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| Isambard_Prince | MinceR, Same reason your car insurance doubles. | Jan 18 00:00 |
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| MinceR | well, his character shouldn't have, but he should have | Jan 18 00:00 |
| Isambard_Prince | Because they can get away with it. | Jan 18 00:00 |
| MinceR | :> | Jan 18 00:00 |
| MinceR | btw there are some countries where attempting suicide is illegal | Jan 18 00:00 |
| MinceR | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_legislation | Jan 18 00:01 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-en.wikipedia.org | Suicide legislation - Wikipedia | Jan 18 00:01 | |
| MinceR | the state owns you and they don't like you damaging their property. | Jan 18 00:01 |
| Isambard_Prince | It's not illegal to attempt suicide in America, MinceR | Jan 18 00:02 |
| Isambard_Prince | We're far more enlightened than that. | Jan 18 00:02 |
| Isambard_Prince | They just take you to a hospital where you'll have $20,000 in debt when you get out. | Jan 18 00:02 |
| MinceR | :> | Jan 18 00:02 |
| Isambard_Prince | Then it goes on your credit as a collection agency. | Jan 18 00:03 |
| MinceR | in bangladesh and brunei, attempting suicide can be punished by death | Jan 18 00:05 |
| MinceR | or not | Jan 18 00:05 |
| Isambard_Prince | Why would they punish you by giving you what you were trying to do? | Jan 18 00:22 |
| MinceR | ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ | Jan 18 00:22 |
| MinceR | devil apes are often crazy and do crazy things | Jan 18 00:23 |
| Isambard_Prince | MinceR, Speaking of devil apes. | Jan 18 00:32 |
| Isambard_Prince | That one that didn't hire me last week is going to have to interview me again this week. | Jan 18 00:32 |
| MinceR | :> | Jan 18 00:32 |
| Isambard_Prince | I can keep scheduling interviews with the "AI" chatbot until he manages to find something for me to do. | Jan 18 00:32 |
| Isambard_Prince | MinceR, Trump continues to show his brilliance. | Jan 18 00:38 |
| Isambard_Prince | He said we need Greenland so we won't have Russia for a neighbor. | Jan 18 00:38 |
| MinceR | lol | Jan 18 00:38 |
| Isambard_Prince | Some parts of Alaska are less than 6 miles from Russia. | Jan 18 00:38 |
| Isambard_Prince | Alaska is not really easy to defend. | Jan 18 00:39 |
| Isambard_Prince | Russia could theoretically occupy it. | Jan 18 00:39 |
| MinceR | taking over greenland would just add more land that's close to mordor to murrikan territory... | Jan 18 00:39 |
| MinceR | even if it isn't as close to mordor as alaska is | Jan 18 00:39 |
| Isambard_Prince | The Japanese managed to during WWII, even though they were only about a year from being defeated. | Jan 18 00:39 |
| Isambard_Prince | By occupy, I mean they occupied some uninhabited areas that the US wasn't really terribly concerned about defending. | Jan 18 00:40 |
| Isambard_Prince | It was pointless, there was no strategic value in landing there by the time they did it. | Jan 18 00:40 |
| Isambard_Prince | The way they conducted their war against the US was pretty incompetent. | Jan 18 00:41 |
| Isambard_Prince | The attack on Pearl Harbor got off to a pretty strong start due to mistakes on the US side. | Jan 18 00:41 |
| Isambard_Prince | But they called it early and left without finishing the job, and although the damage was pretty bad, they failed to totally destroy the US fleet there. | Jan 18 00:42 |
| Isambard_Prince | The right call would have been to press the attack even if that meant accepting higher losses in the next wave. | Jan 18 00:42 |
| MinceR | the closest i could find is ~35km at Diomede Islands | Jan 18 00:42 |
| Isambard_Prince | It's war, people die in a war. | Jan 18 00:43 |
| Isambard_Prince | Being in command means recognizing when that is necessary. | Jan 18 00:43 |
| MinceR | war, war never changes | Jan 18 00:43 |
| Isambard_Prince | MinceR, If they ask why I'm back at another interview I'm tempted to say "That's the thing about being unemployed. I can come here every week until I have a job." | Jan 18 00:51 |
| MinceR | :> | Jan 18 00:51 |
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| MinceR | also, greenland is currently closer to mordor (~940 km) than to nazi america (~1962 km) | Jan 18 00:58 |
| Isambard_Prince | MinceR, Then someone said they got banned from Lyft as a driver for alleged discrimination. | Jan 18 01:08 |
| Isambard_Prince | Lyft said they would not say which ride it was and that no appeals were going to happen. | Jan 18 01:08 |
| Isambard_Prince | I mentioned "Well if they said which ride it was, there'd be stories about enraged former drivers going to someone's house and shooting them. It's America, you know." | Jan 18 01:08 |
| Isambard_Prince | That's how our society has gotten. | Jan 18 01:09 |
| Isambard_Prince | If you make someone made, that might be the last mistake you ever make. | Jan 18 01:09 |
| Isambard_Prince | *mad | Jan 18 01:09 |
| MinceR | perhaps it's time for people to form armed defense groups | Jan 18 01:10 |
| Isambard_Prince | MinceR, The Black Panthers are open carrying AR-15 rifles in Minneapolis. | Jan 18 01:18 |
| Isambard_Prince | And the fucked up thing about it is I'd feel safer near them than the police. | Jan 18 01:18 |
| MinceR | selective fire or single only? | Jan 18 01:18 |
| Isambard_Prince | Well, if it's legal then single only. | Jan 18 01:19 |
| MinceR | :( | Jan 18 01:19 |
| Isambard_Prince | But bump stocks are legal again. | Jan 18 01:19 |
| MinceR | i just saw a video that allegedly showed 2 police officers protecting someone from a gestapo agent | Jan 18 01:19 |
| Isambard_Prince | You can put a bump stock on an FN-PS90. | Jan 18 01:19 |
| MinceR | bump stocks are an ugly hack though | Jan 18 01:19 |
| Isambard_Prince | Yeah, but not technically a machine gun. | Jan 18 01:20 |
| Isambard_Prince | Which is the best kind of not a machine gun I guess. | Jan 18 01:20 |
| MinceR | :> | Jan 18 01:20 |
| Isambard_Prince | I'm glad that the state passed a law today that will seal the criminal records of 1.7 million non-violent offenders. That gets rid of one barrier to housing, but it doesn't do anything about the affordability crisis or the ballooning credit score requirements. | Jan 18 01:25 |
| Isambard_Prince | Apparently, people's criminal records will be automatically sealed 6 months after the arrest now if it was not a violent crime or a sex offense. | Jan 18 01:25 |
| Isambard_Prince | So most people in Illinois will no longer be punished forever. | Jan 18 01:26 |
| Isambard_Prince | It's sad that the law applies to so many people, honestly. | Jan 18 01:26 |
| Isambard_Prince | Out of 12.6 million people, over 2 million have some sort of crime record. | Jan 18 01:26 |
| Isambard_Prince | It's another way to have a permanent underclass. | Jan 18 01:26 |
| Isambard_Prince | Just make sure that one in six can't do anything because they committed *any* crime at *any* point in their life. | Jan 18 01:27 |
| Isambard_Prince | Then you have the credit score follow them around like a gypsy curse. | Jan 18 01:27 |
| MinceR | 18 022626 < Isambard_Prince> It's sad that the law applies to so many people, honestly. | Jan 18 01:27 |
| MinceR | yeah, i'd prefer to have no law apply to me at all | Jan 18 01:27 |
| Isambard_Prince | MinceR, Of course the Republicans got together and voted against it. | Jan 18 01:28 |
| Isambard_Prince | Then there was the sound of heads exploding. | Jan 18 01:28 |
| MinceR | they're not republicans | Jan 18 01:28 |
| Isambard_Prince | They prefer the system called "When you're down, that's where you'll stay." | Jan 18 01:28 |
| MinceR | they feel better when there are more people worse off than they | Jan 18 01:29 |
| MinceR | and some of them are pretty damn poor... | Jan 18 01:29 |
| Isambard_Prince | And the more the better, as long as it's not them. | Jan 18 01:29 |
| MinceR | devil apes are the worst | Jan 18 01:29 |
| Isambard_Prince | And if it ever is them, the other Republicans won't care because it's not them. | Jan 18 01:29 |
| Isambard_Prince | The wheel turns, does it not? | Jan 18 01:29 |
| MinceR | :> | Jan 18 01:30 |
| Isambard_Prince | The conservatives won't care when it's you that goes to jail and gets out and can't even find a job or an apartment, even if you're one of them. They don't know you anymore as soon as you fall on hard times. | Jan 18 01:31 |
| MinceR | the "conservatives" who want to "conserve" a state of affairs that never was | Jan 18 01:32 |
| MinceR | (notably, some of them were already like that around 1950!) | Jan 18 01:34 |
| MinceR | (as noted in The Authoritarian Personality) | Jan 18 01:34 |
| Isambard_Prince | Having a criminal record of any kind means brutal consequences long after the official punishment is served. | Jan 18 01:52 |
| Isambard_Prince | You never stop being punished. I would argue that's unconstitutional because it's so excessive. | Jan 18 01:53 |
| MinceR | i would argue that a constitution that the state does not uphold is a joke | Jan 18 01:53 |
| Isambard_Prince | That's true. You know, it's nice that it has words. | Jan 18 01:53 |
| Isambard_Prince | But those words get "interpreted" into meaning nothing, by judges with an agenda. | Jan 18 01:53 |
| MinceR | yeah, but it would be nicer if it wasn't used as an excuse to own me | Jan 18 01:54 |
| Isambard_Prince | Theoretically, it says that the power flows from the people, to the state, to the federal government. | Jan 18 01:54 |
| Isambard_Prince | Theoretically. | Jan 18 01:54 |
| Isambard_Prince | They never ask me what my opinion is on a law. | Jan 18 01:54 |
| MinceR | :> | Jan 18 01:54 |
| Isambard_Prince | Sometimes a law requires it though, but that's rare. | Jan 18 01:55 |
| Isambard_Prince | And my idiot neighbors will make sure that the dumbest possible shit happens even then. | Jan 18 01:55 |
| Isambard_Prince | Like more taxes or something. | Jan 18 01:55 |
| MinceR | they've managed to hoodwink plenty of people into supporting this wicked system though | Jan 18 01:55 |
| Isambard_Prince | Like, "Do you want to be taxed more so we can have another nature preserve?" | Jan 18 01:55 |
| MinceR | and of course the rest get coerced with threats of violence | Jan 18 01:55 |
| Isambard_Prince | "Oh sure, even though I have no time to go to one because of the jobs I have to work because of the taxes." | Jan 18 01:55 |
| Isambard_Prince | You know, it's only ANOTHER $140. | Jan 18 01:56 |
| Isambard_Prince | You know, at the minimum legal wage, you have to work more than 8 hours to pay for just the tax INCREASE on the nature preserve that year. | Jan 18 01:56 |
| MinceR | what costs so much about a nature preserve? can't they just stop fucking with nature there? | Jan 18 01:56 |
| Isambard_Prince | That could be food or part of someone's car insurance bill. | Jan 18 01:57 |
| Isambard_Prince | <MinceR> what costs so much about a nature preserve? can't they just stop fucking with nature there? | Jan 18 01:57 |
| Isambard_Prince | They have a board, and conservation police officers, and staff "maintaining" them. | Jan 18 01:57 |
| MinceR | sounds superfluous | Jan 18 01:57 |
| Isambard_Prince | Like, with walking trails you never see anyone using unless it's people back there to fuck or something. | Jan 18 01:57 |
| MinceR | we have trails marked with signs painted on tree trunks | Jan 18 01:58 |
| MinceR | not super expensive | Jan 18 01:58 |
| Isambard_Prince | Mostly high school kids who can't afford a motel room. | Jan 18 01:58 |
| Isambard_Prince | I had someone I was with briefly who asked if I wanted to fuck him in a forest preserve. | Jan 18 01:59 |
| Isambard_Prince | I said, "No here's fine, I don't really want to explain that to a judge." | Jan 18 01:59 |
| MinceR | "ouch, right in the forest preserve!" | Jan 18 01:59 |
| Isambard_Prince | MinceR, A lawyer said technically having sex in a single stall public restroom is legal if you lock the door. | Jan 18 02:01 |
| Isambard_Prince | But it's not something he'd want to argue in court. | Jan 18 02:01 |
| Isambard_Prince | "Get a room." | Jan 18 02:01 |
| Isambard_Prince | MinceR, The hotel we're using now has a nice gym in it. | Jan 18 02:06 |
| Isambard_Prince | It has everything we have at the physical therapy office. | Jan 18 02:06 |
| Isambard_Prince | So I've been using the equipment for about an hour each day I'm there to replicate the exercises my physical therapist has me doing. | Jan 18 02:07 |
| Isambard_Prince | It effectively gets me some physical therapy sessions at no extra cost while I'm there anyway. | Jan 18 02:07 |
| Isambard_Prince | Physical Therapy sessions are expensive and the longer it goes on, the harder it is to justify to the insurance company. At some point they push back and say you've improved enough that you don't need it anymore even when there is some improvement to be had. | Jan 18 02:09 |
| Isambard_Prince | MinceR, I use the resources of the hotel to minimize costs elsewhere. The gym can be "free physical therapy". Loading up at breakfast limits my food costs for the day. | Jan 18 02:10 |
| Isambard_Prince | You know, I have a cousin in prison in Alabama, He said the food is so bad there they often can't even identify it, other than breakfast. | Jan 18 02:10 |
| MinceR | :> | Jan 18 02:11 |
| Isambard_Prince | But you can have as much as you want, so all he eats is breakfast because at least he knows what it is. | Jan 18 02:11 |
| Isambard_Prince | MinceR, The cheaper hotel is becoming even worse. I got so sick from the heater and the breakfast is often cold. I think they're actually putting out leftovers from the day before without bothering to warm them up. The slightly more expensive hotel has a good breakfast. | Jan 18 02:12 |
| Isambard_Prince | I really piled it high the other morning with the bacon. They alternate between sausage patties, and bacon. I prefer bacon. | Jan 18 02:13 |
| Isambard_Prince | And they have much better coffee. | Jan 18 02:13 |
| Isambard_Prince | I think after I ran out of free night coupons yesterday I'm not going to go back there. I decided to use it so I could spend an additional day with my boyfriend, but now I'm so sick from that damned heater that I'm sort of wishing I hadn't. | Jan 18 02:14 |
| Isambard_Prince | Some of the rooms are in better shape. | Jan 18 02:14 |
| Isambard_Prince | We go out for coffee so often when we stay at that one, that we save at least $15 a day just drinking the coffee at the better hotel. | Jan 18 02:15 |
| Isambard_Prince | Seriously, the coffee is so good there that they had to put up a sign saying it's for guests only. They have people using it as an internet cafe that sneak in off the street. | Jan 18 02:15 |
| Isambard_Prince | They sell that brand of coffee on Amazon. | Jan 18 02:15 |
| Isambard_Prince | Apparently, Coca-Cola bought the coffee company in 2019. | Jan 18 02:16 |
| Isambard_Prince | Declining soda sales, but rising coffee consumption. | Jan 18 02:16 |
| Isambard_Prince | Well, soda sort of has a lot of problems. People widely recognize it as junk now, and Trump made aluminum so expensive that the cans alone have added $4 a pack to the price this year alone. | Jan 18 02:16 |
| Isambard_Prince | MinceR, I managed to get rid of that rough idle and the problems with startup and the misfire code on the Buick. | Jan 18 02:25 |
| Isambard_Prince | Carbon deposits. | Jan 18 02:25 |
| Isambard_Prince | I ran a couple of tanks of gas with Gumout Multi System Tune Up in them and the car went from shaking at a stop light so much my phone was rattling around in the holder to smooth as silk. | Jan 18 02:26 |
| MinceR | :) | Jan 18 02:26 |
| Isambard_Prince | No more start up issue (running rough for a couple blocks) or misfire code. | Jan 18 02:26 |
| Isambard_Prince | The first bottle seemed to drastically improve that. | Jan 18 02:26 |
| Isambard_Prince | I'm halfway into the second tank now and the problems are gone. | Jan 18 02:27 |
| Isambard_Prince | I've had good luck with Gumout products. | Jan 18 02:27 |
| Isambard_Prince | Not so much with Chevron Techron. | Jan 18 02:27 |
| Isambard_Prince | Which was basically the first one using Polyetheramines, but they cut back on how much they used and now the product is basically worthless. | Jan 18 02:27 |
| Isambard_Prince | They were like 15-20% PEA according to the safety data sheet, and now it's like 5%-7% and they ALSO reduced the bottle size so you only get 10 ounces vs. 12. | Jan 18 02:28 |
| Isambard_Prince | To be fair, there's other things that clean injectors and stuff, but PEA is the gold standard for in-tank detergents. Gumout Multi System is 10% PEA and you get a 16 ounce bottle of it. | Jan 18 02:29 |
| Isambard_Prince | So there's actually enough product in there to have some cleaning action. | Jan 18 02:29 |
| Isambard_Prince | I also picked up a bottle of Gumout Regane High Mileage, which is apparently 25% PEA, but it comes in a 8 ounce container, so I was going to mix up a third tank of gasoline and run that. | Jan 18 02:30 |
| Isambard_Prince | Really no matter how you buy the Gumout, you seem to get about as much total PEA in the container, they vary the container size. | Jan 18 02:30 |
| Isambard_Prince | PEA is what Shell and the others call a "nitrogen-based" cleaner. It's what the Top Tier gasoline is using. | Jan 18 02:31 |
| Isambard_Prince | Then they charge you like another 80-90 cents a gallon for it. | Jan 18 02:31 |
| Isambard_Prince | They literally pour a gallon of detergent into an entire tanker truck of fuel and it bounces around in there and then goes into the gas tanks at the stations. | Jan 18 02:32 |
| Isambard_Prince | It doesn't cost them much. | Jan 18 02:32 |
| Isambard_Prince | They're right that if you buy a new car and then run it on that exclusively, you'll never have fuel-related problems other than maybe if they screw up and you get water in your tank or something. | Jan 18 02:32 |
| Isambard_Prince | But you're paying so much for that PEA detergent that you might as well run cheap gas and chase it with a treated tank sometimes. | Jan 18 02:33 |
| admfubar | https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/01/17/0220205&from=rss | Jan 18 02:33 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-soylentnews.org | Researchers Expose WHILL Wheelchair Safety Risks Via Remote Hacking - SoylentNews | Jan 18 02:33 | |
| Isambard_Prince | MinceR, GM's statement on fuel system cleaners is don't use them. | Jan 18 02:34 |
| Isambard_Prince | Some work, others can cause damage to the fuel pump or your engine. | Jan 18 02:34 |
| Isambard_Prince | They've tested them. They did not say which ones cause damage. | Jan 18 02:34 |
| Isambard_Prince | I mean, they probably didn't want to be sued by the ones that caused damage, even though they could prove it in the lab. | Jan 18 02:34 |
| Isambard_Prince | And that's why they said some cause damage. | Jan 18 02:35 |
| Isambard_Prince | MinceR, Someone on FICO Forums said that if you were put in a room with 100 people, some made $35,000 a year, and others made a million. The split was 1/4th in each income range. Would you randomly trade salaries with one of them. | Jan 18 02:37 |
| Isambard_Prince | I said, "Yes, because the absolute worst thing that could happen would be that I doubled my income. It's like a lottery where even the consolation prize is better than the life I have." | Jan 18 02:38 |
| MinceR | :> | Jan 18 02:38 |
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| Isambard_Prince | MinceR, Someone on Reddit asked if EndTipping meant never leaving any tip. | Jan 18 02:52 |
| Isambard_Prince | I wrote: " | Jan 18 02:52 |
| Isambard_Prince | No, but I also don't let them guilt me into going over 15%. I never go over 15%. | Jan 18 02:52 |
| Isambard_Prince | It just gets higher every damn year, like 18% went to 20% then 22% in the span of like 10 years there. | Jan 18 02:52 |
| Isambard_Prince | They said it's because things are getting more expensive. The cost of the food they're getting tipped on has nearly doubled. So the same percentage results in a higher tip. That's how percentages work. | Jan 18 02:52 |
| Isambard_Prince | Then a lot of them are sneaky and the tip suggestions include tips on tax, which is usually like 10% of the bill all by itself, so a 15% tip is really 16.5% if you take the 15% suggestion. Look at the subtotal. 15% of that. | Jan 18 02:52 |
| Isambard_Prince | " | Jan 18 02:52 |
| Isambard_Prince | You got all these people who are broke wondering where the money went. | Jan 18 02:53 |
| Isambard_Prince | It's because the kiosk is telling you to tip 25% and it based that on the after-tax total. | Jan 18 02:53 |
| Isambard_Prince | The restaurants make more money every year because they never go up by "only" inflation. | Jan 18 02:53 |
| Isambard_Prince | So they could pay their staff they just don't want to. | Jan 18 02:54 |
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| admfubar | https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/intrepid-pc-builder-fights-ram-crunch-by-building-ddr3-system-that-can-run-cyberpunk-2077-at-60-fps-intel-core-i7-4790k-rtx-2060-super-and-32gb-of-ddr3-would-set-you-back-just-usd300 | Jan 18 02:55 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.tomshardware.com | Intrepid PC builder fights RAM crunch by building DDR3 system that runs Cyberpunk 2077 at 60 FPS — Core i7-4790K, RTX 2060 Super, and 32GB of DDR3 would cost just $300 | Tom's Hardware | Jan 18 02:55 | |
| techrights-news | ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today in Techrights ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/18/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/18/Today_in_Techrights.gmi ∎ | Jan 18 02:57 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines — Today in Techrights | Jan 18 02:57 | |
| admfubar | https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence/jeff-bezos-says-the-quiet-part-out-loud-bezos-envisions-that-youll-give-up-your-pc-for-an-ai-cloud-version | Jan 18 02:57 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.windowscentral.com | Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud | Windows Central | Jan 18 02:57 | |
| techrights-news | Techrights – [3~IRC Proceedings: Saturday, January 17, 2026 ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/3_IRC_Proceedings_Saturday_January_17_2026.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/3_IRC_Proceedings_Saturday_January_17_2026.gmi ∎ | Jan 18 02:57 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights — [3~IRC Proceedings: Saturday, January 17, 2026 | Jan 18 02:57 | |
| admfubar | https://gizmodo.com/self-help-ghouls-are-charging-people-absurd-prices-to-talk-to-impersonator-chatbots-2000710744 | Jan 18 02:58 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-gizmodo.com | Self-Help Ghouls Are Charging People Absurd Prices to Talk to Impersonator Chatbots | Jan 18 02:58 | |
| techrights-news | Techrights – Over at Tux Machines... ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi ∎ | Jan 18 02:59 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights — Over at Tux Machines... | Jan 18 02:59 | |
| admfubar | https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/01/17/089219/dozens-of-us-colleges-close-as-falling-birth-rate-pushes-them-off-enrollment-cliff | Jan 18 03:00 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-news.slashdot.org | Dozens of US Colleges Close as Falling Birth Rate Pushes Them Off Enrollment Cliff - Slashdot | Jan 18 03:00 | |
| MinceR | > hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud | Jan 18 03:01 |
| MinceR | how will i access it? | Jan 18 03:01 |
| admfubar | with your brain chip | Jan 18 03:02 |
| MinceR | lol | Jan 18 03:02 |
| admfubar | https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/01/17/1828213/nasa-livestreams-the-rocket-that-will-carry-four-astronauts-around-the-moon | Jan 18 03:02 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-science.slashdot.org | NASA Livestreams the Rocket That Will Carry Four Astronauts Around the Moon - Slashdot | Jan 18 03:02 | |
| techrights-news | "Two weeks in to 2026 and things have been quiet, if not busy. My first week back at work was awful with so many things coming up at once, but I think the dust has mostly settled now." gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/nm03/2026/JAN2026/entry-1 | Jan 18 03:07 |
| techrights-news | "This weekend we were supposed to be looking after a friend's dog. The dog is a corgi, a barker (maybe that goes without saying), easily startled, and, once it starts barking, takes forever to stop." gemini://tilde.club/~winter/gemlog/2026/1-17.gmi | Jan 18 03:07 |
| techrights-news | "I keep saying I would like to come back here and write updates more often, but then I never do it. Yet I know this is something I would like to do, so I will make the time and put more effort into it." gemini://melyanna.net/2026-01-17--in-and-out-jan-2026 | Jan 18 03:08 |
| techrights-news | "When executing long-running jobs in the terminal, it's useful to get notified when they complete so you can do other things while waiting. Here are a few ways to achieve this." gemini://gmi.karl.berlin/terminal-notifications.gmi | Jan 18 03:09 |
| techrights-news | Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2026-01-18.gmi | Jan 18 03:11 |
| techrights-news | "Hey y'all, in 2026, lets not start a conversation with someone we've never met with "where are you from?" and then try guessing where they're from when the person doesn't want to answer." gemini://gem.saayaa.space/gemlog/2026-01-17-lets-not.gmi | Jan 18 03:12 |
| techrights-news | Environmental Sanity gemini://thrig.me/blog/2026/01/18/env-sanity.gmi | Jan 18 03:12 |
| techrights-news | "What a night... Junior was seemingly hit with some incarnation of a nasty gastrointestinal bug and spend the bigger part of the night vomiting." gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/ralfwause/phlog/170126.txt | Jan 18 03:13 |
| techrights-news | [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1539.jpg | Jan 18 03:14 |
| techrights-news | [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1889.jpg | Jan 18 03:14 |
| techrights-news | "There's been two songs I can remember in the past twenty years or so that have gotten so violently enmeshed in my emotions that I can hardly bear to listen to them. I don't think they're anything more than pretty good songs on their own, but the associations have felt extreme." gemini://koneida.com/unfiltered.gmi | Jan 18 03:15 |
| Isambard_Prince | MinceR, I was having a discussion with mom about showing up to every hiring event there until someone hired me. | Jan 18 03:18 |
| Isambard_Prince | She said "A chatbot?" I said, "Yeah, they call it Emma." | Jan 18 03:18 |
| Isambard_Prince | She said, "And there is no Emma." | Jan 18 03:18 |
| Isambard_Prince | I said, "Yeah, there is only Zuul." | Jan 18 03:18 |
| Isambard_Prince | And she said "What?" | Jan 18 03:19 |
| MinceR | lol | Jan 18 03:19 |
| techrights-news | Techrights – Gemini Links 18/01/2026: Raising Notifications From Terminal and Environmental Sanity ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/Gemini_Links_18_01_2026_Raising_Notifications_From_Terminal_and.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/Gemini_Links_18_01_2026_Raising_Notifications_From_Terminal_and.gmi ∎ | Jan 18 03:19 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights — Gemini Links 18/01/2026: Raising Notifications From Terminal and Environmental Sanity | Jan 18 03:19 | |
| Isambard_Prince | I have a girlfriend that sleeps above the covers. Five FEET above the covers. | Jan 18 03:19 |
| Isambard_Prince | "It said Zuul." "That's not the behavior you usually expect from a major appliance." | Jan 18 03:19 |
| Isambard_Prince | :D | Jan 18 03:19 |
| Isambard_Prince | "I gave her some thorazine, she's gonna take a little nap now." | Jan 18 03:20 |
| admfubar | https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/17/openai_chatgpt_ads/ | Jan 18 03:20 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.theregister.com | ChatGPT will get ads. Free and Go users first • The Register | Jan 18 03:20 | |
| MinceR | i'm curious whether the ads will work | Jan 18 03:20 |
| MinceR | if they will, that might well be the first functionality of chatgupta that does | Jan 18 03:21 |
| admfubar | no it did porn first... | Jan 18 03:33 |
| admfubar | https://computer.rip/2026-01-17-air-traffic-control-9020.html | Jan 18 03:33 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-computer.rip | air traffic control: the IBM 9020 | Jan 18 03:33 | |
| techrights-news | Techrights – Sites With "Linux" in Their Name That Are in Effect Slopfarms and Issue Fake Articles ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/Sites_With_Linux_in_Their_Name_That_Are_in_Effect_Slopfarms_and.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/Sites_With_Linux_in_Their_Name_That_Are_in_Effect_Slopfarms_and.gmi ∎ | Jan 18 03:34 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights — Sites With "Linux" in Their Name That Are in Effect Slopfarms and Issue Fake Articles | Jan 18 03:34 | |
| Isambard_Prince | MinceR, My dad asked how anyone lived in Chicago. I said well, some things are cheaper. | Jan 18 03:38 |
| Isambard_Prince | People in Indiana are spending $800-900 a month on car payments. | Jan 18 03:38 |
| Isambard_Prince | And there is no L or Metra or CTA bus. | Jan 18 03:38 |
| Isambard_Prince | When you can get rid of an $800-900 payment that causes your insurance bills to go through the roof, it really helps you deal with rent, you know. | Jan 18 03:39 |
| techrights-news | Techrights – IBM Sued Over PIPs ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/IBM_Sued_Over_PIPs.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/IBM_Sued_Over_PIPs.gmi ∎ | Jan 18 03:44 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights — IBM Sued Over PIPs | Jan 18 03:44 | |
| techrights-news | Techrights – Software Patents and USMCA (or NAFTA) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/Software_Patents_and_USMCA_or_NAFTA.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/Software_Patents_and_USMCA_or_NAFTA.gmi ∎ | Jan 18 03:57 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights — Software Patents and USMCA (or NAFTA) | Jan 18 03:57 | |
| admfubar | https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/mother-elon-musk-sues-x-grok | Jan 18 03:58 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-futurism.com | Mother of Elon Musk's Child Sues xAI Over Grok Abuse | Jan 18 03:58 | |
| admfubar | https://futurism.com/health-medicine/simulate-human-brain-supercomputer | Jan 18 03:59 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-futurism.com | Scientists Preparing to Simulate Human Brain on Supercomputer | Jan 18 03:59 | |
| admfubar | https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-ai-overview-year | Jan 18 04:00 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-futurism.com | Google's AI Insists That Next Year Is Not 2027 | Jan 18 04:00 | |
| MinceR | LLMs can't count, film at 11 | Jan 18 04:00 |
| admfubar | https://futurism.com/space/astronaut-brains-displaced | Jan 18 04:02 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-futurism.com | Astronauts' Brains Are Being Displaced | Jan 18 04:02 | |
| admfubar | https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-schools-kids-study | Jan 18 04:02 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-futurism.com | New Study Finds AI in Schools Is Undermining Kids' Social and Intellectual Development | Jan 18 04:02 | |
| admfubar | idiocracy here we come | Jan 18 04:03 |
| MinceR | what we live in is already worse than idiocracy | Jan 18 04:03 |
| techrights-news | "You're quoting the Gospel of Stallman while the temple is burning. Stallman talked about the cost of distribution; I'm talking about the cost of creation." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46663625 | Jan 18 04:04 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-news.ycombinator.com | Your life's work is only worth what someone will pay for it. You can't sell a $1... | Hacker News | Jan 18 04:04 | |
| MinceR | in idiocracy, the president of the USA was capable of recognizing a person smarter than himself, and took advantage of him to improve the situation | Jan 18 04:04 |
| MinceR | we live on a planet with billions of devil apes worshipping stupidity | Jan 18 04:04 |
| techrights-news | "Richard Stallman didn’t follow the majority to invent free software (GNU), insisting that users deserve freedom over their own computers." https://stacker.news/items/1413595 | Jan 18 04:05 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-stacker.news | Don't follow the majority! \ stacker news | Jan 18 04:05 | |
| MinceR | your life's work is worth nothing, and it will all become nothing, along with all of humanity and all of its works. might as well stop deluding yourself or telling others how much more your life's work is worth than theirs. | Jan 18 04:05 |
| MinceR | If you don't love me at my Victor, you don't deserve me at my Tangermann. | Jan 18 04:10 |
| admfubar | https://www.wheresyoured.at/dot-com-bubble/ | Jan 18 04:11 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.wheresyoured.at | Premium: This Is Worse Than The Dot Com Bubble | Jan 18 04:11 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "Tangermann"? | Jan 18 04:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | admfubar: intresting | Jan 18 04:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | nobody doubts it | Jan 18 04:11 |
| MinceR | schestowitz[TR2]: https://futurism.com/google-ai-overviews-fake-idioms | Jan 18 04:12 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-futurism.com | "You Can’t Lick a Badger Twice": Google's AI Is Making Up Explanations for Nonexistent Folksy Sayings | Jan 18 04:12 | |
| admfubar | https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/so-youve-hit-age-gate-what-now | Jan 18 04:12 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.eff.org | So, You’ve Hit an Age Gate. What Now? | Electronic Frontier Foundation | Jan 18 04:12 | |
| MinceR | the author used his own name to make up a meaningless phrase to ask goolag about | Jan 18 04:12 |
| admfubar | badgers taste like chicken... but only if you are quick enough | Jan 18 04:12 |
| MinceR | lol | Jan 18 04:12 |
| MinceR | i thought "you can't lick a badger twice" for the same reason (and in the same way) "you can't step in the same river twice" | Jan 18 04:13 |
| MinceR | 18 045936 < admfubar> https://futurism.com/health-medicine/simulate-human-brain-supercomputer | Jan 18 04:14 |
| MinceR | seems more likely to result in AGI than buying even more GPUs, even more RAM, and then using it to feed slop into an LLM that can't even count... | Jan 18 04:14 |
| MinceR | not sure how they'd specify the biases and weights in that brain simulation though | Jan 18 04:15 |
| MinceR | can they read them from a real brain? | Jan 18 04:15 |
| admfubar | you can step in the same river, you cant step in the same water.. | Jan 18 04:20 |
| MinceR | you can even step in the same water molecules, you just won't know | Jan 18 04:21 |
| MinceR | you might even breathe them in or drink them | Jan 18 04:21 |
| techrights-news | Techrights – Slop Bubble "Is Worse Than The Dot Com Bubble" ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/Slop_Bubble_Is_Worse_Than_The_Dot_Com_Bubble.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/Slop_Bubble_Is_Worse_Than_The_Dot_Com_Bubble.gmi ∎ | Jan 18 04:24 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights — Slop Bubble "Is Worse Than The Dot Com Bubble" | Jan 18 04:24 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <MinceR> schestowitz[TR2]: https://futurism.com/google-ai-overviews-fake-idioms | Jan 18 04:28 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | thanks, added to the above | Jan 18 04:28 |
| techrights-news | wild pigeon https://theconversation.com/what-ive-learned-from-studying-the-wild-pigeon-269116 | Jan 18 04:31 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-theconversation.com | What I’ve learned from studying the wild pigeon | Jan 18 04:31 | |
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| techrights-news | Greenland to be plundered by nazis in USA? https://theconversation.com/greenland-is-rich-in-natural-resources-a-geologist-explains-why-273022 | Jan 18 04:32 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-theconversation.com | Greenland is rich in natural resources – a geologist explains why | Jan 18 04:32 | |
| techrights-news | Chemistry https://theconversation.com/chemistry-is-stuck-in-the-dark-ages-chemputation-can-bring-it-into-the-digital-world-272610" | Jan 18 04:32 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-theconversation.com | Chemistry is stuck in the dark ages – ‘chemputation’ can bring it into the digital world | Jan 18 04:32 | |
| techrights-news | Deforestation https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2026-01-10/brazil-soy-industrys-exit-from-moratorium-on-using-amazon-land-could-spur-deforestation | Jan 18 04:33 |
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| techrights-news | How astronomers plan to detect the signatures of alien life in the atmospheres of distant planets https://theconversation.com/how-astronomers-plan-to-detect-the-signatures-of-alien-life-in-the-atmospheres-of-distant-planets-272821 | Jan 18 04:36 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-theconversation.com | How astronomers plan to detect the signatures of alien life in the atmospheres of distant planets | Jan 18 04:36 | |
| techrights-news | DBIx::Class::Async https://blogs.perl.org/users/mohammad_s_anwar/2026/01/dbixclassasync---update.html | Jan 18 04:37 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-DBIx::Class::Async - UPDATE | Mohammad S Anwar [blogs.perl.org] | Jan 18 04:37 | |
| techrights-news | Marlin Racing https://blogs.perl.org/users/toby_inkster/2026/01/marlin-racing.html | Jan 18 04:37 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Marlin Racing | Toby Inkster [blogs.perl.org] | Jan 18 04:37 | |
| techrights-news | Taking the Win - Perl in the TIOBE Index https://blogs.perl.org/users/dean/2026/01/taking-the-win---perl-in-the-tiobe-index.html "There has been much to say about Perl improving in TIOBE during 2025 and ending in the top 10 which is roughly where things were around 2016." | Jan 18 04:38 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Taking the Win - Perl in the TIOBE Index | dean [blogs.perl.org] | Jan 18 04:38 | |
| techrights-news | ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Not Limited to One Protocol ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/18/Not_Limited_to_One_Protocol.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/18/Not_Limited_to_One_Protocol.gmi ∎ | Jan 18 04:50 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines — Not Limited to One Protocol | Jan 18 04:50 | |
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| Isambard_Prince | MinceR, Some people swear by seafoam. | Jan 18 04:58 |
| Isambard_Prince | My physical therapist took my advicce and went and mowed his lawn running the thing on straight seafoam for a while. | Jan 18 04:59 |
| Isambard_Prince | The seafoam will burn and mow the lawn and when you do it that way it completely cleans out the mower's engine and it stops running like shit. | Jan 18 04:59 |
| techrights-news | Techrights – Google News Recently Started Syndicating Another Slopfarm, Linuxiac ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/Google_News_Recently_Started_Syndicating_Another_Slopfarm_Linux.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/Google_News_Recently_Started_Syndicating_Another_Slopfarm_Linux.gmi ∎ | Jan 18 04:59 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights — Google News Recently Started Syndicating Another Slopfarm, Linuxiac | Jan 18 04:59 | |
| Isambard_Prince | But don't do that with the car obviously. | Jan 18 04:59 |
| Isambard_Prince | But lawnmowers with a two stroke engine need oil in the gas anyway. | Jan 18 04:59 |
| Isambard_Prince | It's very different than a modern car. You can put seafoam in the gas in your car and it wonn't really do anything in a modern car. | Jan 18 05:00 |
| techrights-news | ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Linuxiac Digests Other Sites' Work, Then Gets Rewarded by Google ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/18/Linuxiac_Digests_Other_Sites_Work_Then_Gets_Rewarded_by_Google.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/18/Linuxiac_Digests_Other_Sites_Work_Then_Gets_Rewarded_by_Google.gmi ∎ | Jan 18 05:00 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines — Linuxiac Digests Other Sites' Work, Then Gets Rewarded by Google | Jan 18 05:00 | |
| Isambard_Prince | ChrisFix tried SeaFoam on a Honda and it worked. | Jan 18 05:02 |
| Isambard_Prince | But he didn't run it in the gasoline. He found a vacuum line and put it through that way and it removed all the carbon off the piston heads. | Jan 18 05:03 |
| Isambard_Prince | <admfubar> no it did porn first... | Jan 18 05:04 |
| Isambard_Prince | AI Porn | Jan 18 05:04 |
| Isambard_Prince | You know, it's another reason Musk should be in prison. | Jan 18 05:05 |
| techrights-news | Techrights – Benefiting by Adding Presence in Geminispace ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/Benefiting_by_Adding_Presence_in_Geminispace.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/Benefiting_by_Adding_Presence_in_Geminispace.gmi ∎ | Jan 18 05:11 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights — Benefiting by Adding Presence in Geminispace | Jan 18 05:11 | |
| Isambard_Prince | schestowitz[TR2], Walmart signed a deal with Google to use "AI" in the Walmart app. | Jan 18 05:11 |
| Isambard_Prince | https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/16/musks-xai-faces-tougher-road-expanding-memphis-area-after-epa-update.html | Jan 18 05:13 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.cnbc.com | Musk's xAI faces tougher road expanding Memphis area after EPA update | Jan 18 05:13 | |
| Isambard_Prince | And people buy Teslas claiming they avoid air pollution. | Jan 18 05:13 |
| Isambard_Prince | While Musk uses natural gas turbines to power his child porn generator. | Jan 18 05:13 |
| admfubar | oh what could go wrong? https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/google-chrome-now-lets-you-turn-off-on-device-ai-model-powering-scam-detection/ | Jan 18 05:30 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.bleepingcomputer.com | Google Chrome now lets you turn off on-device AI model powering scam detection | Jan 18 05:30 | |
| techrights-news | Techrights – Restoring Professional Pride in the Tech Sector ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/Restoring_Professional_Pride_in_the_Tech_Sector.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/Restoring_Professional_Pride_in_the_Tech_Sector.gmi ∎ | Jan 18 05:31 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights — Restoring Professional Pride in the Tech Sector | Jan 18 05:31 | |
| admfubar | https://www.macrumors.com/2026/01/12/elon-musk-reacts-to-gemini-siri/ | Jan 18 05:33 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Elon Musk Reacts to Apple and Google Teaming on Gemini-Powered Siri - MacRumors | Jan 18 05:33 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <Isambard_Prince> And people buy Teslas claiming they avoid air pollution. | Jan 18 05:55 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | maybe around their automobile | Jan 18 05:55 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | but the energy comes from somewhere | Jan 18 05:55 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <Isambard_Prince> schestowitz[TR2], Walmart signed a deal with Google to use "AI" in the Walmart app. | Jan 18 05:56 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | they probably mean chatbots | Jan 18 05:56 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | chatbots are hardly new | Jan 18 05:56 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | the LLM hype is the thing | Jan 18 05:56 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | it's a bubble | Jan 18 05:56 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | it'll go like this for walmart: | Jan 18 05:56 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/21/IBM_We_Can_t_Make_AI_Voice_Recognition_Do_the_Work_of_a_McDonal.shtml | Jan 18 05:56 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights — IBM: We Can't Make 'AI' (Voice Recognition) Do the Work of a McDonald's Teenager, So Let's Try the Same on Saudi Planes | Jan 18 05:56 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | hopw can chabots that fail to taker a simple order at a fake restaurant with minuscule menu do better in a grocer | Jan 18 05:57 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | from https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/21/IBM_We_Can_t_Make_AI_Voice_Recognition_Do_the_Work_of_a_McDonal.shtml | Jan 18 05:57 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | cfrom https://www.wheresyoured.at/dot-com-bubble/ | Jan 18 05:57 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.wheresyoured.at | Premium: This Is Worse Than The Dot Com Bubble | Jan 18 05:57 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | via admfubar | Jan 18 05:57 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "Lenovo rented out the entirety of the Las Vegas Sphere to do a demonstration of a fucking chatbot powered by OpenAI’s models on Microsoft Azure, and everybody acted like it was something new. No, Qira is not a “big bet” on AI — it’s a fucking chatbot forced on anybody buying a Lenovo PC, full of features like “summarize this” or “transcribe this” or “tell me what’s on my calendar,” features peddled by busi | Jan 18 05:58 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | ness idiots that have little experience with any real-world applications of just about anything, marketed with the knowledge that the media will do the hard work of explaining why anybody should give a shit." | Jan 18 05:58 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I don't need chatbot | Jan 18 05:58 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | to tell me | Jan 18 05:58 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | weather | Jan 18 05:58 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | or time | Jan 18 05:58 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | or diary things | Jan 18 05:58 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | the use cases are weak | Jan 18 05:58 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | you cannot LISTEN to the weather | Jan 18 05:58 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | it's hard | Jan 18 05:58 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | it takes long | Jan 18 05:58 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | and takes ages to absorb | Jan 18 05:58 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | if you want to know the forecast, you get charts, visualised | Jan 18 05:59 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | diaries are complex | Jan 18 05:59 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | and chatbots wopn't do them "for you" | Jan 18 05:59 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | want to know date/time? get an old casci watch | Jan 18 05:59 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | orr put a lot of clocks around the home | Jan 18 05:59 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | we have about 6 clocks at the home | Jan 18 05:59 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | so all this walmart pipe dream | Jan 18 06:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | might tell you what aisle to check | Jan 18 06:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | and read it out | Jan 18 06:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | or take "questions" | Jan 18 06:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | where "questions" | Jan 18 06:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | = product type/name | Jan 18 06:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | you don't need app or chatbot for that | Jan 18 06:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | oh, apropos walmartr | Jan 18 06:05 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | it used to own asda in the uk | Jan 18 06:05 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | asda has an "app" | Jan 18 06:05 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | it's not clear what for | Jan 18 06:05 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | some discounts or loyalty things | Jan 18 06:05 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | customers complain it freezes, hangs, is bloated | Jan 18 06:05 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | i reckon the real purpose of this ?"app" is to help asda collect and then sell data about you | Jan 18 06:05 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | so it is not free | Jan 18 06:06 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | maybe it was walmart's idea | Jan 18 06:06 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | they still use some walmart computer systems | Jan 18 06:06 |
| Isambard_Prince | I'm eating some Marmite toast. | Jan 18 06:20 |
| techrights-news | Techrights – Making and Keeping the Sites Accessible ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/Making_and_Keep_the_Sites_Accessible.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/Making_and_Keep_the_Sites_Accessible.gmi ∎ | Jan 18 06:21 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights — Making and Keeping the Sites Accessible | Jan 18 06:21 | |
| Isambard_Prince | Store Cards are very profitable for banks. They usually have higher interest, stores often share credit losses, and since you can only use it at that store, it doesn't have to run on a payment network. | Jan 18 06:26 |
| Isambard_Prince | I noticed that Amazon has a Store Card with Synchrony Bank for bad credit customers, and another one called the Chase Amazon Visa for customers with better credit scores. | Jan 18 06:26 |
| Isambard_Prince | They want everyone to have an Amazon card, so they have the Synchrony one for people Chase won't approve. | Jan 18 06:27 |
| techrights-news | ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 22 Years of Championing Software Freedom ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/18/22_Years_of_Championing_Software_Freedom.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/18/22_Years_of_Championing_Software_Freedom.gmi ∎ | Jan 18 06:27 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines — 22 Years of Championing Software Freedom | Jan 18 06:27 | |
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| techrights-news | ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Stable kernels: Linux 6.18.6, Linux 6.12.66, Linux 6.6.121, and Linux 6.1.161 ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/18/Stable_kernels_Linux_6_18_6_Linux_6_12_66_Linux_6_6_121_and_Lin.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/18/Stable_kernels_Linux_6_18_6_Linux_6_12_66_Linux_6_6_121_and_Lin.gmi ∎ | Jan 18 06:47 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines — Stable kernels: Linux 6.18.6, Linux 6.12.66, Linux 6.6.121, and Linux 6.1.161 | Jan 18 06:47 | |
| techrights-news | Techrights – 'Cancel Culture' Doesn't Work (in the Long Run) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/Cancel_Culture_Doesn_t_Work_in_the_Long_Run.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/Cancel_Culture_Doesn_t_Work_in_the_Long_Run.gmi ∎ | Jan 18 06:49 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights — 'Cancel Culture' Doesn't Work (in the Long Run) | Jan 18 06:49 | |
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| techrights-news | ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Banana Pi’s BPI-CM6 compute module runs on SpacemiT K1 RISC-V processor ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/18/Banana_Pi_s_BPI_CM6_compute_module_runs_on_SpacemiT_K1_RISC_V_p.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/18/Banana_Pi_s_BPI_CM6_compute_module_runs_on_SpacemiT_K1_RISC_V_p.gmi ∎ | Jan 18 07:01 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines — Banana Pi’s BPI-CM6 compute module runs on SpacemiT K1 RISC-V processor | Jan 18 07:01 | |
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| techrights-news | ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Free and Open Source Software ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/18/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/18/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi ∎ | Jan 18 07:12 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines — Free and Open Source Software | Jan 18 07:12 | |
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| techrights-news | ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Immutable Linux desktops finally cured my upgrade anxiety ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/18/Immutable_Linux_desktops_finally_cured_my_upgrade_anxiety.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/18/Immutable_Linux_desktops_finally_cured_my_upgrade_anxiety.gmi ∎ | Jan 18 07:17 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines — Immutable Linux desktops finally cured my upgrade anxiety | Jan 18 07:17 | |
| techrights-news | ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): I tried a lightweight Linux distro you’ve never heard of — and it’s perfect ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/18/I_tried_a_lightweight_Linux_distro_you_ve_never_heard_of_and_it.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/18/I_tried_a_lightweight_Linux_distro_you_ve_never_heard_of_and_it.gmi ∎ | Jan 18 07:21 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines — I tried a lightweight Linux distro you’ve never heard of — and it’s perfect | Jan 18 07:21 | |
| techrights-news | ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): You don’t need a gaming distro — these Linux tweaks matter more ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/18/You_don_t_need_a_gaming_distro_these_Linux_tweaks_matter_more.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/18/You_don_t_need_a_gaming_distro_these_Linux_tweaks_matter_more.gmi ∎ | Jan 18 07:33 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines — You don’t need a gaming distro — these Linux tweaks matter more | Jan 18 07:33 | |
| techrights-news | ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): I replaced my Windows workflow with Linux Mint and it was easier than I imagined ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/18/I_replaced_my_Windows_workflow_with_Linux_Mint_and_it_was_easie.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/18/I_replaced_my_Windows_workflow_with_Linux_Mint_and_it_was_easie.gmi ∎ | Jan 18 07:34 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines — I replaced my Windows workflow with Linux Mint and it was easier than I imagined | Jan 18 07:34 | |
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| techrights-news | "Trump raises taxes on Americans again" https://birchtree.me/blog/trump-raises-taxes-on-americans-again/ | Jan 18 09:54 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-birchtree.me | Trump raises taxes on Americans again | Jan 18 09:54 | |
| techrights-news | ""In terms of the libertarian bent, those intentional political actors like Peter Thiel were very intentional about it. They created their own media ecosystem. They created Substack — they, meaning Andreessen Horowitz is a big investor — and paid to have content on there that would drive users to their own media. They took over culture." https://sf.gazetteer.co/theyve-pickled-each-others-brains | Jan 18 10:00 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-sf.gazetteer.co | ‘They’ve pickled each others’ brains’ | Jan 18 10:00 | |
| techrights-news | "Attorneys for entertainment law firm Yorn Levine representing McConaughey have secured eight trademarks from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office over the last several months for their client, which they said is aimed at protecting his voice and likeness from unauthorized AI misuse." ☛ https://variety.com/2026/biz/news/matthew-mcconaughey-trademarks-alright-alright-alright-ai-misuse-1236631214/ | Source: Variety | Jan 18 10:18 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-variety.com | Matthew McConaughey Trademarks 'Alright, Alright, Alright' to Protect Against AI Misuse | Jan 18 10:18 | |
| techrights-news | "The Oscar winner intends to combat misuse of the famous line from Dazed and Confused by creating ‘a clear perimeter around ownership’" ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jan/15/matthew-mcconaughey-trademarks-all-right-all-right-all-right-catchphrase-in-bid-to-beat-ai-fakes | Source: The Guardian UK | Jan 18 10:19 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.theguardian.com | Matthew McConaughey trademarks ‘All right, all right, all right’ catchphrase in bid to beat AI fakes | Film | The Guardian | Jan 18 10:19 | |
| techrights-news | "Oscar-winner Matthew McConaughey has trademarked his image and voice to protect them from unauthorised use by artificial intelligence (AI) platforms. " ☛ https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp87z6vexl3o | Source: BBC | Jan 18 10:19 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.bbc.com | Matthew McConaughey trademarks iconic phrase to stop AI misuse | Jan 18 10:19 | |
| techrights-news | "AI deepfakes are one of the great societal growing pains of our time. They distort reality, hijack individual currency for entertainment and public humiliation, and could cost people who make a living off their face or voice serious money." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2026/01/16/matthew-mcconaughey-combats-ai-by-trademarking-his-image-and-voice.html | Source: BoingBoing | Jan 18 10:19 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-boingboing.net | Matthew McConaughey combats AI by trademarking his image and voice - Boing Boing | Jan 18 10:19 | |
| techrights-news | "His lawyer, Kevin Yorn, admits that they don’t know how the court would decide if an offender challenges the trademarks." ☛ https://www.engadget.com/ai/matthew-mcconaughey-fights-unauthorized-ai-likenesses-by-trademarking-himself-130000567.html | Source: Engadget | Jan 18 10:20 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.engadget.com | Matthew McConaughey fights unauthorized AI likenesses by trademarking himself | Jan 18 10:20 | |
| techrights-news | "The truth is none of this litigation would have occurred if Prince were still alive" ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/apollonia-prince-purple-rain-estate-trademark-war-1235500926/ | Source: Rolling Stone | Jan 18 10:21 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.rollingstone.com | Apollonia Says Prince ‘Would Be Appalled’ by Estate Trademark Seizure | Jan 18 10:21 | |
| techrights-news | "Now the problem is that, while it's easy enough to find a leaked patent and diagrams, all that really tells us is that someone at Insta360 also had the idea" ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/cameras/action-cameras/massive-patent-leak-suggests-insta360-is-planning-to-take-out-djis-dominant-osmo-pocket-3-vlogging-camera | Source: Digital Camera World | Jan 18 10:21 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.digitalcameraworld.com | Massive patent leak suggests Insta360 is planning to take out DJI's dominant Osmo Pocket 3 vlogging camera | Digital Camera World | Jan 18 10:21 | |
| techrights-news | Digital Restrictions (DRM) ☛ https://www.macworld.com/article/3030240/m5-pro-max-macbook-pro-performance-speed-graphics-configurations.html | Source: Macworld | Jan 18 10:22 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-The high-end M5 MacBook Pro chips are almost here: Here's why the wait was worth it | Macworld | Jan 18 10:22 | |
| techrights-news | "Representative Jay Obernolte (R-CA), who has a pilot’s license, brought up the topic during the House Communications and Technology Subcommittee FCC oversight hearing." ☛ https://insidetowers.com/congressman-says-carriers-could-help-pay-for-airplane-retrofits/ | Source: Inside Towers | Jan 18 10:22 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-insidetowers.com | Congressman Says Carriers Could Help Pay for Airplane Retrofits - Inside Towers | Jan 18 10:22 | |
| techrights-news | Just because Linus Torvalds vibe codes doesn't mean it's a good idea https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/16/linus_torvalds_vibe_coding/ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/13/Not_Journalism_Almost_80_of_the_Articles_We_Saw_About_Torvalds_.shtml | Jan 18 10:23 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.theregister.com | Linus may vibe code, but that doesn't make it best practice • The Register | Jan 18 10:23 | |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights — Not Journalism: Almost 80% of the 'Articles' We Saw About Torvalds and 'Vibe Coding' Are LLM Slop (Sometimes Slop Images) | Jan 18 10:23 | |
| techrights-news | "broken through with voters" ☛ https://newrepublic.com/article/205293/joe-rogan-harsh-new-takedown-trump-ice-raids-hands-dems-weapon | Source: New Republic | Jan 18 10:25 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-newrepublic.com | Joe Rogan’s Harsh New Takedown of Trump ICE Raids Hands Dems a Weapon | The New Republic | Jan 18 10:25 | |
| techrights-news | "New polling released this week by The Economist and YouGov confirmed support for ICE is rapidly eroding" ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/ice-deportation-solutions-1235500814/ | Source: Rolling Stone | Jan 18 10:26 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.rollingstone.com | ICE: What Can Be Done to Rein In Trump's Deportation Force? | Jan 18 10:26 | |
| techrights-news | "Then a decade later a very rich demagogue named Ross Perot got into politics in the 1990s." ☛ https://soylentnews.org/~mcgrew/journal/20092 | Source: Soylent News | Jan 18 10:26 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-soylentnews.org | Journal of mcgrew (701) | Jan 18 10:26 | |
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| techrights-news | "The nationwide [Internet] shutdown, which began on Thursday night, January 8, passed the 200-hour mark on the twenty-first day and continues." ☛ https://www.en-hrana.org/day-twenty-one-of-the-protests-islamic-republics-leader-acknowledges-thousands-killed-as-internet-shutdown-continues/ | Source: Human rights Activists News Agency | Jan 18 10:33 |
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| techrights-news | "With all this happening, we’ve posted a new know-your rights FAQ for U.S. citizens" ☛ https://papersplease.org/wp/2026/01/16/know-your-rights-as-a-u-s-citizen/ | Source: Papers Please | Jan 18 10:34 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-papersplease.org | Know Your Rights as a U.S. Citizen – Papers, Please! | Jan 18 10:34 | |
| techrights-news | "Crackdowns against anti-government protesters have led to at least 2,600 deaths, although some estimates put the death toll at upward of 20,000. According to the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency, more than 18,000 protesters have been arrested." ☛ https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/475567/iran-protests-starlink-satellites-space-human-rights | Source: Vox | Jan 18 10:36 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Musk’s Starlink in Iran only works if things don’t go wrong in outer space | Vox | Jan 18 10:36 | |
| techrights-news | "TSK remains the leading source of information for its readers at 75%, in the face of growing competition from The Brief (28%) and Journalology (28%)." ☛ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/01/16/2025-readership-survey/ | Source: Society for Scholarly Publishing | Jan 18 10:37 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org | 2025 Readership Survey - The Scholarly Kitchen | Jan 18 10:37 | |
| techrights-news | "In previously unreported remarks, the White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told CBS News that Mr. Trump would “sue” the news outlet if it did not air an interview unedited." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/business/media/cbs-news-trump-interview.html | Source: New York Times | Jan 18 10:37 |
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| techrights-news | "Precise information is difficult to come by, but estimates suggest between 95 and 99% of the country's communication network — from mobile phone and [Internet] signals to landline telephones — has been blocked since Friday." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/iran-protests-internet-communication-blackout-social-media/a-75487555 | Source: Deutsche Welle | Jan 18 10:38 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.dw.com | Why Iran's communication blackout could become permanent | Jan 18 10:38 | |
| techrights-news | "into a communication black hole under the looming dominance of the Khatam al-Anbia base" ☛ https://www.timesofisrael.com/iranian-regime-plans-to-permanently-cut-people-off-from-internet-watchdog/ | Source: The Times Of Israel | Jan 18 10:40 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.timesofisrael.com | Iranian regime plans to permanently cut people off from internet -- watchdog | The Times of Israel | Jan 18 10:40 | |
| techrights-news | "We have entered a new era where connectivity is no longer a right, but a government-granted privilege." ☛ https://filter.watch/english/2026/01/15/iran-enters-a-new-age-of-digital-isolation-2/ | | Jan 18 10:41 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-filter.watch | Iran Enters a New Age of Digital Isolation - Filterwatch | Jan 18 10:41 | |
| techrights-news | "State media and government spokespersons have already signaled that this is a permanent shift, warning that unrestricted access will not return after 2026." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/17/iran-plans-permanent-break-from-global-internet-say-activists | Source: The Guardian UK | Jan 18 10:41 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.theguardian.com | Iran plans permanent break from global internet, say activists | Iran | The Guardian | Jan 18 10:41 | |
| techrights-news | "The Taliban have banned music, persecuted artists and burned or smashed instruments, both in the 1990s and since reclaiming power in 2021." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/world/asia/afghan-music-taliban-pakistan-deportations.html | Source: New York Times | Jan 18 10:41 |
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| techrights-news | "It can be assumed that Iranian intelligence services will increase their persecution abroad, partly due to current events" ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/how-dangerous-are-iranian-secret-services-in-germany/a-75538204 | Source: Deutsche Welle | Jan 18 10:42 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.dw.com | How dangerous are Iranian secret services in Germany? | Jan 18 10:42 | |
| techrights-news | "In two recent polls, a majority of U.S. adults said they use social media to get health information." ☛ https://www.minnpost.com/fact-briefs/2026/01/do-the-majority-of-americans-use-social-media-to-get-health-information/ | Source: MinnPost | Jan 18 10:45 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.minnpost.com | Do most Americans use social media for health information? | Jan 18 10:45 | |
| techrights-news | "Without a clear way to make sure those two don’t overlap, we knew what would happen: people would pay twice." ☛ https://www.techzim.co.zw/2026/01/zimra-digital-services-tax-problems/ | Source: Zimbabwe | Jan 18 10:47 |
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| techrights-news | "The sanctions on Khan hampered the work of the court, and he found that not only were his UK bank accounts frozen" ☛ https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/every-data-centre-is-a-u-s-military-base/ | Source: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives | Jan 18 10:48 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.policyalternatives.ca | Every data centre is a U.S. military base - CCPA | Jan 18 10:48 | |
| techrights-news | "Every Data Centre Is a U.S. Military Base" ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/data-centres-us-military/ | Source: Nick Heer | Jan 18 10:48 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-pxlnv.com | ‘Every Data Centre Is a U.S. Military Base’ – Pixel Envy | Jan 18 10:48 | |
| techrights-news | "The effect this had on Ireland is…mixed. The Irish state is thoroughly captured by the corporations that pretend to call Ireland home." ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/17/erin-lets-go/#circumvention-haven | Source: CoryDoctorow | Jan 18 10:49 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-pluralistic.net | Pluralistic: The world needs an Ireland for disenshittification (17 Jan 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow | Jan 18 10:49 | |
| techrights-news | ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Amarok 3.3.2 Brings Improvements to User Interface, Audio Backend, and More ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/18/Amarok_3_3_2_Brings_Improvements_to_User_Interface_Audio_Backen.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/18/Amarok_3_3_2_Brings_Improvements_to_User_Interface_Audio_Backen.gmi ∎ | Jan 18 10:50 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines — Amarok 3.3.2 Brings Improvements to User Interface, Audio Backend, and More | Jan 18 10:50 | |
| techrights-news | "The previously unreported system follows a year-long pilot in Europe." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/tiktok-to-tighten-age-checks-in-europe-as-regulators-ramp-up-pressure/articleshow/126561744.cms | Source: India Times | Jan 18 10:50 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-economictimes.indiatimes.com | TikTok to tighten age checks in Europe as regulators ramp up pressure - The Economic Times | Jan 18 10:50 | |
| techrights-news | "It makes me think that maybe DHS was a bad idea." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/dhs-homeland-security-ice-minnesota/685657/ | Source: The Atlantic | Jan 18 10:51 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.theatlantic.com | DHS Has Become What Its Critics Feared - The Atlantic | Jan 18 10:51 | |
| techrights-news | "First of all it is good to have such a database in Europe to become more and more independent of things hosted in the US." ☛ https://blog.alteholz.eu/2026/01/european-vulnerabilities-database-a-blessing-or-a-curse/ | Source: Thorsten Alteholz | Jan 18 10:52 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-European Vulnerabilities DataBase – a blessing or a curse? – blog.alteholz.eu | Jan 18 10:52 | |
| techrights-news | "You might be happy having zero kids and lots of free time and money, but I got to show my teenage granddaughter Predator for the very first time last night and that's worth a whole Ferrari, easy. Note: she gasped audibly when Jesse Ventura died." https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2012584442829918488 | Jan 18 10:57 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-x.com | NO TITLE | Jan 18 10:57 | |
| techrights-news | "What should someone do in a situation like this?" ☛ https://nbtv.substack.com/p/they-asked-for-my-cell-number-i-dont | | Jan 18 10:59 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-nbtv.substack.com | They Asked for My Cell Number. I Don’t Have One. | Jan 18 10:59 | |
| techrights-news | Windows TCO ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20204930 | Source: YLE | Jan 18 11:00 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-yle.fi | BBC releases podcast on Vastaamo hacker | Yle News | Yle | Jan 18 11:00 | |
| techrights-news | "But not all of this slop was purely for the purposes of misinformation, or misguided efforts to expose Ross." ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/renee-good-ice-ai-slop-1235500180/ | Source: Rolling Stone | Jan 18 11:01 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.rollingstone.com | Slain Minneapolis Mom Renee Good Is Being Turned into Bizarre AI Slop | Jan 18 11:01 | |
| techrights-news | "This doesn’t mean Workday intended HiredScore to discriminate. But machine learning systems are notorious for being trained on data that’s horribly biased, then implementing the bias." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/16/workday-sued-for-ai-powered-hiring-discrimination/ | Source: Pivot to AI | Jan 18 11:03 |
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| techrights-news | "The question I had before — how are the bots evading the honeytrap on the form? — remains unanswered but for now is not relevant. I have plenty of others." ☛ https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/under-the-hammer | Source: Jeremy Cherfas | Jan 18 11:27 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.jeremycherfas.net | Under the Hammer | Jeremy Cherfas | Jan 18 11:27 | |
| techrights-news | "In the coming weeks, we're also planning to start testing ads in the US for the free and Go tiers, so more people can benefit from our tools with fewer usage limits or without having to pay" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/17/openai_chatgpt_ads/ | Source: The Register UK | Jan 18 11:27 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.theregister.com | ChatGPT will get ads. Free and Go users first • The Register | Jan 18 11:27 | |
| techrights-news | Techrights – Place Your Bets: Who Will Die First? Microsoft or IBM? ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/Place_Your_Bets_Who_Will_Die_First_Microsoft_or_IBM.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/Place_Your_Bets_Who_Will_Die_First_Microsoft_or_IBM.gmi ∎ | Jan 18 11:36 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights — Place Your Bets: Who Will Die First? Microsoft or IBM? | Jan 18 11:36 | |
| techrights-news | Techrights – GNU/Linux Leaps to All-time Highs in Virgin Islands ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/GNU_Linux_Leaps_to_All_time_Highs_in_Virgin_Islands.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/GNU_Linux_Leaps_to_All_time_Highs_in_Virgin_Islands.gmi ∎ | Jan 18 11:48 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights — GNU/Linux Leaps to All-time Highs in Virgin Islands | Jan 18 11:48 | |
| techrights-news | ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): GNU/Linux in Micronesia Measured at 5% ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/18/GNU_Linux_in_Micronesia_Measured_at_5.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/18/GNU_Linux_in_Micronesia_Measured_at_5.gmi ∎ | Jan 18 12:00 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines — GNU/Linux in Micronesia Measured at 5% | Jan 18 12:00 | |
| techrights-news | "Large language models have become extremely good at mimicking human writing. Even they have a hard time identifying AI-written text" ☛ https://www.the-scientist.com/why-is-it-so-hard-to-tell-if-a-piece-of-text-was-written-by-ai-73948 | Source: LabX Media Group | Jan 18 12:07 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.the-scientist.com | Why Is It So Hard to Tell If a Piece of Text Was Written by AI? | The Scientist | Jan 18 12:07 | |
| techrights-news | Banana Pi’s BPI-CM6 compute module runs on SpacemiT K1 RISC-V processor ☞ https://linuxgizmos.com/banana-pis-bpi-cm6-compute-module-runs-on-spacemit-k1-risc-v-processor/ | Jan 18 12:09 |
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| techrights-news | "Yep. They just don’t care. If it means cases get tossed because sworn statements have been AI auto-penned, so be it." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/16/report-says-ai-that-hallucinated-a-cop-into-a-frog-is-making-utah-streets-safer/ | Source: Techdirt | Jan 18 12:09 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Report Says AI That Hallucinated A Cop Into A Frog Is Making Utah Streets ‘Safer’ | Techdirt | Jan 18 12:09 | |
| techrights-news | "But even if we’ve moved past the heyday of whole-language reading" ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/english-teaching-methods/685632/ | Source: The Atlantic | Jan 18 12:10 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.theatlantic.com | My Students Write Their Papers Backwards - The Atlantic | Jan 18 12:10 | |
| techrights-news | "The internet and its social web have been an attention-grabbing machine since they came into being. We have had our focus and brain power leached away online for decades. So why the recent revulsion?" ☛ https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2026/01/16/Computers-Closing-In/ | Source: The Tyee | Jan 18 12:10 |
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| techrights-news | "The system also focuses on being able to ride through power outages. The server side, called piotserver, uses a REST API to give the user access to the automation systems through a web interface" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/01/16/diy-full-stack-farm-automation/ | Source: Hackaday | Jan 18 12:11 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-DIY, Full-Stack Farm Automation | Hackaday | Jan 18 12:11 | |
| techrights-news | "It was amusing to read the theories people came up with: from driving a tractor up and down massive tracts of land to being holed up in a Kaczynskiesque cabin in the woods." ☛ https://dylan.gr/1768295794 | | Jan 18 12:11 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-dylan.gr | Have Taken Up Farming | Jan 18 12:11 | |
| techrights-news | "To be clear, I’m not saying there isn’t plenty to be outraged about in the world. I am also not for a moment suggesting you turn your back on important issues. I’m saying that overreacting is not where our power lies. Rather it exists potentially in underreacting." ☛ https://time.com/7177835/the-art-of-protecting-your-peace-essay/ | Source: Time | Jan 18 12:13 |
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| techrights-news | "But as of late, a number of media reports have described people experiencing psychotic symptoms in which ChatGPT features prominently." ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/should-we-be-taking-reports-of-ai-psychosis-seriously-an-expert-explains | Source: Science Alert | Jan 18 12:14 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Cases of 'AI Psychosis' Are Being Reported. How Dangerous Is It? : ScienceAlert | Jan 18 12:14 | |
| techrights-news | "The kids are five and seven, so they aren’t quite ready for the heavy-hitters — Scrabble, Cribbage, Settlers of Catan — but all-ages classics like Uno and Guess Who are suddenly right up their alley." ☛ https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2026/01/16/Screens-Gone-Family-Games/ | Source: The Tyee | Jan 18 12:14 |
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| techrights-news | "As for the model that [MattKC] purchased, it was this earliest model, featuring a 700 MHz PowerPC G4 CPU in addition to 640 MB SDRAM." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/01/17/the-emac-using-apples-forgotten-educational-mac-in-2025/ | Source: Hackaday | Jan 18 12:19 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-The EMac: Using Apple’s Forgotten Educational Mac In 2026 | Hackaday | Jan 18 12:19 | |
| techrights-news | Google seeks stay as it appeals US search monopoly verdict https://www.firstpost.com/tech/google-seeks-stay-as-it-appeals-us-search-monopoly-verdict-13969889.html/amp | Jan 18 12:21 |
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| techrights-news | Techrights – Eventually the Joke (and Financial Fraud) is on Microsoft, Stigmatised for Slop ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/Eventually_the_Joke_and_Financial_Fraud_is_on_Microsoft_Stigmat.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/Eventually_the_Joke_and_Financial_Fraud_is_on_Microsoft_Stigmat.gmi ∎ | Jan 18 12:33 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights — Eventually the Joke (and Financial Fraud) is on Microsoft, Stigmatised for Slop | Jan 18 12:33 | |
| techrights-news | "Software is a domain of mostly invisible knowledge work. It’s hard to see progress, quality or risks in the way that you can with building bridges or running a factory." ☛ https://medium.com/feenk/rewilding-software-engineering-ca3ad1e612d8 | Source: Medium | Jan 18 12:39 |
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| techrights-news | "I think the entire DevOps movement was a mighty, twenty year battle to achieve one thing: a single feedback loop connecting devs with prod. On those grounds, it failed." ☛ https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/you-had-one-job-why-twenty-years-of-devops-has-failed-to-do-it | | Jan 18 12:39 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.honeycomb.io | “You Had One Job”: Why Twenty Years of DevOps Has Failed to Do it | Jan 18 12:39 | |
| techrights-news | "As a telco person, it resonated with me so much (and had so many touch points with my daily life) that I was even accused of tipping Adams off about some of the absurdities I witnessed in the field." ☛ https://taoofmac.com/space/links/2026/01/17/1210 | Source: Rui Carmo | Jan 18 12:39 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-taoofmac.com | The Dilbert Afterlife - Tao of Mac | Jan 18 12:39 | |
| techrights-news | "But as with every joke, there’s more than a kernel of truth to it. We often get so busy with stuff that we’ve got to do, that we don’t leave enough time to slack, to get bored, or to simply do nothing." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/01/17/get-bored/ | Source: Hackaday | Jan 18 12:40 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Get Bored! | Hackaday | Jan 18 12:40 | |
| techrights-news | "Pnet’s analysis of the IT sector focused on eight roles including business analyst, data analyst and IT project administrator. The full list is detailed in the table below: [...]" ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/south-africa-is-running-out-of-developers/276334/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa) | Jan 18 12:41 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techcentral.co.za | South Africa is running out of software developers | Jan 18 12:41 | |
| techrights-news | "You should never[1] name a new species of an existing dinosaur genus. Here’s why. Suppose you have two genera, A and B, which are sister taxa in your phylogeny: [...]" ☛ https://svpow.com/2026/01/16/never-name-a-new-species-of-an-existing-dinosaur-genus/ | Source: Matt Wedel | Jan 18 12:43 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-svpow.com | Never name a new species of an existing dinosaur genus | Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week | Jan 18 12:43 | |
| techrights-news | "What is the meaning of my life?” I haven’t really been able to figure out why we don’t talk about this more often." ☛ https://kedara.eu/meaning-of-life/ | Source: Ruben Verweij | Jan 18 12:44 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-In Search of Meaning - Kedara.eu | Jan 18 12:44 | |
| techrights-news | "But now, particularly with digital output, we’re doing it backwards. Making lots of stuff and then sorting it later. There’s very little cost to making more, and it’s getting more and more time-consuming to find what we’re looking for." ☛ https://seths.blog/2026/01/the-sorting-feels-obvious/ | Source: Seth Godin | Jan 18 12:44 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-seths.blog | The sorting | Seth's Blog | Jan 18 12:44 | |
| techrights-news | "To my utter amazement, the security guard opened the front door" ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/street-photography/im-sick-and-tired-of-being-told-to-stop-taking-photos-on-the-street-so-i-was-flabbergasted-when-a-security-guard-did-this | Source: Digital Camera World | Jan 18 12:45 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.digitalcameraworld.com | I’m sick and tired of being told to stop taking photos on the street, so I was flabbergasted when a security guard did this! | Digital Camera World | Jan 18 12:45 | |
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| techrights-news | Firefox down to 1.6% https://analytics.usa.gov | Jan 18 12:50 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-analytics.usa.gov | The US government's web traffic. | Jan 18 12:50 | |
| techrights-news | "Lockfiles record which packages were installed, at what versions, from where, with what checksums." ☛ https://nesbitt.io/2026/01/17/lockfile-format-design-and-tradeoffs.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt | Jan 18 12:50 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-nesbitt.io | Lockfile Format Design and Tradeoffs | Andrew Nesbitt | Jan 18 12:50 | |
| techrights-news | "In this situation, the library you’re calling is a binary dependency of your program." ☛ https://vlad.website/how-binary-dependencies-work/ | Source: Vlad-Stefan Harbuz | Jan 18 12:51 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-vlad.website | How Binary Dependencies Work Across Different Languages | Jan 18 12:51 | |
| techrights-news | "But yes, today I merged my 20,000th commit into the curl repository – out of a total of 37,604 commits (53%). Not that anyone is counting." ☛ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/01/17/my-first-20000-curl-commits/ | Source: Daniel Stenberg | Jan 18 12:51 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-My first 20,000 curl commits | daniel.haxx.se | Jan 18 12:51 | |
| techrights-news | "command line tool needs an account with admin privileges" ☛ https://derflounder.wordpress.com/2026/01/17/enabling-a-standard-user-account-to-access-the-unified-system-log-on-macos-using-the-log-command-line-tool/ | Source: Rich Trouton | Jan 18 12:51 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-derflounder.wordpress.com | Enabling a standard user account to access the unified system log on macOS using the log command line tool | Der Flounder | Jan 18 12:51 | |
| techrights-news | "When executing long-running jobs in the terminal, it's useful to get notified when they complete so you can do other things while waiting" ☛ https://www.karl.berlin/terminal-notifications.html | Source: Karl Bartel | Jan 18 12:52 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.karl.berlin | Raising Notifications From Terminal | Jan 18 12:52 | |
| techrights-news | "Since Java 22, there is a new approach called the Foreign Function & Memory API in java.lang.foreign. Let me go through step by step." ☛ https://lemire.me/blog/2026/01/17/a-new-way-to-call-c-from-java-how-fast-is-it/ | Source: Daniel Lemire | Jan 18 12:53 |
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| techrights-news | ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 Programming Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/18/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/18/Programming_Leftovers.gmi ∎ | Jan 18 13:07 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines — Programming Leftovers | Jan 18 13:07 | |
| techrights-news | Techrights – Links 18/01/2026: "South Africa is Running Out of Software Developers", Companies Spooked to Find Slop is a Major Liability ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/Links_18_01_2026_South_Africa_is_Running_Out_of_Software_Develo.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/Links_18_01_2026_South_Africa_is_Running_Out_of_Software_Develo.gmi ∎ | Jan 18 13:12 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights — Links 18/01/2026: "South Africa is Running Out of Software Developers", Companies Spooked to Find Slop is a Major Liability | Jan 18 13:12 | |
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| techrights-news | Techrights – Behind an Economy of Fake 'Worths' and Fictional 'Valuations' or 'Market Caps' ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/Behind_an_Economy_of_Fake_Worths_and_Fictional_Valuations_or_Ma.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/Behind_an_Economy_of_Fake_Worths_and_Fictional_Valuations_or_Ma.gmi ∎ | Jan 18 13:37 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights — Behind an Economy of Fake 'Worths' and Fictional 'Valuations' or 'Market Caps' | Jan 18 13:37 | |
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| techrights-news | "RSS remains the best, most noise-free way to keep track of most things I care about, and at one point I peaked at 300+ feeds." ☛ https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2026/01/17/2130 | Source: Rui Carmo | Jan 18 13:46 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-taoofmac.com | My Rube Goldberg RSS Pipeline - Tao of Mac | Jan 18 13:46 | |
| techrights-news | "The first release shipping with this change will be curl 8.19.0." ☛ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/01/17/more-http-3-focus-one-backend-less/ | Source: Daniel Stenberg | Jan 18 13:47 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-More HTTP/3 focus, one backend less | daniel.haxx.se | Jan 18 13:47 | |
| techrights-news | "Wireshark is the world’s most popular network protocol analyzer. It is used for troubleshooting, analysis, development and education." ☛ https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-4.6.3.html | Source: Wireshark | Jan 18 13:51 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.wireshark.org | Wireshark • Go Deep | Wireshark • Wireshark 4.6.3 Release Notes | Jan 18 13:51 | |
| techrights-news | "It turns out that I didn’t hate 3D printing, I just hated my Ender" ☛ https://www.engineersneedart.com/blog/3dprinting2025/3dprinting2025.html | Source: John Calhoun | Jan 18 13:52 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.engineersneedart.com | 3D Printing (2025) | Jan 18 13:52 | |
| techrights-news | "Aside from the parts that are obviously on Google servers, this is all integrated in [Jesse]’s Home Assistant server. That server stores the generated image until the ESP32 fetches it." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/01/17/the-cutest-weather-forecast-on-e-ink-and-esp32/ | Source: Hackaday | Jan 18 13:52 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-The Cutest Weather Forecast On E-Ink And ESP32 | Hackaday | Jan 18 13:52 | |
| techrights-news | "As noted in the Shelly documentation for the device, it’s a very compact form factor device, with screw terminals, two relays, and three fairly large electrolytic capacitors sharing very little space with the rest of the components." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/01/17/the-shelly-2-5-smart-relay-design-flaw-killing-capacitors/ | Source: Hackaday | Jan 18 13:52 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-The Shelly 2.5 Smart Relay Design Flaw Killing Capacitors | Hackaday | Jan 18 13:52 | |
| techrights-news | "An enterprising engineer has turned an old parking meter into a jukebox using a Pi Zero 2 and some open source code." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/16/parking_meter_jukebox/ | Source: The Register UK | Jan 18 13:53 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.theregister.com | An old parking meter and a Pi make beautiful music together • The Register | Jan 18 13:53 | |
| techrights-news | "At some point BodgeOS has become an actually usable system. Now I have WiFi and networking working I've been using it as my main development system for a bit." ☛ https://blog.brixit.nl/bodgeos-pt-6/ | Source: Martijn Braam | Jan 18 13:54 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-blog.brixit.nl | BodgeOS pt.6 | Jan 18 13:54 | |
| techrights-news | "Now, let's go ahead and get the grumbling out of the way. No, the ANS is not running Linux or NetBSD." ☛ https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/05/harpoom-of-course-apple-network-server.html | Source: Old VCR | Jan 18 13:55 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-oldvcr.blogspot.com | Old Vintage Computing Research: Harpoom: of course the Apple Network Server can be hacked into running Doom | Jan 18 13:55 | |
| techrights-news | "Part of something I want to learn this year is getting a little more into parallel computing." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/01/setting-up-a-cluster-of-tiny-pcs-for-parallel-computing-a-note-to-myself/ | Source: Rlang | Jan 18 13:56 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Setting Up A Cluster of Tiny PCs For Parallel Computing – A Note To Myself | R-bloggers | Jan 18 13:56 | |
| techrights-news | "Here’s a list of good long-format podcasts: [...]" ☛ https://greycoder.com/a-list-of-good-long-form-podcasts/ | Source: GreyCoder | Jan 18 13:57 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-A List Of Good Long-Format Podcasts - GreyCoder | Jan 18 13:57 | |
| techrights-news | "After 23 years being a loyal Gandi.net customer, I decided to move away after the insane price increase Gandi applied in the past years." ☛ https://www.ncartron.org/ive-migrated-my-domain-to-mythic-beasts.html | Source: Nico Cartron | Jan 18 13:58 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.ncartron.org | I've migrated my domain to Mythic Beasts | Jan 18 13:58 | |
| techrights-news | Proton Experimental brings updates for MonoGame, Rockstar Launcher and more | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/proton-experimental-brings-updates-for-monogame-rockstar-launcher-and-more/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/proton-experimental-brings-updates-for-monogame-rockstar-launcher-and-more/ | Jan 18 13:59 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Proton Experimental brings updates for MonoGame, Rockstar Launcher and more | GamingOnLinux | Jan 18 13:59 | |
| techrights-news | "The platform is shown with Jetson Thor T5000 or T4000 modules, offering up to 2070 TFLOPS of compute performance." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/axiomtek-previews-jetson-thor-t5000-t4000-developer-kit-for-robotics-systems/ | Source: Linux Gizmos | Jan 18 14:00 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights- ( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/axiomtek-previews-jetson-thor-t5000-t4000-developer-kit-for-robotics-systems/ ) | Jan 18 14:00 | |
| techrights-news | Encouraging people to use slop is very naughty and undesirable ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/ubuntu-ai-document-editing-onlyoffice-ollama/ | Source: TecMint | Jan 18 14:01 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.tecmint.com | How to Run Local AI in ONLYOFFICE on Ubuntu Using Ollama | Jan 18 14:01 | |
| techrights-news | Valve tweak Steam slop disclosure form for developers to clarify it's for content consumed by players | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/valve-tweak-steam-ai-disclosure-form-for-developers-to-clarify-its-for-content-consumed-by-players/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | Jan 18 14:02 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Valve tweak Steam AI disclosure form for developers to clarify it's for content consumed by players | GamingOnLinux | Jan 18 14:02 | |
| techrights-news | Techrights – Making Layout Changes ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/Making_Layout_Changes.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/Making_Layout_Changes.gmi ∎ | Jan 18 14:12 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights — Making Layout Changes | Jan 18 14:12 | |
| techrights-news | GNU/Linux up in Bahrain https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/bahrain/#monthly-200902-202601 compare to https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/12/Windows_12_in_Bahrain_Microsoft_Market_Share_Down_to_12_an_All_.shtml | Jan 18 14:20 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-gs.statcounter.com | Desktop Operating System Market Share Bahrain | Statcounter Global Stats | Jan 18 14:20 | |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights — Windows 12 in Bahrain (Microsoft "Market Share" Down to 12%, an All-Time Low) | Jan 18 14:20 | |
| techrights-news | Kevin Fenzi: misc fedora bits for second week of jan 2026 ☞ https://www.scrye.com/blogs/nirik/posts/2026/01/17/misc-fedora-bits-for-second-week-of-jan-2026/ | Jan 18 14:20 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.scrye.com | misc fedora bits for second week of jan 2026 | Kevin's musings | Jan 18 14:20 | |
| techrights-news | Belize also https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/belize/#monthly-200902-202601 | Jan 18 14:21 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-gs.statcounter.com | Desktop Operating System Market Share Belize | Statcounter Global Stats | Jan 18 14:21 | |
| techrights-news | GNU/Linux still up (6%) http://techrights.org/n/2024/05/28/In_Benin_Microsoft_s_Windows_Fell_Below_10_GNU_Linux_Surged_to_.shtml http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/09/GNU_Linux_Rose_to_6_in_Benin_Says_statCounter.shtml http://techrights.org/n/2024/12/13/Windows_Falls_to_Single_Digit_Market_Share_in_Benin.shtml | Jan 18 14:23 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights — In Benin, Microsoft's Windows Fell Below 10%, GNU/Linux Surged to 6% or Higher on Desktops/Laptops | Jan 18 14:23 | |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines — GNU/Linux Rose to 6% in Benin, Says statCounter | Jan 18 14:23 | |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights — Windows Falls to Single-Digit "Market Share" in Benin | Jan 18 14:23 | |
| techrights-news | Techrights – GNU/Linux Still up (statCounter Says to 6%) in Bosnia And Herzegovina ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/GNU_Linux_Still_up_statCounter_Says_to_6_in_Bosnia_And_Herzegov.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/GNU_Linux_Still_up_statCounter_Says_to_6_in_Bosnia_And_Herzegov.gmi ∎ | Jan 18 14:30 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights — GNU/Linux Still up (statCounter Says to 6%) in Bosnia And Herzegovina | Jan 18 14:30 | |
| techrights-news | My first 20,000 curl commits ☞ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/01/17/my-first-20000-curl-commits/ | Jan 18 14:36 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-My first 20,000 curl commits | daniel.haxx.se | Jan 18 14:36 | |
| techrights-news | Transitous Hack Weekend January 2025 ☞ https://www.volkerkrause.eu/2026/01/17/transitous-hack-weekend-january-2026.html | Jan 18 14:37 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.volkerkrause.eu | Transitous Hack Weekend January 2025 | Jan 18 14:37 | |
| techrights-news | Simon Josefsson: Backup of S3 Objects Using rsnapshot ☞ https://blog.josefsson.org/2026/01/18/backup-of-s3-objects-using-rsnapshot/ | Jan 18 14:38 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-blog.josefsson.org | Backup of S3 Objects Using rsnapshot – Simon Josefsson's blog | Jan 18 14:38 | |
| techrights-news | Pedophile Epstein: I will protect you as long as you do what I tell you. Pedophile protector: I will only protect your country as long as you do what the US tells you to do. Break this racket. Dump GAFAM et al. | Jan 18 14:40 |
| techrights-news | And many EU nations now suck up to the person who wishes to invade the EU, as the protection racket (e.g. against Russia) is at stake. | Jan 18 14:40 |
| techrights-news | Joel Primack, Physicist Who Helped Explain the Cosmos, Dies at 80 ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/science/joel-primack-dead.html | Jan 18 14:50 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/science/joel-primack-dead.html ) | Jan 18 14:50 | |
| techrights-news | Artemis II Moon Mission: NASA Completes Giant Rocket’s Slow Ride to Launchpad ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/science/nasa-artemis-ii-rocket-moon.html | Jan 18 14:50 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/science/nasa-artemis-ii-rocket-moon.html ) | Jan 18 14:50 | |
| techrights-news | Wait… All Those Studies May Have “Detected” Microplastics in the Human Body Because of a Severe Error ☞ https://futurism.com/science-energy/microplastics-studies-human-body-error | Jan 18 14:51 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-futurism.com | Wait… All Those Studies May Have "Detected" Microplastics in the Human Body Because of a Severe Error | Jan 18 14:51 | |
| techrights-news | Scientists Preparing to Simulate Human Brain on Supercomputer ☞ https://futurism.com/health-medicine/simulate-human-brain-supercomputer | Jan 18 14:52 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-futurism.com | Scientists Preparing to Simulate Human Brain on Supercomputer | Jan 18 14:52 | |
| techrights-news | 3 Policy Moves Likely to Change Health Care for Older People ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/health/nursing-homes-health-aides-medicare.html | Jan 18 14:52 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/health/nursing-homes-health-aides-medicare.html ) | Jan 18 14:52 | |
| techrights-news | South Korea says US chip tariff to have limited immediate impact ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-says-us-chip-tariff-to-have-limited-immediate-impact | Jan 18 14:54 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.straitstimes.com | South Korea says US chip tariff to have limited immediate impact | The Straits Times | Jan 18 14:54 | |
| techrights-news | Dubai chewy cookie craze in South Korea raises health concerns, experts warn ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/dubai-chewy-cookie-craze-raises-health-concerns-experts-warn | Jan 18 14:55 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.straitstimes.com | Dubai chewy cookie craze in South Korea raises health concerns, experts warn | The Straits Times | Jan 18 14:55 | |
| MinceR | https://imgur.com/gallery/nailed-H3Sg4WU | Jan 18 15:02 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights- ( status 403 @ https://imgur.com/gallery/nailed-H3Sg4WU ) | Jan 18 15:02 | |
| techrights-news | 1984 yet? Hot New App Makes Single People Check in Constantly in Case They Die Alone ☞ https://futurism.com/future-society/singles-dead-china-app | Jan 18 15:11 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-futurism.com | Hot New App Makes Single People Check in Constantly in Case They Die Alone | Jan 18 15:11 | |
| MinceR | lol | Jan 18 15:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | DA check | Jan 18 15:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | press OK | Jan 18 15:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | to confirm you still play the arcade | Jan 18 15:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | else, session over | Jan 18 15:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | confirm existence | Jan 18 15:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | proof of life | Jan 18 15:11 |
| techrights-news | Ah, that explains SO much ;-) ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/study-confirms-why-some-people-get-drunk-without-touching-alcohol | Jan 18 15:13 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Study Confirms Why Some People Get Drunk Without Touching Alcohol : ScienceAlert | Jan 18 15:13 | |
| techrights-news | If You Use Hey Hi (AI) Chatbots to Follow the News, You’re Basically Injecting Severe Poison Directly Into Your Brain ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/chatbot-ai-news-journalism | Jan 18 15:15 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-futurism.com | If You Use AI Chatbots to Follow the News, You're Basically Injecting Severe Poison Directly Into Your Brain | Jan 18 15:15 | |
| techrights-news | New Study Finds Hey Hi (AI) in Schools Is Undermining Kids’ Social and Intellectual Development ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-schools-kids-study | Jan 18 15:16 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-futurism.com | New Study Finds AI in Schools Is Undermining Kids' Social and Intellectual Development | Jan 18 15:16 | |
| MinceR | https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G-7WnzDX0AAsKdM?format=jpg&name=orig | Jan 18 15:16 |
| techrights-news | Mother of MElon’s Child Sues xAI Over Grok Abuse ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/mother-elon-musk-sues-x-grok | Jan 18 15:16 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-futurism.com | Mother of Elon Musk's Child Sues xAI Over Grok Abuse | Jan 18 15:16 | |
| techrights-news | Automation Impediment ☞ https://blog.lx.oliva.nom.br/2026-01-17-automation-impediment.en.html | Jan 18 15:18 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-blog.lx.oliva.nom.br | Automation Impediment | Jan 18 15:18 | |
| techrights-news | Ravi Dwivedi: My experiences in Brunei ☞ https://ravidwivedi.in/posts/brunei/ | Jan 18 15:19 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-ravidwivedi.in | My experiences in Brunei | Jan 18 15:19 | |
| techrights-news | Set Swap Memory of Raspberry PI ☞ https://peppe8o.com/raspberry-pi-swap-memory/ | Jan 18 15:20 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-peppe8o.com | Set Swap Memory of Raspberry PI | Jan 18 15:20 | |
| techrights-news | Google’s Hey Hi (AI) Insists That Next Year Is Not 2027 ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-ai-overview-year | Jan 18 15:21 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-futurism.com | Google's AI Insists That Next Year Is Not 2027 | Jan 18 15:21 | |
| techrights-news | Wikipedia is now 25 years old — world’s 7th most popular website now has over 7 million English articles and 7 billion monthly visitors ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/wikipedia-is-now-25-years-old-worlds-7th-most-popular-website-now-has-over-7-million-english-articles-and-7-billion-monthly-visitors | Jan 18 15:21 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.tomshardware.com | Wikipedia is now 25 years old — world’s 7th most popular website now has over 7 million English articles and 7 billion monthly visitors | Tom's Hardware | Jan 18 15:21 | |
| techrights-news | yt-x – browse YouTube from the terminal ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/yt-x-browse-youtube-terminal/ | Jan 18 15:25 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-yt-x - browse YouTube from the terminal - LinuxLinks | Jan 18 15:25 | |
| techrights-news | Record Traffic in Geminispace or Over Gemini Protocol (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/17/Record_Traffic_in_Geminispace_or_Over_Gemini_Protocol.shtml | Jan 18 15:25 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights — Record Traffic in Geminispace or Over Gemini Protocol | Jan 18 15:25 | |
| techrights-news | How to Install FFmpeg on Debian (13, 12, 11) ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-ffmpeg-on-debian-linux/ | Jan 18 15:26 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-How to Install FFmpeg on Debian (13, 12, 11) - LinuxCapable | Jan 18 15:26 | |
| techrights-news | How To Install PipeWire on Fedora 43 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-pipewire-fedora-43/ | Jan 18 15:27 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-idroot.us | How To Install PipeWire on Fedora 43 - idroot | Jan 18 15:27 | |
| techrights-news | How To Install Fail2Ban on Fedora 43 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-fail2ban-fedora-43/ | Jan 18 15:27 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-idroot.us | How To Install Fail2Ban on Fedora 43 - idroot | Jan 18 15:27 | |
| techrights-news | Microsoft Lunduke Keeps Distracting From the Real Problems With Rust (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/17/Microsoft_Lunduke_Keeps_Distracting_From_the_Real_Problems_With.shtml | Jan 18 15:28 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights — Microsoft Lunduke Keeps Distracting From the Real Problems With Rust | Jan 18 15:28 | |
| techrights-news | Recent Layoffs at Red Bait (2026 the Year of Ultimate Bluewashing) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/16/Recent_Layoffs_at_Red_Hat_2026_the_Year_of_Ultimate_Bluewashing.shtml | Jan 18 15:29 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights — Recent Layoffs at Red Hat (2026 the Year of Ultimate Bluewashing) | Jan 18 15:29 | |
| techrights-news | HyprSnipper – snipping tool for Hyprland ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/hyprsnipper-snipping-tool-hyprland/ | Jan 18 15:34 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-HyprSnipper - snipping tool for Hyprland - LinuxLinks | Jan 18 15:34 | |
| techrights-news | 4 Useful Free and Open Source Kotlin Linters ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/useful-free-open-source-kotlin-linters/ | Jan 18 15:34 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-4 Useful Free and Open Source Kotlin Linters - LinuxLinks | Jan 18 15:34 | |
| techrights-news | Bubble Tea – build terminal apps ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/bubble-tea-build-terminal-apps/ | Jan 18 15:34 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Bubble Tea - build terminal apps - LinuxLinks | Jan 18 15:34 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46664677 | Jan 18 15:36 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-news.ycombinator.com | Stallman has always been right. Took me many years to understand just how far he... | Hacker News | Jan 18 15:36 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Jan 18 15:36 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Stallman has always been right. Took me many years to understand just how far he saw into the future. It's mind boggling just how right he was about everything. | Jan 18 15:36 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | The current status quo is corporations and governments are locking the hardware down, rendering free software irrelevant. Sure, you can hack your computer, but if you do it fails remote attestation and is marked as untrustworthy by other computers on the internet. "Tampered with" your machine? Can't access bank account, can't message others, can't stream content, can't even play video games, maybe one day we won't even be able to | Jan 18 15:36 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | connect to an ISP. Hackers in control of their systems are marginalized, ostracized second class citizens now. Only corporate and government owned devices can participate in the wider ecosystem now. If you own your machine you're banned from everything. | Jan 18 15:36 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | And it's only going to get worse. Stallman is losing this war. Computing freedom is being destroyed and there's little that can be done about it. We do not have the power. Our values are irrelevant to the wider population. It's a damn shame." | Jan 18 15:36 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Jan 18 15:37 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Weirdly, I couldn't disagree more. | Jan 18 15:37 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | By focusing strictly on software, we can argue that Stallman mostly won, and I think the mistake would be conflating software freedom with freedom freedom. | Jan 18 15:37 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Freedom freedom will ALWAYS be hard, no matter what. People who want to take it away will use whatever tools are there to do it. Stallman et al saw that it was special to put guardrails around the very specific notion of "we have general purpose machines that can run any software, the ability to run ANY software must be protected." | Jan 18 15:37 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | And that, today, is overwhelmingly more true than false. You, or groups, can get a computer, hook it to the internet, and run whatever you want. Like "Linux," that doesn't GUARANTEE perfection, but it's an essential step. | Jan 18 15:37 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | AKA, I shudder to think what would have happened if Microsoft had developed AI in house." | Jan 18 15:37 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Jan 18 15:37 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | This is the saddest part. Things are getting worse for everyone and most people just don't care. They are either ignorant or accept it as inevitable. | Jan 18 15:37 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I see 2 issues: | Jan 18 15:37 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 1) People don't have real power. There's too many steps between an issue you care about and a solution which requires changing laws. I don't see a solution other than people voting on laws directly and possibly votes weighted by how much they actually know about the stuff. How to implement it at reasonable cost is a very difficult question. | Jan 18 15:37 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 2) You can't make people care. People only start caring once they personally get hurt. Theoretical downsides don't interest most of the population. Freedom of speech is something they've learned at school about and they know they are supposed to cheer for it but when a platform requires spelling fuck as f*ck, that's OK with them - it might be the canary in the coal mine before more sophisticated censorship (analysis of sentiment/m | Jan 18 15:37 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | eaning, shadow bans) is rolled out but that's a theoretical concern, if they are able to comprehend it at all. And even when they get hurt, they often don't learn from it. I've seen plenty of people lose accounts on various platforms but all they do is switch to another proprietary platform, without looking for real alternatives." | Jan 18 15:37 |
| *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techrights | Jan 18 15:38 | |
| techrights-news | ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Collaborative project to document AI-contaminated FOSS ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/18/Collaborative_project_to_document_AI_contaminated_FOSS.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/18/Collaborative_project_to_document_AI_contaminated_FOSS.gmi ∎ | Jan 18 15:39 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines — Collaborative project to document AI-contaminated FOSS | Jan 18 15:39 | |
| techrights-news | Brrtfetch – animated system information fetcher ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/brrtfetch-animated-system-information-fetcher/ | Jan 18 15:39 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Brrtfetch - animated system information fetcher - LinuxLinks | Jan 18 15:39 | |
| techrights-news | fpm – Fortran Package Manager ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/fpm-fortran-package-manager/ | Jan 18 15:39 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-fpm - Fortran Package Manager - LinuxLinks | Jan 18 15:39 | |
| techrights-news | diffnav – Git diff pager ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/diffnav-git-diff-pager/ | Jan 18 15:40 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-diffnav - Git diff pager - LinuxLinks | Jan 18 15:40 | |
| techrights-news | FOSS Force’s Top Five Articles — For the Week Ending January 16, 2025 ☞ https://fossforce.com/2026/01/foss-forces-top-five-articles-for-the-week-ending-january-16-2025/ | Jan 18 15:40 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-fossforce.com | FOSS Force's Top Five Articles — For the Week Ending January 16, 2025 - FOSS Force | Jan 18 15:40 | |
| techrights-news | Mexico isn’t immune to the seduction of the smartphone ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/mexico-living/mexico-phone-addiction-isnt-immune-to-the-seduction-of-the-smartphone/ | Jan 18 15:41 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-mexiconewsdaily.com | Phone addiction in Mexico: It's arrived | Jan 18 15:41 | |
| MinceR | i wonder where these people see all these great victories | Jan 18 15:41 |
| MinceR | microslop managed to take over Linux despite copyleft | Jan 18 15:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | not just microsoft | Jan 18 15:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | many companies | Jan 18 15:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | hostile ones | Jan 18 15:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | mikcrosoft included | Jan 18 15:41 |
| MinceR | GNU is capitulating, except for GNOME, which serves microslop (systemd) | Jan 18 15:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | but that is linux | Jan 18 15:41 |
| MinceR | the FSF does nothing of note anymore | Jan 18 15:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | a kernel | Jan 18 15:42 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | fsf always has limited resources | Jan 18 15:42 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | it does not buy media puff pieces | Jan 18 15:42 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | like LF does | Jan 18 15:42 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | and cannot bribe politicians | Jan 18 15:42 |
| MinceR | now they also have limited interest in their own mission | Jan 18 15:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | sol you should set expectations lowe | Jan 18 15:43 |
| MinceR | they even promote systemd distros | Jan 18 15:43 |
| techrights-news | Karing – proxy utility ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/karing-proxy-utility/ | Jan 18 15:43 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Karing - proxy utility - LinuxLinks | Jan 18 15:43 | |
| MinceR | my expectations are already set to 0 | Jan 18 15:43 |
| techrights-news | 11 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux Simple Backup Software ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/simplebackup/ | Jan 18 15:43 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-11 Best Free and Open Source Linux Simple Backup Software - LinuxLinks | Jan 18 15:43 | |
| techrights-news | Yōzefu – explore data of a Kafka cluster ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/yozefu-explore-data-kafka-cluster/ | Jan 18 15:43 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Yōzefu - explore data of a Kafka cluster - LinuxLinks | Jan 18 15:43 | |
| techrights-news | aretext – minimalist text editor ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/aretext-minimalist-text-editor/ | Jan 18 15:44 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-aretext - minimalist text editor - LinuxLinks | Jan 18 15:44 | |
| techrights-news | passcualito – command-line password manager ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/passcualito-command-line-password-manager/ | Jan 18 15:44 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-passcualito - command-line password manager - LinuxLinks | Jan 18 15:44 | |
| MinceR | hell, the FSF couldn't even secure control over its own official IRC channel... | Jan 18 15:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | what does dyne do these days? | Jan 18 15:45 |
| MinceR | ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ | Jan 18 15:45 |
| techrights-news | Linux as Windows with another brand ☞ https://www.neowin.net/news/linux-closes-the-professional-gap-as-adobe-creative-cloud-installer-finally-runs-on-wine/ | Jan 18 15:46 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights- ( status 403 @ https://www.neowin.net/news/linux-closes-the-professional-gap-as-adobe-creative-cloud-installer-finally-runs-on-wine/ ) | Jan 18 15:46 | |
| MinceR | i left devuan's channels long ago because one of their ops does not tolerate dissent | Jan 18 15:46 |
| techrights-news | Linuxiac Has Become a Slopfarm, Calling Them Out Isn't Fixing That ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/17/Linuxiac_Has_Become_a_Slopfarm_Calling_Them_Out_Isn_t_Fixing_Th.shtml | Jan 18 15:46 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights — Linuxiac Has Become a Slopfarm, Calling Them Out Isn't Fixing That | Jan 18 15:46 | |
| MinceR | (i left fsf's channel for the same reason) | Jan 18 15:46 |
| techrights-news | Slop About Slop and Slop About "Linux" ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/17/Slop_About_Slop_and_Slop_About_Linux.shtml | Jan 18 15:46 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights — Slop About Slop and Slop About "Linux" | Jan 18 15:46 | |
| MinceR | humanity has failed, it is time to hand the resources over to the next species to attempt sapience | Jan 18 15:47 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | dissent on which topic?? | Jan 18 15:47 |
| MinceR | i forgot, and i don't care | Jan 18 15:47 |
| techrights-news | Synex 13-r1 "Server" is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/synex | Jan 18 15:47 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights- ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/synex ) | Jan 18 15:47 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | was it this ant? | Jan 18 15:47 |
| techrights-news | openKylin 2.0-SP2-20260115 also ☞ https://distrowatch.com/openkylin | Jan 18 15:47 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights- ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/openkylin ) | Jan 18 15:47 | |
| techrights-news | Sites With "Linux" in Their Name That Are in Effect Slopfarms and Issue Fake Articles ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/Sites_With_Linux_in_Their_Name_That_Are_in_Effect_Slopfarms_and.shtml | Jan 18 15:48 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights — Sites With "Linux" in Their Name That Are in Effect Slopfarms and Issue Fake Articles | Jan 18 15:48 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | maybe they are this ant eaters | Jan 18 15:48 |
| techrights-news | Shotcut 26.1 Beta added Hardware Decoding for Preview Scaling & Export ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/01/shotcut-26-1-beta-added-hardware-decoding-for-preview-scaling-export/ | Jan 18 15:49 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-ubuntuhandbook.org | Shotcut 26.1 Beta added Hardware Decoding for Preview Scaling & Export | UbuntuHandbook | Jan 18 15:49 | |
| techrights-news | ‘Funny is funny’: Indonesian comedians keep calm and carry on despite police report against DRM spreader Netflix show ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/funny-is-funny-indonesian-comedians-keep-calm-and-carry-on-after-police-report-against-netflix-show | Jan 18 15:50 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.straitstimes.com | Indonesian comedians shrug off Netflix controversy | The Straits Times | Jan 18 15:50 | |
| techrights-news | Indonesian authorities find wreckage of missing surveillance plane with 11 on board ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/indonesian-authorities-find-wreckage-of-missing-surveillance-plane-with-11-on-board | Jan 18 15:51 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.straitstimes.com | The Straits Times - Breaking news, Singapore news, Asia and world news & multimedia | Jan 18 15:51 | |
| techrights-news | Four stable kernels for the weekend ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1054815/ | Jan 18 15:55 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Four stable kernels for the weekend [LWN.net] | Jan 18 15:55 | |
| techrights-news | Software Patents and USMCA (or NAFTA) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/Software_Patents_and_USMCA_or_NAFTA.shtml | Jan 18 15:55 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights — Software Patents and USMCA (or NAFTA) | Jan 18 15:55 | |
| techrights-news | Javan hawk-eagle under pressure as forests in Indonesia disappear ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/javan-hawk-eagle-under-pressure-as-forests-in-indonesia-disappear | Jan 18 15:56 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.straitstimes.com | Javan hawk-eagle under pressure as forests in Indonesia disappear | The Straits Times | Jan 18 15:56 | |
| techrights-news | Sriram Ramkrishna: GNOME OS Hackfest During FOSDEM week ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/sri/2026/01/17/gnome-os-hackfest-during-fosdem-week/ | Jan 18 15:57 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-blogs.gnome.org | GNOME OS Hackfest During FOSDEM week – Sri Ramkrishna | Jan 18 15:57 | |
| techrights-news | Playing Video Games Has an Unexpected Effect on Kids' IQ, Study Says ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/playing-video-games-has-an-unexpected-effect-on-kids-iq-study-says | Jan 18 15:58 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Playing Video Games Has an Unexpected Effect on Kids' IQ, Study Says : ScienceAlert | Jan 18 15:58 | |
| techrights-news | Tennessee Man Pleads Guilty to Repeatedly Hacking Supreme Court’s Filing System ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/tennessee-man-pleads-guilty-to-repeatedly-hacking-supreme-courts-filing-system/ | Jan 18 16:07 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights- ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/tennessee-man-pleads-guilty-to-repeatedly-hacking-supreme-courts-filing-system/ ) | Jan 18 16:07 | |
| techrights-news | Wireshark 4.6.3 Released, (Sat, Jan 17th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32636 | Jan 18 16:08 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-isc.sans.edu | Wireshark 4.6.3 Released - SANS Internet Storm Center | Jan 18 16:08 | |
| techrights-news | IBM PIP lawsuit. "they will be obligated too during discovery for this case and then that will open Pandora’s box for them with dozens of additional suits when that information is registered into public accessible databases. They will fight this very hard or settle to ensure that doesn’t occur" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kf6wnm5q | Jan 18 16:09 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kf6wnm5q ) | Jan 18 16:10 | |
| techrights-news | "The Works Councils (Unions) in Germany and Holland have not agreed to using this latest IBM performance system. They are completely unaffected by this 15/75/15 %. ranking system. How lucky these employees are to be protected from IBM's disgraceful behaviour towards its workforce. It would be great to have sight of the Works Councils grounds and assessment of IBM's performance management system." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kf1vfvgb | Jan 18 16:10 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kf1vfvgb ) | Jan 18 16:10 | |
| techrights-news | The tech industry has been saturated with dangerous nutcases. Yes, some of them can code, but they are still very much nutcases. | Jan 18 16:17 |
| techrights-news | The new Linux Mint, Wine version 11, Raspberry Pi's HAT upgrade, and more: Linux news roundup https://www.howtogeek.com/the-new-linux-mint-raspberry-pis-hat-upgrade-and-more-linux-news-roundup/ | Jan 18 16:19 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.howtogeek.com | The new Linux Mint, Wine version 11, Raspberry Pi's HAT upgrade, and more: Linux news roundup | Jan 18 16:19 | |
| techrights-news | You don’t need a gaming distro — these Linux tweaks matter more https://www.makeuseof.com/these-linux-gaming-tweaks-matter-more-than-the-distro/ | Jan 18 16:19 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.makeuseof.com | You don’t need a gaming distro — these Linux tweaks matter more | Jan 18 16:19 | |
| techrights-news | I replaced my Windows workflow with Linux Mint and it was easier than I imagined https://www.howtogeek.com/i-used-linux-mint-for-2-weeks-as-a-windows-replacement-heres-why-people-recommend-it/ | Jan 18 16:19 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.howtogeek.com | I replaced my Windows workflow with Linux Mint and it was easier than I imagined | Jan 18 16:19 | |
| techrights-news | Adobe Photoshop can now install on Linux after a Redditor discovers a Wine fix https://videocardz.com/newz/adobe-photoshop-can-now-install-on-linux-after-a-redditor-discovers-a-fix | Jan 18 16:21 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights- ( status 403 @ https://videocardz.com/newz/adobe-photoshop-can-now-install-on-linux-after-a-redditor-discovers-a-fix ) | Jan 18 16:21 | |
| techrights-news | "Linux malware" = something you can install on it https://pcper.com/2026/01/podcast-852/ | Jan 18 16:22 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-pcper.com | Podcast #852 - 9850X3D Launch Imminent, RTX SUPER Delay, 8GB GPUs, Zoicware, New SK Hynix Plant, Linux malware and MORE - PC Perspective | Jan 18 16:22 | |
| techrights-news | Linux Mint 22.3 has been released https://news.filehippo.com/2026/01/january-17-tech-news-roundup-linux-mint-22-3-released-chatgpt-translate-announced-samsung-internet-browser-for-windows-released-firefox-147-update-released/ | Jan 18 16:23 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-news.filehippo.com | January 17 tech news roundup: Linux Mint 22.3 released, ChatGPT translate announced, Samsung Internet browser for Windows released, Firefox 147 update released - File Hippo News | Jan 18 16:23 | |
| techrights-news | I've tried out every Linux package manager out there, and this is the best one https://www.makeuseof.com/tried-every-linux-package-manager-this-is-the-best-one/ | Jan 18 16:24 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.makeuseof.com | I've tried out every Linux package manager out there, and this is the best one | Jan 18 16:24 | |
| techrights-news | Proprietary https://www.thestack.technology/voidlink-malware-checkpoint/ | Jan 18 16:25 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.thestack.technology | Advanced Linux VoidLink malware package surfaces - targets cloud, containers | Jan 18 16:25 | |
| techrights-news | ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Managing GNU/Linux Packages, Shotcut 26.1 Beta is Available ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/18/Managing_GNU_Linux_Packages_Shotcut_26_1_Beta_is_Available.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/18/Managing_GNU_Linux_Packages_Shotcut_26_1_Beta_is_Available.gmi ∎ | Jan 18 16:26 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines — Managing GNU/Linux Packages, Shotcut 26.1 Beta is Available | Jan 18 16:26 | |
| techrights-news | I tried a lightweight Linux distro you’ve never heard of — and it’s perfect https://www.makeuseof.com/tried-lightweight-linux-distro-never-heard-of-its-perfect/ | Jan 18 16:26 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.makeuseof.com | I tried a lightweight Linux distro you’ve never heard of — and it’s perfect | Jan 18 16:26 | |
| techrights-news | My favorite Linux desktop environment is getting microphone controls Windows wishes it had https://www.xda-developers.com/my-favorite-linux-desktop-environment-is-finally-getting-better-microphone-controls/ | Jan 18 16:26 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.xda-developers.com | My favorite Linux desktop environment is getting microphone controls Windows wishes it had | Jan 18 16:26 | |
| *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techrights | Jan 18 16:28 | |
| techrights-news | ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today's 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 HowTos ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/18/today_s_howtos.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/18/today_s_howtos.gmi ∎ | Jan 18 16:29 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines — today's howtos | Jan 18 16:29 | |
| techrights-news | ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Games: Harpoom, Proton Experimental, and Slop Crackdown ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/18/Games_Harpoom_Proton_Experimental_and_Slop_Crackdown.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/18/Games_Harpoom_Proton_Experimental_and_Slop_Crackdown.gmi ∎ | Jan 18 16:32 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines — Games: Harpoom, Proton Experimental, and Slop Crackdown | Jan 18 16:32 | |
| techrights-news | ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Turning GNU/Linux Into Windows With Adobe Proprietary Software ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/18/Turning_GNU_Linux_Into_Windows_With_Adobe_Proprietary_Software.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/18/Turning_GNU_Linux_Into_Windows_With_Adobe_Proprietary_Software.gmi ∎ | Jan 18 16:32 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines — Turning GNU/Linux Into Windows With Adobe Proprietary Software | Jan 18 16:32 | |
| techrights-news | ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Open Hardware/Modding/3D Printing Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/18/Open_Hardware_Modding_3D_Printing_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/18/Open_Hardware_Modding_3D_Printing_Leftovers.gmi ∎ | Jan 18 16:34 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines — Open Hardware/Modding/3D Printing Leftovers | Jan 18 16:34 | |
| techrights-news | ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Wireshark 4.6.3 Released ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/18/Wireshark_4_6_3_Released.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/18/Wireshark_4_6_3_Released.gmi ∎ | Jan 18 16:37 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines — Wireshark 4.6.3 Released | Jan 18 16:37 | |
| techrights-news | ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Free, Libre, and Open Source Software: Events, Web, and Open Access ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/18/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Events_Web_and_Open_Access.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/18/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Events_Web_and_Open_Access.gmi ∎ | Jan 18 16:39 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines — Free, Libre, and Open Source Software: Events, Web, and Open Access | Jan 18 16:39 | |
| techrights-news | ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today's 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/18/today_s_leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/18/today_s_leftovers.gmi ∎ | Jan 18 16:39 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines — today's leftovers | Jan 18 16:39 | |
| techrights-news | Techrights – Links 18/01/2026: Indonesia Against Comedy, Media-Hostile (Censors Comedians) Convicted Felon in White House Defecting to Opponents of NATO ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/Links_18_01_2026_Indonesia_Against_Comedy_Media_Hostile_Censors.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/Links_18_01_2026_Indonesia_Against_Comedy_Media_Hostile_Censors.gmi ∎ | Jan 18 16:44 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights — Links 18/01/2026: Indonesia Against Comedy, Media-Hostile (Censors Comedians) Convicted Felon in White House Defecting to Opponents of NATO | Jan 18 16:44 | |
| techrights-news | Techrights – IBM Turning Up the 'RTO' (Stress) and 'PIP' (Fear) Heat on Workers, Rebellion May be Brewing ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/IBM_Turning_Up_the_RTO_Stress_and_PIP_Fear_Heat_on_Workers_Rebe.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/IBM_Turning_Up_the_RTO_Stress_and_PIP_Fear_Heat_on_Workers_Rebe.gmi ∎ | Jan 18 17:05 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights — IBM Turning Up the 'RTO' (Stress) and 'PIP' (Fear) Heat on Workers, Rebellion May be Brewing | Jan 18 17:05 | |
| MinceR | (no audio) https://imgur.com/g8Q4DoV.mp4 | Jan 18 17:14 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights- ( status 403 @ https://imgur.com/g8Q4DoV.mp4 ) | Jan 18 17:14 | |
| techrights-news | Techrights – IBM is Not a Free Software Company (It Never Was) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/IBM_is_Not_a_Free_Software_Company_It_Never_Was.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/IBM_is_Not_a_Free_Software_Company_It_Never_Was.gmi ∎ | Jan 18 17:15 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights — IBM is Not a Free Software Company (It Never Was) | Jan 18 17:15 | |
| techrights-news | Germany: Alcohol prices well below EU average https://www.dw.com/en/germany-alcohol-prices-well-below-eu-average/a-75401091 | Jan 18 17:32 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.dw.com | Germany: Alcohol prices well below EU average | Jan 18 17:32 | |
| techrights-news | devotion to cash https://www.dw.com/en/unpacking-czechia-s-devotion-to-cash-and-its-currency/a-75403939 | Jan 18 17:33 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.dw.com | Unpacking Czechia's devotion to cash and its currency | Jan 18 17:33 | |
| techrights-news | Kangaroo Courts of EPO http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/01/g-125-description-amendments-amicus.html | Jan 18 17:33 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-ipkitten.blogspot.com | G 1/25 (description amendments) amicus curiae: The battle lines are drawn - The IPKat | Jan 18 17:33 | |
| techrights-news | 🔤SpellBinding — FHLYTUR Wordo: STEEP gemini://spell.ddns.net/games/gemlog/2026-01-18.gmi | Jan 18 17:34 |
| techrights-news | Symposium of Destruction gemini://thrig.me/blog/2026/01/18/sod.gmi | Jan 18 17:38 |
| techrights-news | "In October 2024 I wrote a small (~600 lines) program in Zig that formatted YAML files in some $dayjob-specific way. Instead of parsing the whole document, the program linked to libyaml tokenizer and operated on tokens, which ended up factor 10 faster than pyyaml.load/pyyaml.dump implementation. Success, right?" gemini://tilde.pink/~kaction/log/2026-01-18.1.gmi | Jan 18 17:38 |
| techrights-news | Originality http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/01/do-trends-kill-originality-cjeu-issues.html | Jan 18 17:41 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-ipkitten.blogspot.com | Do Trends Kill Originality? The CJEU Issues Judgment in Deity Shoes, Case C-323/24 - The IPKat | Jan 18 17:41 | |
| techrights-news | distinctiveness http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/01/cheese-holes-and-weak-distinctiveness.html | Jan 18 17:41 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-ipkitten.blogspot.com | Cheese, holes and weak distinctiveness: the General Court revisits Formula One Licensing v OHIM - The IPKat | Jan 18 17:41 | |
| techrights-news | chatbots http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/01/fakery-free-riding-and-fight-for-serp.html | Jan 18 17:42 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-ipkitten.blogspot.com | Fakery, free-riding and the fight for SERP data for AI-related search and chatbots - The IPKat | Jan 18 17:42 | |
| techrights-news | He still refuses to stop this https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2026-01-09/factbox-elon-musks-grok-faces-global-scrutiny-for-sexualised-ai-photos | Jan 18 17:43 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-HTTP/2 stream 1 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2) ( status 0 @ https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2026-01-09/factbox-elon-musks-grok-faces-global-scrutiny-for-sexualised-ai-photos ) | Jan 18 17:43 | |
| techrights-news | Reference to Cheeto Mussolini's Impeachments Is Removed From the Display of His Smithsonian Photo Portrait https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2026-01-11/reference-to-trumps-impeachments-is-removed-from-the-display-of-his-smithsonian-photo-portrait" | Jan 18 17:44 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-HTTP/2 stream 1 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2) ( status 0 @ https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2026-01-11/reference-to-trumps-impeachments-is-removed-from-the-display-of-his-smithsonian-photo-portrait ) | Jan 18 17:44 | |
| *Isambard_Prince (~Isambard_Prince@37wdq788afck6.irc) has joined #techrights | Jan 18 17:45 | |
| techrights-news | New efficiency upgrades in Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.15 https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/01/12/new-efficiency-upgrades-rhacm-2-15 | Jan 18 17:46 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights- ( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/01/12/new-efficiency-upgrades-rhacm-2-15 ) | Jan 18 17:46 | |
| techrights-news | Turkey to restrict social media access for children under 15 https://bianet.org/haber/minister-turkey-to-restrict-social-media-access-for-children-under-15-315303 | Jan 18 17:46 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-bianet.org | Minister: Turkey to restrict social media access for children under 15 | Jan 18 17:46 | |
| techrights-news | Germany's local governments face financial collapse https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-local-governments-face-financial-collapse/a-75425178 | Jan 18 17:51 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.dw.com | Germany's local governments face financial collapse | Jan 18 17:51 | |
| techrights-news | Why Germany struggles to fight financial crime https://www.dw.com/en/why-germany-struggles-to-fight-financial-crime/a-75423810 | Jan 18 17:53 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.dw.com | Why Germany struggles to fight financial crime | Jan 18 17:53 | |
| techrights-news | Baa-rgain hunters: 50 sheep barge into German supermarket https://www.dw.com/en/baa-rgain-hunters-50-sheep-barge-into-german-supermarket/a-75438987 | Jan 18 17:56 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.dw.com | Baa-rgain hunters: 50 sheep visit German supermarket | Jan 18 17:56 | |
| techrights-news | StackOverflow Is Absolutely Cooked https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=gmRk9Undc6U | Jan 18 17:57 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights- ( status 403 @ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=gmRk9Undc6U ) | Jan 18 17:57 | |
| techrights-news | The Future Of The Linux Distro Is No Distro https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=k6qCtIHFu_c | Jan 18 17:58 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights- ( status 403 @ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=k6qCtIHFu_c ) | Jan 18 17:58 | |
| techrights-news | GNOME Disables Middle Click Paste, Chaos Ensues https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=JYICMf_VLtY | Jan 18 17:58 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights- ( status 403 @ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=JYICMf_VLtY ) | Jan 18 17:58 | |
| techrights-news | Manjaro 26.0 "Anh-Linh" PLASMA Edition overview | Manjaro Empowering Devices and Users https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=cxsUCsKJi00 | Jan 18 17:58 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights- ( status 403 @ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=cxsUCsKJi00 ) | Jan 18 17:59 | |
| techrights-news | CachyOS Linux Full Review: What Makes It Different? https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=B9LOP-Nr5Gw | Jan 18 17:59 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights- ( status 403 @ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=B9LOP-Nr5Gw ) | Jan 18 17:59 | |
| techrights-news | Online trash for Office? https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/trisha-paytas-set-swap-youtube-politics-2026-congressional-run-california-1769193 | Jan 18 18:00 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.ibtimes.co.uk | Trisha Paytas Set To Swap YouTube For Politics With 2026 Congressional Run In California | IBTimes UK | Jan 18 18:00 | |
| techrights-news | ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Recent GNU/Linux Videos ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/18/Recent_GNU_Linux_Videos.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/18/Recent_GNU_Linux_Videos.gmi ∎ | Jan 18 18:01 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines — Recent GNU/Linux Videos | Jan 18 18:01 | |
| techrights-news | VailuxOS-1.6 Stable mit KDE Plasma 6 Hotfix https://forum.vailux.de/downloads/file/27-vailuxos-1-6-stable-mit-kde-plasma-6-hotfix/ | Jan 18 18:03 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-forum.vailux.de | VailuxOS-1.6 Stable mit KDE Plasma 6 Hotfix - Vailux n.e.V | Jan 18 18:03 | |
| techrights-news | "In Lumet's film, technology is not the enemy. In fact there is no technology to speak of, except perhaps a wind-up field telephone. This is not a Mad Max film. Nor do modern issues of tracking, surveillance, profiling, propaganda or technologically enabled imprisonment, coercion, torture or anything else take the stage. They are entirely absent." https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/hill/ | Jan 18 18:16 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-cybershow.uk | The Hill | Jan 18 18:16 | |
| techrights-news | "Technically, the usurper may be manifest as software or hardware, as a new 'preferred' vendor, or as new policy quietly inserted in a workplace or by a government. These days he appears as an entire technologically micro-managed corporate culture, from which common sense and humanity have been driven out." https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/hill/ | Jan 18 18:19 |
| techrights-news | "(note:2023) Notice the unsettling allegory with "AI" in the present hype cycle .. As with the rise of all tyrants, for those who see the approaching danger it is difficult to warn others. The majority are quite hypnotised, reluctant to believe bad things. They are unsure whether it is prudent to challenge the rising tyrant, or hedge their bets for 'staying on his good side'" | Jan 18 18:20 |
| techrights-news | "The twenty first century is fundamentally, a lack of integrity" | Jan 18 18:20 |
| techrights-news | "The plan now is to fire that CTO/Sysadmin or CISO and have us directly negotiate with the system itself - a system presumably programmed and updated from Redmond. Cue dialogue between Doolittle and Dark Star bomb." https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/hill/ | Jan 18 18:21 |
| techrights-news | "Corporate control is now the art of personally avoiding it. I believe this rampant abdication of human power and responsibility is an important aspect of (2026:) current "AI" automation ambitions, and the Digital Self Defence needed to counter it." | Jan 18 18:21 |
| techrights-news | Uganda's debt crisis https://www.dw.com/en/uganda-s-debt-crisis-deepens-ahead-of-elections/a-75399953 | Jan 18 18:22 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.dw.com | Uganda's debt crisis deepens ahead of elections | Jan 18 18:22 | |
| techrights-news | Germany: Trust in the United States is eroding https://www.dw.com/en/germany-trust-in-the-united-states-is-eroding/a-75449308 http://techrights.org/n/2025/02/18/Threats_Against_Techrights_Always_Come_From_Outside_Britain.shtml https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/11/Like_the_Serial_Strangler_From_Microsoft_Donald_Trump_is_Out_of.shtml | Jan 18 18:24 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.dw.com | Germany: Trust in the United States is eroding | Jan 18 18:24 | |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights — Threats Against Techrights Always Come From Outside Britain | Jan 18 18:24 | |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights — Like the Serial Strangler From Microsoft, Donald Trump is Out of Time and Has Jurisdiction Issues in the UK | Jan 18 18:24 | |
| *psydroid3 (~psydroid@36imbvshpgubk.irc) has joined #techrights | Jan 18 18:24 | |
| techrights-news | Energy wasted https://www.projectcensored.org/communities-against-ai-data-center | Jan 18 18:30 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-HTTP/2 stream 1 was not closed cleanly: PROTOCOL_ERROR (err 1) ( status 0 @ https://www.projectcensored.org/communities-against-ai-data-center ) | Jan 18 18:30 | |
| techrights-news | Iran considers restoring internet after week-long shutdown https://www.firstpost.com/tech/iran-considers-restoring-internet-after-week-long-shutdown-13969907.html/ | Jan 18 18:33 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights- ( status 308 @ https://www.firstpost.com/tech/iran-considers-restoring-internet-after-week-long-shutdown-13969907.html/ ) | Jan 18 18:33 | |
| Isambard_Prince | https://www.reddit.com/r/loicense/comments/1qfpyen/oi_m8_you_got_a_loicense_to_drink_dem_alcoholfree/ | Jan 18 18:46 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Reddit - The heart of the internet | Jan 18 18:46 | |
| Isambard_Prince | The UK is considering making it illegal for youth to buy alcohol-free drinks claiming they're a gateway to alcohol. | Jan 18 18:46 |
| Isambard_Prince | Yep, water, I'd recognize it anywhere. Gateway to the hard stuff. | Jan 18 18:47 |
| Isambard_Prince | MinceR, ^ | Jan 18 18:47 |
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| techrights-news | Techrights – IBM: Spying on Staff Like Never Before and Implementing Silent Layoffs This Month, Say Insiders ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/IBM_Spying_on_Staff_Like_Never_Before_and_Implementing_Silent_L.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/IBM_Spying_on_Staff_Like_Never_Before_and_Implementing_Silent_L.gmi ∎ | Jan 18 18:55 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights — IBM: Spying on Staff Like Never Before and Implementing Silent Layoffs This Month, Say Insiders | Jan 18 18:56 | |
| Isambard_Prince | schestowitz[TR2], Co-Pilot PCs are not selling. | Jan 18 18:59 |
| Isambard_Prince | Dell admitted they aren't selling, but they managed to not mention Microsoft or Co-Pilot at all. | Jan 18 18:59 |
| Isambard_Prince | They just said AI PCs. | Jan 18 18:59 |
| Isambard_Prince | I don't think they sell any other PCs that they're promoting as AI PCs other than the Windows 11 ones. | Jan 18 19:00 |
| Isambard_Prince | On GitHub, it's still not coming up with real code. | Jan 18 19:00 |
| Isambard_Prince | It's still proposing pseudocode that looks like something that might work, but then it either doesn't compile or it makes the problems worse. | Jan 18 19:01 |
| techrights-news | Techrights – Pump-and-Dump With IBM Shares, Courtesy of People Who Stand to Gain From the 'Pump' ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/Pump_and_Dump_With_IBM_Shares_Courtesy_of_People_Who_Stand_to_G.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/Pump_and_Dump_With_IBM_Shares_Courtesy_of_People_Who_Stand_to_G.gmi ∎ | Jan 18 19:07 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights — Pump-and-Dump With IBM Shares, Courtesy of People Who Stand to Gain From the 'Pump' | Jan 18 19:07 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Isambard_Prince: analogy: | Jan 18 19:09 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | you want to write email | Jan 18 19:09 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | to some person you know | Jan 18 19:09 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | they tell you | Jan 18 19:09 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | wait, ryan | Jan 18 19:09 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | don't waste time | Jan 18 19:09 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | let thee HEY HI do this for you | Jan 18 19:09 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | to draft the email from you | Jan 18 19:09 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | so it writes good grammar | Jan 18 19:09 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | with message that's not really you | Jan 18 19:09 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | it can even be long | Jan 18 19:09 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | but then you go | Jan 18 19:09 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | wait, i need to change this | Jan 18 19:10 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | the issue still is, | Jan 18 19:10 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | you didn't draft tyhis | Jan 18 19:10 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | and it is not your message | Jan 18 19:10 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | but now you are stuck | Jan 18 19:10 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | with some botspam | Jan 18 19:10 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | and you try to massage it | Jan 18 19:10 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | that's what vibe coding is like | Jan 18 19:10 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | it spews out code | Jan 18 19:10 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | it is not yours | Jan 18 19:10 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | you don't know it | Jan 18 19:10 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | you might not even understand it | Jan 18 19:10 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | to understand it you must spend a lot of time | Jan 18 19:10 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | it likely has defects | Jan 18 19:10 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | and to fix it might taker a long time | Jan 18 19:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | and you are still stuck with "legacy code" | Jan 18 19:11 |
| Isambard_Prince | I remember reading something to the effect of the "AI" generated code had more than 3 times as many defects for a given amount of code. | Jan 18 19:13 |
| Isambard_Prince | So if Microsoft is telling the truth about letting it write 30% of their code, well, first of all, someone has to go back and look it over and fix it or it probably won't even compile. | Jan 18 19:14 |
| Isambard_Prince | schestowitz[TR2], It's like when they talk about healthcare and continuity of care. | Jan 18 19:14 |
| Isambard_Prince | When you get too many people dealing with a problem, none of them are familiar with it. They just walked it. They might have glanced at someone else's notes. | Jan 18 19:15 |
| Isambard_Prince | You won't get the same quality as if you dealt with the same people all the time. | Jan 18 19:15 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/inventor-vibe-coding-doesnt-work | Jan 18 19:15 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-futurism.com | Inventor of Vibe Coding Admits He Hand-Coded His New Project | Jan 18 19:15 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/17/Report_Benchmark_Says_Vibe_Coding_Results_in_Security_Holes.shtml | Jan 18 19:15 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights — Report/Benchmark Says 'Vibe Coding' Results in Security Holes | Jan 18 19:15 | |
| Isambard_Prince | I had two surgeons at different hospitals look over my shoulder. | Jan 18 19:16 |
| Isambard_Prince | And the first one reached incorrect conclusions. | Jan 18 19:17 |
| Isambard_Prince | Then he had the doctor at the next hospital backing him up. | Jan 18 19:17 |
| techrights-news | peace with doctors https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-doctors-agreement-whats-next-9.7036435 | Jan 18 19:17 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.cbc.ca | Quebec struck peace with doctors, but critics say patients lost out | CBC Accessibility | Jan 18 19:17 | |
| Isambard_Prince | If I got that surgery, it could have caused terrible damage, even worse than what there already was. | Jan 18 19:17 |
| techrights-news | Toronto charity cutting ties with local food bank after reporting financial concerns to police https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/daily-bread-food-bank-feed-scarborough-9.7039918 | Jan 18 19:17 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.cbc.ca | Daily Bread to cut off Scarborough food bank after reporting financial concerns to police | CBC News | Jan 18 19:17 | |
| Isambard_Prince | It's very frightening how many people with advanced degrees still don't know anything about the field they work in. | Jan 18 19:17 |
| techrights-news | As Canada Tries to Reduce Its Dependence on the US, Its Leader Will Visit China to Rebuild Ties https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2026-01-12/as-canada-tries-to-reduce-its-dependence-on-the-us-its-leader-will-visit-china-to-rebuild-ties | Jan 18 19:26 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-HTTP/2 stream 1 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2) ( status 0 @ https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2026-01-12/as-canada-tries-to-reduce-its-dependence-on-the-us-its-leader-will-visit-china-to-rebuild-ties ) | Jan 18 19:26 | |
| techrights-news | black bear cub found with severe burns in December https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/black-bear-cub-recovering-after-fire-9.7041473 | Jan 18 19:26 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.cbc.ca | Valkyrie, the black bear cub found with severe burns in December, is recovering well | CBC News | Jan 18 19:26 | |
| techrights-news | 2,200 billion dollars borrowed in SIX MONTHS! https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/powell20260111a.htm Statement From Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell | Jan 18 19:28 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.federalreserve.gov | Statement from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell - Federal Reserve Board | Jan 18 19:28 | |
| techrights-news | How clean energy could save us trillions https://www.dw.com/en/how-clean-energy-could-save-us-trillions/a-75237447 | Jan 18 19:29 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.dw.com | How clean energy could save us trillions | Jan 18 19:29 | |
| Isambard_Prince | schestowitz[TR2], Apparently a Republican candidate for Florida Governor says he'll ban OnlyFans because nobody will have to sell their bodies. | Jan 18 19:29 |
| techrights-news | To CBC, invasion, bombing and kidnappings are "incursion" https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/bakx-wti-venezuela-tsx-9.7033902 | Jan 18 19:29 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.cbc.ca | Canadian energy stocks tumble after U.S. incursion in Venezuela | CBC News | Jan 18 19:29 | |
| Isambard_Prince | I was like "So does that mean he'll create a full employment economy with a living wage that works for everyone?" Like, you know. Of course it doesn't. | Jan 18 19:29 |
| Isambard_Prince | For some reason they think that banning smut will fix everything that's wrong with the country or something. | Jan 18 19:30 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | is that site for prostitutes? | Jan 18 19:30 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | or just people showing thiongs for money? | Jan 18 19:30 |
| techrights-news | US, China Can Balance Roles in Venezuela, US Energy Chief Says https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2026-01-08/us-china-can-balance-roles-in-venezuela-us-energy-chief-says | Jan 18 19:31 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-HTTP/2 stream 1 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2) ( status 0 @ https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2026-01-08/us-china-can-balance-roles-in-venezuela-us-energy-chief-says ) | Jan 18 19:31 | |
| Isambard_Prince | It's just people making porn videos for money. | Jan 18 19:31 |
| techrights-news | Claims of Control Over Venezuela’s Oil ttps://scheerpost.com/2026/01/09/energy-greed-of-the-north-rodriguez-rebukes-u-s-claims-of-control-over-venezuelas-oil/ | Jan 18 19:32 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://techrights.org/o/2023/04/19/framing-privacy-as-sex-issue/ | Jan 18 19:33 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | EFF Takes Money From US Nazis to Speak for Prostitutes and Frame Privacy (or Net Liability) as a Sex Issue | Jan 18 19:33 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | EFF does not support women | Jan 18 19:35 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | pls read last 2 paras in http://techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/IBM_Turning_Up_the_RTO_Stress_and_PIP_Fear_Heat_on_Workers_Rebe.shtml | Jan 18 19:35 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights — IBM Turning Up the 'RTO' (Stress) and 'PIP' (Fear) Heat on Workers, Rebellion May be Brewing | Jan 18 19:35 | |
| techrights-news | Techrights – FOSDEM 2026: democracy panel, GNOME & Sonny Piers modern slavery experiment ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/FOSDEM_2026_democracy_panel_GNOME_Sonny_Piers_modern_slavery_ex.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/FOSDEM_2026_democracy_panel_GNOME_Sonny_Piers_modern_slavery_ex.gmi ∎ | Jan 18 19:44 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights — FOSDEM 2026: democracy panel, GNOME & Sonny Piers modern slavery experiment | Jan 18 19:44 | |
| MinceR | 18 194704 < Isambard_Prince> Yep, water, I'd recognize it anywhere. Gateway to the hard stuff. | Jan 18 19:56 |
| MinceR | lol | Jan 18 19:56 |
| techrights-news | Techrights – You Would Expect This Kind of Misleading Narrative Shortly Before Microsoft (or GAFAM) Mass Layoffs ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/You_Would_Expect_This_Kind_of_Misleading_Narrative_Shortly_Befo.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/You_Would_Expect_This_Kind_of_Misleading_Narrative_Shortly_Befo.gmi ∎ | Jan 18 19:59 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights — You Would Expect This Kind of Misleading Narrative Shortly Before Microsoft (or GAFAM) Mass Layoffs | Jan 18 19:59 | |
| techrights-news | "The last paragraph of your comment is pure nonsense. The board of directors does not get involved in the day to day running of the company. The board set policies and directions. So, if you are trying to absolve the Indian id1t at the top and his cabal, you are failing miserably." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kf1vfvgb | Jan 18 20:00 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kf1vfvgb ) | Jan 18 20:00 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <MinceR> 18 194704 < Isambard_Prince> Yep, water, I'd recognize it anywhere. Gateway to the hard stuff. | Jan 18 20:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | zinc or did many people flush viagra down the toilet? | Jan 18 20:01 |
| MinceR | no, our water is hard on its own | Jan 18 20:02 |
| MinceR | at least helps you boil microplastics out of it if you want to do that | Jan 18 20:02 |
| techrights-news | what ADHD drugs really do and don't do https://www.dw.com/en/us-research-shows-what-adhd-drugs-really-do-and-don-t-do/a-75460960 | Jan 18 20:03 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.dw.com | US research shows what ADHD drugs really do and don't do | Jan 18 20:03 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | lots of energy requird | Jan 18 20:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | to collect the steamn | Jan 18 20:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | out of the microplasticked water | Jan 18 20:03 |
| techrights-news | cast light on infrastructure in Germany https://www.dw.com/en/berlin-blackouts-cast-light-on-infrastructure-in-germany/a-75455870 | Jan 18 20:04 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.dw.com | Berlin blackouts cast light on infrastructure in Germany | Jan 18 20:04 | |
| techrights-news | ‘Who’s Who at X, the Deepfake Porn Site Formerly Known as Twitter’ https://www.ft.com/content/ad94db4c-95a0-4c65-bd8d-3b43e1251091 | Jan 18 20:05 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.ft.com | Client Challenge | Jan 18 20:05 | |
| techrights-news | With key https://www.ft.com/content/ad94db4c-95a0-4c65-bd8d-3b43e1251091?accessToken=zwAGR7kzep9gkdOtlNtMlaBMZdO9jTtD4SUQkQ.MEYCIQCdZajuC9uga-d9b5Z1t0HI2BIcnkVoq98loextLRpCTgIhAPL3rW72aTHBNL_lS7s1ONpM2vBgNlBNHDBeGbHkPkZj&sharetype=gift&token=a7473827-0799-4064-9008-bf22b3c99711 | Jan 18 20:06 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.ft.com | Client Challenge | Jan 18 20:06 | |
| techrights-news | “ban twitter” https://off-guardian.org/2026/01/10/no-keir-starmer-isnt-going-to-ban-twitter/ | Jan 18 20:06 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-off-guardian.org | No, Keir Starmer isn’t going to “ban twitter”. – OffGuardian | Jan 18 20:06 | |
| MinceR | it would have required less energy to not fuck up the planet we depend on for survival, but there was no interest in that | Jan 18 20:06 |
| techrights-news | Nestle Infant Formula Recall Widens to Africa, the Americas and Asia https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2026-01-07/nestle-infant-formula-recall-widens-to-china-brazil | Jan 18 20:07 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-HTTP/2 stream 1 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2) ( status 0 @ https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2026-01-07/nestle-infant-formula-recall-widens-to-china-brazil ) | Jan 18 20:07 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | MinceR: DAs don't see it that way | Jan 18 20:07 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | just instant, personal gratification | Jan 18 20:08 |
| MinceR | they don't see, they don't understand, they don't care, and they won't survive | Jan 18 20:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | and worse | Jan 18 20:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | if they are rich | Jan 18 20:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | which meas over 50 | Jan 18 20:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | they don't have much time left | Jan 18 20:08 |
| MinceR | pretty sure bill gAIDS was rich when he was shat into the world | Jan 18 20:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | so those DAs have disregard for safety and survival in the long run, like 2 decadses | Jan 18 20:08 |
| techrights-news | African cyber criminals https://defenceweb.co.za/cyber-defence/interpol-op-sentinel-hits-african-cyber-criminals/ | Jan 18 20:12 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-defenceweb.co.za | Interpol Op Sentinel hits African cyber criminals - DefenceWeb | Jan 18 20:12 | |
| techrights-news | Former Manitoba NDP MLA files defamation claim against premier, 2 other MLAs, over Nygard association https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/wasyliw-kinew-lawsuit-kinew-cross-bushie-9.7034368 it can harm the SLAPPers http://techrights.org/n/2025/07/18/The_Law_Firm_SLAPPing_Us_For_the_Microsofters_Lost_72_of_Its_Ta.shtml | Jan 18 20:15 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.cbc.ca | Former Manitoba NDP MLA files defamation claim against premier, 2 other MLAs, over Nygard association | CBC News | Jan 18 20:15 | |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights — The Law Firm SLAPPing Us For the Microsofters Lost 72% of Its Tangible Assets in the Past Year, According to Its Own Reports | Jan 18 20:15 | |
| techrights-news | home sales hit lowest level in more than two decades in 2025 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-home-sales-9.7034552 | Jan 18 20:16 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.cbc.ca | Vancouver area home sales hit lowest level in more than two decades in 2025 | CBC News | Jan 18 20:16 | |
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| techrights-news | ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): In Equatorial Guinea, GNU/Linux Measured at 5%, Windows Down to 5% Among All Devices (Android Dominates) ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/18/In_Equatorial_Guinea_GNU_Linux_Measured_at_5_Windows_Down_to_5_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/18/In_Equatorial_Guinea_GNU_Linux_Measured_at_5_Windows_Down_to_5_.gmi ∎ | Jan 18 20:31 |
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| techrights-news | Android still bigger than Windows by a large gap https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share//all/#monthly-202601-202601-map | Jan 18 20:32 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-gs.statcounter.com | Operating System Market Share Worldwide | Statcounter Global Stats | Jan 18 20:32 | |
| MinceR | (cat) https://desu-usergeneratedcontent.xyz/int/image/1767/98/1767980529614.jpg | Jan 18 20:34 |
| techrights-news | "Fast-forward 16 years, to last week, and the trusty G25’s pedals stopped working. Right in the middle of a race. Balls." gemini://republic.circumlunar.space/users/korruptor/blog/2026-01-18-PXN-VD6-Bundle.gmi | Jan 18 20:36 |
| techrights-news | "We've just pushed up a new version of mfgames-writing-js[1]. Naturally, this started with the usual process of doing a little housekeeping, and bringing packages up to date." gemini://mfgames.com/blog/2026/01/17/a-slew-of-breaking-fixes/ | Jan 18 20:36 |
| techrights-news | "Indeed, I've been mostly away for the last few months. Not that I've been completely disconnected, I do watch stuff on youtube, though not as much as I used to, and not the kind of content that the so-called algorithm tries to force-feed you with. In other words, I've been judicious in my use of internet content." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2773 | Jan 18 20:38 |
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| techrights-news | Techrights – Links 18/01/2026: The "Deepfake Porn Site Formerly Known as Twitter" and Turkey to Block Kids' Access to Social Control Media ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/Links_18_01_2026_The_Deepfake_Porn_Site_Formerly_Known_as_Twitt.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/Links_18_01_2026_The_Deepfake_Porn_Site_Formerly_Known_as_Twitt.gmi ∎ | Jan 18 20:42 |
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| Isambard_Prince | <schestowitz[TR2]> zinc or did many people flush viagra down the toilet? | Jan 18 20:59 |
| Isambard_Prince | Viagra is kind of garbage compared to Cialis. | Jan 18 20:59 |
| Isambard_Prince | But it was on the market first and they never tend to get things right on the first try. | Jan 18 20:59 |
| Isambard_Prince | Cialis has a lower side effect profile and tends to be more effective and longer acting. | Jan 18 21:00 |
| Isambard_Prince | Part of this is because it's more selective in suppressing enzymes that affect other bodily functions than Viagra is. | Jan 18 21:01 |
| Isambard_Prince | Viagra will suppress three. | Jan 18 21:01 |
| Isambard_Prince | PDE-5 is the one you want to suppress when you're treating ED or Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. | Jan 18 21:02 |
| Isambard_Prince | But Viagra iirc also acts on PDE-1 and PDE-4. | Jan 18 21:02 |
| Isambard_Prince | So it's much more likely to affect bone growth and repair, or make you see things with a blue or green tint, or get headaches. Things like that. | Jan 18 21:02 |
| Isambard_Prince | All undesirable. | Jan 18 21:02 |
| Isambard_Prince | Cialis has some effect on PDE-1 and PDE-4 but much less so than Viagra. | Jan 18 21:03 |
| Isambard_Prince | schestowitz[TR2], There was a guy at RCA, one of the engineers, that was caught stealing toilet paper out of the janitorial closet. | Jan 18 21:07 |
| Isambard_Prince | They took him in the office and said they wouldn't fire him but he'd never get a raise as long as he worked there. | Jan 18 21:07 |
| Isambard_Prince | So he worked there for the last 12 years the engineering dept was there without getting any raises. | Jan 18 21:08 |
| Isambard_Prince | Which also hurt him in retirement because your pension grew as your salary did. It was averaged out. | Jan 18 21:08 |
| Isambard_Prince | Even though RCA is gone, the pension plan was taken over by the federal government. | Jan 18 21:08 |
| Isambard_Prince | So he's still alive and his pension checks that he gets today are lower than they should be because he was caught stealing cheap toilet paper out of a closet at RCA in 1990. | Jan 18 21:09 |
| Isambard_Prince | Also, how would you like your coworkers to make fun of you constantly, especially around the annual COLA time when they all got raises and you were the guy who didn't get one because of stealing toilet paper? | Jan 18 21:10 |
| Isambard_Prince | MinceR, The guy next door did not pay Verizon. | Jan 18 21:28 |
| Isambard_Prince | They let him get over $1300 in arrears before they cut him off. | Jan 18 21:29 |
| Isambard_Prince | Surprisingly, only $374 was what was left on his cell phone, and the rest was service that he did not pay for. | Jan 18 21:29 |
| Isambard_Prince | That's the danger of postpaid plans. They don't necessarily cut you off right away. They let it build up for a while while they ruin your credit then they sell it to a collection agency. | Jan 18 21:29 |
| Isambard_Prince | Postpaid cell phone plans never help your credit. They can only hurt it. | Jan 18 21:30 |
| MinceR | have you tried paying your phone bills? | Jan 18 21:30 |
| Isambard_Prince | They don't report on time payments. | Jan 18 21:30 |
| Isambard_Prince | They only report if you are late. | Jan 18 21:30 |
| Isambard_Prince | MinceR, Sure, I pay my cell phone bill in 1 year increments. | Jan 18 21:30 |
| Isambard_Prince | My carrier is prepaid and the price per month goes down $10 if you pay yearly. | Jan 18 21:31 |
| Isambard_Prince | You'd have to be stupid to not pay in advance like that. | Jan 18 21:31 |
| MinceR | do you have a data plan on it with a monthly charge? | Jan 18 21:31 |
| Isambard_Prince | It's $20 a month for the same coverage and speed as T-Mobile. Which is over $60. | Jan 18 21:31 |
| Isambard_Prince | Why would you just....open the trash and throw two $20 bills in it every month? That's basically what T-Mobile is. | Jan 18 21:32 |
| Isambard_Prince | <MinceR> do you have a data plan on it with a monthly charge? | Jan 18 21:32 |
| Isambard_Prince | Voice and Data are the same thing. Voice doesn't "count" towards your data if you buy a limited high speed data package though. | Jan 18 21:33 |
| Isambard_Prince | But voice calls run over the data network now. | Jan 18 21:33 |
| MinceR | yeah, but that package has monthly costs, doesn't it? | Jan 18 21:33 |
| Isambard_Prince | Android phones work better on the limited plans than iPhones do. | Jan 18 21:33 |
| MinceR | i saw a point to prepaid until i got a data plan for my phone | Jan 18 21:33 |
| MinceR | once i had to pay every month anyway, prepaid was just extra administration for nothing | Jan 18 21:33 |
| Isambard_Prince | You can install an ad blocker in your web browser, and another one as a pseudo VPN for apps so that they can't load any ads either. | Jan 18 21:33 |
| Isambard_Prince | I'm saving over 2 GB a month in high speed data just by blocking the ad and tracking servers. | Jan 18 21:34 |
| Isambard_Prince | That's 10% of my high speed data allotment. | Jan 18 21:34 |
| Isambard_Prince | Just by blocking shit and junk I don't want anyway. | Jan 18 21:34 |
| MinceR | we have a "choice" between nazi collaborator deutsche telekom and 2 carriers owned by 4ig (which belongs to members of the child-torturing pedophile party) | Jan 18 21:34 |
| MinceR | in other words, we don't have choice | Jan 18 21:34 |
| MinceR | and we don't have competition | Jan 18 21:34 |
| Isambard_Prince | Well in America those parties are the same thing really. | Jan 18 21:35 |
| Isambard_Prince | So we only have one choice. | Jan 18 21:35 |
| MinceR | and this was instituted by the party that foamed at the mouth about how anti-communist they are. | Jan 18 21:35 |
| Isambard_Prince | MinceR, 78 Democrats in the House voted to thank ICE for their "service". | Jan 18 21:35 |
| Isambard_Prince | Which involved murdering 26 Americans last year and 2 so far this year, in cold blood. | Jan 18 21:35 |
| MinceR | and even after 16 years of this shit, millions of these retarded cocksuckers believe anything the gypsy king says. | Jan 18 21:35 |
| MinceR | i wonder how devil apes managed to survive for tens of thousands of years, despite being as stupid as the hungarians, the yanks, the slovaks, the poles and all the other dumb motherfuckers | Jan 18 21:36 |
| MinceR | lol @ "democrats" thanking the gestapo for their "service" | Jan 18 21:36 |
| MinceR | (video) (audio) https://imgur.com/gallery/zETVgiO | Jan 18 21:38 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights- ( status 403 @ https://imgur.com/gallery/zETVgiO ) | Jan 18 21:38 | |
| Isambard_Prince | Yeah, and two of them were from Illinois. | Jan 18 21:38 |
| Isambard_Prince | I hate Illinois Nazis. | Jan 18 21:38 |
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| MinceR | oh, also, prepaid tends to cost more here if you have some sort of monthly plan in it (like for data) | Jan 18 21:44 |
| Isambard_Prince | Postpaid is an expensive trap that includes the ability to ruin your credit. | Jan 18 21:46 |
| Isambard_Prince | Like you need more of those opportunities in this country. | Jan 18 21:46 |
| Isambard_Prince | With credit cards, auto loans, personal loans, mortgage loans, landlords, and hospitals. | Jan 18 21:46 |
| Isambard_Prince | Why not add the phone company based on the way you chose to pay them> | Jan 18 21:46 |
| Isambard_Prince | :P | Jan 18 21:46 |
| Isambard_Prince | You know so there's an even bigger mess on there. | Jan 18 21:47 |
| Isambard_Prince | If your phone bill starts going late you can drag your FICO score down another 100 points. | Jan 18 21:47 |
| Isambard_Prince | Most people can't afford anything on there that sinks their FICO score at all. | Jan 18 21:48 |
| Isambard_Prince | Landlords want to see a clean credit report or you may not have anywhere to live. | Jan 18 21:48 |
| Isambard_Prince | If all something can do is cost more and hurt your credit, why do it that way? | Jan 18 21:48 |
| Isambard_Prince | You know what kind of person you're dealing with when you pull up a report where they're not paying anything, including the phone company. | Jan 18 21:49 |
| MinceR | here postpaid is only expensive if you hardly ever use your phone | Jan 18 21:49 |
| Isambard_Prince | And how does a bill for a phone get to $1300? | Jan 18 21:49 |
| Isambard_Prince | What do you have on that phone bill? | Jan 18 21:49 |
| MinceR | you don't even have to buy your phone from the phone company | Jan 18 21:49 |
| Isambard_Prince | My dad would have skinned me alive if there were $10 in long distance charges at the end of the month on a $15 phone bill. | Jan 18 21:50 |
| Isambard_Prince | And now there's people with $150 phone bills who don't think anything of it? | Jan 18 21:50 |
| Isambard_Prince | Noot $150 a year. | Jan 18 21:50 |
| Isambard_Prince | $150 a month. | Jan 18 21:50 |
| Isambard_Prince | *Not | Jan 18 21:50 |
| Isambard_Prince | MinceR, The neighbor's car sounds horrible. | Jan 18 22:03 |
| Isambard_Prince | It's a Nissan though.... | Jan 18 22:03 |
| MinceR | :) | Jan 18 22:03 |
| Isambard_Prince | It's half the age of my car and it sounds worse. | Jan 18 22:03 |
| Isambard_Prince | The exhaust smells bad too. | Jan 18 22:03 |
| Isambard_Prince | I think the engine is running rich. | Jan 18 22:03 |
| MinceR | the owner probably isn't :> | Jan 18 22:04 |
| Isambard_Prince | No, he's the one that owed Verizon the $1300 shutoff bill. | Jan 18 22:04 |
| Isambard_Prince | :) | Jan 18 22:04 |
| Isambard_Prince | MinceR, He's always out there smoking cigarettes and marijuana though. | Jan 18 22:04 |
| Isambard_Prince | His last name is Anderson. | Jan 18 22:04 |
| MinceR | Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson. | Jan 18 22:05 |
| Isambard_Prince | So whenever I go by I say "Mr. Anderson." in the style of Agent Smith. | Jan 18 22:05 |
| Isambard_Prince | As you can see, we've had our eye on you for some time now, Mr. Anderson. | Jan 18 22:05 |
| Isambard_Prince | :D | Jan 18 22:05 |
| MinceR | :> | Jan 18 22:05 |
| Isambard_Prince | I loved those movies, especially the first one. | Jan 18 22:05 |
| Isambard_Prince | What good is a phone call if......you owed $1300 to Verizon and they shut you off? *weird smile* | Jan 18 22:06 |
| MinceR | :> | Jan 18 22:06 |
| Isambard_Prince | MinceR, Yeah, money is not abundant. | Jan 18 22:07 |
| Isambard_Prince | It went to the weed dispensary, the gas station for cigarettes, and Verizon, probably for a bunch of iCrap. | Jan 18 22:07 |
| Isambard_Prince | All with its own data line when using wifi for a tablet is the obvious choice. | Jan 18 22:07 |
| Isambard_Prince | Why does a tablet need its own data plan? | Jan 18 22:08 |
| Isambard_Prince | Like, what are you doing with a fucking tablet that can't make phone calls, where you need a data plan? | Jan 18 22:08 |
| MinceR | lol | Jan 18 22:09 |
| MinceR | why splurge on fashion accessories if you're poor? | Jan 18 22:09 |
| Isambard_Prince | MinceR, Because you NEED an iPhone Pro Max when your car is out there begging to be shot. | Jan 18 22:10 |
| Isambard_Prince | :) | Jan 18 22:11 |
| MinceR | lol | Jan 18 22:11 |
| Isambard_Prince | MinceR, My car started running poorly a couple weeks ago. | Jan 18 22:11 |
| Isambard_Prince | I hit it with two tanks of treated gas back to back. | Jan 18 22:11 |
| Isambard_Prince | It cleared right up. | Jan 18 22:11 |
| Isambard_Prince | Carbon fouling causes cylinder 4 to misfire. | Jan 18 22:11 |
| Isambard_Prince | I told my mechanic it's cheaper to just do this every few years than find out why it's always cylinder 4 eventually. | Jan 18 22:12 |
| Isambard_Prince | My guess is the injector has a buildup issue and doing this cleans it up just enough for the car to behave for a few years. | Jan 18 22:12 |
| Isambard_Prince | A new fuel injector is an expensive part. | Jan 18 22:13 |
| Isambard_Prince | The labor to install it is going to be more than the cost of the part though. | Jan 18 22:13 |
| Isambard_Prince | It's easier to just clean up the ones you already have with some detergent if that works. | Jan 18 22:13 |
| Isambard_Prince | The benefit of port fuel injection is that the cleaner will also end up getting sprayed over the backs of the intake valves. | Jan 18 22:14 |
| Isambard_Prince | And it will get much of the buildup off those too. | Jan 18 22:14 |
| Isambard_Prince | With GDI, you can't clean the valves this way. | Jan 18 22:14 |
| Isambard_Prince | They'd have to be removed and cleaned. | Jan 18 22:15 |
| Isambard_Prince | With GDI, the most a fuel system cleaner is going to do is fix an injector buildup problem. | Jan 18 22:15 |
| Isambard_Prince | The detergent won't survive past the injector. | Jan 18 22:15 |
| Isambard_Prince | You might have slight cleaning of the piston head, but nothing remarkable. | Jan 18 22:15 |
| Isambard_Prince | That's the most stubborn deposit area there is. | Jan 18 22:15 |
| Isambard_Prince | After the intake valves which are in the combustion chamber on GDI, you have the fuel sprayed over the spark plugs, and any PEA detergent that survives that will be minimal, so you'll get trivial cleaning of the combustion chamber where the minimal remaining detergent happened to go. | Jan 18 22:17 |
| Isambard_Prince | Where does the carbon buildup that got cleaned up go? Well, most of it ends up as carbon dioxide and just goes out the tailpipe. | Jan 18 22:17 |
| Isambard_Prince | It's something where you don't want to pay for a thorough repair because the car is so old and who knows how long you have until something that exceeds the value of the car happens. | Jan 18 22:19 |
| Isambard_Prince | Fuel Trim figures got a lot better after the treatment, but over time they tend to get worse again. | Jan 18 22:20 |
| Isambard_Prince | A can of this stuff every 6 months isn't unreasonable. | Jan 18 22:20 |
| MinceR | how old is that car? | Jan 18 22:22 |
| Isambard_Prince | It's a 2008. | Jan 18 22:27 |
| Isambard_Prince | The sticker said manufactured in November of 2007. | Jan 18 22:27 |
| Isambard_Prince | GM advises against fuel system cleaners, but really if you're driving a car this old then GM doesn't really care what issues come up. | Jan 18 22:27 |
| Isambard_Prince | Also, they sell a fuel system cleaner. | Jan 18 22:28 |
| MinceR | :> | Jan 18 22:28 |
| Isambard_Prince | It's basically Techron in a GM bottle. | Jan 18 22:28 |
| Isambard_Prince | Except that it's the old Techron formula. | Jan 18 22:28 |
| Isambard_Prince | Not the one where Chevron lowered the PEA content that you can get at Walmart. | Jan 18 22:28 |
| Isambard_Prince | So the GM version still works. | Jan 18 22:28 |
| MinceR | :> | Jan 18 22:29 |
| Isambard_Prince | When you go off label, sometimes you get a better product. They tell the supplier what the requirements are. | Jan 18 22:29 |
| Isambard_Prince | There's nothing wrong with AC Delco Fuel System Treatment Plus. | Jan 18 22:29 |
| Isambard_Prince | Other than the fact that it's hard to get now. | Jan 18 22:29 |
| Isambard_Prince | The GM parts department at the dealer said they could order it in for me but I'd have to buy a case of 12, and it would be $27 per bottle. | Jan 18 22:30 |
| Isambard_Prince | Gumout Multi System is $6.47 a can at Walmart and it works just as well. | Jan 18 22:30 |
| MinceR | which is the GM product? | Jan 18 22:31 |
| Isambard_Prince | They said they just don't sell enough of it at the parts department to order in a full case and sell me a bottle or two. | Jan 18 22:31 |
| Isambard_Prince | AC Delco is the GM OE parts supplier. | Jan 18 22:31 |
| MinceR | ic | Jan 18 22:31 |
| Isambard_Prince | Most people that drive a GM car don't keep it that long. | Jan 18 22:32 |
| Isambard_Prince | They just utterly ruin it and buy a new car every 5 years. | Jan 18 22:32 |
| *psydroid3 has quit (Quit: KVIrc 5.2.6 Quasar http://www.kvirc.net/) | Jan 18 22:32 | |
| Isambard_Prince | They don't last long enough to develop carbon problems. | Jan 18 22:32 |
| Isambard_Prince | MinceR, The only positive review I read about a GM car lately was a guy who traded in his BMW and said this is much better. | Jan 18 22:33 |
| Isambard_Prince | About a Chevy Impala in 2020. | Jan 18 22:33 |
| MinceR | lol | Jan 18 22:33 |
| MinceR | "wow, it doesn't burn itself down in 3 years! best car ever!" | Jan 18 22:33 |
| Isambard_Prince | During the later years, the Chevy Impala had a very weak transmission. | Jan 18 22:33 |
| Isambard_Prince | They'd blow up about every 50,000 miles. | Jan 18 22:34 |
| MinceR | still not as bad as the audi allroad | Jan 18 22:34 |
| Isambard_Prince | A GM engineer said they deliberately cheapened them. | Jan 18 22:34 |
| Isambard_Prince | He said maybe if you over-serviced them like every 10,000 miles or so, you MIGHT get 200,000 miles out of some of them. | Jan 18 22:34 |
| Isambard_Prince | MinceR, I went to the post office with over 100 letters for people who don't live here. | Jan 18 22:36 |
| Isambard_Prince | They asked why so many at once. I said it's not my job to go there every day with a few letters because their mailman can't tell who lives here, and those people did not set up mail forwarding, and they're lucky I brought them back at all. | Jan 18 22:37 |
| admfubar | https://www.osnews.com/story/144214/you-can-apparently-use-windows-7s-compositor-in-gnome-and-vice-versa-or-something/ | Jan 18 22:39 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-You can apparently use Windows 7’s compositor in GNOME, and vice versa – or something – OSnews | Jan 18 22:40 | |
| MinceR | yet another of those "but why would i want to" things | Jan 18 22:40 |
| MinceR | though i guess the "modern" crowd loves it | Jan 18 22:40 |
| MinceR | they can toy around with this broken hipster shit, and then go right back to using windows | Jan 18 22:41 |
| MinceR | https://imgur.com/gallery/iVQIXdy | Jan 18 22:45 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights- ( status 403 @ https://imgur.com/gallery/iVQIXdy ) | Jan 18 22:45 | |
| admfubar | https://www.rawstory.com/ice-2674906267/ | Jan 18 22:47 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.rawstory.com | ‘That is criminal!’ MAGA pundit rages as women use dating apps to expose ICE agents - Raw Story | Jan 18 22:47 | |
| MinceR | "only we are allowed to do whatever the fuck we feel like!" | Jan 18 22:49 |
| Isambard_Prince | MinceR, Tom Homan said that ICE is going to figure out who is protesting them, publicly dox them, and "report them to employers, landlords, we're gonna make them real famous". | Jan 18 22:53 |
| Isambard_Prince | That's illegal. | Jan 18 22:53 |
| MinceR | the nazi party doesn't care about what's legal and what isn't | Jan 18 22:55 |
| admfubar | https://petapixel.com/2026/01/16/only-known-daguerreotype-photos-of-computer-pioneer-ada-lovelace-join-uk-national-portrait-gallery-collection/ | Jan 18 23:02 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Only Known Daguerreotype Photos of Computer Pioneer Ada Lovelace Join UK National Portrait Gallery Collection | PetaPixel | Jan 18 23:02 | |
| admfubar | https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32618 | Jan 18 23:11 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-isc.sans.edu | "How many states are there in the United States?" - SANS ISC | Jan 18 23:11 | |
| admfubar | https://nerds.xyz/2026/01/acer-sues-att-verizon-tmobile-over-patents/ | Jan 18 23:22 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-nerds.xyz | Acer takes AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile to court in a rare legal fight over wireless patents | Jan 18 23:22 | |
| admfubar | https://databreaches.net/2026/01/18/japanese-nuclear-regulator-employee-loses-phone-containing-sensitive-info-in-china/ | Jan 18 23:28 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Japanese nuclear regulator employee loses phone containing sensitive info in China – DataBreaches.Net | Jan 18 23:28 | |
| admfubar | https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-generated-dead | Jan 18 23:34 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-futurism.com | Man Confused by AI-Generated Reports That He's Dead | Jan 18 23:34 | |
| admfubar | so these robots have dope in them? https://futurism.com/future-society/elon-musk-tesla-robot-forget-cars | Jan 18 23:35 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-futurism.com | Elon Musk Says His Optimus Robot Is So Dope That People Will Forget Tesla Ever Made Cars | Jan 18 23:35 | |
| MinceR | lol | Jan 18 23:36 |
| admfubar | https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/media-execs-end-journalism | Jan 18 23:36 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-futurism.com | Media Execs Prepare for AI to Bring End of Journalism Industry | Jan 18 23:36 | |
| MinceR | sounds like he doesn't have much trust in tesla's cars. wonder why... | Jan 18 23:36 |
| admfubar | because his robot cars are just as stoned as humanoid robots? | Jan 18 23:38 |
| admfubar | https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-surveillance-false-arrests | Jan 18 23:41 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-futurism.com | AI Surveillance Systems Are Causing a Staggering Number of Wrongful Arrests | Jan 18 23:41 | |
| admfubar | https://restofworld.org/2026/india-ai-data-license-fee/ | Jan 18 23:43 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-restofworld.org | India plans to AI companies pay for training data - Rest of World | Jan 18 23:43 | |
| admfubar | https://restofworld.org/2026/byd-profits-drop/ | Jan 18 23:44 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-restofworld.org | BYD profit falls amid EV price war, Tesla challenge - Rest of World | Jan 18 23:44 | |
| admfubar | https://slashdot.org/story/26/01/18/0631239/retailers-rush-to-implement-ai-assisted-shopping-and-orders | Jan 18 23:55 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-slashdot.org | Retailers Rush to Implement AI-Assisted Shopping and Orders - Slashdot | Jan 18 23:55 | |
| admfubar | https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/01/ai-and-the-corporate-capture-of-knowledge.html | Jan 18 23:58 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-AI and the Corporate Capture of Knowledge - Schneier on Security | Jan 18 23:58 | |
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