●● IRC: #techrights @ Techrights IRC Network: Sunday, August 17, 2025 ●● ● Aug 17 [00:13] TR News Students from Southeast Asia in demand at universities https://www.dw.com/en/students-from-southeast-asia-in-demand-at-universities/a-73568065 [00:13] TR Bot from Southeast Asia in demand at universities DW 08/08/2025 [00:16] TR News wage deal https://www.dw.com/en/germany-updates-dner-price-fears-skewered-after-wage-deal/live-73569486 [00:16] TR Bot updates: Dner price fears skewered after wage deal DW 08/08/2025 [00:17] TR News cuts to mRNA vaccine research https://www.dw.com/en/experts-alarmed-by-us-cuts-to-mrna-vaccine-research/a-73563375 [00:17] TR Bot alarmed by US cuts to mRNA vaccine research DW 08/08/2025 [00:19] TR News partly offsetting earlier growth https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-labour-force-survey-july-1.7604068 [00:19] TR Bot Canada's economy shed over 40,000 jobs in July, partly offsetting earlier growth | CBC News [00:21] TR News Automaker Ford hits pedal on EV production with $2B US overhaul of U.S. plant https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/automaker-ford-ev-production-kentucky-2-billion-1.7605966 [00:21] TR Bot Automaker Ford hits pedal on EV production with $2B US overhaul of U.S. plant | CBC News [00:22] TR News passengers' personal information stolen in cyberattack https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/westjet-cyberattack-passport-stolen-1.7606145 [00:22] TR Bot WestJet says some passengers' personal information stolen in cyberattack | CBC News [00:26] TR News private power generators https://www.dw.com/en/iraq-s-private-power-generators-lifesaver-or-environmental-burden/a-73626002 [00:26] TR Bot private power generators: Savior or climate burden? DW 08/13/2025 [00:29] TR News canola https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/beijing-canada-canola-duties-1.7606557 [00:29] TR Bot China to set preliminary duty on Canadian canola after anti-dumping probe | CBC News [00:30] TR News Windows near all-time low https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all//zimbabwe/#monthly-200902-202508 [00:30] TR Bot Operating System Market Share Zimbabwe | Statcounter Global Stats [00:31] TR News Yemen a mystery https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop//yemen/#monthly-200902-202508 [00:31] TR Bot Desktop Operating System Market Share Yemen | Statcounter Global Stats [00:33] TR News dancing can get you fined https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-strangest-laws-why-dancing-can-get-you-fined/a-73608011 [00:33] TR Bot strangest laws: Why dancing can get you fined DW 08/12/2025 [00:34] TR News GNU/Linux 6% in Chad? https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop//chad/#monthly-200902-202508 [00:34] TR Bot Desktop Operating System Market Share Chad | Statcounter Global Stats [00:35] TR News heat wave hits https://www.dw.com/en/germany-updates-air-conditioner-sales-rise-as-heat-wave-hits/live-73609604 [00:35] TR Bot updates: Air conditioner sales up as heat wave hits DW 08/12/2025 [00:37] TR News closure of news channel premises in Tirana https://www.dw.com/en/protests-after-closure-of-news-channel-premises-in-tirana/a-73612225 [00:37] TR Bot after closure of news channel premises in Tirana DW 08/12/2025 [00:47] TR News Denver employees say the city may remotely notify workers of layoffs https://kdvr.com/news/politics/denver-employees-say-the-city-may-notify-layoffs-remotely/ [00:47] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://kdvr.com/news/politics/denver-employees-say-the-city-may-notify-layoffs-remotely/ ) [00:48] TR News Now in relation to Cisco and Oracle they pretend mass layoffs due to business problems are something to do with "HEY HI". Still spreading lies. [00:50] TR News Microsoft MSN right now: "I'm a software engineer, and I've lost my job 4 times in the last 18 years. I don't think AI is the problem." [00:51] TR News Oracle India Fires 10% Workforce Under Cloud Infra Teams https://trak.in/stories/oracle-india-fires-10-workforce-under-cloud-infra-teams/ [00:51] TR Bot India Fires 10% Workforce Under Cloud Infra Teams - Trak.in - Indian Business of Tech, Mobile & Startups [00:53] TR News "Many software grunts are being replaced by AI or offshore sweatshops." AI = All India? https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k2p5dqzz [00:53] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k2p5dqzz ) [00:53] TR News "Bleak times ahead at the bloatware recycler." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k2q2k5tt [00:53] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k2q2k5tt ) [00:55] *includeals has quit (Quit: ZNC - https://znc.in) [00:55] *includeals (~includeal@bl18-27-126.dsl.telepac.pt) has joined #techrights [00:57] TR News cultural appropriation https://www.dw.com/en/mexico-adidas-apologizes-for-cultural-appropriation/a-73606400 [00:57] TR Bot timed out after 10000 milliseconds ( status 0 @ https://www.dw.com/en/mexico-adidas-apologizes-for-cultural-appropriation/a-73606400 ) [00:58] TR News ShinyHunters sent Google an extortion demand; Shiny comments on current activities https://databreaches.net/2025/08/08/shinyhunters-sent-google-an-extortion-demand-shiny-comments-on-current-activities/ [00:58] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://databreaches.net/2025/08/08/shinyhunters-sent-google-an-extortion-demand-shiny-comments-on-current-activities/ ) [00:59] TR News SC: Spartanburg County hit by cyberattack, some online services disrupted https://www.wyff4.com/article/spartanburg-county-cyberattack-services-disrupted/65637950 [00:59] TR Bot ( status 451 @ https://www.wyff4.com/article/spartanburg-county-cyberattack-services-disrupted/65637950 ) ● Aug 17 [01:00] TR News Why most plastic still ends up as waste https://www.dw.com/en/the-recycling-dilemma-why-most-plastic-still-ends-up-as-waste/a-73498838 [01:00] TR Bot recycling dilemma: Most plastic still ends up as waste DW 08/11/2025 [01:00] TR News threatens US scientific freedom https://www.dw.com/en/trump-s-new-executive-order-threatens-us-scientific-freedom/a-73603440 [01:00] TR Bot new executive order threatens US scientific freedom DW 08/11/2025 [01:01] TR News Founders Of Samourai Wallet Cryptocurrency Mixing Service Plead Guilty https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/founders-samourai-wallet-cryptocurrency-mixing-service-plead-guilty [01:01] TR Bot Southern District of New York | Founders Of Samourai Wallet Cryptocurrency Mixing Service Plead Guilty | United States Department of Justice [01:02] TR News Windows TCO? Pakistan Petroleum thwarts ransomware attempt, says no critical data compromised https://www.brecorder.com/news/amp/40376980 [01:02] TR Bot Pakistan Petroleum thwarts ransomware attempt, says no critical data compromised - Technology - Business Recorder [01:03] TR News Privacy watchdog sues Optus over mass data breach in 2022 https://www.smh.com.au/technology/privacy-watchdog-sues-optus-over-mass-data-breach-20250808-p5mlh1.html [01:03] TR Bot Optus sued by Australias OAIC privacy watchdog over massive data breach due to 2022 cyberattack [01:03] TR News Air France and KLM alert customers to data breach on external platform https://www.aviation24.be/airlines/air-france-klm-group/air-france/air-france-and-klm-alerts-customers-to-data-breach-on-external-platform/ [01:03] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.aviation24.be/airlines/air-france-klm-group/air-france/air-france-and-klm-alerts-customers-to-data-breach-on-external-platform/ ) [01:04] TR News 6.4 million Bouygues Telecom just had their data exposed in a huge data breach and its the second to hit French telecoms operators in a month https://www.itpro.com/security/data-breaches/6-4-million-bouygues-telecom-just-had-their-data-exposed-in-a-huge-data-breach-and-its-the-second-to-hit-french-telecoms-operators-in-a-month [01:04] TR Bot 6.4 million Bouygues Telecom customers just had their data exposed in a huge data breach and it's the second to hit French telecoms operators in a month | IT Pro [01:05] TR News 'destroying trust in science' https://www.dw.com/en/fake-studies-on-the-rise-destroying-trust-in-science/a-73533918 [01:05] TR Bot research is 'destroying trust in science' DW 08/10/2025 [01:06] TR News Scattered Spider has a new Telegram channel to list its attacks https://databreaches.net/2025/08/09/scattered-spider-has-a-new-telegram-channel-to-list-its-attacks/ [01:06] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://databreaches.net/2025/08/09/scattered-spider-has-a-new-telegram-channel-to-list-its-attacks/ ) [01:11] TR News NCERT Issues Advisory on Blue Locker Ransomware Targeting Pakistans Key Institutions https://www.phoneworld.com.pk/ncert-issues-advisory-on-blue-locker-ransomware-targeting-pakistans-key-institutions/ "The malware specifically targets Windows-based desktops, laptops, servers, network shares, and cloud-synced storage. Even backup systems connected during the attack can be rendered useless." [01:11] TR Bot NCERT Issues Advisory on Blue Locker Ransomware Targeting Pakistans Key Institutions - PhoneWorld [01:12] TR News Connex Credit Union notifies 172,000 members of hacking incident https://databreaches.net/2025/08/10/connex-credit-union-notifies-172000-members-of-hacking-incident/ [01:12] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://databreaches.net/2025/08/10/connex-credit-union-notifies-172000-members-of-hacking-incident/ ) [01:13] TR News Bank of America Refused To Reimburse Georgia Customer After Hackers Hit Account. Then a News Station Showed Up. https://dailyhodl.com/2025/08/10/bank-of-america-refuses-to-reimburse-customer-after-hackers-hit-account-drain-70000-report/ [01:13] TR Bot Bank of America Refuses To Reimburse Customer After Hackers Hit Account, Drain $70,000: Report - The Daily Hodl [01:13] TR News Adidas https://www.dw.com/en/mexico-us-designer-regrets-appropriated-adidas-shoes/a-73586612 [01:13] TR Bot US designer regrets 'appropriated' Adidas shoes DW 08/10/2025 [01:16] TR News Windows usage down: Why Ransomware Attacks Are Decreasing in 2025 https://www.techloy.com/why-ransomware-attacks-are-decreasing-in-2025/ [01:16] TR Bot Why Ransomware Attacks Are Decreasing in 2025 [01:18] TR News Violent Crypto Crimes Surge in 2025 Amid Massive Data Leaks https://coindoo.com/violent-crypto-crimes-surge-in-2025-amid-massive-data-leaks/ [01:18] TR Bot Violent Crypto Crimes Surge in 2025 Amid Massive Data Leaks [01:18] TR News Hackers breach cancer screening data of almost 500,000 women https://www.dutchnews.nl/2025/08/hackers-breach-cancer-screening-data-of-almost-500000-women/ [01:18] TR Bot breach cancer screening data of almost 500,000 women - DutchNews.nl [01:20] TR News Windows TCO? Yes24, the largest Internet bookstore in Korea, suffered its second ransomware attack in two months https://www.mk.co.kr/en/it/11391124 [01:20] TR Bot Yes24, the largest Internet bookstore in Korea, suffered another "eat-dog" situation due to ransomwa.. - MK [01:22] TR News Techrights Welcome to the New Techrights https://techrights.org/ | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/ [01:22] TR News Techrights Links 17/08/2025: Breaches, Layoffs, and Scams https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/17/Links_17_08_2025_Breaches_Layoffs_and_Scams.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/08/17/Links_17_08_2025_Breaches_Layoffs_and_Scams.gmi [01:22] TR Bot Techrights Welcome to the New Techrights [01:22] TR Bot Techrights Links 17/08/2025: Breaches, Layoffs, and Scams [01:23] TR News "A big issue people have been voicing is a lack of good content on gemini. Places like Antenna are where people make their content known. When people post their aggregators to Antenna we get a huge block of noise on a daily basis. It makes a simple interface annoying to use." gemini://gemini.sh0.xyz/log/2025-08-16_re_re_please_stop_making_news_aggregators.gmi [01:25] TR News "Those who want to manage their Antenna feeds can do so via the Gemini interface that Antenna affords. There is a slight difficulty doing that, e.g., where Someone keeps changing the URLs they use, and engages in other sorts of "ban evasion". It's also hard if you need unusual pattern matching." gemini://gemini.ucant.org/gemlog/2025-08-16_re-please-stop-making-news-aggregators.gmi [01:26] TR News "F1 teams must take three weeks off in the summer. They even have to shut down their email servers. From testing in February to the last race at the beginning of December, it's a long season, so the summer break is a big deal. There isn't a winter break because everyone's flat out prepping new cars for testing." gemini://freeshell.de/f1/2025-08-16_Summer_break.gmi [01:26] TR News "I've been over this before, but Gemini continues to expand. There is no "disease" or "stagnation", and it is tiresome to read claims that there's some kind of problem." gemini://gemini.ucant.org/gemlog/2025-08-16_there-is-no-disease-that-affects-the-geminiverse.gmi [01:27] TR News "Gemini is just an information system. It lets people write, transport, render and link to text documents reasonably easily. It has a few other key characteristics. But so long as people are able to do the whole reading and writing thing, it's a success." [01:27] TR News "No-one said it had to have a particular level of adoption or, heaven forbid, "engagement" in order to be accounted successful. It's bordering on a straw-man argument to suggest otherwise." [01:28] TR News Let's Encrypt and the Butlerian Jihad gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2025-08-15-lets-encrypt [01:28] TR News "On the forum, I learned that Let's Encrypt currently has one primary and 4 secondary centres; the primary and all but one of the secondaries must succeed. So I though, I must be blocking these at the firewall." [01:29] TR News "Even after university, I used to get very overwhelmed when I had a lot to do at once. I'd get upset when someone started talking to me, fearing that I might forget something important. Sometimes I'd be like that for days at a time where nobody could talk to me. The word that comes to mind to describe it is... dysfunctional." gemini://nicholasjohnson.ch/2025/08/15/praise-be-to-gtd/ [01:31] TR News "This is hard to say too; the trend is not promising and technologies that disappear, like falling stars, it is a sad and brutal reality." gemini://omg.pebcak.club/~freezr/gemlog/2025-08-16-the-disease-that-affects-the-geminiverse.gmi [01:32] TR News "If you read this blog on gopher, you should have noticed... absolutely nothing. This post is about that." gopher://tilde.club:70/0/~user18130814200115/posts/0034-a-fresh-coat-of-paint.txt [01:37] TR News Techrights Gemini Links 17/08/2025: Misunderstanding "Geminiverse" and Let's Encrypt https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/17/Gemini_Links_17_08_2025_Misunderstanding_Geminiverse_and_Let_s_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/08/17/Gemini_Links_17_08_2025_Misunderstanding_Geminiverse_and_Let_s_.gmi [01:37] TR Bot Techrights Gemini Links 17/08/2025: Misunderstanding "Geminiverse" and Let's Encrypt [01:48] TR News "The beta version of Linux Mint 22.2 is available for testing. Mint 22.2, which is called Zara, is based on Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS Noble Numbat. The latest version of Mint ships with Linux 6.14 Kernel as the default." https://news.filehippo.com/2025/08/august-16-tech-news-roundup-linux-mint-22-2-beta-released-microsoft-thinks-ai-will-make-the-mouse-and-keyboard-obsolete-edge-on-windows-10-to-get-updates-till-2028/ [01:48] TR Bot August 16 Tech news roundup: Linux Mint 22.2 beta released, Microsoft thinks AI will make the mouse and keyboard obsolete, Edge on Windows 10 to get updates till 2028 - File Hippo News [01:49] TR News Desktop Linux apps on Android phones https://liliputing.com/lilbits-desktop-linux-apps-on-android-phones-xbox-pc-gaming-on-arm-based-computers-and-a-cheaper-kindle-color/ [01:49] TR Bot Desktop Linux apps on Android phones, Xbox PC gaming on ARM-based computers, and a cheaper Kindle color - Liliputing [01:49] TR News (NEW): Linux Mint 22.2 Zara Is Available for Public Beta Testing, Download Now https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/10/Linux_Mint_22_2_Zara_Is_Available_for_Public_Beta_Testing_Downl.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/10/Linux_Mint_22_2_Zara_Is_Available_for_Public_Beta_Testing_Downl.gmi [01:49] TR Bot Tux Machines Linux Mint 22.2 Zara Is Available for Public Beta Testing, Download Now [01:50] TR News Bored on Linux? Try These 7 Open Source Ports of Classic Games https://www.howtogeek.com/open-source-ports-of-classic-games-on-linux/ [01:50] TR Bot Bored on Linux? Try These 7 Open Source Ports of Classic Games [01:57] TR News "Linux Ubuntu wireless client via Wi-Fi 4/5 router to a wired Linux Debian server [6] This section describes our physical testbeds deployed for real-time testing of both wired and wireless setups for the three CCAs" https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Linux-Ubuntu-wireless-client-via-Wi-Fi-4-5-router-to-a-wired-Linux-Debian-server-6-This_fig3_394463420 [01:57] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Linux-Ubuntu-wireless-client-via-Wi-Fi-4-5-router-to-a-wired-Linux-Debian-server-6-This_fig3_394463420 ) [01:58] TR News "I decided to do something out of the ordinary. My goal was to run a full-fledged Linux desktop inside a container. I don't want just a shell; I want a fully functional GUI that exists where it's not supposed to. This is what happened when I tried." https://www.howtogeek.com/i-run-a-full-linux-desktop-in-docker-just-because-i-can/ [01:58] TR Bot I Run a Full Linux Desktop in Docker Just Because I Can [01:59] TR News 6 Linux command line tricks everyone should know https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-command-line-tricks-everyone-should-know/ [01:59] TR Bot 6 Linux command line tricks everyone should know ● Aug 17 [02:13] TR News GNU/Linux 5% in Sudan https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/sudan/#monthly-200902-202508 [02:13] TR Bot Desktop Operating System Market Share Sudan | Statcounter Global Stats [02:14] TR News In Slovenia, GNU/Linux gains at Windows' expense https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/slovenia/#monthly-200902-202508 [02:14] TR Bot Desktop Operating System Market Share Slovenia | Statcounter Global Stats [02:27] TR News "While on the wiki page, I made some of my own to the osd section. Factual and with references. I don't know how our history was eliminated from this page. Nice to do some wiki edits, reminded me of the Nupedia days before the open source well was so poisoned." - Techrights reader trying to find misinformation about OSI [02:38] TR News Techrights Open Source Initiative (OSI), Wikipedia, Molly De Blanc, and Censorship/Reputation Laundering https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/17/Open_Source_Initiative_OSI_Wikipedia_Molly_De_Blanc_and_Censors.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/08/17/Open_Source_Initiative_OSI_Wikipedia_Molly_De_Blanc_and_Censors.gmi [02:38] TR Bot Techrights Open Source Initiative (OSI), Wikipedia, Molly De Blanc, and Censorship/Reputation Laundering [02:46] TR News Yesterday's #boycottnovell-social and #techpol IRC logs ready. 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[02:54] *SomeGoat has quit (connection closed) [02:57] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.mancity.com/citytv/mens/brief-highlights-202526-wolves-manchester-city-63890969 [02:57] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.mancity.com/citytv/mens/brief-highlights-202526-wolves-manchester-city-63890969 ) ● Aug 17 [03:30] TR News Techrights When It Comes to Technology, Mozilla and Firefox Are Illiberal https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/17/When_It_Comes_to_Technology_Mozilla_and_Firefox_Are_Illiberal.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/08/17/When_It_Comes_to_Technology_Mozilla_and_Firefox_Are_Illiberal.gmi [03:30] TR Bot Techrights When It Comes to Technology, Mozilla and Firefox Are Illiberal [03:32] schestowitz[TR2] https://old.reddit.com/r/WhySwitchToLinux/comments/1mry7p1/why_is_richard_stallman_such_a_decisive_figure/ [03:32] schestowitz[TR2] "" [03:32] schestowitz[TR2] He's always been a hardliner in the FOSS Space. He's also the one who started insisting on it being called GNU/Linux whenever someone just said Linux. [03:32] schestowitz[TR2] He's also the guy who pushed things like the General Public License and copy left ideas. He got in trouble a while ago for some comments related to Age of Consent laws. And by a while I think it was ten years. [03:32] schestowitz[TR2] End of the day though, he is a true believer in Free and Open Source code. Hates proprietary products like a fanatic, and defends the Free Software Foundations mission like a zealot. Arguably there may be folks who want him gone so that could "tweak" what is and isn't defined as FOSS. [03:32] TR Bot Why is Richard Stallman such a decisive Figure? : WhySwitchToLinux [03:45] TR News Techrights Reddit Funded by Microsoft https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/17/Reddit_Funded_by_Microsoft.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/08/17/Reddit_Funded_by_Microsoft.gmi [03:45] TR Bot Techrights Reddit Funded by Microsoft ● Aug 17 [04:04] TR News Techrights The Register MS Has Begun Using Slop Images https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/17/The_Register_MS_Has_Begun_Using_Slop_Images.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/08/17/The_Register_MS_Has_Begun_Using_Slop_Images.gmi [04:04] TR Bot Techrights The Register MS Has Begun Using Slop Images [04:12] TR News "Randomly chosen images from Geminispace" gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-08-17.gmi [04:12] TR News [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1385.jpg [04:29] TR News Techrights Sooner or Later Almost Everyone Will Know "AI" is Just a Go-To, Misused, Misapplied, and Grossly Overused Term of Liars and Con Jobs Who Ride a Ponzi Scheme https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/17/Sooner_or_Later_Almost_Everyone_Will_Know_AI_is_Just_a_Go_To_Mi.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/08/17/Sooner_or_Later_Almost_Everyone_Will_Know_AI_is_Just_a_Go_To_Mi.gmi [04:29] TR Bot Techrights Sooner or Later Almost Everyone Will Know "AI" is Just a Go-To, Misused, Misapplied, and Grossly Overused Term of Liars and Con Jobs Who Ride a Ponzi Scheme [04:30] *liberty_box_ (~liberty@qiysgnj2chdjg.irc) has joined #techrights [04:31] *rianne has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) 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[05:51] schestowitz[TR2] "achievement unlocked" [05:51] schestowitz[TR2] pedal to the metal [05:51] schestowitz[TR2] later the state can use this [05:52] schestowitz[TR2] "sorry, your drievr rating is not good enough for this HP" [05:52] schestowitz[TR2] judge: I sentence you to 10 years of reduced HP [05:53] admfubar reducing usage of Hewlet Packard products would be a good thing... [05:53] admfubar https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/08/15/2031257/aging-can-spread-through-your-body-via-a-single-protein-study-finds [05:53] schestowitz[TR2] HP DRM [05:53] TR Bot Aging Can Spread Through Your Body Via a Single Protein, Study Finds - Slashdot [05:53] schestowitz[TR2] hoprsepower printers [05:54] schestowitz[TR2] now with more toner [05:54] admfubar horsepoop printers [05:54] schestowitz[TR2] horsepoop is better than mixing 3 colours to make brown [05:54] schestowitz[TR2] which is wastefyl [05:55] admfubar not brown... a rich black.. [05:56] admfubar https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/08/15/1357205/microsoft-kills-volume-rebates-in-name-of-transparency [05:56] TR Bot Microsoft Kills Volume Rebates in Name of 'Transparency' - Slashdot ● Aug 17 [06:00] schestowitz[TR2] hppppp makes more money when the blacxk colour cartridge runs out [06:00] schestowitz[TR2] then it gets to overuse all the colours [06:00] schestowitz[TR2] for a palem black [06:01] TR News Techrights The Russian Vision of Technology https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/17/The_Russian_Vision_of_Technology.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/08/17/The_Russian_Vision_of_Technology.gmi [06:01] schestowitz[TR2] and you run out of all ink/toner/ [06:01] TR Bot Techrights The Russian Vision of Technology [06:01] schestowitz[TR2] need to purchase even more [06:06] *darwin (~darwin@ezriia7nzimpg.irc) has joined #techrights [06:26] TR News Techrights Growing Our Reach https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/17/Growing_Our_Reach.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/08/17/Growing_Our_Reach.gmi [06:26] TR Bot Techrights Growing Our Reach [06:30] TR News (NEW): Holiday Plans https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/17/Holiday_Plans.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/17/Holiday_Plans.gmi [06:30] TR Bot Tux Machines Holiday Plans [06:33] TR News "Why the Magnuson-Moss warranty act is just a meme" https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/why-the-magnuson-moss-warranty-act-is:b [06:33] TR Bot Why the Magnuson-Moss warranty act is just a meme [06:34] TR News iophk: privacy and cybersecurity under attack https://odysee.com/@davidbombal:0/uk-piracy-blocks-your-vpn's-uk-exit:3 [06:34] TR Bot UK Piracy Blocks: Your VPN's UK Exit Won't Help [06:36] TR News "Trump-Putin Meeting Details Were Left In A Hotel Printer In Alaska, Report Says" https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2025/08/16/details-of-trumps-alaska-summit-with-putin-left-in-hotel-printer-report-says-including-meeting-times-locations-and-gifts/ [06:36] TR Bot Trump-Putin Meeting Details Were Left In A Hotel Printer In Alaska, Report Says [06:36] TR News "Saudis PIF takes $8 billion writedown on megaprojects" https://www.semafor.com/article/08/15/2025/saudis-pif-takes-8-billion-writedown-on-megaprojects [06:36] TR Bot PIF takes $8 billion writedown on megaprojects | Semafor [06:42] TR News 2025-08-16 passive microwave repeaters https://computer.rip/2025-08-16-passive-microwave-repeaters.html [06:42] TR Bot 2025-08-16 passive microwave repeaters [06:43] TR News hydropower https://hackaday.com/2025/08/16/how-to-convert-a-drain-into-a-hydropower-facility/ | Source: Hackaday [06:43] TR Bot To Convert A Drain Into A Hydropower Facility | Hackaday [06:44] TR News Who's Not Getting Laid Off? https://danielmiessler.com/blog/tech-layoffs-signal [06:44] TR Bot Who's Not Getting Laid Off? | Daniel Miessler [06:45] TR News Don't Talk to Bullies https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/16/Don_t_Talk_to_Bullies.shtml [06:45] TR Bot Techrights Don't Talk to Bullies [06:46] TR News The Case for Software Freedom in Europe Becomes Stronger as GAFAM and the US Become Allies of Those Who Invade Europe https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/16/The_Case_for_Software_Freedom_in_Europe_Becomes_Stronger_as_GAF.shtml [06:46] TR Bot Techrights The Case for Software Freedom in Europe Becomes Stronger as GAFAM and the US Become Allies of Those Who Invade Europe [06:56] *FANTOM (~fantom@freenode-8np.vr1.bp0598.IP) has joined #techrights ● Aug 17 [09:29] *IsambardPrince has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [09:32] *IsambardPrince (~isambardprince@psfb22f2sce6n.irc) has joined #techrights [09:44] IsambardPrince Storms. ● Aug 17 [10:13] *IsambardPrince has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [10:19] psydruid https://fightchatcontrol.eu/ [10:19] TR Bot Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU [10:39] *forkbombe has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [10:59] *forkbombe (~forkbombe@u89vdyv4abg8n.irc) has joined #techrights ● Aug 17 [11:01] TR News "Site-blocking orders are usually binary; a court issues an order for a domain to be blocked, or it does not." https://torrentfreak.com/how-a-court-order-to-block-internet-archives-open-library-was-put-on-hold/ | Source: Torrent Freak [11:01] TR Bot a Court Order to Block Internet Archive's Open Library Was Put On Hold * TorrentFreak [11:01] TR News "Last month Cloudflare began blocking pirate site domains already subject to blocking orders obtained years ago" https://torrentfreak.com/new-cloudflare-pirate-site-blocking-may-already-involve-thousands-of-domains-250815/ | Source: Torrent Freak [11:01] TR Bot Cloudflare Pirate Site Blocking May Already Involve Thousands of Domains * TorrentFreak [11:02] TR News Digital Restrictions (DRM) https://molodtsov.me/2025/08/spotify-payouts/ | Source: Yury Molodtsov [11:02] TR Bot How Much Spotify Pays Artists [11:04] TR News "One of the most significant single advancements in telecommunications technology was the development of microwave radio" https://computer.rip/2025-08-16-passive-microwave-repeaters.html | Source: Computers Are Bad [11:07] TR News "cultural practices and commercial powwows" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/albuquerque-native-americans-north-america-b2809011.html | Source: The Independent UK [11:07] TR Bot The last dance? Organizers of North America's largest powwow say 2026 will be the event's final year | The Independent [11:09] TR News "his first interview since being released" https://www.rferl.org/a/yesypenko-journalist-russian-custody-torture/33503944.html | Source: RFERL [11:09] TR Bot 'I Simply Wanted To Live': RFE/RL Journalist Vladyslav Yesypenko Describes Torture In Russian Custody [11:09] TR News "Now I want to answer your questions about the future of news technology, and about how news works behind the scenes." https://werd.io/ask-a-newsroom-technology-leader/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller [11:09] TR Bot Ask a newsroom technology leader [11:10] TR News "Section 230 protects users online speech by protecting the online intermediaries we all rely on to communicate on blogs" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/08/new-documents-show-first-trump-doj-worked-congress-amend-section-230 | Source: EFF [11:10] TR Bot New Documents Show First Trump DOJ Worked With Congress to Amend Section 230 | Electronic Frontier Foundation [11:10] TR News "A five-and-a-half hour portrait of what happens when the concept of a free press turns into a contradiction in terms" https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-reviews/my-undesirable-friends-russia-documentary-review-1235398093/ | Source: Rolling Stone [11:10] TR Bot 'My Undesirable Friends' Isn't Just a Documentary. It's a Warning. [11:11] TR News "After a 7am police raid in July in which officers seized two telephones, an iPad and computer, Mr Moss, a former Labour councillor, said he felt like a criminal." https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/16/police-orwellian-powers-gag-firefighter-free-speech-row/ | Source: The Telegraph UK [11:11] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/16/police-orwellian-powers-gag-firefighter-free-speech-row/ ) [11:11] TR News "The arrests began last year but have accelerated since March, when the police arrested Ekrem Imamoglu, the mayor of Istanbul, citing allegations of corruption, which he denies." https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/world/europe/turkey-erdogan-corruption-drive.html | Source: New York Times [11:11] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/world/europe/turkey-erdogan-corruption-drive.html ) [11:15] TR News "The Supreme Court had overturned an initial ruling in October 2024 due to procedural errors among other things, because no connection between Mohammadi and armed groups could be proven." https://anfenglishmobile.com/women/death-sentence-against-human-rights-activist-sharifeh-mohammadi-upheld-80813 | Source: ANF News [11:15] TR Bot ANF | Death sentence against human rights activist Sharifeh Mohammadi upheld [11:15] darwin yes, there was Gentoo GNU/HURD, but not the rest [11:38] TR News "Nearly 82 million people use Roblox daily, with more than half of them being younger than 18 years of age" https://today.rtl.lu/news/business-and-tech/a/2328965.html | Source: RTL [11:38] TR Bot RTL Today - 'Untrue': Louisiana sues Roblox game platform over child safety [11:42] psydroid2 child slavery [11:46] schestowitz[TR2] sharcropping Fisher Price [11:46] schestowitz[TR2] *share [11:47] TR News "Power-hungry data centers have been popping up all over, to serve the boom in artificial intelligence." https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5502671 | Source: NPR [11:47] TR Bot Electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast as inflation [11:47] TR News "Culture warriors and industry lobbyists have turned electric vehicles into a proxy battle for deeper anxieties about class, control, and who might be left behind in a green economy." https://jacobin.com/2025/08/canada-china-evs-environment-affordability/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine [11:47] TR Bot Want to End the EV Culture Wars? Make EVs Affordable. [11:47] TR News "My conclusion was that either these people were innocently unaware of the basics of money supply and its relationship with market pricing mechanisms, or they were not very innocently trying to part the more innocent with their money." https://nxdomain.no/~peter/forgotten_blockchain_account_scam.html | Source: Peter N M Hansteen [11:47] TR Bot That grumpy BSD guy: Your 'Forgotten' Blockchain Account Needing Reactivation? It's a Scam [11:48] TR News "The Federal Reserve has ended its "novel activities" supervision programme, created in 2023 to monitor banks' involvement in [cryptocurrency] and fintech." https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/fed-to-scrap-program-devoted-to-policing-banks-on-crypto-fintech-activities/articleshow/123335825.cms | Source: India Times [11:48] TR Bot Fed to scrap program devoted to policing banks on crypto, fintech activities - The Economic Times [11:51] TR News "During a plenary on August 9, three observers independently told Grist that the negotiations felt like Groundhog Day, as countries reiterated familiar talking points." https://www.wired.com/story/un-plastics-treaty-talks-once-again-end-in-failure/ | Source: Wired [11:51] TR Bot Plastics Treaty Talks Once Again End in Failure | WIRED [11:51] TR News "They have no incentive to come up with a plan and we've seen that time and time again in these negotiations." https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/global-plastics-treaty-consensus-1.7610277 | Source: CBC [11:51] TR Bot Global plastics treaty negotiations fail to reach a consensus again | CBC News [11:52] TR News "If we keep going like this, in 15 years we wont be able to fish anymore. Weve approached the sea with the mindset of how many fish we want to catch, not how many the sea can actually give." https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/environment/1278209/when-i-started-the-sea-was-still-alive/ | Source: Greece [11:52] TR Bot I started, the sea was still alive | eKathimerini.com [11:52] TR News "The results were stark: Just a ten percent reduction in precipitation from the Atlantic Ocean, or a more than 65 percent destruction, can push the rainforest into an inexorable path towards "a drier savanna-like environment"" https://futurism.com/the-byte/climate-change-amazon-rainforest-tipping-point | Source: Futurism [11:52] TR Bot Climate Change Has Driven the Amazon Rainforest to the Edge of a "Tipping Point" ● Aug 17 [12:13] TR News "The disclosure comes as the council faces criticism for removing Union Jack and St George's Cross flags" https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/leaked-email-admits-birmingham-council-too-afraid-take-down-palestine-flags-without-police-1741288 | Source: International Business Times [12:13] TR Bot 'Leaked Email' Admits Birmingham Council Too Afraid to Take Down Palestine Flags without Police Protection | IBTimes UK [12:14] TR News (NEW): A Slackware theme for your Grub https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/17/A_Slackware_theme_for_your_Grub.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/17/A_Slackware_theme_for_your_Grub.gmi [12:14] TR Bot Tux Machines A Slackware theme for your Grub [12:15] TR News "New research is shedding light on the inner workings of the multimillion-dollar gray market for video game cheats." https://www.wired.com/story/russia-crack-down-end-to-end-encrypted-calling/ | Source: Wired [12:15] TR Bot Is Cracking Down on End-to-End Encrypted Calls | WIRED [12:15] TR News "On Monday, 11 August, the High Court of Justice dismissed the Wikimedia Foundations challenge to the UKs Online Safety Act (OSA) Categorisation Regulations." https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2025/08/11/wikimedia-foundation-challenges-uk-online-safety-act-regulations/ | [12:15] TR Bot Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regulations Wikimedia Foundation [12:17] TR News (NEW): Various desktop Linux tips for newbies https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/17/Various_desktop_Linux_tips_for_newbies.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/17/Various_desktop_Linux_tips_for_newbies.gmi [12:18] TR Bot Tux Machines Various desktop Linux tips for newbies [12:19] TR News "The Wikimedia Foundation just lost its court challenge to block these rules, which are part of Britain's Online Safety Act." https://boingboing.net/2025/08/11/uk-law-would-force-wikipedia-to-unmask-anonymous-editors.html | Source: BoingBoing [12:19] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://boingboing.net/2025/08/11/uk-law-would-force-wikipedia-to-unmask-anonymous-editors.html ) [12:19] TR News "They are at it again. The so-called Chat Control proposal is back on the table to be voted soon." https://n3wjack.net/2025/08/16/the-eu-wants-to-read-your-private-messages/ | Source: N3wjack [12:19] TR Bot The EU wants to read your private messages (still) - n3wjack's blog [12:20] TR News "A lot of people who use social media intensively, even including smaller services or instances" https://blog.avas.space/overly-online/ | Source: Ava [12:20] TR Bot communicating with social media users | ava's blog [12:21] TR News "I was still living in the world of instant messaging, IRC, ICQ, AIM" https://flamedfury.com/posts/i-never-liked-myspace/ | Source: Flamed Fury [12:21] TR Bot I Never Liked MySpace [12:24] TR News "YouTube is nothing without its advertisers." https://futurism.com/youtube-drowning-ai-slop | Source: Futurism [12:24] TR Bot YouTube Is Drowning in AI Slop Channels [12:24] TR News "Yet another team of lawyers was found leaving AI slop in court documents." https://futurism.com/the-byte/lawyers-ai-slop-murder-case | Source: Futurism [12:24] TR Bot Lawyers File AI Slop in Murder Case [12:25] TR News "A US senator on Friday announced an investigation into whether Meta AI chatbots were allowed to engage in potentially harmful online exchanges with children." https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/meta-probed-over-ai-chatbot-talk-with-children/articleshow/123328148.cms | Source: India Times [12:25] TR Bot Meta probed over AI chatbot talk with children - The Economic Times [12:25] TR News "winning the AI race" https://futurism.com/trump-anti-science-agenda-ai-plans | Source: Futurism [12:25] TR Bot Trump's Anti-Science Agenda Is Massively Hampering His Plans for AI, Experts Warn [12:26] TR News "If you run a photography business, chances are that AI hasn't impacted your bottom line yet." https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/commercial-photography/im-worried-were-in-another-big-tech-bubble-and-its-about-to-burst-all-over-your-photography-business | Source: Digital Camera World [12:26] TR Bot Im worried were in another big tech bubble and its about to burst all over your photography business | Digital Camera World [12:26] TR News (NEW): Free and Open Source Software https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/17/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/17/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi [12:26] TR Bot Tux Machines Free and Open Source Software [12:26] TR News "Butlerian Jihad" https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/08/butlerian-jihad/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski [12:26] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/08/butlerian-jihad/ ) [12:27] TR News "When the tools generated false statements, the bad content was taken down silently without corrections or retractions." https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/16/at-politico-ai-content-doesnt-need-editorial-standards/ | Source: Pivot to AI [12:27] TR Bot At Politico, AI content doesnt need editorial standards! Pivot to AI [12:27] TR News "Glyph proposes that many LLM-assisted programmers who speak highly of the reliability and value of AI tools are falling prey to two cognitive biases: [...]" https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/16/jackpot/#salience-bias | Source: CoryDoctorow [12:27] TR Bot Pluralistic: LLMs are slot-machines (16 Aug 2025) Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow [12:29] TR News (NEW): GNOME 49 Beta Released for Public Testing on GNOMEs 28th Anniversary https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/15/GNOME_49_Beta_Released_for_Public_Testing_on_GNOME_s_28th_Anniv.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/15/GNOME_49_Beta_Released_for_Public_Testing_on_GNOME_s_28th_Anniv.gmi [12:29] TR Bot Tux Machines GNOME 49 Beta Released for Public Testing on GNOMEs 28th Anniversary [12:30] TR News "Australian radio station Triple J recently talked to a number of children, young adults, and their counselors to uncover the extent of those bots' effects on their mental health." https://futurism.com/teen-hospitalized-ai-chatbot | Source: Futurism [12:30] TR Bot Teens Keep Being Hospitalized After Talking to AI Chatbots [12:31] TR News "I went to our local GP after our spate of recent health adventures, and she disclosed that our consultation would be recorded and transcribed by an AI tool." https://rubenerd.com/doctors-using-ai-transcription/ | Source: Ruben Schade [12:31] TR Bot Doctors using AI transcription [12:31] TR News "Originally introduced as LD 1018 and later enacted as part of the budget in June, the law safeguards the federal 340B Drug Pricing Program" https://mainemorningstar.com/briefs/big-pharma-sues-maine-over-new-law-protecting-federal-drug-discount-program/ | Source: Maine Morning Star [12:31] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://mainemorningstar.com/briefs/big-pharma-sues-maine-over-new-law-protecting-federal-drug-discount-program/ ) [12:34] TR News "Itll also be the first time in a while that Ive run NetBSD on real hardware instead of VMs, so thatll be cool." https://rubenerd.com/buying-a-thinkpad-x230/ | Source: Ruben Schade [12:34] TR Bot Buying a Thinkpad X230 [12:34] TR News "flexible structural mechanisms" https://www.sciencealert.com/humanoid-robots-have-a-serious-design-flaw-and-we-need-to-fix-it | Source: Science Alert [12:34] TR Bot Robots Have a Serious Design Flaw, And We Need to Fix It : ScienceAlert [12:36] TR News "the 103rd edition of People and Blogs" https://manuelmoreale.com/pb-loren-stephens | Source: Manuel Moreale [12:36] TR Bot P&B: Loren Stephens Manu [12:36] TR News [Old] "That times were different is inadequate verbiage." https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-silicon-graphics | Source: Bradford Morgan White [12:36] TR Bot The Rise and Fall of Silicon Graphics [12:37] TR News "I head a team of researchers that has uncovered new evidence that commoners also made khipus in the Inca empire" https://www.sciencealert.com/mysterious-inca-data-system-extended-further-than-we-thought | Source: Science Alert [12:37] TR Bot Inca Data System Extended Further Than We Thought : ScienceAlert [12:37] TR News "For thousands of years, Andean peoples have woven intricate patterns, known as khipus" https://www.404media.co/a-strand-of-hair-just-changed-what-we-know-about-the-inka-empire/ | Source: 404 Media [12:37] TR Bot A Strand of Hair Just Changed What We Know About the Inka Empire [12:38] TR News "Well, I do have quite a lot of hobbies, and I probably could turn this into a proper series, if I had enough inspiration to do so." https://joelchrono.xyz/blog/how-to-get-into-every-hobby-i-like/ | Source: Joel Chrono [12:38] TR Bot How to get into every hobby I like [12:38] TR News "It may sound like a disadvantage, but I dont think it is. My English improves, and maybe some readers even prefer shorter, simpler texts." https://birming.com/2025/08/16/writing-within-limits/ | Source: Robert Birming [12:38] TR Bot within limits | Robert Birming [12:39] TR News "For me, reading and blogging are interconnected; what I read influences what I write about." https://tracydurnell.com/2025/08/16/what-to-read-big-questions/ | Source: Tracy Durnell [12:39] TR Bot What to read? 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User Freedom, Privacy, and Security Is At Risk. https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2025/08/14/is-germany-on-the-brink-of-banning-ad-blockers-user-freedom-privacy-and-security-is-at-risk/ [15:41] TR Bot Is Germany on the Brink of Banning Ad Blockers? User Freedom, Privacy, and Security Is At Risk. - Open Policy & Advocacy [15:46] TR News SDesk 2025.08.16 is out https://distrowatch.com/sdesk https://stevestudios.net/sdesk/ [15:46] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/sdesk ) [15:46] TR Bot SDesk | Steve Studios [15:50] TR News Pluralistic: LLMs are slot-machines (16 Aug 2025) https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/16/jackpot/ [15:50] TR Bot Pluralistic: LLMs are slot-machines (16 Aug 2025) Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow [15:51] TR News "STM32 Blinks In Under 50 Bytes" https://hackaday.com/2025/08/16/2025-one-hertz-challenge-stm32-blinks-in-under-50-bytes/ | Source: Hackaday [15:51] TR Bot One Hertz Challenge: STM32 Blinks In Under 50 Bytes | Hackaday [15:52] TR News "Lately, this peculiar little single wheel monorail came to our attention. Built by [extraglide1976], all from Meccano" https://hackaday.com/2025/08/16/a-second-chance-for-the-single-wheel-monorail/ | Source: Hackaday [15:52] TR Bot Second Chance For The Single Wheel Monorail? | Hackaday [15:52] TR News "Some people like their homelabs to be as big and fancy as possible, with racks of new or surplus server hardware sucking down power." https://hackaday.com/2025/08/16/from-smartphone-to-a-home-server/ | Source: Hackaday [15:52] TR Bot Smartphone To A Home Server | Hackaday [15:59] TR News SpellBinding: GWINORH Wordo: FLOWN gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-08-17.gmi [15:59] TR News SpellBinding: EHITNRK Wordo: YORES gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-08-16.gmi ● Aug 17 [16:00] TR News [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1385.jpg [16:01] TR News "At pretty much every job I've ever held, I've had to use at least one Atlassian tool. In every case, I've used Jira. In some cases, I've used Confluence. In all cases, these tools were abysmal and shockingly slow." gemini://sporiff.dev/2025/08/17/slow_tools/ [16:05] TR News Countries where each couple, on average, has over 6 kids https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_fertility_rate [16:05] TR Bot List of countries by total fertility rate - Wikipedia [16:08] TR News i dont like the youtube ai update (big surprise) gemini://zahmbie1.flounder.online/gemlog/2025-08-17.gmi "In all seriousness, I am NOT entering my government issued ID to a company WHO SHOULDNT EVEN GET IT IN THE FIRST PLACE." [16:09] TR News "This was a great read. I've been ready for this bubble to break for ages. Let's just get this over with already." gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/s/AI/31484 [16:09] psydroid3 https://shahmm.medium.com/intels-decline-the-fall-of-a-silicon-valley-giant-2000-2025-10e108a74f57 [16:09] TR Bot Intels Decline: The Fall of a Silicon Valley Giant (20002025) | by Shah Mohammed | Medium [16:10] TR News "The market has been overvalued since the great recession made money cheap. Perhaps too cheap. The wealthy literally have too much money and not enough places to dump it into to make MORE money. Stocks have high returns with little maintenance." [16:10] TR News "Hype bubbles are ways to make 10x your investment quick, even if you know the underlying tech is trash. It is never enough for the wealthy. But it is zero sum so someone gets stuck holding the bag. If you do it right, it is the retail investor who got in way late. Oh, and the companies and their employees of course." [16:12] TR News Some people say stuff like, no way a company this big would do a scam. Oh year? Check history. It may be a scam, and a BIG scam. Scams happen. [16:13] TR News Re: PLEASE STOP MAKING NEWS AGGREGATORS gemini://benj.smol.pub/1755390497 [16:14] TR News "The bottom line is red. OpenAI lost billions last year AFTER REVENUES. They're on track to lose billions more this year. They only have one financial backer left willing to pour the missing billions into the venture (SoftBank), and that backer is already borrowing at least some of those billions on credit" gemini://drmollytov.smol.pub/2025-08-15 [16:14] TR News "Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and Meta are also losing money - so much so that Microsoft actually announced significant cutbacks in its planned data center builds (while also somehow claiming it has the capacity to handle the explosive growth in Copilot use it claims is coming." [16:15] TR News "It's not just the actual AI companies, either. CoreWeave is massively overcommitted to hardware with no clear path to actually producing it. Nvidia is the only company involved in all this whose financials make a lick of sense at this point - and even then, it's only one lick, not enough to get to the center of the Tootsie Roll pop." [16:15] TR News "Yet their stock keeps going up. EVERYONE'S stock in this business keeps going up. It's built on a foundation made of debt, lies, and nonsense, but it's getting built!" [16:16] TR News "The market, for reasons I absoultely do understand (greed and hype), not only rewards these hype men but punishes the companies whose financials are sound yet who aren't doing the hype dance. In July, Amazon's share price slid because the company wasn't investing as much in AI as Wall Street wanted" [16:17] TR News "If the gen AI bubble was limited to gen AI companies, it'd still be a big deal. Tech companies are over-represented in the S&P 500; a significant downturn in their stock values will result in a signficant market drop, even if everyone else is left untouched. But a lot of "everyone else" is choosing not to remain untouched." [16:17] TR News "LLMs and similar generative-AI tools don't do what they claim they can do. LLMs extrude factually false and emotionally manipulative text all the time, and they cannot actually be prevented from doing so. AI "art" and "video" are filling the Web with slop and causing more harm than good." [16:18] TR News "LLMs and similar generative-AI tools don't do what they claim they can do. LLMs extrude factually false and emotionally manipulative text all the time, and they cannot actually be prevented from doing so. AI "art" and "video" are filling the Web with slop and causing more harm than good." [16:18] TR News "Vibe coding" has an uncanny knack for hiding fatal flaws in plain sight - things that few humans would insert into code and thus few humans go looking for, unless they intend to exploit them." [16:18] TR News "(Aside: When Scam Altman claimed that GPT-5 is like talking to someone with a PhD, I said "So it cries when you ask it how the writing is going?" This man doesn't spend a lot of time around actual PhDs.)" [16:19] TR News "But they don't have to. Because they're not being sold to writers, researchers, programmers, and artists. They're being imposed on these groups by Business Idiots (perfect term, Ed, thanks) - managers who failed their way to their current position and who only hear "we don't have to pay people anymore!"" [16:19] TR News "The market for generative AI isn't ordinary people and never will be. It's capitalists. It's every business that wants to save money - excuse me, "increase shareholder value" - by cutting its workforce. But generative AI can't do what it's being "hired" to do." [16:20] TR News "These companies are gaining a quick buck as market darlings by positioning themselves as "AI-first," to the detriment of their long-term growth. They're on the bubble as well." [16:23] TR News SpellBinding WHNORTG Wordo: WAILS gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-08-15.gmi [16:26] TR News (NEW): Today's HowTos https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/17/today_s_howtos.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/17/today_s_howtos.gmi [16:26] TR Bot Tux Machines today's howtos [16:28] TR News (NEW): Open Hardware/Modding: Pine64, STM32, ESP32, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/17/Open_Hardware_Modding_Pine64_STM32_ESP32_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/17/Open_Hardware_Modding_Pine64_STM32_ESP32_and_More.gmi [16:28] TR Bot Tux Machines Open Hardware/Modding: Pine64, STM32, ESP32, and More [16:31] TR News (NEW): Free, Libre, and Open Source Software, Programming, and Standards https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/17/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Programming_and_Standards.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/17/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Programming_and_Standards.gmi [16:31] TR Bot Tux Machines Free, Libre, and Open Source Software, Programming, and Standards [16:32] TR News Techrights Links 17/08/2025: Slow Tools and Enshittification of YouTube https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/17/Links_17_08_2025_Slow_Tools_and_Enshittification_of_YouTube.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/08/17/Links_17_08_2025_Slow_Tools_and_Enshittification_of_YouTube.gmi [16:32] TR Bot Techrights Links 17/08/2025: Slow Tools and Enshittification of YouTube [16:34] TR News Techrights Links 17/08/2025: Strike Downs Air Canada, Postmortems of Putin's Red Carpet Summit https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/17/Links_17_08_2025_Strike_Downs_Air_Canada_Postmortems_of_Putin_s.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/08/17/Links_17_08_2025_Strike_Downs_Air_Canada_Postmortems_of_Putin_s.gmi [16:34] TR Bot Techrights Links 17/08/2025: Strike Downs Air Canada, Postmortems of Putin's Red Carpet Summit [16:40] TR News Not direct relation but: the richer the country is, the less kids people will have OR countries that have fewer kids are better off https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_fertility_rate [16:40] TR Bot List of countries by total fertility rate - Wikipedia [16:40] *Righty has quit (connection closed) [16:40] *Righty (~Username@avascqchmtewq.irc) has joined #techrights [16:46] TR News The Register MS now: "Scam Altman, busily planning to spend "trillions" more on datacenters".... WAIT, trillions??? Really? http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/06/Meme_Don_t_Worry_They_Say_There_s_7_Trillion_Dollars_Waiting_at.shtml http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/06/TRILLIONS_And_TRILLIONS_and_TRILLIONS_and_TRILLIONS_Invest_toda.shtml [16:46] TR Bot Techrights [Meme] Don't Worry, They Say There's 7 Trillion Dollars Waiting at the Top [16:46] TR Bot Techrights TRILLIONS! And TRILLIONS and TRILLIONS and TRILLIONS! Invest today! [16:53] TR News SLOP site ET Telecom with "Cisco does not aim to use AI to cut jobs, says Chuck Robbins: Report" - this is more of the phony "AI" narrative, wherein people can be replaced by slop, which really does not work in practice [16:53] TR News Edward Jones confirms plans to carry out layoffs in its home office here's why https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/edward-jones-confirms-plans-to-carry-out-layoffs-in-its-home-office-heres-why-101755419506334.html [16:53] TR Bot Edward Jones confirms plans to carry out layoffs in its home office here's why - Hindustan Times ● Aug 17 [17:20] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techrights [17:42] MinceR https://apina.biz/209486.jpeg?mode=sfw [17:42] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-http://apina.biz/209486.jpeg [17:49] TR News Windows falling in Nepal https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/nepal/#monthly-200902-202508 [17:49] TR Bot Desktop Operating System Market Share Nepal | Statcounter Global Stats [17:57] *liberty_box has quit (Quit: Leaving) ● Aug 17 [18:04] TR News Techrights Microsoft's Windows in Gabon: Still Moving Down https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/17/Microsoft_s_Windows_in_Gabon_Still_Moving_Down.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/08/17/Microsoft_s_Windows_in_Gabon_Still_Moving_Down.gmi [18:04] TR Bot Techrights Microsoft's Windows in Gabon: Still Moving Down [18:24] *FANTOM has quit (Server closed connection) [18:25] *pi (~quassel@qiysgnj2chdjg.irc) has joined #techrights [18:25] *FANTOM (~fantom@87.74.59.94) has joined #techrights [18:31] TR News Techrights "End of the Smartphone Era" According to Jeffrey Epstein's Key Enabler https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/17/End_of_the_Smartphone_Era_According_to_Jeffrey_Epstein_s_Key_En.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/08/17/End_of_the_Smartphone_Era_According_to_Jeffrey_Epstein_s_Key_En.gmi [18:31] TR Bot Techrights "End of the Smartphone Era" According to Jeffrey Epstein's Key Enabler [18:54] TR News Techrights The Next Version of Windows Will Always be the Best (for Microsoft) https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/17/The_Next_Version_of_Windows_Will_Always_be_the_Best_for_Microso.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/08/17/The_Next_Version_of_Windows_Will_Always_be_the_Best_for_Microso.gmi [18:54] TR Bot Techrights The Next Version of Windows Will Always be the Best (for Microsoft) [18:55] MinceR (cat) https://ircz.de/p/25071416 [18:55] TR Bot WHOOPSIE ● Aug 17 [19:18] TR News Techrights Working Whilst Away From Home https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/17/Working_Whilst_Away_From_Home.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/08/17/Working_Whilst_Away_From_Home.gmi [19:18] TR Bot Techrights Working Whilst Away From Home [19:23] psydroid3 the next version will be the best for Microsoft, but what about the older hardware that isn't compatible with the latest version of Windows? [19:24] psydroid3 diminishing market share for Windows is becoming like a self-fulfilling prophecy that way [19:24] psydroid3 damned if you do, damned if you don't [19:24] schestowitz[TR2] they lost the grip [19:24] schestowitz[TR2] now they use 'secure' boot [19:24] schestowitz[TR2] and other competition crimes [19:25] schestowitz[TR2] helped by their moles [19:25] schestowitz[TR2] and notorious crooks [19:25] schestowitz[TR2] who lack reputation [19:25] schestowitz[TR2] Torvalds has been too slow to address this threat [19:25] schestowitz[TR2] and now linux us [19:25] schestowitz[TR2] *is [19:25] schestowitz[TR2] bloated [19:25] psydroid3 they have to make older hardware unusable for running GNU/Linux [19:25] schestowitz[TR2] mixed languages [19:25] schestowitz[TR2] orphaned code [19:25] schestowitz[TR2] it'll be too expensive to maintain [19:25] schestowitz[TR2] it also has many blobs [19:25] psydroid3 because otherwise Windows market share will trend towards zero in a matter of years or at most decades [19:26] schestowitz[TR2] rright [19:26] schestowitz[TR2] but [19:26] schestowitz[TR2] there will always be distros for old machines [19:26] schestowitz[TR2] no wayland [19:26] schestowitz[TR2] no systemd [19:26] schestowitz[TR2] and still supporting things like lilo perhaps [19:26] psydroid3 I'm not eager to buy new hardware now either [19:26] schestowitz[TR2] because the demand for that exists [19:26] schestowitz[TR2] and it's free software [19:26] schestowitz[TR2] so peopole can take rusty old isos and their sources [19:26] psydroid3 because whatever is out there still works fine even with workarounds for Restricted Boot [19:26] schestowitz[TR2] and modernise where possible [19:27] schestowitz[TR2] i still need to give you my pi [19:27] schestowitz[TR2] i remember it again this morning [19:27] schestowitz[TR2] it';s still boxd [19:27] psydroid3 and new purchases will be wholly outside of the Wintel sphere of influence [19:27] psydroid3 yes, I told you how they made it hard to pay for the visa [19:27] schestowitz[TR2] it' [19:27] schestowitz[TR2] it's ok,no rush [19:27] psydroid3 I have to use a credit card or Google pay or some other third party payment service [19:27] schestowitz[TR2] typical [19:27] psydroid3 very inconvenient [19:28] schestowitz[TR2] what is google pay anyway? [19:28] psydroid3 I have no idea [19:28] schestowitz[TR2] it's some thing they bundle with androiud mostly? [19:28] schestowitz[TR2] or you create a 'universal' google account\ [19:28] schestowitz[TR2] and then add credits to it? [19:28] *psydroid3 shrugs [19:28] schestowitz[TR2] google pay... in the uk [19:28] schestowitz[TR2] visa.. us [19:28] psydroid3 I've avoided all of those things [19:28] schestowitz[TR2] mastercard.. us [19:28] schestowitz[TR2] apple, google... us [19:29] schestowitz[TR2] nobody in the whole of the uk cannot make a payment regime? [19:29] schestowitz[TR2] remember SWITCH? [19:29] schestowitz[TR2] what happened to that? [19:29] psydroid3 SWIFT? [19:29] schestowitz[TR2] no [19:29] schestowitz[TR2] SWITCH [19:29] schestowitz[TR2] very common 25 years ago [19:29] psydroid3 never heard of it [19:29] psydroid3 we have iDEAL here [19:29] schestowitz[TR2] now ot [19:29] psydroid3 so you can pay using your bank account [19:29] schestowitz[TR2] now it's all mastervisa [19:29] schestowitz[TR2] or sssome us companies [19:29] psydroid3 it's a Dutch payment system [19:29] schestowitz[TR2] paypal, apple, google... [19:30] psydroid3 which they want to extend to the whole EU [19:30] schestowitz[TR2] EU seems like US proxy now [19:30] schestowitz[TR2] like NATO-east [19:30] psydroid3 first chatcontrol [19:30] psydroid3 then mindcontrol [19:30] schestowitz[TR2] even the reaction to the red carpet wear criminal ceremony [19:30] psydroid3 where will it all end? [19:30] schestowitz[TR2] the EU should have blasted them both [19:30] schestowitz[TR2] but didn't\ [19:31] schestowitz[TR2] tip-toeing [19:31] psydroid3 don't bite the hand that feeds you [19:31] schestowitz[TR2] us afraid of china [19:31] schestowitz[TR2] not afraid or russia [19:31] schestowitz[TR2] but china works with russia [19:31] schestowitz[TR2] so it makes no sensen [19:31] schestowitz[TR2] china even helps iran build rockets\ [19:31] schestowitz[TR2] and drones [19:31] schestowitz[TR2] the ones iran gives toi putin [19:31] schestowitz[TR2] who then attacks europe [19:33] schestowitz[TR2] nobody in NL can: [19:33] schestowitz[TR2] create a large hosting firm? [19:33] schestowitz[TR2] create a potent bartering system? [19:33] schestowitz[TR2] make a fighter jet? [19:33] schestowitz[TR2] make an OS (except tannenbaum)? [19:34] schestowitz[TR2] alternative explanation [19:34] schestowitz[TR2] NL decided to be UK proxy [19:34] schestowitz[TR2] let the US do all the stuff [19:34] schestowitz[TR2] and then import at huge cost to taxpayers [19:34] schestowitz[TR2] in exchange for "protection" [19:34] schestowitz[TR2] like cheeto rolling out a red carpet to Putler [19:34] schestowitz[TR2] and conspiring with him against Occupied Urkaine [19:35] psydroid3 exactly why I'm planning my exit from here [19:35] schestowitz[TR2] waity 5 days [19:35] psydroid3 no one has a spine in this country [19:36] schestowitz[TR2] cheeto will lecture EU and UA [19:36] schestowitz[TR2] about why they obstruct peace [19:36] schestowitz[TR2] while shaking hands with the one who invades europe [19:36] schestowitz[TR2] "pursuing peace" [19:36] schestowitz[TR2] with the war criminal [19:36] schestowitz[TR2] bollocking the ones being invades [19:36] schestowitz[TR2] for not agreeing to surrender their land [19:37] schestowitz[TR2] *invaded [19:37] MinceR 17 202332 < psydroid3> the next version will be the best for Microsoft, but what about the older hardware that isn't compatible with the latest version of Windows? [19:37] TR News "There has been a recent phenomenon where Antenna is flooded with the output of a news aggregator. The content of the news aggregator itself is at least partly interesting to me, except for the articles in a language I do not speak." gemini://carcosa.net/journal/2025-08-17-aggregators.gmi [19:37] MinceR that is to be thrown out to the landfill, in the name of sustainability and "modernity" [19:37] schestowitz[TR2] delete your email [19:37] schestowitz[TR2] to save the planet [19:39] TR News between the ribs gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/between_the_ribs [19:39] TR News Revisio 6.05 gemini://eljasverve.smol.pub/1755455076 [19:40] TR News "I doubt I'll ever write much about cooking at least as far as posting recipes and offering unsolicited advice. In fact, this is one area of the media landscape that is not doing so bad." gemini://lagrange-point.space/log/cooking.gmi [19:53] TR News This One Command Turned My Arch Install Into a Beautiful Hyprland Setup https://news.itsfoss.com/omarchy/ [19:53] TR Bot This One Command Turned My Arch Install Into a Beautiful Hyprland Setup [19:54] TR News How Linux Can Help You Succeed in College https://tech.yahoo.com/computing/articles/linux-help-succeed-college-130015716.html [19:54] TR Bot How Linux Can Help You Succeed in College [19:58] TR News Distrobox is the greatest way to try other Linux distros in your Terminal https://www.xda-developers.com/distrobox-greatest-way-try-other-linux-distros-terminal/ [19:58] TR Bot Distrobox is the greatest way to try other Linux distros in your Terminal [19:59] TR News "Level up your Linux CLI experience with these cool tricks" https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-command-line-tricks-everyone-should-know/ [19:59] TR Bot 6 Linux command line tricks everyone should know [19:59] TR News 5 Linux distros that will make your old laptop feel brand new https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-distributions-resurrect-your-old-laptop/ [19:59] TR Bot 5 Linux distros that will make your old laptop feel brand new ● Aug 17 [20:00] TR News You told me to try this Linux distro for tablets, and it's actually not terrible https://www.xda-developers.com/you-told-me-try-this-linux-distro-tablets-not-terrible/ [20:00] TR Bot You told me to try this Linux distro for tablets, and it's actually not terrible [20:01] TR News "A sudden wave of layoffs at Intel leaves Linux drivers orphaned and vulnerable." https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-trouble-intel-employees-drivers-laid-off/ [20:01] TR Bot Linux hits a snag as Intel employees maintaining some of its drivers are laid off [20:03] TR News "Desktop environments are so cool" https://www.xda-developers.com/windows-learn-from-linux-but-this-one-feature-really-want/ [20:03] TR Bot Windows can learn a lot from Linux, but this is the one feature I really want [20:05] TR News (NEW): Three XDA Articles: Distrobox, GNU/Linux for Old PCs, and a Look at Endless OS https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/17/Three_XDA_Articles_Distrobox_GNU_Linux_for_Old_PCs_and_a_Look_a.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/17/Three_XDA_Articles_Distrobox_GNU_Linux_for_Old_PCs_and_a_Look_a.gmi [20:05] TR Bot Tux Machines Three XDA Articles: Distrobox, GNU/Linux for Old PCs, and a Look at Endless OS [20:07] TR News (NEW): XDA in Praise of Desktop Environments and It's FOSS Looks at Hyprland https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/17/XDA_in_Praise_of_Desktop_Environments_and_It_s_FOSS_Looks_at_Hy.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/17/XDA_in_Praise_of_Desktop_Environments_and_It_s_FOSS_Looks_at_Hy.gmi [20:07] TR Bot Tux Machines XDA in Praise of Desktop Environments and It's FOSS Looks at Hyprland [20:15] MinceR https://apina.biz/11755.jpg?mode=sfw [20:15] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-http://apina.biz/11755.jpg [20:19] admfubar is their competition called Alien? https://www.icij.org/investigations/cyprus-confidential/predator-spyware-firm-intellexa-resurgent-after-u-s-sanctions/ [20:19] TR Bot Predator spyware firm Intellexa resurgent after US sanctions - ICIJ [20:21] admfubar https://ipwatchdog.com/2025/08/17/ninth-circuit-says-copyright-owner-cant-subpoena-cox-names-users-showing-pirated-film/id=191268/ [20:21] TR Bot Ninth Circuit Says Copyright Owner Cant Subpoena Cox for Names of Users Showing Pirated Film ● Aug 17 [21:22] psydruid https://www.techspot.com/news/109089-russian-cyberattack-netherlands-leaves-speed-cameras-offline.html [21:22] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.techspot.com/news/109089-russian-cyberattack-netherlands-leaves-speed-cameras-offline.html ) [21:25] admfubar https://www.neowin.net/news/report-microsofts-latest-windows-11-24h2-update-breaks-ssdshdds-may-corrupt-your-data/ [21:25] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.neowin.net/news/report-microsofts-latest-windows-11-24h2-update-breaks-ssdshdds-may-corrupt-your-data/ ) [21:29] admfubar perpetual motion? https://www.neowin.net/news/scientists-break-impossible-century-old-physics-barrier-with-this-new-research/ [21:29] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.neowin.net/news/scientists-break-impossible-century-old-physics-barrier-with-this-new-research/ ) [21:39] *DavidSch__ (~ds__38@7xuaaqawrg7s8.irc) has joined #techrights [21:39] *DavidSch__ has quit (Quit: leaving) [21:39] *DavidSch__ (~ds__38@7xuaaqawrg7s8.irc) has joined #techrights [21:41] admfubar https://www.osnews.com/story/143086/ai-is-the-endgame-for-totalitarians/ [21:41] TR Bot is the endgame for totalitarians OSnews [21:47] admfubar https://petapixel.com/2025/08/07/photographing-in-the-woods-in-nova-scotia-is-currently-illegal/ [21:47] TR Bot in the Woods in Nova Scotia Is Currently Illegal | PetaPixel [21:56] MinceR gotta stay out of the woods because being inside them sets them on fire [21:56] MinceR apparently ● Aug 17 [22:04] admfubar no most people are careless idiots and will do dangerous stuff with fire. [22:17] *DavidSch__ has quit (Quit: Lost terminal) [22:31] admfubar https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/08/16/0019213 [22:31] TR Bot Bill Gates Declares the End of the Smartphone Era and Unveils Its Surprising Replacement - SoylentNews [22:34] MinceR lol, gates said something, everyone better obey immediately [22:35] *psydroid3 has quit (Quit: KVIrc 5.2.6 Quasar http://www.kvirc.net/) [22:35] MinceR also, imagine a device that is broken and dangerous by design (as it comes from MICROS~1 or crApple), but this time it's built into your skin, so you can't even throw it away when it's about to explode and/or overheat [22:35] MinceR fucking brilliant [22:36] MinceR gAIDS needs to seek some psychiatric professional's help [22:48] admfubar wait till it gets a virus.... [22:48] MinceR https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2024/04/26/bazed-and-confused [22:48] TR Bot Bazed And Confused - Penny Arcade [22:49] MinceR with these sociopathic sons of bitches at the helm, it doesn't need a virus to start getting malicious [22:49] MinceR it's malicious by design [22:49] MinceR fucking hell, a virus might actually make it more benign [22:49] MinceR maybe make it a little slower at handing your data over to spooks, or erasing/corrupting your data [22:52] admfubar or make the tattoo spread all over you.. [22:55] admfubar https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/08/16/008232&from=rss [22:55] TR Bot Americans Who Learned To Code At Obamas Behest Cant Find Jobs Now - SoylentNews [22:56] admfubar https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/08/15/1316257&from=rss [22:56] TR Bot Many Countries Banned From Using PayPal for Steam Games in Latest Payment Processor Drama - SoylentNews ● Aug 17 [23:01] admfubar https://benholmen.com/blog/kilopixel/ [23:01] TR Bot I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display [23:05] admfubar https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/08/07/0248239&from=rss [23:05] TR Bot Hiding Secret Codes in Light Can Protect Against Fake Videos - SoylentNews [23:12] admfubar https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250803-the-bright-side-underwater-robot-live-stream-mesmerizes-argentines [23:12] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250803-the-bright-side-underwater-robot-live-stream-mesmerizes-argentines ) [23:17] admfubar fiddler on the sea floor... https://www.iflscience.com/male-fiddler-crabs-dont-know-what-female-fiddler-crabs-want-37685 [23:17] TR Bot Fiddler Crabs Don't Know What Female Fiddler Crabs Want | IFLScience [23:20] admfubar https://techxplore.com/news/2025-08-jesus-chatbots-philosopher.html [23:20] TR Bot ( status 422 @ https://techxplore.com/news/2025-08-jesus-chatbots-philosopher.html ) [23:24] admfubar https://thedebrief.org/bizarre-krayt-dragon-like-penis-worm-discovered-in-grand-canyon-reveals-ancient-evolutionary-arms-race/ [23:25] TR Bot Bizarre Krayt Dragon-Like Penis Worm Discovered in Grand Canyon Reveals Ancient Evolutionary Arms Race - The Debrief [23:50] MinceR https://engrish.com/2023/12/try-the-general-meows/ [23:50] TR Bot Try the General Meows [23:57] *oarion7 (~ryan@e6jyc88uwxv5c.irc) has joined #techrights