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HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-151225.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-151225.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techbytes-151225.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techbytes-151225.txt [02:49] TR Bot IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Monday, December 15, 2025 [02:49] TR News Yesterday's bulletin is now ready! : http://techrights.org/txt-archives/techrights-2025-12-15.txt | gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/techrights-2025-12-15.txt (tentative address, to work an hour from now) [02:50] TR News Yesterday's Tux Machines bulletin is now ready! : http://news.tuxmachines.org/txt-archives/tuxmachines-2025-12-15.txt ● Dec 16 [03:01] *lxo has quit (Quit: later) [03:07] *_what__ has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [03:15] *lxo (~lxo@ejtt6wjxgf2mc.irc) has joined #techrights [03:26] *SomeGoat has quit (connection closed) [03:32] *libredev has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [03:40] TR News Techrights Welcome to the New Techrights https://techrights.org/ | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/ [03:40] TR News Techrights IRC Proceedings: Monday, December 15, 2025 https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/16/IRC_Proceedings_Monday_December_15_2025.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/16/IRC_Proceedings_Monday_December_15_2025.gmi [03:40] TR Bot Techrights Welcome to the New Techrights [03:40] TR Bot Techrights IRC Proceedings: Monday, December 15, 2025 [03:41] TR News (NEW): Kernel Space / File Systems: General Purpose Interface Bus, Ceph, and eBPF https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/15/Kernel_Space_File_Systems_General_Purpose_Interface_Bus_Ceph_an.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/15/Kernel_Space_File_Systems_General_Purpose_Interface_Bus_Ceph_an.gmi [03:41] TR Bot Tux Machines Kernel Space / File Systems: General Purpose Interface Bus, Ceph, and eBPF [03:41] TR News (NEW): Review: OpenBSD 7.8 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/15/Review_OpenBSD_7_8.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/15/Review_OpenBSD_7_8.gmi [03:41] TR Bot Tux Machines Review: OpenBSD 7.8 [03:41] TR News (NEW): Today in Techrights https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/16/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/16/Today_in_Techrights.gmi [03:41] TR Bot Tux Machines Today in Techrights [03:43] TR News "Proposed amendments to the country's laws on copyright and broadcasting would see VPNs limited for common uses under changes to combat access to illegal streaming services." https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/15/denmark_vpn_ban/ | Source: The Register UK [03:43] TR Bot Denmark takes a Viking swing at VPN-enabled piracy The Register [03:43] TR News "As we look back on 2025, its clear that the internet as we know it is changing. Technology-enabled access to knowledge should be flourishing." https://creativecommons.org/2025/12/15/cc-signals-what-weve-been-working-on/ | Source: Creative Commons [03:43] TR Bot CC Signals: What We've Been Working On - Creative Commons [03:43] TR News "The technology has been endorsed by some 1,500 media organisations around the world including People Inc, Yahoo! and Associated Press." https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/digital-journalism/major-publishers-back-universal-ai-licensing-technology/ | Source: Press Gazette [03:43] TR Bot Major publishers back universal AI licensing technology - Press Gazette [03:43] TR News Software Patents https://torrentfreak.com/hollywood-warns-extortionary-codec-patent-fees-could-hike-streaming-subscription-prices/ | Source: Torrent Freak [03:43] TR Bot Warns: Extortionary Codec Patent Fees Could Hike Streaming Subscription Prices * TorrentFreak [03:43] TR News Techrights Over at Tux Machines... https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/16/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/16/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi [03:43] TR Bot Techrights Over at Tux Machines... [03:46] TR News "So I guess I have mixed feelings about the news that they are going away. Then again, I tend to have mixed feelings about most things." https://explodingcomma.com/posts/so-long-mass-market-paperbacks | Source: Pete Brown [03:46] TR Bot So long, mass market paperbacks - Exploding Comma [03:46] TR News "The decision made this winter by ReaderLink to stop distributing mass market paperback books at the end of 2025 was the latest blow to a format that has seen its popularity decline for years." https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/99293-last-call-for-mass-market-paperbacks.html | Source: Publishers Weekly [03:46] TR Bot NO TITLE [03:46] TR News "The text of a recent government bill said it would ban the use of VPNs in Denmark to access media content which would otherwise not be available in Denmark" https://www.thelocal.dk/20251215/denmark-drops-plan-to-restrict-use-of-vpns | Source: The Local DK [03:46] TR Bot Denmark drops plan to restrict use of VPNs [03:47] TR News "In its 2025 Year in Review, Cloudflare notes that [Internet] traffic worldwide grew by almost a fifth, with the increases coming in fits and starts." https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/15/cloudflare_report_bot_traffic/ | Source: The Register UK [03:47] TR Bot Cloudflare report shows mobile, bot traffic growing The Register [03:47] TR News "Unions are not perfect. Indeed, it is possible to belong to a union that is bad for workers: either because it is weak, or corrupt, or captured (or some combination of the three)." https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/15/class-war-labor-peace/#workplace-democracy | Source: CoryDoctorow [03:47] TR Bot Pluralistic: Break up bad companies; replace bad union bosses (15 Dec 2025) Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow [03:47] TR News "Valorie Moser was the one who picked me up and drove me to the hotel where I was trafficked" https://www.404media.co/valorie-moser-girls-do-porn-sentence/ | Source: 404 Media [03:47] TR Bot Woman Who Helped Coerce Victims into GirlsDoPorn Sex Trafficking Ring Sentenced to Prison [03:47] TR News "Cities stopped building not by accident but by design. Our housing system is constructed on scarcity, speculation, and private veto power." https://jacobin.com/2025/12/america-cant-build-homes-anymore/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine [03:47] TR Bot America Cant Build Homes Anymore [03:47] TR News "The provision stems from Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination in education, housing, health care and transportation." https://arkansasadvocate.com/2025/12/15/justice-dept-action-leaves-feds-without-key-tool-to-prove-bias-in-schools/ | Source: Arkansas Advocate [03:47] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://arkansasadvocate.com/2025/12/15/justice-dept-action-leaves-feds-without-key-tool-to-prove-bias-in-schools/ ) [03:48] TR News "First, theres an antitrust issue. In an earlier era, when the U.S. government took monopoly power seriously, both proposed acquisitions would probably have been blocked by regulators." https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/maga-the-broligarchs-and-the-media | Source: Paul Krugman [03:48] TR Bot MAGA, the Broligarchs and the Media - Paul Krugman [03:48] TR News "We are relieved that journalist Maryna Zolatava is finally free, but she shouldnt have spent a second in jail" https://cpj.org/2025/12/belarusian-journalist-maryna-zolatava-released-after-serving-over-4-years-in-prison/ | Source: CPJ [03:48] TR Bot Belarusian journalist Maryna Zolatava released after serving over 4 years in prison - Committee to Protect Journalists [03:48] TR News "The lawsuit was filed Monday by Trumps lawyers in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida in Miami, alleging defamation and violation of Floridas Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act" https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/trump-sues-bbc-10-billion-damages-edited-jan-6-panorama-documentary-1236609532/ | Source: Variety [03:48] TR Bot Trump Sues BBC Over Edited Jan. 6 Documentary, Seeking $10B in Damages [03:49] *_what__ (~whatA_@sambgdmsawkyw.irc) has joined #techrights [03:49] TR News "A firestorm erupted over the edited clip in early November, leading the BBC director-general and the organization's top news executive to resign." https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/trump-says-he-will-file-lawsuit-against-bbc-today-9822365#publisher=newsstand | Source: NDTV [03:49] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/trump-says-he-will-file-lawsuit-against-bbc-today-9822365#publisher=newsstand ) [03:49] TR News "The documentary drew scrutiny after the leak of a BBC memo by an external standards adviser that raised concerns about how it was edited, part of a wider investigation of political bias at the publicly funded broadcaster." https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20251216-trump-sues-bbc-edited-us-capitol-speech | Source: France24 [03:49] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20251216-trump-sues-bbc-edited-us-capitol-speech ) [03:49] TR News "tried under 'foreign agent' article" https://www.thebarentsobserver.com/democracy-and-media/barents-observer-journalist-olesia-krivtsova-to-be-tried-under-foreign-agent-article/442207 | Source: The Barents Observer [03:49] TR Bot Barents Observer journalist Olesia Krivtsova to be tried under 'foreign agent' article [03:50] TR News "In a complaint filed on Monday evening, Trump sought $5bn in damages each on two counts: alleging that the BBC defamed him, and that violated Floridas Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act." https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/15/trump-bbc-lawsuit | Source: The Guardian UK [03:50] TR Bot Donald Trump sues BBC for up to $10bn over edit of January 6 speech | Donald Trump | The Guardian [03:50] TR News [Old] "On March 1, 1990, the United States Secret Service (USSS) nearly destroyed Steve Jackson Games (SJG), an award-winning publisher of roleplaying games in Austin, Texas." https://www.eff.org/effector/13/2 | Source: EFF [03:50] TR Bot 10th Anniversary of USSS Raid on Steve Jackson Games & Illuminati BBS | Electronic Frontier Foundation [03:50] TR News [Old] "We are not here merely because we are angry, but also because we are grieving over the imminent death of academic freedom at CMU." https://www.sjgames.com/SS/godwin-CMU.html | [03:50] TR Bot Mike Godwin's Anti-Censorship Speech at CMU [03:50] TR News "Admittedly, that was worse than the new one. It said anyone using the phrases Muslim grooming gangs and Asian grooming gangs was an Islamophobe." https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12/15/labour-watered-down-islamophobia-definition-still-bad/ | Source: The Telegraph UK [03:50] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12/15/labour-watered-down-islamophobia-definition-still-bad/ ) [03:51] TR News "The briefing highlights how, in the months since the OSA came into effect, we have seen the legislation: [...]" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/eff-open-rights-group-big-brother-watch-and-index-censorship-call-uk-government | Source: EFF [03:51] TR Bot EFF, Open Rights Group, Big Brother Watch, and Index on Censorship Call on UK Government to Repeal Online Safety Act | Electronic Frontier Foundation [03:51] TR News "As home sales continue to plummet, Beijing has curbed independent reporting of real estate figures." https://www.dw.com/en/why-chinas-property-crash-must-be-kept-top-secret/a-75074157 | Source: Deutsche Welle [03:51] TR Bot China's property crash must be kept top secret DW 12/15/2025 [03:51] TR News "Mohammadi, who won the 2023 Nobel prize, was detained Friday after addressing a memorial ceremony in the eastern city of Mashhad for lawyer Khosrow Alikordi, who was found dead earlier this month." https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/iran-nobel-winner-unwell-after-violent-arrest-supporters-1080679454 | Source: RTL [03:51] TR Bot "Attacked by plain clothed agents": Iran Nobel winner unwell after 'violent' arrest: supporters [03:52] TR News "Eleven other Russian nationals were sanctioned for their alleged roles in Kremlin-aligned media platforms, think tanks or a GRU-linked cyber unit accused of attacks on European targets." https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/12/15/eu-sanctions-target-russias-shadow-fleet-backers-and-disinformation-network-a91447 | Source: The Moscow Times [03:52] TR Bot EU Sanctions Target Russias Shadow Fleet Backers and Disinformation Network - The Moscow Times [03:52] TR News "After the Bondi Beach shooting in Sydney, false claims and AI-generated content are spreading online. DW debunks viral misinformation about the attack." https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-fake-news-spreads-after-bondi-beach-shooting/a-75165552 | Source: Deutsche Welle [03:52] TR Bot check: Fake news spreads after Bondi Beach shooting DW 12/15/2025 [03:54] *GNUmoon2 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [03:54] TR News "Those deals had one thing in common: They allowed companies that make massive quarterly profits to reduce their financial exposure to the frenetic, global buildup of data centers." https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/technology/ai-risks-debt.html | Source: New York Times [03:54] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/technology/ai-risks-debt.html ) [03:54] TR News "The company says operations, products and customer support will continue without disruption." https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/roomba-maker-irobot-files-for-bankruptcy-to-go-private-after-buyout/articleshow/125969210.cms | Source: India Times [03:54] TR Bot Roomba maker iRobot files for bankruptcy, to go private after buyout - The Economic Times [03:55] TR News "Oh, Ill sort security, hotels, lawyer, flights, everything.[She] charged me 75,000 ($150,000) she has taken a big chunk of the money and then has reported me to the police, so thanks." https://www.hindustantimes.com/trending/us/only-fans-star-bonnie-blue-breaks-silence-over-bali-arrest-10-year-ban-from-country-im-rich-and-101765808315084.html | Source: Hindustan Times [03:55] TR Bot Only Fans star Bonnie Blue breaks silence over Bali arrest, 10-year ban from country: I'm rich and | Hindustan Times [03:55] TR News "Functions in binary files need to have unique names, so Rust needs to decide what to call its functions and statics. This format needs to be standardized so that debuggers and profilers can recover the full names (e.g. alloc::vec::Vec instead of just Vec)." https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/rusts-v0-mangling-scheme-in-a-nutshell/ | Source: Alisa Sireneva [03:55] TR Bot Rust's v0 mangling scheme in a nutshell | purplesyringa's blog [03:55] TR News "OpenAIs chief communications officer, Hannah Wong, announced internally on Monday that she is leaving the company in January, WIRED has learned." https://www.wired.com/story/openai-chief-communications-officer-hannah-wong-leaves/ | Source: Wired [03:55] TR Bot Chief Communications Officer Is Leaving the Company | WIRED [03:55] *GNUmoon has quit (Ping timeout: 252 seconds) [03:56] TR News "it often turns out that Scam Altman was, if not the first to articulate it, at least the most persuasive and influential voice behind it." https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/15/1129169/a-brief-history-of-sam-altmans-hype/ | Source: MIT Technology Review [03:56] TR Bot A brief history of Sam Altmans hype | MIT Technology Review [03:56] TR News "Former Palantir CIO Jim Siders has departed the company to join Shield Technology Partners as CEO, in a bid he says is meant to bring AI to bear in the sprawling managed services landscape." https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/16/shield_technology_partners_nabs_palantir/ | Source: The Register UK [03:56] TR Bot The Palantir-ization of IT services is upon us The Register [03:56] TR News "It was 10 days before Christmas in 2021, and Representative Nancy Pelosi, then the speaker of the House, was asked at her weekly news conference about an issue to which she had not given much thought." https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/us/politics/pelosi-stock-trading-ban.html | Source: New York Times [03:56] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/us/politics/pelosi-stock-trading-ban.html ) [03:57] TR News "Prior to this, Facebook, Instagram, Signal, Viber, Google Meet and several more services were also blocked." https://www.thebarentsobserver.com/news/banned-and-blocked-russia-says-goodbye-to-messaging-apps/441875 | Source: The Barents Observer [03:57] TR Bot Banned and blocked. Russia says good-bye to messaging apps [03:58] TR News "Ford Motor Co. will lay off about 1,500 workers in Kentucky as it converts a ballyhooed plant in Hardin County from making batteries for electric vehicles to making batteries..." https://kentuckylantern.com/2025/12/15/ford-to-convert-ky-battery-plant-for-energy-storage-business-reportedly-laying-off-1500-workers/ | Source: Kentucky Lantern [03:58] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://kentuckylantern.com/2025/12/15/ford-to-convert-ky-battery-plant-for-energy-storage-business-reportedly-laying-off-1500-workers/ ) [03:58] TR News "Maryland is one of many battlegrounds across the country that have sprung up over the rapid construction of AI data centers." https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/fox-news-christmas-trees-ai-data-centers | Source: Futurism [03:58] TR Bot Fox News Instructs Viewers to Buy Plastic Christmas Trees So the Real Ones Can Be Sacrificed to Feed the Insatiable Hunger of AI Data Centers [03:59] TR News "The directionality of the correspondence is nearly entirely Epstein to Chomsky, with, as far as I can tell from the searchable databases" https://www.thenation.com/article/society/noam-chomsky-jeffrey-epstein-emails/ | Source: The Nation [03:59] TR Bot What the Noam ChomskyJeffrey Epstein E-mails Tell Us | The Nation ● Dec 16 [04:02] TR News NVIDIA have discontinued Quake II RTX | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/nvidia-have-discontinued-quake-ii-rtx/ Source: GamingOnLinux | http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/03/The_Circular_Financing_Bubble_Company_NVIDIA_Harming_People_Wit.shtml [04:02] TR Bot have discontinued Quake II RTX | GamingOnLinux [04:02] TR Bot Tux Machines The Circular Financing Bubble Company, NVIDIA, Harming People With "Old" GPUs and GNU/Linux [04:02] TR News If you need a new retro boomer shooter check out Ctesiphon | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/if-you-need-a-new-retro-boomer-shooter-check-out-ctesiphon/ Source: GamingOnLinux [04:02] TR Bot you need a new retro boomer shooter check out Ctesiphon | GamingOnLinux [04:12] TR News Free 3-16 player party shooter of teamwork and betrayal, Klaus Veen's Treason added Linux support | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/free-3-16-player-party-shooter-of-teamwork-and-betrayal-klaus-veens-treason-added-linux-support/ Source: GamingOnLinux [04:12] TR Bot 3-16 player party shooter of teamwork and betrayal, Klaus Veen's Treason added Linux support | GamingOnLinux [04:12] TR News The popular Megabonk gets a mega update with new content | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/the-popular-megabonk-gets-a-mega-update-with-new-content/ Source: GamingOnLinux [04:12] TR Bot popular Megabonk gets a mega update with new content | GamingOnLinux [04:13] TR News The results are in - Bullet Heaven moves forward to be an official genre | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/the-results-are-in-bullet-heaven-moves-forward-to-be-an-official-genre/ Source: GamingOnLinux [04:13] TR Bot results are in - Bullet Heaven moves forward to be an official genre | GamingOnLinux [04:14] TR News From Ruins - A Detective Adventure looks worth keeping an eye on | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/from-ruins-a-detective-adventure-looks-worth-keeping-an-eye-on/ Source: GamingOnLinux [04:14] TR Bot Ruins A Detective Adventure looks worth keeping an eye on | GamingOnLinux [04:14] TR News "EU:s ministerrd: Datalagra allt!" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/12/15/eus-ministerrad-datalagra-allt/ [04:14] TR Bot EU:s ministerrd: Datalagra allt! [04:15] TR News "USA Wants Your Social Media History If You Visit" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/12/11/092209 [04:15] TR Bot USA Wants Your Social Media History If You Visit - SoylentNews [04:15] TR News "The State of Open Source Software in 2025" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/12/13/1619207 [04:15] TR Bot The State of Open Source Software in 2025 - SoylentNews [04:16] *libredev (~libredev@w4s7ck52qnvc2.irc) has joined #techrights [04:16] TR News techdirt still boosting social control media https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/15/australias-social-media-ban-was-pushed-by-ad-agency-focused-on-gambling-ads-it-didnt-want-banned/ [04:16] TR Bot Social Media Ban Was Pushed By Ad Agency Focused On Gambling Ads It Didnt Want Banned | Techdirt [04:18] TR News "Should U.S. be worried about AI bubble?" https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/12/should-u-s-be-worried-about-ai-bubble/ [04:18] TR Bot Should U.S. be worried about AI bubble? Harvard Gazette [04:27] TR News Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor gets mid-game saves and CPU optimizations | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/deep-rock-galactic-survivor-gets-mid-game-saves-and-cpu-optimizations/ Source: GamingOnLinux [04:27] TR Bot Rock Galactic: Survivor gets mid-game saves and CPU optimizations | GamingOnLinux [04:27] TR News The incredibly complex sci-fi grand strategy game Terra Invicta has a release date | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/the-incredibly-complex-sci-fi-grand-strategy-game-terra-invicta-has-a-release-date/ Source: GamingOnLinux [04:27] TR Bot incredibly complex sci-fi grand strategy game Terra Invicta has a release date | GamingOnLinux [04:28] TR News Retro arcade-style rally racer Parking Garage Rally Circuit gets a DX edition with a lot more content | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/retro-arcade-style-rally-racer-parking-garage-rally-circuit-gets-a-dx-edition-with-a-lot-more-content/ Source: GamingOnLinux [04:28] TR Bot arcade-style rally racer Parking Garage Rally Circuit gets a DX edition with a lot more content | GamingOnLinux [04:28] TR News GOG formally announce their GOG Patrons subscription donation system | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/gog-formally-announce-their-gog-patrons-subscription-donation-system/ Source: GamingOnLinux [04:28] TR Bot formally announce their GOG Patrons subscription donation system | GamingOnLinux [04:30] TR News "hybrid threats on Svalbard" https://www.thebarentsobserver.com/news/russia-uses-hybrid-threats-on-svalbard/442164 | Source: The Barents Observer https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/13/Russian_Hybrid_Attacks_Are_Typically_Microsoft_TCO_and_or_Windo.shtml [04:30] TR Bot 'Russia uses hybrid threats on Svalbard' [04:30] TR Bot Techrights Russian "Hybrid Attacks" Are Typically Microsoft TCO and/or Windows TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) [04:33] TR News "Let's have a slow clap for the corporate tools who still have to show up at work and try to spin their bankruptcy fire-sale as Line Goes Up: [...]" https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/12/roomba-doom/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski [04:33] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/12/roomba-doom/ ) [04:34] TR News "Here in the States, its the inevitable enshittified outcome of our corrupt inability to pass even basic internet privacy protections" https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/15/literal-enshittification-smart-toilets-play-fast-and-loose-with-your-pooping-data/ | Source: Techdirt [04:34] TR Bot Enshittification: Smart Toilets Play Fast And Loose With Your Pooping Data | Techdirt [04:34] TR News "Passing an order over an application moved by CCI seeking clarification over the previous order passed by NCLAT, the appellate tribunal said, "Appellant (WhatsApp and Meta) cannot assert unilateral or open-ended rights over user data." https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/users-consent-mandatory-for-whatsapp-for-collection-of-advertising-non-advertising-data-nclat/articleshow/125986177.cms | Source: India Times [04:34] TR Bot User's consent mandatory for WhatsApp for collection of advertising & non-advertising data: NCLAT - The Economic Times [04:35] TR News "Appellant (WhatsApp and Meta) cannot assert unilateral or open-ended rights over user data." https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/users-consent-mandatory-for-whatsapp-for-collection-of-advertising-non-advertising-data-nclat/articleshow/125986177.cms | Source: India Times [04:35] TR News "But instead, the UK is pushing forward with its plans to rollout digital ID in the country. Heres three reasons why those policymakers have it wrong." https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/15/the-uk-has-it-wrong-on-digital-id-heres-why/ | Source: Techdirt [04:35] TR Bot UK Has It Wrong On Digital ID. Heres Why. | Techdirt [04:36] TR News ""Cloaking" is when a phishing site takes steps to hide itself from the Internet security companies." https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/anticloaking.html | Source: James Stanley [04:36] TR Bot James Stanley - Anticloaking [04:38] TR News (NEW): Games: GOG Patrons, Parking Garage Rally Circuit, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/16/Games_GOG_Patrons_Parking_Garage_Rally_Circuit_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/16/Games_GOG_Patrons_Parking_Garage_Rally_Circuit_and_More.gmi [04:38] TR Bot Tux Machines Games: GOG Patrons, Parking Garage Rally Circuit, and More [04:39] TR News Windows TCO https://itwire.com/business-it-news/security/why-qilin%e2%80%99s-rise-is-a-wake-up-call-for-australia%e2%80%99s-financial-sector.html | Source: IT Wire [04:39] TR Bot - Why Qilins Rise Is a Wake-Up Call for Australias Financial Sector [04:39] TR News "According to Reuters, Meta's Chinese ad revenue more than doubled between 2022 and 2024, from $7.4 billion to $18.4 billion. By last year, nearly one in five of those dollars came from banned content." https://boingboing.net/2025/12/15/meta-knew-chinese-ads-were-scams-kept-money.html | Source: BoingBoing [04:39] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://boingboing.net/2025/12/15/meta-knew-chinese-ads-were-scams-kept-money.html ) [04:40] TR News "Im pleased to announce the immediate availability of a reference implementation for the Public Key Directory server." https://soatok.blog/2025/12/15/announcing-key-transparency-fediverse/ | Source: Dhole Moments [04:40] TR Bot Announcing Key Transparency for the Fediverse - Dhole Moments [04:40] TR News (NEW): So-called 'FSFE' on EU: The answer for a digital sovereign future must be Free Software https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/16/So_called_FSFE_on_EU_The_answer_for_a_digital_sovereign_future_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/16/So_called_FSFE_on_EU_The_answer_for_a_digital_sovereign_future_.gmi [04:40] TR Bot Tux Machines So-called 'FSFE' on EU: The answer for a digital sovereign future must be Free Software [04:40] TR News "Despite travel warnings from your government, are you thinking about visiting the United States?" https://boingboing.net/2025/12/14/social-media-posts-may-stop-you-from-visiting-the-united-states.html | Source: BoingBoing [04:40] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://boingboing.net/2025/12/14/social-media-posts-may-stop-you-from-visiting-the-united-states.html ) [04:40] TR News "online predators known as 764 that specializes in coercing minors to perform sexual acts and self-harm on camera" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-12-15/violent-online-groups-like-764-are-threatening-teen-lives-heres-how-to-protect-your-kid | Source: Los Angeles Times [04:40] TR Bot Violent online groups like 764 are threatening teen lives. Here's how to protect your kid - Los Angeles Times [04:41] TR News "This May, the Catholic Church welcomed a new pope. Somewhat surprisingly, the cardinal electors chose an American-born candidate as their new leader." https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/artificial-intelligence-ai-2025-1235483574/ | Source: Rolling Stone [04:41] TR Bot 2025: The Year AI Crossed the Line [04:42] TR News "Kind of feels like this boils down to: How do we know what we know?" https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/uncomfortable-i-dont-know/ | Source: Jim Nielsen [04:42] TR Bot Its Uncomfortable To Sit With I Dont Know - Jim Nielsens Blog [04:42] TR News "digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence." https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/word-of-the-year | [04:42] TR Bot of the Year 2025 | Slop | Merriam-Webster [04:43] TR News "2025 Word of the Year: Slop. Slop lost to "brain rot" for Oxford Word of the Year 2024 but it's finally made it this year thanks to Merriam-Webster!" https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/15/2025-word-of-the-year-slop/#atom-everything | Source: Simon Willison [04:43] TR Bot 2025 Word of the Year: Slop [04:43] TR News "Just as expected, the service dubbed Your Personal Podcast turned out to be an error-laden disaster right from the jump." https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/washington-post-ai-generated-podcasts-internal-tests | Source: Futurism [04:43] TR Bot The Washington Post Deployed Its Disastrous AI-Generated Podcasts Even After Internal Tests Showed It Was Failing Miserably [04:43] TR News "AI is worrisome enough as is its insatiable thirst for energy and water, its capacities to override the wishes of human beings, its potential to destroy the planet." https://robertreich.substack.com/p/again-beware-the-oligarchs-bubbles | Source: Robert Reich [04:43] TR Bot Again: Beware These Two Oligarchic Bubbles [04:44] TR News "But despite those moves, state lawmakers are continuing to prefile legislation related to artificial intelligence in preparation for their 2026 legislative sessions." https://michiganadvance.com/2025/12/15/repub/states-will-keep-pushing-ai-laws-despite-trumps-efforts-to-stop-them/ | Source: Michigan Advance [04:44] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://michiganadvance.com/2025/12/15/repub/states-will-keep-pushing-ai-laws-despite-trumps-efforts-to-stop-them/ ) [04:44] TR News AI models bungling breaking news stories. [04:44] TR News "AI models bungling breaking news stories." https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/grok-rob-reiner-death | Source: Futurism [04:44] TR Bot Grok Is Making Wildly Contradictory Claims About Rob Reiner's Death [04:45] TR News "Scammers allegedly used an AI-generated deepfake video of Musk to convince Hendricks he had won a car and a cash prize, and later to build trust." https://www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/news/tesla-elon-musk-florida-scam-ai-generated-b2885120.html | Source: The Independent UK [04:45] TR Bot Man says wife wants divorce after he drained savings falling for AI scam | The Independent [04:45] TR News "What I am stunned by is the breadth of impact this lockout has, and what a similar problem would mean for me, personally" https://pxlnv.com/linklog/apple-account-lockout/ | Source: Nick Heer [04:45] TR Bot Locked Out of an Apple Account Pixel Envy [04:46] TR News "The final release of the Linux 6.19 kernel series is expected in early February 2026." https://9to5linux.com/linus-torvalds-announces-first-linux-kernel-6-19-release-candidate [04:46] TR Bot Torvalds Announces First Linux Kernel 6.19 Release Candidate - 9to5Linux [04:46] TR News "The unlucky Apple aficionado in this case is Dr. Paris Buttfield-Addison, a Tasmania-based computer scientist who co-founded an award-winning game development company" https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/15/apple_dev_bad_gift_card_code/ | Source: The Register UK [04:46] TR Bot Apple blocks dev after failed gift card redemption The Register [04:47] TR News "Russia's Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) is behind a years-long campaign targeting energy, telecommunications, and tech providers" https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/15/amazon_ongoing_gru_campaign/ | Source: The Register UK [04:47] TR Bot Amazon security boss blames Russia's GRU for energy hacks The Register [04:47] TR News "The business entered Chapter 11 proceedings on Sunday and initiated a restructuring support agreement (RSA) that would see Shenzhen-based Picea Robotics acquire the company in full." https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/15/irobot_chapter_11/ | Source: The Register UK [04:47] TR Bot Roomba maker iRobot gets cleaned out in Chapter 11 The Register [04:48] TR News "Roomba users fear bricking the risk that their smart vacuums will stop working without software updates after the Chinese acquisition takes effect." https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-12-15/what-happens-to-roombas-now-that-company-has-declared-bankruptcy | Source: Los Angeles Times [04:48] TR Bot What happens to Roombas now that the company has declared bankruptcy? - Los Angeles Times [04:48] TR News "HPE Alletra is designed to deliver mission-critical storage at mid range economics, with a consistent data experience across various cloud environments." https://ubuntu.com//blog/canonical_lxd_hpe_alletra | Source: Ubuntu [04:48] TR Bot integration available between Canonical LXD and HPE Alletra MP B10000 | Ubuntu [04:49] TR News "This may explain why psilocybin keeps showing positive results for people with depression in clinical trials" https://www.sciencealert.com/psilocybin-breaks-depressive-cycles-by-rewiring-the-brain-study-suggests | Source: Science Alert [04:49] TR Bot Breaks Depressive Cycles by Rewiring The Brain, Study Suggests : ScienceAlert [04:49] TR News "Old habits are sneaky little monkeys. They work every angle they know to quietly slip back into the circus of our lives without us noticing." https://jimmitchell.org/2025/12/15/old-habits/ | Source: Jim Mitchell [04:49] TR Bot Old Habits | Jim Mitchell [04:50] MinceR 16 054812 < techrights-news> "Roomba users fear bricking the risk that their smart vacuums will stop working without software updates after the Chinese acquisition takes effect." [04:50] TR News "For my alpha source, I used a 37 kBq amerercium source from a smoke detector (glued to a stick for easier handling)." https://maurycyz.com/projects/spinthariscope/ | Source: Maury [04:50] TR Bot A sea of sparks: Seeing radioactivity (Maurycy's blog) [04:50] MinceR they're not worried that their "smart" vacuums will become chinese spybots? [04:50] TR News "The first step in the value chain for water utilities is extracting water from natural sources, such as rivers, groundwater, oceans, or reservoirs." https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/12/visualise-and-analyse-bathymetric-survey-data-with-r/ | Source: Rlang [04:50] TR Bot and Analyse Bathymetric Survey Data with R | R-bloggers [04:50] TR News "First, uranium glass emits gamma rays too, not just alpha and beta particles. More importantly, these numbers are hot nonsense." https://aphyr.com/posts/401-the-future-of-radiation-safety-is-lies-i-guess | Source: Kyle Kingsbury [04:50] TR Bot ( status 451 @ https://aphyr.com/posts/401-the-future-of-radiation-safety-is-lies-i-guess ) [04:51] TR News "Let's go back to when the web felt like a frontier. The late 90s were a magical time the [Internet] existed, but nobody really knew what it was going to become." https://www.artmann.co/articles/30-years-of-br-tags | [04:51] TR Bot 30 Years of Tags [04:51] TR News "The galactic painting that debuted ahead of Star Wars nearly 50 years ago just sold at auction for $3.9 million." https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-painting-introduced-the-world-to-star-wars-it-just-became-the-most-expensive-item-connected-to-the-franchise-ever-sold-at-auction-180987863/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine [04:51] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-painting-introduced-the-world-to-star-wars-it-just-became-the-most-expensive-item-connected-to-the-franchise-ever-sold-at-auction-180987863/ ) [04:52] TR News "If you havent tried blogging yet, make sure you do. Its wonderfully rewarding in so many ways." https://birming.com/2025/12/15/the-blogging-community/ | Source: Robert Birming [04:52] TR Bot blogging community | Robert Birming [04:53] TR News "Programmers often want to randomly shuffle arrays. Evidently, we want to do so as efficiently as possible." https://lemire.me/blog/2025/12/15/multiplying-the-shuffle-speed-in-go-with-batched-shuffling/ | Source: Daniel Lemire [04:53] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://lemire.me/blog/2025/12/15/multiplying-the-shuffle-speed-in-go-with-batched-shuffling/ ) [04:53] TR News "In this article, Ill dig into how traceroute works and show you how to build a simple version from scratch using Go." https://kmcd.dev/posts/traceroute/ | [04:53] TR Bot Traceroute Tool from Scratch in Go [04:53] TR News "Fuck this whole "ecosystem". I mean really get right up in there and fuck it." https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/12/fucking-python-2/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski [04:53] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/12/fucking-python-2/ ) [04:53] TR News "Most of the talks will be held in German, German talks will have English slides at least. English talks are welcome as well" https://act.yapc.eu/gpw2026/ | Source: Perl [04:53] TR Bot Deutscher Perl/Raku-Workshop 2026 [04:54] TR News "Vale is a prose linter that can help catch these issues automatically." https://amanhimself.dev/blog/smart-quotes-in-documentation/ | Source: Aman Mittal [04:54] TR Bot there are smart quotes in my docs | amanhimself.dev [04:54] TR News "Ive published four Ruby gems that work together to help people build supply chain security tools: purl, vers, sbom, and swhid." https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/14/supply-chain-security-tools-for-ruby.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt [04:54] TR Bot Supply Chain Security Tools for Ruby | Andrew Nesbitt [04:54] TR News "Here's a little unscientific chart showing the compile/run times of a "hello world" program in different languages: [...]" https://antonz.org/timing-hello-world/ | Source: Anton Zhiyanov [04:54] TR Bot Timing 'Hello, world' [04:55] TR News Kali Linux 2025.4: New tools and quality-of-life improvements https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/12/15/kali-linux-2025-4-new-tools-improvements/ [04:55] TR Bot Kali Linux 2025.4: New tools and "quality-of-life" improvements - Help Net Security [04:57] TR News "I like this a lot. It makes me want to go even harder: [...]" https://kerrick.blog/posts/2025/re-more-fluent-method-signatures-in-ruby/ | Source: Kerrick Long [04:57] TR Bot Re: More Fluent Method Signatures in Ruby - Kerrick Long (blog) [04:57] TR News "The CRA will inevitably raise expectations for security design and transparency across the software industry." https://thenewstack.io/making-the-cyber-resilience-act-work-for-open-source/ | Source: The New Stack [04:57] TR Bot Making the Cyber Resilience Act Work for Open Source - The New Stack [04:58] TR News (NEW): Kali Linux 2025.4 arrives with GNOME 49, KDE Plasma 6.5, and much more https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/Kali_Linux_2025_4_arrives_with_GNOME_49_KDE_Plasma_6_5_and_much.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/Kali_Linux_2025_4_arrives_with_GNOME_49_KDE_Plasma_6_5_and_much.gmi [04:58] TR Bot Tux Machines Kali Linux 2025.4 arrives with GNOME 49, KDE Plasma 6.5, and much more ● Dec 16 [05:01] TR News APT vs Pacman: Which Linux package manager is better for beginners https://www.howtogeek.com/apt-vs-pacman-which-linux-package-manager-is-better-for-beginners/ [05:01] TR Bot APT vs Pacman: Which Linux package manager is better for beginners [05:01] TR News "but also with the creation and improvement of more traditional software tools to improve your code: local, free, deterministic." https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/12/better-code-without-any-effort-without-even-ai/ | Source: Rlang [05:01] TR Bot Code, Without Any Effort, Without Even AI | R-bloggers [05:01] TR News "Licensing has to be sorted. If a library doesnt have an OSI-approved license, I wont use it, and I dont spend time negotiating or hoping." https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/15/how-i-assess-open-source-libraries.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt [05:01] TR Bot How I Assess Open Source Libraries | Andrew Nesbitt [05:02] TR News "I built simonw/justjshtml, a dependency-free HTML5 parsing library in JavaScript which passes 9,200 tests from the html5lib-tests suite and imitates the API design of Emils JustHTML library." https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/15/porting-justhtml/#atom-everything | Source: Simon Willison [05:02] TR Bot I ported JustHTML from Python to JavaScript with Codex CLI and GPT-5.2 in 4.5 hours [05:02] TR News "Unauthenticated attackers can abuse the flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-55182, to remotely execute code, and the Chocolate Factory's threat hunters said multiple groups are using this vulnerability to deploy backdoors" https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/15/react2shell_flaw_china_iran/ | Source: The Register UK [05:02] TR Bot React2Shell vuln exploited by China, Iran, Google warns The Register [05:03] TR News (NEW): Programming Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/16/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/16/Programming_Leftovers.gmi [05:03] TR Bot Tux Machines Programming Leftovers [05:05] TR News "ASPA is now available in the RIPE NCC RPKI Dashboard, adding a way to express and validate your upstream relationships on top of ROA-based origin validation." https://labs.ripe.net/author/tim_bruijnzeels/aspa-in-the-rpki-dashboard-a-new-layer-of-routing-security/ | Source: RIPE [05:05] TR Bot ASPA in the RPKI Dashboard: A New Layer of Routing Security | RIPE Labs [05:05] TR News Techrights Links 16/12/2025: More GAFAM (Now Amazon) Layoffs and iRobot Chapter 11 https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/16/Links_16_12_2025_More_GAFAM_Now_Amazon_Layoffs_and_iRobot_Chapt.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/16/Links_16_12_2025_More_GAFAM_Now_Amazon_Layoffs_and_iRobot_Chapt.gmi [05:05] TR Bot Techrights Links 16/12/2025: More GAFAM (Now Amazon) Layoffs and iRobot Chapter 11 [05:07] schestowitz[TR2] from FB today [05:07] schestowitz[TR2] "People hardly ever talk about Richard Stalmen but they talk about Linus. The GNU/Linux OS was only created by combining the work of Richards Stalmond's GNU project with Linus's kernel. Before they were combined it was not a complete OS. GNU tried to make the whole OS themselves but they failed to create the kernel which Linus added. Once these projects were combined it create the GNU/Linux OS which was a successful clone of Unix [05:07] schestowitz[TR2] that people could use in place of Unix. But Richard Stalman gets very little credit for his part in this. Yes it is true that others have since built alternatives to GNU that can be used in place of GNU but it was originally the GNU team lead by Stalman that created basically everything accept the kernel. Yes the kernel is a big part but it seems they deserve equal credit and fame." [05:10] TR News (NEW): New Jolla, Sailfish 5, offer break from iOS-Android monopoly https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/16/New_Jolla_Sailfish_5_offer_break_from_iOS_Android_monopoly.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/16/New_Jolla_Sailfish_5_offer_break_from_iOS_Android_monopoly.gmi [05:10] TR Bot Tux Machines New Jolla, Sailfish 5, offer break from iOS-Android monopoly [05:11] TR News "In my career at IBM that spans 3 decades, I had 3 decent managers, technical enough to understand the challenges . The other dozen were real useless pieces of sh1t." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kchgf6qt [05:11] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kchgf6qt ) [05:12] TR News "There are many people asleep at the desk at IBM, they know how to make charts, sit in meeting and spew nonsense. It takes them more time to describe their achievements, when asked, than the time it takes to perform the tasks. I wish, they were let go." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kcj2t7th [05:12] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kcj2t7th ) [05:18] _what__ "boosters of restricted boot decided to go ad hominem" AND WON http://techrights.org/i/2025/12/case-judgment-summary.html [05:18] TR Bot NO TITLE [05:20] _what__ and the judge ordered to make a memory hole for defamation reasons [05:21] TR News "I understood this, as I said at the time. But it doesnt flow well, and assumes too much prior knowledge." https://rubenerd.com/wikipedias-orientability-article-revisited/ | Source: Ruben Schade [05:21] TR Bot Wikipedias orientability article, revisited [05:22] TR News "Development of 5.3.0 is now in feature freeze, meaning no more features will be added before release. This includes the Text Tool, marking the end of a long phase of development for Wolthera, code reviewer Dmitry, and everyone else who contributed." https://krita.org/en/posts/2025/monthly-update-33/ | Source: Krita [05:22] TR Bot Krita Monthly Update - Edition 33 | Krita [05:22] TR News "The initial crowdfunding drive for the new Jolla Phone seems to have gone well: at the time of writing" https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/15/jolla_sailfish_5_hands_on/ | Source: The Register UK [05:22] TR Bot New Jolla, Sailfish 5, offer break from iOS-Android monopoly The Register [05:22] TR News "But the news this week is that a court in Singapore has jailed a man not for launching an attack himself, but instead for teaching others exactly how to do it." https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/man-jailed-for-teaching-criminals-how-to-use-malware | Source: Bitdefender [05:22] TR Bot Man jailed for teaching criminals how to use malware [05:22] TR News "In last months issue of Raspberry Pi Official Magazine, we looked at different forms of WS2812B LEDs (also known as NeoPixels) that you can use to make Christmas lights." https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/designing-patterns-for-your-christmas-lights/ | Source: Raspberry Pi [05:22] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/designing-patterns-for-your-christmas-lights/ ) [05:23] TR News "The release pulls in packages from the Debian and Sparky testing repositories as of December 14, 2025." https://linuxiac.com/sparkylinux-2025-12-brings-kernel-6-17-and-updated-desktop-isos/ | Source: Linuxiac [05:23] TR Bot SparkyLinux 2025.12 Brings Kernel 6.17 and Updated Desktop ISOs [05:23] TR News "It ships with the Linux kernel 6.17 by default, while long-term-supported kernels, 6.18 LTS, 6.12 LTS, and 6.6 LTS, are available through the Sparky repositories." [05:23] TR News "The Emmabuntus project has announced a new version of their Debian-based distribution. The new release is based on Debian 13 and places a focus on accessibility options: [...]" https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12667 | Source: Distro Watch [05:23] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12667 ) [05:24] TR News "Emmabunts is a Linux distribution widely used in humanitarian and educational projects, especially in regions with limited access to new hardware." https://linuxiac.com/emmabuntus-debian-edition-6-released-with-strong-focus-on-accessibility/ | Source: Linuxiac [05:24] TR Bot Emmabunts Debian Edition 6 Released With Strong Focus on Accessibility [05:25] TR News "OpenSSH Server is installed by default on FreeBSD. But on a fresh FreeBSD system, remote SSH logins are not allowed." https://ostechnix.com/how-to-enable-ssh-on-freebsd/ | Source: OSTechNix [05:25] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://ostechnix.com/how-to-enable-ssh-on-freebsd/ ) [05:25] TR News "As most of my readers are aware, I ported FreeBSD to run on the Amazon EC2 cloud, and have been maintaining the platform ever since." https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2025-11-08-How-to-support-FreeBSD-on-your-cloud.html | Source: Daemonology [05:25] TR Bot How to support FreeBSD on your cloud [05:25] TR News "If you use systemd units or systemd-run to conveniently capture output from scripts and programs into the systemd journal" https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/SystemdJournalPriorityEtc | Source: University of Toronto [05:25] TR Bot You're using a too-old browser [05:26] TR News "On the web, its easy to take line breaks for granted." https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2025/15/ | Source: Markup from Hell [05:26] TR Bot Thems the Breaks - HTMHell [05:26] TR News "Since then I have occasionally thought about what a visual search engine would look like for the web." https://jamesg.blog/2025/12/15/brainstorming-visual-search-for-the-web | Source: James G [05:26] TR Bot Brainstorming visual search for the web | James' Coffee Blog [05:26] TR News "All our communication channels are morphed into content distribution networks." https://ploum.net/2025-12-15-communication-entertainment.html | Source: Lionel Dricot [05:26] TR Bot How We Lost Communication to Entertainment [05:27] TR News "And he mentions that the original Macintosh had a screen the same physical size as the iPad mini." https://birchtree.me/blog/why-hasnt-the-desktop-ui-evolved-in-years/ | Source: Matt Birchler [05:27] TR Bot Why hasn't the desktop UI evolved in years? [05:27] TR News "Jayantika and Ruturajs journey from learners to leaders, mentoring 200+ young learners in Pune Code Clubs." https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/from-learners-to-leaders-jayantika-and-ruturajs-journey-as-code-club-youth-mentors/ | Source: Raspberry Pi [05:27] TR Bot From learners to leaders: Jayantika and Ruturajs journey as Code Club youth mentors - Raspberry Pi Foundation [05:40] TR News Techrights Claim That Finance and HR at IBM Already Work on the Next Wave of IBM Layoffs, Media Silence Persists https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/16/Claim_That_Finance_and_HR_at_IBM_Already_Work_on_the_Next_Wave_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/16/Claim_That_Finance_and_HR_at_IBM_Already_Work_on_the_Next_Wave_.gmi [05:40] TR Bot Techrights Claim That Finance and HR at IBM Already Work on the Next Wave of IBM Layoffs, Media Silence Persists [05:54] *nobody has quit (connection closed) [05:54] *nobody (~nobody@mzhxn33u955fq.irc) has joined #techrights ● Dec 16 [06:03] TR News iophk on GenZ: "They are _*NOT*_ digital natives, they know *NOTHING* about computers rather they lost their formative years to Zuch and Musk and Xi. One, at another shop, looked really angry when I paid in cash there." [06:14] TR News Techrights A Lot of People Don't Want "Smart" (Things That Spy, Stop Working, Cannot be Repaired Easily) https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/16/A_Lot_of_People_Don_t_Want_Smart_Things_That_Spy_Stop_Working_C.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/16/A_Lot_of_People_Don_t_Want_Smart_Things_That_Spy_Stop_Working_C.gmi [06:14] TR Bot Techrights A Lot of People Don't Want "Smart" (Things That Spy, Stop Working, Cannot be Repaired Easily) [06:15] _what__ "they've made it illegal to try to correct things" http://copyright.gov/1201/ [06:15] TR Bot Rulemaking Proceedings Under Section 1201 of Title 17 | U.S. Copyright Office [06:16] _what__ you forgot to point out DMCA Section 1201 regarding above, a direct attack against GPL Freedom 1 http://gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html [06:16] TR Bot ( status 403 @ http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html ) [06:18] _what__ here is FSF's comment on that http://fsf.org/licensing/2016-dmca-study-comment/ [06:18] TR Bot 2016 comment to U.S. Copyright Office Free Software Foundation Working together for free software [06:19] _what__ DMCA Section 1201 is the reason why there is absolutely no disclosure about security vulnerabilities http://gnu.org/philosophy/bug-nobody-allowed-to-understand.html [06:19] TR Bot ( status 403 @ http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/bug-nobody-allowed-to-understand.html ) [06:20] _what__ See also http://techrights.org/o/2015/10/08/back-doors-msft/ [06:20] TR Bot More Back Doors Found in Microsoft's Entrapments (Proprietary Software) [06:20] _what__ TL;DR Control, NOT Accountability http://techrights.org/n/2025/08/30/Birds_Are_Not_Pests_and_Vermin_Privacy_is_Not_a_Crime_and_GNU_L.shtml [06:20] TR Bot Techrights Birds Are Not "Pests and Vermin", Privacy is Not a Crime, and GNU/Linux is Not 'Hacking Platform' [06:22] _what__ (most of the time, I have to constantly remind due to the memory hole GAFAM is trying to punch) [06:23] _what__ FSF's take on "our products are not for 'security' (sic)" http://gnu.org/proprietary/proprietary-insecurity.html [06:23] TR Bot ( status 403 @ http://www.gnu.org/proprietary/proprietary-insecurity.html ) [06:33] TR News "A Quarter Century After Cyberselfish, Big Tech Proves Borsook Right" https://puri.sm/posts/a-quarter-century-after-cyberselfish-big-tech-proves-borsook-right/ | Source: Purism [06:33] TR Bot A Quarter Century After Cyberselfish, Big Tech Proves Borsook Right Purism [06:33] TR News "PureOS Crimson Development Report" https://puri.sm/posts/pureos-crimson-development-report-november-2025/ | Source: Purism [06:33] TR Bot PureOS Crimson Development Report: November 2025 Purism [06:34] TR News "The Luna SL1680 is built around the Synaptics SL1680 system-on-chip, which integrates a quad-core Arm Cortex-A73 CPU running at up to 2.1 GHz." https://linuxgizmos.com/toradex-luna-sl1680-sbc-features-synaptics-sl1680-soc-with-8-tops-npu-starts-at-105/ | Source: Linux Gizmos [06:34] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/toradex-luna-sl1680-sbc-features-synaptics-sl1680-soc-with-8-tops-npu-starts-at-105/ ) [06:35] TR News "To manage these challenges, enterprises need to adopt a formal approach by using a set of frameworks that map AI threats, define controls, and guide responsible adoption." https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/harden-your-ai-systems-applying-industry-standards-real-world | Source: Red Hat Official [06:35] TR Bot Harden your AI systems: Applying industry standards in the real world [06:35] TR News Timur Kristf: How do graphics drivers work? https://timur.hu/blog/2025/how-do-graphics-drivers-work [06:35] TR Bot How do graphics drivers work? | Timurs blog [06:36] TR News Unpacking VStarcam firmware for fun and profit https://palant.info/2025/12/15/unpacking-vstarcam-firmware-for-fun-and-profit/ [06:36] TR Bot Unpacking VStarcam firmware for fun and profit | Almost Secure [06:37] TR News (NEW): BusenLabs Boron vs. Bohdi Linux: Which lightweight distro is right for you? https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/16/BusenLabs_Boron_vs_Bohdi_Linux_Which_lightweight_distro_is_righ.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/16/BusenLabs_Boron_vs_Bohdi_Linux_Which_lightweight_distro_is_righ.gmi [06:37] TR Bot Tux Machines BusenLabs Boron vs. Bohdi Linux: Which lightweight distro is right for you? [06:38] TR News (NEW): Emmabunts Debian Edition 6 Released https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/16/Emmabuntus_Debian_Edition_6_Released.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/16/Emmabuntus_Debian_Edition_6_Released.gmi [06:38] TR Bot Tux Machines Emmabunts Debian Edition 6 Released [06:39] TR News Set up FSx for NetApp ONTAP on Red Bait OpenShift Service on proprietary trap AWS https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/12/15/set-fsx-netapp-ontap-red-hat-openshift-service-aws [06:39] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/12/15/set-fsx-netapp-ontap-red-hat-openshift-service-aws ) [06:40] TR News Late Night Linux Episode 364 https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-364/ [06:40] TR Bot Late Night Linux Episode 364 Late Night Linux [06:41] TR News Gunnar Wolf: Unique security and privacy threats of large language models a comprehensive survey https://gwolf.org/2025/12/unique-security-and-privacy-threats-of-large-language-models-a-comprehensive-survey.html [06:41] TR Bot Gunnar Wolf Unique security and privacy threats of large language models a comprehensive survey [06:43] TR News Announcing Key Transparency for the Fediverse https://soatok.blog/2025/12/15/announcing-key-transparency-fediverse/ [06:43] TR Bot Announcing Key Transparency for the Fediverse - Dhole Moments [06:43] TR News "Keychain cameras are rarely good. However, in the case of Walmarts current offering, it might be worse than its supposed to be. [FoxTailWhipz] bought the Vivitar-branded device and set about investigating its claim that it could deliver high-resolution photos" https://hackaday.com/2025/12/15/tearing-down-walmarts-12-keychain-camera/ | Source: Hackaday [06:43] TR Bot Down Walmarts $12 Keychain Camera | Hackaday [06:46] *GNUmoon2 (~GNUmoon@eu6xsuxgxtzea.irc) has joined #techrights [06:46] *GNUmoon (~GNUmoon@gateway/tor-sasl/gnumoon) has joined #techrights [06:47] TR News (NEW): Toradex Luna SL1680 SBC Features Synaptics SL1680 SoC with 8 TOPS NPU, Starts at $105 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/16/Toradex_Luna_SL1680_SBC_Features_Synaptics_SL1680_SoC_with_8_TO.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/16/Toradex_Luna_SL1680_SBC_Features_Synaptics_SL1680_SoC_with_8_TO.gmi [06:47] TR Bot Tux Machines Toradex Luna SL1680 SBC Features Synaptics SL1680 SoC with 8 TOPS NPU, Starts at $105 [06:50] TR News (NEW): Tracking kernel commits across branches https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/16/Tracking_kernel_commits_across_branches.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/16/Tracking_kernel_commits_across_branches.gmi [06:50] TR Bot Tux Machines Tracking kernel commits across branches [06:50] TR News "This release adds support for the recently released Linux 6.18 kernel series, which can be installed from the SparkyLinux software repositories." https://9to5linux.com/sparkylinux-2025-12-tiamat-released-with-debian-forky-base-linux-kernel-6-17 [06:50] TR Bot 2025.12 "Tiamat" Released with Debian Forky Base, Linux Kernel 6.17 - 9to5Linux [06:51] TR News "Ready for the holiday period, Klaus Veen's Treason is a fun looking 3-16 player party shooter of teamwork and betrayal that now has Native Linux support." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/free-3-16-player-party-shooter-of-teamwork-and-betrayal-klaus-veens-treason-added-linux-support/ [06:51] TR Bot 3-16 player party shooter of teamwork and betrayal, Klaus Veen's Treason added Linux support | GamingOnLinux [06:53] TR News (NEW): Krita Monthly Update - Edition 33 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/16/Krita_Monthly_Update_Edition_33.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/16/Krita_Monthly_Update_Edition_33.gmi [06:53] TR Bot Tux Machines Krita Monthly Update - Edition 33 [06:54] TR News Microsoft operatives attack Linux some more https://devclass.com/2025/12/15/rust-boosted-by-permanent-adoption-for-linux-kernel-code/ see https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/15/Situation_Publishing_s_DevClass_Sister_Site_of_The_Register_MS_.shtml [06:54] TR Bot boosted by permanent adoption for Linux kernel code DEVCLASS [06:54] TR Bot Techrights Situation Publishing's DevClass (Sister Site of The Register MS, Run by MS Tim) Has Been Abandoned, Microsoft's MS Tim Now Interjects Anti-Linux Directly Into The Register MS [06:55] TR News (NEW): PureOS Crimson Development Report: November 2025 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/16/PureOS_Crimson_Development_Report_November_2025.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/16/PureOS_Crimson_Development_Report_November_2025.gmi [06:55] TR Bot Tux Machines PureOS Crimson Development Report: November 2025 ● Dec 16 [07:01] *croissant has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [07:01] TR News How To Install Caddy on Debian 13 https://idroot.us/install-caddy-debian-13/ [07:01] TR Bot How To Install Caddy on Debian 13 - idroot [07:01] TR News How To Install MERN Stack on Fedora 43 https://idroot.us/install-mern-stack-fedora-43/ [07:01] TR Bot How To Install MERN Stack on Fedora 43 - idroot [07:01] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techrights [07:02] TR News (NEW): Open Hardware/Modding: Keychain Camera, Raspberry Pi, Purism, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/16/Open_Hardware_Modding_Keychain_Camera_Raspberry_Pi_Purism_and_M.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/16/Open_Hardware_Modding_Keychain_Camera_Raspberry_Pi_Purism_and_M.gmi [07:02] TR Bot Tux Machines Open Hardware/Modding: Keychain Camera, Raspberry Pi, Purism, and More [07:02] TR News (NEW): Today's HowTos https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/16/today_s_howtos.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/16/today_s_howtos.gmi [07:02] TR Bot Tux Machines today's howtos [07:03] TR News (NEW): #HowTo Configure And Enable SSH On FreeBSD 15 and FreeBSD on Servers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/16/How_To_Configure_And_Enable_SSH_On_FreeBSD_15_and_FreeBSD_on_Se.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/16/How_To_Configure_And_Enable_SSH_On_FreeBSD_15_and_FreeBSD_on_Se.gmi [07:03] TR Bot Tux Machines How To Configure And Enable SSH On FreeBSD 15 and FreeBSD on Servers [07:05] TR News (NEW): Free and Open Source Software https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/16/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/16/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi [07:05] TR Bot Tux Machines Free and Open Source Software [07:07] TR News (NEW): Today's Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/16/today_s_leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/16/today_s_leftovers.gmi [07:07] TR Bot Tux Machines today's leftovers [07:12] TR News R Package Development in Positron workshop https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/12/r-package-development-in-positron-workshop/ [07:12] TR Bot Package Development in Positron workshop | R-bloggers [07:12] TR News Statement by President von der Leyen following the meeting on peace for Ukraine convened by German Chancellor Merz https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/statement_25_3084 [07:12] TR Bot Press corner | European Commission [07:14] TR News (NEW): Releases: Johnnycanencrypt 0.17.0, Mixxx 2.5.4, and Kodi 21.3 "Omega" https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/15/Releases_Johnnycanencrypt_0_17_0_Mixxx_2_5_4_and_Kodi_21_3_Omeg.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/15/Releases_Johnnycanencrypt_0_17_0_Mixxx_2_5_4_and_Kodi_21_3_Omeg.gmi [07:14] TR Bot Tux Machines Releases: Johnnycanencrypt 0.17.0, Mixxx 2.5.4, and Kodi 21.3 "Omega" [07:15] TR News (NEW): DietPi 9.20 Brings RustDesk Server and Broad SBC Improvements https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/16/DietPi_9_20_Brings_RustDesk_Server_and_Broad_SBC_Improvements.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/16/DietPi_9_20_Brings_RustDesk_Server_and_Broad_SBC_Improvements.gmi [07:15] TR Bot Tux Machines DietPi 9.20 Brings RustDesk Server and Broad SBC Improvements [07:17] TR News (NEW): GIMP 3.2 RC2: Second Release Candidate for GIMP 3.2 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/16/GIMP_3_2_RC2_Second_Release_Candidate_for_GIMP_3_2.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/16/GIMP_3_2_RC2_Second_Release_Candidate_for_GIMP_3_2.gmi [07:17] TR Bot Tux Machines GIMP 3.2 RC2: Second Release Candidate for GIMP 3.2 [07:18] TR News A full-time job for an i586 in 2025? gopher://i-logout.cz:70/0/phlog/posts/2025-12-15_a_full_time_job_for_an_i586_in_2025.txt [07:18] TR News [Winter] gopher://i-logout.cz:70/I/phlog/posts/2025-12-15_webcam.jpg [07:19] TR News "Pseudonymous maker "CrazyScience" has built a Wi-Fi signal strength guide with a difference: it moves a physical dial on a gauge to let you know when you're straying from an access point's sweet spot." gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202512/20251215-wifi.gmi [07:21] TR News "My roommate had a friend over last night, and we spent part of the evening making our 2026 bingo cards. This is not a game of predictions, but a goal setting exercise - a list of things we might like to do, that we can post on the fridge and keep tabs on." gemini://tilde.town/~hush/gemlog/2025-12-15-bingo.gmi [07:21] TR News "I was searching for something. As always, I have found many other things. In past months I returnerd a few of my Sharp Zauri to (well, very infrequent) use." gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/jirka/Phlog/2025_12_03.txt [07:22] TR News SOMETHING NEW IN THE CUPBOARD gopher://aussies.space:70/0/~freet/phlog/2025-12-16Something_New_in_the_Cupboard.txt [07:23] TR News Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-12-16.gmi [07:23] TR News [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1506.jpg [07:23] TR News [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1856.jpg [07:23] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techrights [07:25] TR News "ah yes, gemini, the place i go to talk about gemini :3 in the past i've had scripts and generators, but honestly, i don't think i want to have an atom feed after discover the gemini companion file format." gemini://tilde.pink/~emily/log/generating-less.gmi [07:32] TR News (NEW): Over 4,700 Gemini Capsules Out There https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/16/Over_4_700_Gemini_Capsules_Out_There.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/16/Over_4_700_Gemini_Capsules_Out_There.gmi [07:32] TR Bot Tux Machines Over 4,700 Gemini Capsules Out There [07:34] *psydroid3 (~psydroid@7h7y9yu8y5zjw.irc) has joined #techrights ● Dec 16 [08:14] *_what__ has quit (connection closed) [08:14] TR News (NEW): Microsoft Slop Goes Offline, Signs of More Layoffs in Gaming Teams https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/15/Microsoft_Slop_Goes_Offline_Signs_of_More_Layoffs_in_Gaming_Tea.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/15/Microsoft_Slop_Goes_Offline_Signs_of_More_Layoffs_in_Gaming_Tea.gmi [08:14] TR Bot Tux Machines Microsoft Slop Goes Offline, Signs of More Layoffs in Gaming Teams [08:15] TR News SAME THING! "So please, learn the difference between AI slop and AI tools" https://www.reddit.com/r/accelerate/comments/1pn4j3v/a_rant_about_people_calling_everything_aislop/ [08:15] TR Bot - The heart of the internet [08:16] TR News Or maybe just stop calling it "AI" and instead call it "computer program" [08:17] TR News "If they allow AI slop then its just another win for LLVM" https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoronix-articles/1599258-gcc-developers-considering-whether-to-accept-ai-llm-generated-patches [08:17] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoronix-articles/1599258-gcc-developers-considering-whether-to-accept-ai-llm-generated-patches ) [08:17] TR News "Just wait till we have nuclear submarines running with AI written codes and nuclear power plants." https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoronix-articles/1599258-gcc-developers-considering-whether-to-accept-ai-llm-generated-patches [08:17] TR News "So yeah, another "engineer", facing his own inability to actually produce anything of value, chose instead to delude himself into trusting his "GPT5-Codex" and wasting valuable time of maintainers..." https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoronix-articles/1599258-gcc-developers-considering-whether-to-accept-ai-llm-generated-patches [08:23] TR News Weeks after huge layoff, Amazon makes new, smaller cut to WA workforce https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/weeks-after-huge-layoff-amazon-makes-new-smaller-cut-to-wa-workforce/ [08:23] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/weeks-after-huge-layoff-amazon-makes-new-smaller-cut-to-wa-workforce/ ) [08:24] *ewig has quit (Read error: Connection reset by peer) [08:24] TR News Amazon to lay off 84 employees in Seattle and Bellevue in latest job cuts https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2025/12/15/amazon-layoffs-84-february.html [08:24] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2025/12/15/amazon-layoffs-84-february.html ) [08:28] *ewig (~ewig@user/ewig) has joined #techrights [08:53] TR News GNU/Linux up above 4% in Egypt https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/egypt/#monthly-200902-202512 [08:53] TR Bot Desktop Operating System Market Share Egypt | Statcounter Global Stats ● Dec 16 [09:22] *_what__ (~whatA_@5qfh8ygvjx3sy.irc) has joined #techrights [09:24] _what__ http://techrights.org/n/2025/12/16/Secret_Code_is_Undesirable.shtml [09:24] _what__ reminder http://techrights.org/n/2025/08/30/Birds_Are_Not_Pests_and_Vermin_Privacy_is_Not_a_Crime_and_GNU_L.shtml [09:24] TR Bot Techrights Secret Code is Undesirable [09:24] TR Bot Techrights Birds Are Not "Pests and Vermin", Privacy is Not a Crime, and GNU/Linux is Not 'Hacking Platform' [09:24] _what__ see my rant above regarding DMCA Section 1201 [09:25] _what__ TL;DR proprietary = control != accountability [09:27] _what__ also "Reflections on Trusting Trust" [09:28] _what__ "don't trust the binaries, always verify the source code and its build process (compilers, linkers, assemblers)" [09:29] _what__ "due to fear the code is not secure" http://techrights.org/o/2015/10/08/back-doors-msft/ [09:29] TR Bot More Back Doors Found in Microsoft's Entrapments (Proprietary Software) [09:29] _what__ "kept by people who don't wish to be publicly scrutinised" http://techrights.org/o/2020/08/14/control-but-no-accountability/ [09:29] TR Bot High-Level Criminals Associate Privacy With Crime Because They Want Privacy Only for Themselves (Control But No Accountability) [09:31] _what__ I kept reminding because we need to avoid memory holes [09:31] _what__ only possible with TechRights Search [09:36] *ewig has quit (Remote host closed the connection) [09:46] _what__ http://techrights.org/n/2025/12/15/Another_AI_Slop_Use_Cases_Turns_Out_to_be_a_Fraud.shtml [09:46] TR Bot Techrights Another "AI" (Slop) Use Cases Turns Out to be a Fraud [09:46] _what__ "turning humans into slaves" [09:47] _what__ I've yapped about Colonialism/Imperisalism yesterday, and it still lasts today [09:48] _what__ newspoken as BlueWashing (IBM), Code of Conduct (sic) or whatever ● Dec 16 [10:01] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [10:05] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@atu2uhbvxaeyw.irc) has joined #techrights [10:12] *psydroid3 has quit (Quit: KVIrc 5.2.6 Quasar http://www.kvirc.net/) ● Dec 16 [11:13] *croissant (~croissant@abga75rykwqa4.irc) has joined #techrights [11:48] *_what__ has quit (connection closed) ● Dec 16 [12:24] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [12:25] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@atu2uhbvxaeyw.irc) has joined #techrights ● Dec 16 [13:04] *ewig (~ewig@user/ewig) has joined #techrights [13:27] TR News EPO breaking the law even well after COVID-19 was a thing. Typical EPO. http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/12/vico-oral-proceedings-whatever-happened.html [13:27] TR Bot ViCo oral proceedings: Whatever happened to the in-person "Gold-Standard"? - The IPKat [13:28] TR News Growing a mix of plants in fields can save farmers money and help the environment https://theconversation.com/growing-a-mix-of-plants-in-fields-can-save-farmers-money-and-help-the-environment-new-research-271432 [13:28] TR Bot Growing a mix of plants in fields can save farmers money and help the environment new research [13:28] TR News Exotic animal https://theconversation.com/exotic-animal-cafes-cute-trend-or-welfare-crisis-271147 [13:28] TR Bot Exotic animal cafes: cute trend or welfare crisis? ● Dec 16 [14:01] *_what__ (~whatA_@g2g453nrcemfa.irc) has joined #techrights [14:03] _what__ German: "UEFI Restricted Boot is Nationwide Security Risk" [14:03] _what__ Microsoft PR: https://techrights.org/o/2021/11/01/security-blame-shifting/ [14:03] TR Bot [Meme] Microsoft: Always Blame the Victim (Failing That, Blame the Governments of Other Nations) [14:03] _what__ See also: http://techrights.org/o/2022/03/22/microsoft-infosec-propaganda/ [14:03] TR Bot Media Blames Free Software When Microsoft Distributes Malware and Gets Cracked [14:04] _what__ PR: "Stallman was wrong - software freedom is insecure" [14:04] _what__ NO, Outsourcing to Proprietary is NOT Secure [14:06] _what__ Last year: http://techrights.org/n/2024/06/02/Taiwan_Can_Defend_Its_Autonomy_Better_by_Avoiding_Microsoft_Bac.shtml [14:06] TR Bot Techrights Taiwan Can Defend Its Autonomy Better by Avoiding Microsoft (Back Doors) [14:06] _what__ (thanks to Techrights Search for preventing any memory hole) [14:11] _what__ Also: http://techrights.org/o/2019/07/14/blaming-canonical-for-github/ [14:11] TR Bot GitHub is Microsoft's Proprietary Software and Centralised (Monopoly) Platform, But When Canonical's Account There Gets Compromised Suddenly It's Ubuntu's Fault? [14:11] TR News Tanzania https://www.dw.com/en/tanzania-s-muted-independence-day-raises-more-questions/a-75078232 https://www.dw.com/en/tanzania-streets-deserted-on-independence-day/a-75081454 [14:11] TR Bot muted independence day raises more questions DW 12/09/2025 [14:11] TR Bot Streets deserted on Independence Day DW 12/09/2025 [14:16] schestowitz[TR2] https://techrights.org/wiki/Jesper_Kongstad/ is memory-holed in the WWW sense [14:16] TR Bot Jesper Kongstad [14:17] schestowitz[TR2] but we documented everything he did [14:17] schestowitz[TR2] EPO SLAPPs always failed [14:17] TR News mpox = More expensive patents to licence https://www.dw.com/en/new-strain-of-mpox-virus-what-you-need-to-know/a-75077995 [14:17] TR Bot strain of mpox virus: What you need to know DW 12/09/2025 [14:18] TR News Indian airline ordered to cut flights by 5% https://www.dw.com/en/indigo-s-woes-indian-airline-ordered-to-cut-flights-by-5/a-75073906 [14:18] TR Bot ordered to cut flights by 5% DW 12/09/2025 [14:18] TR News "Sanoma to repay violinist over apology to fashion tycoon who was later convicted as a sex offender" https://yle.fi/a/74-20200094 [14:18] TR Bot Sanoma to repay violinist over apology to fashion tycoon who was later convicted as a sex offender | Yle News | Yle [14:37] _what__ MJG59 SLAPPs prevail where EPO SLAPPs fail [14:37] _what__ just yesterday [14:43] ZedHedTed https://www.cbsnews.com/news/slop-merriam-webster-2025-word-of-the-year/ [14:43] TR Bot "Slop" chosen as Merriam-Webster's 2025 word of the year - CBS News ● Dec 16 [15:09] *SomeGoat (~SomeGoat@r9ruxqydtdctn.irc) has joined #techrights [15:25] TR News antitrust inquiry over Google's AI search summaries https://www.dw.com/en/eu-opens-antitrust-inquiry-over-google-s-ai-search-summaries/a-75075325 [15:25] TR Bot opens antitrust inquiry over Google's AI search summaries DW 12/09/2025 [15:27] TR News Children feel isolated https://www.dw.com/en/australia-social-media-ban-children-feel-isolated-ignored/a-75075938 [15:27] TR Bot social media ban: Children feel isolated, ignored DW 12/09/2025 [15:28] TR News You Control The Future Of Xorg On Linux!! https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=N_X7clyPE5Q [15:28] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=N_X7clyPE5Q ) [15:28] TR News Cloudflare Has A Serious Stability Problem https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=HAhmUhLVuAc [15:28] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=HAhmUhLVuAc ) [15:28] TR News I Am Using This Tiny Open Source Software For Past 20 Years https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=sOgNT5WxBhA [15:28] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=sOgNT5WxBhA ) [15:32] *croissant_ (~croissant@abga75rykwqa4.irc) has joined #techrights [15:33] TR News (NEW): Applications: TLDR-Pages, Lists of Software, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/15/Applications_TLDR_Pages_Lists_of_Software_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/15/Applications_TLDR_Pages_Lists_of_Software_and_More.gmi [15:33] TR News (NEW): Vista 10 Wiped, GNU/Linux Replaces It for Games; Gaming on Linux With an Nvidia GPU Called "Solid" https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/15/Vista_10_Wiped_GNU_Linux_Replaces_It_for_Games_Gaming_on_Linux_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/15/Vista_10_Wiped_GNU_Linux_Replaces_It_for_Games_Gaming_on_Linux_.gmi [15:33] TR Bot Tux Machines Applications: TLDR-Pages, Lists of Software, and More [15:33] TR News (NEW): Birthdays https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/16/Birthdays.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/16/Birthdays.gmi [15:33] TR Bot Tux Machines Vista 10 Wiped, GNU/Linux Replaces It for Games; Gaming on Linux With an Nvidia GPU Called "Solid" [15:33] TR Bot Tux Machines Birthdays [15:33] *croissant has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [15:39] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techrights [15:44] _what__ we need to watch out if this SLAPP became a Landmark Lawsuit [15:44] _what__ GAFAM will also follow [15:44] _what__ the MJG SLAPP that he won yesterday [15:46] _what__ (or any proprietary pushers beside GAFAM) [15:46] _what__ also: EPO will retry its defamation lawsuit after MJG's SLAPP success [15:46] _what__ (the war against Libre Software continues) [15:49] TR News Techrights EPO People Power - Part XIV - EPO Management Living in Fantasy Land https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/16/EPO_People_Power_Part_XIV_EPO_Management_Living_in_Fantasy_Land.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/16/EPO_People_Power_Part_XIV_EPO_Management_Living_in_Fantasy_Land.gmi [15:49] TR Bot Techrights EPO People Power - Part XIV - EPO Management Living in Fantasy Land [15:49] TR News Publication Plans for the Coming Weeks https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/16/Publication_Plans_for_the_Coming_Weeks.shtml [15:49] TR Bot Techrights Publication Plans for the Coming Weeks [15:49] TR News The Scientifically Correct Arch Linux User https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=PmjBZDGJzDQ [15:49] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=PmjBZDGJzDQ ) [15:50] TR News Zorin OS 18 Core Quick OverviewQA071 https://www.yewtu.be/shorts/p01kzf6OQuE [15:50] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://yewtu.be/shorts/p01kzf6OQuE ) [15:50] TR News Cosmic a great Linux desktop, but still limited https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=ob-Y77kuVwM [15:50] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=ob-Y77kuVwM ) [15:51] TR News Techrights When Malformed RSS or Atom Feeds Clog Up (or Even Crash) Programs https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/16/When_Malformed_RSS_or_Atom_Feeds_Clog_Up_or_Even_Crash_Programs.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/16/When_Malformed_RSS_or_Atom_Feeds_Clog_Up_or_Even_Crash_Programs.gmi [15:51] TR Bot Techrights When Malformed RSS or Atom Feeds Clog Up (or Even Crash) Programs [15:51] TR News Top 5 INSANE Zorin OS Features You Can't Get On Ubuntu (#3 is a Game-Changer) https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=azVdJFNUFXM [15:51] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=azVdJFNUFXM ) [15:51] TR News How to install CachyOS 251129 https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=xiCIZ868cjw [15:51] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=xiCIZ868cjw ) [15:53] TR News (NEW): Videos: Recent Shows or Clips About GNU/Linux https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/16/Videos_Recent_Shows_or_Clips_About_GNU_Linux.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/16/Videos_Recent_Shows_or_Clips_About_GNU_Linux.gmi [15:53] TR Bot Tux Machines Videos: Recent Shows or Clips About GNU/Linux [15:53] TR News Belgian Court spares rich-kid inner turmoil-driven plotlines from copyright protection http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/12/belgian-court-spares-rich-kid-inner.html [15:53] TR Bot Belgian Court spares rich-kid inner turmoil-driven plotlines from copyright protection - The IPKat [15:54] TR News How to Have a Plastic-Free Holiday Season https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/12/how-to-have-a-plastic-free-holiday-season/ [15:54] TR Bot to Have a Plastic-Free Holiday Season - CounterPunch.org [15:55] TR News privacy https://theconversation.com/everything-from-air-fryers-to-tvs-suck-up-our-personal-data-heres-how-to-give-gadgets-that-respect-privacy-this-xmas-271352 [15:55] TR Bot Everything from air fryers to TVs suck up our personal data heres how to give gadgets that respect privacy this Xmas [15:55] TR News resist overspending at Christmas https://theconversation.com/its-so-hard-to-resist-overspending-at-christmas-heres-how-to-reinforce-your-willpower-270389 [15:55] TR Bot Its so hard to resist overspending at Christmas heres how to reinforce your willpower [15:55] _what__ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/15/LLM_Slop_AI_Won_t_Last_Much_Longer.shtml [15:55] TR Bot Tux Machines LLM Slop ("AI") Won't Last Much Longer [15:55] _what__ ETA? [15:56] schestowitz[TR2] over already [15:56] schestowitz[TR2] slopwatch [15:56] schestowitz[TR2] but [15:56] schestowitz[TR2] slop will last [15:56] schestowitz[TR2] until the last llm provider shuts down [15:56] schestowitz[TR2] and lame "llama" loses appeal [15:56] schestowitz[TR2] for people who run that locally [15:59] _what__ I mean "look forward to the _eta_ after the "AI" hype" [15:59] _what__ Era? ● Dec 16 [16:00] schestowitz[TR2] no time [16:00] schestowitz[TR2] it is gradual [16:03] TR News On IBM: "My Ex First line. Wow what a mo--n she is. Knows nothing about coding, I am surprised she knows how to put something in the USB port. But she knows how to schedule calls, Say stupid cr@p like Synergy and all those other awful corporate jargon. Nobody knows how to troll a Monday board like her and ask for updates ever 10 minutes. How the Eff did she ever become a band 10?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kchgf6qt [16:03] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kchgf6qt ) [16:04] _what__ 2018: http://forums.nesdev.org/viewtopic.php?t=17646 [16:04] TR Bot ( status 403 @ http://forums.nesdev.org/viewtopic.php?t=17646 ) [16:04] _what__ the HEY HI experiments [16:07] schestowitz[TR2] Slashdot Media still experiments in Linux Journal [16:07] schestowitz[TR2] but not much output [16:09] *SomeGoat has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [16:10] _what__ speaking of Proprietary Chaffbot Company http://techrights.org/o/2016/03/25/microsoft-media-strategy/ [16:10] TR Bot Forget About Tay: Microsoft Has Serious Issues, Including Existential Ones [16:11] _what__ crybullies scaepgoafing [16:14] TR News Techrights Paying the Price for IBM's Leadership Buying Worthless Companies With Capital It Doesn't Have https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/16/Paying_the_Price_for_IBM_s_Leadership_Buying_Worthless_Companie.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/16/Paying_the_Price_for_IBM_s_Leadership_Buying_Worthless_Companie.gmi [16:14] TR Bot Techrights Paying the Price for IBM's Leadership Buying Worthless Companies With Capital It Doesn't Have [16:16] TR News GNU/Linux growing in Australia https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/australia/#monthly-200902-202512 [16:16] TR Bot Desktop Operating System Market Share Australia | Statcounter Global Stats [16:18] TR News Toradex Luna SL1680 SBC Features Synaptics SL1680 SoC with 8 TOPS NPU, Starts at $105 https://linuxgizmos.com/toradex-luna-sl1680-sbc-features-synaptics-sl1680-soc-with-8-tops-npu-starts-at-105/ [16:18] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/toradex-luna-sl1680-sbc-features-synaptics-sl1680-soc-with-8-tops-npu-starts-at-105/ ) [16:18] TR News Harden your Hey Hi (AI) Hey Hi (AI) Hey Hi (AI) Hey Hi (AI) Hey Hi (AI) https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/harden-your-ai-systems-applying-industry-standards-real-world [16:18] TR Bot Harden your AI systems: Applying industry standards in the real world [16:19] TR News SparkyLinux 2025.12 Brings Kernel 6.17 and Updated Desktop ISOs https://linuxiac.com/sparkylinux-2025-12-brings-kernel-6-17-and-updated-desktop-isos/ [16:19] TR Bot SparkyLinux 2025.12 Brings Kernel 6.17 and Updated Desktop ISOs [16:19] TR News Wikipedias orientability article, revisited https://rubenerd.com/wikipedias-orientability-article-revisited/ [16:19] TR Bot Wikipedias orientability article, revisited [16:20] TR News Better Code, Without Any Effort, Without Even Hey Hi (AI) https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/12/better-code-without-any-effort-without-even-ai/ [16:20] TR Bot Code, Without Any Effort, Without Even AI | R-bloggers [16:20] TR News Multiplying the Shuffle Speed in Go with Batched Shuffling https://lemire.me/blog/2025/12/15/multiplying-the-shuffle-speed-in-go-with-batched-shuffling/ [16:20] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://lemire.me/blog/2025/12/15/multiplying-the-shuffle-speed-in-go-with-batched-shuffling/ ) [16:22] TR News Grok Is Making Wildly Contradictory Claims About Rob Reiners Death https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/grok-rob-reiner-death [16:22] TR Bot Grok Is Making Wildly Contradictory Claims About Rob Reiner's Death [16:22] TR News The Washington Post Deployed Its Disastrous AI-Generated Podcasts Even After Internal Tests Showed It Was Failing Miserably https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/washington-post-ai-generated-podcasts-internal-tests [16:22] TR Bot The Washington Post Deployed Its Disastrous AI-Generated Podcasts Even After Internal Tests Showed It Was Failing Miserably [16:23] TR News Fox News Instructs Viewers to Buy Plastic Christmas Trees So the Real Ones Can Be Sacrificed to Feed the Insatiable Hunger of Hey Hi (AI) Data Centers https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/fox-news-christmas-trees-ai-data-centers [16:23] TR Bot Fox News Instructs Viewers to Buy Plastic Christmas Trees So the Real Ones Can Be Sacrificed to Feed the Insatiable Hunger of AI Data Centers [16:24] TR News How Techs Biggest Companies Are Offloading the Risks of the Hey Hi (AI) Boom https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/technology/ai-risks-debt.html [16:24] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/technology/ai-risks-debt.html ) [16:25] TR News Pluralistic: Break up bad companies; replace bad union bosses (15 Dec 2025) https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/15/class-war-labor-peace/ [16:25] TR Bot Pluralistic: Break up bad companies; replace bad union bosses (15 Dec 2025) Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow [16:25] TR News Major publishers back universal Hey Hi (AI) licensing technology https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/digital-journalism/major-publishers-back-universal-ai-licensing-technology/ [16:25] TR Bot Major publishers back universal AI licensing technology - Press Gazette [16:26] TR News CC Signals: What Weve Been Working On https://creativecommons.org/2025/12/15/cc-signals-what-weve-been-working-on/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cc-signals-what-weve-been-working-on [16:26] TR Bot CC Signals: What We've Been Working On - Creative Commons [16:27] TR News The Servo Blog: November in Servo: monthly releases, context menus, parallel CSS parsing, and more! https://servo.org/blog/2025/12/15/november-in-servo/ [16:27] TR Bot November in Servo: monthly releases, context menus, parallel CSS parsing, and more! - Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications. [16:29] _what__ Slopington Post [16:32] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techrights [16:32] TR News Louvre Museum Staff Go on Daylong Strike, Shutting Out Tourists https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/world/europe/louvre-strike-crisis-tourists.html [16:32] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/world/europe/louvre-strike-crisis-tourists.html ) [16:33] TR News Scribus 1.6.5 Released with Dozens of Fixes [Ubuntu PPA] https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/12/scribus-1-6-5-released-with-dozens-of-fixes-ubuntu-ppa/ [16:33] TR Bot Scribus 1.6.5 Released with Dozens of Fixes [Ubuntu PPA] | UbuntuHandbook [16:34] TR News GIMP 3.2 RC2: Second Release Candidate for GIMP3.2 https://www.gimp.org/news/2025/12/15/gimp-3-2-RC2-released/ [16:34] TR Bot GIMP 3.2 RC2: Second Release Candidate for GIMP3.2 - GIMP [16:36] _what__ http://techrights.org/o/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/ [16:36] TR Bot Index of /o/wp-content/uploads/2009/01 [16:36] _what__ tons of plex [16:36] *croissant_ is now known as croissant [16:36] _what__ whatever Mr. Gates is up into [16:36] _what__ (WARNING: EpsteinGates may follow suit after MJG's SLAPP success) [16:36] TR News DietPi 9.20 Brings RustDesk Server and Broad SBC Improvements https://linuxiac.com/dietpi-9-20-brings-rustdesk-server-and-broad-sbc-improvements/ [16:36] TR Bot DietPi 9.20 Brings RustDesk Server and Broad SBC Improvements [16:37] TR News Tracking kernel commits across branches http://www.kroah.com/log/blog/2025/12/15/tracking-kernel-commits-across-branches/ [16:37] TR Bot Tracking kernel commits across branches - [16:37] TR News Security updates for Monday https://lwn.net/Articles/1050523/ [16:37] TR Bot updates for Monday [LWN.net] [16:37] TR News Sparky 2025.12 https://sparkylinux.org/sparky-2025-12/ [16:37] TR Bot Sparky 2025.12 - SparkyLinux [16:38] _what__ What would become UEFI http://birdhouse.org/beos/byte/30-bootloader/ [16:38] TR Bot He Who Controls the Bootloader [16:38] TR News Fresh Launches as a New Terminal-First Text Editor https://linuxiac.com/fresh-launches-as-a-new-terminal-first-text-editor/ [16:38] TR Bot Fresh Launches as a New Terminal-First Text Editor [16:38] _what__ http://techrights.org/n/2024/03/19/By_Sami_Tikkanen.shtml [16:38] TR Bot Techrights Comparing U.E.F.I. to B.I.O.S. (Bloat and Insecurity to K.I.S.S.) [16:39] TR News GIMP 3.2 RC2 added Barrel Rotation support for Mypaint Brushes https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/12/gimp-3-2-rc2-added-barrel-rotation-support-for-mypaint-brushes/ [16:39] TR Bot GIMP 3.2 RC2 added Barrel Rotation support for Mypaint Brushes | UbuntuHandbook [16:39] *SomeGoat (~SomeGoat@r9ruxqydtdctn.irc) has joined #techrights [16:39] TR News TReX terminal app for RegEx visualization https://www.linuxlinks.com/trex-terminal-app-regex-visualization/ [16:39] TR Bot - terminal app for RegEx visualization - LinuxLinks [16:39] TR News RADIUSdesk RADIUS management platform https://www.linuxlinks.com/radiusdesk-radius-management-platform/ [16:39] TR Bot - RADIUS management platform - LinuxLinks [16:40] TR News Lichen multi-headphone audio router for GNU/Linux https://www.linuxlinks.com/lichen-multi-headphone-audio-router/ [16:40] TR Bot - multi-headphone audio router for Linux - LinuxLinks [16:40] TR News Helio music sequencer https://www.linuxlinks.com/helio-music-sequencer/ [16:40] TR Bot - music sequencer - LinuxLinks [16:40] TR News Benchmarking the BOSGAME M6 HX370 Hey Hi (AI) Mini PC https://www.linuxlinks.com/benchmarking-bosgame-m6-hx370-ai-mini-pc/ [16:40] TR Bot the BOSGAME M6 HX370 AI Mini PC - LinuxLinks [16:40] TR News rustffetch neofetch-like information manager https://www.linuxlinks.com/rustffetch-neofetch-like-information-manager/ [16:40] TR Bot - neofetch-like information manager - LinuxLinks [16:40] TR News mcat extended cat command https://www.linuxlinks.com/mcat-extended-cat-command/ [16:40] TR Bot - extended cat command - LinuxLinks [16:41] TR News 7 Projects Killed by Ubuntu (But I Still Miss Them) https://itsfoss.com/projects-ditched-by-ubuntu/ [16:41] TR Bot 7 Projects Killed by Ubuntu (But I Still Miss Them) [16:41] TR News The New Chief Editor at The Register MS is a Microsofter, Now They Increase Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Coverage and Add Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Slant to 'Linux' Coverage https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/15/The_New_Chief_Editor_at_The_Register_MS_is_a_Microsofter_Now_Th.shtml [16:41] TR Bot Techrights The New Chief Editor at The Register MS is a Microsofter, Now They Increase Microsoft Coverage and Add Microsoft Slant to 'Linux' Coverage [16:42] TR News Due to 'Secure Boot' (An Anti-Security Measure, a Kill Switch) Computer Users Are Afraid of GNU/Linux https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/15/Due_to_Secure_Boot_An_Anti_Security_Measure_a_Kill_Switch_Compu.shtml [16:42] TR Bot Techrights Due to 'Secure Boot' (An Anti-Security Measure, a Kill Switch) Computer Users Are Afraid of GNU/Linux [16:42] TR News Google News Still Has an LLM Slop Problem (With Slop Images Too), But Surveillance Giant Google Itself is a Pusher of Slop https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/16/Google_News_Still_Has_an_LLM_Slop_Problem_With_Slop_Images_Too_.shtml [16:42] TR Bot Techrights Google News Still Has an LLM Slop Problem (With Slop Images Too), But Google Itself is a Pusher of Slop [16:42] TR News Why its time to reset our expectations for Hey Hi (AI) https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/16/1129946/why-its-time-to-reset-our-expectations-for-ai/ [16:42] TR Bot Why it's time to reset our expectations for AI | MIT Technology Review [16:43] _what__ Masachusette Institute of Tall Tales [16:44] TR News Use GWP-ASan to detect exploits in production environments https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/12/16/use-gwp-asan-to-detect-exploits-in-production-environments/ [16:44] TR Bot Use GWP-ASan to detect exploits in production environments - The Trail of Bits Blog [16:45] TR News How to Install OpenJDK 21 on Ubuntu https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-openjdk-21-on-ubuntu-linux/ [16:45] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-openjdk-21-on-ubuntu-linux/ ) [16:45] TR News How to Install Caddy on Fedora https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-caddy-on-fedora/ [16:45] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-caddy-on-fedora/ ) [16:45] TR News How to Install Swift on Fedora https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-swift-on-fedora/ [16:45] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-swift-on-fedora/ ) [16:45] schestowitz[TR2] tall tales about short women [16:45] schestowitz[TR2] http://techrights.org/o/2020/05/27/joi-ito-email/ [16:45] TR Bot Joi Ito Already Admitted on the Record That Bill Gates Had Paid MIT Through Jeffrey Epstein [16:46] TR News LocalSend Local Network File Sharing Between Linux, backdoored Windows and Mac https://www.tecmint.com/localsend-share-files-linux-windows/ [16:46] TR Bot LocalSend - Easy File Sharing Between Linux and Windows [16:46] TR News How to Learn Qt in 2026: Free Courses, Tutorials & What's New for Developers https://www.qt.io/blog/how-to-learn-qt-in-2026 [16:46] TR Bot How to Learn Qt in 2026: Free Courses, Tutorials & What's New for Developers [16:48] TR News Day 15 of Daily Writing https://benjamincongdon.me/blog/2025/12/15/Day-15-of-Daily-Writing/ [16:48] TR Bot Day 15 of Daily Writing | Ben Congdon [16:48] TR News Pgpool-II 4.6.5, 4.5.10, 4.4.15 and 4.3.18 released. https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pgpool-ii-465-4510-4415-and-4318-released-3193/ [16:48] TR Bot PostgreSQL: Pgpool-II 4.6.5, 4.5.10, 4.4.15 and 4.3.18 released. [16:49] TR News Download and Install Ubuntu 26.04 LTS in VirtualBox or VMware https://linux.how2shout.com/ubuntu-26-04-lts-virtualbox-vmware-install-guide/ [16:49] TR Bot Download and Install Ubuntu 26.04 LTS in VirtualBox or VMware - LinuxShout [16:49] TR News Commands for Installing Bottles on Any Ubuntu Version https://linux.how2shout.com/install-bottles-ubuntu-commands/ [16:49] TR Bot Commands for Installing Bottles on Any Ubuntu Version - LinuxShout [16:50] TR News How To Install PhpStorm on Manjaro https://idroot.us/install-phpstorm-manjaro/ [16:50] TR Bot How To Install PhpStorm on Manjaro - idroot [16:50] TR News How To Install OpenShot on Debian 13 https://idroot.us/install-openshot-debian-13/ [16:50] TR Bot How To Install OpenShot on Debian 13 - idroot [16:51] TR News Qt (proprietary) pushing slop https://www.qt.io/blog/making-your-prompts-personal-qt-ai-assistant-0.9.8-released [16:51] TR Bot Making Your Prompts Personal Qt AI Assistant 0.9.8 Released! [16:53] TR News Destination Linux 446: Ubuntu From The BIOS & The Quest for an Open Source Mac https://destinationlinux.net/446 [16:53] TR Bot ( status 404 @ https://tuxdigital.com/podcasts/destination-linux/dl-446/ ) [16:54] TR News KDE Ni! OS Is a Playful Take on Immutable GNU/Linux Built on NixOS https://linuxiac.com/kde-ni-os-is-a-playful-take-on-immutable-linux-built-on-nixos/ [16:54] TR Bot KDE Ni! OS Is a Playful Take on Immutable Linux Built on NixOS [16:54] MinceR a playful take on malware [16:55] TR News (NEW): KDE Ni! OS https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/12/KDE_Ni_OS.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/12/KDE_Ni_OS.gmi [16:55] TR Bot Tux Machines KDE Ni! OS ● Dec 16 [17:02] TR News Spectrometer https://hackaday.com/2025/12/15/mass-spectrometer-tear-down/ | Source: Hackaday [17:02] TR Bot Spectrometer Tear Down | Hackaday [17:02] schestowitz[TR2] MinceR: oh [17:02] schestowitz[TR2] tell me more [17:02] schestowitz[TR2] what is wrong with nixos? [17:02] schestowitz[TR2] i only know oof the ssocial issues [17:02] MinceR it's a systemd distro [17:02] MinceR and kde capitulated to gnome [17:03] MinceR also, kde is going wayland-only [17:03] MinceR and afaik this "immutable" crap is pushed by the usual "modern" cultists [17:04] _what__ so is the Rust cargo cultists http://techrights.org/search/query?search=Search&set1=any&query1=rust%20cargo%20cult [17:04] TR Bot ( status 308 @ http://techrights.org/search/query?search=Search&set1=any&query1=rust%20cargo%20cult ) [17:04] _what__ note that Mr. Ritchie is slammed by the proprietarist Steve Jaws http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/04/What_Would_Dennis_Ritchie_Say_About_the_Memory_Safe_Hype_or_Car.shtml [17:04] TR Bot Techrights What Would Dennis Ritchie Say About the "Memory-Safe" Hype (or Cargo Cult)? [17:12] schestowitz[TR2] Steve Jaws :) [17:12] schestowitz[TR2] MinceR calls him Steve Blows [17:12] MinceR no, i call him Steve "Blow" Jobs [17:13] _what__ (not fellow theo) [17:13] _what__ (EpsteinGate on how to hentai without hentaing) [17:19] MinceR https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/rational-3 [17:19] TR Bot Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Rational [17:22] TR News History Of The Spreadsheet https://hackaday.com/2025/12/15/a-brief-history-of-the-spreadsheet/ | Source: Hackaday [17:22] TR Bot Brief History Of The Spreadsheet | Hackaday [17:23] TR News DNA Study Reveals Carrier of World's Earliest-Known Plague https://www.sciencealert.com/dna-study-reveals-carrier-of-worlds-earliest-known-plague [17:23] TR Bot Study Reveals Carrier of World's Earliest-Known Plague : ScienceAlert [17:37] TR News Techrights Blogs to Read (or Even Binge on) When You Look for a Daring and Different Perspective https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/16/Blogs_to_Read_or_Even_Binge_on_When_You_Look_for_a_Daring_and_D.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/16/Blogs_to_Read_or_Even_Binge_on_When_You_Look_for_a_Daring_and_D.gmi [17:37] TR Bot Techrights Blogs to Read (or Even Binge on) When You Look for a Daring and Different Perspective [17:38] TR News https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/15/The_Register_MS_Has_Just_Been_Paid_to_Promote_the_Ponzi_Scheme_.shtml [17:38] TR Bot Techrights The Register MS Has Just Been Paid to Promote the Ponzi Scheme Some More ("AI" Keyword Stuffing) [17:38] admfubar https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/mattel-scraps-plans-openai-toy. [17:38] TR Bot As Controversy Grows, Mattel Scraps Plans for OpenAI Reveal This Year [17:46] TR News Techrights The Register MS Does the "AI" Keyword Stuffing Because It Gets Paid to Do "AI" Keyword Stuffing https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/16/The_Register_MS_Does_the_AI_Keyword_Stuffing_Because_It_Gets_Pa.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/16/The_Register_MS_Does_the_AI_Keyword_Stuffing_Because_It_Gets_Pa.gmi [17:46] TR Bot Techrights The Register MS Does the "AI" Keyword Stuffing Because It Gets Paid to Do "AI" Keyword Stuffing [17:47] TR News https://analytics.usa.gov/ measures Firefox at 1.7% [17:47] TR Bot The US government's web traffic. [17:47] schestowitz[TR2] admfubar: what will barbie reveal to scam altman? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/technology/sam-altman-sister-lawsuit.html [17:47] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/technology/sam-altman-sister-lawsuit.html ) [17:48] admfubar https://scheerpost.com/2025/12/15/israeli-predator-smartphone-spyware-exposed/ [17:48] TR Bot Israeli Predator Smartphone Spyware Exposed [17:48] admfubar she will reveal everything [17:49] TR News https://stallman.org/ down for at least an hour or overblocking IP addresses [17:49] TR Bot to connect to stallman.org port 443 after 10000 ms: Timeout was reached ( status 0 @ https://stallman.org/ ) [17:49] admfubar https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/12/15/014215 [17:49] TR Bot Scientists Discover Early Alzheimer's Warning Sign Hiding in Routine Brain Scans - SoylentNews [17:50] TR News Slop promotes by It's FOSS seems like a new low https://itsfoss.com/news/check-snap-packages-vulnerabilities/ [17:50] TR Bot Check Your Snap Packages for Vulnerabilities With This Vibe-Coded Tool [17:51] TR News Yes, use a tool made by someone who cannot code or cannot be bothered to code [17:52] TR News 700Credit Data Breach Impacts 5.8 Million Individuals https://www.securityweek.com/700credit-data-breach-impacts-5-8-million-individuals/ [17:52] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/700credit-data-breach-impacts-5-8-million-individuals/ ) [17:53] TR News Improve RAG retrieval and training with Feast and Kubeflow Trainer https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/12/16/improve-rag-retrieval-training-feast-kubeflow-trainer [17:53] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/12/16/improve-rag-retrieval-training-feast-kubeflow-trainer ) [17:53] TR News User Data Compromised in SoundCloud Hack https://www.securityweek.com/user-data-compromised-in-soundcloud-hack/ [17:53] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/user-data-compromised-in-soundcloud-hack/ ) [17:54] TR News Opexus claims background checks missed red flags on twins accused of insider breach https://cyberscoop.com/opexus-background-checks-insider-attack-muneeb-sohaib-akhter/ [17:54] TR Bot claims background checks missed red flags on twins accused of insider breach | CyberScoop [17:54] TR News Whats in the SOSS? Podcast #47 S2E24 Teaching the Next Generation: Software Supply Chain Security in Academia with Justin Cappos https://openssf.org/podcast/2025/12/16/whats-in-the-soss-podcast-47-s2e24-teaching-the-next-generation-software-supply-chain-security-in-academia-with-justin-cappos/ [17:54] TR Bot Teaching Software Supply Chain Security in Academia | OpenSSF Podcast [17:56] TR News OpenShot 3.4 Open-Source Video Editor Released with New Effects and Features https://9to5linux.com/openshot-3-4-open-source-video-editor-released-with-new-effects-and-features [17:56] TR Bot 3.4 Open-Source Video Editor Released with New Effects and Features - 9to5Linux [17:56] TR News OpenShot 3.4 Released | Improved Performance, New Effects, Exciting Updates! https://www.openshot.org/blog/2025/12/15/new_openshot_release_340/ [17:56] TR Bot OpenShot Video Editor | OpenShot 3.4 Released | Improved Performance, New Effects, Exciting Updates! [17:58] TR News (NEW): OpenShot 3.4 Released https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/16/OpenShot_3_4_Released.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/16/OpenShot_3_4_Released.gmi [17:58] TR Bot Tux Machines OpenShot 3.4 Released ● Dec 16 [18:15] *GNUmoon has quit (Remote host closed the connection) [18:16] *GNUmoon (~GNUmoon@gateway/tor-sasl/gnumoon) has joined #techrights [18:39] *libredev has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [18:45] *_what__ has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) ● Dec 16 [19:04] *libredev (~libredev@w4s7ck52qnvc2.irc) has joined #techrights [19:51] *psydroid3 (~psydroid@yu29f4abyrsnc.irc) has joined #techrights ● Dec 16 [20:52] *_what__ (~whatA_@niuks3hisdbck.irc) has joined #techrights [20:53] _what__ http://techrights.org/n/2025/12/16/Blogs_to_Read_or_Even_Binge_on_When_You_Look_for_a_Daring_and_D.shtml [20:53] TR Bot Techrights Blogs to Read (or Even Binge on) When You Look for a Daring and Different Perspective [20:53] _what__ Where is the UEFI Exposer Tikkanen? 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