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● Nov 19
[00:04]	MinceR	https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/joke-3
[00:04]	TR Bot	 Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Joke
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[02:46]	TR News	Yesterday's #boycottnovell-social and #techpol IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-181125.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-181125.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-social-181125.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-social-181125.txt
[02:46]	TR Bot	 IRC: #boycottnovell-social and #techpol @ Techrights IRC Network: Tuesday, November 18, 2025
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[02:47]	TR Bot	 IRC: #techrights @ Techrights IRC Network: Tuesday, November 18, 2025
[02:48]	TR News	Yesterday's #boycottnovell IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-181125.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-181125.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-181125.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-181125.txt
[02:48]	TR Bot	 IRC: #boycottnovell @ Techrights IRC Network: Tuesday, November 18, 2025
[02:49]	TR News	Yesterday's #techbytes IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-181125.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-181125.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techbytes-181125.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techbytes-181125.txt
[02:49]	TR Bot	 IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Tuesday, November 18, 2025
[02:49]	TR News	Yesterday's bulletin is now ready! : http://techrights.org/txt-archives/techrights-2025-11-18.txt | gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/techrights-2025-11-18.txt (tentative address, to work an hour from now)
[02:50]	TR News	Yesterday's Tux Machines bulletin is now ready! : http://news.tuxmachines.org/txt-archives/tuxmachines-2025-11-18.txt
● Nov 19
[03:57]	admfubar	https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/11/18/2229244/red-hat-losing-another-prominent-linux-kernel-engineer
[03:57]	TR Bot	 Red Hat Losing Another Prominent Linux Kernel Engineer - Slashdot
[03:58]	admfubar	https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/11/18/2220205/report-claims-that-apple-has-yet-again-put-the-mac-pro-on-the-back-burner
[03:58]	TR Bot	 Report Claims That Apple Has Yet Again Put the Mac Pro 'On the Back Burner' - Slashdot
[03:59]	admfubar	https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/11/18/1919245/oracle-is-already-underwater-on-its-astonishing-300b-openai-deal
[03:59]	TR Bot	 Oracle is Already Underwater On Its 'Astonishing' $300B OpenAI Deal - Slashdot
● Nov 19
[04:02]	admfubar	crapilot...  https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/11/18/1932202/talking-to-windows-copilot-ai-makes-a-computer-feel-incompetent
[04:02]	TR Bot	 'Talking To Windows' Copilot AI Makes a Computer Feel Incompetent' - Slashdot
[04:04]	admfubar	best not to have any... https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/11/18/015207/how-to-not-get-kidnapped-for-your-bitcoin
[04:04]	TR Bot	 How To Not Get Kidnapped For Your Bitcoin - Slashdot
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[04:06]	admfubar	so  only for windows????  https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/18/linus_torvalds_vibe_coding/
[04:06]	TR Bot	 Linus Torvalds: Vibe coding is fine, but not for production The Register
[04:07]	admfubar	https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/18/uk_ai_growth_zones/
[04:07]	TR Bot	 Brits to foot power bill for datacenters under UK AI plans The Register
[04:09]	admfubar	https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/18/dutch_wind_farm_crypto/
[04:09]	TR Bot	 Dutch turbine engineer tried to turn wind into crypto The Register
[04:12]	TR News	Techrights IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, November 18, 2025 https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/19/IRC_Proceedings_Tuesday_November_18_2025.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/11/19/IRC_Proceedings_Tuesday_November_18_2025.gmi 
[04:12]	TR Bot	 Techrights IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, November 18, 2025
[04:12]	TR News	 (NEW):  This Week in KDE Apps: Crop tool in Photos, Sudoku in Kirigami and sprinting https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/18/This_Week_in_KDE_Apps_Crop_tool_in_Photos_Sudoku_in_Kirigami_an.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/18/This_Week_in_KDE_Apps_Crop_tool_in_Photos_Sudoku_in_Kirigami_an.gmi 
[04:12]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines This Week in KDE Apps: Crop tool in Photos, Sudoku in Kirigami and sprinting
[04:12]	TR News	 (NEW):  Today in Techrights https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/19/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/19/Today_in_Techrights.gmi 
[04:13]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Today in Techrights
[04:13]	TR News	Techrights Over at Tux Machines... https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/19/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/11/19/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi 
[04:13]	TR Bot	 Techrights Over at Tux Machines...
[04:17]	TR News	iophk: https://www.adacore.com/ has removed their feed as of today :/
[04:17]	TR Bot	Software Solutions for Ada, SPARK, Rust, C and | AdaCore
[04:17]	TR News	iophk: https://blog.arduino.cc/ has become marketeering and spamlik since the sale with lots of posts still but none worth reporting on any longer
[04:17]	TR Bot	 Arduino Blog
[04:20]	TR News	Capitalismo y generacin de falsas necesidades gemini://hispagatos.org/post/capitalismoygeneracindefalsasnecesidades/index.gmi
[04:21]	TR News	Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-11-19.gmi
[04:21]	TR News	Our kids can't play and we will not be able to walk due to traffic gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2025/11/18.1
[04:23]	TR News	"For reasons, I noticed that ClaudeBot (and I'd link to the information page for it, but, and this is my shocked face, they forgot to include a proper link!) was repeatedly requesting the same file over and over again/sitemap.xml. My bad!" gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2025/11/18.2
[04:25]	TR News	[cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1479.jpg
[04:25]	TR News	[cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1829.jpg
[04:27]		*MinceR` is now known as lightbringer
[04:28]	TR News	The web browser add-on uMatrix is now abandoned https://hunden.linuxkompis.se/2020/10/04/the-web-browser-add-on-umatrix-is-now-abandoned.html
[04:28]	TR Bot	 The web browser add-on uMatrix is now abandoned | Hund
[04:30]	TR News	US Jury Says Apple Must Pay Masimo $634 Million in Smartwatch Patent Case https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2025-11-14/us-jury-says-apple-must-pay-masimo-634-million-in-smartwatch-patent-case
[04:30]	TR Bot	stream 1 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2) ( status 0 @ https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2025-11-14/us-jury-says-apple-must-pay-masimo-634-million-in-smartwatch-patent-case )
[04:31]	TR News	Flop https://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-iphone-air-sales-response-7f0c01f1
[04:31]	TR Bot	( status 401 @ https://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-iphone-air-sales-response-7f0c01f1 )
[04:31]	TR News	Ann Arbor residents grapple with ADHD medication shortages and recalls https://www.michigandaily.com/news/research/ann-arbor-residents-grapple-with-adhd-medication-shortages-and-recalls/
[04:31]	TR Bot	 Ann Arbor residents grapple with ADHD medication shortages
[04:32]	TR News	Apple Pulls Two Gay Dating Apps https://www.usnews.com/news/technology/articles/2025-11-11/apple-pulls-two-gay-dating-apps-in-china-under-government-order
[04:32]	TR Bot	stream 1 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2) ( status 0 @ https://www.usnews.com/news/technology/articles/2025-11-11/apple-pulls-two-gay-dating-apps-in-china-under-government-order )
[04:35]	TR News	Fortinet https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2025/11/14/fortinet-releases-security-advisory-relative-path-traversal-vulnerability-affecting-fortiweb
[04:35]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2025/11/14/fortinet-releases-security-advisory-relative-path-traversal-vulnerability-affecting-fortiweb )
[04:36]	TR News	Draft UK Cyber Security and Resilience Bill Enters UK Parliament https://www.hunton.com/privacy-and-information-security-law/draft-uk-cyber-security-and-resilience-bill-enters-uk-parliament
[04:36]	TR Bot	 Draft UK Cyber Security and Resilience Bill Enters UK Parliament
[04:37]	TR News	Wiki Haven: Digital.Security V 1.20, Mojolicious V 1.09, Perl V 1.34 https://blogs.perl.org/users/ron_savage/2025/11/wiki-haven-digitalsecurity-v-120-mojolicious-v-109-perl-v-134.html
[04:37]	TR Bot	Haven: Digital.Security V 1.20, Mojolicious V 1.09, Perl V 1.34 | Ron Savage [blogs.perl.org]
[04:43]	TR News	 (NEW):   Programming Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/19/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/19/Programming_Leftovers.gmi 
[04:43]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Programming Leftovers
[04:43]	TR News	 (NEW):  Strengthening KernelCI and Slop in Linux Kernel https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/19/Strengthening_KernelCI_and_Slop_in_Linux_Kernel.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/19/Strengthening_KernelCI_and_Slop_in_Linux_Kernel.gmi 
[04:43]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Strengthening KernelCI and Slop in Linux Kernel
[04:44]	TR News	 (NEW):  Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/19/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/19/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.gmi 
[04:44]	TR News	 (NEW):  Today's Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/19/today_s_leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/19/today_s_leftovers.gmi 
[04:44]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
[04:44]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines today's leftovers
[04:47]	TR News	Techrights Gemini Links 19/11/2025: "Slack is a Sauna" and ClaudeBot Nuisance https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/19/Gemini_Links_19_11_2025_Slack_is_a_Sauna_and_ClaudeBot_Nuisance.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/11/19/Gemini_Links_19_11_2025_Slack_is_a_Sauna_and_ClaudeBot_Nuisance.gmi 
[04:47]	TR Bot	 Techrights Gemini Links 19/11/2025: "Slack is a Sauna" and ClaudeBot Nuisance
[04:50]	TR News	Techrights Links 19/11/2025: Google Nest Surveillance and Daily Telegraph Still Up for Sale https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/19/Links_19_11_2025_Google_Nest_Surveillance_and_Daily_Telegraph_S.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/11/19/Links_19_11_2025_Google_Nest_Surveillance_and_Daily_Telegraph_S.gmi 
[04:50]	TR Bot	 Techrights Links 19/11/2025: Google Nest Surveillance and Daily Telegraph Still Up for Sale
[04:54]	TR News	"Lawyers will knock at the door, to get rich from a class action lawsuit for targeted ageism and discrimination." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kaa79mcb
[04:54]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kaa79mcb )
[04:55]	TR News	"and yet incompent and crooked Indians are still taking American jobs because you are incapable of creating your own." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ka9kn2j1
[04:55]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ka9kn2j1 )
[04:55]	TR News	"Indians have absolutely no idea what a clusterf--k like the one coming down in December is really all about. That's why Alvind has the brains of the genius, Wile E Coyote (Super Genius) - it's why he gets paid the big bucks." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ka68k07z
[04:55]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ka68k07z )
● Nov 19
[05:10]	TR News	Techrights Claims That IBM Research Brazil is Shutting Down, Japan Impacted Also https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/19/Claims_That_IBM_Research_Brazil_is_Shutting_Down_Japan_Impacted.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/11/19/Claims_That_IBM_Research_Brazil_is_Shutting_Down_Japan_Impacted.gmi 
[05:10]	TR Bot	 Techrights Claims That IBM Research Brazil is Shutting Down, Japan Impacted Also
[05:12]	TR News	Man arrested for darknet site targeting politicians https://www.dw.com/en/germany-man-arrested-for-darknet-site-targeting-politicians/a-74696784
[05:12]	TR Bot	Man arrested for darknet site targeting politicians DW 11/11/2025
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[05:28]	TR News	Techrights The New Stack, Sponsored by Microsoft: Pay Us Money to Read Promotion of Slop Composed by Microsofters to Sell Their Proprietary Slopware https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/19/The_New_Stack_Sponsored_by_Microsoft_Pay_Us_Money_to_Read_Promo.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/11/19/The_New_Stack_Sponsored_by_Microsoft_Pay_Us_Money_to_Read_Promo.gmi 
[05:28]	TR Bot	 Techrights The New Stack, Sponsored by Microsoft: Pay Us Money to Read Promotion of Slop Composed by Microsofters to Sell Their Proprietary Slopware
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[05:35]	TR News	GNU/Linux up to 5% in https://analytics.usa.gov/
[05:35]	TR Bot	 The US government's web traffic.
[05:35]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/11/16/1329214#1424630
[05:35]	TR Bot	 Microsoft: the Company Doesn't Have Enough Electricity to Install All the AI GPUs in its Inventory - SoylentNews
[05:35]	schestowitz[TR2]	""All we need is more processing and I'm sure this statistical box will magically turn intelligent through some completely unknown mechanism."
[05:35]	schestowitz[TR2]	"All we need is more memory and I'm sure this statistical box will magically turn intelligent through some completely unknown mechanism."
[05:35]	schestowitz[TR2]	"All we need is more training data and I'm sure this statistical box will magically turn intelligent through some completely unknown mechanism."
[05:35]	schestowitz[TR2]	"All we need is more time and I'm sure this statistical box will magically turn intelligent through some completely unknown mechanism."
[05:35]	schestowitz[TR2]	"All we need is more accelerators and I'm sure this statistical box will magically turn intelligent through some completely unknown mechanism."
[05:35]	schestowitz[TR2]	"All we need is more nodes and I'm sure this statistical box will magically turn intelligent through some completely unknown mechanism."
[05:35]	schestowitz[TR2]	"All we need is more datacenters and I'm sure this statistical box will magically turn intelligent through some completely unknown mechanism."
[05:35]	schestowitz[TR2]	"All we need is more power and I'm sure this statistical box will magically turn intelligent through some completely unknown mechanism.""
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● Nov 19
[06:04]	TR News	Techrights They Want to Take Humour Away https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/19/They_Want_to_Take_Humour_Away.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/11/19/They_Want_to_Take_Humour_Away.gmi 
[06:04]	TR Bot	 Techrights They Want to Take Humour Away
[06:19]	TR News	Techrights GNU/Linux Up to 5% in analytics.usa.gov, Apple and Microsoft Only Sell Fantasies https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/19/GNU_Linux_Up_to_5_in_analytics_usa_gov_Apple_and_Microsoft_Only.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/11/19/GNU_Linux_Up_to_5_in_analytics_usa_gov_Apple_and_Microsoft_Only.gmi 
[06:19]	TR Bot	 Techrights GNU/Linux Up to 5% in analytics.usa.gov, Apple and Microsoft Only Sell Fantasies
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[06:38]	TR News	Steam Deck gets display-off low power downloads in a new stable update | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/steam-deck-gets-display-off-low-power-downloads-in-a-new-stable-update/ Source: GamingOnLinux
[06:38]	TR Bot	Deck gets display-off low power downloads in a new stable update | GamingOnLinux
[06:39]	TR News	Cozy exploration-trading game Townseek arrives Spring 2026 with a fresh demo | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/cozy-exploration-trading-game-townseek-arrives-spring-2026-with-a-fresh-demo/ Source: GamingOnLinux
[06:39]	TR Bot	exploration-trading game Townseek arrives Spring 2026 with a fresh demo | GamingOnLinux
[06:39]	TR News	Earth 2140 remake on OpenRA engine OpenE2140 gets a first release | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/earth-2140-remake-on-openra-engine-opene2140-gets-a-first-release/ Source: GamingOnLinux
[06:39]	TR Bot	2140 remake on OpenRA engine OpenE2140 gets a first release | GamingOnLinux
[06:39]	TR News	The big new RPG Where Winds Meet release works well on Linux | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/the-big-new-where-winds-meet-release-works-well-on-linux/ Source: GamingOnLinux
[06:39]	TR Bot	big new RPG Where Winds Meet release works well on Linux | GamingOnLinux
[06:41]	TR News	"Apple's new Digital ID in Apple Wallet is here, but cybersecurity and privacy experts are warning about the significant risks. Is this new 'convenience' actually a digital leash? We break down the security concerns." https://odysee.com/@davidbombal:0/apple's-digital-id-is-a-warning:6
[06:41]	TR Bot	 Apple's Digital ID is a WARNING
[06:41]	TR News	"Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f" https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/hyundai-car-requires-2000,-app-internet:f
[06:41]	TR Bot	 Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f
[06:43]	TR News	Hytale has been saved as Hypixel acquired it from Riot Games | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/hytale-has-been-saved-as-hypixel-acquired-it-from-riot-games/ Source: GamingOnLinux | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/hytale-has-been-saved-as-hypixel-acquired-it-from-riot-games/
[06:43]	TR Bot	has been saved as Hypixel acquired it from Riot Games | GamingOnLinux
[06:44]	TR News	The Game Awards 2025 nominees revealed | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/the-game-awards-2025-reveals-all-the-nominees/ Source: GamingOnLinux | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/the-game-awards-2025-reveals-all-the-nominees/
[06:44]	TR Bot	Game Awards 2025 nominees revealed | GamingOnLinux
[06:44]	TR News	old: "Microsoft, TCP/IP, Open Source, and Licensing || kuro5hin.org" https://web.archive.org/web/20051114154320/http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=displaystory%3Bsid%3D2001%2F6%2F19%2F05641%2F7357 s/couldn't/wouldn't/g;
[06:44]	TR Bot	 Microsoft, TCP/IP, Open Source, and Licensing || kuro5hin.org
[06:45]	TR News	not The Onion https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/us/politics/khashoggi-trump-saudi-crown-prince.html
[06:45]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/us/politics/khashoggi-trump-saudi-crown-prince.html )
[06:45]	TR News	"Do Better, Dont Get Embarrassed" https://json.blog/2025/11/18/do-better-dont-get-embarrassed.html
[06:46]	TR Bot	 Do Better, Dont Get Embarrassed
[06:47]	TR News	Guild Wars Reforged announced to release in December and will be Steam Deck Verified | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/guild-wars-reforged-announced-to-release-in-december-and-will-be-steam-deck-verified/ Source: GamingOnLinux
[06:47]	TR Bot	Wars Reforged announced to release in December and will be Steam Deck Verified | GamingOnLinux
[06:47]	TR News	Playnite may get a Linux version during 2026 as the creator plans a move to Linux | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/playnite-may-get-a-linux-version-during-2026-as-the-creator-plans-a-move-to-linux/ Source: GamingOnLinux
[06:47]	TR Bot	may get a Linux version during 2026 as the creator plans a move to Linux | GamingOnLinux
[06:48]	TR News	EU member states agree on voluntary chat monitoring | "Interne Dokumente: EU-Staaten einigen sich auf freiwillige Chatkontrolle" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=https://netzpolitik.org/2025/interne-dokumente-eu-staaten-einigen-sich-auf-freiwillige-chatkontrolle/
[06:48]	TR Bot	 Interne Dokumente: EU-Staaten einigen sich auf freiwillige Chatkontrolle
[06:49]	TR News	"Mozilla Unveils Plans for New 'AI Window' Browsing Mode in Firefox, Opens Signups" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/11/18/018202 https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/14/Mozilla_Handed_Over_Control_Over_Firefox_to_Microsoft_Now_Firef.shtml
[06:49]	TR Bot	 Mozilla Unveils Plans for New 'AI Window' Browsing Mode in Firefox, Opens Signups - SoylentNews
[06:49]	TR Bot	 Techrights Mozilla Handed Over Control Over Firefox to Microsoft, Now Firefox is Preloaded With Microsoft Spyware and It's Proprietary
[06:50]	TR News	Chat Control 2 without mandatory mass surveillance now the decision is being hammered out in the Council of Ministers | "Chat Control 2 utan obligatorisk massvervakning nu klubbas beslutet i ministerrdet" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/11/18/chat-control-2-utan-obligatorisk-massovervakning-nu-klubbas-beslutet-i-ministerradet/
[06:50]	TR Bot	 Chat Control 2 utan obligatorisk massvervakning nu klubbas beslutet i ministerrdet
[06:50]	TR News	"'No more new questions': 'Piggy.' 'Terrible.' Trump lashes out at female reporters" https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/a/2355821.html
[06:50]	TR Bot	 RTL Today - 'No more new questions': 'Piggy.' 'Terrible.' Trump lashes out at female reporters
[06:53]	TR News	 (NEW):  Games: Playnite, Guild Wars Reforged, and Game Awards 2025 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/19/Games_Playnite_Guild_Wars_Reforged_and_Game_Awards_2025.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/19/Games_Playnite_Guild_Wars_Reforged_and_Game_Awards_2025.gmi 
[06:53]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Games: Playnite, Guild Wars Reforged, and Game Awards 2025
[06:55]	TR News	"Another Federal appeals court has overruled arguments by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) that its checkpoint staff are immune from any liability for sexual assaults or other offenses committed in the course of their official duties." https://papersplease.org/wp/2025/11/18/another-court-turns-down-tsa-appeal-for-impunity-for-checkpoint-staff/ | Source: Papers Please
[06:55]	TR Bot	 Another court turns down TSA appeal for impunity for checkpoint staff Papers, Please!
[06:59]	TR News	"This isnt just about AIits about fundamentally redefining what copyright protects. And once again, something that should be perfectly fine is being treated as an evil that must be punished, all because some new machine did it." https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/18/book-reports-potentially-copyright-infringing-thanks-to-court-attacks-on-llms/ | Source: Techdirt
[06:59]	TR Bot	Reports Potentially Copyright Infringing, Thanks To Court Attacks On LLMs | Techdirt
[06:59]	TR News	"U.S. District Judge James Boasberg issued his ruling Tuesday after the historic antitrust trial wrapped up in late May." https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/meta-antitrust-victory-facebook-instagram-whatsapp-9.6983652 | Source: CBC
[06:59]	TR Bot	 Facebook owner Meta wins U.S. antitrust case, won't have to break off Instagram, WhatsApp | CBC News
● Nov 19
[07:00]	TR News	"The ruling is the latest blow to the governments effort to challenge Big Tech companies dominance over the [Internet] after another federal judge in September refused to break up Google for monopolizing the online search market." https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/18/judge-rules-that-meta-doesnt-have-a-social-media-monopoly-00656616 | Source: Politico LLC
[07:00]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/18/judge-rules-that-meta-doesnt-have-a-social-media-monopoly-00656616 )
[07:00]	TR News	"A federal judge on Tuesday handed Meta a victory, ruling against the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in an antitrust suit that claimed the social media giant stifled competition and bolstered a monopoly by buying upstart rivals." https://text.npr.org/2025/11/18/nx-s1-5495626/meta-ftc-instagram-whatsapp-antitrust-ruling | Source: NPR
[07:00]	TR Bot	 Judge sides with Meta in antitrust trial, will not spin off WhatsApp and Instagram
[07:00]	TR News	"The decision hands a defeat to the Federal Trade Commission, the US antitrust watchdog, which sued Meta in 2020 claiming the company secured a monopoly in social media by purchasing its rivals." https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crklgrpdke8o | Source: BBC
[07:00]	TR Bot	 Meta does not have social media monopoly, judge rules
[07:00]	TR News	"To blunt government efforts to rein in the most powerful tech companies, Silicon Valley has increasingly pointed to rapid technological advances." https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/technology/meta-google-antitrust-tech.html | Source: New York Times
[07:00]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/technology/meta-google-antitrust-tech.html )
[07:01]	TR News	"The case posed an existential challenge to the company, charging that it had simply purchased Instagram and WhatsApp to stave off competition." https://www.dw.com/en/us-meta-wins-major-antitrust-case-avoids-forced-break-up/a-74798391 | Source: Deutsche Welle
[07:01]	TR Bot	Meta wins major antitrust case, avoids forced break-up DW 11/19/2025
[07:01]	TR News	"District Judge James E. Boasberg rejected the Federal Trade Commissions argument that Metas acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp violated antitrust laws." https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/11/18/meta-antitrust-whatsapp-instagram/ | Source: The Washington Post
[07:01]	TR Bot	stream 1 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2) ( status 0 @ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/11/18/meta-antitrust-whatsapp-instagram/ )
[07:02]	TR News	"Viagogo, meanwhile, said that processes to verify tickets would be a more effective way to stop illegal bot activity than limiting resale prices." https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/11/18/stubhub-ticket-resale-caps/ | Source: Digital Music News
[07:02]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/11/18/stubhub-ticket-resale-caps/ )
[07:03]	TR News	"Everyone knows it's broken. Creators hate making clickbait titles but do it anyway." https://gregmorris.co.uk/the-weight-is-optional/ | Source: Greg Morris
[07:03]	TR Bot	 The Weight Is Optional
[07:03]	TR News	"Washington is once again preparing to welcome Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) on Nov. 17." https://dawnmena.org/the-trump-administration-is-enabling-and-exploiting-the-saudi-regimes-repression/ | Source: Democracy for the Arab World Now
[07:03]	TR Bot	 The Trump Administration is Enabling and Exploiting the Saudi Regimes Repression - DAWN
[07:03]	TR News	"For a leader whose toxicity over a horrific killing made him a pariah, Saudi Arabias de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, has come a remarkably long way." https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/saudi-arabia-crown-prince-canada-9.6983422 | Source: CBC
[07:04]	TR Bot	 Once shunned, Saudi crown prince is Trumps guest of honour. Canada is warming up, too | CBC News
[07:04]	TR News	"The president described the journalist, who had been critical of the crown princes policies, as extremely controversial, saying a lot of people didnt like that gentleman." https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/11/trump-defends-saudi-crown-prince-dismisses-human-rights-concerns-during-white-house-meeting/ | Source: JURIST
[07:04]	TR Bot	 Trump defends Saudi crown prince, dismisses human rights concerns during White House meeting - JURIST - News
[07:07]	TR News	"The US president mounted an extraordinary defence of Mohammed bin Salman, known as MBS, as he welcomed him to the White House for the first time since the 2018 murder of Jamal Khashoggi" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2025/11/18/donald-trump-mohammed-bin-salman-white-house-live/ | Source: The Telegraph UK
[07:07]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2025/11/18/donald-trump-mohammed-bin-salman-white-house-live/ )
[07:08]	TR News	"President Bone-Spurs capes for Prince Bone-Saw" https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/11/president-bone-spurs-capes-for-prince-bone-saw/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski
[07:08]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/11/president-bone-spurs-capes-for-prince-bone-saw/ )
[07:08]	TR News	"During the Biden administration, U.S. intelligence officials released a report determining that Prince Mohammed had ordered the killing, but the White House declined to take direct action against him." https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/us/politics/khashoggi-trump-saudi-crown-prince.html | Source: New York Times
[07:08]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/us/politics/khashoggi-trump-saudi-crown-prince.html )
[07:08]	TR News	 (NEW):  Burnout in Open Source: A Structural Problem We Can Fix Together https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/19/Burnout_in_Open_Source_A_Structural_Problem_We_Can_Fix_Together.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/19/Burnout_in_Open_Source_A_Structural_Problem_We_Can_Fix_Together.gmi 
[07:08]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Burnout in Open Source: A Structural Problem We Can Fix Together
[07:08]	TR News	"The visit is the prince's first since the grisly 2018 killing of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the hands of Saudi agents" https://www.dw.com/en/saudi-prince-calls-khashoggi-killing-a-mistake-on-us-visit/a-74794067 | Source: Deutsche Welle
[07:08]	TR Bot	prince calls Khashoggi killing a 'mistake' on US visit DW 11/18/2025
[07:09]	TR News	"All the tawdry details aside, between Nuzzis ethical lapses, the revelations from the Epstein emails of journalists withholding information, and Trumps continued degradation of the press, whats been reinforced is a crisis of elite control of journalism and of profound rot." https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/moral-rot-elite-journalism-nuzzi-lizza-rfk-jr-trump | Source: Marisa Kabas
[07:09]	TR Bot	 Moral rot in elite journalism is killing the whole field
[07:09]	TR News	"on politically-motivated charges." https://www.thenextmove.org/p/in-the-city-of-freedom-part-ii | Source: The Next Move
[07:09]	TR Bot	 In The City of Freedom, Part II - by Jay Nordlinger
[07:10]	TR News	"HOPE was held at St. Johns University in 2022, 2024, and 2025, and was going to be held there in 2026, as well." https://www.404media.co/hope-hacking-conference-banned-from-university-venue-over-apparent-anti-police-agenda/ | Source: 404 Media
[07:10]	TR Bot	 HOPE Hacking Conference Banned From University Venue Over Apparent Anti-Police Agenda
[07:10]	TR News	"What we're told - and what we find rather hard to believe - is that all of this came about because a single person thought we were promoting an anti-police agenda." https://www.2600.com/content/hope-conference-banned-st-johns-university | Source: 2600
[07:10]	TR Bot	CONFERENCE BANNED BY ST. JOHN'S UNIVERSITY | 2600
[07:10]	TR News	it would be quite a gambit with Trumps popularity cratering
[07:10]	TR News	"So its certainly possible that NBC executives could fire Seth Meyers in order to gain regulatory approval of Warner Brothers, but they, of course, wont admit there would be any connection between the two." https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/18/trump-brendan-carr-threaten-to-censor-some-more-comedians-for-the-crime-of-comedy/ | Source: Techdirt
[07:10]	TR Bot	Brendan Carr Threaten To Censor Some More Comedians For The Crime Of Comedy | Techdirt
[07:11]	TR News	"The videos have become commonplace. Federal officers wearing masks and bulletproof vests subdue a moped driver in the middle of a busy D.C. street." https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/favorite-statute-section-111-ice/684961/ | Source: The Atlantic
[07:11]	TR Bot	 The Trump Administrations Favorite Tool for Criminalizing Dissent - The Atlantic
[07:11]	TR News	"Arkhangelsk college students lost a beloved American studies scholar earlier this month." https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/11/19/russian-university-fires-long-time-american-studies-scholar-amid-online-attacks-on-his-family | Source: Meduza
[07:11]	TR Bot	 Russian university fires long-time American studies scholar amid online attacks on his family Meduza
[07:14]		*psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techrights
[07:14]	TR News	"Over the past few years, a new technology has become mainstream: AI. But still, no candidate has unlocked AIs potential to revolutionize political campaigns." https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/11/ai-and-voter-engagement.html | Source: Bruce Schneier
[07:14]	TR Bot	and Voter Engagement - Schneier on Security
[07:14]	TR News	"This initiative aims to accelerate the research, development and industrial deployment of quantum technologies in the EU." https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/15512-EU-Quantum-Act_en | Source: European Commission
[07:14]	TR Bot	 Have your say
[07:14]	TR News	"AI is both a set of technologies, such as neural networks and transformer models, and a range of rhetorical claims. The technology and the claims are only loosely connected." https://www.danmcquillan.org/irish_parliament_opening_statement.html | Source: Dan McQuillan
[07:14]	TR Bot	 Opening Statement to the Irish Parliament Committee on AI
[07:15]	TR News	"Never trust a person who wants to live forever." https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-entropy-budget | Source: Mike Brock
[07:15]	TR Bot	 The Entropy Budget - by Mike Brock - Notes From The Circus
[07:15]	TR News	"Because once someone has decided they should persist indefinitely, everyone else becomes a threat to that project. Not because youre malicious, but because you exist. You breathe their air."
[07:15]	TR News	"Chatter about an AI bubble has been everywhere lately, and top tech companies like Google, Meta, and Microsoft have doubled down on their AI investments for 2026." https://www.wired.com/story/uncanny-valley-podcast-4-things-you-need-for-a-tech-bubble/ | Source: Wired
[07:15]	TR Bot	4 Things You Need for a Tech Bubble | WIRED
[07:15]	TR News	"The multiyear deal, which is expected to generate more than $100 million in revenue for OpenAI" https://siliconangle.com/2025/11/18/intuit-partners-openai-100m-deal-integrate-finance-applications-chatgpt/ | Source: Silicon Angle
[07:15]	TR Bot	partners with OpenAI in $100M deal to integrate its finance applications with ChatGPT - SiliconANGLE
[07:16]	TR News	"While Canadian politicians are still caught up in their AI love affair, panic is rippling through the industryand the AI bubble may be about to burst, with massively damaging consequences for Canada." https://breachmedia.ca/ai-bubble-may-be-about-to-burst/ | Source: Breach Media
[07:16]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://breachmedia.ca/ai-bubble-may-be-about-to-burst/ )
[07:19]	TR News	"Over the weekend, I did some more modifications and enhancements to my bike. I finally mounted some compatible mudguards after I initially bought some incompatible ones when I bought my bike." https://jlelse.blog/thoughts/2025/11/final-ride-of-the-year | Source: Jan Lukas Else
[07:19]	TR Bot	 The final ride of the year? - Jan-Lukas Else
[07:19]	TR News	"It turns out that single different number is the check digit. Entering our Golfs VIN into the NHTSA decoder validates. The one from the dealership? Nope." https://pxlnv.com/blog/hit-by-a-truck/ | Source: Nick Heer
[07:19]	TR Bot	 Hit by a Truck Pixel Envy
[07:20]	TR News	"research at IBM is some kind of gimmick, these days. Talking about Quantum nonsense." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kacy0dc9
[07:20]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kacy0dc9 )
[07:20]	TR News	"Gartner warns that fossil fuel dominance in on-site power generation is not sustainable, given the rapid rise in datacenter energy consumption due to AI servers." https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/18/fossil_fuel_ai_datacenter/ | Source: The Register UK
[07:20]	TR Bot	 AI datacenters can't run indefinitely on fossil fuel The Register
[07:20]	TR News	"Solar remains the countrys fastest-growing source of new generating capacity, largely from utility-scale photovoltaic projects developed by electric utilities and independent power producers." https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/solar/eia-fewer-u-s-solar-projects-reporting-delays-as-developers-adjust-schedules/ | Source: Renewable Energy World
[07:20]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/solar/eia-fewer-u-s-solar-projects-reporting-delays-as-developers-adjust-schedules/ )
[07:21]	TR News	"When two people book the same flight, they can get wildly different carbon footprints from online calculators." https://phys.org/news/2025-11-flight-carbon-footprint-accurate.html | Source: Omicron Limited
[07:21]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://phys.org/news/2025-11-flight-carbon-footprint-accurate.html )
[07:21]	TR News	"Saudi Arabia is pitching itself to US tech firms as a low-cost compute hub, with its ample land and cheap energy making it an attractive place for hyperscalers to build capacity." https://www.semafor.com/article/11/18/2025/saudi-set-to-announce-slew-of-ai-deals-with-us-firms | Source: Semafor Inc http://techrights.org/n/2025/09/17/Slop_Nihilism_is_Funded_by_Big_Oil.shtml
[07:21]	TR Bot	set to announce slew of AI deals with US firms | Semafor
[07:21]	TR Bot	 Techrights Slop Nihilism is Funded by Big Oil
[07:21]	TR News	"Opening 80 million acres in the Gulf is a recipe for more spills, more carbon pollution and more damage to coastal communities and marine life" https://www.courthousenews.com/environmentalists-accuse-trump-of-rubber-stamping-gulf-of-mexico-oil-sale/ | Source: Court House News
[07:21]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.courthousenews.com/environmentalists-accuse-trump-of-rubber-stamping-gulf-of-mexico-oil-sale/ )
[07:24]	TR News	"But in a few short weeks, the deal has generated intense controversy." https://www.lonestarlive.com/palabra/2025/11/data-centers-are-the-deserts-thirsty-new-neighbor.html | Source: Advance Local Media LLC
[07:24]	TR Bot	centers are the deserts thirsty new neighbor - lonestarlive.com
[07:24]	TR News	"The report analyzes the policies of 63 countries worldwide, which combined are responsible for 90% of greenhouse gas emissions." https://english.elpais.com/climate/2025-11-18/us-joins-saudi-arabia-iran-and-russia-in-the-group-of-countries-doing-the-least-to-combat-climate-change.html | Source: El Pas
[07:25]	TR Bot	 US joins Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Russia in the group of countries doing the least to combat climate change | Climate | EL PAS English
[07:25]	TR News	"Experts and international bodies note that by 2025 the drought is no longer merely a climatic phenomenon; years of poor water management, state policies and long-term environmental neglect have turned it into a structural collapse." https://english.anf-news.com/ecology/drought-pushes-eastern-kurdistan-and-lake-urmia-basin-to-collapse-82260 |
[07:25]	TR Bot	 ANF | Drought pushes Eastern Kurdistan and Lake Urmia basin to collapse
[07:26]	TR News	"searchable and downloadable format" https://www.vox.com/the-logoff-newsletter-trump/469588/jeffrey-epstein-files-congress-doj-donald-trump | Source: Vox
[07:26]	TR Bot	votes to release the Jeffrey Epstein files: What to know | Vox
[07:26]	TR News	"And then, he says, he never heard another word from Coinbase, despite four follow-up emails sent in January." https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/17/coinbase_breach_timeline/ | Source: The Register UK
[07:26]	TR Bot	 Security researcher calls BS on Coinbase breach timeline The Register
[07:30]	TR News	"One vulnerability is still not fixed after a 90-day disclosure window that ended in October 2024. It remains unaddressed as of this publication." https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/11/18/we-found-cryptography-bugs-in-the-elliptic-library-using-wycheproof/ | Source: Trail of Bits
[07:30]	TR Bot	 We found cryptography bugs in the elliptic library using Wycheproof -The Trail of Bits Blog
[07:31]	TR News	"Finally, we would like to reiterate that, even if deployed voluntarily, on-device detection technologies cannot be considered a reasonable tool to mitigate risks, as there is no proven benefit, while the potential for harm and abuse is enormous." https://csa-scientist-open-letter.org/Nov2025 |
[07:31]	TR News	"Following a major public outcry, a clarification in the EUs controversial Chat Control law appeared to secure a victory for privacy advocates." https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/eu-chat-control-proposal-still-poses-high-risks-despite-removal-of-mandatory-scanning-experts-warn/ | Source: Patrick Breyer
[07:31]	TR Bot	 EU Chat Control Proposal Still Poses High Risks Despite Removal of Mandatory Scanning, Experts Warn Patrick Breyer
[07:32]	TR News	"ARC says it informed lawmakers and customers about the decision earlier this month." https://www.404media.co/airlines-will-shut-down-program-that-sold-your-flights-records-to-government/ | Source: 404 Media
[07:32]	TR Bot	 Airlines Will Shut Down Program That Sold Your Flights Records to Government
[07:32]	TR News	"The groups argue San Jose police often violate the California Constitution by using records from automated license plate readers" https://www.courthousenews.com/civil-rights-watchdogs-sue-san-jose-police-over-deeply-invasive-traffic-camera-searches/ | Source: Court House News
[07:32]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.courthousenews.com/civil-rights-watchdogs-sue-san-jose-police-over-deeply-invasive-traffic-camera-searches/ )
[07:32]	TR News	"In order to biometrically identify you, a company typically will take your image and extract a faceprint by taking tiny measurements of your face and converting that into a series of numbers that is saved for later." https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/18/the-legal-case-against-rings-face-recognition-feature/ | Source: Techdirt
[07:32]	TR Bot	Legal Case Against Rings Face Recognition Feature | Techdirt
[07:33]	TR News	"The original passport photo is loaded with the aura of use, brads punched through, ink smeared on the photo, a stamp across its edge." https://tracydurnell.com/2025/11/17/a-study-in-aura/ | Source: Tracy Durnell
[07:33]	TR Bot	 A study in aura Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden
[07:34]	TR News	"So yeah, its cold and lonely out here. Ill keep at it though: I think the benefits that come from having my own place for my code is worth it." https://lmika.org/2025/11/19/github-fomo.html | Source: Leon Mika
[07:34]	TR Bot	 Github FOMO - Leon Mika
[07:36]	TR News	Windows TCO: "Sitting alongside Cairncross was Mandiant cofounder Kevin Mandia, who argued that the current asymmetry in US cyber posture" https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/18/the_us_wants_to_go/ | Source: The Register UK
[07:36]	TR Bot	 Take fight to the enemy, US cyber boss says The Register
[07:36]	TR News	Windows TCO: "Several party websites including those of the Conservatives, the Red-Green Alliance, the Moderates and the ruling Social Democrats" https://therecord.media/denmark-election-political-government-websites-ddos-incidents | Source: The Record
[07:36]	TR Bot	 Pro-Russian group claims hits on Danish party websites as voters head to polls | The Record from Recorded Future News
[07:38]		*psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techrights
[07:38]	TR News	 (NEW):  Free and Open Source Software https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/19/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/19/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi 
[07:38]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Free and Open Source Software
[07:39]	TR News	"When you think of social media, many of the platforms you think of are what we call proprietary: their underlying software is private to the companies that build them, and its very difficult to move your data or your connections anywhere else." https://werd.io/the-state-of-the-open-social-web/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller
[07:39]	TR Bot	 The State of the Open Social Web
[07:39]	TR News	"Findings This cohort study of 14350 participants in South Australia during the 4 years before, during, and after the pandemic found rapid increases in social media use compared with all other activities." https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2841335 | Source: JAMA
[07:39]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2841335 )
[07:39]	TR News	"Reading for fun: The proportion of children who never read for fun increased from 11% to 53%" https://phys.org/news/2025-11-social-media-soars-kids-sports.html | Source: Omicron Limited
[07:39]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://phys.org/news/2025-11-social-media-soars-kids-sports.html )
[07:40]	TR News	"But also, hiding the fact that they are part of the process is very harmful. Without acknowledging the work of human helpers, the entire industry of celebrity and/or famous people memoirs could get inundated by AI slop." https://raforall.blogspot.com/2025/11/just-say-no-to-ai-talking-openly-about.html | Source: Becky Spratford
[07:40]	TR Bot	 RA for All: Just Say No to AI: Talking Openly About Ghostwriting
[07:40]	TR News	"Linux and Git inventor Linus Torvalds discussed AI in software development in an interview earlier this month" https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/18/linus_torvalds_vibe_coding/ | Source: The Register UK
[07:40]	TR Bot	 Linus Torvalds: Vibe coding is fine, but not for production The Register
[07:44]	TR News	"Most corporations operate with an understanding that their servers will remain relevant for between three and five years" https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/gpu-depreciation-could-be-the-next-big-crisis-coming-for-ai-hyperscalers-after-spending-billions-on-buildouts-next-gen-upgrades-may-amplify-cashflow-quirks | Source: Tom's Hardware
[07:44]	TR Bot	 GPU depreciation could be the next big crisis coming for AI hyperscalers after spending billions on buildouts, next-gen upgrades may amplify cashflow quirks | Tom's Hardware
[07:44]	TR News	"Large language models, or LLMs the artificial intelligence systems that power chatbots like ChatGPT are increasingly being used as sources of quick answers." https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ai-chatbots-learning-superficial-llm | Source: Science News
[07:44]	TR Bot	 Chatbots may make learning feel easy but its superficial
[07:45]	TR News	"But financial markets today are larger, more complex, and less tightly tied to any single lever such as interest rates." https://theconversation.com/is-the-ai-bubble-about-to-burst-what-to-watch-for-as-the-markets-wobble-270113 | Source: The Conversation
[07:45]	TR Bot	 Is the AI bubble about to burst? What to watch for as the markets wobble
[07:45]	TR News	 (NEW):  The Librephone project aims to remove proprietary blobs from smartphones running an open-source OS https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/19/The_Librephone_project_aims_to_remove_proprietary_blobs_from_sm.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/19/The_Librephone_project_aims_to_remove_proprietary_blobs_from_sm.gmi 
[07:45]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines The Librephone project aims to remove proprietary blobs from smartphones running an open-source OS
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[07:45]	TR News	"For PIRG, the actions are a welcome move, but a minor victory." https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-blocks-toymaker-ai-teddy-bear | Source: Futurism
[07:45]	TR Bot	 OpenAI Blocks Toymaker After Its AI Teddy Bear Is Caught Telling Children Terrible Things
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[07:46]	TR News	"None of this works in Kiosk mode, by the way. Its only for digital signage." https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/18/windows_bsod_digital_signage_mode/ | Source: The Register UK
[07:46]	TR Bot	 Windows Digital Signage mode hides BSoDs after 15 seconds The Register
[07:46]	TR News	"Today, I was in the middle of writing a blog post when things suddenly stopped making sense." https://afranca.com.br/the-fragile-web-we-built | Source: Andre Franca
[07:46]	TR Bot	 The Fragile Web We Built Andre Franca
[07:46]	TR News	"With the memories of the latest AWS outage still fresh in our heads, we were treated to another web outage today." https://marijkeluttekes.dev/blog/articles/2025/11/18/oh-hey-the-internet-is-broken-again/ | Source: Marijke Luttekes
[07:46]	TR Bot	 Oh, hey, the internet is broken. Again. / Marijke Luttekes
[07:46]	TR News	"But as I signed on to my computer for the morning to get to work, I quickly saw that Cloudflare was having a major outage." https://birchtree.me/blog/i-was-so-close-to-saying-something-nice-about-dia/ | Source: Matt Birchler
[07:46]	TR Bot	 I was so close to saying something nice about Dia
[07:47]	TR News	"Cloudflare said last year that about 20 percent of the web runs through its network, which is supposed to share the load to keep websites online in the face of traffic spikes and DDoS attacks." https://www.theverge.com/news/823711/cloudflare-outage-postmortem | Source: The Verge
[07:47]	TR Bot	 Cloudflare explains Tuesdays outage that temporarily took down ChatGPT | The Verge
[07:47]	TR News	"Knecht said Cloudflare would soon share a detailed explanation of why the incident occurred." https://www.securityweek.com/cloudflare-says-highly-disruptive-outage-not-caused-by-attack/ | Source: Security Week
[07:47]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/cloudflare-says-highly-disruptive-outage-not-caused-by-attack/ )
[07:48]	TR News	"One of the most significant steps is the final deprecation of System V init script support" https://linuxiac.com/systemd-259-rc1-previews-sysv-script-removal/ | Source: Linuxiac
[07:48]	TR Bot	 Systemd 259 RC1 Previews SysV Script Removal
[07:48]	TR News	"we failed our customers and the broader internet" https://www.tomshardware.com/service-providers/cloudflare-apologizes-after-outage-takes-major-websites-offline | Source: Tom's Hardware
[07:49]	TR Bot	 Cloudflare's CTO apologizes after error takes huge chunk of the internet offline 'we failed our customers and the broader internet' | Tom's Hardware
[07:49]	TR News	"It said many websites were showing 500 errors this is a generic hypertext transfer protocol status code that means the websites server encountered an unexpected problem and could not fulfil a request." https://techcentral.co.za/cloudflare-meltdown-knocks-major-websites-offline/274406/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)
[07:49]	TR Bot	 Cloudflare meltdown knocks major websites offline
[07:51]	TR News	"triggered by a change to one of our database systems' permissions which caused the database to output multiple entries into a feature file used by our Bot Management system." https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/19/cloudflare_incident_report/ | Source: The Register UK
[07:51]	TR Bot	 Cloudflare broke the internet with a bad DB query The Register
[07:51]	TR News	"the company was named as a victim by the CL0P ransomware group earlier this month as part of the threat groups campaign targeting Oracle E-Business Suite vulnerabilities." https://thecyberexpress.com/logitech-confirms-data-breach-cl0p-oracle/ | Source: Cyble Inc
[07:51]	TR Bot	 Logitech Confirms Data Breach; Follows CL0P Victim Claims
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[07:51]	TR News	"That's what happened with Logitech recently, which has just filed a Form K-8 with the SEC, confirming it was [breache] and 1.8 terabytes of data was taken, but that sensitive data wasn't affected." https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/hackers-steal-1-8tb-of-data-from-pc-peripheral-vendor-logitech-firm-says-zero-day-vulnerability-to-blame-no-sensitive-information-stolen | Source: Tom's Hardware
[07:51]	TR Bot	 Hackers steal 1.8 terabytes of data from PC peripheral vendor Logitech firm says zero-day vulnerability to blame, no sensitive information stolen | Tom's Hardware
[07:51]	TR News	 (NEW):  Xubuntu Reveals How its Website Was Hijacked https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/19/Xubuntu_Reveals_How_its_Website_Was_Hijacked.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/19/Xubuntu_Reveals_How_its_Website_Was_Hijacked.gmi 
[07:52]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Xubuntu Reveals How its Website Was Hijacked
[07:52]	TR News	"If your organization uses Microsoft Exchange-based email, youll be happy to hear that Thunderbirds latest monthly Release version 145" https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/11/thunderbird-adds-native-microsoft-exchange-email-support/ | Source: Thunderbird
[07:52]	TR Bot	 Thunderbird Adds Native Microsoft Exchange Email Support - The Thunderbird Blog
[07:54]	TR News	"Daddy, are you working or playing?" https://afranca.com.br/fatherhood-in-the-age-of-screens | Source: Andre Franca
[07:54]	TR Bot	 Fatherhood in the Age of Screens Andre Franca
[07:55]	TR News	 (NEW):  Thunderbird and Systemd Ushering in Monopoly https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/19/Thunderbird_and_Systemd_Ushering_in_Monopoly.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/19/Thunderbird_and_Systemd_Ushering_in_Monopoly.gmi 
[07:55]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Thunderbird and Systemd Ushering in Monopoly
[07:58]	TR News	 (NEW):  Q4OS Linux brought my old laptop back to life and you mustn't ignore it https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/19/Q4OS_Linux_brought_my_old_laptop_back_to_life_and_you_mustn_t_i.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/19/Q4OS_Linux_brought_my_old_laptop_back_to_life_and_you_mustn_t_i.gmi 
[07:58]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Q4OS Linux brought my old laptop back to life and you mustn't ignore it
● Nov 19
[08:00]	TR News	"Now, as a person who sees systems, who intuits chaos, who can grasp these concepts of swirling infinities" https://hazelweakly.me/blog/to-be-a-leader-of-systems/ | Source: Hazel Weakly
[08:00]	TR Bot	 To Be a Leader of Systems | Hazel Weakly
[08:01]	TR News	"maiden flight at the International Supercomputing Conference" https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/17/europe_jupiter_supercomputer/ | Source: The Register UK
[08:01]	TR Bot	 Europe joins the US as an exascale superpower The Register
[08:02]	TR News	"I encountered the question today of what to do with missing values when conducting null hypothesis testing or regression?" https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/11/why-you-should-not-use-mean-imputation-for-missing-data/ | Source: Rlang
[08:02]	TR Bot	you should not use mean imputation for missing data | R-bloggers
[08:02]	TR News	 (NEW):  4 reasons why you should stop using snaps on Ubuntu https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/19/4_reasons_why_you_should_stop_using_snaps_on_Ubuntu.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/19/4_reasons_why_you_should_stop_using_snaps_on_Ubuntu.gmi 
[08:02]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines 4 reasons why you should stop using snaps on Ubuntu
[08:02]	TR News	"This is a textbook ops manual. Next time I need to raise an invoice, I need to be following a process. Last time, I just made it up on the fly." https://johnnydecimal.com/20-29-communication/22-blog/22.00.0169-an-invoice-disappears/ | Source: Johnny Decimal
[08:02]	TR Bot	 22.00.0169 An invoice disappears Johnny.Decimal
[08:03]	TR News	"Outages, you say? Of course I have stories about outages, and limits, and some limits causing outages, and other things just screwing life up." https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2025/11/18/down/ | Source: Rachel
[08:03]	TR Bot	 More tales about outages and numeric limits
[08:03]	TR News	"And, yeah, I'm getting there! Quitting work (don't call it FIRE) wasn't as traumatic as I thought." https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/11/2025-a-year-in-review/ | Source: Terence Eden
[08:03]	TR Bot	 2025 A Year In Review Terence Edens Blog
[08:03]	TR News	"the closer you get to launch, the less you know" https://thomasrigby.com/posts/til-cone-of-uncertainty/ | Source: Thomas Rigby
[08:03]	TR Bot	Cone of Uncertainty | thomasrigby.com
[08:03]	TR News	 (NEW):  These 5 Gnome extensions instantly improved my Linux workflow https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/19/These_5_Gnome_extensions_instantly_improved_my_Linux_workflow.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/19/These_5_Gnome_extensions_instantly_improved_my_Linux_workflow.gmi 
[08:03]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines These 5 Gnome extensions instantly improved my Linux workflow
[08:15]	TR News	Techrights Links 19/11/2025: Several Sites Admit Slop Bubble "About to Burst", US Government Tacitly Endorses Assassination of Journalists https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/19/Links_19_11_2025_Several_Sites_Admit_Slop_Bubble_About_to_Burst.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/11/19/Links_19_11_2025_Several_Sites_Admit_Slop_Bubble_About_to_Burst.gmi 
[08:15]	TR Bot	 Techrights Links 19/11/2025: Several Sites Admit Slop Bubble "About to Burst", US Government Tacitly Endorses Assassination of Journalists
[08:21]	TR News	"There is a peace in knowing that my words sit on my device, readable by anything from TextEdit to Ulysses. No login required, no server ping needed." https://gregmorris.co.uk/simple-local-txt/ | Source: Greg Morris
[08:21]	TR Bot	 Simple, Local, TXT
[08:21]	TR News	"So why would I bring it up?" https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/11/why-does-my-device-stick-to-the-wrong-wi-fi-router/ | Source: Six Colors
[08:21]	TR Bot	 Why does my device stick to the wrong Wi-Fi router? Six Colors
[08:21]	TR News	"The intention here is not to list all available options, but list the decisions I made. The goal here is not to self-host a complete redundant DNS server setup." https://linderud.dev/blog/self-hosting-dns-for-no-fun-but-a-little-profit/ | Source: Morten Linderud
[08:21]	TR Bot	 Self-hosting DNS for no fun, but a little profit!
[08:21]	TR News	"I found this so surprising that I tested it on our Linux servers as well as a FreeBSD and an OpenBSD machine." https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/ShebangRelativePathSurprise | Source: University of Toronto
[08:22]	TR Bot	 You're using a too-old browser
[08:22]	TR News	 (NEW):   : Google Android Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/19/Android_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/19/Android_Leftovers.gmi 
[08:22]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Android Leftovers
[08:22]	TR News	"When I talk to people about Python package management in 2025 I see the following tools in active use; uv, pixi, pip, conda, mamba, micromamba and poetry." https://jacobtomlinson.dev/posts/2025/python-package-managers-uv-vs-pixi/ | Source: Jacob Tomlinson
[08:22]	TR Bot	 Python package managers: uv vs pixi? - Jacob Tomlinson
[08:22]	TR News	[Old] "[...] And we actually had the cover of Publisher's Weekly at some point in the late 1990s and it said, 'The Internet was built with O'Reilly books.' And nobody would think anything of that." https://www.econtalk.org/tim-oreilly-on-technology-and-work/ |
[08:22]	TR Bot	 Tim O'Reilly on Technology and Work - Econlib
[08:22]	TR News	[Old] "[With Perl], I was trying to encourage what I call diagonal thinking. Traditionally computer languages try to be as orthogonal as possible, meaning their features are at all at right angles to each other, metaphorically speaking." https://techgnosis.com/perl-creator-larry-wall/ |
[08:22]	TR Bot	creator Larry Wall - Techgnosis
[08:23]	TR News	"Congrats to the team for the new Rakudo compiler, Release #187 (2025.11)." https://rakudoweekly.blog/2025/11/17/2025-46-advent-alert-release-187/ | Source: Rakulang
[08:23]	TR Bot	 2025.46 Advent Alert & Release #187 Rakudo Weekly News
[08:23]	TR News	"Trick question! Perl is not dead. Ill show you what I mean, and then still answer what I think killed Perl." https://entropicthoughts.com/what-killed-perl | Source: Chris
[08:23]	TR Bot	 What Killed Perl?
[08:31]	psydroid3	let's centralise even more of the decentralised internet and hope for the best!
[08:33]	TR News	"my code runs in a couple of cycles" https://jerf.org/iri/post/2025/the_uselessness_of_fast/ | Source: Jeremy Bowers
[08:33]	TR Bot	 The Uselessness of "Fast" and "Slow" in Programming - iRi
[08:33]	TR News	"1993 is 32 years ago. The Symbolics 3600, probably the first Lisp machine that sold in more than tiny numbers, was introduced in 1983, ten years earlier. People who used Lisp machines other than as historical artefacts are old today." https://www.tfeb.org/fragments/2025/11/18/the-lost-cause-of-the-lisp-machines/ | Source: Tim Bradshaw
[08:33]	TR Bot	 The lost cause of the Lisp machines
[08:35]	TR News	"These concepts are mostly orthogonal. You can switch from vector to a linked list, or even change the programming language, affecting only the data type." https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/ntoh-hton-is-a-bad-api/ | Source: Alisa Sireneva
[08:35]	TR Bot	 ntoh*/hton* is a bad API | purplesyringa's blog
[08:35]	TR News	"As software developers we are keen to discuss APIs, interfaces, and the beauty of well-crafted systems." https://www.eliseomartelli.it/blog/2025-11-17-the-api-of-a-camera-and-the-unix-manifesto | Source: Eliseo Martelli
[08:35]	TR Bot	 The API of a Camera and the Unix manifesto | Eliseo Martelli
[08:36]	TR News	"When I started at AWS in 2008, we ran the EC2 control plane on a tree of MySQL databases: a primary to handle writes, a secondary to take over from the primary" https://brooker.co.za/blog/2025/11/18/consistency.html | Source: Marc Brooker
[08:36]	TR Bot	 Why Strong Consistency? - Marc's Blog
[08:41]	TR News	"The Blender Foundation has released Blender 5.0, a major update for this popular open-source 3D creation suite that touches nearly every aspect of the app, from minor details to foundational shifts." https://linuxiac.com/blender-5-0-released-with-a-ui-overhaul-smarter-nodes-and-hdr-support/ | Source: Linuxiac
[08:41]	TR Bot	 Blender 5.0 Released with a UI Overhaul, Smarter Nodes, and HDR Support
[08:42]	TR News	"On the user interface side, when you open Blender 5.0 for the first time, the interface feels different. The developers have unified the theme system, removing more than 300 options, which is one of the biggest structural changes in years, to make custom theme creation and maintenance more manageable. However, some existing custom themes built for Blender 4.5 may break as a result."
[08:42]	TR News	"ClamAV will retire outdated signatures on December 16, reducing both databases by about 50% to improve performance and trim update costs." https://linuxiac.com/clamav-to-cut-signature-database-size-by-50-percentage/ | Source: Linuxiac
[08:42]	TR Bot	 ClamAV to Cut Signature Database Size by 50%
[08:49]	TR News	"In this article I compare three open-source Android-derived firmwares: Lineage OS, eOS, and Graphene OS." https://kevinboone.me/lineage-eos-graphene.html | Source: Kevin Boone
[08:49]	TR Bot	 Kevin Boone: Comparing Android alternatives: Lineage OS, eOS, and Graphene OS
[08:49]	TR News	"Most eSIM providers let you hold multiple plans at once. You keep your home number active for calls and texts while using a local data plan for [Internet] access" https://greycoder.com/using-esims-to-get-inexpensive-cellular-service-when-traveling/ | Source: GreyCoder
[08:49]	TR Bot	eSIMs to Get Inexpensive Cellular Service When Traveling - GreyCoder
[08:50]	TR News	"This article will delve into a particular section of the talk, from ~27 minutes onwards, that sets out NVIDIAs stance on language-based security." https://www.adacore.com/blog/proving-safety-at-scale-spark-risc-v-and-nvidias-security-strategy |
[08:50]	TR Bot	Safety at Scale: SPARK, RISC-V, and NVIDIAs | AdaCore
[08:50]	TR News	"MSX2 is second generation of MSX retro computer released in 1985 by Microsoft/ASCII corporation and was popular mostly in Japan." https://olimex.wordpress.com/2025/11/18/msx2-retro-computer-emulator-released-for-rp2350pc/ | Source: Olimex
[08:50]	TR Bot	 MSX2 retro computer emulator released for RP2350pc | olimex
[08:50]	TR News	"The second edition is a major combination of my first two books, to fully cover ARM 64-Bit Assembly Language on newer Raspberry Pis, preferably at least the 5." https://smist08.wordpress.com/2025/11/18/raspberry-pi-assembly-language-programming-second-edition/ | Source: Stephen Smith
[08:50]	TR Bot	 Raspberry Pi Assembly Language Programming Second Edition | Stephen Smith's Blog
● Nov 19
[09:04]	TR News	"Were thrilled to announce that Zorin OS 18 has amassed 1 million downloads in just over a month since its release, breaking all previous records." https://blog.zorin.com/2025/11/18/test-the-upgrade-from-zorin-os-17-to-18-and-celebrating-1-million-downloads-of-zorin-os-18/ | Source: Zorin Group
[09:04]	TR Bot	 Test the Upgrade From Zorin OS 17 to 18 & Celebrating 1 Million Downloads of Zorin OS 18 - Zorin
[09:05]	TR News	"The target audience is users who prefer a system free of licensing restrictions and proprietary blobs while remaining close to the experience offered by the regular Debian Live Images. The goal of this initiative is to provide a Debian environment that does not require accepting the restrictive licenses associated with proprietary firmware."
[09:05]	TR News	"The new Debian Libre Live Images provide amd64 live and installer ISOs built entirely without proprietary firmware, addressing a long-standing gap created after Debians 2022 decision to include non-free firmware in its official images" https://linuxiac.com/debian-libre-live-images-debut-for-fully-free-debian-installations/ | Source: Linuxiac
[09:05]	TR Bot	 Debian Libre Live Images Debut for Fully Free Debian Installations
[09:06]	TR News	"Juha Uotila has announced the release of Aurora 43, an important update of the project's Fedora-based immutable Linux distribution made for the desktop. This version updates the underlying system to Fedora 43 and also introduces KDE Plasma 6.5: [...]" https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12638 | Source: Distro Watch
[09:06]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12638 )
[09:06]	TR News	"Breeze, the default Plasma theme engine, receives corrections, including a palette reset fix and improved QQC2 menu styling." https://linuxiac.com/kde-plasma-6-5-3-desktop-released/ | Source: Linuxiac
[09:06]	TR Bot	 KDE Plasma 6.5.3 Delivers Bug Fixes Across KWin, Discover, and Breeze
[09:07]	TR News	"Released in June 1996, Quake had to ride three technological shock-waves during its lifetime." https://fabiensanglard.net/quake_chunnel/index.html | Source: Fabian Sanglard
[09:07]	TR Bot	 How quake.exe got its TCP/IP stack
[09:07]	TR News	"Vietnam 1965-1975 was conceived in the early 1980s when Nick Karp, a Princeton University student, needed to complete his senior thesis." https://www.armytimes.com/veterans/military-history/2025/11/19/can-a-tabletop-game-explain-why-america-lost-the-vietnam-war/ | Source: Sightline Media Group
[09:07]	TR Bot	 Can a tabletop game explain why America lost the Vietnam War?
[09:07]	TR News	"This week Steve and Noah talk about the things you didn't know you knew about Linux. Scott Jenson joins the program to talk about principals of UX/UI design." https://podcast.asknoahshow.com/467 | Source: The Ask Noah Show
[09:07]	TR Bot	 Ask Noah Show Episode 467: Ask Noah Show 467
[09:10]	TR News	"Explore technology, inclusive teaching, and creative projects at the Code Club Conference 2025." https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/code-club-conference-2025-creativity-community-and-collaboration-in-cambridge/ | Source: Raspberry Pi
[09:10]	TR Bot	 Code Club Conference 2025: Creativity, community, and collaboration in Cambridge - Raspberry Pi Foundation
[09:10]	TR News	"Conclusive Engineering has introduced the KSTR-IMX93 on Kickstarter, a Linux-capable SBC integrating Wi-Fi 6, cellular IoT, Bluetooth LE 5.4, Zigbee, Thread, GNSS" https://linuxgizmos.com/linux-ready-kstr-imx93-sbc-debuts-on-kickstarter-with-wi-fi-6-cellular-iot-and-802-15-4-connectivity/ | Source: Linux Gizmos
[09:10]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/linux-ready-kstr-imx93-sbc-debuts-on-kickstarter-with-wi-fi-6-cellular-iot-and-802-15-4-connectivity/ )
[09:13]	TR News	It's proprietary, it does not actually run in GNU/Linux, and end of support implies a lack of interest https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-says-sql-server-adoption-on-linux-is-phenomenal-ends-support-for-suse-distro/
[09:13]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-says-sql-server-adoption-on-linux-is-phenomenal-ends-support-for-suse-distro/ )
[09:14]	TR News	"89.4 MB/Sec" https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-enterprise-linux-delivers-deterministic-performance-industrial-tsn | Source: Red Hat Official
[09:14]	TR Bot	 Red Hat Enterprise Linux delivers deterministic performance for industrial TSN
[09:15]	TR News	Red Hat selling Microsoft and back doors https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/enhance-workload-security-confidential-containers-azure-red-hat-openshift | Source: Red Hat Official
[09:15]	TR Bot	 Enhance workload security with confidential containers on Azure Red Hat OpenShift
[09:16]	TR News	Red Hat selling Microsoft and back doors again https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/openshift-virtualization-now-generally-available-azure-red-hat-openshift | Source: Red Hat Official
[09:16]	TR Bot	 OpenShift Virtualization now generally available on Azure Red Hat OpenShift
[09:16]	TR News	More selling of buzzwords (bubble): "While AI solutions are often positioned as immediately deployable, successful enterprise implementation requires strategic planning and systematic integration." https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/building-consistent-ai-platform-customization-meets-enterprise-data | Source: Red Hat Official
[09:16]	TR Bot	 Building a consistent AI platform: Customization meets enterprise data
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● Nov 19
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[10:58]	TR News	"Even with powerful services like Amazon Bedrock and DevOps Guru, organizations face hurdles: [...]" https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-ansible-certified-collection-amazonai-automate-ai-infrastructure | Source: Red Hat Official
[10:58]	TR Bot	 Red Hat Ansible Certified Collection for amazon.ai: Automate AI Infrastructure
[10:58]	TR News	"In todays dynamic digital landscape, collaboration between industry and government is essential for developing innovative, customized solutions that enable agencies to better serve citizens." https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-2025-north-america-public-sector-partner-pinnacle-award-winners | Source: Red Hat Official
[10:58]	TR Bot	 Red Hat 2025 North America Public Sector Partner Pinnacle Award Winners
[10:59]	TR News	FreeBSD 15.0-RC2 is out so fast after RC1 https://distrowatch.com/freebsd
[10:59]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/freebsd )
● Nov 19
[11:00]	TR News	IGF 2025 releases new guide on financing community connectivity https://blog.apnic.net/2025/11/18/igf-2025-releases-new-guide-on-financing-community-connectivity/
[11:00]	TR Bot	 IGF 2025 releases new guide on financing community connectivity | APNIC Blog
[11:01]	TR News	Your elected leaders: Akinori Maemura, long-serving former APNIC EC Chair https://blog.apnic.net/2025/11/19/your-elected-leaders-akinori-maemura-long-serving-former-apnic-ec-chair/
[11:01]	TR Bot	 Your elected leaders: Akinori Maemura, long-serving former APNIC EC Chair | APNIC Blog
[11:03]	TR News	IBM Red Hat promoting the chatbot bubble https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/11/18/reduce-llm-benchmarking-costs-oversaturation-detection
[11:03]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/11/18/reduce-llm-benchmarking-costs-oversaturation-detection )
[11:03]	TR News	nmilosev: TPU Monitoring in MLFlow Part 2 https://nmilosev.svbtle.com/tpu-monitoring-in-mlflow-part-2
[11:03]	TR Bot	 TPU Monitoring in MLFlow Part 2
[11:04]	TR News	Chinese Spies Are Using Microsoft's Surveillance Arm LinkedIn to Target U.K. Lawmakers, MI5 Warns https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/world/europe/chinese-spies-linkedin-uk.html
[11:04]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/world/europe/chinese-spies-linkedin-uk.html )
[11:04]	TR News	Google Pulls Down Hey Hi (AI) Chatbot After It Accuses Senator of Terrible Crime https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-chatbot-accuses-senator-crime
[11:04]	TR Bot	 Google Sweating After Its AI Accuses Senator of Terrible Crime
[11:05]	TR News	MI5 Warns Lawmakers That Chinese Spies Are Trying to Reach Them via Microsoft's Surveillance Arm LinkedIn https://www.securityweek.com/mi5-warns-lawmakers-that-chinese-spies-are-trying-to-reach-them-via-linkedin/
[11:05]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/mi5-warns-lawmakers-that-chinese-spies-are-trying-to-reach-them-via-linkedin/ )
[11:06]	TR News	The DSA and Platform Regulation Conference 2026 https://edri.org/take-action/events/the-dsa-and-platform-regulation-conference-2026/
[11:06]	TR Bot	 The DSA and Platform Regulation Conference 2026 - European Digital Rights (EDRi)
[11:10]	TR News	IBM Red Hat "all-in" on buzzwords https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/11/18/making-sense-llm-customization
[11:10]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/11/18/making-sense-llm-customization )
[11:11]	TR News	Late Night Linux Episode 360 https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-360/ "then angry and disappointed about Mozillas latest nonsense"
[11:11]	TR Bot	 Late Night Linux Episode 360 Late Night Linux
[11:12]	TR News	Commission launches market investigations on clown computing services under the Digital Markets Act https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_2717
[11:12]	TR Bot	 Press corner | European Commission
[11:13]	TR News	The Rust Programming Language Blog: Surveillance Giant Google Summer of Code 2025 results https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/11/18/gsoc-2025-results/
[11:13]	TR Bot	 Google Summer of Code 2025 results | Rust Blog
[11:17]	TR News	MiniOS 5.1.0-rc1 is out https://distrowatch.com/minios
[11:17]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/minios )
[11:21]		*Disconnected (Connection reset by peer).
[11:21]		*Now talking on #techrights
[11:27]	TR News	Cross-Border False Information Targets Cte dIvoire https://adf-magazine.com/2025/11/cross-border-false-information-targets-cote-divoire/
[11:27]	TR Bot	 Cross-Border False Information Targets Cte dIvoire - Africa Defense Forum
[11:29]	TR News	Microsoft's Surveillance Arm LinkedIn https://hongkongfp.com/2025/11/19/uk-intelligence-agency-warns-mps-over-chinese-spies-posing-as-headhunters/
[11:29]	TR Bot	 UK's MI5 warns MPs over Chinese spies posing as headhunters
[11:30]	TR News	"the new Russian propaganda channel launching in Kyrgyzstan" https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/11/18/meet-nomad-tv-the-new-russian-propaganda-channel-launching-in-kyrgyzstan | Source: Meduza
[11:30]	TR Bot	 Meet Nomad TV, the new Russian propaganda channel launching in Kyrgyzstan Meduza
[11:34]	TR News	How We Linked the Auto Industry to Lead Poisoning in Nigeria https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/world/africa/lead-poisoning-auto-industry-car-batteries.html
[11:34]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/world/africa/lead-poisoning-auto-industry-car-batteries.html )
[11:37]	TR News	Bucheons battle with clickbait: Can this South Korean city tame live-stream chaos? https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/bucheons-battle-with-clickbait-can-this-south-korean-city-tame-live-stream-chaos
[11:37]	TR Bot	 Bucheons battle with clickbait: Can this South Korean city tame live-stream chaos? | The Straits Times
[11:39]	TR News	China to suspend imports of Japanese seafood amid diplomatic dispute, media reports https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/update-2-china-to-suspend-imports-of-japanese-seafood-amid-diplomatic-dispute-media-reports
[11:40]	TR Bot	 China bans imports of Japanese seafood as diplomatic dispute deepens | The Straits Times
[11:41]		*wallacer has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s)
[11:42]		*wallacer (~quassel@2x2w4qfz3wksg.irc) has joined #techrights
[11:48]	TR News	As Europe aims for "digital sovereignty" https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/business/20251118-as-europe-aims-for-digital-sovereignty-biomedical-agentic-ai-could-be-the-next-big-field
[11:48]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/business/20251118-as-europe-aims-for-digital-sovereignty-biomedical-agentic-ai-could-be-the-next-big-field )
[11:50]	TR News	RustDesk Pulls Ahead of TeamViewer, AnyDesk with Wayland Multi-Scaled Display Support https://itsfoss.com/news/rustdesk-multi-scaled-display-support/
[11:50]	TR Bot	 RustDesk Pulls Ahead of TeamViewer, AnyDesk with Wayland Multi-Scaled Display Support
[11:50]	TR News	We found cryptography bugs in the elliptic library using Wycheproof https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/11/18/we-found-cryptography-bugs-in-the-elliptic-library-using-wycheproof/
[11:50]	TR Bot	 We found cryptography bugs in the elliptic library using Wycheproof -The Trail of Bits Blog
[11:52]	TR News	Hackers turn open-source Hey Hi (AI) framework into global cryptojacking operation https://cyberscoop.com/ray-ai-cryptojacking-vulnerability-exposed-clusters-attack-oligo-security/
[11:52]	TR Bot	turn open-source AI framework into global cryptojacking operation | CyberScoop
● Nov 19
[12:04]	TR News	"Kubernetes Cluster Goes Mobile In Pet Carrier" https://hackaday.com/2025/11/18/kubernetes-cluster-goes-mobile-in-pet-carrier/ | Source: Hackaday
[12:04]	TR Bot	Cluster Goes Mobile In Pet Carrier | Hackaday
[12:05]	TR News	Chrome 142 Update Patches Exploited Zero-Day https://www.securityweek.com/chrome-142-update-patches-exploited-zero-day/
[12:05]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/chrome-142-update-patches-exploited-zero-day/ )
[12:09]	TR News	Your journey in tech starts here: introducing the Arduino Starter Kit R4 https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/11/18/your-journey-in-tech-starts-here-introducing-the-arduino-starter-kit-r4/
[12:09]	TR Bot	 Your journey in tech starts here: introducing the Arduino Starter Kit R4 | Arduino Blog
[12:13]	TR News	Dutch court surprises with swift decision on NewronsSPC for Xadago https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/dutch-court-swift-decision-on-newron-spc-for-xadago/
[12:13]	TR Bot	 Dutch court surprises with swift decision on NewronsSPC for Xadago
[12:14]	TR News	Another International Semiconductor Group Wi-Fi 6 patent monopoly challenge instituted https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/11/12/another-isg-wi-fi-6-patent-challenge-instituted patent troll
[12:14]	TR Bot	 Another International Semiconductor Group Wi-Fi 6 patent challenge instituted Unified Patents
[12:18]	TR News	DynaIP entity, Random Chat, chat patent monopoly challenge instituted https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/11/18/dynaip-entity-random-chat-chat-patent-challenge-instituted
[12:18]	TR Bot	 DynaIP entity, Random Chat, chat patent challenge instituted Unified Patents
[12:19]	TR News	Patents out of control in Europe. "Completely agree DXThomas with so much you have written. Just a small comment on the applicant/proprietor switching between interpretations. This does sometimes need to happen when the patent monopoly is sold or licenced and a different party is then controlling it."
[12:19]	TR News	From http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/11/first-use-of-g-124-to-broaden-clear.html?showComment=1763474366959#c9093227713645122977
[12:19]	TR Bot	 First use of G 1/24 to broaden clear claim language (T 1849/23) - The IPKat
[12:19]	TR News	Lost Profits: Market Reconstruction and Noninfringing Substitutes https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/11/reconstruction-noninfringing-substitutes.html
[12:19]	TR Bot	 Lost Profits: Market Reconstruction and Noninfringing Substitutes | Patently-O
[12:28]	TR News	Brendan Gregg: Third Stage Engineering http://www.brendangregg.com/blog//2025-11-17/third-stage-engineering.html
[12:29]	TR Bot	 Third Stage Engineering
[12:30]	TR News	Proprietary systemd v258 https://0pointer.net/blog/mastodon-stories-for-systemd-v258.html
[12:30]	TR Bot	 Mastodon Stories for systemd v258
[12:32]	TR News	How to run performance tests using benchmark-runner https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/11/18/how-run-performance-tests-using-benchmark-runner
[12:32]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/11/18/how-run-performance-tests-using-benchmark-runner )
[12:32]	TR News	Building the digital substation: Exploring the LF Energy SEAPATH architecture on Red Bait Enterprise GNU/Linux https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/11/18/exploring-lf-energy-seapath-architecture-rhel
[12:32]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/11/18/exploring-lf-energy-seapath-architecture-rhel )
[12:33]	TR News	Security updates for Tuesday https://lwn.net/Articles/1046891/
[12:33]	TR Bot	updates for Tuesday [LWN.net]
[12:34]	TR News	Ruth Suehle (proprietary, SAS) now speaking for OSI because its chief quit or got canned https://opensource.org/blog/sustaining-open-source-the-next-25-years-depend-on-what-we-do-together-now
[12:34]	TR Bot	 Sustaining Open Source: The Next 25 Years Depend on What We Do Together Now Open Source Initiative
[12:53]	TR News	Tech Talk Recap: Simplifying DevSecOps in Air-Gapped Environments with Zarf https://openssf.org/blog/2025/11/18/tech-talk-recap-simplifying-devsecops-in-air-gapped-environments-with-zarf/
[12:53]	TR Bot	 Tech Talk Recap: Simplifying DevSecOps in Air-Gapped Environments with Zarf Open Source Security Foundation
[12:54]	TR News	Thai YouTuber slammed after dancing shirtless on car at Japans iconic Fuji-view tourist spot https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/thai-youtuber-slammed-after-dancing-shirtless-on-car-at-japans-iconic-fuji-view-tourist-spot
[12:54]	TR Bot	 Thai YouTuber slammed after dancing shirtless on car at Japans iconic Fuji-view tourist spot | The Straits Times
[12:55]	TR News	Rodrigo Siqueira: XDC 2025 https://siqueira.tech/2025-11-18-xdc-2025/
[12:55]	TR Bot	 Siqueira
[12:56]	TR News	EasyOS Excalibur-series version 7.0.32 released https://bkhome.org/news/202511/easyos-excalibur-series-version-7032-released.html
[12:56]	TR Bot	 EasyOS Excalibur-series version 7.0.32 released
[12:57]	TR News	Gemini Protocol as a Growing Source of Audience (Mostly Technical People) https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/18/Gemini_Protocol_as_a_Growing_Source_of_Audience_Mostly_Technica.shtml
[12:58]	TR Bot	 Techrights Gemini Protocol as a Growing Source of Audience (Mostly Technical People)
[12:59]	TR News	"theyre making basic mistakes and giving overconfident, even risky advice" https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/can-you-trust-ai-chatgpt-and-other-ai-chatbots-put-to-the-test-aetjt5e0RnPB
[12:59]	TR Bot	 Can you trust AI? ChatGPT and other AI chatbots put to the test - Which?
[12:59]	TR News	TV Programmes in Geminispace (updated) https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/18/TV_Programmes_in_Geminispace.shtml
[12:59]	TR Bot	 Techrights TV Programmes in Geminispace
● Nov 19
[13:01]	TR News	Destination Linux 443: Will Hey Hi (AI) DESTROY the GNU/Linux Desktop? | New Steam Machine & Essential Apps! https://destinationlinux.net/443
[13:01]	TR Bot	( status 404 @ https://tuxdigital.com/podcasts/destination-linux/dl-443/ )
[13:02]	TR News	GNU/Linux open source warning files.svg created with Inkscape 1.2 (Debian 12) and opened with 1.4 (Debian 13) might not work https://dwaves.de/2025/11/18/gnu-linux-open-source-warning-files-svg-created-with-inkscape-1-2-debian-12-and-opened-with-1-4-debian-13-might-not-work/
[13:02]	TR Bot	GNU Linux open source warning files.svg created with Inkscape 1.2 (Debian 12) and opened with 1.4 (Debian 13) might not work | dwaves.de
[13:03]	TR News	How To Install FreeRADIUS on Manjaro https://idroot.us/install-freeradius-manjaro/
[13:03]	TR Bot	 How To Install FreeRADIUS on Manjaro - idroot
[13:03]	TR News	How To Install Lazygit on Manjaro https://idroot.us/install-lazygit-manjaro/
[13:03]	TR Bot	 How To Install Lazygit on Manjaro - idroot
[13:04]	TR News	How To Install GIMP on Fedora 43 https://idroot.us/install-gimp-fedora-43/
[13:04]	TR Bot	 How To Install GIMP on Fedora 43 - idroot
[13:04]	TR News	How To Install Joomla on AlmaLinux 10 https://idroot.us/install-joomla-almalinux-10/
[13:04]	TR Bot	 How To Install Joomla on AlmaLinux 10 - idroot
[13:05]	TR News	How To Install Ansible on Fedora 43 https://idroot.us/install-ansible-fedora-43/
[13:05]	TR Bot	 How To Install Ansible on Fedora 43 - idroot
[13:06]	TR News	Common Kubernetes misconfigurations and how to avoid them https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/common-kubernetes-misconfigurations-and-how-to-avoid-them/
[13:06]	TR Bot	 Common Kubernetes misconfigurations and how to avoid them | Pen Test Partners
[13:07]	TR News	Python is Attempting an Outreach to African-Americans, Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Lunduke Has a Problem With That https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/17/Python_is_Attempting_an_Outreach_to_African_Americans_Microsoft.shtml
[13:07]	TR Bot	 Techrights Python is Attempting an Outreach to African-Americans, Microsoft Lunduke Has a Problem With That
[13:07]	TR News	How To Install Apache Kafka on AlmaLinux 10 https://idroot.us/install-apache-kafka-almalinux-10/
[13:07]	TR Bot	 How To Install Apache Kafka on AlmaLinux 10 - idroot
[13:07]	TR News	How To Install FreeIPA on Debian 13 https://idroot.us/install-freeipa-debian-13/
[13:07]	TR Bot	 How To Install FreeIPA on Debian 13 - idroot
[13:11]	TR News	How To Install FreeRADIUS on Linux Mint 22 https://idroot.us/install-freeradius-linux-mint-22/
[13:11]	TR Bot	 How To Install FreeRADIUS on Linux Mint 22 - idroot
[13:11]	TR News	How To Install Blender on AlmaLinux 10 https://idroot.us/install-blender-almalinux-10/
[13:11]	TR Bot	 How To Install Blender on AlmaLinux 10 - idroot
[13:12]	TR News	How To Install ClamAV on Fedora 43 https://idroot.us/install-clamav-fedora-43/
[13:12]	TR Bot	 How To Install ClamAV on Fedora 43 - idroot
[13:12]	TR News	Self-hosting DNS for no fun, but a little profit! https://linderud.dev/blog/self-hosting-dns-for-no-fun-but-a-little-profit/ "However after setting up an account and paying for the transfer for 4 domains, I realized their DNS services are provided by Clownflare!"
[13:12]	TR Bot	 Self-hosting DNS for no fun, but a little profit!
[13:13]	TR News	KDE Plasma 6.5.3 Delivers Bug Fixes Across KWin, Discover, and Breeze https://linuxiac.com/kde-plasma-6-5-3-desktop-released/
[13:13]	TR Bot	 KDE Plasma 6.5.3 Delivers Bug Fixes Across KWin, Discover, and Breeze
[13:18]	TR News	HP ProBook 440 G8 Laptop running Linux: Introduction to the Series https://www.linuxlinks.com/hp-probook-440-g8-laptop-running-linux-introduction/
[13:18]	TR Bot	ProBook 440 G8 Laptop running Linux: Introduction to the Series - LinuxLinks
[13:19]	TR News	HyprEmoji modern emoji picker for Hyprland https://www.linuxlinks.com/hypremoji-modern-emoji-picker-hyprland/
[13:19]	TR Bot	- modern emoji picker for Hyprland - LinuxLinks
[13:24]	TR News	wayscriber screen annotation tool for Wayland compositors https://www.linuxlinks.com/wayscriber-screen-annotation-tool-wayland-compositors/
[13:24]	TR Bot	- screen annotation tool for Wayland compositors - LinuxLinks
[13:25]	TR News	swiftfetch simple system information fetch tool https://www.linuxlinks.com/swiftfetch-simple-system-information-fetch-tool/
[13:25]	TR Bot	- simple system information fetch tool - LinuxLinks
[13:25]	TR News	eyerest remind your eyes to take a screen break https://www.linuxlinks.com/eyerest-remind-eyes-screen-break/
[13:25]	TR Bot	- remind your eyes to take a screen break - LinuxLinks
[13:26]	TR News	randwall randomly changes the desktop wallpaper https://www.linuxlinks.com/randwall-randomly-changes-desktop-wallpaper/
[13:26]	TR Bot	- randomly changes the desktop wallpaper - LinuxLinks
[13:26]	TR News	14 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux Fractal Tools https://www.linuxlinks.com/fractaltools/
[13:26]	TR Bot	Best Free and Open Source Linux Fractal Tools - LinuxLinks
[13:26]	TR News	JackMiniMix simple volume mixer https://www.linuxlinks.com/jackminimix-simple-volume-mixer/
[13:26]	TR Bot	- simple volume mixer - LinuxLinks
[13:27]	TR News	How to Install ERPNext v15 on Debian 13 https://www.linuxtuto.com/install-erpnext-v15-on-debian-13/
[13:27]	TR Bot	to Install ERPNext v15 on Debian 13 - LinuxTuto
[13:28]	TR News	Terminal Prompt Customization https://www.linux.org/threads/terminal-prompt-customization.57149/
[13:28]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.linux.org/threads/terminal-prompt-customization.57149/ )
[13:29]	TR News	Valve Announces Pending Release of Steam Machine http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Valve-Announces-Pending-Release-of-Steam-Machine
[13:29]	TR Bot	 Valve Announces Pending Release of Steam Machine Linux Magazine
[13:31]	TR News	UN experts warn of Belarus attacks on legal profession https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/11/un-experts-warn-of-belarus-attacks-on-legal-profession/
[13:31]	TR Bot	 UN experts warn of Belarus attacks on legal profession - JURIST - News
[13:32]	TR News	AI Platforms, Major Sites Back Online After Clownflare Outage https://fossforce.com/2025/11/ai-platforms-major-sites-back-online-after-cloudflare-outage/
[13:32]	TR Bot	 AI Platforms, Major Sites Back Online After Cloudflare Outage - FOSS Force
[13:33]	TR News	The Librephone project aims to remove proprietary blobs from smartphones running an open-source OS https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/11/18/librephone-project-remove-proprietary-blobs-smartphones-open-source-os/
[13:33]	TR Bot	 The Librephone project aims to remove proprietary blobs from smartphones running an open-source OS - CNX Software
[13:33]	TR News	Your Smartphone, Their Rules: How App Stores Enable Corporate-Government Censorship https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/app-store-oligopoly
[13:33]	TR Bot	 Your Smartphone, Their Rules: How App Stores Enable Corporate-Government Censorship | American Civil Liberties Union
[13:35]	TR News	Daniel Kahn Gillmor: App Store Oligopoly https://dkg.fifthhorseman.net/blog/2025-app-store-oligopoly.html
[13:35]	TR Bot	 dkg's blog - App Store Oligopoly
[13:35]	TR News	Video of auxiliary police officer scolding children in Penang goes viral https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/video-of-auxiliary-police-officer-scolding-children-in-penang-goes-viral
[13:35]	TR Bot	 Video of auxiliary police officer scolding children in Penang goes viral | The Straits Times
[13:37]	TR News	Snal 1.39 is out https://distrowatch.com/snal
[13:37]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/snal )
[13:37]	TR News	gabeeOSLinux 6.12.58 is out as well https://distrowatch.com/gabee
[13:37]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/gabee )
[13:39]	TR News	TinkerCAD https://hackaday.com/2025/11/18/a-quick-primer-on-tinkercads-new-features/ | Source: Hackaday
[13:39]	TR Bot	Quick Primer On TinkerCADs New Features | Hackaday
[13:42]	TR News	 (NEW):  Applications and Software: Hugin and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/18/Applications_and_Software_Hugin_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/18/Applications_and_Software_Hugin_and_More.gmi 
[13:42]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Applications and Software: Hugin and More
[13:42]	TR News	 (NEW):  Audiocasts/Shows: LINUX Unplugged, Linux User Space, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/18/Audiocasts_Shows_LINUX_Unplugged_Linux_User_Space_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/18/Audiocasts_Shows_LINUX_Unplugged_Linux_User_Space_and_More.gmi 
[13:42]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Audiocasts/Shows: LINUX Unplugged, Linux User Space, and More
[13:42]	TR News	 (NEW):  This Linux distro looks more beautiful than anything Microsoft or Apple ever made https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/18/This_Linux_distro_looks_more_beautiful_than_anything_Microsoft_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/18/This_Linux_distro_looks_more_beautiful_than_anything_Microsoft_.gmi 
[13:42]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines This Linux distro looks more beautiful than anything Microsoft or Apple ever made
[13:42]	TR News	 (NEW):  Today's HowTos   https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/18/today_s_howtos.1.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/18/today_s_howtos.1.gmi 
[13:42]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines today's howtos
[13:42]	TR News	 (NEW):  Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, RISC-V, Mobile GNU/Linux and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/19/Open_Hardware_Modding_Raspberry_Pi_RISC_V_Mobile_GNU_Linux_and_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/19/Open_Hardware_Modding_Raspberry_Pi_RISC_V_Mobile_GNU_Linux_and_.gmi 
[13:42]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, RISC-V, Mobile GNU/Linux and More
[13:44]	TR News	 (NEW):  Today's HowTos   https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/19/today_s_howtos.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/19/today_s_howtos.gmi 
[13:44]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines today's howtos
[13:46]	TR News	 (NEW):   Programming Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/19/Programming_Leftovers.1.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/19/Programming_Leftovers.1.gmi 
[13:46]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Programming Leftovers
[13:48]	TR News	 (NEW):  Games: Vietnam 1965-1975, Steam Machine, and "How quake.exe got its TCP/IP stack" https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/19/Games_Vietnam_1965_1975_Steam_Machine_and_How_quake_exe_got_its.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/19/Games_Vietnam_1965_1975_Steam_Machine_and_How_quake_exe_got_its.gmi 
[13:48]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Games: Vietnam 1965-1975, Steam Machine, and "How quake.exe got its TCP/IP stack"
[13:48]	TR News	 (NEW):  IBM: Aurora 43 Release, Red Hat Official Keeps Promoting Mindless Buzzwords and Microsoft Traps https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/19/IBM_Aurora_43_Release_Red_Hat_Official_Keeps_Promoting_Mindless.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/19/IBM_Aurora_43_Release_Red_Hat_Official_Keeps_Promoting_Mindless.gmi 
[13:48]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines IBM: Aurora 43 Release, Red Hat Official Keeps Promoting Mindless Buzzwords and Microsoft Traps
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[13:51]	TR News	 (NEW):  Audiocasts/Shows: Late Night Linux, Destination Linux, and Ask Noah Show https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/19/Audiocasts_Shows_Late_Night_Linux_Destination_Linux_and_Ask_Noa.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/19/Audiocasts_Shows_Late_Night_Linux_Destination_Linux_and_Ask_Noa.gmi 
[13:51]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Audiocasts/Shows: Late Night Linux, Destination Linux, and Ask Noah Show
[13:51]	TR News	 (NEW):  Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Standards https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/19/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_and_Standards.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/19/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_and_Standards.gmi 
[13:51]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Standards
[13:54]	TR News	 (NEW):  GNU/Linux Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/19/GNU_Linux_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/19/GNU_Linux_Leftovers.gmi 
[13:54]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines GNU/Linux Leftovers
[13:54]	TR News	 (NEW):  Security Holes and Patches, OpenSSF Tech Talk https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/19/Security_Holes_and_Patches_OpenSSF_Tech_Talk.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/19/Security_Holes_and_Patches_OpenSSF_Tech_Talk.gmi 
[13:54]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Security Holes and Patches, OpenSSF Tech Talk
[13:57]	TR News	Techrights Links 19/11/2025: "Corporate-Government Censorship" by App Stores (Says ACLU) and Invalidation of Patent Trolls' Patents Sought https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/19/Links_19_11_2025_Corporate_Government_Censorship_by_App_Stores_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/11/19/Links_19_11_2025_Corporate_Government_Censorship_by_App_Stores_.gmi 
[13:57]	TR Bot	 Techrights Links 19/11/2025: "Corporate-Government Censorship" by App Stores (Says ACLU) and Invalidation of Patent Trolls' Patents Sought
[13:58]	TR News	Xubuntu Reveals How its Website Was Hijacked https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/11/xubuntu-website-breach-report
[13:58]	TR Bot	 Xubuntu Reveals How its Website Was Hijacked - OMG! Ubuntu
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[14:21]	TR News	Increase resolution of webcam viewer https://bkhome.org/news/202511/increase-resolution-of-webcam-viewer.html
[14:21]	TR Bot	 Increase resolution of webcam viewer
[14:22]	TR News	SeaMonkey 2.53.22 compiled with system ICU https://bkhome.org/news/202511/seamonkey-25322-compiled-with-system-icu.html
[14:22]	TR Bot	 SeaMonkey 2.53.22 compiled with system ICU
[14:22]	TR News	Workaround to fix printer setup https://bkhome.org/news/202511/workaround-to-fix-printer-setup.html
[14:22]	TR Bot	 Workaround to fix printer setup
[14:23]	TR News	Microsoft itself is the cause of the largest DDoS attacks, so this is somewhat ironic https://www.tomshardware.com/software/security-software/microsoft-azure-blocks-largest-ddos-attack-in-history-attack-equivalent-to-streaming-3-5-million-netflix-movies-at-once-15-72-terabits-per-second-from-500-000-ip-addresses-tied-to-iot-botnet
[14:23]	TR Bot	 Microsoft Azure Blocks Largest DDoS Attack in History attack equivalent to streaming 3.5 million Netflix movies at once, 15.72 Terabits per Second from 500,000 IP addresses tied to IoT botnet | Tom's Hardware
[14:25]	TR News	TTABlog Test: Is DANKE Confusable with MERCI for Chocolates? http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/11/ttablog-test-is-danke-confusable-with.html
[14:25]	TR Bot	 The TTABlog: TTABlog Test: Is DANKE Confusable with MERCI for Chocolates?
[14:25]	TR News	A Recap of The Peoples Oversight Hearing https://publicknowledge.org/a-recap-of-the-peoples-oversight-hearing/
[14:25]	TR Bot	 A Recap of The Peoples Oversight Hearing - Public Knowledge
[14:25]	TR News	Clownflare outage hints at nefarious "traffic spike" as service impact spreads X, McDonalds go down, company issues statement amidst chaos https://www.tomshardware.com/news/live/cloudflare-outage-under-investigation-as-twitter-downdetector-go-down-company-confirms-global-network-issue-clone
[14:25]	TR Bot	 Cloudflare outage hints at nefarious "traffic spike" as service impact spreads X, McDonalds go down, company issues statement amidst chaos | Tom's Hardware
[14:26]	TR News	Clownflare Outage Disrupts X, Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot and Other Parts of the Internet https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/business/cloudflare-down-challenges-error.html
[14:26]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/business/cloudflare-down-challenges-error.html )
[14:27]	TR News	"agents that pilfer through your files" sounds like something from Orwell novels https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/microsofts-vision-of-ai-native-windows-is-becoming-real-update-introduces-agents-that-pilfer-through-your-files-latest-windows-11-insider-build-includes-experimental-ai-agents-toggle-that-can-perform-tasks-for-you-in-the-background
[14:27]	TR Bot	 Microsoft's vision of "AI-native" Windows is becoming real, update introduces agents that pilfer through your files Latest Windows 11 Insider build includes experimental AI agents toggle that can perform tasks for you in the background | Tom's Hardware
[14:28]	TR News	CEO Accused of Asking Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot About Something Absolutely Wild https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/court-case-ceo-chatgpt-subnautica-2
[14:28]	TR Bot	 CEO Accused of Asking ChatGPT About Something Absolutely Wild
[14:30]	TR News	Bare shoulders backlash: Malaysia artistes turn to self-censorship amid syariah-oversight concerns https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/bare-shoulders-backlash-malaysias-artists-turn-to-self-censorship-amid-syariah-oversight-concerns
[14:30]	TR Bot	 Malaysia's artists face self-censorship amid syariah law | The Straits Times
[14:32]	TR News	Public Knowledge is infiltrated by Microsoft though (conflict of interest) https://publicknowledge.org/public-knowledge-responds-to-ftc-v-meta-ruling-further-undermining-competition-in-big-tech/ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/03/At_Microsoft_Promoting_Back_Doors_Proprietary_Lock_in_and_Mass_.shtml
[14:32]	TR Bot	 Public Knowledge Responds to FTC v. Meta Ruling Further Undermining Competition in Big Tech - Public Knowledge
[14:32]	TR Bot	 Techrights At Microsoft, Promoting Back Doors, Proprietary Lock-in and Mass Surveillance Under the Guise of Diversity ("Microsoft Philanthropy Team")
[14:45]	TR News	GIMP 3.2 Hits Release Candidate with Improved Text Editing + More https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/11/gimp-3-2-release-candidate-highlights
[14:45]	TR Bot	 GIMP 3.2 Hits Release Candidate with Improved Text Editing + More - OMG! Ubuntu
[14:45]	TR News	GIMP 3.2 RC1 Released with SVG Export and New Keyboard Shortcuts https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/11/gimp-3-2-rc1-released-with-svg-export-and-new-keyboard-shortcuts/
[14:45]	TR Bot	 GIMP 3.2 RC1 Released with SVG Export and New Keyboard Shortcuts | UbuntuHandbook
[14:45]	TR News	Quectel QSM560DR industrial Qualcomm QCM6490/QCS6490 SBC supports Ubuntu, Android, and backdoored Windows https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/11/18/quectel-qsm560dr-industrial-qualcomm-qcm6490-qcs6490-sbc-supports-ubuntu-android-and-windows/
[14:45]	TR Bot	 Quectel QSM560DR industrial Qualcomm QCM6490/QCS6490 SBC supports Ubuntu, Android, and Windows - CNX Software
[14:47]	TR News	GIMP3.2 Release Candidate Is Now Available for Download, Heres Whats New https://9to5linux.com/gimp-3-2-release-candidate-is-now-available-for-download-heres-whats-new
[14:47]	TR Bot	Release Candidate Is Now Available for Download, Here's What's New - 9to5Linux
[14:47]	TR News	KDE Plasma 6.5.3 Improves Visual Smoothness on Multi-Monitor VRR Setups https://9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-6-5-3-improves-visual-smoothness-on-multi-monitor-vrr-setups
[14:47]	TR Bot	Plasma 6.5.3 Improves Visual Smoothness on Multi-Monitor VRR Setups - 9to5Linux
[14:48]	TR News	Debian Libre Live Images Released for Software Freedom Lovers https://9to5linux.com/debian-libre-live-images-released-for-software-freedom-lovers
[14:48]	TR Bot	Libre Live Images Released for Software Freedom Lovers - 9to5Linux
[14:48]	TR News	Blender 5.0 Open-Source 3D Graphics App Is Now Available for Download https://9to5linux.com/blender-5-0-open-source-3d-graphics-app-is-now-available-for-download
[14:48]	TR Bot	5.0 Open-Source 3D Graphics App Is Now Available for Download - 9to5Linux
[14:48]	TR News	Linux-Ready KSTR-IMX93 SBC Debuts With Wi-Fi 6, Cellular IoT, and 802.15.4 Connectivity https://linuxgizmos.com/linux-ready-kstr-imx93-sbc-debuts-on-kickstarter-with-wi-fi-6-cellular-iot-and-802-15-4-connectivity/
[14:48]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/linux-ready-kstr-imx93-sbc-debuts-on-kickstarter-with-wi-fi-6-cellular-iot-and-802-15-4-connectivity/ )
[14:49]	TR News	Vendefoul 181125 is out https://distrowatch.com/vendefoul
[14:49]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/vendefoul )
[14:49]	TR News	BrOS 13.2 is out as well https://distrowatch.com/bros
[14:49]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/bros )
[14:49]	TR News	Vulkan-to-DirectX 12 translation tool used in Valve's Proton now supports AMD's FSR4 and Anti-Lag https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/vulkan-to-directx-12-translation-tool-used-in-valves-proton-now-supports-amds-fsr4-and-anti-lag-while-nvidias-dlss4-remains-unsupported-fsr4-now-also-works-on-older-gpus-vkd3d-proton-v3-0-brings-other-performance-improvements
[14:50]	TR Bot	 Vulkan-to-DirectX 12 translation tool used in Valve's Proton now supports AMD's FSR4 and Anti-Lag, while Nvidia's DLSS4 remains unsupported FSR4 now also works on older GPUs, VKD3D-Proton v3.0 brings other performance improvements | Tom's Hardware
[14:51]	TR News	"The job of Research at IBM is to generate press releases that juice the stock price at the lowest possible cost to produce. Nothing more." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kacy0dc9
[14:51]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kacy0dc9 )
[14:51]	TR News	"another wonderful sleight of hand trick from Alvind and the Pipmunks. Jobs from Brazil will disappear and magically appear in India (as usual). It's all about costs, not the quality of research. Of course all the bunk and about Quantum in India is exactly that - qbits of nothing is still nothing." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kacy0dc9
[14:51]	TR News	"Nothing extraordinary will happen to Research in India except the parroting and vomiting of the same information in different journals, white papers etc. IBM Research is nothing but a darn joke and should be shut down. The useless VP of Research hasn't got the ba--s to do anything except collect his oversized paycheck." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kacy0dc9
[14:51]	TR News	"You get more value for your meals at Mcdonalds than research at IBM Research - but both are grossly overpriced." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kacy0dc9
[14:52]	TR News	Just like Muppet Labs in Redmond!
[14:53]	TR News	"Investing in Quantum at IBM is liking fu**ing for virginity. LOL" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kaaxz7js
[14:53]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kaaxz7js )
[14:53]	TR News	"actually they cut 8000 people in the US and hire 16000 in India. They call it getting a bigger bang for the buck. Of course, the reality is that that most of the work in India is still done manually and so, it is a total waste of money. But try telling that to losers like Alvind who put a spin on IBM US job losses and layoffs as job gains." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kaabh7pr
[14:53]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kaabh7pr )
[14:59]	TR News	Newspaper ABCs: Five nationals see double-digit weekday and Saturday declines https://pressgazette.co.uk/media-audience-and-business-data/media_metrics/most-popular-newspapers-uk-abc-monthly-circulation-figures-2/ seems like crisis for Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press
[14:59]	TR Bot	 Latest ABC UK newspaper circulations: Updated monthly
[14:59]	TR News	Express offers compensation after freelances say work was stolen https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/express-offers-compensation-after-freelances-say-work-was-stolen/
[14:59]	TR Bot	 Express offers compensation after freelances say work was stolen - Press Gazette
● Nov 19
[15:00]	TR News	Raconteur team halved following Technology Advice takeover https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/digital-journalism/raconteur-team-halved-following-technology-advice-takeover/
[15:00]	TR Bot	 Raconteur team halved following Technology Advice takeover - Press Gazette
[15:00]	TR News	Financial Times launches first Substack newsletter to target younger readers https://pressgazette.co.uk/newsletters/financial-times-launches-first-substack-newsletter-to-target-younger-readers/
[15:00]	TR Bot	 Financial Times launches first Substack newsletter to target younger readers - Press Gazette
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[15:01]	TR News	"Red Hat - nothing but a $34 billion disaster in the making brought to you by Alvind and the Pipmunks. This demolition squad are capable of trashing any company they purchase into the ground in 5 years or less, and calling it a profitable venture. But it's not a profit for the IBM shareholders, of course." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kaazynkz
[15:01]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kaazynkz )
[15:01]	TR News	"Krabanaugh will be cooking the books again and asking for more employees to increase their education activities." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kaazynkz
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[15:09]	TR News	StubHub Lashes Out at UK Governments Plan to Ban Scalping, Promises Transactions Will Move to Black Markets https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/11/18/stubhub-ticket-resale-caps/
[15:09]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/11/18/stubhub-ticket-resale-caps/ )
[15:09]	TR News	"A gastroscopy is a procedure that, in simple terms, involves sticking a long, flexible tube down a patients throat to inspect the oesophagus and adjacent structures with a camera fitted to the tip." https://hackaday.com/2025/11/18/hacking-a-pill-camera/ | Source: Hackaday
[15:09]	TR Bot	A Pill Camera | Hackaday
[15:10]	TR News	Blender 5.0 released https://lwn.net/Articles/1046962/
[15:10]	TR Bot	5.0 released [LWN.net]
[15:11]	TR News	What Killed Perl? https://entropicthoughts.com/what-killed-perl
[15:11]	TR Bot	 What Killed Perl?
[15:13]	TR News	ZimaOS 1.5.2-beta1 is out https://distrowatch.com/zimaos
[15:13]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/zimaos )
[15:13]	TR News	extrox 2.0 is also out https://distrowatch.com/extrox
[15:13]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/extrox )
[15:13]	TR News	 (NEW):  Open Hardware/Modding: ESP32, Raspberry Pi Zero, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/18/Open_Hardware_Modding_ESP32_Raspberry_Pi_Zero_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/18/Open_Hardware_Modding_ESP32_Raspberry_Pi_Zero_and_More.gmi 
[15:13]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Open Hardware/Modding: ESP32, Raspberry Pi Zero, and More
[15:13]	MinceR	perl killed perl
[15:13]	schestowitz[TR2]	$ perl kill.pl
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[15:19]	TR News	Calculate 20251118 is out https://distrowatch.com/calculate
[15:19]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/calculate )
[15:19]	TR News	BlueOnyx 5212R-20251117 is out as well https://distrowatch.com/blueonyx
[15:19]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/blueonyx )
[15:22]	TR News	WordPress 6.9 Release Candidate 2 https://wordpress.org/news/2025/11/wordpress-6-9-release-candidate-2/
[15:22]	TR Bot	 WordPress 6.9 Release Candidate 2 WordPress News
[15:22]	ZedHedTed	and mozilla's killing firefox
[15:23]	schestowitz[TR2]	by selling  firefox real estate
[15:23]	schestowitz[TR2]	like search bars
[15:23]	schestowitz[TR2]	now pushing slop prompts
[15:23]	schestowitz[TR2]	for cash
[15:23]	schestowitz[TR2]	but tht number of users declines
[15:23]	schestowitz[TR2]	so this "estate" loses value fast\
[15:23]	MinceR	"modern" browsers are in a race to the bottom anyway
[15:24]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/14/Mozilla_Handed_Over_Control_Over_Firefox_to_Microsoft_Now_Firef.shtml
[15:24]	schestowitz[TR2]	"modern"
[15:24]	TR Bot	 Techrights Mozilla Handed Over Control Over Firefox to Microsoft, Now Firefox is Preloaded With Microsoft Spyware and It's Proprietary
[15:24]	schestowitz[TR2]	slop canvas
[15:24]	schestowitz[TR2]	either you visit slop sites
[15:24]	schestowitz[TR2]	or the browser makes slop for you
[15:24]	schestowitz[TR2]	very "modern"
[15:25]	TR News	ChromeOS 16433.41.0 is out https://distrowatch.com/chromeos
[15:25]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/chromeos )
[15:25]	TR News	Aurora 43.20251118 is out today https://distrowatch.com/aurora
[15:25]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/aurora )
[15:28]	TR News	"In 2008, social control media was just emerging into the mainstream" https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/11/ai-and-voter-engagement.html
[15:28]	TR Bot	and Voter Engagement - Schneier on Security
[15:30]	TR News	Using SATADOM drives in a Dell R730 https://dan.langille.org/2025/11/18/using-satadom-drives-in-a-dell-r730/
[15:30]	TR Bot	 Using SATADOM drives in a Dell R730 Dan Langille's Other Diary
[15:32]	TR News	2025 Component Abuse Challenge Winners https://hackaday.com/2025/11/18/congratulations-to-the-2025-component-abuse-challenge-winners/ | Source: Hackaday
[15:32]	TR Bot	To The 2025 Component Abuse Challenge Winners | Hackaday
[15:32]	TR News	Cheap VHF Antenna? Can Do! https://hackaday.com/2025/11/18/a-vhf-antenna-for-not-a-lot-this-one-can/ | Source: Hackaday
[15:32]	TR Bot	VHF Antenna? Can Do! | Hackaday
[15:33]	TR News	The Internet Crashed So Hard This Morning That Downdetector Went Down https://futurism.com/future-society/internet-down-detector-cloudflare
[15:33]	TR Bot	 The Internet Crashed So Hard This Morning That Downdetector Went Down
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[15:34]	TR News	So defective that it uses up space to do this vanity thing https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/gelsingers-i386-initials-gambit-ex-intel-ceo-explains-how-he-bluffed-andy-grove-to-keep-his-mark-on-the-legendary-chips-silicon
[15:34]	TR Bot	 Pat Gelsinger explains how his initials ended up etched into every i386 processor ever made ex-Intel CEO bluffed Andy Grove to keep his mark on the legendary chips silicon | Tom's Hardware
[15:35]	TR News	Printing nonsensical, imaginary, false figures https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/elon-musk-wants-foundry-partners-to-build-100-200-billion-ai-chips-per-year-musk-says-chipmaking-industry-cant-deliver-on-his-goals like this https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/11/With_Net_Income_of_One_Billion_Dollars_Tesla_Claims_It_Can_Pay_.shtml
[15:35]	TR Bot	 Elon Musk wants foundry partners to build astounding '100 200 billion AI chips' per year Musk says chipmaking industry can't deliver on his goals | Tom's Hardware
[15:35]	TR Bot	 Techrights With Net Income of One Billion Dollars Tesla Claims It Can Pay a Fake Founder (Who Paid for This Lie) 1,000 Billions
[15:36]	TR News	Ponzi scheme targets POLITICIANS https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/taiwan-announces-3bn-spend-on-ai-island-ambitions
[15:36]	TR Bot	 Taiwan to spend $3 billion turning nation into 'AI island', targets top five global compute power new goals threatened by energy shortfalls | Tom's Hardware
[15:38]	TR News	The Whole Financial World Is Terrified of Nvidias Earnings Call https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/financial-world-nvidia-earnings-call http://techrights.org/n/2025/11/18/The_GPU_Bubble_GPUs_Marketed_by_Useless_Slop.shtml
[15:38]	TR Bot	 The Whole Financial World Is Terrified of Nvidia's Earnings Call
[15:38]	TR Bot	 Techrights The GPU Bubble (GPUs Marketed by Useless Slop)
[15:38]	TR News	Towns Huge Christmas Mural Was Generated Using AI, Resulting in Ghastly ChthonicHorrors https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/christmas-mural-ai
[15:38]	TR Bot	 Town's Huge Christmas Mural Was Generated Using AI, Resulting in Ghastly ChthonicHorrors
[15:39]	TR News	Greenpeace Faces an Unusual New Legal Attack From a Pipeline Giant https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/climate/greenpeace-energy-transfer-lawsuit-netherlands.html
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[15:39]	TR News	Environmentalists Sue to Stop Oil Lease Sales in the Gulf of Mexico https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/climate/gulf-of-mexico-oil-lease-sale-lawsuit.html
[15:39]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/climate/gulf-of-mexico-oil-lease-sale-lawsuit.html )
[15:40]	MinceR	19 163852 < techrights-news> Towns Huge Christmas Mural Was Generated Using AI, Resulting in Ghastly ChthonicHorrors https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/christmas-mural-ai
[15:40]	MinceR	Scary Solstice!
[15:40]	TR News	Australian Man Convicted of Murderer Sues to Challenge Vegemite Ban Behind Bars https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/world/australia/prisoner-vegemite-lawsuit.html
[15:40]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/world/australia/prisoner-vegemite-lawsuit.html )
[15:40]	TR News	French court rejects Perrier "natural water" lawsuit against Nesl https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/business/20251118-french-court-rejects-perrier-natural-water-lawsuit-against-nesl%C3%A9
[15:40]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/business/20251118-french-court-rejects-perrier-natural-water-lawsuit-against-nesl%C3%A9 )
[15:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	MinceR: cary moo-vey
[15:43]	TR News	Fragmented climate policy undermines Australias food security https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/fragmented-climate-policy-undermines-australias-food-security/
[15:43]	TR Bot	 Fragmented climate policy undermines Australia's food security | The Strategist
[15:43]	MinceR	"No, please don't kill me, Mr. Ghostface, I wanna be in the sequel!"
[15:47]	TR News	Saudi Arabia warned over human rights abuses migrant workers face on Riyadh Metro Project https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/11/saudi-arabia-warned-over-human-rights-abuses-migrant-workers-face-on-riyadh-metro-project/
[15:47]	TR Bot	 Saudi Arabia warned over human rights abuses migrant workers face on Riyadh Metro Project - JURIST - News
[15:48]	TR News	The realities of CISO burnout and exhaustion https://cyberscoop.com/ciso-burnout-mental-health-cybersecurity-exhaustion-op-ed/
[15:49]	TR Bot	realities of CISO burnout and exhaustion | CyberScoop
[15:49]	TR News	Information sharing laws expiration could squander government vulnerability hunting efforts, senator says https://cyberscoop.com/cyber-threat-data-sharing-law-expiration-security-risk-mike-rounds-gary-peters-rand-paul/
[15:49]	TR Bot	sharing laws expiration could squander government vulnerability hunting efforts, senator says | CyberScoop
[15:50]	TR News	Data Stolen in Eurofiber France Hack https://www.securityweek.com/data-stolen-in-eurofiber-france-hack/
[15:50]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/data-stolen-in-eurofiber-france-hack/ )
[15:50]	TR News	Princeton University Data Breach Impacts Alumni, Students, Employees https://www.securityweek.com/princeton-university-data-breach-impacts-alumni-students-employees/
[15:50]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/princeton-university-data-breach-impacts-alumni-students-employees/ )
[15:51]	TR News	Pennsylvania Attorney General Confirms Data Breach After Ransomware Attack https://www.securityweek.com/pennsylvania-attorney-general-confirms-data-breach-after-ransomware-attack/
[15:51]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/pennsylvania-attorney-general-confirms-data-breach-after-ransomware-attack/ )
[15:53]	TR News	Snagboot v2.5 released https://bootlin.com/blog/snagboot-v2-5-released/
[15:53]	TR Bot	v2.5 released Bootlin
[15:54]	TR News	UK couples garden shed datacenter heats home and cuts energy bills to 40 clusters of 56 Raspberry Pis run real workloads, waste heat converted to heat home https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/uk-couples-garden-shed-data-center-heats-home-and-cuts-bills
[15:54]	TR Bot	 UK couples garden shed datacenter heats home and cuts energy bills to 40 clusters of 56 Raspberry Pis run real workloads, waste heat converted to heat home | Tom's Hardware
[15:54]	TR News	KDE Plasma 6.5.3, Bugfix Release for November https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.5.3/
[15:54]	TR Bot	 KDE Plasma 6.5.3, Bugfix Release for November - KDE Community
[15:56]	TR News	"Humane Mousetrap Lets You Know Its Caught Something" https://hackaday.com/2025/11/18/humane-mousetrap-lets-you-know-its-caught-something/ | Source: Hackaday
[15:56]	TR Bot	Mousetrap Lets You Know Its Caught Something | Hackaday
[15:57]	TR News	"Where Winds Meet is a new free to play game on Steam that's doing some big numbers right now, and thankfully it seems to work great on Linux with Proton. Tested with Proton 10, so far I haven't encountered any issues." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/the-big-new-where-winds-meet-release-works-well-on-linux/
[15:57]	TR Bot	big new RPG Where Winds Meet release works well on Linux | GamingOnLinux
[15:58]	TR News	"ShaniOS maintains two separate environments. If an update - or anything - goes wrong with one environment, simply reboot and switch to the other. I am seriously impressed." https://www.zdnet.com/article/i-found-an-immutable-linux-distro-that-never-breaks-and-is-effortless-to-use/
[15:58]	TR Bot	found an immutable Linux distro that never breaks and is effortless to use | ZDNET
[15:59]	TR News	Valve engineer who keeps decade-old Radeon GPUs alive on Linux, now pushes for AMDGPU to become the default driver https://hardforum.com/threads/valve-engineer-who-keeps-decade-old-radeon-gpus-alive-on-linux-now-pushes-for-amdgpu-to-become-the-default-driver.2044822/
[15:59]	TR Bot	 Valve engineer who keeps decade-old Radeon GPUs alive on Linux, now pushes for AMDGPU to become the default driver | [H]ard|Forum
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[16:00]	TR News	Spam https://www.newelectronics.co.uk/content/technology-spotlights/modnyco-is-a-uk-based-embedded-solutions-partner-specialising-in-electronics-firmware-and-embedded-linux-development-we-design-pcbs-develop-firmware-integrate-edge-ai-and-prepare-products-for-certification
[16:00]	TR Bot	 New Electronics - Modnyco is a UK-based embedded solutions partner, specialising in electronics, firmware, and embedded Linux development. We design PCBs, develop firmware, integrate edge AI, and prepare products for certification.
[16:00]	TR News	"Linux Mint and Zorin OS are both popular Linux distros - but which is right for you?" https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-mint-vs-zorin-os-how-to-pick-between-these-windows-alternatives/
[16:00]	TR Bot	Mint vs. Zorin OS: How to pick between these Windows alternatives | ZDNET
[16:03]	TR News	"This release delivers new compiler toolsets and updated module streams, along with improvements to debugging and networking tools." https://9to5linux.com/almalinux-os-9-7-is-out-as-a-free-alternative-to-red-hat-enterprise-linux-9-7
[16:03]	TR Bot	OS 9.7 Is Out as a Free Alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.7 - 9to5Linux
[16:03]	TR News	Kroah-Hartman: Linux Kernel Maintainer on CRA Open Source Impact https://thenewstack.io/kroah-hartman-linux-kernel-maintainer-on-cra-open-source-impact/
[16:03]	TR Bot	 Kroah-Hartman: Linux Kernel Maintainer on CRA Open Source Impact - The New Stack
[16:05]	TR News	"This release also introduces the dc3dd package, a patched version of GNU dd with added features for computer forensics." https://9to5linux.com/finnix-251-linux-distro-for-sysadmins-introduces-official-oci-container-images
[16:05]	TR Bot	251 Linux Distro for Sysadmins Introduces Official OCI Container Images - 9to5Linux
[16:05]	TR News	Valve's Proton brings better DirectX 12 support and FSR4 to Linux https://www.howtogeek.com/valves-proton-is-getting-better-directx-12-support-including-fsr4/
[16:05]	TR Bot	 Valve's Proton brings better DirectX 12 support and FSR4 to Linux
[16:06]	TR News	"According to the company, that level of availability translates to 3.15 seconds or less of unplanned downtime or data loss per year on a single platform." https://www.insidermonkey.com/blog/penguin-solutions-boosts-fault-tolerant-computing-with-oracle-linux-integration-1646347/
[16:06]	TR Bot	 Penguin Solutions Boosts Fault-Tolerant Computing with Oracle Linux Integration - Insider Monkey
[16:06]	TR News	"Are you tired of Linux distros that try to hide all the technicalities and simplify everything? Do you want distributions to let you optimize, configure, and push your system to its limits? Well, here are four distros built for all you power users who enjoy tweaking their machines!" https://www.howtogeek.com/these-are-the-only-linux-distros-i-recommend-for-power-users/
[16:06]	TR Bot	 These are the only 3 Linux distros I recommend to newcomers
[16:13]	TR News	 (NEW):  Barry Kauler on Latest in PuppyLinux or EasyOS https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/19/Barry_Kauler_on_Latest_in_PuppyLinux_or_EasyOS.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/19/Barry_Kauler_on_Latest_in_PuppyLinux_or_EasyOS.gmi 
[16:13]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Barry Kauler on Latest in PuppyLinux or EasyOS
[16:16]	TR News	 (NEW):  VKD3D-Proton 3.0 Released with FSR4 Support, DXBC Shader Backend Rewrite https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/17/VKD3D_Proton_3_0_Released_with_FSR4_Support_DXBC_Shader_Backend.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/17/VKD3D_Proton_3_0_Released_with_FSR4_Support_DXBC_Shader_Backend.gmi 
[16:16]	TR News	 (NEW):  Release of Snagboot v2.5 and Kroah-Hartman Talks About the European Unions (EU) Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/19/Release_of_Snagboot_v2_5_and_Kroah_Hartman_Talks_About_the_Euro.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/19/Release_of_Snagboot_v2_5_and_Kroah_Hartman_Talks_About_the_Euro.gmi 
[16:16]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines VKD3D-Proton 3.0 Released with FSR4 Support, DXBC Shader Backend Rewrite
[16:16]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Release of Snagboot v2.5 and Kroah-Hartman Talks About the European Unions (EU) Cyber Resilience Act (CRA)
[16:21]	TR News	 (NEW):  Today's Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/19/today_s_leftovers.1.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/19/today_s_leftovers.1.gmi 
[16:21]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines today's leftovers
[16:31]	TR News	Techrights Links 19/11/2025: Lawfare Against Greenpeace, Major British Newspaper Caught Using LLM Slop https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/19/Links_19_11_2025_Lawfare_Against_Greenpeace_Major_British_Newsp.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/11/19/Links_19_11_2025_Lawfare_Against_Greenpeace_Major_British_Newsp.gmi 
[16:31]	TR Bot	 Techrights Links 19/11/2025: Lawfare Against Greenpeace, Major British Newspaper Caught Using LLM Slop
[16:33]	TR News	"After picking up the PlayDate about 2 months ago, I wanted to build something for it. Well, my first completed project for it is done! This is my annoying 3x3x3 twisty puzzle game "FlatCube"! Have you ever wanted to solve a Rubik's cube but only wanted to ever be able to look at 1 side?" gemini://vigrey.com/journal/my-first-game-for-the-playdate-flatcube.gmi
[16:33]	TR News	"You all use uBlock Origin? Good. Today I saw a post by @lichen@bananachips.club with the following uBlock Origin rules to get rid of AI stuff when using GitHub. Love it." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2025-11-17-ublock-origin
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[16:36]	TR News	Writing about your life gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2739
[16:37]	TR News	SpellBinding: EILQTYU Wordo: LIRAS gemini://spell.ddns.net/games/gemlog/2025-11-19.gmi
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[16:45]	MinceR	https://ircz.de/p/25060310
[16:45]	TR Bot	 WHOOPSIE
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[17:08]	TR News	Techrights Europe Talks About "Digital Sovereignty" and Free Software in Europe is Where Things Should Start https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/19/Europe_Talks_About_Digital_Sovereignty_and_Free_Software_in_Eur.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/11/19/Europe_Talks_About_Digital_Sovereignty_and_Free_Software_in_Eur.gmi 
[17:08]	TR Bot	 Techrights Europe Talks About "Digital Sovereignty" and Free Software in Europe is Where Things Should Start
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[17:12]	TR News	Trans activists are putting Rust inside parts of Python: eventually a hard dependency https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/19/cpython_may_use_rust/
[17:12]	TR Bot	 Rust edges toward CPython and older platforms won't like it The Register
[17:13]	MinceR	well, it was to be expected since van rossum sold his soul to MICROS~1
[17:13]	TR News	Or call them Rust activists, either way, it's not good for Python, which has bits relying on code that won't be maintained for much longer
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[17:16]	TR News	 (NEW):  Slimbook and KDE Celebrate 8th Anniversary with KDE Slimbook VII Linux Laptop https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/19/Slimbook_and_KDE_Celebrate_8th_Anniversary_with_KDE_Slimbook_VI.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/19/Slimbook_and_KDE_Celebrate_8th_Anniversary_with_KDE_Slimbook_VI.gmi 
[17:17]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Slimbook and KDE Celebrate 8th Anniversary with KDE Slimbook VII Linux Laptop
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[17:29]	TR News	Techrights Microsoft Lunduke Publicly Attacking Linus Torvalds Says a Lot About 4Chan Cult(ure) https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/19/Microsoft_Lunduke_Publicly_Attacking_Linus_Torvalds_Says_a_Lot_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/11/19/Microsoft_Lunduke_Publicly_Attacking_Linus_Torvalds_Says_a_Lot_.gmi 
[17:29]	TR Bot	 Techrights Microsoft Lunduke Publicly Attacking Linus Torvalds Says a Lot About 4Chan Cult(ure)
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[18:06]	TR News	Techrights Fake News Sites Made by LLMs Are Lying With Confidence (IBM and Red Hat Layoffs) https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/19/Fake_News_Sites_Made_by_LLMs_Are_Lying_With_Confidence_IBM_and_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/11/19/Fake_News_Sites_Made_by_LLMs_Are_Lying_With_Confidence_IBM_and_.gmi 
[18:06]	TR Bot	 Techrights Fake News Sites Made by LLMs Are Lying With Confidence (IBM and Red Hat Layoffs)
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[18:42]	TR News	"However, following the publication of your latest "Teaser" on this topic we wanted to sound a note of caution." -Anon https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/29/Teaser_The_EPO_s_Spokesperson_a_Cocaine_User_Fancies_Young_Wome.shtml
[18:42]	TR Bot	 Techrights [Teaser] The EPO's Spokesperson, a Cocaine User, Fancies Young Women
[18:52]	MinceR	(cat) https://apina.biz/211711.jpeg?mode=sfw
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[19:01]	TR News	Techrights The Media Explains to Us Why It's Dangerous to Cover EPO's "Cocainegate" https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/19/The_Media_Explains_to_Us_Why_It_s_Dangerous_to_Cover_EPO_s_Coca.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/11/19/The_Media_Explains_to_Us_Why_It_s_Dangerous_to_Cover_EPO_s_Coca.gmi 
[19:01]	TR Bot	 Techrights The Media Explains to Us Why It's Dangerous to Cover EPO's "Cocainegate"
[19:23]	TR News	Techrights Censorship Doesn't Always Work https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/19/Censorship_Doesn_t_Always_Work.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/11/19/Censorship_Doesn_t_Always_Work.gmi 
[19:23]	TR Bot	 Techrights Censorship Doesn't Always Work
[19:43]	TR News	 (NEW):  Uncomfortable Realities https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/19/Uncomfortable_Realities.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/19/Uncomfortable_Realities.gmi 
[19:44]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Uncomfortable Realities
● Nov 19
[20:05]	TR News	Techrights Luis Berenguer Gimnez Claims to Still be at the EPO (European Patent Office), Even After His Replacement Following Cocaine Bust https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/19/Luis_Berenguer_Gimenez_Claims_to_Still_be_at_the_EPO_European_P.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/11/19/Luis_Berenguer_Gimenez_Claims_to_Still_be_at_the_EPO_European_P.gmi 
[20:05]	TR Bot	 Techrights Luis Berenguer Gimnez Claims to Still be at the EPO (European Patent Office), Even After His Replacement Following Cocaine Bust
[20:18]	TR News	 (NEW):  GNU/Linux Will Reach 6% in American Government Sites If This Trend Carries on https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/19/GNU_Linux_Will_Reach_6_in_American_Government_Sites_If_This_Tre.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/19/GNU_Linux_Will_Reach_6_in_American_Government_Sites_If_This_Tre.gmi 
[20:18]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines GNU/Linux Will Reach 6% in American Government Sites If This Trend Carries on
[20:22]	TR News	Extra keyboard shortcuts gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/extra-keyboard-shortcuts/
[20:24]	TR News	Re: why desktop linux is growing gopher://redterminal.org:70/0/phlog/2025-11-19-Re_why_desktop_linux_is_growing.txt
[20:28]	TR News	Techrights Gemini Links 19/11/2025: FlatCube, uBlock Origin, and More https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/19/Gemini_Links_19_11_2025_FlatCube_uBlock_Origin_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/11/19/Gemini_Links_19_11_2025_FlatCube_uBlock_Origin_and_More.gmi 
[20:28]	TR Bot	 Techrights Gemini Links 19/11/2025: FlatCube, uBlock Origin, and More
[20:29]	TR News	"Mr. Hybrid Cloud is rethinking. Running a tech company where you invest in innovation is way too expensive for Mr. Curry. That money could go into a 4th vacation home or another Porsche or something useful." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kaaxz7js
[20:29]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kaaxz7js )
[20:29]	TR News	"When investors find out the lying, cheating, trickery and thievery going on for the past 20 years, they will be sad. And Alvind/Chipmunks/Flabbie/Hoodie/FiveCent/and all the rest will be happy. I hope they choke on their money." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kaaxz7js
[20:30]	TR News	"The stock price is finding its stride now. Running downhill." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ka6g0njx
[20:30]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ka6g0njx )
[20:32]	TR News	"Someone using DEI as a pejorative? No other way to describe that than racist." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ka0gxw0h
[20:32]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ka0gxw0h )
[20:33]	TR News	IBM layoffs in Mexico. "Guadalajara software lab got the news today. I'm shook." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k9grten7
[20:33]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k9grten7 )
[20:34]	TR News	"You don't need to waste money on R&D when executives could use that money to get more filthy rich while they layoff paycheck-to-paycheck employees. They like doing that, just like their mentor, Don Jon Trumpogomy. May each and every executive suffer from horrible, debilitating, painful, fatal illnesses and suffer for all eternity. Bitter? Me? Nah." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kacy0dc9
[20:34]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kacy0dc9 )
[20:34]	TR News	"With its current mission, there is no need to keep any Research labs open, other than PR to say - "look we do Research!"" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kacy0dc9
[20:34]	TR News	"Research used to do amazing things until Ginny changed its purpose to be more near-term, and gutted the patent incentives. As a result of this, years later, IBM has nothing much now, and nothing in the long-term pipeline .. just research for the next quarter, which is basically development, so now Research as a separate unit is redundant." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kacy0dc9
[20:35]	TR News	"The best researchers left for greener pastures during those long-ago times, and now other companies (Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, etc.) are reaping the rewards of true long-term Research started by former-IBMers way back then." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kacy0dc9
[20:53]	TR News	Techrights Some People Still Being RAd at IBM This Week, According to Unverified Claims Online https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/19/Some_People_Still_Being_RAd_at_IBM_This_Week_According_to_Unver.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/11/19/Some_People_Still_Being_RAd_at_IBM_This_Week_According_to_Unver.gmi 
[20:53]	TR Bot	 Techrights Some People Still Being RAd at IBM This Week, According to Unverified Claims Online
● Nov 19
[21:28]	TR News	 (NEW):  Geminispace and Gopherholes on How GNU/Linux Becomes More Mainstream https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/19/Geminispace_and_Gopherholes_on_How_GNU_Linux_Becomes_More_Mains.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/19/Geminispace_and_Gopherholes_on_How_GNU_Linux_Becomes_More_Mains.gmi 
[21:28]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Geminispace and Gopherholes on How GNU/Linux Becomes More Mainstream
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[23:30]	MinceR	https://ircz.de/p/25060233
[23:30]	TR Bot	 WHOOPSIE
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