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● Jan 20
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● Jan 20
[01:07]	Isambard_Prince	MinceR, Someone on Reddit posted that they spent $31,000 on their AmEx card but all they had to pay was $95. Then it showed that this was a minimum payment based on a $7,000 statement balance, and that they were still in the zero interest intro period.
[01:07]	Isambard_Prince	I just said, "I could tell you what the lesson will be, but American Express will do that shortly."
[01:08]	MinceR	:>
[01:15]	Isambard_Prince	MinceR, "I'll want twice as much next time since you had time to SMELT IT INTO BRICKS!"
[01:15]	Isambard_Prince	-John Travolta (Battlefield Earth)
[01:16]	Isambard_Prince	Yes, yes, but he who smelted it dealted it.
[01:16]	MinceR	:>
[01:18]	Isambard_Prince	MinceR, That episode of Lexx with the space station hospital cracks me up every time.
[01:18]	Isambard_Prince	It's basically the US healthcare system.
[01:18]	Isambard_Prince	They can fix almost anything, for money.
[01:19]	Isambard_Prince	I got yet more bills from the hospital today.
[01:19]	Isambard_Prince	For the surgery on my shoulder.
[01:19]	Isambard_Prince	I hurried up and paid some minor ones batched together to make some transactions that were just over $10 each before the one from the other surgeon posts.
[01:20]	Isambard_Prince	I'm working on a debit card bonus for a throwaway account.
[01:20]	Isambard_Prince	They give you $250 for making 20 purchases over $10 within 75 days.
[01:20]	Isambard_Prince	I used three of them to clean up 5 small co-pays.
[01:24]	Isambard_Prince	MinceR, I threw an electric bill into the wood chipper too. I paid a few $10+ transactions on it in various amounts.
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[01:46]	Isambard_Prince	https://itsfoss.com/news/torvalds-blue-screen-of-death/
[01:46]	TR Bot	 Linus Torvalds Defends Windows' Blue Screen of Death
[01:47]	Isambard_Prince	Well, PC hardware is horrible.
[01:47]	Isambard_Prince	And most of the reason it's horrible is because Microsoft dictates a lot of the things that end up inside it.
[01:47]	Isambard_Prince	So there's no getting away from that if you get rid of Windows and use something els.e
[01:48]	Isambard_Prince	Yahoo has another one of those "How much is each American worth on average, by age group."
[01:48]	Isambard_Prince	Well, that's a diseased mindset.
[01:49]	Isambard_Prince	Saying someone's only worth what's in their bank account.
[01:49]	Isambard_Prince	Reducing the value of a life to the things you could buy.
[01:49]	Isambard_Prince	If you don't want to buy very many things, you will have more money even if you make less money than someone else.
[01:49]	MinceR	windows is even more horrible
[01:49]	Isambard_Prince	There's someone on FICO Forums who posted one of those "We make $650,000 a year and we're drowning in debt." stories the other day.
[01:50]	MinceR	but hey, linux is catching up
[01:50]	MinceR	today, i had several GBs of RAM free and practically nothing running, and i still got a relatively light website scroll almost an entire screen in 1 frame
[01:50]	MinceR	with the scroll wheel
[01:51]	Isambard_Prince	I made about 2.6% of that amount last year and I'm not drowning.
[01:51]	Isambard_Prince	They're worth less than I am.
[01:51]	Isambard_Prince	Because they're both lawyers who make $325,000 each and they accumulated too many things.
[01:51]	Isambard_Prince	Their HOA fee on the house. Not the house, but the HOA fee, is double my monthly rent.
[01:52]	Isambard_Prince	They had kids and they sent them to private school.
[01:52]	Isambard_Prince	They hired nannies and maids and tutors and chefs and things.
[01:52]	MinceR	i wonder what they get out of that HOA fee
[01:52]	Isambard_Prince	So they have a payroll for operating their household.
[01:53]	Isambard_Prince	Nobody will take them seriously in their profession if they drive up in a 17 year old Buick.
[01:53]	Isambard_Prince	So they have car payments, on luxury cars.
[01:53]	Isambard_Prince	I mean, it just goes on and on.
[01:53]	Isambard_Prince	MinceR, The $2400 a month HOA?
[01:54]	Isambard_Prince	It's there to fine you if you paint your door military gray instead of ocean gray.
[01:54]	Isambard_Prince	Or if they think your flagpole is three inches too high.
[01:54]	Isambard_Prince	Or they don't like your fence.
[01:54]	MinceR	sounds wonderful
[01:54]	Isambard_Prince	Or if you're not there before 3 PM which is the deadline to get empty trashcans behind the house.
[01:54]	MinceR	really worth the money
● Jan 20
[02:11]	Isambard_Prince	MinceR, Yeah. It's not.
[02:11]	MinceR	:>
[02:11]	Isambard_Prince	You're better off with a $16 an hour job and no college debt than with a lot of college degrees.
[02:11]	Isambard_Prince	You're really better off if you're not trying to impress anyone.
[02:12]	Isambard_Prince	MinceR, They have a saying in Texas. It goes "Big hat, no cattle."
[02:12]	Isambard_Prince	I use that when someone who is obviously a wage earner walks in with better clothes than me, has a car payment, etc.
[02:12]	MinceR	:>
[02:17]	Isambard_Prince	MinceR, The power went out at the gas station before it finished running my card.
[02:18]	Isambard_Prince	But the pump filled up the tank and then never charged the card.
[02:18]	Isambard_Prince	The manager didn't know what to do so she said don't worry about it, and help myself to a cup of coffee on the way out.
[02:18]	Isambard_Prince	:)
[02:19]	Isambard_Prince	I dumped in a bottle of Gumout Regane High Mileage this time.
[02:19]	Isambard_Prince	I've been hammering it with fuel system cleaner. This is the third tank.
[02:19]	Isambard_Prince	I'll give it a break after this.
[02:19]	Isambard_Prince	I had a very bad problem but it hasn't been acting up at all since the middle of the second treated tank.
[02:20]	Isambard_Prince	It's hard for me to justify using Top Tier gas stations when they're almost always about 70-80 cents per gallon more expensive.
[02:21]	Isambard_Prince	I just forgot to dump some detergent in myself for the past couple years and I guess this is the result.
[02:22]	Isambard_Prince	How temperamental are European cars with carbon buildup?
[02:22]	Isambard_Prince	Or does the government there require better detergents?
[02:29]	MinceR	\_()_/
[02:29]	MinceR	both my cars were japanese
[02:30]	Isambard_Prince	I found a 1993 model Mr. Coffee.
[02:30]	MinceR	but have you found a Mr. Radar?
[02:30]	Isambard_Prince	I bought it. I think it makes better coffee than the Moccamaster honestly.
[02:30]	Isambard_Prince	I don't think it's been used.
[02:30]	Isambard_Prince	Just sitting there for 33 years.
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● Jan 20
[03:07]	Isambard_Prince	MinceR, Someone posted a picture of a self-checkout at a book store that's asking for tips.
[03:08]	MinceR	:>
[03:42]	TR News	Techrights IRC Proceedings: Monday, January 19, 2026 https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/20/IRC_Proceedings_Monday_January_19_2026.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/20/IRC_Proceedings_Monday_January_19_2026.gmi 
[03:42]	TR Bot	 Techrights IRC Proceedings: Monday, January 19, 2026
[03:42]	TR News	 (NEW):  Today in Techrights https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/20/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/20/Today_in_Techrights.gmi 
[03:42]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Today in Techrights
[03:43]	TR News	Techrights Over at Tux Machines... https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/20/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/20/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi 
[03:43]	TR Bot	 Techrights Over at Tux Machines...
[03:46]	TR News	2026: 40000 layoffs at Microsoft due to AI/Satya https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kf9gxedy "It's going to be a bloodbath."
[03:46]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kf9gxedy )
[03:51]	TR News	 (NEW):  Its Official: Richard Stallman Will Speak at Georgia Tech on January 23 - FOSS Force https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/20/It_s_Official_Richard_Stallman_Will_Speak_at_Georgia_Tech_on_Ja.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/20/It_s_Official_Richard_Stallman_Will_Speak_at_Georgia_Tech_on_Ja.gmi 
[03:51]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Its Official: Richard Stallman Will Speak at Georgia Tech on January 23 - FOSS Force
[03:51]	TR News	Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2026-01-20.gmi
[03:52]	TR News	"One of the great things about the FOSS world is that if you have a specific computer problem...someone probably already wrote a utility to fix it." gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/canfood/phlog/2026-01-19
[03:53]	TR News	[cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1541.jpg
[03:53]	TR News	[cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1891.jpg
[03:54]	TR News	T H R E E - D E E (cont., 4ofx) gopher://sdf.org:70/1/users/xiled/phlog/2026/20260119_3d4 "GOOGOOGOO over Punter protocol. Start the download before bedtime and before the end of any BBS session time limit (while tying up the phone line) and hopefully the file writes to the 5.25" floppy successfully. At least there is no upload/download ratios."
[03:54]	MinceR	lol
[03:55]	TR News	"I remember I have one CRT scope, a Tektronix 620 X-Y monitor, which I borrowed from a friend a while back, for some vector graphics experiments. It is rather long about two feet from front to back, so it is a rather inconvenient form factor." gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20260119-0.gmi
[03:56]	TR News	"When my wife and I visited the United Kingdom in 2023, we flew on an Airbus A380 with British Airways. The flight was packed: 485 passengers filled the double decks, and 22 crew members operated the aircraft and staffed the cabin." gemini://jsreed5.org/log/2026/202601/20260119-groups.gmi
[03:57]	TR News	"I posted this on my blog, which conveniently cross-posts to gopher via the Writefreely blog platform I'm using." gemini://gemini.smallweb.space/gemlog/20260119-roku-at-a-hotel.gmi Using a Roku at a Hotel gopher://smallweb.space:70/0/using-a-roku-at-a-hotel
[03:58]	TR News	"Of 60 students, 57 decided not to use any chatbots. For 30 of them, I managed to ask them to explain their choices. For the others, I unfortunately did not have the time. After the exam, I grouped those justifications into four different clusters. I did it without looking at their grades." gemini://ploum.net/2026-01-19-exam-with-chatbots.gmi
[03:59]	TR News	"For a while now we've been talking about moving our Discord server community to IRC. I've been running a server, @kyonshi@dice.camp has been running a server, we networked them, and so on. I really like how the use of web apps like The Lounge have been helping us get there." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2026-01-19-grenzland
● Jan 20
[04:00]	TR News	"This oneness, mind you, is authentic 100% bonafide Greek-brand and therefore Western oneness, not the fake Eastern sort, nor the kind you might get from licking a toad." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2026/01/20/acme-brand-oneness.gmi
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[04:10]	TR News	Techrights Gemini Links 20/01/2026: New Tea, Using a Roku at a Hotel, and "Voltage-Based Power Management for Any Raspberry Pi" https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/20/Gemini_Links_20_01_2026_New_Tea_Using_a_Roku_at_a_Hotel_and_Vol.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/20/Gemini_Links_20_01_2026_New_Tea_Using_a_Roku_at_a_Hotel_and_Vol.gmi 
[04:10]	TR Bot	 Techrights Gemini Links 20/01/2026: New Tea, Using a Roku at a Hotel, and "Voltage-Based Power Management for Any Raspberry Pi"
[04:15]	admfubar	https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/19/just_the_browser/
[04:15]	TR Bot	 Just the Browser claims to tame the bloat without forking The Register
[04:16]	MinceR	unfortunately, a lot of the bloat comes from the 'standard' and a lot of it comes from the sites themselves
[04:18]	MinceR	also, if you have such a file, chromium and brave will suddenly decide that "your organization" bans downloading some random files without any rhyme or reason to it
[04:18]	MinceR	probably because goolag hates its users with the force of a billion suns
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[04:20]	Isambard_Prince	Yes, you can use a Roku at the hotel, usually.
[04:21]	Isambard_Prince	MinceR, I disconnect their DirecTV box and plug the Roku into that port.
[04:21]	MinceR	what's so special about a roku?
[04:22]	Isambard_Prince	Nothing really. It has minidlna but they don't make an issue of that.
[04:22]	Isambard_Prince	Err, dlna rather.
[04:22]	Isambard_Prince	MiniDLNA is the server I use to stream to it.
[04:22]	Isambard_Prince	GNOME has a DLNA server but it's not a good one.
[04:22]	Isambard_Prince	There's a lot of stuttering and dropouts and it doesn't support all the codecs that the Roku does.
[04:23]	MinceR	20 051808 <@MinceR> also, if you have such a file, chromium and brave will suddenly decide that "your organization" bans downloading some random files without any rhyme or reason to it
[04:23]	MinceR	naturally, the way they let you know is that it will look like it downloaded fine, but if you click on the downloads button, it will confess that it was blocked because of "your organization"
[04:24]	admfubar	https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/19/open_sources_new_mission_rebuild/
[04:24]	TR Bot	 Open source's new mission: Rebuild a continent's tech stack The Register
[04:24]	MinceR	because why would corporate software treat its user like an adult, ever
[04:24]	MinceR	has the EU chose to accept its mission?
[04:26]	admfubar	https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/19/hcl_infosys_tcs_wipro_results/
[04:26]	TR Bot	 Hiring at Indias Big Four outsourcers stalls as AI bites The Register
[04:33]	admfubar	https://futurism.com/future-society/arrests-murder-amazon-facility
[04:33]	TR Bot	 Arrests Made for Murder at Amazon Facility
[04:39]	admfubar	you dirty rat... https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/01/19/fake-browser-crash-alert-chrome-edge-extension/
[04:39]	TR Bot	 Fake browser crash alerts turn Chrome extension into enterprise backdoor - Help Net Security
[04:42]	TR News	Techrights IBM Plans for Layoffs Becoming Clearer With "Employee Reviews" https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/20/IBM_Plans_for_Layoffs_Becoming_Clearer_With_Employee_Reviews.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/20/IBM_Plans_for_Layoffs_Becoming_Clearer_With_Employee_Reviews.gmi 
[04:42]	TR Bot	 Techrights IBM Plans for Layoffs Becoming Clearer With "Employee Reviews"
[04:54]	TR News	Techrights The "Alicante Mafia" - Part VI - More Strikes Planned at the EPO, Starting This Month https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/20/The_Alicante_Mafia_Part_VI_More_Strikes_Planned_at_the_EPO_Star.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/20/The_Alicante_Mafia_Part_VI_More_Strikes_Planned_at_the_EPO_Star.gmi 
[04:54]	TR Bot	 Techrights The "Alicante Mafia" - Part VI - More Strikes Planned at the EPO, Starting This Month
● Jan 20
[05:02]	Isambard_Prince	MinceR, In Falling Down, a movie from 1993, Michael Douglas shot up a Burger King (name changed for the movie) for not serving him breakfast at 10:35.
[05:02]	Isambard_Prince	Then he wanted to make a call at a pay phone, which was 25 cents, but the shop owner wouldn't change a dollar, so he bought a single can of Coca Cola. The shop owner said 85 cents, so Douglas went crazy and destroyed the store with a baseball bat, then left him 50 cents for the can of Coke.
[05:02]	Isambard_Prince	:)
[05:03]	Isambard_Prince	At vending machines today, it's quite common that a single can of Coke is $2.25 or so.
[05:03]	Isambard_Prince	In some places they can be $2.75.
[05:03]	Isambard_Prince	I recall, the 90s, even the mid 2000s, when Walmart had store brand soda machines.
[05:04]	Isambard_Prince	And you could still put 25 cents in and get a can of Sam's Choice cola. Or the other flavors.
[05:05]	Isambard_Prince	MinceR, I was working there in 2005 when a 12 pack was $2.98 in the store. But still 25 cents each in the machine at the front of the store.
[05:06]	Isambard_Prince	Accounting for the cost of keeping them cold, I'd say it was a loss leader.
[05:06]	MinceR	yeah, inflation exists
[05:07]	Isambard_Prince	Really nasty inflation.
[05:07]	Isambard_Prince	Inflation tends to freak people out.
[05:08]	Isambard_Prince	Japan had about 30 years, I think, where prices were very stable.
[05:09]	TR News	Techrights Microsoft Under Fresh Investigation by the Italian Competition Authority https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/20/Microsoft_Under_Fresh_Investigation_by_the_Italian_Competition_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/20/Microsoft_Under_Fresh_Investigation_by_the_Italian_Competition_.gmi 
[05:09]	TR Bot	not resolve host: techrights.org ( status 0 @ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/20/Microsoft_Under_Fresh_Investigation_by_the_Italian_Competition_.shtml )
[05:20]	Isambard_Prince	schestowitz[TR2], Google has gotten really pushy about Gemini in Gmail.
[05:21]	Isambard_Prince	They open it whether you wanted that or not using in-page pop-ups.
[05:24]	schestowitz[TR2]	it goes like this
[05:24]	schestowitz[TR2]	gooel saw no growth
[05:24]	schestowitz[TR2]	iit already got like 95% in search
[05:24]	schestowitz[TR2]	they ned growth
[05:24]	schestowitz[TR2]	so they went along with hey hi narrative
[05:24]	schestowitz[TR2]	that stopped growing
[05:24]	schestowitz[TR2]	so they foist it on people
[05:24]	schestowitz[TR2]	to show (fake) "demand"
[05:24]	TR News	 (NEW):  The Harder They Try to Squash GNU/Linux Advocacy, the Move Exposure It'll Get https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/20/The_Harder_They_Try_to_Squash_GNU_Linux_Advocacy_the_Move_Expos.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/20/The_Harder_They_Try_to_Squash_GNU_Linux_Advocacy_the_Move_Expos.gmi 
[05:24]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines The Harder They Try to Squash GNU/Linux Advocacy, the Move Exposure It'll Get
[05:24]	schestowitz[TR2]	this won't end well\
[05:24]	schestowitz[TR2]	and it is pissing off many gmail users already
[05:24]	schestowitz[TR2]	even if that helps GOOG or alphabet stock for a while
[05:37]	TR News	Techrights European Patent Office (EPO) Industrial Actions Formally Start in Two Hours https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/20/European_Patent_Office_EPO_Industrial_Actions_Formally_Start_in.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/20/European_Patent_Office_EPO_Industrial_Actions_Formally_Start_in.gmi 
[05:37]	TR Bot	 Techrights European Patent Office (EPO) Industrial Actions Formally Start in Two Hours
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[06:04]	TR News	Techrights IBM is Outsourcing Red Hat's Fedora to Slop to 'Save Money' https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/20/IBM_is_Outsourcing_Red_Hat_s_Fedora_to_Slop_to_Save_Money.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/20/IBM_is_Outsourcing_Red_Hat_s_Fedora_to_Slop_to_Save_Money.gmi 
[06:04]	TR Bot	 Techrights IBM is Outsourcing Red Hat's Fedora to Slop to 'Save Money'
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[06:17]	TR News	Techrights Readers Pleased With Layout Changes https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/20/Readers_Pleased_With_Layout_Changes.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/20/Readers_Pleased_With_Layout_Changes.gmi 
[06:17]	TR Bot	 Techrights Readers Pleased With Layout Changes
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[06:27]	TR News	Techrights Rudeness and Vulgarity Won't Stop Journalism About Free Software https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/20/Rudeness_and_Vulgarity_Won_t_Stop_Journalism_About_Free_Softwar.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/20/Rudeness_and_Vulgarity_Won_t_Stop_Journalism_About_Free_Softwar.gmi 
[06:27]	TR Bot	 Techrights Rudeness and Vulgarity Won't Stop Journalism About Free Software
[06:36]	TR News	 (NEW):  Huge Gains for GNU/Linux Thus Far in 2026 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/20/Huge_Gains_for_GNU_Linux_Thus_Far_in_2026.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/20/Huge_Gains_for_GNU_Linux_Thus_Far_in_2026.gmi 
[06:36]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Huge Gains for GNU/Linux Thus Far in 2026
[06:43]	schestowitz[TR2]	now it is clear ms lunduke reads tr
[06:43]	schestowitz[TR2]	for ideas
[06:43]	schestowitz[TR2]	then he can twist them in some political nasty way
[06:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	even uses the same URL as us
[06:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	"Yet another discrimination lawsuit has been filed against IBM.
[06:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	This time, a 61 year old white man is alleging age discrimination and the story, if true, makes IBM look like a true villain.
[06:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	According to the ex-IBM employee (responsible for over $7 Million in sales per year), after his daughter died (and he dared to take 2 weeks off work to mourn), IBM placed him on a Performance Improvement Plan with goals designed to be impossible (including hitting 45% of his yearly goals in only a few weeks time).
[06:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	A tactic clearly designed to justify termination of the high performing employee, who was the wrong age.  And, based on the details of the suit the wrong skin color and gender.
[06:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	Apparently, a black woman with identical territory, quota, and performance was not punished.
[06:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	Considering IBMs long standing policies of illegal race and gender hiring (and firing) quotas, none of this is surprising."
[06:48]	TR News	"My dad worked for IBM in storage sales and, when he got cancer, they boosted his quota to 300% more that his career best quarter and when he only hit 250% they fired him to get him off the payroll and out of their insurance pool" https://x.com/politicalmath/status/2013473866148937735
[06:48]	TR Bot	 NO TITLE
[06:48]	TR News	"Dad got another job with a better company and was still making sales a week before he passed away ... The main point is that IBM is an evil company filled with evil people and it should be burned to the ground"
[06:53]	TR News	 (NEW):  GNOME: Digital Wellbeing Contract: Conclusion https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/20/GNOME_Digital_Wellbeing_Contract_Conclusion.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/20/GNOME_Digital_Wellbeing_Contract_Conclusion.gmi 
[06:53]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines GNOME: Digital Wellbeing Contract: Conclusion
● Jan 20
[07:06]	TR News	 (NEW):  Free and Open Source Software https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/20/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/20/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi 
[07:06]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Free and Open Source Software
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[07:13]	TR News	 (NEW):  Firefox Nightly is getting easier to install for Linux Fedora and openSUSE users https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/20/Firefox_Nightly_is_getting_easier_to_install_for_Linux_Fedora_a.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/20/Firefox_Nightly_is_getting_easier_to_install_for_Linux_Fedora_a.gmi 
[07:13]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Firefox Nightly is getting easier to install for Linux Fedora and openSUSE users
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[07:14]	TR News	 (NEW):  Nations Grasp the Importance of Software Freedom https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/20/Nations_Grasp_the_Importance_of_Software_Freedom.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/20/Nations_Grasp_the_Importance_of_Software_Freedom.gmi 
[07:14]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Nations Grasp the Importance of Software Freedom
[07:16]	TR News	 (NEW):  Today's HowTos   https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/19/today_s_howtos.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/19/today_s_howtos.gmi 
[07:16]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines today's howtos
[07:26]	TR News	 (NEW):   : Google Android Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/20/Android_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/20/Android_Leftovers.gmi 
[07:26]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Android Leftovers
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[07:58]	TR News	Ghostship is a new Super Mario 64 PC port from HarbourMasters | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/ghostship-is-a-new-super-mario-64-pc-port-from-harbourmasters/ Source: GamingOnLinux
[07:58]	TR Bot	is a new Super Mario 64 PC port from HarbourMasters | GamingOnLinux
[07:58]	TR News	KDE Plasma 6.7 will have a global push-to-talk feature | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/kde-plasma-6-7-will-have-a-global-push-to-talk-feature/ Source: GamingOnLinux
[07:58]	TR Bot	Plasma 6.7 will have a global push-to-talk feature | GamingOnLinux
[07:59]	TR News	From the devs of Minami Lane, their next game Milki Delivery is a cosy delivery game | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/from-the-devs-of-minami-lane-their-next-game-milki-delivery-is-a-cosy-delivery-game/ Source: GamingOnLinux
[07:59]	TR Bot	the devs of Minami Lane, their next game Milki Delivery is a cosy delivery game | GamingOnLinux
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[08:01]	TR News	 (NEW):  This Week in Plasma: dark mode switch and global push-to-talk https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/17/This_Week_in_Plasma_dark_mode_switch_and_global_push_to_talk.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/17/This_Week_in_Plasma_dark_mode_switch_and_global_push_to_talk.gmi 
[08:01]	TR News	 (NEW):  Linux 6.19 Delays https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/19/Linux_6_19_Delays.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/19/Linux_6_19_Delays.gmi 
[08:01]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines This Week in Plasma: dark mode switch and global push-to-talk
[08:01]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Linux 6.19 Delays
[08:02]	TR News	Tile Tactics is a roguelike tower defense game where everything is a tile and you gamble for new tiles | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/tile-tactics-is-a-roguelike-tower-defense-game-where-everything-is-a-tile-and-you-gamble-for-new-tiles/ Source: GamingOnLinux
[08:02]	TR Bot	Tactics is a roguelike tower defense game where everything is a tile and you gamble for new tiles | GamingOnLinux
[08:02]	TR News	Walaber announced precision-driving physics sim 4x4 in a Furniture Store | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/walaber-announced-precision-driving-physics-sim-4x4-in-a-furniture-store/ Source: GamingOnLinux
[08:02]	TR Bot	announced precision-driving physics sim 4x4 in a Furniture Store | GamingOnLinux
[08:03]	TR News	Get some indie legends in the latest Fanatical game bundle | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/get-some-indie-legends-in-the-latest-fanatical-game-bundle/ Source: GamingOnLinux
[08:03]	TR Bot	some indie legends in the latest Fanatical game bundle | GamingOnLinux
[08:05]	TR News	Draft code submitted to KDE Plasma turns it into a full VR desktop | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/draft-code-submitted-to-kde-plasma-turns-it-into-a-full-vr-desktop/ Source: GamingOnLinux
[08:05]	TR Bot	code submitted to KDE Plasma turns it into a full VR desktop | GamingOnLinux
[08:05]	TR News	From Project Zomboid modders - the survival-horror Dandelion Void will have multiplayer | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/from-project-zomboid-modders-the-survival-horror-dandelion-void-will-have-multiplayer/ Source: GamingOnLinux
[08:05]	TR Bot	Project Zomboid modders - the survival-horror Dandelion Void will have multiplayer | GamingOnLinux
[08:11]	TR News	"Discount" https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/beep-2
[08:11]	TR Bot	 Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Beep
[08:11]	TR News	 (NEW):  Games: Dandelion Void, KDE Plasma VR, Tile Tactics, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/20/Games_Dandelion_Void_KDE_Plasma_VR_Tile_Tactics_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/20/Games_Dandelion_Void_KDE_Plasma_VR_Tile_Tactics_and_More.gmi 
[08:11]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Games: Dandelion Void, KDE Plasma VR, Tile Tactics, and More
[08:11]	TR News	"AI and the Corporate Capture of Knowledge" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/01/18/0037250
[08:12]	TR Bot	 AI and the Corporate Capture of Knowledge - SoylentNews
[08:13]	TR News	How to be anonymous on social media | "S r du anonym p sociala media" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/01/19/sa-ar-du-anonym-pa-sociala-media/
[08:13]	TR Bot	 S r du anonym p sociala media
[08:16]	TR News	"NVIDIA executives allegedly authorized the use of millions of pirated books from Anna's Archive to fuel its AI training." https://torrentfreak.com/nvidia-contacted-annas-archive-to-secure-access-to-millions-of-pirated-books/ | Source: Torrent Freak
[08:16]	TR Bot	Contacted Annas Archive to Secure Access to Millions of Pirated Books * TorrentFreak
[08:17]	TR News	"A year later, the pattern continues. Now, its the work of Dutch abstract painter Piet Mondrian." https://copyrightlately.com/mondrian-public-domain-controversy/ | Source: CopyrightLately
[08:17]	TR Bot	 Mondrian Entered the Public Domain. The Estate Disagrees. | Copyright Lately
[08:17]	TR News	"Trusted Platform Module (TPM) chips have been around since the release of the TPM 1.2 specification more than 20 years ago" https://sigma-star.at/blog/2026/01/tpm-on-embedded-systems-pitfalls-and-caveats/ | Source: Sigma Star gmbh
[08:17]	TR Bot	 TPM on Embedded Systems: Pitfalls and Caveats
[08:18]	TR News	"Oosthuysen said fibre deployments are taking longer than anticipated, with rural areas and smaller towns remaining the most difficult to connect." https://techcentral.co.za/why-south-africas-internet-boom-isnt-driving-an-economic-boom/276444/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)
[08:18]	TR Bot	 Why South Africa's internet boom isn't driving an economic boom
[08:18]	TR News	"Through detailed explanations of the role that slavery played in every region of early America, you learn that Delaware passed a law prohibiting free Black people from moving to the state." https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/slavery-museums-black-history-lynching/685660/ | Source: The Atlantic
[08:18]	TR Bot	 The Power of Private Museums - The Atlantic
[08:19]	TR News	"you should not say you want to abolish ICE." https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/abolish-ice-democrats-defund-police/685665/ | Source: The Atlantic
[08:19]	TR Bot	 Abolish ICE Is Back - The Atlantic
[08:19]	TR News	"Did the ICE agent kill Ms. Good because he feared her? Or did he kill her because she didnt fear him?" https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/opinion/renee-good-last-words.html | Source: New York Times
[08:19]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/opinion/renee-good-last-words.html )
[08:20]	TR News	"A Time to Break Silence (Declaration Against the Vietnam War)" https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkatimetobreaksilence.htm?ref=werd.io |
[08:20]	TR Bot	 American Rhetoric: Martin Luther King, Jr: A Time to Break Silence (Declaration Against the Vietnam War)
[08:20]	TR News	"Remembering Beyond Vietnam on MLK Day" https://werd.io/remembering-beyond-vietnam-on-mlk-day/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller
[08:20]	TR Bot	 Remembering Beyond Vietnam on MLK Day
[08:20]	TR News	"Okay, its the old playbook to silence us." https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/19/1131384/what-its-like-to-be-banned-from-the-us-for-fighting-online-hate/ | Source: MIT Technology Review
[08:20]	TR Bot	 What its like to be banned from the US for fighting online hate | MIT Technology Review
[08:20]	TR News	"Media reports said the unauthorized broadcast lasted around 10 minutes." https://therecord.media/iran-state-television-reported-hack-opposition | Source: The Record
[08:20]	TR Bot	 Iranian state TV feed reportedly hijacked to air anti-regime messages | The Record from Recorded Future News
[08:22]	TR News	"Its an image that will knock you sideways: As snow falls, an elderly man wearing nothing but blue boxers and white Crocs with his hands restrained behind his back is forced out of his home by ICE agents." https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-st-paul-chongly-scott-thao-saly-hmong-us-citizen-arrest | Source: Marisa Kabas
[08:22]	TR Bot	 Behind the disturbing image of ICE snatching a half-naked, elderly Hmong American from his home
[08:22]	TR News	"Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, however, was not surprised" https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/todd-blanche-justice-department-renee-good/ | Source: The Nation
[08:22]	TR Bot	 A Trump Administration Official Says It Wont Investigate the Killing of Renee Good | The Nation
[08:22]	TR News	"The report addressed the conduct of several countries, including Iran." https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/01/un-condemns-alarming-global-execution-increase/ | Source: JURIST
[08:22]	TR Bot	 UN condemns 'alarming' global execution increase - JURIST - News
[08:23]	TR News	"To address inequality and out of growing concern for how automation might displace workers King became an early advocate for universal basic income." https://michiganadvance.com/2026/01/19/martin-luther-king-jr-was-ahead-of-his-time-in-pushing-for-universal-basic-income/ | Source: Michigan Advance
[08:23]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://michiganadvance.com/2026/01/19/martin-luther-king-jr-was-ahead-of-his-time-in-pushing-for-universal-basic-income/ )
[08:23]	TR News	[Old] "The lawsuit states that the potential of ICE raids is sending a "chilling effect" across immigrant worshippers at Quaker services." https://meidasnews.com/news/quaker-groups-sue-trump-administration-over-ice-church-raids | Source: Arena Group
[08:23]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://meidasnews.com/news/quaker-groups-sue-trump-administration-over-ice-church-raids )
[08:23]	TR News	"During a surprise performance in New Jersey, the musician condemned the deployment of federal agents in American cities and remembered the woman killed in Minneapolis" https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-01-19/bruce-springsteen-speaks-out-against-ice-and-dedicates-a-song-to-renee-good.html | Source: El Pas
[08:23]	TR Bot	 Bruce Springsteen speaks out against ICE and dedicates a song to Renee Good | U.S. | EL PAS English
[08:23]	TR News	"Pakistans government has stepped up the use of in absentia convictions and arrest warrants against Pakistani journalists living overseas since late 2025" https://cpj.org/2026/01/harassed-at-home-convicted-abroad-pakistan-steps-up-prosecution-of-overseas-journalists/ | Source: CPJ
[08:23]	TR Bot	 Harassed at home, convicted abroad: Pakistan steps up prosecution of overseas journalists - Committee to Protect Journalists
[08:25]	TR News	"debanking." https://robertreich.substack.com/p/jamies-choice | Source: Robert Reich
[08:25]	TR Bot	 Davoss Duty - Robert Reich
[08:25]	TR News	"The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Iranian authorities to immediately release freelance documentary photographer Navid Zarrehbin Irani, and to halt the systematic harassment and intimidation of journalists in Iran." https://cpj.org/2026/01/bahai-photographer-arrested-in-iran-amid-internet-blackout/ | Source: CPJ
[08:25]	TR Bot	 Bah photographer arrested in Iran amid internet blackout - Committee to Protect Journalists
[08:25]	TR News	"The biggest increases were seen in materials related to tools for bypassing [Internet] restrictions, which jumped 1,235% to more than 93,000 items, the regulator, Roskomnadzor, told the Vedomosti business daily on Monday." https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/01/19/russia-blocks-record-13m-web-pages-in-2025-a91719 | Source: The Moscow Times
[08:25]	TR Bot	 Russia Blocks Record 1.3M Web Pages in 2025 - The Moscow Times
[08:26]	TR News	"small Wikipedia edits punch above their weight" https://citizenlab.ca/london-pr-firm-rewrites-wikipedia-for-governments-and-billionaires/ | Source: Citizen Lab
[08:26]	TR Bot	 London PR Firm Rewrites Wikipedia for Governments and Billionaires - The Citizen Lab
[08:26]	TR News	"The firm in question is Portland Communications, whose founder Tim Allan is now the director of communications for Keir Starmer." https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026-01-14/london-pr-firm-rewrites-wikipedia-for-governments-and-billionaires | Source: The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
[08:26]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026-01-14/london-pr-firm-rewrites-wikipedia-for-governments-and-billionaires )
[08:27]	TR News	"The House Communications and Technology Subcommittee passed six public safety communications bills onto the full Energy and Commerce Committee on Thursday." https://insidetowers.com/lawmakers-advance-six-public-safety-communications-bills/ | Source: Inside Towers
[08:27]	TR Bot	 Lawmakers Advance Six Public Safety Communications Bills - Inside Towers
[08:27]	TR News	"As Europes longstanding alliance with the US falters, its push to become a self-sufficient AI superpower has become more urgent." https://www.wired.com/story/europe-race-us-deepseek-sovereign-ai/ | Source: Wired
[08:27]	TR Bot	Race to Build the DeepSeek of Europe Is On | WIRED
[08:27]	TR News	"It's just that you couldn't find a bigger culture clash between top-down and bottom-up if you invested a billion euros on a 27-nation research project." https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/19/open_sources_new_mission_rebuild/ | Source: The Register UK
[08:27]	TR Bot	 Open source's new mission: Rebuild a continent's tech stack The Register
[08:28]	TR News	[Old] "But on closer examination, the young people are screwed narrative is only true enough to be dangerous." https://www.derekthompson.org/p/are-young-people-screwed-by-the-economy |
[08:28]	TR Bot	 Are Young People Screwed? - Derek Thompson
[08:28]	TR News	"Research conducted by Censuswide among 4,295 CFOs, CISOs, CIOs, and CEOs worldwide found the majority of organizations (70 percent) do not see traditional ERP as the future." https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/19/erp_survey_rimini_street/ | Source: The Register UK
[08:28]	TR Bot	 ERP isn't dead yet but most execs are planning the wake The Register
[08:28]	TR News	"This week has been dominated by the $800 utilities bill that came in the mail, which follows up last month's $600 bill." https://smallcypress.bearblog.dev/weeknote-3/ | Source: Small Cypress
[08:28]	TR Bot	 weeknote 3 | small cypress
[08:29]	TR News	"Most sites in Montana hit all-time, or near-record amounts of precipitation in December when an atmospheric river released a deluge across the state." https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/hydro-power/tale-of-two-snowpacks-water-supply-report-shows-elevation-matters/ | Source: Renewable Energy World
[08:29]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/hydro-power/tale-of-two-snowpacks-water-supply-report-shows-elevation-matters/ )
[08:29]	TR News	"The turbines harm air quality and increase the risk of cancer, asthma and respiratory diseases." https://boingboing.net/2026/01/19/epa-elons-methane-powered-xai-datacenter-illegally-generating-electricity.html | Source: BoingBoing
[08:29]	TR Bot	 EPA: Elon's methane-powered xAI datacenter illegally generating electricity - Boing Boing
[08:30]	TR News	"China's population fell by 3.39 million in 2025, marking a fourth year of decline." https://www.ksl.com/article/51435008/chinas-population-drops-for-fourth-year-as-fewer-babies-born | Source: Deseret Media
[08:30]	TR Bot	population drops for fourth year as fewer babies born | KSL.com
[08:30]	TR News	"Global fertility decline has made reproduction a site of reactionary family policies and moralized childlessness." https://jacobin.com/2026/01/birth-rates-children-pronatalism-gender/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine
[08:30]	TR Bot	 To Give Birth or Not to Give Birth
[08:31]	TR News	"The danger, then, lies not in this single decision but in the cumulative effects of US disengagement over time" https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/hybrid-risks-rise-as-us-withdraws-from-international-organisations/ | Source: The Strategist
[08:31]	TR Bot	 Hybrid risks rise as US withdraws from international organisations | The Strategist
[08:35]	TR News	"After testing its new age-detection system in Britain over the last year, TikTok will start rolling out the tech across Europe in the next few weeks" https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/01/18/tiktok-plans-more-age-check-restrictions-eu/ | Source: Digital Music News
[08:35]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/01/18/tiktok-plans-more-age-check-restrictions-eu/ )
[08:36]	TR News	"While mainstream news sources are often hesitant to draw cause and effect between two suspiciously timed events, it was too overt even for them" https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-99/ | Source: Molly White
[08:36]	TR Bot	 Issue 99 Theyve bought themselves a Congress
[08:38]	TR News	"It is estimated that as many as 70 per cent of Labour MPs would support a crackdown." https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01/19/starmer-says-we-need-to-do-more-to-protect-children-from-so/ | Source: The Telegraph UK
[08:38]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01/19/starmer-says-we-need-to-do-more-to-protect-children-from-so/ )
[08:39]	TR News	Anon: no phone any more when the power goes https://www.iltalehti.fi/digiuutiset/a/392bcb3c-d0bf-4d08-81bd-e79a7fb6976f
[08:39]	TR Bot	 Elisa lakkauttaa lankapuhelimet
[08:40]	TR News	"... btw there were some links about how powerful the astroturfing in Wikipedia is ... these recent decades"
[08:40]	TR News	Techrights wrote many articles already about how "modern" landlines won't work when things fail. Andy later repeated those same arguments.
[08:41]	TR News	Anon: "They're not landlines then. Landlines are self-powered over the wires connected to them and that is separate from the power grid."
[08:42]	psydruid	https://www.makeuseof.com/this-old-cpu-is-more-valuable-than-ever/
[08:42]	TR Bot	 This old CPU is more valuable than ever
[08:42]	psydruid	hilarity ensues
[08:42]	TR News	"They might be surrogates for landlines but still SIM-based."
[08:43]	TR News	But not to have missed a key point, "modern" landline must have power, must have router, must have internet... they can thus fail to some many levels
[08:43]	schestowitz[TR2]	psydroid2: like "old"
[08:43]	schestowitz[TR2]	 cars
[08:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	they have may davantages, still
[08:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	or old trains and carriages
[08:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	Sompi says the new ones don't work wel
[08:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	if it's too cold
[08:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	too hot etc etc
[08:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	"modern" design
[08:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	assumed pareticular conditions
[08:45]	TR News	"That quiet accumulation of saved credentials feels harmless until you stop considering whats actually at stake." https://thecyberexpress.com/how-to-delete-saved-passwords-in-google-chrome/ | Source: Cyble Inc
[08:45]	TR Bot	 How To Delete Saved Passwords In Google Chrome Securely
[08:45]	TR News	"Modern single sign on specifications such as OIDC and SAML and systems built on top of them are fairly complex things with a lot of moving parts." https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/WebSSOVsX509Certificates | Source: University of Toronto
[08:45]	TR Bot	 You're using a too-old browser
[08:46]	TR News	"And yet, it must be stressed that ChatGPT Health enables the user to connect one's own medical records with it" https://www.darkreading.com/remote-workforce/chatgpt-health-security-safety-concerns | Source: Dark Reading
[08:46]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.darkreading.com/remote-workforce/chatgpt-health-security-safety-concerns )
[08:46]	TR News	"Schools across the U.S. are rolling out AI-powered surveillance technology, including drones, facial recognition and even bathroom listening devices." https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2025/12/16/ai-bathroom-monitors-welcome-to-americas-new-surveillance-high-schools/ | Source: Forbes
[08:46]	TR Bot	 AI Bathroom Monitors? Welcome To America's New Surveillance High Schools
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[08:50]	TR News	Windows TCO: "Cybersecurity is no longer an ICT issue alone, it is a governance and risk issue" https://www.techzim.co.zw/2026/01/why-cybersecurity-data-protection-and-safe-ai-training-must-be-central-to-board-induction-in-zimbabwes-digital-economy/ | Source: Zimbabwe
[08:50]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.techzim.co.zw/2026/01/why-cybersecurity-data-protection-and-safe-ai-training-must-be-central-to-board-induction-in-zimbabwes-digital-economy/ )
[08:51]	TR News	Windows TCO: "The cyber arm of the UK's sigint specialists at GCHQ specifically highlighted local authorities, including regional governments" https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/19/dont_underestimate_prorussia_hacktivists_warns/ | Source: The Register UK
[08:51]	TR Bot	 Don't underestimate pro-Russia hacktivists, warns UK NCSC The Register
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[08:51]	TR News	Windows TCO: "Cybles Annual Threat Landscape Report for 2025 documents a cybercrime environment that remained volatile" https://thecyberexpress.com/cyble-2025-threat-landscape-ransomware-report/ | Source: Cyble Inc
[08:51]	TR Bot	 Cyble 2025 Threat Landscape: Ransomware & Supply Chain
[08:52]	psydroid3	computers on wheels
[08:52]	TR News	"The code is open source, so I had a look at how the front page algorithm works." https://atharvaraykar.com/lobsters/ |
[08:52]	TR Bot	 How the Lobsters front page works
[08:52]	TR News	"Maybe, then, 2016 is the year we finally lost touch with reality." https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-commentary/2016-nostalgia-trend-donald-trump-1235500808/ | Source: Rolling Stone
[08:52]	TR Bot	 2016 Nostalgia: Why Our Decade-Old Selfies Hit Different
[08:53]	TR News	"code is law." https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/19/billionaire-solipsism/#sirius-cybernetics | Source: CoryDoctorow
[08:53]	TR Bot	 Pluralistic: Social media without socializing (19 Jan 2026) Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
[08:53]	TR News	"While I agree that the [Internet] social media, its a take on why were better without social media at all." https://tangiblelife.net/web-social-networks-social-web | Source: Steve Ledlow
[08:53]	TR Bot	 Web, Social Networks, Social Web - Tangible Life
[08:53]	TR News	"What has been very interesting over the recent period, given the social unrest in Iran, is the drop off in social media activity and chat bot activity focused on Scotland, elections and independence" https://www.c4isrnet.com/global/europe/2026/01/19/hands-full-at-home-iran-is-seen-slowing-cyber-attacks-on-uk/ | Source: C4ISRNET
[08:53]	TR Bot	 Hands full at home, Iran is seen slowing cyber attacks on UK
[08:54]	TR News	"Britain's Gambling Commission said on Monday that Meta Platforms" https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/meta-turning-a-blind-eye-to-illegal-gambling-ads-uk-gambling-commission-says/articleshow/126706003.cms | Source: India Times
[08:54]	TR Bot	 Meta 'turning a blind eye' to illegal gambling ads, UK Gambling Commission says - The Economic Times
[08:54]	TR News	[Old] "I will leave it as an excercise to the reader to point out why this would earn an F." https://nxdomain.no/~peter/chatgpt_writes_pf.conf.html | Source: Peter N M Hansteen
[08:54]	TR Bot	 I asked ChatGPT to write a pf.conf to spec, 2023-06-07 version
[08:55]	TR News	"It all sounds pretty dystopian: [...] " https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/01/ai-powered-surveillance-in-schools.html | Source: Bruce Schneier
[08:55]	TR Bot	Surveillance in Schools - Schneier on Security
[08:55]	TR News	"In this post, I want to provide an update on the agentic designs Ive seen (from building agents, using the latest AI products, and talking to other folks in agent-valley) and break down how the architecture has evolved yet again over the past few months" https://blog.sshh.io/p/building-multi-agent-systems-part-c0c | Source: Shrivu Shankar
[08:55]	TR Bot	 Building Multi-Agent Systems (Part 3) - by Shrivu Shankar
[08:55]	TR News	"Ive been saying it to my family for a long time now, but wall-e dystopia is rather quickly approaching us." https://tangiblelife.net/the-end-of-thinking | Source: Steve Ledlow
[08:55]	TR Bot	 The End of Thinking - Tangible Life
[08:56]	TR News	"Google doesnt make it easy to disable AI Overviews in its search results, but you do have a few options if you want to avoid the AI summaries." https://www.pcworld.com/article/3023297/dont-like-googles-ai-answers-heres-how-to-get-rid-of-them.html | Source: PC World
[08:56]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3023297/dont-like-googles-ai-answers-heres-how-to-get-rid-of-them.html )
[08:56]	TR News	"that does the exact same as rm -rf ~. It can now execute this simply by running go test." https://martinalderson.com/posts/why-sandboxing-coding-agents-is-harder-than-you-think/ | Source: Martin Alderson
[08:56]	TR Bot	 Why sandboxing coding agents is harder than you think - Martin Alderson
[08:56]	TR News	"The reverse centaur. Thats where Big AI is the human part, and youre just the horse part." https://doc.searls.com/2026/01/17/discourse-datcourse/ | Source: Doc Searls
[08:56]	TR Bot	 Discourse & Datcourse Doc Searls Weblog
[08:56]	TR News	"The amount of engineering effort, domain knowledge in general, and familiarity with a project's codebase in particular now likely matter more than ever." https://iximiuz.com/en/posts/grounded-take-on-agentic-coding/ | Source: Ivan Velichko
[08:56]	TR Bot	 A grounded take on agentic coding for production environments
[08:57]	TR News	"This aligns well with how I feel about LLMs. I think anyone who cares about computing and the impacts it has on society has a vested interest in seeing that AI does not become centralized." https://doug.pub/2026/01/18/ai-software-development-and-centralization.html | Source: Doug Jones
[08:57]	TR Bot	 AI, Software Development, and Centralization - Doug Jones
[08:57]	TR News	"The International Labour Organisation (ILO) released its Employment and Social Trends 2026 report last week." https://techcentral.co.za/warning-that-ai-could-hit-first-time-jobseekers-hardest/276423/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)
[08:57]	TR Bot	 Warning that AI could hit first-time jobseekers hardest
[08:57]	TR News	"Gmail has supported templates for years, but Id always dismissed them as something meant for sales emails or canned support replies." https://www.androidpolice.com/gmail-feature-fixed-least-favorite-part-of-email/ | Source: Android Police
[08:57]	TR Bot	 This Gmail feature fixed my least favorite part of email
[08:58]	TR News	"This phenomenon seems to be most-pronounced when the thing youre using a single eye to looking at something small and pointlike (like an LED)" https://danq.me/2026/01/19/peripheral-vision/ | Source: Dan Q
[08:58]	TR Bot	 Peripheral Vision Dan Q
[08:59]	TR News	"Using the Tandy 102 for work is a magical experience. If you're a writer, it's almost guaranteed to help you write more and faster." https://www.androidpolice.com/technology-mindset-shift/ | Source: Android Police
[08:59]	TR Bot	 I used a 40-year-old laptop, and it changed the way I view technology in 2026
[08:59]	TR News	"Before the exam, I copy/pasted my questions into some LLMs and, yes, the results were interesting enough." https://ploum.net/2026-01-19-exam-with-chatbots.html | Source: Lionel Dricot
[08:59]	TR Bot	 Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots
● Jan 20
[09:00]	Sompi	It's crazy how those phone service providers are even bragging about it when they end the landlines
[09:00]	Sompi	That bragging is clearly not directed at the customers
[09:00]	TR News	"The aurora is forecast at a level eight on the Kp scale. The scale, which measures the aurora's intensity, ranges from zero to nine." https://www.independent.co.uk/space/sun-solar-flare-aurora-northern-lights-b2903514.html | Source: The Independent UK
[09:00]	TR Bot	 Largest solar radiation storm in more than 20 years could trigger auroras on Earth | The Independent
[09:01]	Sompi	The target is those snobby investors who throw billions at anyone who destroys anything "old", no matter how bad the "new" is
[09:01]	schestowitz[TR2]	it is "smart"
[09:01]	schestowitz[TR2]	it's "new"
[09:01]	schestowitz[TR2]	hence, better
[09:01]	schestowitz[TR2]	theyt even subsidise the handsets here
[09:01]	schestowitz[TR2]	to foist that onto you
[09:01]	TR News	"Perhaps the least reliable network today is one connecting things in deep space." https://hackaday.com/2026/01/19/tolerating-delay-with-dtn/ | Source: Hackaday
[09:01]	TR Bot	Delay With DTN | Hackaday
[09:02]	Sompi	Last night there was again an outage in my connection, and probably in my phone too
[09:02]	Sompi	Almost every night it is down for about 30 mins
[09:04]	Sompi	And then there are those shorter outages every now and then, which always mess up the IP addresses and all sockets are disconnected
[09:04]	TR News	"When my blog became about Essays, it may not surprise anyone to learn that within months I basically stopped blogging. Thankfully Ive been off that trip for a long time. Im a blogger, not an essayist, after all." https://bjhess.com/posts/blogging-in-a-stream | Source: Barry Hess
[09:04]	TR Bot	 Blogging in a Stream - I am BARRY HESS
[09:04]	TR News	"Most of the websites I follow in my web reader are personal sites like blogs. With that said, recently I subscribed to my local councils news web page." https://jamesg.blog/2026/01/19/local-news-open-web | Source: James G
[09:04]	TR Bot	 Subscribing to local news with a web reader | James' Coffee Blog
[09:05]	TR News	"The tale of the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, the place where hits go to diein some cases, over and over again. Lets talk about the chart through the lens of its two most iconic artists." https://tedium.co/2026/01/19/billboard-bubbling-under-hot-100-chart-history/ | Source: Tedium
[09:05]	TR Bot	 Bubbling Under Hot 100 History: Billboards Chart Overhang
[09:05]	Sompi	They are hyping how this new wireless technology is so much better than the old wired technology, even though they have run out of radio frequencies long ago and now the endpoint devices are forced to share the band with each other
[09:06]	Sompi	So everyone gets only about 30 % of the promised throughput
[09:06]	Sompi	And everything is _expensive_ because... well, wireless transmission always is
[09:06]	Sompi	The infrastructure is more expensive than wired, and the data transmission itself consumes thousand times more electricity
[09:09]	Sompi	And that whole landline demolition project started so suddenly - phone installations were still basic stuff in electrician's degree when it started
[09:10]	Sompi	I know because I studied it in vocational school
[09:11]	TR News	Techrights Links 20/01/2026: "ChatGPT Health" (Latest Distraction From Being Insolvent) Flops and Raises Concerns, &quot;The U.S. Military Faces a Reckoning on Greenland&quot; https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/20/Links_20_01_2026_ChatGPT_Health_Latest_Distraction_From_Being_I.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/20/Links_20_01_2026_ChatGPT_Health_Latest_Distraction_From_Being_I.gmi 
[09:11]	TR Bot	 Techrights Links 20/01/2026: "ChatGPT Health" (Latest Distraction From Being Insolvent) Flops and Raises Concerns, "The U.S. Military Faces a Reckoning on Greenland"
[09:11]	Sompi	And still, those phone service providers lied that the society is losing the skills of maintaining those landline networks anyway so we have to get rid of them
[09:11]	Sompi	Implicating that it wasn't taught anymore since long time
[09:12]	TR News	iophk: btw RPi (and other SBC) prices are likely to jump again due to "AI" wasting all the available RAM currently on the market
[09:21]	TR News	"The Unicode standard allows for certain (visually) identical characters to be represented in different ways. " https://nick.groenen.me/posts/%C3%A4-and-%C3%A4-are-not-the-same-character/ | Source: Nick Groenen
[09:21]	TR Bot	 The characters a and a may look the same, but in fact they're not - Nick's Blog and Digital Garden
[09:22]	Sompi	luckily ST-DOS needs less than 1 MB
[09:22]	TR News	"RApiDatetime provides a number of entry points for C-level functions of the R API for Date and Datetime calculations." https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/01/19/#rapidatetime_0.0.11 | Source: Dirk Eddelbuettel
[09:22]	TR Bot	 Thinking inside the box
[09:24]	TR News	"Im not saying you should write stuff this way, nor am I claiming it is the best way to write C all the time." https://www.unix.dog/~yosh/blog/c-habits-for-me.html |
[09:24]	TR Bot	 some C habits I employ for the modern day | ~yosh
[09:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[09:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	The reason (really, I asked) that it is 30% of the promised throughput
[09:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	listed in the contract is that the law says that customers only have a
[09:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	complaint if the bandwidth is *less* than 30% the advertised speeds. 
[09:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	The ISPs are acutely aware of that and play that game with everyone. 
[09:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[09:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	Sompi: ^
[09:26]	Sompi	I know
[09:26]	Sompi	So they sell 100 Mbps wireless connections that are really only 30 Mbps connections and have very much jitter
[09:27]	Sompi	When in the landline times it really was 100 Mbps with very little lag that was consistently the same
[09:30]	Sompi	Those wireless connections have jitter because the device so often has to wait for a free frequency band before it can send the packet
[09:31]	TR News	"While I do not think that Futhark is the right language in which to do the experiment, I would like to see what it would be like for a language to fully exploit the array-function correspondence." https://futhark-lang.org/blog/2026-01-16-are-arrays-functions.html | Source: Futhark Programming Language
[09:31]	TR Bot	 Are arrays functions?
[09:32]	schestowitz[TR2]	""
[09:32]	schestowitz[TR2]	I suspect that the lying about landline skills is like the lying that
[09:32]	schestowitz[TR2]	went on with Windoze.  The institutions styling themselves as educational
[09:32]	schestowitz[TR2]	institutions allow only Windoze graduates adn then the companies *have to* 
[09:32]	schestowitz[TR2]	hire from that pool and *hope* that they can train them up with IT skills. 
[09:32]	schestowitz[TR2]	Then the same liars running the self-styled educational institutional        
[09:32]	schestowitz[TR2]	institutions slap down any FOSS or Linux requests from the students with
[09:32]	schestowitz[TR2]	the smug retort that Windows graduates are all the businesses hire these days.
[09:32]	schestowitz[TR2]	A while back I had candid conversations with several business heads separately
[09:32]	schestowitz[TR2]	and they were disgruntled that the institutions were not providing any
[09:32]	schestowitz[TR2]	relevant training in ICT and that they couldn't always guess which ones
[09:32]	schestowitz[TR2]	had the skill to learn ICT.  Learning Windoze requires a kind of 
[09:32]	schestowitz[TR2]	mental castration, which only a few learn to emulate and the rest take
[09:32]	schestowitz[TR2]	to heart and become / stay uselless.  
[09:32]	schestowitz[TR2]	I found out recently that the whole municipality decided to suck Bill's cock
[09:32]	schestowitz[TR2]	and ditched crappy Google for far, far worse M$ Outlook / M$ Exchange
[09:32]	schestowitz[TR2]	in place of working e-mail.  Corrupt from top to bottom.  
[09:32]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[09:32]	schestowitz[TR2]	^quote
[09:32]	TR News	"The web is the only major software platform without a native dependency manifest. The web runs on URLs and runtime resolution; npm runs on filesystems and build steps." https://nesbitt.io/2026/01/19/importmap-lock.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt
[09:32]	TR Bot	 importmap.lock: a lockfile for the web | Andrew Nesbitt
[09:33]	TR News	"One product manager suggested I upskill some of the other designers on the programme who are less familiar with the Prototype Kit." https://adamsilver.io/blog/design-in-code-get-praise/ | Source: Adam Silver
[09:33]	TR Bot	 Design in code, get praise Adam Silver designer, London, UK
[09:33]	TR News	"An IEEE 64-bit binary floating point number is an integer v in the range [252, 253) times a power of two: f = v 2e." https://research.swtch.com/ftoa | Source: Russ Cox
[09:33]	TR Bot	 research!rsc: Floating Point to Decimal Conversion is Easy (Floating Point Formatting, Part 1)
[09:33]	TR News	"These are all equivalent definitions, using the convention that a boolean condition is 1 for true, 0 for false: [...]" https://research.swtch.com/fp-proof | Source: Russ Cox
[09:33]	TR Bot	 research!rsc: Fast Unrounded Scaling: Proof by Ivy (Floating Point Formatting, Part 4)
[09:33]	TR News	"A floating point number f has the form f=m2e where m is called the mantissa and e is a signed integer exponent." https://research.swtch.com/fp | Source: Russ Cox
[09:33]	TR Bot	 research!rsc: Floating-Point Printing and Parsing Can Be Simple And Fast (Floating Point Formatting, Part 3)
[09:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[09:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	And the wireless connections become unusable during various situations
[09:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	like sports playoffs and finals.  There is a noticable dip in performance
[09:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	as school lets out and lasts until dinner.  
[09:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[09:34]	Sompi	It's crazy how public schools are digitalized from top to bottom with those Microsoft, Google and other big tech products while the children of those Silicon Walley tycoons go to private schools where the teaching is done 100 % on paper and no "smart devices" are even allowed
[09:36]	Sompi	They are destroying the public education system for their own short-term benefit
[09:36]	Sompi	In the end the problems will also affect the rich
[09:37]	Sompi	But they don't care because it doesn't happen during this quartal
[09:56]	psydroid3	in my (currently interrupted) curriculum apart from one or two "Microsoft professors" teaching courses all we were taught was using FOSS
[09:56]	psydroid3	but that causes a disconnect within a society that is very Microsoft-centric
[09:57]	psydroid3	so I had been thinking of and planning of moving away to some place here FOSS is actually fostered
[09:57]	psydroid3	I can't do that for the next few years at least
[09:57]	psydroid3	but hopefully I will at least be able to resume my studies
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[13:04]	TR News	"The Internet promised easy access to every book ever written. Why cant we have nice things?" https://asteriskmag.com/issues/12-books/the-dream-of-the-universal-library |
[13:04]	TR Bot	 The Dream of the Universal LibraryAsterisk
[13:04]	TR News	"Akademik Kiril Popov" https://olimex.wordpress.com/2026/01/19/risc-v-eur-1-retro-computer-soldering-workshop-at-high-school-of-mathematics-in-plovdiv/ | Source: Olimex
[13:04]	TR Bot	 RISC-V EUR 1 retro computer soldering workshop at High School of Mathematics in Plovdiv | olimex
[13:05]	TR News	"Here is another annual blog post breaking down code contributions to PostgreSQL itself (not ecosystem projects) by principal author." https://rhaas.blogspot.com/2026/01/who-contributed-to-postgresql.html | Source: Robert Haas
[13:05]	TR Bot	 Robert Haas: Who Contributed to PostgreSQL Development in 2025?
[13:05]	TR News	"Some web feeds, especially those published on news websites, are updated several times a day with new entries." https://jamesg.blog/2026/01/19/announcing-artemis-roll-up | Source: James G
[13:05]	TR Bot	 Announcing Artemis Roll-up | James' Coffee Blog
[13:05]	TR News	"It's not just about your blogrolls either, as you can choose to make them public." https://chrishannah.me/miniroll/ | Source: Chris Hannah
[13:05]	TR Bot	 Miniroll | Chris Hannah
[13:06]	TR News	"So, when you jump on a bus at the last second and don't have a valid ticket, be sure to forget the app and use a contactless card reader instead." https://yle.fi/a/74-20205117 | Source: YLE
[13:06]	TR Bot	 In a hurry to catch a bus? Don't use HSL's app to buy your ticket | Yle News | Yle
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[13:07]	TR News	"My setup stayed static for some time, but my most recent iteration ended up letting me down and I had to change it again." https://ntietz.com/blog/3d-printing-my-laptop-ergonomic-setup/ | Source: Nicholas Tietz-Sokolsky
[13:07]	TR Bot	 3D printing my laptop ergonomic setup | nicole@web
[13:07]	TR News	"The trick, of course, is a pair of photo-sensitive resistors. A pair of motors turns the robot until one of the sensors detects light, then moves it forward." https://hackaday.com/2026/01/19/robot-sees-light-with-no-cpu/ | Source: Hackaday
[13:07]	TR Bot	Sees Light With No CPU | Hackaday
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[13:08]	TR News	"Finally got my Xteink ironically after hearing you slag it on Upgrade. So I flashed it with the community-made firmware, which by all accounts is better." https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/01/if-the-future-of-e-readers-is-getting-weird-im-here-for-it/ | Source: Six Colors
[13:08]	TR Bot	 If the future of e-readers is getting weird, Im here for it Six Colors
[13:09]	TR News	MX-25.1 Infinity ISOs now available! https://mxlinux.org/blog/mx-25-1-infinity-isos-now-available/
[13:09]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://mxlinux.org/blog/mx-25-1-infinity-isos-now-available/ )
[13:10]	TR News	"The MX Linux team has announced an update to the distribution's 25.x series." https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12706 | Source: Distro Watch
[13:10]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12706 )
[13:11]	TR News	"During the month of December they updated their FreeBSD driver compatibility layer against FreeBSD 15.0 that released at the start of the month." https://www.phoronix.com/news/Haiku-December-2025 | Source: Phoronix
[13:11]	TR Bot	OS Pulls In Updated Drivers From FreeBSD 15 - Phoronix
[13:11]	TR News	"I can watch people play videogames on YouTube (I do actually like Twitch too, but only when the live aspect is additive, which isnt usually)." https://chriscoyier.net/2026/01/18/the-breakaway-moment/ | Source: Chris Coyier
[13:11]	TR Bot	 The Breakaway Moment Chris Coyier
[13:12]	TR News	 (NEW):  Hard to Hide Inconvenient Facts in the Free Software Community https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/19/Hard_to_Hide_Inconvenient_Facts_in_the_Free_Software_Community.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/19/Hard_to_Hide_Inconvenient_Facts_in_the_Free_Software_Community.gmi 
[13:12]	TR News	 (NEW):  Linux 6.19 Delays https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/19/Linux_6_19_Delays.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/19/Linux_6_19_Delays.gmi 
[13:12]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Hard to Hide Inconvenient Facts in the Free Software Community
[13:12]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Linux 6.19 Delays
[13:14]	TR News	"One of the surprises of TCP and UDP is that when your program listens for incoming TCP connections or UDP packets" https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/TCPUDPListeningOnAddress | Source: University of Toronto
[13:14]	TR Bot	 You're using a too-old browser
[13:14]	TR News	"How to config your machine to send mail by terminal/console, on OpenBSD, on SMTP server with a required authentication?" https://doc.huc.fr.eu.org/en/sys/openbsd/smtpd-config-auth/ | Source: Stphane Huc
[13:14]	TR Bot	 Stphane HUC :: IT Log :: OpenBSD: configure smtpd.conf to auth email client ( v6.4)
[13:15]	TR News	"Running a mail server on the public [Internet] means dealing with a constant stream of brute-force attempts." https://blog.hofstede.it/geoip-aware-firewalling-with-pf-on-freebsd/ |
[13:15]	TR Bot	 GeoIP-Aware Firewalling with PF onFreeBSD | Larvitz Blog
[13:15]	TR News	"While starting this post I realized I have been maintaining personal infrastructure for over a decade!" https://linderud.dev/blog/personal-infrastructure-setup-2026/ | Source: Morten Linderud
[13:15]	TR Bot	 Personal infrastructure setup 2026
[13:16]	TR News	"The plan is to duplicate my router virtual machine from my Beelink EQ12 to my Mini-ITX server. For that I need more ports. For more ports I bought the NIC above." https://dbushell.com/2026/01/19/self-hosted-update-winter-2026/ | Source: David Bushell
[13:16]	TR Bot	 Winter 2026: Self-Hosted Success! David Bushell Web Dev (UK)
[13:16]	TR News	[Old] "Greytrapping at nxdomain.no, also known as bsdly.net and a few other domain names, has been a long running experiment." https://nxdomain.no/~peter/eighteen_years_of_greytrapping.html | Source: Peter N M Hansteen
[13:16]	TR Bot	 Eighteen Years of Greytrapping - Is the Weirdness Finally Paying Off?
[13:17]	TR News	"I came across a recent article on making Linux system calls from a Wine process." https://nullprogram.com/blog/2026/01/19/ | Source: Chris Wellons
[13:17]	TR Bot	 Frankenwine: Multiple personas in a Wine process
[13:17]	TR News	"We start with four disks of equal size: [...]" https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2026-unequal-linux-raid | Source: Vincent Bernat
[13:17]	TR Bot	 RAID5 with mixed-capacity disks on Linux
[13:25]	TR News	"The conference is scheduled to take place June 25 to 27 in Nuremberg, Germany." https://news.opensuse.org/2026/01/19/submit-an-osc-presentation/ | Source: OpenSUSE
[13:25]	TR Bot	 Register, Submit a Presentation for oSC - openSUSE News
[13:25]	TR News	"We reached out to Loughborough University School of Design and Creative Arts because there is a real need for non-code contributions in the open source ecosystem." https://ubuntu.com//blog/showcasing-open-design-in-action-loughborough-university-design-students-explore-open-source-projects | Source: Ubuntu
[13:25]	TR Bot	open design in action: Loughborough University design students explore open source projects | Ubuntu
[13:26]	TR News	"The MultiCM Flasher is designed for programming up to seven Compute Modules in parallel, with support for mixed module generations using a single firmware image." https://linuxgizmos.com/multicm-flasher-enables-parallel-programming-of-raspberry-pi-compute-modules/ | Source: Linux Gizmos
[13:26]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/multicm-flasher-enables-parallel-programming-of-raspberry-pi-compute-modules/ )
[13:26]	TR News	"The CMX0 supports both Compute Module 5 Lite and eMMC variants, with a microSD card socket provided for Lite modules. Compute Module 4 is not supported." https://linuxgizmos.com/bentoio-cmx0-io-carrier-board-adds-low-profile-platform-for-raspberry-pi-cm5/ | Source: Linux Gizmos
[13:26]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/bentoio-cmx0-io-carrier-board-adds-low-profile-platform-for-raspberry-pi-cm5/ )
[13:26]		-Global-[Nouveaut]On acclre sur les beta tests privs (non anonymes) de notre future application mobile. Dsormais on ouvre les tests sur iPhone et iPad en plus d'Android! Si vous souhaitez tester l'application en avant premire et nous aider l'amliorer, on se retrouve sur le salon #beta
[13:26]	TR News	"ESP32-E22 integrates tri-band Wi-Fi 6E support across the 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz, and 6 GHz bands, marking Espressifs first product to enable operation in the 6 GHz spectrum." https://linuxgizmos.com/esp32-e22-debuts-with-tri-band-wi-fi-6e-and-dual-mode-bluetooth/ | Source: Linux Gizmos
[13:26]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/esp32-e22-debuts-with-tri-band-wi-fi-6e-and-dual-mode-bluetooth/ )
[13:27]	TR News	Scientists Just Discovered Something Horrid About Those Disposable Coffee Cups Youve Been Slurping https://futurism.com/science-energy/disposable-coffee-cups-microplastics
[13:27]	TR Bot	 Scientists Just Discovered Something Horrid About Those Disposable Coffee Cups You've Been Slurping
[13:29]	TR News	Recent studies suggest South Korean students are rethinking Seoul universities, STEM and medicine https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/recent-studies-suggest-south-korean-students-are-rethinking-seoul-universities-stem-and-medicine
[13:29]	TR Bot	 Recent studies suggest South Korean students are rethinking Seoul universities, STEM and medicine | The Straits Times
[13:30]	TR News	Greece acquits 24 humanitarian workers following 7 years of proceedings https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/01/greece-acquits-24-humanitarian-workers-following-7-years-of-proceedings/
[13:30]	TR Bot	 Greece acquits 24 humanitarian workers following seven years of proceedings - JURIST - News
[13:50]	TR News	Techrights Red Hat Vice President Leaving After Nearly Two Decades https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/20/Red_Hat_Vice_President_Leaving_After_Nearly_Two_Decades.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/20/Red_Hat_Vice_President_Leaving_After_Nearly_Two_Decades.gmi 
[13:50]	TR Bot	 Techrights Red Hat Vice President Leaving After Nearly Two Decades
● Jan 20
[14:01]	TR News	Techrights openai.com Traffic Said to Have Fallen 50% in the Past Three Months, Reports Say It Nearly Ran Out of Money to Borrow https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/20/openai_com_Traffic_Said_to_Have_Fallen_50_in_the_Past_Three_Mon.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/20/openai_com_Traffic_Said_to_Have_Fallen_50_in_the_Past_Three_Mon.gmi 
[14:01]	TR Bot	 Techrights openai.com Traffic Said to Have Fallen 50% in the Past Three Months, Reports Say It Nearly Ran Out of Money to Borrow
[14:13]	TR News	Gartner Inc. layoffs https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kfcggk5w
[14:13]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kfcggk5w )
[14:14]	TR News	"and IBM becomes a walking corpse" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kfcgmcs8
[14:14]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kfcgmcs8 )
[14:19]	TR News	SpellBinding GIKLNWR Wordo: FORGE gemini://spell.ddns.net/games/gemlog/2026-01-20.gmi
[14:21]	TR News	"I've been working with a friend[fn:01] to get a second version of the gateway prototype we made a few years ago[fn:02]. This time we aim for a little freedom and without the design restraints we had at the time." gopher://fatelectron.net:70/0/phlog/20260119.org
[14:22]	TR News	Boxing gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/boxing
[14:24]	TR News	 xkcd: Aurora Coolness #3196 gemini://8by3.net/~xkcd/3196.gmi
[14:28]	TR News	Uniform API server access using clientcmd https://kubernetes.io/blog/2026/01/19/clientcmd-apiserver-access/
[14:28]	TR Bot	 Uniform API server access using clientcmd | Kubernetes
[14:47]	TR News	Neuroscience professor talks interdisciplinary learning in a curious world https://stanforddaily.com/2026/01/19/neuroscience-professor-talks-interdisciplinary-learning-in-a-curious-world/
[14:47]	TR Bot	 Neuroscience professor talks interdisciplinary learning in a curious world
[14:48]	TR News	From the Community | Stanford forces graduate workers to choose between degrees and medical care https://stanforddaily.com/2026/01/18/from-the-community-stanford-forces-graduate-workers-to-choose-between-degrees-and-medical-care/
[14:48]	TR Bot	 From the Community | Stanford forces graduate workers to choose between degrees and medical care
[14:51]	TR News	China vows to boost flagging demand in 2030 economic plan https://hongkongfp.com/2026/01/20/china-vows-to-boost-flagging-demand-in-2030-economic-plan/
[14:51]	TR Bot	 China vows to boost flagging demand in 2030 economic plan
[14:53]	TR News	China hacked our mobile carriers. So why is the Pentagon still buying from them? https://federalnewsnetwork.com/commentary/2026/01/china-hacked-our-mobile-carriers-so-why-is-the-pentagon-still-buying-from-them/
[14:53]	TR Bot	 China hacked our mobile carriers. So why is the Pentagon still buying from them?
[14:54]	TR News	Independent set to take over running Standard website https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/independent-set-to-take-over-running-standard-website/
[14:54]	TR Bot	 Independent set to take over running Standard website - Press Gazette
[14:55]	TR News	More than 8,000 chain stores in the US closed up shop in 2025 heralding a retail apocalypse https://nypost.com/2026/01/20/lifestyle/more-than-8000-chain-stores-in-the-us-closed-up-shop-in-2025/
[14:55]	TR Bot	 More than 8,000 chain stores in the US closed up shop in 2025 | New York Post
[14:57]	TR News	One Change to Your Reading Habit Fights Stress And Misinformation https://www.sciencealert.com/one-change-to-your-reading-habit-fights-stress-and-misinformation
[14:57]	TR Bot	Change to Your Reading Habit Fights Stress And Misinformation : ScienceAlert
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[15:02]		*wallacer (~quassel@2x2w4qfz3wksg.irc) has joined #techrights
[15:09]	MinceR	i'm fucking sick of what goolag turned email into
[15:13]	TR News	Techrights IBM Kills OzLabs, Signalling An Attack on Free Software (a Sign for Red Hat) https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/20/IBM_Kills_OzLabs_Signalling_An_Attack_on_Free_Software_a_Sign_f.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/20/IBM_Kills_OzLabs_Signalling_An_Attack_on_Free_Software_a_Sign_f.gmi 
[15:13]	TR Bot	 Techrights IBM Kills OzLabs, Signalling An Attack on Free Software (a Sign for Red Hat)
[15:15]	schestowitz[TR2]	MinceR: i am surprised you used it
[15:15]	schestowitz[TR2]	i mean, i knew you used gemini
[15:15]	MinceR	well, nowadays if you need your "email" to be delivered to a gmail.com address, you pretty much have to send it from gmail
[15:15]	schestowitz[TR2]	but not THAT gemini
[15:15]	MinceR	otherwise it will be silently swallowed
[15:15]	schestowitz[TR2]	maybe
[15:16]	schestowitz[TR2]	i didn't have THAT problem
[15:16]	schestowitz[TR2]	yet, that I KNOW of
[15:16]	MinceR	and of course the unprofessional piece of shit i need to reach won't answer the phone and uses a gmail.com address
[15:16]	MinceR	and there's no competition because this is a communist shithole
[15:16]	TR News	IBM layoffs by "appraisals": "Well some people unfortunately will be placed into a fully rigged nonsensical review process thats impossible to fight or escape. The best advice in that situation: start applying for other jobs immediatelythe minute you hear it." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kfcgmcs8
[15:16]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kfcgmcs8 )
[15:17]	TR News	"can employees discuss Alvind's and Krabanaugh's reviews please? With stack ranking, of course. It should provide much entertainment to the public and Wall Street to see if these crooks are meeting their goals."
[15:23]	TR News	Capgemini plans to cut up to 2,400 jobs in France https://m.economictimes.com/tech/information-tech/capgemini-plans-to-cut-up-to-2400-jobs-in-france/amp_articleshow/126790920.cms
[15:23]	TR Bot	 Capgemini plans to cut up to 2,400 jobs in France - The Economic Times
[15:23]	schestowitz[TR2]	psydroid2: ^
[15:24]	schestowitz[TR2]	champagne in france
[15:26]	TR News	Windows 11 January update causes shutdown problems, emergency fix rolled out https://www.techlusive.in/news/windows-11-january-update-causes-shutdown-problems-emergency-fix-rolled-out-1641032/
[15:26]	TR Bot	 Windows 11 January update causes shutdown problems, emergency fix rolled out
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[15:40]	TR News	Techrights Windows and Slop Declining While Microsoft Silences Critics https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/20/Windows_and_Slop_Declining_While_Microsoft_Silences_Critics.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/20/Windows_and_Slop_Declining_While_Microsoft_Silences_Critics.gmi 
[15:40]	TR Bot	 Techrights Windows and Slop Declining While Microsoft Silences Critics
[15:42]	TR News	CRIF case shows: Public registries are increasingly being misused https://noyb.eu/en/crif-case-shows-public-registries-are-increasingly-being-misused
[15:42]	TR Bot	 CRIF case shows: Public registries are increasingly being misused
[15:43]	TR News	Police are using zombie court orders to shut down social movements https://breachmedia.ca/police-using-zombie-court-orders-to-shut-down-social-movements/
[15:43]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://breachmedia.ca/police-using-zombie-court-orders-to-shut-down-social-movements/ )
[15:43]	TR News	Two new stable kernels for Monday https://lwn.net/Articles/1054993/
[15:43]	TR Bot	new stable kernels for Monday [LWN.net]
[15:44]	TR News	Announcing Istio 1.28.3 https://istio.io/latest/news/releases/1.28.x/announcing-1.28.3/
[15:44]	TR Bot	 Istio / Announcing Istio 1.28.3
[15:44]	TR News	European Patent Office (EPO) Industrial Actions Formally Start in Two Hours https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/20/European_Patent_Office_EPO_Industrial_Actions_Formally_Start_in.shtml
[15:44]	TR Bot	 Techrights European Patent Office (EPO) Industrial Actions Formally Start in Two Hours
[15:45]	TR News	CJEU to decide if authorisation for human drug precludes SPC for veterinary use https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/cjeu-to-decide-if-authorisation-for-human-drug-precludes-spc-for-veterinary-use/
[15:45]	TR Bot	 CJEU to decide if authorisation for human drug precludes SPC for veterinary use
[15:45]	TR News	Rakudo Weekly 2026.03 Lamentable https://rakudoweekly.blog/2026/01/19/2026-03-lamentable/
[15:45]	TR Bot	 2026.03 Lamentable Rakudo Weekly News
[15:47]	TR News	Craig Small: WordPress 6.9 for Debian https://dropbear.xyz/2026/01/19/wordpress-6-9-for-debian/
[15:47]	TR Bot	 WordPress 6.9 for Debian Dropbear
[15:48]	TR News	Call for testing: syslog-ng 4.11 is coming https://peter.czanik.hu/other/syslog-ng-call-for-testing-411-is-coming/
[15:48]	TR Bot	 Call for testing: syslog-ng 4.11 is coming | Random thoughts of Peter 'CzP' Czanik
[15:48]	TR News	Jonathan Almeida: Test sites for browser developers https://jonalmeida.com/blog/browser-test-sites/
[15:48]	TR Bot	 Test sites for browser developers | Jonathan Almeida
[15:49]	TR News	London PR Firm Rewrites Wikipedia for Governments and Billionaires https://citizenlab.ca/london-pr-firm-rewrites-wikipedia-for-governments-and-billionaires/ http://techrights.org/o/2022/10/07/nat-friedman-wikipedia-spam/
[15:49]	TR Bot	 London PR Firm Rewrites Wikipedia for Governments and Billionaires - The Citizen Lab
[15:49]	TR Bot	 Nat Friedman Seems to Be Employing a PR Agency to Turn a Wikipedia Page About Him Into Hagiography and Hide His Strong Links to the Serial Strangler Alex Graveley
[15:50]	TR News	Open-Source Community Tackling Y2K38 Epoch https://news.opensuse.org/2026/01/20/os-community-tackling-y2k38-epoch/
[15:50]	TR Bot	 Open-Source Community Tackling Y2K38 Epoch - openSUSE News
[15:50]	TR News	Jonathan Dowland: FOSDEM 2026 https://jmtd.net/log/fosdem/2026/
[15:50]	TR Bot	 jmtd log fosdem FOSDEM 2026
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[15:54]	TR News	Now with MQTTS https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/01/19/now-with-mqtts/
[15:54]	TR Bot	with MQTTS | daniel.haxx.se
[15:54]	TR News	All the new things RouteViews in 2025 https://blog.apnic.net/2026/01/19/all-the-new-things-routeviews-in-2025/
[15:54]	TR Bot	 All the new things RouteViews in 2025 | APNIC Blog
[15:55]	TR News	An in-depth look at the Software Catalog and Templates https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/01/19/depth-look-software-catalog-and-templates
[15:55]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/01/19/depth-look-software-catalog-and-templates )
[15:55]	TR News	IBM is Outsourcing Red Hat's Fedora to Slop to 'Save Money' https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/20/IBM_is_Outsourcing_Red_Hat_s_Fedora_to_Slop_to_Save_Money.shtml
[15:55]	TR Bot	 Techrights IBM is Outsourcing Red Hat's Fedora to Slop to 'Save Money'
[15:56]	TR News	Tomas Tomecek: Ambient Code followup: PR merged https://blog.tomecek.net/post/ambient-code-merged/
[15:56]	TR Bot	 Ambient Code followup: PR merged Blog | Tom Tomeek
[15:56]	TR News	Andreas Schneider: Some for RPM Spec https://blog.cryptomilk.org/2026/01/20/some-tree-love-for-rpm-spec/
[15:56]	TR Bot	 Some for RPM Spec Andreas Schneider
[15:57]	TR News	IP addresses through 2025 https://blog.apnic.net/2026/01/20/ip-addresses-through-2025/
[15:57]	TR Bot	 IP addresses through 2025 | APNIC Blog
[15:58]	TR News	CNAFs discriminatory scoring algorithm: 10 new organisations join the case before the Conseil dtat in France https://edri.org/our-work/cnafs-discriminatory-scoring-algorithm-10-new-organisations-join-the-case-before-the-conseil-detat-in-france/
[15:58]	TR Bot	 CNAF's discriminatory scoring algorithm - European Digital Rights (EDRi)
[15:59]	TR News	Vincent Bernat: RAID5 with mixed-capacity disks on GNU/Linux https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2026-unequal-linux-raid
[15:59]	TR Bot	 RAID5 with mixed-capacity disks on Linux
[15:59]	TR News	Setup Arch GNU/Linux KVM Guest via archinstall 3.0.15-2 https://dbaxps.blogspot.com/2026/01/setup-arch-linux-kvm-guest-via.html
[15:59]	TR Bot	 Openstack RDO && KVM Hypervisor: Setup Arch Linux KVM Guest via archinstall 3.0.15-2
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[16:07]	TR News	Security updates for Monday https://lwn.net/Articles/1054992/
[16:07]	TR Bot	updates for Monday [LWN.net]
[16:07]	TR News	 (NEW):  Wine 11 Officially Released with NTSync Support, Vulkan H.264 Decoding, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/13/Wine_11_Officially_Released_with_NTSync_Support_Vulkan_H_264_De.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/13/Wine_11_Officially_Released_with_NTSync_Support_Vulkan_H_264_De.gmi 
[16:07]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Wine 11 Officially Released with NTSync Support, Vulkan H.264 Decoding, and More
[16:07]	TR News	Photoshop Installer Runs on GNU/Linux Despite Adobe Not Giving a Damn For Years https://itsfoss.com/news/photoshop-installer-runs-on-linux/
[16:07]	TR Bot	 Photoshop Installer Runs on Linux Despite Adobe Not Giving a Damn For Years
[16:09]	TR News	Linux Gamers Are Finally Getting Their Own Browser https://itsfoss.com/news/opera-gx-linux-announcement/
[16:09]	TR Bot	 Linux Gamers Are Finally Getting Their Own Browser
[16:09]	TR News	Personal infrastructure setup 2026 https://linderud.dev/blog/personal-infrastructure-setup-2026/
[16:09]	TR Bot	 Personal infrastructure setup 2026
[16:10]	TR News	Isoken Ibizugbe: Mid-Point Project Progress https://isokenibizugbe.wordpress.com/2026/01/19/mid-point-project-progress/
[16:10]	TR Bot	 Mid-Point Project Progress Isokens Outreachy Journey
[16:11]	TR News	Hellen Chemtai: Internship Highlights at Outreachy: My Journey with Debian OpenQA https://hellenchemtai.wordpress.com/2026/01/19/internship-highlights-at-outreachy-my-journey-with-debian-openqa/
[16:11]	TR Bot	 Internship Highlights at Outreachy: My Journey with Debian OpenQA hellenchemtai
[16:11]	TR News	Firefox Nightly: Introducing Mozillas Firefox Nightly .rpm package for RPM based linux distributions! https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2026/01/19/introducing-mozillas-firefox-nightly-rpm-package-for-rpm-based-linux-distributions/
[16:11]	TR Bot	 Introducing Mozillas Firefox Nightly .rpm package for RPM based linux distributions! Firefox Nightly News
[16:13]	TR News	Indirect prompt injection in Surveillance Giant Google Gemini enabled unauthorized access to meeting data https://siliconangle.com/2026/01/19/indirect-prompt-injection-google-gemini-enabled-unauthorized-access-meeting-data/
[16:13]	TR Bot	prompt injection in Google Gemini enabled unauthorized access to meeting data - SiliconANGLE
[16:14]	TR News	Weaponized Invite Enabled Calendar Data Theft via Surveillance Giant Google Gemini https://www.securityweek.com/weaponized-invite-enabled-calendar-data-theft-via-google-gemini/
[16:14]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/weaponized-invite-enabled-calendar-data-theft-via-google-gemini/ )
[16:15]	TR News	Francesco Paolo Lovergine: A Terramaster NAS with Debian, take two. https://lovergine.com/a-terramaster-nas-with-debian-take-two.html
[16:15]	TR Bot	 A Terramaster NAS with Debian, take two. frankie-tales
[16:16]	TR News	Adam Williamson: CI and LLM review on Fedora Forge with Forgejo Actions https://www.happyassassin.net/posts/2026/01/19/ci-and-llm-review-on-fedora-forge-with-forgejo-actions/
[16:16]	TR Bot	 CI and LLM review on Fedora Forge with Forgejo Actions | AdamW on Linux and more
[16:17]	TR News	pgBackRest 2.58.0 Released https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pgbackrest-2580-released-3216/
[16:17]	TR Bot	 PostgreSQL: pgBackRest 2.58.0 Released
[16:17]	TR News	Haas: Who contributed to PostgreSQL development in 2025? https://lwn.net/Articles/1055033/
[16:17]	TR Bot	Who contributed to PostgreSQL development in 2025? [LWN.net]
[16:17]	TR News	pgmetrics 1.19 released https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pgmetrics-119-released-3213/
[16:17]	TR Bot	 PostgreSQL: pgmetrics 1.19 released
[16:18]	TR News	As Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Stuffs backdoored Windows With AI, New Update Prevents Users From Turning Off Their PCs Entirely https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-update-prevent-shutdown
[16:18]	TR Bot	 As Microsoft Stuffs Windows With AI, New Update Prevents Users From Turning Off Their PCs
[16:18]	TR News	Microsoft issues an urgent fix following a problematic security update https://hackwarenews.com/microsoft-issues-an-urgent-fix-following-a-problematic-security-update/
[16:18]	TR Bot	 Microsoft issues an urgent fix following a problematic security update
[16:19]	TR News	CAFC Affirms TTAB: SAZERAC STITCHES Confusable With SAZERAC for Houseware Store Services http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2026/01/cafc-affirms-ttab-sazerac-stitches.html
[16:19]	TR Bot	 The TTABlog: CAFC Affirms TTAB: SAZERAC STITCHES Confusable With SAZERAC for Houseware Store Services
[16:20]	TR News	Arrests Made for Murder at Amazon Facility https://futurism.com/future-society/arrests-murder-amazon-facility
[16:20]	TR Bot	 Arrests Made for Murder at Amazon Facility
[16:20]	TR News	Sahil Dhiman: Conferences, why? https://blog.sahilister.in/2026/01/conferences-why/
[16:20]	TR Bot	 Conferences, why?
[16:21]	TR News	Russell Coker: Furilabs FLX1s https://etbe.coker.com.au/2026/01/19/furilabs-flx1s/ "a phone running a modified version of Debian"
[16:21]	TR Bot	 Furilabs FLX1s etbe - Russell Coker
[16:22]	TR News	Ubuntu's Snap Store is Under Siege from Scammers, and The Gates are Open https://itsfoss.com/news/snap-store-under-siege/
[16:22]	TR Bot	 Ubuntu's Snap Store is Under Siege from Scammers, and The Gates are Open
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[16:22]	TR News	deepin 25.0.10 is out https://distrowatch.com/deepin
[16:22]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/deepin )
[16:22]	TR News	4MLinux 51.0 (beta) available https://distrowatch.com/4mlinux
[16:22]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/4mlinux )
[16:23]	TR News	Fedora Community Blog: 2 Weeks Left: The Flock 2026 CFP Ends Feb 2 https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/flock-2026-cfp-2-weeks-left/
[16:23]	TR Bot	 2 Weeks Left: The Flock 2026 CFP Ends Feb 2 Fedora Community Blog
[16:24]	TR News	Learning to teach better by observation: What I did on my sabbatical https://computinged.wordpress.com/2026/01/20/learning-to-teach-better-by-observation-what-i-did-on-my-sabbatical/
[16:24]	TR Bot	 Learning to teach better by observation: What I did on my sabbatical | Computing Ed Research - Guzdial's Take
[16:24]	TR News	How to Install ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors on GNU/Linux ARM64 Devices https://www.tecmint.com/install-onlyoffice-desktop-editors-on-linux-arm64/
[16:24]	TR Bot	 How to Install ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors on Linux ARM64
[16:25]	TR News	Late Night GNU/Linux Episode 369 https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-369/
[16:25]	TR Bot	 Late Night Linux Episode 369 Late Night Linux
[16:30]	TR News	Police look into alleged charity fraud in Latvia https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/crime/19.01.2026-police-look-into-alleged-charity-fraud-in-latvia.a630497/
[16:30]	TR Bot	 Police look into alleged charity fraud in Latvia / Article
[16:36]	TR News	C++26 Reflection QRangeModel https://www.qt.io/blog/c26-reflection-qrangemodel
[16:36]	TR Bot	 C++26 Reflection QRangeModel
[16:37]	TR News	Iran Mulls Return Of Internet As Extent Of Deadly Crackdown Slowly Leaks Out https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-protests-punishments-khamenei-trump/33653138.html
[16:37]	TR Bot	 Iran Mulls Return Of Internet As Extent Of Deadly Crackdown Slowly Leaks Out
[16:39]	TR News	Hey Hi (AI) SPAM sponsored by IBM to cover IBM https://siliconangle.com/2026/01/19/ibms-newest-consulting-service-pairs-human-experts-digital-workers-scale-enterprise-ai/
[16:39]	TR Bot	newest consulting service pairs human experts with digital workers to scale enterprise AI - SiliconANGLE
[16:40]	TR News	Experts Concerned That Hey Hi (AI) Progress Could Be Speeding Toward a Sudden Wall https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/experts-concerned-ai-progress-wall
[16:40]	TR Bot	 Experts Concerned That AI Progress Could Be Speeding Toward a Sudden Wall
[16:45]	TR News	Washington state proposes new 3D-printed gun controls https://www.tomshardware.com/3d-printing/washington-state-proposes-new-3d-printed-gun-controls-with-blocking-features-and-blueprint-detection-algorithm-proposal-would-carry-sentences-of-five-years-in-prison-usd15-000-fine-for-violation
[16:45]	TR Bot	 Washington state proposes new 3D-printed gun controls with 'blocking features' and blueprint detection algorithm proposal would carry sentences of five years in prison, $15,000 fine for violation | Tom's Hardware
[16:46]		*psydroid3 (~psydroid@yu29f4abyrsnc.irc) has joined #techrights
[16:46]	TR News	Qt 6.5 Reaches End-of-Support in April 2026 https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-6.5-reaches-end-of-support
[16:46]	TR Bot	 Qt 6.5 Reaches End-of-Support in April 2026
[16:47]	TR News	Taiwan detains journalist over alleged bribery to obtain military information for China https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/01/taiwan-detains-journalist-over-alleged-bribery-to-obtain-military-information-for-china/
[16:47]	TR Bot	 Taiwan detains journalist over alleged bribery to obtain military information for China - JURIST - News
[16:47]	TR News	Nat. security case against political commentator to move to higher court, raising max. penalty to 7 years jail https://hongkongfp.com/2026/01/20/sedition-case-against-political-commentator-to-move-to-higher-court-raising-max-penalty-to-7-years-jail/
[16:48]	TR Bot	 Sedition case against commentator transferred to higher court
[16:48]	TR News	Hackers disrupt Iran state TV to broadcast exiled crown prince https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260120-hackers-disrupt-iran-state-tv-to-broadcast-exiled-crown-prince
[16:48]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260120-hackers-disrupt-iran-state-tv-to-broadcast-exiled-crown-prince )
[16:50]	TR News	42,000 Impacted by Ingram Micro Ransomware Attack https://www.securityweek.com/42000-impacted-by-ingram-micro-ransomware-attack/
[16:50]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/42000-impacted-by-ingram-micro-ransomware-attack/ )
[16:51]	TR News	New Reports Reinforce Cyberattacks Role in Maduro Capture Blackout https://www.securityweek.com/new-reports-reinforce-cyberattacks-role-in-maduro-capture-blackout/
[16:51]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/new-reports-reinforce-cyberattacks-role-in-maduro-capture-blackout/ )
[16:51]	TR News	SolyxImmortal Information Stealer Emerges https://www.securityweek.com/solyximmortal-information-stealer-emerges/
[16:51]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/solyximmortal-information-stealer-emerges/ )
[16:52]	TR News	Jordanian Admits in US Court to Selling Access to 50 Enterprise Networks https://www.securityweek.com/jordanian-admits-in-us-court-to-selling-access-to-50-enterprise-networks/
[16:52]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/jordanian-admits-in-us-court-to-selling-access-to-50-enterprise-networks/ )
[16:52]	TR News	TP-Link Patches Vulnerability Exposing VIGI Cameras to Remote Hacking https://www.securityweek.com/tp-link-patches-vulnerability-exposing-vigi-cameras-to-hacking/
[16:52]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/tp-link-patches-vulnerability-exposing-vigi-cameras-to-hacking/ )
[16:53]	TR News	2-channel GMSL camera adapter board supports Raspberry Pi 5 and NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano/NX https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/01/19/2-channel-gmsl-camera-adapter-board-supports-raspberry-pi-5-and-nvidia-jetson-orin-nano-nx/
[16:53]	TR Bot	 2-channel GMSL camera adapter board supports Raspberry Pi 5 and NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano/NX - CNX Software
[16:53]	TR News	We have some nice EPO stories coming up, delayed for effect
[16:54]	TR News	Raspberry Pi Hey Hi (AI) HAT+ 2 review A 40 TOPS Hey Hi (AI) accelerator tested with Computer Vision, LLM, and VLM workloads https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/01/20/raspberry-pi-ai-hat-2-review-a-40-tops-ai-accelerator-tested-with-computer-vision-llm-and-vlm-workloads/
[16:54]	TR Bot	 Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2 review - A 40 TOPS AI accelerator tested with Computer Vision, LLM, and VLM workloads - CNX Software
[16:56]	TR News	pgmoneta 0.20 https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pgmoneta-020-3215/
[16:56]	TR Bot	 PostgreSQL: pgmoneta 0.20
[16:57]	TR News	Anthropics official Git MCP server hit by chained flaws that enable file access and code execution https://siliconangle.com/2026/01/20/anthropics-official-git-mcp-server-hit-chained-flaws-enable-file-access-code-execution/
[16:57]	TR Bot	official Git MCP server hit by chained flaws that enable file access and code execution - SiliconANGLE
[16:57]	TR News	Could Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot Convince You to Buy Something? https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/01/could-chatgpt-convince-you-to-buy-something.html
[16:57]	TR Bot	ChatGPT Convince You to Buy Something? - Schneier on Security
[16:58]	TR News	What journalism should do: Express health editor on assisted dying campaign https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/nationals/express-assisted-dying-campaign-give-us-our-last-rights-british-journalism-awards/
[16:58]	TR Bot	 Express health editor on assisted dying campaign - Press Gazette
● Jan 20
[17:00]	TR News	Hong Kong sees 55% surge in job applications from US academics amid Convicted Felons university crackdown report https://hongkongfp.com/2026/01/20/hong-kong-sees-55-surge-in-job-applications-from-us-academics-amid-trumps-university-crackdown-report/
[17:00]	TR Bot	 Hong Kong sees 55% surge in job applications from US academics
[17:01]	TR News	Being positive about tech right now https://rubenerd.com/being-positive-about-tech-right-now/
[17:01]	TR Bot	Being positive about tech right now
[17:02]	TR News	WisMesh 1W Booster Starter Kit targets high-power Meshtastic solutions https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/01/20/wismesh-1w-booster-starter-kit-targets-high-power-meshtastic-solutions/
[17:02]	TR Bot	 WisMesh 1W Booster Starter Kit targets high-power Meshtastic solutions - CNX Software
[17:04]	TR News	Inventor Building AI-Powered Suicide Chamber https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-powered-suicide-chamber
[17:04]	TR Bot	 Inventor Building AI-Powered Suicide Chamber
[17:04]	TR News	How To Install RabbitMQ on Debian 13 https://idroot.us/install-rabbitmq-debian-13/
[17:05]	TR Bot	 How To Install RabbitMQ on Debian 13 - idroot
[17:05]	TR News	How To Install LibreWolf Browser on Linux Mint 22 https://idroot.us/install-librewolf-browser-linux-mint-22/
[17:05]	TR Bot	 How To Install LibreWolf Browser on Linux Mint 22 - idroot
[17:05]	TR News	How To Install Nagios on Debian 13 https://idroot.us/install-nagios-debian-13/
[17:05]	TR Bot	 How To Install Nagios on Debian 13 - idroot
[17:05]	TR News	How to Install OpenJDK 17 on Arch GNU/Linux https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-openjdk-17-on-arch-linux/
[17:05]	TR Bot	to Install OpenJDK 17 on Arch Linux - LinuxCapable
[17:06]	TR News	How to Install Homebrew on Ubuntu (26.04, 24.04, 22.04) https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-homebrew-on-ubuntu-linux/
[17:06]	TR Bot	to Install Homebrew on Ubuntu (26.04, 24.04, 22.04) - LinuxCapable
[17:06]	TR News	How To Install LibreOffice on Fedora 43 https://idroot.us/install-libreoffice-fedora-43/
[17:06]	TR Bot	 How To Install LibreOffice on Fedora 43 - idroot
[17:06]	TR News	How to Add and Manage Sudo Users on Arch GNU/Linux https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-add-and-manage-sudo-users-on-arch-linux/
[17:06]	TR Bot	to Add and Manage Sudo Users on Arch Linux - LinuxCapable
[17:07]	TR News	How To Install Miniconda on Fedora 43 https://idroot.us/install-miniconda-fedora-43/
[17:07]	TR Bot	 How To Install Miniconda on Fedora 43 - idroot
[17:07]	TR News	How to Install OpenSSH on Arch GNU/Linux https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-openssh-on-arch-linux/
[17:07]	TR Bot	to Install OpenSSH on Arch Linux - LinuxCapable
[17:07]	MinceR	https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/striving
[17:07]	TR Bot	 Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Striving
[17:07]	TR News	How To Install InvoicePlane on Fedora 43 https://idroot.us/install-invoiceplane-fedora-43/
[17:07]	TR Bot	 How To Install InvoicePlane on Fedora 43 - idroot
[17:08]	TR News	How To Install Homebrew on Debian 13 https://idroot.us/install-homebrew-debian-13/
[17:08]	TR Bot	 How To Install Homebrew on Debian 13 - idroot
[17:08]	TR News	GNU/Linux Still up (statCounter Says to 6%) in Bosnia And Herzegovina https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/GNU_Linux_Still_up_statCounter_Says_to_6_in_Bosnia_And_Herzegov.shtml
[17:08]	TR Bot	 Techrights GNU/Linux Still up (statCounter Says to 6%) in Bosnia And Herzegovina
[17:09]	TR News	LinuxSecurity and Linuxiac Are Still Slopfarms, Even Anthony Pell Does It https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/19/LinuxSecurity_and_Linuxiac_Are_Still_Slopfarms_Even_Anthony_Pel.shtml
[17:09]	TR Bot	 Techrights LinuxSecurity and Linuxiac Are Still Slopfarms, Even Anthony Pell Does It
[17:09]	TR News	Founder of GNU/Linux (RMS) Speaks in US University (College) This Week https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/19/Founder_of_GNU_Linux_RMS_Speaks_in_US_University_College_This_W.shtml
[17:09]	TR Bot	 Techrights Founder of GNU/Linux (RMS) Speaks in US University (College) This Week
[17:09]	TR News	Slopfarms in Surveillance Giant Google News (at Least Three Today) With Fake 'Articles' About "Linux" https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/19/Slopfarms_in_Google_News_at_Least_Three_Today_With_Fake_Article.shtml
[17:09]	TR Bot	 Techrights Slopfarms in Google News (at Least Three Today) With Fake 'Articles' About "Linux"
[17:09]	TR News	If You Don't Want "Linux" to Become "Windows", Then Follow GNU (updated) https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/19/If_You_Don_t_Want_Linux_to_Become_Windows_Then_Follow_GNU.shtml
[17:09]	TR Bot	 Techrights If You Don't Want "Linux" to Become "Windows", Then Follow GNU
[17:09]	MinceR	too late
[17:10]	TR News	12 Best Free and Open Source Frontends for mpv https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-front-ends-mpv/
[17:10]	TR Bot	Best Free and Open Source Frontends for mpv - LinuxLinks
[17:10]	schestowitz[TR2]	MinceR: for most DAs
[17:10]	schestowitz[TR2]	but they cannot force the rest of us
[17:10]	TR News	Proslenkey application launcher https://www.linuxlinks.com/proslenkey-application-launcher/
[17:10]	TR Bot	- application launcher - LinuxLinks
[17:10]	MinceR	it's sufficient if they reduce the free software community to a size where it can hardly maintain anything
[17:11]	MinceR	and they've probably already done that
[17:11]	schestowitz[TR2]	ms systemd
[17:11]	MinceR	microslop linux
[17:11]	TR News	15 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux CRM Software https://www.linuxlinks.com/crm/
[17:11]	TR Bot	Best Free and Open Source Linux CRM Software - LinuxLinks
[17:11]	schestowitz[TR2]	gnu/slopnel
[17:12]	TR News	Hancho build system https://www.linuxlinks.com/hancho-build-system/
[17:12]	TR Bot	- build system - LinuxLinks
[17:12]	TR News	dodo fast and configurable PDF viewer https://www.linuxlinks.com/dodo-fast-configurable-pdf-viewer/
[17:12]	TR Bot	- fast and configurable PDF viewer - LinuxLinks
[17:12]	TR News	7 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux HTML Editors https://www.linuxlinks.com/htmleditors/
[17:12]	TR Bot	Best Free and Open Source Linux HTML Editors - LinuxLinks
[17:13]	TR News	Wine Patches Enable Adobe Photoshop Installation On GNU/Linux https://www.ghacks.net/2026/01/20/wine-patches-enable-adobe-photoshop-installation-on-linux/
[17:13]	TR Bot	 Wine Patches Enable Adobe Photoshop Installation On Linux - gHacks Tech News
[17:14]	TR News	Linux vs backdoored Windows 11 : Proton PC Gaming GPU Benchmarks on Bazzite https://www.geeky-gadgets.com/bazzite-gpu-gaming-benchmarks/
[17:14]	TR Bot	 Linux GPU Gaming Benchmarks, AMD vs NVIDIA and Intel Results - Geeky Gadgets
[17:16]	TR News	Cobra library for creating powerful modern CLI applications https://www.linuxlinks.com/cobra-library-creating-powerful-modern-cli-applications/
[17:16]	TR Bot	- library for creating powerful modern CLI applications - LinuxLinks
[17:16]	TR News	UnCSS removes unused CSS from stylesheets https://www.linuxlinks.com/uncss-removes-unused-css-stylesheets/
[17:16]	TR Bot	- removes unused CSS from stylesheets - LinuxLinks
[17:16]	TR News	Beartype static type checking https://www.linuxlinks.com/beartype-static-type-checking/
[17:16]	TR Bot	- static type checking - LinuxLinks
[17:17]	TR News	vcs2l fork of vcstool https://www.linuxlinks.com/vcs2l-fork-vcstool/
[17:17]	TR Bot	- fork of vcstool - LinuxLinks
[17:18]	TR News	Add Punycode to your Threat Hunting Routine, (Tue, Jan 20th) https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32640
[17:18]	TR Bot	 Add Punycode to your Threat Hunting Routine - SANS ISC
[17:18]	TR News	Waveshare ESP32-C6-GEEK A USB flash drive-like ESP32-C6 development board https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/01/20/waveshare-esp32-c6-geek-a-usb-flash-drive-like-esp32-c6-development-board/
[17:18]	TR Bot	 Waveshare ESP32-C6-GEEK - A USB flash drive-like ESP32-C6 development board - CNX Software
[17:19]	TR News	EnviroGo ESP32-S3 wearable environmental monitor features 7 sensors (Crowdfunding) https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/01/20/envirogo-esp32-s3-wearable-environmental-monitor-features-7-sensors/
[17:19]	TR Bot	 EnviroGo ESP32-S3 wearable environmental monitor features 7 sensors (Crowdfunding) - CNX Software
[17:19]	TR News	Most serious allegation against Mail struck out ahead of Prince Harry privacy trial https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/most-serious-allegation-against-mail-struck-out-ahead-of-prince-harry-privacy-trial/
[17:19]	TR Bot	 Most serious allegation struck out of Prince Harry Mail privacy trial - Press Gazette
[17:20]	TR News	Prince Harry complains of terrifying intrusion by Daily Mail publisher https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/prince-harry-daily-mail-privacy-latest/
[17:20]	TR Bot	 Prince Harry and Elton John allege illegal privacy breaches by Mail
[17:21]	TR News	Digital Omnibus Report V2: Analysis of Select GDPR and ePrivacy Proposals by the Commission https://noyb.eu/en/digital-omnibus-report-v2-analysis-select-gdpr-and-eprivacy-proposals-commission
[17:21]	TR Bot	 Digital Omnibus Report V2: Analysis of Select GDPR and ePrivacy Proposals by the Commission
[17:22]	TR News	Calls to free pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai go against rule of law, says Hong Kongs top judge https://hongkongfp.com/2026/01/19/calls-to-free-pro-democracy-tycoon-jimmy-lai-go-against-rule-of-law-says-hong-kongs-top-judge/
[17:22]	TR Bot	 Calls to free Jimmy Lai go against rule of law, says HK's top judge
[17:22]	TR News	The "Alicante Mafia" - Part VI - More Strikes Planned at the EPO, Starting This Month https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/20/The_Alicante_Mafia_Part_VI_More_Strikes_Planned_at_the_EPO_Star.shtml
[17:22]	TR Bot	 Techrights The "Alicante Mafia" - Part VI - More Strikes Planned at the EPO, Starting This Month
[17:22]	TR News	Malicious Chrome Extension Crashes Browser in ClickFix Variant CrashFix https://www.securityweek.com/malicious-chrome-extension-crashes-browser-in-clickfix-variant-crashfix/
[17:22]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/malicious-chrome-extension-crashes-browser-in-clickfix-variant-crashfix/ )
[17:23]	TR News	APT-Grade PDFSider Malware Used by Ransomware Groups https://www.securityweek.com/apt-grade-pdfsider-malware-used-by-ransomware-groups/
[17:23]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/apt-grade-pdfsider-malware-used-by-ransomware-groups/ )
[17:23]	TR News	Spyware Document Pool https://edri.org/our-work/spyware-document-pool/ Spyware is one of the most serious threats to fundamental rights
[17:23]	TR Bot	 Spyware Document Pool - European Digital Rights (EDRi)
[17:24]	TR News	CentOS 10-20260119 ready, but IBM ensures nobody will use it https://distrowatch.com/centos
[17:24]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/centos )
[17:25]	TR News	LF truly turned it into a worthless spam site https://www.linux.com/news/jan26-training-promo/
[17:25]	TR Bot	the skills you need for 2026 - Linux.com
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[17:25]	TR News	Gedit Text Editor Released 49.0 with Much Faster Big File Loading https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/01/gedit-49-0-faster-big-file/
[17:25]	TR Bot	 Gedit Text Editor Released 49.0 with Much Faster Big File Loading | UbuntuHandbook
[17:26]	TR News	Easy Effects 8.1.0 Released with Crusher Plugin & Many Improvements https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/01/easy-effects-8-1-0-released-with-crusher-plugin-many-improvements/
[17:26]	TR Bot	 Easy Effects 8.1.0 Released with Crusher Plugin & Many Improvements | UbuntuHandbook
[17:27]	TR News	KDE Has A New Infinite Whiteboard Tool Work-In-Progress https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/01/kde-has-a-new-infinite-whiteboard-tool-work-in-progress/
[17:27]	TR Bot	 KDE Has A New Infinite Whiteboard Tool Work-In-Progress | UbuntuHandbook
[17:28]	TR News	Orange Pi 6 Plus Single Board Computer running Linux: Ubuntu https://www.linuxlinks.com/orange-pi6-plus-single-board-computer-running-linux-ubuntu/
[17:28]	TR Bot	Pi 6 Plus Single Board Computer running Linux: Ubuntu - LinuxLinks
[17:28]	TR News	Lip Gloss style definitions for nice terminal layouts https://www.linuxlinks.com/lip-gloss-style-definitions-terminal-layouts/
[17:28]	TR Bot	Gloss - style definitions for nice terminal layouts - LinuxLinks
[17:28]	TR News	cview terminal-based user interface toolkit https://www.linuxlinks.com/cview-terminal-based-user-interface-toolkit/
[17:28]	TR Bot	- terminal-based user interface toolkit - LinuxLinks
[17:32]	TR News	Want to try Linux? Just install Ubuntu or Fedora https://www.howtogeek.com/want-to-try-linux-just-install-ubuntu-or-fedora-first/ both poor choice, but YMMV
[17:32]	TR Bot	 Want to try Linux? Just install Ubuntu or Fedora
[17:32]	TR News	Opera's gamercentric browser is coming to Steam Deck and Linux raising questions about whether Windows is losing its grip on PC gaming https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/pc-gaming/opera-gx-the-gamer-centric-browser-is-coming-to-linux-raising-questions-about-windows
[17:32]	TR Bot	 Opera GX targets Linux gamers with native browser | Windows Central
[17:34]	TR News	How to run Windows apps on Linux with Wine - it's easy https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-run-windows-apps-on-linux-with-wine/
[17:34]	TR Bot	to run Windows apps on Linux with Wine - it&apos;s easy | ZDNET
[17:34]	TR News	 (NEW):  Opera GX Gaming Browser is Coming to GNU/Linux and More Takes https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/16/Opera_GX_Gaming_Browser_is_Coming_to_GNU_Linux_and_More_Takes.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/16/Opera_GX_Gaming_Browser_is_Coming_to_GNU_Linux_and_More_Takes.gmi 
[17:34]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Opera GX Gaming Browser is Coming to GNU/Linux and More Takes
[17:34]	TR News	Linux 6.19 hits speed bump before final release https://www.techzine.eu/news/devops/138019/linux-6-19-hits-speed-bump-before-final-release/
[17:34]	TR Bot	 Linux 6.19 hits speed bump before final release - Techzine Global
[17:35]		*psydroid3 (~psydroid@yu29f4abyrsnc.irc) has joined #techrights
[17:35]	TR News	Microsoft way of thinking https://itsfoss.com/news/photoshop-installer-runs-on-linux/
[17:35]	TR Bot	 Photoshop Installer Runs on Linux Despite Adobe Not Giving a Damn For Years
[17:36]	TR News	 (NEW):  Linux 6.19 Delays https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/19/Linux_6_19_Delays.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/19/Linux_6_19_Delays.gmi 
[17:36]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Linux 6.19 Delays
[17:36]	TR News	Adobe Photoshop spotted running on Linux with a Windows compatibility layer fix Creative Cloud's most killer apps could escape Microsoft and Apple exclusivity https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/adobe-photoshop-running-on-linux-with-wine-fix
[17:36]	TR Bot	 Adobe Photoshop now runs on Linux with a fix for Creative Cloud | Windows Central
[17:37]	TR News	I abandoned Photoshop for this free alternative on Linux https://www.howtogeek.com/abandoned-photoshop-free-alternative-linux/
[17:37]	TR Bot	 I abandoned Photoshop for this free alternative on Linux
[17:38]	TR News	"The Linux founder noted this week that RC6 is slightly larger than usual. While he isnt too worried about this, he did say that the slightly larger size does make me think that my plan to do an extra RC8 remains reasonable." https://www.neowin.net/news/linus-torvalds-signals-likely-delay-for-final-linux-619-release/
[17:38]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.neowin.net/news/linus-torvalds-signals-likely-delay-for-final-linux-619-release/ )
[17:38]	TR News	Buzzword-dropping nonsense https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-services/surfshark-adds-post-quantum-encryption-on-mac-linux-and-android-more-support-coming-soon
[17:38]	TR Bot	adds post-quantum encryption on Mac, Linux, and Android more support coming soon | TechRadar
[17:39]	TR News	Steam Deck now synonymous with "Linux"? https://www.pcguide.com/news/steam-deck-running-photoshop-could-soon-be-possible-thanks-to-new-adobe-creative-cloud-fix-for-linux/
[17:39]	TR Bot	 Steam Deck running Photoshop could soon be possible thanks to new Adobe Creative Cloud fix for Linux - PC Guide
[17:39]		*Isambard_Prince (~Isambard_Prince@v6ugkqut4fs6s.irc) has joined #techrights
[17:41]	TR News	I paid $48 for this Linux distro to save 48 hours of workand it was worth it https://www.howtogeek.com/why-zorin-os-pro-is-worth-paying-for/
[17:41]	TR Bot	 Is Zorin OS Pro worth paying for?
[17:41]	TR News	Your modern Linux desktop is too busy: Why I went back to basics with MATE https://www.howtogeek.com/why-mate-is-the-best-desktop-environment-for-retro-computing/
[17:41]	TR Bot	 Why MATE is the best Linux desktop environment for retro computing enthusiasts
[17:42]	TR News	This 2.6 pound laptop has a 2.8K 120 Hz display, 99 Wh battery, and Linux or Windows options https://liliputing.com/this-2-6-pound-laptop-has-a-2-8k-120-hz-display-99-wh-battery-and-linux-or-windows-options/
[17:42]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://liliputing.com/this-2-6-pound-laptop-has-a-2-8k-120-hz-display-99-wh-battery-and-linux-or-windows-options/ )
[17:42]	Isambard_Prince	I used to pay for Linux distributions.
[17:42]	Isambard_Prince	First it was because they came in boxes with all the software on CDs or DVDs to spare me a huge download.
[17:42]	TR News	Immutable Linux desktops finally cured my upgrade anxiety https://www.xda-developers.com/immutable-linux-desktops-finally-cured-my-upgrade-anxiety/
[17:42]	TR Bot	 Immutable Linux desktops finally cured my upgrade anxiety
[17:42]	Isambard_Prince	And they usually came with some extra software.
[17:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	they were never expensive
[17:42]	Isambard_Prince	Way back in the day, Mandrake came with Transgaming WineX.
[17:43]	Isambard_Prince	Which turned into Cedega later.
[17:43]	Isambard_Prince	Early on in the fork they made it run SOME Windows games that Wine couldn't.
[17:43]	Isambard_Prince	But Wine responded by changing the license from the MIT X11 license to the LGPL, I think.
[17:43]	Isambard_Prince	So Cedega started to diverge and rot.
[17:43]	Isambard_Prince	Some things it did better, some things it did worse, than Wine.
[17:44]	Isambard_Prince	So you more or less had to have both just because Cedega ran some things Wine didn't because of licensed copy protection routines and their own implementation of DirectX which was better in some ways.
[17:44]	Isambard_Prince	That was horrible.
[17:44]	Isambard_Prince	It turned into something horrible.
[17:45]	Isambard_Prince	Eventually Cedega couldn't manage their fork at all anymore and went under and Wine got better support for DirectX and most Windows APIs overall.
[17:45]	Isambard_Prince	And then Valve started contributing and it got very good.
[17:45]	Isambard_Prince	I still value Wine heavily.
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[17:46]	Isambard_Prince	It's one of the few reasons to tolerate this x86 PC mess.
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[17:46]	Isambard_Prince	It's fairly Windows compatible, and you don't have to deal with Windows to get it.
[17:46]	Isambard_Prince	It's one of the bright spots of the Chromebook that you _can_ install Wine into the Linux subsystem and run Windows software that way.
[17:47]	TR News	Version 1 of TDF Community Bylaws https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/01/20/version-1-of-tdf-community-bylaws/
[17:47]	TR Bot	 Version 1 of TDF Community Bylaws - TDF Community Blog
[17:47]	Isambard_Prince	And that gets you away from the Windows mess, the OS takes care of itself, it's not going to get viruses, and in this sandbox you can still run your Windows programs.
[17:47]	Isambard_Prince	The Chromebook is a mass market x86 computer that is Linux compatible and does not use UEFI.
[17:47]	Isambard_Prince	Google was spot on in not wanting to go anywhere near UEFI.
[17:48]	Isambard_Prince	They know how bad it is and the reliability problems it brings.
[17:48]	Isambard_Prince	They have their own implementation of Coreboot and something _like_ Secure Boot, if Secure Boot actually worked.
[17:48]	Isambard_Prince	It does on the Chromebook.
[17:48]	TR News	IBM Red Bait OpenShift selling slop https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/01/20/deploy-oracle-sqlcl-mcp-server-openshift
[17:48]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/01/20/deploy-oracle-sqlcl-mcp-server-openshift )
[17:49]	Isambard_Prince	The code is just BETTER so the Chromebook is pretty problem free. Other than mine got infested with German roaches at the last apartment because Piyush was moving in nasty people that infested the building.
[17:49]	TR News	MOAR slop https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/01/20/transform-complex-metrics-actionable-insights-ai-quickstart
[17:49]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/01/20/transform-complex-metrics-actionable-insights-ai-quickstart )
[17:49]	Isambard_Prince	That fat hippo lady next door was sleeping on an old mattress directly on the ground.
[17:49]	Isambard_Prince	Probably had them crawling all over her at night.
[17:50]	TR News	Security updates for Tuesday https://lwn.net/Articles/1055152/
[17:50]	TR Bot	updates for Tuesday [LWN.net]
[17:50]	Isambard_Prince	But she went to the Ford dealership and had a brand new Ford Mustang in the parking lot (with rotting trash all over the ground from the dumpster overflows).
[17:50]	Isambard_Prince	Priorities.
[17:50]	Isambard_Prince	No telling what that cost her.
[17:50]	TR News	Ignacy Kuchciski: Digital Wellbeing Contract: Conclusion https://blogs.gnome.org/ignapk/2026/01/20/digital-wellbeing-contract-conclusion/
[17:50]	TR Bot	 Digital Wellbeing Contract: Conclusion Ignacy Kuchciski's Blog
[17:50]	Isambard_Prince	But she was so fat she looked like Dr. Robotnik from Sonic The Hedgehog had a sex change.
[17:51]	Isambard_Prince	The Mustang's suspension went to the ground when she got into the driver's seat, she was so huge.
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[17:53]	Isambard_Prince	I didn't know whether I'd be attacked by roaches or if the woman next door would come after me in a car with a drill on the front end of it at the end of the first level.
[17:53]	Isambard_Prince	:)
[17:53]	Isambard_Prince	MinceR, ^
[17:53]	Isambard_Prince	Sonic 2 was really the best Sonic, IMHO
[17:54]	Isambard_Prince	I need to get a haircut today. I have another interview tomorrow.
[17:54]	Isambard_Prince	I'm out there pounding the pavement, trying to find something that pays minimum wage.
[17:54]	Isambard_Prince	You can't even find minimum wage anymore, hardly.
[17:54]	Isambard_Prince	Nobody who still has a job is quitting.
[17:54]	TR News	 (NEW):  Today's HowTos   https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/20/today_s_howtos.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/20/today_s_howtos.gmi 
[17:54]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines today's howtos
[17:54]	Isambard_Prince	The few that quit get replaced by a hiring manager that tells a friend "You should apply for that and I'll interview you."
[17:56]	TR News	 (NEW):  Applications for GNU/Linux and KDE https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/20/Applications_for_GNU_Linux_and_KDE.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/20/Applications_for_GNU_Linux_and_KDE.gmi 
[17:56]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Applications for GNU/Linux and KDE
[17:57]	TR News	 (NEW):   Programming Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/20/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/20/Programming_Leftovers.gmi 
[17:57]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Programming Leftovers
[17:57]	TR News	 (NEW):  Proprietary Windows Bricks Itself, Adds Slop https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/20/Proprietary_Windows_Bricks_Itself_Adds_Slop.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/20/Proprietary_Windows_Bricks_Itself_Adds_Slop.gmi 
[17:57]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Proprietary Windows Bricks Itself, Adds Slop
[17:59]	TR News	 (NEW):  PostgreSQL Development in 2025 and PostgreSQL-Related New Releases https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/20/PostgreSQL_Development_in_2025_and_PostgreSQL_Related_New_Relea.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/20/PostgreSQL_Development_in_2025_and_PostgreSQL_Related_New_Relea.gmi 
[17:59]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines PostgreSQL Development in 2025 and PostgreSQL-Related New Releases
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[18:01]	TR News	 (NEW):  Devices, Modding, and GNU/Linux on Boards https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/20/Devices_Modding_and_GNU_Linux_on_Boards.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/20/Devices_Modding_and_GNU_Linux_on_Boards.gmi 
[18:01]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Devices, Modding, and GNU/Linux on Boards
[18:01]	TR News	 (NEW):  Red Hat, Fedora, and IBM's Slopfest https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/20/Red_Hat_Fedora_and_IBM_s_Slopfest.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/20/Red_Hat_Fedora_and_IBM_s_Slopfest.gmi 
[18:01]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Red Hat, Fedora, and IBM's Slopfest
[18:02]	TR News	 (NEW):  Web Browsers Commentary and Mozilla Firefox Development https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/20/Web_Browsers_Commentary_and_Mozilla_Firefox_Development.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/20/Web_Browsers_Commentary_and_Mozilla_Firefox_Development.gmi 
[18:02]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Web Browsers Commentary and Mozilla Firefox Development
[18:04]	TR News	 (NEW):  Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/20/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/20/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.gmi 
[18:04]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
[18:07]	TR News	 (NEW):  OpenSUSE Conferences and OpenSUSE on Tackling Y2K38 Epoch https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/20/OpenSUSE_Conferences_and_OpenSUSE_on_Tackling_Y2K38_Epoch.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/20/OpenSUSE_Conferences_and_OpenSUSE_on_Tackling_Y2K38_Epoch.gmi 
[18:07]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines OpenSUSE Conferences and OpenSUSE on Tackling Y2K38 Epoch
[18:07]	TR News	 (NEW):  "The Breakaway Moment" and &quot;Gaming GPU Benchmarks on Bazzite&quot; https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/20/_The_Breakaway_Moment_and_Gaming_GPU_Benchmarks_on_Bazzite.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/20/_The_Breakaway_Moment_and_Gaming_GPU_Benchmarks_on_Bazzite.gmi 
[18:07]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines "The Breakaway Moment" and "Gaming GPU Benchmarks on Bazzite"
[18:09]	TR News	 (NEW):  GNU/Linux and Operating Systems Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/20/GNU_Linux_and_Operating_Systems_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/20/GNU_Linux_and_Operating_Systems_Leftovers.gmi 
[18:09]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines GNU/Linux and Operating Systems Leftovers
[18:09]	TR News	 (NEW):  Security Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/20/Security_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/20/Security_Leftovers.gmi 
[18:09]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Security Leftovers
[18:09]	Isambard_Prince	schestowitz[TR2], I noticed that Moccamaster lowered their price to refurbish your machine.
[18:10]	Isambard_Prince	It dropped from $99 to fix everything that's wrong with it and ship it back, to $79.
[18:10]	Isambard_Prince	Meanwhile, the cost of a new unit went up 10% since 2022.
[18:10]	TR News	"`Gpu1` is a GPU without a framebuffer, the pixels are generated just in time to display like the arcade machine and game console from the 80s and 90s." gemini://gmi.noulin.net/2026-01-20-gpu1.gmi
[18:10]	Isambard_Prince	So I'm going to go the repair route.
[18:10]	schestowitz[TR2]	after the kettle?
[18:11]	TR News	"A month ago I set myself the task of getting to Inbox Zero. Despite that, I'm grateful to those who immediately sent messages to the inbox in question with supportive advice, including my indefatigable correspondent, Lionel Dricot (dit Ploum)." gemini://gemini.ucant.org/gemlog/2026-01-20_success-inbox-zero.gmi
[18:13]	TR News	Techrights Gemini Links 20/01/2026: Boxing and "Inbox Zero" Success https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/20/Gemini_Links_20_01_2026_Boxing_and_Inbox_Zero_Success.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/20/Gemini_Links_20_01_2026_Boxing_and_Inbox_Zero_Success.gmi 
[18:13]	TR Bot	 Techrights Gemini Links 20/01/2026: Boxing and "Inbox Zero" Success
[18:15]	Isambard_Prince	schestowitz[TR2], No, I'm not dismantling it to try to fix it myself.
[18:15]	Isambard_Prince	A parts unit that doesn't even work off of ebay would cost more than sending it in for repairs.
[18:15]	Isambard_Prince	Mine still works, it just has a cracked water tank and a sticking brew switch.
[18:15]	TR News	Techrights Links 20/01/2026: Cheeto Blackmails France Into 'Peace' While Looking to Annex EU, Mass Layoffs in Capgemini (Microsoft Reseller/Promoter) in France https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/20/Links_20_01_2026_Cheeto_Blackmails_France_Into_Peace_While_Look.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/20/Links_20_01_2026_Cheeto_Blackmails_France_Into_Peace_While_Look.gmi 
[18:15]	TR Bot	 Techrights Links 20/01/2026: Cheeto Blackmails France Into 'Peace' While Looking to Annex EU, Mass Layoffs in Capgemini (Microsoft Reseller/Promoter) in France
[18:15]	Isambard_Prince	If I have to get another brewer it'll probably be an Oxo.
[18:15]	Isambard_Prince	They keep having big rebates on American Express cards.
[18:16]	Isambard_Prince	bbiab
[18:29]	schestowitz[TR2]	psydroid2: schooled by small club https://www.mancity.com/matchday/fixtures/mens/2025/champions-league/bodoe-glimt-v-man-city-20-jan-2026?page=Stats
[18:29]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.mancity.com/matchday/fixtures/mens/2025/champions-league/bodoe-glimt-v-man-city-20-jan-2026?page=Stats )
[18:40]	TR News	Techrights LLM Slop Not Dead Yet, Examples of Slop About "Linux" https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/20/LLM_Slop_Not_Dead_Yet_Examples_of_Slop_About_Linux.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/20/LLM_Slop_Not_Dead_Yet_Examples_of_Slop_About_Linux.gmi 
[18:40]	TR Bot	 Techrights LLM Slop Not Dead Yet, Examples of Slop About "Linux"
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[20:10]	MinceR	https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/alone-2
[20:10]	TR Bot	 Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Alone
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