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[05:29] *Goblin has quit (Quit: Leaving) [05:31] *Goblin (~use@anjxxfe7gqque.irc) has joined #techrights [05:48] *yellow-pillow has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [05:58] *acer-box has quit (*.net *.split) [05:58] *Guest14145 has quit (*.net *.split) [05:58] *rianne has quit (*.net *.split) [05:58] *ohama has quit (*.net *.split) [05:58] *hvxgr has quit (*.net *.split) [05:58] *sbp has quit (*.net *.split) [05:58] *acer-box__ (~acer-box@freenode-50vmi7.ldvb.0amm.hij1op.IP) has joined #techrights [05:58] *rianne (~rianne@freenode-gvn.goo.k31cok.IP) has joined #techrights [05:59] *mekkis (~mekkis@freenode-lr1.k1k.96e19s.IP) has joined #techrights ● Jul 18 [06:00] *mekkis is now known as Guest53370 [06:02] *sbp (~sbp@freenode-m7i.q7q.b87eii.IP) has joined #techrights [06:03] *ohama (ohama@freenode-0df.kav.vc6dkt.IP) has joined #techrights [06:08] *hvxgr (~wl2v_usrn@freenode-ong.pov.c33bnd.IP) has joined #techrights [06:13] TR News [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1713.jpg [06:14] TR News [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D2070.jpg [06:14] TR News "It appears Bacardi55 has stopped working on his GTL (Gemini TinyLogs) development. A few patches have been submitted to the developer mailing list, but they remain uncommitted despite being over 7 months old." gemini://redterminal.org/gemlog/2025-11-21-Fork_GTL_Gemini_Tiny_Logs_from_bacardi55.gmi [06:15] IsambardPrince I told my boyfriend that 3.3x the rent is the "new normal" because the landlords are running "worst case tenant" problems. Like, "Who is it that's going to hit the cigarette store, the weed store, and the liquor store and buy lotto scratchers and then goes oh crap I can't pay?" [06:16] IsambardPrince You know plenty of those people are out there. [06:16] TR News GTL - Gemini Tinylog Reader: A new tag release which fixes the "missing entries" problem gemini://redterminal.org/gemlog/2026-07-18-GTL_-_Gemini_Tinylog_Reader_-_A_new_tag_release_which_solves_the_missing_entries_problem.gmi [06:16] IsambardPrince So could a person technically pay their rent with 2x the net income? Sure, if they sacrifice, if they budget, if they iron out everything, if they go apply for food stamps, and they don't put discretionary purchases before the rent. [06:16] TR News "So you have what the specification(s) say, various interpretations of the specification(s) that may be variously buggy or correct depending on how various beings interpret (or explicitly reject various portions of) the specification(s)." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2026/07/18/valid-ip-address.gmi [06:16] IsambardPrince But the landlord is not assuming this. [06:17] TR News "We were promised liberation from exhausting labor, access to all human knowledge, greater democracy, and a world connected beyond borders. Yet the machines that were supposed to free us have become instruments of surveillance, manipulation, dependency, and control." gemini://kolhaam.flounder.online/gemlog/2026-07-18_the_human_underground.gmi [06:18] TR News "Same! Just a couple weeks ago (mere days before my jubilant introduction to geminispace and the smolnet!)" gemini://shizuka.space/glog/2026/07/17/shokz-headphones/ [06:19] IsambardPrince I had this guy I was messing around with 20 years ago, the first thing he did when he got paid was go get two cartons of Marlboro cigarettes. He started out the month with cigarettes being the first thing on the list. Not shelter, not food, cigarettes. [06:19] TR News already again gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/already_again [06:20] TR News "Im standing at the kitchen counter. Im chopping vegetables with a Japanese knife. Im smiling to myself." gemini://rawtext.club/~deerbard/glog/2026-07-17-year-later.gmi [06:20] IsambardPrince The only reason we survived it was because rent was cheap back then because of the 2000s Housing Scam where anyone with a pulse could go get a mortgage and only pay interest on it for years and years. [06:21] TR News "Nothing much of interest as of yet. I am testing out a new CGI gemlog generator I'm working on. It uses SQLite for storage and a few shell scripts for creating posts. I hope that this will be easier to use and still be mobile friendly via termux." gemini://gemini.sh0.xyz/cgi-bin/gemlog.py/post/testing-out-a-new-gemlog-system [06:21] TR News "I hate to hate on big projects that must have employed hundreds of talented people. Theres nothing at all wrong with the CGI, the sets, the cinematography, or any of the technical elements of how the film is constructed." gemini://lab6.com/mlog/2026/07/17/wicked/ [06:22] IsambardPrince When anyone with a pulse got an interest-only mortgage, that indirectly subsidized renters. [06:22] IsambardPrince Rental inventory was going unfilled which set an effective cap on what landlords could charge [06:22] IsambardPrince Then the George W. Bush Mortgage Scam Era ended dramatically and rents have been increasing ever since. [06:22] IsambardPrince Not rapidly at first. [06:22] *admfubar has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [06:23] IsambardPrince Interest rates had to come down to zero because of the Recession. [06:23] IsambardPrince So the people who still qualified for a mortgage were getting super cheap rates, and that was a subsidy that also kept a lid on rent. [06:23] IsambardPrince But then the near-zero rates for a decade caused the economy to start puking up inflation. [06:24] schestowitz[TR2] mortgage bubble [06:24] schestowitz[TR2] remember subprime? [06:24] IsambardPrince So rates on mortgages surged at the same time homeowners who wanted to sell their house at inflated prices had to sit there and watch them not sell, and then delist them. [06:24] IsambardPrince So now rent goes up very fast. [06:24] IsambardPrince Yes, subprime mortgages still exist. [06:25] IsambardPrince But they have to screen you to see if you're at least making so much money at the time you apply. [06:25] IsambardPrince And they give you a really shitty interest rate. [06:25] IsambardPrince People who are better off renting in that environment still apply for mortgages, even with FICO scores in the 500s and 600s. [06:25] *admfubar (~admfubar@ae6yc8gqwe7jq.irc) has joined #techrights [06:25] IsambardPrince Even though it would be better if they worked on their credit for a while and applied then. [06:26] IsambardPrince When a "good rate" is 6.5-7%, and you go in there going "I have a 580 FICO score." you are getting 8-9%, for 30 years, unless you can find a refinance offer and pay fees to the company you're refinancing with. [06:28] TR News Techrights Gemini Links 18/07/2026: A Manifesto by The Dissident, Shokz Headphones, and Gemini Tinylog Reader (GTL) https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/18/Gemini_Links_18_07_2026_A_Manifesto_by_The_Dissident_Shokz_Head.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/18/Gemini_Links_18_07_2026_A_Manifesto_by_The_Dissident_Shokz_Head.gmi [06:28] TR Bot Techrights Gemini Links 18/07/2026: A Manifesto by The Dissident, Shokz Headphones, and Gemini Tinylog Reader (GTL) [06:28] *acer-box__ has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) [06:28] *acer-box__ (~acer-box@freenode-50vmi7.ldvb.0amm.hij1op.IP) has joined #techrights [06:29] TR News Techrights IRC Proceedings: Friday, July 17, 2026 https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/18/IRC_Proceedings_Friday_July_17_2026.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/18/IRC_Proceedings_Friday_July_17_2026.gmi [06:29] TR Bot Techrights IRC Proceedings: Friday, July 17, 2026 [06:29] TR News (NEW): Today in Techrights https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/18/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/18/Today_in_Techrights.gmi [06:29] TR Bot Tux Machines Today in Techrights [06:30] schestowitz[TR2] When a "good rate" is 6.5-7%, and you go in there going "I have a 580 FICO score." you are getting 8-9%, for 30 years, unless you can find a refinance offer and pay fees to the company you're refinancing with. [06:30] schestowitz[TR2] robert fico? [06:30] schestowitz[TR2] anyway, suppose a mortgage is 40 years [06:30] schestowitz[TR2] or 50 like cheeto suggested [06:30] schestowitz[TR2] a lot can change [06:31] schestowitz[TR2] internally and externally [06:31] schestowitz[TR2] people can barely tell if 4-5 years from the present there will be a war [06:31] TR News Techrights Over at Tux Machines... https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/18/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/18/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi [06:31] TR Bot Techrights Over at Tux Machines... [06:31] schestowitz[TR2] or if they change a job [06:31] schestowitz[TR2] or partner etc. [06:31] schestowitz[TR2] so 40-50 years is a gamble [06:31] schestowitz[TR2] the banks never lose [06:34] TR News "Daniel Pocock (Independent)" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckge923jk3vo [06:34] TR Bot Clacton by-election attracts 34 candidates - BBC News [06:37] TR News "Belgium has added over 100 new domains to its ISP blocklist, but this expansion might not be as effective as it seems at first glance." https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-sites-domain-hopping-habit-undermines-belgiums-new-blocking-order/ | Source: Torrent Freak [06:37] TR Bot Sites' Domain Hopping Habit Undermines Belgium's New Blocking Order * TorrentFreak [06:37] TR News "Financial educator Pushkar Raj Thakur and digital creator Neeraj Joshi have made serious allegations in separate petitions." https://www.bhaskarenglish.in/tech-science/news/instagram-copyright-scam-creators-move-delhi-high-court-138458043.html | Source: Bhaskar English [06:37] TR Bot Instagram Copyright Scam | Creators Move Delhi High Court Against Backdating [06:38] TR News "The decision is a response to fears that Google will leverage the enormous user base of Android, which powers about 60 percent of all smartphones in the European Union" https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/technology/google-android-ai.html | Source: New York Times [06:38] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/technology/google-android-ai.html ) [06:38] TR News "In October 2024, Judge James Donato originally agreed that forcing Google to carry rival Android app stores within its own Google Play store for several years" https://www.theverge.com/policy/965792/google-epic-withdraw-injunction-third-party-app-stores-coming-google-play | Source: The Verge [06:38] TR Bot Google and Epic give up fighting third-party Android app stores are coming next week | The Verge [06:38] TR News "Google is playing the EU game much better than Apple, but the EU still doesnt seem to understand how privacy and security work in modern platforms." https://taoofmac.com/space/links/2026/07/17/0810 | Source: Rui Carmo [06:38] TR Bot Google Ordered to Open Android and Search in Europe - Tao of Mac [06:40] *acer-box____ (~acer-box@freenode-50vmi7.ldvb.0amm.hij1op.IP) has joined #techrights [06:40] *acer-box__ has quit (Connection closed) [06:48] TR News Digital Restrictions (DRM) https://boingboing.net/2026/07/10/ftc-deal-forces-john-deere-to-share-repair-tools-for-10-years.html | Source: BoingBoing [06:48] TR Bot FTC forces John Deere to share repair tools [06:49] TR News "The articles second half revisits the four digital rights at the heart of the Our Future Memory movement" https://blog.archive.org/2026/07/16/the-hidden-political-costs-of-vanishing-culture/ | Source: Internet Archive [06:49] TR Bot The Hidden Political Costs of Vanishing Culture | Internet Archive Blogs [06:49] TR News "Talk about following the money." https://www.commondreams.org/further/ice-is-still-killing-people-susan-is-still-concerned | Source: Common Dreams [06:49] TR Bot Further | ICE Is Still Killing People. Susan Is Still Concerned. | Opinion [06:49] TR News "The circumstances surrounding the deaths of Araujo and Guerrero were hardly unique." https://www.truthdig.com/articles/ices-violence-goes-public-again/ | Source: Truthdig [06:49] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/ices-violence-goes-public-again/ ) [06:49] TR News "Previously, the Yazidis had built an economy that was not dependent on outside forces through fig cultivation, small livestock herding, and natural production." https://english.anf-news.com/features/uprooting-from-their-roots-and-creating-a-defenseless-environment-86340 | Source: ANF News [06:49] TR Bot ANF | The consequences of the Yazidi genocide [06:49] TR News "The insurgents targeted a black newspaper editor first, torching his office, then turned on the wider black community and its most successful figures." https://jacobin.com/2026/07/1898-wilmington-coup-racism-ruling-class | Source: Jacobin Magazine [06:50] TR Bot Americas Only Successful Coup Served the Ruling Class [06:50] TR News "But archives hold immense value; the challenge was always finding the exact information you needed within a vast repository of unstructured sources. It just wasnt economically feasible to build the systems to sift through that data." https://restructurednews.substack.com/p/we-are-not-alone | Source: The Tow-Knight Center for Journalism Futures at CUNY [06:50] TR Bot We are not alone - by Adiel Kaplan Tow-Knight Center [06:51] TR News "This is exciting to me: Ive been saying for a while now that news needs to get more involved in building technology." https://werd.io/to-innovate-news-needs-allies/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller [06:51] TR Bot To innovate, news needs allies [06:51] TR News "This unprecedented escalation, a direct challenge to editorial independence, has sparked a volatile debate regarding the boundaries of presidential power and regulatory control." https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/what-crybaby-netizens-slam-donald-trumps-threat-shut-down-abc-nbc-1809294 | Source: International Business Times [06:51] TR Bot 'What A Crybaby': Netizens Slam Donald Trump's Threat To Shut Down ABC And NBC | IBTimes UK [06:53] TR News "The brutal killing of Josu Martnez, in front of his child and in broad daylight" https://cpj.org/2026/07/mexican-journalist-josue-martinez-shot-dead-in-puebla-fourth-killed-in-over-a-month/ | Source: CPJ [06:53] TR Bot Mexican journalist Josu Martnez shot dead in Puebla, fourth killed in over a month - 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9to5Mac [06:58] TR News "The new categories effectively cover the Apple Watch and AirPods, both of which rely on the kind of small, sealed designs the Commission is now carving out, along with Meta's smart glasses." https://www.macrumors.com/2026/07/15/eu-drops-battery-removal-requirement/ | Source: MacRumors [06:58] TR Bot Drops Battery Removal Requirement for Apple Watch and AirPods - MacRumors [06:59] TR News "Built-in batteries put a timebomb inside devices, with especially the calendar aging feature of Li-ion chemistries setting a hard limit on when youll have to toss the device or figure out a way to replace the battery somehow" https://hackaday.com/2026/07/17/eu-adds-exemptions-to-user-serviceable-batteries-rules/ | Source: Hackaday [06:59] TR Bot Adds Exemptions To User-Serviceable Batteries Rules | Hackaday [06:59] TR News "In reality, one of the most spectacular consequences of Trumps return to power and the mess he has made since has been a collapse of global respect for America." https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-cant-get-no-respect | Source: Paul Krugman [06:59] TR Bot Trump Cant Get No Respect - Paul Krugman [06:59] TR News "Because the status quo isnt defended because it won an argument. Its defended because its the null hypothesis, and the burden of proof only ever runs one direction." https://unmitigatedrisk.com/?p=1307 | Source: Unmitigated Risk [06:59] TR Bot The Status Quo Outlived Its Status | UNMITIGATED RISK ● Jul 18 [07:00] TR News "Never mind not being a fork Poseidon's kernel isn't even really a port of Linux." https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/07/17/torvalds-challenged-the-haters-to-fork-linux-someone-said-hold-my-beer/5274275 | Source: The Register UK [07:00] TR Bot Torvalds challenged the haters to fork Linux. Someone said 'hold my beer' [07:01] TR News "When Republican South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham died suddenly on Saturday night, July 11, corporate medias elegiac coverage didnt just whitewash his record" https://fair.org/home/remembering-lindsey-graham-not-for-the-evil-he-did-but-for-the-fun-he-had-doing-it/ | Source: FAIR [07:01] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://fair.org/home/remembering-lindsey-graham-not-for-the-evil-he-did-but-for-the-fun-he-had-doing-it/ ) [07:01] TR News "The official leadership biographies to be removed include those of commanding officers, executive officers, chiefs of staff" https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2026/07/17/navy-instructs-commands-to-remove-portraits-biographies-from-websites/ | Source: US Navy Times [07:01] TR Bot Navy instructs commands to remove portraits, biographies from websites [07:01] TR News "These official pictures and biographies, hosted on Navy websites and social media pages, create an elevated risk for officers and their families, according to a Navy administrative notice, or NAVADMIN." https://taskandpurpose.com/news/navy-removes-commander-bios/ | Source: Task And Purpose [07:01] TR Bot Navy orders removal of commanders portraits, bios, on websites [07:01] TR News (NEW): Torvalds challenged the haters to fork Linux. Someone said 'hold my beer' https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/18/Torvalds_challenged_the_haters_to_fork_Linux_Someone_said_hold_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/18/Torvalds_challenged_the_haters_to_fork_Linux_Someone_said_hold_.gmi [07:01] TR Bot Tux Machines Torvalds challenged the haters to fork Linux. Someone said 'hold my beer' [07:01] TR News "At the centre of the plan is a standards body modelled on the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (Finra), the private" https://techcentral.co.za/the-plan-to-stop-ai-from-breaking-the-world/283825/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa) [07:01] TR Bot The plan to stop AI from breaking the world [07:05] TR News "The veterinary team and authorities were able to rescue the animal, however, thanks to videos circulating on social media that revealed the elephants condition." https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/nature-and-wildlife-photography/these-photographs-are-breaking-my-heart-but-this-55-year-old-elephants-viral-rescue-also-proves-the-power-of-photography | Source: Digital Camera World [07:05] TR Bot These photographs are breaking my heart, but this 55-year-old elephants viral rescue also proves the power of photography | Digital Camera World [07:05] TR News "The shark safety program has tagged 380 great whites since its inception, and about 250 sharks have active transmitters." https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2026-07-16/as-great-whites-humans-share-waters-shark-lab-runs-out-of-funding | Source: Los Angeles Times [07:05] TR Bot As great whites and humans share the waters, shark lab runs out of funding - Los Angeles Times [07:05] *acer-box______ (~acer-box@freenode-gvn.goo.k31cok.IP) has joined #techrights [07:06] TR News "When the Lincoln Highway Association rerouted the Lincoln Highway between Fort Wayne and Valparaiso in Indiana in 1928, they simply moved it to US 30. This isnt the US 30 that exists today." https://blog.jimgrey.net/2026/07/17/the-1928-lincoln-highway-in-indiana-eastern-indiana/ | Source: Jim Grey [07:06] TR Bot The 1928 Lincoln Highway in Indiana: Eastern Indiana - Down the Road [07:06] TR News "Theres simply no legitimate use for [cryptocurrency]. Its only practical uses are tax evasion, money laundering, fraud, speculation, and crime." https://robertreich.substack.com/p/no-to-crypto | Source: Robert Reich [07:06] TR Bot NO to CRYPTO - Robert Reich [07:06] *acer-box____ has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) [07:07] TR News "Unfortunately, Galinstan, the obvious replacement for mercury, wets and coats glass, preventing a charge buildup." https://hackaday.com/2026/07/16/a-sloshing-mercury-powered-neon-light/ | Source: Hackaday [07:07] TR Bot Sloshing-Mercury-Powered Neon Light | Hackaday [07:07] TR News "After merging with an existing mining company, the company made the questionable decision last year to pivot from building data centers" https://futurism.com/future-society/eric-trump-bitcoin-losses | Source: Futurism [07:07] TR Bot Eric Trump Has Lost $600 Million of Daddy's Money Betting on Crypto [07:07] TR News "When a really long road ends, why dont we do more to celebrate the staggering amount of collective work that went into it? The ancient Romans really outclassed the federal highway system on this front." https://tedium.co/2026/07/17/terminus-road-ending-history/ | Source: Tedium [07:07] TR Bot Terminus History: What Happens When A Road Ends [07:07] TR News "The Government will introduce a set of Australian Standards for AI, building on the Data Centre Expectations, with our values as the benchmark to ensure AI works in Australias interests." https://www.pm.gov.au/media/ai-australias-interests | Source: Australia [07:07] TR Bot AI in Australia's interests | Prime Minister of Australia [07:08] TR News "And while drivers say that speeding saves them precious time, researchers found that is not really the case." https://www.minnpost.com/national/2026/07/new-u-of-m-study-says-driving-above-the-speed-limit-costs-you-and-doesnt-actually-save-much-time/ | Source: MinnPost [07:08] TR Bot costs you and doesn't actually save much time - MinnPost [07:11] TR News "It is good to be on the same side as your planet." https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/a-million-warnings-and-one-huge-invitation-climate-2026/ | Source: Rebecca Solnit [07:11] TR Bot A Million Warnings and One Huge Invitation: Climate 2026 [07:11] TR News "Elon Musk's Colossus 2 xAI data center" https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/elon-musks-colossus-2-data-center-installed-59-natural-gas-turbines-without-permission-report-claims-thousands-of-tons-of-pollutants-reportedly-impact-black-communities-in-mississippi-already-suffering-from-elevated-lung-disease-rates | Source: Tom's Hardware [07:11] TR Bot Elon Musks Colossus 2 data center installed 59 natural gas turbines without permission, report claims thousands of tons of pollutants reportedly impact black communities in Mississippi already suffering from elevated lung disease rates | Tom's Hardware [07:12] TR News "This is the first morning since I arrived in Baltimore on Wednesday that stepping outside in the morning didnt feel like walking into an oven." https://doc.searls.com/2026/07/17/inoroutday/ | Source: Doc Searls [07:12] TR Bot InOrOutDay Doc Searls Weblog [07:12] TR News "New York has become the first state to impose a one-year moratorium on new large-scale data centers (50 MW or larger), according to Datacenter Digest." https://insidetowers.com/ny-is-first-state-to-pause-large-data-centers/ | Source: Inside Towers [07:12] TR Bot NY Is First State to Pause Large Data Centers - Inside Towers [07:12] TR News "The National Academies of Sciences released a report today that puts the full weight of the country's most respected scientific institution behind extreme weather attribution science" https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/landmark-science-report-confirms-big-oils-fingerprints-on-extreme-weather-as-industry-races-for-legal-shield | Source: Common Dreams [07:12] TR Bot Landmark Science Report Confirms Big Oils Fingerprints on Extreme Weather, as Industry Races for Legal Shield | Common Dreams [07:12] TR News "Smoke causes inflammation by triggering the body's immune system to go into overtime to fight the irritant." https://phys.org/news/2026-07-wildfire-tens-thousands-people-year.html | Source: Omicron Limited [07:12] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://phys.org/news/2026-07-wildfire-tens-thousands-people-year.html ) [07:12] TR News "These destructive behemoths are part of a broader model of total extractionparticularly in rural areas." https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/ai-data-centers-rural-effects/ | Source: The Nation [07:12] TR Bot AI Data Centers Are Just the Tip of the Iceberg | The Nation [07:13] TR News "A judge has ruled that tort claims against the industry can proceed to trial, potentially opening the door for prosecutors to become agents of climate accountability." https://newrepublic.com/article/213037/wrongful-death-suit-big-oil | Source: New Republic [07:13] TR Bot The First Wrongful Death Suit Against Big Oil Is Not Going Their Way | The New Republic [07:13] TR News "the 95-year-old investor suggested that Gates actions werent much different from mistakes he himself had made over the years in hiring the wrong person or in choosing friends" https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-07-16/warren-buffett-explains-why-his-kids-not-gates-foundation-will-now-give-away-all-his-fortune | Source: Los Angeles Times [07:13] TR Bot Warren Buffett explains why his kids, not the Gates Foundation, will now give away all his fortune - Los Angeles Times [07:13] TR News "Todd Blanche, the US attorney-general nominee, told the family of Virginia Giuffre that a lack of co-operation and testimony was hindering further investigation" https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/andrew-attorney-general-victims-pnxvjf3wv | Source: Times Media Limited [07:13] TR Bot Verifying Device [07:14] TR News "Vought previously told House lawmakers that there would be no after-action report on DOGEs [sic] performance ahead of its July 4 sunsetting." https://fedscoop.com/doge-savings-russell-vought-thom-tillis/ | Source: Scoop News Group [07:14] TR Bot senator blasts amateurish DOGE work, lack of detail on savings | FedScoop [07:15] TR News "Both of those claims are misleading, as Chinas election interference has largely been contained to efforts to sway public opinion on the Trump administration" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-speech-russia-interference-save-act-1235595308/ | Source: Rolling Stone [07:15] TR Bot Trump Releases Evidence Debunking His Own Election Interference Claims [07:18] TR News "Pathak, Foundations CEO, says his company plans to start giving its humanoids lethal capabilities soon" https://www.wired.com/story/humanoid-robot-soldier-eric-trump-foundation-future-industries/ | Source: Wired [07:18] TR Bot Humanoid Company Backed by Eric Trump Is Preparing Its Robots for War | WIRED [07:18] TR News "How about "ranked by how much tax they paid?" Yes, now I'm just being silly." https://boingboing.net/2026/07/16/anti-forbes-list-ranks-wealthy-by-the-wealth-their-companies-generated-for-others.html | Source: BoingBoing [07:18] TR Bot Anti-Forbes list ranks wealthy by the wealth their companies generated for others - Boing Boing [07:19] TR News "The bill additionally would mandate that electronic service providers change their systems so they can easily share information with law enforcement equipped with a warrant." https://therecord.media/canada-lawful-access-act-surveillance-wyden-letter | Source: The Record [07:19] TR Bot Senator calls on Rubio, Blanche to push back against Canadian surveillance legislation | The Record from Recorded Future News [07:19] TR News "TikTok is starting to test an opt-in tool that scans for AI likenesses and lets creators report them to the company, as spotted by social media consultant Matt Navarra" https://www.theverge.com/tech/967486/tiktok-ai-likeness-detection-tool | Source: The Verge [07:19] TR Bot TikTok is testing an AI likeness detection tool | The Verge [07:20] TR News "The investigation follows the publication of a new Ofcom report that found age checks are becoming more common across online services, but significant gaps remain, particularly on social media platforms and some pornography websites." https://thecyberexpress.com/tiktok-age-verification-probe-launched-by-uk/ | Source: Cyble Inc [07:20] TR Bot TikTok Age Verification Probe Launched By UK Regulator [07:20] TR News "While companies like Flock Safety, Axon, and Motorola Solutions (among others) sell cameras to cities and police departments across the country under the auspices of improving public safety" https://truthout.org/articles/the-fight-against-surveillance-cameras-is-a-struggle-for-democracy/ | Source: TruthOut [07:20] TR Bot The Fight Against Surveillance Cameras Is a Struggle for Democracy | Truthout [07:20] TR News "Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, says the new feature is live for users in Canada, the U.K., the U.S. and Australia." https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/meta-ai-teen-distress-notification-9.7273137 | Source: CBC [07:20] TR Bot Meta will now tell parents if their teens talk about suicide with the company's AI chatbot | CBC News [07:21] TR News Windows TCO https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/07/17/ransomware-curdles-production-at-coca-colas-fairlife-dairy-biz/5274157 | Source: The Register UK [07:21] TR Bot Ransomware curdles production at Coca-Cola's Fairlife dairy biz [07:21] TR News Windows TCO https://thecyberexpress.com/partnered-health-cyberattack/ | Source: Cyble Inc [07:21] TR Bot Partnered Health Cyberattack Exposes Patient Records [07:21] TR News "That spot adds to the 10-to-1 advertising advantage for Stevens, according to the ad-tracking firm AdImpact" https://www.notus.org/2026-election/haley-stevens-video-el-sayed-michigan-primary | Source: Allbritton Journalism Institute [07:21] TR Bot Haley Stevens Is Getting Flamed Online. Will It Matter in Michigan? - NOTUS News of the United States [07:22] TR News "But this isn't a one-off; it happens with many of the videos I watch, even if I only check them out for a few seconds before turning them off." https://www.androidpolice.com/stopped-trusting-youtube-algorithm-curious-click-destroyed-feed/ | Source: Android Police [07:22] TR Bot I stopped trusting YouTube's algorithm after one curious click destroyed my entire feed [07:22] TR News "The product is known as Truth API, and Trump Media & Technology Group, which runs Truth Social plans to leverage it into a meaningful source of revenue for the company, said interim CEO Kevin McGurn." https://truthout.org/articles/truth-social-is-selling-instant-access-to-trumps-posts-to-banks-and-traders/ | Source: TruthOut [07:22] TR Bot Truth Social Is Selling Instant Access to Trumps Posts to Banks and Traders | Truthout [07:22] TR News "Public ownership of AI is no guarantee of democracy. We need democratic public ownership to prevent elites from maintaining control of the technology." https://jacobin.com/2026/07/ai-democratization-working-class-institutions | Source: Jacobin Magazine [07:22] TR Bot Dont Just Nationalize AI. Democratize It. [07:23] TR News "The announcements on Wednesday in a speech by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese came as Australia draws significant interest from A.I. companies because of its size and the availability of renewable energy" https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/world/australia/albanese-artificial-intelligence-guardrails.html | Source: New York Times [07:23] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/world/australia/albanese-artificial-intelligence-guardrails.html ) [07:23] TR News "For me, thats the kicker. This notion that you cant do anything about AI, or on the other side of the coin, that AI is inherently bad and it shouldnt exist at all." https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/i-grew-up-idolizing-george-lucas-but-his-passive-stance-on-ai-is-deeply-wrong | Source: Digital Camera World [07:23] TR Bot I grew up idolizing George Lucas, but his passive stance on AI is deeply wrong | Digital Camera World [07:23] TR News "The lawsuit follows a massive deepfake scandal that unfolded over the winter, as X users realized that Grok" https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/elon-musk-xai-sues-grok-user-deepfakes | Source: Futurism [07:23] TR Bot Elon Musk's xAI, Which is Being Sued Over AI-Generated Sexual Deepfakes, Sues Grok User Over AI-Generated Sexual Deepfakes [07:23] TR News "Burgess gives the impression, which is my base assumption, that these 13 apps were clear about what they do, so App Review has no excuse for missing them. But Im sure its keeping us all safe in other regards." https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/07/17/san-francisco-demands-removal-of-nudify-apps/ | Source: Michael Tsai [07:23] TR Bot Michael Tsai - Blog - San Francisco Demands Removal of Nudify Apps [07:24] TR News "The letters, sent on Thursday, target eight apps on the App Store and five on the Play Store that market themselves as face-swapping tools but are used to "undress" photos of real people" https://www.macrumors.com/2026/07/17/demand-to-pull-nudify-apps/ | Source: MacRumors [07:24] TR Bot and Google Hit With Demand to Pull AI 'Nudify' Apps - MacRumors [07:25] TR News "The City Attorneys Office sent the tech giants cease-and-desist letters this week telling them to stop profiting from 13 face-swap apps that are overwhelmingly used to target women and girls" https://www.wired.com/story/san-francisco-demands-apple-and-google-delete-ai-nudify-apps-from-app-stores/ | Source: Wired [07:25] TR Bot Francisco Demands Apple and Google Delete AI Nudify Apps From App Stores | WIRED [07:25] TR News "To cut to the chase, I am highly critical of the current use of LLMs and agentic coding in software development." https://proycon.anaproy.nl/posts/ai-policy/ | Source: Maarten van Gompel [07:25] TR Bot Formulating an AI policy for my free software projects [07:25] TR News "So, imagine the scene. Someone gets hold of your locked Android phone and, despite not knowing your security PIN, they can send messages via SMS or WhatsApp pretending to come from you." https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/googles-gemini-strangers-messages-locked-android-phone | Source: Bitdefender [07:25] TR Bot Google's Gemini lets strangers send messages from your locked Android phone [07:26] TR News "This re-calibration is just one of the many signs that the AI bubble is about to deflate." https://blog.dshr.org/2026/07/portents-of-doom.html | Source: David Rosenthal [07:26] TR Bot DSHR's Blog: Portents Of Doom [07:26] TR News "Bernie Sanders has proposed making artificial intelligence providers hand over 50% of their stock to a US sovereign wealth fund." https://jacobin.com/2026/07/ai-sovereign-weath-fund-sanders-critics | Source: Jacobin Magazine [07:26] TR Bot The Criticisms of Bernies AI Wealth Fund Idea Dont Hold Up [07:26] TR News "Apparently a bunch of people on Hacker News think my post about vibe-coding Mac and iOS apps was itself vibe-coded." https://scottwillsey.com/no-i-am-not-ai/ | Source: Scott Willsey [07:26] TR Bot No, I Am Not AI [07:26] TR News "Relying on survey data about AI knowledge and public attitudes, the Canadian national strategy claims that low literacy and low trust are the binding constraints on deeper AI integration." https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/07/outdated-data-and-dubious-comparisons-digging-into-the-governments-ai-strategy-adoption-claims/ | Source: Michael Geist [07:26] TR Bot Outdated Data and Dubious Comparisons: Digging into the Government's AI Strategy Adoption Claims - Michael Geist [07:27] TR News "Kevin sent me a link to this email from Linus Torvalds the other day, and I found that to be a great example of something that has been bothering me for a while now" https://manuelmoreale.com/thoughts/on-ethics-and-usefulness | Source: Manuel Moreale [07:27] TR Bot On ethics and usefulness Manu [07:27] TR News "In the caption for the post, Lorde tagged the streaming service." https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/lorde-slams-spotify-ai-generated-song-descriptions-1235594882/ | Source: Rolling Stone [07:27] TR Bot Lorde Slams Spotify Over Sloppy AI-Generated Song Descriptions [07:31] TR News (NEW): Become More Productive With These GNOME Extensions https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/18/Become_More_Productive_With_These_GNOME_Extensions.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/18/Become_More_Productive_With_These_GNOME_Extensions.gmi [07:31] TR Bot Tux Machines Become More Productive With These GNOME Extensions [07:38] TR News (NEW): This Week in Plasma: Shadows for Steam and Discord https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/18/This_Week_in_Plasma_Shadows_for_Steam_and_Discord.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/18/This_Week_in_Plasma_Shadows_for_Steam_and_Discord.gmi [07:38] TR Bot Tux Machines This Week in Plasma: Shadows for Steam and Discord [07:47] TR News "Having the extra desk space is great, though, and I ache for some mobility." https://mwl.io/archives/24854 | Source: MWL [07:47] TR Bot Saucer Separation and Amazon Wishlist Michael W Lucas [07:47] TR News "Without a better workshop, this design is as sturdy as I can get." https://mwl.io/archives/24895 | Source: MWL [07:47] TR Bot Saucer, Separated Michael W Lucas [07:47] TR News "Looking over this progression, and the rest of the folk revival" https://www.jefftk.com/p/embracing-amateurs-to-get-experts | Source: Jeff Kaufman [07:47] TR Bot Embracing Amateurs to Get Experts [07:47] TR News "The first session I joined was Kirjoittajan oppaat scifiin ja fantasiaan (Writers guides to scifi and fantasy) with Saara Henriksson, Anne Leinonen and Jani Saxell." https://hamatti.org/posts/my-first-finncon-turku-2026/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala [07:47] TR Bot My first Finncon Turku, 2026 : Juha-Matti Santala [07:47] TR News "I finished my degree, kept writing and building, started learning SwiftUI through a couple of Apple app ideas, and have been trying to give myself some grace through a heavier stretch of life." https://www.kylereddoch.me/now/now-july-2026/ | Source: Kyle Reddoch [07:47] TR Bot July 2026 - CybersecKyle [07:48] TR News "I didnt understand him then. I do now." https://robertreich.substack.com/p/you-cant-make-old-friends | Source: Robert Reich [07:48] TR Bot You Can't Make Old Friends - Robert Reich [07:48] TR News "It was great to be able to present my work to students who are using emerging technologies to build systems that leave a positive social impact" https://blog.viditb.com/uc-berkeley-mdes-guest-lecture/ | Source: Vidit Bhargava [07:48] TR Bot UC Berkeley, MDes Guest Lecture: Ethical Software [07:48] TR News "School projects were a big motivator in my early school years, but at some point it was about curiosity, and a desire for The Right Thing." https://alexalejandre.com/interviews/interview-with-matheus-moreira/ | Source: Alex Alejandre [07:48] TR Bot Interview With Matheus Moreira [07:48] IsambardPrince [00:31] the banks never lose [07:48] TR News "The band director doesn't show up on time, so his kids don't." https://drmollytov.smol.pub/2026-07-17 | Source: Dr Molly Tov [07:48] TR Bot on the deaths of things, and their life [07:48] IsambardPrince Ramsey says the house always wins. [07:49] TR News "Writing a custom propagator is worth considering when one constraint carries much of a problems structure." https://zayenz.se/blog/post/minimum-distance-propagation-modref2026-paper/ | Source: Mikael Zayenz Lagerkvist [07:49] TR Bot the minimum distance between selected points - zayenz.se [07:49] TR News "A fascinating aspect in evolutionary biology is that of convergent evolution whereby similar structures and functions evolve independently from each other." https://hackaday.com/2026/07/17/how-octopuses-hacked-their-ribosome-to-become-smart/ | Source: Hackaday [07:49] TR Bot Octopuses Hacked Their Ribosome To Become Smart | Hackaday [07:49] TR News "As I sit at my desk here at the American Mathematical Society (AMS) offices in Providence, RI, I am having a slow moment." https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/07/15/robert-harington-reflects-on-our-addiction-to-speed-and-advocates-for-slow-scholarly-publishing-and-the-inherent-beauty-of-not-always-being-first/ | Source: Society for Scholarly Publishing [07:49] TR Bot ( status 503 @ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/07/15/robert-harington-reflects-on-our-addiction-to-speed-and-advocates-for-slow-scholarly-publishing-and-the-inherent-beauty-of-not-always-being-first/ ) [07:49] TR News "People value imperfections and asymmetry more than they're willing to admit. The human is face is not symmetrical even if it appears to be." https://blog.viditb.com/its-not-a-coincidence-that-film-is-making-a-comeback/ | Source: Vidit Bhargava [07:49] TR Bot It's not a coincidence that analog film is making a comeback. [07:50] TR News "My second priority is getting back to making words." https://mwl.io/archives/24883 | Source: MWL [07:50] TR Bot Junes Juryrigged Sausage Michael W Lucas [07:50] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: Just for the hell of it I took the supervisor assessment at Walmart and Sam's. [07:50] TR News "Back in 2024, I rescued a Wii from the tech swap shop at EMF Camp." https://blog.infected.systems/posts/2026-07-17-this-blog-is-hosted-on-a-nintendo-wii-in-a-field/ | Source: Alex Haydock [07:50] TR Bot This blog is hosted on a Nintendo Wii... in a field [07:50] IsambardPrince I passed Sam's and failed Walmart with the same answers. [07:50] TR News "If we start doubting our blogging, maybe it's time to be truly honest with ourselves. When we look in the rearview mirror, is anyone looking back?" https://robertbirming.com/backseat-blogger/ | Source: Robert Birming [07:50] TR Bot The backseat blogger Robert Birming [07:50] TR News "A research scientist at Lockheed, he came up with the idea for a computer system that would search scientific and technical literature almost instantaneously." https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/technology/roger-summit-dead.html | Source: New York Times [07:50] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/technology/roger-summit-dead.html ) [07:53] TR News "The European Commission said the preloading of Gemini onto Android devices reduced the attractiveness of rival third-party models for the 60% of EU adults who use Android." https://www.semafor.com/article/07/17/2026/eu-orders-google-to-open-android-ai-system-to-rivals | Source: Semafor Inc [07:53] TR Bot orders Google to open Android AI system to rivals | Semafor [07:58] TR News Techrights Links 18/07/2026: Spotify Uses Slop Song Descriptions, "San Francisco Demands Removal of Nudify Apps" https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/18/Links_18_07_2026_Spotify_Uses_Slop_Song_Descriptions_San_Franci.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/18/Links_18_07_2026_Spotify_Uses_Slop_Song_Descriptions_San_Franci.gmi [07:58] TR News "Here's the problem: A single software package can trigger hundreds of alerts because one imported function or library within it istheoretically vulnerable." https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/agentic-ai-red-hat-openshift-and-nvidia-shifting-precision-security | Source: Red Hat Official [07:58] TR Bot Techrights Links 18/07/2026: Spotify Uses Slop Song Descriptions, "San Francisco Demands Removal of Nudify Apps" [07:58] TR Bot Agentic AI, Red Hat OpenShift, and NVIDIA: Shifting to precision security [07:58] TR News "Karpenter is a high-performance, Kubernetes-native node autoscaler." https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/introducing-red-hat-build-karpenter | Source: Red Hat Official [07:58] TR Bot Introducing Red Hat build of Karpenter [07:58] TR News "Why good AI agents fail in production: The missing infrastructure layer" https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/why-your-ai-agent-framework-isnt-enough-7-platform-capabilities-missing-production | Source: Red Hat Official [07:58] TR Bot Why your AI agent framework isn't enough: 7 platform capabilities missing from production ● Jul 18 [08:00] TR News (NEW): Gnome Working on Test Center App to Make Testing Easier https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/18/Gnome_Working_on_Test_Center_App_to_Make_Testing_Easier.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/18/Gnome_Working_on_Test_Center_App_to_Make_Testing_Easier.gmi [08:00] TR Bot Tux Machines Gnome Working on Test Center App to Make Testing Easier [08:00] TR News Collabora announce a preview of Holo Core, an AArch64 port of Arch Linux for Steam Frame | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/collabora-announce-a-preview-of-holo-core-an-aarch64-port-of-arch-linux-for-steam-frame/ Source: GamingOnLinux [08:00] TR Bot announce a preview of Holo Core, an AArch64 port of Arch Linux for Steam Frame | GamingOnLinux [08:01] TR News Bethesda roadmap: more Fallout is coming, Starfield support continues, but Elder Scrolls VI is the main priority | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/bethesda-roadmap-more-fallout-is-coming-starfield-support-continues-but-elder-scrolls-vi-is-the-main-priority/ Source: GamingOnLinux [08:01] TR Bot roadmap: more Fallout is coming, Starfield support continues, but Elder Scrolls VI is the main priority | GamingOnLinux [08:01] TR News DayZ Badlands gets a fresh teaser and it's set to launch in October | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/dayz-badlands-gets-a-fresh-teaser-and-its-set-to-launch-in-october/ Source: GamingOnLinux [08:01] TR Bot Badlands gets a fresh teaser and it's set to launch in October | GamingOnLinux [08:01] TR News (NEW): Anatol-X Debian-based Linux distribution https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/18/Anatol_X_Debian_based_Linux_distribution.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/18/Anatol_X_Debian_based_Linux_distribution.gmi [08:01] TR Bot Tux Machines Anatol-X Debian-based Linux distribution [08:03] TR News (NEW): SageOS lean Debian-based Linux distribution https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/18/SageOS_lean_Debian_based_Linux_distribution.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/18/SageOS_lean_Debian_based_Linux_distribution.gmi [08:03] TR Bot Tux Machines SageOS lean Debian-based Linux distribution [08:08] TR News (NEW): Free and Open Source Software https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/18/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/18/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi [08:08] TR Bot Tux Machines Free and Open Source Software [08:11] *jkl has quit 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Yesterday [08:16] TR News (NEW): Linux Mint isn't the best Windows replacement anymore https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/18/Linux_Mint_isn_t_the_best_Windows_replacement_anymore.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/18/Linux_Mint_isn_t_the_best_Windows_replacement_anymore.gmi [08:16] TR Bot Tux Machines Linux Mint isn't the best Windows replacement anymore [08:17] *IsambardPrince has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [08:21] TR News (NEW): These 5 Linux distros finally got DNS privacy rightmost others don't https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/18/These_5_Linux_distros_finally_got_DNS_privacy_right_most_others.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/18/These_5_Linux_distros_finally_got_DNS_privacy_right_most_others.gmi [08:21] TR Bot Tux Machines These 5 Linux distros finally got DNS privacy rightmost others don't [08:32] TR News (NEW): : Google Android Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/18/Android_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/18/Android_Leftovers.gmi [08:32] TR Bot Tux Machines Android Leftovers [08:46] TR News Techrights PIP-Styled Mass Layoffs Allegedly Coming to Microsoft by 12 August 2026 https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/18/PIP_Styled_Mass_Layoffs_Allegedly_Coming_to_Microsoft_by_12_Aug.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/18/PIP_Styled_Mass_Layoffs_Allegedly_Coming_to_Microsoft_by_12_Aug.gmi [08:46] TR Bot Techrights PIP-Styled Mass Layoffs Allegedly Coming to Microsoft by 12 August 2026 ● Jul 18 [09:00] TR News Techrights In Free Software, Nobody Gets Fired https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/18/In_Free_Software_Nobody_Gets_Fired.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/18/In_Free_Software_Nobody_Gets_Fired.gmi [09:00] TR Bot Techrights In Free Software, Nobody Gets Fired [09:13] *ewig has quit (Remote host closed the connection) ● Jul 18 [10:59] *Goblin has quit (Quit: Leaving) ● Jul 18 [11:57] *yellow-pillow (~yellow-pillow@wvbkkdpxq9vtg.irc) has joined #techrights ● Jul 18 [12:13] *psydroid3 (~psydroid@kcvnmgbxt8eqq.irc) has joined #techrights [12:32] TR News Bandwagon is a 'survivors-lite adventure' that sounds wonderful from the Dome Keeper devs | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/bandwagon-is-a-survivors-lite-adventure-that-sounds-wonderful-from-the-dome-keeper-devs/ Source: GamingOnLinux [12:32] TR Bot is a 'survivors-lite adventure' that sounds wonderful from the Dome Keeper devs | GamingOnLinux [12:33] TR News Race down a mountain in the ridiculous looking shooter DIEATHLON | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/race-down-a-mountain-in-the-ridiculous-looking-shooter-dieathlon/ Source: GamingOnLinux [12:33] TR Bot down a mountain in the ridiculous looking shooter DIEATHLON | GamingOnLinux [12:34] TR News Valve say the Team Fortress 2 MvM update is still coming and they're still working on it | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/valve-say-the-team-fortress-2-mvm-update-is-still-coming-and-theyre-still-working-on-it/ Source: GamingOnLinux [12:34] TR Bot say the Team Fortress 2 MvM update is still coming and they're still working on it | GamingOnLinux [12:34] TR News The explosive isometric insurgent simulator Brigador Killers arrives in August | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/the-explosive-isometric-insurgent-simulator-brigador-killers-arrives-in-august/ Source: GamingOnLinux [12:34] TR Bot explosive isometric insurgent simulator Brigador Killers arrives in August | GamingOnLinux [12:35] TR News SteamVR Beta gets a big update ahead of the Steam Frame release | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/steamvr-beta-gets-a-big-update-ahead-of-the-steam-frame-release/ Source: GamingOnLinux [12:35] TR Bot Beta gets a big update ahead of the Steam Frame release | GamingOnLinux [12:38] TR News "It loads files in parallel, displays the interface almost immediately, and continues indexing in the background." https://www.tecmint.com/yazi-terminal-file-manager-linux/ | Source: TecMint [12:38] TR Bot Yazi: Modern File Manager with Image Previews for Linux [12:38] TR News "The HackRF Pro follows the same general architecture as its predecessor but introduces several RF, processing, timing" https://linuxgizmos.com/hackrf-pro-sdr-covers-100khz-to-6ghz-with-fpga-based-processing/ | Source: Linux Gizmos [12:38] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/hackrf-pro-sdr-covers-100khz-to-6ghz-with-fpga-based-processing/ ) [12:39] TR News (NEW): Games: Elder Scrolls VI, DayZ Badlands, Band Together, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/18/Games_Elder_Scrolls_VI_DayZ_Badlands_Band_Together_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/18/Games_Elder_Scrolls_VI_DayZ_Badlands_Band_Together_and_More.gmi [12:39] TR Bot Tux Machines Games: Elder Scrolls VI, DayZ Badlands, Band Together, and More [12:39] TR News "unusual memory leak" https://ubuntu.com//blog/fixing-memory-bug | Source: Ubuntu [12:39] TR Bot a memory leak bug in PID 1 and contributing an upstream fix: a Linux support story | Ubuntu [12:39] TR News "The community blog feed aggregator lists the featured highlights below from July 10 to 16." https://news.opensuse.org/2026/07/17/planet-roundup/ | Source: OpenSUSE [12:39] TR Bot Planet News Roundup - openSUSE News [12:40] TR News "Irish Datacenters Now Guzzle 23% of the Country's Electricity - SoylentNews" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/07/16/0229204 [12:40] TR Bot Irish Datacenters Now Guzzle 23% of the Country's Electricity - SoylentNews [12:40] TR News Slop apologists? "Manton Reece - New York data center pause" https://www.manton.org/2026/07/16/new-york-data-center-pause.html [12:40] TR Bot Manton Reece - New York data center pause [12:41] TR News "Trump Blatantly Tries to Manipulate Markets With Truth Social Scheme | The New Republic" https://newrepublic.com/post/213179/donald-trum-manipulate-markets-truth-social [12:41] TR Bot Trump Blatantly Tries to Manipulate Markets With Truth Social Scheme | The New Republic [12:41] TR News "Windows Marketshare Is Trending Down" https://odysee.com/@BrodieRobertson:5/windows-marketshare-is-trending-down:c [12:41] TR Bot Windows Marketshare Is Trending Down [12:42] TR News "Trump Delivered the Crazy, the Democrats Delivered... Tweets | The Nation" https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/newsletter-trump-speech-democrats/ [12:42] TR Bot Trump Delivered the Crazy, the Democrats Delivered... Tweets | The Nation [12:42] TR News iophk: yes, there was interference ... in favor of cheeto ... via social control media https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-07-17/trump-uses-national-address-to-revive-false-claims-of-2020-election-fraud-and-exaggerate-chinas-role-in-his-defeat.html [12:42] TR Bot Trump uses national address to revive false claims of 2020 election fraud and exaggerate Chinas role in his defeat | U.S. | EL PAS English [12:42] TR News Atlantic Council promoting Ponzi scheme (slop) https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/energysource/backlash-against-data-centers-could-cost-the-us-its-ai-edge/ [12:42] TR Bot Backlash against data centers could cost the US its AI edge - Atlantic Council [12:43] TR News "For 15 years, thats where the H vs. V situation stood: a disaster with no solution." https://pogueman.substack.com/p/can-ai-fix-the-portrait-vs-landscape | Source: David Pogue [12:43] TR Bot Can AI Fix the Portrait vs. Landscape Problem? [12:43] TR News "I do have a sense that TLA+ has made good inroads into acceptance" https://www.philipzucker.com/kissin_tla/ | Source: Philip Zucker [12:43] TR Bot Making TLA+ and x86 Kiss Via Z3Py | Hey There Buddo! [12:44] TR News "Theres something really special about a Code Club." https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/code-club-enrichment-offer-schools-free-support/ | Source: Raspberry Pi [12:44] TR Bot Enhancing your enrichment offer? Code Club is the answer - Raspberry Pi Foundation [12:44] TR News "In issue 30 we share articles from educators who have already been thinking deeply about the role of critical thinking in the age of AI." https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/hello-world-30-out-now-critical-thinking-in-the-age-of-ai/ | Source: Raspberry Pi [12:44] TR Bot Hello World #30 out now: Critical thinking in the age of AI - Raspberry Pi Foundation [12:44] TR News "A while back I wrote about Implementing TinaCMS + 11ty and used that for quite a while as well." https://claytonerrington.com/blog/building-a-cms/ | Source: Clayton Errington [12:44] TR Bot Building a CMS [12:45] TR News "Hello! Ive been working on a Django site recently, and I decided to use SQLite as the database." https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/07/17/learning-about-running-sqlite/ | Source: Julia Evans [12:45] TR Bot Learning a few things about running SQLite [12:45] TR News "This version includes important security updates to Firefox." https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-15018/ | Source: Tor [12:45] TR Bot New Release: Tor Browser 15.0.18 | The Tor Project [12:46] TR News "In this example, we use Kakounes user mode feature to create a special filetype mode where we can assign filetype-specific keybindings." https://ficd.sh/blog/tkt-filetype-mode/ | Source: Daniel Fichtinger [12:46] TR Bot tiny kak tip: filetype mode [12:46] TR News "CIDER has had macroexpansion support practically forever - C-c C-m expands the form before point into a dedicated buffer, a feature we inherited spiritually from SLIME." https://metaredux.com/posts/2026/07/17/stepping-through-macros-in-cider.html | Source: Bozhidar Batsov [12:46] TR Bot Stepping Through Macros in CIDER | Meta Redux [12:46] TR News "If you are starting a new project or upgrading an existing one, 6.4.0 is the version to use." https://zayenz.se/blog/post/gecode-6-3-and-6-4-released/ | Source: Mikael Zayenz Lagerkvist [12:46] TR Bot 6.3.0 and 6.4.0 are released - zayenz.se [12:47] TR News "A few months ago, nostalgia got the better of me." https://otavio.cc/twenty-years-later-coltrane/ | Source: Otvio C [12:47] TR Bot Twenty Years Later: Coltrane Otvio C. [12:47] TR News "I have been working on two new themes for my minimalist doric-themes package." https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2026-07-16-emacs-doric-lilac-doric-borage/ | Source: Protesilaos Stavrou [12:47] TR Bot doric-lilac and doric-borage coming to the doric-themes | Protesilaos [12:47] TR News "In order to form more perfect arguments, I present a first cut at a bibliography of real research that seems directed toward finding the perfect editor." https://bruceediger.com/perfect.editor.html | Source: Bruce Ediger [12:47] TR Bot There is A Perfect Editor [12:47] TR News "In addition to offering a generally great and active blog" https://sals.place/blog/a-perfect-editor/ | Source: Sal [12:47] TR Bot A perfect editor [12:47] *yellow-pillow has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [12:48] TR News "The service with AT&T was always quite good, albeit a bit expensive." https://initialcharge.net/2026/07/att-to-us-mobile/ | Source: Mike Rockwell [12:48] TR Bot stream 1 was not closed cleanly: PROTOCOL_ERROR (err 1) ( status 0 @ https://initialcharge.net/2026/07/att-to-us-mobile/ ) [12:48] TR News "I have a use case where I need to copy files from Nextcloud to S3 storage using my phone" https://janlukas.blog/appydroid/rclone-android | Source: Jan-Lukas Else [12:48] TR Bot rclone on Android to access any remote storage - Jan-Lukas Else [12:48] *yellow-pillow (~yellow-pillow@wvbkkdpxq9vtg.irc) has joined #techrights [12:48] TR News "Having the information shown on the display of a digital multimeter also recorded off-screen can be incredibly useful" https://hackaday.com/2026/07/17/wireless-lcd-streaming-for-the-aneng-an870-multimeter/ | Source: Hackaday [12:48] TR Bot LCD Streaming For The ANENG AN870 Multimeter | Hackaday [12:49] TR News "Time to adopt this curious contraption and turn it into something cinematic." https://transistor-man.com/gimbal_camera_rover.html | Source: Dane Kouttron [12:49] TR Bot Camera Chase Vehicle [12:49] TR News "A problem facing the designers of event badges is this: what happens to the badge after the event?" https://hackaday.com/2026/07/17/the-bornhack-2026-cyber-aegg-is-a-badge-with-a-life-afterwards/ | Source: Hackaday [12:49] TR Bot BornHack 2026 Cyber gg Is A Badge With A Life Afterwards | Hackaday [12:49] TR News "For (much) higher data rates, theres 4G cellular. We take a look at a couple of add-on solutions here, along with a separate GPS module for ultra-accurate location- and time-stamping." https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/lora-radio-communication-devices-for-raspberry-pi/ | Source: Raspberry Pi [12:49] TR Bot LoRa radio communication devices for Raspberry Pi - Raspberry Pi [12:50] TR News "This article explains what happened, why it worked, and what you can do to reduce the risk in the future." https://ostechnix.com/use-the-aur-safely-arch-linux/ | Source: OSTechNix [12:50] TR Bot to Use the AUR Safely | Arch Linux AUR Security - OSTechNix [12:50] TR News "I decided that Thursday morning at 8:27 AM was the right time to start my first update from FreeBSD 15.0 to 15.1" https://dan.langille.org/2026/07/17/updating-freebsd-15-0-to-freebsd-15-1-via-pkgbase/ | Source: Dan Langille [12:50] TR Bot Updating FreeBSD 15.0 to FreeBSD 15.1 (via pkgbase) Dan Langille's Other Diary [12:51] TR News "Over the last 25 years, Linux has removed hundreds of small frustrations from everyday computing." https://ostechnix.com/linux-headaches-we-thankfully-never-have-to-deal-with-anymore/ | Source: OSTechNix [12:51] TR Bot Linux Headaches We Thankfully Never Have to Deal With Anymore - OSTechNix [12:51] TR News "Recently I was peripherally involved in a Fediverse discussion about (C's) argc and argv (the arguments to your main(), the start of a C program)." https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/EarlyUnixArgcAndArgv | Source: University of Toronto [12:51] TR Bot You're using a too-old browser [12:52] TR News Yesterday I changed the background iterator for the homepage of this website. How did I do that? The code is below but here Ill give you the highlight: [...]" https://ggirelli.info/blog/2026/07/17/background-change | Source: Gabriele Girelli [12:52] TR Bot Transition backgrounds | Filopoetica [12:52] TR News "When a link overflowed to a new line, the text was subtly grouped together, so there was a visual indication that both lines were part of the same text." https://jamesg.blog/2026/07/17/multi-line-links-on-my-home-page | Source: James G [12:52] TR Bot Multi-line links on my home page - James' Coffee Blog [12:52] TR News "That sounds like a lot of preamble, but we quickly get to a full slate of hacks" https://hackaday.com/2026/07/17/hackaday-podcast-episode-378-c-coders-ceramic-printers-and-shadow-archives/ | Source: Hackaday [12:52] TR Bot Podcast Episode 378: C Coders, Ceramic Printers, And Shadow Archives | Hackaday [12:55] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [12:55] TR News The Ashes of Azoukralon https://jxself.org/azoukralon.shtml [12:55] TR Bot timed out after 10002 milliseconds ( status 0 @ https://jxself.org/azoukralon.shtml ) [12:56] TR News Weston 16: HDR-ready, improved debugging, and DRM backend features https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/weston-16-hdr-ready-improved-debugging-and-drm-backend-features.html [12:56] TR Bot Weston 16: HDR-ready, improved debugging, and DRM backend features [12:57] TR News In Other News: Iran Tracks US Military Phones, CrashStealer macOS Malware, CVD Blueprint https://www.securityweek.com/in-other-news-iran-tracks-us-military-phones-crashstealer-macos-malware-cvd-blueprint/ [12:57] TR Bot Other News: Iran Tracks US Military Phones, CrashStealer macOS Malware, CVD Blueprint - SecurityWeek [12:57] TR News Florida man arrested after allegedly stealing $220,000 in crypto using malware hidden in Steam Games 8,000 devices infected https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/fbi-arrests-florida-man-in-steam-malware-investigaton-after-tracing-stolen-bitcoin-to-uber-eats-gift-cards [12:57] TR Bot Florida man arrested after allegedly stealing $220,000 in crypto using malware hidden in Steam Games 8,000 devices infected | Tom's Hardware [12:58] TR News Privacy and human rights award 2026 https://www.accessnow.org/press-release/privacy-and-human-rights-award-2026/ [12:58] TR Bot 2026 Privacy and Human Rights Award presented to Canadian health research lab developing privacy-enhancing technologies Global Privacy Assembly [12:59] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@xk49uzi5amp4u.irc) has joined #techrights ● Jul 18 [13:01] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [13:05] TR News Apple Music Once Again Bumps Its U.S. Prices Individual Increases to $11.99 Per Month, Family Hits $19.99 Due to Rising Licensing Costs https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/17/apple-music-price-increase-2026/ [13:05] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/17/apple-music-price-increase-2026/ ) [13:05] TR News Fix round brackets in URI https://bkhome.org/news/202607/fix-round-brackets-in-uri.html [13:05] TR Bot Fix round brackets in URI [13:06] TR News Show top 100 DJ's on DJMAG http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/44261/show-top-100-djs-on-djmag [13:06] TR Bot Show top 100 DJ's on DJMAG Using awk, sort [13:07] TR News Email Authentication Explained: SPF, DKIM, and DMARC https://linuxize.com/post/email-authentication-spf-dkim-dmarc/ [13:07] TR Bot Authentication Explained: SPF, DKIM, and DMARC | Linuxize [13:07] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@xk49uzi5amp4u.irc) has joined #techrights [13:07] TR News Building an Arch GNU/Linux aarch64 port for Holo Core (Collabora blog) https://lwn.net/Articles/1083392/ [13:07] TR Bot an Arch Linux aarch64 port for Holo Core (Collabora blog) [LWN.net] [13:08] *FANTOM_ has quit (Ping timeout: 249 seconds) [13:08] TR News Security updates for Friday https://lwn.net/Articles/1083388/ [13:08] TR Bot updates for Friday [LWN.net] [13:09] TR News Linus Torvalds Spent Years Dismissing AI, Only to Vouch for It https://itsfoss.com/news/linus-torvalds-on-ai/ [13:09] TR Bot Linus Torvalds Spent Years Dismissing AI, Only to Vouch for It [13:09] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [13:10] TR News Tumbleweed Review of the week 2026/29 https://dominique.leuenberger.net/blog/2026/07/tumbleweed-review-of-the-week-2026-29/ [13:10] TR Bot Tumbleweed Review of the week 2026/29 Dominique a.k.a. DimStar (Dim*) [13:10] *FANTOM_ (~FANTOM@92-249-193-225.pool.digikabel.hu) has joined #techrights [13:11] TR News Upscayl, the local Hey Hi (AI) image enhancer is getting better and better https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/upscayl-second-review.html [13:11] TR Bot Upscayl, the local AI image enhancer is getting better and better [13:11] TR News JetBrains Mono monospaced typeface designed for developers https://www.linuxlinks.com/jetbrains-mono-monospaced-typeface-developers/ [13:11] TR Bot Mono - monospaced typeface designed for developers - LinuxLinks [13:11] TR News How to Install AMD Radeon Drivers on Ubuntu 26.04, 24.04 and 22.04 https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-amd-radeon-drivers-on-ubuntu-linux/ [13:11] TR Bot to Install AMD Radeon Drivers on Ubuntu 26.04, 24.04 and 22.04 - LinuxCapable [13:12] TR News 6 Useful Free and Open Source YAML Code Formatters https://www.linuxlinks.com/useful-free-open-source-yaml-code-formatters/ [13:12] TR Bot Useful Free and Open Source YAML Code Formatters - LinuxLinks [13:13] TR News How To Install Perl on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS https://idroot.us/install-perl-ubuntu-26-04/ [13:13] TR Bot How To Install Perl on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS - idroot [13:13] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@xk49uzi5amp4u.irc) has joined #techrights [13:13] TR News How To Install Jupyter Notebook on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS https://idroot.us/install-jupyter-notebook-ubuntu-26-04/ [13:13] TR Bot How To Install Jupyter Notebook on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS - idroot [13:14] TR News How To Install Hermes Agent on Linux Mint 22 https://idroot.us/install-hermes-agent-linux-mint-22/ [13:14] TR Bot How To Install Hermes Agent on Linux Mint 22 - idroot [13:14] TR News How To Install Perl on Fedora 44 https://idroot.us/install-perl-fedora-44/ [13:14] TR Bot How To Install Perl on Fedora 44 - idroot [13:15] TR News How proprietary formats have become Microsofts main tool for lock-in https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/07/17/microsofts-main-tool-for-lock-in/ [13:15] TR Bot How proprietary formats have become Microsoft's main tool for lock-in - TDF Community Blog [13:19] TR News Gnome Working on Test Center App to Make Testing Easier http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Gnome-Working-on-Test-Center-App-to-Make-Testing-Easier [13:19] TR Bot Gnome Working on Test Center App to Make Testin... 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We still have about 6 parts left. [14:01] TR News Two documents attached to "A Tale of Two Antnios" - Parts 1 to 4 - and more to become available soon, including: Council of the EU - PRESS RELEASE 73/26 - 30/01/2026 (document associated with Part 1) [14:02] TR News ATTACHMENTS in "A Tale of Two Antnios" - Parts 1 to 4 show that EPO is an EU crises too. See "Council of the EU - PRESS RELEASE 73/26 - 30/01/2026". [14:02] TR News Just a quick update on this: It was decided to break down some of the parts into smaller units and the series has now expanded to 34 parts. [14:04] TR News Parts 30 and 31 will be ready today or next week. Parts 32 and 33 will follow this month. The remainder will be finalised and sent next month. [14:04] TR News There will also be a lot more about https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/17/EPO_Cocaine_Communication_Manager_Part_XV_Nazi_Like_Thinking_at.shtml [14:04] TR Bot Techrights EPO "Cocaine Communication Manager" - Part XV - Nazi-Like Thinking at the European Patent Office (EPO) Not a Thing of the Past [14:05] TR News SLAPP Censorship - Part 133 Out of 200 will probably be out late next week [14:06] TR News no wonder it is delayed by so much, the fiscal year ended already http://techrights.org/n/2026/06/29/How_Long_Can_a_Company_Delay_Its_Financial_Report_That_Likely_C.shtml [14:06] TR Bot Techrights How Long Can a Company Delay Its Financial Report That Likely Confirms Exodus of Staff, Growing Debt, and Other Problems? [14:06] TR News so we know more people - especially women - have left since then http://techrights.org/n/2026/01/17/At_Least_5_Women_Quit_Brett_Wilson_LLP_in_Recent_Months_It_s_th.shtml [14:06] TR Bot Techrights At Least 5 Women Quit Brett Wilson LLP in Recent Months. It's the Firm That Attacked My Wife and I on Behalf of Americans (One of Them Strangled Women). [14:10] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techrights [14:11] TR News Linux Patches Keep 1980s90s Macs Spinning Their Floppies https://fossforce.com/2026/07/linux-patches-keep-1980s-90s-macs-spinning-their-floppies/ [14:11] TR Bot Linux Patches Keep 1980s90s Macs Spinning Their Floppies - FOSS Force [14:11] TR News Elon to Open Source Xs Codebase. Believe It When Git Happens https://fossforce.com/2026/07/elon-to-open-source-xs-codebase-believe-it-when-git-happens/ [14:11] TR Bot Elon to Open Source Xs Codebase. Believe It When Git Happens - FOSS Force [14:12] TR News X is already "Open Source", but IBM Wayland tries to replace it [14:12] TR News Hackers Expose How Hey Hi (AI) Music App Suno Stole Decades Worth of Copyrighted Music https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/hacker-ai-music-suno-copyright [14:12] TR Bot Hackers Expose How AI Music App Suno Stole Decades Worth of Copyrighted Music [14:13] TR News Hari Rana: How far would hostile distributions go to hurt application developers? https://tesk.page/2026/07/18/how-far-would-hostile-distributions-go-to-hurt-upstream/ [14:13] TR Bot How far would hostile distributions go to hurt application developers? | TheEvilSkeleton [14:13] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techrights [14:14] TR News Updating FreeBSD 15.0 to FreeBSD 15.1 (via pkgbase) https://dan.langille.org/2026/07/17/updating-freebsd-15-0-to-freebsd-15-1-via-pkgbase/ [14:14] TR Bot Updating FreeBSD 15.0 to FreeBSD 15.1 (via pkgbase) Dan Langille's Other Diary [14:17] TR News When people get something from deb/rpm/other (flatpak, snap, yum, dnf, apt, apt-get etc.) they make many assumptions, inc. that the channel with the repo is secure, the packager can be trusted, the developer/s can be trusted, and the compiler, modules etc. are not malicious. This is NOT unique/different from ProprietaryCrap issues. Same issues, but ...... hidden, [14:17] TR News The MSM likes to pretend ONLY Free Software has this "SUPPLY CHAIN" issue [14:17] TR News MSM = funded to issue GAFAM propaganda [14:17] *psydroid3 has quit (Quit: KVIrc 5.2.10 Quasar http://www.kvirc.net/) [14:18] MinceR there's an even more severe supply chain issue here -- microslop's hostile control on Linux, systemd, gnome, rust and other things [14:21] schestowitz[TR2] yes [14:21] schestowitz[TR2] github, npm [14:21] schestowitz[TR2] same channel [14:21] schestowitz[TR2] NSA [14:49] TR News Dihydroxyacetone Man Decimated a Satellite Program That Wouldve Vastly Improved Wildfire Smoke Monitoring https://futurism.com/science-energy/trump-cancelled-satellite-geoxo-noaa-monitoring-wildfire-smoke [14:49] TR Bot Trump Decimated a Satellite Program That Would've Vastly Improved Wildfire Smoke Monitoring [14:49] TR News Six Flags Great America closes as Canadian wildfire smoke spreads across US https://nypost.com/2026/07/18/us-news/six-flags-great-america-closes-as-canadian-wildfire-smoke-spreads-across-us/ [14:49] TR Bot Six Flags Great America closes as Canadian wildfire smoke spreads across US [14:52] TR News China warns of countermeasures to US stay limits for journalists https://hongkongfp.com/2026/07/18/china-warns-of-countermeasures-to-us-stay-limits-for-journalists/ [14:52] TR Bot China warns of 'countermeasures' to US stay limits for journalists [14:59] *Disconnected (Connection timed out). [14:59] *Now talking on #techrights ● Jul 18 [15:04] TR News Techrights Independent, But Not Fringe https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/18/Independent_But_Not_Fringe.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/18/Independent_But_Not_Fringe.gmi [15:04] TR Bot Techrights Independent, But Not Fringe [15:05] TR News "Sun did have Richard Stallman come to talk, but he seemed too radical for the Sun execs, Lindholm recalled" https://www.theregister.com/devops/2026/07/18/java-was-a-three-day-hotfix-away-from-dying-horribly-on-stage/5274590 [15:05] TR Bot Java was a three-day hotfix away from dying horribly on stage [15:17] TR News "Linus Torvalds Puts His Foot Down, Tells Anti-AI Programmers To 'Fork It' - and Then This Happened - SoylentNews" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/07/17/151212 [15:17] TR Bot Linus Torvalds Puts His Foot Down, Tells Anti-AI Programmers To 'Fork It' - and Then This Happened - SoylentNews [15:17] TR News Imagine how MSM would react had RMS said "fork it"... [15:19] TR News (NEW): Only Those Who Never Give Up Will Pick Up a Prize https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/18/Only_Those_Who_Never_Give_Up_Will_Pick_Up_a_Prize.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/18/Only_Those_Who_Never_Give_Up_Will_Pick_Up_a_Prize.gmi [15:19] TR Bot Tux Machines Only Those Who Never Give Up Will Pick Up a Prize [15:19] TR News Rust == Politics (with a capital P) [15:40] TR News Techrights Explaining the Culture of Bulletin Board-Style Chat https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/18/Explaining_the_Culture_of_Bulletin_Board_Style_Chat.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/18/Explaining_the_Culture_of_Bulletin_Board_Style_Chat.gmi [15:40] TR Bot Techrights Explaining the Culture of Bulletin Board-Style Chat [15:42] TR News (NEW): IRC is Extremely Informal (the Case of Techrights) https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/18/IRC_is_Extremely_Informal_the_Case_of_Techrights.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/18/IRC_is_Extremely_Informal_the_Case_of_Techrights.gmi [15:42] TR Bot Tux Machines IRC is Extremely Informal (the Case of Techrights) [15:43] TR News Policy statements seems vague: https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/18/Daniel_Pocock_s_Candidacy_Election_of_Member_of_Parliament_Me nt.shtml devoid of policy? [15:43] TR Bot ( status 404 @ https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/18/Daniel_Pocock_s_Candidacy_Election_of_Member_of_Parliament_Me ) [15:43] TR News "illegitimi non carborundum" (mock latin of course) gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/18/Only_Those_Who_Never_Give_Up_Will_Pick_Up_a_Prize.gmi [15:47] MinceR fabricati diem, punc [15:49] TR News Suddenly, I Was Free: A Chinese Pastors Journey From Jail to the U.S. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/world/asia/ezra-jin-china-pastor-trump.html [15:49] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/world/asia/ezra-jin-china-pastor-trump.html ) [15:49] TR News Broken China? Why one economist says Chinas growth has stalled https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/is-chinas-economy-broken [15:49] TR Bot Is Chinas economy broken? Dr Logan Wright gives his analysis | The Straits Times [15:50] TR News Family of detained US scientist breaks silence after quiet diplomacy stalls https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/access-asia/20260717-family-of-detained-us-scientist-breaks-silence-after-quiet-diplomacy-stalls [15:50] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/access-asia/20260717-family-of-detained-us-scientist-breaks-silence-after-quiet-diplomacy-stalls ) ● Jul 18 [16:07] TR News Techrights Only "Torvaldos" (Linus Torvalds) Can Use the F-Word, CoC Does Not Apply to the Enforcer, and Richard Stallman Punished for Using the Other F-Word ("Freedom") https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/18/Only_Torvaldos_Linus_Torvalds_Can_Use_the_F_Word_CoC_Does_Not_A.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/18/Only_Torvaldos_Linus_Torvalds_Can_Use_the_F_Word_CoC_Does_Not_A.gmi [16:07] TR Bot Techrights Only "Torvaldos" (Linus Torvalds) Can Use the F-Word, CoC Does Not Apply to the Enforcer, and Richard Stallman Punished for Using the Other F-Word ("Freedom") [16:11] TR News iophk: PHK will no longer write for the ACM, retiring of sorts [16:22] MinceR Linyos Torovoltos [16:22] TR News (NEW): More Than Half a Million Files https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/18/More_Than_Half_a_Million_Files.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/18/More_Than_Half_a_Million_Files.gmi [16:23] TR Bot Tux Machines More Than Half a Million Files [16:42] TR News This was mostly about the embargo: gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/Technical_Computer_Scientist_and_Free_Software_Expert_Running_f.gmi [16:54] TR News Techrights We Don't Depend on Google (or Search Engines in General) https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/18/We_Don_t_Depend_on_Google_or_Search_Engines_in_General.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/18/We_Don_t_Depend_on_Google_or_Search_Engines_in_General.gmi [16:54] TR Bot Techrights We Don't Depend on Google (or Search Engines in General) ● Jul 18 [17:00] TR News Rights organizations document deaths and abuse at Fort Bliss detention camp https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/07/human-rights-organizations-document-deaths-and-abuse-at-fort-bliss-immigration-camp/ [17:01] TR Bot Rights organizations document deaths and abuse at Fort Bliss detention camp - JURIST - News [17:01] TR News Food price inflation on the rise: the everyday items going up in price https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/food-price-inflation-on-the-rise-the-everyday-items-going-up-in-price-aCsM67A1OaJL [17:01] TR Bot Food price inflation on the rise: the everyday items going up in price - Which? [17:02] TR News Community SnapshotJune https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2026/07/community-snapshot-june-2/ [17:02] TR Bot Community SnapshotJune - Internet Society [17:02] schestowitz[TR2] MinceR: sounds spanish [17:02] schestowitz[TR2] or greek [17:02] schestowitz[TR2] maybe italian [17:03] MinceR :> [17:03] TR News France orders internet providers to block access to Polymarket prediction site https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260717-france-orders-internet-service-providers-to-block-access-to-polymarket [17:03] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260717-france-orders-internet-service-providers-to-block-access-to-polymarket ) [17:03] schestowitz[TR2] my fat greek kernel [17:03] MinceR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adequacy.org [17:03] TR Bot Adequacy.org - Wikipedia [17:03] schestowitz[TR2] "" [17:04] schestowitz[TR2] Adequacy.org was a satirical web site. It featured articles on politics, religion, technology, history, and sociology, as well as the "Linux Zealot" cartoon series. The site shut down on September 11, 2002." [17:04] schestowitz[TR2] I think you linked to it before? [17:04] schestowitz[TR2] it lasted a year [17:04] schestowitz[TR2] not long for a site [17:04] schestowitz[TR2] "The Adequacy authors began as trolls on Slashdot and Kuro5hin, other technology-oriented discussion sites. They devised and posted many comments designed to provoke outraged responses; common styles included slighting a revered operating system or open source leader, or posting messages with simple but deliberate technical errors, which would incite hundreds of corrections." [17:04] schestowitz[TR2] Kuro5hin became inactive ads ago [17:04] schestowitz[TR2] *Ages [17:04] schestowitz[TR2] not sure why [17:04] schestowitz[TR2] Kuro5hin was ok [17:05] schestowitz[TR2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuro5hin [17:05] TR Bot Kuro5hin - Wikipedia [17:05] schestowitz[TR2] Current statusOffline (May 1, 2016) [17:18] *IsambardPrince (~isambardprince@ramt42gfpnfrq.irc) has joined #techrights [17:19] TR News (NEW): Windows is Collapsing, More Layoffs Coming https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/18/Windows_is_Collapsing_More_Layoffs_Coming.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/18/Windows_is_Collapsing_More_Layoffs_Coming.gmi [17:19] TR Bot Tux Machines Windows is Collapsing, More Layoffs Coming [17:22] TR News Techrights After 5 Years Vista 11 Still Adopted Less Than Its Predecessor (Orphaned, End of Life Since Last Year) https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/18/After_5_Years_Vista_11_Still_Adopted_Less_Than_Its_Predecessor_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/18/After_5_Years_Vista_11_Still_Adopted_Less_Than_Its_Predecessor_.gmi [17:22] TR Bot Techrights After 5 Years Vista 11 Still Adopted Less Than Its Predecessor (Orphaned, End of Life Since Last Year) [17:24] TR News So what if those festivals are hotbeds for drug use? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/sep/03/electromagnetic-field-camp-emfcamp-drones-arduino-burning-man [17:24] TR Bot Electromagnetic Field: the UK's Burning Man? | Christian Payne | The Guardian [17:39] TR News Techrights First Female Debian Project Leader (DPL) Affirms Low Profile and Inferior Status of Women in GAFAM https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/18/First_Female_Debian_Project_Leader_DPL_Affirms_Low_Profile_and_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/18/First_Female_Debian_Project_Leader_DPL_Affirms_Low_Profile_and_.gmi [17:39] TR Bot Techrights First Female Debian Project Leader (DPL) Affirms Low Profile and Inferior Status of Women in GAFAM ● Jul 18 [18:09] TR News Techrights "But Stallman is Scaring Away Women..." https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/18/But_Stallman_is_Scaring_Away_Women.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/18/But_Stallman_is_Scaring_Away_Women.gmi [18:09] TR Bot Techrights "But Stallman is Scaring Away Women..." [18:21] TR News Techrights No Technical People Write About UK Parliamentary Elections https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/18/No_Technical_People_Write_About_UK_Parliamentary_Elections.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/18/No_Technical_People_Write_About_UK_Parliamentary_Elections.gmi [18:21] TR Bot Techrights No Technical People Write About UK Parliamentary Elections [18:27] TR News Techrights Bolivian People Adopt GNU/Linux (They Have a Domestic Distro Too, PluriOS) https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/18/Bolivian_People_Adopt_GNU_Linux_They_Have_a_Domestic_Distro_Too.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/18/Bolivian_People_Adopt_GNU_Linux_They_Have_a_Domestic_Distro_Too.gmi [18:27] TR Bot Techrights Bolivian People Adopt GNU/Linux (They Have a Domestic Distro Too, PluriOS) [18:36] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: I passed the Sam's Club leadership assessment. [18:36] IsambardPrince But failed one at Walmart. [18:36] IsambardPrince Same company. [18:37] IsambardPrince Anyway, I go back so far that there was no "test". They just decided hey let's put them in the Support Manager job and see how he handles some responsibility with training wheels. [18:37] IsambardPrince The Support Manager role was still hourly, but technically a supervisor. [18:37] IsambardPrince It was never meant to be an ongoing job code. It was to evaluate how you handle things while an Assistant Manager was steering you along. [18:38] IsambardPrince And maybe the reason they got rid of it and replaced it with a test was because they were getting unreliable people too high up the food chain. [18:38] IsambardPrince We had C-Suite executives that were taking bribes from vendors. [18:38] IsambardPrince Like Tom Coughlin and the cash and a race horse he took from Pepsi. [18:39] IsambardPrince We had assistant managers at my store who were sleeping around with subordinates and taking three hour lunches where they'd go out to the car and sleep. [18:39] IsambardPrince Having a basic psych test can screen out some of this. [18:40] IsambardPrince The weird thing is that I don't think the psych test screened me out decisively, I think it's more like Sam's Club might want a different management culture than Walmart. [18:40] IsambardPrince Because the same answers that can fail at Walmart will pass at Sam's. [18:41] schestowitz[TR2] schestowitz[TR2]: I passed the Sam's Club leadership assessment. [18:41] schestowitz[TR2] is that sam waltan? [18:41] schestowitz[TR2] or uncle sam? [18:41] schestowitz[TR2] or uncle bill? [18:42] schestowitz[TR2] *ton [18:42] IsambardPrince Tom Coughlin was shooed out the front door. [18:43] IsambardPrince Walmart tried to do it quietly by announcing in the company magazine as a "retirement party". [18:43] IsambardPrince Then several months later the FBI arrested him over the vendor bribery scandal. [18:43] *slartibartfast has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [18:43] IsambardPrince [12:41] is that sam waltan? [18:43] IsambardPrince Yeah, it's a wholesale club. [18:44] *AIRCWeb43 (Webchat@AIRC-92B472C8.lightspeed.sgnwmi.sbcglobal.net) has joined #techrights [18:46] IsambardPrince Walmart started going into damage control mode right after the Tom Coughlin Scandal. They have a Walmart Ethics Hotline, it happened after the FBI arrested Coughlin. [18:47] IsambardPrince They want people to anonymously clue them in to integrity violations before they reach that level. [18:47] *AIRCWeb43 (Webchat@AIRC-92B472C8.lightspeed.sgnwmi.sbcglobal.net) has left #techrights (AccessIRC Webchat - http://irc.irc.cc:9000) [18:49] IsambardPrince If I had been less conspiratorial in my 20s I would have called the Ethics Hotline about the manager who was sleeping with subordinates and taking three hour naps in the parking lot. He was just wretched and he was my problem too because while he was doing that, I ended up getting coached by him for telling an edgy joke. And so I learned the hard way that turning a blind eye to corruption isn't going to help you. [18:51] IsambardPrince We had two AMs on night shift, and one was that guy and there was another one that I actually respected. [18:52] IsambardPrince The one I respected would actually jump in and help if a department was short staffed or messy. Even if he just took 20 or 30 minutes to stand there and stock shelves or something, it sent a message. [18:52] TR News Can We Finally All Agree That UEFI 'Secure Boot' is a Sham That Harms Security and Gives Microsoft Remote Control Over All PCs and Servers (Even Those That Don't Run Any Microsoft Software)? http://techrights.org/n/2026/07/18/Can_We_Finally_All_Agree_That_UEFI_Secure_Boot_is_a_Sham_That_H.shtml [18:52] TR Bot Techrights Can We Finally All Agree That UEFI 'Secure Boot' is a Sham That Harms Security and Gives Microsoft Remote Control Over All PCs and Servers (Even Those That Don't Run Any Microsoft Software)? [18:52] TR News Techrights It's Not About XBox, Microsoft is Already Firing Hundreds of People Who Do "Security [sic] Engineering" [sic] https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/18/It_s_Not_About_XBox_Microsoft_is_Already_Firing_Hundreds_of_Peo.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/18/It_s_Not_About_XBox_Microsoft_is_Already_Firing_Hundreds_of_Peo.gmi [18:52] TR Bot Techrights It's Not About XBox, Microsoft is Already Firing Hundreds of People Who Do "Security [sic] Engineering" [sic] [18:54] IsambardPrince It was a very uneven corporate culture. Some were good, others were deplorable. [18:54] IsambardPrince Very uneven. Lots of corruption at the time. [18:55] IsambardPrince Thankfully the bad AM was over the general merchandise side and the good one was over grocery where I was. [18:55] schestowitz[TR2] but the shoplifting! [18:55] IsambardPrince So I didn't have to deal with the bad one that much unless it was Dave's night off. [18:56] TR News Stocks Sink on Anxiety About Tech and Hey Hi (AI) Spending https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/business/stocks-ai-tech-wall-street.html [18:56] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/business/stocks-ai-tech-wall-street.html ) [18:57] TR News AI Bubble Fears Are Starting to Spill Over https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-bubble-fears-tsmc-nvidia-earnings [18:57] TR Bot AI Bubble Fears Are Starting to Spill Over [18:57] TR News Chatbots are NOTHING new. The DELIRIOUS hype is new. [18:58] TR News After Years of Fighting, MElons X and Music Publishers Officially Stop Suing Each Other. 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All my applications immediately went to "Under Review" as soon as that supervisor test passed. [19:30] schestowitz[TR2] whose? [19:30] schestowitz[TR2] sam's? [19:30] IsambardPrince I think that test brings more attention to other applications. [19:30] IsambardPrince Yes. [19:31] schestowitz[TR2] who knows... [19:31] IsambardPrince It must send up a flare going "This person is high upside, low risk." [19:36] *darwin has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [19:37] admfubar https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/americans-have-grown-dramatically-anti-data-center-in-just-months-survey-finds.460030/ [19:37] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/americans-have-grown-dramatically-anti-data-center-in-just-months-survey-finds.460030/ ) [19:38] schestowitz[TR2] what do you aim for? [19:38] admfubar https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/every-app-on-my-phone-has-decided-i-need-ai-and-none-of-them-bothered-to-ask.460336/ [19:38] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/every-app-on-my-phone-has-decided-i-need-ai-and-none-of-them-bothered-to-ask.460336/ ) [19:39] TR News $2,000 awarded for Gaea data storage patent monopoly prior art https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/7/17/2000-awarded-for-gaea-data-storage-patent-prior-art [19:39] TR Bot $2,000 awarded for Gaea data storage patent prior art Unified Patents [19:39] TR News EPO revokes Hanwhas key solar cell patent monopoly after 11-year opposition battle https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/epo-revokes-hanwhas-key-solar-cell-patent-after-11-year-opposition-battle/ [19:39] TR Bot EPO revokes Hanwha's key solar cell patent after 11-year opposition battle [19:40] TR News Japan Passes New Law Banning Flag Desecration in Nationalist Push https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/world/asia/japan-flag-desecration-law.html [19:40] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/world/asia/japan-flag-desecration-law.html ) [19:40] TR News Desecration os a flag that is just a drop of blood? [19:41] TR News (of) [19:41] psydroid3 http://techrights.org/n/2026/07/18/Can_We_Finally_All_Agree_That_UEFI_Secure_Boot_is_a_Sham_That_H.shtml [19:41] TR Bot Techrights Can We Finally All Agree That UEFI 'Secure Boot' is a Sham That Harms Security and Gives Microsoft Remote Control Over All PCs and Servers (Even Those That Don't Run Any Microsoft Software)? [19:41] TR News How Convicted Felon Abused the Power to Declassify Americas Secrets https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/opinion/trump-speech-us-intelligence-secrets-classified.html [19:41] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/opinion/trump-speech-us-intelligence-secrets-classified.html ) [19:41] psydroid3 UEFI itself is a sham and anything built on it even more so [19:41] schestowitz[TR2] right [19:41] schestowitz[TR2] we said it all along [19:41] schestowitz[TR2] and yet, vindicated, every year [19:41] schestowitz[TR2] sometimes eveeral times per year [19:42] TR News Billionaires Prepare $87 Million Ad Campaign to Block California Wealth Tax https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/us/california-billionaire-tax-opponents-ad-campaign.html [19:42] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/us/california-billionaire-tax-opponents-ad-campaign.html ) [19:43] psydroid3 yet a lot of free software people call for UEFI to be implemented also on ARM and RISC-V platforms that usually don't come with it [19:43] psydroid3 I understand the desire for standardisation, but that doesn't mean it has to be (U)EFI [19:43] TR News Mozilla pushes GAFAM slop after appointing FACEBOOK STAFF as Mozilla MANAGERS https://www.phoronix.com/news/Llamafile-0.10.4 [19:43] TR Bot AI Releases Llamafile 0.10.4 With New Transcribefile Built On Transcribe.cpp - Phoronix [19:43] psydroid3 there was OpenFirmware/OpenBIOS before as well [19:43] schestowitz[TR2] OpenFirmware/OpenBIOS? [19:44] schestowitz[TR2] BIOS is already quite openm [19:44] schestowitz[TR2] maybe Sompi can correct me [19:44] psydroid3 https://github.com/openbios/openbios [19:44] TR Bot - openbios/openbios: First published Open Source implementation of OpenFirmware GitHub [19:44] psydroid3 no, it was a firmware for POWER and SPARC machines [19:44] TR News Leaked Police Drone Videos Highlight Need For Independent Review of the Technologys Usefulness https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/leaked-drone-video-takeaways [19:44] TR Bot Leaked Police Drone Videos Highlight Need For Independent Review of the Technologys Usefulness | American Civil Liberties Union [19:44] schestowitz[TR2] openbios? [19:44] psydroid3 BIOS isn't free software [19:45] psydroid3 yes [19:45] psydroid3 never worked with Sun machines? [19:45] schestowitz[TR2] it's hard to cheange is anyway [19:45] schestowitz[TR2] you cvan replace it [19:45] schestowitz[TR2] seabios is free afaik [19:46] psydroid3 OpenBIOS has nothing to do with x86 BIOS [19:47] psydroid3 and didn't come from the x86 world [19:47] TR News Sergio Cipriano: Running Graphical Applications in Incus Containers https://sergiocipriano.com/running-gui-in-incus.html [19:47] TR Bot Running Graphical Applications in Incus Containers [19:47] TR News Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 325 released https://diffoscope.org/news/diffoscope-325-released/ [19:47] TR Bot diffoscope 325 released [19:48] TR News Robot vacuum flaw lets one stolen certificate run root commands on other Shark robovacs in the same proprietary trap AWS region unpatched flaw exposes live camera feeds, stored home maps, and Wi-Fi credentials https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/shark-robot-vacuum-flaw-lets-one-stolen-certificate-run-root-commands-on-others-in-the-same-aws-region [19:48] TR Bot Robot vacuum flaw lets one stolen certificate run root commands on other Shark robovacs in the same AWS region unpatched flaw exposes live camera feeds, stored home maps, and Wi-Fi credentials | Tom's Hardware [19:49] TR News Lawmakers want US government to ban memory chips from China, even in allied supply chains citing 'unacceptable risk' to national, economic, and supply chain security https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/lawmakers-want-us-government-to-ban-memory-chips-from-china-even-in-allied-supply-chains-citing-unacceptable-risk-to-national-economic-and-supply-chain-security [19:49] TR Bot Lawmakers want US government to ban memory chips from China, even in allied supply chains citing 'unacceptable risk' to national, economic, and supply chain security | Tom's Hardware [19:49] TR News Windows TCO? Coca-Cola Suspends US Fairlife Production Due to Ransomware Attack https://www.securityweek.com/coca-cola-suspends-us-fairlife-production-due-to-ransomware-attack/ [19:49] TR Bot Suspends US Fairlife Production Due to Ransomware Attack - SecurityWeek [19:50] TR News Cyberattack Disrupts Operations of Japanese Frozen Food Giant Nichirei https://www.securityweek.com/cyberattack-disrupts-operations-of-japanese-frozen-food-giant-nichirei/ https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/17/Nichirei_and_Asahi_Beer_Need_to_Take_Cyberattacks_as_Hint_of_Op.shtml [19:50] TR Bot Disrupts Operations of Japanese Frozen Food Giant Nichirei - SecurityWeek [19:50] TR Bot Techrights Nichirei and Asahi Beer Need to Take Cyberattacks as Hint of Opportunity to Move to Free Software [19:50] TR News Mozilla Privacy Blog: Beyond technical fixes: Protecting kids online without breaking the internet https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2026/07/17/beyond-technical-fixes-protecting-kids-online-without-breaking-the-internet/ [19:50] TR Bot Beyond technical fixes: Protecting kids online without breaking the internet - Open Policy & Advocacy [19:52] TR News US Military Smartphones Targeted Through Roaming and Ad Tech https://citizenlab.ca/us-military-smartphones-targeted-through-roaming-and-ad-tech/ [19:52] TR Bot US Military Smartphones Targeted Through Roaming and Ad Tech - The Citizen Lab [19:53] TR News Flathubs AIslop banlooks like it was theright call https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/07/flathub-ai-slop-ban-data http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/18/Torvalds_challenged_the_haters_to_fork_Linux_Someone_said_hold_.shtml [19:53] TR Bot Flathub's AIslop banlooks like it was theright call - OMG! 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Someone said 'hold my beer' [19:54] TR News Very sloppy https://itsfoss.com/news/linus-torvalds-on-ai/ [19:54] TR Bot Linus Torvalds Spent Years Dismissing AI, Only to Vouch for It [19:55] TR News Integration of malware! https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/07/intellij-idea-2026-2-released-with-native-github-copilot-integration/ https://techrights.org/o/2023/02/10/copilot-in-court/ [19:55] TR Bot IntelliJ IDEA 2026.2 Released with Native GitHub Copilot Integration | UbuntuHandbook [19:55] TR Bot Microsoft GitHub Expos Part XXVII The Future of OpenAI May Depend on the Fate of GitHub's Copilot in Court ($9 Billion in Damages) [19:56] TR News Shotcut 26.7 Added Option to Choose Which Physical GPU to Work With https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/07/shotcut-26-7-option-to-choose-gpu/ [19:56] TR Bot Shotcut 26.7 Added Option to Choose Which Physical GPU to Work With | UbuntuHandbook ● Jul 18 [20:15] TR News (NEW): The Rain in Spain https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/18/The_Rain_in_Spain.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/18/The_Rain_in_Spain.gmi [20:15] TR Bot Tux Machines The Rain in Spain [20:21] TR News Techrights GNU/Linux in Lithuanian Desktops/Laptops Climbs to 8%, the Global Average https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/18/GNU_Linux_in_Lithuanian_Desktops_Laptops_Climbs_to_8_the_Global.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/18/GNU_Linux_in_Lithuanian_Desktops_Laptops_Climbs_to_8_the_Global.gmi [20:21] TR Bot Techrights GNU/Linux in Lithuanian Desktops/Laptops Climbs to 8%, the Global Average [20:21] TR News GameStop CEO says Sony's decision to go disc-less is 'totally irrelevant' claims software, including physical discs, accounts for only 12% of the company's business https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/console-gaming/gamestop-ceo-says-sonys-decision-to-go-disc-less-is-totally-irrelevant-claims-software-including-physical-discs-accounts-for-only-12-percent-of-the-companys-business [20:21] TR Bot GameStop CEO says Sony's decision to go disc-less is 'totally irrelevant' claims software, including physical discs, accounts for only 12% of the company's business | Tom's Hardware [20:22] TR News Espressif releases SDK for Aliro smart door locks based on ESP32-C or ESP32-H SoCs https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/07/17/espressif-releases-sdk-for-aliro-smart-door-locks-based-on-esp32-c-or-esp32-h-socs/ [20:22] TR Bot Espressif releases SDK for Aliro smart door locks based on ESP32-C or ESP32-H SoCs - CNX Software [20:22] TR News India launches first hydrogen-powered train in clean energy push https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/india-launches-first-hydrogen-powered-train-in-clean-energy-push [20:22] TR Bot India launches first hydrogen-powered train in clean energy push | The Straits Times [20:22] TR News WordPress 7.0.2 Release https://wordpress.org/news/2026/07/wordpress-7-0-2-release/ [20:22] TR Bot WordPress 7.0.2 Release WordPress News [20:23] TR News "This site is written using Gemtext and hosted on both Gemini and HTTP protocols. Gemini is a web-lite protocol created out of a nostalgia for what the web once was, intentionally constrained in a way that strongly favors text-heavy content and makes bloated design a technical impossibility." gemini://birds-are-nice.me/ [20:25] TR News "Just testing out my new gemlog system. Hopefully this post works." gemini://gemini.sh0.xyz/cgi-bin/gemlog.py/post/testing-from-my-phone [20:25] admfubar this video if interesting, https://www.theregister.com/devops/2026/07/18/java-was-a-three-day-hotfix-away-from-dying-horribly-on-stage/5274590 [20:25] TR Bot Java was a three-day hotfix away from dying horribly on stage [20:25] TR News "My departure from Windows happened way back when Win95 was released. My parents bough a new computer and I got the old one. Some friends and I went to a computer convention and came home with a box of 3.5 inch floppies with Slackware's base install on them and I never looked back." gemini://gemini.sh0.xyz/cgi-bin/gemlog.py/post/re-i-was-corrected-on-the-internet-about-my-inefficient-use-of-awk-today [20:26] TR News Yeah, youre right. On the internet, ever since money came, everything got messed up gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/ [20:27] TR News "Recently, Elon Musk (the fucking bumbling idiot that has spent the last decade+ - wait, after checking, a fucking quarter of a century, it seems - pestering us all with the idea of going to fucking Mars) apparently discovered how far Mars is. This fucken idiot is still the richest man on Earth, press still covering his stupidity with gleeful applause." gemini://tilde.team/~jmcs/gemlog/2026-07-18-business-idiots-everywhere.gmi [20:28] TR News "for years i was just a viewer. but yesterday i decided to try writing in gemini by myself. I know this post seems a bit naive. But for the past few days, this discussion has been running through my mind" gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/s/Geminispace/46126 [20:29] MinceR 18 204259 < psydroid3> yet a lot of free software people call for UEFI to be implemented also on ARM and RISC-V platforms that usually don't come with it [20:29] MinceR they're not free software people [20:29] TR News "One of my coworkers is very interested in a Web3 project called "Midnight."^ Midnight is a sister project to Cardano, a blockchain built to focus on the smart contract and digital token aspects of cryptocurrencies rather than the value of the coin itself" gemini://jsreed5.org/log/2026/202607/20260718-the-siren-song-of-depin.gmi [20:29] MinceR much like the "republicans" aren't republicans [20:30] *yellow-pillow has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [20:30] *yellow-pillow (~yellow-pillow@wvbkkdpxq9vtg.irc) has joined #techrights [20:30] schestowitz[TR2] balzac called them repugnicans [20:31] schestowitz[TR2] like repugnant\ [20:31] schestowitz[TR2] rem,ember balzac? [20:31] schestowitz[TR2] iirc, you did not like him [20:31] MinceR faintly [20:31] schestowitz[TR2] around 2008/9 [20:33] schestowitz[TR2] https://techrights.org/search/query?search=Search&query1=balzac&set1=any [20:33] TR Bot Techrights Search [20:33] schestowitz[TR2] 2008 https://techrights.org/o/2008/06/04/irc-log-03062008/index.shtml#tJun%2003%2005:09:17 [20:33] TR Bot #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: June 3rd, 2008 [20:34] schestowitz[TR2] https://techrights.org/search/query?search=Search&query1=mincer&set1=any [20:34] TR Bot Techrights Search [20:34] schestowitz[TR2] MinceR: https://techrights.org/o/2008/08/15/irc-log-14082008/index.shtml [20:34] TR Bot IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: August 14th, 2008 [20:34] schestowitz[TR2] "hay" https://techrights.org/o/2008/08/15/irc-log-14082008/index.shtml#tAug%2014%2000:31:13 [20:34] TR Bot IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: August 14th, 2008 [20:34] schestowitz[TR2] maybe your first word in the logs [20:34] schestowitz[TR2] *MinceR (n=mincer@unaffiliated/mincer) has joined #boycottnovell [20:35] schestowitz[TR2] Aug 14 00:31 [20:35] schestowitz[TR2] 1:30 in budapest [20:35] schestowitz[TR2] your night owl! [20:35] MinceR http://www.reactiongifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/fallon-haay.gif [20:36] TR News Techrights Gemini Links 18/07/2026: "Business Idiots Everywhere", "The Siren Song of DePIN", and Entering Geminispace https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/18/Gemini_Links_18_07_2026_Business_Idiots_Everywhere_The_Siren_So.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/18/Gemini_Links_18_07_2026_Business_Idiots_Everywhere_The_Siren_So.gmi [20:36] TR Bot Techrights Gemini Links 18/07/2026: "Business Idiots Everywhere", "The Siren Song of DePIN", and Entering Geminispace [20:38] TR News Details of Alan Turings Voice Encryption System https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/details-of-alan-turings-voice-encryption-system.html [20:38] TR Bot of Alan Turing's Voice Encryption System - Schneier on Security [20:39] TR News Fresh SharePoint Vulnerability Exploited Soon After Disclosure https://www.securityweek.com/fresh-sharepoint-vulnerability-exploited-soon-after-disclosure/ [20:39] TR Bot SharePoint Vulnerability Exploited Soon After Disclosure - SecurityWeek [20:39] TR News Paris region's record June heatwave more than doubled normal mortality rate to reach 3,000 https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260717-deaths-paris-region-more-than-doubled-during-june-heatwave-report-france [20:39] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260717-deaths-paris-region-more-than-doubled-during-june-heatwave-report-france ) [20:40] TR News As the U.S. ramps up infrastructure investment, imported cement raises national security concerns https://federalnewsnetwork.com/contracting/2026/07/as-the-u-s-ramps-up-infrastructure-investment-imported-cement-raises-national-security-concerns/ [20:40] TR Bot As the U.S. ramps up infrastructure investment, imported cement raises national security concerns | Federal News Network [20:41] TR News "Ubuntu warns an upcoming Linux kernel severely slows AMD down in certain compute workloads due to a drive issue." https://www.neowin.net/news/amd-driver-causing-massive-performance-loss-on-all-major-linux-distros/ [20:41] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.neowin.net/news/amd-driver-causing-massive-performance-loss-on-all-major-linux-distros/ ) [20:42] TR News "Moving from Windows to Linux isn't as hard as you might initially think, but you'd be forgiven for having some worries. Switching to a totally different desktop environment is hard, especially when some of the apps you're used to may not be available." https://www.xda-developers.com/i-tried-this-linux-distro-that-looks-like-windows-is-made-by-a-microsoft-engineer-and-is-based-on-ubuntu/ [20:42] TR Bot I tried this Linux distro that looks like Windows, is made by a Microsoft engineer, and is based on Ubuntu [20:43] MinceR rotfl @ microslop "engineer" [20:43] TR News Rust, i.e. even worse https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/07/17/torvalds-challenged-the-haters-to-fork-linux-someone-said-hold-my-beer/5274275 [20:43] TR Bot Torvalds challenged the haters to fork Linux. Someone said 'hold my beer' [20:44] MinceR > it feels just like windows [20:44] TR News Follow the money https://the-decoder.com/linus-torvalds-tells-ai-critics-in-the-linux-kernel-community-to-fork-off/ http://techrights.org/n/2026/07/18/Only_Torvaldos_Linus_Torvalds_Can_Use_the_F_Word_CoC_Does_Not_A.shtml [20:44] TR Bot Linus Torvalds tells AI critics in the Linux kernel community to fork off [20:44] TR Bot Techrights Only "Torvaldos" (Linus Torvalds) Can Use the F-Word, CoC Does Not Apply to the Enforcer, and Richard Stallman Punished for Using the Other F-Word ("Freedom") [20:44] MinceR yeah, i, too love having to ask the OS for permission to use my own computer, and still end up with extreme lag while it does something it deems to be far more important than what i wanted to do [20:44] TR News "ZorinOS has been getting a lot of hype ever since Microsoft dropped support for Windows 10. Turns out the hype is justified. Linux Mint has been my go-to recommendation for Windows users, but testing ZorinOS changed my opinion." https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-mint-isnt-the-top-windows-replacement-anymore/ [20:44] TR Bot Linux Mint isn't the best Windows replacement anymore [20:45] MinceR maybe these people would prefer to be killed slowly in torture chambers, maybe that's their idea of an ideal life [20:45] TR News Slop pushers are paying the boss of Torvalds to associate the Linux brand with scams https://www.infoworld.com/article/4198170/new-linux-foundation-project-aims-to-make-payments-native-to-ai-workflows.html [20:45] TR Bot Linux Foundation project aims to make payments native to AI workflows | InfoWorld [20:47] TR News "Your Linux distro may have a way of tightening up these security holes, but are you using it? By default, youre probably blissfully unaware of the problem, so you should at least investigate further. Or you could let one of these distros take on the heavy lifting for you." https://www.howtogeek.com/these-linux-distros-finally-got-dns-privacy-rightmost-others-dont/ [20:47] TR Bot These 5 Linux distros finally got DNS privacy rightmost others don't [20:48] TR News language [20:48] TR News Linux is becoming SLOPOS, written in a language that its own creator cannot read or understand; poor leadership http://techrights.org/o/2022/09/21/going-rusty-faster/ [20:48] TR Bot The Life of Linux Will Be Shortened by a Misguided Adoption of Rust [20:49] TR News Those looks like black sex toys https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/collabora-announce-a-preview-of-holo-core-an-aarch64-port-of-arch-linux-for-steam-frame/ [20:49] TR Bot announce a preview of Holo Core, an AArch64 port of Arch Linux for Steam Frame | GamingOnLinux [20:50] TR News Torvalds as corporate/social warrior, first banning people based on their nationality, now this https://korben.info/en/torvalds-ai-opponents-linux-fork-kernel-or-get-out.html [20:50] TR Bot Torvalds to AI opponents in Linux: fork the kernel, or get out - Korben [20:50] TR News $10K Bounty Targets Linux on PlayStation 5 Hardware https://www.techbuzz.ai/articles/10k-bounty-targets-linux-on-playstation-5-hardware [20:50] TR Bot $10K Bounty Targets Linux on PlayStation 5 Hardware | The Tech Buzz [20:51] TR News A $10K Bounty Aims to Make Sonys PlayStation 5 a Computer Again https://www.wired.com/story/a-10k-bounty-aims-to-make-the-ps5-a-computer-again/ [20:51] TR Bot $10K Bounty Aims to Make Sonys PlayStation 5 a Computer Again | WIRED [20:52] TR News PS5 Slim can boot Linux via PS5 Linux Loader: Firmware 7.61 extends the homebrew boundary https://www.igorslab.de/en/ps5-slim-ps5-linux-loader-linux-boot-firmware-7-61-homebrew-boundary/ [20:52] TR Bot PS5 Slim boots Linux: ps5-linux-loader supports 7.61 [20:53] TR News For operating systems Windows and Linux recreated the concept of game cartridges https://en.gamegpu.com/news/zhelezo/dlya-operatsionnykh-sistem-windows-i-linux-vossozdali-kontsept-igrovykh-kartridzhej [20:53] TR Bot For operating systems Windows and Linux recreated the concept of game cartridges [20:55] TR News Fork it. Or just walk away. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/linus-torvalds-to-critics-of-ai-coding-in-linux-fork-it-or-just-walk-away/ [20:55] TR Bot Linus Torvalds to critics of AI coding in Linux: "Fork it. Or just walk away." - Ars Technica [20:58] TR News (NEW): Money Talks to Torvalds: 90% Marketing Hype Becomes Obligatory, Opposition to Slop Told to "F--- Off" https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/18/Money_Talks_to_Torvalds_90_Marketing_Hype_Becomes_Obligatory_Op.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/18/Money_Talks_to_Torvalds_90_Marketing_Hype_Becomes_Obligatory_Op.gmi [20:58] TR Bot Tux Machines Money Talks to Torvalds: 90% Marketing Hype Becomes Obligatory, Opposition to Slop Told to "F--- Off" ● Jul 18 [21:00] TR News (NEW): Anti-DRM Linux Bounty (PlayStation) https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/18/Anti_DRM_Linux_Bounty_PlayStation.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/18/Anti_DRM_Linux_Bounty_PlayStation.gmi [21:00] TR Bot Tux Machines Anti-DRM Linux Bounty (PlayStation) [21:00] TR News (NEW): Collabora's Work on Graphics and Games https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/18/Collabora_s_Work_on_Graphics_and_Games.shtml | Gemini address: 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Hi (AI) Spending" [21:46] *slartibartfast (~user@tybmx63w3qi8g.irc) has joined #techrights [21:54] TR News Techrights UKIP TV (GBNoise) Covers Challengers to UKIP Nigel, Daniel Pocock Mentioned https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/18/UKIP_TV_GBNoise_Covers_Challengers_to_UKIP_Nigel_Daniel_Pocock_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/18/UKIP_TV_GBNoise_Covers_Challengers_to_UKIP_Nigel_Daniel_Pocock_.gmi [21:54] TR Bot Techrights UKIP TV (GBNoise) Covers Challengers to UKIP Nigel, Daniel Pocock Mentioned ● Jul 18 [22:02] admfubar i have some rather strong outgassing, i wonder if i'd be classified as a comet.... https://thedebrief.org/an-asteroid-tracked-since-1998-made-an-unexplained-orbital-shift-now-astronomers-say-its-something-far-more-mysterious/ [22:02] TR Bot An Asteroid Tracked Since 1998 Made an Unexplained Orbital ShiftNow Astronomers Say Its Something Far More Mysterious - The Debrief [22:08] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) 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