI programs recently including OpenAIs ChatGPT, Facebooks Llama, Googles Gemini, Microsofts Copilot, Anthropics Claude, and xAIs Grok" https://smist08.wordpress.com/2026/02/13/bias-and-toxicity-in-generative-ai/ | Source: Stephen Smith [09:02] TR Bot Bias and Toxicity in Generative AI | Stephen Smith's Blog [09:03] TR News "But you cant shrink your way to greatness." https://seths.blog/2026/02/the-next-generation-of-ai-businesses/ | Source: Seth Godin [09:03] TR Bot The next generation of AI businesses | Seth's Blog [09:03] TR News "Every modern iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS application uses Asset Catalogs to manage images, colors, icons, and other resources." https://dbg.re/posts/car-file-format/ | [09:03] TR Bot Deep Dive into Apple's .car File Format DBG.RE [09:03] TR News "For reasons outside of the scope of this entry, I want to test how various systemd memory resource limits work and interact with each other (which means that I'm really digging into cgroup v2 memory controls)." https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/MemoryLimitTestingPain | Source: University of Toronto [09:03] TR Bot You're using a too-old browser [09:04] TR News "While normal, free, common-sense alternatives like email, IRC, XMPP and Fediverse are products in some senses of the word" https://idiomdrottning.org/discord | Source: Idiomdrottning [09:04] TR Bot Discord is not a good product [09:05] TR News "Becca Farsace did something I've been circling for years. She left her phone at home and went out into the world carrying a Hasselblad, a notebook, a pen, a cassette player" https://gregmorris.co.uk/the-only-digital-detox-that-worked/ | Source: Greg Morris [09:05] TR Bot The Only Digital Detox That Worked [09:05] TR News "The solution being used on Linux that triggered this whole adventure looks downright boring: Midi-pw-mixer" https://f5n.org/blog/2026/hardware-mute-button/ | Source: Florian Anderiasch [09:05] TR Bot f5n : Hardware Mute Button [09:05] TR News "I made a recording of the X-band telemetry with the Allen Telescope Array the day after launch" https://destevez.net/2026/02/escapade-telemetry/ | Source: Daniel Estvez [09:05] TR Bot ESCAPADE telemetry Daniel Estvez [09:06] TR News "Most of the time, theyre doing it because of a combination of their own personal mission and the deep belief that what theyre doing is going to help change peoples lives for the better." https://www.anildash.com/2026/02/13/launch-it-three-times/ | Source: Anil Dash [09:06] TR Bot Launch it 3 times - Anil Dash [09:06] TR News "This is the follow-up to last years Im an American software developer and the "broligarchs" dont speak for me." https://ratfactor.com/tech-nope2 | Source: Dave Gauer [09:06] TR Bot programmer's loss of identity - ratfactor [09:06] TR News "Just when I was about to go to bed my phone told me that my blog was down. Very inconvenient." https://lostfocus.de/2026/02/13/friday-night-devops/ | Source: Dominik Schwind [09:06] TR Bot Friday Night DevOps | LostFocus [09:07] TR News "The shift to streaming has not killed media." https://www.jmduke.com/posts/death-of-software.html | Source: Justin Duke [09:07] TR Bot The death of software, the A24 of software | Applied Cartography [09:07] TR News "What happens next is probably wildly different depending on the narrative. I dont have a specific example to share here. Ive just seen it play out like this multiple times." https://www.manton.org/2026/02/13/trailing-narrative.html | Source: Manton Reece [09:07] TR Bot Manton Reece - Trailing narrative [09:07] TR News "This required me to go through and parse the website information to attempt to put them into different categories." https://matduggan.com/the-small-web-is-tricky-to-find/ | Source: Mat Duggan [09:07] TR Bot NO TITLE [09:08] TR News "I agree with this quote on defining the indie web (for our purposes, I will use the term to refer to independent websites and not a specific movement)." https://thenewleafjournal.com/the-positive-case-for-good-tech/ | Source: The New Leaf Journal [09:08] TR Bot The Positive Case for Good Tech The New Leaf Journal [09:08] TR News (NEW): : Google Android Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/14/Android_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/14/Android_Leftovers.gmi [09:08] TR Bot Tux Machines Android Leftovers [09:08] TR News "Welcome to the thirteenth instalment of my annual overview of my most interesting discoveries made during the previous year." https://morrick.me/archives/10263 | Source: Riccardo Mori [09:08] TR Bot People and resources added to my reading list in 2025 | Riccardo Mori [09:09] TR News "It seems to be a common theme through the history of software that some titles, get bought, sold, rebranded, integrated, and discontinued by a number of companies." https://preservation.tylerthorsted.com/2026/02/13/iview/ | Source: Tyler Thorsted [09:09] TR Bot iView Obsolete Thor [09:09] TR News "The truth is that there is very little power expressed in standards themselves." https://www.mnot.net/blog/2026/02/13/no | Source: Mark Nottingham [09:09] TR Bot The Power of 'No' in Internet Standards [09:13] TR News "After my initial struggles with the BeagleV-Fire in a previous video, I succeeded in getting Java 25 running on RISC-V-powered BeagleV-Fire!" https://webtechie.be/post/2026-02-13-java-25-runs-on-riscv-beagleboard-beaglev-fire/ | Source: Frank Delporte [09:13] TR Bot Got Java 25 Running on the RISC-V BeagleBoard BeagleV-Fire | webtechie.be [09:13] TR News "I am a massive fan of repositories making binary R packages available." https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/02/how-posits-public-package-manager-manylinux_2_28-repository-can-help-you-if-your-r-project-is-stuck-on-ubuntu-focal-fossa/ | Source: Rlang [09:13] TR Bot Posits Public Package Manager manylinux_2_28 repository can help you if your R project is stuck on Ubuntu Focal Fossa | R-bloggers [09:16] TR News "The R language has a variety of packages for machine learning, and many of them can be used for machine learning tasks in a spatial context (spatial machine learning)." https://geocompx.org/post/2025/sml-bp1/ | [09:16] TR Bot Spatial machine learning with R: caret, tidymodels, and mlr3 geocompx [09:16] TR News "This document shows the application of caret for spatial modelling at the example of predicting air temperature in Spain." https://geocompx.org/post/2025/sml-bp2/ | [09:16] TR Bot Spatial machine learning with caret geocompx [09:16] TR News "In this blog post, we will show how to use the tidymodels framework for spatial machine learning. The tidymodels framework is a collection of R packages for modeling and machine learning using tidyverse principles." https://geocompx.org/post/2025/sml-bp3/ | [09:16] TR Bot Spatial machine learning with the tidymodels framework geocompx [09:17] TR News "This post aims to give a minimal example on how to use mlr3 for a spatial prediction task" https://geocompx.org/post/2025/sml-bp4/ | [09:17] TR Bot Spatial machine learning with mlr3 geocompx [09:17] TR News "All of the examples below use the same dataset, which includes the temperature measurements in Spain" https://geocompx.org/post/2025/sml-bp5/ | [09:17] TR Bot Specialized R packages for spatial machine learning: An introduction to RandomForestsGLS, spatialRF, and meteo geocompx [09:17] TR News "All of the examples below use the same dataset, which includes the temperature measurements in Spain, a set of covariates, and the spatial coordinates of the temperature measurements." https://geocompx.org/post/2025/sml-bp6/ | [09:17] TR Bot Specialized R packages for spatial cross-validation: sperrorest and blockCV geocompx [09:18] TR News "As we approach the end of the 0.16.0 release cycle, Jacob has been hard at work, bringing std.Io.Evented up to speed with all the latest API changes: [...]" https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-02-13 | Source: Zig [09:18] TR Bot Devlog Zig Programming Language [09:21] TR News "The fix exists on my fork." https://nesbitt.io/2026/02/13/respectful-open-source.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt [09:21] TR Bot Respectful Open Source | Andrew Nesbitt [09:21] TR News How I've transferred my projects from git to got while keeping all history https://www.vincentdelft.be/post/post_20260213 | Source: Vincent Delft [09:21] TR Bot Vincent's blog [09:22] TR News "To be perfectly frank, in those moments, I often wonder if Crockford had been lying to us." https://brainbaking.com/post/2026/02/why-parenting-is-similar-to-javascript-development/ | Source: Wouter Groeneveld [09:22] TR Bot stream 1 was not closed cleanly: PROTOCOL_ERROR (err 1) ( status 0 @ https://brainbaking.com/post/2026/02/why-parenting-is-similar-to-javascript-development/ ) [09:23] TR News "The solution was simple - use content collections." https://www.raymondcamden.com/2026/02/13/i-threw-thousands-of-files-at-astro-and-you-wont-believe-what-happened-next | Source: Raymond Camden [09:23] TR Bot I threw thousands of files at Astro and you won't believe what happened next... [09:24] TR News "My old guestbook stopped working after the database behind it shut down, and Ive been meaning to bring it back ever since. Well, its finally here" https://flamedfury.com/posts/the-guestbook-is-back/ | Source: Flamed Fury [09:24] TR Bot The Guestbook Is Back [09:24] TR News "This is a short story of where AddressSanitizer, a programming tool designed to help find memory corruption" https://www.enterprisedb.com/blog/stack-buffer-overflow-exercise-addresssanitizer-and-postgresql | Source: EnterpriseDB Corporation [09:24] TR Bot AddressSanitizer & PostgreSQL: A Stack-Buffer-Overflow Exercise [09:26] TR News "While many would complain about the internet dying - the information is still out there for anyone to find - you just need to know how to look for it." https://joshblais.com/blog/using-search-engines-properly/ | Source: Joshua Blais [09:26] TR Bot Using search engines properly - The Universe of Joshua Blais [09:26] TR News "For the better part of the last year, Ive pretty much completely eliminated my doom scrolling with a single app called Feeeed." https://catskull.net/snapshots-from-your-future.html | Source: Dave DeGraw [09:26] TR Bot Snapshots From Your Future [09:30] TR News "I built a computer! A very primitive one, made out of breadboards, bare wire, and logic gates." https://theshamblog.com/an-8-bit-breadboard-computer/ | [09:30] TR Bot An 8-bit Breadboard Computer The Shamblog [09:35] TR News "I've recently acquired this tiny contamination monitor: [...]" https://maurycyz.com/misc/ah_teardown/ | Source: Maury [09:35] TR Bot Inside an alpha-beta scintillator: (Maurycy's blog) [09:35] TR News "We now offer a professional range of magnifying tools designed specifically for PCB inspection and electronics work" https://olimex.wordpress.com/2026/02/13/smt-components-are-getting-smaller-but-your-precision-doesnt-have-to/ | Source: Olimex [09:35] TR Bot SMT components are getting smaller but your precision doesnt have to | olimex [09:35] TR News "I have used a lot of cameras but never made one myself. Specifically one optimized for live streaming so it just outputs the camera feed over HDMI." https://blog.brixit.nl/building-a-custom-live-streaming-camera/ | Source: Martijn Braam [09:35] TR Bot Building a FOSS live streaming camera [09:35] TR News "While it is fun to get toys that look like your favorite science fiction props, it is less fun when the electronics in them dont measure up to the physical design." https://hackaday.com/2026/02/13/r2d2-gets-new-brains/ | Source: Hackaday [09:35] TR Bot Gets New Brains | Hackaday [09:42] TR News "Our old apartment had one of those Leasam late 1990s air conditioning controllers that not only operated in a nonsensical way" https://rubenerd.com/resetting-the-le75cw-aircon-thermostat/ | Source: Ruben Schade [09:42] TR Bot Resetting the LE75CW aircon controller [09:42] TR News "Recently, Netlify, which hosts www.haiku-os.org, started switching to a credit-based pricing plan." https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/waddlesplash/2026-02-12-haiku_activity_contract_report_january_2026/ | Source: HaikuOS [09:42] TR Bot Haiku Activity & Contract Report, January 2026 | Haiku Project [09:43] TR News "Another FOSDEM and Hackathon are in the rear-view mirror" https://postmarketos.org/blog/2026/02/10/fosdem-and-hackathon/ | Source: postmarketOS [09:43] TR Bot postmarketOS // FOSDEM 2026 + Hackathon [09:43] TR News "Download this episode in DRM-free MP3 on your ESP32 with BreezyBox for maximum enjoyment." https://hackaday.com/2026/02/13/hackaday-podcast-episode-357-breezybox-antique-tech-and-defusing-killer-robots/ | Source: Hackaday [09:43] TR Bot Podcast Episode 357: BreezyBox, Antique Tech, And Defusing Killer Robots | Hackaday [09:45] TR News Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War gets a satisfying demo and release date | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/starship-troopers-ultimate-bug-war-gets-a-satisfying-demo-and-release-date/ Source: GamingOnLinux [09:45] TR Bot Troopers: Ultimate Bug War gets a satisfying demo and release date | GamingOnLinux [09:45] TR News Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown demo upgraded with voice-over | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/star-trek-voyager-across-the-unknown-demo-upgraded-with-voice-over/ Source: GamingOnLinux [09:45] TR Bot Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown demo upgraded with voice-over | GamingOnLinux [09:50] TR News "The retro single-player FPS Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! has a demo available on Steam and it's going to release March 16th." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/starship-troopers-ultimate-bug-war-gets-a-satisfying-demo-and-release-date/ [09:51] TR News palantir https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&u=https://www.digi.no/artikler/debatt-palantir-gjor-norge-utrygt/567919 [09:51] TR Bot Palantir gjr Norge utrygt | Digi.no [09:53] TR News OldUnreal add new installers for Unreal Tournament 2004, Unreal Tournament: GOTY and Unreal Gold | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/oldunreal-add-new-installers-for-unreal-tournament-2004-unreal-tournament-goty-and-unreal-gold/ Source: GamingOnLinux [09:53] TR Bot add new installers for Unreal Tournament 2004, Unreal Tournament: GOTY and Unreal Gold | GamingOnLinux [09:54] TR News Dino Crisis 1 and 2 arrive on Steam but they need tweaks to run on Linux / SteamOS | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/dino-crisis-1-and-2-arrive-on-steam-but-they-need-tweaks-to-run-on-linux-steamos/ Source: GamingOnLinux [09:54] TR Bot Crisis 1 and 2 arrive on Steam but they need tweaks to run on Linux / SteamOS | GamingOnLinux [09:58] TR News Death Stranding 2 for PC and lots more from Sony State of Play (February 2026) | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/death-stranding-2-for-pc-and-more-from-sony-state-of-play-february-2026/ Source: GamingOnLinux [09:58] TR Bot Stranding 2 for PC and lots more from Sony State of Play (February 2026) | GamingOnLinux [09:59] TR News You can now add hardware details to Steam reviews, and give more feedback on Steam Deck Verified | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/you-can-now-attach-hardware-details-to-steam-reviews-and-give-more-feedback-on-steam-deck-verified/ Source: GamingOnLinux [09:59] TR Bot can now add hardware details to Steam reviews, and give more feedback on Steam Deck Verified | GamingOnLinux ● Feb 14 [10:02] TR News (NEW): Games: Unreal Tournament, SteamOS, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/14/Games_Unreal_Tournament_SteamOS_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/14/Games_Unreal_Tournament_SteamOS_and_More.gmi [10:02] TR Bot Tux Machines Games: Unreal Tournament, SteamOS, and More [10:05] TR News (NEW): Programming Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/14/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/14/Programming_Leftovers.gmi [10:05] TR Bot Tux Machines Programming Leftovers [10:08] TR News (NEW): Web, Databases, and Standards https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/14/Web_Databases_and_Standards.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/14/Web_Databases_and_Standards.gmi [10:08] TR Bot Tux Machines Web, Databases, and Standards [10:10] TR News (NEW): Hackaday, and HaikuOS (Operating Systems), and postmarketOS https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/14/Hackaday_and_HaikuOS_Operating_Systems_and_postmarketOS.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/14/Hackaday_and_HaikuOS_Operating_Systems_and_postmarketOS.gmi [10:10] TR Bot Tux Machines Hackaday, and HaikuOS (Operating Systems), and postmarketOS [10:21] TR News Techrights Links 14/02/2026: "Bias and Toxicity in" Slop, Microsoft's Vista 11 System Update Breaks Systems Again https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/14/Links_14_02_2026_Bias_and_Toxicity_in_Slop_Microsoft_s_Vista_11.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/14/Links_14_02_2026_Bias_and_Toxicity_in_Slop_Microsoft_s_Vista_11.gmi [10:21] TR Bot Techrights Links 14/02/2026: "Bias and Toxicity in" Slop, Microsoft's Vista 11 System Update Breaks Systems Again [10:24] TR News "As a practical matter one should probably not use such exotic user-agent lines as doubtless there are otherwise good bots that do not account for the whitespace allowed by the RFC, let alone case variations. The use of infinite whitespace, while allowed, may lead to certain problems." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2026/02/14/user-agent.gmi [10:26] TR News "Without a wife, without a partner, without a crush, or even a phantasm, my daughter will be traveling down south for over 20 days." gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/alone [10:36] TR News QCoro 0.13.0 Release Announcement https://dvratil.cz/2026/02/qcoro-0.13.0-release-announcement/ [10:36] TR Bot Daniel Vrtil's blog [10:37] TR News The Mozilla Blog: Heading to India Hey Hi (AI) Impact Summit, Mozilla leaders call for investment in open source Hey Hi (AI) as a path to sovereignty https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/india-ai-impact-summit/ [10:37] TR Bot Heading to India AI Impact Summit, Mozilla leaders call for investment in open source AI as a path to sovereignty [10:38] TR News Radxa Cubie A7S Integrates A733 SoC, RISC-V MCU, and LPDDR5 Memory https://linuxgizmos.com/radxa-cubie-a7s-integrates-a733-soc-risc-v-mcu-and-lpddr5-memory/ [10:38] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/radxa-cubie-a7s-integrates-a733-soc-risc-v-mcu-and-lpddr5-memory/ ) [10:39] TR News This Week in GNOME: #236 New Library https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2026/02/twig-236/ [10:39] TR Bot #236 New Library [10:41] TR News "Initiatives like FedRAMP and various strict security frameworks increasingly demand that software supply chains be clean of known risks before deployment." https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/chasing-holy-grail-why-red-hats-hummingbird-project-aims-near-zero-cves | Source: Red Hat Official [10:41] TR Bot Chasing the holy grail: Why Red Hats Hummingbird project aims for "near zero" CVEs [10:41] TR News "a new package index designed to bring enterprise-grade trust, transparency, and security posture to application dependencies, starting with Python." https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/extend-trust-across-software-supply-chain-red-hat-trusted-libraries | Source: Red Hat Official [10:41] TR Bot Extend trust across the software supply chain with Red Hat trusted libraries [10:42] TR News "Like many organizations, PNC was moving from a place where they were used to managing a handful of clusters to a reality where they faced hundreds of new requests." https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/pncs-infrastructure-modernization-journey-red-hat-openshift-virtualization | Source: Red Hat Official [10:42] TR Bot PNCs infrastructure modernization journey with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization [10:42] TR News "While the industry often focuses on the result (the image), we believe the real problem lies in the process." https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/zero-cves-symptom-larger-problem | Source: Red Hat Official [10:42] TR Bot Zero CVEs: The symptom of a larger problem [10:44] TR News "Both students worked independently on their projects, gaining hands-on experience in a real-world work." https://ubuntu.com//blog/from-inspiration-to-impact-design-students-from-regents-university-london-explore-open-design-for-their-dissertation-projects | Source: Ubuntu [10:44] TR Bot inspiration to impact: design students from Regents University London explore open design for their dissertation projects | Ubuntu [10:45] TR News "Thats the simple definition, at least but it fails to do justice to what goes on behind the scenes." https://ubuntu.com//blog/the-foundations-of-software-open-source-libraries-and-their-maintainers | Source: Ubuntu [10:45] TR Bot foundations of software: open source libraries and their maintainers | Ubuntu ● Feb 14 [11:39] TR News Tumbleweed Review of the week 2026/7 https://dominique.leuenberger.net/blog/2026/02/tumbleweed-review-of-the-week-2026-7/ [11:39] TR Bot Tumbleweed Review of the week 2026/7 Dominique a.k.a. DimStar (Dim*) [11:40] TR News Security updates for Friday https://lwn.net/Articles/1058642/ [11:40] TR Bot updates for Friday [LWN.net] [11:44] TR News Tar Cheatsheet https://linuxize.com/cheatsheet/tar/ [11:44] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://linuxize.com/cheatsheet/tar/ ) [11:45] TR News Red Hat funded site running paid puff pieces for its paymaster: How Red Bait and the Nvidia ecosystem are standardizing Hey Hi (AI) factories https://siliconangle.com/2026/02/13/red-hat-nvidia-ecosystem-ai-infrastructure-aifactoriesdatacenters/ [11:45] TR Bot Nvidia ecosystem and Red Hat reshape AI factories - SiliconANGLE [11:51] TR News New LibSSH connection plug-in for Ansible replaces Paramiko https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/02/13/new-libssh-connection-plug-ansible-replaces-paramiko [11:51] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/02/13/new-libssh-connection-plug-ansible-replaces-paramiko ) [11:52] TR News Bug in inode/directory mime type https://bkhome.org/news/202602/bug-in-inodedirectory-mime-type.html [11:52] TR Bot Bug in inode/directory mime type [11:56] TR News mcdu disk usage analyzer https://www.linuxlinks.com/mcdu-disk-usage-analyzer/ [11:56] TR Bot - disk usage analyzer - LinuxLinks [11:56] TR News moltbook-tui TUI client for Moltbook https://www.linuxlinks.com/moltbook-tui-tui-client-moltbook/ [11:56] TR Bot - TUI client for Moltbook - LinuxLinks [11:57] TR News dcv Docker container viewer https://www.linuxlinks.com/dcv-docker-container-viewer/ [11:57] TR Bot - Docker container viewer - LinuxLinks [11:57] TR News Incplot make attractive plots https://www.linuxlinks.com/incplot-make-attractive-plots/ [11:57] TR Bot - make attractive plots - LinuxLinks ● Feb 14 [12:01] TR News How to Upgrade FunOS 24.04.3 to FunOS 24.04.4 https://funos.org/upgrade-funos-24-04-3-to-24-04-4/ [12:01] TR Bot How to Upgrade FunOS 24.04.3 to FunOS 24.04.4 FunOS [12:03] TR News Testing Reachy Mini - Hugging Face's Pi powered robot https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/testing-reachy-mini-hugging-face-robot/ [12:03] TR Bot Testing Reachy Mini - Hugging Face's Pi powered robot - Jeff Geerling [12:10] TR News vimcord terminal UI Discord client https://www.linuxlinks.com/vimcord-terminal-ui-discord-client/ [12:10] TR Bot - terminal UI Discord client - LinuxLinks [12:10] TR News Save Time and Effort with these Excellent Free and Open Source Batch Image Processors https://www.linuxlinks.com/batchimageprocessors/ [12:10] TR Bot Time and Effort with these Excellent Free and Open Source Batch Image Processors - LinuxLinks [12:13] TR News tfjournal record Terraform https://www.linuxlinks.com/tfjournal-record-terraform-runs-with-git-context-timing-resource-events/ [12:13] TR Bot - record Terraform - LinuxLinks [12:13] TR News 24 Best Free and Open Source GUI Internet Radio Software https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-internet-radio-software/ [12:13] TR Bot Best Free and Open Source GUI Internet Radio Software - LinuxLinks [12:14] TR News borse practice braille, Morse, semaphore https://www.linuxlinks.com/borse-practice-braille-morse-semaphore/ [12:14] TR Bot - practice braille, Morse, semaphore - LinuxLinks [12:14] TR News 4 Best Free and Open Source Groovy Static Site Generators https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-groovy-static-site-generators/ [12:14] TR Bot Best Free and Open Source Groovy Static Site Generators - LinuxLinks [12:21] TR News Anonymous Threats Against My Wife and Against Yours Truly (updated) https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/13/Anonymous_Threats_Against_My_Wife_and_Against_Yours_Truly.shtml [12:21] TR Bot Techrights Anonymous Threats Against My Wife and Against Yours Truly [12:21] TR News If You Want Digital Freedom, Then Follow Richard Stallman, the "Linux" Brand Has Changed and OSI is Abusive Monopolist Microsoft (GitHub) https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/13/If_You_Want_Digital_Freedom_Then_Follow_Richard_Stallman_the_Li.shtml [12:21] TR Bot Techrights If You Want Digital Freedom, Then Follow Richard Stallman, the "Linux" Brand Has Changed and OSI is Microsoft (GitHub) [12:22] TR News Erich Schubert: Dogfood Generative Hey Hi (AI) https://www.vitavonni.de/blog/202602/20260213dogfood-the-AI.html [12:22] TR Bot Dogfood Generative AI [12:23] TR News TikTok US Launches Local Feeds Using Your Precise Location What Does This Mean for Local Music? https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/02/12/tiktok-us-precise-location-local-feed/ [12:23] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/02/12/tiktok-us-precise-location-local-feed/ ) [12:23] TR News KDE Ships Frameworks 6.23.0 https://kde.org/announcements/frameworks/6/6.23.0/ [12:23] TR Bot KDE Ships Frameworks 6.23.0 - KDE Community [12:30] TR News Are teenagers too young to scroll? Europe weighs social control media bans for minors https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/talking-europe/20260213-are-teenagers-too-young-to-scroll-europe-weighs-social-media-bans-for-minors [12:30] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/talking-europe/20260213-are-teenagers-too-young-to-scroll-europe-weighs-social-media-bans-for-minors ) [12:31] TR News Purer meth, less pure opioids, more cocaine hit Michigan, testing reveals https://bridgemi.com/michigan-health-watch/purer-meth-less-pure-opioids-more-cocaine-hit-michigan-testing-reveals/ [12:31] TR Bot Purer meth, less pure opioids, more cocaine hit Michigan, testing reveals - Bridge Michigan [12:56] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techrights ● Feb 14 [13:39] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techrights [13:42] *psydruid has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) ● Feb 14 [14:01] TR News HRW criticizes Hungary termination of court cases on municipal tax https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/02/rights-group-criticizes-hungary-termination-of-court-cases-on-municipal-tax/ [14:01] TR Bot HRW criticizes Hungary termination of court cases on municipal tax - JURIST - News [14:05] TR News China Revives Tianfu Cup Hacking Contest Under Increased Secrecy https://www.securityweek.com/china-revives-tianfu-cup-hacking-contest-under-increased-secrecy/ [14:05] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/china-revives-tianfu-cup-hacking-contest-under-increased-secrecy/ ) [14:05] TR News BeyondTrust Vulnerability Targeted by Hackers Within 24 Hours of PoC Release https://www.securityweek.com/beyondtrust-vulnerability-targeted-by-hackers-within-24-hours-of-poc-release/ [14:05] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/beyondtrust-vulnerability-targeted-by-hackers-within-24-hours-of-poc-release/ ) [14:05] TR News Dutch Carrier Odido Discloses Data Breach Impacting 6 Million https://www.securityweek.com/dutch-carrier-odido-discloses-data-breach-impacting-6-million/ [14:05] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/dutch-carrier-odido-discloses-data-breach-impacting-6-million/ ) [14:06] TR News Raspberry Pi Weekly Issue #524 - Bioreactors, antennas, and miniature keychain tech https://newsletters.raspberrypi.com/w/YWKXrcUUeh1fB4gXHZ892JuA [14:06] TR Bot Raspberry Pi Weekly Issue #524 [14:07] TR News hello-world-extensioncpp https://shibe-bit.github.io/Guides/hello-world-extensioncpp [14:07] TR Bot hello-world-extensioncpp [14:07] TR News New delegation for Debian's data protection team https://lwn.net/Articles/1058663/ [14:07] TR Bot delegation for Debian's data protection team [LWN.net] [14:08] TR News Homeland Security Demands Social Media Sites Reveal Names Behind Anti-ICE Posts https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/dhs-anti-ice-social-media.html [14:08] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/dhs-anti-ice-social-media.html ) [14:09] TR News Chrome 145 Patches 11 Vulnerabilities https://www.securityweek.com/chrome-145-patches-11-vulnerabilities/ [14:09] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/chrome-145-patches-11-vulnerabilities/ ) [14:10] TR News Campaign Urges Users to Quit Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot Over OpenAIs Support for Convicted Felon and ICE https://futurism.com/future-society/boycott-chatpgpt-trump [14:10] TR Bot Campaign Urges Users to Quit ChatGPT Over OpenAI's Support for Trump and ICE [14:10] TR News CISA Warns of Exploited SolarWinds, Notepad++, Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Vulnerabilities https://www.securityweek.com/cisa-warns-of-exploited-solarwinds-notepad-microsoft-vulnerabilities/ [14:10] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/cisa-warns-of-exploited-solarwinds-notepad-microsoft-vulnerabilities/ ) [14:12] TR News Blundering Husband Asks Claude Hey Hi (AI) to Organize Wifes PC, Accidentally Erases Her Lifes Work https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/claude-wife-photos [14:12] TR Bot Blundering Husband Asks Claude AI to "Organize" Wife's PC, Accidentally Erases Her Cherished Family Photos [14:14] TR News The syslog-ng Insider 2026-02: stats-exporter; blank filter; Kafka source https://peter.czanik.hu/other/syslog-ng-insider-2026-02-stats-exporter-blank-filter-kafka-source/ [14:14] TR Bot The syslog-ng Insider 2026-02: stats-exporter; blank filter; Kafka source | Random thoughts of Peter 'CzP' Czanik [14:15] TR News Hong Kong journalists face precarious future after Jimmy Lai jailed https://hongkongfp.com/2026/02/14/hong-kong-journalists-face-precarious-future-after-jimmy-lai-jailed/ [14:15] TR Bot Hong Kong journalists face 'precarious' future after Jimmy Lai jailed [14:16] TR News F.T.C. Chair Warns Fashion Company Apple Against Bias in Fashion Company Apple News https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/ftc-chair-bias-apple-news.html [14:16] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/ftc-chair-bias-apple-news.html ) [14:21] TR News The Director Unbound: Federal Circuit Holds NHK-Fintiv Exempt from APA Rulemaking https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/02/director-unbound-rulemaking.html [14:21] TR Bot The Director Unbound: Federal Circuit Holds NHK-Fintiv Exempt from APA Rulemaking | Patently-O [14:21] TR News Lynk Labs Resource Guide https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/02/lynk-resource-guide.html [14:21] TR Bot Lynk Labs Resource Guide | Patently-O [14:21] *Righty has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [14:23] TR News No, an illegal kangaroo court is not the standards and it is connected to EPO corruption by people who do cocaine https://www.juve-patent.com/people-and-business/oliver-schon-the-case-law-of-the-upc-and-the-german-courts-is-the-gold-standard/ [14:23] TR Bot Oliver Schn: "The case law of the UPC and the German courts is the gold standard" [14:25] TR News Christian Gmeiner: My first Vulkan extension https://christian-gmeiner.info/2026-02-13-my-first-vulkan-extension/ [14:25] TR Bot My first Vulkan extension | Christian Gmeiner [14:25] *Righty (~Username@tk3vtmwmepfek.irc) has joined #techrights [14:26] TR News Japanese-style bus driver training in Java: Japan turns to Indonesians amid worker shortage https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/japanese-style-bus-driver-training-in-java-japan-turns-to-indonesians-amid-worker-shortage [14:26] TR Bot Japanese-style bus driver training in Java: Japan turns to Indonesians amid worker shortage | The Straits Times [14:27] TR News Updates on APNIC 64 and APRICOT 2027 https://blog.apnic.net/2026/02/13/updates-on-apnic-64-and-apricot-2027/ [14:27] TR Bot Updates on APNIC 64 and APRICOT 2027 | APNIC Blog [14:27] TR News Iran Turns to Digital Surveillance Tools to Track Down Protesters https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/iran-protests-surveillance-facial-recognition.html [14:27] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/iran-protests-surveillance-facial-recognition.html ) [14:27] TR News Martin Pitt: Revisiting Surveillance Giant Google Cloud Performance for KVM-based CI https://piware.de/post/2026-02-13-google-cloud-platform-nested-virtualization-revisited/ [14:27] TR Bot Revisiting Google Cloud Performance for KVM-based CI Martin Pitt [14:29] TR News This Week in Plasma: Finalizing 6.6 https://blogs.kde.org/2026/02/14/this-week-in-plasma-finalizing-6.6/ [14:29] TR Bot This Week in Plasma: Finalizing 6.6 - KDE Blogs [14:30] TR News Tweak for run-as-user https://bkhome.org/news/202602/tweak-for-run-as-user.html [14:30] TR Bot Tweak for run-as-user [14:30] TR News PKGget thinks x11-xserver-utils not installed https://bkhome.org/news/202602/pkgget-thinks-x11-xserver-utils-not-installed.html [14:30] TR Bot PKGget thinks x11-xserver-utils not installed [14:31] TR News Ring Superbowl Ad Shows Americans How Powerful Surveillance Systems Have Become, Freaks Them Out https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/doorbell-camera-video-search [14:31] TR Bot Ring Superbowl Ad Shows Americans How Powerful Surveillance Systems Have Become, Freaks Them Out | American Civil Liberties Union [14:32] TR News FunOS 24.04.4 https://funos.org/funos-24-04-4/ [14:32] TR Bot FunOS 24.04.4 FunOS [14:32] TR News Voyager 13.3 is out https://distrowatch.com/voyager [14:32] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/voyager ) [14:35] TR News Thunderbird Blog: Mobile Progress Report: February 2026 https://blog.thunderbird.net/2026/02/mobile-progress-report-february-2026/ [14:35] TR Bot Mobile Progress Report: February 2026 - The Thunderbird Blog [14:35] TR News The Rust Programming Language Blog: crates.io: an update to the malicious crate notification policy https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/02/13/crates.io-malicious-crate-update/ [14:35] TR Bot crates.io: an update to the malicious crate notification policy | Rust Blog [14:38] TR News Dave Airlie (blogspot): drm subsystem Hey Hi (AI) patch review https://airlied.blogspot.com/2026/02/drm-subsystem-ai-patch-review.html [14:38] TR Bot drm subsystem AI patch review [14:39] TR News All These Ring Cameras Are Creating a Surveillance Nightmare, Critics Say https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ring-cameras-surveillance-privacy [14:39] TR Bot All These Ring Cameras Are Creating a "Surveillance Nightmare," Critics Say [14:39] TR News Session's Co-Founder Thinks You Don't Need to Ditch WhatsApp Completely https://itsfoss.com/news/session-co-founder-interview/ [14:39] TR Bot Session's Co-Founder Thinks You Don't Need to Ditch WhatsApp Completely [14:48] TR News Why you cant use Surveillance Giant Google Maps in S. Korea: Its not a ban, its a price tag, says ex-govt official https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/why-you-cant-use-google-maps-in-s-korea-its-not-a-ban-its-a-price-tag-says-ex-govt-official [14:48] TR Bot Why you cant use Google Maps in S. Korea: Its not a ban, its a price tag, says ex-govt official | The Straits Times [14:49] TR News Google Says People Are Copying Its Hey Hi (AI) Without Its Permission, Much Like It Scraped Everybodys Data Without Asking to Create Its Hey Hi (AI) in the First Place https://futurism.com/future-society/google-copying-ai-permission [14:49] TR Bot Google Says People Are Copying Its AI Without Its Permission, Much Like It Scraped Everybody's Data Without Asking to Create Its AI in the First Place [14:49] TR News Glacia OS New Ubuntu based Distro Features Unity Desktop https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/02/glacia-os-new-ubuntu-based-distro-unity/ [14:49] TR Bot Glacia OS New Ubuntu based Distro Features Unity Desktop | UbuntuHandbook [14:50] TR News Systemd manager tui manage systemd services https://www.linuxlinks.com/systemd-manager-tui-manage-systemd-services/ [14:50] TR Bot manager tui - manage systemd services - LinuxLinks [14:50] TR News KDE Frameworks 6.23 Improves the Open/Save Dialogs Across Plasma and KDE Apps https://9to5linux.com/kde-frameworks-6-23-improves-the-open-save-dialogs-across-plasma-and-kde-apps [14:50] TR Bot Frameworks 6.23 Improves the Open/Save Dialogs Across Plasma and KDE Apps - 9to5Linux [14:51] TR News GNOME 50 Desktop Environment Enters Public Beta Testing with More New Features https://9to5linux.com/gnome-50-desktop-environment-enters-public-beta-testing-with-more-new-features [14:51] TR Bot 50 Desktop Environment Enters Public Beta Testing with More New Features - 9to5Linux [14:51] TR News Maple 1.4 is out https://distrowatch.com/maple [14:51] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/maple ) [14:53] TR News Kicksecure 18.1.4.2 is out https://distrowatch.com/kicksecure [14:53] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/kicksecure ) [14:54] TR News FunOS 24.04.4 is also out https://distrowatch.com/funos [14:54] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/funos ) [14:54] TR News How to Install GCC on Arch GNU/Linux https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-gcc-on-arch-linux/ [14:54] TR Bot to Install GCC on Arch Linux - LinuxCapable [14:54] TR News How To Disable NetworkManager on Fedora 43 https://idroot.us/disable-networkmanager-fedora-43/ [14:54] TR Bot How To Disable NetworkManager on Fedora 43 - idroot [14:55] TR News How To Install Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Fonts on Fedora 43 https://idroot.us/install-microsoft-fonts-fedora-43/ [14:55] TR Bot How To Install Microsoft Fonts on Fedora 43 - idroot [14:56] MinceR https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2005-05-15 [14:56] TR Bot Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - 2005-05-15 [14:56] TR News Dev snapshot: Godot 4.7 dev 1 https://godotengine.org/article/dev-snapshot-godot-4-7-dev-1/ [14:56] TR Bot Dev snapshot: Godot 4.7 dev 1 Godot Engine [14:56] TR News Synex 13-u5 is out https://distrowatch.com/synex [14:56] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/synex ) [14:57] TR News Whonix 18.1.4.2 is out as well https://distrowatch.com/whonix [14:57] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/whonix ) ● Feb 14 [15:05] TR News Take Our Poll: Do You Support GNU/Linux Mints Slower Release Plan? https://fossforce.com/2026/02/take-our-poll-do-you-support-linux-mints-slower-release-plan/ [15:05] TR Bot Take Our Poll: Do You Support Linux Mints Slower Release Plan? - FOSS Force [15:06] TR News ByteDance in talks to sell gaming unit Moonton for more than $7.5 billion, sources say https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/bytedance-in-talks-to-sell-gaming-unit-moonton-for-more-than-7-5-billion-sources-say [15:06] TR Bot ByteDance in talks to sell gaming unit Moonton for more than $7.5 billion, sources say | The Straits Times [15:07] TR News "The last kernel of the 6.x series is here." https://itsfoss.com/newsletter/foss-weekly-26-07/ [15:07] TR Bot FOSS Weekly #26.07: Kernel 6.19, AI for Real Sysadmin Works, Arch Apps on Ubuntu and More Linux Stuff [15:08] TR News Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS arrives with cumulative security and bug fixes https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/02/13/ubuntu-24-04-4-lts-released-security-bug-fixes/ [15:08] TR Bot Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS arrives with cumulative security and bug fixes - Help Net Security [15:08] TR News Putting Linux on a tablet? 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Here's 7 distros to try [15:11] TR News There seems to be some embedded spam here and it seems to be slop, maybe hybrid https://www.technobezz.com/news/linux-adoption-accelerates-as-users-seek-alternatives-to-windows-11 [15:11] TR Bot adoption accelerates as users seek alternatives to Windows 11 | Technobezz [15:13] TR News 3 actually useful Linux apps to install this weekend (February 13 - 15) https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-apps-to-install-this-weekend-february-13/ [15:13] TR Bot 3 actually useful Linux apps to install this weekend (February 13 - 15) [15:13] TR News 4 systemd tools that make everyday Linux troubleshooting much easier https://www.howtogeek.com/4-systemd-tools-that-make-everyday-linux-troubleshooting-much-easier/ [15:13] TR Bot 4 systemd tools that make everyday Linux troubleshooting much easier [15:14] TR News 4 Linux commands that will make your terminal look incredible https://www.howtogeek.com/how-to-make-your-linux-terminal-look-stunning/ [15:14] TR Bot 4 Linux commands that will make your terminal look incredible [15:14] TR News "You'll need to install a program called protontricks which is available on Flathub (or via KDE Discover / GNOME Software). We need to use this to manually add the Windows registry file from each game, which is available in their installed folder." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/dino-crisis-1-and-2-arrive-on-steam-but-they-need-tweaks-to-run-on-linux-steamos/ [15:14] TR Bot Crisis 1 and 2 arrive on Steam but they need tweaks to run on Linux / SteamOS | GamingOnLinux [15:15] TR News Is Linux Finally Ready for Mainstream PC Gaming? https://respawn.outlookindia.com/gaming/gaming-originals/is-linux-finally-ready-for-mainstream-pc-gaming [15:15] TR Bot Linux vs Windows: A PC Gaming Inflection Point | Outlook Respawn [15:15] TR News Forget "tiny" distros: How I built my own minimal Linux using Debian https://www.howtogeek.com/how-i-built-my-own-tiny-linux-distro-using-debian/ [15:15] TR Bot Forget "tiny" distros: How I built my own minimal Linux using Debian [15:15] MinceR is windows ready for gaming? [15:16] TR News (NEW): GNOME 49.4 Released with Improvements for Nautilus, GNOME Shell, and Mutter https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/14/GNOME_49_4_Released_with_Improvements_for_Nautilus_GNOME_Shell_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/14/GNOME_49_4_Released_with_Improvements_for_Nautilus_GNOME_Shell_.gmi [15:16] TR Bot Tux Machines GNOME 49.4 Released with Improvements for Nautilus, GNOME Shell, and Mutter [15:16] TR News This is a weak password issue, not "Linux" or "SSH" or "IRC" https://securitybrief.co.uk/story/sshstalker-botnet-preys-on-legacy-linux-cloud-hosts [15:16] TR Bot SSHStalker botnet preys on legacy Linux & cloud hosts [15:16] schestowitz[TR2] MinceR: allagedly, as it has rootkits [15:17] MinceR rootkits are indispensable for gaming, everybody knows that [15:17] MinceR who even needs a game, just give me more rootkits! [15:17] schestowitz[TR2] if you reject root kits you are a cheater [15:17] schestowitz[TR2] and if you install something, you arew a sideloading pirate [15:17] TR News Not sure if you'll like Linux? Try it from your browser https://www.howtogeek.com/not-sure-if-youll-like-linux-try-it-from-your-browser/ [15:17] TR Bot Not sure if you'll like Linux? Try it from your browser [15:21] TR News xkcd: Bad Map Projection: Zero Declination #3207 gemini://8by3.net/~xkcd/3207.gmi [15:21] TR News "In a recent change within fish shell, the shortcut to delete last words were replaced by "delete last big chunk" (I don't know exactly how it is called in this case) which is usually the default behavior on Mac OS "command" key vs "alt" key and I guess it is why it was changed like this on fish." gemini://perso.pw/blog/articles/fish-shell-delete-behavior.gmi [15:22] TR News Revert fish shell deleting shortcuts behavior gopher://dataswamp.org:70/1/~solene/article-fish-shell-delete-behavior [15:23] TR News "I work on many small, repeatable tasks. Instead of retyping the same instructions every time, I want to turn successful prompts into reusable slash-commands and keep background knowledge in loadable context files." gemini://foo.zone/gemfeed/2026-02-14-meta-slash-commands-for-prompts-and-context.gmi [15:26] TR News (NEW): Red Hat's Blog Posts and Paid-for Puff Pieces in the Media https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/14/Red_Hat_s_Blog_Posts_and_Paid_for_Puff_Pieces_in_the_Media.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/14/Red_Hat_s_Blog_Posts_and_Paid_for_Puff_Pieces_in_the_Media.gmi [15:26] TR Bot Tux Machines Red Hat's Blog Posts and Paid-for Puff Pieces in the Media [15:28] TR News (NEW): Today's HowTos https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/14/today_s_howtos.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/14/today_s_howtos.gmi [15:28] TR Bot Tux Machines today's howtos [15:29] TR News (NEW): HowTo Geek on Linux commands, systemd tools, and "actually useful Linux apps to install this weekend" https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/14/HowTo_Geek_on_Linux_commands_systemd_tools_and_actually_useful_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/14/HowTo_Geek_on_Linux_commands_systemd_tools_and_actually_useful_.gmi [15:29] TR Bot Tux Machines HowTo Geek on Linux commands, systemd tools, and "actually useful Linux apps to install this weekend" [15:31] TR News (NEW): Games and GNU/Linux in the Mainstream: Godot 4.7 dev 1, "Is Linux Finally Ready for Mainstream PC Gaming?" and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/14/Games_and_GNU_Linux_in_the_Mainstream_Godot_4_7_dev_1_Is_Linux_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/14/Games_and_GNU_Linux_in_the_Mainstream_Godot_4_7_dev_1_Is_Linux_.gmi [15:31] TR Bot Tux Machines Games and GNU/Linux in the Mainstream: Godot 4.7 dev 1, "Is Linux Finally Ready for Mainstream PC Gaming?" and More [15:31] TR News (NEW): Linux Graphics: Development Work by Christian Gmeiner and Dave Airlie https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/14/Linux_Graphics_Development_Work_by_Christian_Gmeiner_and_Dave_A.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/14/Linux_Graphics_Development_Work_by_Christian_Gmeiner_and_Dave_A.gmi [15:31] TR Bot Tux Machines Linux Graphics: Development Work by Christian Gmeiner and Dave Airlie [15:33] TR News (NEW): Canonical/Ubuntu: FunOS 24.04.4, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/14/Canonical_Ubuntu_FunOS_24_04_4_Ubuntu_24_04_4_LTS_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/14/Canonical_Ubuntu_FunOS_24_04_4_Ubuntu_24_04_4_LTS_and_More.gmi [15:33] TR Bot Tux Machines Canonical/Ubuntu: FunOS 24.04.4, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, and More [15:33] TR News (NEW): OpenSUSE: Planet News Roundup and Tumbleweed Review of the Week https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/14/OpenSUSE_Planet_News_Roundup_and_Tumbleweed_Review_of_the_Week.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/14/OpenSUSE_Planet_News_Roundup_and_Tumbleweed_Review_of_the_Week.gmi [15:33] TR Bot Tux Machines OpenSUSE: Planet News Roundup and Tumbleweed Review of the Week [15:34] TR News (NEW): Mozilla: Promotion of Slop Plagiarism and Thunderbird's Mobile Progress Report https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/14/Mozilla_Promotion_of_Slop_Plagiarism_and_Thunderbird_s_Mobile_P.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/14/Mozilla_Promotion_of_Slop_Plagiarism_and_Thunderbird_s_Mobile_P.gmi [15:34] TR Bot Tux Machines Mozilla: Promotion of Slop Plagiarism and Thunderbird's Mobile Progress Report [15:39] TR News (NEW): Programming Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/14/Programming_Leftovers.1.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/14/Programming_Leftovers.1.gmi [15:39] TR Bot Tux Machines Programming Leftovers [15:39] TR News (NEW): Today's Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/14/today_s_leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/14/today_s_leftovers.gmi [15:39] TR Bot Tux Machines today's leftovers [15:42] TR News Techrights Gemini Links 14/02/2026: Fish Shell and Meta Slash-commands https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/14/Gemini_Links_14_02_2026_Fish_Shell_and_Meta_Slash_commands.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/14/Gemini_Links_14_02_2026_Fish_Shell_and_Meta_Slash_commands.gmi [15:42] TR Bot Techrights Gemini Links 14/02/2026: Fish Shell and Meta Slash-commands [15:47] TR News Techrights Links 14/02/2026: Financial Woes in Hong Kong and "Hong Kong Journalists Face Precarious Future After Jimmy Lai Jailed" https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/14/Links_14_02_2026_Financial_Woes_in_Hong_Kong_and_Hong_Kong_Jour.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/14/Links_14_02_2026_Financial_Woes_in_Hong_Kong_and_Hong_Kong_Jour.gmi [15:47] TR Bot Techrights Links 14/02/2026: Financial Woes in Hong Kong and "Hong Kong Journalists Face Precarious Future After Jimmy Lai Jailed" [15:51] TR News IBM now sending BILLS to people it laid off! "They want about $125 from me F@ck em. Their mistake not mine !!!!!" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khc9389d [15:51] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khc9389d ) [15:55] TR News Lexmark confirms layoffs in Lexington. Officials wont say how many people let go https://www.kentucky.com/news/business/article314692817.html [15:55] TR Bot stream 1 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2) ( status 0 @ https://www.kentucky.com/news/business/article314692817.html ) ● Feb 14 [16:04] *psydroid3 (~psydroid@36imbvshpgubk.irc) has joined #techrights [16:07] TR News Techrights Another IBM Company (Spawned by IBM) is Hiding the Scale of Layoffs, Just Like Red Hat and Kyndryl https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/14/Another_IBM_Company_Spawned_by_IBM_is_Hiding_the_Scale_of_Layof.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/14/Another_IBM_Company_Spawned_by_IBM_is_Hiding_the_Scale_of_Layof.gmi [16:07] TR Bot Techrights Another IBM Company (Spawned by IBM) is Hiding the Scale of Layoffs, Just Like Red Hat and Kyndryl [16:18] MinceR (cat) https://imgur.com/gallery/20-nice-wholesome-things-to-brighten-day-vol-181-gMysL1X [16:18] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://imgur.com/gallery/20-nice-wholesome-things-to-brighten-day-vol-181-gMysL1X ) [16:22] TR News Techrights Google Promoting Slop, Not Journalism https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/14/Google_Promoting_Slop_Not_Journalism.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/14/Google_Promoting_Slop_Not_Journalism.gmi [16:22] TR Bot Techrights Google Promoting Slop, Not Journalism [16:34] TR News (NEW): ChromeOS and GNU/Linux Reach 5% in El Salvador https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/14/ChromeOS_and_GNU_Linux_Reach_5_in_El_Salvador.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/14/ChromeOS_and_GNU_Linux_Reach_5_in_El_Salvador.gmi [16:34] TR Bot Tux Machines ChromeOS and GNU/Linux Reach 5% in El Salvador [16:41] TR News SEZ. But is that TRUE? https://www.moneycontrol.com/europe/?url=https://www.moneycontrol.com/technology/meta-says-no-repeat-of-last-year-s-low-performer-job-cuts-article-13828275.html [16:41] TR Bot Meta says no repeat of last years low performer job cuts [16:59] TR News Techrights Microsoft Invented a Slop CEO ("AI CEO") Because Real Interest in Slop is Waning, So It's Just Faking Its Prominence https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/14/Microsoft_Invented_a_Slop_CEO_AI_CEO_Because_Real_Interest_in_S.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/14/Microsoft_Invented_a_Slop_CEO_AI_CEO_Because_Real_Interest_in_S.gmi [16:59] TR Bot Techrights Microsoft Invented a Slop CEO ("AI CEO") Because Real Interest in Slop is Waning, So It's Just Faking Its Prominence ● Feb 14 [17:17] TR News Techrights Accomplishments of Our Community https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/14/Accomplishments_of_Our_Community.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/14/Accomplishments_of_Our_Community.gmi [17:17] TR Bot Techrights Accomplishments of Our Community [17:32] schestowitz[TR2] psydroid2: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/videos/c8xypwr02jyo [17:32] TR Bot FA Cup highlights: Manchester City 2-0 Salford City - BBC Sport [17:37] MinceR https://explosm.net/comics/kill-the-werewolf#comic [17:37] TR Bot & Happiness (Explosm.net) [17:43] TR News (NEW): REMnux 8 Linux Toolkit for Malware Analysis Is Out to Celebrate 15th Anniversary https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/14/REMnux_8_Linux_Toolkit_for_Malware_Analysis_Is_Out_to_Celebrate.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/14/REMnux_8_Linux_Toolkit_for_Malware_Analysis_Is_Out_to_Celebrate.gmi [17:43] TR Bot Tux Machines REMnux 8 Linux Toolkit for Malware Analysis Is Out to Celebrate 15th Anniversary [17:47] TR News Techrights Norway Curbs Social Control Media as It Harms Norway's Society https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/14/Norway_Curbs_Social_Control_Media_as_It_Harms_Norway_s_Society.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/14/Norway_Curbs_Social_Control_Media_as_It_Harms_Norway_s_Society.gmi [17:47] TR Bot Techrights Norway Curbs Social Control Media as It Harms Norway's Society [17:57] TR News Techrights Photographic Collections https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/14/Photographic_Collections.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/14/Photographic_Collections.gmi [17:57] TR Bot Techrights Photographic Collections ● Feb 14 [18:07] TR News Techrights Will Lockett's Newsletter: Microsoft became Microslop and Windows users are "flocking" to GNU/Linux "to escape the mess" https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/14/Will_Lockett_s_Newsletter_Microsoft_became_Microslop_and_Window.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/14/Will_Lockett_s_Newsletter_Microsoft_became_Microslop_and_Window.gmi [18:07] TR Bot Techrights Will Lockett's Newsletter: Microsoft became Microslop and Windows users are "flocking" to GNU/Linux "to escape the mess" [18:09] TR News At IBM: "They layoff train never stops. It just offloads at different times. All aboard! For the layoff express. Fasten your seat belt. It will be the same bumpy ride as it has always been." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khcfn7v1 [18:09] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khcfn7v1 ) [18:09] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kha4h3ef [18:09] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kha4h3ef ) [18:09] schestowitz[TR2] "". . .on the AI fluency of younger workers. . ." [18:09] schestowitz[TR2] Guess it's the new "digital nomad".' [18:09] schestowitz[TR2] AI fluency, LOL! [18:09] schestowitz[TR2] I know how to use a chatbot [18:09] schestowitz[TR2] so I am "fluent" [18:10] schestowitz[TR2] usually it's the opp. [18:10] schestowitz[TR2] people who use chatbot for things have language issues [18:10] schestowitz[TR2] linguistic weaknesses [18:10] MinceR "i'm fluent in javascript as well as klingon" [18:19] TR News Techrights Microsoft is Lobbying Brussels via Opensource.org and OSI https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/14/Microsoft_is_Lobbying_Brussels_via_Opensource_org_and_OSI.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/14/Microsoft_is_Lobbying_Brussels_via_Opensource_org_and_OSI.gmi [18:19] TR Bot Techrights Microsoft is Lobbying Brussels via Opensource.org and OSI [18:25] MinceR https://i.4cdn.org/g/1771062149649769.png [18:34] TR News Techrights xAI and X (Twitter) Live on Borrowed Time, It'll Get a Lot Worse Fast https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/14/xAI_and_X_Twitter_Live_on_Borrowed_Time_It_ll_Get_a_Lot_Worse_F.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/14/xAI_and_X_Twitter_Live_on_Borrowed_Time_It_ll_Get_a_Lot_Worse_F.gmi [18:34] TR Bot Techrights xAI and X (Twitter) Live on Borrowed Time, It'll Get a Lot Worse Fast [18:47] schestowitz[TR2] what was klingon implemented in anyway? [18:50] MinceR i think originally it was just a bunch of words invented for Star Trek ● Feb 14 [19:03] schestowitz[TR2] yees [19:03] schestowitz[TR2] then some weird fans turned it into a cult [19:09] TR News Techrights Maybe Obvious, But Merits Repeating: A Lot of "Demand" for Slop is Faked, Manufactured, Fabricated by Dark Patterns, Bundling, Media PR (Deception/Hype) Campaigns https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/14/Maybe_Obvious_But_Merits_Repeating_A_Lot_of_Demand_for_Slop_is_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/14/Maybe_Obvious_But_Merits_Repeating_A_Lot_of_Demand_for_Slop_is_.gmi [19:09] TR Bot Techrights Maybe Obvious, But Merits Repeating: A Lot of "Demand" for Slop is Faked, Manufactured, Fabricated by Dark Patterns, Bundling, Media PR (Deception/Hype) Campaigns [19:09] admfubar https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/13/ai_memory_router_prices/ [19:09] TR Bot AI memory crunch hits broadband rollouts The Register [19:09] TR News it's coming https://www.teamblind.com/company/Microsoft/posts/microsoft-layoffs?sort=recent [19:09] TR Bot Microsoft Layoffs Discussions - Blind [19:13] MinceR https://explosm.net/comics/positive-people#comic [19:13] TR Bot & Happiness (Explosm.net) [19:13] TR News "I've succeeded fairly well with cutting down how much time I waste writing posts for here, though it still seems like I never get things done." gopher://aussies.space:70/0/~freet/phlog/2026-02-14Female_Interests.txt [19:14] TR News "I haven't been on IRC for ages, I think the last time was about November last year, something that brings the risk of loosing the connection with the outside world." gopher://box.matto.nl/0/already-midway-february.txt [19:24] TR News Techrights Libel by Bots: Unexplored Legal Area? https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/14/Libel_by_Bots_Unexplored_Legal_Area.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/14/Libel_by_Bots_Unexplored_Legal_Area.gmi [19:24] TR Bot Techrights Libel by Bots: Unexplored Legal Area? [19:33] TR News (NEW): GUADEC Plans and GNOME 50 Beta https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/13/GUADEC_Plans_and_GNOME_50_Beta.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/13/GUADEC_Plans_and_GNOME_50_Beta.gmi [19:33] TR News (NEW): Vim 9.2 Is Out with Comprehensive Completion, Wayland Support, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/14/Vim_9_2_Is_Out_with_Comprehensive_Completion_Wayland_Support_an.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/14/Vim_9_2_Is_Out_with_Comprehensive_Completion_Wayland_Support_an.gmi [19:33] TR Bot Tux Machines GUADEC Plans and GNOME 50 Beta [19:33] TR Bot Tux Machines Vim 9.2 Is Out with Comprehensive Completion, Wayland Support, and More [19:35] TR News Anon: appeasement only leads to more censorship / violence [19:37] TR News Techrights Microsoft's Bing Down to 0.5% in Armenia https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/14/Microsoft_s_Bing_Down_to_0_5_in_Armenia.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/14/Microsoft_s_Bing_Down_to_0_5_in_Armenia.gmi [19:37] TR Bot Techrights Microsoft's Bing Down to 0.5% in Armenia ● Feb 14 [20:15] *IsambardPrince (~isambardprince@8xntp9i7yykq8.irc) has joined #techrights [20:38] *croissant has quit (Quit: Leaving) [20:59] *croissant (~croissant@yf8bqngk29h22.irc) has joined #techrights ● Feb 14 [21:07] IsambardPrince Might go to Popeye's. They have an AARP coupon. [21:08] IsambardPrince I'm getting all these senior citizen discounts now. [21:08] IsambardPrince Most places just need you to show an AARP card, and you don't have to be old to get an AARP card. [21:09] IsambardPrince MinceR, I noticed one of those massage places at an Asian grocery store in Niles. But it's a machine. They only charged $10 to use the machine for 40 minutes. [21:09] IsambardPrince Felt some cavitation in my spine while it was working on me. [21:09] IsambardPrince Pain from the pinched nerve went away for about a day. It's back now but not as bad. [21:10] IsambardPrince I'll go back there this week. [21:10] IsambardPrince Those places where a person works on your back are like $90-100. [21:24] MinceR (cat) https://imgur.com/gallery/february-5-345oEbI [21:24] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://imgur.com/gallery/february-5-345oEbI ) [21:51] *darwin has quit (Quit: peace be with you) [21:59] *psydroid3 has quit (Quit: KVIrc 5.2.6 Quasar http://www.kvirc.net/) ● Feb 14 [22:00] *darwin (~darwin@ezriia7nzimpg.irc) has joined #techrights [22:38] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2], I was talking to my mother about Disney being expensive. She said it was pretty expensive in the 90s when we went. [22:38] IsambardPrince I said, sure, but it wasn't exorbitant like it is now. [22:39] IsambardPrince It can cost over $300 a day just to get tickets to the park and that doesn't even include the price of food once you're in there, or where you will stay. They want you inside their resorts paying outrageous prices for everything wherever you go [22:39] IsambardPrince It's not even just the park. [22:40] IsambardPrince I remember my aunt would go there two or three times a year in the 90s and 2000s and she'd fly everyone down there, including my grandmother, so she could either ruin the trip or spend the day watching televangelists in a resort instead of at home. [22:41] IsambardPrince And my aunt didn't have the money. One time she sold her car to pay for the trip then when she got back, she didn't have a car and she kept having to rent the van that they used during the trip so she could get to work at the hospital. [22:41] IsambardPrince One time, she had no money for a license plate sticker and she got pulled over by a cop and he said "I'll let you go this one time but get it taken care of." [22:42] IsambardPrince And she was so afraid he'd see her again that she "borrowed" a license plate off of my mom's extra car that they weren't driving much. [22:42] IsambardPrince Mom had to tell her "If anyone catches you I didn't know you took my license plate." [22:56] IsambardPrince MinceR, I'm still laughing when I think about Priceline's chat robot. [22:56] IsambardPrince It said I should go on a date to the Holocaust Museum. [22:56] IsambardPrince I said, "Charming." [22:56] MinceR :> [22:57] IsambardPrince https://www.npr.org/2026/02/14/nx-s1-5704189/dr-oz-ai-avatars-replace-rural-health-workers [22:57] TR Bot Dr. Oz wants AI avatars to replace rural health workers. Critics are wary : NPR [22:58] IsambardPrince Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Secretary of Medicare and Medicaid, says that it's not a problem that rural people like you are facing crisis levels of healthcare provider shortages. [22:58] IsambardPrince Because you will be able to speak to a chat robot eventually, I guess. [22:58] IsambardPrince Trump appointed him and then we have the Health Secretary that was snorting cocaine off toilet seats, according to himself. RFK Jr. [22:58] IsambardPrince MinceR, ^ [22:58] IsambardPrince Sent that to mom,.' [22:59] MinceR :> ● Feb 14 [23:01] IsambardPrince MinceR, Violence is the supreme authority, from which all other authority is derived. [23:01] IsambardPrince Reminds me, it's time to vote. [23:01] IsambardPrince B-) [23:01] MinceR lol [23:01] IsambardPrince MinceR, We both voted to replace our Congressman with a "Democratic Socialist" that's trying to primary him. [23:01] MinceR it's time to vote from the console of a network of thermonuclear ICBM launchers [23:02] IsambardPrince Yeah, you're always saying glass Russia. [23:02] IsambardPrince Or Glassednost I suppose [23:02] MinceR :> [23:06] IsambardPrince MinceR, Someone on FICO Forums complained that Synchrony lowered their credit limit from $25,000 to $1,500 on their PayPal MasterCard. [23:07] IsambardPrince I told them Synchrony is known for high interest rates, generous initial credit lines, and aggressive credit line decreases if you're not using their card much. [23:07] IsambardPrince Giving you $25,000 and taking all but $1,500 of it for inactivity is pretty typical. [23:15] IsambardPrince "The AI proposal is part of the Trump administration's $50 billion plan to modernize health care in rural communities. That includes deploying tools such as digital avatars to conduct basic medical interviews, robotic systems for remote diagnostics, and drones to deliver medication where pharmacies don't exist." [23:15] IsambardPrince MinceR, Medicine by drones. [23:15] IsambardPrince AI chatbots to diagnose you. [23:15] IsambardPrince 5x as many people seeing the same doctor. [23:16] MinceR medicine by hunter-killer [23:16] MinceR dead people aren't sick anymore! [23:16] IsambardPrince ""We can use robots to do ultrasounds on pregnant women," Oz said. "You take a wand, you don't even see the imageyou just get digitized insights that tell you whether the child's OK. And frankly, I don't have to see the image. I just have to know if the image is good enough to tell me the child doesn't have a problem."" [23:16] IsambardPrince MinceR, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHKxoARmjLU [23:16] TR Bot https://inv.perditum.com/watch?v=DHKxoARmjLU [23:16] TR Bot ( status 404 @ https://inv.perditum.com/watch?v=DHKxoARmjLU ) [23:16] MinceR lol @ you don't even see the image [23:21] IsambardPrince MinceR, You don't even see the image. [23:21] IsambardPrince Machine says "We good." [23:21] IsambardPrince $99.99 Holding Your Baby Fee on the hospital bill [23:21] IsambardPrince The Future [23:23] IsambardPrince "Ma'am, would you like to hold the baby? Tap your iPhone here. $149.97." [23:23] IsambardPrince MinceR, You get 2% back on the Apple Card. [23:23] IsambardPrince It's for the points. [23:24] MinceR lol [23:24] IsambardPrince It's the Titanium card with laser etching. They recommend not putting it in your wallet as it does not play nice with other cards. It gets scratched up. [23:25] IsambardPrince Also, you will need a microfiber cloth and eyeglass cleaning solution. Fingerprints. You know. [23:25] MinceR lol [23:25] IsambardPrince Now you might ask "Wow, 2% just for me?" [23:25] IsambardPrince That's right. But if you use the actual card, it's 1%. [23:26] IsambardPrince You have to tap to get 2%. [23:26] IsambardPrince You can use other 2% cards either way and you get 2%. [23:26] IsambardPrince But you only get 1% if you use the actual card with the Apple Card. [23:29] MinceR presumably, NSO Group can also 'tap' and get 2% for you [23:29] IsambardPrince MinceR, I don't know why people are tapping with cell phones to pay for things. [23:29] IsambardPrince What's wrong with a card? [23:29] MinceR because they have no clue about IT security [23:29] IsambardPrince They all have chips now. You can tap the card. [23:30] MinceR that's also why people trust all these bloated shitfests with security [23:30] MinceR like microslop gets a free pass because they have all those alleged 'security features' [23:30] IsambardPrince MinceR, The only time I've ever used my phone to pay was when Discover said add the Discover card to Google Pay and you get 5% everywhere this quarter. [23:30] MinceR even if most of them aren't even aimed at improving security, but at locking you out of your own property and/or backing DRM [23:31] IsambardPrince Or when AmEx hit all five of our cards with "Add this card to Google Pay and tap three times and we give you an extra $10." [23:31] IsambardPrince I mean if they pay me more to do it that way sure. [23:31] MinceR i've never used my phone to pay [23:31] IsambardPrince I almost never do it. [23:31] IsambardPrince If Google Wallet is the 5% on Discover I might. [23:31] IsambardPrince That's also really one of the few reasons to use Discover, ever. [23:32] IsambardPrince The catch all rate is only 1%, and the 5% category changes every 3 months and has to be activated. [23:32] IsambardPrince And half the time it's something you don't even use. [23:32] IsambardPrince Or can't! [23:32] IsambardPrince This quarter it's warehouse clubs. [23:32] IsambardPrince But CostCo only takes Visa cards. [23:32] IsambardPrince So that leaves Sam's Club maybe. [23:33] IsambardPrince MinceR, Most hospitals whose patients are on Medicaid because they're poor will fail. [23:33] IsambardPrince The "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" cut $1 trillion out of Medicaid over ten years. [23:34] IsambardPrince The program still technically exists, but everyone under 65 will have to prove to the government's satisfaction that they're working 80 hours a month or are disabled. [23:35] IsambardPrince My brother who voted for Trump, and lives with my mom who also voted for Trump, will be declared Able-Bodied next year and have no healthcare. [23:36] MinceR great success [23:36] IsambardPrince Remains to be seen whether she goes back to wasting money on "Christian Healthsharing Ministries" which are infamous for being frauds that don't pay any of your major claims, sometimes not even a flu shot. [23:36] IsambardPrince There was this one case where a man came running out from a bar as a woman was walking down the street across from the bar. [23:37] IsambardPrince He held her down and raped her and beat her up and sent her to the hospital. [23:37] IsambardPrince She wasn't even going to the bar. [23:37] IsambardPrince She submitted the claim and she got back a letter from the Christian Healthshare people that "Christians don't go near bars so we are denying your claim." [23:38] IsambardPrince That was $600 a month well spent. Usually by the time people file a major claim and realize it doesn't pay, they've been making these payments for years and they just lose everything. [23:39] IsambardPrince If it was insurance, they wouldn't do this, and if they deny a claim, you appeal and/or file a lawsuit and eventually they pay. [23:39] IsambardPrince But you put "Christian" on it and they just do whatever the hell they want. [23:40] MinceR :> [23:40] IsambardPrince They work their way through all the churches and get people signing up even despite what they did to the others, and they file defamation lawsuits if you got cheated and go public. [23:40] MinceR christian fundamentalism at work! [23:41] IsambardPrince If you get HIV, you get back a letter saying that Christians don't get HIV so they aren't paying. [23:41] MinceR lol [23:41] IsambardPrince You get lung cancer, Christians don't smoke. Sorry. [23:42] MinceR they should have consulted this piece of shit before he kicked the bucket >> https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A1sler_Mikl%C3%B3s [23:42] TR Bot Ksler Mikls Wikipdia [23:42] MinceR this vaguely human-shaped trash pile said that if you obey the 10 commandments, you won't get sick [23:42] IsambardPrince You're actually better off with nothing at all vs. Christian Healthshare Ministries, and I think Dave Ramsey is even pushing them because they're a sponsor. [23:43] IsambardPrince MinceR, I decided to test out "Ramsey Trusted" which are supposedly good places to do business with because they pay Dave Ramsey. [23:44] IsambardPrince I had a Ramsey Trusted insurance broker run my car insurance and the guy got back with me and said "You should keep Progressive because nothing we have can beat them." [23:44] MinceR "If you think this has a happy ending, you haven't been paying attention." [23:44] IsambardPrince Well, I mean if it's a real insurance company that pays its claims and is registered with the Department of Insurance, sure go ask them about my car. [23:45] IsambardPrince If they're going to save me money I'll think about it. [23:46] IsambardPrince But you know, that went about as well as my mother's insurance rate. I was paying $500 a six month term for a BRAND NEW CAR, and they got back with me saying the best they could do was $1600, and I was like "What companies are you shopping? Did you point out that I have an 806 FICO score?" [23:46] IsambardPrince Her agent, I mean. [23:47] IsambardPrince With a FICO insurance score over 800 you should be able to do a lot better than $1600 a term on a Kia Soul. [23:49] IsambardPrince https://www.newsweek.com/car-insurance-driving-change-campaign-illinois-2124406 [23:49] TR Bot ( status 406 @ https://www.newsweek.com/car-insurance-driving-change-campaign-illinois-2124406 ) [23:49] IsambardPrince Illinois is trying to pass car insurance reform. [23:49] IsambardPrince It gets rid of most ways they rip people off, especially if they're male, have bad credit, and live in the "wrong ZIP code". [23:51] IsambardPrince I've noticed that since they started talking about this, some companies have changed their underwriting for people like me, and my rates actually are coming down. [23:51] IsambardPrince Because they want to take the pressure off before the law forces them. [23:52] IsambardPrince Donald Trump's affordability crisis is killing people in the bottom 20%. Literally KILLING people. [23:52] IsambardPrince Can't afford to eat, can't afford rent, can't afford healthcare, can't afford their car. Can't afford anything. [23:52] MinceR probably most of them voted for him anyway [23:53] IsambardPrince Well, it's a jobs crisis with a hyperinflation crisis. [23:53] IsambardPrince Wages stopped going up and companies started laying off more than they hire since about 3 months into this Trump administration, around the time the tariffs happened. [23:54] IsambardPrince Affordability has gotten so bad with everything else that landlords have actually, according to the Fed anyway, stopped raising rents. [23:54] IsambardPrince Because they're evicting too many people who can't afford to pay anything anymore. [23:56] IsambardPrince "Reality check: Drivers will move one block and see their insurance jump sometimes 30%, the secretary said, and his office has heard from people who register their cars at a family member's address in a ZIP code with a better rate." [23:57] IsambardPrince It's not just car insurance. You register your car one county over, there's no smog inspection. [23:57] IsambardPrince If you register your car that won't pass over there you can just keep driving it forever.