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[03:08] TR News (NEW): Today's HowTos https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/18/today_s_howtos.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/18/today_s_howtos.gmi [03:08] TR Bot Tux Machines today's howtos [03:08] TR News (NEW): Today in Techrights https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/19/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/19/Today_in_Techrights.gmi [03:08] TR Bot Tux Machines Today in Techrights [03:10] *Righty has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [03:11] *wael___ has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [03:14] *Righty (~Username@frxu9aci6vdxa.irc) has joined #techrights [03:15] *wael___ (~quassel@hgmhm4zzuwffw.irc) has joined #techrights [03:18] TR News "For some strange reason "Odin" rhymes with "Transforming" when I read that title... must be some sort of slight of mind :) Anyways!" gemini://mygemini.space/gemlogs/17/posts/77 [03:18] TR News Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-10-19.gmi [03:20] TR News "Is it you, dear reader? Is it one of the people following along on fedi? As soon as I posted that my setup had been working fine for weeks without requiring any intervention, I find that its in fact not working fine." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2025-10-19-every-time [03:20] TR News iPod gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/nm03/2025/OCT2025/entry-2 [03:21] TR News [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1798.jpg [03:21] TR News [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1448.jpg ● Oct 19 [04:03] TR News (NEW): A Satirical Guide to Surviving the Subscription Economy https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/19/A_Satirical_Guide_to_Surviving_the_Subscription_Economy.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/19/A_Satirical_Guide_to_Surviving_the_Subscription_Economy.gmi [04:03] TR Bot Tux Machines A Satirical Guide to Surviving the Subscription Economy [04:04] TR News Anything LF touches turns to dust, inc. Linux.com. No posts at all for over a month in this case and it's just PR https://opensourcewatch.beehiiv.com/ [04:04] TR Bot Open Source Watch [04:05] TR News oVirt Lives On: A Stronger, Community-Driven Future blogs.oracle.com/authors/simon-coter "For many, oVirts roots with Red Hat established it as a cornerstone open source virtualization platform - powering thousands of workloads worldwide" [04:07] TR News Making drivers for its own hardware, which it sells, is not generosity; releasing source code is about others doing bug-fixing work for them https://www.fudzilla.com/news/61851-intel-questions-open-source-generosity [04:07] TR Bot Intel questions open source generosity [04:09] TR News Unix as a Second Language has been killed by IDG https://www.networkworld.com/blog/unix-as-a-second-language/ - LAST https://www.networkworld.com/article/4011151/parameter-expansion-on-linux.html that was in June. [04:09] TR Bot Unix as a Second Language | Network World [04:09] TR Bot Parameter expansion on Linux | Network World [04:10] TR News computing.co.uk is a spamfarm these days, and no real articles, unless someone pays them to do it https://www.computing.co.uk/search?query=linux&date=this_year&type=&full_category=&per_page=24&sort=recent [04:10] TR Bot Search Results [04:24] TR News Techrights The 'Modern' Web of Fake Security and Easy Censorship of Whole Domains https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/The_Modern_Web_of_Fake_Security_and_Easy_Censorship_of_Whole_Do.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/The_Modern_Web_of_Fake_Security_and_Easy_Censorship_of_Whole_Do.gmi [04:24] TR Bot Techrights The 'Modern' Web of Fake Security and Easy Censorship of Whole Domains [04:29] TR News Reads like partially LLM slop https://www.suse.com/c/the-desktop-ai-revolution-powered-by-suse-and-nvidia/ [04:29] TR Bot Desktop AI Revolution: Powered by SUSE and NVIDIA | SUSE Communities [04:32] *darwin has quit (Quit: peace be with you) [04:37] *darwin (~darwin@ezriia7nzimpg.irc) has joined #techrights [04:41] TR News Techrights All the Latest Half Dozen Articles by Mehedi Hasan (UbuntuPIT) Only Admit at the End That He's Using LLM Slop https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/All_the_Latest_Half_Dozen_Articles_by_Mehedi_Hasan_UbuntuPIT_On.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/All_the_Latest_Half_Dozen_Articles_by_Mehedi_Hasan_UbuntuPIT_On.gmi [04:41] TR Bot Techrights All the Latest Half Dozen Articles by Mehedi Hasan (UbuntuPIT) Only Admit at the End That He's Using LLM Slop [04:43] TR News Microsoft is doing GREAT https://www.theportugalnews.com/news/2025-10-17/microsoft-portugal-laying-off-staff/903811 [04:43] TR Bot Microsoft Portugal laying off staff - The Portugal News [04:44] TR News Paramount Mega Layoffs... ● Oct 19 [05:01] TR News Techrights Why the FSF No Longer Recommends Debian, as Explained by Richard Stallman This Month https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/Why_the_FSF_No_Longer_Recommends_Debian_as_Explained_by_Richard.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/Why_the_FSF_No_Longer_Recommends_Debian_as_Explained_by_Richard.gmi [05:01] TR Bot Techrights Why the FSF No Longer Recommends Debian, as Explained by Richard Stallman This Month [05:14] TR News Techrights LLM Slop Could Not Rise to Prominence Without Media Complicity and Artificial Hype https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/LLM_Slop_Could_Not_Rise_to_Prominence_Without_Media_Complicity_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/LLM_Slop_Could_Not_Rise_to_Prominence_Without_Media_Complicity_.gmi [05:14] TR Bot Techrights LLM Slop Could Not Rise to Prominence Without Media Complicity and Artificial Hype [05:34] TR News (NEW): Tux Machines Never Deletes Factual Pages https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/19/Tux_Machines_Never_Deletes_Factual_Pages.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/19/Tux_Machines_Never_Deletes_Factual_Pages.gmi [05:34] TR Bot Tux Machines Tux Machines Never Deletes Factual Pages [05:48] TR News Techrights US Government: 6.1% of Site Visitors Use GNU/Linux https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/US_Government_6_1_of_Site_Visitors_Uses_GNU_Linux.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/US_Government_6_1_of_Site_Visitors_Uses_GNU_Linux.gmi [05:48] TR Bot Techrights US Government: 6.1% of Site Visitors Use GNU/Linux [05:53] TR News Techrights Gemini Links 19/10/2025: "Firma Odin Is Transforming" and Bot Attacks While "AFK" https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/Gemini_Links_19_10_2025_Firma_Odin_Is_Transforming_and_Bot_Atta.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/Gemini_Links_19_10_2025_Firma_Odin_Is_Transforming_and_Bot_Atta.gmi [05:53] TR Bot Techrights Gemini Links 19/10/2025: "Firma Odin Is Transforming" and Bot Attacks While "AFK" ● Oct 19 [06:01] TR News Techrights A List of 63 Known Gemini Clients (Software to Browse Geminispace Content With Gemini Protocol) https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/A_List_of_63_Known_Gemini_Clients_Software_to_Browse_Geminispac.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/A_List_of_63_Known_Gemini_Clients_Software_to_Browse_Geminispac.gmi [06:01] TR Bot Techrights A List of 63 Known Gemini Clients (Software to Browse Geminispace Content With Gemini Protocol) [06:23] TR News Techrights 25 Years Ago, an Explanation of How Reducing Free Software to 'Apps' Would Interfere With Freedom Goals https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/25_Years_Ago_an_Explanation_of_How_Reducing_Free_Software_to_Ap.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/25_Years_Ago_an_Explanation_of_How_Reducing_Free_Software_to_Ap.gmi [06:23] TR Bot Techrights 25 Years Ago, an Explanation of How Reducing Free Software to 'Apps' Would Interfere With Freedom Goals [06:48] TR News Techrights As Economies Crumble Free as in Beer Will Matter, Not Just Free as in Freedom/Libre (Libertad) https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/As_Economies_Crumble_Free_as_in_Beer_Will_Matter_Not_Just_Free_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/As_Economies_Crumble_Free_as_in_Beer_Will_Matter_Not_Just_Free_.gmi [06:48] TR Bot Techrights As Economies Crumble Free as in Beer Will Matter, Not Just Free as in Freedom/Libre (Libertad) ● Oct 19 [07:53] *Righty has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [07:57] *Righty (~Username@e2nb8h3rw862n.irc) has joined #techrights ● Oct 19 [09:27] *psydroid3 (~psydroid@36imbvshpgubk.irc) has joined #techrights [09:51] TR News "I have 4 new storage devices to create 2 new zpools, each a two-vdev mirror. Lets go." https://dan.langille.org/2025/10/17/creating-the-new-zpools/ | Source: Dan Langille [09:51] TR Bot Creating the new zpools Dan Langille's Other Diary [09:52] TR News "after publishing this entry, I realized the command is zpool replace, not zfs replace, as the title suggests." https://dan.langille.org/2025/10/18/moving-a-zpool-to-new-devices-after-the-syncoid-copy-oh-wait-zfs-replace/ | Source: Dan Langille [09:52] TR Bot Moving a zpool to new devices after the syncoid copy oh wait, zfs replace Dan Langille's Other Diary [09:52] TR News "Suppose that you have a filesystem that uses some form of a journal to provide durability (as many do these days) and you have a bunch of people (or processes) writing and updating things all over the filesystem that they want to be durable" https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/JournalCanSerializeFsyncWrites | Source: University of Toronto [09:52] TR Bot You're using a too-old browser [09:52] TR News "If you read my recent posts, Im replacing an existing zpool with new devices. At first, I went to copy the old zpool to a new zpool." https://dan.langille.org/2025/10/18/zfs-setting-compression-and-adding-new-vdevs/ | Source: Dan Langille [09:52] TR Bot zfs: setting compression and adding new vdevs Dan Langille's Other Diary [09:54] TR News "There is a lot of chatter about CSS resets in the web sphere recently." https://pawelgrzybek.com/the-css-reset-again/ | Source: Pawe Grzybek [09:54] TR Bot CSS Reset, again | pawelgrzybek.com [09:54] TR News "With recent firmware updates this camera has gained a few interesting features for doing this, the first one is that it has an USB webcam mode and the second is the REST api for controlling the camera." https://blog.brixit.nl/using-a-blackmagic-design-camera-as-wildlife-camera/ | Source: Martijn Braam [09:54] TR Bot Using a Blackmagic Design camera as wildlife camera [09:54] TR News "Folks who were ahead of the curve on what wed now call responsive design would sometimes proudly show off that you could use any resolution, in the same way as theyd proudly state that you could use any browser!" https://danq.me/2025/10/18/best-viewed-at-your-resolution/ | Source: Dan Q [09:54] TR Bot Best Viewed at: Your Resolution! Dan Q [09:55] TR News "The New York Times recently introduced a new daily puzzle called Pips. You place a set of dominoes on a grid, satisfying various conditions." https://www.righto.com/2025/10/solve-nyt-pips-with-constraints.html | Source: Ken Shirriff [09:55] TR Bot Solving the NYTimes Pips puzzle with a constraint solver [09:55] TR News "Pips is The New York Times' daily puzzle where you have to place dominos onto a board within a set of region restrictions." https://healeycodes.com/solving-nyt-pips-puzzle | Source: Andrew Healey [09:55] TR Bot Solving NYT's Pips Puzzle Andrew Healey [09:57] TR News "One of the massive problems with software development today, especially in the CachyOS and Linux world in general is that nobody does the documentation." https://www.logikalsolutions.com/wordpress/information-technology/cachyos/ | Source: Logikal Solutions [09:57] TR Bot Setting CachyOS Environment Variables Logikal Blog [09:57] TR News "This indicates that we should only allow removing A if the conflicts could not be solved by upgrading it" https://blog.jak-linux.org/2025/10/18/sound-removals/ | Source: Julian Andres Klode [09:57] TR Bot Sound Removals | Blog of Julian Andres Klode [09:57] TR News "The GIMP team has officially announced that the popular open-source image editor is now available as a Snap package" https://linuxiac.com/gimp-officially-launches-its-new-snap-package-for-linux-users/ | Source: Linuxiac [09:57] TR Bot GIMP Officially Launches Its New Snap Package for Linux Users [09:58] TR News "Going to a dumb phone feels a lot like this. For some, it will work just fine. It will be a revelation." https://mtwb.blog/posts/2025/tech/dumb-phones-are-a-fad/ | Source: Matthew Weber [09:58] TR Bot Dumb Phones Are A Fad :: Matt's Blog [09:58] TR News "Are you friends with Amy again?" https://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/The-Home-Forum/2025/1017/phone-number-technology-family | Source: CS Monitor [09:58] TR Bot was eager to cut the cord on my landline. Why I now regret it. - CSMonitor.com ● Oct 19 [10:00] TR News "PeaZip, a versatile cross-platform open-source file archiver utility, has just unveiled its latest release, version 10.7." https://linuxiac.com/peazip-10-7-file-archiver-adds-image-thumbnails-on-linux/ | Source: Linuxiac [10:00] TR Bot PeaZip 10.7 File Archiver Adds Image Thumbnails on Linux [10:05] TR News "One (so far) surviving part of "Privacy Sandbox" is Googles continued participation in Meta and Mozillas adfraud-in-the-browser feature, now known as just "Attribution."" https://blog.zgp.org/the-end-ish-of-google-privacy-sandbox/ | Source: Don Marti [10:05] TR Bot the end(ish) of Google Privacy Sandbox [10:05] TR News "Should you use UUIDs as the primary key in your database? You might have heard they are terrible for performance, which is often true for traditional UUIDv4." https://aiven.io/blog/exploring-postgresql-18-new-uuidv7-support | [10:05] TR Bot Exploring PostgreSQL 18's new UUIDv7 support [10:06] TR News "I thought I would document what steps I went through. Ive begun writing this on September 24th and worked on it in my spare time until clicking the publish button." https://mandarismoore.com/2025/10/17/restarting-theme-development.html | Source: Mandaris Moore [10:06] TR Bot Restarting Theme Development - Mandaris [10:06] TR News "Here is a chart I drew of homicides per 100,000 population on the vertical axis versus income or consumption inequality on the horizontal." https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/10/inequality-and-homicide-within-country-and-between-country-by-ellis2013nz/ | Source: Rlang [10:06] TR Bot and homicide, within-country and between country by @ellis2013nz | R-bloggers [10:07] TR News "In Python, when you write if x > 5: print("big"), youre using special syntax baked into the language." https://ryelang.org/blog/posts/if-as-function-blogpost-working-on-it_ver1/ | [10:07] TR Bot When if is just a function | Rye blog [10:08] TR News "So far so good, a classic C footgun weve all been there." https://mazzo.li/posts/undefined-behavior.html | Source: Francesco Mazzoli [10:08] TR Bot Hidden benefits of undefined behavior [10:08] TR News "Once everything turns out to be working nicely for a little while I will also migrate over my blog and then start shutting down my Github and Gitlab accounts." https://arjenwiersma.nl/posts/20251018-your-own-cloud/ | Source: Arjen Wiersma [10:08] TR Bot not resolve host: arjenwiersma.nl ( status 0 @ https://arjenwiersma.nl/posts/20251018-your-own-cloud/ ) [10:08] TR News "The OCaml language offers a distinct approach to compile-time code generation in the form of extension points and AST rewriters, which well explore in this article." https://citizen428.net/blog/introduction-ocaml-extension-points/ | Source: Michael Kohl [10:08] TR Bot to OCaml Extension Points - citizen428.net [10:09] TR News "The Forgejo team has announced the release of Forgejo 13.0, the latest version of the self-hosted Git forge software, introducing security improvements, new moderation tools, and enhanced usability across the platform." https://linuxiac.com/forgejo-13-0-released-with-content-moderation-and-global-2fa-enforcement/ | Source: Linuxiac [10:09] TR Bot Forgejo 13.0 Released with Content Moderation and Global 2FA Enforcement [10:10] TR News "A little update about Doing Presentations. I got a kind offer from Julin Rodriguez Orihuela to translate the site into Spanish." https://gilest.org/notes/dp-en-espanol.html | Source: Giles Turnbull [10:10] TR Bot Doing Presentations en espaol [10:10] TR News "How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!" https://robert.ocallahan.org/2025/10/money.html | Source: Robert OCallahan [10:10] TR Bot Some Thoughts About Money From A Christian In Big Tech [10:10] TR News "One of the perils of being a so-called perfectionist is that Im never content to leave things be." https://mihobu.lol/whats-new-202510 | Source: Michael Burkhardt [10:10] TR Bot Whats New in the Mihobuverse - Michael Burkhardts Whirled Wide Web [10:10] TR News "Its at this stage that I admit Ive never had one of my own, though I used to mess with them when Id see them." https://rubenerd.com/i-found-a-rubiks-cube/ | Source: Ruben Schade [10:10] TR Bot I found a Rubiks Cube [10:10] TR News "For some, it represents the end of an era. Others, such as the musician Hannah Diamond, suggest that era may have been over some time ago." https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/oct/18/no-one-makes-money-from-them-with-mtv-channels-switching-off-is-the-music-video-under-threat | Source: The Guardian UK [10:10] TR Bot No one makes money from them: with MTV channels switching off, is the music video under threat? | Music | The Guardian [10:12] TR News "Let me first explain why the naive categorical model of dependent types doesnt work very well for identity types." https://bartoszmilewski.com/2025/10/18/modeling-identity-types/ | Source: Bartosz Milewski [10:12] TR Bot Modeling Identity Types | Bartosz Milewski's Programming Cafe [10:12] TR News "So Ive been trying something new: Im reading without taking notes, highlighting important lines, or even trying to remember everything I read." https://ankursethi.com/blog/just-read/ | Source: Ankur Sethi [10:12] TR Bot Just read Ankur Sethi [10:12] TR News "After years of climbing the ladder in cyber, Ive learned that sometimes the best move isnt up. Its stepping back to make life sustainable again." https://kevquirk.com/blog/career-snakes-ladders/ | Source: Kev Quirk [10:12] TR Bot Career Snakes & Ladders | Kev Quirk [10:13] TR News "Luxury isnt about quality, suitability or performance. Luxury isnt a more accurate watch or a faster processor. Luxury is a marker that we can afford to do something others might consider wasteful." https://seths.blog/2025/10/attention-is-a-luxury-good/ | Source: Seth Godin [10:13] TR Bot Attention is a luxury good | Seth's Blog [10:13] TR News "Don't you just love a good second act? Theres something so inspiring about watching someone switch career paths and find their true calling." https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/age-is-just-a-number-these-photography-icons-all-found-success-with-a-camera-after-a-first-career | Source: Digital Camera World [10:13] TR Bot Age is just a number: these photography icons all found success with a camera after a first career | Digital Camera World [10:13] TR News "In other words, whatever the people using ChatGPT felt was going on inside their brains, the scans showed there wasnt much happening up there." https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/18/are-we-living-in-a-golden-age-of-stupidity-technology | Source: The Guardian UK [10:13] TR Bot Are we living in a golden age of stupidity? | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian [10:14] TR News "In response to my question about getting started with typewriters, the shopkeeper gave me some advice" https://jamesg.blog/2025/10/18/typewriters-and-labyrinths | Source: James G [10:14] TR Bot Typewriters and labyrinths | James' Coffee Blog [10:15] TR News "The basic idea is to shift your bodys internal clock by timing your exposure to light, exercise, and melatonin around your bodys daily minimum temperature (your lowest temperature in a 24-hour cycle, usually 2-3 hours before you wake up)." https://chrisholdgraf.com/blog/2025/jet-lag/ | Source: Chris Holdgraf [10:15] TR Bot My system for beating jet lag - Welcome [10:15] TR News "Many people attempt experiments with assorted nootropics, but I find theyre often difficult to attain value from." https://vale.rocks/posts/nootropics | Source: Declan Chidlow [10:15] TR Bot Notes | Vale.Rocks [10:15] TR News "Earlier this week, a bombshell analysis by Consumer Reports found that popular meal replacement drinks a long-time favorite of tech bros contain more lead in a single serving than a healthy adult should eat in a day." https://futurism.com/future-society/tech-bros-huel-lead | Source: Futurism [10:15] TR Bot Tech Bros Have Been Accidentally Poisoning Themselves With Severe Brain Toxins for Years [10:15] TR News "The psychological conditioning produced by 1990s devices such as Tamagotchi is relevant, and even uncanny, when facing the trends of the 2020s and potentially beyond." https://thewalrus.ca/how-tamagotchis-trained-millennials-for-the-era-of-needy-media/ | Source: The Walrus [10:16] TR Bot How Tamagotchi Trained Millennials for the Era of Needy Devices | The Walrus [10:16] TR News "Instagram on Friday unveiled safety features for teenagers who use its artificial intelligence chatbots amid growing concerns over how the chatbots are affecting young peoples mental health." https://www.ekathimerini.com/nytimes/1284235/instagram-unveils-teen-safety-features-for-ai-chatbots/ | Source: Greece [10:16] TR Bot unveils teen safety features for AI chatbots | eKathimerini.com [10:16] TR News "The notification about the hack came in a phone call from Kevin Mandia, the founder of the cybersecurity firm Mandiant, to SolarWinds then CEO Kevin Thompson." https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/19/global-cyber-attack-russian-hack-solarwinds-stress-health | Source: The Guardian UK [10:16] TR Bot I lost 25 pounds in 20 days: what its like to be on the frontline of a global cyber-attack | Cybercrime | The Guardian [10:16] TR News "The tech giant says the vulnerability can be exploited to leak sensitive information such as user credentials, tamper with file contents, or cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition by forcing a crash within the server." https://www.securityweek.com/highest-ever-severity-score-assigned-by-microsoft-to-asp-net-core-vulnerability/ | Source: Security Week [10:16] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/highest-ever-severity-score-assigned-by-microsoft-to-asp-net-core-vulnerability/ ) [10:17] TR News "Even though Apple's web hosting services are long gone, you can still use iWeb and save your finished site to a local folder or FTP server." https://www.spacebar.news/making-iweb-website-2025/ | [10:17] TR Bot I made a website with Apple iWeb in 2025 [10:17] TR News "OpenAI has been flat broke its whole existence. In late 2025, its even more flat broke than that. Sams been frantically lining up about a trillion dollars worth of deals. Well, deals to make a deal." https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/10/17/chatgpt-sales-are-flat-so-altman-offers-openai-adult-chat/ | Source: Pivot to AI [10:17] TR Bot ( status 503 @ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/10/17/chatgpt-sales-are-flat-so-altman-offers-openai-adult-chat/ ) [10:17] TR News "After crunching the numbers to exclude armies of data-scraping AI bots, the Wikimedia Foundation says that between March and August of this year, the number of Wikipedia page views coming from real humans declined by 8% year-on-year." https://www.pcmag.com/news/wikipedia-ai-generated-summaries-are-hurting-our-traffic | Source: PC Mag [10:17] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.pcmag.com/news/wikipedia-ai-generated-summaries-are-hurting-our-traffic ) [10:18] TR News "In response, major art museums are wrestling with what, within the kaleidoscope, counts as art, and are trying to teach the public to see beyond spectacle. In so doing, they are creating a canon that artists, collectors and audiences will treat as a guide to what matters and why." https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/arts/design/artificial-intelligence-art-museums.html | Source: New York Times [10:18] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/arts/design/artificial-intelligence-art-museums.html ) [10:18] TR News "As local news outlet WalesOnline reports, the swimmers attempted to wade back from Sully Island, a rocky outcropping thousands of feet offshore, shortly before the tide came back in." https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/drown-chatgpt-tide | Source: Futurism [10:18] TR Bot Two People Almost Drown After Asking ChatGPT When Low Tide Was [10:18] TR News "I deactivated both of my Meta social media accounts today Instagram and Facebook." https://aj.bourg.family/2025-10-18-deactivating/ | Source: AJ Bourg [10:18] TR Bot Deactivating [10:18] TR News "Once again, I am mystified by Apples decision to drop its suit against NSO Group." https://pxlnv.com/linklog/nso-group-whatsapp-ban/ | Source: Nick Heer [10:18] TR Bot NSO Group Banned From Using or Supplying WhatsApp Exploits Pixel Envy [10:19] TR News "The best results, however, typically involve taking steps to help repair relationships and address underlying causes for the harmful behaviour." https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/ai-bullying-fears-raised-as-10-million-tipped-into-new-school-plan/mjli4ehx3 | Source: SBS [10:19] TR Bot AI bullying fears raised as $10 million tipped into new school plan | SBS News [10:19] TR News "Australia has a new plan to keep kids safe online. On the surface, it sounds simple, maybe even sensible. The government is banning anyone under sixteen from having a social media account." https://hey.paris/posts/socialmediaban/ | Source: Paris Buttfield-Addison [10:19] TR Bot Government Wants Your Selfie to Use Instagram | hey.paris [10:19] TR News "According to Bloombergs Mark Gurman, Apple is exploring another Mac change in addition to bringing multitouch to the display." https://www.macworld.com/article/2945142/sorry-mac-users-it-looks-like-face-id-is-still-years-away.html | Source: Macworld [10:19] TR Bot Mac users, it looks like Face ID is still years away | Macworld [10:19] TR News "The partnership comes just days after a letter revealed that government agencies, including parts of ICE, had access to Flocks network of cameras." https://www.pcmag.com/news/ring-wants-you-to-share-your-camera-footage-with-police-again | Source: PC Mag [10:19] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.pcmag.com/news/ring-wants-you-to-share-your-camera-footage-with-police-again ) [10:20] TR News "most invasive feature." https://www.pcworld.com/article/2945470/ring-lets-police-ask-for-security-videos-heres-how-to-opt-out.html | Source: PC World [10:20] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.pcworld.com/article/2945470/ring-lets-police-ask-for-security-videos-heres-how-to-opt-out.html ) [10:20] TR News "There would be no real privacy left even doctors and patients communicate this way." https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2717233/eu-shelves-child-protection-proposal-over-fears-of-mass-surveillance | Source: LRT [10:20] TR Bot EU shelves child protection proposal over fears of mass surveillance - LRT ● Oct 19 [11:05] TR News "US is sliding into authoritarianism" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/18/no-kings-protests-events-states | Source: The Guardian UK [11:05] TR Bot Millions across all 50 US states march in No Kings protests against Trump | Protests (US) | The Guardian [11:08] TR News "Her main concern, shared by other local opponents, is the amount of municipal drinking water the 200,000-square foot data centre would need for its cooling system." https://www.cbc.ca/news/ai-data-centre-canada-water-use-9.6939684 | Source: CBC [11:08] TR Bot AI-related data centres use vast amounts of water. But gauging how much is a murky business | CBC News [11:08] TR News "For us humans, things will become grave even earlier." https://www.pcworld.com/article/2778408/nasa-supercomputers-calculated-when-life-will-end-on-earth-heres-our-deadline.html | Source: PC World [11:08] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.pcworld.com/article/2778408/nasa-supercomputers-calculated-when-life-will-end-on-earth-heres-our-deadline.html ) [11:09] TR News "The new EU legislation targets power units of all types, referring to them as External Power Supplies (EPS)." https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/power-bricks-and-wall-warts-must-be-usb-c-by-2028-new-eu-legislation-also-adds-power-rating-labels-for-power-units-and-cables | Source: Tom's Hardware [11:09] TR Bot Power bricks and wall warts for EU market must include detachable USB-C cables by 2028 New legislation also adds power rating labels for cables | Tom's Hardware [11:09] TR News "Bitcoin shed more than $10,000 in a matter of minutes" https://www.citationneeded.news/anatomy-of-a-crypto-meltdown/ | Source: Molly White [11:09] TR Bot Anatomy of a crypto meltdown [11:10] TR News "Ruby Central, the non-profit that recently seized some Ruby open source tools from maintainers" https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/18/ruby_central_taps_ruby_core/ | Source: The Register UK [11:10] TR Bot Ruby Central tries to make peace after 'hostile takeover' The Register [11:10] TR News "Welcome to my first blog in my Rust Rabbit Holes series!" https://beej.us/blog/data/rust-trait-impl/ | Source: Beej [11:10] TR Bot Exploring Rust Traits [11:12] TR News "Media freedom in Turkey continues to suffer as the politicized judiciary extends arbitrary detentions and judicial control measures" https://bianet.org/haber/prolonged-detentions-and-judicial-control-tighten-pressure-on-journalists-312628 | Source: BIA Net [11:12] TR Bot Prolonged detentions and judicial control tighten pressure on journalists [11:12] TR News "Few parliamentary groups support using public funds to prop up STT, the Finnish News Agency, according to a survey by Uutissuomalainen." https://yle.fi/a/74-20189113?origin=rss | Source: YLE [11:12] TR Bot MPs cool on state funding for news agency STT | Yle News | Yle [11:15] TR News If there is a connection between the McGovern (GNOME, Debian) and Ruby Central affair and the current Ruby Central affair (using Microsoft GitHub to take control, probably in the name of control over political speech), it would help greatly. Their official messages mince so many words to make it look like nobody pulls strings. [11:16] TR News "Were at an inflection point in history right now and its frightening." https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dhs-ice-secret-police-civil-rights-unaccountable | Source: Pro Publica [11:16] TR Bot How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force ProPublica [11:16] TR News "Music has been an integral part of protests movements across generations, the present one being no exception." https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/no-kings-playlist-anti-authoritarian-songs-protests-1235449753/ | Source: Rolling Stone [11:16] TR Bot 'No Kings' Playlist: Anti-Authoritarian Songs for Anti-Trump Protests [11:18] TR News Digital Restrictions (DRM) https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/10/apple-strikes-five-year-deal-for-formula-1-rights/ | Source: Six Colors [11:18] TR Bot Apple strikes five year deal for Formula 1 rights Six Colors [11:18] TR News "Apple is paying about $140 million per year for F1 rights, sources told CNBC." https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/17/apple-f1-media-deal-streaming.html | Source: CNBC [11:18] TR Bot Apple, F1 reach 5-year media deal, bringing races to Apple TV streaming [11:19] TR News "Shortly after this announcement was made, I got an email from F1 TV, informing me of basically the same information" https://birchtree.me/blog/apple-just-closed-their-f1-deal-and-i-think-its-good-news-for-me/ | Source: Matt Birchler [11:19] TR Bot Apple just closed their F1 deal, and I think its good news for me? [11:19] TR News "Citing the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, the band - forced to use Slipknot1.com for nearly 25 years - seeks to retake URL bearing their name" https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/slipknot-lawsuit-slipknot-com-domain-bootleg-merch-1235449965/ | Source: Rolling Stone [11:19] TR Bot Slipknot Sue to Reclaim Slipknot.com From Squatter Selling Fake Merch [11:20] TR News "Artificial intelligence (AI) major OpenAI said users will not be able to use the likeness of Martin Luther King Jr when generating videos with its model, Sora." https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/openai-pauses-video-generations-of-martin-luther-king-jr-after-disrespectful-depictions/articleshow/124621646.cms | Source: India Times [11:20] TR Bot OpenAI pauses video generations of Martin Luther King Jr after disrespectful depictions - The Economic Times [11:21] TR News "Rampant piracy will face a two-pronged strategy, including enhanced enforcement measures targeting areas where piracy causes the most damage." https://torrentfreak.com/direct-sales-direct-anti-piracy-action-underpin-japans-plan-for-explosive-growth-251017/ | Source: Torrent Freak [11:21] TR Bot Sales & Direct Anti-Piracy Action Underpin Japan's Plan For Explosive Growth * TorrentFreak [11:21] TR News "Rightsholders can breathe a sigh of relief after a California federal court concluded that Cloudflare can be compelled to comply with DMCA subpoenas." https://torrentfreak.com/manga-pirate-site-operator-fails-to-dodge-dmca-subpoena-over-cloudflare-cache/ | Source: Torrent Freak [11:21] TR Bot Pirate Site Operator Fails to Dodge DMCA Subpoena Over Cloudflare Cache * TorrentFreak [11:21] TR News "WME has notified OpenAI it does not have permission to use any of WMEs clients. Disney has notified OpenAI that it could just sue under copyright if OpenAI does not desist." https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/10/18/how-openai-dodged-hollywood-on-sora-2/ | Source: Pivot to AI [11:21] TR Bot ( status 503 @ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/10/18/how-openai-dodged-hollywood-on-sora-2/ ) [11:21] TR News "According to Fitch, AI tools are enabling users to create and distribute music at unprecedented speeds, flooding digital service providers (DSPs) platforms and intensifying competition for listener-based revenues." https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/ai-music-boom-may-hit-artist-royalties-warns-fitch-ratings/articleshow/124621399.cms | Source: India Times [11:21] TR Bot AI music boom may hit artist royalties, warns Fitch Ratings - The Economic Times [11:23] TR News "Why Signal's Post-Quantum Makeover is an Amazing Engineering Achievement" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/10/16/1538252 [11:23] TR Bot Why Signal's Post-Quantum Makeover is an Amazing Engineering Achievement - SoylentNews [11:23] TR News "FSF Librephone" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/10/16/1534249 [11:23] TR Bot FSF Librephone - SoylentNews [11:25] TR News One out of every three farms shutting down in the state of Arkansas is going to affect that budget thats sitting there in front of you, she told Finance and Administration Secretary Jim Hudson. And if we dont start looking and forecasting out for that just in case the tsunami is coming, then we are failing the people of Arkansas. [11:25] TR News "Arkansas lawmakers urge feds to help farmers stay afloat in struggling industry | Arkansas Advocate" https://arkansasadvocate.com/2025/10/17/arkansas-lawmakers-urge-feds-to-help-farmers-stay-afloat-in-struggling-industry/ [11:25] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://arkansasadvocate.com/2025/10/17/arkansas-lawmakers-urge-feds-to-help-farmers-stay-afloat-in-struggling-industry/ ) [11:26] TR News One of Norway's greatest writers has died - aged 70 | "En af Norges strste forfattere er dd - 70 r | Nyheder | DR" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&u=https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/seneste/en-af-norges-stoerste-forfattere-er-doed-70-aar [11:26] TR Bot En af Norges strste forfattere er dd - 70 r | Nyheder | DR [11:28] *techrights-news has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [11:33] *techrights-news (~techrights-news@qiysgnj2chdjg.irc) has joined #techrights [11:33] TR News Proton Experimental brings fixes for Assassin's Creed Shadows, Age of Empires: Definitive Edition and more | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/proton-experimental-for-oct-17-brings-fixes-for-assassins-creed-shadows-age-of-empires-definitive-edition/ [11:33] TR Bot Experimental brings fixes for Assassin's Creed Shadows, Age of Empires: Definitive Edition and more | GamingOnLinux [11:36] TR News Cambodia and South Korea form joint task force to combat online scamming https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/cambodia-south-korea-form-joint-task-force-to-combat-online-scamming [11:36] TR Bot Cambodia and South Korea form joint task force to combat online scamming | The Straits Times [11:42] TR News Creating the new zpools https://dan.langille.org/2025/10/17/creating-the-new-zpools/ [11:42] TR Bot Creating the new zpools Dan Langille's Other Diary [11:42] TR News GIMP Officially Launches Its New Snap Package for GNU/Linux Users https://linuxiac.com/gimp-officially-launches-its-new-snap-package-for-linux-users/ [11:42] TR Bot GIMP Officially Launches Its New Snap Package for Linux Users [11:43] TR News PeaZip 10.7 File Archiver Adds Image Thumbnails on GNU/Linux https://linuxiac.com/peazip-10-7-file-archiver-adds-image-thumbnails-on-linux/ [11:43] TR Bot PeaZip 10.7 File Archiver Adds Image Thumbnails on Linux [11:44] TR News Inequality and homicide, within-country and between country by @ellis2013nz https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/10/inequality-and-homicide-within-country-and-between-country-by-ellis2013nz/ [11:44] TR Bot and homicide, within-country and between country by @ellis2013nz | R-bloggers [11:45] TR News Forgejo 13.0 Released with Content Moderation and Global 2FA Enforcement https://linuxiac.com/forgejo-13-0-released-with-content-moderation-and-global-2fa-enforcement/ [11:45] TR Bot Forgejo 13.0 Released with Content Moderation and Global 2FA Enforcement [11:46] TR News I found a Rubiks Cube https://rubenerd.com/i-found-a-rubiks-cube/ [11:46] TR Bot I found a Rubiks Cube [11:48] TR News Two People Almost Drown After Asking Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot When Low Tide Was https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/drown-chatgpt-tide [11:48] TR Bot Two People Almost Drown After Asking ChatGPT When Low Tide Was [11:48] TR News Does Hey Hi (AI) Count as Art? Ask the Curators https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/arts/design/artificial-intelligence-art-museums.html [11:48] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/arts/design/artificial-intelligence-art-museums.html ) ● Oct 19 [12:05] TR News US states sue Convicted Felon administration for termination of $7B solar energy grant https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/10/24-us-states-sue-trump-administration-for-termination-of-solar-energy-grant-worth-7b/ [12:05] TR Bot US states sue Trump administration for termination of $7B solar energy grant - JURIST - News [12:06] TR News Cox v. Sony Music: Supreme Court Schedules Legal Arguments for December https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/10/17/cox-v-sony-schedule-december-2026/ [12:06] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/10/17/cox-v-sony-schedule-december-2026/ ) [12:16] TR News Broken Phone To Cinema Camera With A Lens Upgrade https://hackaday.com/2025/10/18/broken-phone-to-cinema-camera-with-a-lens-upgrade/ | Source: Hackaday [12:16] TR Bot Phone To Cinema Camera With A Lens Upgrade | Hackaday [12:17] TR News I Tested Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS Beta: A Few Hits and Misses But Mostly on Right Track https://news.itsfoss.com/cosmic-beta/ [12:17] TR Bot I Tested Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS Beta: A Few Hits and Misses But Mostly on Right Track [12:18] TR News In China, climate litigation starts with the state, shutting out NGOs, activists https://hongkongfp.com/2025/10/19/in-china-climate-litigation-starts-with-the-state-shutting-out-ngos-activists/ [12:18] TR Bot In China, climate litigation starts with the state [12:19] TR News Jensen says Nvidias China Hey Hi (AI) GPU market share has plummeted from 95% to zero the Chinese market previously amounted to 20% to 25% of the chipmaker's data center revenue https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/jensen-huang-says-nvidia-china-market-share-has-fallen-to-zero [12:19] TR Bot Jensen says Nvidias China AI GPU market share has plummeted from 95% to zero the Chinese market previously amounted to 20% to 25% of the chipmaker's data center revenue | Tom's Hardware [12:20] TR News Direct-save to working-partition fixed https://bkhome.org/news/202510/direct-save-to-working-partition-fixed.html [12:20] TR Bot Direct-save to working-partition fixed [12:21] TR News Fix for fscrypt folder on rw layer in overlayfs https://bkhome.org/news/202510/fix-for-fscrypt-folder-on-rw-layer-in-overlayfs.html [12:21] TR Bot Fix for fscrypt folder on rw layer in overlayfs [12:22] TR News Dracut in Ubuntu 25.10: What it is and Why it Matters (or Doesnt) https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/10/what-is-dracut-ubuntu [12:22] TR Bot Dracut in Ubuntu 25.10: What it is and Why it Matters (or Doesn't) - OMG! 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Power belongs to the people Alien Pastures [12:44] TR News Richard Stallman Near the European Patent Office (EPO) in 3 Days From Now https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/18/Richard_Stallman_Near_the_European_Patent_Office_EPO_in_3_Days_.shtml [12:44] TR Bot Techrights Richard Stallman Near the European Patent Office (EPO) in 3 Days From Now [12:45] TR News GNOME 49: Best New Features https://www.debugpoint.com/gnome-49-features/ [12:45] TR Bot GNOME 49: Best New Features [12:46] TR News Skrooge 25.10.0 released https://skrooge.org/news/2025-10-18-skrooge_25.10.0_released/ [12:46] TR Bot Skrooge 25.10.0 released - Skrooge [12:46] TR News Dorothy Kabarozi: Deploying a Simple HTML Project on Linode Using Nginx https://dorothykabarozi.wordpress.com/2025/10/18/deploying-a-simple-html-project-on-linode-using-nginx/ [12:46] TR Bot Deploying a Simple HTML Project on Linode Using Nginx Dorothy Kabarozi [12:47] TR News How To Install PlayOnLinux on Debian 13 https://idroot.us/install-playonlinux-debian-13/ [12:47] TR Bot How To Install PlayOnLinux on Debian 13 - idroot [12:48] TR News How To Install PeaZip on Fedora 42 https://idroot.us/install-peazip-fedora-42/ [12:48] TR Bot How To Install PeaZip on Fedora 42 - idroot [12:48] TR News How To Install Lollypop Music Player on Linux Mint 22 https://idroot.us/install-lollypop-music-player-linux-mint-22/ [12:48] TR Bot How To Install Lollypop Music Player on Linux Mint 22 - idroot [12:48] TR News How To Install Wireshark on Fedora 42 https://idroot.us/install-wireshark-fedora-42/ [12:48] TR Bot How To Install Wireshark on Fedora 42 - idroot [12:49] TR News KDE Gardening 2025 https://cullmann.dev/posts/kde-gardening-2025/ [12:49] TR Bot KDE Gardening 2025 | Ignorance is bliss... 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