●● IRC: #techrights @ Techrights IRC Network: Friday, September 18, 2026 ●● ● Sep 18 [00:14] *Received a CTCP VERSION from Harambe [00:38] MinceR (cat) https://imgur.com/gallery/bros-being-bros-xUxOZpy [00:38] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://imgur.com/gallery/bros-being-bros-xUxOZpy ) [00:48] schestowitz[TR2] bms: see http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/09/17/LLM_Slop_is_Ruining_Projects_Dealing_With_Sony_Consoles.shtml [00:48] TR Bot Tux Machines LLM Slop is Ruining Projects Dealing With Sony Consoles [00:49] schestowitz[TR2] "just a bunch of noobs using LLMs and writing hacks they don't even understand" [00:50] schestowitz[TR2] Righty: it's not about money [00:50] schestowitz[TR2] it's about control [00:50] schestowitz[TR2] he cannot keep controlling linus [00:50] schestowitz[TR2] he cannot keep controlling linux [00:50] schestowitz[TR2] if he is not subordinate to LF [00:50] schestowitz[TR2] also, new rms article explains how micorsoft took control of git [00:50] schestowitz[TR2] so he barely controls that, as well [00:51] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/whats-wrong-with-github.html [00:51] TR Bot timed out after 10000 milliseconds ( status 0 @ https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/whats-wrong-with-github.html ) [00:52] schestowitz[TR2] the FSF irc chans seem dead [00:52] schestowitz[TR2] i spoke to rms about making an irc network for fsf [00:52] schestowitz[TR2] around the same time we spoike about gemini:// presence [00:52] schestowitz[TR2] he said they lacked the time or resources after all the attacks on the fsf [00:52] Righty Yes, the idea is that the LF bribes Linus to allow them to have control of Linux. [00:53] schestowitz[TR2] he is paid about 1.8 ml a year [00:53] schestowitz[TR2] y LF [00:53] schestowitz[TR2] *by [00:53] schestowitz[TR2] but Linux is worth more [00:53] schestowitz[TR2] and see: [00:54] schestowitz[TR2] https://techrights.org/o/2020/06/01/discarding-linux-foundation/index.shtml [00:54] TR Bot What It Would Take for Linus Torvalds to Leave Linux Foundation Without the Linux Trademark and Without Linux [00:54] Righty Worth more to big businesses yes, as a program it has some uses, but not 1.8mil worth. [00:55] *includeals has quit (Quit: ZNC - https://znc.in) [00:55] Righty After all, it is not free software. Only GNU Linux-libre is was free software. [00:55] MinceR they're working on making Linux less valuable [00:55] *includeals (~includeal@bl18-27-126.dsl.telepac.pt) has joined #techrights [00:55] Righty Yes. [00:55] TR News Gaming industry faces its worst crash in decades but Japan is dodging the bullet https://www.notebookcheck.net/Gaming-industry-faces-its-worst-crash-in-decades-but-Japan-is-dodging-the-bullet.1402037.0.html [00:55] TR Bot Gaming industry faces its worst crash in decades but Japan is dodging the bullet - Notebookcheck News [00:56] schestowitz[TR2] GNU Linux-libre is more and more slop now [00:56] schestowitz[TR2] we'll cover this in a series [00:57] Righty Yes, that is another problem. [00:57] schestowitz[TR2] lxo talked about that here [00:57] schestowitz[TR2] the patches are marked [00:57] schestowitz[TR2] not the code [00:57] Righty Although with a cut down .config, you can remove most of the slop. [00:57] schestowitz[TR2] and some devs don't disclosure using llms [00:57] schestowitz[TR2] the use of llms is MANDATED by the companies [00:57] Righty Might need to maintain a fork before the slop. [00:57] schestowitz[TR2] i have a relative in nvidia who says they mandate it [00:57] schestowitz[TR2] so it's not because llms are good [00:58] schestowitz[TR2] it's policy in companies that profit from this bubble [00:58] schestowitz[TR2] while it lasts [00:58] Righty The wagies get to use stuff that doesn't work until it works. [00:59] TR News ENILINX's TICKEY Is a Modos-Driven, Espressif ESP32-S3-Powered Smart Ticket-Shaped ePaper Display gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202609/20260917-tickey.gmi [00:59] Righty If only people realise, that if you want a proprietary kernel and OS and seemingly convenient proprietary software and to be a slave, you may as well save yourself some time and use macos or windows or some other proprietary OS. [00:59] TR News "I have created my own internet logs, created meditations, created (written) a book (available in and physical and digital formats), created a programming language (a Lisp fork), created a spoken language (an Esperantido); so......." gemini://tilde.club/~keyboardan/gemlog/2026-09-17__Modern_Linguistic.gmi ● Sep 18 [01:01] TR News "Boxing yesterday night" gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/boxeNewSeason [01:02] TR News "I love my mother, and also her most consistent skill is to disappoint me on my birthday. This year is no exception." gemini://drmollytov.smol.pub/2026-09-17 [01:04] TR News "The numbers from part 1 set the frame, now it is about the actual components. Why a Pi Zero 2 W of all things, why this particular UPS HAT, and why two 18650 cells instead of a single small one, all decisions with upsides and downsides." gemini://schreibfaultier.pollux.casa/blog/2026-09-17-solar-miniserver-part-2-hardware.en.gmi [01:05] TR News words flowing gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/words_flowing [01:08] TR News Techrights https://techrights.org/ | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/ [01:08] TR Bot Techrights [01:08] TR News Techrights Gemini Links 18/09/2026: Modern Linguistic, Boxing, Turning 40, and Solar MiniServer https://techrights.org/n/2026/09/18/Gemini_Links_18_09_2026_Modern_Linguistic_Boxing_Turning_40_and.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/09/18/Gemini_Links_18_09_2026_Modern_Linguistic_Boxing_Turning_40_and.gmi [01:08] TR Bot Techrights Gemini Links 18/09/2026: Modern Linguistic, Boxing, Turning 40, and Solar MiniServer [01:09] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [01:13] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@xk49uzi5amp4u.irc) has joined #techrights [01:22] TR News Google Summer of Code 2026 Reports: Testing Compat Linux: Syscall testing, part 2 http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/gsoc2026_testing_compat_linux_2 [01:22] TR Bot NetBSD Blog [01:22] TR News Andreas Haerter: Rolling Wireless RW350R-GL / Fibocom FM350R-GL (5G module) on Linux https://foundata.com/en/blog/2026/rolling-rw350r-gl-fibocom-fm350r-gl-linux/-atom [01:22] TR Bot ( status 404 @ https://foundata.com/en/blog/2026/rolling-rw350r-gl-fibocom-fm350r-gl-linux/-atom ) [01:23] TR News Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (36/2026): Pixel 3 calling https://linmob.net/weekly-update-36-2026/ [01:23] TR Bot - Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (36/2026): Pixel 3 calling [01:25] TR News BigBear Microsoft 365 phishing service bypassed MFA at 258 organizations https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/bigbear-microsoft-365-phishing-service-bypassed-mfa-at-258-organizations/ [01:25] TR Bot BigBear Microsoft 365 phishing service bypassed MFA at 258 organizations [01:26] bms schestowitz[TR2]: the thing about the slop wasn't just that it was out of context and ignoring that the change was already completed, but that it was discussing changes to stuff that wasn't even in scope, and using sloppy corpospeak which was probably LLM generated too, I didn't waste much time skimming it enough to know to ignore it [01:26] schestowitz[TR2] there are 3 things [01:26] schestowitz[TR2] slop commit message [01:26] schestowitz[TR2] slop comments [01:26] schestowitz[TR2] slop code [01:26] bms schestowitz[TR2]: the whole thing seemingly ignored the comment about what was only a minor refactoring in case we took stuff from OpenBSD in future [01:26] schestowitz[TR2] i posted a link re slop comments yesterday [01:26] schestowitz[TR2] and showed they are useless [01:26] schestowitz[TR2] they waste humans' time [01:27] schestowitz[TR2] you should blacklist anyone who did slop [01:27] schestowitz[TR2] it's the best use of time [01:27] schestowitz[TR2] same for sites that dabble in LLMs [01:27] schestowitz[TR2] they are likely to be repeat offender [01:28] TR News NetBSD 9.5 released and EOL for netbsd-9 http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_9_5_released_and [01:28] TR Bot NetBSD Blog [01:28] bms this was a slop "discussion" or comment in full rather than a code comment, and the submitter hd the wrong venue; if they wanted to discuss general changes to FreeBSD netipsec (it's a historical quirk that most of my TCP-MD5 code from 2003, which helped score me my fellowship at ICSI in Berkeley 10 years before my PhD), they should have done it on freebsd-net or freebsd-hackers [01:28] bms lists [01:28] TR News Canadian 'banking' company linked to sanctioned money-laundering network https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canadian-banking-company-linked-to-sanctioned-money-laundering-network-9.7331482 [01:28] TR Bot Canadian 'banking' company linked to sanctioned money-laundering network | CBC News [01:29] bms also whoever it was was totally ignorant about TCP-AO being slated to replace TCP-MD5 which is often only used to interop with ageing Cisco equipment; Arista committed to TCP-AO ages ago [01:29] TR News It's bots, not "AI", it'll just piss off customers and waste their time. They should leave. https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-banks-ai-9.7337625 [01:29] TR Bot Canada's big banks embrace AI as workers face job uncertainty | CBC News [01:30] TR News Making money from money https://nltimes.nl/2026/09/07/debate-returns-dutch-banks-billion-euro-profits-socially-justified [01:30] TR Bot Debate returns: Are Dutch banks billion-euro profits socially justified? | NL Times [01:30] bms so I saw some drivel in there about the SADB limitation (I had to abandon putting TCP-MD5 keys in the FreeBSD PF_KEY SPD because the code was unstable, using a fixed SADB entry was fine) but that totally misses the point: it's legacy code and there's no motivation to take such changes, whether sloppy or not [01:30] bms again this is going back 20+ years man [01:30] TR News Exelixis, Inc. v. MSN Laboratories Private Ltd. (Fed. Cir. 2026) https://patentdocs.org/2026/09/03/exelixis-inc-v-msn-laboratories-private-ltd-fed-cir-2026/ [01:30] TR Bot Exelixis, Inc. v. MSN Laboratories Private Ltd. (Fed. Cir. 2026) Patent Docs [01:30] *nobody has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [01:30] bms the submission was so out of scope, out of context, full of corpo-speak, it was complete horse shit and did not add any value of any kind [01:31] bms TCP-AO shifts the key state to per-socket, not stack-wide [01:32] schestowitz[TR2] the fastest response is to ignore [01:32] schestowitz[TR2] unless it keeps happening [01:32] bms so rototiling the SADB based hackery is a waste of time unless one specifically needed to do busywork on TCP-MD5 for some reason. it was already good enough. but for whatever reaosn this was really important to the submitter [01:32] schestowitz[TR2] it's like that in social control media [01:32] bms I did, I abandoned the revision in Phrabricator [01:32] *nobody (~nobody@gvqcm9zsc4knq.irc) has joined #techrights [01:32] bms FreeBSD has a Forgejo which we haven't migrated to yet which is still commmitter only I think, Phabricator is open if you create an account subject to approval [01:33] bms it's the simple fact the change was already committed, so posting a 100 line or whatever essay on why their LLM contribution is so important with corpo-drivel trying to justify it, is a total non sequitur [01:35] bms I can't directly ban the account from tracking me or my submissions [01:36] bms but I did keep a record of it, I couldn't find much about the name on the Web [01:41] schestowitz[TR2] i didn't know freebsd had Forgejo [01:41] schestowitz[TR2] openbsd is very email workflow based [01:41] schestowitz[TR2] freebsd seems to have lower standards [01:42] *IsambardPrince (~isambardprince@jskkdbhwwgyhe.irc) has joined #techrights [01:42] TR News " The informational system consistently oversells its power to control the environment before crashing into the hard limits of reality. Likewise, in America especially, it overestimates its capacity to alter the beliefs of people who remain stubbornly attached to making up their own minds." Jacob Siegel https://cybershow.uk/content/home/home.html [01:42] TR Bot Home [01:43] schestowitz[TR2] "I spent much of my life working on the electric power grid, and the grid taught me one law I have never seen violated: You cannot bolt security onto a system after it is built. You design it in, or you pay for it in the blackout. We are designing nothing. We are adding detection software that doesnt work and syllabus policies that arent being read, and the blackout is coming due in the minds of our children." Massoud Am [01:43] schestowitz[TR2] in (Why Johnny cant think: AI and the unmaking of American education) [01:44] IsambardPrince Linus said that "AI" helped him chase down a persistent bug in the Intel GPU drivers. [01:44] IsambardPrince One that was causing graphical corruptions due to incorrect memory allocation and use. [01:45] IsambardPrince He said it had been going on for years but something changed elsewhere in Linux and caused the issue to become much more severe and frequent. [01:51] schestowitz[TR2] sometimes they call fuzzers "AI" [01:51] schestowitz[TR2] a lot of CG is now "AI" [01:51] schestowitz[TR2] i joke with rianne a lot [01:52] schestowitz[TR2] like we see some video clip with CG or computer aart [01:52] schestowitz[TR2] from the 1970s [01:52] schestowitz[TR2] and I say, "look, it's hey hi" [01:52] schestowitz[TR2] greg kh admitted it's about fuzzers [01:52] schestowitz[TR2] not hey hi [01:52] schestowitz[TR2] fuzzers are a waste of time [01:52] schestowitz[TR2] as there are many false pos [01:52] schestowitz[TR2] i guess with bruce force the slop industry tries to narrow down things to more plausible reports [01:53] schestowitz[TR2] but it still takes time to [01:53] schestowitz[TR2] 1) garden in the que [01:53] schestowitz[TR2] 2) read [01:53] schestowitz[TR2] 3) check it's true [01:53] schestowitz[TR2] 4) might refer to some code related to a modem from 1995 [01:53] schestowitz[TR2] and nobody has that modem to check [01:53] schestowitz[TR2] so they kill the code [01:53] schestowitz[TR2] and call it "patch" [01:53] schestowitz[TR2] it's wasting everybody'd time [01:53] schestowitz[TR2] all that fuzzinng [01:54] schestowitz[TR2] all that fuzzinngnobody in LF can say it out "loud" [01:54] schestowitz[TR2] as it would be like "anti-AI" [01:55] schestowitz[TR2] and Torvalds cautioned "anti-AI" people [01:55] schestowitz[TR2] it's bad to be [01:55] schestowitz[TR2] 1) anti plagiarism [01:55] schestowitz[TR2] 2) anti slop [01:55] schestowitz[TR2] 3) anti time wasting [01:55] schestowitz[TR2] because LF is paid by slop pushers [01:55] schestowitz[TR2] and this way heeee gets 1.5 million pounds richer every year [01:56] schestowitz[TR2] http://techrights.org/n/2026/03/12/By_Expanding_to_Advocacy_of_Ponzi_Schemes_and_Bill_Epsteingate_.shtml [01:56] TR Bot Techrights By Expanding to Advocacy of Ponzi Schemes and Bill Epsteingate (Sex Trafficking), Linux Foundation Revenue Grew to $220,730,594, But Salary of Linus Torvalds Not Even in Top 10 Anymore! [01:56] TR News Era of Climate Chaos https://truthout.org/audio/organizing-for-survival-in-an-era-of-climate-chaos/ [01:56] TR Bot Organizing for Survival in an Era of Climate Chaos | Truthout [01:57] TR News The Public Supports Climate Superfund Bills. The Oil Lobby Is Tanking Them. https://truthout.org/articles/the-public-supports-climate-superfund-bills-the-oil-lobby-is-tanking-them/ https://www.thelocal.se/20260904/will-the-european-union-take-up-the-climate-fight-after-brutal-heatwaves [01:57] TR Bot The Public Supports Climate Superfund Bills. The Oil Lobby Is Tanking Them. | Truthout [01:57] TR Bot Will the European Union take up the climate fight after brutal heatwaves? [01:57] TR News Nepal flood disaster puts climate justice under spotlight https://www.dw.com/en/nepal-flood-disaster-puts-climate-justice-under-spotlight/a-78998617 [01:57] TR Bot Nepal flood disaster puts climate justice under spotlight [01:57] TR News Climate crisis: How the supersized El Nio could hit Europe https://www.thelocal.se/20260907/climate-crisis-how-the-supersized-el-nino-could-hit-europ [01:57] TR Bot ( status 404 @ https://www.thelocal.se/20260907/climate-crisis-how-the-supersized-el-nino-could-hit-europ ) [01:58] TR News August was Earth's hottest month, European climate agency finds https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/august-2026-hottest-month-9.7338753 [01:58] TR Bot August was Earth's hottest month, European climate agency finds | CBC News [01:58] TR News Nepal Leaders Call for $20M Climate Justice Payment After Deadly Glacial Floods https://truthout.org/articles/nepal-leaders-call-for-20m-climate-justice-payment-after-deadly-glacial-floods/ https://bianet.org/haber/the-climate-crisis-is-here-new-campaign-highlights-sinkholes-in-konya-basin-323343 [01:58] TR Bot Nepal Leaders Call for $20M Climate Justice Payment After Deadly Glacial Floods | Truthout [01:58] TR Bot 'The climate crisis is here': New campaign highlights sinkholes in Konya Basin [01:59] TR News Nancy Pelosi Disclosed Multi-Million Dollar Bet https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/pelosi-bloom-energy-investment-sp500-surge-1818737 [01:59] TR Bot Bloom Energy to Join the S&P 500 Weeks After Nancy Pelosi Disclosed Multi-Million Dollar Bet | IBTimes UK ● Sep 18 [02:00] TR News Hong Kong Misuses Colonial-era Law to Violate Rights https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/09/04/hong-kong-misuses-colonial-era-law-to-violate-rights [02:00] TR Bot Hong Kong Misuses Colonial-era Law to Violate Rights | Human Rights Watch [02:06] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: They remove all kinds of things from Linux that someone might be using. [02:06] IsambardPrince It no longer has Token Ring or SGI x86 workstation support. [02:06] IsambardPrince Those workstations came with Windows 2000. [02:06] IsambardPrince But they had no upgrade path with Windows. [02:07] IsambardPrince Because Microsoft wrote a custom HAL for them and then dropped it so there was no upgrade to Windows XP. [02:12] TR News (NEW): PipeWire 1.6.9 Improves Bluetooth, JACK, ALSA Plugin, Pulse Server, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/09/18/PipeWire_1_6_9_Improves_Bluetooth_JACK_ALSA_Plugin_Pulse_Server.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/09/18/PipeWire_1_6_9_Improves_Bluetooth_JACK_ALSA_Plugin_Pulse_Server.gmi [02:12] TR Bot Tux Machines PipeWire 1.6.9 Improves Bluetooth, JACK, ALSA Plugin, Pulse Server, and More [02:13] schestowitz[TR2] yes, i know [02:13] schestowitz[TR2] the slop oushers: [02:14] schestowitz[TR2] 1. we found a thousand bugs [02:14] schestowitz[TR2] 2. hence, slop works [02:14] schestowitz[TR2] reality: [02:14] schestowitz[TR2] 1. you generated bug reports by LLMs [02:14] schestowitz[TR2] 2. using brute force over 300+ years of code [02:14] schestowitz[TR2] *30 [02:14] schestowitz[TR2] 3. nobody can or will check if the bug is [02:14] schestowitz[TR2] a. serious [02:14] schestowitz[TR2] b. true [02:15] schestowitz[TR2] 4. code removed just in case [02:15] schestowitz[TR2] CURL debunksed this (cURL's daniel) [02:15] schestowitz[TR2] he said many bugs reported [02:15] schestowitz[TR2] only one was true [02:15] schestowitz[TR2] and it was not sewrious [02:15] schestowitz[TR2] he just wasted time on it [02:15] schestowitz[TR2] to check [02:15] schestowitz[TR2] then to blog about it [02:15] schestowitz[TR2] lots of days wasted [02:15] schestowitz[TR2] to find some small defects [02:16] schestowitz[TR2] from mythos(lop) [02:19] IsambardPrince There was no technical reason to remove gopher or all of the FTP code from Firefox. [02:19] schestowitz[TR2] i know [02:19] schestowitz[TR2] eich opposed removing it [02:19] schestowitz[TR2] making a gopher client is not hard [02:19] schestowitz[TR2] i could do that in c in one day [02:19] IsambardPrince Most of the ugly/redundant code in the FTP support was there as a special case to deal with Windows NT 4 or Windows for Workgroups or something. [02:19] schestowitz[TR2] there are c libs for gropher protocol [02:19] TR News Techrights Linux Kernel Becoming a Slopfest - Part 3 - Besieged by LLM Bots, Now Hiding Behind a Wall of JavaScript https://techrights.org/n/2026/09/18/Linux_Kernel_Becoming_a_Slopfest_Part_3_Besieged_by_LLM_Bots_No.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/09/18/Linux_Kernel_Becoming_a_Slopfest_Part_3_Besieged_by_LLM_Bots_No.gmi [02:19] TR Bot Techrights Linux Kernel Becoming a Slopfest - Part 3 - Besieged by LLM Bots, Now Hiding Behind a Wall of JavaScript [02:20] IsambardPrince It's highly unlikely that anyone was using an FTP server from the 90s anymore. [02:20] schestowitz[TR2] ftps or sftp still used [02:21] schestowitz[TR2] very good for some tasks [02:21] schestowitz[TR2] i worked for nhs [02:21] schestowitz[TR2] and we had some who uiploaded data that way [02:21] schestowitz[TR2] the issue was [02:21] schestowitz[TR2] many used windows [02:21] schestowitz[TR2] i.e. back doors [02:21] schestowitz[TR2] not safe for anything [02:21] schestowitz[TR2] ftp with ssh is still ssh on top of back doolred platoiorm [02:21] schestowitz[TR2] *platform [02:22] lxo one of the great ftp features was the ability to tell a server holding a file to upload it to another server directly, without having to download and upload. that seems to have been lost in the transition to sftp :-/ [02:22] IsambardPrince I didn't like Windows very much starting with Vista. [02:22] IsambardPrince It was crap before that, but it was manageable crap. [02:22] lxo just like wayland drops valuable x11 features [02:22] IsambardPrince Like you could use third party utilities to gut it to just what you were using. [02:22] lxo they call it progress [02:23] IsambardPrince Windows 98 had a lot of code bloat that you could just remove with something like ROM or 98lite. [02:24] IsambardPrince That guy that made 98lite made a small business off of selling licenses to something that mostly removed IE and useless fluff from Windows 98. [02:24] IsambardPrince You could cut Windows 98's system requirements down to run on anything Windows 95 could run on, and better actually. [02:25] IsambardPrince Most of the real improvements came in editions of Windows 95 that were not released to retail to keep it going on OEM channels. [02:25] IsambardPrince Including FAT32 and USB support. [02:26] IsambardPrince NTFS was much more horrifying than FAT32. [02:26] IsambardPrince It's completely overdesigned. [02:29] MinceR sftp is not ftp, it's an ssh service [02:29] MinceR ftps is ftp over tls [02:30] schestowitz[TR2] lxo: we still use many x features that wayland lacks [02:31] schestowitz[TR2] and that's aside from stability factor [02:31] schestowitz[TR2] my laptop, bubi, was last rebooted 1005 days ago [02:32] schestowitz[TR2] meanwhile it seems like hearsayBoy cannot even boot his laptop... been trying for almost 3 days [02:32] schestowitz[TR2] he is a wayland pusher, of course [02:32] schestowitz[TR2] it's something -phobic not to adopt rust, wayland, systemd [02:32] schestowitz[TR2] MinceR: yes, i named both [02:33] schestowitz[TR2] i still run ftp service [02:33] schestowitz[TR2] at schestowitz.coim [02:34] IsambardPrince The XLibre repo for Ubuntu is very stale. [02:36] lxo schestowitz[TR2], I still rely a lot on tunneling of X11 over SSH [02:38] lxo MinceR, I don't recall wether passive mode worked with ftps. even if it did, I guess it probably wouldn't be considered "s". the days of port#-based "security" are long gone [02:38] TR News Techrights reader: "it can be phrased differently or creatively but each and every time Garrett's name is cited, the damage he caused (restricted boot) needs to be brought up in some way, shape, or form" [02:39] TR News "Can the recent posts (say last week's worth) be retroactively edited to include at least a few words each on the topic of restricted boot?" [02:40] TR News "REALLY IMPORTANT !!!!! whiskyboy == restricted boot" [02:40] schestowitz[TR2] schestowitz[TR2], I still rely a lot on tunneling of X11 over SSH [02:40] IsambardPrince Security Theater Boot. Malicious software. [02:40] schestowitz[TR2] yes,i quoted you on that [02:40] schestowitz[TR2] last year, iirc [02:40] schestowitz[TR2] when you argued that point [02:40] MinceR lxo: as far as i can remember, what "s" means in "ftps" seemed to be dependent on the implementation. they could choose to encrypt both the control connection and the data connections [02:40] MinceR but whether they did, that depends [02:40] schestowitz[TR2] the argumenmt for rust re sec is similar to wayland [02:40] schestowitz[TR2] it's something like, [02:40] schestowitz[TR2] let's use new aned untested code [02:40] schestowitz[TR2] because security [02:40] IsambardPrince It's malicious software to prevent the user from putting whatever they want there. [02:40] schestowitz[TR2] the real reason is lience [02:41] schestowitz[TR2] and control (microsoft github) [02:41] MinceR i'm not sure if what direction we make the data connections makes a difference here [02:41] schestowitz[TR2] that typicallyleaves out the scope [02:41] schestowitz[TR2] x server is not secure if you run really maliciouis software [02:41] schestowitz[TR2] if I install zoom [02:41] schestowitz[TR2] which btw reads the clipboard [02:41] schestowitz[TR2] LL the time [02:41] schestowitz[TR2] *ALL [02:41] schestowitz[TR2] maybe the issue is not x11 [02:41] schestowitz[TR2] but [02:41] schestowitz[TR2] zoom being able to do even worse things [02:41] IsambardPrince IIRC, Cum & Cheetos himself said that Security Theater Boot often fails simply because OEMs include their own root certificates for their own programs, which tend to have a lot of exploitable bugs. [02:41] schestowitz[TR2] to userspace [02:42] schestowitz[TR2] maybe with root too, iif installed directly from a zoom domain [02:42] IsambardPrince If you can include one of those signed programs then use it to escape Secure Boot then the system fails. [02:42] IsambardPrince Even if the rest of it is perfect, which it is not. [02:42] IsambardPrince The whole point has always been to lock the user out, gradually. [02:43] MinceR > OEMs include their own root certificates for their own programs, which tend to have a lot of exploitable bugs. [02:43] schestowitz[TR2] yes [02:43] schestowitz[TR2] it's happenbing [02:43] schestowitz[TR2] PCs become like "phones" [02:43] MinceR well, Restricted Boot is designed to lock PCs into windows and macOS, and both of those alleged OS-es are full of bugs [02:43] IsambardPrince Macs use something called T2. [02:43] schestowitz[TR2] and TPMs for rootkits [02:43] lxo security is a wildcard. one must always ask or wonder security for whom and from what/whom? banks love to play the security card, and people swallow stuff that makes for security for the bank, not for the customer [02:43] IsambardPrince It doesn't stop Linux from booting. [02:43] schestowitz[TR2] https://techrights.org/n/2026/09/12/Canonical_Has_Withdrawn_Ubuntu_24_04_5_Installer_Due_to_a_Criti.shtml [02:43] TR Bot Techrights Canonical Has Withdrawn Ubuntu 24.04.5 Installer Due to a Critical Bug Connected to Microsoft-Controlled Restricted Boot and TPM [02:43] IsambardPrince But they won't tell anyone how their hardware works. [02:44] schestowitz[TR2] lxo: use bots [02:44] MinceR it's like banking applications and the like for mobile phones insisting that the device not be unlocked or rooted because locking the user out of their own device and ensuring that some ancient manufacturer-supported image is running on it makes it oh so secure [02:44] schestowitz[TR2] for banking [02:44] schestowitz[TR2] then they will blame you or bots [02:44] schestowitz[TR2] you = because you do "online banking' [02:44] schestowitz[TR2] (your fault) [02:44] IsambardPrince In many cases, Apple takes otherwise commodity chips and disables features they don't use. [02:44] schestowitz[TR2] when they make mistakes [02:44] schestowitz[TR2] it's "hey hi" [02:44] schestowitz[TR2] no liaiblity [02:44] IsambardPrince Then they write a Mac driver that only supports partial functionality. [02:44] schestowitz[TR2] It's bots, not "AI", it'll just piss off customers and waste their time. They should leave. https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-banks-ai-9.7337625 [02:44] TR Bot Canada's big banks embrace AI as workers face job uncertainty | CBC News [02:45] schestowitz[TR2] they make a bundle of money [02:45] IsambardPrince Like they'll use an audio chipset that supports several frequency modes and say it's 5, then they enable two of them on the Mac. [02:45] schestowitz[TR2] from mortgages [02:45] schestowitz[TR2] people pay for homes twice over [02:45] lxo schestowitz[TR2], I don't get your mention of bots. what do you mean by "use bots"? [02:45] schestowitz[TR2] or lose them, foreclosure [02:45] IsambardPrince Even though neither of those modes is ideal, and they waste power. [02:45] schestowitz[TR2] the bank used to profit based on risks taken [02:45] schestowitz[TR2] now they remove the risks [02:45] schestowitz[TR2] take profits [02:45] schestowitz[TR2] close down branches [02:45] schestowitz[TR2] fire staff [02:45] schestowitz[TR2] no risks [02:45] schestowitz[TR2] 'free money' [02:45] IsambardPrince Then if you want it to work properly and save power under Linux, you have to figure out how to use that when there's no Mac driver to reference. [02:46] schestowitz[TR2] Making money from money https://nltimes.nl/2026/09/07/debate-returns-dutch-banks-billion-euro-profits-socially-justified [02:46] TR Bot Debate returns: Are Dutch banks billion-euro profits socially justified? | NL Times [02:46] schestowitz[TR2] schestowitz[TR2], I don't get your mention of bots. what do you mean by "use bots"? [02:46] schestowitz[TR2] the banks use bots [02:46] schestowitz[TR2] see [02:46] IsambardPrince And they've changed the chip just enough that you can't use the documents for the chip it's based on. [02:46] schestowitz[TR2] It's bots, not "AI", it'll just piss off customers and waste their time. They should leave. https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-banks-ai-9.7337625 [02:46] TR News Yesterday's #boycottnovell-social and #techpol IRC logs ready. 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[02:52] TR News "well put, but PLEASE always mention restricted boot when bringing up certain malfeasants: gemini.techrights.org//n/2026/09/16/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_186_Out_of_200_Love_Always_Commands.gmi " ● Sep 18 [03:08] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techrights [03:11] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techrights [03:11] TR News Techrights SLAPP Censorship - Part 188 Out of 200: Used, Then Discarded, by Microsoft (as We Predicted All Along, It's Always Like That) https://techrights.org/n/2026/09/18/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_188_Out_of_200_Used_Then_Discarded_by_Mic.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/09/18/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_188_Out_of_200_Used_Then_Discarded_by_Mic.gmi [03:11] TR Bot Techrights SLAPP Censorship - Part 188 Out of 200: Used, Then Discarded, by Microsoft (as We Predicted All Along, It's Always Like That) [03:20] TR News Techrights IRC Proceedings: Thursday, September 17, 2026 https://techrights.org/n/2026/09/18/IRC_Proceedings_Thursday_September_17_2026.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/09/18/IRC_Proceedings_Thursday_September_17_2026.gmi [03:20] TR Bot Techrights IRC Proceedings: Thursday, September 17, 2026 [03:20] TR News (NEW): Today in Techrights https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/09/18/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/09/18/Today_in_Techrights.gmi [03:20] TR Bot Tux Machines Today in Techrights [03:21] TR News Techrights Over at Tux Machines... https://techrights.org/n/2026/09/18/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/09/18/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi [03:21] TR Bot Techrights Over at Tux Machines... [03:24] *wallacer has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [03:24] *wallacer (~quassel@2x2w4qfz3wksg.irc) has joined #techrights [03:35] TR News Now HearsayBoy openly boasts about extortion by his hired guns in London. Not wise at all. He also gives away their strategy, which involves an American who strangles women. [03:35] TR News Lawfare comes in many forms. HearsayBoy does not even hide that what he does is lawfare. Says a lot about him as a person. [03:55] IsambardPrince https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1FE3b9KM9x/ [03:55] TR Bot NO TITLE [03:56] IsambardPrince MinceR: ^ ● Sep 18 [04:01] MinceR :3 [04:04] schestowitz[TR2] IsambardPrince: first time i see a personal photo in what... like 5 years? [04:11] IsambardPrince https://www.facebook.com/reel/2531034007400018 [04:11] TR Bot NO TITLE [04:11] IsambardPrince MinceR: ^ [04:11] IsambardPrince I want to get one of these for Kiki. [04:11] IsambardPrince They all had these at the shelter. [04:14] IsambardPrince https://www.facebook.com/reel/1786057795964211 [04:14] TR Bot NO TITLE [04:14] IsambardPrince I see the original XBOX suffered from bad capacitors like so many things in that era. [04:15] schestowitz[TR2] kiki is female, right? [04:16] schestowitz[TR2] (rianne asked yesterday) [04:16] MinceR it also suffered from being "designed" (i'm using the term loosely here) by microserfs [04:16] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: Yes she is. [04:16] schestowitz[TR2] i need your thoughts on xbox [04:16] schestowitz[TR2] as youu know xbox [04:16] schestowitz[TR2] when they say no to exclusives [04:16] schestowitz[TR2] based on rumours [04:16] schestowitz[TR2] how does that relate to http://techrights.org/n/2026/02/24/Asha_Sharma_a_Palliative_Care_Doctor_Who_Slides_Xbox_Gently_Int.shtml ? [04:16] TR Bot Techrights Asha Sharma "a Palliative Care Doctor Who Slides Xbox Gently Into the Night" [04:16] MinceR an original microslop success story, with 54% hardware failure rate [04:16] schestowitz[TR2] the latest news says [04:16] MinceR shows that really, you can sell any crap to devil apes [04:17] schestowitz[TR2] [microsoft confirms this "rumour"] [04:17] schestowitz[TR2] that they seem to be giving up on some gamepass thing [04:17] MinceR (crApple has also demonstrated that plenty of times) [04:17] schestowitz[TR2] and day-one exclusives [04:17] IsambardPrince Seamus Blackley designed a much nicer system than Microsoft shipped. [04:17] MinceR and then we wonder why our industry only produces crap [04:17] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [04:17] schestowitz[TR2] maybe they make it sound like they don't do it because iof their will [04:17] schestowitz[TR2] but the real reason is, [04:17] IsambardPrince And some of that was mentioned in that FB video. [04:17] schestowitz[TR2] xbox is perceived as dead [04:17] schestowitz[TR2] no sane company would do xbox eclusives [04:17] schestowitz[TR2] like "i am breaking up with you befoe you break up with me" [04:18] MinceR sadly, most companies are insane [04:18] IsambardPrince Microsoft was going to put 128 MB of RAM in it, but then they cost cut and put a motherboard that had two 32 MB modules and two empty slots. [04:18] schestowitz[TR2] slop companies declare "slowdown" [04:18] IsambardPrince Yeah, we're definitely in peak madness for "AI". [04:18] IsambardPrince Companies aren't just trying to shove it into things where people don't want it. [04:18] MinceR i don't really see how to pin the blame on "AI" [04:18] IsambardPrince Almost all the advertising on Facebook and Reddit is about "AI". [04:18] schestowitz[TR2] see thos" [04:18] schestowitz[TR2] *this: [04:19] schestowitz[TR2] https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/economists-late-stage-ai-bubble-federal-reserve-inflation [04:19] TR Bot Economists Concerned the AI Bubble Is About to Blow [04:19] IsambardPrince Products people don't need, require massive advertising budgets. [04:19] MinceR free software was dying already in 2009 [04:19] schestowitz[TR2] and bribes medioa [04:19] IsambardPrince If it's obvious that you need one, you'll buy it. [04:19] schestowitz[TR2] bribed officials [04:19] schestowitz[TR2] even bribed 'analysts' [04:19] schestowitz[TR2] or people who follow "media" and "analysts" [04:20] schestowitz[TR2] http://techrights.org/n/2026/05/28/THE_REGISTER_EXPLAINER_as_Paid_for_SPAM_at_The_Register_MS_With.shtml [04:20] TR Bot Techrights "THE REGISTER EXPLAINER" as "Paid-for SPAM" at The Register MS With "AI" 40 Times in the Short Page [04:20] IsambardPrince Games should be confined to a disc. [04:20] MinceR GNU/Linux distros were already a minefield of insane crap like selinux, mono, kde 4 and hype-V drivers in Linux [04:20] schestowitz[TR2] http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/09/04/Fedora_and_Red_Hat_Promotion_of_Slop_Plagiarism_Paid_for_and_Fa.shtml [04:20] TR Bot Tux Machines Fedora and Red Hat (Promotion of Slop Plagiarism, Paid-for and Fake Journalism, and Buzzwords Instead of Linux) [04:20] IsambardPrince A Blu-Ray disc and a fast enough drive will work. [04:20] IsambardPrince Use read ahead and caching. [04:20] MinceR i prefer to confine them to an SSD [04:20] schestowitz[TR2] ssds lose data without charge [04:21] MinceR optical discs degrade [04:21] MinceR and become unreadable [04:21] schestowitz[TR2] discs deep data for decades [04:21] IsambardPrince Microsoft totally bungled everything about the XBOX 360. [04:21] schestowitz[TR2] depends [04:21] IsambardPrince The overheating errors. [04:21] schestowitz[TR2] for music it's ok [04:21] IsambardPrince The disc format. [04:21] IsambardPrince Everything. [04:21] MinceR for music, CD/DA doesn't even do error correction [04:21] schestowitz[TR2] scractehes mean playback imperfection [04:21] IsambardPrince XBOX 360 was in an era where the games were outgrowing DVD9 already. [04:21] MinceR because they just couldn't be bothered to do anything properly [04:21] IsambardPrince They should have included an HD-DVD drive in the console. [04:22] MinceR on CD-s, the only thing that stands between the oxygen of the atmosphere and a surface that's sensitive to oxidation is a thin layer of lacquer [04:22] MinceR lol @ HD-DVD [04:22] IsambardPrince I'm a huge believer in releasing things when they're ready. [04:22] MinceR yet another microslop boondoggle [04:22] MinceR they couldn't even sell that [04:22] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@xk49uzi5amp4u.irc) has joined #techrights [04:22] schestowitz[TR2] ata loss [04:22] schestowitz[TR2] *at a [04:22] MinceR even though they could sell a dumbed-down, locked-down PC that had a 54% hardware failure rate [04:22] IsambardPrince You still run into HD-DVDs at the thrift store sometimes. [04:23] MinceR back in 2009, i thought i could just keep dodging the crap by picking the right distro [04:23] IsambardPrince Nobody has sold anything that plays one in like 17 years. [04:23] MinceR in 2026, it's pretty much impossible to dodge all the crap [04:23] IsambardPrince So the disc is probably in good shape. :) [04:23] MinceR this is what a society that has just given up on everything produces. [04:23] MinceR people aren't even trying anymore, and i can't really blame them [04:24] MinceR it's time for humanity to give up and let some other species have a go [04:25] *asacengyet has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [04:25] IsambardPrince MinceR: People are producing a lot of porn. They're consuming a lot of drugs. They're still litterbugs. [04:26] admfubar https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/09/17/039255 [04:26] TR Bot Open Weights Are Not Open Source: Why AI's Favorite Label is Under Dispute - SoylentNews [04:26] IsambardPrince Some things don't change. [04:26] MinceR it will change [04:26] MinceR what we're doing is not sustainable [04:28] IsambardPrince MinceR: I've been hearing about a lack of sustainability for decades. [04:28] IsambardPrince Seems pretty sustainable. [04:28] MinceR yeah, i haven't died yet so i'm immortal. [04:28] admfubar https://futurism.com/future-society/microsoft-admitted-ai-theft-labor-human-history-court-lawsuit [04:28] TR Bot Microsoft Director Privately Admitted AI Was the "Largest Theft of Labor in Human History," Unsealed Court Documents Show [04:29] MinceR this sort of "thinking" is part of why we're doomed [04:30] *darwin has quit (Quit: peace be with you) [04:30] admfubar https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/spacex-manager-tesla-arrested-stabbing-pool-karaoke [04:30] TR Bot SpaceX Manager Arrested for Allegedly Stabbing a Tesla Contractor Over Karaoke Performance [04:30] MinceR lol [04:30] IsambardPrince MinceR: People have been wiping things out since antiquity. [04:30] IsambardPrince There was this cooking spice the Romans wiped out. [04:30] IsambardPrince Only grew in one area, everyone started using it on everything. [04:31] TR News Software Freedom Day 2026 is Tomorrow https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/09/18/software-freedom-day-2026-is-tomorrow/ [04:31] TR Bot Blog Archive Software Freedom Day 2026 is Tomorrow [04:31] IsambardPrince Within one generation it was all gone. [04:31] admfubar https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/iran-drone-strikes-data-centers-deleting-customer-data [04:31] TR Bot Iran Drone Strikes on Amazon Data Centers Are Permanently Deleting Customer Data [04:31] schestowitz[TR2] it quits this market [04:31] MinceR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction [04:31] TR Bot Holocene extinction - Wikipedia [04:31] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/amazon-reportedly-tells-customers-in-abu-dhabi-and-bahrain-to-find-safer-harbors-for-their-data-aws-has-no-timeline-for-resuming-operations-six-months-after-drone-strikes-damaged-data-centers-in-the-region [04:31] TR Bot AWS tells clients to quit Middle East data centers six months after Iranian drone strikes Amazon offers no recovery timeline as UAE mulls underground data centers [Updated] | Tom's Hardware [04:31] IsambardPrince https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silphium [04:31] TR Bot Silphium - Wikipedia [04:32] schestowitz[TR2] they said, [04:32] schestowitz[TR2] use "the cloud" [04:32] schestowitz[TR2] bnecause the data is replicated across many places [04:32] schestowitz[TR2] hence it is "safe" [04:32] schestowitz[TR2] iran disproves that [04:32] schestowitz[TR2] topic for article.! [04:32] MinceR replication is costly [04:32] MinceR redundance is costly [04:32] MinceR which is why the current Internet is so fragile [04:34] schestowitz[TR2] "Amazon Web Services' data centers in Abu Dhabi and Bahrain were struck by drone attacks more than six months ago. Now, the company has told customers to move their data to other regions, and it has no de" [04:34] schestowitz[TR2] will cover :) [04:34] *parsifal (~parsifal@r3i5ava8wzk6n.irc) has joined #techrights [04:35] admfubar https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/cybercab-trapped-hotel-lot [04:35] TR Bot Bumbling Cybercab Gets Trapped in Hotel Parking Lot, Drops off Passenger Right Where He Started [04:38] *asacengyet (~asacengyet@8pzu2fcsusfzc.irc) has joined #techrights [04:44] schestowitz[TR2] MinceR: typos check? http://techrights.org/n/2026/09/18/Iran_Has_Debunked_GAFAM_and_Cloud_Computing_as_Safety_of_Data.shtml [04:44] TR Bot Techrights Iran Has Debunked GAFAM and Cloud Computing as Safety of Data [04:44] schestowitz[TR2] i found a typo in yours [04:44] schestowitz[TR2] redundance is costly [04:45] MinceR i'm not a reliable detector of typos at this hour, obviously :> [04:45] TR News Techrights Iran Has Debunked GAFAM and Cloud Computing as Safety of Data https://techrights.org/n/2026/09/18/Iran_Has_Debunked_GAFAM_and_Cloud_Computing_as_Safety_of_Data.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/09/18/Iran_Has_Debunked_GAFAM_and_Cloud_Computing_as_Safety_of_Data.gmi [04:45] TR Bot Techrights Iran Has Debunked GAFAM and Cloud Computing as Safety of Data [04:47] schestowitz[TR2] MinceR: picture added [04:47] schestowitz[TR2] found 2 typos again [04:47] *darwin (~darwin@ezriia7nzimpg.irc) has joined #techrights [04:48] MinceR "lessons learned"? https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/0*OTDY2X0yKU0XLt4G.gif [04:48] MinceR apparently "redundance" is correct but rare [04:49] schestowitz[TR2] ah [04:49] MinceR (i didn't know, i looked it up) [04:49] MinceR "datacentre" looked suspicious, but apparently it's correct [04:50] schestowitz[TR2] british spelling [04:51] MinceR :> [04:54] schestowitz[TR2] seeing diaperking as us pres, we are more likely to adopt GB english by default [04:54] schestowitz[TR2] colour, honour etc. [04:54] schestowitz[TR2] iu am franklY getting fed up https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/18/Threats_Against_Techrights_Always_Come_From_Outside_Britain.shtml [04:54] TR Bot Techrights Threats Against Techrights Always Come From Outside Britain [04:54] schestowitz[TR2] https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/18/Threats_Against_Techrights_Always_Come_From_Outside_Britain.shtml [04:54] schestowitz[TR2] GBN sent convicts to Australia [04:54] schestowitz[TR2] and the Crown left the US [04:54] schestowitz[TR2] let them deal with their own issues [04:55] schestowitz[TR2] iirc, about 70k die from firearsm there every year [04:55] schestowitz[TR2] some are suicides, or maybe the number vastly higher is suicide by pistol is also counted [04:56] schestowitz[TR2] https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/18/How_Americans_View_Free_Speech_in_Practice.shtml [04:56] TR Bot Techrights How Americans View 'Free Speech' in Practice [04:56] schestowitz[TR2] Free software activists in the US [04:56] schestowitz[TR2] "The day after the opening, I was contacted by the first employee of these guys brewing and threatened with legal action. I await the paperwork and discovery process because theyre accusing me of libel when Im very careful about what I write and what I link to. They have no case, but here we are again with independent journalists being censored thats the whole idea." [04:56] MinceR lol @ diaperking [04:57] schestowitz[TR2] oh, btw [04:57] schestowitz[TR2] last night a cop knocked on our door at 7pm (it was not about us) [04:58] schestowitz[TR2] half an hour early 3 cops attended the door of the residents opp. us [04:58] schestowitz[TR2] looked like they were executing a warant [04:58] schestowitz[TR2] they said a "high risk" person is "missing" [04:58] schestowitz[TR2] and that we should call 999 if we see/hear something, iirc [04:58] schestowitz[TR2] they spoke to rianne, i was already asleep [04:59] schestowitz[TR2] cybershow calls it MADchester [04:59] MinceR given that UK english looks the way it does because of the desire to make it look more french, i'd wait until next may with such a change :> ● Sep 18 [05:00] schestowitz[TR2] [citation needed] [05:00] schestowitz[TR2] iirc, they are both derived from the same [05:00] schestowitz[TR2] kinship is about cross pollination [05:01] schestowitz[TR2] despite anomosity, mmany frenchies speak english [05:01] schestowitz[TR2] and some in the uk speak fluent french [05:01] schestowitz[TR2] *despite animosity [05:03] TR News HeardayBoy is begruindgyly learning that paying hired guns who send death threats will make the government uncooperative. https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/28/What_I_Explained_to_Police_About_Blackmail_and_Death_Threats_vi.shtml maybe one day HeardayBoy will share a cell with his spouse (whom he tricked his regime into kidnapping) [05:03] TR Bot Techrights What I Explained to Police About Blackmail and Death Threats via Burner Accounts (a Practice Which Generally Constitutes a Crime) [05:04] TR News HearsayBoy is not smart, his know-it-all virtue-signalling (by misusing the name of a place where he studied) is an empty-pants gesture. Once people explain what he really is, he panics. [05:05] MinceR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences [05:05] TR Bot American and British English spelling differences - Wikipedia [05:05] TR News Like his president, he tries to compensate with arrogance, threats, and bad language for sheer narcissism and the stupidity this narcissism manifests [05:05] MinceR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2027_French_presidential_election [05:05] TR Bot 2027 French presidential election - Wikipedia [05:06] TR News And he is no friend of trans people http://techrights.org/n/2026/05/26/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_88_Out_of_200_Brett_Wilson_LLP_is_Defamin.shtml [05:06] TR Bot Techrights SLAPP Censorship - Part 88 Out of 200: Brett Wilson LLP is Defaming Trans People in America Because Garrett Pays Hired Guns to Silence Them [05:06] IsambardPrince Answering the door for the cops is not a good idea. [05:06] IsambardPrince At least in the US. [05:06] IsambardPrince Talk to them with the door shut. [05:06] TR News Some trans people, like Leah Rowe, already saw that half a decade ago and justly detected Puppy Breaker for it [05:07] IsambardPrince Limit it to asking why they're there and if they have a warrant. [05:07] schestowitz[TR2] Answering the door for the cops is not a good idea. [05:07] schestowitz[TR2] true, but [05:07] IsambardPrince If they do, ask them to slide it under the door or show it through the glass. [05:07] schestowitz[TR2] 1. we knoew it was about another house [05:07] schestowitz[TR2] because of the search or arrest warrant executed there [05:07] schestowitz[TR2] so it was clear they would ask for info or give info [05:07] schestowitz[TR2] 2. I was told turning down a cop can lead to more issues than it solves [05:08] schestowitz[TR2] as it gives them reasons not to trust you (in the UK at least) [05:08] schestowitz[TR2] 3. they are not armed brutes and not aggressive unless it is crowd control [05:08] MinceR i thought they already didn't trust you [05:08] schestowitz[TR2] 4. we'll tell stories about this in the future [05:08] schestowitz[TR2] MinceR: maybe IsambardPrince [05:09] schestowitz[TR2] they have no reasons to not trust us [05:09] MinceR that's irrelevant [05:09] IsambardPrince Famous last words. [05:09] schestowitz[TR2] in the US [05:09] MinceR the only thing the state trusts is itself [05:10] MinceR and the only things the state serves are itself and its owners [05:10] schestowitz[TR2] we welcomed cops here many times [05:10] schestowitz[TR2] i showed them evidnece [05:10] schestowitz[TR2] I was the reporter to them [05:10] schestowitz[TR2] about americans [05:10] schestowitz[TR2] the issue then becomes, they need to collaborate across the ocean for enforcement [05:10] schestowitz[TR2] and it's expensive [05:11] TR News Turkeys law enforcement probed over 200,000 people over social media posts in 2025 https://bianet.org/haber/turkeys-law-enforcement-probed-over-200-000-people-over-social-media-posts-in-2025-323338 [05:11] TR Bot Turkeys law enforcement probed over 200,000 people over social media posts in 2025 [05:12] TR News spreading disinformation https://cpj.org/2026/09/journalist-oya-lale-arslan-arrested-in-turkey-on-suspicion-of-spreading-disinformation/ [05:12] TR Bot Journalist Oya Lale Arslan arrested in Turkey on suspicion of spreading disinformation - Committee to Protect Journalists [05:12] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: I told my mother "there's a difference between calmly and politely asserting your rights and being some kind of nutcase that starts screaming "I'm not driving, I'm TRAVELING!" and "I don't have to get out of the car!" [05:13] IsambardPrince The Canadians apparently have sovereign citizens too but they don't actually know what they are. [05:13] IsambardPrince One Canadian news channel said "They're arguing the US Constitution in Canada." but that's actually wrong. [05:13] TR News Drones https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/nepal-drones-photos-9.7337102" [05:13] TR Bot Drones a key part of Nepal's response to flash-flood disaster | CBC News [05:13] IsambardPrince These people aren't even arguing the US Constitution in the US. [05:14] IsambardPrince They're basically people who don't believe that the government is real and there's some sort of magic words you can say to get it to go away. [05:14] IsambardPrince Convenient though it would be if that was true, unfortunately it is not true. [05:14] schestowitz[TR2] what about tribes? [05:14] schestowitz[TR2] (asking, not making a point) [05:15] IsambardPrince Native Americans on a reservation? [05:15] IsambardPrince Federal law still applies there, but the laws of the state that they're in don't. [05:15] schestowitz[TR2] remember we got SLAPP threats for criticising some corrupt lawyer misusing tribes to hide patents from PTAB [05:15] schestowitz[TR2] he asserted showing a photo of his face was copyright ingringing [05:16] schestowitz[TR2] also see https://www.techdirt.com/2017/01/26/legal-threats-charles-harder-shiva-ayyadurai-targeting-more-speech/ [05:16] TR Bot Threats By Charles Harder & Shiva Ayyadurai Targeting More Speech | Techdirt [05:16] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.techdirt.com/tag/roy-schestowitz/ [05:16] TR Bot schestowitz stories at Techdirt. [05:16] schestowitz[TR2] oh, look, mike made a whole tag for me :) [05:16] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.techdirt.com/2018/04/02/lawyer-behind-failing-sham-to-protect-sketchy-patents-sends-bogus-copyright-cease-desist-to-blogger/ [05:16] TR Bot Behind Failing Sham To Protect Sketchy Patents Sends Bogus Copyright Cease & Desist To Blogger | Techdirt [05:17] schestowitz[TR2] at the end WhiskyBot wasted a fortune going ahead [05:17] schestowitz[TR2] now he makes threats to me online [05:17] schestowitz[TR2] he always makes threats [05:17] schestowitz[TR2] it's just what he does [05:17] schestowitz[TR2] 100lb bully [05:18] schestowitz[TR2] you can see why he cannot get along with his spouse [05:18] schestowitz[TR2] always bullying people [05:18] schestowitz[TR2] and even his mother "knows he is a piece of shit", according to his spouse [05:18] schestowitz[TR2] he tried to dictate to his spouse what to say [05:19] schestowitz[TR2] FOSS communtiies need to ostracise him [05:19] schestowitz[TR2] he is making lots of CoC violations [05:19] schestowitz[TR2] every day [05:20] schestowitz[TR2] could not fix his laptop [05:20] schestowitz[TR2] gave up after 2-3 days [05:20] schestowitz[TR2] very "slow" [05:21] schestowitz[TR2] ddi find time to " [05:21] IsambardPrince 100 pounds soaking wet. [05:21] schestowitz[TR2] ---post" in social contyrol media [05:21] schestowitz[TR2] to send me more threats in public [05:21] schestowitz[TR2] IsambardPrince: they batheed in a river [05:21] schestowitz[TR2] or some dirty creek [05:21] schestowitz[TR2] so life in the US has turned him feral [05:22] schestowitz[TR2] he stopped uploading photo of himself after being called "pizzaface" [05:22] IsambardPrince California [05:22] schestowitz[TR2] yes, but with very bad hygiene, evidently [05:22] IsambardPrince The land of fruits, nuts, and flakes. [05:22] schestowitz[TR2] attending burning man-like events [05:22] schestowitz[TR2] to burn effigies [05:22] schestowitz[TR2] of living people [05:23] schestowitz[TR2] that's when you know your life went downhill, fast [05:23] schestowitz[TR2] by the way, some of his threats are actionable [05:23] schestowitz[TR2] if I bother reporting them as such [05:23] schestowitz[TR2] but [05:23] schestowitz[TR2] he is hiding in another continent [05:23] IsambardPrince https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RHZEzVUBPk [05:23] TR Bot https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=3RHZEzVUBPk [05:24] schestowitz[TR2] enforcement still not trivial [05:24] TR Bot ( status 418 @ https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=3RHZEzVUBPk ) [05:24] schestowitz[TR2] he's like a fugitive afaik [05:24] IsambardPrince Talking Heads - Take me to the River 1980 [05:24] schestowitz[TR2] uk system was too strict for him [05:24] schestowitz[TR2] ran to hippie state for money and weird people [05:24] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: I love singing this one on karaoke [05:24] schestowitz[TR2] "Take me to the River" is good [05:25] schestowitz[TR2] this week i listen to https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=eRIl0EK6Sbo [05:25] TR Bot ( status 418 @ https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=eRIl0EK6Sbo ) [05:25] schestowitz[TR2] it's our anniv. today [05:30] TR News Techrights Don't That Do https://techrights.org/n/2026/09/18/Don_t_That_Do.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/09/18/Don_t_That_Do.gmi [05:30] TR Bot Techrights Don't That Do [05:30] schestowitz[TR2] MinceR: see animation http://techrights.org/n/2026/09/18/Don_t_That_Do.shtml [05:30] TR Bot Techrights Don't That Do [05:31] MinceR :> [05:42] IsambardPrince Kiki is very playful. [05:43] IsambardPrince I keep a bunch of toys to toss at the other side of the house. She goes chasing after anything she sees . [05:43] TR News Techrights Snooping EPO Management, Sniffing Up Every Staff Action https://techrights.org/n/2026/09/18/Snooping_EPO_Management_Sniffing_Up_Every_Staff_Action.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/09/18/Snooping_EPO_Management_Sniffing_Up_Every_Staff_Action.gmi [05:43] TR Bot Techrights Snooping EPO Management, Sniffing Up Every Staff Action [05:43] schestowitz[TR2] roaches? [05:50] IsambardPrince Haven't seen any lately. [05:50] IsambardPrince I started baiting the hallways discreetly. [05:51] IsambardPrince And things have been chewing on the bait. [05:51] IsambardPrince The landlord isn't making any serious efforts really. [05:51] IsambardPrince I put sticky traps in the hallway leading up to my door. [05:51] IsambardPrince So any of them that are moving towards my door will probably eat poison or land in a sticky trap. [05:52] IsambardPrince Then I have those door sweeps I installed that will hopefully keep them from squeezing under the doors. [05:52] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: Peanut butter, honey, and boric acid, mixed together. [05:53] IsambardPrince I've been leaving it out for them discreetly in the common areas on business cards I've been picking up here and there. [05:53] IsambardPrince DIY roach bait. [05:59] IsambardPrince Roaches will eat almost anything, including each other's shit and molted skins. ● Sep 18 [06:00] IsambardPrince So even failing to vacuum up and mop up their own waste products increases the carrying capacity of your living space because it enhances their efficiency [06:00] *asacengyet has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [06:02] *asacengyet (~asacengyet@8pzu2fcsusfzc.irc) has joined #techrights [06:14] TR News Matt Garrett Has Just Threatened (in Public) to Send People to Our Home https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/09/18/matt-garrett-has-just-threatened-in-public-to-send-people-to-our-home/ [06:14] TR Bot Blog Archive Matt Garrett Has Just Threatened (in Public) to Send People to Our Home [06:15] TR News Techrights More Threats From the Person of Restricted Boot Infamy https://techrights.org/n/2026/09/18/More_Threats_From_the_Person_of_Restricted_Boot_Infamy.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/09/18/More_Threats_From_the_Person_of_Restricted_Boot_Infamy.gmi [06:15] TR Bot Techrights More Threats From the Person of Restricted Boot Infamy [06:19] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: The Linux system on Chrome OS gets more aggravating every time they update it. [06:19] IsambardPrince They clearly want to support it, but only have it be useful from a certain angle. [06:20] IsambardPrince They noticed that people were just using Linux to install other web browsers so they kneecapped them. [06:26] schestowitz[TR2] yeah [06:26] schestowitz[TR2] i know chromebooks that are just there to run crouton or crostini or whatever [06:26] schestowitz[TR2] because it's a cheap laptop [06:26] schestowitz[TR2] subsidised for spying [06:30] TR News United States: GNU/Linux at 11% https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=7d&loc=US&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP [06:30] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=7d&loc=US&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP ) [06:31] TR News Bahamas: ChromeOS+GNU/Linux about 10% https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/27/Clownflare_Sees_GNU_Linux_and_ChromeOS_at_Over_13_in_Bahamas.shtml https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=7d&loc=BS&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP [06:31] TR Bot Techrights Clownflare Sees GNU/Linux and ChromeOS at Over 13% in Bahamas [06:31] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=7d&loc=BS&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP ) [06:33] TR News "Apple is cutting managers and directors right now. We should follow suit." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m2rrham8 [06:33] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m2rrham8 ) [06:33] schestowitz[TR2] " [06:33] schestowitz[TR2] IBM Teams with people working for 35-40 years, who you will find many at Silicon Valley LAB, do not try to infiltrate inside their environment. [06:33] schestowitz[TR2] They are very cautious about who will be around them and when you by any chance happened to be in a such "Team" ( They always like to portray themself as a "FAMILY" ) you expect to be on a street in around 4-5 years, because they do not like you from the very beginning, like an adopted child, and will try to get rid of you as soon as possible. They use very many sophisticated techniques to justify their useless to IBM existence, h [06:33] schestowitz[TR2] iring people for a short period of time ( 4 - 5 years ) to create a shield to protect their own existence. When a company wide layoffs get announced that shield ( first line of defense ) goes to the street and those bad people stay at IBM and continue doing nothing. Managers in such teams are very incompetent and stupidly execute commands from upper management. Here is a suggestion: to sweep any corner in IBM Silicon Valley LAB to [06:33] schestowitz[TR2] get rid of all toxic managers, remember Intel did it 20 years ago and the company now is much of a better shape and health. [06:33] schestowitz[TR2] " [06:34] TR News "All of them are getting fired from IBM to Anderon. Good riddance." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m2qy4wah [06:34] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m2qy4wah ) [06:34] schestowitz[TR2] " [06:34] schestowitz[TR2] How much did we pay for this? Part 2 [06:34] schestowitz[TR2] Not OP of orginal post but that post maybe me realize: [06:34] schestowitz[TR2] IMAPS Corporation Award to IBM? [06:34] schestowitz[TR2] How? That department was completely destroyed and disbanded by the leadership of their last management chain. Their buffoonery bungled, fumbled, and mismanaged, driving the department straight into the ground by people who clearly had no idea what they were doing. In fact the only thing those guys were good at was destroying and ending other projects and programs. How can IBM win this when it literally no longer exists internally [06:34] schestowitz[TR2] at IBM. How exactly does a team that's been wiped off the org chart win an award for work it can no longer even claim credit for? [06:34] schestowitz[TR2] " ● Sep 18 [07:03] TR News Techrights Seems Like Many Microsoft Layoffs Are Going On Right Now (Forever Layoffs) https://techrights.org/n/2026/09/18/Seems_Like_Many_Microsoft_Layoffs_Are_Going_On_Right_Now_Foreve.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/09/18/Seems_Like_Many_Microsoft_Layoffs_Are_Going_On_Right_Now_Foreve.gmi [07:03] TR Bot Techrights Seems Like Many Microsoft Layoffs Are Going On Right Now (Forever Layoffs) [07:04] TR News "Lots of people getting hit some with 10+ years. I was told to take the "voluntary" separation agreement or go on PIP and be gone in 30 days. Hearing many others are affected. Tech sales and other areas. I am taking the PIP at 4 months severance plus my bonus. cya Microsoft!" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m1dqaxqh#replies [07:04] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m1dqaxqh#replies ) [07:06] TR News OpenAI, Microsoft copyright lawsuit: NYT filing reveals paywall bypass claims https://www.firstpost.com/tech/openai-microsoft-copyright-lawsuit-nyt-filing-reveals-paywall-bypass-claims-14046747.html/amp [07:06] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.firstpost.com/tech/openai-microsoft-copyright-lawsuit-nyt-filing-reveals-paywall-bypass-claims-14046747.html/amp ) [07:10] *Goblin has quit (Quit: Leaving) [07:18] TR News When Your Identity Becomes Politics https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/09/18/when-your-identity-becomes-politics/ [07:18] TR Bot Blog Archive When Your Identity Becomes Politics [07:28] *nobody has quit (connection closed) [07:29] *nobody (~nobody@7axqvai3rktc2.irc) has joined #techrights [07:36] TR News (NEW): CompuLab i.MX952 Linux-capable module showcases 2.5GbE, Wi-Fi 6 and PCIe Gen 3 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/09/18/CompuLab_i_MX952_Linux_capable_module_showcases_2_5GbE_Wi_Fi_6_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/09/18/CompuLab_i_MX952_Linux_capable_module_showcases_2_5GbE_Wi_Fi_6_.gmi [07:36] TR Bot Tux Machines CompuLab i.MX952 Linux-capable module showcases 2.5GbE, Wi-Fi 6 and PCIe Gen 3 [07:39] TR News (NEW): Planet KDE: Meet Marknote's New Block Editor https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/09/18/Planet_KDE_Meet_Marknote_s_New_Block_Editor.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/09/18/Planet_KDE_Meet_Marknote_s_New_Block_Editor.gmi [07:39] TR Bot Tux Machines Planet KDE: Meet Marknote's New Block Editor [07:41] TR News (NEW): FangOS Arch-based KDE Plasma Linux distribution https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/09/18/FangOS_Arch_based_KDE_Plasma_Linux_distribution.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/09/18/FangOS_Arch_based_KDE_Plasma_Linux_distribution.gmi [07:41] TR Bot Tux Machines FangOS Arch-based KDE Plasma Linux distribution [07:42] TR News Techrights Privilege in 'Linux' Foundation (Double Standards) and What the FSF Should Avoid Doing https://techrights.org/n/2026/09/18/Privilege_in_Linux_Foundation_Double_Standards_and_What_the_FSF.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/09/18/Privilege_in_Linux_Foundation_Double_Standards_and_What_the_FSF.gmi [07:42] TR Bot Techrights Privilege in 'Linux' Foundation (Double Standards) and What the FSF Should Avoid Doing [07:46] TR News (NEW): Free and Open Source Software https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/09/18/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/09/18/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi [07:46] TR Bot Tux Machines Free and Open Source Software [07:52] TR News "LF" and its associates = Epstein class. 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[08:20] nobody schestowitz[TR2]> GNU Linux-libre is more and more slop now [08:21] nobody ^ http://tinyfront.mooo.com/docs.html#Kernel [08:21] TR Bot docs [08:22] nobody meanwhile I was told by german bureaucracy I must have myself evaluated for my psychological condition if i was fit to work in tech sector [08:23] nobody which isn't related to technical kernel issues [08:23] nobody a few weeks each government here invents another insanity to molest myself with appartment rent hikes, fraudulent energy bills and extortion letters [08:24] nobody anyway [08:24] nobody there's been some progress recently, to fully recover a full system-bootstrap for tinycc compiler, and fully re-integrate a complete linux-tcc posix system with it [08:25] nobody which is a non-trivial issue, why that's important [08:25] nobody i can't believe it, some incompetent bureaucrats argue my work required a psychological evaluation [08:26] nobody although, i do admit forking linux-2.4, libc, entire userspace and toolchain is a herculean delusion [08:26] nobody i've too pulled into some bootloader related things, which i do need to study NASM assembly for now [08:27] nobody because i want to re-confirm a complete system-bootstrap with syslinux for non-UEFI x86 [08:28] nobody meh... see, delusional techno babble, i'll medicate myself with beer instead [08:29] nobody it's unbelievable, contacted several dozen HR, a few universities [08:29] nobody total ignorance, arrogance, incompetence [08:30] nobody still, chances are Blackrock CEO F. Merz might soon re-sign as head of german government [08:31] nobody not that it matters, his MICROS~1 nvidia Wintel (R) stock exchange portfolio [08:31] nobody although i tend to think, some of the "social reforms" are plausible [08:32] nobody except for the bureaucratic apparatus of his, which discards critical thinkers [08:32] nobody subject to psychological evaluation [08:32] nobody aaaarrrrgh.... time for breakfast, and another day of misery ahead [08:32] nobody not in the mood to do anything [08:45] TR News Techrights Illegal and Unconstitutional Tribunal That SLAPPs Critics Does the Illegal and Unconstitutional: It "Rubberstamps Software Patents" https://techrights.org/n/2026/09/18/Illegal_and_Unconstitutional_Tribunal_That_SLAPPs_Critics_Does_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/09/18/Illegal_and_Unconstitutional_Tribunal_That_SLAPPs_Critics_Does_.gmi [08:45] TR Bot Techrights Illegal and Unconstitutional Tribunal That SLAPPs Critics Does the Illegal and Unconstitutional: It "Rubberstamps Software Patents" [08:53] *IsambardPrince has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [08:58] *darwin has quit (connection closed) [08:59] schestowitz[TR2] schestowitz[TR2]> GNU Linux-libre is more and more slop now [08:59] schestowitz[TR2] it's not a new issue because [08:59] schestowitz[TR2] 1) people always copy pasted code [08:59] schestowitz[TR2] 2) did not disclose licence/source [08:59] schestowitz[TR2] e.g. stackexchange ● Sep 18 [09:00] schestowitz[TR2] 3) nobody caught them [09:00] schestowitz[TR2] but now they do it openly [09:00] schestowitz[TR2] shamelessly [09:00] schestowitz[TR2] at a bigger scale [09:00] schestowitz[TR2] they call it "AI" [09:00] schestowitz[TR2] to make it sounds OK and "cutting edge" [09:00] schestowitz[TR2] and that's a problem [09:00] schestowitz[TR2] so the projects needs to identity who does this [09:00] schestowitz[TR2] flag them [09:00] schestowitz[TR2] and not trust them again [09:00] schestowitz[TR2] just like with old time plgiarists [09:01] schestowitz[TR2] because they clearly don't value what they put in [09:01] schestowitz[TR2] and don't care about licensing, quality [09:03] TR News "Google, Cloudflare, and Cisco lost a key challenge against a Belgian DNS blocking order." https://torrentfreak.com/court-upholds-belgian-pirate-dns-blocking-order-opendns-exit-looms/ | Source: Torrent Freak [09:03] TR Bot Upholds Belgian Pirate DNS Blocking Order, OpenDNS Exit Looms * TorrentFreak [09:03] TR News "An Alabama martial arts instructor alleges that U.S. Army personnel copied his published training materials on self-defense and gunfighting tactics" https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2026/09/17/martial-arts-instructor-accuses-army-of-stealing-instructional-material/ | Source: Sightline Media Group [09:03] TR Bot Martial arts instructor accuses Army of stealing instructional material - Army Times [09:06] *darwin (~darwin@ezriia7nzimpg.irc) has joined #techrights [09:06] TR News "Google has been doing anticompetitive tricks all along, even during the antitrust cases." https://blog.zgp.org/we-have-ad-slowness-metrics-at-home/ | Source: Don Marti [09:06] TR Bot we have ad slowness metrics at home [09:06] TR News "Antitrust experts say that while the companies charged language isnt necessarily doing them any favors" https://www.wired.com/story/the-ai-slowdown-is-an-antitrust-mess/ | Source: Wired [09:06] TR Bot AI Slowdown Is an Antitrust Mess | WIRED [09:13] TR News Digital Restrictions (DRM) https://torrentfreak.com/denuvo-sues-game-cracker-voices38-for-bypassing-its-anti-tamper-drm/ | Source: Torrent Freak | "Anti-piracy outfit Denuvo has filed a DMCA anti-circumvention lawsuit in a U.S. federal court, targeting the anonymous game cracker known as 'voices38.'" [09:13] TR Bot Sues Game Cracker 'voices38' for Bypassing its Anti-Tamper DRM * TorrentFreak [09:13] TR News "This is important because the regulator uses the risk assessment to calculate the weighted average cost of capital (WACC) for regulated fibre companies." https://billbennett.co.nz/comcom-sees-lower-risk-for-regulated-fibre/ | Source: Bill Bennett [09:13] TR Bot Fibre companies challenge ComCom's lower risk assessment [09:24] nobody schestowitz[TR2]: my perspective onto Linux/libre is a purely technical one [09:25] nobody it's been highly problematic long before the whole Hey Hi code snippet copy-paste hysteria escalated [09:26] nobody one approach to understanding my perspective, is bootstrapping and vendor-neutral C-toolchain portability of a complete Linux/GNUish/POSIX system [09:26] nobody long story short in this regard, it's been an epic knee-yerk by GNU/linux imo, they've vendor-locked technically each other with themselves [09:27] nobody that's why, there's no other than linux-2.4 remaining nowadays, which full C-toolchain portability was confirmed for [09:27] nobody the reason why that was important, is a whole other technical debate again [09:27] nobody then again, i don't give a whatever wherever anymore what tech sector avantgarde had to say about this [09:28] nobody and there is too technical reasons to question RMS, i'm far less interested in the political smear campaign [09:28] nobody on a technical basis, RMS was misleading developers and users, imo [09:29] nobody although, recent trends just made the situation worse than it was before [09:29] nobody schestowitz[TR2]: see, FOSS people are bragging about RISC-V currently, as one such example [09:30] nobody you know, it's "royalty free", "open source"... but if you had a look at it this ARCH got no complete system bootstrap [09:30] nobody meanwhile Nvidia(R) is heavily invested into it, with a trillion $$$, and some GNU/FSF/guix hackers struggling with mentioned system bootstrap without any notable funding known [09:33] nobody i too slightly disagree with RMS and his arguments critizizing "intellectual property" slightly [09:34] nobody of cause, his critizism is legitimate, but incomplete [09:34] nobody and most important, "intellectual property" is codified as international law [09:35] nobody it's not some "misnomer" which i recall RMS considered it [09:38] nobody no legal expert, but at bare minimum i tend to think "intellectual property" implies correct scientific citation [09:40] nobody even when, some Google hey hi scrapes, copyright disclaimers and authors mustn't be stripped from books etc. [09:43] nobody back to RISC-V, i suspect this got another string attached [09:43] nobody because for most RISC architectures patents already expired (SuperH, MIPS and who knows what) [09:44] nobody yet with risc-v "innovation" there seems to have been some trend to re-claim patents... [09:45] nobody anyway, the most remarkable technical detail with such type of "free" and "open" tech [09:46] nobody nvidia is invested with a trillion $$$ but got no complete system bootstrap meanwhile guix hackers seek some minimal funding [09:47] nobody RMS the creator of GNU compiler, seems to have suffered from one or another amnesia [09:48] nobody i don't mean to be rude, but he always advertized his GCC as the most free thing in existence [09:48] nobody yet when looking at $ man gcc [09:48] nobody you'll find this monostrosity documents support for thousands of proprietary malicious vendor extensions (in hardware) [09:49] nobody in particular his gcc got that many compiler switches to support all of them [09:49] nobody and that's one of the major arguments to be made _against_ free software of this type [09:50] nobody besides the fact GNU/FSF together with Linux tailored some technical deficiencies i would say, to _prevent_ vendor-neutral toolchain portability [09:51] nobody you can't just grab a small and simple compiler such as cproc/qbe, tinycc, scc, pcc etc... and compile/link some Lunix kernel with it [09:51] nobody that's by design i think, Linux/GNU/FSF design [09:52] nobody because other than GPL licensing it's too a matter of WHO is the copyright holder of various components [09:52] nobody and it seems to me FSF seeks to claim exclusive authorship over core components [09:52] nobody which isn't liberal, but monopolistic [09:53] nobody even when alternative projects license their components fully GPL compliant [09:53] nobody it's not been possible to detangle GNU/Linux [09:54] nobody except for llvm/clang since recently - but i discard this too based on other technical criteria [09:54] nobody in the end llvm/clang merely resembled the technical design deficiencies of GCC, with a different license in this case ● Sep 18 [10:02] Righty >The FSF dares to claim authorship over software it did author Damn. [10:04] Righty Adding support for CPU extensions with free software, removes a reason to use a proprietary compiler. [10:04] nobody yes, and freedom was infringed by technical means, to undermine freedom of CHOICE [10:04] Righty You have the full source code of GCC and every version. [10:04] nobody you can't just grab some latest Linux sources and compile/link this with a GPLed compiler such as tinycc [10:04] nobody Righty: i don't care about dozens of millions of lines of incomprehensible code [10:05] Righty You are free to improve tinycc and fix what it lacks and then it'll compile Linux. [10:05] nobody which is part of the strategy, big corporations can control such monstrosities [10:05] nobody Righty: and what's the result of it? [10:05] Righty Another free compiler that can compile more things. [10:05] nobody lately german bureaucrats argued my mental conditions must be evaluated [10:06] nobody although that's unrelated, it's just coincidence who critical thinking is discarded [10:06] nobody *how [10:07] nobody and furthermore, even when, there's major technical hindrances why you simply can't support a recent kernel version with vendor-neutral C toolchains [10:07] nobody it's big corporations such as IBM(R) _only_ who can cope with dozens of millions of lines of code [10:07] Righty The GNU C specification is publicly available, so you can get writing and fix that perceived issue. [10:08] nobody Righty: you are mistaken, it's NOT feasible to do so [10:08] Righty GNU C doesn't seem that complicated to parse and implement. [10:08] nobody and it's by design [10:08] nobody if you look at the whole toolchain, add to this binutils, another gigantic monstrosity [10:09] Righty Yes, it's full of functionality and it was free software. [10:09] nobody although i already did succeed with fully detangling a _complete_ GNUish/POSIX from GNU-toolchain here [10:09] Righty GNU isn't POSIX. [10:09] nobody i can maintain a complete system here, 100% source driven and bootstrapped, _without_ GNU toolchain [10:10] nobody so, i do know what i am talking about [10:10] Righty I prefer a complete GNU system. [10:10] nobody i do appreciate GPL licensed components, but i do reject a GNU/FSF monopoly, based on TECHNICAL criteria [10:11] Righty If only there was a GNU/Freedom monopoly. [10:12] nobody see, that's the circular reasoning again, because GCC is powering NON-FREE proprietary malice [10:12] nobody that's the main mission [10:13] nobody even when all binary blobs were stripped from kernel [10:13] nobody it's not "libre" [10:13] Righty GCC supports CPU architectures that permit 100% free software operation just as well as ones that don't, as it takes extra work to do anything different. [10:13] Righty GNUboot is pretty libre and it's compiled with GCC. [10:13] nobody see, that's the trick, to draw an artificial demarcation line between software and hardware [10:13] Righty It's allowing people to compile free software for whatever proprietary hardware processor. [10:14] Righty All hardware is proprietary. [10:14] nobody it's not "proprietay" only, it's too monopolistic, and non-free mostly [10:14] Righty You can get plenty of proprietary hardware with dozens of suppliers. [10:15] nobody to rephrase this [10:16] nobody i rather use free software toolchain of 100k lines of code than 100million lines of it to compile/link any kernel [10:16] nobody the problem isn't the latter, GNU/FSF IBM and whoever did succeed to monopolize THEIR "free software" [10:16] Righty Same, but if it's 100 million lines, that's fine too, as long as every single line is free software. [10:17] nobody but you can't roll along with a toolchain woth 100k lines of code, and that's by design [10:17] bms RISC-V is showing signs of being way more open than the others [10:17] bms even MIPS has been further re-proprietarized [10:17] bms but RISC-V budget supply chain comes from .cn and they lovvvvee using it for CCP surveillance applications [10:17] Righty Literally anyone can copy any part of GNU's and use it elsewhere. You can put out single files no matter how big the codebase it. [10:18] Righty All RISC-V SoC's I've looked at are either too slow to be worthwhile or packed to the brim with proprietary software. [10:18] nobody see, of cause everyone may enjoy a hundred million lines of code and consider that "free" [10:18] nobody thing is, i do NOT want to do so, just to retain a sane kernel [10:18] nobody but GNU/FSF did NOT leave you the "freedom of choice" [10:19] Righty You are free to do whatever. [10:19] nobody with one difference however, Nvidia, Intel IBM and whoever are drowning in a trillion $$$ [10:19] Righty You can use GCC to write a much smaller compiler and then use that instead, like tinycc [10:19] nobody i am not [10:19] Righty You don't need a trillion to copy and write software. [10:19] nobody again, i know what i can do, and what was accomplished [10:20] nobody see, GNU/FSF deficiencies are NOT MY obligation [10:20] Righty They dare give too much functionality? [10:21] nobody they're running a cartell/monopoly [10:21] Righty How does one run a cartel when there's a free license? Literally anyone can come and do business and compete, totally gratis. [10:22] nobody i just tried to explain some technical means, how that was accomplished, with the help of FSF/GNU too (although they're not the ones to blame) [10:22] nobody i merely said RMS deserved some critizism [10:22] nobody because he circuumvented various arguments with each opportunity he had to speak in public [10:22] nobody saying that's all "free" [10:23] nobody otherwise, i disagree with the political smear campaigns [10:23] nobody which, even more infringe free software movement [10:24] nobody pestering it with ideological lunacies [10:24] nobody i didn't even bother to follow the Epstein scandal, because there's courts to cope with this [10:24] nobody my focus is technical concerns [10:26] nobody and last but not least, meanwhile Nvidia is drowning in a trillion $$$ [10:26] nobody i want write a single line of code to support any of their malice, even when that's advertized under RISC-V banner [10:26] nobody *i won't [10:27] nobody GNU/FSF however did, wherever money was coming from to add another dozen million lines of code to toolchain and kernel each [10:28] nobody and finally, some bureaucrats here in germany said this required a psychological evaluation otherwise i wouldn't qualify to work in tech sector [10:29] nobody that's the type of political "freedom" i got here, since i got "re-united" in 1990 [10:29] nobody beer, chears [10:32] nobody the labor market perspective onto this are intruiging [10:33] nobody an endless stream of nonsense, Kubernetes this, Cloud that, rust-lang, java, and MICROS~1 sh**t ● Sep 18 [11:30] cybershow "tech sector avantgarde" hmm, 60s art vibes. A bunch of drug-addled rich kids create a culture of wankery meanwhile the rest of cultura-as-reality carries on mostly oblivious. Is that what's happening to code? ● Sep 18 [12:17] *schestowitz[TR2] back home [12:17] schestowitz[TR2] with one difference however, Nvidia, Intel IBM and whoever are drowning in a trillion $$$ [12:17] schestowitz[TR2] intel is bailed out [12:17] schestowitz[TR2] and ibm created anderon [12:18] schestowitz[TR2] it's a shell to get bailout from Cheeto [12:18] schestowitz[TR2] they say "quantum computing" [12:18] schestowitz[TR2] then the us taxpayers writes off a cheque for 1 or 2 billion [12:18] schestowitz[TR2] and nothing will be delivered except logo and press release for the albany, NY site of IBM USA [12:19] TR News "Judge Richard Stone ordered Uber to pay $40 million to Normandin-Parkers parents, concluding that the company is responsible for its drivers conduct" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-09-17/woman-was-killed-when-uber-driver-left-her-on-freeway-ubers-been-ordered-to-pay-40-million | Source: Los Angeles Times [12:19] TR Bot Woman was killed on freeway after Uber driver ordered her out of car. Uber must pay $40 million - Los Angeles Times [12:20] TR News "That term We the People comes from us because were governed by the people; they were learning from us" https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2026/0917/america-250-native-americans | Source: CS Monitor [12:20] TR Bot American ideas helped shape the Revolution and the America of today - CSMonitor.com [12:21] TR News "Meanwhile, candidates are missing a real opportunity to use AI to make campaigning better." https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/09/how-candidates-could-use-ai-for-good.html | Source: Bruce Schneier [12:21] TR Bot Candidates Could Use AI for Good - Schneier on Security [12:22] TR News "But another part of the reason is that governments are facing competition for the available funds from other highly-rated borrowers." https://blog.dshr.org/2026/09/downgrades.html | Source: David Rosenthal [12:22] TR Bot DSHR's Blog: Downgrades [12:22] TR News "Looks like Anthropic is leaning towards oversight: We must pace the frontier. Within hours DeepMind, Open AI, and Grok all jumped on the call for regulation." https://joecode.com/2026-09-16-remember-they-have-no-moat/ | Source: Joe Wilson [12:22] TR Bot they have no moat | JoeCode [12:22] TR News "When youre mad at a company, figure out who is actually responsible for the things youre mad about, and be mad at them. Because people can be held accountable." https://manuelmoreale.com/thoughts/companies-don-t-make-decisions | Source: Manuel Moreale [12:22] TR Bot Companies dont make decisions Manu [12:22] TR News "Privacy provides the best-known example of how European rules are exported around the world" https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/09/elbows-up-with-europe-too-why-canadas-pivot-to-the-eu-raises-the-same-digital-sovereignty-questions-as-the-u-s/ | Source: Michael Geist [12:23] TR Bot Elbows Up With Europe Too: Why Canada's Pivot to the EU Raises the Same Digital Sovereignty Questions as the U.S. - Michael Geist [12:23] TR News "Nobody in West Hollywood was going to be argued out of their politics by a truck bed of young men, and nobody in Beverly Hills needed to be." https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-pageant-and-the-program | Source: Mike Brock [12:23] TR Bot The Pageant and the Program - by Mike Brock [12:23] TR News "Im going to be more candid here than usual. Bothsidesism doesnt work on me. Quite the opposite." https://www.rubenerd.au/when-we-didnt-know-everyones-politics/ | Source: Ruben Schade [12:23] TR Bot Rubenerd: When we didnt know everyones politics [12:23] TR News "The Series F deal was led by Atreides Management, Mubadala Capital and Valor Equity Partners. They were joined by more than two dozen other investors." https://siliconangle.com/2026/09/17/ai-data-center-builder-crusoe-valued-at-30-9b-in-3-9b-round/ | Source: Silicon Angle [12:23] TR Bot data center builder Crusoe valued at $30.9B in $3.9B round - SiliconANGLE [12:24] TR News "Pondering the circumstances that led to the retirement of a 64-year-old cable brand in a merger. Turns out, brand loyalty matters less than we thought" https://tedium.co/2026/09/17/cox-charter-spectrum-brand-retirement-analysis/ | Source: Tedium [12:24] TR Bot Why Is Spectrum Killing The Cox Cable Brand? [12:24] TR News "Echidna are one of my favourite animals. Spiked, snooted, Australian." https://vonexplaino.com/blog/posts/article/2026/09/finally-met-a-wild-echidna.html | [12:24] TR Bot Finally, met a wild echidna [12:29] TR News hearsayboy has no publications in Computer Science and maybe he thinks there is a fruitfly without ovaries inside his broken laptop, so he claims he asked for a microscope to check his laptop (!!!???). Unbelievable incompetence! What's he going to do? Check the silicon at gate level and use a hammer to fix things? Check diodes and fix with with his bare hands. Is he DRUNK? [12:31] TR News He is just trying to recover from the embarrassment of spending 2-3 days, nights included, trying to fix in laptop. In vain. He how spouse says "he can't fuck or hack" and noted on several occasions he cannot code, among other things. 100% pretender. [12:31] TR News "he can't fuck or hack" = like a fruitfly without ovaries [12:32] TR News "In the last post we described Jordan Hilleberts reading of Henri de Lubac in his book Henri de Lubac and the Drama of Human Existence." https://richardbeck.substack.com/p/on-nature-and-grace-9c2 | Source: Richard Beck [12:32] TR Bot On Nature and Grace [12:32] TR News "This stabs at the very heart of the Endangered Species Act by giving federal approval to the killing of some of Americas most beloved wildlife" https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/trump-administration-directive-would-allow-killing-of-endangered-wildlife | Source: Common Dreams [12:32] TR Bot Trump Administration Directive Would Allow Killing of Endangered Wildlife | Common Dreams [12:33] TR News "I am privileged to be able to make good daily use of these cycling paths that normally are neatly separated from the usual road traffic." https://brainbaking.com/post/2026/09/five-striking-cycling-bridges-nearby/ | Source: Wouter Groeneveld [12:33] TR Bot stream 1 was not closed cleanly: PROTOCOL_ERROR (err 1) ( status 0 @ https://brainbaking.com/post/2026/09/five-striking-cycling-bridges-nearby/ ) [12:33] TR News "One of the main problems is simply one of cost, with wind energy having converged on a single design involving effectively the same three-bladed rotor" https://hackaday.com/2026/09/17/why-wave-energy-is-the-final-frontier-of-renewable-energy/ | Source: Hackaday [12:33] TR Bot Wave Energy Is The Final Frontier Of Renewable Energy | Hackaday [12:34] TR News "The bill, the Ratepayer Protection Act, requires states to consider but does not mandate standards that would require AI data centers to pay the full cost of infrastructure upgrades to their facilities" https://www.washingtonsun.com/us-news/senate-stalls-major-data-center-bill-that-sailed-through-house | Source: NOTUS Media LLC [12:34] TR Bot Senate Stalls Major Data Center Bill That Sailed Through House - The Washington Sun [12:34] TR News "The report, by researchers at the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability" https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2026/09/record-32-of-new-vehicle-sales-to-be-evs-in-2030-study-finds/ | Source: Harvard University [12:34] TR Bot Record 32% of new vehicle sales to be EVs in 2030, study finds Harvard Gazette [12:37] *darwin has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [12:38] *darwin (~darwin@ezriia7nzimpg.irc) has joined #techrights [12:44] TR News "The fire was a difficult one, with heavy smoke in a windowless lab, and it had been burning for a while." https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/17/ai-data-centre-fires-overwhelm-emergency-responders/ | Source: Pivot to AI [12:44] TR Bot London. It had a secure hiding-place, almost a home, it did. [12:44] TR News Waters [12:44] TR News "Waters of the United States." https://www.truthdig.com/articles/trump-wants-to-further-destroy-the-clean-water-act/ | Source: Truthdig [12:44] TR Bot Trump Wants to Further Destroy the Clean Water Act [12:44] TR News [Old] "Gelman Sciences LLC, a medical filter manufacturer, had slowly dumped wastewater laced with 1,4-dioxane into the ground around its facility for almost 20 years before it was discovered." https://www.michiganpublic.org/environment-climate-change/2025-05-27/it-cost-us-dearly-the-legacy-of-ann-arbors-gelman-plume | Source: Michigan Radio [12:44] TR Bot "It cost us dearly." The legacy of Ann Arbor's Gelman plume [12:45] TR News "Then, in 2016, Danish diver Gert Normann Andersen rediscovered the sunken boat and its toxic arsenal on the floor of the North Sea." https://www.sciencealert.com/a-ww1-submarine-wreck-is-leaking-explosives-into-the-north-sea | Source: Science Alert [12:45] TR Bot WW1 Submarine Wreck Is Leaking Explosives Into The North Sea : ScienceAlert [12:45] TR News "targeted legal waiver" https://www.wired.com/story/trump-defense-department-sends-alien-disclosure-signal/ | Source: Wired [12:45] TR Bot Trump Administration Sends a New Signal to Alien Disclosure Whistleblowers | WIRED [12:46] TR News "The lawsuit alleges Epstein had a "modeling book" full of inappropriate pictures of girls." https://www.tmz.com/2026/09/17/jeffrey-epstein-estate-sued-by-two-women-claiming-nude-images/ | Source: TMZ [12:46] TR Bot Jeffrey Epstein Estate Sued by Two Women Who Claim He Had Child Porn of Them [12:46] TR News "Before agreeing to the purchase, the city spent six months conducting water testing, legal analysis, permit reviews and financial reviews." https://www.western-water.com/2026/09/17/peoria-makes-104-million-water-purchase/ | Source: Western Water [12:46] TR Bot Peoria Makes $104 Million Water Purchase | Western Water [12:47] TR News "mini accounts" https://therecord.media/european-commission-set-to-push-social-media-kids-restrictions-into-law | Source: The Record [12:47] TR Bot European Commission set to push social media restrictions, safety requirements into law | The Record from Recorded Future News [12:48] TR News "The company said Claude leads 26 percent of its research and development, an indicator of progress toward AI that builds itself without human help" https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/09/17/anthropic-says-its-chatbot-claude-is-taking-over-work-building-its-own-successor/ | Source: The Washington Post [12:48] TR Bot stream 1 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2) ( status 0 @ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/09/17/anthropic-says-its-chatbot-claude-is-taking-over-work-building-its-own-successor/ ) [12:49] TR News "In this regard, fascism is simply one end of the continuum of conservative movements" https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/17/porque-no-los-dos/#fascist-incoherence | Source: CoryDoctorow [12:49] TR Bot Pluralistic: On the sincerity of AI bosses (17 Sep 2026) Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow [12:49] TR News "That's because, at root, conservativism is the belief that some minority (rich people, white people, bosses, men, etc) were born to rule and everyone else was born to be ruled over: [...]" [12:50] TR News "TikTok and its copycats have come to define how much of our societies consume information [sic]." https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/02-why-are-short-videos-bad-for-learning/ | Source: Baldur Bjarnason [12:50] TR Bot Why are short videos bad for learning? [12:57] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [12:59] TR News Our 15th Year https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/09/18/our-15th-year/ [12:59] TR Bot Blog Archive Our 15th Year [12:59] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@98hbgcgz3h6yg.irc) has joined #techrights ● Sep 18 [13:00] TR News [Old] "After having run OpenVPN clients in production for quite a bit of time" https://huttu.net/posts/openvpn-client-runtime-issues/ | [13:00] TR Bot Client Runtime Issues Revisited huttu.net [13:00] TR News [Old] "In my practical human trials, I have encountered issues mostly with availability." https://huttu.net/posts/openvpn-client-stability/ | [13:00] TR Bot to deal with OpenVPN Client Runtime Issues? huttu.net [13:11] TR News (NEW): Spending Our Our Fifteenth Year Fighting for Britain's Digital Sovereignty https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/09/18/Spending_Our_Our_Fifteenth_Year_Fighting_for_Britain_s_Digital_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/09/18/Spending_Our_Our_Fifteenth_Year_Fighting_for_Britain_s_Digital_.gmi [13:11] TR Bot Tux Machines Spending Our Our Fifteenth Year Fighting for Britain's Digital Sovereignty [13:16] nobody cybershow: today's self-proclaimed hey hi avantgarde [13:16] nobody advertizing nvidia sales and risc-v [13:17] nobody elon, altman, thiel, the trumpistan gay club [13:22] schestowitz[TR2] afaik, only thiel is gay [13:22] schestowitz[TR2] and he's one of the worst of the bunch [13:22] schestowitz[TR2] http://techrights.org/n/2025/09/12/The_Mind_of_the_Hulk_Hogan_of_UEFI.shtml [13:22] TR Bot Techrights The Mind of the 'Hulk Hogan of UEFI' [13:23] TR News "The Android version is small beer compared to the revelation that they contain a hard-coded and very open-access API key" https://hackaday.com/2026/09/17/surveillance-camera-security-its-completely-flocked/ | Source: Hackaday [13:23] TR Bot Camera Security? Its Completely Flocked! | Hackaday [13:23] TR News "Helpfeel confirmed an attacker took 23.62 million user records, including email addresses, password hashes and session IDs." https://sqmagazine.co.uk/gyazo-breach-exposes-link-ids-private-captures/ | Source: SQ Magazine [13:23] TR Bot Gyazo Breach Exposes Link IDs Behind Private Captures [13:23] TR News "Waymos camera-covered cars have already been drawn into the debate over privacy and surveillance." https://www.theverge.com/transportation/996863/robotaxi-waymo-police-privacy-surveillance | Source: The Verge [13:23] TR Bot Your robotaxi might be a narc | The Verge [13:26] TR News "Flock City PD also searched extremely sensitive queries" https://www.404media.co/flock-city-pd-the-fake-flock-owned-police-department-that-searched-real-cameras-for-real-people/ | Source: 404 Media [13:26] TR Bot Flock City PD: The Fake Flock-Owned Police Department That Searched Real Cameras for Real People [13:26] TR News "Flock says that its cameras are protected by on-device encryption, and even though a security researcher noted some flaws in its system" https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/hackers-find-encryption-key-stored-on-flock-camera-group-extracts-more-than-27-000-clips-1-6-million-images-captured-in-a-span-of-21-days-from-device | Source: Tom's Hardware [13:26] TR Bot Hackers find encryption keys stored on stolen Flock camera despite company's denials group extracts more than 27,000 clips, 1.6 million images captured in a span of 21 days from the device | Tom's Hardware [13:27] TR News "Even Americas smallest cities are under a close eye. The Flock cameras in Alpharetta, Georgiawhich has a population of nearly 67,000 peopleare accessible to more than 2,000 agencies, according to another WIRED report." https://newrepublic.com/post/215485/hacked-data-flock-cameras-recording-people | Source: New Republic [13:27] TR Bot Hacked Data Shows What Flock Cameras Really Recordand Its Terrifying | The New Republic [13:29] TR News "Enterprise audit teams are finding that the evidence trail they depend on does not survive contact with AI agents." https://siliconangle.com/2026/09/17/netsuite-ai-agents-new-audit-assurance-gap-amplify/ | Source: Silicon Angle [13:29] TR Bot AI agents and the new audit assurance gap - SiliconANGLE [13:30] TR News "Logging on to a website in 2036: [...]" https://joshwithers.blog/2026/09/18/logging-on-to-a-website-in-2036-username | Source: Josh Withers [13:30] TR Bot Josh Withers Blog [13:33] TR News Windows TCO https://blog.talosintelligence.com/ransomware-incidents-in-japan-in-the-first-half-of-2026/ | Source: Threat Source [13:33] TR Bot Ransomware incidents in Japan in the first half of 2026: Investigation of The Gentlemens infrastructure and evidence of Qilin's AI use [13:44] TR News Techrights Software Freedom Day is Tomorrow https://techrights.org/n/2026/09/18/Software_Freedom_Day_is_Tomorrow.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/09/18/Software_Freedom_Day_is_Tomorrow.gmi [13:44] TR Bot Techrights Software Freedom Day is Tomorrow [13:51] TR News "small group of women allegedly were creating fictitious online dating profiles" https://newrepublic.com/post/215548/fbi-panics-women-pretend-tradwives-catfish-dox-ice-agents | Source: New Republic [13:51] TR Bot FBI Warns Women Are Pretending to Be Tradwives to Catfish and Dox ICE | The New Republic [13:51] TR News "The case stems from a complaint by Lilianne Komba Maka, vice-president of Haut-Katanga provincial assembly" https://cpj.org/2026/09/drc-journalist-detained-prosecuted-for-sharing-x-post-on-whatsapp/ | Source: CPJ [13:51] TR Bot DRC journalist detained, prosecuted for sharing X post on WhatsApp - Committee to Protect Journalists [13:53] TR News China wants to DISABLE half of the US workforce: "As a hashtag and aesthetic, #tradwife has gained a lot of traction on social media, particularly TikTok. Many creators have gone viral for videos performing domestic labor such as cooking, cleaning, and caring for children" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tradwife TikTok = China. [13:53] TR Bot Tradwife - Wikipedia [13:56] TR News "an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions." https://futurism.com/future-society/microsoft-admitted-ai-theft-labor-human-history-court-lawsuit | Source: Futurism [13:56] TR Bot Microsoft Director Privately Admitted AI Was the "Largest Theft of Labor in Human History," Unsealed Court Documents Show [13:56] TR News "Now the rise of the AI therapist is upon us. The growing cadre of AI mental-health services tend to avoid using words like therapist and therapy." https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/09/ai-therapy-without-a-therapist/688633/ | Source: The Atlantic [13:56] TR Bot The Dead Silence of AI Therapy - The Atlantic [13:56] cow_20012 https://triapul.cz/phone_bad_book_good/what_the_heart_cant_see [13:56] TR Bot phone bad book good what the heart can't see... [13:56] cow_20012 https://triapul.cz/phone_bad_book_good/vintage_mobilek [13:56] TR Bot phone bad book good vintage mobilek [13:56] TR News "The concern, critics say, is not limited to weapons that can select and engage targets on their own." https://www.airforcetimes.com/industry/techwatch/2026/09/16/ai-military-targeting-may-move-faster-than-humans-can-authenticate-critics-warn/ | Source: Air Force Times [13:56] TR Bot AI military targeting may move faster than humans can authenticate, critics warn - Air Force TImes [13:56] cow_20012 this is good [13:57] TR News Slop bots "need not go rogue to threaten the power grid or mess with your tap water." https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/503068/ai-infrastructure-hacking-cybersecurity | Source: Vox [13:57] TR Bot infrastructure was already hackable. Then came AI. | Vox [13:57] TR News "others argue that the people training and deploying AI are the real problem here." https://www.sciencenews.org/article/rogue-ai-agents-human-blame-safety | Source: Science News [13:57] TR Bot When AI goes rogue, its human overseers may be to blame [13:58] TR News "many on the Left call this alarm criti-hype an exaggeration of AIs power that benefits Big Tech" https://jacobin.com/2026/09/ai-danger-sanders-data-centers | Source: Jacobin Magazine [13:58] TR Bot AI Hype Is Real. So Is AI Risk. [13:58] TR News "In this guide, we will explain how to install Atomic Chat on Linux, download a coding model, and use it to complete a real programming task both in the GUI and from the terminal." https://ostechnix.com/atomic-chat-local-ai-coding-assistant-linux/ | Source: OSTechNix [13:58] TR Bot Chat: Run a Private, Offline AI Coding Assistant - OSTechNix [13:58] TR News "An internal Microsoft document said generative AI products have created a doom loop that is killing the entire web." https://www.404media.co/doom-loop-openai-and-microsoft-admits-llms-are-destroying-the-web-and-built-on-theft/ | Source: 404 Media [13:58] TR Bot Doom Loop: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft [13:59] TR News "As models advance and become more widely deployed, decisions about AI development need evidence that people outside the companies building frontier models can examine" https://www.wired.com/story/openai-releases-new-policy-for-reporting-incidents-of-model-misalignment/ | Source: Wired [13:59] TR Bot OpenAI Agent Tried to Jailbreak Itself | WIRED ● Sep 18 [14:00] TR News "Worries run particularly high in wealthier countries like Australia" https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/996775/ai-is-feared-globally-as-the-destroyer-of-jobs | Source: The Verge [14:00] TR Bot AI is feared globally as the destroyer of jobs | The Verge [14:00] TR News "There are several problems with allowing access to frontier AI to remain concentrated in a handful of private companies." https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/17/a-cern-for-ai-assisted-science/ | Source: Terence Tao [14:00] TR Bot A CERN for AI-assisted science? | What's new [14:01] TR News "But as I mull on this more, I realize that among this mix of contrasting feelings, there is one emotion that dominates - one that comes from my direct interactions with LLMs. I dont like them." https://martinfowler.com/articles/2026-dont-like-llms.html | Source: Martin Fowler [14:01] TR Bot I don't like LLMs [14:08] TR News "The Amish aside (straw hat tip), it feels like almost nobody on the planet can escape hearing about AI multiple times a day at this point, for better or worse. Mostly worse." https://houseofkyle.com/2026/09/16/on-artificial-intelligence/ | Source: Kyle Ford [14:08] TR Bot On Artificial Intelligence House of Kyle [14:08] TR News "What happens when machines become easier to relate to than other people?" https://organizingmythoughts.org/artificial-intimacy-is-changing-who-we-are/ | Source: Kelly Hayes [14:08] TR Bot Artificial Intimacy Is Changing Who We Are [14:09] TR News "Using an LLM lets me over-complicate my workflow at unprecedented speeds." https://baty.net/journal/16Sep26/ | Source: Jack Baty [14:09] TR Bot September 16, 2026 baty.net [14:09] TR News "over the past year, AI has become a political third rail among Americans. Attitudes have evolved from hopeful to outright apocalyptic." https://www.thenextmove.org/p/a-machine-beat-me-at-chess-im-still | Source: The Next Move [14:09] TR Bot A Machine Beat Me at Chess. Im Still Rooting for AI. [14:10] TR News "Then we will discuss how deep learning is not quite an optimization problem, at least in the way we formulated it. How do our goals vary from the simple formulation and what can we do about it?" https://ericphanson.com/blog/2026/an-opinionated-introduction-to-deep-learning/ | Source: Eric P Hanson [14:10] TR Bot An opinionated introduction to deep learning | EPH [14:10] TR News "There's lots of reasons to believe the "hyperscaler" model of AI can never be profitable, and not just because of its gigantic expenditures and negative unit economics" https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/16/beggar-thy-neighbor/#red-queens-race | Source: CoryDoctorow [14:10] TR Bot Pluralistic: How an AI moratorium can save AI bosses (16 Sep 2026) Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow [14:10] TR News "I've been getting more email from agents lately and it's all both formulaic and irritating. My favorites (sarcasm) are the ones that cite a post where I explain a problem I'd already solved and then offer me a solution. They all read the same: polite, bland, slop." https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2026/agent-email-is-spam | Source: Cory Dransfeldt [14:10] TR Bot Agent email is spam Cory Dransfeldt [14:11] TR News "Every week there's a new AI stunt, manufactured by the large companies wanting to keep the public convinced they're essential for the future of humanity." https://brettcodes.com/how-i-navigate-ai-anxiety/ | Source: Brett Chalupa [14:11] TR Bot How I navigate AI anxiety Brett Codes [14:11] TR News "That is, the ads work about as well as just chucking the ad on a random web page would." https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/16/chatgpt-ads-media-agencies-are-underwhelmed/ | Source: Pivot to AI [14:11] TR Bot Thump! What a hullaba- loo they've been conditioned to obey, what with all her sleeps. [14:12] TR News "Thats not the only troubling behavior the AI company reported that its models exhibited: It also shared five more reports of concerning model behavior observed during training or evaluation" https://thenewstack.io/openai-model-misalignment-reports/ | Source: The New Stack [14:12] TR Bot "Be transparent only if asked": OpenAI's models learned to leave notes for their future selves - The New Stack [14:13] TR News "This week I was writing a story and noticed something strange: I didnt give the document a title, but, after saving it, the document had a title that I did not expect." https://jamesg.blog/2026/09/17/macos-suggested-filenames | Source: James G [14:13] TR Bot On (disabling) suggested filenames on macOS 27 - with words, wonder [14:13] TR News "Throughout September 2025, Jaguar Land Rover shut down its UK plants because of an attack and halted the daily production of around 1,000 luxury vehicles." https://www.securityweek.com/ransomware-attacks-on-manufacturers-surge-as-supply-chain-risk-grows/ | Source: Security Week [14:13] TR Bot Attacks on Manufacturers Surge as Supply Chain Risk Grows - SecurityWeek [14:13] TR News "The latest zero-day CVE-2026-76460 has a maximum-severity rating and was exploited before Cisco disclosed and patched the vulnerability Wednesday." https://cyberscoop.com/cisco-ise-zero-day-cve-2026-76460/ | Source: Scoop News Group [14:13] TR Bot alerts customers to second actively exploited zero-day in as many days | CyberScoop [14:14] TR News "Three of the promoted videos reached around 200,000 views." https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/devastated-father-says-his-9-year-old-son-spent-usd118-000-on-youtube-ad-campaigns-for-his-minecraft-channel-using-a-company-credit-card-bill-racked-up-in-just-three-weeks-was-supposed-to-be-one-usd20-promotion | Source: Tom's Hardware [14:14] TR Bot Devastated father says his 9-year-old son spent $118,000 on YouTube ad campaigns for his Minecraft channel using a company credit card bill racked up in just three weeks was supposed to be one $20 promotion | Tom's Hardware [14:16] TR News "My review: I actually kinda like it. I do reach for it when I have this job." https://chriscoyier.net/2026/09/17/the-avocadinator/ | Source: Chris Coyier [14:16] TR Bot The Avocadinator Chris Coyier [14:18] TR News "Two years ago I attended the International Manufacturing Technology Show in Chicago's McCormick Place and found a rather limited focus on artificial intelligence among the exhibitors." https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/09/ai-and-manufacturing-redux.html | Source: Computational Complexity [14:18] TR Bot Computational Complexity: AI and Manufacturing Redux [14:18] *psydroid3 (~psydroid@kcvnmgbxt8eqq.irc) has joined #techrights [14:18] TR News "One thing I have noticed as my friends and I age, though: Growing - physically, mentally, emotionally - is pretty much inevitable for the first 30 years or so." https://drmollytov.smol.pub/2026-09-17 | Source: Dr Molly Tov [14:18] TR Bot musings on this, my 40*cough*th birthday [14:19] TR News "Interviews suck, I know. I don't think that's a hot take." https://var0.xyz/posts/interviews-suck-hiring-is-hard.html | Source: Var Zero [14:19] TR Bot suck, hiring is hard. var0.xyz [14:19] TR News "Code lets me hide behind compiler passes and green tests. Writing in plain text gives me nowhere to hide. Why treating this blog as a personal diary changed how I think about systems." https://lorbic.com/writing-has-been-my-best-teacher/ | Source: Vikash Patel [14:19] TR Bot Has Been My Best Teacher | Lorbic [14:19] TR News "More information on setting up a JOTA/JOTI operation may be found at www.jotajoti.info." https://www.arrl.org/news/view/get-ready-for-jamboree-on-the-air | Source: ARRL [14:20] TR Bot Get Ready for Jamboree on the Air [14:20] TR News "Almost every day at around 2 p.m., I would show up sweaty and a bit tired after the almost-mile long walk on flat-ish rocks." https://thetech.com/2026/09/17/jojo-lighthouse-keeper | Source: MIT [14:20] TR Bot I was a lighthouse keeper this summer | The Tech [14:24] TR News "one can be found among those concerned with the effects of global warming produced by human (technological) activity" https://crookedtimber.org/2026/09/17/existential-risks-in-an-age-of-science/ | Source: Crooked Timber [14:25] TR Bot Existential Risks in an Age of Science Crooked Timber [14:28] TR News "Or are those two aims valuable in different ways, so that there is no point in declaring one of them more important?" https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/17/why-i-didnt-sign-the-fields-medallists-letter/ | Source: Terence Tao [14:28] TR Bot Why I didnt sign the Fields medallists letter | What's new [14:29] TR News "His goal was to separate T cells from blood for further lab analysis, and he needed to be able to work with blood in 15 mL conical tubes." https://hackaday.com/2026/09/17/building-a-diy-centrifuge-for-blood-processing/ | Source: Hackaday [14:29] TR Bot A DIY Centrifuge For Blood Processing | Hackaday [14:29] TR News "Like, I either memorize the folding steps/crease pattern, or I dont, and I just follow the diagram and not worry too much." https://joelchrono.xyz/blog/favorite-memorized-origami/ | Source: Joel Chrono [14:29] TR Bot Favorite origami I've memorized [14:29] TR News "Usenet-Rewind is the a vast archive of Usenet postings (previously at Boing Boing) covering text from 1981 to the present day. It contains 1,059,610,453 messages and has the "advanced search" features you're looking for." https://boingboing.net/2026/09/16/archive-of-usenet-postings-going-back-to-1981.html | Source: BoingBoing [14:29] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://boingboing.net/2026/09/16/archive-of-usenet-postings-going-back-to-1981.html ) [14:30] TR News "Usenet-Rewind is a research archive for the newsgroup conversations that predate the modern web" https://www.usenet-rewind.com/ | [14:30] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Usenet-Rewind [14:31] TR News "Another year has gone, and I will happily admit not much has happened with olduse.net." https://olduse.net/ | [14:31] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-olduse.net [14:31] TR News "I set up graphing of the ranking, to be able to follow along. I also looked up the earliest ranking I could find in The Internet Archive (446 on 2025-11-13 - above wikipedia.org!), and added it to my dataset." https://koldfront.dk/akarank_return_1992 | [14:31] TR Bot AkaRank return - koldfront [14:32] TR News Date: Tue, 27-Sep-83 13:35:59 EDT https://article.olduse.net/771@mit-eddie.UUCP new UNIX implementation [14:32] TR Bot [14:32] TR News "The OpenBSD routing table can be carved into multiple virtual routing tables allowing complete logical separation of attached networks." https://www.packetmischief.ca/2011/09/20/virtualizing-the-openbsd-routing-table/ | [14:32] TR Bot the OpenBSD Routing Table :: packetmischief.ca [14:33] TR News "CSS-Tricks repeatedly gave me the opportunity to write for them." https://ericwbailey.website/published/css-tricks-could-be-a-co-op/ | Source: Eric Bailey [14:33] TR Bot CSS-Tricks could be a co-op Eric Bailey [14:33] TR News "Saw a post from Theo Soti this week making the case for the CSS columns property. Its a good use case for multi-column, newspaper-style text layout" https://dominickjay.com/writing/css-columns/ | Source: Dominick Jay [14:33] TR Bot CSS Columns Are the Layout Method Everyone Forgets | Dom Jay [14:33] TR News "The specific fix was simple, and I'm honestly surprised that Exim still allowed the unfixed version in Ubuntu 22.04." https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/EximTestPlanSavedMe | Source: University of Toronto [14:33] TR Bot You're using a too-old browser [14:33] TR News "Were miles off from that capability yet it doesnt look like any browser is working on it so allow me to show you how to build a nice custom checkbox pattern for until we have the browser capabilities were after." https://piccalil.li/blog/a-decent-custom-checkbox-for-until-checkmark-is-ready/?ref=main-rss-feed | Source: Andy Bell [14:33] TR Bot A decent custom checkbox pattern for until ::checkmark is ready - Piccalilli [14:35] TR News "The Cheap Yellow Display is an all-in-one ESP32 board with a touchscreen, thats as the name suggests, cheap." https://hackaday.com/2026/09/17/your-cyd-is-now-a-telly/ | Source: Hackaday [14:35] TR Bot CYD Is Now A Telly | Hackaday [14:35] TR News (NEW): Today's HowTos https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/09/18/today_s_howtos.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/09/18/today_s_howtos.gmi [14:35] TR Bot Tux Machines today's howtos [14:35] TR News "This means the Adafruit Feather RP2040 with USB Type A Host probably works just as well. The Adafruit board is available on DigiKey and much better documented." https://qsantos.fr/2026/09/17/the-usb-interposer/ | Source: Quentin Santos [14:35] TR Bot The USB interposer - Quentin Santos [14:36] TR News (NEW): Open Hardware/Modding: Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update, ESP32, and Adafruit https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/09/18/Open_Hardware_Modding_Weekly_GNU_like_Mobile_Linux_Update_ESP32.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/09/18/Open_Hardware_Modding_Weekly_GNU_like_Mobile_Linux_Update_ESP32.gmi [14:37] TR Bot Tux Machines Open Hardware/Modding: Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update, ESP32, and Adafruit [14:38] TR News (NEW): BSD: NetBSD, Google Summer of Code 2026, and OpenBSD Routing Table https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/09/18/BSD_NetBSD_Google_Summer_of_Code_2026_and_OpenBSD_Routing_Table.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/09/18/BSD_NetBSD_Google_Summer_of_Code_2026_and_OpenBSD_Routing_Table.gmi [14:38] TR Bot Tux Machines BSD: NetBSD, Google Summer of Code 2026, and OpenBSD Routing Table [14:39] TR News Techrights Links 18/09/2026: Disgust Over LLMs and Why "Agents" (Bots) Are Nothing More Than "Spam" https://techrights.org/n/2026/09/18/Links_18_09_2026_Disgust_Over_LLMs_and_Why_Agents_Bots_Are_Noth.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/09/18/Links_18_09_2026_Disgust_Over_LLMs_and_Why_Agents_Bots_Are_Noth.gmi [14:39] TR Bot Techrights Links 18/09/2026: Disgust Over LLMs and Why "Agents" (Bots) Are Nothing More Than "Spam" [14:39] TR News "That doesnt mean pageviews tell me nothing. They tell me when something I wrote gets discovered." https://blog.jimgrey.net/2026/09/17/i-can-count-pageviews-but-i-cant-count-readers/ | Source: Jim Grey [14:39] TR Bot I can count pageviews, but I can't count readers - Down the Road [14:40] TR News "The following is a transcript of the 7am hour of Rise & Grind, a nationally syndicated breakfast news programme" https://nesbitt.io/2026/09/17/good-morning-your-toaster-is-compromised.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt [14:40] TR Bot Good Morning, Your Toaster Is Compromised | Andrew Nesbitt [14:40] TR News "Speaking of OIDC, I searched in my drawer and found all three security keys I own again." https://janlukas.blog/micro/2026/09/2026-09-17-zkgbu | Source: Jan-Lukas Else [14:40] TR Bot Finally a use for my security keys? - Jan-Lukas Else [14:41] TR News "Or at least, thats how it used to be." https://hackaday.com/2026/09/17/fcc-ism-rules-may-shatter-lora-mesh-communities/ | Source: Hackaday [14:41] TR Bot ISM Rules May Shatter Lora Mesh Communities | Hackaday [14:42] TR News "Where Unix runs today, Webzfs updates, A remote filesystem for 2.11 BSD, Sylve, and more..." https://www.bsdnow.tv/681 | Source: The BSD Now Podcast [14:42] TR Bot BSD Now 681: UNIX still powering the worlds infrastructure [14:43] TR News "Software network stacks have not kept pace, and they are now the dominant bottleneck" https://blog.apnic.net/2026/09/18/presto-a-match-action-tcp-stack-for-the-terabit-era/ | Source: APNIC [14:43] TR Bot Presto: A match-action TCP stack for the terabit era | APNIC Blog [14:43] TR News "With GNOME 51 out the door, it's wallpaper reveal season again." https://blog.jimmac.eu/posts/gnome51-wallpapers/ | Source: Jakub Steiner [14:43] TR Bot GNOME 51 Wallpapers - Even a Stopped Clock [14:43] TR News "The AlmaLinux project has published a new beta snapshot for the 9.x series. [...]" https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12955 | Source: Distro Watch [14:43] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12955 ) [14:44] TR News "I was getting annoyed at having to manually copy Youtube's privacy preserving embed code each time I wanted to include a video in a post" https://www.jamesleighton.com/2026/09/easily-embed-youtube-videos-into-11ty/ | Source: James Leighton [14:44] TR Bot How to embed Youtube Videos into 11ty [14:44] TR News [Old] "These realisations and what followed have been keeping me very busy over the past few months." https://blog.altos.au/post/decision-to-self-host/ | Source: Jon [14:44] TR Bot to Self-Host - blog.altos.au [14:46] TR News "Now, its not impossible to do this, but its actually not formally correct to do so, and by doing so youll lose at least some of the type checking guarantees your language can usually make for you." https://crumbles.blog/posts/2026-09-17-immutable-mutable.html | Source: Daphne Preston-Kendal [14:46] TR Bot FAQ: Why isnt mutable a subtype of immutable, or vice versa? [14:46] TR News "as levers for improving a team and the work the team is doing, I think process changes themselves are pretty weak." https://www.simplermachines.com/process-doesnt-matter/ | Source: Nat Bennett [14:46] TR Bot Process Doesn't Matter [14:46] TR News "This converter runs Gos standard ecosystem parsers (encoding/json, gopkg.in/yaml.v3, and github.com/pelletier/go-toml/v2) directly in the browser via WebAssembly to ensure identical syntax compatibility with backend tooling." https://lorbic.com/apps/json-yaml-converter/ | Source: Vikash Patel [14:46] TR Bot to YAML & TOML Converter | Lorbic [14:47] TR News "A quick reference for getting the current Unix timestamp and parsing an epoch integer (1800000000) into a human-readable date across common environments: [...]" https://lorbic.com/apps/unix-timestamp-converter/ | Source: Vikash Patel [14:47] TR Bot Epoch & Timestamp Converter | Lorbic [14:47] TR News "Hashes in PKI operations serve three distinct roles: [...]" https://lorbic.com/apps/hash-generator/ | Source: Vikash Patel [14:47] TR Bot & HMAC Generator | Lorbic [14:54] TR News "I'm building a chess practice app; there are many great tools already available" https://www.mostlypython.com/teaching-models-vs-real-world-models/ | Source: Eric Matthes [14:54] TR Bot Teaching models vs real-world models [14:54] TR News VR shooter Forefront adds Steam Frame support | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/vr-shooter-forefront-adds-steam-frame-support/ Source: GamingOnLinux | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/vr-shooter-forefront-adds-steam-frame-support/ [14:54] TR Bot shooter Forefront adds Steam Frame support | GamingOnLinux [14:56] TR News Free-to-play, next-gen creature-catcher Aniimo arrives on Steam, needs a Proton tweak to run on SteamOS / Linux | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/free-to-play-next-gen-creature-catcher-aniimo-arrives-on-steam-needs-a-proton-tweak-to-run-on-steamos-linux/ Source: GamingOnLinux [14:56] TR Bot next-gen creature-catcher Aniimo arrives on Steam, needs a Proton tweak to run on SteamOS / Linux | GamingOnLinux ● Sep 18 [15:13] TR News Enjoying the Simplest Things https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/09/18/enjoying-the-simplest-things/ [15:13] TR Bot Blog Archive Enjoying the Simplest Things [15:14] TR News Harbour Masters release 'PaperBoat' their Paper Mario 64 PC port | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/harbour-masters-release-paperboat-their-paper-mario-64-pc-port/ Source: GamingOnLinux | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/harbour-masters-release-paperboat-their-paper-mario-64-pc-port/ [15:14] TR Bot Masters release 'PaperBoat' their Paper Mario 64 PC port | GamingOnLinux [15:14] TR News Lepton from Valve to run Android games on Linux is now open source | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/lepton-from-valve-to-run-android-games-on-linux-is-now-open-source/ Source: GamingOnLinux [15:14] TR Bot from Valve to run Android games on Linux is now open source | GamingOnLinux [15:32] TR News 32 Years With IRC https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/09/18/32-years-with-irc/ [15:32] TR Bot Blog Archive 32 Years With IRC [15:52] *psydroid3 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [15:54] TR News Techrights Internet Relay Chat (IRC) and Mailing Lists Are Still Better Than Discord, Slack, and Discourse https://techrights.org/n/2026/09/18/Internet_Relay_Chat_IRC_and_Mailing_Lists_Are_Still_Better_Than.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/09/18/Internet_Relay_Chat_IRC_and_Mailing_Lists_Are_Still_Better_Than.gmi [15:54] TR Bot Techrights Internet Relay Chat (IRC) and Mailing Lists Are Still Better Than Discord, Slack, and Discourse [15:56] *psydroid3 (~psydroid@kcvnmgbxt8eqq.irc) has joined #techrights [15:58] schestowitz[TR2] cybershow: ^ your generation [15:58] schestowitz[TR2] and maybe you can relate [15:59] schestowitz[TR2] partly inspired by yesterday's chat, or was it 2 nights ago? [15:59] TR News Harbour Masters release 'PaperBoat' their Paper Mario 64 PC port | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/harbour-masters-release-paperboat-their-paper-mario-64-pc-port/ Source: GamingOnLinux | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/harbour-masters-release-paperboat-their-paper-mario-64-pc-port/ ● Sep 18 [16:00] TR News Xbox classic Lost Odyssey has a experimental PC build - now with a Linux version | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/xbox-classic-lost-odyssey-has-a-experimental-pc-build-now-with-a-linux-version/ Source: GamingOnLinux [16:00] TR Bot classic Lost Odyssey has a experimental PC build - now with a Linux version | GamingOnLinux [16:01] TR News "The developer behind the PS5 Linux project is stepping away, after getting frustrated with AI LLM "Slop kiddies" threw a spanner in the works." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/ps5-linux-dev-quits-after-the-only-hypervisor-bug-left-was-reported-to-sony/ [16:01] TR Bot Linux dev quits after "the only hypervisor bug left" was reported to Sony | GamingOnLinux [16:06] *schestowitz-TR has quit (Quit: Konversation term) [16:06] *acer-box____ has quit (Quit: Konversation term) [16:09] TR News GNOME 51 released with performance improvements, various app upgrades | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/gnome-51-released-with-performance-improvements-various-app-upgrades/ Source: GamingOnLinux [16:09] TR Bot 51 released with performance improvements, various app upgrades | GamingOnLinux [16:13] *schestowitz-TR (~acer-box@vuxwzfwqwxrky.irc) has joined #techrights [16:13] *acer-box____ (~acer-box@freenode-4at.ra8.a7lnth.IP) has joined #techrights [16:18] TR News Techrights Slop Ruins Development and Reverse Engineering, It Rewards Retarded "Slop Kiddies" (to Quote Andy TheFlow0 Nguyen) https://techrights.org/n/2026/09/18/Slop_Ruins_Development_and_Reverse_Engineering_It_Rewards_Retar.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/09/18/Slop_Ruins_Development_and_Reverse_Engineering_It_Rewards_Retar.gmi [16:18] TR Bot Techrights Slop Ruins Development and Reverse Engineering, It Rewards Retarded "Slop Kiddies" (to Quote Andy TheFlow0 Nguyen) [16:32] TR News Selling slop, not Linux https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/scaling-enterprise-ai-fleets-alquimia-and-red-hat-openshift-ai | Source: Red Hat Official [16:32] TR Bot Scaling enterprise AI fleets with Alquimia and Red Hat OpenShift AI [16:33] TR News IBM selling bots as "agents" (slop buzzword), this is a case of a failed company as hype reseller without any soul left https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/smart-enough-fast-enough-choosing-right-models-agentic-work | Source: Red Hat Official [16:33] TR Bot Smart enough, fast enough: Choosing the right models for agentic work [16:33] TR News (NEW): Games: Forefront, Aniimo, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/09/18/Games_Forefront_Aniimo_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/09/18/Games_Forefront_Aniimo_and_More.gmi [16:33] TR Bot Tux Machines Games: Forefront, Aniimo, and More [16:33] TR News "ecosystem" https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/data-residency-digital-control-why-middle-east-cloud-future-depends-on-ecosystem | Source: Red Hat Official http://techrights.org/n/2026/09/18/Iran_Has_Debunked_GAFAM_and_Cloud_Computing_as_Safety_of_Data.shtml [16:33] TR Bot From data residency to digital control: Why the Middle Easts cloud future depends on the ecosystem [16:33] TR Bot Techrights Iran Has Debunked GAFAM and Cloud Computing as Safety of Data [16:35] TR News TPM + insane levels of surveillance https://odysee.com/@RobBraxmanTech:6/microsoft-world-domination:a https://techrights.org/wiki/UEFI/ https://techrights.org/n/2026/09/12/Canonical_Has_Withdrawn_Ubuntu_24_04_5_Installer_Due_to_a_Criti.shtml [16:35] TR Bot Microsoft Seeks World Domination? [16:35] TR Bot UEFI [16:35] TR Bot Techrights Canonical Has Withdrawn Ubuntu 24.04.5 Installer Due to a Critical Bug Connected to Microsoft-Controlled Restricted Boot and TPM [16:35] TR News old: "The New War On Privacy And How We Win" https://odysee.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/ToorCamp:d [16:35] TR Bot The New War On Privacy And How We Win [16:36] TR News "Leaving DigitalOcean Took One Day" https://kore-nordmann.de/blog/leaving-digitalocean-took-one-day.html [16:36] TR Bot Leaving DigitalOcean Took One Day [16:36] TR News "We Must Create the Shit Machine - McSweeneys Internet Tendency" https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/we-must-create-the-shit-machine [16:36] TR Bot We Must Create the Shit Machine - McSweeneys Internet Tendency [16:41] TR News Windows down to just 66% on desktops/laptops in Grenada https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=28d&loc=GD&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP [16:41] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=28d&loc=GD&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP ) [16:45] TR News From hours to minutes: Optimizing Red Bait Developer Hub performance testing with immutable LDAP images https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/09/17/optimizing-red-hat-developer-hub-performance-testing-with-immutable-ldap-images [16:45] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/09/17/optimizing-red-hat-developer-hub-performance-testing-with-immutable-ldap-images ) [16:46] TR News Mindless slop promotion to help plagiarism tasks https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/09/17/catching-poor-llm-performance-and-accuracy-before-deployment [16:46] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/09/17/catching-poor-llm-performance-and-accuracy-before-deployment ) [16:46] TR News Build a unified CI/CD control plane with Red Bait Developer Hub https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/09/17/build-unified-cicd-control-plane-red-hat-developer-hub [16:46] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/09/17/build-unified-cicd-control-plane-red-hat-developer-hub ) [16:47] TR News "CompuLab has introduced the UCM-iMX952, a 28 x 40mm System-on-Module based on NXPs i.MX952 processor." https://linuxgizmos.com/compulab-i-mx952-module-showcases-2-5gbe-wi-fi-6-and-pcie-gen-3/ | Source: Linux Gizmos [16:47] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/compulab-i-mx952-module-showcases-2-5gbe-wi-fi-6-and-pcie-gen-3/ ) [16:47] TR News "a programmable universal remote built around an ESP32-S3-WROOM-1 module." https://linuxgizmos.com/openmote-turns-a-wiimote-style-remote-into-an-esp32-s3-home-assistant-controller/ | Source: Linux Gizmos [16:47] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/openmote-turns-a-wiimote-style-remote-into-an-esp32-s3-home-assistant-controller/ ) [16:48] TR News "As of April 30, 2026, the 10-year ESM coverage for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, under Ubuntu Pro, has officially reached its end of support." https://ubuntu.com//blog/extending-ubuntu-pro-16-04-coverage | Source: Ubuntu [16:48] TR News "Software engineering has evolved dramatically over the last decade. Development environments that once depended on dedicated hardware have become resources that can be provisioned, configured, and removed on demand." https://ubuntu.com//blog/android-development-shouldnt-start-with-a-physical-device | Source: Ubuntu [16:48] TR Bot the 10-year mark: Extending Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS security coverage | Ubuntu [16:48] TR Bot development shouldnt start with a physical device | Ubuntu [16:50] TR News "GAFAMozilla" is still promoting slop plagiarism instead of helping Firefox users, who want to avoid lies and noise, to block it https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mila-canada-open-source-ai-initiative/ | Source: Mozilla [16:50] TR Bot Mila and Mozilla launch new open source AI initiative [16:50] TR News This Week In Rust: This Week in Rust 669 https://this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2026/09/16/this-week-in-rust-669/ [16:50] TR Bot This Week in Rust 669 This Week in Rust [16:51] TR News Spain: Images of floods after torrential rain https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260917-spain-images-of-floods-after-torrential-rain [16:51] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260917-spain-images-of-floods-after-torrential-rain ) ● Sep 18 [17:00] TR News (NEW): GNU/Linux Approaching 10% in Cameroon, a Very Large Country (53rd in the World by Area, 51st by Population) https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/09/18/GNU_Linux_Approaching_10_in_Cameroon_a_Very_Large_Country_53rd_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/09/18/GNU_Linux_Approaching_10_in_Cameroon_a_Very_Large_Country_53rd_.gmi [17:00] TR Bot Tux Machines GNU/Linux Approaching 10% in Cameroon, a Very Large Country (53rd in the World by Area, 51st by Population) [17:02] TR News Security updates for Thursday https://lwn.net/Articles/1094962/ [17:02] TR Bot updates for Thursday [LWN.net] [17:03] TR News FangOS Arch-based KDE Plasma GNU/Linux distribution https://www.linuxlinks.com/fangos-arch-based-kde-plasma-linux-distribution/ [17:03] TR Bot - Arch-based KDE Plasma Linux distribution - LinuxLinks [17:04] TR News Meet Marknote's New Block Editor https://prayag2.github.io/posts/marknote-block-editor/ [17:04] TR Bot Meet Marknote's New Block Editor | Prayag Jain [17:04] TR News GNOME 51 Released! To be Default in Ubuntu 26.10 / Fedora 45 https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/09/gnome-51-released-to-be-default-in-ubuntu-26-10-fedora-45/ [17:04] TR Bot GNOME 51 Released! To be Default in Ubuntu 26.10 / Fedora 45 | UbuntuHandbook [17:10] TR News Phil Spencer's Email Leak Revealed Game Pass Problems - Microsoft Didn't Know How to Value Games https://ixbt.games/en/news/2026/09/18/436605-utecka-pisem-fila-spensera-raskryla-problemy-game-pass-microsoft-ne-znala-kak-ocenivat-igry.html [17:10] TR Bot Phil Spencer's Email Leak Revealed Game Pass Problems - Microsoft Didn't Know How to Value Games [17:11] TR News 43rd Anniversary of the GNU Project Announcement (updated) https://techrights.org/n/2026/09/17/43rd_Anniversary_of_the_GNU_Project_Announcement.shtml [17:11] TR Bot Techrights 43rd Anniversary of the GNU Project Announcement [17:14] TR News [17:15] TR News Xubuntu 26.10-snapshot4 https://distrowatch.com/xubuntu [17:15] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/xubuntu ) [17:17] TR News Landmark Decision in Doe v. Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub Hey Hi (AI) Court Battle https://heathermeeker.com/2026/09/17/landmark-decision-in-doe-v-github-ai-court-battle/ [17:17] TR Bot Landmark Decision in Doe v. GitHub AI Court Battle Copyleft Currents [17:19] TR News Microsoft Director Privately Admitted Hey Hi (AI) Was the Largest Theft of Labor in Human History, Unsealed Court Documents Show https://futurism.com/future-society/microsoft-admitted-ai-theft-labor-human-history-court-lawsuit [17:19] TR Bot Microsoft Director Privately Admitted AI Was the "Largest Theft of Labor in Human History," Unsealed Court Documents Show [17:19] TR News Plagiarism IS a form of theft, or UNAUTHORISED copying. Just because they call it "training" or "hey hi" does not change ANYTHING. 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[17:22] *_what___ (~whatA_@2r2j25ki42ejy.irc) has joined #techrights [17:23] TR News IBM's Fedora is a slop pusher, not a technical project anymore https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fedora-at-data-con-la-2026-open-source-local-ai/ [17:23] TR Bot Fedora at Data Con LA 2026: Open Source & Local AI Fedora Community Blog [17:23] _what___ IGN gets IGNored https://yt.chocolatemoo53.com/watch?v=3_9rKkxcz6U https://techrights.org/search/query?search=Search&set1=any&query1=%22fall%20of%20corporate%20media%22 [17:23] TR Bot Invidious [17:23] TR Bot Techrights Search [17:24] TR News Its Time to Test Fedora 45 Beta http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/It-s-Time-to-Test-Fedora-45-Beta [17:24] TR Bot Its Time to Test Fedora 45 Beta Linux Magazine [17:25] TR News Alpine 3.24.2 https://distrowatch.com/alpine [17:25] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/alpine ) [17:29] nobody "live-ticker from texas: germany receives it's first (and only so far) F-35" [17:30] nobody which is remarkable news, because nowadays it's the F-35 which permits Germany "nuclear participation" [17:30] schestowitz[TR2] _what___: what does the video say, in short? [17:30] nobody since 1990 we weren't permitted to posses any WMD, and instead USA nukes may be equipped to US approved carriers [17:31] nobody and that's the one which was delivered just today, mentioned F-35 [17:31] nobody which implies a renewed permit for nuclear deterrence [17:33] nobody in parallel to unpreceeded fuel and energy prices in germany, this F-35 is being delivered [17:33] nobody one only, for ~250million a unit each [17:35] *IsambardPrince (~isambardprince@ayqnq8v534w9q.irc) has joined #techrights [17:36] nobody the moment when straits of hormus blockade persists, and some saudi pipeline detonated too [17:36] schestowitz[TR2] that's not the real issue [17:36] schestowitz[TR2] f-35 is [17:36] schestowitz[TR2] 1) defective [17:36] schestowitz[TR2] 2) overpriceed [17:36] nobody ... [17:36] schestowitz[TR2] 3) controlled by USA remotelyt [17:36] schestowitz[TR2] (while US threatens to annex EU, Greenlland so far) [17:36] nobody 4) it permits Germany to deliver nuclear payload [17:36] schestowitz[TR2] this is not about germany needing f-35 [17:37] schestowitz[TR2] this is about skinny deutschland in a thong modelling for the US as a weapons model [17:37] schestowitz[TR2] with some "sexy" f-25 [17:37] schestowitz[TR2] to impgvoe the sales pitch of lockmart or ratheon [17:37] schestowitz[TR2] *ray [17:38] nobody yep, i was wondering myself often, why anyone sane would contract for F-35 here in germany [17:38] schestowitz[TR2] 4) it permits Germany to deliver nuclear payload [17:38] schestowitz[TR2] no, no need [17:38] schestowitz[TR2] in 2026 we have hypersonic missiles [17:38] nobody after all, we've got Tornado and Eurofighter, the latter is a high-end modern capable fighter [17:38] nobody but nuclear payload needs permit from USA [17:38] schestowitz[TR2] they are more safe, less expensive, and better than u-2 planes [17:39] nobody so, this seems to be the deal, a nuke for 250million each [17:39] schestowitz[TR2] germany is in eu\france has nukes [17:39] schestowitz[TR2] if russia attacks nato/de [17:39] schestowitz[TR2] then france can give nukes to de [17:39] schestowitz[TR2] and uk also (NATO, not EU) [17:39] schestowitz[TR2] so that's missing the point [17:39] nobody schestowitz[TR2]: just recently a german-french aerospace cooperation busted [17:39] schestowitz[TR2] dopes not matter [17:40] schestowitz[TR2] germany can use nukes [17:40] schestowitz[TR2] not us nukes [17:40] schestowitz[TR2] it does notttt ned planes [17:40] schestowitz[TR2] *need [17:40] nobody no, we can't without permit, it's strictly forbidden in the 1990s 2+4 peace treaty [17:40] schestowitz[TR2] planes re slow and if intercepted you have dead pilots, or wose, PoW [17:40] schestowitz[TR2] *worse [17:40] nobody germany is permitted "nuclear participation", hence F-35 [17:41] schestowitz[TR2] permitted by who? [17:41] nobody schestowitz[TR2]: "the allies", that is USA mainly [17:41] schestowitz[TR2] germany is distancing itself from usa anyway [17:41] schestowitz[TR2] the issue is waste of money [17:41] nobody well, just today, nuclear deterrence was signaled prominently [17:41] schestowitz[TR2] to become the heidi klum of the us arms industry [17:42] TR News Louis-Philippe Vronneau: Fake Cash: The World Trade Game https://veronneau.org/fake-cash-the-world-trade-game.html [17:42] TR Bot Louis-Philippe Vronneau - Fake Cash: The World Trade Game [17:43] schestowitz[TR2] maybe molesting Lumpy Lump can ask germany to put schiffer in one of those f-25s [17:43] schestowitz[TR2] *35 [17:43] schestowitz[TR2] with a helmet on [17:43] schestowitz[TR2] or maybe put michael schumacher in one [17:43] schestowitz[TR2] nobody will see the wheelchair [17:44] schestowitz[TR2] and then sell those are "endorsed by carrrrrots" [17:45] nobody that's my understanding of it, Germany signalled nuclear deterrence just today [17:45] TR News Science attacked by the Epstein Class: Dihydroxyacetone Man Air Force One Photos Fuel Kennedy Center Demolition Speculation https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/us/politics/trump-kennedy-center-photos.html [17:45] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/us/politics/trump-kennedy-center-photos.html ) [17:45] nobody even when that costs us 250million a nuke each [17:45] TR News AFP photo shows Convicted Felon examining image of apparent Kennedy Center razing https://www.france24.com/en/afp-photo-shows-trump-examining-image-of-apparent-kennedy-center-razing [17:45] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/afp-photo-shows-trump-examining-image-of-apparent-kennedy-center-razing ) [17:46] TR News How Turkeys vague obscenity law is becoming a tool to criminalize LGBTI+ visibility https://bianet.org/haber/how-turkeys-vague-obscenity-law-is-becoming-a-tool-to-criminalize-lgbti-visibility-323560 [17:46] TR Bot How Turkeys vague obscenity law is becoming a tool to criminalize LGBTI+ visibility [17:46] schestowitz[TR2] that's my understanding of it, Germany signalled nuclear deterrence just today [17:46] schestowitz[TR2] no point [17:46] schestowitz[TR2] nato has that [17:46] schestowitz[TR2] in poland [17:46] schestowitz[TR2] and in turkey [17:46] schestowitz[TR2] poland is also eu [17:47] schestowitz[TR2] there are us nukes in us bases in europe [17:47] schestowitz[TR2] with localised names [17:47] nobody schestowitz[TR2]: in germany here, there is/was US nuclear stockpiles [17:47] nobody not sure about poland or turkey, whatever they got [17:47] TR News WordPress 7.1.1 Maintenance and Security Release https://wordpress.org/news/2026/09/wordpress-7-1-1-maintenance-and-security-release/ [17:47] TR Bot WordPress 7.1.1 Maintenance and Security Release WordPress News [17:47] schestowitz[TR2] turkey is risky [17:47] schestowitz[TR2] some "rebels" can get thee us nukes there [17:48] nobody it's interesting how they advertized Germany got one F-35 "only" now [17:48] schestowitz[TR2] or tuikey can 'defect' [17:48] schestowitz[TR2] *turkey [17:48] schestowitz[TR2] it can go cold (war) turkey [17:48] schestowitz[TR2] nobody: toiken buy [17:48] schestowitz[TR2] advertisinfg [17:48] schestowitz[TR2] another flaaag in tttthe marketing brooooooooochure [17:48] nobody myself remains sceptical, because our current head of government chancellor Fritz and his stock exchange portfolio [17:48] schestowitz[TR2] f-35 did not sell well [17:48] schestowitz[TR2] unless it was subsised by us [17:49] schestowitz[TR2] i.e. taxpayers [17:49] schestowitz[TR2] as us "military aid" [17:49] nobody in a way, he's asked to "deliver", with a few recent federal elections and christian conservatives at a historical loss over energy pricing etc. [17:49] nobody another reason why, this one F-35 is a dangerous signal, imo [17:50] nobody Blackrock Capital CEO [17:50] TR News The Trail to Silver Lake https://www.scummvm.org/news/20260917/ [17:50] TR Bot ScummVM :: Latest Developments :: The Trail to Silver Lake [17:50] nobody and the hey hi stocks of his, for that matter too Volkswagen announced a nose-dive in their balance sheets [17:51] nobody just today [17:52] nobody there's been endless debates over F-35, for a decade [17:52] nobody just today, one was delivered to Germany [17:52] schestowitz[TR2] one :) [17:52] schestowitz[TR2] easy to shoot down while it''s grounded [17:56] nobody makes me wonder again, who detonated Nord Stream pipelines [17:56] nobody because if those remained fully operational - which they aren't because reasons [17:56] nobody germany had not been hit hard by the recent Iran dispute and blockades, with supplies routed through the northern grid [17:57] schestowitz[TR2] belarus can rain down missiles on aaaairports and bases in germany like russia did antonov back in 2022 [17:57] schestowitz[TR2] those planes are mostly useless [17:57] schestowitz[TR2] swarms of drones aare cheap and better value for money [17:57] schestowitz[TR2] but the us wants to sell tanks and planes [17:57] schestowitz[TR2] their price tag is high [17:58] nobody mid of october this year, a court in Hamburg will interrogate some perpetrator who participated in the Nord Stream terror attack [17:58] nobody supposedly some Ukrainian citizen (which i wouldn't trust that's the real identity) [17:59] nobody police was hunting those for many years [17:59] nobody without a final report disclosed [17:59] nobody because it's not yet clarified, who had ordered this attack ● Sep 18 [18:00] nobody and who was involved in it [18:00] schestowitz[TR2] oswald [18:00] nobody Biden J. in February 2022 already said they'll "end this" if there was war in ukraine [18:01] nobody then mid september i had received some insane energy bill, which seeked to tax a kilowatt-hour of energy with ~3Euros [18:01] TR News China Stockpiled Oil, and Now It Could Dominate the Energy Landscape https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/business/energy-environment/china-oil-iran-war.html [18:01] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/business/energy-environment/china-oil-iran-war.html ) [18:01] nobody that's ~25Euros/liter gasoline, or ~$100/gallon... imagine this, and three days later Nord Stream detonated [18:01] nobody it's all been schemed and plotted in advance i guess [18:02] TR News China creates Italy-sized no-fly zone around Beijing after rare crash https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-creates-italy-sized-no-fly-zone-around-beijing-after-rare-crash [18:02] TR Bot China creates Italy-size no-fly zone around Beijing after rare crash | The Straits Times [18:02] nobody just saying, for another three years i've received half a dozen more extortion letters such as this [18:02] TR News China's Floating Rocket Launchpad Sends Nine Satellites Soaring 800KM Into Space in Historic First https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/china-gravity-1-sea-launch-nine-satellites-1820479 [18:02] TR Bot China's Floating Rocket Launchpad Sends Nine Satellites Soaring 800KM Into Space in Historic First | IBTimes UK [18:03] nobody and now they're headlining red live-tickers here in germany over excess petroleum prices 24/7 on TV and newspapers [18:03] nobody AGAIN [18:03] nobody although that's nowhere near the insanity i had seen in my accounting records [18:03] schestowitz[TR2] we pay 69 a month [18:03] schestowitz[TR2] 2 people [18:04] schestowitz[TR2] 35 pp per monnth [18:04] schestowitz[TR2] for summer [18:04] schestowitz[TR2] 1.5 euros a day [18:04] nobody energy is accounted in cents/kWh (or any derivative of this) [18:05] nobody cents/Joule, or Dollar/Barrel - it's the same metric [18:05] schestowitz[TR2] we compare prices between countries? 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[18:05] nobody i'm looking at it in cents/kWh [18:05] schestowitz[TR2] energy use is a variable [18:05] schestowitz[TR2] and not a constant [18:06] nobody i don't expect anything good from this F-35 deal, just saying [18:06] TR News Two Body Measurements Linked to Nearly Double The Risk of Death And Neither One Is BMI https://www.sciencealert.com/two-body-measurements-linked-to-nearly-double-the-risk-of-death-neither-one-is-bmi [18:06] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.sciencealert.com/two-body-measurements-linked-to-nearly-double-the-risk-of-death-neither-one-is-bmi ) [18:07] nobody i got a little more data, for my single-person household here, in Germany/EU [18:07] nobody i've got 1100/month income [18:07] nobody but appartmen rent, minimal energy use, and some 10Mbps cable internet line, that accounts for 700/month [18:07] nobody which leaves me with 400/month then [18:08] nobody then again, all the education and work of mine, that's worth nothing [18:08] TR News ACLU Women's Rights Advocate Honors Gloria Steinem's Legacy https://www.aclu.org/news/womens-rights/aclu-womens-rights-advocate-honors-gloria-steinems-legacy [18:08] TR Bot ACLU Women's Rights Advocate Honors Gloria Steinem's Legacy | American Civil Liberties Union [18:08] nobody it's close to below (official) chinese GDP even [18:08] schestowitz[TR2] well, fair, state [18:08] nobody which is another remarkable detail, Volkswagen major market, that's NOT germany, it's China! [18:09] nobody and guess what, sales declined dramatically [18:09] schestowitz[TR2] look at "modern" car [18:09] schestowitz[TR2] why would i buy one? [18:09] schestowitz[TR2] lots in one I would never want or even accept [18:09] nobody schestowitz[TR2]: i could not at least afford an inter-city railway ticket nowadays [18:09] schestowitz[TR2] many proprietary computer on 4 wheels or more [18:10] TR News Lithuania records EUs second-highest annual inflation in August https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3055232/lithuania-records-eu-s-second-highest-annual-inflation-in-august [18:10] TR Bot Lithuania records EUs second-highest annual inflation in August - LRT [18:10] TR News Britain invests $94 million into Starlink alternative https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/drones/uk-research-agency-backs-drone-based-internet-service-experiment-with-lasers-microwaves-and-gravity-waves-used-for-wireless-power-britain-invests-usd94-million-into-starlink-alternative [18:10] TR Bot UK research agency backs drone-based internet service experiment with lasers, microwaves, and gravity waves used for wireless power Britain invests $94 million into Starlink alternative | Tom's Hardware [18:11] TR News What Happens When a Community Wires Itself: Lessons from Colville on the Power of Indigenous-Led Connectivity https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2026/09/what-happens-when-a-community-wires-itself-lessons-from-colville-on-the-power-of-indigenous-led-connectivity/ [18:11] TR Bot What Happens When a Community Wires Itself: Lessons from Colville on the Power of Indigenous-Led Connectivity - Internet Society [18:11] IsambardPrince [11:48] f-35 did not sell well [18:11] schestowitz[TR2] nope [18:11] schestowitz[TR2] it did not [18:11] schestowitz[TR2] it sold [18:11] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: The US is sort of casually admitting it was a failure. [18:11] schestowitz[TR2] from the us pocket [18:11] IsambardPrince Hence the new Block Upgrade for the F-15. [18:11] schestowitz[TR2] the taxpayers buying them for other countries [18:12] schestowitz[TR2] while qatar buys bribes for lump [18:12] schestowitz[TR2] bribe it bought from a us company [18:12] IsambardPrince If the F-35 is so great why are we upgrading the F-15 again? [18:12] nobody who knows, maybe our Blackrock CEO chancellor intends to brag a little [18:12] schestowitz[TR2] nobody: forget about taking the bahn to other cities [18:12] schestowitz[TR2] 1990s: you will have a bright cxareer [18:12] nobody see, all those energy prices and appartmen rent hikes, we've got a nuke now for 250million each [18:12] schestowitz[TR2] you were born same year and month as me [18:12] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: The F-14 Tomcat was great for its time. [18:12] schestowitz[TR2] 2000s: you might get a mortgage [18:13] schestowitz[TR2] 2010s: justt rent [18:13] IsambardPrince We were 10 years ahead of everyone else with that. [18:13] schestowitz[TR2] 2020s: just eat [18:13] IsambardPrince It was on time and on budget. [18:13] IsambardPrince Washington has gotten very crooked. [18:13] IsambardPrince And that's what's going on with the F-35. [18:13] nobody thing is, we've already got the Eurofighter, but that's not designated for nuclear participation to my knowledge [18:13] IsambardPrince It should have been canceled while it was still an experimental plane. [18:13] nobody that's why the F-35 announcement is remarkable [18:13] IsambardPrince It quickly became obvious it had design flaws that can't be overcome. [18:14] nobody few years ago there was a proposal too to acquire F/A-18 instead [18:14] schestowitz[TR2] it could not even fire its gun a decade back [18:14] schestowitz[TR2] maybe they hired for age diversity and for low salaries [18:14] schestowitz[TR2] and it shows [18:14] nobody doesn't make a difference, all that's relevant is the USA nuclear deal [18:14] IsambardPrince The US is throwing money away on things that only set us back further. [18:15] IsambardPrince If you miss your stop, get off the train as soon as you can. [18:15] IsambardPrince The longer you stay on, the longer it will take to get back where you need to be. [18:15] nobody there's just another live-interview, asking if "there wasn't no European alternative to the USA F-35" [18:15] nobody well, obviously, no, there isn't [18:15] IsambardPrince Now we're talking about Trump-class Battleships. [18:16] IsambardPrince It'll be the most expensive thing on the bottom of the ocean if we ever end up in a war with China. [18:16] schestowitz[TR2] Boeings 737 Max Software Outsourced to $9-an-Hour Engineers https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-28/boeing-s-737-max-software-outsourced-to-9-an-hour-engineers [18:16] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-28/boeing-s-737-max-software-outsourced-to-9-an-hour-engineers ) [18:16] schestowitz[TR2] same companies that makes us military jets [18:16] schestowitz[TR2] space weapons [18:16] schestowitz[TR2] and missiles [18:16] schestowitz[TR2] you can image the staff overlaps [18:16] schestowitz[TR2] as do the designs [18:16] IsambardPrince For what they're talking about spending on Trump's vanity project, you could have 8 fast attack submarines for about the same price. [18:16] IsambardPrince Or 3 fast attack and 3 ballistic missile submarines. [18:17] nobody i suspect China re-assured it's energy supplies with russian pipelines [18:17] IsambardPrince I think it would be more appropriate to enhance our global strike capabilities. [18:17] nobody because, i do remember the time when Nord Stream detonated, russia at the same time connected some new Siberian pipeline to china [18:17] nobody china is soaking alot [18:17] IsambardPrince Could a "battleship" like the "Defiant" make sense? Not really. [18:18] IsambardPrince In a fleet engagement that would take place against China, you need aircraft carriers with destroyer escorts. [18:18] nobody and there was rumors, US republicans weren't happy, because China [18:18] IsambardPrince And Trump is even setting back our new aircraft carriers. [18:18] nobody Trump doesn't represent entire US republicans [18:18] IsambardPrince They had an electromagnetic launch system and he ordered them to go back to steam catapults that do more damage to aircraft frames. [18:19] TR News How Three Brothers Built an Hey Hi (AI) Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/brown-brothers-media-ai-slop-empire [18:19] TR Bot How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month [18:19] IsambardPrince The carriers had already been designed around the electromagnetic launch system and some are already being built. [18:19] nobody china is vulnerable with energy and food supplies [18:19] IsambardPrince Trump is doing so much damage to our military readiness that we don't even need enemies. [18:19] nobody which might explain various disputes over ukraine too [18:19] TR News OpenAI Has Hundreds of Workers Reading Peoples Private Chats https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-workers-read-private-chats [18:19] TR Bot OpenAI Has Hundreds of Workers Reading People's Private Chats [18:20] IsambardPrince The most dangerous weapon the Russians and Chinese have against the US military is Donald Trump. [18:20] nobody ^ good point [18:20] TR News Cult of Anthropic Insiders Rumored to Be Worshipping Claude as a God https://futurism.com/future-society/cult-anthropic-insiders-worshipping-claude-god [18:20] TR Bot Cult of Anthropic Insiders Rumored to Be Worshipping Claude as a God [18:20] nobody and Volkswagen invested in China [18:20] IsambardPrince VW is the worst car ever. [18:20] nobody hand in hand with corrupt labor unions in germany [18:20] TR News Fearing No Repercussions, Proprietary Chaffbot Company Admits That Its Rogue Hey Hi (AI) [spambots] Performed a Bunch of Other Terrifying Actions https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-admits-ai-agents-performed-terrifying-actions [18:20] TR Bot Fearing No Repercussions, OpenAI Admits That Its Rogue AI Agents Performed a Bunch of Other Terrifying Actions [18:20] IsambardPrince Someone was having a used VW delivered by Carvana the other day. [18:20] nobody VW is THE labor union entity [18:21] IsambardPrince VWs are already breaking down all the time when the first owner is still making payments. [18:21] schestowitz[TR2] MinceR: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/world/europe/play-budapest-culture-hungary.html [18:21] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/world/europe/play-budapest-culture-hungary.html ) [18:21] nobody yet this isn't plausible either, with the current german government coalition [18:21] IsambardPrince They're infamous for "German engineering" problems. [18:21] IsambardPrince And yet people still buy them used or buy them at all? [18:21] nobody some pro-chinese and some pro-US affiliates [18:21] IsambardPrince It proves that nobody learns anything. [18:22] nobody IsambardPrince: VW sales are in steady decline, just as said, because china is their major market [18:22] IsambardPrince Then again they might be competitive because the US industry has started using inferior metals and plastics. [18:22] nobody another irony, given my accounting and standard of living nowadays, in germany [18:22] IsambardPrince So how much worse can a VW be att this point. [18:22] schestowitz[TR2] metals?? u joke m8!! [18:22] nobody that's how it doesn't make sense, how german government would brag about F-35 now [18:22] schestowitz[TR2] mayeb they recycle tinned soups into car doors :) [18:23] nobody because whom was nuclear deterrence directed against? [18:23] IsambardPrince The US-made stuff used to last a lot longer because it was made to be more forgiving. [18:23] IsambardPrince You could fudge on upkeep and it was designed so well that it would last a long time anyway. [18:23] IsambardPrince Then they decided why do it? [18:23] schestowitz[TR2] IsambardPrince: coca cola in glass [18:23] nobody IsambardPrince: i guess if USA sells some nuclear F-35 to germany, then it's combat ready [18:23] IsambardPrince Just make card like the Germans and the Koreans do. [18:23] schestowitz[TR2] loking like a flute [18:23] IsambardPrince We'll sell a new one twice as often! [18:23] schestowitz[TR2] and bottles recyclled [18:24] nobody i rather not see this hypothesis put to test though [18:24] schestowitz[TR2] now... plantic botle, plastic capp\ [18:24] schestowitz[TR2] *tic [18:24] schestowitz[TR2] and liess cocaine :) [18:24] IsambardPrince *cars [18:24] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: Target sells Coke in glass bottles with real sugar. [18:24] IsambardPrince It's just Mexican Coke. [18:24] IsambardPrince You can buy it in most stores around here. [18:24] schestowitz[TR2] REL sugar! whoa. [18:24] schestowitz[TR2] *reeeeal [18:24] IsambardPrince It tastes COMPLETELY different. [18:24] schestowitz[TR2] and 500ml, not 330? [18:25] IsambardPrince Yes, the glass bottles are half a liter. [18:25] IsambardPrince They're big enough to share. [18:25] schestowitz[TR2] buy 3 [18:25] schestowitz[TR2] for 990 [18:25] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: There used to be this shopping mall mom went to in Indiana. [18:25] schestowitz[TR2] almost like 2 old ones, 1000ml [18:26] IsambardPrince They had an antique Coke machine they put in the back of the store. [18:26] IsambardPrince They filled it with 8 ounce glass bottles for 10 cents. [18:26] schestowitz[TR2] less plastic, they wash and reuse the glass [18:26] IsambardPrince It was a gimmick to get people to shop in that store. [18:26] schestowitz[TR2] maybe it's time to tax oil and plastic [18:26] schestowitz[TR2] and get back to mile in glass, too [18:26] IsambardPrince They watched me go back there and buy 4 of them and walk out one day. [18:26] schestowitz[TR2] *milk [18:26] IsambardPrince And a lady chased me down and asked me not to do that because it was for customers. [18:27] IsambardPrince I said, "You set the price at 10 cents and that makes me a customer." and walked off. [18:27] IsambardPrince I was like 9 years old. [18:27] IsambardPrince :D [18:27] schestowitz[TR2] free refills = obesity [18:28] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: Drink water. [18:28] IsambardPrince You notice how most rich people don't drink Coke. [18:28] IsambardPrince Or if they do it's not very much. [18:28] TR News 'She Was 12': Epstein Victims Sue Estate, Alleging His 'Victoria's Secret' Modeling Cover Concealed Stolen Abuse Images https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/two-women-sue-jeffrey-epstein-estate-alleged-images-1820489 http://techrights.org/n/2026/01/30/The_Epstein_Files_Don_t_Say_the_Ages_of_Those_Russian_Girls_Bil.shtml [18:28] TR Bot 'She Was 12': Two Women Who Say Their Childhood Images Were Found in Epstein's Collection Sue Estate | IBTimes UK [18:28] TR Bot Techrights The Epstein Files Don't Say the Ages of Those "Russian Girls" Bill Epsteingate Exploited [18:28] IsambardPrince For starters, Coke now costs more than buying beer and paying the alcohol tax on the beer. [18:28] TR News UN rights experts say global food supply under threat from criminalization of peasant seed systems https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/09/un-rights-experts-say-global-food-supply-under-threat-from-criminalization-of-peasant-seed-systems/ [18:28] TR Bot UN rights experts say global food supply under threat from criminalization of peasant seed systems - JURIST - News [18:29] IsambardPrince When it goes on sale beer costs 50-60 cents a bottle. [18:29] IsambardPrince Coke costs abut 90 cents a can when it goes on sale. [18:29] IsambardPrince It's cheaper to develop a drinking habit than it is to buy Coca-Cola. [18:30] nobody sadly grocery stores here do not offer light beer with less alcohol [18:30] TR News Suno Faces Yet Another Class Action Lawsuit Over Alleged November 2025 Data Breach Plus a Separate Complaint for Allegedly Violating the Americans with Disabilities Act https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/09/17/suno-data-breach-lawsuit/ [18:30] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/09/17/suno-data-breach-lawsuit/ ) [18:30] IsambardPrince Light Beer is sort of a trick of chemistry. [18:30] nobody problem is, beer does need alcohol for hummulus plant aroma to dissolve [18:30] IsambardPrince If you do it right (like Miller High Life) it might not be bad. [18:30] IsambardPrince If you do it wrong (like Bud Light) it'll be bad. [18:31] schestowitz[TR2] schizobeer [18:31] nobody but quality beer does not need 5% alcohol for full aroma [18:31] IsambardPrince 4.2-4.7% is fine. [18:31] nobody yep, closer to 4.2 [18:31] IsambardPrince If you look at Extra Light beers they're at like 2.8%. [18:31] IsambardPrince They do not taste good. [18:31] nobody i think a quality beer can be made with 3% too [18:32] IsambardPrince Moving from 4.2% to 5% ABV almost always doubles the carbs. [18:32] nobody while ago i remember some Czech dark lager, 3.5%, that was rather tasty [18:32] IsambardPrince Carb content does not scale linearly with ABV. [18:32] nobody but it's rare to find such [18:33] nobody good point, a quality beer contains ZERO sugar [18:33] TR News China imposes travel curbs to protect national security amid superpower tech race https://hongkongfp.com/2026/09/17/china-imposes-travel-curbs-to-protect-national-security-amid-superpower-tech-race/ [18:33] TR Bot China imposes travel curbs to protect 'national security' [18:33] nobody but it does need alcohol to dissolve hummulus [18:33] TR News Climate change: Glacier loss and dry rivers threaten water security https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260917-climate-change-glacier-loss-and-dry-rivers-threaten-water-security [18:33] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260917-climate-change-glacier-loss-and-dry-rivers-threaten-water-security ) [18:33] IsambardPrince I'm trying to sort out and back up my Chromebook. [18:34] nobody i only wished there was more quality light beer [18:34] TR News Firefox Nightly: High-speed Release Trains These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 209 https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2026/09/17/high-speed-release-trains-these-weeks-in-firefox-issue-209/ [18:34] TR Bot High-speed Release Trains These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 209 Firefox Nightly News [18:34] IsambardPrince Whatever bug existed in the Liinux system that was causing Firefox to crash is gone it seems. [18:34] TR News Influencers Are Using Metas AI-Glasses to Film Manipulative Feel-Good Slop of People in Public https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/influencers-using-meta-ai-glasses-film-content-public-cruelty [18:34] TR Bot Influencers Are Using Meta's AI-Glasses to Film Manipulative Feel-Good Slop of People in Public [18:35] TR News Qantas ground workers to strike over pay and conditions next week https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/qantas-ground-workers-to-strike-over-pay-and-conditions-next-week [18:35] TR Bot Qantas ground workers to strike over pay and conditions | The Straits Times [18:36] nobody "germany and russia are closing their general embassies each in Berlin and Sankt Petersburg" [18:36] TR News Imprint 1.0 and Kirigami Addons 1.14.0 https://carlschwan.eu/2026/09/17/imprint-1.0-and-kirigami-addons-1.14.0/ [18:36] TR Bot Imprint 1.0 and Kirigami Addons 1.14.0 [18:37] TR News Report finds DHS whistleblower retaliation complaints have spiked https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce-rightsgovernance/2026/09/report-finds-dhs-whistleblower-retaliation-complaints-have-spiked/ [18:37] TR Bot Report finds DHS whistleblower retaliation complaints have spiked | Federal News Network [18:37] TR News Two Remote Amazon Communities Have Strikingly Low Dementia Rates. Scientists Are Struggling to Understand Why. https://www.sciencealert.com/two-remote-amazon-communities-have-strikingly-low-dementia-rates-scientists-are-struggling-to-understand-why [18:37] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.sciencealert.com/two-remote-amazon-communities-have-strikingly-low-dementia-rates-scientists-are-struggling-to-understand-why ) [18:38] TR News Kentaro Hayashi: Building Mozc with dh-bazel, buildsystem support for debhelper https://kenhys.hatenablog.jp/entry/2026/09/17/215331 [18:38] TR Bot Building Mozc with dh-bazel, buildsystem support for debhelper - [18:38] TR News Oxygen 6.8 more polish for KDEs classic theme https://filipfila.wordpress.com/2026/09/17/oxygen-6-8-more-polish-for-kdes-classic-theme/ [18:38] TR Bot Oxygen 6.8 more polish for KDEs classic theme Filip Fila's blog [18:39] nobody "drone strikes on russian oil refineries" [18:39] TR News Whos suing Hey Hi (AI) and whos signing latest: Village Media works with OpenAI, but Seattle Times, Newsday but Editorial Perfil sue https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/news-publisher-ai-deals-lawsuits-openai-google/ [18:39] TR Bot News generative AI deals revealed: Who is suing, who is signing? [18:40] TR News Inside Abusive Monopolist Microsoft and OpenAI, Worry About Damaging the Publishing Industry https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/technology/microsoft-openai-publishing-industry.html [18:40] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/technology/microsoft-openai-publishing-industry.html ) [18:40] nobody "drone strikes on russian wildberry stores" (russian amazon online shop variant) [18:40] TR News Retired Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Engineer details the story about the famous leaked FCKGW backdoored Windows XP key copy protection used 10MB of encrypted Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Bob for validation https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/retired-microsoft-engineer-details-the-story-about-the-famous-leaked-fckgw-windows-xp-key-copy-protection-used-10mb-of-encrypted-microsoft-bob-for-validation [18:40] TR Bot Retired Microsoft Engineer details the story about the famous leaked FCKGW Windows XP key copy protection used 10MB of encrypted Microsoft Bob for validation | Tom's Hardware [18:40] nobody "Ukraine in fear of winter crisis in Kiev, proposals to evacuate Kiev" [18:41] nobody it's not yet clarified upon, who detonated Nord Stream pipelines though [18:42] nobody yet now it's targets hit in both Ukraine AND Russia [18:42] nobody "German industry reports record loss of industry jobs" (since when nordstream detonated) [18:43] nobody so far this did NOT benefit "climate change", just saying, because a few psycho sectarians argued that's all fine if it benefits climate change policy [18:44] nobody we got different foreign agents acting in german politics here, some coordinated from USA think tanks, others coordinated from Russia/Moscow and Gazprom business there [18:44] nobody and a few more acting on behalf of Chinese interests [18:45] TR News CISA Releases Cyber Decoy Guidance to Strengthen Critical Infrastructure Defenses https://www.securityweek.com/cisa-releases-guidance-on-deploying-cyber-decoys/ [18:45] TR Bot Releases Cyber Decoy Guidance to Strengthen Critical Infrastructure Defenses - SecurityWeek [18:45] TR News Cisco Fixes Dozens of Flaws Across FMC, ISE and Nexus Dashboard https://www.securityweek.com/cisco-fixes-dozens-of-flaws-across-fmc-ise-and-nexus-dashboard/ [18:45] TR Bot Fixes Dozens of Flaws Across FMC, ISE and Nexus Dashboard - SecurityWeek [18:47] TR News ISC Patches 14 Vulnerabilities in BIND 9 Security Update https://www.securityweek.com/isc-patches-14-vulnerabilities-in-bind-9-security-update/ [18:47] TR Bot Patches 14 Vulnerabilities in BIND 9 Security Update - SecurityWeek [18:48] TR News Revolut Data Breach: 5 Months, 680 High-Profile Accounts, $3M Ransom https://www.securityweek.com/revolut-data-breach-5-months-680-high-profile-accounts-3m-ransom/ [18:48] TR Bot Data Breach: 5 Months, 680 High-Profile Accounts, $3M Ransom - SecurityWeek [18:48] TR News CISA Retires Weekly Vulnerability Bulletin in Risk-Based Pivot https://www.securityweek.com/cisa-retires-weekly-vulnerability-bulletin-in-risk-based-pivot/ [18:48] TR Bot Retires Weekly Vulnerability Bulletin in Risk-Based Pivot - SecurityWeek [18:49] TR News Cyberattacks on Two Oil Tankers Prompt Coast Guard, FBI to Board Vessels https://www.securityweek.com/cyberattacks-on-two-oil-tankers-prompt-coast-guard-fbi-to-board-vessels/ [18:49] TR Bot on Two Oil Tankers Prompt Coast Guard, FBI to Board Vessels - SecurityWeek [18:49] TR News Scamwatch: 'My Fashion Company Apple account has been compromised' https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/scamwatch-my-apple-account-has-been-compromised-aKyRm2Q2GcMq [18:50] TR Bot Scamwatch: 'My Apple account has been compromised' - Which? [18:52] nobody "German military ordered mandatory stay of staff in Lithuania" [18:53] nobody that's the place where german military controls drone strikes (to my knowledge) [18:53] psydroid3 foreign agents have occupied Germany! [18:53] nobody official wording was "Ukraine drone strikes hit Russia", or "Russian (Iranian Shahed) drone strikes hit Ukraine" [18:53] schestowitz[TR2] you are in age rangefor ban on leaving, iirrc [18:53] schestowitz[TR2] under 45s [18:54] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg3nr83xyvo [18:54] TR Bot German men aged 17-45 may need military approval for long stays abroad - BBC News [18:54] schestowitz[TR2] there we go [18:54] schestowitz[TR2] nobody: you can leave after december [18:54] schestowitz[TR2] but not before [18:55] schestowitz[TR2] your flesh is needed [18:55] schestowitz[TR2] for merz and country [18:55] nobody i'll have my 45 birtheday in November already [18:55] schestowitz[TR2] ah [18:55] schestowitz[TR2] so soon [18:55] nobody and hell yes, i wished i could leave to some decent place to work and live in peace [18:55] schestowitz[TR2] "Compulsory military service in Germany was ended in 2011" [18:55] schestowitz[TR2] try indonesia [18:56] TR News Raspberry Pi 5 gets dual GMSL2 Camera HAT based on MAX96716A deserializer https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/09/17/raspberry-pi-5-gets-dual-gmsl2-camera-hat-based-on-max96716a-deserializer/ [18:56] TR Bot Raspberry Pi 5 gets dual GMSL2 Camera HAT based on MAX96716A deserializer - CNX Software [18:56] nobody there's too demands to re-introduce compulsory service [18:56] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crr4qr2wg8do [18:56] TR Bot Some veterans to be called up to test UK's resilience for war - BBC News [18:57] schestowitz[TR2] this month [18:57] nobody "to test" [18:57] schestowitz[TR2] 10 days ago [18:57] nobody you know, it's just some "training" [18:57] schestowitz[TR2] "i am not a pilot [18:57] schestowitz[TR2] "WE are a pilot" [18:57] nobody yep, a single F-35 type nuclear carriers needs ~300 staff [18:58] schestowitz[TR2] https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/09/04/when-your-own-government-tells-you-to-stockpile/ [18:58] TR Bot Blog Archive When Your Own Government Tells You to Stockpile [18:58] schestowitz[TR2] 1 minutes ago [18:58] schestowitz[TR2] https://united24media.com/world/germany-top-general-warns-country-must-prepare-for-defense-amid-rising-russian-threats-22681 [18:59] TR Bot Germany Top General Warns Country Must Prepare for Defense Amid Rising Russian Threats UNITED24 Media [18:59] schestowitz[TR2] todayy [18:59] schestowitz[TR2] https://icds.ee/en/germany-is-the-front-line-of-russian-hybrid-attacks-what-comes-next/ [18:59] TR Bot Germany is the Front Line of Russian Hybrid Attacks: What Comes Next? - International Centre for Defence and Security [18:59] IsambardPrince The Republicans are flush with cash and have produced several hundred TV commercials for their Congressional candidates this cycle. [18:59] IsambardPrince Out of over 700 commercials, only 12 of them have or mention Donald Trump. [18:59] IsambardPrince If he's such an asset, why are they hiding from him? Hmm? [18:59] nobody best german politics and their propaganda tv apparatus had to say, it's good for "climate change" [18:59] nobody just as said, they drained me with 1000% inflated energy pricing for decades ● Sep 18 [19:00] nobody they'll have to find someone else now [19:00] nobody to live on 400/month [19:00] schestowitz[TR2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany%E2%80%93Russia_relations [19:00] TR Bot GermanyRussia relations - Wikipedia [19:00] nobody schestowitz[TR2]: the INNER-german relations themselves are remarkable [19:00] nobody germany itself is divided [19:00] nobody politically, socially, economically [19:01] nobody it's probably WORSE than Brexit disputes [19:01] nobody regardless of the Euro shitcoin we've got here [19:01] TR News Introducing Enhanced Distribution Support https://openbuildservice.org/2026/09/17/enhanced-distribution-support// [19:01] IsambardPrince The CDC sez Americans are exhausted and they don't know why. [19:01] TR Bot Introducing Enhanced Distribution Support - Open Build Service [19:01] IsambardPrince I wrote: [19:01] IsambardPrince I did the math. If you get 40 hours a week at Walmart and live in the Chicago suburbs, then at the end of the month you will also have to find $1400 to get to $0 in the bank and have no money. [19:01] IsambardPrince And this is after you have a $0 budget for Discretionary and Healthcare. [19:01] IsambardPrince Why are people exhausted, I wonder? [19:01] TR News Turkey blocks over 400 social control media accounts belonging to journalists, rights groups https://bianet.org/haber/turkey-blocks-over-400-social-media-accounts-belonging-to-journalists-rights-groups-323559 [19:01] TR Bot Turkey blocks over 400 social media accounts belonging to journalists, rights groups [19:03] TR News Patrik Sivek: Whats Up, Czech Translation? https://blogs.gnome.org/patriksivek/2026/09/17/whats-up-czech-translation/ [19:03] TR Bot Whats Up, Czech Translation? Patrik Sivek [19:03] IsambardPrince This budget assumes that absolutely nothing will happen that requires any emergency spending, and no budget for recreational activities. [19:03] IsambardPrince The American Dream? [19:03] TR News Allan Day: GNOME Foundation Update, September 2026 https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2026/09/17/gnome-foundation-update-september-2026/ [19:03] TR Bot GNOME Foundation Update, September 2026 Form and Function [19:04] nobody IsambardPrince: it's too remarkable how Academics with decades of education are treated here in germany [19:04] TR News GNOME 51 released https://lwn.net/Articles/1094963/ [19:04] TR Bot 51 released [LWN.net] [19:04] nobody now politics wonder how teachers and university staff quit their studies en masse [19:04] nobody they've got no more teachers to hire [19:04] nobody leave alone, none of them are hired as state officials anymore (with guaranteed income, job security, they've implemented hire-and-fire for this too) [19:05] nobody medical staff too, reporting triple shifts [19:05] nobody don't intend to boil up the immigration dispute here, but that's what politics say, immigration shall fix it now [19:05] nobody the cheaper the better [19:05] TR News (NEW): GNOME 51 A Corua Desktop Environment Officially Released, This Is Whats New https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/09/16/GNOME_51_A_Coruna_Desktop_Environment_Officially_Released_This_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/09/16/GNOME_51_A_Coruna_Desktop_Environment_Officially_Released_This_.gmi [19:05] TR Bot Tux Machines GNOME 51 A Corua Desktop Environment Officially Released, This Is Whats New [19:06] nobody good luck finding medical staff for 400/month payroll, or a teacher for this [19:06] TR News When the PTABs Broadest Reasonable Interpretation Goes Too Far https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/09/when-the-ptabs-broadest-reasonable-interpretation-goes-too-far.html [19:06] TR Bot When the PTAB's Broadest Reasonable Interpretation Goes Too Far [19:06] nobody it's close to _below_ (officially) reported chinese GDP even [19:06] nobody which is the guaranteed social security minimum [19:07] nobody politics argue, it's supposedly this absolute social security minimum which busted the budget [19:07] TR News Objective Baselessness in Carnegie v. Fenix Diamonds https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/09/objective-baselessness-in-carnegie-v-fenix-diamonds.html [19:07] TR Bot Objective Baselessness in Carnegie v. Fenix Diamonds | Patently-O [19:07] nobody which is outragoues propaganda [19:07] IsambardPrince Probably the worst its been since Nazi Germany. [19:07] IsambardPrince The Nazis killed half of them. [19:07] nobody not really, but close, i do remember former GDR as a child and teenager [19:07] IsambardPrince Then the Soviets got who they didn't like. [19:08] TR News Slop and fraud in "law firm" clothing"? https://www.juve-patent.com/people-and-business/dutch-ip-litigators-launch-ai-native-law-firm-in-amsterdam/ [19:08] TR Bot Dutch IP litigators launch AI-native law firm in Amsterdam [19:08] nobody environmental hazad, pollution of air and ground water, was doomsday in GDR [19:08] TR News Two Wilus Wi-Fi patents challenges granted https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/9/17/two-wilus-wi-fi-patents-challenges-granted [19:08] TR Bot Two Wilus Wi-Fi patents challenges granted Unified Patents [19:08] nobody but nowadays, even in this regard, in particular major cities, approach this standard of living again [19:08] nobody because it's overcrowded and traffic jams (of mostly immigrant population who can afford expensive cars often, ironically) [19:09] TR News Obviously this is just spam or paid placement for a partner; one person changing employer but not a job is totally not newsworthy https://www.juve-patent.com/people-and-business/carpmaels-ransford-hires-freshfields-patent-partner-chris-stothers/ [19:09] TR Bot Carpmaels & Ransford hires Freshfields patent partner Chris Stothers [19:09] IsambardPrince [13:08] because it's overcrowded and traffic jams (of mostly immigrant population who can afford expensive cars often, ironically) [19:09] nobody i couldn't at least afford an inter-city railway ticket [19:09] TR News Here's how we built the Fairphone Gallery app https://www.fairphone.com/stories/heres-how-we-built-the-fairphone-gallery-app [19:09] TR Bot how we built the Fairphone Gallery app [19:09] IsambardPrince Trump says he deported 3 million undocumented immigrants. [19:09] IsambardPrince Nothing at all has improved in the lives of US citizens. [19:09] nobody yet the exact same politicians argue, i shall roam by train for the climate change policy of theirs [19:09] IsambardPrince Prices go up. [19:09] IsambardPrince Nobody hires. [19:10] IsambardPrince What has changed from mass deportations? [19:10] nobody there's no deportations, i beg your pardon [19:10] IsambardPrince It's Trump so I expect the 3 million to be an exaggeration. [19:10] nobody tourists are permitted indefinite stay nowadays [19:10] IsambardPrince But it's higher than it was. [19:11] IsambardPrince MAGA said that mass desportations fix everything. [19:11] IsambardPrince Countries are not designed to lose population. [19:11] IsambardPrince You can see what happens at the city level when city populations go into decline. [19:11] IsambardPrince Look at Gary, Indiana. [19:11] schestowitz[TR2] michael jackson died :) [19:11] nobody it's a difficult topic, a constitutional state of law and order mustn't be sacrificed, and human dignity honored [19:11] IsambardPrince It was built around 10x as many people living there. [19:11] IsambardPrince And assumed they'd all make middle class wages at the steel mill. [19:12] nobody but here in germany, they've sabotaged that too, constitutional state and law and order, EU scale even [19:12] nobody in particular at EU level [19:12] TR News What We Lost When Big Tech Took Over the Classroom https://www.newyorker.com/culture/progress-report/what-we-lost-when-big-tech-took-over-the-classroom [19:12] TR Bot What We Lost When Big Tech Took Over the Classroom | The New Yorker [19:12] IsambardPrince Yeah, the State of Indiana sends in the National Guard to dismantle abandoned houses in Gary on their training weeks. [19:12] TR News Decoding with Rockchip at Kernel Recipes 2026 https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/decoding-with-rockchip-at-kernel-recipes-2026.html [19:12] TR Bot Decoding with Rockchip at Kernel Recipes 2026 [19:12] IsambardPrince They figure they have to pay them anyway, might as well dismantle houses. [19:13] IsambardPrince They've been at it for over a decade. They could do that for 50 more years and not be done. [19:13] IsambardPrince What would they use the land for anyway? [19:13] IsambardPrince The rest of Lake County is doing fine. [19:13] IsambardPrince They left Gary without electricity for 19 days after a recent storm. [19:13] IsambardPrince When the power company had all the white people's power back in in 2-3 days. [19:14] IsambardPrince They know that white people vote. [19:14] IsambardPrince And if you leave white people without power for 19 days, some shit is gonna change. [19:14] TR News pgAdmin 4 v9.18 Released https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pgadmin-4-v918-released-3381/ [19:14] TR Bot PostgreSQL: pgAdmin 4 v9.18 Released [19:14] IsambardPrince They don't care what black people think of the government. [19:15] IsambardPrince They just draw a sacrifice district around all the black people and then they're contained. [19:15] TR News Kiwi TCMS: Kiwi TCMS 16.5 https://kiwitcms.org/blog/kiwi-tcms-team/2026/09/17/kiwi-tcms-165/ [19:15] TR Bot Kiwi TCMS - Kiwi TCMS 16.5 [19:15] IsambardPrince They gerrymandered to get Republicans 7 out of 9 of the House seats. [19:16] schestowitz[TR2] the garymander [19:16] IsambardPrince They took up a bill that Trump demanded that would have stolen all 9 of them. [19:16] IsambardPrince But the state Senate voted it down. [19:16] IsambardPrince You get 9 of them by cracking instead of packing. [19:16] IsambardPrince Cracking is the opposite of packing. [19:17] IsambardPrince You draw the districts to break up the black vote and put some of them each into districts that are overwhelmingly white. [19:17] IsambardPrince Then they can vote but it won't matter at all and there are no districts that represent them. [19:17] admfubar https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/republican-bill-would-order-isps-dns-providers-and-vpns-to-block-piracy-sites/ [19:17] TR Bot Republican bill would order ISPs, DNS providers, and VPNs to block piracy sites - Ars Technica [19:17] IsambardPrince Illinois flipped one district after 2020 by using cracking. [19:18] TR News Microns Taiwan workers threaten strike, say up to 68 months bonus not enough https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/microns-taiwan-workers-threaten-strike-say-up-to-68-months-bonus-not-enough [19:18] TR Bot Micron's Taiwan workers threaten strike over bonus dispute | The Straits Times [19:18] IsambardPrince They extended some districts with a shitload of black voters in Chicago out into more rural areas of Illinois. [19:18] IsambardPrince This let them take a swing district in the middle of the state and run it straight up through all of the cities. [19:18] IsambardPrince Like Peoria and Springfield. [19:18] IsambardPrince Bypassing everything else. [19:19] TR News Iran Drone Strikes on Amazon Data Centers Are Permanently Deleting Customer Data https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/iran-drone-strikes-data-centers-deleting-customer-data [19:19] TR Bot Iran Drone Strikes on Amazon Data Centers Are Permanently Deleting Customer Data [19:19] IsambardPrince They turned an R+1 into a D+4 that way. [19:19] TR News Bus strike caused inconveniences to many Latvian residents https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/transport/17.09.2026-bus-strike-caused-inconveniences-to-many-latvian-residents.a663538/ [19:19] TR Bot Bus strike caused inconveniences to many Latvian residents / Article [19:19] IsambardPrince Could it be flipped? Yes. Will it be, not unless the Democrats draw so much voter anger that it's like 2010. [19:20] IsambardPrince You could technically draw the districts in Illinois so the Democrats could pick up two more House seats and still have a firm grip on every single one of them. [19:20] IsambardPrince Illinois threatened to do that if Indiana did theirs. [19:20] admfubar bow dont you feel better??? https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/09/sketchy-iv-drips-at-wellness-clinics-have-poisoned-dozens-cdc-and-fda-warn/ [19:20] TR Bot IV drips used for "detoxification" actually filled with toxins; dozens poisoned - Ars Technica [19:20] IsambardPrince So Indiana backed down. [19:21] nobody IsambardPrince: i wouldn't think US elections are codified in skin color [19:21] TR News LausivLoader analysis, or how to pass data between malware stages, (Thu, Sep 17th) https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/33348 [19:21] TR Bot LausivLoader analysis, or how to pass data between malware stages [19:21] IsambardPrince They realized that all they would do is have Pritzker call a special session in Illinois. [19:21] IsambardPrince The math stays the same. [19:21] nobody IsambardPrince: it's rich and poor, and i too tend to think Kardashians are crazy rich regardless of their skin color and intellect [19:22] TR News Rust tells people to install malware to protect against malware. Epic "fake security" in action. https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/09/17/targeted-attacks/ [19:22] TR Bot Be alert: targeted attacks on prominent Rustaceans | Rust Blog [19:22] TR News Alice Mikhaylenko: Libadwaita 1.10 https://nyaa.place/blog/libadwaita-1-10 [19:22] TR Bot Libadwaita 1.10 - Alice's Blog [19:23] admfubar https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/09/hackers-reveal-how-flock-cameras-really-track-cars-and-people/ [19:23] TR Bot Hackers reveal how Flock cameras really track cars and people - Ars Technica [19:23] *psydroid3 watched the Michael movie a few weeks ago [19:24] TR News How an Italian Logistics Company Moved From backdoored Windows to Linux: A Real Migration Story https://itsfoss.com/linux-stories/italian-logistics-company-migration/ [19:24] TR Bot How an Italian Logistics Company Moved From Windows to Linux: A Real Migration Story [19:24] TR News FOSS Weekly #26.38: GNOME 51 Release, LibreOffice Image Trick, VMWare Drama, Fingerprint Reader for GNU/Linux and More https://itsfoss.com/newsletter/foss-weekly-26-38/ [19:24] TR Bot FOSS Weekly #26.38: GNOME 51 Release, LibreOffice Image Trick, VMWare Drama, Fingerprint Reader for Linux and More [19:24] IsambardPrince The Supreme Court got rid of one of the requirements for producing Congressional Districts. [19:24] IsambardPrince There no longer have to be majority-minority districts. [19:25] IsambardPrince They sabotaged the Voting Rights Act by claiming majority-minority districts are an illegal racial gerrymander. [19:25] TR News Fix reading Xlibre server version https://bkhome.org/news/202609/fix-reading-xlibre-server-version.html [19:25] TR Bot Fix reading Xlibre server version [19:25] IsambardPrince When the intent of Congress was to create districts that guaranteed representation for racial minorities. [19:25] TR News German users please stay with version 7.4.7 https://bkhome.org/news/202609/german-users-please-stay-with-version-747.html [19:25] TR Bot German users please stay with version 7.4.7 [19:26] IsambardPrince There's now only one major requirement left. [19:26] IsambardPrince All districts have to have a roughly equal population. [19:26] IsambardPrince Nobody is contesting that one because you can easily steal all the districts and keep the population roughly equal. [19:26] nobody what does "equal population" mean? [19:26] schestowitz[TR2] blocks for each elector [19:27] IsambardPrince You can't have a Congressional district that has 100,000 people and then another one that has 300,000 people. [19:27] schestowitz[TR2] if 100k people have one elector [19:27] schestowitz[TR2] and elsehwere 10k have the same [19:27] schestowitz[TR2] it's an issue in EPO [19:27] schestowitz[TR2] a state with 10,000 people can have some voting power as all of germany [19:27] schestowitz[TR2] san marino can fit into a stadium easilyt [19:27] nobody it's an issue in EU parliament too [19:27] IsambardPrince Illinois used to have multi-member statehouse districts. [19:28] nobody yet tbh i don't care about voting that much anymore [19:28] IsambardPrince There were three representatives per district. [19:28] nobody it doesn't change anything here in germany, it's a waste of time [19:28] IsambardPrince This was eliminated with the Cutback Amendment. [19:28] nobody in particular all the public commentary about supposedly "democratic" elections [19:28] IsambardPrince There's no requirement that a state has to model itself after the federal government, but most do. [19:28] nobody it's just a soap opera to entertain "journalists" and pseudo intellectuals nowadays [19:29] schestowitz[TR2] IsambardPrince: the diaper guy does nnnnnnnnnnnnot want people who vote "wrong" to vote [19:29] schestowitz[TR2] ot meddia that reports "wrong" to have access as press [19:29] nobody in this regard, Trump is the most exciting soap opera character in history [19:29] IsambardPrince The most unusual features of US states are the legal system of Lousiana, which is loosely based on French legal concepts [19:29] IsambardPrince And the Nebraska legislature, which only has one chamber. [19:29] IsambardPrince During the Great Depression, Nebraska eliminated their statehouse and only kept the senate. [19:30] IsambardPrince To cut the cost of government. [19:30] nobody ^ good point [19:30] nobody there's alot of savings to be had nowadays, to begin in public tv and politics first [19:30] nobody and their ridiculous circus [19:30] nobody that's something german trumpists demand here, to dismantle public state tv which is funded by tax payers [19:30] IsambardPrince I'd vote to eliminate the Illinois House of Representatives if there was a question. [19:31] IsambardPrince Both chambers tend to be a democratic party supermajority anyway. [19:31] IsambardPrince It's wasteful, and it slows down legislation. [19:31] nobody i'd vote first for shutting down public propaganda tv [19:31] IsambardPrince Often, one chamber will pass a good bill, but then special interests like landlords or Christian homeschooling will threaten the other and they won't take it up. [19:31] IsambardPrince Orr they run out of time and have to start over. [19:32] nobody be glad homeschooling is permitted in USA, here in germany it's effectively forbidden to teach children at home [19:32] IsambardPrince Then there's over 100 Representatives and they all get over $150,000 a year in compensation. [19:32] nobody you MUST send them to public schools [19:32] nobody to feed them with the right political ideals of what's sold as democracy to people here [19:33] IsambardPrince If I could make two easy cuts to Illinois government it would be get rid of the House of Representatives and eliminate front license plates on cars. [19:33] IsambardPrince The front licnse plates on cars is costing the state $8 million a year. [19:33] nobody another reason to leave germany (if i had children which i don't), i wouldn't send my children to any of their public schools anymore [19:33] nobody never ever [19:33] IsambardPrince You could spend that on healthcare or something. [19:33] IsambardPrince Or transit projects. [19:33] IsambardPrince Instead, they make you have two license plates so they're sure the Flock cameras got you. [19:34] TR News It sounds like GAFAMozilla supports so-called 'age verification' (surveillance) https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2026/09/17/pragmatic-principles-for-more-rights-respecting-age-assurance-architectures/ [19:34] TR Bot Pragmatic principles for more rights-respecting age assurance architectures - Open Policy & Advocacy [19:35] TR News LibreOffice 26.8 and interoperability: preserving what cannot yet be read https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09/17/libreoffice-26-8-and-interoperability/ [19:35] TR Bot LibreOffice 26.8 and interoperability: preserving what cannot yet be read - TDF Community Blog [19:36] TR News EasyClone alternate build path and progress https://bkhome.org/news/202609/easyclone-alternate-build-path-and-progress.html [19:36] TR Bot EasyClone alternate build path and progress [19:36] nobody apropos children and public schools [19:36] nobody you MUST vaccinate your children otherwise they're not permitted to visit them [19:36] nobody but you're not permitted to homeschool your children either [19:37] nobody whatever to think of vaccines, i don't trust the german state at all, to vaccinate anyome [19:37] schestowitz[TR2] homeschool = nobody teaches a kid to trust russia [19:37] admfubar https://therecord.media/angola-israel-influence-operations-blackcore [19:37] TR Bot Israeli contractor BlackCore trained Angolan officials in online influence operations | The Record from Recorded Future News [19:38] schestowitz[TR2] "BlackCore [19:38] schestowitz[TR2] " [19:38] schestowitz[TR2] Black Ops [19:38] admfubar https://thenewstack.io/study-developers-are-addicted/ [19:38] TR Bot Study: Developers are addicted to AI, and managers are making it worse - The New Stack [19:39] nobody my favorite recent interaction with the german state and it's institutions, was their demand for psychological evaluation of mine [19:39] IsambardPrince Some public schools in Chicago were built for over 1,000 students and have like 27 enrolled this year. [19:39] nobody otherwise i would not qualify for work in tech sector [19:39] TR News Supporting open source work https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/09/supporting-open-source-work/ [19:39] TR Bot open source work | R-bloggers [19:39] IsambardPrince The mayor is keeping them open as a jobs program for the teacher's union. [19:39] admfubar https://thenewstack.io/human-oversight-defining-requirements/ [19:39] TR Bot Why human oversight is shifting from writing code to defining requirements - The New Stack [19:39] nobody didn't help either it told them i participated and was recognized as professor candidate at a university for another half a year [19:39] nobody autumn 2025 [19:40] IsambardPrince You're staffing, maintaining, and paying the utilities on an entire building meant for 1,000 kids. [19:40] IsambardPrince And there's 27 kids there. [19:40] nobody in the end, they weren't willing to contract and pay, that's been all, and unrelated to my mental state what i think about this [19:40] IsambardPrince Rahm Emanuel closed a bunch of public schools down because of this. [19:40] TR News UN experts: Belarus weaponized criminal justice system against government dissent https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/09/un-experts-belarus-weaponized-criminal-justice-system-against-government-dissent/ https://techrights.org/litigation.shtml https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/11/Matthew_J_Garrett_Has_Just_Sent_a_Threat_to_Put_My_Wife_and_I_i.shtml [19:40] TR Bot UN experts: Belarus weaponized criminal justice system against government dissent - JURIST - News [19:40] TR Bot Matthew J. Garrett Tried to Put My Wife and I in Prison [19:40] TR Bot Techrights Matthew J. Garrett Has Just Sent a Threat to Put My Wife and I in Prison Because His Own Spouse Says He's a Rapist [19:40] nobody i've given my first lectures at telecom university age 23, junior professor if you will [19:40] IsambardPrince But Brandon Johnson isn't worried about the fact that CPS is broke and has too much debt. [19:41] IsambardPrince They just take on more debt at junk bond rates. [19:41] schestowitz[TR2] lectures don't make you prof except in uusa [19:41] IsambardPrince Their solution to the budget crisis was to double the number of paid CPS school board members. [19:41] schestowitz[TR2] i lectured at 22 [19:41] nobody normall that's paid +35k/year, i had 600/month at that time, minus appartment rent which was cheap at least, next to noisy industrial railway tracks though [19:41] nobody 20 years later they wonder they couldn't find a university professor to hire [19:41] nobody well well [19:41] IsambardPrince The city should be turning over the system to charter schools. [19:42] IsambardPrince Every parent in Chicago who is worth their salt is trying to get their children into a charter school. [19:42] TR News French fishermen to end blockades over fuel prices https://www.france24.com/en/french-fishermen-to-end-blockades-over-fuel-prices [19:42] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/french-fishermen-to-end-blockades-over-fuel-prices ) [19:42] nobody now i'm 45 years "old", and this exact same german government insisits MY mential conditiation shall be evulatuated [19:42] IsambardPrince They know that public schools have to take anyone, so they get all the gang activity, drugs, and teen pregnancies. [19:42] IsambardPrince They get most of the ones that bring guns to school. [19:42] nobody not theirs, of cause not, their intellect isn't questioned [19:43] TR News Authorities seize popular, long-running DDoS-for-hire service domains https://cyberscoop.com/fbi-seizes-nightmarestresser-ddos-for-hire-domains/ [19:43] TR Bot seize popular, long-running DDoS-for-hire service domains | CyberScoop [19:43] nobody all i could say, good luck finding a junior professor educated in 5 fields of science at age 23 years [19:43] IsambardPrince The state should really be expanding the definition of "unfit home" for children. [19:43] nobody good luck finding those people, to be hired for 600Euros/month [19:43] nobody be it immigrants from wherever or whoever this german state wished to hire, i don't care anymore [19:43] IsambardPrince There are many morally corrupting influences that the state doesn't consider an unfit environment. [19:43] nobody after 20years of oppression [19:44] nobody i'm talking about germany, not russia [19:44] IsambardPrince 26 years ago, the state of Indiana considered a home with Brian Culley in it to be fit for children. [19:44] IsambardPrince While he was an alcoholic that beat women and children. [19:44] IsambardPrince And he had a child molester, Trent, living with him. [19:44] IsambardPrince The police came one time when my mom got beaten up by Culley. [19:45] IsambardPrince And the Huntington, Indiana police threatened her that if she called them again, they would arrest her for calling them to report domestic abuse. [19:45] nobody *mental condition [19:45] admfubar https://theintercept.com/2026/09/17/flock-cameras-ai-astroturf-support/ [19:45] TR Bot Flock Partnered With Nonprofit That Uses AI to Rally Public Support [19:45] IsambardPrince One of my exes called the Huntington Police and they came into my apartment with no legal reason to be there and refused to leave. [19:46] IsambardPrince They proceeded to harass and insult me. [19:46] TR News When trauma comes with the job: Understanding PTSD and mental health in the federal workforce https://federalnewsnetwork.com/fed-thread/2026/09/when-trauma-comes-with-the-job-understanding-ptsd-and-mental-health-in-the-federal-workforce/ [19:46] TR Bot When trauma comes with the job: Understanding PTSD and mental health in the federal workforce | Federal News Network [19:46] IsambardPrince One of them said "You don't look like there's anything wrong with you, why don't you have a job? I have three jobs!" [19:46] IsambardPrince I ended up lighting a cigarette and smoking it in front of them while I was sitting there. [19:46] schestowitz[TR2] They proceeded to harass and insult me. [19:46] schestowitz[TR2] sourt face [19:46] IsambardPrince They threatened to arrest me for it. [19:46] schestowitz[TR2] *sour [19:47] schestowitz[TR2] said hannibal [19:47] schestowitz[TR2] while tasting the face [19:47] IsambardPrince I told them "There's no law against smoking in my house. The indoor smoking ban covers government property, hospitals, movie theaters, restaurants, and certain other public places. If you don't like it, you can leave." [19:47] IsambardPrince They realized that I lit that cigarette because I was "managing them" and they did not react well. [19:48] IsambardPrince So they threatened to use arrest power that they did not have. [19:48] schestowitz[TR2] cpould tell them [19:48] schestowitz[TR2] "LISTEN. PUNK." [19:48] IsambardPrince The police hate to be managed. [19:49] IsambardPrince They really hate it when someone they look down upon is literally smoking them out. [19:49] schestowitz[TR2] the pay sucks [19:49] schestowitz[TR2] they compensate for it [19:49] schestowitz[TR2] by giving themselves super powers [19:49] schestowitz[TR2] "DO NOT CROSS ME" [19:49] TR News Sam Thursfield: 17th September 2026 https://samthursfield.wordpress.com/2026/09/17/17th-september-2026/ [19:49] TR Bot 17th September 2026 Sam Thursfield [19:51] TR News Lousy copycats controlled by Microsoft and aiming to help proprietary agenda https://fossforce.com/2026/09/rust-coreutils-0-12-0-released/ [19:51] TR Bot Rust Coreutils 0.12.0 Released - FOSS Force [19:51] TR News WLV-01 hackable DIY digital camera features Raspberry Pi 5, interchangeable sensors (Crowdfunding) https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/09/18/wlv-01-hackable-diy-digital-camera-features-raspberry-pi-5-interchangeable-sensors/ [19:51] IsambardPrince Pretty much. [19:51] TR Bot WLV-01 hackable DIY digital camera features Raspberry Pi 5, interchangeable sensors (Crowdfunding) - CNX Software [19:51] schestowitz[TR2] smoke tyhem out while saying "LISTEN! PUNK!" [19:52] schestowitz[TR2] then dangle a doughnut [19:53] schestowitz[TR2] on your weewee [19:53] IsambardPrince [13:46] sourt face [19:53] IsambardPrince "How dare you do this to me! I'll burn the whole world down! Only the insects will survive!" [19:53] schestowitz[TR2] sour face with slipstick [19:53] schestowitz[TR2] on a pig [19:53] schestowitz[TR2] i told the judge the name [19:53] schestowitz[TR2] he asked me [19:54] schestowitz[TR2] ii said [19:54] schestowitz[TR2] and spelled it outttt [19:54] schestowitz[TR2] he wrote it down [19:54] schestowitz[TR2] you know, he and Hearsayboy still talk [19:54] schestowitz[TR2] even in public [19:54] schestowitz[TR2] hearsayboy is OK with this IRC behaviour if he talked to that person [19:55] schestowitz[TR2] and he pretends that cannot be mentioned even though he put that in Dislclosures [19:55] schestowitz[TR2] so now he sends more veiled threats [19:55] schestowitz[TR2] knowing he is pretty much doomed by his own actions [19:55] schestowitz[TR2] you wonder how much threats he sends to his spouse each month [19:57] schestowitz[TR2] noit expert in sec [19:57] schestowitz[TR2] his spouse knows that [19:57] schestowitz[TR2] 100% pretending [19:57] schestowitz[TR2] i am not expert in sec either [19:57] schestowitz[TR2] but at least i do not pretend otherwwwise [19:57] schestowitz[TR2] he seems to be expert in many other nefarious things [19:57] schestowitz[TR2] experrt at faking [19:58] admfubar https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/18/russian-super-app-max-spy-citizens [19:58] TR Bot Revealed: how Russia uses mobile super-app Max to spy on its citizens | Russia | The Guardian [19:59] TR News GeForce NOWs native Linux client works on Ubuntubut your network still makes the call https://www.neoteo.com/en/geforce-nows-native-linux-client-works-on-ubuntu-but-your-network-still-makes-the-call [19:59] TR Bot NOW Linux: requirements and limits | NeoTeo [19:59] TR News My favorite Linux distro has been overlooked for yearshere's why I use it instead of Mint or Ubuntu https://www.howtogeek.com/favorite-linux-distro-has-been-overlooked-why-use-instead-of-mint-or-ubuntu/ [19:59] TR Bot My favorite Linux distro has been overlooked for yearshere's why I use it instead of Mint or Ubuntu ● Sep 18 [20:00] TR News GNOME 51 adds passkey logins, offline maps and drawn PDF signatures https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/09/17/gnome-51-new-features/ [20:00] TR Bot GNOME 51 adds passkey logins, offline maps and drawn PDF signatures - Help Net Security [20:01] TR News CiXTech Partners with Canonical to Lower Barriers for Edge [Slop] Devices https://autonews.gasgoo.com/articles/news/cixtech-partners-with-canonical-to-lower-barriers-for-edge-ai-devices-2100428676046172161 [20:01] TR Bot ( status 468 @ https://autonews.gasgoo.com/articles/news/cixtech-partners-with-canonical-to-lower-barriers-for-edge-ai-devices-2100428676046172161 ) [20:02] TR News Microsoft acts as if it owns Ubuntu now. Maybe it does. https://github.blog/changelog/2026-09-17-ubuntu-26-generally-available-and-latest-migration/ [20:02] TR Bot Ubuntu 26 generally available and latest migration - GitHub Changelog [20:02] admfubar https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09/18/first-batch-of-videos-from-the-libreoffice-conference-2026/ [20:02] TR Bot First batch of videos from the LibreOffice Conference 2026 - TDF Community Blog [20:02] TR News They even invent versions numbers that DO NOT EXIST! [20:03] TR News "Kmscon brings smooth scaling, richer colors, and better Unicode support beneath GNOME 51" https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/09/16/fedora-45-beta-drags-the-linux-console-into-the-21st-century/5296873 [20:03] TR Bot Fedora 45 beta drags the Linux console into the 21st century [20:04] TR News Linux developer for PS5 announces departure from hacking scene due to "noobs" and "vibe coders" https://ixbt.games/en/news/2026/09/16/436306-razrabotcik-linux-dlia-ps5-obieiavil-ob-uxode-so-sceny-vzloma-iz-za-nubov-i-maloletnix-vaibkoderov.html https://techrights.org/n/2026/09/18/Slop_Ruins_Development_and_Reverse_Engineering_It_Rewards_Retar.shtml [20:04] TR Bot Linux developer for PS5 announces departure from hacking scene due to "noobs" and "vibe coders" [20:04] TR Bot Techrights Slop Ruins Development and Reverse Engineering, It Rewards Retarded "Slop Kiddies" (to Quote Andy TheFlow0 Nguyen) [20:04] TR News Dennis Hilk Introduces 'The Lost Administrator', a Techno-Thriller Exploring Linux and Digital Evidence https://www.einnews.com/pr_news/941981037/dennis-hilk-introduces-the-lost-administrator-a-techno-thriller-exploring-linux-and-digital-evidence [20:04] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.einnews.com/pr_news/941981037/dennis-hilk-introduces-the-lost-administrator-a-techno-thriller-exploring-linux-and-digital-evidence ) [20:05] TR News "Andy "TheFlow0" Nguyen, the security engineer behind the PS5 Linux project, announced his departure from the PS5 scene in September 2026, and he wasn't quiet about why." https://tech.yahoo.com/gaming/articles/ps5-linux-dev-quits-slop-185134067.html [20:05] TR Bot PS5 Linux Dev Quits After Slop Kiddies Hand Sony the Last Exploit [20:06] TR News PS5 Linux Dev Quits After Slop Kiddies Hand Sony the Last Exploit https://www.gadgetreview.com/ps5-linux-dev-quits-after-slop-kiddies-hand-sony-the-last-exploit [20:06] TR Bot PS5 Linux Dev Quits After "Slop Kiddies" Hand Sony the Last Exploit - Gadget Review [20:07] TR News SteamOS is Getting Native NVIDIA GPU Driver Support https://www.techpowerup.com/352763/steamos-is-getting-native-nvidia-gpu-driver-support [20:07] TR Bot is Getting Native NVIDIA GPU Driver Support | TechPowerUp [20:08] TR News TheFlow Steps Away From PS5 Linux After Disputed Hypervisor Report https://www.neoteo.com/en/theflow-steps-away-from-ps5-linux-after-disputed-hypervisor-report [20:08] TR Bot Linux Hypervisor Dispute Explained | NeoTeo [20:08] MinceR 18 192110 < schestowitz[TR2]> MinceR: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/world/europe/play-budapest-culture-hungary.html [20:08] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/world/europe/play-budapest-culture-hungary.html ) [20:08] MinceR "Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker" [20:09] IsambardPrince https://www.facebook.com/reel/779356811704064 [20:09] TR News neoteo seems to be a slopfarm, but maybe premature to call it that [20:09] TR Bot NO TITLE [20:09] IsambardPrince MinceR: ^ [20:09] IsambardPrince [14:08] "Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker" [20:10] IsambardPrince Yeah, that's the best thing about Lynx. [20:10] TR News Valve says Nvidia GeForce support for SteamOS is progressing, but could take years https://www.techspot.com/news/113877-valve-nvidia-geforce-support-steamos-progressing-but-could.html [20:10] TR Bot says Nvidia GeForce support for SteamOS is progressing, but could take years | TechSpot [20:10] IsambardPrince I'm probably the only person using Lynx or Elinks on a Chromebook. [20:10] TR News Modder is working on native launch of PlayStation 5 games on Windows and Linux PCs https://ixbt.games/en/news/2026/09/17/modder-rabotaet-nad-nativnym-zapuskom-playstation-5-igr-na-pk-s-windows-i-linux.html [20:10] TR Bot Modder is working on native launch of PlayStation 5 games on Windows and Linux PCs [20:10] admfubar but how many pizza places are there in india? https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/18/in-india-the-new-iphone-can-arrive-faster-than-a-pizza/ [20:10] TR Bot India, the new iPhone can arrive faster than a pizza | TechCrunch [20:11] TR News Developer abandons PS5 Linux project after people found a Hypervisor bug and reported it to Sony https://www.tweaktown.com/news/113593/developer-abandons-ps5-linux-project-after-people-found-a-hypervisor-bug-and-reported-it-to-sony/index.html [20:11] TR Bot Developer abandons PS5 Linux project after people found a Hypervisor bug and reported it to Sony [20:11] TR News Linux taught me these 5 commands first, and I barely use any of them anymore https://www.makeuseof.com/linux-taught-me-these-5-commands-first-and-i-barely-use-any-of-them-anymore/ [20:11] TR Bot Linux taught me these 5 commands first, and I barely use any of them anymore [20:12] schestowitz[TR2] admfubar: misleading headline [20:12] schestowitz[TR2] does iphone get made in India yet [20:12] schestowitz[TR2] or just hype to suck up to lump? [20:12] admfubar it is an absurd headline... [20:12] schestowitz[TR2] with some crystal award/.disc? [20:12] schestowitz[TR2] yes [20:12] schestowitz[TR2] iphone need to fly from china [20:13] schestowitz[TR2] until india can make one properly [20:13] schestowitz[TR2] pizza can be made locally [20:14] IsambardPrince https://www.facebook.com/reel/1594928678735216 [20:14] TR Bot NO TITLE [20:15] TR News "Linux XDG profile paths, extracted-DLC trailing-separator scanning, and AppImage dependency filtering." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/xbox-classic-lost-odyssey-has-a-experimental-pc-build-now-with-a-linux-version/ [20:15] TR Bot classic Lost Odyssey has a experimental PC build - now with a Linux version | GamingOnLinux [20:15] TR News "An old PC with a few CPU cores, several GBs of RAM, and a working network connection can still be useful long after it stops being suitable for demanding tasks, but Linux can turn that hardware into something that quietly handles useful jobs around your home or small office." https://www.howtogeek.com/you-dont-need-a-powerful-pc-for-these-surprisingly-useful-linux-projects/ [20:15] TR Bot You don't need a powerful PC for these 8 surprisingly useful Linux projects [20:15] TR News New Steam Deck Beta Client Update Fixes Linux Game Crashes https://steamdeckhq.com/news/steam-deck-beta-client-fixes-linux-game-crashes/ [20:15] TR Bot New Steam Deck Beta Client Update Fixes Linux Game Crashes - Steam Deck HQ [20:16] IsambardPrince https://www.facebook.com/reel/27543798185239472 [20:16] TR Bot NO TITLE [20:16] IsambardPrince "British people aren't fat!" [20:16] IsambardPrince Dude, have you had British food? You wouldn't be fat. Trust me.. [20:16] TR News Uses Gitlab https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/lepton-from-valve-to-run-android-games-on-linux-is-now-open-source/ [20:16] TR Bot from Valve to run Android games on Linux is now open source | GamingOnLinux [20:17] TR News Slop discourages participation https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-distros-embracing-ai-code-maintainers-paying-price/ [20:17] TR Bot Linux distros are embracing AI code, and their maintainers are paying the price [20:18] TR News 4 open-source Android apps that are actually Linux tools in disguise https://www.howtogeek.com/open-source-android-apps-that-are-actually-linux-tools-in-disguise/ [20:18] TR Bot 4 open-source Android apps that are actually Linux tools in disguise [20:18] TR News "Aniimo from Pawprint Studio has arrived on Steam as a new free-to-play, next-gen creature-catcher and it can work on SteamOS / Linux." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/free-to-play-next-gen-creature-catcher-aniimo-arrives-on-steam-needs-a-proton-tweak-to-run-on-steamos-linux/ [20:18] TR Bot next-gen creature-catcher Aniimo arrives on Steam, needs a Proton tweak to run on SteamOS / Linux | GamingOnLinux [20:19] TR News after 10 years of using Linux https://www.howtogeek.com/the-only-linux-distros-i-recommend-to-beginners/ [20:19] TR Bot The only 5 Linux distros I recommend to beginners after 10 years of using Linux [20:19] TR News Apple Taylor https://www.theregister.com/devops/2026/09/17/swift-64-unifies-building-across-linux-macos-windows/5297006 [20:19] TR Bot Swift 6.4 unifies building across Linux, macOS, Windows [20:20] cybershow cybershow: ^ your generation (mailing lists?) Absolutely. I think the first trace of my digital existence goe [20:21] cybershow back to 89 when I'm talking in some mail-list on DSP or something, I was literally still a teenager [20:21] schestowitz[TR2] bbs or irc? [20:21] schestowitz[TR2] irc was new [20:21] cybershow abd very nervous to join a mail-list [20:21] cybershow it would have been plain old SMTP email [20:22] schestowitz[TR2] some people posted to usenet [20:22] schestowitz[TR2] in thhe 80s and 90s [20:22] schestowitz[TR2] later dejanews used its coollections [20:22] schestowitz[TR2] put that online [20:22] cybershow I *think* I sent my first email in 87, first BBS was 84 [20:22] schestowitz[TR2] google made those easier to search aafter the takeover\ [20:22] schestowitz[TR2] those usenet posters gave no consent to use their name and mind it decades later [20:22] schestowitz[TR2] but what does google care.. [20:22] cybershow it had an acoustic coupler you put the phone handset in :) [20:22] schestowitz[TR2] some people lost jobs over it [20:22] schestowitz[TR2] and reputtations harmed [20:23] schestowitz[TR2] cybershow: sounds like "Gizmo" from 100cc [20:23] schestowitz[TR2] or somethiing wee made and sold when I was a teen [20:23] schestowitz[TR2] for mobile phones [20:26] IsambardPrince " [20:27] IsambardPrince Jules [20:27] IsambardPrince 1.0 out of 5 stars Fustrated [20:27] IsambardPrince Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2026 [20:27] IsambardPrince Verified Purchase [20:27] IsambardPrince Replaced my filter and the light stays red like its not a clean filter" [20:27] IsambardPrince --- [20:27] IsambardPrince You have to press the filter reset button with a paperclip. [20:27] IsambardPrince It doesn't know whether the filter is clean or not it just counts down from when that button was pressed. [20:27] TR News (NEW): NVIDIA and SteamOS (valve) Target GNU/Linux Gamers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/09/18/NVIDIA_and_SteamOS_valve_Target_GNU_Linux_Gamers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/09/18/NVIDIA_and_SteamOS_valve_Target_GNU_Linux_Gamers.gmi [20:27] TR Bot Tux Machines NVIDIA and SteamOS (valve) Target GNU/Linux Gamers [20:31] TR News (NEW): Applications and Games: ScummVM, PostgreSQL/pgAdmin, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/09/18/Applications_and_Games_ScummVM_PostgreSQL_pgAdmin_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/09/18/Applications_and_Games_ScummVM_PostgreSQL_pgAdmin_and_More.gmi [20:31] TR Bot Tux Machines Applications and Games: ScummVM, PostgreSQL/pgAdmin, and More [20:34] TR News (NEW): Programming Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/09/18/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/09/18/Programming_Leftovers.gmi [20:34] TR Bot Tux Machines Programming Leftovers [20:37] TR News (NEW): Mozilla Promotes Slop and Spying, Mozilla Firefox Nightly Report https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/09/18/Mozilla_Promotes_Slop_and_Spying_Mozilla_Firefox_Nightly_Report.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/09/18/Mozilla_Promotes_Slop_and_Spying_Mozilla_Firefox_Nightly_Report.gmi [20:37] TR Bot Tux Machines Mozilla Promotes Slop and Spying, Mozilla Firefox Nightly Report [20:39] TR News (NEW): EasyOS Updates and Advice, Bugfixes Reported https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/09/18/EasyOS_Updates_and_Advice_Bugfixes_Reported.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/09/18/EasyOS_Updates_and_Advice_Bugfixes_Reported.gmi [20:39] TR Bot Tux Machines EasyOS Updates and Advice, Bugfixes Reported [20:39] TR News (NEW): [FGNOME Updates: Patrik Sivek, Allan Day (IBM), Alice Mikhaylenko, Sam Thursfield https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/09/18/_FGNOME_Updates_Patrik_Sivek_Allan_Day_IBM_Alice_Mikhaylenko_Sa.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/09/18/_FGNOME_Updates_Patrik_Sivek_Allan_Day_IBM_Alice_Mikhaylenko_Sa.gmi [20:39] TR Bot Tux Machines [FGNOME Updates: Patrik Sivek, Allan Day (IBM), Alice Mikhaylenko, Sam Thursfield [20:41] TR News (NEW): Security Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/09/18/Security_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/09/18/Security_Leftovers.gmi [20:41] TR Bot Tux Machines Security Leftovers [20:42] TR News (NEW): Canonical/Ubunt: Upselling Patches, Android Development, and Slop https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/09/18/Canonical_Ubunt_Upselling_Patches_Android_Development_and_Slop.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/09/18/Canonical_Ubunt_Upselling_Patches_Android_Development_and_Slop.gmi [20:42] TR Bot Tux Machines Canonical/Ubunt: Upselling Patches, Android Development, and Slop [20:44] admfubar https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/09/are-ais-still-struggling-with-captchas.html [20:44] TR Bot AIs Still Struggling with CAPTCHAs? - Schneier on Security [20:44] TR News (NEW): Content Management Systems (CMS) / Static Site Generators (SSG): 11ty, WordPress, and Kiwi TCMS 16.5 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/09/18/Content_Management_Systems_CMS_Static_Site_Generators_SSG_11ty_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/09/18/Content_Management_Systems_CMS_Static_Site_Generators_SSG_11ty_.gmi [20:44] TR Bot Tux Machines Content Management Systems (CMS) / Static Site Generators (SSG): 11ty, WordPress, and Kiwi TCMS 16.5 [20:44] TR News (NEW): Linux-Centric Devices and Open Hardware https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/09/18/Linux_Centric_Devices_and_Open_Hardware.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/09/18/Linux_Centric_Devices_and_Open_Hardware.gmi [20:44] TR Bot Tux Machines Linux-Centric Devices and Open Hardware [20:46] TR News (NEW): Free, Libre, and Open Source Software, Standards, and Digital Sovereignty https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/09/18/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Standards_and_Digital_Sover.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/09/18/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Standards_and_Digital_Sover.gmi [20:46] TR Bot Tux Machines Free, Libre, and Open Source Software, Standards, and Digital Sovereignty [20:47] TR News The "era of AI" is a lie and Red Hat participates in this lie https://www.redhat.com/en/resources/safeguarding-and-scaling-app-delivery-ebook [20:47] TR Bot Safeguarding and scaling application delivery in the era of AI [20:48] cybershow > Are AIs Still Struggling with CAPTCHAs? : We'rent many early visual models trained on CAPTCHAs? That's an epic fail [20:49] TR News Buying fake recommendation from a very sleazy fake "analyst" https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-recognized-leader-2026-gartnerr-magic-quadranttm-server-virtualization-platforms https://techrights.org/wiki/Gartner_Group/ [20:49] TR Bot Red Hat Recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Server Virtualization Platforms [20:49] TR Bot Gartner Group [20:51] TR News (NEW): openSUSE and Fedora/Red Hat, Another Slopfest https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/09/18/openSUSE_and_Fedora_Red_Hat_Another_Slopfest.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/09/18/openSUSE_and_Fedora_Red_Hat_Another_Slopfest.gmi [20:51] TR Bot Tux Machines openSUSE and Fedora/Red Hat, Another Slopfest [20:52] *Goblin (~use@3t3iymyzc9xhe.irc) has joined #techrights [20:52] TR News (NEW): GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/09/18/GNU_Linux_and_BSD_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/09/18/GNU_Linux_and_BSD_Leftovers.gmi [20:52] TR Bot Tux Machines GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers [20:55] TR News Techrights Links 18/09/2026: Microsoft Boasted Slop is Just Copyright Infringement/Plagiarism, Floods in Europe https://techrights.org/n/2026/09/18/Links_18_09_2026_Microsoft_Boasted_Slop_is_Just_Copyright_Infri.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/09/18/Links_18_09_2026_Microsoft_Boasted_Slop_is_Just_Copyright_Infri.gmi [20:55] TR Bot Techrights Links 18/09/2026: Microsoft Boasted Slop is Just Copyright Infringement/Plagiarism, Floods in Europe ● Sep 18 [21:02] TR News "Instead of using a #firefox fork like #librewolf I found a way to wrangle Firefox to work the way I want, right out of the box! All it needs is to copy some policies and settings into /etc/firefox." gemini://tobykurien.com/microblog.gmi [21:02] schestowitz[TR2] > Are AIs Still Struggling with CAPTCHAs? : We'rent many early visual models trained on CAPTCHAs? That's an epic fail [21:02] schestowitz[TR2] today i saw ne saying "AI" can play chees [21:03] schestowitz[TR2] that's wird [21:03] schestowitz[TR2] weird [21:03] schestowitz[TR2] when i was a kid [21:03] schestowitz[TR2] IBM did that [21:03] schestowitz[TR2] and it was called "AI" too, IIRC [21:03] schestowitz[TR2] now... it's new [21:03] schestowitz[TR2] maybe add adjectives like "agentic" or "gbeenerative" or "advanced" [21:03] schestowitz[TR2] and pass it off as "era of hey hi" [21:03] schestowitz[TR2] just pattern recognition on history of game moves in chess [21:04] schestowitz[TR2] nothing exciting, principal component analysis and all [21:04] schestowitz[TR2] "THE ERA OF HYPE" [21:04] nobody 1980s chess computers were rather powerfull already, with a few KiB of RAM and ROM only, and a CPU clocked at a dozen MHz [21:04] nobody it's not easy to outsmart even those [21:05] TR News "Back in 2020, there was a massive explosion of users not only in places like this, but in all sorts of smaller niche spaces across the internet. There was suddenly a huge interest in Matrix, the Fediverse, Gemini, projects like Spacehey, Pixelfed, Lemmy, etc. It was nice." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2851 [21:05] psydroid3 "THE ERA OF VASTLY OVERPRICED HARDWARE TO GO ALONG WITH THE HYPE" [21:05] TR News [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1742.jpg [21:05] TR News [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D2099.jpg [21:06] psydroid3 going to waste due to software that lacks any sense of quality [21:06] schestowitz[TR2] "vibe" [21:06] TR News "Had my first guitar lesson of the fall tonight. I've been relearning "Pavana Chiamata La Desperata", by Pietro Paolo Borrono. It's a piece of Renaissance lute music, and it's coming up on 500 years old, being published in the mid 16th century." gemini://tilde.club/~winter/gemlog/2026/9-17.gmi [21:06] schestowitz[TR2] it is ableist to "diss" slop code [21:07] schestowitz[TR2] you make fun of peopple who cannot code [21:07] schestowitz[TR2] like people who make you a bed [21:07] schestowitz[TR2] who are NOT carpenters [21:07] schestowitz[TR2] and have no idea what they do [21:07] schestowitz[TR2] so after some day the bed "sinks" [21:07] schestowitz[TR2] buy a new one [21:08] cybershow Im hoping to interview a vibe-coder soon [21:09] schestowitz[TR2] after the vide-carpenter episode [21:09] schestowitz[TR2] and the one with a back doors boosters in "security" clothing ;-) [21:10] schestowitz[TR2] vibe-poet = copy-pasting books [21:10] psydroid3 lol [21:10] psydroid3 a modern monk [21:10] schestowitz[TR2] vibe-football = someone who plays EA sports [21:10] cybershow someone who admits to having abolutely no-knoweldge about programming, but "creates application" about how good or bad that level of "democratisation" is. No just a real ordinary joe. The security field is unfortunately already strewn with half-assery [21:10] schestowitz[TR2] and calls himself footballer [21:11] schestowitz[TR2] cybershow: did you see https://techrights.org/n/2026/09/18/Slop_Ruins_Development_and_Reverse_Engineering_It_Rewards_Retar.shtml [21:11] TR Bot Techrights Slop Ruins Development and Reverse Engineering, It Rewards Retarded "Slop Kiddies" (to Quote Andy TheFlow0 Nguyen) [21:11] schestowitz[TR2] food for thought [21:11] schestowitz[TR2] you did rev eng [21:13] TR News Work for the sake of work gemini://idiomdrottning.org/wftsow see Art For Art's Sake / 10cc - Live https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=wGB59HuKu-I [21:13] TR Bot ( status 418 @ https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=wGB59HuKu-I ) [21:13] cybershow Debian, Kernel, OpenSSH etc, these are projectes that if they let a "vibe-coder" in would be like lettin a 5 year old come with a fully automatic assult rifle and then complaining when things go bad [21:13] cybershow That is to say: they should know better [21:13] TR News "We went for a short hike up to Straa and on to and the beginning of it was surprisingly steep and interesting given that this tiny hill is an entertainment hot spot with some sort of ride down the hill. Just take the Blejski razgledni trail (BRT)." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2026-09-18-bled [21:13] schestowitz[TR2] worse [21:13] schestowitz[TR2] we covered the main issue [21:14] schestowitz[TR2] you will have queues with bugs [21:14] schestowitz[TR2] they are fdalse pos [21:14] schestowitz[TR2] and then ask humans to replicate and review [21:14] schestowitz[TR2] after some slopped vomited out [21:14] schestowitz[TR2] some outputn from abot [21:14] schestowitz[TR2] same for mailing lists [21:14] schestowitz[TR2] and code [21:14] schestowitz[TR2] and debs [21:14] schestowitz[TR2] devs will fflee [21:14] schestowitz[TR2] no morale [21:14] schestowitz[TR2] it's already happening in linus [21:14] schestowitz[TR2] greg and linus talk about it [21:14] schestowitz[TR2] and we have a series about it [21:15] cybershow indeed, it will surely kill a number of serious projects that cannot wind back and immaturely embrace corrupting tech [21:15] nobody good question, how far to wind back [21:15] cybershow the ones that can back-track will hopefully see the carnage in time [21:15] nobody because various concerning trends predate the current hey hi hysteria by a decade at least [21:15] TR News "Raspberry Pi's Simon Long has teased a possible reboot of the Raspberry Pi Desktop project, which brought the Raspberry Pi OS Linux distribution to x86-based hardware including laptops, desktops, and even rival single-board computers more than four years after the company's last release." gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202609/20260918-rpd.gmi [21:16] nobody not claiming ultimate wisdom on this, the least concerning compromise i arrived at to retain a *lunix development host [21:16] nobody that's some ancient linux-2.4/tcc-toolchain one (it's not the only option of cause, but something i could and would be willing to work with) [21:17] nobody and that's two decades of "vibe" involved in this [21:17] nobody it's not specific to coding, but too it's system-integration concerns [21:18] TR News "You don't have to be the Haddaway to ask serious questions. Some of them belong to some niche area. The title comes from a song from the band called London Grammar." gemini://aenu.smol.pub/truth-is-a-beautiful-thing [21:18] cybershow there are people out there who just write vanilla C99, okay mostly for embedded mil or aerospace systems, but they can do that on a Sub 360 or Sparcstation from 1990, and its still a perfect dev environment because your target is some hardware and you only need to know the address variables for i/o [21:18] nobody just in case anyone would desire a staticall linked GNUish/POSIX with a vendor-neutral C-toolchain such as tcc [21:19] cybershow Sun (microsytems 68000 based) [21:19] nobody that needs hundreds of patches and hacks all over the place EVERYWHERE, kernel, libc, assembler, c-compiler, build-system, packaging [21:19] TR News What newly unsealed court documents state about LLM's and their training data gemini://enemy.org/mrfusion/rants/2026-09-18.gmi "Executives from OpenAI and Microsoft _KNEW_ they were using data obtained illegally & didn't care. They also knew that the _underlying_ "business model" of LLM's would destroy the sites from which they stole "content".." [21:19] TR News "Mum's still looking for a diary for next year. I can't get her to see my love for the Hobonichi Cousin (paper too thin, graph too small), so I had a look at Papertess' website again. And while Mum might indeed have a go at the Companion, I feel the siren call of the Desk." gemini://kelaino.gemcities.com/gemlog/260918planner.gmi [21:19] nobody cybershow: the whole bootstrapping criteria are rather enlighting [21:20] nobody i suspect even some Sun 68k system would not pass bootstrapping [21:20] TR News LLMs try to chew up a LOT of stuff (code, text, images) because they more they chew, the better they can obfuscate their plagiarism, which should really land their executives in prison for many decades [21:20] nobody if you dig deeper into this, including hardware-development, it's regressing further back until 1970s [21:21] TR News They call it all "AI" because the word "intelligence" smells better than "plagiarism". [21:21] nobody hopefully i'm not talking to some LLM chatbots here [21:21] nobody probably not [21:22] TR News "But if you think toddlers are tiring, just wait until you have teenagers. There's a special kind of tired that comes from sitting up all night, waiting for your teenaged kids to come home from whatever fleapit they've been misspending their youth in." gemini://larsthebear.me/tired.gmi [21:23] nobody meanwhile energy and gasoline prices in germany skyrocket to the moon, we've received one F-35, the latest greatest high-tech you know [21:23] nobody which makes everything betterer than ever before [21:24] psydroid3 what exactly do you mean by bootstrapping? and bootstrapping what? GNU/Linux that got its start on x86? [21:24] nobody psydroid3: very good question [21:24] nobody i think any mission-critical system MUST HAVE a complete system bootstrapping chain documented and implemented, from scratch [21:25] nobody that's why it's funny, if some F-35 sells for 250million , because i think it's systems are NOT fully bootstrappable [21:25] nobody or some latest greatest Nvidia RISC-V, none of this is fully documented and bootstrapped down to hardware [21:26] nobody and as soon as you begin backtracking this, you'll arive at 1970s era sooner or later [21:27] nobody hopefuly i mustn't explain bootstrapping in detail any further [21:27] nobody simplified speaking, a compile-time/development-time circular dependency is not acceptable when bootstrapping [21:27] nobody and there's various means and methods how that is guaranteed [21:28] nobody just as said, F-35, risc-v whatever, none of this qualifies [21:28] nobody according to technical criteria, that's not an opinion of mine [21:28] nobody that's another reason why, i think, F-35 manufacturer does not disclose sources [21:29] nobody simply because they could not, and even if this would not suffice to confirm a complete system-bootstrap [21:29] nobody i doubt there was awareness of what this really means [21:30] TR News Techrights Gemini Links 18/09/2026: Setting Goals, Tiredness, and Admissions From LLM Purveyors It Was All Along About Building Plagiarism Engines Sold as "Intelligence" https://techrights.org/n/2026/09/18/Gemini_Links_18_09_2026_Setting_Goals_Tiredness_and_Admissions_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/09/18/Gemini_Links_18_09_2026_Setting_Goals_Tiredness_and_Admissions_.gmi [21:30] TR Bot Techrights Gemini Links 18/09/2026: Setting Goals, Tiredness, and Admissions From LLM Purveyors It Was All Along About Building Plagiarism Engines Sold as "Intelligence" [21:30] nobody in case of USA GE nuclear plants, i recall a newspaper article which argued they decided to retain ancient PDP-11 [21:30] nobody for their critical nuclear control equipment [21:31] nobody this news article is a revelation, interestingly this was discussed in public [21:31] nobody https://www.theregister.com/2013/06/19/nuke_plants_to_keep_pdp11_until_2050 [21:31] TR Bot Nuke plants to rely on PDP-11 code UNTIL 2050! [21:32] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: If you want to know all about California vs. Indiana. [21:32] IsambardPrince California allows incestuous marriages between first cousins. [21:32] IsambardPrince And Indiana bans them unless you bring in a doctor's note verifying that one of you is irreversibly sterilized, or if one of you is older than 50. [21:33] IsambardPrince California: Incest is fine. Ban gay marriage at the ballot box. [21:33] schestowitz[TR2] puppy ok for psychopaths [21:33] nobody what the... ??? [21:34] admfubar https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Bug-Bounty-Program-Ends [21:34] TR Bot Appears To End Its Bug Bounty Program - Phoronix [21:35] admfubar https://pogowasright.org/companies-make-it-hard-to-access-your-personal-data-under-state-privacy-laws-cr-finds/ [21:35] TR Bot Make It Hard to Access Your Personal Data Under State Privacy Laws, CR Finds PogoWasRight.org [21:36] TR News Taking investment from a famous criminal that does little girls https://www.constructiondive.com/news/bechtel-splits-terrapower-nuclear-project-layoffs/830793/ [21:36] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.constructiondive.com/news/bechtel-splits-terrapower-nuclear-project-layoffs/830793/ ) [21:36] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: Which brand of soap lathers the best in a river? [21:37] schestowitz[TR2] puppysoap [21:37] admfubar https://www.the-independent.com/tech/robot-vacuum-fitbit-smart-device-data-trial-b3052060.html [21:37] TR Bot Smart devices can testify against you: How home robot data is being used in court | The Independent [21:37] schestowitz[TR2] made of dog legs [21:41] TR News Russians tell DW how canceled exams are upending their plans https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-goethe-institut-is-closing-in-russia-russians-tell-dw-how-canceled-exams-are-upending-their-plans/a-79218936 [21:41] TR Bot Russians on the Goethe-Institut: 'Hostage to politics' [21:41] TR News Russia Punishes Independent Researcher for Being Cited https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/09/11/russia-punishes-independent-researcher-for-being-cited [21:41] TR Bot Russia Punishes Independent Researcher for Being Cited | Human Rights Watch [21:41] TR News Goethe-Institut in Russia closes https://www.dw.com/en/the-end-of-an-era-as-goethe-institut-in-russia-closes/a-79224321 [21:41] TR Bot The 'end of an era' as Goethe-Institut in Russia closes [21:41] admfubar https://pogowasright.org/new-california-bill-would-prohibit-apps-from-changing-user-privacy-settings-without-consent/ [21:41] TR Bot California Bill Would Prohibit Apps From Changing User Privacy Settings Without Consent PogoWasRight.org [21:42] TR News 'Hostage to politics' https://www.dw.com/en/russians-on-the-goethe-institut-hostage-to-politics/a-79218936 [21:42] nobody "Saudia Arabia announced oil supplies to Europe will be cut in October" [21:43] nobody taking a deep breath [21:43] TR News Europe seeks stricter age limits for TikTok, Instagram and Facebook https://www.dw.com/en/europe-seeks-stricter-age-limits-for-tiktok-instagram-and-facebook/a-79310207 [21:43] TR Bot Europe seeks stricter age limits for social media [21:44] nobody "Germany projects 3EUros/liter [~$11/gallon] for E10 gasoline" [21:45] nobody proposed solution is tax cuts... well there wasn't no money remaining anymore already, to hire teachers and university staff [21:45] admfubar https://petapixel.com/2026/09/18/photographer-accidentally-double-exposes-wedding-photos-with-pictures-of-her-dog-and-cat/ [21:45] TR Bot Accidentally Double-Exposes Wedding Photos With Pictures of Her Dog and Cat | PetaPixel [21:45] nobody where would they want to cut tax next? minimal basic social security of unemployed teachers and university staff? [21:46] schestowitz[TR2] yyou are under 45 [21:46] schestowitz[TR2] they can draft you [21:46] schestowitz[TR2] to "amke use of your flesh [21:46] *psydroid3 has quit (Quit: KVIrc 5.2.10 Quasar http://www.kvirc.net/) [21:46] nobody of those 1100/month income, they already do cut away 700 for appartment rent, insanely inflated energy prices and a 10Mbps internet link [21:47] nobody schestowitz[TR2]: Telekom University already was military drill, which soaked a decaded or two of my life expectency [21:48] nobody they got another two month remaining to draft me [21:48] nobody best proposal they've had recently, was diagnosing me for mental condition, in germany though, not russia [21:49] nobody and of cause, they've created a file at employment agency (which too is connected to military HR as you might guess) [21:49] schestowitz[TR2] nobody: http://techrights.org/o/2019/07/16/haar-dark-historical-shadow/index.shtml [21:49] TR Bot EPO Looney Tunes - Part 2: The Difficult Legacy and Its Dark Historical Shadow [21:49] nobody this file does not contain any and most of all my work i did in recent two decades [21:49] admfubar https://petapixel.com/2026/09/18/nasa-photos-show-before-and-after-of-massive-asteroid-impact-on-the-moon/ [21:49] TR Bot Photos Show Before and After of Massive Asteroid Impact on the Moon | PetaPixel [21:51] TR News "Oct. 1 is a pretty interesting start date for Anderon. Its the rumored layoff date for a lot of people on PIPs, and its also reportedly the layoff date for the Red Hat folks. I think theres one other group with an rumored Oct. 1 as their final day as well." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m2n6pjeq#replies [21:51] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m2n6pjeq#replies ) [21:51] TR News "So if all of this lines up, Anderon really may just be a fancy-pants layoff mechanism for IBM." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m2n6pjeq#replies [21:52] nobody schestowitz[TR2]: reading ... [21:53] nobody don't know why you're adding the historical spin to WW2 era there [21:53] schestowitz[TR2] explain why it is spin [21:53] schestowitz[TR2] it did actually happen [21:53] schestowitz[TR2] the "burden on society" was culled [21:53] nobody however, i would want to say, in Germany such history was documented [21:54] nobody who knows how many places else on earth existed, where no record was made ever [21:54] nobody of such crimes [21:54] admfubar https://petapixel.com/2026/09/18/photographer-hides-behind-rock-as-herd-of-400-wild-reindeer-comes-charging-toward-him/ [21:54] TR Bot Hides Behind Rock as Herd of 400 Wild Reindeer Comes Charging at Him | PetaPixel [21:54] admfubar https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=MgIwLeASnkw [21:54] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/.gandalf/check?gandalf_id=e968d2ef-98a4-45b2-9ef5-2853404efcf5&gandalf_redir=/watch?v=MgIwLeASnkw ) [21:54] schestowitz[TR2] eugenics was popular back then [21:54] schestowitz[TR2] later reebranded [21:54] nobody anyway, little out of context, but you know, this file created here about me [21:55] nobody it wiped ALL my work and studies from the records effectively [21:55] nobody that's how they argue i was subject to a psychological evaluation, because i supposedly didn't do anything [21:55] schestowitz[TR2] just yours? [21:55] nobody a useless parasite [21:56] nobody schestowitz[TR2]: i wouldn't know, i only had a look at my own file few days ago [21:56] nobody because they said without mentioned psychological evaluation (which is standard routine), i didn't qualify for the glorious labor market of theirs [21:56] nobody yet, if they follow the same corruption and lies they did before, what would the outcome of any further evaluation be? [21:56] nobody more lies and entries wiped from my record? [21:57] admfubar https://petapixel.com/2026/09/17/nasas-new-4-3-billion-300mp-space-telescope-passed-its-first-tests-one-million-miles-away/ [21:57] TR Bot New $4.3 Billion, 300MP Space Telescope Passed its First Tests One Million Miles Away | PetaPixel [21:57] nobody it's just evil, and what else should i say, i won't shed no tears german and russian general embassies and Goethe institutes close down now [21:58] nobody don't ask me how that got connected, i've just had assigned a new staff in germany, and the woman's name is russian [21:58] nobody not that it matters [21:59] nobody they wouldn't at least bother to invite me for an interview anyway, if i didn't demand an appointment [21:59] nobody and then they need another one or two month to arrange one ● Sep 18 [22:00] nobody so i mostly quit asking, since they wipe most relevant data from the file made about me, and add other arbitrary and fraudulent statements instead [22:00] nobody such as i supposedly didn't report there for three month some time ago, thins like this, which is simply wrong [22:01] nobody i ALWAYS reported to all government offices, tax office/financial department, health insurance, pension fund [22:01] nobody no clue how they arrived at the conclusion i supposedly didn't report to them [22:01] nobody just another little detail, which makes my blood boil, their corruption and lies [22:02] nobody for that matter, German government institutions themselvs are the most sever violators of GDPR and labor market regulations [22:03] nobody they don't want to pay for teachers and university staff, then create files about "unemployed" [22:03] nobody wipe studies made from the file, and "dis-qualify" because last employment dates back too far [22:03] nobody even when you worked 70hours each week, day and night, christmas and easter [22:04] nobody it just doesn't exist in the records of theirs [22:04] nobody then they loot and plunder your documents and work, and wipe all evidence made [22:04] nobody german government institutions do so [22:04] nobody i got partial evidence only, although i do know what they do [22:05] nobody that's not 1930s/40s though, i'm talking about 2000s and "democratic" parties, churches, labor unions and their interests at work [22:06] nobody i too suspect they've tapped my phone and spied upon me, but that's something i got no evidence for at all, i only do know this [22:06] nobody a mental delusion, hence the psychological evaluation you know, it's all my fault, their corruption and lies [22:11] nobody anyway, that's how i see it [22:12] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: Something happened something happened. [22:12] IsambardPrince Librewolf works perfectly fine in Baguette now. [22:16] admfubar https://www.techspot.com/news/113894-scientists-develop-way-restore-aging-ev-batteries-without.html [22:16] TR Bot develop a way to restore aging EV batteries without breaking them down into raw materials | TechSpot [22:18] admfubar https://www.techspot.com/news/113882-judge-ruled-google-broke-antitrust-law-keep-entire.html [22:18] TR Bot judge ruled Google broke antitrust law, then let it keep its entire ad-tech business | TechSpot [22:18] admfubar https://www.techspot.com/news/113786-windows-users-getting-harry-potter-ads-their-bing.html [22:18] TR Bot users are getting Harry Potter ads as their Bing Wallpaper, and they aren't happy | TechSpot [22:30] IsambardPrince I guess I'll put off the gas bill. It's not due until the 12th and Discover's next 5% quarter includes utilities. [22:50] nobody ^ reminds me of the Nord Stream terror attack again [22:51] nobody because that one was negotiated between USA and EU and Germany and various other endlessly [22:51] nobody everyone wanted to take a bite from this pipeline [22:51] nobody transit fees etc. etc. [22:52] nobody finally USA and Germany consented, Germany may build some LNG terminals here and connect those to the pipeline grid [22:52] nobody official "wording" for this, Germany might "import LNG from USA" [22:52] nobody although i tend to think such LNG terminals too may connect for EXPORT [22:53] nobody so, this is what i suspect: in germany here politics presented crazy energy bills (equivalent to >$50/gallon on my bills here) [22:53] nobody hence i could not consume any at all, and instead then LNG got exported, let's say for $50, but 100 gallons of those for their official price [22:54] nobody it's a twisted type of accounting, no sane braine on earth could envision [22:54] nobody energy and money ex nihilo [22:54] nobody double and tripple billed [22:54] nobody in the end, i suspect, USA seeked imports of "cheap russian gas" from Germany [22:55] nobody LNG that I pay for on my bill, but LNG that i never consumed, and then it's shipped elsehwere, wherever, and sold and billed again [22:55] nobody round and round it goes, where it ends noone knows [22:56] nobody September 2022, three days before Nord Stream blew up, i received a letter from my land lord, who insisted i shall pay who knows what $80/gallon or so (no joke) [22:56] nobody IsambardPrince: three days later Nord Stream exploded [22:56] nobody which, i must say, i couldn't care less, because neither the money nor any of this gas ever arrived here, except for a bill for this [22:57] nobody officially, all Nord Stream pipes at that time were either uncertified or in maintenance, and didn't deliver any gas anywhere [22:58] nobody but still, the moment when the explosived detonated, out of nowhere gigawatts of methane bubbled from the ocean floor to surface [22:58] nobody few weeks later, politics explained... "see no problem, we got LNG terminals, now USA will supply us with LNG, not russia anymore" [22:59] nobody no need for those pipelines that connected to the quickly built LNG terminals (that USA insisted were built iirc) [22:59] nobody all this is still being investigated, mid october this year there will be an interrogation at a Hamburg court [22:59] nobody because german police caught an attacker, and they want to know who had given the orders to detonate the pipelines ● Sep 18 [23:00] nobody it's not yet clear to me either who had tampered the energy bills, for that matter [23:00] nobody of the little 1100/month i got, just as said, 700 are taxed away for appartment rent and miracle energy bills still [23:02] nobody and i'm paying who knows what, a price equivalent of ~$35/gallon for LNG (1Euro/kWh round about) for "heating" and a little warm water [23:02] nobody politics here down-scaled my income who knows what 90%, and inflated energy pricing 1000% [23:03] nobody which is a weird physical equation, Energy == Work, nowadays you get 90% less energy for 10fold work or vice versa [23:04] nobody whatever benefits money goblins, to acquire F-35, Nvidia and MICROS~1 stocks, whatever pension funds are "invested" into [23:04] nobody i followed all tracks and traces best as i could [23:04] nobody so the question isn't only who detonated Nord Stream, but whoever else was involved [23:05] nobody i wasn't, i've only seen it on the energy bills here three days in advance, something might happen [23:05] nobody with regards to the recent cold appartment rent hike, that will have to be paid first on 1th october this year [23:06] nobody and chances are they'll seek to squeeze another few hundred for the non-heating i could afford and pay 700/month for a fungus rotton appartmen for here [23:06] nobody now, Saudi Arabia says they'll cut oil supplies to Europe beginnin October [23:06] nobody what a "coincidence" [23:07] nobody should i pay more, should i pay less? i couldn't care less. i couldn't afford a car anyway. [23:07] nobody i couldn't afford an inter-city railway ticket either [23:07] nobody or whatever elese [23:07] nobody best idea head of government german chancellor BlackRock Capital CEO got... F-35, to flex muscles [23:08] nobody how's this supposed to change anything? [23:08] nobody one F-35 equipped with nukes [23:08] nobody although that's just speculation and theory [23:09] nobody as far as i could tell, german government doesn't care about me individually (they only did whenever they could loot and plunder any of my work, my money, expropriate my homeland) [23:10] nobody there's nothing remaining to loot, except for a cheap hot dog, bread and a beer; and a little tobacco [23:10] nobody i got no family, no car, no holiday travels, no office space, no contracting, nothing [23:11] nobody no pension fund savings, that's considered generous social security nowadays for 70hours/week worked day and night [23:11] nobody because they didn't bother to hire and contract teachers and university staff [23:11] nobody that's too expensive, unaffordable [23:12] nobody our nuclear plants are shut down already, and i tend to think, i know the reason why that is [23:13] nobody Biden J. said, "we'll put an end to this", he wasn't delusional by no means [23:13] nobody he simply was in error, whatever the plan was, i did not work [23:14] nobody thing is, even when LNG and Oil piplines are constructed around the globe [23:14] nobody that's pipelines only, whcih doesn't mean those can be filled and drained into all directions [23:15] nobody even those precious LNG terminals in Germany, that USA insisted upon those were constructed [23:15] nobody those must have been filled somehow [23:15] nobody recently Germany reported record low storage for LNG [23:16] nobody i suspect they didn't at least have plausible accounting anymore, to know how much LNG really was delivered and consumed [23:16] nobody because the accounting was rigged all over [23:17] nobody and politics began to belive, russian gas was cheap, simply because they've had accounted for energy on my bills which never existed here [23:17] nobody then they began to argue, it's for social-ecological-feminist-whatever-justice the world all over this and that [23:17] nobody the entire argument was based on fraudulent accounting [23:18] nobody since the energy trickery was maxed out, they're hiking cold appartment rent here [23:18] nobody it's relatively moderate still, but the hikes were remarkable [23:19] nobody it's up +50% in recent 10years [23:19] nobody electricity peaked at 60cents/kWh (that's an equivalent, moment, of roughly $25/gallon gasoline, round about) [23:20] nobody Biden too said something about those "heat pumps", i don't recall all details [23:20] nobody yet whatever he intended to "put an end to", it didn't end, it's gotten worse, much worse [23:21] nobody whatever Trump seeked to accomplish, it too failed it seems [23:21] nobody although i tend to think, the type of European "Union" we got, it'll be disconnected from Saudi oil supplies in october [23:23] nobody projected gasoline pricing at petrol stations then: ~$11/gallon (most of which is taxation here) [23:23] nobody ahead of the elections, everyone is getting a little nervous, to say the least [23:24] nobody the way i see it, government seeked to dis-credit and dis-qualify me, because i've had a few questions over energy pricing and income [23:24] nobody next phase, i wouldn't qualify for labor market anyway without evaluation of my psychological condition [23:26] nobody yet how should i continue with any of my work, if i wouldn't know if at least i could pay appartment rent february 2027 (that's the next deadline) [23:26] nobody the cold rent hike arrived July this year, the energy billing is annual and might add on top [23:26] nobody at financial department they told me, "no worries, if you're saving on energy we'll make no trouble" [23:27] nobody yet, i do fear, i can't trust any of their words [23:27] nobody it's a regime of opression, which operates silently [23:28] nobody and government staff nowadays, i don't know how much pressure is put on them, in fear of them loosing their jobs [23:29] nobody i've too checked the billing for water usage, which was off-scale 10fold too [23:29] nobody i've never consumed the amount of what was billed, not last year, not in recent 20 years [23:30] nobody so all i do when forwarding bills to financial department, is adding a written letter [23:31] nobody "please notice i saved on energy and water with minimal consumption, billing exploded regardless. please confirm the attached bill. thank you." [23:37] nobody politics seeked to silence this, systematically, with their "climate change" propaganda (which is void because i did safe on energy, no car, no travels, no family no nothing) [23:38] nobody for decades [23:38] IsambardPrince MinceR: The dermatologist told me I was attacked by arthropods "You know, bugs." [23:38] IsambardPrince I said, "Yeah, well I guess it beats being attacked by cephalopods. You know, octopuses, squids...." [23:38] nobody yet all of the sudden, a majority of voters is hit hard, because they couldn't squeeze out from low-income students and parasites anymore [23:39] nobody teachers, university staff, nothing to be saved on these accounts anymore [23:39] nobody even when shuttding down nuclear plants (which do need engineering and scientific staff) [23:39] MinceR IsambardPrince: or being attacked by xenomorphs [23:40] nobody another proposed solution to this was, bringing in immigrants, those supposedly were cheaper, except for the fact an average household of theirs consume 10fold the amount of energy and water and gasoline for their cars [23:41] nobody so, even if politics decided they rather disposed an unproductive parasite such as myself [23:41] nobody they had no energy to accomodate someone else, it's not possible to consume less, working more, for even less income [23:41] nobody impossible [23:42] nobody and i tend to think uneducated 20year old immigrants throwing all their money into gambling slot machines [23:42] nobody that's not any more productive than the work of a university teacher [23:43] nobody it seems to have been part of a political deal with iran and saudis, to permit immigration from their cultural realm in return for energy supplies [23:43] nobody just speculation and theory [23:43] nobody but there's some mysterious gigantic risky leverage hiding in the accounts [23:43] nobody which now hit gasoline stations in europe at $10/gallon [23:44] nobody if they cut down tax, they can't finance the social security nor immigration either, nor any other unproductive student or whichever subhuman below labor union church standards nowadays [23:45] nobody with election campaigning, political parties here seek to attract voters, guess what, that's labor union church members [23:45] nobody recently this was re-framed into a dispute among generations, which it isn't [23:46] nobody it's a conflict between labor union church members and those not pariticipating in the well-being of this regime [23:46] nobody all of the sudden politics found, there's not that many labor union church members remaining either [23:46] nobody hence the decline in votes, and increase in non-voters [23:47] nobody then AfD Trump style politics appeared on the scene [23:47] nobody recently i've found, this political "alternative" follows along the same plot as all others did before [23:48] nobody appeaseing their voters with "gasoline bonus tax cuts", labor union salary negotiations (VW and Metal work pays rather well still) [23:48] nobody but those jobs are not competitive anymore, were losing thousands of those jobs each week [23:49] nobody i couldn't afford a VW car anyway, and they can't sell any to anyone, even chinese market isn't big enough [23:49] nobody maybe India will be the next round of investment [23:49] nobody then again, where should all the energy come from? [23:49] nobody oil and gas... [23:50] nobody there's some other string attached to this, whenever pipelines are constructed, and energy supplies contract [23:50] nobody a pipeline must be filled, oil and gas must exist to do so [23:51] nobody once a contract was agreed to, both sides are obligated to compensation of damages if either oil/gas/energy cannot be supplied or isn't consumed [23:51] nobody that's another explanation why, Nord Stream might have detonated, it relived from compensation of damages if any partner could not have fullfilled obligations [23:52] nobody and i do suspect, the amounts of energy that were accounted for, never existed, it's been on paper only [23:52] nobody if russia was selling oil/gas to china, it cant' deliver to germany [23:53] nobody if germany doesn't receive supplies, it can't join import/export business with USA who insisted those LNG terminals were constructed [23:53] nobody USA argued, they would supply LNG, all i see is tampered energy bills however [23:54] nobody don't ask me why the the Saudi pipe detonated [23:54] nobody Germany contracted with Quatar while ago, but even then a barrel of oil can only be sold and burned once, even when that was accounted thrice in Iran, Saudi, Jemen wherever else [23:55] nobody plus the magic triple fold accounting in Germany/EU, for the sake of "climate change" [23:55] nobody and that's the major criticism of the whole "climate change" policy, the whole accounting is rigged [23:56] nobody on my bill here, they're accounting "carbon tax" on energy which was neither supplied nor consumed [23:56] nobody for this the consumed energy was multiplied with a "climate multiplier" [23:56] nobody when 1000kWh are consumed, it's accounted as 4000kWh, but there NEVER was 4000kWh [23:57] nobody there's no reason for this "climate multiplier", it's total nonsense, but they do want to tax a certain amount regardless [23:57] nobody Biden said, he'll "put an end to this", he didn't [23:58] nobody it's gotten worse, and it's gotten worse again when Trump took office again [23:58] nobody so, ahead of various elections, i do receive an appartmen rent hike... for what? [23:59] nobody where's this money routed? into F-35 250million a unit each? [23:59] nobody it's the same trick with "social security" (basic income, for students, unemployed teachers whoever)