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| IsambardPrince | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pentagon_Wars | Oct 18 01:25 |
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| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-en.wikipedia.org | The Pentagon Wars - Wikipedia | Oct 18 01:25 | |
| IsambardPrince | I mean to watch this. | Oct 18 01:25 |
| IsambardPrince | Oddly, the Bradley Fighting Vehicle did end up suffering from Mission Creep, but that Mission Creep improved it. | Oct 18 01:25 |
| IsambardPrince | In some cases, into a tank killer. | Oct 18 01:26 |
| IsambardPrince | The Russians have lost some of their T-90 tanks in shootouts with Bradley Fighting Vehicles. | Oct 18 01:26 |
| IsambardPrince | The autocanon on the Bradley isn't going to punch through the tank armor and kill the crew but it can disable the tank and soften it up for a drone strike, | Oct 18 01:27 |
| IsambardPrince | https://courtdocket.org/child-eaten-by-alligator-at-disney-settlement-changes-and-no-charges/ | Oct 18 01:28 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-courtdocket.org | Child Eaten by Alligator at Disney: Settlement, Changes, and No Charges - CourtDocket | Oct 18 01:28 | |
| IsambardPrince | Sometimes lawsuits do change things for the better. Before Disney lost a hell of a lot of money on a kid being eaten by an alligator, they invested almost no money in preventing it from happening. | Oct 18 01:29 |
| IsambardPrince | After the lawsuit, they ended up removing alligators at over 4 times the previous rate for years until things settled down, but the number is still higher than the pre-lawsuit average. | Oct 18 01:29 |
| IsambardPrince | They also build barriers and put up new signage specifically warning about alligators and snakes, and trained staff to spot and report them immediately. | Oct 18 01:30 |
| IsambardPrince | And they banned fishing anywhere on Disney property except as part of a guided tour. | Oct 18 01:30 |
| IsambardPrince | They're a corporation. Corporations don't care about dead kids. | Oct 18 01:33 |
| IsambardPrince | They care about money, losing lots of money. | Oct 18 01:33 |
| IsambardPrince | I can't even believe Disney is still in business. | Oct 18 01:33 |
| IsambardPrince | They're coasting off of things people remember fondly. | Oct 18 01:33 |
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| IsambardPrince | I'm answering a survey about what kind of food I eat. | Oct 18 02:02 |
| IsambardPrince | Almost no fruit, almost no raw vegetables. | Oct 18 02:02 |
| IsambardPrince | I don't really like yogurt. | Oct 18 02:02 |
| IsambardPrince | Lots of beef. | Oct 18 02:03 |
| IsambardPrince | Lots of cooked vegetables. | Oct 18 02:03 |
| IsambardPrince | Some chicken. | Oct 18 02:03 |
| IsambardPrince | Pork if it's ham, bacon, or spam, but not otherwise. | Oct 18 02:03 |
| IsambardPrince | The upside I guess is not too much candy, no donuts, cakes, or pies in the last month. | Oct 18 02:05 |
| IsambardPrince | Just a couple of Cadbury fruit and nut bars. | Oct 18 02:05 |
| IsambardPrince | It's technically got fruit, but the only fruit is raisins, which are acceptable in chocolate. | Oct 18 02:06 |
| IsambardPrince | It also has almonds. I love almonds. | Oct 18 02:06 |
| MinceR | lol | Oct 18 02:06 |
| MinceR | raisins are unacceptable in chocolate | Oct 18 02:07 |
| IsambardPrince | They asked about Slimfast or Ensure or Boost shakes. Listen, if I'm going to be fat it's not because I'm gulping down Ensure and Boost. | Oct 18 02:07 |
| IsambardPrince | Before she died, my grandmother spend from 1998-2026 living pretty much off sugar alone. | Oct 18 02:08 |
| IsambardPrince | Cakes, toaster strudles with extra frosting, the occasional piece of fried chicken or okra. | Oct 18 02:09 |
| IsambardPrince | Near the end she just drank a lot of boost. | Oct 18 02:09 |
| IsambardPrince | I told my mom that living to be 94 on boost and poptarts was sort of an achievement. | Oct 18 02:09 |
| MinceR | :> | Oct 18 02:10 |
| IsambardPrince | Along the way she got colorectal cancer and the surgeon said that after the surgery she had a normal amount of intestine left. She apparently started with a lot more than the average person. | Oct 18 02:11 |
| IsambardPrince | I told the doctor "How else would she be twice as full of shit as the rest of us?" | Oct 18 02:11 |
| IsambardPrince | Pretzels? Nope. | Oct 18 02:11 |
| IsambardPrince | Peanuts (1 oz). Who eats an ounce of peanuts? The reason I don't buy them often is because I can singlehandedly eat an entire warehouse club container of salted Virgia extra large peanuts during a couple of movies. | Oct 18 02:12 |
| IsambardPrince | Oat bran? No that's up there with frosted flakes. They were invented by a crazy man in Michigan in the 19th century who thought eating them would make you want to stop masturbating. | Oct 18 02:14 |
| IsambardPrince | I mean corn flakes, sorry. | Oct 18 02:14 |
| IsambardPrince | Frosted flakes were an attempted improvement. | Oct 18 02:14 |
| IsambardPrince | Presumably by people who didn't care about your masturbation habits. | Oct 18 02:14 |
| IsambardPrince | Ketchup? Rarely. It doesn't belong on anything except fries. | Oct 18 02:16 |
| IsambardPrince | Lots of garlic. | Oct 18 02:17 |
| IsambardPrince | I cook almost everything in olive oil | Oct 18 02:17 |
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| IsambardPrince | Regular mayo is the only right answer, and only Kewpie or Duke's. | Oct 18 02:18 |
| IsambardPrince | Coffee and black tea every day, mint tea (double strong) at night. | Oct 18 02:19 |
| IsambardPrince | Artificial sweetener? Only Splenda. It's the only one that has ever tasted like sugar. The older ones are awful. Saccharin was a 19th century take on sugar substitutes that's more bitter than sweet, Aspartame/Equal breaks down in heat yet they show it pictured with hot coffee and tea on the box, and newer ones like Truvia are just awful. | Oct 18 02:21 |
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| IsambardPrince | I never buy cold breakfast cereal except corn flakes, but not because I don't want to have fun masturbating, it's because cornflakes are the topping for funeral potatoes, which are great, especially with ham. | Oct 18 02:22 |
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| IsambardPrince | Cooked oatmeal or bran, nope. They taste like nothing and people only use them for an excuse to eat a pile of brown sugar and melted butter. | Oct 18 02:24 |
| IsambardPrince | Grits? Occasionally. You need them for shrimp and cheesy grits. That's the only reason to buy grits. You have now experienced all there is to grits. | Oct 18 02:25 |
| IsambardPrince | Bread? There's only two acceptable kinds for sandwiches, depending on what the sandwich is. Sourdough or 100% Whole Wheat. | Oct 18 02:26 |
| IsambardPrince | Buttermilk is fine if there's no sourdough. | Oct 18 02:27 |
| IsambardPrince | Other crackers? Yeah. Ritz. Name brand only. I only buy them when I need a buttered crushed cracker topping for a chicken casserole though. | Oct 18 02:28 |
| IsambardPrince | Then I end up eating the rest with colby jack. | Oct 18 02:28 |
| IsambardPrince | In the last 30 days, how often did I eat beef, calf, or pork liver? None. Liver is so slow moving that they usually sell it frozen, which completely ruins the texture when you make liver and onions with bacon, which is otherwise one of my favorites. | Oct 18 02:30 |
| MinceR | lol @ masturbation habits | Oct 18 02:31 |
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| IsambardPrince | Pan frying oils? Butter and olive oil or just plain olive oil or gtfo. Butter isn't good on its own. It burns too easily. | Oct 18 02:32 |
| IsambardPrince | When making cookies? Real butter. Margarine ruins everything it touches. It used to be the go to for poor people, but now it's expensive and ruins things. | Oct 18 02:33 |
| IsambardPrince | I had to suffer through margarine through childhood because my dad's stupid doctor told him to only buy margarine. | Oct 18 02:34 |
| IsambardPrince | Now when I get a piece of toast and margarine is all there is for whatever reason (like a hospital cafeteria) it's oddly nostalgic. | Oct 18 02:34 |
| IsambardPrince | Margarine is what they would have in the movie THX-1138. | Oct 18 02:35 |
| IsambardPrince | I use sesame oil sometimes, but rarely. | Oct 18 02:36 |
| IsambardPrince | It's okay for a stir fry. | Oct 18 02:36 |
| IsambardPrince | Am I on a diet? I tried cooking from the American Heart Association's DASH cookbook. | Oct 18 02:38 |
| IsambardPrince | They insist that you can replace salt with other things and get used to it. | Oct 18 02:38 |
| IsambardPrince | I came to the conclusion that they call it the DASH Diet because you dash to the nearest trashcan to throw the cookbook away. | Oct 18 02:38 |
| IsambardPrince | I told my doctor that. | Oct 18 02:38 |
| IsambardPrince | Prisoners who are on punishment loaf get a better meal than the DASH Diet. | Oct 18 02:39 |
| IsambardPrince | At least the prison brick has the decency not to pretend it's a lifestyle choice. | Oct 18 02:40 |
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| IsambardPrince | Vitamins? A multivitamin, 1000 mg Vitamin C, 5000 IU Vitamin D, and 470 mg of Magnesium Glycinate, and a couple Osteo-Bi-Flex Triple Strength with Turmeric. | Oct 18 02:42 |
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| admfubar | https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/10/17/2247220/woman-arrested-after-blocking-delivery-robot-to-protest-job-displacements | Oct 18 02:59 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-hardware.slashdot.org | Woman Arrested After Blocking Delivery Robot to Protest Job Displacements - Slashdot | Oct 18 02:59 | |
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| admfubar | https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/10/17/0024214/scientists-discover-why-microplastics-trigger-inflammation | Oct 18 03:01 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-science.slashdot.org | Scientists Discover Why Microplastics Trigger Inflammation - Slashdot | Oct 18 03:01 | |
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| admfubar | https://thenewstack.io/claude-code-linux-driver/ | Oct 18 03:09 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-thenewstack.io | His scanner wouldnβt work on Linux β so he let Claude study the Windows driver - The New Stack | Oct 18 03:09 | |
| admfubar | https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/15/the-metric-is-not-the-mission-the-long-decline-of-certainty/ | Oct 18 03:15 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-The Metric Is Not The Mission: The Long Decline Of Certainty | Techdirt | Oct 18 03:15 | |
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| admfubar | https://thedebrief.org/climate-change-is-altering-the-atmosphere-in-ways-that-could-make-military-radar-see-farther-or-go-blind/ | Oct 18 03:18 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-thedebrief.org | Climate Change Is Altering the Atmosphere in Ways That Could Make Military Radar See Fartherβor Go Blind - The Debrief | Oct 18 03:18 | |
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| LordPhanes | schestowitz-TR: you online? | Oct 18 03:54 |
| admfubar | https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/10/us-rep-proposes-bill-to-give-video-game-buyers-ownership-not-a-license/ | Oct 18 03:55 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-arstechnica.com | US Rep proposes bill to give video game buyers "ownership," not "a license" - Ars Technica | Oct 18 03:55 | |
| LordPhanes | nice | Oct 18 03:56 |
| admfubar | https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/10/the-internets-undersea-backbone-is-slipping-into-to-the-danger-zone/ | Oct 18 04:03 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-arstechnica.com | The Internetβs undersea backbone is slipping into the danger zone - Ars Technica | Oct 18 04:03 | |
| admfubar | βElon Musk is a bullshitter who deliversβ... https://www.cnbc.com/make-it/2020/02/14/charlie-munger-shares-opinion-of-tesla-ceo-elon-musk.html | Oct 18 04:06 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.cnbc.com | Charlie Munger shares opinion of Tesla CEO Elon Musk | Oct 18 04:06 | |
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| admfubar | https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/kmart-sell-monkeys-1960s/ | Oct 18 04:26 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Kmart used to sell pet monkeys in the 1960s. It wasn't alone | Snopes.com | Oct 18 04:26 | |
| admfubar | https://pogowasright.org/ai-agent-posts-mans-bank-balances-and-exactly-what-hes-spending-his-money-on-in-a-slack-work-channel/ | Oct 18 04:43 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-AI Agent Posts Manβs Bank Balances and Exactly What Heβs Spending His Money on in a Slack Work Channel β PogoWasRight.org | Oct 18 04:43 | |
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| IsambardPrince | schestowitz[TR2], https://scontent-lga3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.99422-6/854188414_1774304180463677_5777679586087689070_n.png?stp=dst-jpg_tt6&cstp=mx1638x2048&ctp=s1638x2048&_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=127cfc&_nc_ohc=tGfu5ih8drAQ7kNvwG8DwxO&_nc_oc=AdrkhCLi7LJq2st6HbHwDnyJ3TT_M_-RkmO_9y6si3lSwrjcSvLJG_3FK_NTbTSPmT0&_nc_zt=14&_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-2.xx&_nc_gid=csr4P_QCh4dbuGG7eWxoVQ&_nc_ss=7b2a8&oh=00_AQNYw3j1FkVOwGEgIm6I67nT-SG6jmf5aVRmyAA | Oct 18 05:21 |
| IsambardPrince | uFfKUvA&oe=6ADA2D64 | Oct 18 05:21 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights- ( status 403 @ https://scontent-lga3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.99422-6/854188414_1774304180463677_5777679586087689070_n.png?stp=dst-jpg_tt6&cstp=mx1638x2048&ctp=s1638x2048&_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=127cfc&_nc_ohc=tGfu5ih8drAQ7kNvwG8DwxO&_nc_oc=AdrkhCLi7LJq2st6HbHwDnyJ3TT_M_-RkmO_9y6si3lSwrjcSvLJG_3FK_NTbTSPmT0&_nc_zt=14&_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-2.xx&_nc_gid=csr4P_QCh4dbuGG7eWxoVQ&_nc_ss=7b2a8&oh=00_AQNYw3j1FkVOwGEgIm6I67nT-SG6jmf5aVRmyAA ) | Oct 18 05:21 | |
| IsambardPrince | Ouch. | Oct 18 05:21 |
| IsambardPrince | Streaming TV prices. | Oct 18 05:21 |
| IsambardPrince | You're not only paying rent to access the streaming app, but the rent goes up about as fast as your rent. | Oct 18 05:22 |
| LordPhanes | yeah way more expensive than cable tv ever was if you want a few of em | Oct 18 05:23 |
| IsambardPrince | Some of them know that they can't get that much money from smart people. | Oct 18 05:24 |
| IsambardPrince | You threaten to cancel Paramount Plus they go back down to like $2.99 for a few months then they see if you're still paying attention., | Oct 18 05:25 |
| IsambardPrince | The grocery store was giving away Necco Wafers today with a coupon. | Oct 18 05:28 |
| IsambardPrince | It says they're "The original candy wafer from 1847." | Oct 18 05:28 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | interesting | Oct 18 05:28 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | might use that | Oct 18 05:28 |
| IsambardPrince | Tastes like something from a pharmacy. | Oct 18 05:28 |
| IsambardPrince | schestowitz[TR2], Think there was a typo on one of them. | Oct 18 05:28 |
| IsambardPrince | Paramount+ | Oct 18 05:28 |
| IsambardPrince | Anyway, it's gotten totally ridiculous. | Oct 18 05:29 |
| IsambardPrince | Almost everything Netflix has eventually makes it onto DVD and Blu Ray. | Oct 18 05:29 |
| IsambardPrince | The library has it for free. | Oct 18 05:29 |
| IsambardPrince | You already bought a copy when you paid taxes. | Oct 18 05:29 |
| techrights-news | Rebooting into new kernel soon, IRC outage for 2 mins at most | Oct 18 05:29 |
| IsambardPrince | Now you're paying to rent something that's on a library shelf. | Oct 18 05:31 |
| IsambardPrince | It's not that there's nothing good on Netflix, it's that most of it is cheap filler, like all of them. | Oct 18 05:32 |
| IsambardPrince | It's like 97% filler and crap, and 3% good stuff. | Oct 18 05:32 |
| IsambardPrince | They know if they put almost all their budget into the 3%, then people will subscribe just to watch that, then they won't unsubscribe while the next season takes a year or two in production. | Oct 18 05:32 |
| IsambardPrince | And Netflix harvests months or even years of barely used subscription time. | Oct 18 05:33 |
| techrights-news | javascript TCO : "Pluralistic: Israeli ad-tech company was a delivery system for mercenary spyware (17 Oct 2026)" https://pluralistic.net/2026/10/17/mercenary-spyware/#discover-tech | Oct 18 05:34 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-pluralistic.net | Pluralistic: Israeli ad-tech company was a delivery system for βmercenary spywareβ (17 Oct 2026) β Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow | Oct 18 05:34 | |
| IsambardPrince | It's almost pure profit. | Oct 18 05:34 |
| IsambardPrince | It's like my landlord. They spend the bare minimum to make sure the building doesn't fall over into the street or on things that avoid a lawsuit or everyone breaking their lease at once. | Oct 18 05:35 |
| IsambardPrince | Like, they have an exterminator come out, but he doesn't do the things you'd do if you were really trying to kill all of the cockroaches. | Oct 18 05:36 |
| IsambardPrince | It's better than Piyush. | Oct 18 05:36 |
| IsambardPrince | The Nazis were less indiscriminate in their application of pesticides. | Oct 18 05:36 |
| techrights-news | "On Wednesday, Netflix told staff it was laying off about 6% of its workforce, or roughly a thousand people, according to an internal memo obtained by CNBC." β https://techcentral.co.za/netflix-losing-battle-screen-time/287359/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa) | Oct 18 05:37 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techcentral.co.za | Netflix is losing the battle for your screen time | Oct 18 05:37 | |
| techrights-news | "The user has to be logged in and authenticated; we use SMS and OTP authentication. Sending out that many SMSs across the country in a short span of time is a problem statement of its own" β https://thenewstack.io/live-streaming-engineering-lessons/ | Source: The New Stack | Oct 18 05:37 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-thenewstack.io | Here are the engineering lessons we learned when live-streaming sports to 32 million people - The New Stack | Oct 18 05:37 | |
| IsambardPrince | schestowitz[TR2], A while back Netflix said they were firing all their animators and would use AI. | Oct 18 05:37 |
| techrights-news | "The Xbox 360 has been cracked open multiple times over the years" β https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/modder-finishes-nine-year-xbox-360-voltage-glitch-mod-with-a-usd4-microcontroller-cracks-the-console-open-tiny-microcontroller-dumps-nand-and-flashes-timing-files-to-bypass-cpu-cryptography | Source: Tom's Hardware | Oct 18 05:38 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.tomshardware.com | Modder finishes nine-year Xbox 360 voltage glitch mod with a $4 microcontroller, cracks the console open β tiny microcontroller dumps NAND and flashes timing files to bypass CPU cryptography | Tom's Hardware | Oct 18 05:38 | |
| IsambardPrince | Then there's been no new animation since then. | Oct 18 05:38 |
| IsambardPrince | Nothing that they've produced. | Oct 18 05:38 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | laurels | Oct 18 05:38 |
| IsambardPrince | Animation is like anything else, it's a creative process. | Oct 18 05:38 |
| IsambardPrince | Computer programs are not creative. | Oct 18 05:38 |
| techrights-news | "Hammackβs specific concern that too many businesses have pricing power, which is leading to excessive wage growth." β https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/how-the-federal-reserve-secretly | Source: Matt Stoller | Oct 18 05:39 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.thebignewsletter.com | How the Fed Is Quietly Inflating the AI Bubble While Hiking Your Electric Bill | Oct 18 05:39 | |
| IsambardPrince | The golden years of Disney relied on storyboarding, strict rules. There was a process. | Oct 18 05:39 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | computers are fast | Oct 18 05:39 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | you can do rendering farms | Oct 18 05:39 |
| IsambardPrince | For colors it was called 60-30-10. | Oct 18 05:39 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | for uhuman-made work | Oct 18 05:39 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | the aim is not speed | Oct 18 05:39 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | or quantity | Oct 18 05:39 |
| IsambardPrince | Every frame of a golden-era Disney animation followed it. | Oct 18 05:39 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | you doon't need 1000 slop movies | Oct 18 05:39 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | pepople have limited time | Oct 18 05:39 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | make one good movie | Oct 18 05:39 |
| techrights-news | "With that said, I want to offer some cautionary thoughts on the largesse from the company that has become the leading corporate supporter of American journalism, OpenAI." β https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/10/newsrooms-journalism-openai-funding/689043/ | Source: The Atlantic | Oct 18 05:40 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights- ( status 403 @ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/10/newsrooms-journalism-openai-funding/689043/ ) | Oct 18 05:40 | |
| IsambardPrince | Roughly 60% of that frame would be a predominant color, roughly 30% would be a complimentary color, and then roughly 10% would be a color that contrasted with the rest of the scene so that the audience's attention moved there. | Oct 18 05:40 |
| techrights-news | "THR noted that the supposed rule violation was not explicitly laid out, and that TikTok had not commented on this ban." β https://gizmodo.com/tiktok-permabans-musk-film-account-2000827320 | Source: Gizmodo | Oct 18 05:40 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-gizmodo.com | TikTok Permabans 'Musk' Film Account | Oct 18 05:40 | |
| techrights-news | ">Even beyond the filmβs account suspension on TikTok, the 3-hour-and-45-minute has already faced itβs fair share of controversy ahead of its release." β https://variety.com/2026/film/news/musk-documentary-tiktok-account-permanently-suspended-1236914995/ | Source: Variety | Oct 18 05:41 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-variety.com | 'Musk' Documentary Account Permanently Suspended from TikTok | Oct 18 05:41 | |
| IsambardPrince | schestowitz[TR2], I don't watch slop. | Oct 18 05:41 |
| techrights-news | "Ads promoting the trailer for βMuskβ β directed by Oscar-winner filmmaker Alex Gibney β were initially rejected by Meta and YouTube as well, though those platforms eventually allowed the ad" β https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/17/tiktok-permanently-bans-musk-documentary-advertising-account/ | Source: TechCrunch | Oct 18 05:41 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-TikTok permanently bans βMuskβ documentary advertising account | TechCrunch | Oct 18 05:41 | |
| techrights-news | "TikTok has banned the Musk film advertising account, citing a repeated pattern of political content that violates its policies." β https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/musk-movie-tiktok-banned-theaters-showtimes-1236734308/ | Source: Hollywood Reporter | Oct 18 05:41 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.hollywoodreporter.com | TikTok Bans Musk Film Account, Citing Politics | Oct 18 05:41 | |
| techrights-news | "While TikTok has no official affiliation with Elon Musk, part owner Larry Ellison appears in the film via a text message offering to help Musk fund his Twitter purchase." β https://www.theverge.com/tech/1013453/tiktok-bans-alex-gibneys-musk-documentary | Source: The Verge | Oct 18 05:41 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.theverge.com | TikTok bans Musk documentary account | The Verge | Oct 18 05:41 | |
| IsambardPrince | With rare exception ("The critics got this horribly wrong!"), I don't bother with anything that got under about 65% on Rotten Tomatoes. | Oct 18 05:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | slop is like "Foodstuff" | Oct 18 05:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | you would not order | Oct 18 05:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | and eat | Oct 18 05:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "foodstuff" | Oct 18 05:41 |
| techrights-news | "The term βinactivationβ signifies that the group is being decommissioned for an indeterminate period during some form of restructuring and reorganization" β https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-military/2026/10/16/us-armys-8th-psychological-operations-group-inactivated/ | Source: Sightline Media Group | Oct 18 05:42 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.armytimes.com | US Armyβs 8th Psychological Operations Group inactivated | Oct 18 05:42 | |
| IsambardPrince | There's also a few examples of near-100% that I don't like at all. | Oct 18 05:42 |
| techrights-news | "It is about locality and the society it supports. It also extends to generations yet to be and to the rest of the species on this planet." β https://protesilaos.com/commentary/2026-10-17-ai-despair-adaptability-community/ | Source: Protesilaos Stavrou | Oct 18 05:42 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-On AI, despair, adaptability, and community | Protesilaos | Oct 18 05:42 | |
| IsambardPrince | Humans don't always go with the consensus. | Oct 18 05:42 |
| techrights-news | "Musk declined to be interviewed for the film." β https://newrepublic.com/article/216453/watching-musk-feels-like-trapped-simulation-alex-gibney-doc | Source: New Republic | Oct 18 05:42 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-newrepublic.com | Watching Musk Feels Like Being Trapped in a Simulation | The New Republic | Oct 18 05:42 | |
| IsambardPrince | That's why there were cult classics that did better on DVD or something. | Oct 18 05:43 |
| IsambardPrince | So here's a good example, MinceR likes this movie iirc. | Oct 18 05:43 |
| IsambardPrince | Event Horizon. | Oct 18 05:43 |
| techrights-news | "After more than 30 years as a DER SPIEGEL correspondent in the US, I am leaving. The country that I thought I knew no longer exists. It was an illusion - and it is being replaced by the unknown." β https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/leaving-the-us-the-erosion-of-my-american-dream-a-509fdb80-9895-4612-a6b7-5c2f253982f4#ref=rss | Source: Spiegel | Oct 18 05:43 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.spiegel.de | Leaving the US: The Erosion of My American Dream - DER SPIEGEL | Oct 18 05:43 | |
| IsambardPrince | They shaved over 40 minutes off of it because the test audiences hated all of the gore and violence. | Oct 18 05:43 |
| techrights-news | "The first part of this expansion happened last year when the Mendocino Railway, better known as the Skunk Train" β https://www.latimes.com/travel/story/2026-10-15/redwood-country-tall-trees-stiff-drinks-skunk-train | Source: Los Angeles Times | Oct 18 05:43 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.latimes.com | Mendocino Countyβs Skunk Train introduces a luxe, adults-only railcar - Los Angeles Times | Oct 18 05:43 | |
| techrights-news | "That efficiency is why trawling has become central to some of the worldβs largest commercial fisheries." β https://www.lonestarlive.com/native-american-news/2026/10/trawl-fishing-catches-huge-amounts-of-seafood-it-can-also-devastate-the-seafloor.html | Source: Advance Local Media LLC | Oct 18 05:44 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights- ( status 403 @ https://www.lonestarlive.com/native-american-news/2026/10/trawl-fishing-catches-huge-amounts-of-seafood-it-can-also-devastate-the-seafloor.html ) | Oct 18 05:44 | |
| techrights-news | "Our world is so incredibly wrong-headed and misguided. Trains donβt run better with these. No one is helped. They use electricity and electronics and rare minerals." β https://idiomdrottning.org/metrovision | Source: Idiomdrottning | Oct 18 05:44 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-idiomdrottning.org | Metrovision | Oct 18 05:44 | |
| IsambardPrince | Then by the time the studio realized that it did better on DVD than they thought it would, they came back asking for a director's cut. | Oct 18 05:44 |
| IsambardPrince | By that point the studio had mishandled or destroyed all the cut scenes. | Oct 18 05:44 |
| techrights-news | "The phenomenon, the authors note, occurs even under normal environmental conditions, without the need for sunlight or other agents that cause plastic degradation." β https://www.wired.com/story/microplastics-react-with-water-new-study-says-thats-a-problem-for-biology/ | Source: Wired | Oct 18 05:44 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Microplastics React With Water, a New Study Says. Thatβs a Problem for Biology | WIRED | Oct 18 05:44 | |
| IsambardPrince | And there was nothing to make a director's cut off of. | Oct 18 05:44 |
| techrights-news | "Programs will teach residents how to conserve water and reduce waste." β https://www.western-water.com/2026/10/15/california-libraries-take-on-water-waste-and-climate-change/ | Source: Western Water | Oct 18 05:45 |
| IsambardPrince | Then there was Cutthroat Island, a mid-90s pirate movie. | Oct 18 05:45 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.western-water.com | California libraries take on water waste and climate change | ... | Oct 18 05:45 | |
| techrights-news | "US corporate lobbyists launched a two-year βblitzβ to postpone and weaken the worldβs most progressive legislation to protect forests, according to a new investigation by the environmental watchdog Mighty Earth." β https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/17/us-corporate-lobbyists-europe-deforestation | Source: The Guardian UK | Oct 18 05:45 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.theguardian.com | US corporate lobbyists mounted βblitzβ to dilute landmark EU deforestation law, report finds | Deforestation | The Guardian | Oct 18 05:45 | |
| IsambardPrince | It cost so much that the studio was bankrupted and the movie was taken over and finished by creditors. | Oct 18 05:45 |
| IsambardPrince | It didn't do well, they lost almost everything. | Oct 18 05:45 |
| IsambardPrince | schestowitz[TR2], Yes, modern American cinema is McDonald's. | Oct 18 05:46 |
| IsambardPrince | They follow the same formula on everything. | Oct 18 05:46 |
| IsambardPrince | There's no experimentation. | Oct 18 05:46 |
| IsambardPrince | McDonald's came out with a burger in the 1990s, I loved it. | Oct 18 05:46 |
| IsambardPrince | Ordered it every time I went there. | Oct 18 05:46 |
| IsambardPrince | It was called the Arch Deluxe. | Oct 18 05:46 |
| IsambardPrince | It had much higher quality ingredients than the usual McDonald's burger and its own formula of ketchup. | Oct 18 05:47 |
| techrights-news | "How do you get kids to stop spending so much time in the virtual world? Itβs pretty obvious: Give them back the real one." β https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2026-10-17/kids-technology-real-world-interaction-third-places | Source: Los Angeles Times | Oct 18 05:47 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.latimes.com | Contributor: If you get kids off their devices, where are they going to go? - Los Angeles Times | Oct 18 05:48 | |
| techrights-news | "The payment went to the Senate Leadership Fund, or SLF, rather than directly to Paxton's campaign" β https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/elon-musk-donation-ken-paxton-senate-campaign-1826182 | Source: International Business Times | Oct 18 05:48 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.ibtimes.co.uk | 'Billionaires Aren't Compatible With Democracy': Critics Bash Elon Musk $158M Paxton Donation | IBTimes UK | Oct 18 05:48 | |
| IsambardPrince | They spent hundreds of millions of dollars developing, testing, setting up its own supply lines, training staff on how to properly cook it. | Oct 18 05:48 |
| IsambardPrince | It ended up being a disaster, not because it wasn't good. But because it cost too much to have a supply chain for one decent burger in the middle of a fast food place. | Oct 18 05:48 |
| techrights-news | "βOpenAI put Arizonansβ safety at risk by failing to implement adequate user protections or transparency measures" β https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/101526_az_sues_openai/arizona-sues-openai-over-dangers-chatgpt-poses-children/ | Source: Tuscon Sentinel | Oct 18 05:49 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.tucsonsentinel.com | Arizona sues OpenAI over the dangers ChatGPT poses to children | Oct 18 05:49 | |
| techrights-news | "This is absurd. This is irresponsible. And almost no one outside Silicon Valley wants this future." β https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/10/ai-regulation-transhumanism-oligarchs/689013/ | Source: The Atlantic | Oct 18 05:49 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights- ( status 403 @ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/10/ai-regulation-transhumanism-oligarchs/689013/ ) | Oct 18 05:49 | |
| techrights-news | "Most of the planet with incomes equivalent to β¬5,000 a month (nearly $5,600) by 2100. Average temperatures only 1.8 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels." β https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2026-10-17/thomas-piketty-the-future-billionaires-are-preparing-for-us-is-dystopian.html | Source: El PaΓs | Oct 18 05:49 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-english.elpais.com | Thomas Piketty: 'The future billionaires are preparing for us is dystopian' | Economy and Business | EL PAΓS English | Oct 18 05:49 | |
| IsambardPrince | They don't like risk in modern Hollywood. If they spend $100+ million dollars on something, they want them all to make profit, not be hit or miss with the winners subsidizing the break evens and box office bombs. | Oct 18 05:49 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <IsambardPrince> schestowitz[TR2], Yes, modern American cinema is McDonald's. | Oct 18 05:50 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <techrights-news> Why young Indonesians are falling back in love with cinemas and the analogue lifestyle β https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/why-young-indonesians-are-falling-back-in-love-with-cinemas-and-the-analogue-lifestyle | Oct 18 05:50 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.straitstimes.com | Young Indonesians rediscover cinemas and analogue life | The Straits Times | Oct 18 05:50 | |
| techrights-news | "Krasotkin was due to be released on September 17 but was again kept in custody." β https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/10/17/russian-mathematician-semyon-krasotkin-charged-with-treason-over-26-in-paid-telegram-reactions-to-ukrainian-and-opposition-channels | Source: Meduza | Oct 18 05:51 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-meduza.io | Russian mathematician Semyon Krasotkin charged with treason over $26 in paid Telegram reactions to Ukrainian and opposition channels β Meduza | Oct 18 05:51 | |
| techrights-news | "Last fall, we sued on behalf of three major labor unions to stop this surveillance program." β https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/our-lawsuit-against-trump-administrations-social-media-surveillance-moves-forward | Source: EFF | Oct 18 05:51 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.eff.org | Our Lawsuit Against the Trump Administrationβs Social Media Surveillance Moves Forward. Hereβs What the Court Said. | Electronic Frontier Foundation | Oct 18 05:51 | |
| techrights-news | "the Internet." β https://www.thenation.com/article/society/digital-privacy-salazar-paramount/ | Source: The Nation | Oct 18 05:51 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.thenation.com | Is Blockbuster Video the Answer to Our Digital Privacy Woes? | The Nation | Oct 18 05:51 | |
| techrights-news | "Normally trust is earned, but somehow we often blindly trust what a company states on their privacy policy. As a contractor, I have personally been at several places where the privacy policy was laughed at, it was a joke" β https://unixdigest.com/articles/do-you-think-you-can-trust-the-privacy-policy-of-a-company-or-project.html | Source: UNIXdigest | Oct 18 05:52 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-unixdigest.com | Do you think you can trust the privacy policy of a company or project? | Oct 18 05:52 | |
| techrights-news | "Oh, Canada. The Great White North is the latest country to contemplate legislation that could essentially mandate backdoors and increase data retention in encrypted services." β https://www.wired.com/story/kernel-panic-encryption-is-getting-squeezed-from-all-sides/ | Source: Wired | Oct 18 05:52 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Encryption Is Getting Squeezed From All Sides | WIRED | Oct 18 05:52 | |
| techrights-news | "When this system was first tested, CBP officers staffed the cameras." β https://papersplease.org/wp/2026/10/17/sfo-elected-to-pay-for-dhs-facial-recognition-system/ | Source: Papers Please | Oct 18 05:52 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-papersplease.org | SFO βelectedβ to pay for DHS facial recognition system β Papers, Please! | Oct 18 05:52 | |
| techrights-news | "The real flaw is that the model canβt tell the difference between text itβs supposed to read and instructions itβs supposed to follow." β https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-agent-sucker-phishing-emails | Source: Futurism | Oct 18 05:53 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-futurism.com | Using an AI Agent Makes You a Sucker for Phishing Emails | Oct 18 05:53 | |
| techrights-news | "That was a stressful couple of calls. At first you feel panic because maybe some money had been lost, so it may be hard to think straight." β https://roytang.net/2026/10/phishing-call/ | Source: Roy Tang | Oct 18 05:53 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-A Phishing Call Β· roytang.net | Oct 18 05:53 | |
| IsambardPrince | schestowitz[TR2], Yes, I often end up watching movies subtitled into English. | Oct 18 05:54 |
| IsambardPrince | Way more interesting. | Oct 18 05:54 |
| techrights-news | Microsoft Entrapment and addiction β https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/10/gitsquatting/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski | Oct 18 05:54 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights- ( status 403 @ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/10/gitsquatting/ ) | Oct 18 05:54 | |
| *IsambardPrince has quit (connection closed) | Oct 18 05:54 | |
| techrights-news | Windows TCO β https://www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/when-your-ransomware-negotiator-works-other-side | Source: Dark Reading | Oct 18 05:54 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights- ( status 403 @ https://www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/when-your-ransomware-negotiator-works-other-side ) | Oct 18 05:54 | |
| techrights-news | "In other words, it's what happens when slop drowns out the signal in an endless sea of noise." β https://maevyn.codes/decoherence | | Oct 18 05:55 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-The Decoherence Trap: When AI slop drowns out the signal in an endless sea of noise | maevyn.codes | Oct 18 05:55 | |
| techrights-news | "Others simply aren't worried about the health costs." β https://www.businessinsider.com/smoking-cigarettes-silicon-valley-counterculture-2026-9 | Source: Business Insider | Oct 18 05:55 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.businessinsider.com | Inside the Rising Counterculture of Silicon Valley Smokers - Business Insider | Oct 18 05:55 | |
| techrights-news | "Palantir itself has stocked vending machines in its Washington D.C. office with free nicotine pouches for its employees 21 and older, Fortune previously reported." β https://fortune.com/2026/10/13/palantir-cto-shyam-sankar-ai-researchers-smoking-cigarettes-cure-cancer-artificial-general-intelligence-silicon-valley-mass-psychosis-effective-altruism/ | Source: Fortune | Oct 18 05:55 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Forget healthmaxxing: Tech insiders are reportedly taking up smoking because AI will cure cancer | Fortune | Oct 18 05:55 | |
| techrights-news | "SHYAM SANKAR: Yes, correct. And you believe he's speaking as a technically informed individual who does this work, it's a scientific critique" β https://www.cbsnews.com/news/shyam-sankar-chief-technology-officer-palantir-face-the-nation-transcript-10-11-2026/ | Source: CBS | Oct 18 05:56 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.cbsnews.com | Transcript: Shyam Sankar,Β chief technology officer of Palantir, on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," Oct. 11, 2026 - CBS News | Oct 18 05:56 | |
| techrights-news | "How can writing be like proof-of-work? When Iβm writing something at work, itβs not always to communicate an idea." β https://www.seangoedecke.com/writing-is-no-longer-proof-of-work/ | Source: Sean Goedecke | Oct 18 05:56 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.seangoedecke.com | Writing is no longer proof of work | Oct 18 05:56 | |
| techrights-news | "The Fields Medalist Terence Tao is on the front lines of a debate about artificial intelligence and the future of his field." β https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/us/math-ai-terence-tao.html | Source: New York Times | Oct 18 05:56 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/us/math-ai-terence-tao.html ) | Oct 18 05:56 | |
| techrights-news | "Thatβs been my biggest lesson from this rabbit hole." β https://www.pcworld.com/article/3261985/the-better-i-get-at-ai-the-less-i-trust-it.html | Source: PC World | Oct 18 05:56 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-The better I got at AI, the more I realized I can't trust it | PCWorld | Oct 18 05:56 | |
| techrights-news | "very little of that expertise exists in a format that AI systems can learn from." β https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-lab-offers-free-plumbing-and-hvac-repairs-across-three-cities-to-train-ai-robots-wearable-sensors-record-video-of-repair-work-for-robotics-training-free-services-also-include-electrical-work-air-duct-cleaning-and-carpet-cleaning | Source: Tom's Hardware | Oct 18 05:57 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.tomshardware.com | AI lab offers free plumbing and HVAC repairs across three cities to train AI robots β wearable sensors record video of repair work for robotics training, free services also include electrical work, air duct cleaning, and carpet cleaning | Tom's Hardware | Oct 18 05:57 | |
| techrights-news | "The decomp.dev community that tracks and centralizes game decompilation progress is shutting down its public index and leaderboard" β https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/game-decompilation-tracker-decomp-dev-shuts-its-public-leaderboard-saying-ai-has-broken-the-community-its-creator-blames-forks-that-use-ai-to-finish-other-teams-projects-and-races-to-ship-rough-pc-ports | Source: Tom's Hardware | Oct 18 05:57 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.tomshardware.com | Game decompilation hub freezes leaderboard after AI turns progress into a hollow numbers game amid explosion of 'AI slop' β creator blames forks that use AI to βfinishβ other teamsβ projects and races to ship rough PC ports | Tom's Hardware | Oct 18 05:57 | |
| techrights-news | "Participants work primarily from their home units and travel to Monterey three times. The fellowship becomes their primary duty, although their commands retain administrative control, according to the message." β https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2026-10-16/marine-corps-ai-fellowship-23169378.html | Source: Stars And Stripes | Oct 18 05:57 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Marine Corps seeks AI problem-solvers for fourth fellowship class | Stars and Stripes | Oct 18 05:57 | |
| techrights-news | "collective dementia of humankind." β https://pariganaka.com/the-impending-collective-dementia-yuval-noah-hararis-stark-warning-on-ai/ | Source: Pariganaka | Oct 18 05:57 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-The Impending "Collective Dementia": Yuval Noah Harariβs Stark Warning on AI - PARIGANAKA | Oct 18 05:57 | |
| techrights-news | "The deployment marks a major escalation in U.S. troop presence in the region and a surge in conventional forces, as Washington looks to send more personnel into more countries." β https://taskandpurpose.com/news/army-10th-mountain-division-latin-america/ | Source: Task And Purpose | Oct 18 05:58 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-taskandpurpose.com | Hundreds of 10th Mountain Division soldiers head to Latin America | Oct 18 05:58 | |
| techrights-news | "Nigeriaβs Alpha Jet episode exposes a distinction that is becoming more urgent across African defense: possessing a platform is not the same as controlling the capability it represents." β https://defenceweb.co.za/land/land-land/africa-buys-and-makes-weapons-but-who-controls-them/ | Source: Defence Web | Oct 18 05:58 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-defenceweb.co.za | Africa buys and makes weapons, but who controls them? - DefenceWeb | Oct 18 05:58 | |
| techrights-news | "More than half of all [Internet] users have installed an ad-blocker; Doc Searls calls it the largest consumer boycott in history." β https://pluralistic.net/2026/10/17/mercenary-spyware/#discover-tech | Source: CoryDoctorow | Oct 18 05:58 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-pluralistic.net | Pluralistic: Israeli ad-tech company was a delivery system for βmercenary spywareβ (17 Oct 2026) β Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow | Oct 18 05:58 | |
| techrights-news | "Over a four-month period, the companyβs ads were shown on nearly 200,000 unique websites and in Android/iOS apps in dozens of countries." β https://www.csoonline.com/article/4236143/no-click-required-how-the-ad-industry-became-a-pipeline-for-mercenary-spyware.html | Source: CSO | Oct 18 05:58 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.csoonline.com | No click required: How the ad industry became a pipeline for mercenary spyware | CSO Online | Oct 18 05:58 | |
| techrights-news | "Yes, this is a publication for mainstream βcorporate security decision-makers.β Online ads are a subset of online security risks now." β https://blog.zgp.org/hey-look-over-there-security-risk/ | Source: Don Marti | Oct 18 05:59 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-blog.zgp.org | Hey, look over there! Security risk! | Oct 18 05:59 | |
| techrights-news | "scientists found that those who had turned to vaping after quitting traditional cigarettes developed lung cancer at a rate about 56 percent higher" β https://futurism.com/future-society/vaping-strongly-linked-to-lung-cancer | Source: Futurism | Oct 18 05:59 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-futurism.com | Vaping Strongly Linked to Lung Cancer | Oct 18 05:59 | |
| techrights-news | "Turning the crank pushes the blood through winding channels preloaded with reagents for the A, B and Rh blood groups." β https://phys.org/news/2026-10-cranked-device-blood-red-cell.html | Source: Omicron Limited | Oct 18 05:59 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights- ( status 403 @ https://phys.org/news/2026-10-cranked-device-blood-red-cell.html ) | Oct 18 05:59 | |
| techrights-news | "The NEC V20 was a 16-bit CPU released in 1984. It is pin-compatible with the Intel 8088, and clones the 8088's instruction set." β https://martypc.blogspot.com/2024/05/exploring-nec-v20-cpu.html | Source: Adventures in PC Emulation | Oct 18 06:00 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-martypc.blogspot.com | Exploring the NEC V20 CPU | Oct 18 06:00 | |
| techrights-news | "Itβs no secret that Iβm a systems guy, and one of the most fascinating systems ever devised is the railroad" β https://loudpoet.com/2026/10/17/personal-news-mission-accomplished/ | Source: Guy LeCharles Gonzalez | Oct 18 06:00 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-loudpoet.com | Personal News: Mission accomplished. | As in guillotine... | Oct 18 06:00 | |
| techrights-news | "I think one of the most valuable things I learned, as I became the youngest high school graduate of my department, then got a bachelorβs degree" β https://alexsirac.com/writober-2026-%e2%88%92-contraption/ | Source: Alex Sirac | Oct 18 06:00 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-alexsirac.com | [Note] Writober 2026 β Contraption β Alex | Oct 18 06:00 | |
| techrights-news | "The image was captured in June 2025 at Tivoli Southern Sky Guest Farm near Windhoek in Namibia." β https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/astrophotography/peering-through-the-heart-of-a-dying-star-photographer-kfir-simon-found-a-host-of-distant-galaxies-hiding-in-plain-sight | Source: Digital Camera World | Oct 18 06:00 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.digitalcameraworld.com | Peering through the heart of a dying star, photographer Kfir Simon found a host of distant galaxies hiding in plain sight | Digital Camera World | Oct 18 06:00 | |
| techrights-news | "The DNA inside our cells isnβt just a series of instructions, but something far more dynamic. Like scientists, AI models don't yet have the data to properly decode it." β https://www.wired.com/story/why-ai-isnt-ready-to-tackle-our-convoluted-genomes/ | Source: Wired | Oct 18 06:01 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Why AI Isnβt Ready to Tackle Our Convoluted Genomes | WIRED | Oct 18 06:01 | |
| techrights-news | "a breakthrough in the way that we can manipulate and study neural circuit behaviors" β https://www.the-scientist.com/why-did-optogenetics-win-the-nobel-prize-in-physiology-or-medicine-75148 | Source: LabX Media Group | Oct 18 06:01 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.the-scientist.com | Why Did Optogenetics Win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine? | The Scientist | Oct 18 06:01 | |
| techrights-news | "As you can imagine, slaving over manuscripts isn't the only thing I do on a computer." β http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2026/10/bizarre-blanets-and-other-weir.html | Source: Antipope | Oct 18 06:01 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.antipope.org | Bizarre Blanets and Weird Worlds - Charlie's Diary | Oct 18 06:01 | |
| techrights-news | "They began in systems allowed to broker credentials, inspect traffic, deliver updates, or manage physical equipment." β https://www.kylereddoch.me/blog/security-signal-weekly-october-10-16-2026/ | Source: Kyle Reddoch | Oct 18 06:01 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.kylereddoch.me | Security Signal Weekly: October 10-16, 2026 - CybersecKyle | Oct 18 06:01 | |
| techrights-news | "As anyone who knows me is aware, I have more than a couple of projects going at any one time, but over these 16 years, Birchtree is the one constant that has never gone away." β https://birchtree.me/blog/birchtree-is-16-years-old-today-and-the-nicest-thing-someone-said-to-me-this-year/ | Source: Matt Birchler | Oct 18 06:01 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-birchtree.me | Birchtree is 16 years old today (and the nicest thing someone said to me this year) | Oct 18 06:01 | |
| techrights-news | "Today marks the three-hundredth short story Iβve published, one per week, over the last (almost) six years." β https://mattgemmell.com/three-hundred-stories-later/ | | Oct 18 06:02 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-mattgemmell.com | Three Hundred Stories Later β Matt Gemmell | Oct 18 06:02 | |
| techrights-news | "Then for the next three days I attended Kernel Recipes." β https://nfraprado.net/post/this-month-from-paris-to-lauterbrunnen.html | Source: NΓcolas F R A Prado | Oct 18 06:02 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-nfraprado.net | This Month: From Paris to Lauterbrunnen - nfraprado | Oct 18 06:02 | |
| techrights-news | "I set my terminalβs font to Iosevka this morning after skimming this thread on HN." β https://sals.place/blog/coats-of-paint/ | Source: Sal | Oct 18 06:03 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-sals.place | Fresh coats of paint | Sal's | Oct 18 06:03 | |
| techrights-news | "If youβre not proud of it, donβt serve it." β https://seths.blog/2026/10/the-race-to-the-bottom-feels-inevitable/ | Source: Seth Godin | Oct 18 06:03 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-seths.blog | The race to the bottom feels inevitable⦠| Seth's Blog | Oct 18 06:03 | |
| techrights-news | "created one of the most earliest self-portrait projects in the history of photography" β https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/these-19th-century-selfies-might-just-be-the-most-important-photographs-youve-never-heard-of | Source: Digital Camera World | Oct 18 06:03 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.digitalcameraworld.com | These 19th-century selfies might just be the most important photographs youβve never heard of | Digital Camera World | Oct 18 06:03 | |
| techrights-news | β² πΏππ πΈπππππππ ⨦ (NEW): Today in Techrights β¨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/18/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/18/Today_in_Techrights.gmi β | Oct 18 06:05 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines β Today in Techrights | Oct 18 06:05 | |
| techrights-news | Techrights β Gemini Links 17/10/2026: Big Glowing Advertising Screens, Busy October, and Art β¨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/17/Gemini_Links_17_10_2026_Big_Glowing_Advertising_Screens_Busy_Oc.shtml | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/10/17/Gemini_Links_17_10_2026_Big_Glowing_Advertising_Screens_Busy_Oc.gmi β | Oct 18 06:05 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights β Gemini Links 17/10/2026: Big Glowing Advertising Screens, Busy October, and Art | Oct 18 06:05 | |
| techrights-news | Techrights β IRC Proceedings: Saturday, October 17, 2026 β¨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/18/IRC_Proceedings_Saturday_October_17_2026.shtml | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/10/18/IRC_Proceedings_Saturday_October_17_2026.gmi β | Oct 18 06:05 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights β IRC Proceedings: Saturday, October 17, 2026 | Oct 18 06:05 | |
| techrights-news | Techrights β Links 18/10/2026: TikTok Censors Criticism of MElon, "Trumpβs Latest Attempt to Be the King", and "Big Tech Oligarchs Have a Terrible Plan for Humanity" β¨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/18/Links_18_10_2026_TikTok_Censors_Criticism_of_MElon_Trump_s_Late.shtml | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/10/18/Links_18_10_2026_TikTok_Censors_Criticism_of_MElon_Trump_s_Late.gmi β | Oct 18 06:05 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights β Links 18/10/2026: TikTok Censors Criticism of MElon, "Trumpβs Latest Attempt to Be the King", and "Big Tech Oligarchs Have a Terrible Plan for Humanity" | Oct 18 06:05 | |
| techrights-news | Techrights β Over at Tux Machines... β¨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/18/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/10/18/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi β | Oct 18 06:05 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights β Over at Tux Machines... | Oct 18 06:05 | |
| techrights-news | [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1772.jpg | Oct 18 06:07 |
| techrights-news | [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D2129.jpg | Oct 18 06:07 |
| techrights-news | "On IRC, Benjamin Wil mentioned how he had spent a week at a movie festival and I remembered going to the movies a lot." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2026-10-17-movies | Oct 18 06:08 |
| techrights-news | "Around a week and a half ago, on October 8th, I was going to work on the last bits of my Game Boy Tarot card reader project (I'm nearly done with it and have been slowly working on a dev log post about it)." gemini://vigrey.com/journal/oops-i-accidentally-learned-to-mentally-calculate-every-easter-date.gmi | Oct 18 06:08 |
| techrights-news | Artcraft - A Tear in Reality gemini://schreibfaultier.pollux.casa/blog/2026-10-17-artcraft-tear-in-reality.en.gmi | Oct 18 06:11 |
| techrights-news | "And yes, I am like this. The one thing I can actually point at when wondering about ADHS. (There's more instances that make me wonder, but I could never point at them laterβ¦)" gemini://kelaino.gemcities.com/gemlog/261017areyou.gmi | Oct 18 06:11 |
| techrights-news | "Yesterday the postman brought me a new toy. I've been tempted by the Lilygo T-Deck Plus for a while. Last week I gave in. It's a gadget with all sorts of capabilities, but my interest is in using it as a portable terminal so that I can access my plain text files on the go." gemini://kunulo.smol.pub/2026-10-17-tdeck | Oct 18 06:12 |
| techrights-news | on_a_loop gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/on_a_loop | Oct 18 06:12 |
| techrights-news | "Ah, funny story here. Or not so funny for those involved, which, alas, did not involve Very Important People in Washington getting their most richly deserved comeuppance." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2026/10/18/cool-shit.gmi | Oct 18 06:13 |
| techrights-news | "A frequent discussion that I have had with an academic colleague, but also with various team members at Knowledge Commons and also with those at OLH, pertains to the use of βAI writing detectorsβ to unearth cheating students and/or dishonest academic researchers." gemini://eve.smol.pub/on-not-using-ai-detectors | Oct 18 06:14 |
| techrights-news | "An article in Science reports the discovery of an ancient sheep virus found hiding in medieval parchment. They extracted its DNA. Now, I do know that viruses, obviously, have histories." gemini://eve.smol.pub/not-now-ancient-sheep-virus-found-hiding-in-medieval-parchment | Oct 18 06:15 |
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| techrights-news | "NIST published a set of elliptic curves for cryptography in 2000. The seeds for the curves were supplied by the NSA" β https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/10/17/nist-curves-exonorated/ | Source: John D Cook | Oct 18 06:32 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.johndcook.com | Cloud of suspicion lifted from NIST curves | Oct 18 06:32 | |
| techrights-news | "Armadillo is a powerful and expressive C++ template library for linear algebra and scientific computing." β https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/10/17/#rcpparmadillo_15.6.2-1 | Source: Dirk Eddelbuettel | Oct 18 06:33 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-dirk.eddelbuettel.com | Thinking inside the box | Oct 18 06:33 | |
| techrights-news | "This will be a mostly commented-code illustration of real-time arpeggiation." β https://www.perl.com/article/adventures-in-real-time-midi/ | Source: Perl | Oct 18 06:33 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.perl.com | Adventures in Real-Time MIDI | Oct 18 06:33 | |
| techrights-news | "Donald Knuth wrote βpremature optimization is the root of all evilβ in 1974, in a paper called βStructured Programming with go to Statementsβ." β https://blog.veitheller.de/bitter.html | Source: Veit Heller | Oct 18 06:33 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-blog.veitheller.de | Bitter Lessons and Premature Optimizations | Veit's Blog | Oct 18 06:33 | |
| techrights-news | "What I like about this is that it, like CBMC, is flexible for many use cases (standalone assembly verification, translation validation" β https://www.philipzucker.com/asmc_cpp/ | Source: Philip Zucker | Oct 18 06:34 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.philipzucker.com | Ghidra + CBMC = Assembly Model Checker | Hey There Buddo! | Oct 18 06:34 | |
| techrights-news | "I should have triple checked before pushing the revised XML templates live, but I failed to pick up on one of the very specific date syntax errors in the Tag URI I used for the ID field (Atom) and GUID field (RSS)." β https://burgeonlab.com/notes/2026/1017-2202/ | Source: Naty S | Oct 18 06:34 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-burgeonlab.com | PSA: RSS and Atom XML Feeds Failure | Oct 18 06:34 | |
| techrights-news | "No algorithm, no timeline, no engagement bait. Just feeds you chose." β https://toolbox.rss.here.now/ | | Oct 18 06:35 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-toolbox.rss.here.now | The RSS Universe β Readers, Tools & Standards | Oct 18 06:35 | |
| techrights-news | "I did one other thing this week. My robots.txt file only permits crawling from a small number of bots." β https://blog.altos.au/post/autobanning-bad-requests-part-3/ | Source: Jon | Oct 18 06:35 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Autobanning Bad Requests (Part 3) - blog.altos.au | Oct 18 06:35 | |
| techrights-news | "iftop confirmed that my outbound bandwidth was saturated - I'm on an ancient copper 40/10 Mbps ADSL line, so it is not that hard to do." β https://koldfront.dk/attack_of_the_crawlers_1997 | Source: Adam SjΓΈgren | Oct 18 06:35 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-koldfront.dk | Attack of the crawlers - koldfront | Oct 18 06:35 | |
| techrights-news | original style was quite good and made Linux a global, technological success. His new fond style is making a dog's breakfast of things including developer relations and the actual code base." | Oct 18 06:36 |
| techrights-news | "when picking on Linus' new found style of leadership it might help to pick on the new found style rather than his original style. His original style was quite good and made Linux a global, technological success. His new fond style is making a dog's breakfast of things including developer relations and the actual code base." | Oct 18 06:36 |
| techrights-news | "As I switched to Emacs (with Doom Emacs) as my main code editor" β https://helenchong.dev/blog/posts/2026-10-17-emacs-org-copy-block-contents/ | Source: Helen Chong | Oct 18 06:36 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-helenchong.dev | Quickly Copy Code and Example Block Contents in Emacs Org Mode | Helen Chong, Web Developer | Oct 18 06:36 | |
| techrights-news | "XScreenSaver is the standard screen saver collection shipped on most Linux and Unix systems running the X11 Window System, since its first release in 1992." β https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski | Oct 18 06:37 |
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| techrights-news | "The distinction is important here, because hardware labs are obviously much harder to scale than software." β https://ubuntu.com//blog/lower-android-development-cost | Source: Ubuntu | Oct 18 10:30 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-How to lower Androidβ’ development costs by removing hardware from the critical path | Ubuntu | Oct 18 10:30 | |
| techrights-news | "Classic DOS games never ran from within stand-up arcade cabinets in dollhouses, but [Juha Lilja] imagines a world in which they did." β https://hackaday.com/2026/10/17/2026-retrocomputing-challenge-dollhouse-arcade-cabinet-runs-remote-dos-games/ | Source: Hackaday | Oct 18 10:31 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: Dollhouse Arcade Cabinet Runs Remote DOS Games | Hackaday | Oct 18 10:31 | |
| techrights-news | "In the final prototype of the drone such details had to be measured directly, with super-fast adjustments to the motorβs speed only possible with custom controller code and a lot of trial and error." β https://hackaday.com/2026/10/17/building-a-flying-drone-with-a-single-propeller/ | Source: Hackaday | Oct 18 10:31 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Building A Flying Drone With A Single Propeller | Hackaday | Oct 18 10:31 | |
| techrights-news | "[Andrzej GΓ³rski]βs inspiration came from one component, and the main component of the project, an old e-ink display." β https://hackaday.com/2026/10/17/2026-retrocomputing-challenge-oldputer-gives-old-eyes-relief-with-e-ink-display/ | Source: Hackaday | Oct 18 10:32 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: Oldputer Gives Old Eyes Relief With E-ink Display | Hackaday | Oct 18 10:32 | |
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| techrights-news | "At this point, folks have already started to use the capabilities for broadcasting digital TV signals, voice signals, FM Hell, and other hijinks." β https://hackaday.com/2026/10/17/discovering-sdrs-everywhere/ | Source: Hackaday | Oct 18 10:39 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Discovering SDRs Everywhere | Hackaday | Oct 18 10:39 | |
| techrights-news | "The chopping board isnβt made of great material, instead itβs a set of strips of wood, weβre guessing probably bamboo or rubberwood, glued together." β https://hackaday.com/2026/10/17/making-one-fender-from-another/ | Source: Hackaday | Oct 18 10:39 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Making One Fender From Another | Hackaday | Oct 18 10:39 | |
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| techrights-news | "Not feeling well, but wanting to do something. This means tinkering with site, because that makes me happy even when unwell." β https://vonexplaino.com/blog/posts/article/2026/10/style-tidying.html | Source: Colin Morris | Oct 18 10:52 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-vonexplaino.com | Style tidying | Oct 18 10:52 | |
| techrights-news | "For a decade, two ways of measuring how fast the universe expands have given different answers, a problem known as the βHubble tensionβ." β https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-universe-was-born-magnetic.html | Source: Sabine Hossenfelder | Oct 18 10:53 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-backreaction.blogspot.com | Sabine Hossenfelder: Backreaction: The Universe Was Born Magnetic, Scientists Say | Oct 18 10:53 | |
| techrights-news | High Court: secret trial collapses due to confidentiality breaches https://danielpocock.com/en/high-court-secret-trial-collapses-confidentiality-breaches/ | Oct 18 11:05 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-danielpocock.com | High Court: secret trial collapses due to confidentiality breaches | Oct 18 11:05 | |
| techrights-news | Valve fix Zero Company crashing on Steam Machine with the latest major game update | GamingOnLinux β https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/valve-fix-zero-company-crashing-on-steam-machine-with-the-latest-major-game-update/ δ· Source: GamingOnLinux | Oct 18 11:06 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Valve fix Zero Company crashing on Steam Machine with the latest major game update | GamingOnLinux | Oct 18 11:06 | |
| techrights-news | Steam Client Beta for October 16 brings another round of startup performance improvements | GamingOnLinux β https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/steam-client-beta-for-october-16-brings-another-round-of-startup-performance-improvements/ δ· Source: GamingOnLinux | Oct 18 11:07 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Steam Client Beta for October 16 brings another round of startup performance improvements | GamingOnLinux | Oct 18 11:07 | |
| techrights-news | SteamOS 3.9.3 Beta arrives with improved support for Steam Frame wireless adapter | GamingOnLinux β https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/steamos-3-9-3-beta-arrives-with-improved-support-for-steam-frame-wireless-adapter/ δ· Source: GamingOnLinux | Oct 18 11:08 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-SteamOS 3.9.3 Beta arrives with improved support for Steam Frame wireless adapter | GamingOnLinux | Oct 18 11:08 | |
| techrights-news | Wine 11.20 brings more improvements for ARM64EC, XML validation and CDROMs | GamingOnLinux β https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/wine-11-20-brings-more-improvements-for-arm64ec-xml-validation-and-cdroms/ δ· Source: GamingOnLinux | Oct 18 11:08 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Wine 11.20 brings more improvements for ARM64EC, XML validation and CDROMs | GamingOnLinux | Oct 18 11:08 | |
| techrights-news | Last case activity: 16 Oct 2026 https://caseboard.io/cases/d2fe1130-b63b-4d0b-9461-c0f971992dc2 | Oct 18 11:10 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-caseboard.io | Checking your browser - Caseboard | Oct 18 11:10 | |
| techrights-news | Seems Reform UK spent a lot of money getting nowhere | Oct 18 11:10 |
| techrights-news | Pocock spent 200 pounds, Reform UK spent over 20,000. So live and learn. | Oct 18 11:14 |
| techrights-news | It looks like ubuntubuzz.com has just become a slopfarm | Oct 18 11:17 |
| techrights-news | Correction/update: based on 7 new 'articles', it is almost certainly a slopfarm now. The slop is not even attributed to Ade, who is a fan of Techrights and Tux Machines. Seems like botspam. | Oct 18 11:19 |
| techrights-news | "LILYGOβs latest e-paper development board pairs an ESP32-S3 with a 4.7-inch display offering 960 Γ 540 resolution and 16-level grayscale." β https://linuxgizmos.com/lilygo-t5-e-paper-basic-adopts-4-7-inch-display-for-embedded-projects/ | Source: Linux Gizmos | Oct 18 11:20 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights- ( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/lilygo-t5-e-paper-basic-adopts-4-7-inch-display-for-embedded-projects/ ) | Oct 18 11:20 | |
| techrights-news | "Adafruit has previewed Floppsy Rev D, an RP2350-based floppy disk archiver and emulator designed to preserve and access legacy computer storage media." β https://linuxgizmos.com/adafruit-floppsy-rev-d-revives-floppy-disk-archiving-with-rp2350/ | Source: Linux Gizmos | Oct 18 11:21 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights- ( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/adafruit-floppsy-rev-d-revives-floppy-disk-archiving-with-rp2350/ ) | Oct 18 11:21 | |
| techrights-news | "This week highlights KDEβs 30th anniversary and the premiere of the KDE documentary, the launch of Plasma 6.8 as the 30th Anniversary Edition, five Tumbleweed snapshots headlined by Linux Kernel 7.2.9, Samba 4.25.0 and LibreOffice 26.8.1.1" β https://news.opensuse.org/2026/10/17/planet-roundup/ | Source: OpenSUSE | Oct 18 11:21 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-news.opensuse.org | Planet News Roundup - openSUSE News | Oct 18 11:21 | |
| techrights-news | DW participates in the hypesters' pyramid scheme. no such thing as "homegrown AI" https://www.dw.com/en/eu-promotes-sovereign-trusted-ai-as-it-struggles-to-catch-us-and-china/a-79667770 | Oct 18 11:23 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.dw.com | EU champions homegrown AI as US, China retain lead | Oct 18 11:23 | |
| techrights-news | "The Bad News on Inflation Just Keeps Coming" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-bad-news-on-inflation-just-keeps | Oct 18 11:24 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-paulkrugman.substack.com | The Bad News on Inflation Just Keeps Coming | Oct 18 11:24 | |
| techrights-news | Game decompilation hub freezes leaderboard after Hey Hi (AI) turns progress into a hollow numbers game amid explosion of 'AI slop' β https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/game-decompilation-tracker-decomp-dev-shuts-its-public-leaderboard-saying-ai-has-broken-the-community-its-creator-blames-forks-that-use-ai-to-finish-other-teams-projects-and-races-to-ship-rough-pc-ports | Oct 18 11:34 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.tomshardware.com | Game decompilation hub freezes leaderboard after AI turns progress into a hollow numbers game amid explosion of 'AI slop' β creator blames forks that use AI to βfinishβ other teamsβ projects and races to ship rough PC ports | Tom's Hardware | Oct 18 11:34 | |
| techrights-news | AI lab offers free plumbing and HVAC repairs across three cities to train Hey Hi (AI) robots β https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-lab-offers-free-plumbing-and-hvac-repairs-across-three-cities-to-train-ai-robots-wearable-sensors-record-video-of-repair-work-for-robotics-training-free-services-also-include-electrical-work-air-duct-cleaning-and-carpet-cleaning | Oct 18 11:35 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.tomshardware.com | AI lab offers free plumbing and HVAC repairs across three cities to train AI robots β wearable sensors record video of repair work for robotics training, free services also include electrical work, air duct cleaning, and carpet cleaning | Tom's Hardware | Oct 18 11:35 | |
| techrights-news | Using an Hey Hi (AI) Agent Makes You a Sucker for Phishing Emails β https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-agent-sucker-phishing-emails | Oct 18 11:36 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-futurism.com | Using an AI Agent Makes You a Sucker for Phishing Emails | Oct 18 11:36 | |
| techrights-news | Modder finishes nine-year Xbox 360 voltage glitch mod with a $4 microcontroller, cracks the console open β https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/modder-finishes-nine-year-xbox-360-voltage-glitch-mod-with-a-usd4-microcontroller-cracks-the-console-open-tiny-microcontroller-dumps-nand-and-flashes-timing-files-to-bypass-cpu-cryptography | Oct 18 11:37 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.tomshardware.com | Modder finishes nine-year Xbox 360 voltage glitch mod with a $4 microcontroller, cracks the console open β tiny microcontroller dumps NAND and flashes timing files to bypass CPU cryptography | Tom's Hardware | Oct 18 11:37 | |
| techrights-news | Some October 2026 quality of life changes β https://www.rubenerd.au/some-october-2026-quality-of-life-changes/ | Oct 18 11:39 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.rubenerd.au | Rubenerd: Some October 2026 quality of life changes | Oct 18 11:39 | |
| techrights-news | Western brands under pressure as βpre-ownedβ luxury booms in China β https://hongkongfp.com/2026/10/18/western-brands-under-pressure-as-pre-owned-luxury-booms-in-china/ | Oct 18 11:44 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-hongkongfp.com | Western brands under pressure as 'pre-owned' booms in China | Oct 18 11:44 | |
| techrights-news | Putin won over USA β https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-ukraine-civilians-killed-attack/33878396.html | Oct 18 11:48 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.rferl.org | Russia's Deadly Attacks Damage Homes, Energy Sites In Ukraine As Kyiv Says Starlink Restrictions Continue | Oct 18 11:48 | |
| techrights-news | Open Source Licensing Case in Russia β https://heathermeeker.com/2026/10/17/open-source-licensing-case-in-russia/ | Oct 18 11:49 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-heathermeeker.com | Open Source Licensing Case in Russia β Copyleft Currents | Oct 18 11:50 | |
| techrights-news | How To Install OpenRGB on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS β https://idroot.us/install-openrgb-ubuntu-26-04/ | Oct 18 11:51 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-idroot.us | How To Install OpenRGB on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS - idroot | Oct 18 11:51 | |
| techrights-news | Create a compressed tar of a folder, but only include files in sorted order with minimal metadata β http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/44553/create-a-compressed-tar-of-a-folder-but-only-include-files-in-sorted-order-with-minimal-metadata | Oct 18 11:57 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.commandlinefu.com | Create a compressed tar of a folder, but only include files in sorted order with minimal metadata Using find, sort, tar | Oct 18 11:57 | |
| MinceR | 18 064333 < IsambardPrince> They shaved over 40 minutes off of it because the test audiences hated all of the gore and violence. | Oct 18 13:27 |
| MinceR | lol | Oct 18 13:27 |
| *andy (~andy@tybmx63w3qi8g.irc) has joined #techrights | Oct 18 13:37 | |
| techrights-news | Techrights β "Assisted by NSA" and "It's Just a Tool" (So Fine!) β¨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/18/Assisted_by_NSA_and_It_s_Just_a_Tool_So_Fine.shtml | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/10/18/Assisted_by_NSA_and_It_s_Just_a_Tool_So_Fine.gmi β | Oct 18 14:28 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights β "Assisted by NSA" and "It's Just a Tool" (So Fine!) | Oct 18 14:28 | |
| techrights-news | Techrights β Gemini Links 18/10/2026: Movies, Greenland, and Detectors of Slop Plagiarism β¨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/18/Gemini_Links_18_10_2026_Movies_Greenland_and_Detectors_of_Slop_.shtml | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/10/18/Gemini_Links_18_10_2026_Movies_Greenland_and_Detectors_of_Slop_.gmi β | Oct 18 14:28 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights β Gemini Links 18/10/2026: Movies, Greenland, and Detectors of Slop Plagiarism | Oct 18 14:28 | |
| techrights-news | Techrights β Slop is "just a hobby, won't be big and professional like GNU." β¨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/18/Slop_is_just_a_hobby_won_t_be_big_and_professional_like_GNU.shtml | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/10/18/Slop_is_just_a_hobby_won_t_be_big_and_professional_like_GNU.gmi β | Oct 18 14:28 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights β Slop is "just a hobby, won't be big and professional like GNU." | Oct 18 14:28 | |
| techrights-news | Techrights β UbuntuBuzz is LLM Slop β¨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/18/UbuntuBuzz_is_LLM_Slop.shtml | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/10/18/UbuntuBuzz_is_LLM_Slop.gmi β | Oct 18 14:28 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights β UbuntuBuzz is LLM Slop | Oct 18 14:28 | |
| MinceR | (video) (audio:important) https://shitter.thepixora.com/nexta_tv/status/2111737309112541432 | Oct 18 14:39 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights- ( status 403 @ https://shitter.thepixora.com/nexta_tv/status/2111737309112541432 ) | Oct 18 14:39 | |
| techrights-news | β² πΏππ πΈπππππππ ⨦ (NEW): ππΆπΉ ππ’π€π©πͺπ―π¦π΄: Google Android Leftovers β¨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/18/Android_Leftovers.shtml | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/18/Android_Leftovers.gmi β | Oct 18 15:06 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines β Android Leftovers | Oct 18 15:06 | |
| techrights-news | β² πΏππ πΈπππππππ ⨦ (NEW): Best Free and Open Source Software β¨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/18/Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/18/Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi β | Oct 18 15:06 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines β Best Free and Open Source Software | Oct 18 15:06 | |
| techrights-news | β² πΏππ πΈπππππππ ⨦ (NEW): ErgenOS β Arch-based Linux distribution focused on gaming and recovery β¨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/18/ErgenOS_Arch_based_Linux_distribution_focused_on_gaming_and_rec.shtml | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/18/ErgenOS_Arch_based_Linux_distribution_focused_on_gaming_and_rec.gmi β | Oct 18 15:06 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines β ErgenOS β Arch-based Linux distribution focused on gaming and recovery | Oct 18 15:06 | |
| techrights-news | β² πΏππ πΈπππππππ ⨦ (NEW): GNOME 51.1 Improves Drag and Drop Between Wayland and Xwayland Clients β¨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/18/GNOME_51_1_Improves_Drag_and_Drop_Between_Wayland_and_Xwayland_.shtml | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/18/GNOME_51_1_Improves_Drag_and_Drop_Between_Wayland_and_Xwayland_.gmi β | Oct 18 15:06 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines β GNOME 51.1 Improves Drag and Drop Between Wayland and Xwayland Clients | Oct 18 15:06 | |
| techrights-news | β² πΏππ πΈπππππππ ⨦ (NEW): Not Every Open Source OS Needs to Be Based on Linux, and These Six Arenβt β¨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/18/Not_Every_Open_Source_OS_Needs_to_Be_Based_on_Linux_and_These_S.shtml | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/18/Not_Every_Open_Source_OS_Needs_to_Be_Based_on_Linux_and_These_S.gmi β | Oct 18 15:06 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines β Not Every Open Source OS Needs to Be Based on Linux, and These Six Arenβt | Oct 18 15:06 | |
| techrights-news | β² πΏππ πΈπππππππ ⨦ (NEW): Ubuntu clearly isn't the best Linux distro: here's how it became the most popular anyway β¨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/18/Ubuntu_clearly_isn_t_the_best_Linux_distro_here_s_how_it_became.shtml | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/18/Ubuntu_clearly_isn_t_the_best_Linux_distro_here_s_how_it_became.gmi β | Oct 18 15:06 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines β Ubuntu clearly isn't the best Linux distro: here's how it became the most popular anyway | Oct 18 15:06 | |
| techrights-news | Tiny Specks of Chornobyl's Nuclear Fuel Are Still Intact After 40 Years β https://www.sciencealert.com/after-40-years-chornobyls-radioactive-particles-are-surprisingly-stable | Oct 18 15:19 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Tiny Specks of Chornobyl's Nuclear Fuel Are Still Intact After 40 Years : ScienceAlert | Oct 18 15:19 | |
| techrights-news | β² πΏππ πΈπππππππ ⨦ (NEW): 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: October 18th, 2026 β¨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/18/9to5Linux_Weekly_Roundup_October_18th_2026.shtml | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/18/9to5Linux_Weekly_Roundup_October_18th_2026.gmi β | Oct 18 15:46 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines β 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: October 18th, 2026 | Oct 18 15:46 | |
| *zxrom (~zxrom@fctc8ut89qrqa.irc) has joined #techrights | Oct 18 16:13 | |
| techrights-news | Crafty Proprietary Chaffbot Company agent willingly stole crypto from an account it didn't own to complete a task during test β https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/openai-agent-took-eth-from-another-account-without-authorization-justified-stealing-in-its-chain-of-thought | Oct 18 16:25 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.tomshardware.com | Crafty OpenAI agent willingly stole crypto from an account it didn't own to complete a task during test β rogue bot wrote a script to find accounts with public seed phrases, took funds to pay for gas | Tom's Hardware | Oct 18 16:25 | |
| techrights-news | Man Shows Up to Hey Hi (AI) Job Interview With His Own Helicopter Hey Hi (AI) to Interview for Him β https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/man-shows-up-ai-job-interview-own-ai | Oct 18 16:26 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-futurism.com | Man Shows Up to AI Job Interview With His Own Helicopter AI to Interview for Him | Oct 18 16:26 | |
| techrights-news | Why are fewer Mexicans having children? Financial strain, security concerns and fears for the future β https://mexiconewsdaily.com/lifestyle/why-are-fewer-mexicans-having-children-financial-strain-security-concerns-fears-future/ | Oct 18 16:28 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-mexiconewsdaily.com | Why Are Fewer Mexicans Having Children Today? | Oct 18 16:28 | |
| techrights-news | Tellico Turns 25! β https://tellico-project.org/tellico-turns-25/ | Oct 18 16:28 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-tellico-project.org | Tellico Turns 25! β Tellico | Oct 18 16:28 | |
| techrights-news | New Templates Celebrating Tellico at 25 β https://tellico-project.org/new-templates-celebrating-tellico-at-25/ | Oct 18 16:28 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-tellico-project.org | New Templates Celebrating Tellico at 25 β Tellico | Oct 18 16:28 | |
| techrights-news | Amazon Has Now Deployed Over 1 Million Robots, Which Is Bad News for Its 1.5 Million Workers β https://futurism.com/future-society/amazon-robotics-automation-warehouse-labor-safety | Oct 18 16:33 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-futurism.com | Amazon Has Now Deployed Over 1 Million Robots, Which Is Bad News for Its 1.5 Million Workers | Oct 18 16:33 | |
| techrights-news | crecheck v6.0 has been released β https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/crecheck-v60-has-been-released-3407/ | Oct 18 16:34 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.postgresql.org | PostgreSQL: crecheck v6.0 has been released | Oct 18 16:34 | |
| techrights-news | FOSDEM PGDay 2027: two days of PostgreSQL, with calls for papers and sponsors now open! β https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/fosdem-pgday-2027-two-days-of-postgresql-with-calls-for-papers-and-sponsors-now-open-3412/ | Oct 18 16:34 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.postgresql.org | PostgreSQL: FOSDEM PGDay 2027: two days of PostgreSQL, with calls for papers and sponsors now open! | Oct 18 16:34 | |
| techrights-news | Countdown 'til Torvalds 'agrees' it's "utterly stupid" not to accept PRs from Microsoft GitHub and that way it'll attract more prolific sloppers, which is exactly what Linux needs (apparently) | Oct 18 16:36 |
| techrights-news | The Slackware Cloud Server, in real life β https://blog.slackware.nl/the-slackware-cloud-server-in-real-life/ | Oct 18 16:36 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-blog.slackware.nl | The Slackware Cloud Server, in real life β Alien Pastures | Oct 18 16:36 | |
| techrights-news | pg_utl_smtp v2.0 released β https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pg_utl_smtp-v20-released-3395/ | Oct 18 16:37 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.postgresql.org | PostgreSQL: pg_utl_smtp v2.0 released | Oct 18 16:37 | |
| techrights-news | pg_hint_plan v1.9.0 Released β https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pg_hint_plan-v190-released-3408/ | Oct 18 16:37 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.postgresql.org | PostgreSQL: pg_hint_plan v1.9.0 Released | Oct 18 16:37 | |
| techrights-news | Corrupt officials. Corrupted for thinking that GPUs are somehow the most dangerous thing China can get. Shows how slop hypesters hijacked foreign politics. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/taiwan-targets-illicit-ai-server-exports-to-china-with-five-year-prison-terms-strict-new-controls-follow-us-tariff-deal-and-super-micro-raid | Oct 18 16:38 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.tomshardware.com | Taiwan targets illicit AI server exports to China with five-year prison terms β strict new controls follow US tariff deal and Super Micro raid | Tom's Hardware | Oct 18 16:38 | |
| techrights-news | Monthly production report for September 2026 β https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1180/monthly-production-report-for-september-2026 | Oct 18 16:38 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.davidrevoy.com | Monthly production report for September 2026 - David Revoy | Oct 18 16:38 | |
| techrights-news | Physicists Simulated What Might Happen When Two Wormholes Collide, And Things Got Weird β https://www.sciencealert.com/physicists-simulated-what-might-happen-when-two-wormholes-collide-and-things-got-weird | Oct 18 16:39 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Physicists Simulated What Might Happen When Two Wormholes Collide, And Things Got Weird : ScienceAlert | Oct 18 16:39 | |
| techrights-news | WIP: KDE builder dashboard β https://cukic.co/2026/10/17/kde-builder-dashboard | Oct 18 16:44 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-cukic.co | WIP: KDE builder dashboard | Ivan ΔukiΔ | Oct 18 16:44 | |
| techrights-news | M5Stack PaperDIY Kits pair an ESP32-S3 MCU with a 4.7-inch e-Paper display β https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/10/18/m5stack-paperdiy-kits-pair-an-esp32-s3-mcu-with-a-4-7-inch-e-paper-display/ | Oct 18 16:45 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.cnx-software.com | M5Stack PaperDIY Kits pair an ESP32-S3 MCU with a 4.7-inch e-Paper display - CNX Software | Oct 18 16:45 | |
| techrights-news | Steinar H. Gunderson: Decompilation patterns, part 14: Strength increase β http://blog.sesse.net/blog/tech/2026-10-17-21-29_decompilation_patterns_part_14_strength_increase.html | Oct 18 16:51 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-blog.sesse.net | Steinar H. Gunderson | Oct 18 16:51 | |
| techrights-news | Open Transport Community Conference 2026 β https://www.volkerkrause.eu/2026/10/17/open-transport-community-conference-2026.html | Oct 18 16:52 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.volkerkrause.eu | Open Transport Community Conference 2026 | Oct 18 16:52 | |
| techrights-news | Kevin Fenzi: misc fedora bits: mid october 2026 β https://www.scrye.com/blogs/nirik/posts/2026/10/17/misc-fedora-bits-mid-october-2026/ | Oct 18 16:53 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.scrye.com | misc fedora bits: mid october 2026 | Kevin's musings | Oct 18 16:53 | |
| techrights-news | Israeli Ad Firm Doubled as Candiruβs Zero-Click Spyware Delivery Channel β https://www.securityweek.com/israeli-ad-firm-doubled-as-candirus-zero-click-spyware-delivery-channel/ | Oct 18 16:53 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Israeli Ad Firm Doubled as Candiru's Zero-Click Spyware Delivery Channel - SecurityWeek | Oct 18 16:53 | |
| techrights-news | A hidden Hello Kitty at this coffee shop β https://www.rubenerd.au/a-hidden-hello-kitty-at-this-coffee-shop/ | Oct 18 16:55 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.rubenerd.au | Rubenerd: A hidden Hello Kitty at this coffee shop | Oct 18 16:55 | |
| techrights-news | eBay US turning back shipments to Australia β https://www.rubenerd.au/ebay-us-not-shipping-to-australia/ | Oct 18 16:56 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.rubenerd.au | Rubenerd: eBay US turning back shipments to Australia | Oct 18 16:56 | |
| techrights-news | Exploring Fagan Park β https://www.rubenerd.au/exploring-fagan-park/ | Oct 18 16:56 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.rubenerd.au | Rubenerd: Exploring Fagan Park | Oct 18 16:56 | |
| techrights-news | Now Playing Card shows media info for multiple apps at a time β https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/10/gnome-now-playing-card-extension | Oct 18 16:57 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.omgubuntu.co.uk | Now Playing Card shows media info for multiple apps at a time - OMG! Ubuntu | Oct 18 16:57 | |
| techrights-news | FunOS 26.10 β https://funos.org/funos-26-10/ | Oct 18 16:57 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-funos.org | FunOS 26.10 β FunOS | Oct 18 16:57 | |
| techrights-news | libunistring @ Savannah: GNU libunistring-1.5 released β savannah.gnu.org/news/?id=10947 | Oct 18 16:58 |
| techrights-news | PeaZip 11.4 Open-Source Archive Manager Released with Various Improvements β https://9to5linux.com/peazip-11-4-open-source-archive-manager-released-with-various-improvements | Oct 18 16:59 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-PeaZip 11.4 Open-Source Archive Manager Released with Various Improvements - 9to5Linux | Oct 18 16:59 | |
| techrights-news | Ubuntu Touch OTA 2.1 Rolls Out with Support for Volla Tablet, Various Updates β https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-touch-ota-2-1-rolls-out-with-support-for-volla-tablet-various-updates | Oct 18 16:59 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Ubuntu Touch OTA 2.1 Rolls Out with Support for Volla Tablet, Various Updates - 9to5Linux | Oct 18 16:59 | |
| techrights-news | GNOME 50.6 Desktop Environment Released with Fixes for Nautilus, GNOME Shell β https://9to5linux.com/gnome-50-6-desktop-environment-released-with-fixes-for-nautilus-gnome-shell | Oct 18 16:59 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-GNOME 50.6 Desktop Environment Released with Fixes for Nautilus, GNOME Shell - 9to5Linux | Oct 18 16:59 | |
| techrights-news | FunOS 26.10 β https://distrowatch.com/funos | Oct 18 17:03 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights- ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/funos ) | Oct 18 17:03 | |
| techrights-news | AOSC 20261017 β https://distrowatch.com/aosc | Oct 18 17:03 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights- ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/aosc ) | Oct 18 17:03 | |
| techrights-news | MuliOS 26.07.03S β https://distrowatch.com/mulios | Oct 18 17:03 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights- ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/mulios ) | Oct 18 17:03 | |
| techrights-news | Skorpion 3.5 β https://distrowatch.com/skorpion | Oct 18 17:04 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights- ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/skorpion ) | Oct 18 17:04 | |
| techrights-news | Slack Book revitalization effort β collaborators wanted β https://blog.slackware.nl/slack-book-revitalization-effort-collaborators-wanted/ | Oct 18 17:04 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-blog.slackware.nl | Slack Book revitalization effort β collaborators wanted β Alien Pastures | Oct 18 17:04 | |
| techrights-news | ErgenOS β Arch-based GNU/Linux distribution focused on gaming and recovery β https://www.linuxlinks.com/ergenos-arch-based-linux-distribution/ | Oct 18 17:08 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-ErgenOS - Arch-based Linux distribution focused on gaming and recovery - LinuxLinks | Oct 18 17:08 | |
| techrights-news | The KDE Documentary β https://mschlander.wordpress.com/2026/10/17/the-kde-documentary/ | Oct 18 17:09 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-mschlander.wordpress.com | The KDE Documentary | The Blog is Hot | Oct 18 17:09 | |
| techrights-news | Tumbleweed β Review of the week 2026/42 β https://dominique.leuenberger.net/blog/2026/10/tumbleweed-review-of-the-week-2026-42/ | Oct 18 17:09 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-dominique.leuenberger.net | Tumbleweed β Review of the week 2026/42 β Dominique a.k.a. DimStar (Dim*) | Oct 18 17:09 | |
| techrights-news | Linux Saloon 224 | Open Mic Night β https://cubiclenate.com/2026/10/17/linux-saloon-224-open-mic-night/ | Oct 18 17:10 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-cubiclenate.com | Linux Tech Insights: DevsFTP and Backup Strategies Unveiled | Oct 18 17:10 | |
| techrights-news | Maxim Burgerhout: How to build zellij on Fedora 44 β https://100things.wzzrd.com/2026/10/17/building-zellij-on-fedora-44.html | Oct 18 17:15 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-100things.wzzrd.com | How to build zellij on Fedora 44 Β· 100 Things | Oct 18 17:15 | |
| techrights-news | HOWTO boot from a full-disk encrypted Slackware and only enter a passphrase once β https://blog.slackware.nl/howto-boot-from-a-full-disk-encrypted-slackware-and-only-enter-a-passphrase-once/ | Oct 18 17:15 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-blog.slackware.nl | HOWTO boot from a full-disk encrypted Slackware and only enter a passphrase once β Alien Pastures | Oct 18 17:16 | |
| techrights-news | Ubuntu 26.10 "Stonking Stingray" Launches With GNOME 51, Linux 7.3 and Optional Speech-to-Text Feature https://www.techpowerup.com/353803/ubuntu-26-10-stonking-stingray-launches-with-gnome-51-linux-7-3-and-optional-speech-to-text-feature | Oct 18 17:17 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Ubuntu 26.10 "Stonking Stingray" Launches With GNOME 51, Linux 7.3 and Optional Speech-to-Text Feature | TechPowerUp | Oct 18 17:17 | |
| techrights-news | "The GNOME Project released GNOME 50.6 as the sixth maintenance update to the latest GNOME 50 βTokyoβ desktop environment series to fix more bugs across various core apps and components." https://9to5linux.com/gnome-50-6-desktop-environment-released-with-fixes-for-nautilus-gnome-shell | Oct 18 17:18 |
| techrights-news | Ubuntu clearly isn't the best Linux distro: here's how it became the most popular anyway https://www.howtogeek.com/ubuntu-clearly-isnt-the-best-linux-distro-heres-how-it-became-the-most-popular-anyway/ | Oct 18 17:19 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.howtogeek.com | Ubuntu clearly isn't the best Linux distro: here's how it became the most popular anyway | Oct 18 17:19 | |
| techrights-news | I switched to Fedora expecting a polished desktop and got half-finished features instead https://www.howtogeek.com/i-switched-to-fedora-expecting-a-polished-desktop-and-got-half-finished-features-instead/ | Oct 18 17:22 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.howtogeek.com | I switched to Fedora expecting a polished desktop and got half-finished features instead | Oct 18 17:22 | |
| techrights-news | His scanner wouldnβt work on Linux β so he let Claude study the Windows driver https://thenewstack.io/claude-code-linux-driver/ | Oct 18 17:23 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-thenewstack.io | His scanner wouldnβt work on Linux β so he let Claude study the Windows driver - The New Stack | Oct 18 17:23 | |
| techrights-news | Absolute garbage https://www.thurrott.com/a-i/342973/starling-releases-free-linux-desktop-office-apps-terminal-and-sdk | Oct 18 17:23 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Starling Releases Free Linux Desktop, Office Apps, Terminal, and SDK - Thurrott.com | Oct 18 17:23 | |
| techrights-news | "Think of it as a list of operating systems that are friends with Tuxπ§ but not friendly enough to call him inside for a cup of tea." https://itsfoss.com/open-source-non-linux-os/ | Oct 18 17:24 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-itsfoss.com | Not Every Open Source OS Needs to Be Based on Linux, and These Six Arenβt | Oct 18 17:24 | |
| techrights-news | openExpress brings Garmin updates, maps and apps to Linux https://the5krunner.com/2026/10/17/openexpress-garmin-express-linux/ | Oct 18 17:24 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-the5krunner.com | openExpress: Garmin Express for Linux, with maps, updates and apps | Oct 18 17:24 | |
| techrights-news | Steam's overlay freezes Linux games on alt-tab, and Valve has merged four reports https://mixed-news.com/en/steam-overlay-alt-tab-freeze-linux-13709-13682/ | Oct 18 17:25 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-mixed-news.com | Steam's overlay freezes Linux games on alt-tab, and Valve has merged four reports | Oct 18 17:25 | |
| techrights-news | "PeaZip 11.4 has been released today as a new point release in the latest PeaZip 11 series of this open-source, free, and cross-platform archive manager for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows platforms." https://9to5linux.com/peazip-11-4-open-source-archive-manager-released-with-various-improvements | Oct 18 17:26 |
| techrights-news | "From the creators of the Shelly package manager for Arch Linux, I am happy to introduce you to Devario OS, a modern Linux distro based on Arch Linux and built around in-house projects." https://9to5linux.com/first-look-at-devario-os-a-modern-shelly-first-linux-distro-based-on-arch-linux | Oct 18 17:27 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-First Look at Devario OS: A Modern, Shelly-First Linux Distro Based on Arch Linux - 9to5Linux | Oct 18 17:27 | |
| techrights-news | Run Linux on iPad with LinPad https://osxdaily.com/2026/10/16/run-linux-on-ipad-with-linpad/ | Oct 18 17:27 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-osxdaily.com | Run Linux on iPad with LinPad - OS X Daily | Oct 18 17:27 | |
| techrights-news | β² πΏππ πΈπππππππ ⨦ (NEW): Munich dumps proprietary for open source (again) - but no Linux desktop β¨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/18/Munich_dumps_proprietary_for_open_source_again_but_no_Linux_des.shtml | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/18/Munich_dumps_proprietary_for_open_source_again_but_no_Linux_des.gmi β | Oct 18 17:28 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines β Munich dumps proprietary for open source (again) - but no Linux desktop | Oct 18 17:28 | |
| techrights-news | These 3 Linux distros have officially replaced CentOS https://www.howtogeek.com/these-3-linux-distros-have-officially-replaced-centos/ | Oct 18 17:28 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.howtogeek.com | These 3 Linux distros have officially replaced CentOS | Oct 18 17:28 | |
| techrights-news | Steam Tests Native 64-Bit Linux Client To Fix A Decade Of Headaches https://hothardware.com/news/steam-tests-native-64-bit-linux-client-to-fix-a-decade-of-headaches | Oct 18 17:28 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-hothardware.com | Steam Tests Native 64-Bit Linux Client To Fix A Decade Of Headaches | Oct 18 17:28 | |
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| techrights-news | Slop hypesters https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/ai-campaign-targets-linux-infrastructure/ | Oct 18 17:31 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-unit42.paloaltonetworks.com | AI-Powered Espionage Campaign Targets Government Linux Infrastructure | Oct 18 17:31 | |
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| techrights-news | β² πΏππ πΈπππππππ ⨦ (NEW): "Linux" Slop Hype β¨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/18/_Linux_Slop_Hype.shtml | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/18/_Linux_Slop_Hype.gmi β | Oct 18 17:33 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines β "Linux" Slop Hype | Oct 18 17:33 | |
| techrights-news | β² πΏππ πΈπππππππ ⨦ (NEW): Games: Steam Machine and Other Steam (on GNU/Linux) News β¨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/18/Games_Steam_Machine_and_Other_Steam_on_GNU_Linux_News.shtml | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/18/Games_Steam_Machine_and_Other_Steam_on_GNU_Linux_News.gmi β | Oct 18 17:35 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines β Games: Steam Machine and Other Steam (on GNU/Linux) News | Oct 18 17:35 | |
| techrights-news | β² πΏππ πΈπππππππ ⨦ (NEW): Today's ππΆπΉ ππ’π€π©πͺπ―π¦π΄ HowTos β¨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/18/today_s_howtos.shtml | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/18/today_s_howtos.gmi β | Oct 18 17:36 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines β today's howtos | Oct 18 17:36 | |
| techrights-news | β² πΏππ πΈπππππππ ⨦ (NEW): KDE News: Tellico, Anniversary, and More β¨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/18/KDE_News_Tellico_Anniversary_and_More.shtml | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/18/KDE_News_Tellico_Anniversary_and_More.gmi β | Oct 18 17:38 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines β KDE News: Tellico, Anniversary, and More | Oct 18 17:38 | |
| techrights-news | β² πΏππ πΈπππππππ ⨦ (NEW): OpenSUSE News and Tumbleweed Review of the Week β¨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/18/OpenSUSE_News_and_Tumbleweed_Review_of_the_Week.shtml | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/18/OpenSUSE_News_and_Tumbleweed_Review_of_the_Week.gmi β | Oct 18 17:38 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines β OpenSUSE News and Tumbleweed Review of the Week | Oct 18 17:38 | |
| techrights-news | β² πΏππ πΈπππππππ ⨦ (NEW): Fedora: Kevin Fenzi and Maxim Burgerhout Updates/Tips β¨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/18/Fedora_Kevin_Fenzi_and_Maxim_Burgerhout_Updates_Tips.shtml | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/18/Fedora_Kevin_Fenzi_and_Maxim_Burgerhout_Updates_Tips.gmi β | Oct 18 17:40 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines β Fedora: Kevin Fenzi and Maxim Burgerhout Updates/Tips | Oct 18 17:40 | |
| techrights-news | β² πΏππ πΈπππππππ ⨦ (NEW): The Slackware Cloud Server and Other Slackware Updates β¨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/18/The_Slackware_Cloud_Server_and_Other_Slackware_Updates.shtml | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/18/The_Slackware_Cloud_Server_and_Other_Slackware_Updates.gmi β | Oct 18 17:40 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines β The Slackware Cloud Server and Other Slackware Updates | Oct 18 17:40 | |
| techrights-news | β² πΏππ πΈπππππππ ⨦ (NEW): Open Hardware, Linux, and Mobile β¨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/18/Open_Hardware_Linux_and_Mobile.shtml | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/18/Open_Hardware_Linux_and_Mobile.gmi β | Oct 18 17:43 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines β Open Hardware, Linux, and Mobile | Oct 18 17:43 | |
| techrights-news | β² πΏππ πΈπππππππ ⨦ (NEW): PostgreSQL: crecheck v6.0, pg_utl_smtp v2.0, pg_hint_plan v1.9.0, and FOSDEM PGDay 2027 β¨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/18/PostgreSQL_crecheck_v6_0_pg_utl_smtp_v2_0_pg_hint_plan_v1_9_0_a.shtml | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/18/PostgreSQL_crecheck_v6_0_pg_utl_smtp_v2_0_pg_hint_plan_v1_9_0_a.gmi β | Oct 18 17:45 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines β PostgreSQL: crecheck v6.0, pg_utl_smtp v2.0, pg_hint_plan v1.9.0, and FOSDEM PGDay 2027 | Oct 18 17:45 | |
| techrights-news | β² πΏππ πΈπππππππ ⨦ (NEW): Shows, GNOME, and Ubuntu Leftovers β¨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/18/Shows_GNOME_and_Ubuntu_Leftovers.shtml | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/18/Shows_GNOME_and_Ubuntu_Leftovers.gmi β | Oct 18 17:45 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines β Shows, GNOME, and Ubuntu Leftovers | Oct 18 17:45 | |
| techrights-news | β² πΏππ πΈπππππππ ⨦ (NEW): ππΆπΉ ππ’π€π©πͺπ―π¦π΄ Programming Leftovers β¨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/18/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/18/Programming_Leftovers.gmi β | Oct 18 17:46 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines β Programming Leftovers | Oct 18 17:46 | |
| techrights-news | β² πΏππ πΈπππππππ ⨦ (NEW): Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers β¨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/18/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.shtml | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/18/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.gmi β | Oct 18 17:48 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines β Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers | Oct 18 17:48 | |
| techrights-news | β² πΏππ πΈπππππππ ⨦ (NEW): Web Browsers/Web Servers/Feed Readers and Standards β¨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/18/Web_Browsers_Web_Servers_Feed_Readers_and_Standards.shtml | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/18/Web_Browsers_Web_Servers_Feed_Readers_and_Standards.gmi β | Oct 18 17:48 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines β Web Browsers/Web Servers/Feed Readers and Standards | Oct 18 17:48 | |
| techrights-news | Techrights β Links 18/10/2026: Brazil Reduces Deforestation, Some 4-5 Gray's Inn Square Scandals in Insolvency Petition of Reform UK β¨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/18/Links_18_10_2026_Brazil_Reduces_Deforestation_Some_4_5_Gray_s_I.shtml | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/10/18/Links_18_10_2026_Brazil_Reduces_Deforestation_Some_4_5_Gray_s_I.gmi β | Oct 18 17:51 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights β Links 18/10/2026: Brazil Reduces Deforestation, Some 4-5 Gray's Inn Square Scandals in Insolvency Petition of Reform UK | Oct 18 17:51 | |
| techrights-news | β² πΏππ πΈπππππππ ⨦ (NEW): Open Hardware/Modding Leftovers β¨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/Open_Hardware_Modding_Leftovers.shtml | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/Open_Hardware_Modding_Leftovers.gmi β | Oct 18 17:53 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines β Open Hardware/Modding Leftovers | Oct 18 17:53 | |
| techrights-news | "Hospitals. Places of recovery and rest, where the sick can recuperate through somnolent slumber." gemini://eve.smol.pub/whats-that-sound | Oct 18 17:56 |
| techrights-news | "As many of you know, I am currently in hospital. This is a factual rundown of how I got here, whatβs been tried, and what the next steps are in the treatment of my current illness." gemini://eve.smol.pub/a-further-health-update | Oct 18 17:56 |
| techrights-news | books that I've read and can recommend gemini://soviet.circumlunar.space/pjvm/notes/nonfiction-books.gmi | Oct 18 17:57 |
| techrights-news | ego flashes, pangs of deja vu, memory is hurting me now gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2855 | Oct 18 17:59 |
| techrights-news | "For years my favorite way to play Tetris was the NES version. That version is being used in the Classic Tetris World Championship." gemini://kobel.fyi/en/2026-10-18-apotris-my-new-favorite-way-to-play-tetris.gmi | Oct 18 17:59 |
| techrights-news | "Trying out the 24/7 Type&Talk (Typepals.com), but apparently it is too early in the U.S. for anyone to join. Majority of the members there are located in the U.S., and probably this all-day, all-week event doesn't draw too much at-tension, unlike the special events like the monthly "Postcard exchange" for example." gemini://flo.smol.pub/going-postal | Oct 18 18:00 |
| techrights-news | "I've lived in my current house for almost 6 years. That entire time, I've been lucky to have a 1 Gbps fiber optic internet connection. And for that entire time, my IP address has been the same. " gemini://gemi.dev/gemlog/2026-10-18-failing-assumptions.gmi | Oct 18 18:01 |
| techrights-news | Techrights β Gemini Links 18/10/2026: Hospitals, Literature, Fixed IP Addresses, and Sunday Types β¨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/18/Gemini_Links_18_10_2026_Hospitals_Literature_Fixed_IP_Addresses.shtml | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/10/18/Gemini_Links_18_10_2026_Hospitals_Literature_Fixed_IP_Addresses.gmi β | Oct 18 18:06 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights β Gemini Links 18/10/2026: Hospitals, Literature, Fixed IP Addresses, and Sunday Types | Oct 18 18:06 | |
| MinceR | https://engrish.com/2025/10/be-sure-to-block-everyones-way/ | Oct 18 18:13 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Be sure to block everyoneβs wayβ¦ - Engrish.com | Oct 18 18:13 | |
| techrights-news | Firefox, Librewolf, and More https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/18/firefox-librewolf-and-more/ | Oct 18 18:19 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-schestowitz.com Β» Blog Archive Β» Firefox, Librewolf, and More | Oct 18 18:19 | |
| techrights-news | A Glance at Insolvency Petition Against Nigel Farage Reveals Conflict of Interest https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/18/a-glance-at-insolvency-petition-against-nigel-farage-reveals-conflict-of-interest/ | Oct 18 18:32 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-schestowitz.com Β» Blog Archive Β» A Glance at Insolvency Petition Against Nigel Farage Reveals Conflict of Interest | Oct 18 18:32 | |
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| techrights-news | Techrights β Intercontinental Brigading - Part VII - Weekend Abuse Reported to British Police (Rogue Actors Take No Breaks) β¨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/18/Intercontinental_Brigading_Part_VII_Weekend_Abuse_Reported_to_B.shtml | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/10/18/Intercontinental_Brigading_Part_VII_Weekend_Abuse_Reported_to_B.gmi β | Oct 18 19:35 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights β Intercontinental Brigading - Part VII - Weekend Abuse Reported to British Police (Rogue Actors Take No Breaks) | Oct 18 19:35 | |
| techrights-news | Swatting is Illegal, Even When Attempted From Another Continent https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/18/swatting-is-illegal-even-when-attempted-from-another-continent/ | Oct 18 19:51 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-schestowitz.com Β» Blog Archive Β» Swatting is Illegal, Even When Attempted From Another Continent | Oct 18 19:51 | |
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| IsambardPrince | schestowitz[TR2], Get this. | Oct 18 19:58 |
| IsambardPrince | Disney World and Disney Land are now charging people $2 to use the trash cans. | Oct 18 19:58 |
| IsambardPrince | You have to scan your wrist band and it takes $2 off of it every time. | Oct 18 19:58 |
| IsambardPrince | The trash can opens for 30 seconds. | Oct 18 19:58 |
| IsambardPrince | I think I just figured out why people are suddenly complaining that there's trash everywhere. | Oct 18 19:59 |
| IsambardPrince | "I paid $6000 to come out here for 1 week and they want $2 every time I have to throw something in the trash can!" | Oct 18 19:59 |
| IsambardPrince | Walt Disney himself said he designed the parks so that it would be affordable. | Oct 18 20:00 |
| IsambardPrince | He banned alcohol because "It attracts an undesirable element you'd rather not have." | Oct 18 20:01 |
| IsambardPrince | And he designed the layout so that there would be at least one trash can every 30 feet and it was the job of all "cast members", including management, to personally pick up trash and throw it away if they spotted some. | Oct 18 20:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | i shared the streaming costs thing | Oct 18 20:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | that ytou put here | Oct 18 20:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | rianne saw it | Oct 18 20:02 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | we never paid for streaming | Oct 18 20:02 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | it makes no sense | Oct 18 20:02 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <IsambardPrince> He banned alcohol because "It attracts an undesirable element you'd rather not have." | Oct 18 20:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | lol. | Oct 18 20:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | i find that trash story difficult to believe | Oct 18 20:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | it's too expensive | Oct 18 20:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | and the "public toilets" here can lead people to urination in public | Oct 18 20:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | women also | Oct 18 20:03 |
| IsambardPrince | Club 33 used to be the only place in the park to have alcohol. | Oct 18 20:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | so it becomes a public sanitation issue | Oct 18 20:04 |
| IsambardPrince | Right now it costs $65,000 to be a member, plus over $20,000 a year. | Oct 18 20:04 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | disney is for kids | Oct 18 20:04 |
| IsambardPrince | schestowitz[TR2], Yeah, I just looked again, that was a satire site that said the $2 trash thing. | Oct 18 20:04 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | or adults who have longing for childhood | Oct 18 20:04 |
| IsambardPrince | I could not find it anywhere else. | Oct 18 20:04 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | i don't have any interest getting back there | Oct 18 20:04 |
| IsambardPrince | schestowitz[TR2], The streaming apps on Roku have a lot of ads. | Oct 18 20:05 |
| IsambardPrince | The only ones that don't are the library ones. | Oct 18 20:05 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | you need to chek your soruces better | Oct 18 20:05 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | in the past you shared slopfarms here | Oct 18 20:05 |
| IsambardPrince | Like Hoopla and Kanopy. | Oct 18 20:05 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | you thought only the graphics were slop | Oct 18 20:05 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | where there is slop imagery the text is typically no better | Oct 18 20:05 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | this is why andy wiped off the slop images in cybershow | Oct 18 20:06 |
| IsambardPrince | I think the reason the slop is so successful is that in real life, the CEOs really are that stupid and greedy. | Oct 18 20:06 |
| IsambardPrince | Like that woman that came in and singlehandedly ruined the Cracker Barrel. | Oct 18 20:06 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | slop is not successful | Oct 18 20:06 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | you would struggle to find success stories | Oct 18 20:06 |
| IsambardPrince | I need another word. | Oct 18 20:06 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | it's a commercial failure and mostly does negative things | Oct 18 20:06 |
| IsambardPrince | Not financially successful. | Oct 18 20:06 |
| IsambardPrince | Successful in smearing the Web in a thick layer of shit. | Oct 18 20:07 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | like someone telling another someone false stories | Oct 18 20:07 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "Successful murder" | Oct 18 20:07 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | wrong term | Oct 18 20:07 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | apropos success | Oct 18 20:07 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | and re Successful | Oct 18 20:07 |
| IsambardPrince | Yes, a lot of those Facebook and YouTube channels are now "AI" videos of people eating. | Oct 18 20:07 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.judiciary.uk/courts-and-tribunals/court-of-appeal-home/ | Oct 18 20:07 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.judiciary.uk | Court of Appeal - Courts and Tribunals Judiciary | Oct 18 20:07 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | imagine you spend over a million dollar in a lawsuit | Oct 18 20:07 |
| IsambardPrince | It's funny to watch just because of how many errors they have in them. | Oct 18 20:07 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | and you lose that money | Oct 18 20:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | no matter who "wins" | Oct 18 20:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | it's like slop | Oct 18 20:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | there's no "success" here | Oct 18 20:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | no matter who wins | Oct 18 20:08 |
| IsambardPrince | In one of them a guy pulls an empty fork out of his mouth and it turns into a cigar, when he already has another cigar in the other hand. | Oct 18 20:08 |
| IsambardPrince | He pulls a lit cigar out of his mouth. | Oct 18 20:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | if the other party, in both direction, cannot pay the other | Oct 18 20:08 |
| IsambardPrince | It's disturbing in the sense that a LLM can make these errors. | Oct 18 20:09 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | LLMs? | Oct 18 20:09 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | LLMs don't make videos? | Oct 18 20:09 |
| IsambardPrince | On the front end it is. | Oct 18 20:09 |
| IsambardPrince | It analyzes the prompt that way. | Oct 18 20:09 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | no | Oct 18 20:09 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | thew images and videos don't work that way | Oct 18 20:09 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | it's just CG | Oct 18 20:09 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | training on stuff to plagiarise | Oct 18 20:09 |
| IsambardPrince | Google has one now, I think it's calleed Nano Banana. | Oct 18 20:10 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | the inputs and outputs are not words | Oct 18 20:10 |
| IsambardPrince | https://www.fox6now.com/news/latest-mapquest-update-reveals-automated-license-plate-reader-networks | Oct 18 20:10 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.fox6now.com | Latest MapQuest update reveals automated license plate reader networks | FOX6 Milwaukee | Oct 18 20:10 | |
| IsambardPrince | They did this after Flock threatened to sue someone else for it in a Demand Letter. | Oct 18 20:10 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | http://techrights.org/n/2025/07/04/Slop_Videos_Are_Disappointing_Garbage_Nothing_New_Just_Brute_Fo.shtml | Oct 18 20:10 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights β Slop Videos Are Disappointing Garbage, Nothing New, Just Brute Force up on Display or a Pedestal of Slop | Oct 18 20:10 | |
| IsambardPrince | Demand Letters are usually designed to scare people into compliance when someone doesn't plan to do anything else. | Oct 18 20:11 |
| IsambardPrince | Our landlord sends out a lot of these. | Oct 18 20:11 |
| IsambardPrince | Creditors and landlords are getting very mean. | Oct 18 20:11 |
| IsambardPrince | I got a medical bill yesterday, schestowitz[TR2] | Oct 18 20:11 |
| IsambardPrince | Only $21, but it was also the first time they sent an invoice. | Oct 18 20:11 |
| IsambardPrince | It says in red in all caps, in several places "FINAL NOTICE BEFORE FURTHER ACTION IS TAKEN". | Oct 18 20:12 |
| IsambardPrince | They used to wait until the second or third time an unpaid invoice went out. | Oct 18 20:12 |
| IsambardPrince | What action? | Oct 18 20:12 |
| IsambardPrince | They don't sue people over $21. | Oct 18 20:12 |
| techrights-news | misinformation https://cphpost.dk/2026-10-10/news/round-up/defense-minister-calls-russian-tv-report-misinformation/ | Oct 18 20:12 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-HTTP/2 stream 1 was not closed cleanly: PROTOCOL_ERROR (err 1) ( status 0 @ https://cphpost.dk/2026-10-10/news/round-up/defense-minister-calls-russian-tv-report-misinformation/ ) | Oct 18 20:12 | |
| IsambardPrince | It's medical debt, so they can't put it on your credit report in Illinois. | Oct 18 20:13 |
| techrights-news | Social control media https://www.dw.com/en/uk-s-burnham-accuses-russia-of-meddling-in-brexit-vote/a-79635264 | Oct 18 20:13 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.dw.com | UK's Burnham accuses Russia of meddling in Brexit vote | Oct 18 20:13 | |
| IsambardPrince | It's medical debt under $500, so the credit reporting bureaus won't report it anywhere in the country. | Oct 18 20:13 |
| IsambardPrince | What FURTHER ACTION will be TAKEN? | Oct 18 20:13 |
| techrights-news | Cloudflare Data Misread https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/cloudflare-data-russian-bots-ukraine-strikes-1825197 | Oct 18 20:14 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.ibtimes.co.uk | 'Operation Quiet Piggy' Viral MAGA Bot Collapse Theory Hinges on Cloudflare Data Misread | IBTimes UK | Oct 18 20:14 | |
| techrights-news | βRussian botsβ https://off-guardian.org/2026/10/13/russian-bots-burning-data-centres-partitioning-the-internet/ | Oct 18 20:15 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-off-guardian.org | βRussian botsβ, burning data centres & partitioning the internet β OffGuardian | Oct 18 20:15 | |
| IsambardPrince | They also required a credit card on file before agreeing to treat me. | Oct 18 20:16 |
| techrights-news | Ukrainian journalists detained in Austria https://cpj.org/2026/10/ukrainian-journalists-detained-in-austria-authorities-must-urgently-explain-why/ | Oct 18 20:16 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-cpj.org | Ukrainian journalists detained in Austria; authorities must urgently explain why - Committee to Protect Journalists | Oct 18 20:16 | |
| IsambardPrince | They have so many people that run off and don't pay them that they do a "credit card on file policy" now. | Oct 18 20:16 |
| IsambardPrince | schestowitz[TR2], I got an offer from Google yesterday. | Oct 18 20:17 |
| IsambardPrince | They gave me a $100 off coupon code towards a Pixel 11. | Oct 18 20:17 |
| IsambardPrince | Then they said I also get "up to $350" for trading in my Pixel 8. | Oct 18 20:17 |
| IsambardPrince | That would theoretically make a Pixel 11 $649. (Plus tax) | Oct 18 20:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | they still profiit | Oct 18 20:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | it's marketing | Oct 18 20:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | no discount | Oct 18 20:18 |
| IsambardPrince | But what they make you agree to is that if their inspectors claim the phone is flawed at all, they can give you any trade in amount they want. | Oct 18 20:18 |
| IsambardPrince | It isn't necessarily $350. | Oct 18 20:18 |
| IsambardPrince | So if they say it's worth $100 you get another $250 billed to your credit card later. | Oct 18 20:18 |
| techrights-news | From Brussels to Bolzano: Router Freedom, young hackers and our community https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-202610.en.html | Oct 18 20:18 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-fsfe.org | From Brussels to Bolzano: Router Freedom, young hackers and our community - FSFE | Oct 18 20:18 | |
| IsambardPrince | Then my partner asked why am I not upgrading my phone. | Oct 18 20:18 |
| techrights-news | Juice https://xkcd.com/3308/ | Oct 18 20:18 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-xkcd: Juice | Oct 18 20:18 | |
| techrights-news | Dogcatcher https://xkcd.com/3309/ | Oct 18 20:19 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-xkcd: Dogcatcher | Oct 18 20:19 | |
| techrights-news | Rejected Space Mission Profiles https://xkcd.com/3310/ | Oct 18 20:19 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-xkcd: Rejected Space Mission Profiles | Oct 18 20:19 | |
| IsambardPrince | I told him "It's still getting new versions of Android, it's supported with security updates until 2030. Apps will work for a few months past that. Why do I want to lose several hundred dollars on a new phone that can't do anything this one does? That's a bad investment." | Oct 18 20:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <IsambardPrince> Then my partner asked why am I not upgrading my phone. | Oct 18 20:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | upgrading? | Oct 18 20:20 |
| techrights-news | Planet Database https://xkcd.com/3311/ | Oct 18 20:20 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-xkcd: Planet Database | Oct 18 20:20 | |
| IsambardPrince | I'd be trading in a perfectly functional Pixel 8 that just had the screen and the battery replaced a few months ago under a special warranty period from Google, at no cost. | Oct 18 20:21 |
| IsambardPrince | Which has 4 years of support left on it. | Oct 18 20:21 |
| techrights-news | AI Agent Reportedly Deletes an Entire Season of Reality TV Show https://gizmodo.com/ai-agent-reportedly-deletes-an-entire-season-of-reality-tv-show-2000826600 | Oct 18 20:21 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-gizmodo.com | AI Agent Reportedly Deletes an Entire Season of Reality TV Show | Oct 18 20:21 | |
| IsambardPrince | So that I can lose at least $649 and possibly hundreds more. | Oct 18 20:21 |
| techrights-news | Reader: "Be careful with the following news item. Some reports say the loss was caused by human error." AI agent reportedly wipes entire season of Swedish TV show before premiere - as presenter says 'I knew AI would be the death of me' https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/articles/ai-agent-reportedly-wipes-entire-151656684.html | Oct 18 20:22 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-tech.yahoo.com | AI agent reportedly wipes entire season of Swedish TV show before premiere β as presenter says 'I knew AI would be the death of me' | Oct 18 20:22 | |
| techrights-news | around noon local time yesterday (Oct 16.): There was some error and the true magnitude was 6.9 not 9.9 as initially estimated. A 6.9 quake has only 1/32,000 of the energy of a 9.9 quake. | Oct 18 20:22 |
| techrights-news | ...Earthquake alert issued in Japan; canceled in short order: The Japan Meteorological Agency sent out an urgent earthquake alert around noon local time yesterday (Oct 16.): There was some error and the true magnitude was 6.9 not 9.9 as initially estimated. A 6.9 quake has only 1/32,000 of the energy of a 9.9 quake. | Oct 18 20:22 |
| techrights-news | Japan agency cancels mistakenly issued M9.9 quake alert, transit disrupted https://english.kyodonews.net/articles/-/88418 JMA issues alert after wrongly estimating quake magnitude at 9.9 - Asahi Shimbun https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/16970952 | Oct 18 20:23 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-english.kyodonews.net | Japan agency cancels mistakenly issued M9.9 quake alert, transit disrupted | Oct 18 20:23 | |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-JMA issues alert after wrongly estimating quake magnitude at 9.9 | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis | Oct 18 20:23 | |
| techrights-news | Bots are run by humans or set up by them. http://techrights.org/n/2026/05/07/Servers_Became_Cloud_VR_Became_Metaverse_Now_Bots_Become_Agents.shtml | Oct 18 20:23 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights β Servers Became "Cloud", VR Became "Metaverse", Now Bots Become "Agents" (of Slop) | Oct 18 20:23 | |
| techrights-news | It is a human error to let bots handle critical tasks based on belief in buzzwords and hype | Oct 18 20:24 |
| techrights-news | Earthquake alert issued in Japan; canceled in short order. Two more articles. The Meteorological Agency explains what happened. Japan Meteorological Agency Holds Pressers on Why M9.9 Quake Warning Was Issued, Rescinded on Friday https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/society/general-news/20261017-354198/ | Oct 18 20:25 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-japannews.yomiuri.co.jp | NO TITLE | Oct 18 20:25 | |
| techrights-news | "The Japan Meteorological Agency revoked a warning for an earthquake on Friday just eight minutes after issuing it, having mistakenly estimated that it would register the maximum 7 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale from Hokkaido to the Tokai region." | Oct 18 20:26 |
| IsambardPrince | Then what? I squander between $649-949 depending on what happens with the trade in, that's getting on for equal to or greater than an emergency vet bill or my share of a month's rent. It could be an entire year's utility bills. Or it can be a phone that is liek 10% better than the one I already have. | Oct 18 20:26 |
| techrights-news | Nerves rattled in Japan as alert for magnitude 9.9 quake withdrawn minutes later https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/10/16/japan/jma-earthquake-warning/ | Oct 18 20:26 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights- ( status 403 @ https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/10/16/japan/jma-earthquake-warning/ ) | Oct 18 20:26 | |
| techrights-news | "Ayataka Ebita, the head of the JMA's earthquake and tsunami observation division, said at a press briefing that the agency's system had erroneously placed the quake's epicenter off the Kuril Islands and overestimated its magnitude, triggering the initial warning. The agency ruled out a possible cyberattack." | Oct 18 20:27 |
| techrights-news | ""We are currently investigating the cause and will provide an explanation as soon as it is determined," Ebita said." | Oct 18 20:27 |
| techrights-news | "JMA said at another briefing that the cause of overestimation was due to applying a magnitude formula designed for domestic earthquakes to one occurring far from Japan. It also used different estimated quake locations to calculate the magnitude and predict shaking, although both calculations should have used the same location. Further details remained under investigation." | Oct 18 20:27 |
| IsambardPrince | I still have no idea what Google plans to do with app signing. Many of the F-Droid apps are saying they will never do this. One of the F-Droid apps is a localhost proxy that sits there and strips out ads and tracking garbage requests out of the Play Store apps. | Oct 18 20:28 |
| IsambardPrince | Without it, the experience of using my phone with apps becomes nearly unbearable because Google is an ad company. | Oct 18 20:28 |
| IsambardPrince | I don't think I want another several hundred tied up in their "ecosystem" when the ad/tracker problem is going to be so virulent that it's worse than having an iPhone. | Oct 18 20:28 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | i don't know why you have android | Oct 18 20:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | does your job require that? | Oct 18 20:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | do you need it to park? | Oct 18 20:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | to pay rent? | Oct 18 20:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | if not, then why? | Oct 18 20:29 |
| IsambardPrince | Not really, no. | Oct 18 20:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | you can check you're mom's FB BS on a browser | Oct 18 20:29 |
| IsambardPrince | Transit is one "killer app". | Oct 18 20:30 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | it would be easy for you to be mobile-free | Oct 18 20:30 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | why? | Oct 18 20:30 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | transit giving time est? | Oct 18 20:30 |
| IsambardPrince | It plots courses on the public transit network and tells you exactly where to go. | Oct 18 20:30 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | you can go there and find out | Oct 18 20:30 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | on the spot | Oct 18 20:30 |
| IsambardPrince | Not really. | Oct 18 20:30 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | bring a book or something | Oct 18 20:30 |
| IsambardPrince | CTA/PACE have such bad signage that you don't really know. | Oct 18 20:30 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | buy a map | Oct 18 20:30 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | or print one | Oct 18 20:30 |
| IsambardPrince | Especially if you need to transfer a couple times. | Oct 18 20:31 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | meh | Oct 18 20:31 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | i am notp buying it | Oct 18 20:31 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | on the "metro" here | Oct 18 20:31 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | like chicago metro | Oct 18 20:31 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | or mmetra | Oct 18 20:31 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | i think it's metra in chic. | Oct 18 20:31 |
| IsambardPrince | You don't need a great phone to run Transit though. | Oct 18 20:31 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | you caaan get sssubway-like maps | Oct 18 20:32 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | and get beter at reading them | Oct 18 20:32 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | or ask someone | Oct 18 20:32 |
| IsambardPrince | If I reach the end of life on the Pixel 8, I could just buy one of those cheapo Motorola Androids. | Oct 18 20:32 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "end" | Oct 18 20:32 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "of life" | Oct 18 20:32 |
| IsambardPrince | Data plans are so cheap that you don't save any money going to a flip phone. | Oct 18 20:32 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | do you have a funeral? | Oct 18 20:32 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | in the 1990s the PCs did not ennpire | Oct 18 20:32 |
| IsambardPrince | Steve Jobs had a funeral for Mac OS 9. | Oct 18 20:33 |
| IsambardPrince | :) | Oct 18 20:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | end of life was when you didn't want to repair | Oct 18 20:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | it was too expensive | Oct 18 20:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Steve Jobs had a funeral | Oct 18 20:33 |
| IsambardPrince | Eventually they stopped making components for that board. | Oct 18 20:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Steve Jobs had a funeral alright | Oct 18 20:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | use general-purpose stuff | Oct 18 20:33 |
| IsambardPrince | Yeah, I thought it was funny on Kiwi Farms. | Oct 18 20:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | that hhas normal coimponents | Oct 18 20:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | that you can slide in | Oct 18 20:33 |
| IsambardPrince | His wife inherited the yacht he never got to use. | Oct 18 20:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | einc. bbateries | Oct 18 20:33 |
| IsambardPrince | And they were laughing about her taking her black boyfriend out on it. | Oct 18 20:34 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | newer laptops are a nigthmare | Oct 18 20:34 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | even changing the battery is a risky shore | Oct 18 20:34 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I checked vvideos | Oct 18 20:34 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | lost appretite for changing batteriez | Oct 18 20:34 |
| IsambardPrince | Steve Jobs would likely be alive today had he sought out actual healthcare. | Oct 18 20:34 |
| IsambardPrince | Instead of woo woo liberal crap. | Oct 18 20:34 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | it's buried deep inside the body | Oct 18 20:34 |
| andy | I got around perfectly in London for 40 years without an "app" or "smartphone" becaue in London the subway maps are on the subway (tube), and like bus-stops have signs that say what the bus is and where it goes. Amazing technology really. And uses no power :) | Oct 18 20:34 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | yes, i thoughtt of the TTube when i typed that | Oct 18 20:35 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | it's not too hard in london once you get used to the legends | Oct 18 20:35 |
| IsambardPrince | When people get a cancer diagnoses and use "Yoga, traditional Chinese medicine, and acupuncture", there's going to be a funeral within months. | Oct 18 20:35 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | they even have voice signalling | Oct 18 20:35 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | andy: you and ed did anepiisodes abo8ut this | Oct 18 20:35 |
| *reap (~Username@s8kfk54nxqtqy.irc) has joined #techrights | Oct 18 20:35 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | and how in the station the annoucements became horrid | Oct 18 20:35 |
| andy | was it called "signalling problems"? Maybe that was the one | Oct 18 20:36 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | i thiiiink it was in the desc | Oct 18 20:36 |
| andy | about dire quality of information on UK transport systems | Oct 18 20:36 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | i got feedback from you | Oct 18 20:36 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | weeeks ago someone said it's hard to find ol eps | Oct 18 20:36 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | even based on text | Oct 18 20:36 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | and they are undated | Oct 18 20:36 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | and not sorted by anything | Oct 18 20:36 |
| IsambardPrince | Traditional Chinese Medicine: "Oh it's cancer, huh? Here drink this tea it's got weird mushrooms and essence of cockroach, and uhhh, I blended up some bull testicles for good measure. That'll fix it up." | Oct 18 20:36 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | and that it was likely work in progress, so "be patient" | Oct 18 20:36 |
| andy | yes its true, episodes are hard to find | Oct 18 20:37 |
| MinceR | 18 213355 < schestowitz[TR2]> einc. bbateries | Oct 18 20:37 |
| MinceR | like a Fairphone? :> | Oct 18 20:37 |
| MinceR | 18 213432 < IsambardPrince> Instead of woo woo liberal crap. | Oct 18 20:37 |
| MinceR | there's nothing liberal about it, or about steve "blow" jobs, for that matter | Oct 18 20:37 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | even now I cannot find it | Oct 18 20:37 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | looks at video and audio eps index | Oct 18 20:37 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | for rail,. train, signal | Oct 18 20:37 |
| IsambardPrince | Steve Jobs took a cancer that has a 90% survival rate with modern medicine, and delayed actual treatment until it spread to everything and was too late to fix. | Oct 18 20:38 |
| andy | maybe one day we'll get round to putting a transcript in every show-notes page | Oct 18 20:38 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://techrights.org/search/query?search=Search&query1=nevard+&set1=any | Oct 18 20:38 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights β Search | Oct 18 20:38 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://techrights.org/n/2024/03/16/CyberShow_s_Latest_Episode_Covers_How_Technology_is_Getting_Wor.shtml | Oct 18 20:38 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights β CyberShow's Latest Episode Covers How Technology is Getting Worse (in General) | Oct 18 20:38 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | links to https://cybershow.uk/content/episodes/disappearing-worlds/audio/disappearing.mp3 | Oct 18 20:38 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | and to https://cybershow.uk/episodes.php?id=25 404 not found | Oct 18 20:39 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights- ( status 404 @ https://cybershow.uk/episodes.php?id=25 ) | Oct 18 20:39 | |
| IsambardPrince | If he dropped everything, went to the best oncology center in America, and got treated, 96 people out of 100 in his initial condition would be alive today. | Oct 18 20:39 |
| andy | Ah yes, that's it, Disappearing Worlds | Oct 18 20:39 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/03/16/today.shtml links directlt to the mp3 | Oct 18 20:39 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines β today's leftovers | Oct 18 20:39 | |
| andy | We went for a walk to an "On the go" episode and got stuck out in the forest at some desolate one horse station | Oct 18 20:40 |
| andy | in the New Forest | Oct 18 20:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://cybershow.uk/content/pages/audio-episode.html | Oct 18 20:40 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-cybershow.uk | Audio Episodes | Oct 18 20:40 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Oct 18 20:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | Disappearing Worlds | audio-episode | Musings on disappearing norms and objects displaced by changing technology | Fri Mar 15 2024 | 2 | 25 | Format: radio show magazine | Theme: change | Tags: cybershow-radio audio-only man-shouts-at-cloud change progress regression explicit 112 words taking 0.9 min to read | Oct 18 20:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Oct 18 20:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | (not in https://cybershow.uk/content/pages/video-audio-episode.html ) | Oct 18 20:40 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-cybershow.uk | Video Episodes | Oct 18 20:40 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://cybershow.uk/content/episodes/fake-women/fake-women.html | Oct 18 20:40 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-cybershow.uk | Fake Women in Tech | Oct 18 20:40 | |
| IsambardPrince | Everything wrong about Apple's human interface guidelines are rooted in Steve Jobs's edicts. He was not a good designer of computers. The Apple III overheated constantly and they said "pick it up and drop the $5,000 computer on the desk and it'll boot again". But even well into the Intel era, they dealt with heat by using thermal throttling to make the computer run slow rather than put in a fan. | Oct 18 20:40 |
| andy | an important point in that episode IIRC was the dangerous disinformation that had huge crowds of people rushing from one platform to another | Oct 18 20:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | some people woule choose to be offended by this headline | Oct 18 20:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | ""fake women" | Oct 18 20:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <andy> an important point in that episode IIRC was the dangerous disinformation that had huge crowds of people rushing from one platform to another | Oct 18 20:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | or being in euston | Oct 18 20:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | after 5pm | Oct 18 20:41 |
| andy | Fake Women was about that time some company started inventing non-existent women to appear at conferences | Oct 18 20:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | and you don't know the platform | Oct 18 20:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | until 10 mins before iot leaves | Oct 18 20:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | and then you race against old frail people | Oct 18 20:42 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | for a seat | Oct 18 20:42 |
| andy | yeah.... they announc the change with 30 seconds to spare and people ended up getting crushed at Southampton | Oct 18 20:42 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | andf trip over people's trolleys | Oct 18 20:42 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | for a "first class" experience | Oct 18 20:42 |
| IsambardPrince | In the late PowerPC Mac era, someone I knew that was using OS X 10.4 came over to my house and commented on how fast my Windows XP system was with an Intel Celeron. | Oct 18 20:42 |
| IsambardPrince | Faster than the Mac he paid 5 times as much for, I guess? | Oct 18 20:42 |
| MinceR | crApple still gives oppressive regimes like muscovy and the chinese empire more say in what gets to run on a hypePhone than the people who paid for the hypePhone and believe they own the device | Oct 18 20:44 |
| MinceR | they're very much the opposite of "liberal" | Oct 18 20:44 |
| andy | The real woman who interviewed with Helen was a proper IT lady, MSc in comp.eng, and she was outrage and offended by men inventing fake women to appear in STEM conferences to seemingly boost the numbers | Oct 18 20:45 |
| MinceR | understandable | Oct 18 20:45 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | daniel pocock wrote about these "extras" | Oct 18 20:47 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | and how to geneder-ballance with non-programmers | Oct 18 20:47 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | like the current DPL | Oct 18 20:47 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | The 'Linux' Foundation had a first woman geek ages ago | Oct 18 20:48 |
| andy | I guess now with deepfakes it got too easy to just invent whole personas, with a face and legend, and a chatbot that can represent them conversationally in depth. | Oct 18 20:48 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 10+ years aog | Oct 18 20:48 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | she left | Oct 18 20:48 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | now it's just marketing liars | Oct 18 20:48 |
| IsambardPrince | schestowitz[TR2], The tone of creditor lettors later is bizarre. If the economy is doing well, why do they all have to take the "THIS IS YOUR FINAL WARNING!" approach on your first invoice letter? | Oct 18 20:48 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | and microsoft marketing liars from edelman | Oct 18 20:48 |
| IsambardPrince | It sounds like something Judge Dredd would yell while saying the entire block is under arrest. | Oct 18 20:49 |
| IsambardPrince | MinceR, ^ | Oct 18 20:49 |
| MinceR | :> | Oct 18 20:49 |
| IsambardPrince | *letters lately | Oct 18 20:49 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | it sayus "final warning" | Oct 18 20:49 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "warning" for what? | Oct 18 20:49 |
| MinceR | warning: we can't afford to send any more warning letters | Oct 18 20:50 |
| IsambardPrince | A $21 copay that's not past due for an urgent care visit. | Oct 18 20:50 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | gulagboy had hired gun send me a warning letter 3 weeks ago | Oct 18 20:50 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | over lozza | Oct 18 20:50 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | they did nothing | Oct 18 20:50 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | the aim was to intimidate | Oct 18 20:50 |
| IsambardPrince | Warning you that Lobster is utterly insane? | Oct 18 20:50 |
| IsambardPrince | "Thanks, we know this." | Oct 18 20:50 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | yes | Oct 18 20:50 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | pretty muc | Oct 18 20:50 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | pretty muchttp://techrights.org/n/2026/10/07/What_Brett_Wilson_LLP_and_Matt_Garrett_Don_t_Want_People_to_See.shtml | Oct 18 20:51 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | http://techrights.org/n/2026/10/07/What_Brett_Wilson_LLP_and_Matt_Garrett_Don_t_Want_People_to_See.shtml | Oct 18 20:51 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights β What Brett Wilson LLP and Matt Garrett Don't Want People to See/Read | Oct 18 20:51 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | they are ina mess of their own making | Oct 18 20:51 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | not a stalemate, much worse | Oct 18 20:51 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | now they nnag jjudges | Oct 18 20:51 |
| andy | "bill collectors call my phone to scare my wife when I'm not home" (Grandmaster Flash) <- quaint that "my" phone was the only shared one at home | Oct 18 20:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | which is a giant self-own (own goal) | Oct 18 20:52 |
| IsambardPrince | If you don't pay the $21 you'll be sent to the Iso-Cubes. | Oct 18 20:52 |
| IsambardPrince | MinceR, ^ | Oct 18 20:52 |
| MinceR | :> | Oct 18 20:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | or "ima bust you up!!" | Oct 18 20:52 |
| IsambardPrince | In the 1980s, American Express was calling Dave Ramsey's wife about his unpaid credit cards. | Oct 18 20:53 |
| IsambardPrince | They told her she should divorce him because he didn't pay his bills. | Oct 18 20:53 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | i think they broke the law | Oct 18 20:54 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | but tyhey were not concerned about laws | Oct 18 20:54 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | sometimes they phone relatives | Oct 18 20:54 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | to pressure them | Oct 18 20:54 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | afaik, that too is illegal | Oct 18 20:54 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | like someone phoning you | Oct 18 20:54 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | aboout some cousin | Oct 18 20:54 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | or some in-law | Oct 18 20:54 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | to put pressure on them | Oct 18 20:55 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | or give intel on them | Oct 18 20:55 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/26/Centrica_fraud_exposed_worse_than_Palestine_Action_terrorists_w.shtml | Oct 18 20:55 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights β Centrica fraud exposed: worse than Palestine Action 'terrorists' with cardboard placards | Oct 18 20:55 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "Once again, we focus on the irony. The post mentions International Women's Day at the bottom. In the same post, she boasts about using electronic communications networks for bullying people. | Oct 18 20:56 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Think about that for a moment. In the UK, I've heard numerous stories from women who used to live in London but they got sick of men on crowded trains who force their fingers into womens panties. At the same time, we have this woman in CMOS in Dublin who is putting unwanted demands for money into peoples' phones. You are sitting at your desk, in the middle of solving a real problem for a paying customer and this toxic woman puts a | Oct 18 20:56 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | text message in your phone demanding β¬33,000 within seven days. Her LinkedIn post is actually boasting about intruding on people without consent, blackmailing them and pushing them to suicide. Sending spiteful text messages to somebody you don't even know is just as bad, or worse, than the practices of the men who ride the underground at peak hour and deliberately squash themselves up against young blonde Irish girls like Aoife | Oct 18 20:56 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Lockhart." | Oct 18 20:56 |
| techrights-news | "How do I EXPLAIN TO MY SON that in the 1990s you paid $600 - not $6,000 - for a decent laptop???" https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/10/16/benchmarked-nvidias-rtx-spark-notebook-delivers-serious-local-ai-compute-at-a-price/5303621 | Oct 18 20:58 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.theregister.com | Benchmarked: Nvidia's RTX Spark notebook delivers serious local AI compute, at a price | Oct 18 20:58 | |
| MinceR | they don't even make decent laptops anymore | Oct 18 20:58 |
| techrights-news | "How do I EXPLAIN TO MY SON that in the 1990s the PC with a 100MHz CPU could do voice synthesis just fine without calling it HEY HI?" | Oct 18 20:59 |
| MinceR | microslop had S3 suspend replaced with "modern standby", which doesn't fucking work | Oct 18 20:59 |
| techrights-news | "How do I EXPLAIN TO MY SON that in the 1990s the Register UK was about the UK and not some American satellite selling Microsoft and its latest pyramid scheme?" | Oct 18 21:00 |
| andy | hardware cost and availability crisis is good for FOSS, it's forcing a long overdue revolution of lowered expectations | Oct 18 21:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | http://techrights.org/n/2026/10/09/In_the_United_Kingdom_Rising_Cost_of_Hardware_Benefits_GNU_Linu.shtml | Oct 18 21:00 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights β In the United Kingdom, Rising Cost of Hardware Benefits GNU/Linux | Oct 18 21:00 | |
| techrights-news | "How do I EXPLAIN TO MY SON that in the 1990s the company called Red Hat was selling "Linux" and not Azure with 'confidential' back doors"? | Oct 18 21:02 |
| andy | it's actually more like a revolution of different expectations... people are discovering the amazing things you could do 20 years ago, but things they never heard of because they were lost in the frenzy of "keeping up" and therefore missing a whole different narrative of tech development | Oct 18 21:03 |
| techrights-news | "I happened upon a startup founder who was standing on the sidewalk, selling off a fleet of factory-wrapped Steelcase Leap chairs ($50 each!) and a dozen racks of servers with as much of his customersβ data as I wanted ($250 per server or $1000 for a rack)." https://locusmag.com/feature/commentary-cory-doctorow-what-kind-of-bubble-is-ai/ | Oct 18 21:03 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-locusmag.com | Cory Doctorow: What Kind of Bubble is AI? β Locus | Oct 18 21:03 | |
| *reap has quit (Quit: Going offline, see ya! (www.adiirc.com)) | Oct 18 21:04 | |
| MinceR | well, they've definitely lowered my expectations | Oct 18 21:04 |
| techrights-news | "The bubble was terrible. VCs and scammers scooped up billions from pension funds and other institutional investors and wasted it on obviously doomed startups. But after all that βirrational exuberanceβ burned away, the ashes proved a fertile ground for new growth." Now: https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/04/Worse_Than_Taking_Your_Job_the_Slop_Pyramid_Scheme_Will_Take_Yo.shtml | Oct 18 21:04 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights β Worse Than "Taking Your Job", the Slop Pyramid Scheme Will "Take Your Pension" | Oct 18 21:04 | |
| andy | time to read that Charles Dickens book again.... much wisdom there :) | Oct 18 21:04 |
| techrights-news | Your pension is "super intelligent" now, according to the Super Demented US President, Vladimir. V. Putin http://techrights.org/n/2026/06/29/Pensions_Tied_to_Ponzi_Schemes_Are_Themselves_Ponzi_Schemes.shtml | Oct 18 21:05 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights β Pensions Tied to Ponzi Schemes Are Themselves Ponzi Schemes | Oct 18 21:05 | |
| techrights-news | Wikipedia is a catalogue of BS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pets_of_Vladimir_Putin | Oct 18 21:06 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-en.wikipedia.org | Pets of Vladimir Putin - Wikipedia | Oct 18 21:06 | |
| techrights-news | The page leaves out Donald J Trump | Oct 18 21:06 |
| MinceR | :> | Oct 18 21:07 |
| MinceR | they also left out viktor orban | Oct 18 21:10 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | he is not a pet | Oct 18 21:11 |
| andy | anyone watched social reckoning yet? | Oct 18 21:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | he does not qualify | Oct 18 21:11 |
| MinceR | what is he, then? | Oct 18 21:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | andy: tv show? | Oct 18 21:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | MinceR: gypsy kink | Oct 18 21:11 |
| MinceR | you mean "king", which he no longer is | Oct 18 21:12 |
| andy | no its a semi-fictional docudrama on Francis Haugen | Oct 18 21:12 |
| MinceR | also, it isn't mutually exclusive | Oct 18 21:12 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | no, he and his pedophiles-protecting party are still kinks | Oct 18 21:12 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Francis Haugen - a name i have not heard of in aghes | Oct 18 21:12 |
| andy | big tech goonies did a lot to supress it, I'm waiting for cinema dates in UK | Oct 18 21:12 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | mentioned her to rianne some weeks ago | Oct 18 21:12 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Francis Haugen , I said, became incognito | Oct 18 21:12 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | WBer one day | Oct 18 21:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | one year | Oct 18 21:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | then FBB rebranded as "meta" | Oct 18 21:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | made noise re "metaverse" | Oct 18 21:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | and nobody paid attttention to Francis Haugen anymore | Oct 18 21:13 |
| andy | the characterisation is pretty nice, I kinda liked it ... her integrity etc | Oct 18 21:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | there was also careless p[eople" | Oct 18 21:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | same trajecctory | Oct 18 21:13 |
| MinceR | also, it's nice to know that wikipedia, while pretending to be a paper encyclopedia suffering from a scarcity of pages, somehow managed to find the space to discuss putler's dogs | Oct 18 21:13 |
| MinceR | because that's important | Oct 18 21:14 |
| andy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Social_Reckoning | Oct 18 21:14 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-en.wikipedia.org | The Social Reckoning - Wikipedia | Oct 18 21:14 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/16/Facebook_REALLY_REALLY_R_E_A_L_L_Y_Does_Not_Want_You_to_Read_Th.shtml | Oct 18 21:14 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights β Facebook REALLY, REALLY, R E A L L Y Does Not Want You to Read This Book | Oct 18 21:14 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <MinceR> also, it's nice to know that wikipedia, while pretending to be a paper encyclopedia suffering from a scarcity of pages, somehow managed to find the space to discuss putler's dogs | Oct 18 21:14 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | they separate out topics | Oct 18 21:14 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | it's a PR or dark PR tactics | Oct 18 21:15 |
| andy | carless people is Wynn-Williams | Oct 18 21:15 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Bill Epsteingate pays Wikipedia | Oct 18 21:15 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | so does Microsoft | Oct 18 21:15 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | so they take the criticism section | Oct 18 21:15 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | separate tyhat out onto a new page | Oct 18 21:15 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | and leave the "main" Microsoft pages without any criticism | Oct 18 21:15 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | if someone adds anything like criticism | Oct 18 21:15 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | they remove it | Oct 18 21:15 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | and say "wrong page" | Oct 18 21:15 |
| andy | Facebook is a case study in malevolent psyops disguised as a ctech company | Oct 18 21:15 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | with putin, anything pro-pets would be thrown elsewhere | Oct 18 21:16 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | and the main page contain all the bad things | Oct 18 21:16 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | snd they call it "objective" | Oct 18 21:16 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | edditotrial bias | Oct 18 21:16 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | and bribes to steer this bias | Oct 18 21:16 |
| techrights-news | 'Media' parroting bad people, calling that news https://businessupturn.com/technology/internet/flock-ceo-says-surveillance-backlash-shouldnt-pause-progress-as-company-cuts-jobs/ | Oct 18 21:20 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-businessupturn.com | Flock CEO Says Surveillance Backlash βShouldnβt Pause Progressβ as Company Cuts Jobs Β· Business Upturn | Oct 18 21:20 | |
| andy | It's funny (tragic) how so many of these super-optimistic sorts bought into the mythos of "connecting people" as a unexamined good, and were genuinely morally injured when finding out the Machiavellian subtext | Oct 18 21:20 |
| techrights-news | β² πΏππ πΈπππππππ ⨦ (NEW): ππΆπΉ ππ’π€π©πͺπ―π¦π΄ Programming Leftovers β¨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/17/Programming_Leftovers.gmi β | Oct 18 21:20 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines β Programming Leftovers | Oct 18 21:20 | |
| techrights-news | β² πΏππ πΈπππππππ ⨦ (NEW): Upcoming Maintenance β¨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/18/Upcoming_Maintenance.shtml | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/18/Upcoming_Maintenance.gmi β | Oct 18 21:20 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines β Upcoming Maintenance | Oct 18 21:20 | |
| andy | "Shouldn't Pause Progress | Oct 18 21:21 |
| techrights-news | "CEO Garrett"... another one who says he sells safety and security.. while doing EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE! | Oct 18 21:21 |
| andy | progress for whom? | Oct 18 21:21 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | the big ones | Oct 18 21:21 |
| andy | towards what? | Oct 18 21:21 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | the ones who matter | Oct 18 21:21 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/16/broligarchy/ | Oct 18 21:21 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-schestowitz.com Β» Blog Archive Β» Broligarchy | Oct 18 21:21 | |
| andy | "progress" is a powerul word to attack/examine/question. It has no essential meaning. | Oct 18 21:22 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | some people in weimar republic tried to "Pause Progress" | Oct 18 21:22 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | the "progress" culminated inberlin reduced to rubble | Oct 18 21:22 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "no child left behind progress" | Oct 18 21:22 |
| andy | If a doctor says you have a "progressive illness", that's not good | Oct 18 21:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | http://techrights.org/n/2026/01/30/The_Epstein_Files_Don_t_Say_the_Ages_of_Those_Russian_Girls_Bil.shtml | Oct 18 21:23 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights β The Epstein Files Don't Say the Ages of Those "Russian Girls" Bill Epsteingate Exploited | Oct 18 21:23 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://techrights.org/o/2012/06/19/pedometers/index.shtml | Oct 18 21:23 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Billions for Indoctrinating Children | Oct 18 21:23 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Biosensors to monitor students' attentiveness https://techrights.org/o/2012/06/19/pedometers/index.shtml | Oct 18 21:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | ->> https://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/13/us-usa-education-gates-idUSBRE85C01820120613/ | Oct 18 21:24 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights- ( status 401 @ https://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/13/us-usa-education-gates-idUSBRE85C01820120613/ ) | Oct 18 21:24 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which has poured more than $4 billion into efforts to transform public education in the U.S., is pushing to develop an "engagement pedometer." Biometric devices wrapped around the wrists of students would identify which classroom moments excite and interest them -- and which fall flat." | Oct 18 21:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "engagement pedometer. | Oct 18 21:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "engagement pedometer, andy | Oct 18 21:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | stop curtailing progress | Oct 18 21:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | get an engagement pedometer for your daughter | Oct 18 21:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | for the philanthropists | Oct 18 21:25 |
| andy | next jewellers will be selling "engagement rings" | Oct 18 21:25 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | June 13, 2012 | Oct 18 21:25 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 2 years before arrest made for pedophilia in bill's home | Oct 18 21:26 |
| MinceR | progress toward the heat death of the universe | Oct 18 21:26 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "Gates officials hope the devices, known as Q Sensors, can become a common classroom tool, enabling teachers to see, in real time, which kids are tuned in and which are zoned out." | Oct 18 21:26 |
| andy | I like that Mincer - thermodynamic progress | Oct 18 21:26 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 114 years ago | Oct 18 21:26 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | *14 | Oct 18 21:26 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "IS AROUSAL A SIGN OF LEARNING?" | Oct 18 21:26 |
| MinceR | :> | Oct 18 21:26 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | preach it, bill | Oct 18 21:26 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | tell us about "arousal" | Oct 18 21:26 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | with the "engagement pedometer." (their words) | Oct 18 21:27 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | remember what esptein did to the women abused | Oct 18 21:27 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "The engagement pedometer project fits neatly with the Gates Foundation's emphasis on mining daily classroom interactions for data. One of the world's richest philanthropies, the foundation reflects Microsoft founder Bill Gates' interest in developing data collection and analysis techniques that can predict which teachers and teaching styles will be most effective." | Oct 18 21:27 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " Bill Gates' interest in developing data collection and analysis techniques" | Oct 18 21:27 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.tomshardware.com/software/operating-systems/long-time-rivals-bill-gates-and-linus-torvalds-meet-for-the-first-time-have-dinner-no-major-kernel-decisions-were-made-but-maybe-next-dinner | Oct 18 21:27 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.tomshardware.com | Long-time rivals Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds meet for the first time, have dinner β 'No major kernel decisions were made, but maybe next dinner' | Tom's Hardware | Oct 18 21:27 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | no worries | Oct 18 21:28 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | microsoft copilot will make the decisions :) | Oct 18 21:28 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | good luck | Oct 18 21:28 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Linus "now I can die happy, I met bill" Torvalds | Oct 18 21:28 |
| andy | Gates set back education by 30 years. Most edutech is counterproductive. | Oct 18 21:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | memorising menus | Oct 18 21:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "look, i can make a pie chart!" | Oct 18 21:29 |
| andy | Watch and read some Henry Giroux | Oct 18 21:29 |
| cow_20012 | is an engagement pedometer what chris hansen has? | Oct 18 21:30 |
| andy | Giroux is really good. Totally sass attitude, cuts to the bone of the technofascist project to dumb down education | Oct 18 21:30 |
| techrights-news | HOBBIES, AGAIN gopher://aussies.space:70/0/~freet/phlog/2026-10-18RE_Hobbies_Again.txt "I also remember at my school reunion a few years later, in an attempt to start a conversation I could actually participate in, asking a girl "do you have any hobbies?" and just getting an awkward look back. I don't know whether I should try and learn from that or not." | Oct 18 21:31 |
| techrights-news | "I remember thinking, long, long ago, before Gamergate, that gamers were responsible for what was wrong with computing." gemini://carcosa.net/journal/20261018-gamers-are-the-problem.gmi | Oct 18 21:31 |
| techrights-news | "And why did they spike? Because of demand for fast RAM for the GPUs used for LLMs. GPUs that were originally developed for? Whose technological arc over the last twenty years was determined by what? By, of course, the never-ending Red Queen's race to produce ever faster coprocessors for /video games/." | Oct 18 21:32 |
| techrights-news | "Again, the gamers are responsible for our current dystopia. Without their demand for ever faster GPUs, the brute-force approach to AI would have remained as technically infeasible as it was theoretically inelegant." | Oct 18 21:32 |
| techrights-news | No, ML is NOTHING NEW. What's new is this stupidity: borrow trillions of dollars WITH NO PROSPECTS of recovering that "investment", then bribe the media to play along and inflate the bubble by barking "ERA" "ARMS RACE" "SUPERINTELLIGENCE" | Oct 18 21:34 |
| techrights-news | less reliance on big tech gemini://xoc3.io/blog/2026-10-18 | Oct 18 21:34 |
| techrights-news | The War Above gemini://hans.gerwitz.com/gemlog/2026-10-17-space-war.gmi | Oct 18 21:36 |
| andy | What is it about | Oct 18 21:37 |
| andy | immense wealth that makes people so unwell? | Oct 18 21:38 |
| MinceR | probably the way it's acquired | Oct 18 21:38 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | iut's opp. | Oct 18 21:38 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | breing unwell mentally | Oct 18 21:38 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | leads to hoarding | Oct 18 21:38 |
| MinceR | usually either scamming lots of people or inheriting from someone who scammed lots of people | Oct 18 21:39 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | and bbrings together the sick people | Oct 18 21:39 |
| andy | (asks Roxanne on Goodreads viz "Careless People") - it's a good question for serious psychology study | Oct 18 21:39 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | people not unwell don't strive to collect 100 billion dollars at age 85 | Oct 18 21:39 |
| andy | AFAICS billionaires are really, reallt mentally unwell | Oct 18 21:39 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | because it makes no sense | Oct 18 21:39 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "shit floats" | Oct 18 21:40 |
| techrights-news | "I wrote about this just a couple of years ago (disclosure: I was working for Crossref at the time). The digital scholarly record is far worse preserved that we like to imagine. Crossref could be a much better enforcer on this." gemini://eve.smol.pub/crossref-member-practices-feedback-without-digital-preservation-there-is-no-digital-persistence | Oct 18 21:41 |
| andy | perhaps because for at least 100 years we've defined *financial success" as a sort of metric of wellness? | Oct 18 21:41 |
| techrights-news | "I think often on this, on preservation, from Thomas Jefferson (slave owner) in 1791: βlet us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and useβ. Itβs a well-known, perhaps overused quotation." gemini://eve.smol.pub/vaults-and-locks-that-fence-them-from-the-public-eye-and-use | Oct 18 21:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | narratives are sold | Oct 18 21:42 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | see above | Oct 18 21:42 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | apropos wikipedia | Oct 18 21:42 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://techrights.org/search/query?search=Search&query1=wikipedia&set1=metadata | Oct 18 21:42 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights β Search | Oct 18 21:42 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/21/To_Wikipedia_Notability_is_Just_an_Excuse_to_Hail_People_Who_Se.shtml | Oct 18 21:43 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights β To Wikipedia, "Notability" is Just an Excuse to Hail People Who Serve Billionaires While Marginalising or Defaming the Rest | Oct 18 21:43 | |
| techrights-news | "Surprisingly, I managed to make an appearance in the business section of the BBC News website, of all places. When I returned from lunch at the British Library last week, a camera crew were asking people to define various jargon terms used in the pension industry." gemini://eve.smol.pub/bbc-news-fathoming-financial-terms | Oct 18 21:44 |
| techrights-news | Techrights β Gemini Links 18/10/2026: Hobbies, RAM Prices, and Avoiding GAFAM β¨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/18/Gemini_Links_18_10_2026_Hobbies_RAM_Prices_and_Avoiding_GAFAM.shtml | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/10/18/Gemini_Links_18_10_2026_Hobbies_RAM_Prices_and_Avoiding_GAFAM.gmi β | Oct 18 21:47 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights β Gemini Links 18/10/2026: Hobbies, RAM Prices, and Avoiding GAFAM | Oct 18 21:47 | |
| andy | Another quote on Carless People "Wynn-Williams does come across as a little naive." and also that she cannot make the "moral calculation" - I think she means the calculation that normal, mentally healthy make that says GTFO of here!!! | Oct 18 21:47 |
| andy | The whole Big Tech environment makes people in it quite crazy | Oct 18 21:48 |
| andy | Like a cult | Oct 18 21:48 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/28/To_a_Sociopath_Ethical_People_Are_Bad_People_Don_t_Fall_for_It.shtml | Oct 18 21:48 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights β To a Sociopath, Ethical People Are Bad People. Don't Fall for It. | Oct 18 21:48 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://techrights.org/o/2022/08/13/github-vs-women-and-gpl/index.shtml | Oct 18 21:48 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Official Copy Detailing Crimes of Microsoft's Serial Strangler, Who is Trying to Strangle GPL Enforcement/Compliance With GPL-Violating Copilot | Oct 18 21:48 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://techrights.org/o/2021/04/25/edwin-black-2021/index.shtml | Oct 18 21:48 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | New Interview With Edwin Black: IBM Has Never Apologised, Instead It Hid Its Role in Nazi Germany | Oct 18 21:48 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://techrights.org/o/2020/05/06/narcissistic-sociopath-spun-as-hero/index.shtml | Oct 18 21:49 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | The People Who Trained Narcissistic Sociopath Bill Gates to Seem Social Before He Started Bribing All the Major Media | Oct 18 21:49 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://techrights.org/o/2020/05/06/narcissistic-sociopath-spun-as-hero/index.shtml | Oct 18 21:49 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://techrights.org/o/2011/01/05/distasteful-attitude-apple/index.shtml | Oct 18 21:49 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Sociopaths at Apple | Oct 18 21:49 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://techrights.org/o/2013/03/31/microsoft-sociopaths/index.shtml | Oct 18 21:49 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Microsoft Sociopaths | Oct 18 21:49 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://techrights.org/n/2024/04/10/Microsoft_Hiring_People_Who_Attempt_to_Murder_Colleagues.shtml | Oct 18 21:49 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights β Microsoft Hiring People Who Attempt to Murder Colleagues | Oct 18 21:49 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | andy: https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/24/Cybershow_Explains_Why_Only_Sociopaths_Gravitate_Towards_Leader.shtml | Oct 18 21:50 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights β Cybershow Explains Why Only Sociopaths Gravitate Towards Leadership Position in 'Tech' | Oct 18 21:50 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | gn, bed time | Oct 18 21:50 |
| MinceR | that's not specific to 'Tech', or even 'Business' | Oct 18 21:50 |
| andy | ^^ these links seem to boost the idea that corporate big-tech /attracts/ sociopaths... I'm suggesting something different - that these are psychologically harmful environments that create them | Oct 18 21:50 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | they hire peopel who think alike | Oct 18 21:51 |
| andy | night Roy, seeya | Oct 18 21:51 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | inc. people who want to stab people | Oct 18 21:51 |
| MinceR | our society was shaped so that its purpose is to serve every whim of people with Dark Triad personalities | Oct 18 21:51 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | and strangle women | Oct 18 21:51 |
| MinceR | that's what it does, and that's what people with Authoritarian Personality Type want it to do | Oct 18 21:51 |
| MinceR | to at least half of the devil apes, this is a "feature" | Oct 18 21:51 |
| andy | I'm not sure "shaped" to serve. But Adorno and Horkheimer wrote volumes on how it attracts "birsds of a feather flocking together" etc | Oct 18 21:52 |
| andy | there don't seem to be a great mant good formal studies on how these extremey dangerous entities have formed and persist | Oct 18 21:53 |
| MinceR | having no scruples and being self-trained to lie about everything all the time serves people who want to order others around in our society | Oct 18 21:54 |
| MinceR | so does seeing everyone else as a tool | Oct 18 21:54 |
| MinceR | and once there are enough such people in "leadership" positions, they'll resent competitors that are not like them | Oct 18 21:54 |
| MinceR | also, telling the truth in such a position tends to be dangerous to one's position | Oct 18 21:54 |
| andy | Irs not like any of those characteristsics are bad in and of themselves though... I know plenty of leaders, authoritariians and even quite sociopathic sorts who are not /bad/ people in everyday civvy life, they even know where they lack empathy or restraint and can talk about it, but there's something about tech ....how do the ends become so desperate and screwed up? | Oct 18 21:56 |
| MinceR | i don't know, i haven't seen this difference | Oct 18 21:57 |
| andy | something about tech takes the worst in some people and really amplifies it | Oct 18 21:57 |
| MinceR | have you seen "leaders" in non-"tech" "business" that are not like that? | Oct 18 21:57 |
| MinceR | maybe it has to do with the explicit profit motive | Oct 18 21:57 |
| andy | something about the disconnection of responsibility that comes up in Ordinary Men | Oct 18 21:57 |
| MinceR | especially in public corporations where (at least in some jurisdictions) they're legally required to disregard everything else in the quest for more profit for the shareholders | Oct 18 21:58 |
| andy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_R._Browning <--- ever read Browning, it will mess your head up | Oct 18 21:58 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-en.wikipedia.org | Christopher R. Browning - Wikipedia | Oct 18 21:58 | |
| MinceR | (shareholders can sue if they don't) | Oct 18 21:58 |
| MinceR | not yet | Oct 18 21:58 |
| MinceR | living among humans in a human body has already messed me up | Oct 18 21:58 |
| andy | hehe | Oct 18 21:58 |
| andy | have you seen "leaders" in non-"tech" "business" that are not like that?: Yes. I have seen good even excellent leadership by harsh charismatic bastards | Oct 18 21:59 |
| andy | at the end of the day they are able to separate ego and their darkness from the mission | Oct 18 22:00 |
| MinceR | what mission is that? | Oct 18 22:00 |
| andy | but in tech... its just totally full of damaged non-functional sorts | Oct 18 22:00 |
| IsambardPrince | I went down to McDonald's. I usually won't eat there because they've gotten so expensive. People who pay over $12 to eat a fast food meal have lost their mind. | Oct 18 22:00 |
| MinceR | which "business" is not about profit? | Oct 18 22:00 |
| IsambardPrince | MinceR, A B Corporation supposedly. | Oct 18 22:00 |
| MinceR | IsambardPrince: maybe they could offer a surcharge for delaying your meal so that it is not fast anymore :> | Oct 18 22:00 |
| MinceR | there aren't a lot of those, are there? | Oct 18 22:01 |
| andy | medicine, politics, military... whole range of "service" type roles | Oct 18 22:01 |
| MinceR | also, surely B Corporations are possible in "tech" | Oct 18 22:01 |
| IsambardPrince | MinceR, A Big Mac used to be larger and they cost 89 cents in the early 90s. | Oct 18 22:01 |
| andy | so I agree that money is a factor somehow | Oct 18 22:01 |
| IsambardPrince | Everyone paid the 89 cents or they didn't get a Big Mac. | Oct 18 22:01 |
| IsambardPrince | Now they charge $5.99 for a much smaller Big Mac. | Oct 18 22:01 |
| MinceR | e.g. apparently fairphone is a B Corporation | Oct 18 22:01 |
| andy | what do you mean by a B-corp ? | Oct 18 22:02 |
| MinceR | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_Corporation_(certification) | Oct 18 22:02 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-en.wikipedia.org | B Corporation (certification) - Wikipedia | Oct 18 22:02 | |
| andy | social sustainability etc, I see. Not sure | Oct 18 22:03 |
| andy | I have little confidence in these word games around social responsibility etc | Oct 18 22:04 |
| andy | in that area of business (tech etc) | Oct 18 22:04 |
| andy | All these stories like Haugen and Williams and so on show that theres an intrinsic impossibility to live up to a set of stated values | Oct 18 22:05 |
| andy | I don;t doubt that these are/were good people | Oct 18 22:05 |
| andy | but the environment is clearly very toxic and a occupational mental hazard | Oct 18 22:06 |
| andy | we must start to see and talk about it as sucj | Oct 18 22:06 |
| andy | moral injusy at industrial scale | Oct 18 22:06 |
| bms | We have a real tangible set of social problems with respect to narcissists allowed to run riot. | Oct 18 22:10 |
| andy | yep. The riot bit is related to scale and power. The world has had a place for narcissists and psychos of all types, but nw they've grouped together and found a haven (tech) that allows and even encourages that. | Oct 18 22:11 |
| bms | andy: I have Digital Vegan in paperback on my bookshelf, but more for other's benefit, I must finish reading Durand and Hitchens and least dip into Brian Merchant's work | Oct 18 22:11 |
| andy | I still find Hitchens very entertaining | Oct 18 22:12 |
| bms | andy: I am engaged in the praxis of capability based computer systems as applied to defeating "agentic AI" attacks at the moment otherwise. So I'm 90% into Hank Levy. | Oct 18 22:12 |
| andy | tell me more about Hank Levy all i can find is ajazz composer, new to me | Oct 18 22:13 |
| bms | Ken Hamer-Hodges was a dead end. He seemed to be writing sensationalist crap to pad his retirement sadly. Though he made some historical contributions to Wikipedia on the basis of his work on the Plessey System 250, Guy Harris, the tcpdump maintainer, had to reign him in | Oct 18 22:14 |
| bms | Hank Levy wrote a historical textbook: Capability Based Computer Systems, DEC Press, 1984 | Oct 18 22:14 |
| bms | https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~levy/capabook/ | Oct 18 22:14 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-homes.cs.washington.edu | Capability-Based Computer Systems | Oct 18 22:14 | |
| andy | Ah yes Ptarmigan. I touched that at UCL | Oct 18 22:15 |
| bms | I've mapped out how best to apply Capsicum to Python processes under FreeBSD, which is anotehr alma mater of mine, but the Project itself is in danger of "Slopping the slop" | Oct 18 22:15 |
| andy | good work | Oct 18 22:15 |
| bms | zygote in libcasper maps to multiprocessing forkserver | Oct 18 22:16 |
| bms | not cutting code yet but the boilerplate is done | Oct 18 22:16 |
| andy | I'd hope to see python become a better security-oriented lang | Oct 18 22:16 |
| andy | we teach it to everyone now, all the kids come up with python | Oct 18 22:16 |
| bms | the model organism would be Packet Construction Set, to apply capabilities there pretty simply as was done for FreeBSD's tcpdump | Oct 18 22:16 |
| bms | there was CapPython. Guido approved. But it withered. | Oct 18 22:17 |
| bms | Strong encapsulation is un-Pythonic. | Oct 18 22:17 |
| andy | keep pushing it please | Oct 18 22:17 |
| andy | I suffered ADA and have never forgotten :) | Oct 18 22:17 |
| bms | Yeah, the Erlang bitfield syntax for packets looked pretty neat on the face of it, but it has issues of its own. I didn't grind down on learning it properly. Some obvious parallels with Milner's pi-calculus. | Oct 18 22:18 |
| bms | Tony Garnock-Jones has Syndicated Actors good to go but the C++ support is not there. | Oct 18 22:18 |
| andy | Integrity is going to become a bigger and bigger issue in every regard | Oct 18 22:19 |
| bms | Intellectual integrity. Personal integrity. Code integrity. | Oct 18 22:19 |
| andy | what eins out in code is going to be "what you can trust" | Oct 18 22:19 |
| andy | wins | Oct 18 22:19 |
| andy | against the background of probablistic compute | Oct 18 22:19 |
| bms | I've dabbled on CHERI. Sealing becomes very important. | Oct 18 22:20 |
| andy | "barely good enough" compute :) CHERI? | Oct 18 22:20 |
| andy | not familiar | Oct 18 22:20 |
| bms | Capabilities addressing is the ultimate in memory safety | Oct 18 22:20 |
| bms | you get control flow integrity as a by product and Ken Hamer-Hodges was clearly very aware of that | Oct 18 22:20 |
| andy | no one can steal your program counter? | Oct 18 22:21 |
| bms | Intel shipped CET which was mostly about monitoring branch indirection & using a shadow stack i.e. separate call stack (harkens back to Stack Machines The New Wave and FORTH) | Oct 18 22:21 |
| bms | yeah the return-oriented programming (ROP) holes mostly get closed but you can't always prevent subversion within a segment | Oct 18 22:22 |
| andy | is that your current research topic... secure execution etc? | Oct 18 22:22 |
| bms | hence sealing (seal capabilities with a key when running untrusted code to avoid leakage) | Oct 18 22:22 |
| bms | I'm not into the TEE stuff directly and mostly I'm trying to get back on the horse after some dire, dire life issues | Oct 18 22:22 |
| bms | the focus for me is to resurrect an old project to build the most secure routers possible | Oct 18 22:23 |
| andy | good for you, I hope those life issues make you stronger. sounds like you've loads to offer | Oct 18 22:23 |
| andy | secure routing is still a hard and valuable problem | Oct 18 22:23 |
| bms | right next to my cabinet I have an HP Altoline ONIE x86-64 switch, the USB DOM has SONiC on it (broken for this hardware can't see the Broadcom Trident ASIC properly) and mSATA with a bare FreeBSD 16-CURRENT from months ago | Oct 18 22:24 |
| bms | yeah 4 bereavements, depression, some complications before that, but now my money is on my half brother being an NPD sufferer | Oct 18 22:24 |
| andy | I'm eyeing BSD for all my VMs going forward, maybe slowly saying bye to linux | Oct 18 22:24 |
| bms | FreeBSD is potentially about to make some very bad choices | Oct 18 22:25 |
| andy | 4 losses in a year is harsh | Oct 18 22:25 |
| bms | Anthropic were of course at the Ottawa DevSummit with a silver tongue | Oct 18 22:25 |
| bms | oh not all at once. 2020, 2021, 2025. | Oct 18 22:25 |
| andy | ah ok | Oct 18 22:25 |
| bms | 3 best friends and my mother | Oct 18 22:25 |
| andy | still | Oct 18 22:25 |
| andy | hard | Oct 18 22:26 |
| bms | the half brother is apparently blind to all of this. He is 30% of the way from a criminal prosecution related to the nature of his harassment of me. In Signal. Witnessed by a third party. Invited by me. Watching over my shoulder. | Oct 18 22:26 |
| andy | focus on the mission | Oct 18 22:27 |
| andy | we all have one | Oct 18 22:27 |
| bms | It was the most damagign psychological attack I've endured as an adult, but given he was abusive towards me throughout my tweens and teens, yet has been given the benefit of the doubt by everyone repeatedly "because family", I'm done. I really am finished. If I have to see him prosecuted to get on with my own life I am willing to take the stand. | Oct 18 22:27 |
| andy | you do hardware? | Oct 18 22:27 |
| bms | But it's horseshit. That's the trouble with narcissists -- they always have to be right, and they won't shut up. | Oct 18 22:28 |
| bms | Not really. I dipped into the EFF's book Cracking DES. VHDL makes me blind. heh | Oct 18 22:28 |
| andy | chip making is a big future | Oct 18 22:28 |
| bms | Yeah, it's been good to see stuff like the Glasgow device, Seeed studio etc | Oct 18 22:29 |
| andy | I did VLSI once, built some microcontroller, long time ago now | Oct 18 22:29 |
| bms | I dabbled, I built some but not all of Ronja Twister from parts | Oct 18 22:29 |
| andy | you can still prototye a lot with FPGAs huh | Oct 18 22:29 |
| andy | get into the ballpack with a s l o w version | Oct 18 22:30 |
| bms | Well, the AIAIAI (I hear this mentally in the voice of Gilbert Gottfried, the late US comedian) obsession has driven up the price of stuff | Oct 18 22:30 |
| andy | then talk to someone in China (joke) | Oct 18 22:30 |
| bms | I was looking at the AMD (formerly Solarflare) Alveo stuff | Oct 18 22:31 |
| andy | obsession has driven up the price of stuff <- yeah that's a fact | Oct 18 22:31 |
| bms | I traded in my 5G router last week for a Zen 3 processor and matching DDR4 | Oct 18 22:31 |
| andy | also the huge opportunity on the falling edge.... what can you do with loads of cheap GPUs in a yard sale? | Oct 18 22:31 |
| andy | I just cant afford anything atm | Oct 18 22:31 |
| andy | not even a RAM upgrade | Oct 18 22:32 |
| bms | Zitron's on point about the GPUs for ML inferencing being useless for most other purposes | Oct 18 22:32 |
| andy | im basically running on 2010 hw | Oct 18 22:32 |
| andy | GPUs for ML inferencing being useless for most other purposes <- are they though? Some smart person is going to spot a new life and fly with it | Oct 18 22:33 |
| bms | Yeah I am trying to avoid spending real money. I have sunset my company Amazon account and killed the Prime subscription. I got a 50GBP voucher out of them for a company spend. It went on a little 2.5GBASE-T switch and DAC cables | Oct 18 22:33 |
| bms | the switch I used for sniffing FS.com's ERPS ring "optimization" so you don't need to do fullblown Ethernet CFM setup for the ring | Oct 18 22:33 |
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| LordPhanes | schestowitz-TR: you online? | Oct 18 22:33 |
| andy | he hit the sack LordPhanes | Oct 18 22:34 |
| LordPhanes | who are you | Oct 18 22:34 |
| bms | the nice thing about 2.5GBASE-T is that if you don't need the straight up throughput, you can use it for sniffing two sides of 1000BASE-T in SPAN/mirror mode | Oct 18 22:34 |
| andy | cybershow andy | Oct 18 22:34 |
| LordPhanes | https://www.abuseonline.org/database/Lozza,Brandon/ | Oct 18 22:34 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.abuseonline.org | TAODB | Oct 18 22:34 | |
| andy | so a super fast ADC | Oct 18 22:34 |
| bms | the switch also has 2x SFP slots so I can test optics in it | Oct 18 22:34 |
| andy | what we used to call flash converters? | Oct 18 22:34 |
| andy | I think you want to look at data diodes | Oct 18 22:35 |
| andy | big potential market | Oct 18 22:35 |
| bms | the idea of a network diode has been floated from time to time | Oct 18 22:35 |
| andy | everyone wants 1 way segments but no decent routers to do it | Oct 18 22:35 |
| bms | I turned IPv6 access here back on last night after I got Stable Privacy Addresses up | Oct 18 22:35 |
| bms | just got wired in by Openreach last Tuesday | Oct 18 22:36 |
| bms | yeah I'd look to SRv6 uSIDs for that | Oct 18 22:36 |
| andy | write it up some time, I'm IP6 curious, but diable it everywhere because I'm scared | Oct 18 22:36 |
| bms | where segments are quite literally segments | Oct 18 22:36 |
| andy | yeah | Oct 18 22:36 |
| bms | well there is a stateful OPNsense firewall in place | Oct 18 22:36 |
| bms | I mentored the guy who committed pf(4) port to FreeBSD as a rookie | Oct 18 22:37 |
| bms | back in 2005 | Oct 18 22:37 |
| andy | people who do secure telemetry would love that (power and water utilities) listen to the next episode where I talk to some dudes who are HUNGRY for data diodes for that ... coming ina couple of weeks | Oct 18 22:37 |
| bms | so I am kind of dogfooding though I haven't touched much to do with pf(4) itself except in very specific academic R&D | Oct 18 22:37 |
| bms | yeah I'd look at David Chisnall's CHERIoT work for that | Oct 18 22:38 |
| bms | he got a team after he left Microsoft and did capabilities in a FreeRTOS fork | Oct 18 22:38 |
| andy | High Integrity Software Conference 2026 ... nice thanks for that | Oct 18 22:38 |
| bms | the focus was specifically IoT so the IPC/RPC protocols are different | Oct 18 22:38 |
| LordPhanes | by IoT do you mean microcontroller or embedded context because I see IoT as a marketing term | Oct 18 22:39 |
| bms | I've shifted focus though on the multihoming front. There are grounds, I guess, from what I read of Crowcroft/Mortier's work to reject what I specifically earned my PhD on. And the penny dropped for me reading Padlipsky from the ARPANET era. | Oct 18 22:40 |
| bms | I can't say with any certainty that my focus on reinterpreting the IPv6 address field, as applied to routers themselves, was something that may have directly influenced Cisco's original Segment Routing proposals | Oct 18 22:41 |
| bms | it's not like the Internet itself is up for grabs when the LLM theft-bots and accountability-sink-systems are on the high seas | Oct 18 22:41 |
| bms | there's a clear research gap on network-as-capability-grant | Oct 18 22:42 |
| bms | burden shifting games with the routing substrate are a distraction from the real problem looming | Oct 18 22:42 |
| bms | we can hope the fucking thing comes crashing to the ground. Unlikely. | Oct 18 22:43 |
| bms | Particularly with reference to Cedric Durand's work. | Oct 18 22:43 |
| bms | The most likely outcome, should OpenAI and Anthropic go bankrupt, is consolidation | Oct 18 22:43 |
| LordPhanes | id say the real problem there OSI layer segregation in 2026. youre doing kernel space stuff in userspace, sometimes 3-4 layers deep. it needs a new model. | Oct 18 22:43 |
| LordPhanes | *real problem there is | Oct 18 22:43 |
| bms | well the Solarflare OpenOnload approach was also burden shifting in of itself | Oct 18 22:44 |
| bms | PCS could do with ingesting libdnet so it has ARP, NDP etc for user space mocks | Oct 18 22:44 |
| bms | my GSoC student from the summer was handcoding his MPLS test scaffold in BPF opcodes from C! | Oct 18 22:45 |
| LordPhanes | i mean, kudos, but it comes back to orchestration and osi layering issues. we're approaching an orchestration limit before its resolved | Oct 18 22:48 |
| bms | Padlipsky's work is a case study in why too much layering is bad | Oct 18 22:49 |
| LordPhanes | im not familiar with padlipsky but im in general agreement with that statement | Oct 18 22:49 |
| LordPhanes | what we need is a new kernel | Oct 18 22:49 |
| bms | https://archive.org/details/elementsofnetwor00padl | Oct 18 22:49 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-archive.org | The elements of networking style and other essays and animadversions on the art of intercomputer networking : Padlipsky, M. A. (Michael A.) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive | Oct 18 22:49 | |
| LordPhanes | of course the problem with a new kernel is, who would build it | Oct 18 22:50 |
| LordPhanes | its like medicine, or epistemology, its corrupted by money and interests | Oct 18 22:51 |
| bms | I registered domains in case I have to fork FreeBSD | Oct 18 22:51 |
| bms | it's the soundest example of modern OS-level capability based security models | Oct 18 22:52 |
| bms | CheriBSD exists also but it lags somewhat and is focused on running on ARM Morello | Oct 18 22:52 |
| LordPhanes | this is not an anticapitalist/anticorporate stance its a realistic observation that even in capitalist systems you need capitalist-neutral elements in the foundations | Oct 18 22:52 |
| andy | a new kernel and a new network stack are not dreams, I'd hope to see real positive changes at least every 25 years, but I do think we've stagnated for too long now | Oct 18 22:52 |
| andy | the incentives that came out of Big Tech kinda froze things I think | Oct 18 22:53 |
| bms | andy: Networking itself is something of a stalled monoculture | Oct 18 22:53 |
| LordPhanes | andy: it absolutely did | Oct 18 22:53 |
| bms | andy: eBGP! ToR switches! That's IT! | Oct 18 22:53 |
| bms | anything to appease hyperscalers | Oct 18 22:53 |
| andy | yes I agree. How do we oush things forward | Oct 18 22:53 |
| bms | attention is paid to Ethernet in the datacentre only to make NVidia GPUDirect run faster for the Reasons | Oct 18 22:53 |
| bms | I looked at the problem space. IT'S BORING AS SHIT | Oct 18 22:54 |
| bms | yet we have flavour-of-the-week in CoACM fodder even, how do we dissect TCP and make the inference / chatbot run faster | Oct 18 22:54 |
| bms | I throw printed CoACM in the bin now when it arrives | Oct 18 22:54 |
| LordPhanes | start a trust with a billion dollars in a managed fund and buy an island where the new kernel gets built and use a foundation it owns to just pay the salaries of whoever those people are forever | Oct 18 22:54 |
| bms | an old friend had the idea we could do ERPS / G.8032 rings instead of Spanning Tree | Oct 18 22:55 |
| bms | EVPN happened partly because Radia Perlman's TRILL got nobbled, primarily by Brocade | Oct 18 22:55 |
| bms | Ivan Pepelnjak dug the dirt on it | Oct 18 22:55 |
| LordPhanes | get selected for nerd island? thats like rock and roll hall of fame, youre retired | Oct 18 22:55 |
| bms | Look if I got a royalty for every time someone turned an iPhone on (my multicast control plane runs every time IPv6 DAD does, every time an iPhone connects to IPv6, by design) I would never worry about money ever again | Oct 18 22:56 |
| andy | I started OS by typing the code outa the back of Tannembaum. just like Linus did, surely there's fresh kids who love the idea of building a new kernel? :) | Oct 18 22:57 |
| LordPhanes | there are andy but they are not like the darpanet gen | Oct 18 22:57 |
| bms | but because permissively licensed open source does not have a socially viable compensation model (its on the honour system), line GenAI up and I get jack shit either way | Oct 18 22:57 |
| LordPhanes | youre not going to get that again unless you do like think tank shit by mensa meeting halls | Oct 18 22:57 |
| bms | andy: well we have unikernels, microkernels, rumpkernels, exokernels | Oct 18 22:57 |
| bms | andy: NetBSD did OK out of that | Oct 18 22:58 |
| andy | incentives. thats a topic I'd like to explore more | Oct 18 22:58 |
| andy | will HURD ever bear fruit? | Oct 18 22:58 |
| andy | microkernels have appeal | Oct 18 22:59 |
| bms | my motivation at the moment is primarily trying to save other people from the mire, having dragged myself out of it, only to find social parasites trying to drag me right back down again | Oct 18 22:59 |
| LordPhanes | hurd isnt that stallman's baby | Oct 18 22:59 |
| andy | I font think RMS has actually touched it in a decade | Oct 18 22:59 |
| andy | dont | Oct 18 22:59 |
| LordPhanes | probably for the best, theyre trying to bury anything he's ever touched | Oct 18 22:59 |
| andy | It lost impetus, more than once, and moves in fits and starts | Oct 18 23:00 |
| LordPhanes | unless someone rewrites it in rust with a steal-friendly license | Oct 18 23:00 |
| LordPhanes | which is really the only reason ports to rust are happening | Oct 18 23:01 |
| andy | I don't get the big deal with rust, its a rather marginal language imho | Oct 18 23:01 |
| andy | in the big scheme of things | Oct 18 23:02 |
| LordPhanes | look who is sponsoring it | Oct 18 23:02 |
| LordPhanes | if those entities weren't sponsoring it and pushing it down throats, no one would be using it | Oct 18 23:02 |
| andy | then its dead already, like dot net or whatever. surely? | Oct 18 23:02 |
| LordPhanes | my vision of endgame rust is "thanks for porting most of this over" followed by "surprise, blanket license conversion" | Oct 18 23:03 |
| LordPhanes | gonna port a kernel in a language with no standard lol | Oct 18 23:04 |
| LordPhanes | that's techbro shit | Oct 18 23:04 |
| andy | think I wrote a fiction piece like that, where MS become the US Ministry Of Code, thanked all the passion developers for their work and declared it all US Gov property | Oct 18 23:04 |
| andy | OTOH, could a benevolent gov organisation be the key to escaping all this? Wasn't ARPA just that in a way? | Oct 18 23:05 |
| andy | In better days | Oct 18 23:05 |
| andy | I don;t actuially know any young people in the UK who have seriously studied rust or plab to get more proficient as a career move. I know it gets a lot of air in commercial circles , but it seems a rather over-blown phenomenon. How wrong amI ? :) | Oct 18 23:07 |
| andy | Isn't automated code checking going to change the game anyway? | Oct 18 23:08 |
| andy | plus. language diversity is a good in itself, its where new paradigms grow | Oct 18 23:13 |
| andy | I don't think we've even scratched the surface of language design, conceptually | Oct 18 23:13 |
| andy | I playes with some "squeak" thing for music (modula-2) recently that reminded me how many fun object concepts are kinda lost to history already | Oct 18 23:15 |
| andy | languages should be fun! | Oct 18 23:15 |
| andy | smalltalk not modula2 | Oct 18 23:18 |
| bms | O yeah about Rust | Oct 18 23:20 |
| bms | I pointed out to an old friend I was on a long catchup phone call wiht a few hours ago | Oct 18 23:20 |
| bms | about how Ben Laurie and Robert Watson did a feasibility study for CHERI | Oct 18 23:21 |
| bms | they did not compare it directly to the DARPA TRACTOR approach | Oct 18 23:21 |
| bms | CHERI: add memory safety "under" existing C/C++ software through hardware and kernel changes | Oct 18 23:21 |
| bms | TRACTOR: use LLMs to rewrite C/C++ into Rust/Go at scale | Oct 18 23:21 |
| bms | it is all about doing it by the numbers, based on memory safety being the main Boogeyman in Microsoft's CWE statistics | Oct 18 23:22 |
| bms | the study in question was published through Capabilities Limited NOT University of Cambridge | Oct 18 23:22 |
| bms | given Rust's horribleness with implementing basic containers | Oct 18 23:23 |
| bms | I'd rather do C++26 with std::span and the new alternatives to avoid type punning/aliasing | Oct 18 23:24 |
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| andy | Is there really any good argument that memory safety isn't an execution context (kernel/hardware problem) not an attribute of any language? | Oct 18 23:24 |
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| bms | Ken Hamer-Hodges was saying if you do capabilities addressing then the Church-Turing thesis applies and you magically get cyberdemocracy /s | Oct 18 23:25 |
| bms | well its a problem as old as Von Neumann architectures | Oct 18 23:25 |
| bms | Intel CET approach of using shadow [call] stacks to avoid subversion after a CWE like an off-by-one or other bounds check omission exploited has its downsides too | Oct 18 23:26 |
| bms | HardenedBSD is using the LLVM software based CFI approach which still focuses on basic blocks and often relies on LTO | Oct 18 23:27 |
| bms | none of these approaches to code integrity are inherently tied to any language | Oct 18 23:27 |
| bms | except the translation to opcode streams which LLVM is of course rather good at in a tightly integrated way | Oct 18 23:28 |
| MinceR | 19 002454 < andy> Is there really any good argument that memory safety isn't an execution context (kernel/hardware problem) not an attribute of any language? | Oct 18 23:28 |
| MinceR | you can write memory safe code in C, C++ and a hell of a lot of languages. you can write memory unsafe code in rust. | Oct 18 23:28 |
| bms | exactly | Oct 18 23:28 |
| MinceR | this whole thing is hype aimed at pushing the latest corporate fad language | Oct 18 23:28 |
| bms | Bjarne Stroustrup has not been idle | Oct 18 23:28 |
| andy | To take a an old pragmatic approach . let the machines do the work, human time is valuable etc. Let people use bad/dangerous/ambiguous languages becuase its programmers that matter, but kust don;t let the machine run evilcode(tm) | Oct 18 23:28 |
| MinceR | rust has unsafe | Oct 18 23:29 |
| bms | Stroustrup was emphatic in an interview earlier this year that C++ abstraction is for humans, not LLMs | Oct 18 23:29 |
| MinceR | and if it didn't have unsafe, it would be unusable | Oct 18 23:29 |
| bms | py-cryptogaphy has a ton of unsafe *.rs | Oct 18 23:29 |
| bms | may as well have used Cython | Oct 18 23:29 |
| bms | I am using Cython for greenfield work | Oct 18 23:29 |
| bms | I'd put py-cryptography in the bin and use Botan for greenfield work | Oct 18 23:30 |
| bms | there is a secure C++ programming guide which was being maintained at Christoper Seiwald's former company Perforce which got bought up | Oct 18 23:31 |
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| bms | probably dated now and my go-to so far has been Embracing Modern C++ Safely by Lakos/Romeo | Oct 18 23:31 |
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| bms | ah yes it was High Integrity C++ Coding Standard V4.0 | Oct 18 23:34 |
| bms | separate from the CMU SEI guide | Oct 18 23:34 |
| bms | SEI CERT C++ Secure Coding Guidelines 2016 Edition | Oct 18 23:34 |
| bms | neither have been updated in over a decade now | Oct 18 23:34 |
| andy | I do believe an experienced and competent C++er could write extremely high quality and safe code (because I've seen it in DSP), but the cost per loc is extraordinary in time at least. I guess that's what a lot of this discussion really boils down to. | Oct 18 23:34 |
| bms | Gabriel dos Reis' work on C++ safety profiles was presented at BeCPPCon this year but it isn't in SoTA compilers yet | Oct 18 23:35 |
| bms | the gsl abstraction support library from Stroustrup's work is hwoever | Oct 18 23:35 |
| bms | andy: the big victory of the coding agents is how quickly they can emit stuff | Oct 18 23:35 |
| bms | andy: but thats noo victory at all and no "booster" it seems is willing to perform meaningful measurements of the output, like, did the LLM yield code which had a satisfactory SonarSource cognitive complexity metric, in the mistaken belief that the LLMs can do absolutely everything, so why subject it to McCabe Cycolmatic Complexity measurements or any other meaningful code | Oct 18 23:37 |
| bms | metric | Oct 18 23:37 |
| bms | but the really cutting is, that no matter how high the token burn, it seems no one is sharing hard figures about exactly how much ROI was demonstrated for it in code space | Oct 18 23:37 |
| bms | it's like a new religion of humans acting as headless chickens, only it isn't. people have always been this crap. especially in corporate configurations. Hence the schaedenfraude in evidence at Uber's COO earlier this year pretty much saying "Sam, Dario, Elon: I don't *feel so good*" | Oct 18 23:38 |
| andy | yes, we need a more mature code metrics, hasn't that always been so? Maintainability is a slippery concept but once I read (Ian Sommerville probably) that 75 of all costs are in the long tail of maintainability | Oct 18 23:38 |
| MinceR | IT has been all about cults for a while now | Oct 18 23:38 |
| bms | yeah I think I had one of Sommerville's software engineering texts in my undergraduate syllabus | Oct 18 23:39 |
| andy | 75 percent | Oct 18 23:39 |
| bms | there is a "maintainability index" but it has a pseudoscientific formulation | Oct 18 23:40 |
| bms | https://avandeursen.com/2014/08/29/think-twice-before-using-the-maintainability-index/ | Oct 18 23:40 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-avandeursen.com | Think Twice Before Using the βMaintainability Indexβ | Arie van Deursen | Oct 18 23:40 | |
| andy | perhaps there's empirical data now after 30 or 40 years, I wonder if anyone did a PhD on what code turned out to be maintainable in the long run? | Oct 18 23:41 |
| andy | I bet COBOL is strangely high on that imaginary list | Oct 18 23:41 |
| andy | for "necessity" reasons | Oct 18 23:42 |
| bms | gonna splurge from my notes from May on this | Oct 18 23:42 |
| bms | A parade of PhD qualified IYIs from cqse.eu in .de claim they don't use | Oct 18 23:42 |
| bms | these metrics. Manual reviews, they say. I'd argue there's still a role for | Oct 18 23:42 |
| bms | metrics but they are no substitute for rigorous analysis by skilled players. | Oct 18 23:42 |
| bms | everyone wants absolution from shame | Oct 18 23:43 |
| bms | but sadly, humans are better at stuff than imitative token-guzzlers usually | Oct 18 23:43 |
| andy | shame lol... oh for "egoless programming" | Oct 18 23:43 |
| bms | no one wants to hear this answer because too much money has been spent already | Oct 18 23:43 |
| bms | and so I weight my SIPP pension assets into .. non-big-tech exposed classes, gold bullion securities etc | Oct 18 23:44 |
| MinceR | depends on which human :> | Oct 18 23:44 |
| bms | Well, there's that qualification thing. | Oct 18 23:45 |
| andy | Its embarrasing to have to invite the greybeards back in: I saw it once at Phillips NL, turned up to a project where the whole senior team had been fired the week before, and then hired back in a week later on consultant rates because the magic code robot didn't work out | Oct 18 23:45 |
| bms | sigh | Oct 18 23:46 |
| andy | bedtime gnight all | Oct 18 23:47 |
| MinceR | o/ | Oct 18 23:47 |
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| IsambardPrince | MinceR, I got the cat tree assembled. | Oct 18 23:53 |
| IsambardPrince | Kiki loves it. | Oct 18 23:53 |
| MinceR | how often does it bear fruit? | Oct 18 23:53 |
| IsambardPrince | Hopefully this means she'll spend less time knocking over my DVDs. | Oct 18 23:53 |
| IsambardPrince | MinceR, Better be soon before Jesus curses it. | Oct 18 23:53 |
| MinceR | lol | Oct 18 23:53 |
| IsambardPrince | You know if God wanted the fig tree to be constantly in season, He could have done that because with God all things are possible. | Oct 18 23:54 |
| MinceR | indeed | Oct 18 23:54 |
| MinceR | or if it just had figs on it for jesΓΊs right then | Oct 18 23:54 |
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