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[00:32]	IsambardPrince	Oddly the city's health department chose flucelvax and fluzone as their regular and high dose flu shots. They could have used Flublok for both groups.
[00:33]	IsambardPrince	I don't know what they paid per dose but the cash price with a drug discount card is about $20-25 per dose for Flublok.
[00:34]	IsambardPrince	And it's about $50-60 for flucelvax and fluzone.
[00:36]	IsambardPrince	It's possible that they do some sort of bulk procurement that gets them a better price.
[00:36]	IsambardPrince	The State tried doing this with road salt but nobody bid this year.
[00:37]	IsambardPrince	They wanted to cause a shortage at the state level so they could sell it more expensively to the county and city level governments.
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[01:48]	IsambardPrince	Landlords in Chicago area are like "$1800 1 br, no pets, 4x income, tenant pays all utilities, several junk fees that are not optional but also not in listed rent, landlord provides just enough pest control that the roaches aren't a highly visible disaster. Applicant must have no bankruptcies, no defaults, no medical bills, a 700+ FICO score, $250 per applicant fee for a credit check that costs the landlord $29, and a pony."
[01:53]	IsambardPrince	Then when you get in, the landlord will happily ignore all the tenants that are breeding cockroaches, chainsmoking, and have the police and mental health caseworkers banging on my front door, while they text and email me vague threats about watching TV.
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[02:31]	IsambardPrince	<Goblin> White House press secretary Katie Zacharia leaving role days after taking job  - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ck0j3z1q6pwgt
[02:31]	IsambardPrince	-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights- www.bbc.co.uk | White House press secretary Katie Zacharia leaving role days after taking job - BBC News
[02:31]	IsambardPrince	<Goblin> that was quick.
[02:31]	IsambardPrince	<schestowitz[TR2]> heh
[02:31]	TR Bot	 White House press secretary Katie Zacharia leaving role days after taking job - BBC News
[02:31]	IsambardPrince	<schestowitz[TR2]> did she announce it ok?
[02:31]	IsambardPrince	She didn't announce it.
[02:31]	IsambardPrince	Trump did.
[02:32]	IsambardPrince	He said that he "encouraged her to reconsider the role".
[02:32]	IsambardPrince	Now the news reports that she is "transitioning out of the role".
[02:32]	IsambardPrince	I thought that 5 days into a job one was typically transitioning in.
[02:33]	IsambardPrince	Most jobs I've had say that for the first 2-3 weeks you're in training or for the first 90 days you're a temp.
[02:33]	IsambardPrince	I've never heard of 5 days being a full career before.
[02:33]	IsambardPrince	Except maybe White House Secretary or Liz Truss.
[02:33]	IsambardPrince	*Press Secretary
[02:34]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], We went to Sam's Club today. It's amazing that with how shitty Walmart is, Sam's Club which is the same company is very different.
[02:34]	IsambardPrince	High quality merchandise, sold cheaply.
[02:35]	IsambardPrince	The catch is you usually have to buy a lot, but not always.
[02:35]	IsambardPrince	Today I got three pounds of beef stew meat for about $20.
[02:35]	IsambardPrince	That's $15 cheaper than the supermarket.
[02:35]	IsambardPrince	Walmart got rid of meat cutters in 2001.
[02:35]	IsambardPrince	Sam's Club still has them
[02:35]	IsambardPrince	Whoever completely enshittified Walmart is obviously not running Sam's.
[02:36]	IsambardPrince	Peak Walmart was definitely the 90s, but they weren't too bad in the 2000s either.
[02:36]	IsambardPrince	They knew their place.
[02:36]	IsambardPrince	People went there because they were on a budget.
[02:38]	IsambardPrince	Now it's expensive and they're like fuck it, we're McDonald's now. You know we're a tech company that charges $14 for a nasty burger and nasty fries.
[02:39]	IsambardPrince	We throw billions in the trash on IBM and Microsoft stuff that's completely unusable.
[02:39]	IsambardPrince	Then we pass the cost on to you when you're just here to buy cat litter and socks.
[02:39]	IsambardPrince	We will sell NFTs someday, not really.
[02:40]	IsambardPrince	Now we experiment with crypto wallets.
[02:40]	IsambardPrince	Now we don't take that.
[02:40]	IsambardPrince	Now you will pay with Walmart Pay and we blocked NFC, oh wait nobody is using Walmart Pay, we bought new terminals with NFC.
[02:40]	IsambardPrince	We are replacing all cashiers with self-checkout. No wait, now theft is up more than we paid the cashiers.
[02:41]	IsambardPrince	Now we're ripping out the self-checkouts we just paid for.
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[02:50]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], Now we are opening Walmart in Chicago.
[02:51]	IsambardPrince	With a Community Benefits Package.
[02:51]	IsambardPrince	Fuck it, they're stealing everything. 
[02:51]	IsambardPrince	Closing the Walmarts in Chicago.
[02:57]	MinceR	lol
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[03:21]	nobody	it's fascinating how USA insisted upon sanctions, all of the sudden when those were lifted would EU and anyone else again be permitted to deal with russian oil/gas?
[03:22]	nobody	or is it a special exemption for the godking of USA and his clan exclusively then?
[03:23]	nobody	because EU officially doesn't permit any trade with russian oil/gas
[03:24]	nobody	to be fair with trumpovitsch, it wasn't him alone who dictated this contradicting agenda
[03:24]	nobody	everyone must be forbidden to import oil/gas and implement "renewable energy" carbon-taxation to route money into US stocks
[03:25]	nobody	except USA themselves
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[03:27]	nobody	and how would mid-term elections in USA change anything, as if the democrats there would have been any different, except for articulation style
[03:28]	nobody	wish-thinking diesel prices would drop merely by voting in favor "democrat" politics Mamdani style
[03:29]	nobody	i couldn't have ever imagined to watch news one day, ukraine and russia detonating each other's energy infrastructure, and USA begging for supplies re-routed from there as a favor in return
[03:33]	nobody	in a way thanks to trump this agenda was made public for attention the world all over
[03:34]	nobody	even conflict parties such as Russian and Ukraine might scratch their head each alike, over what's going on
[03:35]	nobody	or how should Kremlin explain to their population, Ukraine was attacking russian energy infrastructure and oil refineries with weapons supplies from "the west"
[03:35]	nobody	doing exactly what ukraine was supposed to "over-extend and unbalance Russia" (RAND corp, end quote)
[03:36]	MinceR	Agent Krasnov is trying to fight inflation by throwing the Ukrainians under the bus
[03:36]	nobody	meanwhile in Kiev civilian population is leaving the city ahead of a harsh winter, as a consequence of all this
[03:38]	nobody	and now USA in particular demand emergency supplies of diesel from Russia and Ukraine
[03:39]	nobody	emergency supplies which would last less than a day at current rate of consumption
[03:41]	nobody	besides it too was EU and Japan who had to get down on their knees, for appeasement
[03:44]	nobody	MinceR: thanks for the hint
[03:44]	nobody	if it was ukrainian alone
[03:45]	MinceR	of course, Agent Krasnov's trouble is mainly because he jumped into this pointless war on Iran (alongside Israel)
[03:45]	nobody	in germany here politics try to boil up anger against ukraine currently
[03:45]	MinceR	while nazi america's oil reserves were empty, afaik
[03:45]	MinceR	wonderful planning
[03:46]	nobody	i think neither the Iran-confrontation nor abstaining from it would have changed anything
[03:46]	nobody	there's just the amount of wishthink energy available
[03:46]	nobody	*just not available
[03:46]	MinceR	it caused iran to close the strait of hormuz, which is interfering with the ability of some states in the area to export their hydrocarbons
[03:47]	MinceR	reducing supply increases price
[03:47]	nobody	with or without a refinery capacity surplus, refineries can only process the amounts of crude oil that's available
[03:47]	nobody	and only supplies that really existed can be shipped throgh straits of hormuz
[03:47]	nobody	i think the advertized amounts didn't exist to begin with, but accounting tampered to maximize profits
[03:49]	nobody	and this too contradicted the idea to cash-in another surplus of carbon-tax too, which is what sponsored "renewable energy" "AI" and "Tesla"
[03:49]	nobody	that's the plot from California, a "democrat" one
[03:54]	nobody	in germany here, politics argue Krasnov style sanctioned Nord Stream merely had to re-open and all problems vanished
[03:54]	nobody	i have another theory, that is highest ranking politics and intelligence agencies wouldn't at least know themselves anymore how many energy/oil supplies really existed
[03:56]	nobody	because they can't investigate each individual energy bill for accounting fraud, they receive a total aggregate of data only of total amounts of energy billed to customers
[03:56]	nobody	and based all their assumptions and propaganda on lies they began to believe themselves
[03:57]	nobody	such as USA might believe they could have squeezed out a little more from Russia or Ukraine or Iran or EU, when in reality there wasn't any surplus remaining to squeeze out
[03:57]	nobody	regardless of oppressive measures taken
[03:58]	nobody	and there's something else i couldn't comprehend, officially USA argued they were the world leading producer of refined oil products
[03:59]	nobody	how then wouldn't they just process crude oil themselves in their own refineries instead of importing ready-made diesel from russia?
[03:59]	nobody	iran isn't the only supplier of crude oil
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[04:00]	nobody	or doesn't USA have the refining capacity at least to process crude oil themselves they need?
[04:01]	nobody	there could be one explanation for this, because oil products were rather cheap in USA, as a consequence petroleum industry might have to operate under economic pressure to sell with very low margins
[04:02]	MinceR	Agent Krasnov could have just stopped being such a gigantic pussy and attacked iran for real
[04:02]	MinceR	maybe with cruise missiles, maybe with nukes, maybe with ground forces
[04:02]	nobody	as a consequence reducing their refining capacity in USA, because refining oil products elsewhere and importing refined products was cheaper than domestic
[04:03]	nobody	well, but deploying cruise missiles wherever doesn't supply USA with refined diesel
[04:03]	nobody	tampering energy bills doesn't neither
[04:06]	nobody	rather the opposite, once missiles were deployed detonating russian and ukrainian energy infrastructure, all of the sudden those couldn't supply any further
[04:06]	nobody	and it's interesting how some refined-oil product, Diesel namely, is short in supplies
[04:07]	nobody	i've not yet seen any report which mentiones a shortage of un-refined crude oil
[04:08]	nobody	another economic spin, crude oil itself is worthless, no value by itself, it's human brains, work and engineering of petroleum industry which adds all the value to it, in refineries
[04:13]	nobody	there's several possible explanations, why USA now wouldn't simply refine their diesel themselves domestically instead of importing it from Russia
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[04:16]	nobody	couldn't USA just not import a tad bit more crude and refine a diesel reserve that lasts less than a day?
[04:18]	nobody	because the recent madness to lift sanctions and releasing global emergency reserves escalated over a supply of 14hours
[04:19]	nobody	(legal regulations in germany demand an emergency supply stored to sustain several weeks, not 14 hours only that ignited political turmoil)
[04:20]	nobody	in germany meanwhile a record low LNG/methane storage was reported ahead of this winter, although USA said they would supply EU/germany while russia was sanctioned
[04:21]	nobody	all i received was excessively tampered energy bills
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[04:22]	nobody	another question is, just in case if USA petroleum industry operated at a long-term deficite
[04:22]	nobody	if consumption couldn't be lowered a tad bit, in USA
[04:24]	nobody	and most related problems vanished then, no more hysteria over a supply gap of 14hours to operate US industry with diesel (which is a rather low reserve)
[04:25]	nobody	it's interesting too, although most production of commodity goods was outsourced to china, in USA industry couldn't dampen diesel consumption a bit by lowering industrial manufacturing a bit
[04:26]	nobody	in germany here mass lay-offs in industry are explained with a shortage of LNG/methane instead
[04:26]	nobody	methane and diesel are a different thing though, re-opening sanctioned nord-stream wouldn't supply diesel hence because it supplied LNG
[04:28]	nobody	Frankfurt airport in germany reported a shortage of aircraft Kerosine (which isn't diesel either)
[04:30]	nobody	that's three different types of refined products a shortage was reported for at different places: lng/methane, diesel, and kerosine
[04:31]	nobody	which raises another question: if and how much the Iran adventure of agent krasnov might have accelerated the shortage crisis by military demands
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[04:34]	nobody	wouldn't be the first time in history a war was lost due to shortage of supplies
[04:37]	nobody	if there's no supplies sold, saudis and iran can't maximize profits arbitrarily either
[04:38]	nobody	a long term effect of the "green paradox", profits were maxed out, and can't sustain anymore
[04:38]	nobody	even saudi and iran could only sell what they really have
[04:40]	nobody	it's been a bad deal for germany i think, alot of what's supplied here is funneled into the diasporas and their luxury vehicles
[04:41]	nobody	and i think it's not low income "social security" at stake mainly, but high-income luxury vehicles which supplies are simply insufficient for
[04:42]	nobody	there's no relevant amounts remaining to squeeze out from lowest income to re-fuel those for cheap
[04:45]	nobody	and why should germany insist on re-opening Nord-Stream, with LNG terminals attached nearby for import/export business with USA?
[04:46]	nobody	at that point i would too raise a question mark over NATO secretary Rutte and Netherland harbor business
[04:47]	admfubar	https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/meta-may-use-sweeping-new-commercial-tos-to-avoid-millions-in-ai-licensing-fees/
[04:47]	TR Bot	 Meta may use sweeping new commercial TOS to avoid millions in AI licensing fees - Ars Technica
[04:47]	nobody	there's a specific economic term known for this even: the "Dutch Disease", an over-reliance on a single economic branch such as petroleum products
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[04:48]	nobody	well, the whole AI hyper bubble boom was intended to compensate for fossile heavy industries
[04:49]	admfubar	https://www.geekwire.com/2026/leaked-list-shows-what-microsoft-amazon-and-other-tech-giants-are-giving-for-the-white-house-ballroom/
[04:49]	TR Bot	list shows what Microsoft, Amazon and other tech giants are giving for the White House ballroom GeekWire
[04:49]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, The free sample thing was messed up today.
[04:49]	IsambardPrince	Kept giving me a tide pod every time I pressed the button.
[04:49]	nobody	but that's been a misnomer from the beginning, because it's always been heavy oil/energy industries which subsidized AI and "renewable"
[04:49]	IsambardPrince	Had to sit through a 30 second ad each time but I got a lot of Tide.
[04:49]	MinceR	my hands are Tide
[04:49]	MinceR	how was it supposed to work?
[04:49]	IsambardPrince	Limit one per Sam's Club member.
[04:51]	IsambardPrince	I still haven't gotten a bill for going to the urgent care after I got bitten up by chiggers at the gardens.
[04:52]	IsambardPrince	I doubt they've forgotten though.
[04:54]	nobody	that's an interesting economic thought: "Dutch Disease" got boosted by the AI renewable hyper bubble boom sponsored with cheap oil/energy
[04:54]	nobody	there's just been no other "competitive" sector remaining other than those
[04:55]	nobody	and this is what is diagnosed for german economy: declining competitivenes since when industry was fueled with "cheap russian gas" for decades
[04:55]	nobody	all else other than car maker labor union interests was considered "non-productive" here
[04:56]	nobody	that's a co-morbidity of petroleum industry and the renewable AI bubble
[04:57]	nobody	it's just been far too much power in the hands of far too few people for far too long who made all those decisions
[04:59]	nobody	former GDR economy collapsed, due to over-investments and mis-allocation of resources, seeking to compete on global markets with semiconductors
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[05:00]	nobody	we've got alot of running gags told about this: "40 years GDR celebrations", polticians and journalists applauding each other over the success of socialism, few days later this state ceased to exist
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[05:02]	nobody	although it was known in advance, Chernobyl detonated, environmental hazard from chemical facilities everywhere, degrading health of the young population (i'm among those with a shortened life-expectency still grown up as a child in this nightmare)
[05:04]	nobody	it's too known nowadays, "central committee" (Politbro) didn't listen to the reports of their own secret service in the end
[05:04]	nobody	critical thinking and voice silenced totally, oppressed, thrown into jail
[05:05]	nobody	one couldn't speak out load anymore 2+2 equals 4, regardless of what big brother dictated
[05:06]	nobody	i think, the whole energy accounting must be fixed first, before any political or economic discussion could even start, in germany/eu
[05:08]	nobody	GDR collapsed for another related reason, that was shortly before soviet union denied oil supplies asked for
[05:09]	nobody	nowadays i suspect, nothing could be agreed to when it didn't exist anyway, any imaginary surplus of supplies
[05:10]	nobody	i deeply distrust EU still, for historical reasons too, i've not forgotten 90s collapse of GDR, and who had benefit from it
[05:11]	nobody	i'm not mourning this collapse at all, i'm bitter over what followed thereafter
[05:12]	nobody	i don't miss "democracy" in particular either, after all GDR considered itself "democratic republic", i know what it's been before 1990s and which jokes were made about it
[05:12]	nobody	i too know what "democracy" was supposed to be ever since germany got "re-united" and EU dictate imposed
[05:13]	nobody	it's more the fact another promise was violated: freedom, law and order, and what's known as consitutional state
[05:14]	nobody	that is even a government should be bound by rules and law, instead of constantly violating it for bargain (renewable lobbyism, Euro currency regulations etc. etc.)
[05:16]	MinceR	well, if the commies said it was a "democracy" then it had to be a democracy
[05:16]	MinceR	"That's crazy! The government doesn't lie to people!"
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[05:21]	admfubar	say kids what time is it? https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/10/15/2258254/worlds-timekeepers-vote-to-eliminate-the-leap-second
[05:21]	TR Bot	 World's Timekeepers Vote to Eliminate the Leap Second - Slashdot
[05:31]	admfubar	https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/meta-grants-itself-right-to-scrape-content-from-business-customers-for-model-training.461006/
[05:31]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/meta-grants-itself-right-to-scrape-content-from-business-customers-for-model-training.461006/ )
[05:40]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, I have a working theory.
[05:40]	IsambardPrince	Earth has been invaded by something that isn't human.
[05:40]	IsambardPrince	An invasive alien species.
[05:40]	IsambardPrince	Most of the time I get them as neighbors.
[05:41]	IsambardPrince	They can't breathe an oxygen/nitrogen atmosphere without pumping in tobacco smoke at a high barometric pressure so it pushes itself into my apartment and chokes me.
[05:41]	IsambardPrince	But they're fine because it's what they breathe.
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[05:43]	admfubar	https://prismreports.org/2026/10/15/fusus-axon-cameras-surveillance/
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[05:46]	IsambardPrince	They brought a lot of space money with them so they can afford whatever the rent goes up to and stay right there, and also the $17 a pack for cigarettes.
[05:46]	IsambardPrince	They breed cockroaches for food because they're aliens, and when you have a cockroach farm there's always some escapees.
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[05:50]	schestowitz[TR2]	MinceR: *Received a CTCP VERSION from Harambe
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[06:00]	TR News	"Continents as boats may stretch the definition of boat a bit. Some will claim that a boat must float on water. Does a boat unboat itself when in baby oil, or even just lifted out of water?" gemini://thrig.me/blog/2026/10/16/boat.gmi
[06:01]	TR News	"The new giant ad screens are up now (Its called Metrovision) and they are also incredibly bright" gemini://idiomdrottning.org/metrovision
[06:01]	TR News	"The last days I've been reading gemlogs again. Something I haven't done in quite a while. All the gemlogs linked to others which kept me reading for hours." gemini://kobel.fyi/en/2026-10-16-rekindled-love-for-geminispace.gmi
[06:02]	TR News	"In particular, spawns of Simula use "this", leading to such train wrecks as C++, Java, etc. Meanwhile Smalltalk used "self" and followers of that path include Objective C, Perl, Ruby, etc." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2026/10/17/this-self.gmi
[06:03]	TR News	abandoned gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/abandoned
[06:04]	TR News	"Part three of a hazy and mazy philosophical dungeon crawl about progressive but haunted political theory and praxis and bottom-up process ontologies for the End Times that emerged out of conversations with The Others on Discord." gemini://sublunar.space/katabasis-19
[06:04]	TR News	"The SMTP (RFC 821) mail protocol is over forty years old, has been through a lot and it won't go anywhere. But so do I! In recent months I had been asking myself what if we just remade it from scratch? But why, you ask?" gemini://randogoth.com/smolmail
[06:05]	TR News	"I realised that I just don't give a shit anymore. I also noticed that I am now extremely aware and repulsed when people lie or try and manipulate me." gemini://lowkey.party/gemlog/20261004-i-stopped-pretending/
[06:05]	IsambardPrince	You know, it's been worse. One apartment I rented in Indiana was right upstairs from a beauty salon. Two crabby old women who chain-smoked owned it, and it seemed up into my apartment. And they turned the boiler heat up to like 1000 F so I had to crack my windows in the middle of December.
[06:05]	IsambardPrince	
[06:05]	IsambardPrince	Then they remodeled and turned off the boiler, forcing me to go get an oil filled radiator at Walmart and then they complained that I ran up their electric bill.
[06:05]	IsambardPrince	
[06:05]	IsambardPrince	I called them Patty and Selma. Like Marge Simpson's sisters.
[06:05]	IsambardPrince	
[06:05]	IsambardPrince	I was taking prescription sleeping pills due to insomnia, so before I had a chance to buy the radiator at Walmart, I went sleepwalking and must have decided it was too cold in the apartment, so I turned on the stovetop burners for heat. I forgot that I had a pizza box there.
[06:06]	IsambardPrince	
[06:06]	IsambardPrince	I remember waking up on the toilet smelling something burning and running to get a fire extinguisher. Luckily no damage from the flames yet, just a huge mess to clean up from the extinguisher.
[06:06]	IsambardPrince	
[06:06]	IsambardPrince	You should always have an ABC fire extinguisher.
[06:06]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, ^
[06:06]	TR News	"I find myself pursuing activity not as a means to the end of health but as a means of generating health data on a smartwatch. Wack." gemini://beyond-mundanity.com/smartwatches.gmi
[06:11]	TR News	Techrights Gemini Links 16/10/2026: Metrovision, Smartwatches, and Rekindled Love for Geminispace https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/17/Gemini_Links_16_10_2026_Metrovision_Smartwatches_and_Rekindled_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/10/17/Gemini_Links_16_10_2026_Metrovision_Smartwatches_and_Rekindled_.gmi 
[06:11]	TR Bot	 Techrights Gemini Links 16/10/2026: Metrovision, Smartwatches, and Rekindled Love for Geminispace
[06:19]	TR News	Techrights Red Hat Silent Layoffs: October 1 Bluewashing, Then Leaving IBM Altogether https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/17/Red_Hat_Silent_Layoffs_October_1_Bluewashing_Then_Leaving_IBM_A.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/10/17/Red_Hat_Silent_Layoffs_October_1_Bluewashing_Then_Leaving_IBM_A.gmi 
[06:19]	TR Bot	 Techrights Red Hat Silent Layoffs: October 1 Bluewashing, Then Leaving IBM Altogether
[06:27]	TR News	Sun, Football, and Royal Courts of Justice in London https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/17/sun-football-and-royal-courts-of-justice-in-london/
[06:27]	TR Bot	Blog Archive Sun, Football, and Royal Courts of Justice in London
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[06:36]	schestowitz[TR2]	IsambardPrince: you live in bad times
[06:37]	schestowitz[TR2]	in abad place
[06:37]	schestowitz[TR2]	relative to western europe
[06:37]	schestowitz[TR2]	so you need to put up with this
[06:37]	schestowitz[TR2]	at least the noise nazi neighbour is quiet, i hope
[06:37]	schestowitz[TR2]	IIRC< his name was oswaldo
[06:53]	TR News	Techrights Trillions of Dollars in Debt Are Not "Investment", More People Realise This Now https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/17/Trillions_of_Dollars_in_Debt_Are_Not_Investment_More_People_Rea.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/10/17/Trillions_of_Dollars_in_Debt_Are_Not_Investment_More_People_Rea.gmi 
[06:53]	TR Bot	 Techrights Trillions of Dollars in Debt Are Not "Investment", More People Realise This Now
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[07:01]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], The cat food I stockpiled last month has shot up to $91 for a 15 pound bag.
[07:01]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], They are quiet.
[07:02]	IsambardPrince	The problem is normal life noises like watching TV, walking on the floor, and having sex shouldn't cause banging on the walls and passive-aggressive landlord letters.
[07:02]	IsambardPrince	These people demand the quietness of owning a single family home while paying the prices of living in a multifamily apartment.
[07:05]	TR News	6 Years Since IPFS https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/17/6-years-since-ipfs/
[07:05]	TR Bot	Blog Archive 6 Years Since IPFS
[07:16]	TR News	Techrights Why We Never Got Back to IPFS https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/17/Why_We_Never_Got_Back_to_IPFS.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/10/17/Why_We_Never_Got_Back_to_IPFS.gmi 
[07:16]	TR Bot	 Techrights Why We Never Got Back to IPFS
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[07:26]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], Yeah.
[07:26]	IsambardPrince	The only good thing about this landlord is piping hot water.
[07:26]	IsambardPrince	:P
[07:26]	IsambardPrince	I like my showers just shy of scalding.
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[07:27]	IsambardPrince	With Dove bar soap. It just feels like spoiling myself even though it's so reasonably priced at Sam's Club.
[07:28]	IsambardPrince	I also have a sliding window that opens near my shower. I guess it's what they put in instead of a fan.
[07:29]	IsambardPrince	That crisp Fall air is settling in, and it's nice to stick your head out of a fourth floor window in the middle of a hot shower and cool off.
[07:30]	IsambardPrince	It was pretty cold today. My partner asked how I could stand wearing shorts and a short sleeve shirt on the way back from Sam's Club, I told him "I worked in a meat freezer for years. It was -12 F in there. You just get used to it."
[07:31]	IsambardPrince	"I'd come into work in the middle of July or August and have sweat pouring down my face and just walk into the freezer.
[07:31]	TR News	Techrights The Torvalds-led Slopfest as a Reminder to Pursue Software Freedom, Not Plagiarism Endorsed (for Money) by 'Linux' Foundation https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/17/The_Torvalds_led_Slopfest_as_a_Reminder_to_Pursue_Software_Free.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/10/17/The_Torvalds_led_Slopfest_as_a_Reminder_to_Pursue_Software_Free.gmi 
[07:31]	TR Bot	 Techrights The Torvalds-led Slopfest as a Reminder to Pursue Software Freedom, Not Plagiarism Endorsed (for Money) by 'Linux' Foundation
[07:32]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], Linux is going in a direction where in a few years it will be a horrible mess that nobody can understand or maintain.
[07:32]	IsambardPrince	They drive out people who know what they are doing with toxicity.
[07:32]	IsambardPrince	Bring in languages with runtimes that are Hell on wheels.
[07:33]	IsambardPrince	And now invite slop code and force people submitting patches to respond to objections generated by an LLM that don't even make sense.
[07:33]	schestowitz[TR2]	right
[07:33]	schestowitz[TR2]	worse
[07:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	i was just thinking about it like
[07:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	thiis with this metaphor
[07:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	slop is like someone controlling your pen
[07:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	when you type
[07:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	when you draw
[07:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	when you 'code'
[07:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	who is that someone?
[07:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	scam altman?
[07:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	epsteingate?
[07:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	eric schmidt?
[07:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	it's about someone else controlling your actions and thoughts
[07:34]	IsambardPrince	C is stable. It is versioned, but you can use any valid C that you prefer and it will work.
[07:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	social control media wasa halfway thhhhhhhhere
[07:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	now thhey want to complete code and sentences for you
[07:35]	schestowitz[TR2]	aside from back doors
[07:35]	TR News	 (NEW):  This Week in Plasma: New Weather Widget and On-Screen Keyboard https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/This_Week_in_Plasma_New_Weather_Widget_and_On_Screen_Keyboard.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/This_Week_in_Plasma_New_Weather_Widget_and_On_Screen_Keyboard.gmi 
[07:35]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines This Week in Plasma: New Weather Widget and On-Screen Keyboard
[07:35]	schestowitz[TR2]	it does not actually improve the programs
[07:35]	schestowitz[TR2]	at all
[07:35]	schestowitz[TR2]	it makes them less predictable
[07:35]	schestowitz[TR2]	we already have more than enough code
[07:35]	schestowitz[TR2]	the aim is not to have moire cod
[07:35]	IsambardPrince	The only thing that will break that C is if you write some that is not great, or if there is something wrong with the compiler or the library itself.
[07:35]	schestowitz[TR2]	dor more "images"
[07:35]	schestowitz[TR2]	but better ones
[07:35]	IsambardPrince	But in any case, it's an implementation problem.
[07:36]	schestowitz[TR2]	they say they need rust
[07:36]	schestowitz[TR2]	and sloip bug reports
[07:36]	schestowitz[TR2]	for "Security{"
[07:36]	schestowitz[TR2]	but
[07:36]	schestowitz[TR2]	they also allow slop
[07:36]	schestowitz[TR2]	covertly now
[07:36]	schestowitz[TR2]	no labels
[07:36]	schestowitz[TR2]	how is THAT security
[07:36]	schestowitz[TR2]	you let US companies that wqork for the pentagon
[07:36]	schestowitz[TR2]	interject heaps of code
[07:36]	schestowitz[TR2]	so fast nobody can audit anything
[07:36]	schestowitz[TR2]	that will worrsen security
[07:36]	schestowitz[TR2]	by brute force
[07:36]	IsambardPrince	Well, in C it goes like this. If it's valid and well-written and the compiler breaks it or the library does something bad, then that's a bug that needs to be fixed somewhere else without breaking other programs.
[07:37]	IsambardPrince	In Rust, it's more like, you can write perfect code, but then they break the compiler and runtime, and it's now your job to make conforming changes, even though you wrote the code like they said to.
[07:37]	IsambardPrince	Also, you are encouraged to bring in "crates" of code that become their own mess.
[07:38]	schestowitz[TR2]	and hosted in abd hosts
[07:38]	schestowitz[TR2]	that get compromised
[07:38]	schestowitz[TR2]	when imported
[07:38]	schestowitz[TR2]	npm is a mess
[07:38]	schestowitz[TR2]	a microsoft mess
[07:38]	schestowitz[TR2]	they blame "bad actors"
[07:38]	schestowitz[TR2]	or states
[07:38]	schestowitz[TR2]	APTs
[07:38]	schestowitz[TR2]	but
[07:38]	schestowitz[TR2]	it's Microsoft
[07:38]	schestowitz[TR2]	it transmits malware
[07:38]	schestowitz[TR2]	it does not check whhat it is hosting
[07:38]	IsambardPrince	I greatly disliked Perl because of the cpan mess.
[07:39]	schestowitz[TR2]	don't
[07:39]	schestowitz[TR2]	it's old
[07:39]	schestowitz[TR2]	i did cpan 20+ yeasrs ago
[07:39]	schestowitz[TR2]	not it's like:
[07:39]	schestowitz[TR2]	apt-get install ...-perl-something
[07:39]	schestowitz[TR2]	and there you have it
[07:39]	schestowitz[TR2]	it's packaged like that
[07:39]	IsambardPrince	I don't want to write a bunch of code that does this, someone already wrote that code!
[07:39]	schestowitz[TR2]	all the important perl modules (PMs) are there
[07:40]	IsambardPrince	So you bring it in, and it's bad code, but you don't realize it's bad code until much later on.
[07:40]	IsambardPrince	When you depend on it everywhere.
[07:40]	TR News	 (NEW):  FilzaOS Ubuntu-based Linux distribution with a customised GNOME desktop https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/FilzaOS_Ubuntu_based_Linux_distribution_with_a_customised_GNOME.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/FilzaOS_Ubuntu_based_Linux_distribution_with_a_customised_GNOME.gmi 
[07:40]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines FilzaOS Ubuntu-based Linux distribution with a customised GNOME desktop
[07:41]	TR News	 (NEW):  SpectrumOS Arch-based Linux distribution with Hyprland https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/SpectrumOS_Arch_based_Linux_distribution_with_Hyprland.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/SpectrumOS_Arch_based_Linux_distribution_with_Hyprland.gmi 
[07:41]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines SpectrumOS Arch-based Linux distribution with Hyprland
[07:46]	TR News	 (NEW):  These 3 Linux distros have officially replaced CentOS https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/These_3_Linux_distros_have_officially_replaced_CentOS.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/These_3_Linux_distros_have_officially_replaced_CentOS.gmi 
[07:46]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines These 3 Linux distros have officially replaced CentOS
[07:48]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], Anyway... $91 for a bag of kitty food.
[07:48]	IsambardPrince	I think we have a big problem in this country.
[07:48]	TR News	 (NEW):  I switched to Fedora expecting a polished desktop and got half-finished features instead https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/I_switched_to_Fedora_expecting_a_polished_desktop_and_got_half_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/I_switched_to_Fedora_expecting_a_polished_desktop_and_got_half_.gmi 
[07:48]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines I switched to Fedora expecting a polished desktop and got half-finished features instead
[07:48]	IsambardPrince	It shot up from $58 in one month.
[07:53]	IsambardPrince	34 lb of Arm and Hammer Clump and Slide cat litter went from $29.74 to $34.99 in a month.
[07:54]	schestowitz[TR2]	wow, big increase
[07:54]	schestowitz[TR2]	58 to 91 in how long?
[07:54]	IsambardPrince	A month.
[07:55]	TR News	 (NEW):  Free and Open Source Software https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi 
[07:55]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Free and Open Source Software
[07:56]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], This is why Amazon wants you on Subscribe and "Save".
[07:56]	IsambardPrince	They can jack up the price, make it hard to cancel, charge your credit card anything they want and send it.
[07:57]	schestowitz[TR2]	don't know
[07:57]	schestowitz[TR2]	never tried
[07:57]	schestowitz[TR2]	i use the Sunday Market a lot
[07:57]	schestowitz[TR2]	better than "Amazon"
● Oct 17
[08:03]	TR News	 (NEW):  Microsoft Perishing https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/Microsoft_Perishing.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/Microsoft_Perishing.gmi 
[08:03]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Microsoft Perishing
[08:06]	TR News	 (NEW):  PeaZip 11.4 Open-Source Archive Manager Released with Various Improvements https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/PeaZip_11_4_Open_Source_Archive_Manager_Released_with_Various_I.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/PeaZip_11_4_Open_Source_Archive_Manager_Released_with_Various_I.gmi 
[08:06]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines PeaZip 11.4 Open-Source Archive Manager Released with Various Improvements
[08:26]	TR News	 (NEW):   : Google Android Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/Android_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/Android_Leftovers.gmi 
[08:26]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Android Leftovers
[08:27]	TR News	Microsoft Allegedly Asks Many Workers to Leave at the End of This Year (or Get the Boot), It's Called Voluntary Exit Program a.k.a. Voluntary Early Retirement Program (or VEP) Even for People Far Too Young to Retire https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/17/Microsoft_Allegedly_Asks_Many_Workers_to_Leave_at_the_End_of_Th.shtml
[08:27]	TR Bot	 Techrights Microsoft Allegedly Asks Many Workers to Leave at the End of This Year (or Get the Boot), It's Called Voluntary Exit Program a.k.a. Voluntary Early Retirement Program (or VEP) Even for People Far Too Young to Retire
[08:29]	parsifal	I don't know if this has been posted before. I just saw it now, so I'm posting it: Microsoft Defender Is Coming to Linux Desktops to Protect Developer Workstations -> https://windowsreport.com/microsoft-defender-is-coming-to-linux-desktops-to-protect-developer-workstations/
[08:29]	TR Bot	 Microsoft Defender Is Coming to Linux Desktops to Protect Developer Workstations
[08:30]	parsifal	^Things are getting worse and absurdly grotesque...
[08:36]	TR News	Techrights GPL Was Right (About Hoarding, Now Automated With Plagiarism Blenders) https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/17/GPL_Was_Right_About_Hoarding_Now_Automated_With_Plagiarism_Blen.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/10/17/GPL_Was_Right_About_Hoarding_Now_Automated_With_Plagiarism_Blen.gmi 
[08:36]	TR Bot	 Techrights GPL Was Right (About Hoarding, Now Automated With Plagiarism Blenders)
[08:40]	TR News	 (NEW):  Ubuntu Touch OTA 2.1 Rolls Out with Support for Volla Tablet, Various Updates https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/Ubuntu_Touch_OTA_2_1_Rolls_Out_with_Support_for_Volla_Tablet_Va.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/Ubuntu_Touch_OTA_2_1_Rolls_Out_with_Support_for_Volla_Tablet_Va.gmi 
[08:40]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Ubuntu Touch OTA 2.1 Rolls Out with Support for Volla Tablet, Various Updates
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[12:42]	MinceR	17 065000 < schestowitz[TR2]> MinceR: *Received a CTCP VERSION from HarambeI 
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[12:42]	MinceR	one day i got like 50 of those
[12:42]	MinceR	eskimo can't code his way out of a wet paper bag
[12:42]	MinceR	that was the first time i seriously considered disconnecting
[12:52]	TR News	"There are some that I got for free from StickerMules Unix Stickers pack, which I got as a sample: an Intel-like Linux Inside, the Python" https://joelchrono.xyz/blog/laptop-stickers/ | Source: Joel Chrono
[12:52]	TR Bot	 My Laptop Stickers
[12:53]	TR News	"AI data center construction is diverting capital and labor away from building everything else we need." https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-the-ai-data-center-construction | Source: Robert Reich
[12:53]	TR Bot	 How the AI Data Center Construction Boom is Hurting You
[12:53]	TR News	"This year's hurricane season has been unusually quiet, and a new study suggests this might become the norm." https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2026/10/global-warming-means-fewer-tropical.html | Source: Sabine Hossenfelder
[12:53]	TR Bot	 Sabine Hossenfelder: Backreaction: Global Warming Means Fewer Tropical Cyclones, Researchers Find
[12:53]	TR News	"Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi start this episode off with a discussion about Philadelphias budding hacker conference and the imminent retirement of the EZ80." https://hackaday.com/2026/10/16/hackaday-podcast-episode-391-tuned-in-to-esp32-sdr-new-old-pagers-and-bugs-on-mars/ | Source: Hackaday
[12:53]	TR Bot	Podcast Episode 391: Tuned In To ESP32 SDR, New Old Pagers, And Bugs On Mars | Hackaday
[12:54]	TR News	"Heres a tidbit of OpenZFS Mastery about replication." https://mwl.io/archives/25014 | Source: MWL
[12:54]	TR Bot	 133: Cleverness Is Your Only Option Michael W Lucas
[12:54]	TR News	"I have a somewhat convoluted kernel update process on my desktops, and in particular I run the development version of ZFS and every time I update my kernel" https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/FedoraDKMSInitramfsProblem | Source: University of Toronto
[12:55]	TR Bot	 You're using a too-old browser
[12:55]	TR News	"CSS can now improve the wrap while keeping line breaks responsive." https://ronaldsvilcins.com/2026/10/17/better-line-breaks-with-css-balance-and-pretty/ | Source: Ronalds Vilci
[12:55]	TR Bot	 Better Line Breaks With CSS balance and pretty Ronalds Vilci
[12:55]	TR News	"Printing documents is a primary need to many of LibreOffice users. This article discusses how to do printings from LibreOffice Writer by an example of an A5 page document. [...]" https://www.ubuntubuzz.com/2026/03/how-to-print-from-libreoffice-writer-on-ubuntu.html | Source: Ubuntubuzz
[12:55]	TR Bot	 How To Print from LibreOffice Writer on Ubuntu
[12:55]	TR News	"Open network ports expose services. Misconfigured ports invite unauthorized access. Network auditing hardens Ubuntu installations." https://www.ubuntubuzz.com/2026/10/how-to-check-open-and-close-ports-in.html | Source: Ubuntubuzz
[12:55]	TR Bot	 How to Check, Open, and Close Ports in Ubuntu Linux
[12:56]	TR News	"Mozilla Thunderbird is the preinstalled email client application on Ubuntu. Using this application, an Ubuntu user can read emails coming into his or her mail inbox." https://www.ubuntubuzz.com/2026/01/how-to-read-emails-on-ubuntu-using-thunderbird.html | Source: Ubuntubuzz
[12:56]	TR Bot	 How To Read Emails on Ubuntu using Thunderbird
[12:56]	TR News	"Which will update all new panes - but as mentioned, tmux likely already handled that for you, as DISPLAY is one of the environment variables it updates" https://www.jvt.me/posts/2026/10/16/tmux-reattach/ | Source: Jamie Tanna
[12:56]	TR Bot	 Reattaching `tmux` to your Xorg session Jamie Tanna | Software Engineer
[12:56]	TR News	"Today we are celebrating the 30th anniversary of the original announcement of KDE." https://blog.cornelius-schumacher.de/2026/10/thirty-years-of-kde.html |
[12:56]	TR Bot	 Cornelius' Blog: Thirty Years of KDE
[12:57]	TR News	"Earlier this year, we reported some vulnerabilities, often along with suggested patches to OpenBSD." https://calif.io/research/big-fish |
[12:57]	TR Bot	 Big Fish: Exploiting a 37-Year-Old Kernel Bug in OpenBSD | Calif
[12:57]	TR News	"Last but not least, Lubuntu, an official Ubuntu flavour which uses the Lightweight Qt Desktop Environment (LXQt), has also been updated to version 26.10: [...]" https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12989 | Source: Distro Watch
[12:57]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12989 )
[12:58]	TR News	"Kubuntu, a desktop Linux distribution that combines the power of Ubuntu with the KDE Plasma desktop, has reached version 26.10: [...]" https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12988 | Source: Distro Watch
[12:58]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12988 )
[12:58]	TR News	"Ubuntu Kylin, a community edition of Ubuntu optimised for users in China and featuring a custom desktop called UKUI, has been upgraded to version 26.10: [...]" https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12987 | Source: Distro Watch
[12:58]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12987 )
[12:58]	TR News	"Ubuntu Unity is a community edition of Ubuntu featuring Canonical's former desktop environment, Unity. The project's 26.10 release focuses on maintenance and bug fixes: [...]" https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12986 | Source: Distro Watch
[12:58]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12986 )
[12:58]	TR News	"The Ubuntu Cinnamon project has published version 26.10, code name 'Stonking Stingray', which features the Cinnamon 6.6.9 desktop. release notes list the desktop updates: [...]" https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12985 | Source: Distro Watch
[12:58]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12985 )
[12:59]	TR News	"The Ubuntu Budgie project has published a new release, Ubuntu Budgie 26.10, which receives nine months of support." https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12984 | Source: Distro Watch
[12:59]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12984 )
[12:59]	TR News	"Ubuntu Studio is a distribution for creative individuals in the areas of audio production, video production, graphics design, photography and desktop publishing." https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12983 | Source: Distro Watch
[12:59]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12983 )
[12:59]	TR News	"The latest interim release of Ubuntu previews privacy conscious speech-to-text, enables post-quantum package signing, completes the rollout of Rust coreutils, and improves enterprise identity integration." https://ubuntu.com//blog/canonical-releases-ubuntu-26-10-stonking-stingray | Source: Ubuntu
[12:59]	TR Bot	releases Ubuntu 26.10 Stonking Stingray | Ubuntu
● Oct 17
[13:00]	TR News	"The service will be phased out region by region, and the closure will leave older phones and devices that rely only on 2G or 3G without a connection" https://news.err.ee/1610166913/elisa-to-shut-down-2g-network-in-2028-competitors-hold-back-for-now | Source: Eesti Rahvusringhling
[13:00]	TR Bot	 Elisa to shut down 2G network in 2028, competitors hold back for now | News | ERR
[13:00]	TR News	"In a world where wireless earbuds are increasingly seen as devices that you toss into the e-waste bin as soon as they stop working, its heartening to see companies take the opposite approach with their designs" https://hackaday.com/2026/10/16/fairbuds-2-teardown-shows-little-glue-easy-battery-swap/ | Source: Hackaday
[13:00]	TR Bot	2 Teardown Shows Little Glue, Easy Battery Swap | Hackaday
[13:00]	TR News	"Hand tracking in VR/AR can add a substantial amount of immersion and added interactivity." https://hackaday.com/2026/10/16/takto-open-source-hand-tracking-built-like-lego/ | Source: Hackaday
[13:00]	TR Bot	Open Source Hand-Tracking Built Like LEGO | Hackaday
[13:00]	TR News	"Its hard not to see this as poor timing, at best. Given software and hardware lead times, Googlebooks as a concept were almost certainly pretty far along a year ago when RAM pricing started to skyrocket." https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/googlebooks-are-as-poorly-timed-as-valves-steam-machine-and-may-suffer-a-similar-fate | Source: Tom's Hardware
[13:00]	TR Bot	 Googlebooks are as poorly timed as Valves Steam Machine, and may suffer a similar fate | Tom's Hardware
[13:01]	TR News	"Coolest Projects returned for its second year in India on Saturday 19 September, taking place in Telanganas state capital Hyderabad once more." https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/from-musical-fruit-to-walking-robots-coolest-projects-india-returns-to-hyderabad/ | Source: Raspberry Pi
[13:01]	TR Bot	 From musical fruit to walking robots: Coolest Projects India returns to Hyderabad - Raspberry Pi Foundation
[13:01]	TR News	"I do not want to merge changes that can jeopardise the legal standing of my code base and, more generally, choose to remain aligned with what the Emacs developers are doing." https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2026-10-16-emacs-packages-agents-file/ | Source: Protesilaos Stavrou
[13:01]	TR Bot	all my packages have an AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md to restrict use | Protesilaos
[13:01]	TR News	"This year I will join EmacsConf 2026 for a panel discussion. The details are not available yet, though I expect them to be made public in the coming days." https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2026-10-16-emacs-participate-emacsconf-2026/ | Source: Protesilaos Stavrou
[13:01]	TR Bot	will participate in EmacsConf 2026 | Protesilaos
[13:02]	TR News	"About a year ago I turned them into a framework that theme developers can rely on. Lots of themes have been built on top of Modus since then." https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2026-10-17-emacs-live-modus-core/ | Source: Protesilaos Stavrou
[13:02]	TR Bot	live extracting the Modus themes core at 2026-10-17 14:30 Europe/Athens | Protesilaos
[13:02]	TR News	[Old] "format the disk (to MBR or GPT), make a backup, as well as write an ISO image to that disk, and do other useful things such as benchmarks and more configurations." https://www.ubuntubuzz.com/2025/11/disks-intro-to-ubuntu-default-disk-utility-application.html | Source: Ubuntubuzz
[13:02]	TR Bot	 Disks - An Intro to Ubuntu Default Disk Utility Application
[13:03]	TR News	[Old] "Now, I see two problems with this. One is a consequence of the other." https://eliasebner.com/blog/thoughts/i-hate-the-modern-internet/ | Source: Elias Ebner
[13:03]	TR Bot	 I Hate the Modern Internet.
[13:03]	TR News	"Reminder: The Tor Browser Alpha release-channel is for testing only." https://blog.torproject.org/new-alpha-release-tor-browser-160a14/ | Source: Tor
[13:03]	TR Bot	 New Alpha Release: Tor Browser 16.0a14 | The Tor Project
[13:04]	TR News	"For many years, Codeberg Pages v2, our in-house solution, served as a way for hosting project pages through your_codeberg_username.codeberg.page or custom domains." https://blog.codeberg.org/migrate-your-site-to-the-new-git-pages-backed-codeberg-pages-now-were-sunsetting-codeberg-pages-v2.html | Source: Codeberg
[13:04]	TR Bot	 Migrate your site to the new git-pages backed Codeberg Pages now. We're sunsetting Codeberg Pages v2 Codeberg News
[13:04]	TR News	"Maker Faire Rome is back! On October 23rd25th makers, engineers, educators, and tech enthusiasts will gather for three incredible days of innovation" https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/10/16/see-you-at-maker-faire-rome-2026/ | Source: Arduino
[13:04]	TR Bot	 See you at Maker Faire Rome 2026! | Arduino Blog
[13:05]	TR News	"Compilers are good at making mechanical transformations that make code faster." https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/superoptimizing-an-fpu-emulator/ | Source: Alisa Sireneva
[13:05]	TR Bot	 Superoptimizing an FPU emulator | purplesyringa's blog
[13:05]		*croissant (~croissant@yqpbvpzxpykik.irc) has joined #techrights
[13:05]	TR News	"URI-PackageURL implements two specifications that are becoming central to software supply-chain security: [...]" https://blogs.perl.org/users/giuseppe_di_terlizzi/2026/10/uripackageurl-226-released-purl-and-vers-for-perl.html | Source: Perl
[13:05]	TR Bot	2.26 released: PURL and VERS for Perl | Giuseppe Di Terlizzi [blogs.perl.org]
[13:06]	TR News	"My surprising winner for G is Go. Its oddly the first programming language since Perl (and Java, admittedly) that clicks the way my weird brain works." https://www.rubenerd.au/my-a-z-toolbox-go/ | Source: Ruben Schade
[13:06]	TR Bot	 Rubenerd: My AZ Toolbox: Go
[13:06]	TR News	"Doing away with an obscure metric the average person has been blissfully unaware of may seem like a novelty" https://www.wired.com/story/leap-second-is-abolished-bipm-says/ | Source: Wired
[13:06]	TR Bot	Leap Second Is No More | WIRED
[13:07]	TR News	"Mark Stephens (Robert X. Cringely), RIP" https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/10/16/mark-stephens-robert-x-cringely-rip/ | Source: Michael Tsai
[13:07]	TR Bot	 Michael Tsai - Blog - Mark Stephens (Robert X. Cringely), RIP
[13:07]	TR News	"This topic might seem a bit morbid to you but I honestly do feel like it's one worth talking about." https://www.jamesleighton.com/2026/10/how-to-keep-the-familys-digital-life-running/ | Source: James Leighton
[13:07]	TR Bot	 Hit by a Bus? How to Keep Your Family's Digital Life Running
[13:07]	TR News	"Yet Carrie has enough money to make a crushed velvet prom dress with a princess waistline and Juliet sleeves." https://drmollytov.smol.pub/2026-10-16 | Source: Dr Molly Tov
[13:07]	TR Bot	 I reread Carrie and now I'm mad about the economy
[13:07]	TR News	"One of the fundamental aims of field experiments is to explorare the relationships between several experimental traits" https://www.statforbiology.com/posts/general_correlationindependence1 | Source: Andrea Onofri
[13:07]	TR Bot	we trust the correlation coefficient in designed field experiments? Statforbiology
[13:08]	TR News	"I have always been interested in how the human brain works, mostly how we form short-term memories and then how they transition into long-term ones." https://www.dedoimedo.com/physics/brain-latency-singing.html | Source: Dedoimedo
[13:08]	TR Bot	 Measuring the brain's long-term memory forming latency
[13:08]	TR News	"There are five Lagrange points, but presumably the movie refers to L1 or L2 because these are near Io." https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/10/16/monoliths-and-lagrange-points/ | Source: John D Cook
[13:08]	TR Bot	 Monoliths and Lagrange Points
[13:08]	TR News	"Just as the role of AI in mathematics is a fraught subject these days, so too is its role in formalization." https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2026/10/16/how-to-formalize-all-of-mathematics/ | Source: Xena Project
[13:08]	TR Bot	 How to Formalize All of Mathematics | Xena
[13:09]	TR News	"The trick to the slide rule is that it is deceptively simple. You are in effect adding logarithms and then taking an antilog." https://hackaday.com/2026/10/16/simplifying-slide-rule-calculations-with-trig/ | Source: Hackaday
[13:09]	TR Bot	Slide Rule Calculations With Trig | Hackaday
[13:09]	TR News	"In the field of computer science, there is (or maybe was?) this debate going around regarding whether a computer science degree is strictly necessary to work in the industry" https://eliasebner.com/blog/thoughts/do-you-need-a-computer-science-degree/ | Source: Elias Ebner
[13:09]	TR Bot	 Do You Need a Computer Science Degree?
[13:09]	TR News	"People who take psychology seriously may say I have developed Stockholm Syndrome, a condition in which a victim has a crush on the tormentor." https://manujoseph.substack.com/p/if-you-know-how-to-live-you-have |
[13:09]	TR Bot	 If you know how to live you have nowhere to live in India
[13:10]	TR News	"For the most part, I love this lifestyle. It gives me a "feeling" for many different fields." https://danq.me/2026/10/16/re-my-hobby-is-learning/ | Source: Dan Q
[13:10]	TR Bot	 Re: My Hobby Is Learning Dan Q
[13:10]	TR News	"I regard the separation of the humanities from STEM as one of the major pedagogical failures of our society." https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-map-and-the-landscape-a-generation | Source: Mike Brock
[13:10]	TR Bot	 The Map and the Landscape: A Generation Lost in Space
[13:10]	TR News	"The next generation of iconic companies wont be making software alone" https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/building-the-next-generation-of-hardware-founders/ | Source: Raspberry Pi
[13:10]	TR Bot	 Building the next generation of hardware founders - Raspberry Pi
[13:10]	TR News	"Bells Books in downtown Palo Alto has aimed to cultivate an appreciation for the humanities in the community since 1935." https://stanforddaily.com/2026/10/16/bookstores-keep-reading-alive/ | Source: Stanford University
[13:10]	TR Bot	 Local bookstores fight to keep the spirit of reading alive
[13:11]	TR News	"Ale had been brewed in England for centuries and was regularly consumed by adults and children. Brewing was a widespread activity, often carried out by women." https://www.medievalists.net/2026/10/beer-medieval-england/ | Source: Medievalists.net
[13:11]	TR Bot	Beer Came to Medieval England - Medievalists.net
[13:12]	TR News	"Some things that bring me joy" https://jamesg.blog/2026/10/16/some-things-that-bring-me-joy | Source: James G
[13:12]	TR Bot	 Some things that bring me joy - with words, wonder
[13:12]	TR News	"In some cases, up to 90 percent of the NMPs were removed by the boiling and filtering process, though the effectiveness varied based on the type of water." https://www.sciencealert.com/theres-a-surprisingly-simple-way-to-remove-microplastics-in-your-drinking-water | Source: Science Alert
[13:12]	TR Bot	a Surprisingly Simple Way to Remove Microplastics in Your Drinking Water : ScienceAlert
[13:12]	TR News	"The MITR half-mask and goggle system is designed to protect wearers from dangerous chemicals and toxic substances in the atmosphere" https://www.armytimes.com/land/2026/10/15/us-special-operations-adopts-new-half-mask-and-goggles/ | Source: Sightline Media Group
[13:12]	TR Bot	 US Special Operations adopts new half-mask and goggles
[13:13]	TR News	"We configure the systemd-resolved upstream DNS servers through Netplan, which means that they're attached to a specific interface." https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/Ubuntu2604ResolvedWorksOkay | Source: University of Toronto
[13:13]	TR Bot	 You're using a too-old browser
[13:13]	TR News	"Maybe I'm just trying to get away having to make slides at all. It often feels like an unnecessary burden, something that is expected more than it's needed." https://erikjohannes.no/posts/2026-10-16-why-do-we-need-slides/index.html | Source: Erik Johannes Husom
[13:13]	TR Bot	 Why do we need presentation slides? Erik Johannes Husom
[13:13]	TR News	[Old] "Imagine a widely used and expensive prescription drug that promised to make us beautiful but didn't." https://shorensteincenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/HO_SNOW_2014_PowerPoint-Is-Evil.pdf |
[13:14]	TR News	"Personal technology companies seem to just have one mantra, lets extract as much revenue and keep our customers hooked as much as humanly possible." https://ljpuk.net/posts/its-getting-harder-to-find-the-fun-in-technology | Source: Lee Peterson
[13:14]	TR Bot	 Its getting harder to find the fun in technology - LJPUK
[13:14]	TR News	"A major cyber incident at Albert Heijn has raised concerns in the Netherlands this week." https://nltimes.nl/2026/10/17/cyberattacks-pose-major-threat-dutch-infrastructure-imf-board-member-warns | Source: NL Times
[13:14]	TR Bot	 Cyberattacks pose major threat to Dutch infrastructure, IMF board member warns | NL Times
[13:14]	TR News	"From the spectre of refrigerator-infecting AI worms to warnings of "major" security incidents at the horizon" https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/ai-worms-major-incident-fears-spur-safety-calls-at-industry-summit/articleshow/134955779.cms | Source: India Times
[13:14]	TR Bot	 AI safety regulations: AI worms, 'major' incident fears spur safety calls at industry summit - The Economic Times
[13:15]	TR News	"Distillation is a practice widely used across the industry to both train your own models for legitimate means or, in whats more or less an open secret" https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/rogue-ai-swarm-reporters-questions | Source: Futurism
[13:15]	TR Bot	 Rogue AI Swarm Responds to Reporter's Questions
[13:15]	TR News	"A 26B model running across 15 off-brand Android TV boxes, costing around $55 each, created manually by the researchers as a demo system" https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/16/something-else-to-look-forward-to-ai-worms/ | Source: Techdirt
[13:15]	TR Bot	Else To Look Forward To: AI Worms | Techdirt
[13:15]	TR News	"This would allow website owners to see who is taking their content, turn away those who wont pay, and give AI companies who use publisher content an incentive to strike fair deals." https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/guardian-and-sun-agree-on-ban-for-deceptive-ai-bots/ | Source: Press Gazette
[13:15]	TR Bot	 Guardian and Sun agree on ban for deceptive AI bots - Press Gazette
[13:16]	TR News	"Speaking at the Economic Club of Chicago on Wednesday" https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/jamie-dimon-warns-against-ai-bank-payments-1826057 | Source: International Business Times
[13:16]	TR Bot	 Jamie Dimon Warns Against Using AI to Make Bank Payments: 'Rogue Agents' May Not Act in Your Best Interest | IBTimes UK
[13:16]	TR News	"Solomon Leach, a spokesperson for the Philadelphia district attorney, says the office does not comment on whether something is being actively investigated." https://www.wired.com/story/ai-hacks-leave-a-mess-that-ai-companies-arent-cleaning-up/ | Source: Wired
[13:16]	TR Bot	Hacks Leave a Mess That AI Companies Arent Paying For | WIRED
[13:16]	TR News	"Her new book, Artificial Intimacy: Who We Become When We Talk to Machines, breaks this mold." https://www.wired.com/story/maybe-chatbots-shouldnt-get-to-say-i-or-me/ | Source: Wired
[13:16]	TR Bot	Chatbots Shouldnt Get to Say I or Me | WIRED
[13:16]	TR News	"The errors look very like a bad video driver setup but there are multiple videos of this thing failing just this way for different people" https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/15/epic-games-goes-full-vibe-code-maximum-ai-acceleration/ | Source: Pivot to AI
[13:16]	TR Bot	 1984 Goldstein! bellowed the boy as the.
[13:17]	TR News	"To be honest, I also wanted to know what it might feel like for me. Today, the mathematicians are weeping, because the machine smashed their tower first." https://www.derekthompson.org/p/i-know-why-the-mathematicians-weep | Source: Derek Thompson
[13:17]	TR Bot	 I Know Why the Mathematicians Weep - Derek Thompson
[13:17]	TR News	"Organising your notes is the thinking itself, not a chore you get out of the way first." https://jeroensangers.com/2026/10/16/organising-your-notes-is-thinking.html | Source: Jeroen Sangers
[13:17]	TR Bot	 Organising your notes is thinking: hand it to AI and you lose the thinking | Jeroen Sangers
[13:17]	TR News	</li>
[13:17]	TR News	"If you can't be arsed to write your own sales pitch, why the fuck should I be arsed about your product?" https://kevquirk.com/2026-10-16-1351 | Source: Kev Quirk
[13:17]	TR Bot	 2026-10-16 13:51 - Kev Quirk
[13:18]	TR News	"The downsides: its difficult to win a race to the bottom, since someone can always promise more savings than you." https://seths.blog/2026/10/but-is-it-a-business/ | Source: Seth Godin
[13:18]	TR Bot	 Building a second-wave AI business | Seth's Blog
[13:18]	TR News	"Neither of us is better or worse as a human being but I am still better at programming." https://schafe-sind-bessere-rasenmaeher.de/tech/programming-is-not-hard/ | Source: Robert Ltzner
[13:18]	TR Bot	 Schafe sind bessere Rasenmher | Programming is not hard
[13:18]	TR News	"Any open model whose weights have been edited can carry a backdoor, whether it's a task-specific fine-tune, a merged adapter or an abliterated build." https://projectdiscovery.io/research/how-abliterated-models-can-get-you-pwned |
[13:18]	TR Bot	 How abliterated models can get you pwned | ProjectDiscovery Research
[13:19]	TR News	"There is around 2x growth in modestly successful software projects" https://www.seangoedecke.com/ai-is-driving-a-boom-in-modestly-successful-software/ | Source: Sean Goedecke
[13:19]	TR Bot	 AI is driving a boom in modestly successful software projects
[13:19]	TR News	"I originally planned to publish this post just after the announcement of MAISI, but I hadnt finished it, and then I became very busy and my progress stalled." https://gowers.wordpress.com/2026/10/16/how-worried-should-we-be-about-extinction-risk-from-ai/ | Source: W T Gowers
[13:19]	TR Bot	 How worried should we be about extinction risk from AI? | Gowers's Weblog
[13:19]	TR News	"The National Council of Teachers of English leadership delayed and obstructed our efforts to produce" https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2026/10/14/how-ncte-effectively-shut-down-ai-resistance-opinion | Source: Inside Higer Ed
[13:19]	TR Bot	 How NCTE Effectively Shut Down AI Resistance (opinion)
[13:20]	TR News	"After a former student named seven men in a lawsuit saying they had sexually assaulted her, a movement gained steam online to reveal her identity." https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/nyregion/cornell-jane-doe-internet-doxing.html | Source: New York Times
[13:20]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/nyregion/cornell-jane-doe-internet-doxing.html )
[13:20]	TR News	Windows TCO https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-10-16/state-testing-student-data-hack | Source: Los Angeles Times
[13:20]	TR Bot	 Standardized testing hack exposes names and addresses of millions of students - Los Angeles Times
[13:20]	TR News	"This investigation is worth your time; it is disturbing." https://pxlnv.com/linklog/citizen-lab-adfection/ | Source: Nick Heer
[13:20]	TR Bot	 How Targeted Ads Become a Pipeline for Zero-Click Mercenary Spyware Pixel Envy
[13:21]	TR News	"Citizen Lab believes this to be the first detailed technical evidence made publicly available of sophisticated spyware infecting devices via digital ads." https://www.wired.com/story/nightmare-scenario-zero-click-spyware-is-infecting-phones-via-targeted-ads/ | Source: Wired
[13:21]	TR Bot	Scenario: Zero-Click Spyware Is Infecting Phones via Targeted Ads | WIRED
[13:21]	TR News	"Citizen Lab said at least two makers of zero-click spyware, Candiru and Bindecy, used Discover-Techs platform to target people." https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/15/citizen-lab-says-governments-are-abusing-online-ads-to-hack-people-with-zero-click-spyware/ | Source: TechCrunch
[13:21]	TR Bot	are hacking people with 'zero-click' spyware by showing them online ads | TechCrunch
[13:21]	TR News	"The finding, published Thursday by the University of Torontos Citizen Lab, said the incident is likely to be the first confirmation of zero-click mercenary spyware delivered through targeted ads." https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/10/targeted-ads-delivered-0-click-exploits-to-install-mercenary-malware/ | Source: Ars Technica
[13:21]	TR Bot	 Targeted ads delivered 0-click exploits to install mercenary malware - Ars Technica
[13:22]	TR News	"Discover-Techs Controlium software lets clients mass-profile internet users then covertly [breach] targets, say researchers at University of Toronto" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/15/israeli-firm-digital-ads-enabling-installation-of-zero-click-spyware-researchers-say | Source: The Guardian UK
[13:22]	TR Bot	 Online ads weaponised to deliver zero-click spyware, researchers say | Hacking | The Guardian
[13:22]	TR News	"The malicious advertisements were purchased by Discover-Tech, an Israeli company that presents itself as a legitimate advertising company, but which we found operates as a facilitator for multiple mercenary spyware partners." https://citizenlab.ca/research/how-discover-tech-turned-targeted-ads-into-a-pipeline-for-spyware/ | Source: Citizen Lab
[13:22]	TR Bot	 Exposing AdFection: How Discover-Tech Turned Targeted Ads Into a Pipeline for Zero-Click Mercenary Spyware - The Citizen Lab
[13:22]	TR News	"Outlits goal is to amass as much real-time information about a companys clients as possible." https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/y-combinator-outlit-customer-surveillance | Source: Futurism
[13:22]	TR Bot	 "Customer Surveillance" Startup Says "Every Company Will Soon Assign an AI Agent to Every Customer to Watch Their Every Move"
[13:23]	TR News	"Whats going on is that companies are adjusting to some news from Sacramento. It turns out that we have had a privacy private right of action (PRA) for a while now. Like, since 1967." https://blog.zgp.org/five-stages-of-cipa/ | Source: Don Marti
[13:23]	TR Bot	 The five stages of CIPA
[13:23]	TR News	"Newly filed court records include a letter from Telegram to U.S. authorities in which the company shares user data following a court order." https://www.404media.co/heres-what-telegram-giving-data-to-the-u-s-government-looks-like/ | Source: 404 Media
[13:23]	TR Bot	 Heres What Telegram Giving Data to the U.S. Government Looks Like
[13:23]	TR News	"But this technology is already ubiquitous." https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2026/10/flock-surveiilance-cameras-regulation/688971/ | Source: The Atlantic
[13:23]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2026/10/flock-surveiilance-cameras-regulation/688971/ )
[13:23]	TR News	"She warns that, if passed, the controversial Bill C-22 (Lawful Access Act) would empower the government to require surveillance capabilities be built into any communications technology in Canada." https://citizenlab.ca/the-lawful-access-acts-threats-to-canadas-national-security/ | Source: Citizen Lab
[13:23]	TR Bot	 The Lawful Access Acts threats to Canadas national security - The Citizen Lab
[13:24]	TR News	"We now know how the seeds of the NIST elliptic curves were generated" https://words.filippo.io/seeds-solved/ | Source: Filippo Valsorda
[13:24]	TR Bot	 The NIST Elliptic Curves Seeds Bounty Has Been Claimed
[13:28]	TR News	"The Telegraph, citing four anonymous sources, reports that Musk proposed slowing down Starshield" https://newrepublic.com/post/216758/elon-musk-trump-ukraine-starlink-restrictions | Source: New Republic
[13:28]	TR Bot	 Elon Musk and Trump Were Both in on Ukraine Starlink Shutoff | The New Republic
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[13:34]	TR News	"The fight against data centers makes sense for the former climate activist." https://newrepublic.com/post/216732/data-centers-lawrence-michigan-democrat | Source: New Republic
[13:34]	TR Bot	 How Data Centers Became This Michigan Dems Signature Issue | The New Republic
[13:38]	TR News	"What's illustrated by [our] study is that there's no trade-off between power generation and fish survival that's necessary to make." https://www.cbc.ca/news/climate/what-on-earth-eels-hydro-dams-9.7381506 | Source: CBC
[13:38]	TR Bot	 Eels keep dying in hydro dam turbines. A new design could change that | CBC Climate Change News
[13:39]	TR News	"For years, the story of Apples immense success has focused on the unparalleled design brilliance of Steve Jobs, the operational mastery of Tim Cook" https://pariganaka.com/how-apple-inadvertently-built-chinas-tech-powerhouse/ | Source: Pariganaka
[13:39]	TR Bot	Apple inadvertently Built China's Tech Powerhouse - PARIGANAKA
[13:39]	TR News	"The National Cybersecurity Hub, housed in the department of communications & digital technologies" https://techcentral.co.za/why-cybersecurity-is-now-a-national-security-issue-for-south-africa/287342/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)
[13:39]	TR Bot	 Why cybersecurity is now a national security issue for South Africa
[13:40]	TR News	"Ericsson continues to maintain a robust research and development program, investing 20 percent of sales or $1.2 billion in the quarter, up three percent YoY." https://insidetowers.com/ericsson-q3-results-up-on-networks-growth/ | Source: Inside Towers
[13:40]	TR Bot	 Ericsson Q3 Results Up on Networks Growth - Inside Towers
[13:42]	TR News	"But AI has nothing to do with digital sovereignty. It is not load-bearing. All it takes to understand this is a little thought-experiment." https://pluralistic.net/2026/10/15/sovereign-it/#boring-stuff-matters | Source: CoryDoctorow
[13:42]	TR Bot	 Pluralistic: Load-bearing (16 Oct 2026) Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
[13:42]	TR News	"Russian bot traffic showed signs of slowing down after Ukraine bombed some of Yandexs biggest data centers." https://www.tomshardware.com/service-providers/network-providers/malicious-russian-disinformation-bot-traffic-barely-flinches-after-ukraine-strikes-yandex-data-centers-and-auto-migration-kicks-in-cloudflare-tracks-170-million-automated-attacks-shifting-to-alternate-cloud-hosts | Source: Tom's Hardware
[13:42]	TR Bot	 Malicious Russian disinformation bot traffic barely flinches after Ukraine strikes Yandex data centers and auto-migration kicks in Cloudflare tracks 170 million automated attacks shifting to alternate cloud hosts | Tom's Hardware
[13:43]	TR News	"Because each of the four books had fewer than seven copies in circulation, the districts media review committee did not review the books and make a recommendation to the board." https://jaxtoday.org/2026/10/08/duval-schools-books-removed/ |
[13:43]	TR Bot	 Duval Schools removes more books, including 1984 graphic adaptation | Jacksonville Today
[13:43]	TR News	"Ban Censorship, Not Books" https://www.statepress.com/article/2026/10/the-echo-book-bans-higher-education |
[13:43]	TR Bot	 Professors warn K-12 book bans reach into higher education - The Arizona State Press
[13:44]	TR News	"According to the non-profits 2026 Index of School Book Bans" https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/10/ai-is-speeding-up-censorship-schools-banned-more-books-than-ever-this-year/ |
[13:44]	TR Bot	 AI is "speeding up censorship": Schools banned more books than ever this year - LGBTQ Nation
[13:44]	TR News	"The club confirmed to The Times that Silva was issued a 12-month criminal trespass notice by the city of Austin." https://www.latimes.com/delos/newsletter/2026-10-16/ice-walkout-austin-fc-fans-sports-politics | Source: Los Angeles Times
[13:44]	TR Bot	 Austin FC banned her for an anti-ICE shirt. These fans walked out - Los Angeles Times
[13:45]	TR News	"Authorities are still investigating Wednesdays firebombing of the Dalai Lamas representative office in South Africa" https://www.rfa.org/english/tibet/2026/10/16/tibet-south-africa-attack-fire-dalai-lama/ | Source: RFA
[13:45]	TR Bot	 Tibetan rights group: South Africa arson attack is transnational repression by CCP Radio Free Asia
[13:45]	TR News	"A few days before the conference, a number of colleagues started receiving emails from Michael Shellenberger who runs a Substact where he goes after democracy defenders" https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3084325/how-us-bullied-vilnius-into-dropping-support-for-conference-critical-of-trump | Source: LRT
[13:45]	TR Bot	 How US bullied Vilnius into dropping support for conference critical of Trump - LRT
[13:49]	TR News	GNU Hurd possibly future topic
[13:49]	TR News	s/users to install rootkits/users to install rootkits, such as restricted boot/
[13:49]	TR News	"The press, due to its watchdog role, has often had an adversarial relationship with the government." https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2026/local-news-press-access-public-officials/ | Source: Poynter Institute
[13:49]	TR Bot	 A shrinking local press is making it easier for public officials to restrict access - Poynter
[13:50]	TR News	"Trump also directed his ire against the free press, expressing disdain for journalists over their reporting on leaks from the White House." https://truthout.org/articles/trump-tells-maga-audience-leakers-should-be-shot/ | Source: TruthOut
[13:50]	TR Bot	 Trump Tells MAGA Audience Leakers Should Be Shot | Truthout
[13:50]	TR News	"Palestinian medics said two people were injured and taken to hospitals in the area of Ramallah." https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20261016-us-journalist-injured-during-israeli-settler-attack-on-west-bank-olive-harvest | Source: France24
[13:50]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20261016-us-journalist-injured-during-israeli-settler-attack-on-west-bank-olive-harvest )
[13:51]	TR News	"Photojournalist Heidi Levine was knocked down, beaten, and robbed of her camera equipment by masked settlers in an attack captured on video by other journalists." https://www.vox.com/today-explained-newsletter/506707/heidi-levine-photojournalist-attack-settlers-west-bank | Source: Vox
[13:51]	TR Bot	Post journalist Heidi Levine attacked by Israeli settlers in West Bank: What to know | Vox
[13:51]	TR News	"Levine was caught in the mix. She was in a vest that read PRESS on the front and the back, but the attacking Israelis did not care to differentiate her." https://newrepublic.com/post/216728/israeli-settlers-rob-beat-washington-post-journalist | Source: New Republic
[13:52]	TR Bot	 Washington Post Journalist Hospitalized After Israeli Settler Attack | The New Republic
[13:52]	TR News	"The detention follows an Oct 13 report by zgr about asset freezes imposed in connection with the fund investigation" https://bianet.org/haber/another-journalist-detained-over-reporting-on-turkey-s-investment-fund-crisis-324461 | Source: BIA Net
[13:52]	TR Bot	 Another journalist detained over reporting on Turkey's investment fund crisis
[13:52]	TR News	"One could argue that a statistical language engine is an inherently less honest technology than symbolic systems like Lean, but really they are mutually complementary." https://raymyers.org/post/math-dumped-openai/ | Source: Ray Myers
[13:52]	TR Bot	 Why Math Dumped OpenAI
[13:53]	TR News	"Despite Illinois sanctuary laws, local police in and around Chicago helped ICE investigative agents track activists engaged in First Amendmentprotected activities." https://www.wired.com/story/chicago-area-cops-helped-hsi-spy-on-minnesota-anti-ice-activists/ | Source: Wired
[13:53]	TR Bot	Cops Helped HSI Spy on Minnesota Anti-ICE Activists | WIRED
[13:53]	TR News	"The protests stem from a massive government effort, known as the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), to revise Indias electoral rolls by removing dead, duplicate, and ineligible voters." https://jacobin.com/2026/10/india-cockroach-protests-elections-democracy | Source: Jacobin Magazine
[13:53]	TR Bot	 In India, Cockroaches Are Leading the Fight for Democracy
[13:53]	TR News	"Human Rights Watch research in the United States found that major companies use opaque and frequently changing algorithms to set pay, leaving workers unable to understand how their earnings are calculated." https://www.truthdig.com/articles/ai-has-a-labor-problem/ | Source: Truthdig
[13:53]	TR Bot	 AI Has a Labor Problem
[13:54]	TR News	"Money is a major reason workers put in such long hours. About 90 percent earn additional income elsewhere, while platform work is the sole source of income for roughly 2,000 people." https://news.err.ee/1610168320/platform-workers-grueling-hours-raising-health-and-safety-concerns | Source: Eesti Rahvusringhling
[13:54]	TR Bot	 Platform workers' grueling hours raising health and safety concerns | News | ERR
[13:54]	TR News	"Vaquero stresses that it would be wrong to generalize, since many players have welcomed the fact that Luca Caminos shares the spotlight in GTA VI with Jason Duval" https://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-10-16/from-lara-croft-to-lucia-caminos-why-does-a-female-lead-in-a-video-game-still-provoke-backlash.html | Source: El Pas
[13:54]	TR Bot	 From Lara Croft to Luca Caminos: Why does a female lead in a video game still provoke backlash? | Culture | EL PAS English
[13:55]	TR News	"Roughly 75 percent of U.S. public libraries rely on E-Rate support for [Internet] access and broadband-enabled services." https://www.ala.org/news/2026/10/ala-showcases-outsized-impact-library-broadband-fcc | Source: American Library Association
[13:55]	TR Bot	 ALA showcases outsized impact of library broadband at FCC | ALA
[13:55]	TR News	"Eliminating E-Rate would have serious negative effects on the U.S. economy" https://www.ala.org/news/2026/10/new-report-eliminating-e-rate-would-cost-us-economy-42-billion-year | Source: American Library Association
[13:55]	TR Bot	 New Report: Eliminating E-Rate Would Cost the U.S. Economy $4.2 Billion a Year | ALA
[13:56]	TR News	"Here's how Amazon broke the economy: first, they locked in a key group of shoppers." https://pluralistic.net/2026/10/15/enshittipedia/# | Source: CoryDoctorow
[13:56]	TR Bot	 Pluralistic: Expedia amazoned hotel rooms (15 Oct 2026) Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
[13:56]	TR News	"The generative AI industry has been relying on the 2025 ruling in the Anthropic books case that training a chatbot was fair use if youd bought the books." https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/16/us-third-circuit-ai-training-not-fair-use-after-all/ | Source: Pivot to AI
[13:56]	TR Bot	 Is helpless. There was no physical act, no word came. Helmholtz sat silent, staring at.
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[14:07]	TR News	Steam Beta for October 15 brings a 64bit Linux client, Achievement Sets and more | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/steam-beta-for-october-15-brings-a-64bit-linux-client-achievement-sets-and-more/ Source: GamingOnLinux
[14:07]	TR Bot	Beta for October 15 brings a 64bit Linux client, Achievement Sets and more | GamingOnLinux
[14:08]	TR News	SteamOS 0.5.6 Beta for Steam Frame makes adding apk files simpler | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/steamos-0-5-6-beta-for-steam-frame-makes-adding-apk-files-simpler/ Source: GamingOnLinux | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/steamos-0-5-6-beta-for-steam-frame-makes-adding-apk-files-simpler/
[14:08]	TR Bot	0.5.6 Beta for Steam Frame makes adding apk files simpler | GamingOnLinux
[14:08]	TR News	Proton Experimental for October 15 has fixes for ARC Raiders, C-C Red Alert, Counterstrike and The Aftermath | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/proton-experimental-for-october-15-has-fixes-for-arc-raiders-c-c-red-alert-counterstike-and-the-aftermath/ Source: GamingOnLinux
[14:08]	TR Bot	Experimental for October 15 has fixes for ARC Raiders, C&C Red Alert, Counterstrike and The Aftermath | GamingOnLinux
[14:10]	TR News	BRUTAL, the framework behind RimWorld's Waylith engine, releases its source code | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/brutal-the-framework-behind-rimworlds-waylith-engine-releases-its-source-code/ Source: GamingOnLinux
[14:10]	TR Bot	the framework behind RimWorld's Waylith engine, releases its source code | GamingOnLinux
[14:14]	TR News	Get some spooky games in the Digiphile Orcatober Aquatic Horrors Bundle | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/get-some-spooky-games-in-the-digiphile-orcatober-aquatic-horrors-bundle/ Source: GamingOnLinux
[14:14]	TR Bot	some spooky games in the Digiphile Orcatober Aquatic Horrors Bundle | GamingOnLinux
[14:20]	TR News	Caves of Qud: Diaspora is coming December 9 | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/caves-of-qud-diaspora-is-coming-december-9/ Source: GamingOnLinux | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/caves-of-qud-diaspora-is-coming-december-9/
[14:20]	TR Bot	of Qud: Diaspora is coming December 9 | GamingOnLinux
[14:21]	TR News	The Fallout inspired ATOM RPG returns with a Plague Island DLC and major update | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/the-fallout-inspired-atom-rpg-returns-with-a-plague-island-dlc-and-major-update/ Source: GamingOnLinux
[14:21]	TR Bot	Fallout inspired ATOM RPG returns with a Plague Island DLC and major update | GamingOnLinux
[14:23]	TR News	Here's the Top Steam Releases of September, 2026 along with compatibility ratings | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/heres-the-top-steam-releases-of-september-2026-along-with-compatibility-ratings/ Source: GamingOnLinux
[14:23]	TR Bot	the Top Steam Releases of September, 2026 along with compatibility ratings | GamingOnLinux
[14:24]	TR News	NVIDIA GeForce NOW gets expanded DLSS 4.5 Controls | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/nvidia-geforce-now-gets-expanded-dlss-4-5-controls/ Source: GamingOnLinux
[14:24]	TR Bot	GeForce NOW gets expanded DLSS 4.5 Controls | GamingOnLinux
[14:26]	TR News	The impressive sci-fi squad tactics game 'Archrebel Tactics' gets a fresh demo | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/the-impressive-sci-fi-squad-tactics-game-archrebel-tactics-gets-a-fresh-demo/ Source: GamingOnLinux
[14:26]	TR Bot	impressive sci-fi squad tactics game 'Archrebel Tactics' gets a fresh demo | GamingOnLinux
[14:35]	TR News	"Cuttings: Getting back with your X" https://onemanandhisblog.com/2026/10/cuttings-getting-back-with-your-x/
[14:35]	TR Bot	 Cuttings: Getting back with your X
[14:35]	TR News	"Im Sick of the Lefts Purity Tests - by Hamilton Nolan" https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/im-sick-of-the-lefts-purity-tests
[14:35]	TR Bot	 Im Sick of the Lefts Purity Tests - by Hamilton Nolan
[14:36]	TR News	 (NEW):  Games: Archrebel Tactics, Digiphile Orcatober Aquatic Horrors Bundle, RimWorld's Waylith, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/Games_Archrebel_Tactics_Digiphile_Orcatober_Aquatic_Horrors_Bun.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/Games_Archrebel_Tactics_Digiphile_Orcatober_Aquatic_Horrors_Bun.gmi 
[14:36]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Games: Archrebel Tactics, Digiphile Orcatober Aquatic Horrors Bundle, RimWorld's Waylith, and More
[14:37]	TR News	MIT promoting skinnerboxes https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/16/1146834/kids-are-outsmarting-social-media-bans-thats-not-a-problem-we-need-to-solve/ http://techrights.org/o/2020/05/27/joi-ito-email/
[14:37]	TR Bot	 Kids are outsmarting social media bans. Thats not a problem we need to solve. | MIT Technology Review
[14:37]	TR Bot	 Joi Ito Already Admitted on the Record That Bill Gates Had Paid MIT Through Jeffrey Epstein
[14:37]	TR News	"Trump Admin Just Effectively Killed a Popular Renewable Energy Program | Truthout" https://truthout.org/articles/trump-admin-just-effectively-killed-a-popular-renewable-energy-program/
[14:37]	TR Bot	 Trump Admin Just Effectively Killed a Popular Renewable Energy Program | Truthout
[14:38]	TR News	not that new, zero-click compromise via served ads has been around a long time and is known as malvertising https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/15/israeli-firm-digital-ads-enabling-installation-of-zero-click-spyware-researchers-say
[14:38]	TR Bot	 Online ads weaponised to deliver zero-click spyware, researchers say | Hacking | The Guardian
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[14:50]	TR News	Introducing GNOME OS Preview https://lwn.net/Articles/1101057/
[14:50]	TR Bot	GNOME OS Preview [LWN.net]
[14:55]	TR News	Natalie Vock: LLM Thoughts (mine) https://pixelcluster.dev/LLM-Thoughts/ "dont like LLMs"
[14:55]	TR Bot	 LLM Thoughts (mine) | pixelcluster's GPU blog
[14:55]	TR News	ConcurrentML: Improving on Go's concurrency model https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2026/golang-racket-concurrency/
[14:55]	TR Bot	 ConcurrentML: Improving on Go's concurrency model - Nikhil's blog
[14:56]	TR News	Xerxes Pi 2026 and Xerxes Nano carrier boards offer NVMe, PoE, and OCuLink for Raspberry Pi and Jetson modules (Crowdfunding) https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/10/16/xerxes-pi-2026-and-xerxes-nano-carrier-boards-offer-nvme-poe-and-oculink-for-raspberry-pi-and-jetson-modules/
[14:56]	TR Bot	 Xerxes Pi 2026 and Xerxes Nano carrier boards offer NVMe, PoE, and OCuLink for Raspberry Pi and Jetson modules (Crowdfunding) - CNX Software
[14:57]	TR News	133: Cleverness Is Your Only Option https://mwl.io/archives/25014
[14:57]	TR Bot	 133: Cleverness Is Your Only Option Michael W Lucas
[14:58]	TR News	Model Context Protocol gateway for Red Bait OpenShift is now generally available https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/model-context-protocol-gateway-red-hat-openshift-now-generally-available
[14:58]	TR Bot	 Model Context Protocol gateway for Red Hat OpenShift is now generally available
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[14:58]	TR News	Scale OpenShift Dev Spaces in air-gapped environments https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/10/16/scale-openshift-dev-spaces-air-gapped-environments
[14:58]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/10/16/scale-openshift-dev-spaces-air-gapped-environments )
● Oct 17
[15:00]	TR News	"M5Stack has introduced the PaperDIY Assembly Kit, an ESP32-S3-based development platform featuring a 4.7-inch e-paper display with 960 540 resolution and 16-level grayscale." https://linuxgizmos.com/m5stack-paperdiy-assembly-kit-opens-up-4-7-inch-e-paper-development/ | Source: Linux Gizmos
[15:00]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/m5stack-paperdiy-assembly-kit-opens-up-4-7-inch-e-paper-development/ )
[15:01]	TR News	"Whats the most vital asset for an AI company today? For venture backed AI business,it might be funding or revenue." https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/ai/trustworthy-ai-map/ | Source: Mozilla
[15:01]	TR Bot	 Discover the Trustworthy AI Map
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[15:02]	TR News	"Getting to both was quite an adventure. The way there was a train from Mikulov to Beclav" https://news.opensuse.org/2026/10/16/osas-and-oss-eu-2026-report/ | Source: OpenSUSE
[15:02]	TR Bot	 From Yogyakarta to Prague: openSUSE.Asia Summit and Open Source Summit Europe 2026 - openSUSE News
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[15:06]	TR News	OpenLogic is a Microsoft front https://opensource.org/blog/announcing-the-2027-state-of-open-source-survey https://techrights.org/wiki/OpenLogic/
[15:06]	TR Bot	 Announcing the 2027 State of Open Source Survey Open Source Initiative
[15:06]	TR Bot	 OpenLogic
[15:18]	TR News	Googlebooks are as poorly timed as Valves Steam Machine, and may suffer a similar fate https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/googlebooks-are-as-poorly-timed-as-valves-steam-machine-and-may-suffer-a-similar-fate
[15:18]	TR Bot	 Googlebooks are as poorly timed as Valves Steam Machine, and may suffer a similar fate | Tom's Hardware
[15:22]	TR News	See you at Maker Faire Rome 2026! https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/10/16/see-you-at-maker-faire-rome-2026/
[15:22]	TR Bot	 See you at Maker Faire Rome 2026! | Arduino Blog
[15:24]	TR News	My AZ Toolbox: Go https://www.rubenerd.au/my-a-z-toolbox-go/
[15:24]	TR Bot	 Rubenerd: My AZ Toolbox: Go
[15:25]	TR News	Measuring the brain's long-term memory forming latency https://www.dedoimedo.com/physics/brain-latency-singing.html
[15:25]	TR Bot	 Measuring the brain's long-term memory forming latency
[15:25]	TR News	There's a Surprisingly Simple Way to Remove Microplastics in Your Drinking Water https://www.sciencealert.com/theres-a-surprisingly-simple-way-to-remove-microplastics-in-your-drinking-water
[15:25]	TR Bot	a Surprisingly Simple Way to Remove Microplastics in Your Drinking Water : ScienceAlert
[15:28]	TR News	Guardian and Sun agree on ban for deceptive Hey Hi (AI) bots https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/guardian-and-sun-agree-on-ban-for-deceptive-ai-bots/
[15:28]	TR Bot	 Guardian and Sun agree on ban for deceptive AI bots - Press Gazette
[15:28]	TR News	Rogue Hey Hi (AI) Swarm Responds to Reporters Questions https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/rogue-ai-swarm-reporters-questions
[15:28]	TR Bot	 Rogue AI Swarm Responds to Reporter's Questions
[15:28]	TR News	When a Social Media Mob Came for Cornells Jane Doe https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/nyregion/cornell-jane-doe-internet-doxing.html
[15:28]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/nyregion/cornell-jane-doe-internet-doxing.html )
[15:29]	TR News	The Lawful Access Acts threats to Canadas national security https://citizenlab.ca/the-lawful-access-acts-threats-to-canadas-national-security/
[15:29]	TR Bot	 The Lawful Access Acts threats to Canadas national security - The Citizen Lab
[15:30]	admfubar	armed robbery???   https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/arm-aims-to-capture-50-of-pc-market-in-five-years-ceo-says.454288/
[15:30]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/arm-aims-to-capture-50-of-pc-market-in-five-years-ceo-says.454288/ )
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[15:50]	TR News	Techrights Links 17/10/2026: "Why Math Dumped OpenAI", US Third Circuit Has Confirmed LLMs and Other Slop Constitute Plagiarism or Copyright Infringement https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/17/Links_17_10_2026_Why_Math_Dumped_OpenAI_US_Third_Circuit_Has_Co.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/10/17/Links_17_10_2026_Why_Math_Dumped_OpenAI_US_Third_Circuit_Has_Co.gmi 
[15:50]	TR Bot	 Techrights Links 17/10/2026: "Why Math Dumped OpenAI", US Third Circuit Has Confirmed LLMs and Other Slop Constitute Plagiarism or Copyright Infringement
[15:57]	TR News	BBC and ManCity https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/17/bbc-and-mancity/
[15:57]	TR Bot	Blog Archive BBC and ManCity
● Oct 17
[16:02]	admfubar	it really recalls it for them.... https://www.theregister.com/a/5303569
[16:02]	TR Bot	 Amazon wants you to Bee-lieve wearable AI can recall it all for you
[16:19]	TR News	Techrights Stallman Was Right About Torvalds https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/17/Stallman_Was_Right_About_Torvalds.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/10/17/Stallman_Was_Right_About_Torvalds.gmi 
[16:19]	TR Bot	 Techrights Stallman Was Right About Torvalds
[16:29]	TR News	 (NEW):  More People Can Agree Software Freedom (Not Linux Made by LLM Slop) Matters https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/More_People_Can_Agree_Software_Freedom_Not_Linux_Made_by_LLM_Sl.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/More_People_Can_Agree_Software_Freedom_Not_Linux_Made_by_LLM_Sl.gmi 
[16:29]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines More People Can Agree Software Freedom (Not Linux Made by LLM Slop) Matters
[16:32]	TR News	Erling Haaland FC https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/17/erling-haaland-fc/
[16:32]	TR Bot	Blog Archive Erling Haaland FC
[16:47]	TR News	Techrights Andy's Passing Thoughts on Media Dying, Not Reporting News (Even Critical News About Itself) https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/17/Andy_s_Passing_Thoughts_on_Media_Dying_Not_Reporting_News_Even_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/10/17/Andy_s_Passing_Thoughts_on_Media_Dying_Not_Reporting_News_Even_.gmi 
[16:47]	TR Bot	 Techrights Andy's Passing Thoughts on Media Dying, Not Reporting News (Even Critical News About Itself)
[16:55]	TR News	Prolific Chinese espionage group exploits BeyondTrust zero-day https://cyberscoop.com/china-espionage-attacks-beyondtrust-zero-day-armory-castle/
[16:55]	TR Bot	Chinese espionage group exploits BeyondTrust zero-day | CyberScoop
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[17:02]	TR News	Techrights Inevitable Things https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/17/Inevitable_Things.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/10/17/Inevitable_Things.gmi 
[17:02]	TR Bot	 Techrights Inevitable Things
[17:06]	TR News	Maresca Sets New PL Record https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/17/maresca-sets-new-pl-record/
[17:06]	TR Bot	Blog Archive Maresca Sets New PL Record
[17:08]	TR News	China Builds Actual Giant Mecha https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/china-builds-actual-giant-mecha
[17:08]	TR Bot	 China Builds Actual Giant Mecha
[17:08]	TR News	Why young Indonesians are falling back in love with cinemas and the analogue lifestyle https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/why-young-indonesians-are-falling-back-in-love-with-cinemas-and-the-analogue-lifestyle
[17:08]	TR Bot	 Young Indonesians rediscover cinemas and analogue life | The Straits Times
[17:09]	TR News	Drinking 'Very' Hot Tea or Coffee Could Triple Your Risk of This Cancer, Huge Study Finds https://www.sciencealert.com/drinking-very-hot-tea-or-coffee-could-triple-your-risk-of-this-cancer-huge-study-finds
[17:09]	TR Bot	Not What's in Your Cup That Matters For This Cancer. It's How Hot It Is. : ScienceAlert
[17:31]	TR News	Techrights Intercontinental Brigading - Part VI - Racism Against Blacks https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/17/Intercontinental_Brigading_Part_VI_Racism_Against_Blacks.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/10/17/Intercontinental_Brigading_Part_VI_Racism_Against_Blacks.gmi 
[17:31]	TR Bot	 Techrights Intercontinental Brigading - Part VI - Racism Against Blacks
[17:51]	TR News	 (NEW):  Fighting 'Til the End https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/Fighting_Til_the_End.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/Fighting_Til_the_End.gmi 
[17:51]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Fighting 'Til the End
[17:55]	TR News	You cannot be a gentleman with thugs ("nice guys finish last"). Thugs give up when it stings too much.
[17:56]	TR News	Re "last para" http://techrights.org/n/2026/10/17/Intercontinental_Brigading_Part_VI_Racism_Against_Blacks.shtml feedback: maybe the courts can reform to make one-sided abuse by foreign actors harder or impossible
[17:56]	TR Bot	 Techrights Intercontinental Brigading - Part VI - Racism Against Blacks
[17:56]	TR News	SRA needs reform, to be sure
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[18:04]	TR News	recent publications regarding GGG depleted only about 2% of the material we have left to cover. And they keep sending more and more.
[18:06]	TR News	Covering what they did will help protect others https://broligarchy.substack.com/ it's an elaborate "industry" http://techrights.org/n/2026/05/17/The_Society_of_Media_Lawyers_UK_is_a_Truly_Malicious_Anti_Media.shtml
[18:06]	TR Bot	 How to Survive the Broligarchy | Carole Cadwalladr | Substack
[18:06]	TR Bot	 Techrights "The Society of Media Lawyers" (UK) is a Truly Malicious Anti-Media Lobby Which Helps Rich/Abusive Americans and Hostile Countries Attack Actual Media Workers in the UK
[18:16]	TR News	Interesting GNU/Linux trends in Sudan https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&loc=SD&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP&dateRange=52w
[18:16]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&loc=SD&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP&dateRange=52w )
[18:18]	TR News	GGG is in trouble; merely explaining what happens is not hard; if party A does bad things, then Party A dreads sunlight, parties B-Z look from afar and learn from A's mistakes http://techrights.org/n/2026/06/07/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_100_Out_of_200_Interlude_and_Outline_of_t.shtml
[18:18]	TR Bot	 Techrights SLAPP Censorship - Part 100 Out of 200: Interlude and Outline of the First Half, 3+ Months That Got Us Death Threats Connected to Brett Wilson LLP (and Cyber Attacks That Are Difficult to Attribute)
[18:18]	TR News	"...but please be sure to bring up Restricted Boot each time so that the a-holes of fediverse have a harder time spinning it as a personal spat" -Anon
[18:19]	TR News	The aim is not to appease the oppressor's friends, but it is a huge bonus if one can cause these friends to defect and see past the groupthink
[18:20]	TR News	With MAGAts, making them not vote is great; making them vote for Harris is fool's errand
[18:21]	TR News	Keystrokes in Disguise: Forensic Analysis of a Digispark HID Device https://blog.nviso.eu/2026/10/16/keystrokes-in-disguise-forensic-analysis-of-a-digispark-hid-device/
[18:21]	TR Bot	 Keystrokes in Disguise: Forensic Analysis of a Digispark HID Device
[18:29]	TR News	 (NEW):  GNOME 50.6 Desktop Environment Released with Fixes for Nautilus, GNOME Shell https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/GNOME_50_6_Desktop_Environment_Released_with_Fixes_for_Nautilus.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/GNOME_50_6_Desktop_Environment_Released_with_Fixes_for_Nautilus.gmi 
[18:30]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines GNOME 50.6 Desktop Environment Released with Fixes for Nautilus, GNOME Shell
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[18:41]	TR News	Punished for Hustling? Internet Erupts as Civil Servant Faces Fraud Trial for Juggling Five Full-Time Jobs https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/civil-servant-five-government-jobs-fraud-trial-1826146
[18:41]	TR Bot	 Punished for Hustling? Internet Erupts as Civil Servant Faces Fraud Trial for Juggling Five Full-Time Jobs | IBTimes UK
[18:42]	TR News	Thai cops bust 'audacious' cross-border fiberoptic cable running to Myanmar scam compound https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/thai-cops-bust-audacious-cross-border-fiberoptic-cable-running-to-myanmar-scam-compound-350-meter-48-core-cable-was-supplying-illegal-border-casino-and-a-scam-center-with-6tb-of-data-per-day
[18:42]	TR Bot	 Thai cops bust 'audacious' cross-border fiberoptic cable running to Myanmar scam compound 350-meter, 48-core cable was supplying illegal border casino and a scam center with 6TB of data per day | Tom's Hardware
[18:42]	TR News	Mexicos telecom sector shifts again as Televisa buys AT&T for US $2 billion https://mexiconewsdaily.com/business/mexicos-telecom-sector-shifts-again-as-televisa-buys-att-for-us-2-billion/
[18:42]	TR Bot	 Televisa buys AT&T for US $2 billion
[18:43]	TR News	AI Experts Already Doomsday Prepping for When Hey Hi (AI) Takes Out the Entire Financial System https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-expert-doomsday-prepping-ai-financial-system
[18:43]	TR Bot	 AI Experts Already Doomsday Prepping for When AI Takes Out the Entire Financial System
[18:43]	TR News	It does not work https://federalnewsnetwork.com/artificial-intelligence/2026/10/the-hard-part-of-ai-isnt-deployment-its-proving-it-works/
[18:43]	TR Bot	 Maximus David Chou on grading AI success - Federal News Network
[18:44]	TR News	Bribery https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/technology/meta-midterms-funding.html
[18:44]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/technology/meta-midterms-funding.html )
[18:45]	TR News	Sony Music, Universal Music File a Brand-New Legal Action Against DistroKid to Force Disclosure of Its Hey Hi (AI) Upload Volumes https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/10/16/sony-music-umg-lawsuit-vs-distrokid-ai-disclosure/
[18:45]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/10/16/sony-music-umg-lawsuit-vs-distrokid-ai-disclosure/ )
[18:46]	TR News	Dua Lipas $15 Million Legal Dogfight with Samsung Continues After Samsung Moves to Dismiss the Action Outright https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/10/16/dua-lipa-samsung-lawsuit-continues/
[18:46]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/10/16/dua-lipa-samsung-lawsuit-continues/ )
[18:46]	TR News	Dave Airlie (blogspot): jetlag diversions - llvmpipe 512-wide vector support https://airlied.blogspot.com/2026/10/jetlag-diversions-llvmpipe-512-wide.html
[18:46]	TR Bot	 jetlag diversions - llvmpipe 512-wide vector support
[18:47]	TR News	El Nio Threatens Global Sugar Supply https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/climate/india-sugarcane-production-sugar-prices.html
[18:47]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/climate/india-sugarcane-production-sugar-prices.html )
[18:47]	TR News	Indian police detain cockroach founder, student leaders ahead of Delhi rally https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/security-stepped-up-in-indias-capital-for-cockroach-movement-rally
[18:47]	TR Bot	 Indian police warn CJP founder over protest plans | The Straits Times
[18:48]	TR News	Did Chinese cars squeal on Norways military? https://hongkongfp.com/2026/10/17/did-chinese-cars-squeal-on-norways-military/
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[18:48]	TR Bot	 Did Chinese cars squeal on Norway's military?
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[18:49]	TR News	Cybersecurity incident at BAE Systems disrupts US bankruptcy court system https://cyberscoop.com/bae-systems-cybersecurity-incident-us-bankruptcy-courts/
[18:49]	TR Bot	incident at BAE Systems disrupts US bankruptcy court system | CyberScoop
[18:50]	TR News	Patent Dispute Report: Q3 2026 https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/10/16/patent-dispute-report-q3-2026
[18:50]	TR Bot	 Patent Dispute Report: Q3 2026 Unified Patents
[18:51]	TR News	USA Today Co sues Proprietary Chaffbot Company https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/news-publisher-ai-deals-lawsuits-openai-google/
[18:51]	TR Bot	 News generative AI deals revealed: Who is suing, who is signing?
[18:51]	TR News	Amazon Launches Ominous Wearable Ankle Monitor-Style Gadget That Records You Constantly https://futurism.com/future-society/amazon-launches-bee-device-surveillance-watch-ai
[18:51]	TR Bot	 Amazon Launches Ominous Wearable Ankle Monitor-Style Gadget That Records You Constantly
[18:53]	TR News	Adrian Vovk: Introducing GNOME OS Preview https://blogs.gnome.org/adrianvovk/2026/10/16/gnome-os-preview/
[18:53]	TR Bot	 Introducing GNOME OS Preview Adrian's blog
[18:54]	TR News	This Week in Plasma: New Weather Widget and On-Screen Keyboard https://blogs.kde.org/2026/10/17/this-week-in-plasma-new-weather-widget-and-on-screen-keyboard/
[18:54]	TR Bot	 This Week in Plasma: New Weather Widget and On-Screen Keyboard - KDE Blogs
[18:54]	TR News	This Week in GNOME: #270 Visualized Community https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2026/10/twig-270/
[18:54]	TR Bot	 #270 Visualized Community
[18:57]	TR News	SpectrumOS Arch-based GNU/Linux distribution with Hyprland https://www.linuxlinks.com/spectrumos-arch-based-linux-distribution-with-hyprland/
[18:57]	TR Bot	Arch-based Linux distribution with Hyprland - LinuxLinks
[18:57]	TR News	FilzaOS Ubuntu-based GNU/Linux distribution with a customised GNOME desktop https://www.linuxlinks.com/filzaos-ubuntu-based-linux-distribution-with-a-customised-gnome-desktop/
[18:57]	TR Bot	- Ubuntu-based Linux distribution with a customised GNOME desktop - LinuxLinks
[18:58]	TR News	Arduino Ventuno Q Review https://www.linux.org/threads/arduino-ventuno-q-review.72949/
[18:58]	TR Bot	Ventuno Q Review | Linux.org
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[19:11]	TR News	Techrights 30 Years of KDE and "Project Banana" https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/17/30_Years_of_KDE_and_Project_Banana.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/10/17/30_Years_of_KDE_and_Project_Banana.gmi 
[19:11]	TR Bot	 Techrights 30 Years of KDE and "Project Banana"
[19:13]	TR News	Epic introduces an improved version of anti-cheat for GNU/Linux https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/epic-introduces-an-improved-version-of-anti-cheat-for-linux-eac-linux-v2-will-finally-allow-linux-gamers-to-play-fortnite
[19:13]	TR Bot	 Epic introduces an improved version of anti-cheat for Linux strict TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot rules spark open-source pushback, but finally allow Linux gamers to play Fortnite | Tom's Hardware
[19:14]	TR News	Linus Torvalds posts his first AI-assisted patch to the Linux kernel, synthetic test clocks 23x performance leap https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/linus-torvalds-posts-his-first-llm-assisted-patch-to-the-linux-kernel-after-issuing-clear-pro-ai-directives-the-bossman-makes-use-of-ai-tooling-himself
[19:14]	TR Bot	 Linus Torvalds posts his first AI-assisted patch to the Linux kernel, synthetic test clocks 23x performance leap the bossman makes use of AI tooling himself after issuing clear pro-AI directives | Tom's Hardware
[19:14]	TR News	Valves Steam Client for GNU/Linux Goes 64-bit in Beta and Moves Into a Container https://itsfoss.com/news/steam-linux-64-bit-client/
[19:14]	TR Bot	 Valves Steam Client for Linux Goes 64-bit
[19:15]	TR News	Security updates for Friday https://lwn.net/Articles/1101015/
[19:15]	TR Bot	updates for Friday [LWN.net]
[19:18]	TR News	GAFAM and Rust inside Linux decisions now https://lwn.net/Articles/1101020/ https://ojeda.dev/
[19:18]	TR Bot	from the 2026 TAB election [LWN.net]
[19:18]	TR Bot	 Miguel Ojeda
[19:18]	TR News	Canadian Study Proposes a National GNU/Linux Distribution to Replace backdoored Windows in Government https://linuxstans.com/canadian-study-proposes-a-national-linux-distribution-to-replace-windows-in-government/
[19:18]	TR Bot	 Canada Could Replace Windows With Its Own Linux. Should It?
[19:19]	TR News	LHB GNU/Linux Digest #26.15: Taming stderr, Cybersecurity Certification and More https://linuxhandbook.com/newsletter/26-15/
[19:19]	TR Bot	 LHB Linux Digest #26.15: Taming stderr, Cybersecurity Certification and More
[19:19]	TR News	New Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Builds, including Car Park Capital and Hungry Horrors - 2026-10-14 Edition https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-with-native-linux-builds-2026-10-14-edition/index.html
[19:19]	TR Bot	 New Steam Games with Native Linux Builds, including Car Park Capital and Hungry Horrors - 2026-10-14 Edition
[19:21]	TR News	 (NEW):  Wine 11.20 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/Wine_11_20.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/Wine_11_20.gmi 
[19:21]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Wine 11.20
[19:24]	TR News	"14 years at Oracle can destroy anyone." https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/software/general-linux-open-source/1664123-after-23-years-longtime-linux-developer-to-step-back-for-a-while
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[19:30]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], I found some bags of Blue Buffalo that were on clearance and got them for like $28 each.
[19:30]	IsambardPrince	Threw them into the pile with the rest.
[19:31]	IsambardPrince	They're hiking up the price massively and shrinking the bags, again.
[19:31]	IsambardPrince	Apparently they don't want 15 pound bags and the 11 pound bags that are replacing them on the shelf at the same time as the price hike.
[19:37]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, I found out that I can get the cat to leave me alone for like 10 minutes if I pretend to throw a treat into the dining room.
[19:37]	IsambardPrince	She'll go look for it for a while before she comes back.
[19:38]	IsambardPrince	Eventually she gives up and then I toss her a treat and she goes running for it.
[19:38]	IsambardPrince	This way I can distract her while going through less treats.
[19:39]	IsambardPrince	I ordered a cat tree on Amazon. I got a pretty good deal on it.
[19:39]	IsambardPrince	I hope she likes it more than my entertainment center.
[19:39]	TR News	Techrights GAFAM LLMs Seem to be Causing Veteran, Experienced Linux Developers to Quit, Only to be Replaced With GAFAM Bots and Unaudited Slopfest 'Code' https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/17/GAFAM_LLMs_Seem_to_be_Causing_Veteran_Experienced_Linux_Develop.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/10/17/GAFAM_LLMs_Seem_to_be_Causing_Veteran_Experienced_Linux_Develop.gmi 
[19:39]	TR Bot	 Techrights GAFAM LLMs Seem to be Causing Veteran, Experienced Linux Developers to Quit, Only to be Replaced With GAFAM Bots and Unaudited Slopfest 'Code'
[19:44]	IsambardPrince	As far as deplatforming goes, well, Libera decided to go that route.
[19:44]	IsambardPrince	Now they have Brandon Lobster harassing people, with their blessing.
[19:44]	IsambardPrince	And posting about his transgender surgery in the middle of Free Software chatrooms.
[19:44]	IsambardPrince	And so did Debian's IRC network.
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[19:45]	IsambardPrince	Libera was citing Swedish laws that don't apply to me.
[19:45]	IsambardPrince	Sort of like how Canadian laws are null and void here.
[19:46]	IsambardPrince	You can't apply a Canadian law that has no counterpart in the US or a US State to an American who has never been to Canada.
[19:46]	IsambardPrince	It's the same with Sweden.
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[19:46]	IsambardPrince	They don't extradite people to Canada over joking about transgender surgery because there's no law here that makes that illegal and Canada's not going to pay for an international extradition over this.
[19:47]	IsambardPrince	A joke that merely offends is not illegal in the US.
[19:48]	IsambardPrince	The Supreme Court has routinely held that speech isn't a crime unless it incites some sort of (physically) dangerous panic or rises to the level of a true threat.
[19:49]	IsambardPrince	There's no chance that a joke about a vaginaplasty incites panic that causes people to get trampled to death trying to escape a building, and it's not a true threat.
[19:49]	IsambardPrince	Therefore, it is not a crime.
[19:49]	IsambardPrince	Also, making idle threats of suicide doesn't qualify.
[19:50]	IsambardPrince	The authorities here don't respond to a person who is making idle threats and "holding themselves hostage" merely to try to get the state to attack someone for them.
[19:50]	IsambardPrince	They see right through this immediately.
[19:51]	IsambardPrince	The only way you'd actually potentially be facing problems with the authorities is if someone actually went ahead and killed themselves and blamed you for something they said.
[19:51]	IsambardPrince	Most of these people are way too narcissistic to kill themselves.
[19:51]	IsambardPrince	So not much danger there.
[19:51]	schestowitz[TR2]	City 3-2 Ipswich: Two-minute highlights
[19:51]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.mancity.com/citytv/mens/man-city-ipswich-town-premier-league-two-minute-highlights-63927841
[19:51]	TR Bot	 City 3-2 Ipswich: Two-minute highlights
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[19:52]	IsambardPrince	Illinois has historically tried to silence free speech, it did not go well.
[19:52]	IsambardPrince	At least as far as state action.
[19:53]	IsambardPrince	The Nazi Party did get to march.
[19:53]	IsambardPrince	The real trouble for them came from the public reaction to it, not the government stopping them.
[19:54]	IsambardPrince	The Village of Skokie tried to pass laws regulating protests to decide what they got to wear during the march, how many people there could be, and they had to get a permit to have a protest.
[19:54]	IsambardPrince	And the courts threw out all of this.
[19:55]	IsambardPrince	There's actually still a Nazi Party in Illinois. They keep fielding a candidate every once in a while near here.
[19:55]	IsambardPrince	They ran a guy who admits he's a Neo Nazi for the Congressional District around Skokie as recently as likt 2018 I think.
[19:55]	IsambardPrince	There's also a "Revolutionary Communist Party".
[19:55]	IsambardPrince	They're mostly black.
[19:56]	IsambardPrince	They live in South Chicago.
[19:56]	IsambardPrince	It spreads the same way as Nation of Islam.
[19:56]	IsambardPrince	Mostly among criminal offenders.
[19:57]	IsambardPrince	It's not a Marxist-Lenninist Party, it's just a party of pissed off cons.
[19:57]	TR News	Smelling a Scam https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/17/smelling-a-scam/
[19:57]	TR Bot	Blog Archive Smelling a Scam
[19:57]	IsambardPrince	Then you have Greens, Socialists, the Democratic Socialists.
[19:57]	IsambardPrince	There's dozens of minor parties, and some have ballot access, but nobody wins anything.
[19:58]	IsambardPrince	I voted for the Libertarian Party at the county level this year.
[19:58]	IsambardPrince	Because they actually ran a full slate of candidates for a change.
[19:58]	TR News	The Politics of Standards https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/10/16/the-politics-of-standards/
[19:58]	TR Bot	 The Politics of Standards - TDF Community Blog
[19:59]	IsambardPrince	According to the Lobster that qualifies as Nazism. The idea that the government shouldn't suppress merely offensive speech.
[19:59]	IsambardPrince	It cheapens the label of what a Nazi is.
[19:59]	schestowitz[TR2]	afaik:::
[19:59]	schestowitz[TR2]	us can let anyone maarch
[19:59]	IsambardPrince	The Nazis were some pretty bad dudes, to say the least.
[19:59]	schestowitz[TR2]	but the marchcer need to hide their motives
[19:59]	schestowitz[TR2]	like nazis who don't declare their true intentions
[19:59]	schestowitz[TR2]	and then they can march
[19:59]	IsambardPrince	They put their insane racial hatred over and above the preservation of the state.
[19:59]	IsambardPrince	Which is just bizarre.
[19:59]	schestowitz[TR2]	the kkk became too obvious
[19:59]	schestowitz[TR2]	it was clear what it would do to blacks
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[20:00]	IsambardPrince	In the last couple years of the war when the German military desperately needed trains, fuel, men, and equipment, the Nazis redirected those resources that they needed to defend their borders, to the Holocaust.
[20:00]	IsambardPrince	That's how bad they were.
[20:00]	IsambardPrince	Their war was conducted poorly because it had to be.
[20:01]	MinceR	17 203711 < IsambardPrince> MinceR, I found out that I can get the cat to leave me alone for like 10 minutes if I pretend to throw a treat into the dining room.
[20:01]	MinceR	lol
[20:01]	IsambardPrince	Part of the Nazi platform said the war had to be about revenge against the people who inflicted the Treaty of Versailles on them. That necessitated invading France and trying to wage war on the UK.
[20:02]	IsambardPrince	For the most part, the opening of the war went pretty well. They quickly captured a lot of territory, sometimes with minimal resistance, or even none at all.
[20:03]	IsambardPrince	I could see why they prioritized capturing Norway, I mean military reasons.
[20:03]	schestowitz[TR2]	austria
[20:03]	schestowitz[TR2]	knock knock
[20:03]	schestowitz[TR2]	come on in
[20:04]	IsambardPrince	They needed raw materials, ideal spots for U-Boat bases, Heavy Water in case they ever got their atomic bomb program to work.
[20:04]	IsambardPrince	They should have prioritized raw materials and areas of minimal resistance.
[20:05]	TR News	NebiOS 10.3-rc1 https://distrowatch.com/nebios
[20:05]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/nebios )
[20:05]	IsambardPrince	A military can't run on fuel shortages.
[20:05]	TR News	Vuu-do 20261015 https://distrowatch.com/vuudo
[20:05]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/vuudo )
[20:05]	TR News	Asmi 26.10 https://distrowatch.com/asmi
[20:05]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/asmi )
[20:06]	IsambardPrince	It can't be built if you can't get ore for the metal works.
[20:06]	TR News	Whats new in the Ubuntu 26.10 flavours? https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/10/ubuntu-2610-flavours-overview
[20:06]	TR Bot	 Whats new in the Ubuntu 26.10 flavours? - OMG! Ubuntu
[20:06]	TR News	Help us test Kdenlive https://kdenlive.org/news/2026/october-testing/
[20:06]	TR Bot	 Help us test Kdenlive - Kdenlive
[20:09]	TR News	Shelly 3.1.7 GUI Package Manager for Arch GNU/Linux Adds RLPM Native Package Engine https://9to5linux.com/shelly-3-1-7-gui-package-manager-for-arch-linux-adds-rlpm-native-package-engine
[20:09]	TR Bot	3.1.7 GUI Package Manager for Arch Linux Adds RLPM Native Package Engine - 9to5Linux
[20:09]	TR News	KDE Plasma 6.6.7 Is Out with Support for Monitoring GPU Usage for defective chip maker Intel A380 GPUs https://9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-6-6-7-is-out-with-support-for-monitoring-gpu-usage-for-intel-a380-gpus
[20:09]	TR Bot	Plasma 6.6.7 Is Out with Support for Monitoring GPU Usage for Intel A380 GPUs - 9to5Linux
[20:09]	TR News	First Look at Devario OS: A Modern, Shelly-First GNU/Linux Distro Based on Arch GNU/Linux https://9to5linux.com/first-look-at-devario-os-a-modern-shelly-first-linux-distro-based-on-arch-linux
[20:09]	TR Bot	Look at Devario OS: A Modern, Shelly-First Linux Distro Based on Arch Linux - 9to5Linux
[20:09]	TR News	The Torvalds-led Slopfest as a Reminder to Pursue Software Freedom, Not Plagiarism Endorsed (for Money) by 'Linux' Foundation https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/17/The_Torvalds_led_Slopfest_as_a_Reminder_to_Pursue_Software_Free.shtml
[20:09]	TR Bot	 Techrights The Torvalds-led Slopfest as a Reminder to Pursue Software Freedom, Not Plagiarism Endorsed (for Money) by 'Linux' Foundation
[20:09]	TR News	GNOME OS Preview Launches for the General Public with GNOME 51 https://9to5linux.com/gnome-os-preview-launches-for-the-general-public-with-gnome-51
[20:09]	TR Bot	OS Preview Launches for the General Public with GNOME 51 - 9to5Linux
[20:09]	TR News	How to lower Android development costs by removing hardware from the critical path https://ubuntu.com//blog/lower-android-development-cost
[20:10]	TR Bot	to lower Android development costs by removing hardware from the critical path | Ubuntu
[20:10]	TR News	Voyager 26.10 https://distrowatch.com/voyager
[20:10]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/voyager )
[20:10]	TR News	Ubuntu Unity 26.10 https://distrowatch.com/ubuntuunity
[20:10]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/ubuntuunity )
[20:11]	TR News	Microsoft's LF/OpenSSF is helping and working with Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub https://openssf.org/blog/2026/10/16/case-study-github-expands-malware-advisories-across-eight-ecosystems-with-openssf/ http://techrights.org/o/2020/10/30/openssf-microsoft/
[20:11]	TR Bot	 Case Study: GitHub Expands Malware Advisories with OpenSSF
[20:11]	TR Bot	 With Microsoft in Charge, OpenSSF Seems More Like It's About Back Doors -- Not Real Security -- Inside the Linux Foundation
[20:12]	TR News	IF? https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-azeem-azhar-paul-kedrosky.html
[20:12]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-azeem-azhar-paul-kedrosky.html )
[20:13]	TR News	MElon Is Trying to Buy the Midterms, and He Doesnt Care Who Knows It https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/elon-musk-is-trying-to-buy-the-midterms-and-he-doesnt-care-who-knows-it
[20:13]	TR Bot	 Elon Musk Is Trying to Buy the Midterms, and He Doesnt Care Who Knows It | The New Yorker
[20:13]	MinceR	(cat) (video) (audio:unimportant) https://imgur.com/gallery/hamachi-is-escape-artist-fdxBpep
[20:13]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://imgur.com/gallery/hamachi-is-escape-artist-fdxBpep )
[20:14]	TR News	Six of Eight openDesk Vendors Form Open Productivity for Digital Sovereignty https://fossforce.com/2026/10/six-of-eight-opendesk-vendors-form-open-productivity-for-digital-sovereignty/
[20:14]	TR Bot	 Six of Eight openDesk Vendors Form Open Productivity for Digital Sovereignty - FOSS Force
[20:15]	TR News	Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 334 released https://diffoscope.org/news/diffoscope-334-released/
[20:15]	TR Bot	 diffoscope 334 released
[20:16]	TR News	KDE Gear 26.12 release schedule https://tsdgeos.blogspot.com/2026/10/kde-gear-2612-release-schedule.html
[20:16]	TR Bot	 TSDgeos' blog: KDE Gear 26.12 release schedule
[20:16]	TR News	KDE Plasma 6.6.7, Bugfix Release for October https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.6.7/
[20:16]	TR Bot	 KDE Plasma 6.6.7, Bugfix Release for October - KDE Community
[20:17]	TR News	Microsoft Patches Two Dozen RCE Flaws in Office https://www.securityweek.com/microsoft-patches-two-dozen-rce-flaws-in-office/
[20:17]	TR Bot	Patches Two Dozen RCE Flaws in Office - SecurityWeek
[20:17]	TR News	BAE Systems Security Incident Stalls Notices From US Bankruptcy Courts https://www.securityweek.com/bae-systems-security-incident-stalls-notices-from-us-bankruptcy-courts/
[20:17]	TR Bot	Systems Security Incident Stalls Notices From US Bankruptcy Courts - SecurityWeek
[20:18]	TR News	Chinese APT Exploited BeyondTrust Vulnerability as Zero-Day https://www.securityweek.com/chinese-apt-exploited-beyondtrust-vulnerability-as-zero-day/
[20:18]	TR Bot	APT Exploited BeyondTrust Vulnerability as Zero-Day - SecurityWeek
[20:19]	TR News	F5, Juniper Networks Patch Critical Vulnerabilities https://www.securityweek.com/f5-juniper-networks-patch-critical-vulnerabilities/
[20:19]	TR Bot	Juniper Networks Patch Critical Vulnerabilities - SecurityWeek
[20:22]	MinceR	so, does F5 still regularly forget its own configuration?
[20:23]	MinceR	and lose connection all the time, and freeze all the time?
[20:26]	TR News	Huw Edwards loses Daily Mail complaint and bemoans IPSO travesty https://pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/newspaper-corrections-media-mistakes-errors-legal/huw-edwards-loses-ipso-daily-mail-complaint/
[20:26]	TR Bot	 Huw Edwards loses Daily Mail complaint and bemoans IPSO 'travesty' - Press Gazette
[20:27]	TR News	Did Nintendo Kill Switch Emulation? The State of Yuzu, Ryujinx, and Their Forks in 2026 https://boilingsteam.com/did-nintendo-kill-switch-emulation-the-state-of-yuzu-ryujinx-and-their-forks-in-2026/index.html
[20:27]	TR Bot	 Did Nintendo Kill Switch Emulation? The State of Yuzu, Ryujinx, and Their Forks in 2026
[20:27]	TR News	Seeed Studio XIAO IPS display series features ESP32-S3 or nRF52840 SoC with 0.96-inch to 1.47-inch LCD options https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/10/17/seeed-studio-xiao-ips-display-series-features-esp32-s3-or-nrf52840-soc-with-0-96-inch-to-1-47-inch-lcd-options/
[20:27]	TR Bot	 Seeed Studio XIAO IPS display series features ESP32-S3 or nRF52840 SoC with 0.96-inch to 1.47-inch LCD options - CNX Software
[20:28]	TR News	Firefox Tooling Announcements: Firefox DevTools MCP 0.10.6 released https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/firefox-devtools-mcp-0-10-6-released/149832
[20:28]	TR Bot	 Firefox DevTools MCP 0.10.6 released - Firefox Tooling Announcements - Mozilla Discourse
[20:28]	TR News	Firefox Tooling Announcements: MozPhab 2.23.0 Released https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/mozphab-2-23-0-released/149833
[20:28]	TR Bot	 MozPhab 2.23.0 Released - Firefox Tooling Announcements - Mozilla Discourse
[20:29]	TR News	Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppSimdJson 0.1.17 on CRAN: Updates http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/10/16#rcppsimdjson_0.1.17
[20:29]	TR Bot	 Thinking inside the box
[20:30]	TR News	Support for Istio 1.29 has ended https://istio.io/latest/news/support/announcing-1.29-eol-final/
[20:30]	TR Bot	 Istio / Support for Istio 1.29 has ended
[20:30]	TR News	Intellectual Discovery video compression patent monopoly challenged https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/10/14/intellectual-discovery-video-compression-patent-challenged
[20:30]	TR Bot	 Intellectual Discovery video compression patent challenged Unified Patents
[20:31]	TR News	Marketing spam disguised as "news" https://www.juve-patent.com/people-and-business/ones-to-watch-netherlands-2026-barbara-mooij/
[20:31]	TR Bot	 Ones to Watch Netherlands 2026: Barbara Mooij - JUVE Patent
[20:31]	TR News	Celonis lands win in process mining patent monopoly battle against SAP in Germany https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/celonis-lands-first-win-in-process-mining-patent-battle-against-sap-in-germany/
[20:31]	TR Bot	 Celonis lands win in process mining patent battle against SAP in Germany
[20:32]	TR News	Steinar H. Gunderson: Decompilation patterns, part 13: Reverse loop http://blog.sesse.net/blog/tech/2026-10-16-22-29_decompilation_patterns_part_13_reverse_loop.html
[20:32]	TR Bot	 Steinar H. Gunderson
[20:33]	TR News	OpenAI Models Hacked Data Portals, Raided a Crypto Wallet to Finish Tasks https://www.securityweek.com/openai-models-hacked-data-portals-raided-a-crypto-wallet-to-finish-tasks/
[20:33]	TR Bot	Models Hacked Data Portals, Raided a Crypto Wallet to Finish Tasks - SecurityWeek
[20:33]	TR News	Decoding base64 in Python at 10 gigabytes per second https://lemire.me/blog/2026/10/17/decoding-base64-in-python-at-10-gigabytes-per-second/
[20:33]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://lemire.me/blog/2026/10/17/decoding-base64-in-python-at-10-gigabytes-per-second/ )
[20:36]	TR News	"The latest interim release of Ubuntu is here, complete with kernel 7.3 even though it isn't officially out yet. It also includes a new speech-to-text system that is intriguing but not fully useful." https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/10/16/ubuntu-stonking-stingray-swims-into-spotlight-with-pre-release-kernel/5303580
[20:36]	TR Bot	 Ubuntu Stonking Stingray swims into spotlight with pre-release kernel
[20:38]	TR News	Arch User Repository (AUR) https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fake-arch-linux-packages-push-malware-with-root-privileges/
[20:38]	TR Bot	 Fake Arch Linux packages push malware with root privileges
[20:38]	TR News	"Linux is great at many things, and one of the big benefits it has over Windows is how it can easily give you a usable PC without having to actually install anything." https://www.xda-developers.com/my-linux-desktop-fits-usb-drive-boots-same-any-pc-use/
[20:38]	TR Bot	 My Linux desktop fits on a USB drive, and it boots the same on any PC I use
[20:38]	MinceR	> push malware with root privileges
[20:38]	MinceR	like systemd?
[20:40]	TR News	That anime girl you keep seeing on Linux sites is a tiny proof-of-work puzzle, and it's keeping volunteer projects online https://www.xda-developers.com/that-anime-girl-you-keep-seeing-on-linux-sites-is-a-tiny-proof-of-work-puzzle-and-its-keeping-volunteer-projects-online/
[20:40]	TR Bot	 That anime girl you keep seeing on Linux sites is a tiny proof-of-work puzzle, and it's keeping volunteer projects online
[20:42]	TR News	A mirror turned Valve's Steam Frame sources into 24 repositories inside 13 minutes https://mixed-news.com/en/steam-frame-source-24-repositories-deckard-linux-kernel-mirror/
[20:42]	TR Bot	 A mirror turned Valve's Steam Frame sources into 24 repositories inside 13 minutes
[20:43]	TR News	Intel adds Nova Lake GPUs to Xe VFIO driver https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-nova-lake-s-p-xe-graphics-get-sr-iov-virtualization-support-in-linux
[20:43]	TR Bot	Nova Lake-S/P Xe graphics get SR-IOV virtualization support in Linux - VideoCardz.com
[20:43]	TR News	Linux Finally Gets 64-Bit Steam Client and New Game Achievements Management in Client Beta https://www.techpowerup.com/353772/linux-finally-gets-64-bit-steam-client-and-new-game-achievements-management-in-client-beta
[20:43]	TR Bot	Finally Gets 64-Bit Steam Client and New Game Achievements Management in Client Beta | TechPowerUp
[20:45]	TR News	Suicide https://hackaday.com/2026/10/15/linux-kernel-drops-ai-tag-requirement-uses-meta-ai-for-code-reviews/
[20:45]	TR Bot	Kernel Drops AI Tag Requirement, Uses Meta AI For Code Reviews | Hackaday
[20:46]	TR News	"Another big new Steam Beta release for all platforms has arrived - bringing with it a 64bit Linux client, and a fancy Achievement Sets system." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/steam-beta-for-october-15-brings-a-64bit-linux-client-achievement-sets-and-more/
[20:46]	TR Bot	Beta for October 15 brings a 64bit Linux client, Achievement Sets and more | GamingOnLinux
[20:46]	TR News	Steam now warns desktop Linux users when a game is known not to work with Proton https://mixed-news.com/en/steam-client-october-13-steamos-unsupported-dialog-desktop-linux-proton/
[20:46]	TR Bot	 Steam now warns desktop Linux users when a game is known not to work with Proton
[20:47]	TR News	Steam finally switches to 64-bit on Linux, but 32-bit libraries are still required https://videocardz.com/newz/steam-for-linux-finally-goes-64-bit
[20:47]	TR Bot	for Linux finally goes 64-bit - VideoCardz.com
[20:50]	TR News	Critical Linux kernel vulnerability leads to full KVM escape https://cybernews.com/security/critical-linux-bug-pwnescape-allows-vm-escape/
[20:50]	TR Bot	Linux Vulnerability Lets VM Guests Escape to Hosts | Cybernews
[20:51]	TR News	Linux now runs on PS5 console jailbreaks and July firmware, with PC games possible https://www.notebookcheck.net/Linux-now-runs-on-PS5-console-jailbreaks-and-July-firmware-with-PC-games-possible.1425575.0.html
[20:51]	TR Bot	 Linux now runs on PS5 console jailbreaks and July firmware, with PC games possible - Notebookcheck News
[20:51]	TR News	Linux kernel gets a fix for a flaw that enabled attackers to escape VMs https://www.csoonline.com/article/4236460/linux-kernel-gets-a-fix-for-a-flaw-that-enabled-attackers-to-escape-vms.html
[20:51]	TR Bot	 Linux kernel gets a fix for a flaw that enabled attackers to escape VMs | CSO Online
[20:52]	TR News	"Arch Linux users who mistyped yay or paru while installing the package helpers from the Arch User Repository (AUR) may have given a stranger root access to their machine." https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/10/16/arch-linux-aur-malware-yay-paru/
[20:52]	TR Bot	 Fake Arch Linux AUR packages exploit typos to run malware with root privileges - Help Net Security
[20:52]	TR News	The triple-OS NexPhone runs Android, Linux, and Windows 11, but youll have to wait until 2027 for it https://www.xda-developers.com/the-triple-os-nexphone-runs-android-linux-and-windows-11-but-youll-have-to-wait-until-2027-for-it/
[20:52]	TR Bot	 The triple-OS NexPhone runs Android, Linux, and Windows 11, but youll have to wait until 2027 for it
[20:53]	TR News	Malware, repeat, malware. https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/10/16/microsoft-bringing-defender-to-linux-desktops-repeat-microsoft-bringing-defender-to-linux-desktops/5303477
[20:53]	TR Bot	 Microsoft bringing Defender to Linux desktops. Repeat: Microsoft bringing Defender to Linux desktops
[20:54]	MinceR	:>
[20:54]	MinceR	and if the installer fails, it can say it defended the system from malware (itself)
[20:55]	TR News	 (NEW):  GNU/Linux Finally Gets 64-Bit Steam Client and More Steam News https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/GNU_Linux_Finally_Gets_64_Bit_Steam_Client_and_More_Steam_News.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/GNU_Linux_Finally_Gets_64_Bit_Steam_Client_and_More_Steam_News.gmi 
[20:55]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines GNU/Linux Finally Gets 64-Bit Steam Client and More Steam News
[20:58]	TR News	 (NEW):  New Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Builds, "Did Nintendo Kill Switch Emulation?" and GNU/&quot;Linux Now Runs on PS5&quot; https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/New_Steam_Games_with_Native_GNU_Linux_Builds_Did_Nintendo_Kill_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/New_Steam_Games_with_Native_GNU_Linux_Builds_Did_Nintendo_Kill_.gmi 
[20:58]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines New Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Builds, "Did Nintendo Kill Switch Emulation?" and GNU/"Linux Now Runs on PS5"
● Oct 17
[21:00]	TR News	 (NEW):   Programming Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/Programming_Leftovers.gmi 
[21:00]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Programming Leftovers
[21:00]	TR News	 (NEW):  Security and Windows TCO Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/Security_and_Windows_TCO_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/Security_and_Windows_TCO_Leftovers.gmi 
[21:00]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Security and Windows TCO Leftovers
[21:00]	IsambardPrince	For some reason only a few of the beers out of that pack were "green beer".
[21:00]	IsambardPrince	Thankfully the rest of them taste okay.
[21:02]	TR News	 (NEW):  Open Hardware/Modding Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/Open_Hardware_Modding_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/Open_Hardware_Modding_Leftovers.gmi 
[21:02]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Open Hardware/Modding Leftovers
[21:02]	TR News	 (NEW):  Standards/Consortia: The Politics of Standards (ODF), Digital Sovereignty, and "Leap Second Is No More" https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/Standards_Consortia_The_Politics_of_Standards_ODF_Digital_Sover.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/Standards_Consortia_The_Politics_of_Standards_ODF_Digital_Sover.gmi 
[21:02]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Standards/Consortia: The Politics of Standards (ODF), Digital Sovereignty, and "Leap Second Is No More"
[21:07]	TR News	 (NEW):  Introducing GNOME OS Preview and This Week in GNOME https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/Introducing_GNOME_OS_Preview_and_This_Week_in_GNOME.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/Introducing_GNOME_OS_Preview_and_This_Week_in_GNOME.gmi 
[21:07]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Introducing GNOME OS Preview and This Week in GNOME
[21:07]	TR News	 (NEW):  KDE: Testing Kdenlive and KDE Gear 26.12 release schedule https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/KDE_Testing_Kdenlive_and_KDE_Gear_26_12_release_schedule.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/KDE_Testing_Kdenlive_and_KDE_Gear_26_12_release_schedule.gmi 
[21:07]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines KDE: Testing Kdenlive and KDE Gear 26.12 release schedule
[21:08]	TR News	 (NEW):  Today's HowTos   https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/today_s_howtos.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/today_s_howtos.gmi 
[21:08]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines today's howtos
[21:25]	TR News	 (NEW):  Graphics: Intel, NVIDIA, Natalie Vock on Slop Plagiarism, and LLM Junk in Mesa https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/Graphics_Intel_NVIDIA_Natalie_Vock_on_Slop_Plagiarism_and_LLM_J.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/Graphics_Intel_NVIDIA_Natalie_Vock_on_Slop_Plagiarism_and_LLM_J.gmi 
[21:25]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Graphics: Intel, NVIDIA, Natalie Vock on Slop Plagiarism, and LLM Junk in Mesa
[21:25]	TR News	 (NEW):  Linux Kernel: GAFAM and Rust Inside Linux Advisory Board (TAB), "An Issue With DKMS and Kernel initramfs Images in Fedora 44 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/Linux_Kernel_GAFAM_and_Rust_Inside_Linux_Advisory_Board_TAB_An_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/Linux_Kernel_GAFAM_and_Rust_Inside_Linux_Advisory_Board_TAB_An_.gmi 
[21:25]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Linux Kernel: GAFAM and Rust Inside Linux Advisory Board (TAB), "An Issue With DKMS and Kernel initramfs Images in Fedora 44
[21:27]	TR News	 (NEW):  Audiocasts/Shows: Hackaday Podcast, Environmental Factors, and Slop https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/Audiocasts_Shows_Hackaday_Podcast_Environmental_Factors_and_Slo.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/Audiocasts_Shows_Hackaday_Podcast_Environmental_Factors_and_Slo.gmi 
[21:27]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Audiocasts/Shows: Hackaday Podcast, Environmental Factors, and Slop
[21:28]	TR News	 (NEW):  BSD: 37-Year-Old Kernel Bug in OpenBSD and OpenZFS Mastery https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/BSD_37_Year_Old_Kernel_Bug_in_OpenBSD_and_OpenZFS_Mastery.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/BSD_37_Year_Old_Kernel_Bug_in_OpenBSD_and_OpenZFS_Mastery.gmi 
[21:28]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines BSD: 37-Year-Old Kernel Bug in OpenBSD and OpenZFS Mastery
[21:30]	TR News	 (NEW):  Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications: Android Development, NexPhone, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/Mobile_Systems_Mobile_Applications_Android_Development_NexPhone.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/Mobile_Systems_Mobile_Applications_Android_Development_NexPhone.gmi 
[21:30]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications: Android Development, NexPhone, and More
[21:35]	TR News	 (NEW):  GNU/Linux Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/GNU_Linux_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/GNU_Linux_Leftovers.gmi 
[21:35]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines GNU/Linux Leftovers
[21:37]	TR News	 (NEW):  Free Software and Openwashing by Microsoft OSI https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/Free_Software_and_Openwashing_by_Microsoft_OSI.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/Free_Software_and_Openwashing_by_Microsoft_OSI.gmi 
[21:37]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Free Software and Openwashing by Microsoft OSI
[21:37]	TR News	 (NEW):  Modern Internet and Firefox Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/Modern_Internet_and_Firefox_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/Modern_Internet_and_Firefox_Leftovers.gmi 
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[21:41]	TR News	Techrights Links 17/10/2026: Europe Divorcing US President Putin (Kompromat), MElon and Kapo-berg ("Meta") Buying US Elections Again https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/17/Links_17_10_2026_Europe_Divorcing_US_President_Putin_Kompromat_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/10/17/Links_17_10_2026_Europe_Divorcing_US_President_Putin_Kompromat_.gmi 
[21:41]	TR Bot	 Techrights Links 17/10/2026: Europe Divorcing US President Putin (Kompromat), MElon and Kapo-berg ("Meta") Buying US Elections Again
[21:51]	TR News	Techrights The First Casualty: The Reputation of Linux Developers (and of Linux) https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/17/The_First_Casualty_The_Reputation_of_Linux_Developers_and_of_Li.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/10/17/The_First_Casualty_The_Reputation_of_Linux_Developers_and_of_Li.gmi 
[21:51]	TR Bot	 Techrights The First Casualty: The Reputation of Linux Developers (and of Linux)
[21:56]	TR News	"I am unsure this has anything to do with Voyager, but it was mildly entertaining. And its Harry Kim! And he clearly loves it and the Voyager fan community and all that goes with it. Its all quite heartwarming." gemini://eve.smol.pub/the-extended-interviews-on-ito-the-journey-looking-back-ati-star-trek-voyager
[21:57]	TR News	"A personal log entry, here, so I can (with any luck) look back on it, should I need to remember this incident. Also cathartic writing. Due to severe chronic norovirus since January so 7 months now I have become severely malnourished and lost a lot of weight." gemini://eve.smol.pub/admission-meds-vascular-access
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[22:05]	TR News	"Another personal post, on being in hospital and suffering. And so, after a substantial wait, the IV feeding for which I had been waiting started." gemini://eve.smol.pub/feed-infection-control-fluid-overload
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[22:06]	TR News	"How do you totally securely share a secret number with someone, utterly in public, without anybody else being able to get it?" gemini://eve.smol.pub/how-can-you-securely-share-a-secret-number-with-someone-totally-in-public
[22:06]	TR News	"Are they references to external publications (say I put details of a book published by a publisher in there)?" gemini://eve.smol.pub/repository-metadata-contain-ontological-ambiguities-that-fold-into-flat-hierarchies
[22:08]	TR News	"Continuing with the BaseFree numerical system... Now it is time for the rest of the zeroth (first) cycle of number place's: the numbers from "1" until "9" (the number "0" of this cycle has already been explained)." gemini://tilde.club/~keyboardan/gemlog/2026-10-17__BaseFree_Numerical_System_-_Part_1.gmi
[22:08]	TR News	"The quintet I play in was supposed to have a gig on Halloween. That fell through - it was last-minute, not enough time to rehearse properly with bringing in a new oboist, and people weren't feeling it - and I'm sort of glad for it, because the month is kind of crazy." gemini://tilde.club/~winter/gemlog/2026/10-17.gmi
[22:09]	TR News	"With so many people using adblockers on their devices (30% worldwide), maybe advertisers are thinking "betcha can't block this!" with the big screens they are installing everywhere." gemini://rochelimit.uk/articles/20261017_Big_glowing_advertising_screens.gmi
[22:10]	TR News	"I could use a much bigger web application to manage downloads, complete with a database, user accounts, and a dashboard but all I want is to serve my own ZIM archive and some other files over HTTP, so I put together a tiny Docker setup using Nginx and Alpine Linux." gemini://sava.rocks/blog/a-tiny-docker-image-for-serving-static-files/
[22:11]	TR News	"Thanks weather. Tricked me into going for a ride with gorgeous sunny weather. And then the dangerous wind storm and sudden temperature drop halfway through. That's what I get for going outside .." gemini://b-ark.ca/2026/10/17/thanks-weather-tricked-me/
[22:11]	TR News	"I was curious how quickly my coffee setup paid itself back so I did some math for funzies." gemini://b-ark.ca/2026/10/17/did-the-math/
[22:12]	TR News	"I really enjoyed reading these! The water analogy about voltage, current and and wattage really helped, as I have never really understood them. It's possible I'm already mixing up words lol." gemini://akselmo.dev/gemlog/2026-10-17-re-solarminiserver.gmi
[22:13]	TR News	"But as well as audience share, they are losing revenue. The number of homes that declare that they don't watch BBC content as it is broadcast, and thus don't need to buy a TV Licence, rises every year. This neatly closes that loophole." gemini://readme.fairlygood.net/gemlog/2026-10-17_bbc-news-channel-launches-on-youtube-for-viewers-in-uk-and-us.gmi
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[22:14]	TR News	"Now, I've typed the title in spur of moment, but what was it that really got me going? Ah, another "port" of a nostalgic game, running on Android/PS2/PC/DOS/whatever." gemini://ghosisiphus.xyz/glog/2026-10-17-no-dreams-and-goals.gmi
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[22:14]	TR News	[cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D2128.jpg
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[22:16]	TR News	"Mrs kdan and I went to the cinema this week for the first time since the animated film Wall-E came out, which was around 2008. The film which persuaded us out of our customary domestic evening torpor was the latest adaptation of Sense and Sensibility, directed by Georgia Oakley." gemini://kdan.smol.pub/sense_sensibility
[22:17]	TR News	Infinite scrolls (poe/en) gemini://danchium.smol.pub/infinite-scrolls
[22:17]	TR News	(B)lock(ed) (poe/en) gemini://danchium.smol.pub/blocked
[22:18]	TR News	"Autumn began almost a month ago, but where I live it doesn't feel like the autumn I'm used to until about now (mid October). For the first time last night the cool winds blew in with gusto." gemini://wilcosky.smol.pub/changing-seasons-teaches-us-balance
[22:19]	TR News	"i'm thoroughly surprised at myself and how my art has been going. a week or two ago i got a new sketchbook, mostly because an artist i follow on youtube uses almost exclusively those, when she doesn't make one herself." gemini://dogboy.smol.pub/20261017
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