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● Feb 18
[00:02]	MinceR	you can't have the former with humans
[00:08]	psydruid	eternal peace
[00:20]	IsambardPrince	mrdaemonfc
[00:20]	IsambardPrince	
[00:20]	IsambardPrince	2m ago
[00:20]	IsambardPrince	If President Musk and his lapdog Trump think that army vets and civil servants are garbage and useless spending, they think that my retired parents who don't pay in, and need a government check, are garbage and useless spending too. They're getting to that.
[00:21]	IsambardPrince	Splitchsplerchsplat is going to be the sound your retired parents make when Trump sends them through the garbage disposal.
[00:21]	IsambardPrince	Tell them "I can't help you recover from your horrible decisions. I kind of have a lot going on myself." It won't be a lie.
[00:21]	IsambardPrince	Dave Ramsey was right when he said Social Security won't be there. At least a few million people saw his Trump commercial that he hosted, and voted to shut it down, which was the only way it would ever fail for sure.
[00:21]	IsambardPrince	Ramsey should just take a hike and go on vacation forever because he finally has hundreds of millions of dollars paid for by people who don't know not to buy a $90,000 truck with $30,000 of interest and finance room crap, or to pay their full credit card bill at the end of the month or cut them up, and so they pay him for "Financial Peace University" with money they needed by cutting spending and paying it back, or filing bankruptcy 
[00:21]	IsambardPrince	which is bad but not nearly the horror story Ramsey implies. When President Musk gets done with the IRS, Ramsey will hardly pay any of his taxes at all. You will.
[00:21]	IsambardPrince	LOL
[00:23]	IsambardPrince	Added: To Ramsey Solutions, people with debt who pay a guy to tell you the stinking obvious reasons why you suck and how to get out of debt are like tossing a grenade in the lake to catch fish, you know that right.
[00:41]	IsambardPrince	comment replyHousehold debt for Americans is at a new high of over $18 Trillion. Happy to say by eoy we will be debt free except a mortgage.
[00:41]	IsambardPrince	from Gauze99
[00:41]	IsambardPrince	
[00:41]	IsambardPrince	 via /r/DaveRamsey sent 10 hours ago
[00:41]	IsambardPrince	show parent
[00:41]	IsambardPrince	You are grossly generalizing saying most people in your comments. Most people do not buy a 90k car, most people do not have lousy credit. Do a chunk of people follow both of these. Sure but most is not accurate
[00:41]	IsambardPrince	I replied, 
[00:41]	IsambardPrince	"About a third or something have lousy credit. I don't recall, but it's a lot. Part of that is because we have the crappiest healthcare system in the developed world that is also the most expensive.
[00:41]	IsambardPrince	But people find their way into more trouble every day, and it's encouraged because we live in a diseased country where people don't want to put in any work on not going into debt to buy things or at least work on polishing their turd of a FICO score before they do so it won't sting as much.
[00:41]	IsambardPrince	Then they call into Dave saying they financed a $90,000 truck at 17%, or get on FICO Forums and people tell them how to get a mortgage with a 560 and just barely enough debt to income.
[00:41]	IsambardPrince	Will they get a mortgage? Sure, but statistically they won't pay it and even if they did somehow, it would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars more over 30 years.
[00:41]	IsambardPrince	Don't take loans, but if you do, make sure they're as small as possible at as low interest as possible and only for a basic car to get to work and suitable housing. Don't have champagne wishes and caviar dreams on a beer budget with a 560 FICO.
[00:41]	IsambardPrince	it turns into a cycle of debt because you have peeople like my mom putting Amazon boxes she doesn't even open on credit cards and making the minimum payment so they don't sue her that month and it's all interest.
[00:41]	IsambardPrince	Before Elon Musk shut down the CFPB the other day, through his proxy president and proxy CFPB director, the CFPB had opened an investigation into Berkshire Hathaway for financing mobile homes at 18% interest, including to some people who had dozens of negative line items on their credit report, some of which didn't make any payments once they had the place and were in foreclosure proceedings within four months.
[00:41]	IsambardPrince	So expect that nobody will be investigating, punishing, or reporting financial company malfeasance for a while."
[00:42]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, I saw a 2020 Honda Accord for sale at a good price.
[00:42]	IsambardPrince	Turned out to be a bank repo.
[00:43]	IsambardPrince	There's only two oil change records in 5 years and they were at 5,600 miles and 26,500 miles. And it's got over 51,000 miles on it now.
[00:43]	IsambardPrince	I'd be willing to bet that engine is a sludge factory by now.
[00:43]	IsambardPrince	The car still looks good, but I don't know about the engine.
[00:44]	IsambardPrince	It's possible they took it somewhere and got more that didn't propagate to Carfax, but even Walmart reports to Carfax.
[00:44]	MinceR	:>
[00:44]	IsambardPrince	You're supposed to be changing the oil about every 5,000-8,000 miles, minimum, depending on the car, the engine type, and the oil you use.
[00:45]	IsambardPrince	The Euro cars have these stupid long intervals, but they specify Euro oil.
[00:45]	IsambardPrince	People just put the cheapest shit they can find and run them 20,000 miles on it.
[00:45]	MinceR	and you're usually better off not obeying those stupid long intervals
[00:45]	IsambardPrince	They bring it in when it's not running so good anymore.
[00:45]	IsambardPrince	Chocolate milkshake.
[00:45]	MinceR	the forbidden chocolate milkshake
[00:46]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, I use fully synthetic oils in my old clunker and change it out every 3,000 miles or so.
[00:46]	IsambardPrince	Just like I always have.
[00:46]	IsambardPrince	I've never had a problem related to oil breakdown.
[00:46]	IsambardPrince	The last owner wasn't that good about oil changes, but it wasn't horrific.
[00:47]	IsambardPrince	The engine survived a couple of crankcase flushes.
[00:47]	IsambardPrince	The oil has stayed the correct color and without any appreciable soot in it ever since then.
[00:48]	IsambardPrince	People ask why I change the oil out like mad. Engine work isn't cheap.
[00:48]	IsambardPrince	And the oil companies pretty much give me the oil for free.
[00:48]	IsambardPrince	It's just ridiculous how cheaply *I* can buy oil.
[00:48]	IsambardPrince	I hit up Walmart when Discover is at 5% there, and use Mandy's 10% discount, then I buy up 4 jugs and hit the rebates under both our names.
[00:49]	IsambardPrince	Then I have oil for two years and the $29 jug was like $4.
[00:49]	IsambardPrince	If you're not brand loyal you really save money because you can switch between whoever is running a promotional.
[00:50]	IsambardPrince	And all the parts stores take the used oil for free.
[00:50]	IsambardPrince	When it gets stupid cold outside, I just let Walmart do a bring your own supplies oil change. It's like $25 plus the stuff.
[00:50]	IsambardPrince	I cycle between filter brands, for coupons and to make sure they really changed the filter.
[00:51]	IsambardPrince	If I came in and handed you a white filter and there's a blue one, and there's a blue one after the change, I caught you.
[00:51]	MinceR	i think you've explained this already
[00:51]	IsambardPrince	It's easier than diving in and using a marker.
[00:51]	IsambardPrince	Well, my mom has a habit of buying problem cars.
[00:52]	IsambardPrince	I go "What's the service history?" Uh uh.
[00:52]	IsambardPrince	She goes "OH MEN ALWAYS CHEAT ME BECAUSE I'M A WOMAN!:
[00:52]	IsambardPrince	I said, "No, they cheat you because you're an uneducated consumer going to a used car lot."
[00:52]	IsambardPrince	"DO YOU WANT ME TO HANG UP THIS PHONE!?!?"
[00:52]	IsambardPrince	That's how it goes.
[00:53]	IsambardPrince	She went and financed her last piece of crap with something called "CREDIT ACCEPTANCE CORP".
[00:53]	IsambardPrince	It was like 30% interest and they threw in a "warranty" in Chicago that said "We're not paying for that." for another $3,000.
[00:54]	IsambardPrince	"BUT THAT MAN TOLD ME IT WAS GOOD!!!"
[00:54]	IsambardPrince	It was good for him.
[00:54]	IsambardPrince	:P
[00:56]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, Immigrants are funny about how badly they misunderstand our government.
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[00:56]	IsambardPrince	"I haven't gotten my SSS yet." And it turns out they are talking about a Social Security card. The SSS is Selective Service, the military draft board.
[00:56]	MinceR	seems to me the people born there also misunderstand the government pretty badly
[00:56]	IsambardPrince	SSSSS SSSS SSSSS SSSSS SSSSS
[00:56]	MinceR	ah, i see you speak python
[00:57]	IsambardPrince	Elon Musk should delete SSS.
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[00:57]	MinceR	felon musk should delete orange mussolini and himself
[00:57]	IsambardPrince	All they do is cost $about $27 million a year and they admit 40% of their records are inaccurate and half the young people don't even register.
[00:57]	IsambardPrince	And it hasn't been used since 1978.
● Feb 18
[01:00]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, I told someone "You should get this fixed soon regardless. "DOGE" is shutting down Social Security offices as the leases expire.
[01:00]	IsambardPrince	The easiest way to get people to go away and quit asking for stuff like Disability is make the hearing office 400 miles away, but it will also affect many other people."
[01:02]	nobody	isn't "government efficiency" and their DOGE a reasonable approach in some cases?
[01:02]	MinceR	if it was government efficiency, it would be
[01:02]	MinceR	but it isn't
[01:02]	nobody	ok, what is it then?
[01:02]	IsambardPrince	"Trump is just a proxy. And MElon's little spoiled brat son even told Trump to shush his mouth and go away because he's not the real President.
[01:02]	IsambardPrince	Which is what we call a "sick burn" where I'm from. :)
[01:02]	IsambardPrince	Trump didn't even look like this was unexpected."
[01:03]	MinceR	things like firing the people responsible for investigating felon musk's crimes
[01:03]	MinceR	and randomly fucking up things they don't understand
[01:03]	MinceR	like firing nuclear weapon specialists and then hiring them back
[01:04]	nobody	did they?
[01:04]	MinceR	yeah
[01:04]	nobody	well, "nuclear waste" disposal is a huge issue in USA, it's extremely expensive too
[01:05]	nobody	extremely expensive
[01:05]	MinceR	they should pile them up on the toilets of mar-a-lago
[01:05]	MinceR	that would be cheaper
[01:05]	nobody	anyway, during the german election campaigning, not a single of those 8 or so political parties campaigned for anti-corruption
[01:06]	nobody	i've had my dose of brainfuck in recent days
[01:06]	MinceR	and as we all know, if a politician campaigns for anti-corruption and they get elected, they will definitely decrease corruption
[01:06]	nobody	results will be announced sunday
[01:06]	MinceR	and the tooth fairy will help!
[01:06]	nobody	interestingly, public propaganda tv doesn't question lobbyism and corruption neither
[01:07]	nobody	the "heating law", "renewable subsidy" scam, thats hundred of billions
[01:07]	nobody	s
[01:08]	IsambardPrince	USCIS API is back.
[01:08]	nobody	i've checked the "satire" "Die Partei" and their programme, seems they're rather leftist, which is ok, and some of their stuff is funny
[01:08]	nobody	but i won't vote for them
[01:08]	IsambardPrince	According to their statistics, the September cases they work on now have a higher approval rate than October's.
[01:08]	IsambardPrince	Denials fell to 0.96%.
[01:08]	IsambardPrince	But RFEs also went up.
[01:09]	IsambardPrince	So they're asking people for more proof on immigration petitions.
[01:09]	IsambardPrince	But the denial rate is going down.
[01:09]	nobody	currently party politics agitate for defense spendings, to remain exempt from constitutional debt limit, as if anyone had ever complied with it to begin with
[01:11]	IsambardPrince	"We're at that Babylon 5 season where President Clark takes over and anyone who won't put on a Nightwatch band gets fired and possibly charged with crimes.
[01:11]	IsambardPrince	:)
[01:11]	IsambardPrince	That's what's happening here."
[01:11]	nobody	babylon 5 is boring
[01:12]	nobody	didn't manage to watch this more than an hour or two in total
[01:14]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, Today in Illinois, the House Republicans proposed a State DOGE.
[01:16]	IsambardPrince	It would make a 4 member commission with a director. Two members of the commission to cut budget items would be appointed by the Republicns, giving them 50% of the committee, even though they hold 30% of the seats in the legislature.
[01:16]	IsambardPrince	:)
[01:16]	IsambardPrince	The bill was read once and referred to committee.
[01:16]	IsambardPrince	(of Democrats)
[01:17]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, I'm probably going to submit testimony against the Illinois DOGE bill.
[01:17]	MinceR	"republicans
[01:17]	MinceR	"
[01:17]	IsambardPrince	I'm going to say something like "The Republicans in Illinois, who nobody elected to do anything, think they can seize 50% of the budgetary power, by emulating Elon Musk, who was not elected to anything."
[01:21]	nobody	"Any denied asylum seeker whose country of origin agreed to welcome their citizens back home will have their social security cut down to zero", Nancy Faeser
[01:24]	IsambardPrince	Asylum seekers don't get "Social Security" in the US.
[01:24]	IsambardPrince	So you must be talking about some other place?
[01:24]	nobody	the "social media influencer" body builder from afghanistan was sentenced by court over "social security fraud", shortly thereafter he rammed a car into verdi labor union protesters
[01:24]	IsambardPrince	Asylum seekers in the US have to pay Social Security, but they won't get benefits.
[01:24]	IsambardPrince	Unless they can move to a green card or citizenship status, where they also have enough work credits.
[01:25]	nobody	IsambardPrince: here in germany/eu _everyone_ who illegally entered the country will receive "social security" even when they never worked nor paid any social security insurance fees here
[01:25]	IsambardPrince	The good news is your work credits from when you weren't eligible are counted if you become eligible later.
[01:25]	IsambardPrince	Green cards are pretty hard to get. The easiest way to get one is to get married to an American.
[01:26]	IsambardPrince	Sometimes you can move from H1-B to a green card, if you have an employer who wants to sponsor your adjustment of status and removal of conditions.
[01:26]	IsambardPrince	It happens, but it's more likely the employer puts you on a plane back to India.
[01:27]	nobody	i don't want to move neither to the US nor getting married in germany or wherever else
[01:27]	nobody	anyway, we've got a million or so of the type of immigrant with "psychological conditions"
[01:27]	IsambardPrince	Lots of people have psychological conditions.
[01:28]	IsambardPrince	Most of those conditions are harmless and respond to therapy or medication.
[01:28]	nobody	everyone has once in a while in a lifetime
[01:28]	IsambardPrince	Some are too dangerous to allow into public though, but since they shut all the state hospitals down, they dump them into public.
[01:29]	nobody	situation now is, we're confronted with a million or so immigrants who could boil up civil war in germany if their demands are not met
[01:29]	IsambardPrince	In an ideal world we'd separate the ones who can be helped from the ones that are only fit to be institutionalized (which is a very small number.
[01:29]	IsambardPrince	That's not really what's happening in the US, you know.
[01:29]	IsambardPrince	There's 12 million illegal immigrants and they don't march on anything.
[01:29]	IsambardPrince	They're all in hiding from 6,000 ICE agents.
[01:30]	MinceR	18 022756 < IsambardPrince> Lots of people have psychological conditions.
[01:30]	IsambardPrince	Nobody wants to be the one they nab, so there's 12 million in hiding from 6,000.
[01:30]	nobody	i suspect it's much more than 1 million though; the million was the number that a politician was willing to admit in public
[01:30]	MinceR	some of those conditions enable people who have them to be elected into positions of power.
[01:31]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, The shopper at Jewel-Osco was not paying attention. It was not just a dozen apples I didn't order or get charged for.
[01:31]	IsambardPrince	They charged me for 2 pounds of mushrooms.
[01:31]	IsambardPrince	And gave me 5 pounds of mushrooms.
[01:32]	IsambardPrince	Mushrooms, mushrooms, humands like mushrooms.
[01:32]	IsambardPrince	Mr. Plumr likes mushrooms.
[01:32]	IsambardPrince	The Yellen kind, not the grocery store kind.
[01:32]	MinceR	"HELLO. THIS IS MARY. I AM A HUMAN WITH SOFT SKIN."
[01:37]	IsambardPrince	I would have voted with the Republicans on the "Inflation Reduction Act" if I had been a member of Congress.
[01:38]	IsambardPrince	Voting is a binary thing, it's yes or no.
[01:38]	IsambardPrince	The Democrats sent 83% of the money to Republican congressional districts.
[01:38]	IsambardPrince	And much of it to Elon Musk.
[01:38]	IsambardPrince	There's no requirements that the money can only go to union shops.
[01:38]	IsambardPrince	And a lot of it is going to source things from China.
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[02:49]	IsambardPrince	"$18 trillion, about 10% of that is credit card debt.
[02:49]	IsambardPrince	El Crappo said he wanted a 10% cap. What that would do is apply going forward while most of the rest of you just get balance chased and locked out of the credit card market, and you'd still owe what you spent at the rate you agreed to pay it at.
[02:49]	IsambardPrince	It wouldn't help. And even if they set it at a 20-25% cap, most would just see it as a license to spend even more and the card would still be maxed out.
[02:49]	IsambardPrince	Trump setting a price cap on access to credit is just going to turn out how Milton Friedman described price caps in general.
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[02:49]	IsambardPrince	He said that economists don't know much, but they know how to make a shortage. If you want there to be no tomatoes, pass a law that you can't sell tomatoes for more than 2 cents a pound and there will be no tomatoes. It's the same with gas and oil.
[02:49]	IsambardPrince	Or loans, or apartments, or anything really.
[02:49]	IsambardPrince	Price controls got passed in New York and San Francisco decades ago and we all know the problem went away immediately in the housing market and they're the cheapest place to get an apartment in America. :)"
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[02:54]	IsambardPrince	"What would actually happen is this. If landlords couldn't raise rent at all and started to take a loss, they'd have a fire sale on the building or knock it down or file bankruptcy knowing that their creditors wouldn't even want it.
[02:54]	IsambardPrince	Everyone who can't afford an apartment would cling to the one they have and never budge, and any that were open, people would come out of the woodwork to try to grab it knowing there'd be no rent hikes and nobody else would ever compete for it. So the ones that were available would fill up. Since there's a price cap, there'd be no incentive at all to build more, so nobody would, and then you'd have no new units coming online.
[02:54]	IsambardPrince	In my area, there's an apartment shortage. The landlords have junk and have been amusing themselves with ridiculous rent hikes, but since there's market demand, the developers are coming in and the city approved a plan to create a thousand new apartments that will start coming online in October, and the landlords with a dump they haven't maintained since 1974 will be the ones in a world of s**t."
[02:56]	IsambardPrince	"Trump's credit card cap at 10% is just tomatoes for no more than 2 cents, or gas for no more than a dollar. If you want no tomatoes and no gas, go for it.
[02:56]	IsambardPrince	It's the same with credit cards. There will be a wave of bankruptcies from people who can no longer play the scoop and toss game with balance transfers, and say "F**k it, die then." and file Chapter 7. It will be a hoot."
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[03:12]	admfubar	vampire diaries????  https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/what-500-year-old-transylvanian-diaries-teach-us-about-the-climate
[03:12]	TR Bot	 What 500-Year-Old Transylvanian Diaries Teach Us About the Climate | Discover Magazine
[03:21]	MinceR	:>
[03:29]	admfubar	https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/02/russian-spies-use-device-code-phishing-to-hijack-microsoft-accounts/
[03:29]	TR Bot	 What is device code phishing, and why are Russian spies so successful at it? - Ars Technica
[03:29]	admfubar	https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/02/texas-measles-outbreak-climbs-to-48-cases-almost-all-kids-13-hospitalized/
[03:29]	TR Bot	 Measles outbreak in undervaccinated Texas area doublesagain - Ars Technica
[03:33]	admfubar	left untreated she would have turned into RFK Jr... https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/02/burning-in-womans-legs-turned-out-to-be-slug-parasites-digging-in-her-brain/
[03:33]	TR Bot	 Burning in womans legs turned out to be slug parasites migrating to her brain - Ars Technica
[03:33]	MinceR	:>
[03:38]	admfubar	things not going well at apple??  https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/02/apple-tv-crosses-enemy-lines-will-be-available-as-an-android-app-starting-today/
[03:38]	TR Bot	 Apple TV+ crosses enemy lines, will be available as an Android app starting today - Ars Technica
[03:41]		*Received a CTCP VERSION from Harambe
[03:44]	admfubar	https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/02/reddit-mods-are-fighting-to-keep-ai-slop-off-subreddits-they-could-use-help/
[03:44]	TR Bot	 Reddit mods are fighting to keep AI slop off subreddits. They could use help. - Ars Technica
[03:55]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], Good news.
[03:55]	IsambardPrince	The UK is eligible for the diversity visa lottery now.
[03:56]	IsambardPrince	Get yourself a green card, bring Rianne. :)
[03:58]	IsambardPrince	The Philippines is not eligible under this category and has not been since at least 1995.
● Feb 18
[04:10]	admfubar	https://epic.org/epic-testifies-in-support-of-new-mexico-privacy-bill/
[04:10]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://epic.org/epic-testifies-in-support-of-new-mexico-privacy-bill/ )
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[04:33]	IsambardPrince	https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/feb/17/uk-savers-urged-to-act-now-and-shake-off-their-isa-apathy
[04:33]	TR Bot	 UK savers urged to act now and shake off their Isa apathy | Isas | The Guardian
[04:33]	IsambardPrince	Why do these accounts pay no interest?
[04:33]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], ?
[04:33]	IsambardPrince	I do not understand why you would put savings into a savings account with no interest.
[04:33]	IsambardPrince	If you do that it may as well be cash sitting in a cigar box.
[04:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	IsambardPrince: there is still
[04:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	isa
[04:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	and some at 4%
[04:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	for two years
[04:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	i.e. till 2027
[04:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	e.g. https://www.nationwide.co.uk/savings/compare-savings-accounts-and-isas/?filters=isa
[04:42]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.nationwide.co.uk/savings/compare-savings-accounts-and-isas/?filters=isa )
[04:45]	TR News	Techrights Welcome to the New Techrights https://techrights.org/ | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/ 
[04:45]	TR News	Techrights IRC Proceedings: Monday, February 17, 2025 https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/18/IRC_Proceedings_Monday_February_17_2025.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/02/18/IRC_Proceedings_Monday_February_17_2025.gmi 
[04:45]	TR Bot	 Techrights Welcome to the New Techrights
[04:45]	TR Bot	 Techrights IRC Proceedings: Monday, February 17, 2025
[04:47]	TR News	 (NEW):  Today in Techrights https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/18/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/18/Today_in_Techrights.gmi 
[04:47]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Today in Techrights
[04:48]	admfubar	https://www.ghacks.net/2025/02/17/accidental-integration-netflix-shows-up-on-apple-tv-app-then-disappears/
[04:48]	TR Bot	 Accidental Integration: Netflix Shows Up on Apple TV App, Then Disappears - gHacks Tech News
[04:49]	TR News	Techrights Over at Tux Machines... https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/18/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/02/18/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi 
[04:49]	TR Bot	 Techrights Over at Tux Machines...
[04:49]	admfubar	https://www.ghacks.net/2025/02/17/apple-maps-may-soon-feature-ads-but-not-everyones-onboard/
[04:49]	TR Bot	 Apple Maps May Soon Feature Ads, But Not Everyone's Onboard - gHacks Tech News
[04:49]	MinceR	ad-shaped terrain?
[04:49]	MinceR	ad-shaped grayscale filter on the satellite view?
[04:50]	TR News	Freeland https://www.dw.com/en/canada-detects-china-linked-campaign-targeting-freeland/a-71545318
[04:50]	TR Bot	detects China-linked campaign targeting Freeland DW 02/08/2025
[04:50]	MinceR	or just having you drive straight through the advertised shop en route to your destination
[04:50]	IsambardPrince	https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-deportations-ice-raids-mexico-b2696431.html
[04:50]	TR Bot	 One woman is deporting herself back to Mexico rather than wait for Trump to do it | The Independent
[04:50]	IsambardPrince	"Vasquez has watched all of it unfold with horror. She is one of more than 700,000 people in the U.S. with temporary legal status under the DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) or the DREAM Act a law that was passed during Barack Obamas administration in 2010 to protect people brought to the U.S. as children from deportation. The generation of immigrants who gained legal status under the act became known
[04:50]	IsambardPrince	 as Dreamers."
[04:50]	IsambardPrince	There is no DREAM Act.
[04:50]	IsambardPrince	It never passed.
[04:51]	MinceR	"That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it."
[04:51]	IsambardPrince	DACA is an executive order. It closed new applications due to being struck down. Current recipients may renew it for 2 years at a time, but it is deferred prosecution, not legal status.
[04:51]	TR News	Shipping container village https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/gatineau-shipping-container-village-full-after-one-month-1.4430885
[04:51]	TR Bot	 Gatineau shipping container village full after one month | CBC News
[04:51]	IsambardPrince	<schestowitz[TR2]> isa
[04:51]	IsambardPrince	<schestowitz[TR2]> and some at 4%
[04:51]	IsambardPrince	<schestowitz[TR2]> for two years
[04:51]	IsambardPrince	<schestowitz[TR2]> i.e. till 2027
[04:52]	IsambardPrince	So is it like a CD account?
[04:52]	TR News	When life gives you lemons, live in a shipping container
[04:52]	IsambardPrince	You just open them and put it there for two years at a fixed rate with a penalty for taking it early?
[04:52]	IsambardPrince	CDs are how you get fixed rates for a term at a US bank.
[04:52]	MinceR	"When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! GET MAD! I DON'T WANT YOUR DAMN LEMONS! WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH THESE? DEMAND TO SEE LIFE'S MANAGER! Make life RUE the day it thought it could give CAVE JOHNSON LEMONS! DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?! I'M THE MAN WHO'S GONNA BURN YOUR HOUSE DOWN! WITH THE LEMONS! I'M GONNA GET MY ENGINEERS TO INVENT A COMBUSTIBLE LEMON 
[04:53]	MinceR	THAT'S GONNA BURN YOUR HOUSE DOWN!"
[04:53]	IsambardPrince	Otherwise you get a rate that can go up or down as often as every day, but usually every 2-3 months.
[04:53]	TR News	"The expectation is the 300 IBM based jobs will be more productive than the 3000+ from India." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jma144j9
[04:53]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jma144j9 )
[04:53]	IsambardPrince	The Independent seems to get a lot of their stories about the US wrong.
[04:53]	TR News	"People making making the McDonalds references have the IQ of an imbecile" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jk8g4dph
[04:53]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jk8g4dph )
[04:54]	IsambardPrince	DACA was an executive order. It's still in the courts 13 years later.
[04:54]	IsambardPrince	The Fifth "Circus" can't seem to decide what they'll do with it.
[04:54]	IsambardPrince	Eventually SCOTUS will have to do something about it.
[04:55]	IsambardPrince	Nobody wants to do anything about it other than some activist judges in the districts, really, because it would unleash a catastrophe if current recipients lost it.
[04:55]	IsambardPrince	They'd all become deportable immediately under this administration. Tax revenue would be lost.
[04:55]	IsambardPrince	Families torn apart.
[04:55]	TR News	"Its not clear why you think you dont belong on PIP. You need to have full proof of that. Not sure why you mention disability and being at retirement age, neither gives you a free pass, Trust me I know." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jma1j24p
[04:55]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jma1j24p )
[04:56]	TR News	"It all depends on where IBM stands with its disability quota. Of course they will deny of one such quota placed on them by federal government." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jkw27we4
[04:56]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jkw27we4 )
[04:56]	IsambardPrince	Trump wants rid of it. He wants people being deported as fast as they can fill the planes and buses.
[04:57]	IsambardPrince	It seems "Shithole countries" at the priority. India, Venezuela, Nigeria, Haiti.
[04:57]	IsambardPrince	They're focusing on places like that.
[04:57]	TR News	"Yes, never disclose a disability when employed or looking for a new job. It's the kiss of death regardless of what laws say. Unless a family member has a disability others look at you as a problem, not a asset. Period end of story." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jkw27we4
[04:57]	IsambardPrince	Any country that has a stigma, they're focusing on that.
[04:58]	TR News	"and the interesting posting and remarks about DEI at IBM seems to have disappeared. Seems that someone wants to change the clock back after the posting struck a raw nerve....LOL ! Was it Alvind or one of his Pipmunks ? Someone is awfully sensitive when it comes to DEI and keeping the DEI flame burning at IBM. Raises and promotions should be based on merit ...." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jmaj5zq3
[04:58]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jmaj5zq3 )
[04:59]	IsambardPrince	I don't have the ability to help any of the people that deserve to stay here. So pretty much all I can do is vote for local officials that won't actively assist.
[04:59]	TR News	"their primary goal is not to produce great products but to produce high share prices which is how they get wealthier. those 2 goals are not perfectly aligned" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jmaj5zq3
[04:59]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, "I can save these people! Help me! Help me." 
[04:59]	admfubar	capitalism, why we cant have nice things.. https://hackaday.com/2025/02/17/the-unbreakable-beer-glasses-of-east-germany/
[04:59]	TR Bot	Unbreakable Beer Glasses Of East Germany | Hackaday
[04:59]	MinceR	18 055427 < IsambardPrince> The Fifth "Circus" can't seem to decide what they'll do with it.
[04:59]	MinceR	[Julius Fuk's "Entry of the Gladiators" intensifies]
[04:59]	IsambardPrince	Many have said that....but you are the first I believe can do it!
[04:59]	MinceR	:>
[04:59]	TR News	"The stock buyback effort keeps the share price high. Who can trust a company that have a $ 60 Billion debt, when It is yearly revenue barely exceeds $ 60 Billion. Bankruptcy is looming, Creditors will get it for cheap." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jmaj5zq3
● Feb 18
[05:01]	TR News	Meta rebranded performance-based layoffs as non-regrettable attrition
[05:01]	MinceR	lol
[05:02]	MinceR	i thought that was the term for fuckerberg's death
[05:02]	TR News	Who would TRUST any airlines THIS YEAR? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/business/17southwest-airlines-layoffs.html Trump is "saving my country" by screwing with aircraft control
[05:02]	TR Bot	 Southwest Layoffs Will Take 15% of Its Work Force - The New York Times
[05:03]	TR News	Hundreds of FAA Employees Drawn into Mass Layoffs https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/air-transport/2025-02-17/hundreds-faa-employees-drawn-mass-layoffs
[05:03]	TR Bot	 Hundreds of FAA Employees Drawn into Mass Layoffs | Aviation International News
[05:03]	TR News	Hundreds of FAA air traffic control staff fired just weeks after fatal DC plane crash https://6abc.com/post/trump-administration-begins-firings-faa-air-traffic-control-staff-weeks-fatal-dc-plane-crash/15920956/
[05:04]	TR Bot	administration begins firings of FAA air traffic control staff just weeks after fatal DC plane crash - 6abc Philadelphia
[05:15]	admfubar	https://libreture.com/bookshops/
[05:15]	TR Bot	 The Ultimate List of DRM-free Bookshops
[05:19]	TR News	Techrights Richard Stallman Confirms His Next Talk, "Free/Libre Software and Freedom in the Digital Society" (Next Monday in Free University of Bozen-Bolzano) https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/18/Richard_Stallman_Confirms_His_Next_Talk_Free_Libre_Software_and.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/02/18/Richard_Stallman_Confirms_His_Next_Talk_Free_Libre_Software_and.gmi 
[05:19]	TR Bot	 Techrights Richard Stallman Confirms His Next Talk, "Free/Libre Software and Freedom in the Digital Society" (Next Monday in Free University of Bozen-Bolzano)
[05:19]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, Rush Limbaugh used to call the Ninth Circuit the Ninth Circus.
[05:19]	IsambardPrince	Because there were so many liberal judges on it that it was the most reversed court in the nation.
[05:20]	IsambardPrince	But that's no longer the case, and the Fifth Circuit has so many right-wing judges on it that even this SCOTUS is annoyed and overturns like 78% of their rulings.
[05:20]	admfubar	this will be the bomb!  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43080378
[05:20]	TR Bot	 Open source projects could sell SBOM fragments | Hacker News
[05:20]	TR News	diversifying export https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/path-to-diversification-quebec-economy-tariffs-1.7453907
[05:20]	TR Bot	 High costs, shifting gears: Quebec business leaders say diversifying exports easier said than done | CBC News
[05:20]	IsambardPrince	Normally, the Supreme Court doesn't like it when so many rulings come out of an appeals court that they have to stop and deal with almost every single one of them.
[05:20]	IsambardPrince	Bad rulings.
[05:20]	IsambardPrince	You know, the Fifth makes so many of them that SCOTUS spends a lot of time reversing them.
[05:21]	TR News	I didn't feel able to have a child https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/i-didn-t-feel-able-to-have-a-child-because-i-didn-t-own-a-home-i-m-glad-i-was-wrong-1.7452893 Corporate media trying to tell people to get child-saddled, never mind overpopulation woes
[05:21]	TR Bot	 I didn't feel able to have a child because I didn't own a home. I'm glad I was wrong | CBC News
[05:22]	IsambardPrince	https://www.gbnews.com/news/migrant-drug-dealer-stay-uk-deportation-smoking-cannabis
[05:22]	TR Bot	 Migrant drug dealer dodges deportation after pledging to only smoke Cannabis not sell it
[05:22]	IsambardPrince	Shawn McLeod? Of the Clan McLeod?
[05:22]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, :D
[05:22]	IsambardPrince	Happy Halloweeen ladies! Lalalalalalalalalaa
[05:24]	TR News	Treasury agrees to block additional DOGE staff from accessing sensitive payment systems https://therecord.media/treasury-agrees-block-doge-access
[05:24]	TR Bot	 Treasury agrees to block additional DOGE staff from accessing sensitive payment systems | The Record from Recorded Future News
[05:25]	TR News	Indiana Man https://databreaches.net/2025/02/07/indiana-man-sentenced-to-20-years-in-federal-prison-for-conspiracies-involving-cyber-intrusion-and-a-massive-37-million-cryptocurrency-theft/
[05:25]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://databreaches.net/2025/02/07/indiana-man-sentenced-to-20-years-in-federal-prison-for-conspiracies-involving-cyber-intrusion-and-a-massive-37-million-cryptocurrency-theft/ )
[05:25]	TR News	Attorney General James Releases Statement on DOGE Access to Sensitive Personal Information https://databreaches.net/2025/02/07/attorney-general-james-releases-statement-on-doge-access-to-sensitive-personal-information/
[05:25]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://databreaches.net/2025/02/07/attorney-general-james-releases-statement-on-doge-access-to-sensitive-personal-information/ )
[05:26]	IsambardPrince	From his mothers basement in Indiana"
[05:26]	IsambardPrince	That's how you know it'll be good.
[05:26]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, ^
[05:27]	IsambardPrince	Indiana, the Chechnya of America.
[05:27]	IsambardPrince	The Taliban in the corn fields.
[05:27]	IsambardPrince	The meth lab of democracy.
[05:30]	TR News	Random Tangents gemini://tirohia.smol.pub/1739822884
[05:31]	TR News	"My go-to tool for automatically downloading files over Gemini protocol has been the gmni command line client. I've very glad to gmni exists, but it bothered me that I didn't have a way to do using just Elisp code. Naturally, I wondered if Elpher made available an API for this." gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20250217-0.gmi
[05:32]	TR News	"You like poetry? I'm working on one. It's called Self Reminder. Lend a patron your ear?" gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2497
[05:33]	TR News	Battlestation Crocket gemini://triplemon.smol.pub/battlestation_crocket
[05:34]	MinceR	18 062002 < IsambardPrince> But that's no longer the case, and the Fifth Circuit has so many right-wing judges on it that even this SCOTUS is annoyed and overturns like 78% of their rulings.
[05:34]	MinceR	lol
[05:34]	MinceR	18 062724 < IsambardPrince> The Taliban in the corn fields.
[05:34]	MinceR	you already have the american taliban everywhere in the country
[05:35]	MinceR	they're the majority.
[05:35]	TR News	"I like reading the 'about' pages on gopher holes, and finding interesting tidbits. The downlinkomega gopher site [0] runs on a Windows 95 486 box, perfectly appropriate for a gopher server. As expected, the response is quite speedy, despite the limited hardware." gopher://gopher.unixlore.net:70/0/glog/old-gopher-server-devuan-upgrade.md
[05:36]	TR News	[cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1559.jpg
[05:36]	TR News	[cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1209.jpg
[05:39]	TR News	Techrights Gemini Links 18/02/2025: Downloading Gemini Files with Emacs and Elpher, Gopher on Devuan https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/18/Gemini_Links_18_02_2025_Downloading_Gemini_Files_with_Emacs_and.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/02/18/Gemini_Links_18_02_2025_Downloading_Gemini_Files_with_Emacs_and.gmi 
[05:39]	TR Bot	 Techrights Gemini Links 18/02/2025: Downloading Gemini Files with Emacs and Elpher, Gopher on Devuan
[05:40]	IsambardPrince	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Manipulated_Man
[05:40]	TR Bot	 The Manipulated Man - Wikipedia
[05:41]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, Makes you wonder if the red states will pass the popular vote compact.
[05:41]	TR News	Old: Mark Shuttleworth resigns from Debian https://danielpocock.com/mark-shuttleworth-debian-volunteer-suicide-mass-resignations/
[05:41]	TR Bot	 Mark Shuttleworth resigns from Debian: volunteer suicide and Albania questions unanswered, mass resignations continue
[05:41]	IsambardPrince	If it becomes more plausible that a Democrat will benefit from the electoral college.
● Feb 18
[06:12]	TR News	Techrights #HowTo 'Sell' Software Freedom to People https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/18/How_to_Sell_Software_Freedom_to_People.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/02/18/How_to_Sell_Software_Freedom_to_People.gmi 
[06:12]	TR Bot	 Techrights How to 'Sell' Software Freedom to People
[06:16]	TR News	crypto scam https://thegrayzone.com/2025/02/17/milei-impeach-crypto-scam/ | Source: The Gray Zone http://techrights.org/o/2023/06/18/no-such-thing-as-cryptocurrency/
[06:16]	TR Bot	 Argentinas Milei faces impeachment for promoting crypto scam - The Grayzone
[06:16]	TR Bot	 There is No Such Thing as 'Cryptocurrency' and Please Stop Referring to It as Cryptocurrency
[06:18]	TR News	"The Hanoi People's Procuracy in Vietnam has issued an indictment against two men said to be the operators of the massive Fmovies piracy empire shut down last year." https://torrentfreak.com/incredible-fmovies-piracy-indictment-is-not-a-stunning-victory-for-hollywood-250217/ | Source: Torrent Freak
[06:18]	TR Bot	Fmovies Piracy Indictment is Not a "Stunning Victory" For Hollywood * TorrentFreak
[06:19]	TR News	"After previously making some improvements for Steam Deck, developer Pounce Light have now implemented more proper controller support for Tiny Glade. Now even more people will be able to enjoy it, as controller support will make it a lot more accessible." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/the-beautiful-diorama-builder-tiny-glade-adds-controller-support/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
[06:19]	TR Bot	beautiful diorama builder Tiny Glade adds controller support | GamingOnLinux
[06:19]	TR News	"A Game About Digging A Hole has a very simple idea, everything about it is in the name, and yet it managed to pull a whole lot of people in." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/a-whole-lot-of-people-picked-up-a-shovel-for-a-game-about-digging-a-hole/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
[06:19]	TR Bot	whole lot of people picked up a shovel for A Game About Digging A Hole | GamingOnLinux
[06:20]	TR News	"Luanti (formerly Minetest) has a new release out, which finally adds an in-game settings menu so you don't have to quit your current game to adjust things." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/luanti-formerly-minetest-v5-11-out-now-with-an-in-game-settings-menu-and-better-server-browser/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
[06:20]	TR Bot	(formerly Minetest) v5.11 out now with an in-game settings menu and better server browser | GamingOnLinux
[06:20]	TR News	"From Walaber Entertainment who made Parking Garage Rally Circuit and JellyCar Worlds, their next game is Replicube." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/check-out-the-demo-for-replicube-an-open-ended-programming-puzzle-game-from-walaber/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
[06:21]	TR Bot	out the demo for Replicube an open-ended programming puzzle game from Walaber | GamingOnLinux
[06:21]	TR News	"Exabyte Games announced they're bringing their popular survival strategy base-builder to PC with Final Outpost: Definitive Edition. There's a demo available now with Native Linux support." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/final-outpost-is-hopping-over-from-mobile-to-pc-with-a-definitive-edition-demo-available-now/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
[06:21]	TR Bot	Outpost is hopping over from mobile to PC with a Definitive Edition - demo available now | GamingOnLinux
[06:27]	TR News	"Things get weird real fast in SUPER DEBT, a new bullet-hell dungeon crawler from developer zagawee, who also made Garbanzo Quest." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/super-debt-is-a-twin-stick-bullet-hell-dungeon-crawler-where-time-eats-away-your-money/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
[06:27]	TR Bot	DEBT is a twin-stick bullet-hell dungeon crawler where time eats away your money | GamingOnLinux
[06:32]	TR News	Techrights The Washington Post (Jeff Bezos) Dies in Darkness https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/18/The_Washington_Post_Jeff_Bezos_Dies_in_Darkness.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/02/18/The_Washington_Post_Jeff_Bezos_Dies_in_Darkness.gmi 
[06:32]	TR Bot	 Techrights The Washington Post (Jeff Bezos) Dies in Darkness
[06:36]	TR News	https://www.thelocal.se/20250217/europes-security-is-at-a-turning-point-eu-leader-warns
[06:36]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelocal.se/20250217/europes-security-is-at-a-turning-point-eu-leader-warns )
[06:49]	TR News	Techrights By Buying Twitter, MElon and Cheeto Now Control EU Politicians, Even at the Highest Levels https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/18/By_Buying_Twitter_MElon_and_Cheeto_Now_Control_EU_Politicians_E.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/02/18/By_Buying_Twitter_MElon_and_Cheeto_Now_Control_EU_Politicians_E.gmi 
[06:49]	TR Bot	 Techrights By Buying Twitter, MElon and Cheeto Now Control EU Politicians, Even at the Highest Levels
[06:53]	TR News	"In a world where Artificial Intelligence is everywhere, you work for an AI megacorp and you're the one sent around to people's homes to fix up all their problems." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/ai-is-everywhere-in-ai-confidential-and-its-your-job-to-fix-up-all-the-robots-check-out-the-demo/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
[06:53]	TR Bot	is everywhere in AI Confidential and it's your job to fix up all the robots - check out the demo | GamingOnLinux
[06:53]	TR News	"Here's a bit of fluff for you today: fans of Deep Rock Galactic are in for a treat, as you can now grab an officially licensed beer mug and they sure do look fancy." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/now-you-can-get-a-real-life-deep-rock-galactic-mug-for-all-your-beer/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
[06:53]	TR Bot	you can get a real-life Deep Rock Galactic mug for all your beer | GamingOnLinux
[06:53]	TR News	"With a demo now available, Is This Seat Taken? is a wonderfully charming idea for a logic puzzle game about picking up people and putting them in the right seat." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/is-this-seat-taken-is-a-thoroughly-charming-puzzle-game-about-swapping-seats/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
[06:53]	TR Bot	This Seat Taken? is a thoroughly charming puzzle game about swapping seats | GamingOnLinux
[06:57]	TR News	"Delta plane flips upside down in Toronto crash, at least 17 injured" https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/a/2277723.html
[06:57]	TR Bot	 RTL Today - Endeavor Air Flight 4819: Delta plane flips upside down in Toronto crash, at least 18 injured
[06:57]	TR News	"'I was just in a plane crash': Survivor shares video of moment Delta jet flipped, crash-landed in Toronto - The Times of India" https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/i-was-just-in-a-plane-crash-toronto-plane-crash-survivor-shares-video-of-moment-delta-plane-flipped/articleshow/118339739.cms
[06:57]	TR Bot	 Delta airplane crash: Passengers recount Delta jet crash in Toronto | World News - The Times of India
[06:57]	TR News	"Delta flight flips over at Toronto airport leaving at least 17 injured, including child: Latest" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/delta-plane-toronto-crash-live-updates-b2699775.html
[06:57]	TR Bot	redirect without Location header
[06:57]	TR News	"Delta plane crash at Toronto airport in Canada: All on board survive, officials say" https://www.axios.com/2025/02/17/delta-flight-crash-toronto-airport
[06:57]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.axios.com/2025/02/17/delta-flight-crash-toronto-airport )
[06:58]	TR News	"No fatalities after plane crashes, overturns during landing at Toronto's Pearson airport" https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-pearson-overturned-airplane-1.7461227
[06:58]	TR Bot	 18 injured after plane crashes, flips at Toronto's Pearson airport | CBC News
[06:58]	TR News	"U.S. Commuter Jet Ends Up Upside Down at Toronto Airport" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/jet-upside-down-toronto-airport-1235270676/
[06:58]	TR Bot	 U.S. Commuter Jet Ends Up Upside Down at Toronto Airport
[06:58]	TR News	"Local AI Voice Generators Are Here!" https://odysee.com/@AlphaNerd:8/local-ai-voice-generators-are-here!:7
[06:58]	TR Bot	 Local AI Voice Generators Are Here!
[06:59]	TR News	"DOGE2025 Is Getting the Catastrophic De-Ba'athification They Demanded" https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/17/doge2025-is-getting-the-catastrophic-de-baathification-they-demanded/
[06:59]	TR Bot	 DOGE2025 Is Getting the Catastrophic De-Ba'athification They Demanded - emptywheel
[06:59]	TR News	"Computers, Cars & Creatures" https://connortumbleson.com/2025/02/17/computers-cars-creatures/
[06:59]	TR Bot	 Computers, Cars & Creatures
[06:59]	TR News	"Europe's security is at a 'turning point', EU leader warns" https://www.thelocal.dk/20250217/europes-security-is-at-a-turning-point-eu-leader-warns http://techrights.org/n/2025/02/18/By_Buying_Twitter_MElon_and_Cheeto_Now_Control_EU_Politicians_E.shtml
[06:59]	TR Bot	 Europe's security is at a 'turning point', EU leader warns
[06:59]	TR Bot	 Techrights By Buying Twitter, MElon and Cheeto Now Control EU Politicians, Even at the Highest Levels
● Feb 18
[07:00]	TR News	Remember who helped MElon finance the Twitter buyout: the biggest boosters of Cheeto
[07:00]	TR News	Twitter became GAB
[07:00]	TR News	"Filmen Seven bibliotek-etisk misvisande Biblioteket tar saka #librarycase" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&u=https://bibliotekettarsaka.com/2025/02/17/filmen-seven-bibliotek-etisk-misvisande/
[07:00]	TR Bot	 Filmen Seven bibliotek-etisk misvisande Biblioteket tar saka #librarycase
[07:01]	TR News	 (NEW):  Games: Is This Seat Taken?, Deep Rock Galactic, SUPER DEBT, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/18/Games_Is_This_Seat_Taken_Deep_Rock_Galactic_SUPER_DEBT_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/18/Games_Is_This_Seat_Taken_Deep_Rock_Galactic_SUPER_DEBT_and_More.gmi 
[07:01]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Games: Is This Seat Taken?, Deep Rock Galactic, SUPER DEBT, and More
[07:01]	TR News	Just a BRIBE using money that does not exist and will not be spent. This is stenography: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/microsoft-to-invest-700-million-in-poland-polish-pm/articleshow/118326107.cms ("Microsoft to invest $700 million in Poland: Polish PM")
[07:01]	TR Bot	 Microsoft to invest $700 million in Poland: Polish PM - The Economic Times
[07:02]	TR News	"Firefox Public Data Report" poisoned with gratuitous javascript https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/hardware
[07:02]	TR Bot	 Firefox Public Data Report
[07:03]	TR News	coal https://www.desmog.com/2025/02/17/u-s-energy-secretary-chris-wright-backs-coal-and-attacks-sinister-climate-targets-at-arc-conference/ | Source: DeSmog
[07:03]	TR Bot	Energy Secretary Chris Wright Backs Coal and Attacks Sinister Climate Targets at ARC Conference - DeSmog
[07:08]	TR News	"YouTube is a massive competitor to TV" https://theconversation.com/youtube-at-20-how-it-transformed-viewing-in-eight-steps-250083 | Source: The Conversation
[07:08]	TR Bot	 YouTube at 20: how it transformed viewing in eight steps
[07:09]	TR News	"Ive been seeing a bunch of links to online stores that sell digital media books, music, etc. that is without DRM" https://lmika.org/2025/02/18/an-incomplete-list-of-drmfree.html | Source: Leon Mika
[07:09]	TR Bot	 An Incomplete List of DRM-Free Media Stores | Leon Mika
[07:10]	TR News	"More than 95% of the worlds internet traffic is transferred through undersea cables" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb/17/meta-plans-to-build-worlds-longest-underwater-sub-sea-cable-venture | Source: The Guardian UK
[07:10]	TR Bot	 Meta plans to link US and India with worlds longest undersea cable project | Meta | The Guardian
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[07:21]	TR News	"His argument was rejected by the tribunal, which upheld Ms Miluskas claims of pregnancy discrimination and unfair dismissal" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/pregnant-woman-unfair-dismissal-employment-tribunal-birmingham-b2699614.html | Source: The Independent UK
[07:21]	TR Bot	 Woman awarded 94,000 payout after being sacked with a jazz hands emoji while pregnant | The Independent
[07:21]	TR News	"A new report published today finds that news audiences and journalists alike are concerned about how news organisations are - and could be - using generative AI such as chatbots" https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/generative-ai-is-already-being-used-in-journalism-heres-how-people-feel-about-it/articleshow/118319657.cms | Source: India Times
[07:21]	TR Bot	 Generative AI is already being used in journalism - here's how people feel about it - The Economic Times
[07:22]	TR News	"It isnt clear how much AI-edited copy The Times will allow in published articles." https://www.theverge.com/news/613989/new-york-times-internal-ai-tools-echo | Source: The Verge
[07:22]	TR Bot	 The New York Times adopts AI tools in the newsroom | The Verge
[07:22]	TR News	"The other side: AP which has long been considered the gold standard of neutrality rejects any accusation of bias." https://www.axios.com/2025/02/17/trump-ap-gulf-america-mexico | Source: Axios
[07:22]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.axios.com/2025/02/17/trump-ap-gulf-america-mexico )
[07:23]	TR News	"New York Times goes AI for newspaper content generation"... so ANYTHING there is now SUSPECT! https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/02/17/guardian-does-openai-deal-new-york-times-goes-ai-for-newspaper-content-generation/ | Source: Pivot to AI
[07:23]	TR Bot	 Guardian does OpenAI deal, New York Times goes AI for newspaper content generation Pivot to AI
[07:23]	TR News	"responsible journalism." https://thedissenter.org/dissenter-weekly-a-star-chamber-for-journalists-2/ | Source: The Dissenter
[07:24]	TR Bot	 Dissenter Weekly: A Star Chamber For Journalists?
[07:27]	TR News	"Digital rights experts say the situation has created an unprecedented imbalance in power." https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/02/17/elon-musk-x-target-critics-federal-employees/ | Source: The Washington Post
[07:27]	TR Bot	stream 1 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2) ( status 0 @ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/02/17/elon-musk-x-target-critics-federal-employees/ )
[07:27]	TR News	"Signal is notably used by journalists to receive confidential information from sources, reassured by the knowledge that messages are end-to-end encrypted and stored on-device." https://www.theverge.com/news/613997/x-blocks-signal-me-links-errors | Source: The Verge
[07:27]	TR Bot	 X is blocking links to Signal | The Verge
[07:28]	TR News	High-Level Criminals Associate Privacy With Crime Because They Want Privacy Only for Themselves (Control But No Accountability) http://techrights.org/o/2020/08/14/control-but-no-accountability/
[07:28]	TR Bot	 High-Level Criminals Associate Privacy With Crime Because They Want Privacy Only for Themselves (Control But No Accountability)
[07:28]	TR News	"Political Prisoners" https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/02/17/un-expert-sounds-alarm-on-2000-political-prisoners-in-russia-a88054 | Source: The Moscow Times
[07:28]	TR Bot	 UN Expert Sounds Alarm on 2,000 Political Prisoners in Russia - The Moscow Times
[07:29]	TR News	"Navalny's lawyers remain "unjustly imprisoned, together with hundreds of political prisoners"" https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/02/16/russias-putin-bears-ultimate-responsibility-for-navalnys-death-eu-a88035 | Source: The Moscow Times
[07:29]	TR Bot	 Russias Putin Bears Ultimate Responsibility for Navalnys Death EU - The Moscow Times
[07:29]	TR News	"The Trump administration is facing multiple lawsuits challenging the actions" https://www.axios.com/2025/02/17/trump-firing-power-supreme-court-watchdog-dellinger | Source: Axios
[07:29]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.axios.com/2025/02/17/trump-firing-power-supreme-court-watchdog-dellinger )
[07:30]	TR News	"100% in the bag for Musk and Trump" https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/02/bezos-is-as-always-100-in-the-bag-for-musk-and-trump/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski http://techrights.org/n/2025/02/18/The_Washington_Post_Jeff_Bezos_Dies_in_Darkness.shtml
[07:30]	TR Bot	 jwz: Bezos is, as always, 100% in the bag for Musk and Trump
[07:30]	TR Bot	 Techrights The Washington Post (Jeff Bezos) Dies in Darkness
[07:30]	TR News	"You read that right. The Washington Post which has a responsibility to hold a magnifying glass up to powerful people like Elon Musk and Donald Trump refused to run our ad calling them out." https://www.commoncause.org/articles/jeff-bezos-doesnt-want-you-to-see-this/ | Source: Common Cause
[07:30]	TR Bot	 Here's the ad the Washington Post wouldn't run - Common Cause
[07:30]	TR News	"Janus Roses You Cant Post Your Way Out of Fascism crossed my radar on a hundred channels." https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/02/08/Posting-and-Fascism | Source: Tim Bray
[07:30]	TR Bot	 ongoing by Tim Bray Posting and Fascism
[07:31]	TR News	"Jesus warnings are dire: it is possible to love the Bible so much that you lose sight of loving the people God loves: the lost, the lowly, the broken, those far from God" https://aj.bourg.family/i-desire-mercy/ | Source: AJ Bourg
[07:31]	TR Bot	 I Desire Mercy The Anti Social
[07:32]	TR News	"A new ruling from the Danish Tax Council (Skatterdet) has determined that you are no longer tax liable in Denmark if you move abroad." https://www.thelocal.dk/20250217/digital-nomads-how-to-work-for-a-danish-company-without-paying-danish-tax | Source: The Local DK
[07:32]	TR Bot	 Digital nomads: How to work for a Danish company without paying Danish tax
[07:33]	TR News	"According to the US Department of Energy, the energy requirement for a large data center is 100 MWe, which is equivalent to the energy consumed by approximately 80,000 households in the United States." https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2025/02/17/nuclear-energy-for-ai-data-centers/ | Source: Modern Diplomacy
[07:33]	TR Bot	 Nuclear Energy for AI Data Centers - Modern Diplomacy
[07:33]	TR News	"The Trump administration has started firing hundreds of Federal Aviation Administration probationary employees who maintain critical air traffic control infrastructure, according to their union." https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/16/politics/faa-employees-fired-trump-administration/index.html | Source: CNN
[07:33]	TR Bot	 Hundreds of FAA probationary workers fired by Trump administration, union says | CNN Politics
[07:34]	TR News	"The Musk-Trump Administration fired "three hundred" FAA employees over the weekend just hours before Saturday's deadly plane crash near Atlanta, Georgia that killed two people." https://boingboing.net/2025/02/17/trump-fires-hundreds-of-faa-workers-hours-before-yet-another-deadly-plane-crash.html | Source: BoingBoing
[07:34]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://boingboing.net/2025/02/17/trump-fires-hundreds-of-faa-workers-hours-before-yet-another-deadly-plane-crash.html )
[07:35]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, https://www.npr.org/2025/02/17/g-s1-49341/eric-adams-justice-department-corruption-case-new-york-city-mayor
[07:35]	TR Bot	 Gov Hochul signals she may remove NYC Mayor : NPR
[07:35]	IsambardPrince	Looks like for the first time in 235 years, a New York governor is going to remove a mayor of New York City.
[07:36]	IsambardPrince	Trump said he'd drop all of Adams's corruption charges, and in return Adams would violate the law to let ICE in the jail.
[07:36]	IsambardPrince	The Governor was dithering about it but then all four deputy mayors resigned in protest, so now it looks like she's going to have to do it.
[07:36]	IsambardPrince	The Mayor refused to resign, claiming that God had "fortified" him.
[07:37]	IsambardPrince	Meanwhile, Texas and Louisiana have activated New York's Shield Law.
[07:38]	IsambardPrince	Hochul is refusing to extradite an abortion doctor to face murder charges in Louisiana for prescribing an abortion pill through the mail, which aborted a fetus in Louisiana.
[07:38]	IsambardPrince	Also, Texas fined the same doctor $100,000 but the Shield Law says New York courts and banks can't enforce it.
[07:39]	IsambardPrince	So the doctor is only safe as long as she doesn't leave New York, and may in fact have to flee the country.
[07:39]	IsambardPrince	If she does run to Canada and claim asylum for this, I wouldn't blame her.
[07:40]	IsambardPrince	I'd probably do the same thing myself honestly, just take a "day trip" to Canada and wait for SCOTUS to decide if Hochul has to sign the extradition warrant.
[07:40]	IsambardPrince	Canada beats prison.
[07:41]	IsambardPrince	Remember when the Republicans were promising that nobody would go to prison they just wanted to shut down the clinics?
[07:41]	IsambardPrince	Oh, but that was 25 months ago. My bad.
[07:42]	IsambardPrince	There's technically no safe way to get to Canada and take advantage of the Shield Law at the same time, come to think of it.
[07:43]	IsambardPrince	Canada controls who they let in, but Border Patrol would see the Louisiana warrant and take her into custody on the way back. I might be waiting in a car to drive into Canada quickly as soon as the ruling came down, before New York could be forced to enforce it.
[07:46]	IsambardPrince	It might also help if she got all her money into some form that was immune from her American bank accounts being frozen before she went up there and waited to see what SCOTUS says.
[07:49]	TR News	"The climate aware intersectional justice movement is on the back foot, and the fascists have (for now) won the propaganda war." https://idiomdrottning.org/back-foot | Source: Idiomdrottning
[07:49]	TR Bot	 On the back foot
[07:50]	TR News	"If passed, the bill would require the state Department of Ecology to establish PFAS sampling and testing requirements for biosolids by July 2027." https://phys.org/news/2025-02-washington-state-human-fertilizer-pfas.html | Source: Omicron Limited
[07:50]	TR Bot	( status 422 @ https://phys.org/news/2025-02-washington-state-human-fertilizer-pfas.html )
● Feb 18
[08:17]	IsambardPrince	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-Zg4N7qUJ4
[08:17]	TR Bot	https://invidious.tiekoetter.com/watch?v=L-Zg4N7qUJ4
[08:17]	TR Bot	api.invidious.io | Invidious Instances
[08:17]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], ^
[08:17]	IsambardPrince	Might want to listen to that.
[08:17]	IsambardPrince	But don't let rianne know
[08:17]	IsambardPrince	:D
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[08:30]		**.undernet.org removes channel operator status from schestowitz[
[08:32]	TR News	"In September 2015 the then Secretary of State for Justice commissioned a departmental review, supported by external expertise" https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/islamist-extremism-in-prisons-probation-and-youth-justice/summary-of-the-main-findings-of-the-review-of-islamist-extremism-in-prisons-probation-and-youth-justice | Source: The United Kingdom
[08:32]	TR Bot	of the main findings of the review of Islamist extremism in prisons, probation and youth justice - GOV.UK
[08:32]	TR News	"The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) is reviewing how it deals with extremism in prisons and its report is expected later this year." https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-7487/CBP-7487.pdf | Source: The United Kingdom
[08:32]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-7487/CBP-7487.pdf )
[08:38]	IsambardPrince	"At birth, the intelligence potential for a man and a woman is the same. However, potential, left unused, will atrophy. After a few years of schooling, a woman typically lets it go, and does not use it, because she does not have to. It is not important for their survival. It is possible for a beautiful woman to have less intelligence than a chimpanzee and still be considered an acceptable member of society. By the age of 12, most 
[08:38]	IsambardPrince	women have already decided to become prostitutes, or, to put it another way, they have planned a future of choosing a man and letting him do all the work. In return for his support, they are prepared to let him make use of their vagina at certain given moments. The minute a woman has made this decision, she ceases to develop her mind. She may of course go on to obtain various degrees and diplomas, as these increase her value in the 
[08:38]	IsambardPrince	eyes of men, for men believe that a woman who can recite things by heart must also know and understand them. But any real possibility of communication between the sexes ceases at this point, forever."
[08:38]	IsambardPrince	LOL
[08:40]	TR News	"A Russian court has fined Alphabet's Google 3.8 million roubles ($41,530) for hosting content on YouTube that included videos instructing Russian soldiers how to surrender, Russia's TASS news agency reported on Monday" https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/russia-fines-google-for-youtube-clip-telling-russian-troops-how-to-surrender/articleshow/118328126.cms | Source: India Times
[08:40]	TR Bot	 Russia fines Google for YouTube clip telling Russian troops how to surrender - The Economic Times
[08:41]	TR News	"he three men together with a fourth were, however, convicted of participation in a terrorist organisation, Islamic State in Somalia, the court said in a statement." https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-02-17/swedish-court-acquits-three-men-of-preparation-of-terrorist-crime | Source: US News And World Report
[08:41]	TR Bot	stream 1 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2) ( status 0 @ https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-02-17/swedish-court-acquits-three-men-of-preparation-of-terrorist-crime )
[08:56]	TR News	"That was the Third Reich's [Nazi Germany's] project in Europe. Russia's current aggression against Ukraine is of this very nature" https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/02/17/moscow-furious-over-italys-third-reich-comparison-a88051 | Source: The Moscow Times
[08:56]	TR Bot	 Moscow Furious Over Italys Third Reich Comparison - The Moscow Times
[08:57]	TR News	"This time Musk is investigating the exact same agency that is currently targeting him and fined him $22 million for security violations in a past case." https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-sec-tesla-doge-b2699798.html | Source: The Independent UK
[08:57]	TR Bot	 Elon Musks newest target is the regulator that fined him $20m and is still investigating him | The Independent
[08:58]	TR News	"The lawsuit highlighted that Musk and his new department have endangered critical foreign aid programmes and subsequently put people's careers, personal safety, and the lives of the less fortunate at risk." https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/usaid-workers-sue-elon-musk-over-unconstitutional-power-grab-endangering-peoples-careers-1731051 | Source: International Business Times
[08:58]	TR Bot	 USAID Workers Sue Elon Musk Over 'Unconstitutional Power Grab' And Endangering People's Careers And Safety | IBTimes UK
[08:58]	TR News	"Donald Trump and Elon Musk's assault on federal workers threatens government employees, working conditions throughout the economy, and the viability of crucial services. Federal workers are uniting across agency and union lines to fight back." https://jacobin.com/2025/02/federal-unions-doge-musk-trump/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine
[08:58]	TR Bot	 Federal Workers Are Mobilizing Against Musks Purge
● Feb 18
[09:01]	TR News	"The cuts included about 20 people in the FDAs office of neurological and physical medicine devices, several of whom worked on Neuralink" https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2025-02-17/exclusive-fda-staff-reviewing-musks-neuralink-were-included-in-doge-employee-firings-sources-say | Source: US News And World Report
[09:01]	TR Bot	stream 1 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2) ( status 0 @ https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2025-02-17/exclusive-fda-staff-reviewing-musks-neuralink-were-included-in-doge-employee-firings-sources-say )
[09:01]	TR News	"U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan in Washington, D.C., heard arguments on Monday" https://www.ksl.com/article/51255054/judge-expected-to-rule-in-24-hours-in-case-that-aims-to-sharply-curtail-musks-doge | Source: Deseret Media
[09:01]	TR Bot	expected to rule in 24 hours in case that aims to sharply curtail Musk's DOGE | KSL.com
[09:02]	TR News	 (NEW):  Stable kernels: Linux 6.13.3, Linux 6.12.14, and Linux 6.6.78 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/18/Stable_kernels_Linux_6_13_3_Linux_6_12_14_and_Linux_6_6_78.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/18/Stable_kernels_Linux_6_13_3_Linux_6_12_14_and_Linux_6_6_78.gmi 
[09:03]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Stable kernels: Linux 6.13.3, Linux 6.12.14, and Linux 6.6.78
[09:07]	TR News	"We are providing consular assistance to two British Nationals detained in Iran and are in contact with the local authorities" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/02/17/british-couple-detained-iran/ | Source: The Washington Post
[09:07]	TR Bot	stream 1 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2) ( status 0 @ https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/02/17/british-couple-detained-iran/ )
[09:07]	TR News	 (NEW):  This Week in KDE Apps https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/18/This_Week_in_KDE_Apps.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/18/This_Week_in_KDE_Apps.gmi 
[09:07]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines This Week in KDE Apps
[09:09]	TR News	"As he reviewed the existing security controls" https://blog.apnic.net/2025/02/17/appropriate-access-and-methods-to-ensure-are-changing/ | Source: APNIC
[09:09]	TR Bot	 Preparing for Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) | APNIC Blog
[09:10]	TR News	"It contains information such as taxpayers individual master files, taxpayer identification numbers, retirement account information and details on pending adoptions." https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/doge-affiliated-employee-access-irs-system-sensitive-taxpayer-inform-rcna192423 | Source: NBC
[09:10]	TR Bot	 DOGE-affiliated employee expected to seek access to IRS system with sensitive taxpayer information
[09:10]	TR News	"An Internal Revenue Service employee connected with the Elon Musk-led DOGE team is set to seek access to an IRS system that includes sensitive taxpayer data, the Washington Post first reported Sunday and Axios can confirm." https://www.axios.com/2025/02/17/doge-irs-access-taxpayer-data-system | Source: Axios
[09:10]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.axios.com/2025/02/17/doge-irs-access-taxpayer-data-system )
[09:10]	TR News	"Under pressure from the White House to comply with DOGEs efforts" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-doge-irs-sensitive-information-b2699770.html | Source: The Independent UK
[09:10]	TR Bot	 Elon Musks DOGE is seeking access to IRS system with sensitive taxpayer records, triggering lawmakers concerns | The Independent
[09:16]	TR News	 (NEW):  openSUSE Tumbleweed Moves to SELinux https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/13/openSUSE_Tumbleweed_Moves_to_SELinux.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/13/openSUSE_Tumbleweed_Moves_to_SELinux.gmi 
[09:16]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines openSUSE Tumbleweed Moves to SELinux
[09:16]	TR News	"The Atlas of Surveillance is a database of surveillance technologies deployed by law enforcement in communities across the United States." https://atlasofsurveillance.org/ | Source: EFF
[09:16]	TR Bot	 Atlas of Surveillance
[09:17]	TR News	"For the past few days on Twitter, a particularly alarming screenshot has spread of a forced Microsoft account sign-in screen appearing on Windows 11 this screenshot" https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/no-notepad-for-windows-11-doesnt-require-you-to-use-a-microsoft-account-unless-youre-trying-to-use-ai | Source: Tom's Hardware
[09:17]	TR Bot	 No, Notepad for Windows 11 doesn't require you to use a Microsoft account unless you're trying to use AI | Tom's Hardware
[09:18]	TR News	 (NEW):  LinuxConsole lightweight distribution https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/18/LinuxConsole_lightweight_distribution.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/18/LinuxConsole_lightweight_distribution.gmi 
[09:18]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines LinuxConsole lightweight distribution
[09:18]	TR News	"This algorithmic layer aims to do video analysis, whether in real time or after the fact, and to find whatever the police wants to find" https://www.laquadrature.net/en/2025/02/17/what-is-ai-video-surveillance/ | Source: La Quadature Du Net
[09:18]	TR Bot	 What is AI Video Surveillance? La Quadrature du Net
[09:18]	TR News	"Email breaches can be devastating, but the earlier you recognize the signs, the quicker you can take action." https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2025/02/17/how-to-recognize-the-early-warning-signs-of-a-security-breach-in-your-email/ | Source: Modern Diplomacy
[09:18]	TR Bot	 How to Recognize the Early Warning Signs of a Security Breach in Your Email - Modern Diplomacy
[09:27]	TR News	"onnx is an open format for representing machine learning models; it aims to unify the ecosystem. It doesnt support advanced use cases, such as model training checkpoints, but it is simple, secure (no arbitrary code execution), and easy to build on." https://mmapped.blog/posts/37-onnx-intro | Source: Roman Kashitsyn
[09:27]	TR Bot	 ONNX introduction
[09:27]	TR News	"A new AI architecture is challenging the status quo. LLaDA is a diffusion model that generates text" https://timkellogg.me/blog/2025/02/17/diffusion | Source: Tim Kellogg
[09:27]	TR Bot	 LLaDA: LLMs That Don't Gaslight You - Tim Kellogg
[09:27]	TR News	"slay the dread "correlation is not causation" beast" https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/17/caliper-ai/#racism-machine | Source: CoryDoctorow
[09:27]	TR Bot	 Pluralistic: Business school professors trained an AI to judge workers personalities based on their faces (17 Feb 2025) Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
[09:29]	TR News	"Turns out that my thoughts on Ubuntu were somewhat popular, and it ended up being ingested by an AI slop generator over at Fudzilla, with no links back to the source or anything." https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2025/02/17/influencer/ | Source: Herman unapuu
[09:29]	TR Bot	 Turns out that I'm a 'prolific open-source influencer' now :: ./techtipsy
[09:35]	IsambardPrince	This book The Manipulated Man is hilarious, but it's almost like they're describing my mother in reverse. She never traded up with men, only down. Never found one that would provide her nice things and material comfort, only ones that would detract from her own earnings potential, which was accomplished by my dad seizing her paychecks and putting them in his bank account, and Gonad and Dave drinking and smoking it away and 
[09:35]	IsambardPrince	lollygagging on fishing trips and buying garbage off ebay andd renting places to store things they didn't use.
[09:36]	IsambardPrince	Now that she has no man to do this, she dumps ten thousand dollars a year into the "church" while she told me she wouldn't sign a sponsorship paper for Mandy because what would she do if he ever took any assistance and they came for the....$10,000 a year....almost her entire pension (after tax) that the church takes?
[09:37]	IsambardPrince	She found another toxic man. God.
[09:37]	IsambardPrince	Never gives things to us, only takes them. Never helps us, only watches us squirm. And he likes money! Or rather, that pastor of hers does.
[09:38]	IsambardPrince	I'm not saying she owed me help, she doesn't. It's her money, not mine. If she wants to set it on fire in front of me while I need a serious favor, that's her choice.
[09:38]	IsambardPrince	And I found a way to get it all done without her, so oh well.
[09:40]	IsambardPrince	I had to use my BRAIN which is an accomplishment considering I have the genetic code of my father who couldn't be trusted to watch a pot of beans and did not notice the smoke detector go off when the water evaporated and the beans burned into slag, which really pissed off my mom. And then there's mom
[09:41]	IsambardPrince	But I am human, and I would prefer to be told a straight explanation for things instead of being pissed on and told it's raining.
[09:43]	TR News	 (NEW):  Netrunner Debian-based distribution https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/18/Netrunner_Debian_based_distribution.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/18/Netrunner_Debian_based_distribution.gmi 
[09:43]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Netrunner Debian-based distribution
[09:43]	psydroid2	Intel's planned obsolescence to re-establish world domination
[09:44]	psydroid2	https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000022396/processors.html
[09:44]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000022396/processors.html )
[09:44]	psydroid2	rocking in the non-free Windows world
[09:44]	IsambardPrince	The only book the Christians in America seem to pay much attention to is the Old Testament, and even then only the parts that don't criticize anything they're doing.
[09:45]	IsambardPrince	They use it as their Witch's Hammer, to bash gay people and ignore their own misdeeds and corruption.
[09:45]	TR News	"Throughout history, tyranny has been limited by human frailty. Dictators tire." https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-final-despotism | Source: Mike Brock
[09:45]	TR Bot	 The Final Despotism - by Mike Brock - Notes From The Circus
[09:45]	IsambardPrince	And they pay no attention to the themes of forgiveness, kindness, charity, and selflessness in the New Testament. In fact, those are DIRTY words you'd better not say in front of them.
[09:45]	TR News	"As India shapes its AI policy, government bodies discuss regulation, ethics, and innovation." https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/ai-regulations-still-in-beta-phase/articleshow/118336514.cms | Source: India Times
[09:45]	TR Bot	 India AI Action Summit: AI regulations still in beta phase - The Economic Times
[09:46]	IsambardPrince	When you piss one of them off, even by saying this, they THREATEN you like, "We're Christians and we don't like what you said." So you say, "Then forgive me?" I don't know. Seemed obvious.
[09:49]	IsambardPrince	There's nothing in the New Testament about revenge. Nothing. Especially not in the red letters, you know quoting Christ himself. Nothing about revenge or hatred, only that it's a serious serious character flaw and you shouldn't do it and you'll have a hard time getting into heaven, can't get into heaven with hate.
[09:49]	IsambardPrince	But man, do they cling to hate.
[09:49]		*psydroid2 sings the praises of #christiantech
[09:50]	IsambardPrince	Well, it's like having a book club where everyone shows up and has to flub it because nobody read it.
[09:51]	IsambardPrince	The point of mass printing the bible, and the first use of the printing technology, was so everyone could read the bible for themselves.
[09:51]	TR News	 (NEW):  Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/18/Free_and_Open_Source_Software_howtos_and_Installations.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/18/Free_and_Open_Source_Software_howtos_and_Installations.gmi 
[09:51]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations
[09:51]	IsambardPrince	They couldn't be bullshitted anymore by a priest interpreting things and saying stuff's in there when it's not.
[09:52]	IsambardPrince	Churches hated it. It democratized being able to read it for yourself, drawing your own conclusions. Sort of like you didn't need them anymore. Cuts out the middleman.
[09:54]	IsambardPrince	We are moving back to an illiterate society.
[09:54]	IsambardPrince	17% of Americans, and they're all Republicans, said the US Supreme Court is not binding, their decisions don't matter regarding things Trump does.
[09:54]	IsambardPrince	The Constitution says the court is the final word on the law. 
[09:54]	IsambardPrince	Hmm.
[09:55]	IsambardPrince	Every fascist movement that gets frustrated by courts, tries to get rid of the courts.
[09:58]	IsambardPrince	The Conservatives played around with jurisdiction stripping in the UK. In Israel I think Netanyahu's Likud party passed a law doing that and then the court struck it down and then there were riots.
[09:58]	IsambardPrince	Now Trump is trying to do it here.
[09:59]	TR News	 (NEW):  5 reasons I cant go back to Windows after trying Linux https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/18/5_reasons_I_can_t_go_back_to_Windows_after_trying_Linux.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/18/5_reasons_I_can_t_go_back_to_Windows_after_trying_Linux.gmi 
[09:59]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines 5 reasons I cant go back to Windows after trying Linux
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[10:04]	TR News	Techrights FUDZilla Has Turned Into LLM Slop and Machine-Generated FUD (New York Times Has Also Just Admitted Moving in That Direction) https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/18/FUDZilla_Has_Turned_Into_LLM_Slop_and_Machine_Generated_FUD_New.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/02/18/FUDZilla_Has_Turned_Into_LLM_Slop_and_Machine_Generated_FUD_New.gmi 
[10:04]	TR Bot	 Techrights FUDZilla Has Turned Into LLM Slop and Machine-Generated FUD (New York Times Has Also Just Admitted Moving in That Direction)
[10:24]	TR News	HIGHLY misleading title! https://medium.com/@ibtissamhammadi/why-did-linus-torvalds-reject-100m-to-switch-to-c-127a8b11e4a2
[10:24]	TR Bot	Did Linus Torvalds Reject $100M to Switch to C++ | by Ibtissam Hammadi | Feb, 2025 | Medium
[10:28]	TR News	 (NEW):   : Google Android Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/18/Android_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/18/Android_Leftovers.gmi 
[10:28]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Android Leftovers
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[10:39]	TR News	Techrights LLM Slop is Now Filling the Web With Pure Fiction/Fabrication/Misinformation About Linux https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/18/LLM_Slop_is_Now_Filling_the_Web_With_Pure_Fiction_Fabrication_M.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/02/18/LLM_Slop_is_Now_Filling_the_Web_With_Pure_Fiction_Fabrication_M.gmi 
[10:39]	TR Bot	 Techrights LLM Slop is Now Filling the Web With Pure Fiction/Fabrication/Misinformation About Linux
[10:45]	TR News	Seems like SLOP again https://medium.com/@jankammerath/is-windows-haunted-by-gary-kildall-12229204da06 https://medium.com/@jankammerath revisionism, calling facts "conspiracy theory" http://techrights.org/o/2020/01/05/history-canceled/
[10:45]	TR Bot	Windows Haunted By Gary Kildall? | by Jan Kammerath | Jan, 2025 | Medium
[10:45]	TR Bot	Kammerath Medium
[10:45]	TR Bot	 The Death of Gary Kildall Remains a Mystery to This Date
[10:48]	TR News	Pluralistic: Business school professors trained an Hey Hi (AI) to judge workers' personalities based on their faces (17 Feb 2025) https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/17/caliper-ai/
[10:48]	TR Bot	 Pluralistic: Business school professors trained an AI to judge workers personalities based on their faces (17 Feb 2025) Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
[10:49]	TR News	"According to a recently published procurement note, the 330-year-old institution said it was increasing the contract value awarded to its Oracle implementation partner Version 1 to 13.8 million." https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/17/bank_of_england_oracle/ | Source: The Register UK
[10:49]	TR Bot	 Bank of England's Oracle partner spend doubles The Register
[10:49]	TR News	"It is a standard practice to use milestones to reflect on the achievements of a project, such as the anniversary of its first release or first commit." https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1008721/7c31808d76480012/ | Source: LWN
[10:49]	TR Bot	years of systemd [LWN.net]
[10:49]	TR News	"To carry out these attacks, Salt Typhoon exploited two vulnerabilities to compromise unpatched Cisco devices running Cisco IOS XE software." https://insidetowers.com/chinese-hackers-still-breaching-u-s-telecoms-despite-sanctions/ | Source: Inside Towers
[10:49]	TR Bot	 Chinese Hackers Still Breaching U.S. Telecoms Despite Sanctions - Inside Towers
[10:50]	TR News	"Why it matters: It's a dangerous environment for a generation that's already sad and stressed" https://www.axios.com/2025/02/16/teen-loneliness-tech-ai-chatbots | Source: Axios
[10:50]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.axios.com/2025/02/16/teen-loneliness-tech-ai-chatbots )
[10:51]	TR News	"The foundational knowledge that used to come from struggling through problems is just missing." https://nmn.gl/blog/ai-and-learning | Source: Namanyay Goel
[10:51]	TR Bot	 New Junior Developers Cant Actually Code | Ns Blog
[10:55]	TR News	"The Oxford scientists used quantum entanglement to almost instantaneously send basic information between computers." https://www.wired.com/story/quantum-computing-information-teleportation/ | Source: Wired
[10:55]	TR Bot	Teleportation Breakthrough for Quantum Computing Is Here | WIRED
[10:56]	TR News	"If so, it will be the first planet ever found orbiting a hypervelocity star." https://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-may-have-found-the-fastest-star-system-weve-ever-seen | Source: Science Alert
[10:56]	TR Bot	May Have Found The Fastest Planetary System We've Ever Seen : ScienceAlert
[10:56]	TR News	"This post is simply a list of brief comments on many papers related to minimizers, and forms the basis of /posts/minimizers/." https://curiouscoding.nl/posts/minimizer-papers/ | Source: Groot Koerkamp
[10:56]	TR Bot	 Minimizer papers CuriousCoding
[10:57]	TR News	"David Jara Boguny, a marine wildlife photographer, was aboard the research vessel Glaucus when the creature appeared." https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/why-did-deep-sea-anglerfish-rise-thousands-feet-ocean-scientists-baffled-odd-behaviour-i-1731088 | Source: International Business Times
[10:57]	TR Bot	 Why Did The Deep Sea Anglerfish Rise Thousands of Feet in the Ocean? Scientists Baffled by Odd Behaviour 'I Thought It Was AI!' | IBTimes UK
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[11:03]	TR News	"I hear many men say that as we get older, it becomes more difficult to make new friendships." https://louplummer.lol/work-friends-real-friends/ | Source: Lou Plummer
[11:03]	TR Bot	 Work Friends, Real Friends | Living Out Loud
[11:04]	TR News	"Unfortunately comments from Disqus have not been migrated yet." https://maskray.me/blog/2025-02-17-migrating-comments-to-giscus | Source: MaskRay
[11:04]	TR Bot	 Migrating comments to giscus | MaskRay
[11:12]	TR News	"We recently redesigned our whitepapers as part of our broader rebranding project." https://ubuntu.com//blog/a-look-under-the-hood-of-our-grid-system-and-typography-for-the-a4-format | Source: Ubuntu
[11:12]	TR Bot	deep dive into our grid system and typography for the A4 format | Ubuntu
[11:13]	TR News	"Now, several years later, I feel much more comfortable running my own mail server again." https://jlelse.blog/posts/a-few-weeks-self-hosting-mails | Source: Jan Lukas Else
[11:13]	TR Bot	 Self-hosting my emails again: A few weeks in - Jan-Lukas Else
[11:14]	TR News	"I use a non-standard shell and have for a long time, which means that I have to write and maintain my own set of dotfiles" https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/MyPATHFilteringProgram | Source: University of Toronto
[11:14]	TR Bot	 Chris's Wiki :: blog/unix/MyPATHFilteringProgram
[11:15]	TR News	"We'll discuss how to make sure that your access to TLS (thread-local storage) is fast." https://yosefk.com/blog/cxx-thread-local-storage-performance.html | Source: Yossi Kreinin
[11:15]	TR Bot	 0+0 > 0: C++ thread-local storage performance
[11:15]	TR News	"I wrote my first program when I was a kidmany, many years agonot on a computer but on a piece of paper." https://jarosz.dev/atomicessay/why-test-first-development-is-so-damn-hard/ | Source: Jakub Jarosz
[11:15]	TR Bot	 Why Test-First Development Is So Damn Hard &vert; Jakub Jarosz
[11:15]	TR News	"tisthemachinelearner: A Lightweight interface to scikit-learn with 2 classes, Classifier and Regressor (in Python and R)" https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/02/tisthemachinelearner-a-lightweight-interface-to-scikit-learn-with-2-classes-classifier-and-regressor-in-python-and-r/ | Source: Rlang
[11:15]	TR Bot	A Lightweight interface to scikit-learn with 2 classes, Classifier and Regressor (in Python and R) | R-bloggers
[11:16]	TR News	"In 1986, a document called the 'Techno-Revolution Manifesto,' which was written by a hacker named 'Doctor Crash" https://hackernoon.com/hackers-are-becoming-a-rarer-breed | Source: Hacker Noon
[11:16]	TR Bot	Are Becoming a Rarer Breed | HackerNoon
[11:23]	TR News	"Artemis, the calm web reader I maintain, has a page where you can see all of the authors to which you are subscribed." https://jamesg.blog/2025/02/17/delete-action-design | Source: James G
[11:23]	TR Bot	 Designing a delete action in a web interface | James' Coffee Blog
[11:23]	TR News	"This talk is a deep dive into how browsers decide when to load a specific resource" https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4852-how-browsers-really-load-web-pages/ | Source: FOSDEM
[11:23]	TR Bot	 FOSDEM 2025 - How browsers REALLY load Web pages
[11:24]	TR News	""Im halfway through my second batch at RC, and one of my batch goals was to learn DevOps/SRE skills by contributing to this cluster. https://pjg1.site/first-monitoring-system | Source: Piya Gehi
[11:24]	TR Bot	 Baby's first monitoring system
[11:24]	TR News	"TigerVNC, a high-speed remote display system that allows users to view and interact with remote computers, has just released version 1.15." https://linuxiac.com/tigervnc-1-15-released-with-improved-mouse-support/ | Source: Linuxiac
[11:24]	TR Bot	 TigerVNC 1.15 Released with Improved Mouse Support
[11:24]	TR News	"a lot of knowledge on the original Vim of all the features he wanted to have." https://thenewstack.io/vim-after-bram-a-core-maintainer-on-how-theyve-kept-it-going/ | Source: The New Stack
[11:24]	TR Bot	 Vim After Bram: A Core Maintainer on How Theyve Kept It Going - The New Stack
[11:33]	TR News	"If they're already authenticated on their phone with an identity provider like Google" https://cendyne.dev/posts/2025-02-17-qr-code-login.html | Source: Cendyne Naga
[11:33]	TR Bot	 Dual-Device Authorization with QR Codes
[11:39]	TR News	"Pianos famously have a lot of keys. A standard full-size piano has 52 white keys and 36 black keys, for a total of 88." https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/02/18/this-robotic-piano-has-solenoids-for-all-88-keys/ | Source: Arduino
[11:39]	TR Bot	 This robotic piano has solenoids for all 88 keys | Arduino Blog
[11:39]	TR News	"This custom PC both imitates the MDR computer from the show and works as a PC on its own." https://www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-powers-miniature-severance-mdr-computer | Source: Tom's Hardware
[11:39]	TR Bot	 Raspberry Pi powers miniature 'Severance' MDR computer | Tom's Hardware
[11:39]	TR News	"The woodcraft here was undertaken by Japan's Funaki Woodworks. According to the linked report (machine translation), the work took two to three months to complete." https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/fujitsu-celebrates-50-million-laptops-produced-with-one-off-exquisite-kumiko-wooden-lid-model | Source: Tom's Hardware
[11:39]	TR Bot	 Fujitsu celebrates 50 million laptops produced with one-off exquisite kumiko wooden lid model | Tom's Hardware
[11:41]	TR News	"ArcaOS 5.1.1 continues to support installation on the latest generation of UEFI-based systems" https://www.arcanoae.com/arcaos-5-1-1-now-available/ | Source: Arca Noae
[11:41]	TR Bot	 ArcaOS 5.1.1 now available - Arca Noae
[11:44]	TR News	"You may have heard that there are a lot of crawlers out there these days, many of them apparently harvesting training data for LLMs." https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/HTTPStatusCodesHere-2025-02-16 | Source: University of Toronto
[11:44]	TR Bot	 Chris's Wiki :: blog/web/HTTPStatusCodesHere-2025-02-16
[11:47]	TR News	"While designing the quiz, I used two HTML elements I have not yet used: fieldset and legend. You can use fieldset to group multiple inputs together." https://jamesg.blog/2025/02/17/designing-lists-of-inputs-with-html-and-css | Source: James G
[11:47]	TR Bot	 Designing lists of inputs with HTML and CSS | James' Coffee Blog
[11:48]	TR News	"When designing these pages, I thought to myself: is there a way I can make the screenshots appear in light mode or dark mode depending on the user agents preference?" https://jamesg.blog/2025/02/17/images-light-dark-css | Source: James G
[11:48]	TR Bot	 Showing different images in light mode and dark mode with CSS media queries | James' Coffee Blog
[11:48]	TR News	"A lot of the SVG filter primitive content out there is some really rad, deep-dive type content (Ill link some of these at the end!), so I reckoned it might be nice to do a quick write-up on some effects I use pretty commonly." https://henry.codes/writing/how-to-distort-text-with-svg/ | Source: Henry Desroches
[11:48]	TR Bot	 How To Distort Text With SVG Filters | Henry From Online
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[11:52]	TR News	"The syntax highlighting used by my code snippets is generated by pygments, a Python library that lets you turn a string of code into HTML with highlighting rules that you can put on a web page." https://jamesg.blog/2025/02/17/code-snippet-style | Source: James G
[11:52]	TR Bot	 Styling code snippets on my website | James' Coffee Blog
[11:52]	TR News	[Old] "Spurred by last weeks ShopTalk I rolled out View Transitions here on my static Jekyll site. I hadnt realized View Transitions for multi-page apps (MPAs) and static sites are ready for testing behind a flag in Chrome 113+." https://daverupert.com/2023/05/getting-started-view-transitions/ | Source: Dave Rupert
[11:52]	TR Bot	started with View Transitions on multi-page apps - daverupert.com
[11:53]	TR News	"I feel like Im 98% of the way there, Ive just hit a small bug." https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/aspect-ratio-in-css-view-transitions/ | Source: Jim Nielsen
[11:53]	TR Bot	 Aspect Ratio Changes With CSS View Transitions - Jim Nielsens Blog
[11:54]	TR News	How To Install SDKMAN on Debian 12 https://idroot.us/install-sdkman-debian-12/
[11:54]	TR Bot	 How To Install SDKMAN on Debian 12 - idroot
[11:54]	TR News	How To Install VidCutter on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS https://idroot.us/install-vidcutter-ubuntu-24-04/
[11:54]	TR Bot	 How To Install VidCutter on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS - idroot
[11:56]	TR News	How To Install Videomass on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS https://idroot.us/install-videomass-ubuntu-24-04/
[11:56]	TR Bot	 How To Install Videomass on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS - idroot
[11:56]	TR News	How To Install Timeshift on CentOS Stream 10 https://idroot.us/install-timeshift-centos-stream-10/
[11:56]	TR Bot	 How To Install Timeshift on CentOS Stream 10 - idroot
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[11:57]	TR News	How To Install Ruby on Rails on Linux Mint 22 https://idroot.us/install-ruby-on-rails-linux-mint-22/
[11:57]	TR Bot	 How To Install Ruby on Rails on Linux Mint 22 - idroot
[11:58]	TR News	How to install and setup Docker on Ubuntu 22.04 https://net2.com/how-to-install-and-setup-docker-on-ubuntu-22-04/
[11:58]	TR Bot	 How to install and setup Docker on Ubuntu 22.04
[11:58]	TR News	How to set up a UFW on Ubuntu 22.04 https://net2.com/how-to-set-up-a-ufw-on-ubuntu-22-04/
[11:58]	TR Bot	 How to set up a UFW on Ubuntu 22.04
[11:59]	TR News	How To Install SNMP on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS https://idroot.us/install-snmp-ubuntu-24-04/
[11:59]	TR Bot	 How To Install SNMP on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS - idroot
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[12:00]	TR News	How To Install Ruby on Rails on CentOS Stream 10 https://idroot.us/install-ruby-on-rails-centos-stream-10/
[12:00]	TR Bot	 How To Install Ruby on Rails on CentOS Stream 10 - idroot
[12:00]	TR News	How To Install Anaconda on Linux Mint 22 https://idroot.us/install-anaconda-linux-mint-22/
[12:00]	TR Bot	 How To Install Anaconda on Linux Mint 22 - idroot
[12:01]	TR News	How to Install KDE Plasma on GNU/Linux Mint 22 https://www.tecmint.com/install-kde-plasma-linux-mint/
[12:01]	TR Bot	 How to Install KDE Plasma on Linux Mint 22
[12:03]	TR News	SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM https://www.tecmint.com/udemy-cisco-networking-courses/
[12:03]	TR Bot	 5 Best Udemy Cisco Networking Courses in 2025
[12:03]	TR News	How To Install Shadowsocks on Debian 12 https://idroot.us/install-shadowsocks-debian-12/
[12:03]	TR Bot	 How To Install Shadowsocks on Debian 12 - idroot
[12:04]	TR News	How To Install Miniconda on Rocky GNU/Linux 9 https://idroot.us/install-miniconda-rocky-linux-9/
[12:04]	TR Bot	 How To Install Miniconda on Rocky Linux 9 - idroot
[12:04]	TR News	How To Install ClipGrab on Debian 12 https://idroot.us/install-clipgrab-debian-12/
[12:04]	TR Bot	 How To Install ClipGrab on Debian 12 - idroot
[12:07]	TR News	"But security updates alone dont cover everything; what happens when a package update causes unexpected behavior, a dependency breaks, or you encounter an issue that impacts operations?" https://ubuntu.com//blog/20-04-support-how-ubuntu-pro-support-keeps-your-ubuntu-20-04-lts-secure-and-stable | Source: Ubuntu
[12:07]	TR Bot	Ubuntu Pro + Support keeps your Ubuntu 20.04 LTS secure and stable | Ubuntu
[12:07]	TR News	"Whilst it may seem that this skills gap is purely a concern from data scientists or ML engineers, in reality it affects a much wider section of your workforce than you might imagine." https://ubuntu.com//blog/7-considerations-ml-architecture | Source: Ubuntu
[12:08]	TR Bot	( status 504 @ https://ubuntu.com//blog/7-considerations-ml-architecture )
[12:10]	TR News	 (NEW):  Today's HowTos   https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/18/today_s_howtos.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/18/today_s_howtos.gmi 
[12:10]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines today's howtos
[12:11]	TR News	 (NEW):   Programming Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/18/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/18/Programming_Leftovers.gmi 
[12:11]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Programming Leftovers
[12:15]	TR News	 (NEW):  Canonical/Ubuntu: Typography, Upselling Patches, and "Hey Hi" Hype https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/18/Canonical_Ubuntu_Typography_Upselling_Patches_and_Hey_Hi_Hype.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/18/Canonical_Ubuntu_Typography_Upselling_Patches_and_Hey_Hi_Hype.gmi 
[12:15]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Canonical/Ubuntu: Typography, Upselling Patches, and "Hey Hi" Hype
[12:27]	TR News	Ultimate Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Server with UPS, NVMe Drive & Stats Display https://www.the-diy-life.com/ultimate-raspberry-pi-5-desktop-server-with-ups-nvme-drive-stats-display/
[12:27]	TR Bot	 Ultimate Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Server with UPS, NVMe Drive & Stats Display - The DIY Life
[12:31]	TR News	Personal MediaWiki with Raspberry PI and Docker https://peppe8o.com/personal-mediawiki-with-raspberry-pi-and-docker/
[12:31]	TR Bot	 Personal MediaWiki with Raspberry PI and Docker
[12:32]	TR News	CrowView Note: Turning Raspberry Pi into a Laptop, Sort of https://itsfoss.com/crowview-note-review/
[12:32]	TR Bot	 CrowView Note: Turning Raspberry Pi into a Laptop, Sort of
[12:32]	TR News	Modder crams LLM onto Pi Zero-powered USB stick, but it isn't fast enough to be practical https://www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-zero/pi-zero-llm-usb-stick
[12:32]	TR Bot	 Modder crams LLM onto Raspberry Pi Zero-powered USB stick, but it isn't fast enough to be practical | Tom's Hardware
[12:35]	TR News	 (NEW):  Open Hardware: Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/18/Open_Hardware_Raspberry_Pi_Arduino_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/18/Open_Hardware_Raspberry_Pi_Arduino_and_More.gmi 
[12:35]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Open Hardware: Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and More
[12:43]	TR News	"Bill Gates presents himself as a climate champion, but his trust has actually increased its fossil fuel investments since his divestment pledge. It's just the latest example of the billionaire appointing himself to solve problems he helps perpetuate." https://jacobin.com/2025/02/bill-gates-oil-divestment-climate/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine
[12:43]	TR Bot	 Bill Gates Is Playing Both Sides of the Climate Crisis
[12:43]	TR News	 (NEW):  Today's Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/18/today_s_leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/18/today_s_leftovers.gmi 
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[12:43]	TR News	"The extent of these federal subsidies depends on how they are counted. The Fossil Fuel Subsidy Tracker pegged them at nearly $18 billion in 2023." https://www.theenergymix.com/how-elon-musk-could-end-fossil-fuel-subsidies/ | Source: Energy Mix Productions Inc
[12:43]	TR Bot	stream 1 was not closed cleanly: PROTOCOL_ERROR (err 1) ( status 0 @ https://www.theenergymix.com/how-elon-musk-could-end-fossil-fuel-subsidies/ )
[12:43]	TR News	"Instead, there's growing concern among environmental groups and some lawmakers that plastic manufacturers, producers and distributors are waging a behind-the-scenes battle to derail the plastics law, known as SB 54." https://phys.org/news/2025-02-california-polystyrene-plastic-industry-spooked.html | Source: Omicron Limited
[12:43]	TR Bot	( status 422 @ https://phys.org/news/2025-02-california-polystyrene-plastic-industry-spooked.html )
[12:46]	TR News	Techrights Links 18/02/2025: Hey Hi Video Surveillance and YouTube at 20 https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/18/Links_18_02_2025_Hey_Hi_Video_Surveillance_and_YouTube_at_20.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/02/18/Links_18_02_2025_Hey_Hi_Video_Surveillance_and_YouTube_at_20.gmi 
[12:46]	TR Bot	 Techrights Links 18/02/2025: Hey Hi Video Surveillance and YouTube at 20
[12:46]	TR News	SpellBinding DFILORY Wordo: LATEX gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-02-18.gmi
[12:47]	TR News	"Rather than programming in my very cold office, I have decided to sit under what feels like a billion blankets and read. I just finished up "Moonwalking with Einstein" by Joshua Foer and am now reading "Remember It!" by Nelson Dellis" gemini://vigrey.com/journal/its-cold-so-im-reading-books.gmi
[12:48]	TR News	"The film version made a big impression on me as a child. Sean Connery and Michael Caine have big adventures in the mountains of central Asia. I remember really wanting it to be a true story, and also knowing it wasn't." gemini://freeshell.de/gemlog/2025-02-18_Re__The_Man_Who_Would_Be_King.gmi
[12:49]	TR News	Call to action (re: A somewhat brutal Bongusta cleanup) gopher://box.matto.nl/0/call-to-action-re-a-somewhat-brutal-bongusta-cleanup.txt
[12:50]	TR News	Photos in Geminispace (new) gemini://higeki.jp/nikki/2025-02-17.gmi
[12:52]	TR News	launching Oneiric Monk: "I am happy to launch a new project, oneiricmonk.net." gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/oneiricmonk.net
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[13:00]	TR News	 (NEW):  CachyOS ISO Snapshot for February 2025 Brings Linux Kernel 6.13, NVIDIA 570 Driver https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/02/CachyOS_ISO_Snapshot_for_February_2025_Brings_Linux_Kernel_6_13.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/02/CachyOS_ISO_Snapshot_for_February_2025_Brings_Linux_Kernel_6_13.gmi 
[13:00]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines CachyOS ISO Snapshot for February 2025 Brings Linux Kernel 6.13, NVIDIA 570 Driver
[13:06]	TR News	2025-02-17 of psychics and securities https://computer.rip/2025-02-17-of-psychics-and-securities.html
[13:06]	TR Bot	 2025-02-17 of psychics and securities
[13:14]	TR News	Techrights Swiss police TIGRIS unit, World Cat Day, Swiss-corruption.com & Debian https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/18/Swiss_police_TIGRIS_unit_World_Cat_Day_Swiss_corruption_com_Deb.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/02/18/Swiss_police_TIGRIS_unit_World_Cat_Day_Swiss_corruption_com_Deb.gmi 
[13:14]	TR Bot	 Techrights Swiss police TIGRIS unit, World Cat Day, Swiss-corruption.com & Debian
[13:34]	TR News	Techrights Swiss corruption, Greens, Liip & Debian human rights violations https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/18/Swiss_corruption_Greens_Liip_Debian_human_rights_violations.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/02/18/Swiss_corruption_Greens_Liip_Debian_human_rights_violations.gmi 
[13:34]	TR Bot	 Techrights Swiss corruption, Greens, Liip & Debian human rights violations
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[13:44]	TR News	[New/updated] Richard Stallman https://kids.britannica.com/scholars/article/Richard-Stallman/474253 This is not what happened: "In September 2019 Stallman attracted controversy after attempting to discredit an alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender". Nope, he defended a friend of his (Minsky), falsely accused.
[13:44]	TR Bot	 Richard Stallman - Scholars | Britannica Kids | Encyclopedia
[13:53]	TR News	"it turns out that I sent it to the wrong list due to some messed-up autocompletion" https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/18/linus_torvalds_autocomplete_mistake/ | Source: The Register UK
[13:53]	TR Bot	 Even Linus Torvalds can have trouble with autocomplete The Register
[13:54]	TR News	Techrights Gemini Links 18/02/2025: Reading Books and Oneiric Monk https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/18/Gemini_Links_18_02_2025_Reading_Books_and_Oneiric_Monk.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/02/18/Gemini_Links_18_02_2025_Reading_Books_and_Oneiric_Monk.gmi 
[13:54]	TR Bot	 Techrights Gemini Links 18/02/2025: Reading Books and Oneiric Monk
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[14:05]	TR News	China urges US to correct its mistakes after website removes Taiwan independence reference https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/us-says-website-update-routine-after-removal-of-reference-to-taiwan-independence
[14:05]	TR Bot	 China urges US to correct its mistakes after website removes Taiwan independence reference | The Straits Times
[14:06]	TR News	Where Chinas exports begin: Inside the vast markets of Guangzhou https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/where-chinas-exports-begin-inside-the-vast-markets-of-guangzhou
[14:06]	TR Bot	 Where Chinas exports begin: Inside the vast markets of Guangzhou | The Straits Times
[14:06]	TR News	Chinas Pooh-tin meets business leaders, including Jack Ma, amid economic, geopolitical headwinds https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinas-xi-meets-business-leaders-including-jack-ma-amid-economic-geopolitical-headwinds
[14:06]	TR Bot	 Chinas Xi meets business leaders, including Jack Ma, amid economic, geopolitical headwinds | The Straits Times
[14:07]	TR News	Look whos back: Alibabas Jack Ma shakes Xis hand at meeting of Chinas business titans https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/look-whos-back-alibabas-jack-ma-shakes-xis-hand-at-meeting-of-chinas-business-titans
[14:07]	TR Bot	 Look whos back: Alibabas Jack Ma shakes Xis hand at meeting of Chinas business titans | The Straits Times
[14:09]	TR News	China condemns US for tweak to Taiwan reference; Washington calls it routine update https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/02/17/china-us-taiwan-independence/
[14:09]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/02/17/china-us-taiwan-independence/ )
[14:09]	TR News	Chinas President Pooh-tin meets top business leaders including Alibabas Jack Ma https://hongkongfp.com/2025/02/17/chinas-president-xi-meets-top-business-leaders-including-alibabas-jack-ma/
[14:09]	TR Bot	 China's Xi meets Alibaba's Jack Ma and other business leaders
[14:10]	TR News	China condemns US after we do not support Taiwan independence cut from govt website https://hongkongfp.com/2025/02/18/china-condemns-us-after-we-do-not-support-taiwan-independence-cut-from-govt-website/
[14:10]	TR Bot	 China condemns US after 'Taiwan independence' cut from gov't site
[14:10]	TR News	Mexicos tech exports to US surged 35% in 2024, closing gap with China https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/mexico-china-advanced-tech-exports-us-2024/
[14:10]	TR Bot	 Mexico could overtake China in advanced tech exports to US
[14:11]	TR News	Viewing Xorg logs with journalctl in Fedora https://major.io/p/xorg-logs-fedora-journalctl/
[14:11]	TR Bot	 Viewing Xorg logs with journalctl in Fedora Major Hayden
[14:15]	TR News	"Every time I hear Kavanaugh open his mouth I feel d-mber ... How did he ever climb the corporate ladder and be where he is ?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jmaj5zq3
[14:15]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jmaj5zq3 )
[14:15]	TR News	"Workday has a salary range of what the midpoint and high point and damn its embarrassing My department went from over 800 to barely 300 and travel stopped They have the nerve to cry poverty ?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jmaj5zq3
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[14:17]	schestowitz[TR2]	" 'invest well over the years then thats on you'
[14:17]	schestowitz[TR2]	where on fraud street
[14:17]	schestowitz[TR2]	maybe you can use your tremendous financial skills
[14:17]	schestowitz[TR2]	to pay down the 37 trillion in US national debt
[14:17]	schestowitz[TR2]	that's yours " https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jma1j24p
[14:17]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jma1j24p )
[14:17]	TR News	HSBC lays off 40 dealmakers in Hong Kong as part of revamp to cut costs https://www.business-standard.com/world-news/hsbc-lays-off-40-dealmakers-in-hong-kong-as-part-of-revamp-to-cut-costs-125021800236_1.html
[14:17]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.business-standard.com/world-news/hsbc-lays-off-40-dealmakers-in-hong-kong-as-part-of-revamp-to-cut-costs-125021800236_1.html )
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[14:31]	TR News	The BSD Humbling | LINUX Unplugged 602 https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/linux-unplugged/602/
[14:31]	TR Bot	 The BSD Humbling | LINUX Unplugged 602 | Jupiter Broadcasting
[14:32]	TR News	Destination Linux 407: Most Private & Secure Browsers, plus Freedesktop.org in a Funding Crisis https://destinationlinux.net/407
[14:32]	TR Bot	Most Private & Secure Browsers, plus Freedesktop.org in a Funding Crisis - Destination Linux - TuxDigital
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[14:35]	TR News	 (NEW):  KDE Plasma 6.3.1 Released with Plasma Discover Improvements and Many Bug Fixes https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/18/KDE_Plasma_6_3_1_Released_with_Plasma_Discover_Improvements_and.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/18/KDE_Plasma_6_3_1_Released_with_Plasma_Discover_Improvements_and.gmi 
[14:35]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines KDE Plasma 6.3.1 Released with Plasma Discover Improvements and Many Bug Fixes
[14:49]	TR News	How K-12 CS teachers support students for whom English is not their first language https://computinged.wordpress.com/2025/02/17/how-k-12-cs-teachers-support-students-for-whom-english-is-not-their-first-language/
[14:49]	TR Bot	 How K-12 CS teachers support students for whom English is not their first language | Computing Ed Research - Guzdial's Take
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[14:54]	TR News	Techrights Red Hat's Bluewashing to be Further Completed This Year https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/18/Red_Hat_s_Bluewashing_to_be_Further_Completed_This_Year.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/02/18/Red_Hat_s_Bluewashing_to_be_Further_Completed_This_Year.gmi 
[14:54]	TR Bot	 Techrights Red Hat's Bluewashing to be Further Completed This Year
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[14:57]	MinceR	18 083658 < IsambardPrince> The Mayor refused to resign, claiming that God had "fortified" him.
[14:57]	MinceR	lol
[14:57]	MinceR	fucking american taliban
[14:58]	TR News	Southwest to Cut 15% of Corporate Jobs in First-Ever Layoffs
[14:59]	TR News	How many people canceled their impending flights after news about FAA and persistent crashes?
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[15:00]	TR News	'I loved my job': FAA employees in Oklahoma fired in purge of federal workers https://eu.oklahoman.com/story/news/state/2025/02/18/faa-layoffs-doge-impacts-oklahoma-elon-musk/78966082007/
[15:00]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://eu.oklahoman.com/story/news/state/2025/02/18/faa-layoffs-doge-impacts-oklahoma-elon-musk/78966082007/ )
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[15:04]	TR News	Why defective chip maker Intel must stay independent, spin out its foundry and rebuild its iconic brand https://siliconangle.com/2025/02/16/intel-must-stay-independent-spin-foundry-rebuild-iconic-brand/
[15:04]	TR Bot	Intel must stay independent, spin out its foundry and rebuild its iconic brand - SiliconANGLE
[15:09]	TR News	"pro-Russian accounts on X"... well, "X" (Twitter) itself is pro-Putin https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/truth-or-fake/20250217-ukraine-peace-talks-did-trump-exclude-the-eu
[15:09]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/truth-or-fake/20250217-ukraine-peace-talks-did-trump-exclude-the-eu )
[15:19]	MinceR	https://www.expat-finland.com/images/fingerpori/fpf400eng.gif
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[15:30]	nobody	electricity bill arrived: paid 670EUros for 1340kWh/year... 50cents/kWh
[15:30]	schestowitz[TR2]	that's not much
[15:30]	schestowitz[TR2]	for one person
[15:30]	schestowitz[TR2]	50 euros/month
[15:31]	nobody	that's VERY expensive for the little amount of energy that i need
[15:31]	nobody	and, i don't trust the metering
[15:32]	TR News	typos in headline in NY Times. Are they producing this using LLM slop? Rubio [sic] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/world/middleeast/rubio-saudi-arabia-gaza-ukraine.html
[15:32]	TR Bot	 Rubio Meets Saudi Crown Prince for Talks on Gaza and Ukraine - The New York Times
[15:33]	TR News	They corrected this headline later, but the URL still contains that original typo
[15:33]	TR News	NY Times recently admitted misuse of chatbots for "content"
[15:34]	nobody	anyway, i've forked gentoo last weekend
[15:34]	nobody	my tree is completely separated from their main portage repository
[15:36]	nobody	tinycc support, static linking support, complete removal of c++ (and rust for that matter), linux2 ABI support
[15:36]	nobody	and i think i got cross-compilation support, almost complete (there's a few headers errornously picked up with a few non-critical components)
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[15:37]	nobody	i think the the alternative-toolchain support is worth a fortune
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[15:37]	nobody	none of the linux distros got it, *BSD haven't got it
[15:38]	TR News	Russian State Hackers Target Organizations With Device Code Phishing https://www.securityweek.com/russian-state-hackers-target-organizations-with-device-code-phishing/
[15:38]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/russian-state-hackers-target-organizations-with-device-code-phishing/ )
[15:38]	nobody	there's a few interesting projects, oasis-linux in particular, which is cleaner than the hackjob of mine
[15:39]	nobody	but, i got a little more test-coverage, there's mplayer on board even, it's a _complete_ distribution
[15:39]	nobody	lot's of runtime testing needed
[15:39]	nobody	so far i can confirm development utilities (compiler, editor, debugger, strace and a few other things) work as these should
[15:40]	nobody	need to backport a few drivers to linux-2.4, some usb-ethernet which is commonly available nowadays
[15:40]	nobody	because i am not in the mood for testing thousands of laptop and mainboard variants for different ethernet chips
[15:41]	nobody	and it's alot of cleanup work, it's just too much keeping ~500 builds + toolchain fork + linux2.4 kernel fork + libc fork in maintenance all alone on my own
[15:42]	nobody	i'm just not sure about pushing this online, for several reasons
[15:43]	nobody	the system of mine is _the_ prime candidate to spawn/bootstrap any other system from
[15:44]	nobody	it's sort of a stage0, which does not rely upon gcc/binutils nor llvm
[15:44]	nobody	there is other interesting approaches, but those haven't got the alternative toolchain support complete, although that's the most relevant
[15:44]	TR News	Swiss PGDay 2025: Announcement and CfS https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/swiss-pgday-2025-announcement-and-cfs-3014/
[15:44]	TR Bot	 PostgreSQL: Swiss PGDay 2025: Announcement and CfS
[15:45]	TR News	Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 4 https://godotengine.org/article/dev-snapshot-godot-4-4-beta-4/
[15:45]	TR Bot	 Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 4 Godot Engine
[15:45]	nobody	and, it is feasible to re-integrate the system profile with bootstrappable, which can greatly elevate trust into the entire software supply chain and development process of _all_ free software projects
[15:45]	TR News	Community Member Monday: Ndidi Folasade Ogboi https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/02/17/community-member-monday-ndidi-folasade-ogboi/
[15:45]	TR Bot	 Community Member Monday: Ndidi Folasade Ogboi - The Document Foundation Blog
[15:46]	nobody	alot of work remaining, proposed it to various employers
[15:47]	TR News	Microsoft Lunduke Belongs in 4Chan (updated) https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/17/Microsoft_Lunduke_Belongs_in_4Chan.shtml
[15:47]	TR Bot	 Techrights Microsoft Lunduke Belongs in 4Chan
[15:47]	TR News	"Don't Be Evil" https://lunduke.substack.com/p/lunduke-speaking-at-sxsw-2025
[15:47]	TR Bot	 Lunduke Speaking at SXSW 2025 - by Bryan Lunduke
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[15:50]	psydroid3	Intel must stay independent and go out of business asap
[15:50]	TR News	Moving a VirtualBox VM to Another Instance: A Step-by-Step Guide https://linuxiac.com/how-to-move-a-virtualbox-vm-to-another-instance/
[15:50]	TR Bot	 Moving a VirtualBox VM to Another Instance: A Step-by-Step Guide
[15:54]	TR News	 (NEW):  Best Linux Distro in 2025 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/18/Best_Linux_Distro_in_2025.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/18/Best_Linux_Distro_in_2025.gmi 
[15:54]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Best Linux Distro in 2025
[15:54]	TR News	Burn Notice https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/02/burn-notice/
[15:54]	TR Bot	Notice | R-bloggers
[15:55]	TR News	gt() doesnt show Euro-Sign in PDF, showing EUR instead https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/02/gt-doesnt-show-euro-sign-e-in-pdf-showing-eur-instead/
[15:55]	TR Bot	doesnt show Euro-Sign in PDF, showing EUR instead | R-bloggers
[15:55]	TR News	Creating effectively multi-engine Quarto documents using Quartos embed shortcode https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/02/creating-effectively-multi-engine-quarto-documents-using-quartos-embed-shortcode/
[15:55]	TR Bot	effectively multi-engine Quarto documents using Quartos embed shortcode | R-bloggers
[15:56]	TR News	Simple Xcursor Creator PET fixed https://bkhome.org/news/202502/simple-xcursor-creator-pet-fixed.html
[15:56]	TR Bot	 Simple Xcursor Creator PET fixed
[15:56]	TR News	Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 7 (Feb 10 16, 2025) https://linuxiac.com/linuxiac-weekly-wrap-up-week-7-feb-10-16-2025/
[15:56]	TR Bot	Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 7 (Feb 10 16, 2025)
[15:58]	TR News	Security updates for Monday https://lwn.net/Articles/1010328/
[15:59]	TR Bot	updates for Monday [LWN.net]
● Feb 18
[16:00]	TR News	Kernel prepatch 6.14-rc3 https://lwn.net/Articles/1010232/
[16:00]	TR Bot	prepatch 6.14-rc3 [LWN.net]
[16:00]	TR News	Monitor and Optimize Memory Usage on Ubuntu 22.04 for Peak Performance https://net2.com/monitor-and-optimize-memory-usage-on-ubuntu-22-04-for-peak-performance/
[16:00]	TR Bot	 Monitor and Optimize Memory Usage on Ubuntu 22.04 for Peak Performance
[16:01]	TR News	Cleaning up old repositories https://archlinux.org/news/cleaning-up-old-repositories/
[16:01]	TR Bot	 Arch Linux - News: Cleaning up old repositories
[16:01]	TR News	ClipQR scan QR codes https://www.linuxlinks.com/clipqr-scan-qr-codes/
[16:01]	TR Bot	- scan QR codes - LinuxLinks
[16:02]	TR News	OutFly 3D space game in the rings of Jupiter https://www.linuxlinks.com/outfly-3d-space-game-rings-jupiter/
[16:02]	TR Bot	- 3D space game in the rings of Jupiter - LinuxLinks
[16:02]	TR News	18 Top Free and Open Source Rust Web Frameworks https://www.linuxlinks.com/free-open-source-rust-web-frameworks/
[16:02]	TR Bot	Top Free and Open Source Rust Web Frameworks - LinuxLinks
[16:03]	TR News	Decibels simple audio player https://www.linuxlinks.com/decibels-simple-audio-player/
[16:03]	TR Bot	- simple audio player - LinuxLinks
[16:03]	TR News	KDE Connect wireless communications and data transfer between devices over local networks https://www.linuxlinks.com/kde-connect-wireless-communications-data-transfer/
[16:03]	TR Bot	Connect - wireless communications and data transfer between devices over local networks - LinuxLinks
[16:03]	TR News	FIM universal image viewer https://www.linuxlinks.com/fim-universal-image-viewer/
[16:03]	TR Bot	- universal image viewer - LinuxLinks
[16:03]	TR News	Decoder scan and generate QR codes https://www.linuxlinks.com/decoder-scan-generate-qr-codes/
[16:03]	TR Bot	- scan and generate QR codes - LinuxLinks
[16:04]	TR News	LinuxConsole lightweight distribution https://www.linuxlinks.com/linuxconsole-lightweight-distribution/
[16:04]	TR Bot	- lightweight distribution - LinuxLinks
[16:04]	TR News	The "Cool Kids" Are Already Using GNU/Linux, Abusive Monopolist Microsoft is Just Cheating (updated) https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/17/The_Cool_Kids_Are_Already_Using_GNU_Linux_Microsoft_is_Just_Che.shtml
[16:04]	TR Bot	 Techrights The "Cool Kids" Are Already Using GNU/Linux, Microsoft is Just Cheating
[16:05]	TR News	The Attacks on LinuxQuestions.org https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/17/The_Attacks_on_LinuxQuestions_org.shtml
[16:05]	TR Bot	 Techrights The Attacks on LinuxQuestions.org
[16:09]	TR News	QEMU machine emulator and virtualizer https://www.linuxlinks.com/qemu-machine-emulator-virtualizer/
[16:09]	TR Bot	- machine emulator and virtualizer - LinuxLinks
[16:09]	TR News	Hypnotix IPTV streaming application https://www.linuxlinks.com/hypnotix-iptv-streaming-application/
[16:09]	TR Bot	- IPTV streaming application - LinuxLinks
[16:09]	TR News	Magnifiqus Qt based screen magnifier https://www.linuxlinks.com/magnifiqus-qt-based-screen-magnifier/
[16:09]	TR Bot	- Qt based screen magnifier - LinuxLinks
[16:09]	TR News	mothur analyze microbial communities https://www.linuxlinks.com/mothur-analyze-microbial-communities/
[16:09]	TR Bot	- analyze microbial communities - LinuxLinks
[16:10]	TR News	The FIRST post in linux.com this year is... SPAM https://www.linux.com/news/wanted-skilled-cybersecurity-it-pros/
[16:10]	TR Bot	Love is in the Code - Linux.com
[16:11]	TR News	openSUSE Tumbleweed Ditches AppArmor for SELinux http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Ditches-AppArmor-for-SELinux
[16:11]	TR Bot	 openSUSE Tumbleweed Ditches AppArmor for SELinux Linux Magazine
[16:12]	TR News	Should EU despatch troops to protect Greenland from Russia's new ally to the "east"?
[16:15]	TR News	Late Night Linux Episode 321 https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-321/
[16:15]	TR Bot	 Late Night Linux Episode 321 Late Night Linux
[16:18]	TR News	wayland-protocols 1.41 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2025-February/043980.html
[16:18]	TR Bot	 [ANNOUNCE] wayland-protocols 1.41
[16:20]	TR News	Destination Linux 407: Most Private & Secure Browsers, plus Freedesktop.org in a Funding Crisis https://tuxdigital.com/podcasts/destination-linux/dl-407/
[16:20]	TR Bot	Most Private & Secure Browsers, plus Freedesktop.org in a Funding Crisis - Destination Linux - TuxDigital
[16:21]	TR News	These 5 GNU/Linux distros are optimized for gaming on Nvidia GPUs in 2025 https://linuxbsdos.com/2025/02/16/linux-gaming-on-nvidia-gpus-2025/
[16:21]	TR Bot	 Linux gaming on Nvidia GPUs. Here are the top 5 in 2025
[16:22]	TR News	Ezurio Veda SL917 Expands Industrial IoT Connectivity with Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth LE https://linuxgizmos.com/ezurio-veda-sl917-expands-industrial-iot-connectivity-with-wi-fi-6-and-bluetooth-le/
[16:22]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/ezurio-veda-sl917-expands-industrial-iot-connectivity-with-wi-fi-6-and-bluetooth-le/ )
[16:22]	TR News	ADLINK Introduces OSM MTK510 Featuring MediaTek Genio 510 COM with Yocto GNU/Linux Compatibility https://linuxgizmos.com/adlink-introduces-osm-mtk510-featuring-mediatek-genio-510-com-with-yocto-linux-compatibility/
[16:22]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/adlink-introduces-osm-mtk510-featuring-mediatek-genio-510-com-with-yocto-linux-compatibility/ )
[16:23]	TR News	The GNU Manifesto Turns 40 Next Month https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/17/The_GNU_Manifesto_Turns_40_Next_Month.shtml
[16:23]	TR Bot	 Techrights The GNU Manifesto Turns 40 Next Month
[16:24]	TR News	www-zh-cn @ Savannah: Welcome our new member - LS-Shandong https://savannah.gnu.org/news/?id=10727
[16:24]	TR Bot	 GNU Chinese Translators Team - News [Savannah]
[16:24]	TR News	How to Correctly Install ChromeDriver on Ubuntu https://tecadmin.net/install-chromedriver-on-ubuntu/
[16:24]	TR Bot	 How to Correctly Install ChromeDriver on Ubuntu TecAdmin
[16:25]	TR News	Troubleshooting and Resolving Audio Issues in Ubuntu 22.04 https://net2.com/troubleshooting-and-resolving-audio-issues-in-ubuntu-22-04/
[16:25]	TR Bot	 Troubleshooting and Resolving Audio Issues in Ubuntu 22.04
[16:26]	TR News	"To the uninitiated, Linux may be nothing but arcane console commands, but it offers a great desktop experience and a ton of powerful multimedia applications. The distros were looking at here focus on helping you get creative work done." https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-distos-built-for-creative-work/
[16:26]	TR Bot	 5 Linux Distos Built for Creative Work
[16:35]	TR News	"Linux distros might be extremely popular in the server community, but theyre still a niche in the general computing sector, which the Windows lineup continues to dominate." https://www.xda-developers.com/i-cant-go-back-to-windows-after-trying-linux/
[16:35]	TR Bot	 5 reasons I cant go back to Windows after trying Linux
[16:36]	TR News	How to Disable (or Change) Login Sound in Ubuntu 24.10 https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/02/disable-or-change-ubuntu-login-sound
[16:36]	TR Bot	 How to Disable (or Change) Login Sound in Ubuntu 24.10 - OMG! Ubuntu
[16:36]	TR News	Wi-Fi Not Working on Ubuntu? Heres How to Fix It https://www.howtogeek.com/wi-fi-not-working-on-ubuntu/
[16:36]	TR Bot	 Wi-Fi Not Working on Ubuntu? Heres How to Fix It
[16:38]	TR News	In India they sell GNU/Linux, preloaded https://gadgetsnow.indiatimes.com/compare-laptops/dell-latitude-3410-intel-core-i5-10210u-140-inch-fhd-512gb-solid-state-drive-8gb-ddr4-intel-uhd-620-graphics-ubuntu-vs-hp-elitebook-745-g6-14-inch-laptop-r5-pro-3500u8gb512gb-ssdamd-radeon-vega-graphics-silver-window-10
[16:38]	TR Bot	 Compare Dell Latitude 3410 Intel Core i5-10210U ( 14.0 inch FHD/ 512GB Solid State Drive/ 8GB DDR4/ Intel UHD 620 Graphics/ Ubuntu) vs HP Elitebook 745 G6 14-inch Laptop (R5 Pro 3500U/8GB/512GB SSD/AMD Radeon Vega Graphics), Silver window 10 - Dell Latitude 3410 Intel Core i5-10210U ( 14.0 inch FHD/ 512GB Solid State Drive/ 8GB DDR4/ Intel UHD 620 Graphics/ Ubuntu) vs HP Elitebook 745 G6 14-inch ...
[16:39]	TR News	 (NEW):  Today's HowTos   https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/18/today_s_howtos.1.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/18/today_s_howtos.1.gmi 
[16:39]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines today's howtos
● Feb 18
[17:00]	TR News	Techrights LLM Slopfarms: LinuxSecurity.com and FUDZilla Doing 'Linux' (Fake Articles) https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/18/LLM_Slopfarms_LinuxSecurity_com_and_FUDZilla_Doing_Linux_Fake_A.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/02/18/LLM_Slopfarms_LinuxSecurity_com_and_FUDZilla_Doing_Linux_Fake_A.gmi 
[17:00]	TR Bot	 Techrights LLM Slopfarms: LinuxSecurity.com and FUDZilla Doing 'Linux' (Fake Articles)
[17:33]	TR News	Techrights On Technical Contracts of Employment and Why People Must Read Before Signing https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/18/On_Technical_Contracts_of_Employment_and_Why_People_Must_Read_B.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/02/18/On_Technical_Contracts_of_Employment_and_Why_People_Must_Read_B.gmi 
[17:33]	TR Bot	 Techrights On Technical Contracts of Employment and Why People Must Read Before Signing
[17:45]	TR News	RMS fandom this week https://developer.aliyun.com/article/1652544
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[17:54]	TR News	 (NEW):  Audiocasts/Shows: LINUX Unplugged, Late Night Linux, and Destination Linux https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/18/Audiocasts_Shows_LINUX_Unplugged_Late_Night_Linux_and_Destinati.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/18/Audiocasts_Shows_LINUX_Unplugged_Late_Night_Linux_and_Destinati.gmi 
[17:54]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Audiocasts/Shows: LINUX Unplugged, Late Night Linux, and Destination Linux
[17:56]	TR News	 (NEW):  Today's Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/18/today_s_leftovers.1.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/18/today_s_leftovers.1.gmi 
[17:56]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines today's leftovers
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[17:58]	TR News	Techrights Links 18/02/2025: FAA Layoffs and EU Betrayed https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/18/Links_18_02_2025_FAA_Layoffs_and_EU_Betrayed.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/02/18/Links_18_02_2025_FAA_Layoffs_and_EU_Betrayed.gmi 
[17:58]	TR Bot	 Techrights Links 18/02/2025: FAA Layoffs and EU Betrayed
● Feb 18
[18:00]		*jkl (~jkl@freenode/user/jkl) has joined #techrights
[18:02]	TR News	Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter 879 https://ubuntu-news.org/2025/02/17/ubuntu-weekly-newsletter-879/
[18:02]	TR Bot	 Ubuntu Fridge | Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter 879
[18:02]	TR News	HandBrake Released 1.9.1 with Various Fixes [Ubuntu PPA] https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/02/handbrake-released-1-9-1/
[18:02]	TR Bot	 HandBrake Released 1.9.1 with Various Fixes [Ubuntu PPA] | UbuntuHandbook
[18:03]	nobody	<schestowitz[TR2]> that's not much
[18:03]	TR News	Monitor GPU Usage in Ubuntu 22.04 for Optimal Performance https://net2.com/monitor-gpu-usage-in-ubuntu-22-04-for-optimal-performance/
[18:03]	TR Bot	 Monitor GPU Usage in Ubuntu 22.04 for Optimal Performance
[18:04]	nobody	the accounting trick is, relative to that of typical USA consumption, those 1300kWh are my annual consumption, what in USA it's the typical monthly consumption
[18:04]	nobody	for electricity
[18:05]	nobody	with further fraud and extortion a corrupt bureaucracy pushed my income far _below_ minimum wage
[18:05]	nobody	those 670Euros/year paid for electricity are very much money relative to this, and it's inflated >500%
[18:05]	TR News	Joan Westenberg on complexity being a trap https://rubenerd.com/joan-westenberg-on-complexity/
[18:05]	TR Bot	Joan Westenberg on complexity being a trap
[18:05]	nobody	for electricity
[18:06]	nobody	50cents/kWh for electricity, that's insane
[18:07]	nobody	the energy company must heave refunded ~200Euros even with the expensive energy pricing in germany, but they simply tune the accounting and bills to their liking
[18:07]	nobody	arbitrarily
[18:07]	TR News	Offer delete version when rollback https://bkhome.org/news/202502/offer-delete-version-when-rollback.html
[18:07]	TR Bot	 Offer delete version when rollback
[18:07]	TR News	SolveSpace 20250207 compiled in OE https://bkhome.org/news/202502/solvespace-20250207-compiled-in-oe.html
[18:07]	TR Bot	 SolveSpace 20250207 compiled in OE
[18:09]	nobody	anyway, germany national parliament election results will be announced next sunday
[18:09]	nobody	interestingly, ahead of the election they did refund a little, 35EUros for the entire year (although it must have been ~200Euros)
[18:10]	nobody	last year they inflated up to 60cents/kWh and cashed in additional ~400Euros for nothing, finance minister got fired
[18:11]	nobody	although, _none_ of the 8 political parties questioned the methods, that is accounting fraud and corruption
[18:11]	nobody	they merely dispute how the loot would be distributed among them
[18:11]	TR News	New FinalDraft Malware Spotted in Espionage Campaign https://www.securityweek.com/new-finaldraft-malware-spotted-in-espionage-campaign/
[18:11]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/new-finaldraft-malware-spotted-in-espionage-campaign/ )
[18:12]	TR News	"Doesnt this look fantastic? Hard to believe it, but the base of this keyboard began life as a cutting board, and theres a gallery to prove it." https://hackaday.com/2025/02/17/keebin-with-kristina-the-one-with-the-cutting-board-keyboard/ | Source: Hackaday
[18:12]	TR Bot	With Kristina: The One With The Cutting Board Keyboard | Hackaday
[18:13]	nobody	i feared for worse, since "final nuclear shutdown", but it seems nuclear energy imports from our neighboring countries and brown coal burning compensated
[18:13]	nobody	it's considered "renewable energy made in germany" stamped onto the bill, 50cents/kWh
[18:14]	nobody	the annual heating bill will be interesting, this arrives a few month later, because it's not directly sent from the city energy provider
[18:15]	TR News	Red Hat sees nothing wrong with proprietary things of Microsoft, including untrusted compilers the NSA controls https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/02/17/how-securely-deploy-github-arc-openshift
[18:15]	TR Bot	 How to securely deploy GitHub ARC on OpenShift | Red Hat Developer
[18:15]	nobody	but processed by two more entities, some metering service and the landlord who tampered further "bonus" for themselves into the "cheap russian gas" billing
[18:16]	nobody	i've contracted for legal insurance for appartment rent, that was another 124Euros
[18:16]	TR News	"When building one-off projects, its common to draw up a plan on a sheet of paper or in CAD" https://hackaday.com/2025/02/17/parametric-design-process-produces-unique-speakers/ | Source: Hackaday
[18:16]	TR Bot	Design Process Produces Unique Speakers | Hackaday
[18:16]	nobody	if i didn't pay the tampered electricity bill, the city would disconnect me from electricity (and with it internet) in a few days
[18:17]	nobody	if i didn't pay for tampered heating bills, they could evict me in a few month
[18:17]	TR News	Reach told by ASA to stop posting ad features on social control media without flagging https://pressgazette.co.uk/marketing/reach-hull-live-ads-asa/
[18:17]	TR Bot	 Reach told by ASA to stop posting ad features on social media without flagging - Press Gazette
[18:17]	nobody	the whole situation boils down to simply this: pay 1000% inflated energy prices or die
[18:20]	nobody	i don't think the german election would change anything relevant
[18:48]	TR News	Measuring Local Variances In Earths Magnetic Field https://hackaday.com/2025/02/17/measuring-local-variances-in-earths-magnetic-field/ | Source: Hackaday
[18:48]	TR Bot	Local Variances In Earths Magnetic Field | Hackaday
[18:48]	TR News	Commodore 64 Magazine https://hackaday.com/2025/02/17/probably-the-most-esoteric-commodore-64-magazine/ | Source: Hackaday
[18:48]	TR Bot	The Most Esoteric Commodore 64 Magazine | Hackaday
[18:49]	TR News	A Forgotten Consumer PC Becomes A Floating Point Powerhouse https://hackaday.com/2025/02/17/a-forgotten-consumer-pc-becomes-a-floating-point-powerhouse/ | Source: Hackaday
[18:49]	TR Bot	Forgotten Consumer PC Becomes A Floating Point Powerhouse | Hackaday
[18:50]	TR News	Notts TV to close in November when licence ends https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/notts-tv-local-closure-2025/
[18:50]	TR Bot	 Notts TV to close in November when licence ends - Press Gazette
[18:51]	TR News	Save big bucks: Shopper shares supermarket self-checkout hack https://nypost.com/2025/02/17/lifestyle/save-big-bucks-shopper-shares-supermarket-self-checkout-hack/
[18:51]	TR Bot	 Save big bucks: Shopper shares supermarket self-checkout hack
[18:52]	TR News	Intense Flu Surge Gripping The US Is The Worst in Years, CDC Says https://www.sciencealert.com/intense-flu-surge-gripping-the-us-is-the-worst-in-years-cdc-says
[18:52]	TR Bot	Flu Surge Gripping The US Is The Worst in Years, CDC Says : ScienceAlert
[18:53]	TR News	Scientists Just Found The Perfect Disguise to Sneak Into a Termite Colony https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-just-found-the-perfect-disguise-to-sneak-into-a-termite-colony
[18:53]	TR Bot	Just Found The Perfect Disguise to Sneak Into a Termite Colony : ScienceAlert
[18:54]	TR News	Supreme Court Patent Challenges February 2025 https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/02/sotus-patent-2025.html
[18:54]	TR Bot	 Supreme Court Patent Challenges February 2025 | Patently-O
[18:54]	TR News	The Burden of Proving Prior Art Enablement https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/02/burden-proving-enablement.html
[18:54]	TR Bot	 The Burden of Proving Prior Art Enablement | Patently-O
[18:55]	TR News	Three stable kernels under the sky https://lwn.net/Articles/1010352/
[18:55]	TR Bot	stable kernels under the sky [LWN.net]
[18:55]	TR News	IBM Going International (and India) (updated) https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/17/IBM_Going_International_and_India.shtml
[18:55]	TR Bot	 Techrights IBM Going International (and India)
[18:55]	TR News	IBM's Chronic Neglect Won't Save Anything and It Might Even Get I.C.B.M. Sued https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/17/IBM_s_Chronic_Neglect_Won_t_Save_Anything_and_It_Might_Even_Get.shtml
[18:55]	TR Bot	 Techrights IBM's Chronic Neglect Won't Save Anything and It Might Even Get IBM Sued
[18:56]	TR News	Back From a Short Break https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/17/Back_From_a_Short_Break.shtml
[18:56]	TR Bot	 Techrights Back From a Short Break
[18:56]	TR News	In Europe and in India Richard Stallman Need Not Duck Anymore, People Trying to Cancel His Talk Have No Sway https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/17/In_Europe_and_in_India_Richard_Stallman_Need_Not_Duck_Anymore_P.shtml
[18:56]	TR Bot	 Techrights In Europe and in India Richard Stallman Need Not Duck Anymore, People Trying to Cancel His Talk Have No Sway
[18:56]	TR News	GeekWire: Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Bribes Us While We Cover Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Affairs (Spin Doctoring), Hence We Are "Independent" https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/17/GeekWire_Microsoft_Bribes_Us_While_We_Cover_Microsoft_Affairs_S.shtml
[18:56]	TR Bot	 Techrights GeekWire: Microsoft Bribes Us While We Cover Microsoft Affairs (Spin Doctoring), Hence We Are "Independent"
[18:57]	TR News	Alex Oliva, the Potential 'Successor' of RMS, Has a New Web Site https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/15/Alex_Oliva_the_Potential_Successor_of_RMS_Has_a_New_Web_Site.shtml
[18:57]	TR Bot	 Techrights Alex Oliva, the Potential 'Successor' of RMS, Has a New Web Site
[18:57]	TR News	Promoting Abusive Monopolist Microsoft backdoored Windows With LLM Slop https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/16/Promoting_Microsoft_Windows_With_LLM_Slop.shtml
[18:57]	TR Bot	 Techrights Promoting Microsoft Windows With LLM Slop
[18:57]	TR News	Richard Stallman Confirms His Next Talk, "Free/Libre Software and Freedom in the Digital Society" (Next Monday in Free University of Bozen-Bolzano) https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/18/Richard_Stallman_Confirms_His_Next_Talk_Free_Libre_Software_and.shtml
[18:57]	TR Bot	 Techrights Richard Stallman Confirms His Next Talk, "Free/Libre Software and Freedom in the Digital Society" (Next Monday in Free University of Bozen-Bolzano)
[18:58]		*SomeGoat (~SomeGoat@r9ruxqydtdctn.irc) has joined #techrights
[18:58]	TR News	$2,000 for Eric Zautner entity, Conexus, web applications patent monopoly prior art https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/2/17/2000-for-eric-zautner-entity-conexus-web-applications-patent-prior-art
[18:58]	TR Bot	 $2,000 for Eric Zautner entity, Conexus, web applications patent prior art Unified Patents
● Feb 18
[19:04]	TR News	The New York Times adopts LLM slop, so nothing it publishes is reliable anymore https://www.techinasia.com/york-times-adopts-ai-tools-strict-guidelines
[19:04]	TR Bot	 Tech in Asia - Connecting Asia's startup ecosystem
[19:10]	nobody	"everyone who could work but doesn't won't receive social security" ... if it's not paid it's not work and no social security either?
[19:12]	nobody	schestowitz[TR2]: i'll not git push anything
[19:12]	nobody	no complete alternative toolchain support for foss, simple as that
[19:13]	nobody	and a few other things
[19:28]	TR News	The Tale of the Tinkering Tech | A Framework Fiasco https://cubiclenate.com/2025/02/16/the-tale-of-the-tinkering-tech-a-framework-fiasco/
[19:28]	TR Bot	Tale of the Tinkering Tech | A Framework Fiasco CubicleNate's Techpad
[19:29]	TR News	Waveshare ESP32 robotic arm kit with 5+1 DoF supports ROS2, LeRobot, and Jetson Orin NX integration https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/02/17/waveshare-esp32-robotic-arm-kit-with-51-dof-supports-ros2-lerobot-and-jetson-orin-nx-integration/
[19:29]	TR Bot	 Waveshare ESP32 robotic arm kit with 5+1 DoF supports ROS2, LeRobot, and Jetson Orin NX integration - CNX Software
[19:30]	TR News	ModelScan - Protection Against Model Serialization Attacks, (Mon, Feb 17th) https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/31692
[19:30]	TR Bot	 ModelScan - Protection Against Model Serialization Attacks - SANS Internet Storm Center
[19:31]	TR News	My Very Personal Guidance and Strategies to Protect Network Edge Devices, (Thu, Feb 6th) https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/31660
[19:31]	TR Bot	 My Very Personal Guidance and Strategies to Protect Network Edge Devices - SANS Internet Storm Center
[19:32]	TR News	Shark Bites Tourist Who Was Trying to Take Photo of It https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/world/shark-bite-turks-caicos.html
[19:32]	TR Bot	 Shark Bites Tourist Who Was Trying to Take Photo of It - The New York Times
[19:33]	TR News	ADLINK OSM-MTK510 An OSM Size-L module with MediaTek Genio 510 Hey Hi (AI) SoC, up to 8GB RAM and 128GB eMMC flash https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/02/18/adlink-osm-mtk510-osm-size-l-module-with-mediatek-genio-510-ai-soc/
[19:33]	TR Bot	 ADLINK OSM-MTK510 - An OSM Size-L module with MediaTek Genio 510 AI SoC, up to 8GB RAM and 128GB eMMC flash - CNX Software
[19:33]	TR News	127 Servers of Bulletproof Hosting Service Zservers Seized by Dutch Police https://www.securityweek.com/127-servers-of-bulletproof-hosting-service-zservers-seized-by-dutch-police/
[19:33]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/127-servers-of-bulletproof-hosting-service-zservers-seized-by-dutch-police/ )
[19:34]	TR News	ACS Password Leaks Are A Security Issue On I.C.B.M. i https://www.itjungle.com/2025/02/17/acs-password-leaks-are-a-security-issue-on-ibm-i/
[19:34]	TR Bot	 ACS Password Leaks Are A Security Issue On IBM i - IT Jungle
[19:35]	TR News	What to do about SQLITE_BUSY errors despite setting a timeout https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/a-brief-post-on-sqlite3-database-locked-despite-timeout/
[19:35]	TR Bot	 What to do about SQLITE_BUSY errors despite setting a timeout - Bert Hubert's writings
[19:36]	TR News	StorPool unveils Disaster Recovery Engine for Linux KVMs https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/02/17/storpools-sw-defined-disaster-recovery-for-linux-vms/
[19:36]	TR Bot	 StorPool unveils Disaster Recovery Engine for Linux KVMs Blocks and Files
[19:37]	TR News	OCCT, the PC stress testing tool, is coming to Steam and Linux https://overclock3d.net/news/software/occt-the-pc-stress-testing-tool-is-coming-to-steam-and-linux/
[19:37]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://overclock3d.net/news/software/occt-the-pc-stress-testing-tool-is-coming-to-steam-and-linux/ )
[19:38]	TR News	Surprisingly simple coding trick can slash data center energy usage by 30% https://www.livescience.com/technology/computing/surprisingly-simple-coding-trick-can-slash-data-center-energy-usage-by-30-percent
[19:38]	TR Bot	 Surprisingly simple coding trick can slash data center energy usage by 30% | Live Science
[19:38]	TR News	These 7 TUIs Will Bring Your Terminal Experience Up-to-Date https://www.howtogeek.com/these-tuis-will-bring-your-terminal-experience-up-to-date/
[19:38]	TR Bot	 These 7 TUIs Will Bring Your Terminal Experience Up-to-Date
[19:39]	TR News	IBM still works for Microsoft and for Windows instead of competing https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/fedora-42-on-wsl-is-almost-here-and-you-can-help-test-it-out-today
[19:39]	TR Bot	 Help test Fedora 42 for WSL before its launch later this year | Windows Central
[19:40]	TR News	#TripwireBookClub - Black Hat Bash: Creative Scripting for Hackers and Pentesters https://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/tripwirebookclub-black-hat-bash-creative-scripting-hackers-and-pentesters
[19:40]	TR Bot	- Black Hat Bash: Creative Scripting for Hackers and Pentesters | Tripwire
[19:40]	TR News	"More about it: "Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse. Assign roles, craft tools, and manage resources carefully. Construct buildings, level up your citizens, and fortify your town against hordes of zombies. How many days can you survive?" https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/final-outpost-is-hopping-over-from-mobile-to-pc-with-a-definitive-edition-demo-available-now/
[19:40]	TR Bot	Outpost is hopping over from mobile to PC with a Definitive Edition - demo available now | GamingOnLinux
[19:41]		*oarion7 (~ryan@e6jyc88uwxv5c.irc) has joined #techrights
[19:41]	TR News	"Replicube is an open-ended programming puzzle game about writing code to replicate 3D voxel-based objects. The developer said they took what they liked about writing shaders, and turned it into a game. Here you solve puzzles, pursue leaderboard glory, or just make art to share with the in-game community." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/check-out-the-demo-for-replicube-an-open-ended-programming-puzzle-game-from-walaber/
[19:41]	TR Bot	out the demo for Replicube an open-ended programming puzzle game from Walaber | GamingOnLinux
[19:42]	TR News	Another one self-immolates https://www.inkl.com/news/head-of-top-apple-mac-linux-distro-resigns-citing-burnout-and-slamming-linus-torvalds-leadership see https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/08/When_It_Comes_to_Social_Control_Media_Linus_Torvalds_is_Channel.shtml
[19:42]	TR Bot	 Head of top Apple Mac Linux distro resigns, citing
[19:42]	TR Bot	 Techrights When It Comes to Social Control Media, Linus Torvalds is Channeling Techrights
[19:43]	TR News	OpenSUSE becoming even more useless https://news.itsfoss.com/opensuse-dropping-legacy-boot/ see http://techrights.org/o/2022/04/08/planned-obsolescence-ibm/
[19:43]	TR Bot	 Bad News for Older Computers! openSUSE Considers dropping Legacy BIOS Support
[19:43]	TR Bot	 IBM and Fedora: Stop Being Poor! Buy a New PC!
[19:44]	TR News	"One of the most striking things about Linux is the sheer number of terminal emulators available. There are dozens, each offering different features, philosophies, and levels of customization. This naturally leads to the question: Why are there so many choices?" https://www.howtogeek.com/why-there-are-so-many-linux-terminal-emulators/
[19:44]	TR Bot	 Why There Are So Many Linux Terminal Emulators: 5 Reasons
[19:44]	TR News	Blocking Linux and Steam Deck users reduced cheaters in Apex Legends... apparently https://www.xda-developers.com/blocking-linux-steam-deck-users-apex-legends-cheaters/ http://techrights.org/n/2024/11/04/GNU_Linux_Users_Are_Not_Cheaters.shtml
[19:44]	TR Bot	 Blocking Linux and Steam Deck users reduced cheaters in Apex Legends... apparently
[19:44]	TR Bot	 Techrights GNU/Linux Users Are Not Cheaters
[19:45]	TR News	What was lost though? https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20250216-marcan-resign-asahi-linux-project-lead/
[19:45]	TR Bot	 Project leader of 'Asahi Linux,' which aims to port Linux to Macs with Apple silicon, resigns, explaining the circumstances so far - GIGAZINE
[19:45]	TR News	How To Install Linux Apps on Chromebook? https://www.aboutchromebooks.com/how-to/how-to-install-linux-apps-on-chromebook/
[19:45]	TR Bot	 How To Install Linux Apps on Chromebook?
[19:47]	TR News	 (NEW):  Games: Apex Legends, OCCT, and Esoteric Commodore 64 Magazine https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/18/Games_Apex_Legends_OCCT_and_Esoteric_Commodore_64_Magazine.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/18/Games_Apex_Legends_OCCT_and_Esoteric_Commodore_64_Magazine.gmi 
[19:47]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Games: Apex Legends, OCCT, and Esoteric Commodore 64 Magazine
[19:49]	TR News	 (NEW):  Applications: TUIs, HandBrake 1.9.1, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/18/Applications_TUIs_HandBrake_1_9_1_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/18/Applications_TUIs_HandBrake_1_9_1_and_More.gmi 
[19:49]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Applications: TUIs, HandBrake 1.9.1, and More
[19:51]	TR News	 (NEW):  Kernel: KVM/StorPool, Energy Use, and Asahi Linux Trying Drama by 'Brigading' in Social Control Media https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/18/Kernel_KVM_StorPool_Energy_Use_and_Asahi_Linux_Trying_Drama_by_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/18/Kernel_KVM_StorPool_Energy_Use_and_Asahi_Linux_Trying_Drama_by_.gmi 
[19:51]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Kernel: KVM/StorPool, Energy Use, and Asahi Linux Trying Drama by 'Brigading' in Social Control Media
[19:52]	TR News	 (NEW):  Security Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/18/Security_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/18/Security_Leftovers.gmi 
[19:52]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Security Leftovers
[19:54]	TR News	 (NEW):  Red Hat Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/18/Red_Hat_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/18/Red_Hat_Leftovers.gmi 
[19:54]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Red Hat Leftovers
● Feb 18
[20:04]	TR News	"I've had a license key for this blog site for a while now, but have moved onto other apps. While I'm happy on Bear for regular blogging, I still want to use this space for something. It's meant to just write, and not be too image heavy, so maybe I'll make it a link blog, or a "tiny" blog." gemini://binarydigit.smol.pub/tiny-notes
[20:08]	TR News	Report: Broadcom and TSMC in talks to carve up defective chip maker Intel https://siliconangle.com/2025/02/16/report-broadcom-tsmc-talks-carve-intel/
[20:08]	TR Bot	Broadcom and TSMC in talks to carve up Intel - SiliconANGLE
[20:09]	TR News	South Korea Bans Downloads of DeepSeek, the Chinese Hey Hi (AI) App https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/business/south-korea-deepseek-china-ai.html
[20:09]	TR Bot	 South Korea Bans Downloads of DeepSeek, the Chinese A.I. App - The New York Times
[20:10]	TR News	Decoy Killswitch https://hackaday.com/2025/02/17/decoy-killswitch-triggers-alarm-instead/ | Source: Hackaday
[20:10]	TR Bot	Killswitch Triggers Alarm Instead | Hackaday
[20:10]	TR News	Top Social Security Official Leaves After MElon Team Seeks Data Access https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/us/politics/social-security-musk-team-access.html
[20:10]	TR Bot	 Top Social Security Official Leaves After Musk Team Seeks Data Access - The New York Times
[20:10]	TR News	Chatbot vs national security? Why DeepSeek is raising concerns https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chatbot-vs-national-security-why-deepseek-is-raising-concerns
[20:10]	TR Bot	 Chatbot vs national security? Why DeepSeek is raising concerns | The Straits Times
[20:11]	TR News	Chinese minister meets Myanmar scam centre workers https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/chinese-minister-meets-myanmar-scam-centre-workers
[20:11]	TR Bot	 Chinese minister meets Myanmar scam centre workers | The Straits Times
[20:11]	TR News	Hong Kong pollster to end public opinion research amid crackdown https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/02/17/china-hong-kong-pollster-ends-public-opinion-research/
[20:11]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/02/17/china-hong-kong-pollster-ends-public-opinion-research/ )
[20:16]	TR News	Xerox has a history there. Proprietary drivers led to GNU. https://www.securityweek.com/xerox-versalink-printer-vulnerabilities-enable-lateral-movement/
[20:16]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/xerox-versalink-printer-vulnerabilities-enable-lateral-movement/ )
[20:18]	TR News	Intel 8th, 9th and 10th Gen processors absent from Microsofts backdoored Windows 11 24H2 CPU support list for new OEM systems https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/intel-8th-9th-and-10th-gen-processors-absent-from-microsofts-windows-11-24h2-cpu-support-list
[20:18]	TR Bot	 Intel 8th, 9th and 10th Gen processors absent from Microsoft's Windows 11 24H2 CPU support list for new OEM systems | Tom's Hardware
[20:21]	TR News	This Week in KDE Apps https://blogs.kde.org/2025/02/17/this-week-in-kde-apps/
[20:21]	TR Bot	 This Week in KDE Apps - KDE Blogs
[20:21]	TR News	 (NEW):  Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/18/Free_and_Open_Source_Software_howtos_and_Installations.1.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/18/Free_and_Open_Source_Software_howtos_and_Installations.1.gmi 
[20:21]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations
[20:21]	TR News	PocketBeagle 2 SBC combines TI AM6232 dual-core Cortex-A53 SoC with MSPM0 MCU https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/02/18/pocketbeagle-2-sbc-combines-ti-am6232-soc-with-mspm0-mcu/
[20:21]	TR Bot	 PocketBeagle 2 SBC combines TI AM6232 dual-core Cortex-A53 SoC with MSPM0 MCU - CNX Software
[20:22]	TR News	Rakudo Weekly 2025.07 Unexpected Quora https://rakudoweekly.blog/2025/02/17/2025-07-unexpected-quora/
[20:22]	TR Bot	 2025.07 Unexpected Quora Rakudo Weekly News
[20:23]	TR News	HRW: Iran intensifies repression of Azeri minority amid crackdown on dissent https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/02/hrw-iran-intensifies-repression-of-azeri-minority-amid-crackdown-on-dissent/
[20:23]	TR Bot	 HRW: Iran intensifies repression of Azeri minority amid crackdown on dissent - JURIST - News
[20:24]	TR News	Building a secure test environment for an IXP https://blog.apnic.net/2025/02/18/building-a-secure-test-environment-for-an-ixp/
[20:24]	TR Bot	 Building a secure test environment for an IXP | APNIC Blog
[20:24]	TR News	2025 ISIF Asia applications now open https://blog.apnic.net/2025/02/18/2025-isif-asia-applications-now-open/
[20:24]	TR Bot	 2025 ISIF Asia applications now open | APNIC Blog
[20:24]	TR News	Atlas of Surveillance https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/02/atlas-of-surveillance.html
[20:24]	TR Bot	of Surveillance - Schneier on Security
[20:25]	TR News	Josef Strzibny: Combining multiple sitemaps with a sitemap index https://nts.strzibny.name/multiple-sitemaps-index/
[20:25]	TR Bot	 Combining multiple sitemaps with a sitemap index
[20:25]	TR News	This website is available without encryption, and yours should be too https://box.matto.nl/this-website-is-available-without-encryption-and-yours-should-be-too.html
[20:25]	TR Bot	website is available without encryption, and yours should be too - box.matto.nl
[20:26]	TR News	South Korea says DeepSeek removed from local app stores pending privacy review https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/s-korea-says-deepseek-removed-from-local-app-stores-pending-privacy-review
[20:26]	TR Bot	 South Korea says DeepSeek removed from local app stores pending privacy review | The Straits Times
[20:26]	TR News	Chinas Hey Hi (AI) chatbot DeepSeek removed from South Korea app stores pending privacy review https://hongkongfp.com/2025/02/17/chinas-ai-chatbot-deepseek-removed-from-south-korea-app-stores-pending-privacy-review/
[20:26]	TR Bot	 DeepSeek removed from S. Korea app stores pending review
[20:26]	TR News	South Korea pauses DeepSeek downloads over privacy concerns https://siliconangle.com/2025/02/17/south-korea-pauses-deepseek-downloads-privacy-concerns/
[20:26]	TR Bot	Korea pauses DeepSeek downloads over privacy concerns - SiliconANGLE
[20:26]	TR News	Downloads of DeepSeeks Hey Hi (AI) Apps Paused in South Korea Over Privacy Concerns https://www.securityweek.com/downloads-of-deepseeks-ai-apps-paused-in-south-korea-over-privacy-concerns/
[20:26]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/downloads-of-deepseeks-ai-apps-paused-in-south-korea-over-privacy-concerns/ )
[20:29]	TR News	 (NEW):  Open Hardware/Modding Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/18/Open_Hardware_Modding_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/18/Open_Hardware_Modding_Leftovers.gmi 
[20:29]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Open Hardware/Modding Leftovers
[20:31]	TR News	 (NEW):  Today's Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/18/today_s_leftovers.2.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/18/today_s_leftovers.2.gmi 
[20:31]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines today's leftovers
[20:31]		*IsambardPrince (~isambardprince@bcxvpte5vmxdc.irc) has joined #techrights
[20:33]	MinceR	https://pollycastor.com/2023/07/29/how-to-avoid-mixing-your-metaphors-poem-by-brian-bilston/
[20:33]	TR Bot	 How to Avoid Mixing Your Metaphors (Poem by Brian Bilston) | Polly Castor
[20:33]	TR News	Techrights Links 18/02/2025: More DeepSeek Bans and Supreme Court Patent Challenges https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/18/Links_18_02_2025_More_DeepSeek_Bans_and_Supreme_Court_Patent_Ch.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/02/18/Links_18_02_2025_More_DeepSeek_Bans_and_Supreme_Court_Patent_Ch.gmi 
[20:33]	TR Bot	 Techrights Links 18/02/2025: More DeepSeek Bans and Supreme Court Patent Challenges
[20:34]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, Someone didn't catch on to a 1984 reference on Reddit. I told them I could forgive them since the government decided that educating people wasn't important for the goal of having people who were content with a life of menial tasks and having children and turning them over to the State.
[20:34]	MinceR	:>
[20:35]	IsambardPrince	It doesn't further their goal if they have a population of critical thinkers that is told to go run a cash register or a forklift while they wonder why their life is so constrained and meaningless, or how having kids to replace them running a cash register or forklift and paying for it doesn't benefit them, and just who the hell do these people in charge think they are, telling them to suck it up and do this.
[20:36]	IsambardPrince	By those metrics, my mother was a hit out of the ballpark. $10,000 a year to a church, just smart enough to go vote for Trump so she can lose her Social Security check.
[20:37]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jmcfvkdd
[20:37]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jmcfvkdd )
[20:37]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[20:37]	schestowitz[TR2]	Layoffs coming to Coppell office
[20:37]	schestowitz[TR2]	The leadership in the Coppell office has a plan to increase sales :
[20:37]	schestowitz[TR2]	In September they forced us to work 1 extra hour per day.
[20:37]	schestowitz[TR2]	Next month - back to the office full time.
[20:37]	schestowitz[TR2]	This is what happens when you have leaders that dont know how to lead.
[20:37]	schestowitz[TR2]	Im sure this is ultimately to get people to quit vs layoff.
[20:37]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[20:37]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[20:37]	schestowitz[TR2]	Can you please be more specific? Which business area is this?
[20:37]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[20:37]	IsambardPrince	The system breaks down when you give people the power to contemplate their own slavery and how it is a vicious exploitative cycle.
[20:37]		*psydroid3 has quit (Quit: KVIrc 5.2.6 Quasar http://www.kvirc.net/)
[20:38]	IsambardPrince	Or as the billionaires have reduced it down to "two legs good, four legs better" for my mom and dad. "Nobody wants to work anymore." This is why. They read and they figure out how badly they're getting screwed. They look at their paychecks and how it doesn't even match the rent. They get mad.
[20:39]	IsambardPrince	Too many of them went on strike and wouldn't open their legs for the State, so the government takes away abortion. Spreads anti-abortion propaganda through the church. Wants to bring back the Comstock act and make condoms illegal.
[20:39]	MinceR	that was "four legs good, two legs better"
[20:41]	IsambardPrince	Was it? Oh that's right. The more corrupt and oppressive the pigs got, the more they started acting like the humans. Including learning to walk on their hind legs.
[20:41]	TR News	 (NEW):  Free Software Foundation Speaks Up Against Red Hat Source Code Announcement https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/18/Free_Software_Foundation_Speaks_Up_Against_Red_Hat_Source_Code_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/18/Free_Software_Foundation_Speaks_Up_Against_Red_Hat_Source_Code_.gmi 
[20:41]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Free Software Foundation Speaks Up Against Red Hat Source Code Announcement
[20:46]	TR News	The Com https://databreaches.net/2025/02/09/teen-on-musks-doge-team-graduated-from-the-com/
[20:46]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://databreaches.net/2025/02/09/teen-on-musks-doge-team-graduated-from-the-com/ )
[20:50]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, Apparently, the CIA is flying MQ-9 Reaper drones in Mexico to gather intel on drug cartels.
[20:51]	IsambardPrince	Mexico is too afraid of us to complain about it.
[20:51]	IsambardPrince	Gathering intelligence is the first step, obviously.
[20:51]	MinceR	the new normal
[20:51]	IsambardPrince	It allows you to figure out where they're operating so you can strike at them.
[20:52]	IsambardPrince	"Trump, working remotely from Florida, plays golf for fourth straight day after baselessly accusing remote federal workers of doing so"
[20:52]	IsambardPrince	-CNN
[20:52]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, The Republicans in the Senate are taking 3 day gaps and then coming back in and doing like one or two things.
[20:52]	IsambardPrince	Given what's happening, I'd rather they just took every day off.
[20:53]	MinceR	same
● Feb 18
[21:03]	TR News	Techrights Threats Against Techrights Always Come From Outside Britain https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/18/Threats_Against_Techrights_Always_Come_From_Outside_Britain.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/02/18/Threats_Against_Techrights_Always_Come_From_Outside_Britain.gmi 
[21:03]	TR Bot	 Techrights Threats Against Techrights Always Come From Outside Britain
[21:05]	IsambardPrince	I posted:"
[21:05]	IsambardPrince	If you've lived here for years and have no credit file at all that's pretty suspicious because the major bureaus start collecting information about almost everyone involuntarily, the moment they have a Social Security number, and it's not just from banks. It's from utility companies. It's from all kinds of places. Could even be landlords, which is kind of a new thing.
[21:05]	IsambardPrince	They're setting things up so landlords can make monthly reports to credit bureaus and newer FICO score models have special weight given to how you pay your rent if your landlord reports. They want landlords to pay to access and report things to the system and landlords have a good reason to cooperate. They can flag people they've had problems with, destroy their credit, and make sure that they can't rent another place to live, if 
[21:05]	IsambardPrince	they're unsatisfied with you.
[21:05]	IsambardPrince	Pretty evil really. Most landlords don't do this yet, but even that group, dumb as they are, will catch on when someone hands them a whitepaper.
[21:05]	IsambardPrince	I recommend prepaid cell phones for this very reason. If anything happens and you don't make a payment, the worst thing that happens is you need to pay it before your phone works again, and they're cheaper.
[21:05]	IsambardPrince	Post-paid plans are expensive because you get to subsidize all the morons who get another iPhone every year and cover that for them, and they don't report positive payments to the credit bureaus, only missed payments and collections."
[21:07]	IsambardPrince	"The government has no reason to oppose a big central database of how people pay their bills. If anything, it means that they can just pay for everything that's on there like anyone else, and use it to compile more information for investigations without the target knowing and without having to justify some way of collecting it themselves."
[21:08]	IsambardPrince	"They buy a lot of information they could never get a judge to sign a warrant for, including all the information your cell phone leaks about you, including GPS, phone metadata, mobile ad network profiles, and so on."
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[21:22]	TR Bot	 Techrights How Americans View 'Free Speech' in Practice
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[21:37]	MinceR	https://pleated-jeans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/funny-topical-comics-ahoy-universe-9.jpg
[21:48]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, I posted this:
[21:48]	IsambardPrince	"Somewhat into the book already. 20% or so.
[21:48]	IsambardPrince	The thought occurred to me in the shower, where I have most of my great epiphanies...
[21:48]	IsambardPrince	"Inflation even benefits women.When there's no other reason to stay with them, but Biden and Trump have fucked us so badly that the money has halved in value in five years, men realize that if they leave, ditch the tax breaks, and owe child support, and have to cough up the same living expenses more or less, the economic terror of inflation in the overall economy might compel them to stay in a bad relationship with a woman they 
[21:48]	IsambardPrince	despise.
[21:48]	IsambardPrince	Massive inflation without raises turns the tables around. It used to be that women didn't really want to leave because they'd be financially ruined and unable to function economically.Inflation means that this is why the man stays." -Me (thinking about this in the shower)
[21:48]	IsambardPrince	The author wrote this in the 1970s, and assumed that a man would mainly run into problems if he was poor to middle class and left for another woman and owed alimony and child support, and ran into a second woman that demanded kids.
[21:48]	IsambardPrince	But today, you'd be in economic trouble almost immediately with or without kids, new partner or no new partner."
[21:49]	IsambardPrince	But today, thanks to inflation and stagnant wages, it takes two incomes to live even remotely comfortably.
[21:50]	MinceR	but who gets to spend two incomes on one person?
[21:51]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, President: [final scene, talking to Plissken's hologram] What's it going to be, Plissken? Them or us?
[21:51]	IsambardPrince	Snake Plissken: I shut down the third world, you win they lose. I shut down America, they win, you lose. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
[21:51]	IsambardPrince	President: So what are you going to do?
[21:51]	IsambardPrince	Snake Plissken: Disappear.
[21:51]	IsambardPrince	Brazen: [Plissken types 6-6-6 into the satellite control] He's entered the world code. No target code. Sir, that will shut down the entire planet.
[21:51]	IsambardPrince	Snake Plissken: I told you you'd better hope I didn't make it back.
[21:51]	IsambardPrince	Malloy: You push that button, 500 years' worth of work will be finished. Our technology, our way of life, our entire history. We'll have to start all over again. For God's sakes, don't do it, Snake!
[21:52]	IsambardPrince	Snake Plissken: The name's Plissken.
[21:52]	IsambardPrince	Utopia: [Plissken activates the satellites, shutting down all power, which saves Utopia from being executed in the electric chair] He did it! He shut down the Earth!
[21:52]	IsambardPrince	Snake Plissken: [Lights a cigarette and blows out the match used to light it] Welcome to the human race.
[21:52]	MinceR	:)
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● Feb 18
[22:01]	IsambardPrince	https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-riyadh-talks-trump-putin-rubio-0c3beebfef5839e9d509ff58239a6bc5
[22:01]	TR Bot	 Top Russian and US officials meet in Saudi Arabia for Ukraine war talks without Kyiv | AP News
[22:01]	IsambardPrince	Whatever Ukraine needs to continue the war with will have to come from Europe.
[22:01]	IsambardPrince	And if they're smart they'll help or else Putin will wait a while then do something else.
[22:04]	MinceR	they aren't smart
[22:05]	IsambardPrince	I figured they were not or they'd have been doing a lot more already.
[22:05]	MinceR	:>
[22:05]	IsambardPrince	If they're not going to fight they need to be giving Ukraine anything they can POSSIBLY spare even if it comes out of drawdowns from their necessary reserves.
[22:06]	IsambardPrince	If Russia doesn't get smacked down hard, they won't stop.
[22:06]	IsambardPrince	The only rational thing to do here is make sure they get hurt so bad in Ukraine they won't be a serious threat for a while.
[22:07]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, I already said the point in history where America should have done something about Russia and did not.
[22:07]	IsambardPrince	It was 1945. Right after the Germans and Japanese collapsed.
[22:07]	MinceR	yeah
[22:07]	IsambardPrince	And the Nazis had already ruined most of Russia's ability to fight.
[22:08]	MinceR	or at least when it became clear that the orcs were building an empire in the eastern bloc
[22:08]	IsambardPrince	Eisenhower and Truman were fools for not letting Patton march on Russia and capture it.
[22:08]	IsambardPrince	Like he said we needed to.
[22:08]	MinceR	they could have nuked moscow then
[22:08]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, A couple things brought Patton down.
[22:08]	IsambardPrince	One was the "slapping incident".
[22:08]	IsambardPrince	The other was suggesting the march on Moscow while they were "our allies and everyone knows that".
[22:09]	IsambardPrince	The slapping incident was an avoidable gaffe.
[22:09]	IsambardPrince	The march on Moscow was a very based and accurate appraisal.
[22:09]	IsambardPrince	It got him into even more trouble.
[22:10]	IsambardPrince	They removed him as Supreme Allied Commander and he died in a car accident.
[22:10]	IsambardPrince	The US should have discussed an invasion of Russia with the UK, and gone in ourselves if we had to.
[22:11]	IsambardPrince	After the capture of Moscow and about 20 years under an American-British military government, we could have imposed a Constitution on Russia much like the ones in the FRG and Post-War Japan.
[22:12]	IsambardPrince	Complete with a "Self-Defense Force" that was limited in strength.
[22:12]	IsambardPrince	Certainly not allowing them to become a nuclear state with a huge military production capacity.
[22:13]	IsambardPrince	And honestly I think we'd need to stick around a fair bit after that just to keep an eye on things in case we needed to intervene again.
[22:13]	IsambardPrince	We stayed in Germany for another 50 years.
[22:14]	IsambardPrince	That may be how long an occupation of Russia would have been necessary.
[22:14]	IsambardPrince	Until around 1995 or so.
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[22:33]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], Looking at the UK Treasury on ISAs I can only surmise they're mad that some people have saved money for a rainy day and don't want to gamble it.
[22:33]	IsambardPrince	So they want to take away the interest on it so they're forced to gamble in the hopes it won't rot away due to inflation.
[22:35]	IsambardPrince	It's dangerous because you know, if you have enough money to last a month or two and it goes into stocks or something and they lose half the value and don't recover for 2 or 3 years, then you might be screwed.
[22:35]	IsambardPrince	That happens in a backdrop of mass unemployment. So the difference between lasting another couple months or not matters.
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[22:49]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, I told someone regarding immigration biometrics:
[22:49]	IsambardPrince	"They always have the discretion to reuse biometrics. They were constantly choosing to waive them and reuse the ones they already had from the initial appointment for my spouse which was fine with me.
[22:49]	IsambardPrince	Do you want to have to take the day off work every couple years so they can fingerprint you again so they can get the same fingerprints they already had last time? :)
[22:49]	IsambardPrince	At this point they charge biometrics fees they don't give back and then to skip the appointment, so they pocket money and they don't even have to do something for it.
[22:49]	IsambardPrince	Only with the government could dealing with them be so unpleasant that you'd rather that they keep $100 and don't even do the thing you paid for."
[22:53]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, Someone said "During Trump, all denials got automatic referrals to issue NTAs if the individuals did not have status."
[22:53]	IsambardPrince	I replied, "That should be fun now that he's sacking immigration judges. Probably only the ones that ever rule in favor of the immigrant, to free up spots for Trump People's Court judges naturally. :)"
[22:55]	IsambardPrince	"Sort of reminiscent of Picard and Q.
[22:55]	IsambardPrince	Picard: "If the process is fair, we will prevail!"
[22:55]	IsambardPrince	Q: "The process will not be fair. In fact....IT WILL BE COMPLETELY UNFAIR!" *smiles*"
[22:57]	IsambardPrince	They said: "The biggest impact will be on staff reductions or redistribution. This will explode wait times." I replied, "If he increases the wait times that could be a good thing for some people he'd deny. It means they could potentially be stuck in the process and getting free EAD renewals every year (usually free) until we have another President. If you can't win, the next best thing is to get more time and hope for better days."
● Feb 18
[23:02]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, The radio just went silent.
[23:02]	IsambardPrince	Maybe they said something bad about Trump and lost their broadcast license and now owe the Presidential Library.
[23:02]	IsambardPrince	:D
[23:03]	IsambardPrince	Now wait, it's back.
[23:03]	IsambardPrince	False alarm.
[23:03]	MinceR	:>
[23:04]	IsambardPrince	My God, can you imagine how big Obama or Clinton's library would be if they were only half as corrupt as my Dad said they were?
[23:05]	IsambardPrince	Trump's library will have to be built in space, a quarter the size of the moon, with a death laser inside it by the time he's done with the news and the tech barons.
[23:05]	IsambardPrince	And at that point he can just wipe entire countries out if they won't take their people back and say nice things.
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[23:06]	MinceR	what does he need a library for anyway? can he even read?
[23:06]	IsambardPrince	Every room will be a toilet with classified documents and big mac wrappers splayed everywhere.
[23:06]	IsambardPrince	You know, a library.
[23:07]	IsambardPrince	It'll be that and a death laser you know.
[23:08]	MinceR	lol
[23:13]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, You know, that pairs nicely with the House Republicans bringing up bills to make Trump's Birthday a national holiday, remove term limits, and then we can take a page out of North Korea and have 100 foot bronze statues of Trump everywhere, and obelisks that you must purchase flowers for even if you have no money because they're watching.
[23:17]	MinceR	bronze? needs gold plating at the minimum
[23:18]	IsambardPrince	Yes, they can melt the gold bricks in Fort Knox.
[23:18]	IsambardPrince	The Department of Government Efficiency can sell them into the private sector to book a gain for the government and then pay the private sector to buy them back as 100 foot gold statues of Trump to stimulate the economy.
[23:19]	IsambardPrince	At a ratio of 20:1 the bulge in the pants will be almost the size of a normal male bulge.
[23:20]	IsambardPrince	So the statues may need to be slightly over 100 feet.
[23:21]	MinceR	lol
[23:23]	IsambardPrince	The woman who wrote The Manipulated Man is probably the only woman out there that I might have married, had we been in the same age group and there was a chance encounter. It's nice that out of 4 billion women living in the world, there's one antifeminist who admits that the portrayal of women as weak and powerless by nature is a lie designed to keep this dynamic going.
[23:24]	IsambardPrince	It's not that women are so stupid they couldn't change a car tire, or program a computer.
[23:24]	IsambardPrince	It's that the system we have doesn't require it of them, so they're not in a position where they must do it.
[23:25]	IsambardPrince	Antifeminists are really the only people who do want gender equality.
[23:25]	IsambardPrince	It's like Bill Maher said. 50 years of feminism in America has led to less actual liberation for women than the washing machine.
[23:26]	IsambardPrince	Women used to have to do hard work and had no time to improve themselves because housework was so hard and inefficient.
[23:26]	IsambardPrince	Wash day meant getting a washing board and harsh chemicals out and hanging clothes on the line.
[23:27]	IsambardPrince	Now you can do that many clothes in about an hour, almost all of it spent away from the machine, where you throw something for dinner in a pressure cooker that makes food in parallel to the laundry, then when all of that's going, instead of busting out a mop and bucket and mixing bleach to water ratios, you grab a swiffer and the floor is clean.
[23:27]	IsambardPrince	But they did not use this extra time productively.
[23:27]	IsambardPrince	Everything that gets them more time to work on liberating themselves only enfeebles them more.
[23:28]	IsambardPrince	Men are not in control of births. The woman is in control of how many children she will let you have, and when.
[23:28]	IsambardPrince	If she doesn't want to give you any, she'll take pills, or get abortions.
[23:29]	IsambardPrince	If she wants to give you 10 of them, it doesn't really matter much what you think. All you can do to certainly avoid it is not have sex with her.
[23:30]	IsambardPrince	You have no way of knowing if she even took the pills unless you stand there every day and watch her take one and swallow it.
[23:31]	IsambardPrince	Otherwise she could lie, and blame the results on "Well, they're not 100%."