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[00:50]	admfubar	https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/aliexpress-fined-625m-for-failing-to-remove-unsafe-toys-dangerous-cosmetics/
[00:50]	TR Bot	 AliExpress hit with record $625M fine after failing to make EU-ordered fixes - Ars Technica
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[01:09]	admfubar	https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/how-watch-dogs-video-game-series-mirrored-and-predicted-real-world-digital-rights
[01:09]	TR Bot	 How the Watch Dogs Video Game Series Mirrored and Predicted Real-World Digital Rights Issues | Electronic Frontier Foundation
[01:12]	admfubar	https://www.firstpost.com/tech/mac-users-report-trackpad-and-system-freezes-heres-a-workaround-that-may-fix-the-issue-14032760.html
[01:12]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.firstpost.com/tech/mac-users-report-trackpad-and-system-freezes-heres-a-workaround-that-may-fix-the-issue-14032760.html )
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[01:24]	admfubar	https://futurism.com/health-medicine/whole-foods-discount-taylor-farms-lettuce
[01:24]	TR Bot	 Whole Foods Offering Steep Discount on Taylor Farms Shredded Iceberg Lettuce
[01:26]	admfubar	https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-ad-revenue-ai-advertising-financial-projection
[01:26]	TR Bot	 OpenAI Appears to Be Missing Its Sales Goals by a Vast Margin
[01:27]	admfubar	https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-china-models-profit-money
[01:27]	TR Bot	 OpenAI Exec Laments That China Is Giving Away Models So Good That For-Profit Companies Won't Be Able to Compete
[01:31]	MinceR	boo fucking hoo
[01:39]	admfubar	https://www.neowin.net/news/this-free-app-blocks-the-lg-malware-that-windows-11-silently-installs-on-your-pc/
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● Jul 21
[02:08]	IsambardPrince	"9. Apple
[02:08]	IsambardPrince	Apple doesnt play when it comes to returns. Their policys pretty strictand if you send back too many devices too often, theyll take notice.
[02:08]	IsambardPrince	They track returns using your Apple ID and purchase history, so its not hard for them to flag repeat patterns.
[02:08]	IsambardPrince	Things that can get you in trouble? Returning multiple products in a short time, sending back used items, or pushing the return window too often.
[02:08]	IsambardPrince	Some customers have even been blocked from buying directly from Apple after too many returns.
[02:08]	IsambardPrince	REAL LIFE EXAMPLE: APPLE IS BUCKLING DOWN
[02:08]	IsambardPrince	I talked with a Olivia, a college student from Georgia about her run-in with the return policy at Apple.
[02:08]	IsambardPrince	After exchanging an iPhone for a different color, returning an iPad she never used, and swapping AirPods that didnt fit wellall within a 6 monthsshe got a little surprise from Apple.
[02:08]	IsambardPrince	After her most recent return, a store employee actually pulled her aside and told her that Apple closely monitors return patterns and that she might be restricted from future returns.
[02:08]	IsambardPrince	I wasnt running a black-market Apple resale businessI just changed my mind a few times. But I guess Apple expects you to commit, no take-backs, she says."
[02:08]	IsambardPrince	Apple only wants its junk flowing in one way.
[02:08]	IsambardPrince	Your direction on a high interest credit card.
[02:10]	MinceR	21 030810 < IsambardPrince> Some customers have even been blocked from buying directly from Apple after too many returns.
[02:10]	MinceR	the lucky bastards
[02:11]	MinceR	also, Olivia should have told the store employee that she believes in honesty, especially now
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[02:24]	admfubar	https://apnews.com/article/kimi-k3-china-ai-model-us-4c66a2e0f557ce79d3cc2d769c9a6226
[02:24]	TR Bot	 China's Moonshot AI halts new subscriptions after surging demand | AP News
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[02:54]	admfubar	https://xkcd.com/3274/
[02:54]	TR Bot	Arthurian Connector
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● Jul 21
[05:05]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2]: The worst part about American healthcare probably isn't the insurance.
[05:05]	IsambardPrince	It's what the gaps lead to.
[05:05]	IsambardPrince	Like Synchrony CareCredit.
[05:06]	IsambardPrince	I read the Synchrony CareCredit brochure today. I picked one up while I was having a dental cleaning, for the lulz.
[05:06]	IsambardPrince	
[05:06]	IsambardPrince	The 24-60 month plans are not 0% deferred interest, they are "reduced deferred interest" of between 17.9% on the 24 month plan all the way to 20.9% on the 60 month, but the same thing applies. Owe a dolllar a day after the end of the promo, and interest at 32.9% APR gets added back in back to the date of purchase, which might have been five years ago.
[05:06]	IsambardPrince	
[05:06]	IsambardPrince	Ouch.
[05:06]	IsambardPrince	
[05:06]	IsambardPrince	According to their own survey, 90% would recommend CareCredit to a friend, but these are people who paid it off during the promo, not people in collections or bankruptcy proceedings who don't reply to surveys. It's what we call Survivorship Bias. I would never put elective procedures or veterinary care on these.
[05:06]	IsambardPrince	
[05:06]	IsambardPrince	Maybe not medically necessary either. I have insurance. The "I'm paying the hospital $10 a month and they're taking it." plan sounds better.
[05:06]	IsambardPrince	
[05:06]	IsambardPrince	In theory, the CareCredit could add as much interest as the amount of the procedure you financed, over 5 years at 32.9%. When things get hard, people tend to make minimum payments, and every minimum payment puts them further off track to avoid this.
[05:06]	IsambardPrince	
[05:06]	IsambardPrince	Synchrony charges the practices a 5-10% fee just to set up a CareCredit plan, so the bank even makes money on people who pay it off before the deferred interest trap goes off.
[05:06]	IsambardPrince	
[05:06]	IsambardPrince	There is no situation where Synchrony loses anything. Even if you pay off a $5,000 procedure on time, they already made $250-500 just to set up that plan, and it gets spread around to people who were responsible and paid cash, as higher prices.
[05:27]	schestowitz[TR2]	"health" 'care"
[05:27]	schestowitz[TR2]	"nobody cares!"
[05:29]	TR News	"Indonesia is proposing a landmark copyright bill that could make the country the first in Southeast Asia to explicitly regulate AI in its copyright framework." https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/20/indonesia-ai-regulations-proposed/ | Source: Digital Music News
[05:29]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/20/indonesia-ai-regulations-proposed/ )
[05:29]	TR News	"Sony has now made the more than 30,000 songs the subject of its new lawsuit, which the company says it could expand." https://www.theverge.com/tech/968375/sony-udio-lawsuit-songs-ai-copyright | Source: The Verge
[05:29]	TR Bot	 Here are the 30,000 songs Sony is suing Udios AI music generator over | The Verge
[05:30]	TR News	"Current laws (remember those?) prohibit any single local broadcast news company from serving more than 39 percent of all TV households in the US." https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/20/brendan-carr-is-illegally-dismantling-u-s-media-consolidation-law/ | Source: Techdirt
[05:30]	TR Bot	Carr Is Illegally Dismantling U.S. Media Consolidation Law | Techdirt
[05:30]	TR News	"Who runs the hidden infrastructure behind secure Internet routing?" https://labs.ripe.net/author/ties-dirksen/whos-running-all-those-tiny-rpki-servers/ | Source: RIPE
[05:30]	TR Bot	 Who's Running All Those Tiny RPKI Servers? | RIPE Labs
[05:31]	TR News	"Why should I come out? Why do I have to open the door? Can you please answer me before you use force?" https://digit.site36.net/2026/07/20/police-called-to-assist-in-cologne-and-then-brutalized-psychiatric-patient-into-a-coma/ | Source: Site36
[05:31]	TR Bot	 Police was called to assist paramedics in Cologne and then brutalized a psychiatric patient into a coma | Matthias Monroy
[05:31]	TR News	"Candidates came from four fictional ethnic groups: Tufa, Aima, Reku, and Weki." https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/20/1140655/ai-biases-hiring-humans/ | Source: MIT Technology Review
[05:31]	TR Bot	 AI is more likely than humans to form biases when hiring | MIT Technology Review
[05:31]	TR News	"Heres another case thats hit a dead end because an ICE officer lied and an ICE supervisor decided to pass on these lies to a federal prosecutor. (h/t Aaron Reichlin-Melnick)" https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/20/attempted-murder-charges-dropped-after-bystander-recordings-expose-ice-officers-lies/ | Source: Techdirt
[05:31]	TR Bot	Murder Charges Dropped After Bystander Recordings Expose ICE Officers Lies | Techdirt
[05:32]	TR News	"without her work authorization, Alexa cant find a better job or regain any stability." https://www.minnpost.com/metro/2026/07/minneapolis-single-mothers-lost-months-of-income-hiding-from-ice-and-now-cant-afford-to-renew-immigration-papers-daca/ | Source: MinnPost
[05:32]	TR Bot	renewal costly for single mothers - MinnPost
[05:32]	TR News	"Language Death" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/07/27/how-to-kill-a-language-sophia-smith-galer-book-review | Source: New Yorker
[05:32]	TR Bot	 Sometimes Its O.K. to Let a Language Die | The New Yorker
[05:33]	TR News	"Today, the Kurdish language is experiencing one of the most fragile periods in its history in Northern Kurdistan." https://english.anf-news.com/culture/kurdish-faces-risk-of-disappearing-in-north-kurdistan-86366 | Source: ANF News
[05:33]	TR Bot	 ANF | Kurdish faces risk of disappearing in North Kurdistan
[05:33]	TR News	"Which raises the more general question of what the hell Canadians are doing in Saudi Arabia generally, including their government." https://thewalrus.ca/ive-spent-years-covering-wars-ive-learned-nobody-knows-anything/ | Source: The Walrus
[05:33]	TR Bot	 Ive Spent Years Covering Wars. Ive Learned Nobody Knows Anything | The Walrus
[05:33]	TR News	"The detention of a journalist under the Cyber Crimes Act for publishing material that appears to be of significant public interest is deeply troubling" https://cpj.org/2026/07/zambian-journalist-detained-for-audio-leak-under-cyber-laws-weeks-before-elections/ | Source: CPJ
[05:33]	TR Bot	 Zambian journalist detained for audio leak under cyber laws weeks before elections - Committee to Protect Journalists
[05:36]	TR News	"As for who these supposed agents of Cuban influence are, the report is remarkably explicit." https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/after-political-terrorism-event-us | Source: Ken Klippenstein
[05:36]	TR Bot	 After "Political Terrorism" Summit, U.S. Names 43 Americans + Groups
[05:36]	TR News	"Earlier this year, Daniel Sanchez-Estrada was sentenced to 30 years in prison for moving a box of zines." https://www.salon.com/2026/07/20/her-brother-was-convicted-of-terrorism-over-a-protest-he-didnt-even-attend/ | Source: Salon
[05:36]	TR Bot	brother was convicted of terrorism over a protest he didn't even attend - Salon.com
[05:36]	TR News	"Another female singer in Iran has been sentenced to 74 lashes after sharing a music video of herself performing without a head covering." https://www.rferl.org/a/female-singer-iran-flogging/33807608.html | Source: RFERL
[05:36]	TR Bot	 She Sang And Now Faces 74 Lashes. Iran Sentences Another Female Musician
[05:37]	TR News	"In our recent study of 843 US residents, we found that people who picture scientific progress as the work of lone geniuses, and who learn about science mainly from podcasts and documentaries" https://theconversation.com/why-do-some-people-who-trust-in-science-also-believe-in-scientific-conspiracy-theories-287728 | Source: The Conversation
[05:37]	TR Bot	 Why do some people who trust in science also believe in scientific conspiracy theories?
[05:37]	TR News	"she turns to TikTok and Instagram to keep up with events in Greece and the world. Social media is her primary source of information [sic], whether deciding where to go on a Saturday night, whom to vote for, or decoding events in a war zone." https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2026/0720/greece-social-media-tiktok-instagram-news-europe | Source: CS Monitor
[05:37]	TR Bot	Greeks are picking TikTok over TV for their news - CSMonitor.com
[05:38]	TR News	"Journalists were also advised to report that Ukraine will be left with no warehouses, no fuel, no trains, no substations: [...]" https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/07/20/moscow-s-leaked-media-playbook-spin-ukraine-s-refinery-hits-as-an-attack-on-car-owners | Source: Meduza
[05:38]	TR Bot	 Moscows leaked media playbook: spin Ukraines refinery hits as an attack on car owners Meduza
[05:39]	TR News	"Axel Springer is a Germany-based media conglomerate that owns Politico and Business Insider, as well as The Telegraph in the U.K." https://truthout.org/articles/politico-owner-axel-springer-gives-prize-to-far-right-billionaire-peter-thiel/ | Source: TruthOut
[05:39]	TR Bot	 Politico Owner Axel Springer Gives Prize to Far Right Billionaire Peter Thiel | Truthout
[05:39]	TR News	"What they dont see are the years leading up to that moment. Increasingly, thats where the real competition is taking place." https://siliconangle.com/2026/07/20/next-battle-technology-ipos-begins-years-companies-go-public/ | Source: Silicon Angle
[05:39]	TR Bot	the next battle for technology IPOs begins years before companies go public - SiliconANGLE
[05:40]	TR News	"In the last year, I've been through over a dozen cities and used public transport in all of them." https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/07/public-transport-dont-make-me-think/ | Source: Terence Eden
[05:40]	TR Bot	 Public Transport Dont Make Me Think! Terence Edens Blog
[05:40]	TR News	"Enhanced Lattice Polarization and Directed Charge Transport Toward Pt Surface Sites Accelerate the Volmer Step in Piezocatalytic H2 Evolution on Co-Doped BiFeO3." https://phys.org/news/2026-07-vibrations-fuels-chemicals-piezosynthesis.html | Source: Omicron Limited
[05:40]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://phys.org/news/2026-07-vibrations-fuels-chemicals-piezosynthesis.html )
[05:40]	TR News	"If that comes to pass, Lewis George wont rule out eventually expanding the universe of people receiving free transit if and when revenue is available." https://www.notus.org/metro/dc-free-buses | Source: Allbritton Journalism Institute
[05:40]	TR Bot	 Will Free Buses Ever Arrive in D.C.? - NOTUS News of the United States
[05:41]	TR News	"The authors stress that the link is only correlational; measurement methods varied from cycle to cycle" https://boingboing.net/2026/07/20/co2-in-human-blood.html | Source: BoingBoing
[05:41]	TR Bot	 CO2 in human blood is rising with the atmosphere
[05:41]	TR News	"He added that many of Finland's gravel roads and drainage systems are decades old and were built for different weather conditions." https://yle.fi/a/74-20237209 | Source: Yle
[05:41]	TR Bot	 Heavy rainfall cuts off 16 gravel roads across Finland | Yle News | Yle
[05:41]	TR News	"climate viability." https://www.wired.com/story/new-research-estimates-most-emissions-came-from-fan-travel/ | Source: Wired
[05:41]	TR Bot	Flocked to World Cup Host CitiesCausing 80 Percent of the Tournaments Emissions | WIRED
[05:42]	TR News	"Im still reading the document dump Trump released last Thursday." https://emptywheel.net/2026/07/20/the-electoral-roll-tampering-trump-left-out-his-own/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler
[05:42]	TR Bot	 The Electoral Roll Tampering Trump Left Out: His Own - emptywheel
[05:42]	TR News	"The toolkit, which the group describes as the first of its kind, is built around handcrafted legal motions that, when granted by a judge, will force prosecutors to reveal whether surveillance technology was used against a defendant." https://www.wired.com/story/the-aclu-is-arming-lawyers-to-expose-state-surveillance-secrets/ | Source: Wired
[05:42]	TR Bot	ACLU Is Arming Lawyers to Expose State Surveillance Secrets | WIRED
[05:42]	TR News	"When it comes to the Minab massacre, in which the U.S. killed over 150 people with a Tomahawk missile" https://truthout.org/articles/pentagon-slashed-civilian-harm-reduction-staff-and-is-instead-using-ai/ | Source: TruthOut
[05:42]	TR Bot	 Pentagon Slashed Civilian Harm Reduction Staff and Is Instead Using AI | Truthout
[05:43]	TR News	"a window into dysfunction inside the UAs College of Education in the months before the universitys financial crisis became public." https://azluminaria.org/2026/07/20/judge-to-decide-whether-ua-whistleblowers-case-goes-to-jury-trial/ | Source: Arizona Luminaria
[05:43]	TR Bot	 Judge to decide whether UA whistleblower's case goes to jury trial - AZ Luminaria
[05:44]	TR News	"And if were lucky, at least some of those interesting problems will matter to the security of a system someday." https://www.dlp.rip/everyday-cryptography/ | Source: Chris Fenner
[05:44]	TR Bot	 The Design of Everyday Cryptography - Chris Fenner's Personal Blog
[05:45]	TR News	"Meanwhile, the police are using (alternate source) the Flock camera network to track people in addition to cars: [...]" https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/on-flock-license-plate-tracking-cameras.html | Source: Bruce Schneier
[05:45]	TR Bot	Flock License Plate Tracking Cameras - Schneier on Security
[05:45]	TR News	"Flock quietly revealed on July 10 that it has decided to remove the product, according to a company blog post." https://therecord.media/flock-safety-kills-audio-detection-system-human-distress | Source: The Record
[05:45]	TR Bot	 Flock Safety kills acoustic system designed to detect 'human distress' | The Record from Recorded Future News
[05:46]	TR News	"The leaked draft text suggests that the Commission significantly caved in to USs excessive demands for unfettered information access, exacerbating travel surveillance and putting our fundamental rights at risk." https://edri.org/our-work/the-eu-is-about-to-sell-our-most-sensitive-data-to-the-us-for-visa-free-travel/ | Source: EDRI
[05:46]	TR Bot	 The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel - European Digital Rights (EDRi)
[05:46]	TR News	"The pre-allocation occurred before any data arrived, and an attacker could send an 11-byte payload to trigger an unvalidated buffer allocation of up to 131 KB." https://www.securityweek.com/openssl-silently-fixes-hollowbyte-dos-vulnerability/ | Source: Security Week
[05:46]	TR Bot	Silently Fixes 'HollowByte' DoS Vulnerability - SecurityWeek
[05:47]	TR News	Windows TCO https://thecyberexpress.com/fairlife-ransomware-attack/ | Source: Cyble Inc
[05:47]	TR Bot	 Fairlife Ransomware Attack Halts U.S. Dairy Production
[05:47]	TR News	[Old] "Macmillan, founded in the United Kingdom, is one of the Big Five publishing houses, and it has a history of publishing lightning-rod books" https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/meta-facebook-employees-book-careless-people-buy-sarah-wynn-williams-rcna196312 | Source: NBC
[05:47]	TR Bot	 Publisher stands behind ex-Facebook employee's book, rebuffing Meta
[05:48]	TR News	"Wynn-Williams had become part of what reads like a diabolical cult run by emotionally stunted men babies, institutionally enabled sexual harassers and hypocritical virtue-signalling narcissists." https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/mar/16/careless-people-a-story-of-where-i-used-to-work-by-sarah-wynn-williams-review-a-former-disciple-unfriends-facebook | Source: The Guardian UK
[05:48]	TR Bot	 Careless People: A Story of Where I Used to Work by Sarah Wynn-Williams review a former disciple unfriends Facebook | Autobiography and memoir | The Guardian
[05:48]	TR News	"Tennessee accuses the company of violating the state's consumer protection law by knowingly designing a product that drives teens to compulsive use and misleading the public about its safety." https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/meta-faces-tennessee-trial-over-allegations-instagram-was-designed-to-be-addictive/articleshow/132518132.cms | Source: India Times
[05:48]	TR Bot	 Meta faces Tennessee trial over allegations Instagram was designed to be addictive - The Economic Times
[05:49]	TR News	"Over the next several weeks and months, MR would learn not only that there had been reports of similar incidents at the same store in the same timeframe" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jul/20/dollar-tree-sexual-assault-gooner | Source: The Guardian UK
[05:49]	TR Bot	 The disturbing rise of gooner assaults at Dollar Tree stores: They find it funny to degrade women | US crime | The Guardian
[05:49]	TR News	Social Control Media https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2026/jul/21/764-network-gamification-of-harm-the-com-cybercrime-ntwnfb | Source: The Guardian UK
[05:49]	TR Bot	 Inside the horrifying online network where children extort others to commit violence and self-harm | Internet safety | The Guardian
[05:56]	TR News	 (NEW):  Some Changes to GNOME Security Tracking https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/21/Some_Changes_to_GNOME_Security_Tracking.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/21/Some_Changes_to_GNOME_Security_Tracking.gmi 
[05:56]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Some Changes to GNOME Security Tracking
[05:56]	TR News	"China's open-weights AI strategy is winning: its companies are taking the lead." https://werd.io/american-ai-is-locked-down-and-proprietary-its-losing/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller
[05:56]	TR Bot	 American AI is locked down and proprietary. It's losing.
[05:56]	TR News	"The lock screen is supposed to protect you against the specific threat model of someone taking your phone." https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/20/use-gemini-ai-to-send-messages-from-someone-elses-locked-phone/ | Source: Pivot to AI
[05:56]	TR Bot	 First act. Nothing has happened that you cannot withstand, even.
● Jul 21
[06:02]	TR News	"Harry Frankfurt wrote a wonderful essay called On Bullshit. His central move is a distinction most people miss: the difference between a liar and a bullshitter." https://www.jsnover.com/blog/2026/07/20/llm-models-are-bullshit-engines/ | Source: Jeffrey Snover
[06:02]	TR Bot	 LLM Models Are Bullshit Engines | Jeffrey Snover's blog
[06:02]	TR News	"I am not going to reconstruct the entire disagreement that prompted this post." https://rmendes.net/notes/2026/07/20/open-source-collaboration-in-the-age-of-ai/ | Source: Ricardo Mendes
[06:02]	TR Bot	 A Node on the Web
[06:03]	TR News	"Now in the age of artificial intelligence, Google appears to be shrinking back from the open web and may be imperiling it." https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/technology/google-ai-open-web.html | Source: New York Times
[06:03]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/technology/google-ai-open-web.html )
[06:03]	TR News	"The low-effort content you see where its mass-produced, its mass uploaded, its AI slop weve removed over 75 million spammy tracks in the last year" https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/spotify-ai-slop-lorde | Source: Futurism
[06:03]	TR Bot	 Spotify Doubles Down on AI Slop As It's Being Flooded With It
[06:04]	TR News	"Theres a little bit of de-aging for some of the characters and machine learning is part of the process" https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/lord-of-the-rings-ai-de-age | Source: Futurism
[06:04]	TR Bot	 "The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum" Will Use AI to De-Age Actors
[06:04]	TR News	"Experts warn increase in enhanced photos on birding platforms creating fake sightings, threatening credibility of tool used by scientists" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/20/ai-slop-manipulated-fake-images-birds-citizen-science-aoe | Source: The Guardian UK
[06:04]	TR Bot	 AI-altered images on birdwatching forums putting research at risk | AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian
[06:04]	TR News	"Unfortunately, implementing them on the server side can appear more complex than using password hashes." https://words.filippo.io/passkey-record/ | Source: Filippo Valsorda
[06:04]	TR Bot	 Opaque, Interoperable Passkey Records (and a Go API)
[06:05]	TR News	"The track world, I discovered, has coined a name for this much-discussed phenomenon of kids getting ultra-fast: trackflation." https://www.wired.com/story/teenagers-running-trackflation/ | Source: Wired
[06:05]	TR Bot	Young Runners Are Becoming Freakishly Fast. Welcome to Trackflation | WIRED
[06:05]	IsambardPrince	[23:27] <schestowitz[TR2]> "health" 'care"
[06:05]	IsambardPrince	[23:27] <schestowitz[TR2]> "nobody cares!"
[06:05]	TR News	"In its fiscal 2025 workforce assessment, the VA Office of Inspector General found that all 139 VA medical centers reported at least one severe occupational staffing shortage." https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/veterans/2026/07/20/our-veterans-deserve-better-inside-the-va-nursing-shortage/ | Source: USMC
[06:05]	TR Bot	 Our veterans deserve better: Inside the VA nursing shortage
[06:05]	IsambardPrince	Never put medical debt on a credit card that you can't pay.
[06:05]	IsambardPrince	Ever.
[06:05]	TR News	"A Highland teenager is recovering well after undergoing brain tumour surgery at the Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow, thanks to innovative 3D exoscope technology." https://www.scotsman.com/news/scottish-news/boy-who-felt-pins-and-needles-in-leg-has-brain-tumour-removed-by-new-tech-8809732 | Source: The Scotsman
[06:05]	TR Bot	 Teenager who felt 'pins and needles' in leg has brain tumour removed by new robot tech
[06:05]	IsambardPrince	CareCredit wouldn't exist. It's basically the most boomer thing ever.
[06:05]	TR News	"I saw these while browsing through a thrift store and correctly clocked them as thick tabbed dividers though the person who rang them up for $1.50 thought they were folders because of their heft." https://boffosocko.com/2026/07/20/oxford-pedaflex-a-z-1-25-gray-pressboard-1-5-cut-tab-file-guides-letter-sized/ | Source: Chris Aldrich
[06:05]	TR Bot	 | Chris Aldrich
[06:05]	IsambardPrince	Put a boob job and some lasik and maybe invisalign on a 32.9% deferred interest trap.
[06:05]	TR News	"But what if you could go farthershooting not millions, but billions of pixels in a single image? Thats precisely what [Yannick Richter] came to Hackaday Europe to talk about, covering his Project Gigapixel build." https://hackaday.com/2026/07/20/hackaday-europe-2026-project-gigapixel/ | Source: Hackaday
[06:05]	TR Bot	Europe 2026: Project Gigapixel | Hackaday
[06:06]	TR News	"Some PC upgrades deliver meaningful performance gains, while others are simply a waste of money. The key is to upgrade where bottlenecks exist rather than replacing components unnecessarily." https://www.pcworld.com/article/3189839/ram-ssd-or-a-new-cpu-which-upgrade-really-makes-a-difference.html | Source: PC World
[06:06]	TR Bot	the RAM upgrade. Your bottleneck is probably somewhere else | PCWorld
[06:07]	TR News	"Researchers have copied massive quantities of publicly-available climate and environmental data from NASA onto a Swiss supercomputer to train artificial intelligence models" https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/nasa-climate-data-copied-to-swiss-supercomputer-for-ai-training-amid-us-funding-cuts/articleshow/132517258.cms | Source: India Times
[06:07]	TR Bot	 NASA climate data copied to Swiss supercomputer for AI training amid US funding cuts - The Economic Times
[06:08]	schestowitz[TR2]	IsambardPrince: why?
[06:08]	TR News	"The increase in solar activity, which is expected to begin as early as the end of this week, while should last nearly until the end of the month" https://www.arrl.org/news/view/the-arrl-solar-update-38 | Source: ARRL
[06:08]	TR Bot	 The ARRL Solar Update
[06:08]	TR News	"We had one of these for Sudo, but without the nose loop thing." https://jasper.tandy.is/blogging/lines-and-lines-and-lines | Source: Jasper Tandy
[06:08]	TR Bot	 Jasper is blogging: Lines and lines and lines
[06:09]	TR News	"Last week, someone paid me to review their form flow." https://adamsilver.io/blog/why-i-dont-use-interruption-pages/ | Source: Adam Silver
[06:09]	TR Bot	 Why I dont use interruption pages Adam Silver designer, London, UK
[06:10]	IsambardPrince	[00:08] <schestowitz[TR2]> IsambardPrince: why?
[06:10]	IsambardPrince	People want things.
[06:10]	IsambardPrince	They want them now
[06:10]	IsambardPrince	They don't have money because they did not save money.
[06:10]	IsambardPrince	They borrow against future income that isn't guaranteed to come in.
[06:10]	TR News	"Until a few years ago, I read books the normal way, which meant choosing a book, reading it to the end, and moving to the next. Occasionally I would abandon a book, but only after agonizing over it for several nights. Books for school or work didnt count; I always had one and only one book that I was reading for myself." gemini://degrowther.smol.pub/20260720_books
[06:11]	IsambardPrince	With interest.
[06:11]	IsambardPrince	Life gets in the way.
[06:11]	IsambardPrince	The bank sues them.
[06:12]	TR News	The 2026 Old Computer Challenge Epilogue gemini://ddlyh.smol.pub/occ26-epilogue
[06:12]	TR News	"Great opening ~20 minutes but settled into watchable. I was hoping for some proper Calvin & Hobbes style ambiguity but we are offered the option of believing it was all a dream. If it was, thats lazy." gemini://lab6.com/mlog/2026/07/20/boss/
[06:12]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2]: When I showed my mother how Klarna and Affirm and Afterpay really worked and what they said they do to people, get them to spend 40% more money than they planned to, set them up with so many plans they lose all track of their finances, suddenly she didn't like them as much. When I did the math and told her how much interest she was paying the credit card company every year without reducing the balance, she stopped 
[06:13]	IsambardPrince	using the card.
[06:13]	TR News	"I found some trash in my guitar case. I first thought it was some random piece of wrapping, then I saw that it was the wrapping for some batteries. then, I remembered it all: the batteries were for my pedal, and the wrapping was because I couldn't find a place to put it during the concert." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2844
[06:14]	IsambardPrince	Afterpay brags that users spend 58% more. Klarna tells merchants they'll boost average order size by 40%. They're not hiding it.  They're selling it as a feature to retailers. The customer thinks they're getting flexibility. The retailer knows they're getting a bigger sale. The lender gets the interest when life gets in the way.
[06:14]	schestowitz[TR2]	i see
[06:15]	schestowitz[TR2]	well, i know someone heavy in credit card debt
[06:15]	schestowitz[TR2]	to pay lawyers
[06:15]	schestowitz[TR2]	with no guarantee of income
[06:15]	schestowitz[TR2]	seems his big mouuth sank him in trouble
[06:15]	IsambardPrince	I was watching some Asian people discuss BNPL and credit cards on YouTube.
[06:15]	IsambardPrince	I love Asian people, and for many reasons, but the way they use English, or at least emulate their parents (first generation) using it. Very interesting.
[06:16]	IsambardPrince	Right to the point.
[06:16]	IsambardPrince	The guy says "We all heard our parents say 'Don't use credit card, very dangerous.'"
[06:16]	IsambardPrince	I heard my dad say it.
[06:16]	IsambardPrince	My mom was busy going to check cashing stores and pawning her wedding ring multiple times.
[06:17]	IsambardPrince	He didn't say it like a Japanese man would. 
[06:17]	TR News	Techrights Gemini Links 21/07/2026: The Boss Baby (2017) and 2026 Old Computer Challenge Epilogue https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/21/Gemini_Links_21_07_2026_The_Boss_Baby_2017_and_2026_Old_Compute.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/21/Gemini_Links_21_07_2026_The_Boss_Baby_2017_and_2026_Old_Compute.gmi 
[06:17]	TR Bot	 Techrights Gemini Links 21/07/2026: The Boss Baby (2017) and 2026 Old Computer Challenge Epilogue
[06:17]	IsambardPrince	He was more American about it like "Oh those fucking slimy bastards at the credit card bank. You know, they fleece and they steal. They charge outrageous interest because there's no collateral."
[06:17]	IsambardPrince	Things like that.
[06:17]	IsambardPrince	So I had a good idea about how credit cards worked from listening to him.
[06:18]	IsambardPrince	And I never had one until I was 28.
[06:19]	TR News	Techrights Links 20/07/2026: Lashes for Songs in Iran, Kurdish Language at Risk https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/21/Links_20_07_2026_Lashes_for_Songs_in_Iran_Kurdish_Language_at_R.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/21/Links_20_07_2026_Lashes_for_Songs_in_Iran_Kurdish_Language_at_R.gmi 
[06:19]	TR Bot	 Techrights Links 20/07/2026: Lashes for Songs in Iran, Kurdish Language at Risk
[06:20]	schestowitz[TR2]	<IsambardPrince> The guy says "We all heard our parents say 'Don't use credit card, very dangerous.'"
[06:20]	schestowitz[TR2]	don't buy buick
[06:20]	schestowitz[TR2]	total waste of money
[06:20]	TR News	Rogue Eclipse is "Starfox x Armored Core" and arrives August 7 | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/rogue-eclipse-is-starfox-x-armored-core-and-arrives-august-7/ Source: GamingOnLinux
[06:20]	TR Bot	Eclipse is "Starfox x Armored Core" and arrives August 7 | GamingOnLinux
[06:21]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2]: Yeah, don't worry. Will not do that again.
[06:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	now the clucker is practically dea
[06:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	*dead
[06:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	andf you pay what
[06:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	$5k a year
[06:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	for the thing
[06:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	all costs and purchase covered?
[06:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	moiney down the drain
[06:21]	IsambardPrince	I'm not sure there's a way to own a car that's not going to cost you something like that.
[06:21]	TR News	PUROMA is an incremental horror game about isolation and it looks great | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/puroma-is-an-incremental-horror-game-about-isolation-and-it-looks-great/ Source: GamingOnLinux | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/puroma-is-an-incremental-horror-game-about-isolation-and-it-looks-great/
[06:21]	TR Bot	is an incremental horror game about isolation and it looks great | GamingOnLinux
[06:21]	IsambardPrince	John said he bought a new Toyota and just the payments, gas, and insurance, are like $1400 a month.
[06:22]	IsambardPrince	And he said "then it chews through tires because it's an AWD batttery car".
[06:22]	IsambardPrince	"Then there's the oil changes."
[06:22]	IsambardPrince	I said, "What are those, like $20?"
[06:22]	IsambardPrince	He said "No, $140, you have to go to the dealership because there's this special oil that you can only get from Toyota or it voids the warranty."
[06:22]	schestowitz[TR2]	<IsambardPrince> schestowitz[TR2]: Yeah, don't worry. Will not do that again.
[06:22]	schestowitz[TR2]	why make the mistake at all?
[06:23]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2]: No workable transit.
[06:23]	schestowitz[TR2]	it's like getting an elephant as a pet
[06:23]	IsambardPrince	How do you think the car industry exists?
[06:23]	schestowitz[TR2]	than realising it'll be expensive
[06:23]	schestowitz[TR2]	no matter what
[06:23]	IsambardPrince	Most of the country has no or little public transit.
[06:23]	schestowitz[TR2]	so you live close to work etc
[06:23]	IsambardPrince	Then they put a car lot and muffler shops and gas stations on every corner.
[06:24]	schestowitz[TR2]	i am thinking of not renewing my licence to drive anymore
[06:24]	schestowitz[TR2]	but
[06:24]	schestowitz[TR2]	if I do that
[06:24]	schestowitz[TR2]	there is risk I might need to do tests in the future
[06:24]	IsambardPrince	Yes, the road test.
[06:24]	schestowitz[TR2]	and cars are tablets with pedals
[06:24]	IsambardPrince	It's so cheap to renew that you may as well.
[06:24]	schestowitz[TR2]	in the 90s we had to do manual
[06:24]	schestowitz[TR2]	and no tablets
[06:24]	IsambardPrince	In case you rent a car or something.
[06:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	no beep beep beep when you park
[06:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	"stick shift"
[06:25]	TR News	Robot Rhapsody is a cyberpunk odyssey of techno-cults, rebels, - robotic bards | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/robot-rhapsody-is-a-cyberpunk-odyssey-of-techno-cults-rebels-robotic-bards/ Source: GamingOnLinux
[06:25]	TR Bot	Rhapsody is a cyberpunk odyssey of techno-cults, rebels, & robotic bards | GamingOnLinux
[06:25]	TR News	Get some quality games in the 2K Megahits 2026 Humble Bundle | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/get-some-quality-games-in-the-2k-megahits-2026-humble-bundle/ Source: GamingOnLinux | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/get-some-quality-games-in-the-2k-megahits-2026-humble-bundle/
[06:25]	TR Bot	some quality games in the 2K Megahits 2026 Humble Bundle | GamingOnLinux
[06:26]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2]: It's not that cars were super reliable back then either.
[06:26]	IsambardPrince	They just weren't as bad as they are now.
[06:26]	schestowitz[TR2]	IsambardPrince: btw, you were brought up in Court
[06:26]	schestowitz[TR2]	the context being
[06:26]	schestowitz[TR2]	the letters send your way
[06:26]	IsambardPrince	Gay man can barely pay his bills.
[06:26]	schestowitz[TR2]	mr. "stab stag stab" did not even show up
[06:26]	IsambardPrince	Disabled.
[06:26]	IsambardPrince	Hopeless.
[06:26]	IsambardPrince	Knees shot.
[06:26]	schestowitz[TR2]	yes, i told the judge
[06:26]	IsambardPrince	Arm not so great.
[06:27]	schestowitz[TR2]	he is cruel, he trolls people
[06:27]	schestowitz[TR2]	now he is under fire
[06:27]	schestowitz[TR2]	for saying he gets pleasure from 'burning' living people
[06:27]	schestowitz[TR2]	wait till they find out what his own spouse says
[06:28]	IsambardPrince	That doesn't sound good.
[06:28]	schestowitz[TR2]	nope
[06:28]	schestowitz[TR2]	and people ping his employer about it
[06:28]	schestowitz[TR2]	adult man
[06:28]	schestowitz[TR2]	acting like a child
[06:28]	schestowitz[TR2]	and fetishing violence
[06:28]	schestowitz[TR2]	he has learned nothing
[06:28]	schestowitz[TR2]	btw, he still stalks IRC http://techrights.org/n/2026/06/29/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_122_Out_of_200_Garrett_s_Solicitors_Confi.shtml
[06:28]	TR Bot	 Techrights SLAPP Censorship - Part 122 Out of 200: Garrett's Solicitors Confirm That Garrett is Ban-Evading and Spying on Our IRC Network
[06:29]	TR News	Faugus Launcher 2.0 rolls out with a new UI and many other enhancements | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/faugus-launcher-2-0-rolls-out-with-a-new-ui-and-many-other-enhancements/ Source: GamingOnLinux
[06:29]	TR Bot	Launcher 2.0 rolls out with a new UI and many other enhancements | GamingOnLinux
[06:29]	TR News	Valve expect component prices to continue getting worse | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/valve-expect-component-prices-to-continue-getting-worse/ Source: GamingOnLinux | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/valve-expect-component-prices-to-continue-getting-worse/
[06:29]	TR Bot	expect component prices to continue getting worse | GamingOnLinux
[06:30]	IsambardPrince	I couldn't even afford the repairs on the car anymore. I sold it for scrap
[06:30]	IsambardPrince	I don't even care what happens to it as long as it does not keep hurting me.
[06:30]	schestowitz[TR2]	right
[06:32]	IsambardPrince	$4500 for some random used engine that could be as fucked as the one that just died.
[06:32]	IsambardPrince	No thanks.
[06:33]	IsambardPrince	Sold for scrap. Called the insurance company, canceled, got a refund check.
[06:33]	IsambardPrince	Cleaned the car out, found $20 in laundry money.
[06:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	yeah
[06:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	but this was predictabl;e
[06:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	let me tell you
[06:34]	TR News	Techrights IRC Proceedings: Monday, July 20, 2026 https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/21/IRC_Proceedings_Monday_July_20_2026.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/21/IRC_Proceedings_Monday_July_20_2026.gmi 
[06:34]	TR Bot	 Techrights IRC Proceedings: Monday, July 20, 2026
[06:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	you walk past here
[06:34]	IsambardPrince	It was.
[06:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	streets
[06:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	and garages
[06:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	by the road side
[06:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	used cars
[06:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	BMW
[06:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	Merc
[06:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	all the big brands
[06:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	Germany
[06:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	why are they there?
[06:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	I wil tell you
[06:34]	IsambardPrince	None are any good or the last owner would still have them.
[06:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	status symbols
[06:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	peopole bought these
[06:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	one thing goes wrong
[06:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	"BOOM!"
[06:34]	IsambardPrince	They don't sell cars that arenn't doing something bad to them.
[06:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	3k bill
[06:35]	schestowitz[TR2]	thann another 2k bill
[06:35]	schestowitz[TR2]	for every monitor defect
[06:35]	schestowitz[TR2]	and then they get the message
[06:35]	schestowitz[TR2]	give us
[06:35]	schestowitz[TR2]	sell it cheaply as preowned
[06:35]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2]: Here's the deal.
[06:35]	schestowitz[TR2]	and loom for another fool
[06:35]	schestowitz[TR2]	to pay 10k
[06:35]	IsambardPrince	If the Buick was running fine and all it cost was gas and car insurance...
[06:35]	schestowitz[TR2]	a year later something goes wrong
[06:35]	schestowitz[TR2]	you pay another 5k
[06:35]	schestowitz[TR2]	and it adds up
[06:35]	IsambardPrince	It would be in my parking spot until that changed.
[06:35]	schestowitz[TR2]	cursed automobile
[06:36]	IsambardPrince	Right, "used car" is like 95% shit someone else doesn't want.
[06:36]	IsambardPrince	5% "Grandma died and this thing looks dated." That might be okay.
[06:36]	TR News	Retro vehicle combat game FUMES adds co-op support for as many friends as you can handle | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/retro-vehicle-combat-game-fumes-adds-co-op-support-for-as-many-friends-as-you-can-handle/ Source: GamingOnLinux
[06:36]	TR Bot	vehicle combat game FUMES adds co-op support for as many friends as you can handle | GamingOnLinux
[06:36]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2]: I was in an Uber today.
[06:37]	TR News	Arma: Cold War Assault Remastered is now out in full and open source | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/arma-cold-war-assault-remastered-is-now-out-in-full-and-open-source/ Source: GamingOnLinux | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/arma-cold-war-assault-remastered-is-now-out-in-full-and-open-source/
[06:37]	IsambardPrince	The guy was driving a Ford something or other.
[06:37]	TR Bot	Cold War Assault Remastered is now out in full and open source | GamingOnLinux
[06:37]	IsambardPrince	I recognized the problem with his brakes because I drove a car with the same problem over 20 years ago.
[06:37]	IsambardPrince	He's got holes in his rotors and he's not having them replaced.
[06:37]	IsambardPrince	That's how poverty finance works.
[06:38]	IsambardPrince	You don't touch something until it flat out doesn't work at all anymore.
[06:38]	IsambardPrince	And by the time that happens, he may have no brakes and run into the back of someone.
[06:38]	IsambardPrince	Because he was trying to go another week without a brake job.
[06:39]	TR News	 (NEW):  Games: Rogue Eclipse, PUROMA, Faugus Launcher, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/21/Games_Rogue_Eclipse_PUROMA_Faugus_Launcher_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/21/Games_Rogue_Eclipse_PUROMA_Faugus_Launcher_and_More.gmi 
[06:39]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Games: Rogue Eclipse, PUROMA, Faugus Launcher, and More
[06:39]	TR News	 (NEW):  Today in Techrights https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/21/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/21/Today_in_Techrights.gmi 
[06:39]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Today in Techrights
[06:40]	IsambardPrince	Worn rotors are a $300-400 repair. Failed brakes are:
[06:40]	IsambardPrince	A collision
[06:40]	IsambardPrince	Liability
[06:40]	IsambardPrince	Deactivation from Uber
[06:40]	IsambardPrince	His only income gone
[06:40]	IsambardPrince	Possibly someone else's medical bills
[06:40]	IsambardPrince	He's trying to save $300 and risking everything he has. That's not irrational given his cash position it's the logical outcome of having no margin. When there's nothing left, every problem becomes a crisis you manage instead of a repair you make.
[06:40]	IsambardPrince	Ramsey talks about this.
[06:40]	IsambardPrince	The Emergency Fund.
[06:40]	schestowitz[TR2]	what is this?
[06:41]	TR News	Techrights Over at Tux Machines... https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/21/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/21/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi 
[06:41]	TR Bot	 Techrights Over at Tux Machines...
[06:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	the us had this
[06:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	it was called usaid
[06:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	musk et al killed it
[06:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	oh
[06:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	i know aht you mean
[06:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	by "emergency fund"
[06:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	monmey you set aside
[06:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	for emergency
[06:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	the gov won't helpo you
[06:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	not even the VA
[06:43]	IsambardPrince	They gave me some food stamps.
[06:43]	IsambardPrince	Medicare paid to do the surgery on my arm.
[06:45]	schestowitz[TR2]	good
[06:46]	TR News	"To bridge this gap, many payers are turning to automation, such as Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, as a strategic layer across their enterprise." https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/debunking-it-automation-myths-strategic-blueprint-healthcare-payers | Source: Red Hat Official
[06:46]	TR Bot	 Debunking IT automation myths: A strategic blueprint for healthcare payers
[06:46]	TR News	IBM Red Hat selling slop https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/open-telco-ai-training-model-industry | Source: Red Hat Official
[06:46]	TR Bot	 Open Telco AI: Training a model for an industry
[06:46]	TR News	"From day one, I closely observed patterns, personalities, customers, the stylists' precision and their individual work styles." https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/value-unconventional-experience-sweeping-hair-shaping-careers | Source: Red Hat Official
[06:46]	TR Bot	 The value of unconventional experience: From sweeping hair to shaping careers
[06:48]	TR News	The collective oppression of the many small steps | "De mnga sm stegens samlade frtryck" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/07/20/de-manga-sma-stegens-tyrrani/
[06:48]	TR Bot	 De mnga sm stegens samlade frtryck
[06:48]	TR News	"Shark vacuum allows anyone to view your live camera; they knew for months & did NOTHING to fix it" https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/shark-vacuum-allows-anyone-to-view-your:c
[06:48]	TR Bot	 Shark vacuum allows anyone to view your live camera; they knew for months & did NOTHING to fix it
[06:49]	TR News	"Britain's data centre invasion: Humming warehouses which dwarf the countryside use enough energy to power 10,000 homes and draw on water supplies...and one could be coming next door to you | Daily Mail Online" https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15981801/Britains-data-centre-hellscape-beckons-Humming-warehouses-dwarf-countryside-use-energy-power-10-000-homes-draw-water-supplies-one-coming-door-you.html
[06:49]	TR Bot	 Britain's data centre invasion: Humming warehouses which dwarf the countryside use enough energy to power 10,000 homes and draw on water supplies...and one could be coming next door to you | Daily Mail Online
[06:51]	TR News	"When I get my photography scans back from the lab they arrive named with a sequential number that is neat but useless." https://thomasrigby.com/posts/renaming-all-files-in-a-folder-using-the-folder-name/ | Source: Thomas Rigby
[06:51]	TR Bot	all files in a folder using the folder name | thomasrigby.com
[06:55]	TR News	"CPAN Security Group (CPANSec) and The Perl and Raku Foundation (TPRF) are happy to announce the April Task Force. This project is set up to strengthen the CPANSec CNA Function," https://www.perl.com/article/alpha-omega-donates-usd-250-000-for-perl-and-cpan-security/ | Source: Perl
[06:55]	TR Bot	Donates USD 250,000 for Perl and CPAN Security
[06:55]	TR News	"I have a personal server where I am hosting my git repos. Setting up a new git repo is easy: I ssh into my server, cd to a new directory and run git init --bare. That's it." https://mccd.space/posts/26-06-29/simple-git-ci | Source: Marc Coquand
[06:55]	TR Bot	 Minimal Git CI using hooks
[06:55]	TR News	"Like many others recently I got fed up by what seems to be a steady and inexorable degradation of GitHub quality of service (more on that later) and decided to walk down the self host path for all my things Git, Docker, PRs and CI/CD." https://a.l3x.in/blog/welcome-to-my-forge/ |
[06:55]	TR Bot	 A deep dive into my Forgejo setup Alexander Fortin
[06:56]	TR News	"Even in open-source communities, nobody wants to replace shitty tools with better tools." https://erikmcclure.com/blog/software-is-shit-eating-contest/ | Source: Eric McClure
[06:56]	TR Bot	 Software Engineering Is A Shit-Eating Contest
[06:56]	TR News	"Anonymous Functions are like normal functions except they dont have an associated identifier, meaning they dont have a name" https://lzon.ca/posts/algoma/anonymous-functions/ | Source: Lzon
[06:56]	TR Bot	 Anonymous Functions
[06:56]	TR News	"The Hashtbl module of the OCaml's Stdlib exposes a parametric type('a, 'b) t. As the documentation explains, they are used as mutable key-value stores in imperative code." https://tech.ahrefs.com/the-little-type-that-could-too-much-3f21c2e80430 |
[06:56]	TR Bot	redirect without Location header
[06:58]	TR News	Software Freedom https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/2026-summer-fundraiser-ends-friday | Source: FSF
[06:58]	TR Bot	 Help us reach our goal by Friday and get an anti-surveillance cover Free Software Foundation Working together for free software
[06:58]	TR News	"The WP2Shell bugs were fixed, according to WordPress, on July 17, 2026, shipping versions 6.9.5 and 7.0.2 to close both holes." https://sqmagazine.co.uk/wp2shell-wordpress-exploited/ | Source: SQ Magazine
[06:58]	TR Bot	 WordPress WP2Shell Flaws Under Active Exploitation
[06:58]	TR News	"Barely three days after disclosure, attackers are widely chaining together CVE-2026-60137 and CVE-2026-63030 to lob exploit attempts against one of the largest attack surfaces on the Internet." https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/wp2shell-millions-wordpress-sites-remote-takeover | Source: Dark Reading
[06:58]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/wp2shell-millions-wordpress-sites-remote-takeover )
[06:59]	TR News	"The vulnerabilities have been dubbed WP2Shell and they are officially tracked as CVE-2026-60137 and CVE-2026-63030." https://www.securityweek.com/wp2shell-wordpress-vulnerabilities-exploited-in-the-wild/ | Source: Security Week
[06:59]	TR Bot	WordPress Vulnerabilities Exploited in the Wild - SecurityWeek
[06:59]	TR News	"Stealth crawlers are simply automated tools to access and collect public web datawithout disclosing the users identity." https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/stealth-crawlers-are-not-threat-open-web-bills-targeting-them-would-be | Source: EFF
[06:59]	TR Bot	 Stealth Crawlers Are Not a Threat to the Open Web. Bills Targeting Them Would Be. | Electronic Frontier Foundation
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[07:00]	TR News	"When Emacs 29 made eglot the built-in, default Language Server Protocol (LSP) client, many of us rejoiced." https://jointhefreeworld.org/blog/articles/emacs/emacs-eglot-scala-kotlin/index.html | Source: Josep Bigorra
[07:01]	TR Bot	 Emacs Eglot for Scala and Kotlin (JVM) - jointhefreeworld
[07:01]	TR News	"Completion seems to be the topic of the day. Check out the new videos and resources people have shared on both completion in buffer and in the mini-buffer." https://sachachua.com/blog/2026/07/2026-07-20-emacs-news/ | Source: Sacha Chua
[07:01]	TR Bot	 2026-07-20 Emacs news :: Sacha Chua
[07:03]	TR News	"A little over a month ago, we featured a project from [Igor] who built 64 bits of DRAM from scratch using discrete components." https://hackaday.com/2026/07/20/a-feature-rich-drum-machine/ | Source: Hackaday
[07:03]	TR Bot	Feature-Rich Drum Machine | Hackaday
[07:04]	TR News	"A shield placed behind the array cuts down on the sound of the propellers that would otherwise drown out the signal" https://hackaday.com/2026/07/20/echolocation-for-drones/ | Source: Hackaday
[07:04]	TR Bot	For Drones | Hackaday
[07:04]	TR News	"On Friday, I finished upgrading all my FreeBSD hosts from FreeBSD 15 to FreeBSD 15.1 (the first host I did is in this blog post)." https://dan.langille.org/2026/07/20/updating-a-freebsd-15-0-jail-to-freebsd-15-1-via-pkgbase/ | Source: Dan Langille
[07:04]	TR Bot	 Updating a FreeBSD 15.0 jail to FreeBSD 15.1 (via pkgbase) Dan Langille's Other Diary
[07:04]	TR News	"Not long ago, I ran pkgbasify on a FreeBSD 15.0 jail this time Im going to do it slightly differently. Im going to run the script on the host." https://dan.langille.org/2026/07/20/running-pkgbasify-on-a-freebsd-15-0-host-to-convert-a-jail/ | Source: Dan Langille
[07:04]	TR Bot	 Running pkgbasify on a FreeBSD 15.0 host to convert a jail Dan Langille's Other Diary
[07:04]	TR News	"Jails in FreeBSD provide a simple yet flexible way to set up a proper server layout." https://www.davd.io/posts-freebsd-jails-with-a-single-public-ip-address/ | Source: David Stapp
[07:04]	TR Bot	jails with a single public IP address - davd.io
[07:05]	TR News	"In the Linux 7.2-rc4 release announcement mail, Linus Torvalds noted that he expected things to slow down during July." https://ostechnix.com/linux-kernel-7-2-rc4-released/ | Source: OSTechNix
[07:05]	TR Bot	Kernel 7.2 RC4 Released: Steady Progress in the "New Normal" - OSTechNix
[07:06]	TR News	"But this morning, it became abundantly clear that I cannot afford to rely on them. When every one of my websites went down, I made an international phone call for support" https://lmnt.me/blog/server-migration.html | Source: Louie Mantia
[07:06]	TR Bot	 Server Migration
[07:07]	TR News	"That work has a home. The openSUSE Project has spent years assembling a development structure that hardware vendors and enterprises now lean on: [...]" https://news.opensuse.org/2026/07/20/case-for-sponsoring-os/ | Source: OpenSUSE
[07:07]	TR Bot	 The Case for Sponsoring openSUSE - openSUSE News
[07:07]	TR News	"The RK3576 integrates four Arm Cortex-A72 cores running at up to 2.2GHz and four Cortex-A53 cores clocked at up to 1.8GHz." https://linuxgizmos.com/geniatech-xpi-3576-cm5-brings-6-tops-rk3576-performance-with-raspberry-pi-cm5-compatibility/ | Source: Linux Gizmos
[07:07]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/geniatech-xpi-3576-cm5-brings-6-tops-rk3576-performance-with-raspberry-pi-cm5-compatibility/ )
[07:12]	TR News	Techrights European Patent Office (EPO) Series: The EPO Transparency Gap https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/21/European_Patent_Office_EPO_Series_The_EPO_Transparency_Gap.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/21/European_Patent_Office_EPO_Series_The_EPO_Transparency_Gap.gmi 
[07:12]	TR Bot	 Techrights European Patent Office (EPO) Series: The EPO Transparency Gap
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[07:26]	TR News	Techrights Our Series About Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) and SLAPPs Will Resume Soon https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/21/Our_Series_About_Solicitors_Regulation_Authority_SRA_and_SLAPPs.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/21/Our_Series_About_Solicitors_Regulation_Authority_SRA_and_SLAPPs.gmi 
[07:26]	TR Bot	 Techrights Our Series About Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) and SLAPPs Will Resume Soon
[07:31]	TR News	 (NEW):  AntherOS Pop!_OS-based Linux distribution https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/21/AntherOS_Pop_OS_based_Linux_distribution.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/21/AntherOS_Pop_OS_based_Linux_distribution.gmi 
[07:31]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines AntherOS Pop!_OS-based Linux distribution
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[07:39]	TR News	Techrights To Wikipedia, "Notability" is Just an Excuse to Hail People Who Serve Billionaires While Marginalising or Defaming the Rest https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/21/To_Wikipedia_Notability_is_Just_an_Excuse_to_Hail_People_Who_Se.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/21/To_Wikipedia_Notability_is_Just_an_Excuse_to_Hail_People_Who_Se.gmi 
[07:39]	TR Bot	 Techrights To Wikipedia, "Notability" is Just an Excuse to Hail People Who Serve Billionaires While Marginalising or Defaming the Rest
[07:39]	TR News	 (NEW):  Free and Open Source Software https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/21/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/21/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi 
[07:39]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Free and Open Source Software
[07:43]	TR News	 (NEW):  GNU Planet: Help us reach our goal by Friday and get an anti-surveillance cover https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/21/GNU_Planet_Help_us_reach_our_goal_by_Friday_and_get_an_anti_sur.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/21/GNU_Planet_Help_us_reach_our_goal_by_Friday_and_get_an_anti_sur.gmi 
[07:43]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines GNU Planet: Help us reach our goal by Friday and get an anti-surveillance cover
[07:51]	TR News	Techrights The Rumour Said That a Second Wave of Microsoft Layoffs Would Come This Week (Ahead of Fake 'Results'), Maybe Tomorrow https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/21/The_Rumour_Said_That_a_Second_Wave_of_Microsoft_Layoffs_Would_C.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/21/The_Rumour_Said_That_a_Second_Wave_of_Microsoft_Layoffs_Would_C.gmi 
[07:51]	TR Bot	 Techrights The Rumour Said That a Second Wave of Microsoft Layoffs Would Come This Week (Ahead of Fake 'Results'), Maybe Tomorrow
[07:55]	TR News	 (NEW):   : Google Android Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/21/Android_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/21/Android_Leftovers.gmi 
[07:55]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Android Leftovers
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[07:58]	TR News	Sex, Lies, and Tape Delay https://cybershow.uk/content/episodes/slt/slt.html
[07:58]	TR Bot	 Sex, Lies, and Tape Delay
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[08:16]	TR News	Techrights The Cyber Show on Technology Having Become a Tool of Mass Psychosis, Not Enablement or Emancipation https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/21/The_Cyber_Show_on_Technology_Having_Become_a_Tool_of_Mass_Psych.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/21/The_Cyber_Show_on_Technology_Having_Become_a_Tool_of_Mass_Psych.gmi 
[08:16]	TR Bot	 Techrights The Cyber Show on Technology Having Become a Tool of Mass Psychosis, Not Enablement or Emancipation
[08:22]	TR News	Wikipedia Has Become Weapon of Gatekeeping https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/07/21/wikipedia-gatekeeping/
[08:22]	TR Bot	Blog Archive Wikipedia Has Become Weapon of Gatekeeping
[08:36]	TR News	Techrights Touch Grass https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/21/Touch_Grass.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/21/Touch_Grass.gmi 
[08:36]	TR Bot	 Techrights Touch Grass
[08:51]	TR News	Techrights Techrights Will Become More Productive (More Output) Over Time https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/21/Techrights_Will_Become_More_Productive_More_Output_Over_Time.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/21/Techrights_Will_Become_More_Productive_More_Output_Over_Time.gmi 
[08:51]	TR Bot	 Techrights Techrights Will Become More Productive (More Output) Over Time
[08:59]	TR News	Techrights Slop's Latest Casualty: The Credibility of Linus Torvalds https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/21/Slop_s_Latest_Casualty_The_Credibility_of_Linus_Torvalds.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/21/Slop_s_Latest_Casualty_The_Credibility_of_Linus_Torvalds.gmi 
[08:59]	TR Bot	 Techrights Slop's Latest Casualty: The Credibility of Linus Torvalds
● Jul 21
[09:07]	TR News	Techrights This Coming Weekend Marks 4 Years Since We Dumped Content Management Systems (CMSs) in Favour of Static Site Generators (SSGs) https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/21/This_Coming_Weekend_Marks_4_Years_Since_We_Dumped_Content_Manag.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/21/This_Coming_Weekend_Marks_4_Years_Since_We_Dumped_Content_Manag.gmi 
[09:08]	TR Bot	 Techrights This Coming Weekend Marks 4 Years Since We Dumped Content Management Systems (CMSs) in Favour of Static Site Generators (SSGs)
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[12:51]	TR News	Running pkgbasify on a FreeBSD 15.0 host to convert a jail https://dan.langille.org/2026/07/20/running-pkgbasify-on-a-freebsd-15-0-host-to-convert-a-jail/
[12:51]	TR News	Updating a FreeBSD 15.0 jail to FreeBSD 15.1 (via pkgbase) https://dan.langille.org/2026/07/20/updating-a-freebsd-15-0-jail-to-freebsd-15-1-via-pkgbase/
[12:52]	TR News	WP2Shell WordPress Vulnerabilities Exploited in the Wild https://www.securityweek.com/wp2shell-wordpress-vulnerabilities-exploited-in-the-wild/
[12:52]	TR Bot	WordPress Vulnerabilities Exploited in the Wild - SecurityWeek
[12:53]	TR News	FSF Blogs: Help us reach our goal by Friday and get an anti-surveillance cover http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/2026-summer-fundraiser-ends-friday
[12:53]	TR Bot	 Help us reach our goal by Friday and get an anti-surveillance cover Free Software Foundation Working together for free software
[12:54]	TR News	Alpha-Omega Donates USD 250,000 for Perl and CPAN Security https://www.perl.com/article/alpha-omega-donates-usd-250-000-for-perl-and-cpan-security/
[12:54]	TR Bot	Donates USD 250,000 for Perl and CPAN Security
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[13:01]	TR News	re gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/20/Daniel_Pocock_Combats_Codes_of_Conduct_Phenomena.gmi http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/20/Daniel_Pocock_Combats_Codes_of_Conduct_Phenomena.shtml "well put: "the data showed that fewer women were actually joining Debian after the Code of Conduct" CoC == Code of Censorship"
[13:01]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Daniel Pocock Combats "Codes of Conduct Phenomena"
[13:01]	TR News	s/whistleblowers and leakers, which helps Microsoft not at all/whistleblowers and leakers, which helps the world of ICT very much/
[13:02]	TR News	How Googles Hey Hi (AI) Search Is Imperiling the Open Web https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/technology/google-ai-open-web.html
[13:02]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/technology/google-ai-open-web.html )
[13:04]	TR News	OpenSSL Silently Fixes HollowByte DoS Vulnerability https://www.securityweek.com/openssl-silently-fixes-hollowbyte-dos-vulnerability/
[13:04]	TR Bot	Silently Fixes 'HollowByte' DoS Vulnerability - SecurityWeek
[13:04]	TR News	The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel https://edri.org/our-work/the-eu-is-about-to-sell-our-most-sensitive-data-to-the-us-for-visa-free-travel/
[13:04]	TR Bot	 The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel - European Digital Rights (EDRi)
[13:04]	TR News	On Flock License Plate Tracking Cameras https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/on-flock-license-plate-tracking-cameras.html
[13:05]	TR Bot	Flock License Plate Tracking Cameras - Schneier on Security
[13:12]	TR News	Indonesia Proposes Strict Hey Hi (AI) Regulations to Compensate Human Authors and Ban Imitation of Author Styles https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/20/indonesia-ai-regulations-proposed/
[13:12]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/20/indonesia-ai-regulations-proposed/ )
[13:14]	TR News	 (NEW):  VirtualBox 7.2.14 Released with Initial Support for Linux Kernel 7.2 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/21/VirtualBox_7_2_14_Released_with_Initial_Support_for_Linux_Kerne.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/21/VirtualBox_7_2_14_Released_with_Initial_Support_for_Linux_Kerne.gmi 
[13:14]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines VirtualBox 7.2.14 Released with Initial Support for Linux Kernel 7.2
[13:16]	TR News	AntherOS Pop!_OS-based GNU/Linux distribution https://www.linuxlinks.com/antheros-pop_os-based-linux-distribution/
[13:16]	TR Bot	- Pop!_OS-based Linux distribution - LinuxLinks
[13:27]	TR News	 (NEW):  GNU/Linux Usage Estimate Continues to Grow https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/21/GNU_Linux_Usage_Estimate_Continues_to_Grow.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/21/GNU_Linux_Usage_Estimate_Continues_to_Grow.gmi 
[13:27]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines GNU/Linux Usage Estimate Continues to Grow
[13:27]	TR News	Jonathan Dowland: Interzone digital https://jmtd.net/log/interzone/digital/
[13:27]	TR Bot	 jmtd log interzone Interzone digital
[13:28]	TR News	UK Lord Speaker warns rushed upper house reform risks loss of constitutional safeguard https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/07/uk-lord-speaker-warns-rushed-upper-house-reform-risks-losing-constitutional-safeguard/
[13:28]	TR Bot	 UK Lord Speaker warns rushed upper house reform risks loss of constitutional safeguard - JURIST - News
[13:29]	TR News	Zack Polanski: We will judge Andy Burnham on whether he provides solutions to the affordability crisis, the inequality crisis and the climate crisis https://greenparty.org.uk/2026/07/20/greens-respond-to-first-andy-burnham-speech-as-pm/
[13:29]	TR Bot	 Zack Polanski: We will judge Andy Burnham on whether he provides solutions to the affordability crisis, the inequality crisis and the climate crisis - Green Party
[13:30]	TR News	Catanzaro: Some changes to GNOME security tracking https://lwn.net/Articles/1083754/
[13:30]	TR Bot	Some changes to GNOME security tracking [LWN.net]
[13:34]	TR News	UPC is illegal, but JUVE profits from promoting this abomination https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/upc-court-of-appeal-clarifies-rules-on-conditional-counterclaims-for-revocation/
[13:34]	TR Bot	 UPC Court of Appeal clarifies rules on conditional counterclaims for revocation
[13:36]	TR News	Muvox Drops Its BMG Song-Selection Complaint, Then Sues Amazon and Fashion Company Apple for Allegedly Infringing the Same Patent https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/20/muvox-patent-lawsuits/
[13:36]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/20/muvox-patent-lawsuits/ )
[13:36]	TR News	Bits from Debian: DebConf26 starts today in Santa Fe on Monday, July 20, 2026 https://bits.debian.org/2026/07/debconf26-starts-today.html
[13:36]	TR Bot	 DebConf26 starts today in Santa Fe on Monday, July 20, 2026 - Bits from Debian
[13:38]	TR News	Geniatech XPI-3576-CM5 A Raspberry Pi CM5-compatible Rockchip RK3576 Hey Hi (AI) Compute Module with WiFi 6, Bluetooth 5.3 https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/07/20/geniatech-xpi-3576-cm5-a-raspberry-pi-cm5-compatible-rockchip-rk3576-ai-compute-module-with-wifi-6-bluetooth-5-3/
[13:38]	TR Bot	 Geniatech XPI-3576-CM5 - A Raspberry Pi CM5-compatible Rockchip RK3576 AI Compute Module with WiFi 6, Bluetooth 5.3 - CNX Software
[13:38]	TR News	A.I. Vibecoded Apps Are Flooding Apples App Store https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/technology/apple-app-store-vibecoding.html
[13:38]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/technology/apple-app-store-vibecoding.html )
[13:39]	TR News	Russ Allbery: podlators v6.1.0 https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/journal/2026-07/002.html
[13:39]	TR Bot	 Eagle's Path: (2026-07-19)
[13:41]	TR News	The Great Steam Deck Crash of 2026: How The New Pricing Slashed Demand by 80% https://boilingsteam.com/the-great-steam-deck-volume-crash/index.html
[13:41]	TR Bot	 The Great Steam Deck Crash of 2026: How The New Pricing Slashed Demand by 80%
[13:41]	TR News	IoTextra modular automation boards with 4 inputs, 4 outputs work with Raspberry Pi and ESP32 MCU boards https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/07/20/iotextra-modular-automation-boards-with-4-inputs-4-outputs-work-with-raspberry-pi-and-esp32-mcu-boards/
[13:41]	TR Bot	 IoTextra modular automation boards with 4 inputs, 4 outputs work with Raspberry Pi and ESP32 MCU boards - CNX Software
[13:43]	TR News	WordPress Exploitation Underway (CVE-2026-63030), (Mon, Jul 20th) https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/33168
[13:43]	TR Bot	 WordPress Exploitation Underway (CVE-2026-63030) - SANS ISC
[13:44]	TR News	U. of Houston Is Planning Big Cuts to Its Core Curriculum. Faculty Aren't Happy. https://www.chronicle.com/article/u-of-houston-is-planning-big-cuts-to-its-core-curriculum-faculty-arent-happy
[13:44]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.chronicle.com/article/u-of-houston-is-planning-big-cuts-to-its-core-curriculum-faculty-arent-happy )
[13:45]	TR News	APNIC 62 workshops build practical skills for modern network operations https://blog.apnic.net/2026/07/21/apnic-62-workshops-build-practical-skills-for-modern-network-operations/
[13:45]	TR Bot	 APNIC 62 workshops build practical skills for modern network operations | APNIC Blog
[13:45]	TR News	IPv6 address planning: From bit conservation to elegant alignment https://blog.apnic.net/2026/07/20/ipv6-address-planning-from-bit-conservation-to-elegant-alignment/
[13:45]	TR Bot	 IPv6 address planning: From bit conservation to elegant alignment | APNIC Blog
[13:45]	TR News	Google search traffic to leading UK publishers set to halve by Q3 2027 https://pressgazette.co.uk/comment-analysis/google-search-traffic-to-leading-uk-publishers-set-to-halve-by-q3-2027/
[13:45]	TR Bot	 Google search traffic to leading UK publishers set to halve by Q3 2027 - Press Gazette
[13:49]	TR News	Manchesters Status in UK Politics is Improving https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/07/20/uk-politics-is-improving/
[13:49]	TR Bot	Blog Archive Manchesters Status in UK Politics is Improving
[13:49]	TR News	Evil Wont Exist Without Collaborators and Enablers https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/07/20/collaborators-and-enablers/
[13:49]	TR Bot	Blog Archive Evil Wont Exist Without Collaborators and Enablers
[13:52]	TR News	Chrome 150 Update Patches Severe Memory Safety Bugs https://www.securityweek.com/chrome-150-update-patches-severe-memory-safety-bugs/
[13:52]	TR Bot	150 Update Patches Severe Memory Safety Bugs - SecurityWeek
[13:53]	TR News	A Professor Argues His Tenure Was Denied Because the University Succumbed to Federal Pressure https://www.chronicle.com/article/a-professor-argues-his-tenure-was-denied-because-the-university-succumbed-to-federal-pressure
[13:53]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.chronicle.com/article/a-professor-argues-his-tenure-was-denied-because-the-university-succumbed-to-federal-pressure )
[13:54]	TR News	Qt Project Goals - call for submissions now open https://tsdgeos.blogspot.com/2026/07/qt-project-goals-call-for-submissions.html
[13:54]	TR Bot	 TSDgeos' blog: Qt Project Goals - call for submissions now open
[13:54]	TR News	Build a retro home arcade with an Arduino UNO Q board! https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/07/20/build-a-retro-home-arcade-with-an-arduino-uno-q-board/
[13:54]	TR Bot	 Build a retro home arcade with an Arduino UNO Q board! | Arduino Blog
[13:55]	TR News	Raspberry Pi Weekly Issue #537 - YOLO, OpenClaw, Star Trek, and Project Hail Mary https://newsletters.raspberrypi.com/w/w1SQc69EvKxDdAz9fbkpQg
[13:55]	TR Bot	 Raspberry Pi Weekly Issue #537
[13:56]	TR News	New Index Tracks Material Breaches And Refuses to Add Up the Losses https://www.securityweek.com/new-index-tracks-material-breaches-and-refuses-to-add-up-the-losses/
[13:56]	TR Bot	Index Tracks Material Breaches And Refuses to Add Up the Losses - SecurityWeek
[13:56]	TR News	Ernst & Young Data Breach Affects Personal, Financial Information https://www.securityweek.com/ernst-young-data-breach-affects-personal-financial-information/
[13:56]	TR Bot	& Young Data Breach Affects Personal, Financial Information - SecurityWeek
[13:56]	TR News	Hugging Face Hacked in Autonomous Hey Hi (AI) Attack https://www.securityweek.com/hugging-face-hacked-in-autonomous-ai-attack/
[13:56]	TR Bot	Face Hacked in Autonomous AI Attack - SecurityWeek
[13:57]	TR News	Setup non-flat btrfs architecture on Garuda GNU/Linux (VENV) https://dbaxps.blogspot.com/2026/07/setup-non-flat-btrfs-architecture-on.html
[13:57]	TR Bot	 Openstack RDO && KVM Hypervisor: Setup non-flat btrfs architecture on Garuda Linux (VENV)
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[14:03]	TR News	How to Comment Out Multiple Lines in Vim https://linuxize.com/post/vim-comment-multiple-lines/
[14:03]	TR Bot	to Comment Out Multiple Lines in Vim | Linuxize
[14:03]	TR News	Linux Kernel 7.2 RC4 Released: Steady Progress in the New Normal https://ostechnix.com/linux-kernel-7-2-rc4-released/
[14:03]	TR Bot	Kernel 7.2 RC4 Released: Steady Progress in the "New Normal" - OSTechNix
[14:04]	TR News	Andreas Schneider: Self-Hosting voice services (TTS, ASR, Wake Word) https://blog.cryptomilk.org/2026/07/20/self-hosting-voice-services-tts-asr-wake-word/
[14:04]	TR Bot	 Self-Hosting voice services (TTS, ASR, Wake Word) Andreas Schneider
[14:06]	TR News	Taylor Farms Made Huge Donation to Convicted Felon Group After Loosening of Rules That Could Have Prevented Explosive Diarrhea Outbreak https://futurism.com/health-medicine/taylor-farms-donation-trump-rules
[14:06]	TR Bot	 Taylor Farms Made Huge Donation to Trump Group After Loosening of Rules That Could Have Prevented Explosive Diarrhea Outbreak
[14:07]	TR News	Not updated for about 2 months already https://stallman.org/talks.html
[14:07]	TR Bot	 Talks - Richard Stallman
[14:08]	TR News	Intel layoffs hit data centers, but company says it wont affect production https://cybernews.com/tech/intel-layoffs-data-centers/
[14:08]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://cybernews.com/tech/intel-layoffs-data-centers/ )
[14:09]	TR News	Rohingya targeted by resurgence of hateful disinformation in Malaysia https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/rohingya-targeted-by-resurgence-of-hateful-disinfo-in-malaysia
[14:09]	TR Bot	 Rohingya targeted by resurgence of hateful disinformation in Malaysia | The Straits Times
[14:13]	TR News	Power, water needs test South Koreas push to build Hey Hi (AI) chip hub beyond Seoul https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/power-water-needs-test-south-koreas-push-to-build-ai-chip-hub-beyond-seoul
[14:13]	TR Bot	 Power, water needs test South Koreas push to build AI chip hub beyond Seoul | The Straits Times
[14:13]	TR News	Chinas home-grown passenger jet to make first international flight in August https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinas-home-grown-passenger-jet-to-make-first-commercial-international-flight-in-august
[14:13]	TR Bot	 Chinas home-grown passenger jet to make first international flight in August | The Straits Times
[14:19]	TR News	Taiwan charges ex-TSMC employee over attempted tech leak to China https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/taiwan-charges-ex-tsmc-employee-over-attempted-tech-leak-to-china
[14:19]	TR Bot	 TSMC employee charged over tech leak to China | The Straits Times
[14:19]	TR News	Taiwan indicts ex-TSMC manager for allegedly stealing chip secrets for China first case of its kind links managers to Chinese semiconductor materials analysis company https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/taiwan-inducts-ex-tsmc-manager-for-allegedly-stealing-chip-secrets-for-china
[14:19]	TR Bot	 Taiwan indicts ex-TSMC manager for allegedly stealing chip secrets for China first case of its kind links managers to Chinese semiconductor materials analysis company | Tom's Hardware
[14:21]	TR News	Cultural resistance hampers use of Hey Hi (AI) in newsrooms, new global survey finds https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishing-services-content/cultural-resistance-hampers-use-of-ai-in-newsrooms-new-global-survey-finds/
[14:21]	TR Bot	 Journalists still resisting AI in newsrooms, new global survey finds
[14:22]	TR News	American Heart Association Reveals The Optimal Daily Cups of Coffee For Your Health https://www.sciencealert.com/new-review-from-american-heart-association-reveals-the-optimal-daily-cups-of-coffee-for-your-health
[14:22]	TR Bot	Heart Association Reveals The Optimal Daily Cups of Coffee For Your Health : ScienceAlert
[14:22]	TR News	Humans Landed on The Moon 57 Years Ago Today. It Revealed How Little We Know https://www.sciencealert.com/humans-landed-on-the-moon-57-years-ago-today-it-revealed-how-little-we-know
[14:23]	TR Bot	Landed on The Moon 57 Years Ago. Here's What We've Learned Since : ScienceAlert
[14:24]	TR News	Taiwan to slow mobile internet in civil defence drills as China threat grows https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/taiwan-to-slow-mobile-internet-in-civil-defence-drills-as-china-threat-grows
[14:24]	TR Bot	 Taiwan to slow mobile internet in civil defence drills as China threat grows | The Straits Times
[14:28]	TR News	Theres a Gigantic Problem at the Heart of the Hey Hi (AI) Industry That Could Cause the Whole Thing to Collapse https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/problem-ai-industry-collapse-efficiency
[14:28]	TR Bot	 There's a Gigantic Problem at the Heart of the AI Industry That Could Cause the Whole Thing to Collapse
[14:29]	TR News	OpenAI Exec Laments That China Is Giving Away Models So Good That For-Profit Companies Wont Be Able to Compete https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-china-models-profit-money
[14:29]	TR Bot	 OpenAI Exec Laments That China Is Giving Away Models So Good That For-Profit Companies Won't Be Able to Compete
[14:29]	TR News	OpenAI Appears to Be Missing Its Sales Goals by a Vast Margin https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-ad-revenue-ai-advertising-financial-projection
[14:29]	TR Bot	 OpenAI Appears to Be Missing Its Sales Goals by a Vast Margin
[14:29]	TR News	AI may be getting the attention, but its only as reliable as the data behind it https://federalnewsnetwork.com/artificial-intelligence/2026/07/ai-may-be-getting-the-attention-but-its-only-as-reliable-as-the-data-behind-it/
[14:29]	TR Bot	 AI may be getting the attention, but its only as reliable as the data behind it | Federal News Network
[14:29]	TR News	Commission publishes guidelines on transparency obligations for providers and deployers of certain Hey Hi (AI) systems https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_1653
[14:29]	TR Bot	 Press corner | European Commission
[14:30]	TR News	Hong Kong High Court judge Wilson Chan caught plagiarising judgement for third time https://hongkongfp.com/2026/07/21/hong-kong-high-court-judge-wilson-chan-caught-plagiarising-judgement-for-third-time/
[14:30]	TR Bot	 HK High Court judge Wilson Chan caught plagiarising in judgement for third time
[14:49]	TR News	Judge Temporarily Pauses Paramount-Warner Bros. Deal https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/business/media/paramount-warner-bros-deal.html
[14:49]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/business/media/paramount-warner-bros-deal.html )
[14:50]	TR News	Taiwan lawmakers remove legal hurdles for Starlink to operate https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/taiwan-lawmakers-remove-legal-hurdles-for-starlink-to-operate
[14:50]	TR Bot	 Taiwan lawmakers remove legal hurdles for Starlink to operate satellite internet service on island | The Straits Times
[14:54]	TR News	nRF54L Arduino Core project brings Arduino support to Nordic Semi nRF54L wireless SoCs https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/07/21/nrf54l-arduino-core-project-brings-arduino-support-to-nordic-semi-nrf54l-wireless-socs/
[14:54]	TR Bot	 nRF54L Arduino Core project brings Arduino support to Nordic Semi nRF54L wireless SoCs - CNX Software
[14:54]	TR News	A new Commerce Dept policy pits privacy and transparency against access to information https://federalnewsnetwork.com/management/2026/07/a-new-commerce-dept-policy-pits-privacy-and-transparency-against-access-to-information/
[14:54]	TR Bot	 A new Commerce Dept policy pits privacy and transparency against access to information | Federal News Network
[14:56]	TR News	SonicWall Zero-Days Exploited to Deliver Custom Malware for Weeks Before Patch https://www.securityweek.com/sonicwall-zero-days-exploited-to-deliver-custom-malware-for-weeks-before-patch/
[14:56]	TR Bot	Zero-Days Exploited to Deliver Custom Malware for Weeks Before Patch - SecurityWeek
[14:57]	TR News	GSoC Bluetooth Improvement Midterm Recap https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/mohammedrattia/2026-07-18_gsoc_bluetooth_improvement_midterm_recap/
[14:57]	TR Bot	 GSoC Bluetooth Improvement Midterm Recap | Haiku Project
[14:58]	TR News	GSoC Update 2: Visual Redesign and Responsive SVGs https://mmarhin.github.io/gsoc2026blog/gsoc/opensuse/svg/golang/2026/07/20/update-2-visual-redesign-responsive-svgs.html
[14:58]	TR Bot	 GSoC Update 2: Visual Redesign and Responsive SVGs | Marios Blog - GSoC 2026
[14:59]	TR News	Firefox 153.0 is Out with Native Containers & Hey Hi (AI) Assistant https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/07/firefox-153-0-native-containers-ai-assistant/
[14:59]	TR Bot	 Firefox 153.0 is Out with Native Containers & AI Assistant | UbuntuHandbook
[14:59]	TR News	GNUnet News: libgnunetchat 0.8.0 https://gnunet.org/en/news/2026-07-libgnunetchat-0.8.0.html
[14:59]	TR Bot	 GNUnet
● Jul 21
[15:00]	TR News	7 Best Free and Open Source Nim Static Site Generators https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-nim-static-site-generators/
[15:00]	TR Bot	Best Free and Open Source Nim Static Site Generators - LinuxLinks
[15:00]	TR News	10 Hot Free and Open Source Ruby Application Servers https://www.linuxlinks.com/free-open-source-ruby-application-servers/
[15:00]	TR Bot	Hot Free and Open Source Ruby Application Servers - LinuxLinks
[15:01]	TR News	Self-Hosting voice services (TTS, ASR, Wake Word) https://blog.cryptomilk.org/2026/07/20/self-hosting-voice-services-tts-asr-wake-word/
[15:01]	TR Bot	 Self-Hosting voice services (TTS, ASR, Wake Word) Andreas Schneider
[15:01]	TR News	Michael Catanzaro: Some Changes to GNOME Security Tracking https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2026/07/20/some-changes-to-gnome-security-tracking/
[15:01]	TR Bot	 Some Changes to GNOME Security Tracking Michael Catanzaro's Blog
[15:02]	TR News	IPFire 2.29-core203 https://distrowatch.com/ipfire
[15:02]	TR Bot	IPFire
[15:02]	TR News	Live Raizo 17.26.07.19 https://distrowatch.com/liveraizo
[15:02]	TR Bot	Live Raizo
[15:02]	TR News	openSUSE Seeking Additional Corporate Sponsors https://www.phoronix.com/news/openSUSE-Needs-More-Sponsors
[15:02]	TR Bot	Seeking Additional Corporate Sponsors - Phoronix
[15:03]	TR News	Slop propaganda from IBM Red Hat, how to alienate their clientbase https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/07/20/computer-use-how-ai-agents-can-automate-almost-anything
[15:03]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/07/20/computer-use-how-ai-agents-can-automate-almost-anything )
[15:04]	TR News	Security updates for Monday https://lwn.net/Articles/1083708/
[15:04]	TR Bot	updates for Monday [LWN.net]
[15:14]	TR News	Rogallo terminal-based client for the Gemini Protocol https://www.linuxlinks.com/rogallo-terminal-based-client-gemini-protocol/
[15:14]	TR Bot	- terminal-based client for the Gemini Protocol - LinuxLinks
[15:15]	TR News	Krita Monthly Report - July 2026 https://krita.org/en/posts/2026/monthly-report-2607/
[15:15]	TR Bot	 Monthly Report - July 2026 | Krita
[15:16]	TR News	My First 12 Days with Mageia 10: How to enable repos with dnf5 http://mandrivachronicles.blogspot.com/2026/07/my-first-12-days-with-mageia-10-how-to.html
[15:16]	TR Bot	 Mandriva Linux Chronicles: My First 12 Days with Mageia 10: How to enable repos with dnf5
[15:16]	TR News	How to Install Amarok on Ubuntu 26.04, 24.04, and 22.04 https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-amarok-on-ubuntu-linux/
[15:16]	TR Bot	to Install Amarok on Ubuntu 26.04, 24.04, and 22.04 - LinuxCapable
[15:18]	TR News	Gulagboy relishes in simulated murder of a living person https://lunduke.substack.com/p/uk-tech-fest-burns-elon-musk-effigy
[15:18]	TR Bot	 UK Tech Fest Burns Elon Musk Effigy - by Bryan Lunduke
[15:18]	TR News	While asking the state to put in prison a woman - in a state a continent away from him https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/11/Matthew_J_Garrett_Has_Just_Sent_a_Threat_to_Put_My_Wife_and_I_i.shtml
[15:18]	TR Bot	 Techrights Matthew J. Garrett Has Just Sent a Threat to Put My Wife and I in Prison Because His Own Spouse Says He's a Rapist
[15:20]	TR News	Libre Graphics Meeting 2026 https://outsideofinfinity.wordpress.com/2026/07/21/libre-graphics-meeting-2026/
[15:20]	TR Bot	 Libre Graphics Meeting 2026 Outside of infinity
[15:20]	TR News	A Double Shot at Copyright: SCOTUS to Weigh Worldwide Termination Rights https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/07/one-dollar-one-copyright-worldwide-termination-in-bmg-rights-management-v-vetter.html
[15:20]	TR Bot	 A Double Shot at Copyright: SCOTUS to Weigh Worldwide Termination Rights | Patently-O
[15:56]	MinceR	https://pleated-jeans.com/2026/06/14/funny-tumblr-history-lessons/
[15:56]	TR Bot	 35+ Times Tumblr Turned History Into the Funniest Class You Never Took
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● Jul 21
[16:09]	TR News	3D printing enthusiast resurrects cancelled dbrand Steam Machine Companion Cube as DIY project project shelved due to copyright monopoly can now be made and assembled at home https://www.tomshardware.com/3d-printing/3d-printing-enthusiast-resurrects-cancelled-dbrand-steam-machine-companion-cube-as-diy-project-project-shelved-due-to-copyright-can-now-be-made-and-assembled-at-home
[16:09]	TR Bot	 3D printing enthusiast resurrects cancelled dbrand Steam Machine Companion Cube as DIY project project shelved due to copyright can now be made and assembled at home | Tom's Hardware
[16:10]	TR News	Gamma, French Montana, and Kanye West Face Where They At Copyright Lawsuit Over Paparazzi Outburst Video https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/20/bauer-griffin-gamma-french-montana-kanye-west-lawsuit/
[16:10]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/20/bauer-griffin-gamma-french-montana-kanye-west-lawsuit/ )
[16:10]	TR News	Sony Music Fires Off Supersized Infringement Lawsuit Against Udio Doubling Down on Its Fair Use Arguments, DMCA Claims, and More https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/20/sony-music-udio-infringement-lawsuit-second/
[16:10]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/20/sony-music-udio-infringement-lawsuit-second/ )
[16:10]	TR News	Anthropic settles with authors and publishers for $1.5B in landmark copyright monopoly case https://siliconangle.com/2026/07/20/anthropic-settles-authors-publishers-1-5-billion-landmark-copyright-case/
[16:10]	TR Bot	settles with authors and publishers for $1.5B in landmark copyright case - SiliconANGLE
[16:27]	TR News	Techrights Arianna Taite on Odds of Australian (Daniel Pocock) Winning Clacton By-Election https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/21/Arianna_Taite_on_Odds_of_Australian_Daniel_Pocock_Winning_Clact.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/21/Arianna_Taite_on_Odds_of_Australian_Daniel_Pocock_Winning_Clact.gmi 
[16:27]	TR Bot	 Techrights Arianna Taite on Odds of Australian (Daniel Pocock) Winning Clacton By-Election
[16:56]	TR News	 (NEW):  Birthday Preparations https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/21/Birthday_Preparations.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/21/Birthday_Preparations.gmi 
[16:56]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Birthday Preparations
● Jul 21
[17:07]	TR News	Techrights IBM Lawsuits Over Alleged Fraud Are Piling Up https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/21/IBM_Lawsuits_Over_Alleged_Fraud_Are_Piling_Up.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/21/IBM_Lawsuits_Over_Alleged_Fraud_Are_Piling_Up.gmi 
[17:07]	TR Bot	 Techrights IBM Lawsuits Over Alleged Fraud Are Piling Up
[17:12]	TR News	 (NEW):  Canonical Launches the Enterprise Store for Ubuntu Pro Users https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/21/Canonical_Launches_the_Enterprise_Store_for_Ubuntu_Pro_Users.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/21/Canonical_Launches_the_Enterprise_Store_for_Ubuntu_Pro_Users.gmi 
[17:12]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Canonical Launches the Enterprise Store for Ubuntu Pro Users
[17:12]	TR News	at Julie-Ann gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/julieAnn
[17:13]	TR News	the hotsprings gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/hotStorm
[17:14]	TR News	3 days before the festival gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/marc
[17:14]	TR News	sex on the beach gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/roughKiss
[17:15]	TR News	[cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D2072.jpg
[17:15]	TR News	[cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1715.jpg
[17:16]	TR News	Distilled H2O gopher://sdf.org:70/1/users/xiled/phlog/2026/20260720_h2o
[17:16]	TR News	"Whenever I'm on the "normie" internet, I'm reminded of AI. A big part of it is that so much is generated from it. Another is that the tech world, which I try to keep up with, is flooded with AI talk or slop. I'm sure I've mentioned it before, but I'm heavily against AI." gopher://republic.circumlunar.space:70/0/~np89/glog/20260720-lessons_from_terminator.txt
[17:18]	TR News	"This month marks a milestone moment in personal computing: the 50th anniversary of Zilog launching its venerable Z80, an eight-bit processor originally designed with embedded workloads in mind but which would sit at the very heart of the home computing revolution." gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202607/20260720-zilog.gmi
[17:18]	TR News	"Like (nearly) every Sunday, I tried to do my backup/update duties for all my workstation/laptops and my whole homelab. Normally all goes smoothly without too much trouble." gopher://redterminal.org:70/1/phlog/2026-07-20-OPNSense_Upgrade_failure
[17:19]	TR News	"I find myself struggling to put even a sentence down as I overthink on what this space should be, should do for me, should expose to others. Stuck, digging into tooling, planning out scripts, automation, anything except actually using it. Paralyzed by the thought that I would put something out there which does not belong or did not need to be written." gemini://ambling.smol.pub/so-that-i-would-write
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[17:22]	TR News	Techrights Gemini Links 21/07/2026: OPNSense Upgrade Problems, Zilog Z80 at 50, and Lessons From Terminator https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/21/Gemini_Links_21_07_2026_OPNSense_Upgrade_Problems_Zilog_Z80_at_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/21/Gemini_Links_21_07_2026_OPNSense_Upgrade_Problems_Zilog_Z80_at_.gmi 
[17:22]	TR Bot	 Techrights Gemini Links 21/07/2026: OPNSense Upgrade Problems, Zilog Z80 at 50, and Lessons From Terminator
[17:23]	TR News	Architect an open blueprint for cloud-native Hey Hi (AI) agents https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/07/20/architect-open-blueprint-cloud-native-ai-agents
[17:23]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/07/20/architect-open-blueprint-cloud-native-ai-agents )
[17:24]	TR News	Fork Around and Find Out | LINUX Unplugged 676 https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/linux-unplugged/676/
[17:24]	TR Bot	 Fork Around and Find Out | LINUX Unplugged 676 | Jupiter Broadcasting
[17:24]	TR News	Late Night Linux Episode 395 https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-395/
[17:24]	TR Bot	 Late Night Linux Episode 395 Late Night Linux
[17:25]	TR News	The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 276: Information Commissioner Caroline Maynard on Canadas Access to Information Failures and Why Access Delayed is Access Denied https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/07/the-law-bytes-podcast-episode-276-information-commissioner-caroline-maynard-on-canadas-access-to-information-failures-and-why-access-delayed-is-access-denied/
[17:25]	TR Bot	 The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 276: Information Commissioner Caroline Maynard on Canadas Access to Information Failures and Why Access Delayed is Access Denied - Michael Geist
[17:25]	TR News	Entrapment (Microsoft GitHub) https://fossforce.com/2026/07/the-xz-backdoor-long-con-chronicled-in-half-a-second/
[17:25]	TR Bot	 The XZ Backdoor Long Con Chronicled in 'Half a Second' - FOSS Force
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[17:26]	TR News	Canonical Staff Acting Like They Aim to Receive Job Offers From Abusive Monopolist Microsoft https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/20/Canonical_Staff_Acting_Like_They_Aim_to_Receive_Job_Offers_From.shtml
[17:26]	TR Bot	 Techrights Canonical Staff Acting Like They Aim to Receive Job Offers From Microsoft
[17:29]	TR News	Lawsuit Alleges That Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot Encouraged Suicide of Woman Who Walked Into Traffic https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/lawsuit-chatgpt-encouraged-suicide-woman-traffic
[17:29]	TR Bot	 Lawsuit Alleges That ChatGPT Encouraged Suicide of Woman Who Walked Into Traffic
[17:29]	TR News	TikTok Quietly Starts Testing Hey Hi (AI) Deepfake Detection Tech https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/20/tiktok-starts-testing-ai-deepfake-detection-tech/
[17:29]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/20/tiktok-starts-testing-ai-deepfake-detection-tech/ )
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[17:32]	TR News	Anti-Linux SLOP https://xenospectrum.com/en/windows-linux-ai-build-gap/
[17:32]	TR Bot	Windows 11 Crush Linux at AI? The Comparison Conditions Behind That 3.43x | XenoSpectrum
[17:34]	TR News	Actually, this has already introduced new holes https://www.martincid.com/technology-sv/ubuntu-2604-rust-sudo-default/
[17:34]	TR Bot	 Ubuntu 26.04 ships Rust sudo by default ending a 46-year C vulnerability class Martin Cid Magazine
[17:41]	TR News	 (NEW):  Security Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/21/Security_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/21/Security_Leftovers.gmi 
[17:41]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Security Leftovers
[17:42]	TR News	 (NEW):  Audiocasts/Shows: LINUX Unplugged, Late Night Linux, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/21/Audiocasts_Shows_LINUX_Unplugged_Late_Night_Linux_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/21/Audiocasts_Shows_LINUX_Unplugged_Late_Night_Linux_and_More.gmi 
[17:42]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Audiocasts/Shows: LINUX Unplugged, Late Night Linux, and More
[17:42]	TR News	 (NEW):  Today's HowTos   https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/21/today_s_howtos.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/21/today_s_howtos.gmi 
[17:42]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines today's howtos
[17:44]	TR News	 (NEW):  FreeBSD Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/21/FreeBSD_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/21/FreeBSD_Leftovers.gmi 
[17:44]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines FreeBSD Leftovers
[17:46]	TR News	 (NEW):  Red Hat Promotes Slop (While Fedora/Flathub Bans It) https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/21/Red_Hat_Promotes_Slop_While_Fedora_Flathub_Bans_It.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/21/Red_Hat_Promotes_Slop_While_Fedora_Flathub_Bans_It.gmi 
[17:46]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Red Hat Promotes Slop (While Fedora/Flathub Bans It)
[17:48]	TR News	 (NEW):  Open Hardware/Modding: Arduino, ESP32, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/21/Open_Hardware_Modding_Arduino_ESP32_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/21/Open_Hardware_Modding_Arduino_ESP32_and_More.gmi 
[17:48]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Open Hardware/Modding: Arduino, ESP32, and More
[17:48]	TR News	 (NEW):  The Case for Sponsoring openSUSE and Google (GSoC) Work on openSUSE https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/21/The_Case_for_Sponsoring_openSUSE_and_Google_GSoC_Work_on_openSU.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/21/The_Case_for_Sponsoring_openSUSE_and_Google_GSoC_Work_on_openSU.gmi 
[17:48]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines The Case for Sponsoring openSUSE and Google (GSoC) Work on openSUSE
[17:49]	TR News	 (NEW):  WP2Shell Threatens WordPress Installations https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/21/WP2Shell_Threatens_WordPress_Installations.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/21/WP2Shell_Threatens_WordPress_Installations.gmi 
[17:49]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines WP2Shell Threatens WordPress Installations
[17:51]	TR News	 (NEW):  GNU/Linux Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/21/GNU_Linux_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/21/GNU_Linux_Leftovers.gmi 
[17:51]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines GNU/Linux Leftovers
[17:53]	TR News	 (NEW):   Programming Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/21/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/21/Programming_Leftovers.gmi 
[17:53]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Programming Leftovers
[17:56]	TR News	 (NEW):  Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/21/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/21/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.gmi 
[17:56]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
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[17:58]	TR News	Techrights Links 21/07/2026: Google Stagnating, Slop 'Apps' Are "Flooding Apples App Store" https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/21/Links_21_07_2026_Google_Stagnating_Slop_Apps_Are_Flooding_Apple.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/21/Links_21_07_2026_Google_Stagnating_Slop_Apps_Are_Flooding_Apple.gmi 
[17:59]	TR Bot	 Techrights Links 21/07/2026: Google Stagnating, Slop 'Apps' Are "Flooding Apples App Store"
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[18:15]	TR News	Techrights Red Hat (IBM) Has Long 'Reassigned' (Bluewashed) Red Hat Staff to Ruin Fedora, Now It Does the Same to GNOME https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/21/Red_Hat_IBM_Has_Long_Reassigned_Bluewashed_Red_Hat_Staff_to_Rui.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/21/Red_Hat_IBM_Has_Long_Reassigned_Bluewashed_Red_Hat_Staff_to_Rui.gmi 
[18:15]	TR Bot	 Techrights Red Hat (IBM) Has Long 'Reassigned' (Bluewashed) Red Hat Staff to Ruin Fedora, Now It Does the Same to GNOME
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[18:29]	TR News	 (NEW):  Remembering Kevin Keegan https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/21/Remembering_Kevin_Keegan.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/21/Remembering_Kevin_Keegan.gmi 
[18:29]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Remembering Kevin Keegan
[18:39]	TR News	"They should layoff all the xbox teams. There has been zero strategy for the console or games. Time to rebuild with a new team. Good riddance!" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxkebsz6#replies
[18:39]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxkebsz6#replies )
[18:41]	TR News	"For as long as IBM share price does not drop below $200, The current IBM management team might be able to live another day. It does not mean, IBM is out of trouble anytime soon. The $200 share price is psychological, many investors might view it as a clear to jump off the ship." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ky2paa82#replies
[18:41]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ky2paa82#replies )
[18:44]	TR News	"The company will break up under his and our leaderships watch. They will be the ones forever known as the leaders who ki-led a 115 year old Big Blue! Never let anyone forgot." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxrswtf3
[18:44]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxrswtf3 )
[18:44]	TR News	"Bob says goodwill drop offs are out back by the dumpster." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxxkyye5
[18:44]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxxkyye5 )
[18:45]	TR News	"Albany has been rigged for years to keep a small group afloat not to help the site thrive, just to protect the same people. With little meaningful oversight from the outside, it was allowed to operate unchecked, creating the culture and environment we see today. And what is there to show for it? Very little revenue, if any, despite enormous operating costs."
[18:45]	TR News	"If IBM is ever broken up into separate businesses, Albany should be at the very top of the list for the chopping block or simply completely shuttered altogether." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxxhhhsj
[18:45]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxxhhhsj )
[18:45]	TR News	"Yes, I agree. If a manager tells you you're crucial, that's very special and you will not be RAed. It simply cannot be done." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxxhhhsj
[18:45]	TR News	Fun fact: I too was told I was "safe", that I was crucial for the team and irreplaceable. Two weeks later I was swept up in the November 2025 RA along with many other "safe" and "crucial" people. Truly, there is nowhere to hide if your name appears on their spreadsheet.
[18:46]	TR News	"there are some people in Albany who seem to have job security . They can get away with doing far less than most ny state workers. And they are high pay bands (theyve all been there at the site at least 20 years, usually with ibm a lot longer), the work they do isnt even critical. Its sometimes about having dirt on people that makes them afraid to touch you"
[18:46]	TR News	"Don't believe everything you hear. When I was given 2 months notice along with my co-worker. All support for that account was sent to India. Reason I was told was I wasn't in IBM plans. But the account postpone a project for 3 weeks then I was in IBM plan cause I was needed for that project."
[18:46]	TR News	"Offered me 6 month notice from 2 and manager had to get project executive and delivery project executive involved to get the extension approved for RA."
[18:47]	TR News	"Spot on . Very well said. This has been a smoke and mirrors show for some time now. It follows much what is going on in the world today. . Corruption is the new black. So very trendy. Duplicity abounds in IBM. With the right hand , Lets pretend all is great" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxzjsn6a
[18:47]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxzjsn6a )
[18:48]	TR News	"This has been one of the most well written posts I have seen in years. Thank you! You are spot on!"
[18:48]	TR News	"Bob will break IBM up!"
[18:48]	TR News	"We are doing the best we ever have. Our future is so bright. Sell the hype. While with on the left hand , leaders squeeze as much cash as they can in their pockets, not pay much attention to the pleebs below them. and everyone is below them. When things go bad. Its the other guys fault. Our workers dont execute to our plan. (What plan?)".
[18:48]	TR News	"This is a sinking ship. Not sinking quite as fast as the titanic did. But it is taking on water much faster than the pumps can keep up with."
[18:51]	TR News	"The pre-announcement was staged to initiate a chain reaction. It was intentional. The goal, as I suspected, is to have the crowd accept a possible break up of IBM into smaller entities. Some will be acquired by others."
[18:51]	TR News	"John Akers wanted to break up IBM. Lou Gerstner stopped it. He stopped it on the premise that IBM could monetize services and make big bucks with the synergy. For a time, they did just that."
[18:51]	TR News	"But now services has been monetized. It has been used up. It has "matured", to use business analyst lingo. So now we go back to the future...current executives no longer see value in synergy, and the whole is now less than the sum of its parts."
[18:51]	TR News	"I have been in R&D for quite some time. I have seen the slide down to mediocrity. When, technical leaders ("Architects") start talking about bringing innovation from the outside (buy small companies, Open source .....) instead of in house development. It became clear, IBM cannot recover." "Bob will rip ibm apart"
[18:53]	TR News	"I knew it was over when all the talk became what did TSMC do? Or just copy what SEC did. Innovation died"
● Jul 21
[19:03]	TR News	 (NEW):  In China, GNU/Linux Has Risen to Highest Levels Since 2023 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/21/In_China_GNU_Linux_Has_Risen_to_Highest_Levels_Since_2023.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/21/In_China_GNU_Linux_Has_Risen_to_Highest_Levels_Since_2023.gmi 
[19:03]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines In China, GNU/Linux Has Risen to Highest Levels Since 2023
[19:03]	TR News	Nearly a quarter of surveyed British developers have lost their jobs in the past three years https://wnhub.io/news/other/item-51486
[19:03]	TR Bot	 Nearly a quarter of surveyed British developers have lost their jobs in the past three years | WN Hub
[19:03]	MinceR	https://engrish.com/2025/04/han-know-how-to-party/
[19:03]	TR Bot	know how to party - Engrish.com
[19:04]	TR News	Yoko Taro Despairs Over the Future of Games as PlayStation Kills Discs https://games.gg/news/yoko-taro-saddened-playstation-killing-discs/
[19:04]	TR Bot	Taro Saddened by Loss of Physical Media in Gaming | GAMES.GG
[19:06]	TR News	Xbox players are using Microsoft's own Feedback Hub to protest layoffs https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/general/xbox-players-are-using-microsoft-s-own-feedback-hub-to-protest-layoffs/ar-AA27TqjE
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[19:15]	TR News	Techrights Lots of Microsoft Just Loses Money, Not Earning Money https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/21/Lots_of_Microsoft_Just_Loses_Money_Not_Earning_Money.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/21/Lots_of_Microsoft_Just_Loses_Money_Not_Earning_Money.gmi 
[19:15]	TR Bot	 Techrights Lots of Microsoft Just Loses Money, Not Earning Money
[19:19]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2]: A hedge fund was investigating Grindr.
[19:19]	IsambardPrince	They said the app is degrading, falling apart, losing users.
[19:19]	IsambardPrince	Grindr LLC is massively inflating active users.
[19:20]	MinceR	maybe they have an inflation fetish
[19:20]	IsambardPrince	The executives laid off 80% of employees and started dumping hundreds of millions of dollars in stock while insisting everything is fine.
[19:24]	TR News	Techrights Only a Matter of Time Before IBM Drops to $199 or a Lot Lower Than That https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/21/Only_a_Matter_of_Time_Before_IBM_Drops_to_199_of_Lower.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/21/Only_a_Matter_of_Time_Before_IBM_Drops_to_199_of_Lower.gmi 
[19:24]	TR Bot	 Techrights Only a Matter of Time Before IBM Drops to $199 or a Lot Lower Than That
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[19:39]	TR News	Techrights As Slop Bubble Implodes (Inevitable), the Dishonest, Corrupt, Compromised Media Tries to Blame "China" Again (Like it Did With &quot;DeepSeek&quot; in Past Years) https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/21/As_Slop_Bubble_Implodes_Inevitable_the_Dishonest_Corrupt_Compro.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/21/As_Slop_Bubble_Implodes_Inevitable_the_Dishonest_Corrupt_Compro.gmi 
[19:39]	TR Bot	 Techrights As Slop Bubble Implodes (Inevitable), the Dishonest, Corrupt, Compromised Media Tries to Blame "China" Again (Like it Did With "DeepSeek" in Past Years)
[19:47]	IsambardPrince	MinceR: It looks like Mom's church friend sold the house.
[19:47]	IsambardPrince	Now she won't be able to rent anything and does not have a house.
[19:48]	IsambardPrince	Her only income is $350 a month from her husband's Bethlehem Steel pension.
[19:48]	IsambardPrince	She is unemployed.
[19:48]	IsambardPrince	And she got $60,000 + she sold his tools for $7000 last year.
[19:48]	IsambardPrince	It's all gone because she ate out every night and instead of paying off a $14000 HELOC credit card, she made minimum payments.
[19:48]	IsambardPrince	So they had a lien against the house.
[19:49]	IsambardPrince	When I told her what "house as collateral" for the loan meant, she was shocked that they were actually going to seize the house.
[19:49]	IsambardPrince	I told my mom "Who applies for a credit card that wants to see the deed to their house first and doesn't go 'Hey, wait a minute....'"?"
[19:51]	IsambardPrince	I don't know how she ended up with a HELOC credit card when almost every bank is more than willing to extend a crazy amount of unsecured credit card debt before cutting the customer off.
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[19:53]	IsambardPrince	Most normal credit cards that get defaulted on either never sue the customer (this happens more than the banks want people to know), or they offer a settlement for partial payment (as little as 20-30% of the amount), but when it's a HELOC card they just go straight for the house because they already have a lien and they can sell your $175,000 house out from under you for $14,000.
[19:55]	IsambardPrince	Extending credit to people on SSDI is pretty dangerous, but banks do it anyway.
[19:55]	IsambardPrince	As long as the amount in the account is 2x the monthly Social Security amount or less, it's federally protected.
[19:55]	IsambardPrince	And as long as it's under $4,000 the state protects it.
[19:55]	IsambardPrince	Few people living on Social Security accumulate anything of value.
[19:56]	IsambardPrince	But banks still extend credit to them, a lot of it.
[19:59]	TR News	Techrights In WordPress, Newer is Not Better (Maybe Better Off With No WordPress at All) https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/21/In_WordPress_Newer_is_Not_Better_Maybe_Better_Off_With_No_WordP.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/21/In_WordPress_Newer_is_Not_Better_Maybe_Better_Off_With_No_WordP.gmi 
[19:59]	TR Bot	 Techrights In WordPress, Newer is Not Better (Maybe Better Off With No WordPress at All)
[19:59]	IsambardPrince	My aunt and uncle filed bankruptcy to deal with unpaid credit cards and they were both on SSDI. They could have protected up to $8,000 indefinitely without filing bankruptcy and there was no hope that they would have ever gotten off SSDI anyway.
● Jul 21
[20:00]	IsambardPrince	Their only asset was a very old Ford Thunderbird someone sold them that had a leaking gas tank.
[20:01]	IsambardPrince	The creditor's biggest weapon on people who don't have anything is psychological abuse.
[20:01]	IsambardPrince	That's the only thing that sometimes works, and people who know that they have nothing to lose, it doesn't work on.
[20:02]	IsambardPrince	The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act exists specifically because collectors were using psychological abuse as their primary collection tool. Calling at 3am, threatening arrest, telling a 19-year-old mother they'd take her baby that's not a bug in the system, that's the system working as designed when there's nothing else to take.
[20:03]	IsambardPrince	My former landlord, Joy, was violating the FDCPA, calling at 3 AM, demanding money, claiming that she added fees that were not in the lease or "cleaning charges" when the apartment was spotless.
[20:03]	IsambardPrince	When you're already gone and not paying rent anymore, some landlords turn to this because the only money they'll make from you is if they can scare you.
[20:04]	IsambardPrince	It's very illegal, but they choose people who they believe will suffer in silence.
[20:04]	IsambardPrince	And maybe turn it over.
[20:04]	TR News	"Simon Park still has a netbook bought back in 2009. The ASUS Eee PC 1000HE has an Intel Atom N280 and 1GB of DDR2 RAM. The Atom N series was Intels line of cheap, low-performance CPUs for netbooks." https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/07/20/reviving-a-15-year-old-netbook-with-arch-linux/
[20:04]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/07/20/reviving-a-15-year-old-netbook-with-arch-linux/ )
[20:04]	TR News	"Work progresses on a build system which will deliver a continuously-updated Arch Linux port for Valve's virtual reality headset." https://www.hackster.io/news/collabora-releases-first-64-bit-arm-arch-linux-packages-as-it-prepares-for-valve-s-steam-frame-vr-ae78c23fa883
[20:04]	TR Bot	Releases First 64-Bit Arm Arch Linux Packages As It Prepares for Valve's Steam Frame VR - Hackster.io
[20:05]	TR News	10ZiG & Cendio add ThinLinc for centralised Linux desktops https://securitybrief.asia/story/10zig-cendio-add-thinlinc-for-centralised-linux-desktops
[20:05]	TR Bot	 10ZiG & Cendio add ThinLinc for centralised Linux desktops
[20:05]	TR News	Linux 7.2-rc4 finally fixes audio issues with the Asus ROG Ally X https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-72-4c4-finally-fixes-audio-issues-with-the-asus-rog-ally-x/
[20:05]	TR Bot	 Linux 7.2-rc4 finally fixes audio issues with the Asus ROG Ally X
[20:06]	TR News	Moonshine - Turn your headless Linux server into a game streaming host https://korben.info/en/moonshine-headless-linux-server-game-streaming.html
[20:06]	TR Bot	 Moonshine - Turn your headless Linux server into a game streaming host - Korben
[20:07]	TR News	"Speaking of crazy ideas, content creator Uwoslab set out to power a desktop PC with 400 disposable AA batteries. Turns out the full array was not required, as the AMD Ryzen system successfully booted after 192 alkaline cells were connected." https://videocardz.com/newz/ryzen-pc-boots-with-192-aa-batteries-runs-hannah-montana-linux
[20:07]	TR Bot	PC boots with 192 AA batteries, runs Hannah Montana Linux - VideoCardz.com
[20:08]	TR News	Seek the Surface in Sci-Fi Thriller Visual Novel Advent: Dawn on PC, Mac, Linux Today https://www.gamespress.com/Seek-the-Surface-in-Sci-Fi-Thriller-Visual-Novel-Advent-Dawn-on-PC-Mac
[20:08]	TR Bot	 "Seek the Surface in Sci-Fi Thriller Visual NovelAdvent: Dawnon PC, Mac, LinuxToday" - Games Press
[20:09]	TR News	SLOPFARM https://egamers.io/fork-it-or-leave-linus-torvalds-shuts-down-anti-ai-pushback-in-the-linux-kernel-2026/
[20:09]	TR Bot	It Or Leave": Linus Torvalds Shuts Down Anti-AI Pushback In The Linux Kernel [2026] - EGamers.io - P2E NFT Games Portal
[20:09]	TR News	Streamer builds a battery powered PC with over 100 AAs, uses Hannah Montana Linux to benchmark their abomination https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/streamer-builds-a-battery-powered-pc-with-over-100-aas-uses-hannah-montana-linux-to-benchmark-their-abomination/
[20:09]	TR Bot	 Streamer builds a battery powered PC with over 100 AAs, uses Hannah Montana Linux to benchmark their abomination | PC Gamer
[20:17]	TR News	Techrights GNU/Linux at Grenada Measured at 14% This Month https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/21/GNU_Linux_at_Grenada_Measured_at_14_This_Month.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/21/GNU_Linux_at_Grenada_Measured_at_14_This_Month.gmi 
[20:17]	TR Bot	 Techrights GNU/Linux at Grenada Measured at 14% This Month
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[20:29]	slartibartfast	  /me wakes from five million year sleep
[20:31]	slartibartfast	Fork It Or Leave: Fork it is a good move, no?
[20:32]	TR News	Techrights Bluesky Was Such an Utter Failure That After 18 Months Mozilla Goes Hug a Nazi Platform That Produces Child Porn https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/21/Bluesky_Was_Such_an_Utter_Failure_That_After_18_Months_Mozilla_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/21/Bluesky_Was_Such_an_Utter_Failure_That_After_18_Months_Mozilla_.gmi 
[20:32]	TR Bot	 Techrights Bluesky Was Such an Utter Failure That After 18 Months Mozilla Goes Hug a Nazi Platform That Produces Child Porn
[20:39]	slartibartfast	Mozilla is just a Google front now.
[20:41]	slartibartfast	Was Bluesky a failure?
[20:49]	TR News	Techrights From GAFAM's Perspective, Jeremy Bicha Did Nothing Wrong https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/21/From_GAFAM_s_Perspective_Jeremy_Bicha_Did_Nothing_Wrong.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/21/From_GAFAM_s_Perspective_Jeremy_Bicha_Did_Nothing_Wrong.gmi 
[20:49]	TR Bot	 Techrights From GAFAM's Perspective, Jeremy Bicha Did Nothing Wrong
[20:53]	TR News	"Drops below 200 its over. Split the company up!" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ky2paa82#replies
[20:53]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ky2paa82#replies )
[20:53]	TR News	To IBM, debt-loading seems to be a thing (or "Think"). http://techrights.org/n/2026/07/21/Only_a_Matter_of_Time_Before_IBM_Drops_to_199_of_Lower.shtml
[20:54]	TR Bot	 Techrights Only a Matter of Time Before IBM Drops to $199 or a Lot Lower Than That
[20:56]	TR News	 (NEW):  Mozilla Thunderbird 153 Is Out with Various New Features and Many Fixes https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/21/Mozilla_Thunderbird_153_Is_Out_with_Various_New_Features_and_Ma.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/21/Mozilla_Thunderbird_153_Is_Out_with_Various_New_Features_and_Ma.gmi 
[20:56]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Mozilla Thunderbird 153 Is Out with Various New Features and Many Fixes
[20:58]	TR News	'vibe-coded'? https://mobilesyrup.com/2026/07/20/amazon-mistakenly-hits-aws-users-with-billion-dollar-bills/
[20:58]	TR Bot	 Amazon mistakenly hits AWS users with billion dollar bills
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[21:00]	TR News	UKIE: 22% of UK games industry workforce affected by job losses in last three years https://www.gamesindustry.biz/ukie-22-of-uk-games-industry-workforce-affected-by-job-losses-in-last-three-years
[21:00]	TR Bot	22% of UK games industry workforce affected by job losses in last three years | GamesIndustry.biz
[21:01]	TR News	Lies https://stocktwits.com/news-articles/markets/equity/gtlb-stock-in-spotlight-after-hours-on-ai-focused-layoffs-earnings-beat/cZ00fsgReD1
[21:01]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://stocktwits.com/news-articles/markets/equity/gtlb-stock-in-spotlight-after-hours-on-ai-focused-layoffs-earnings-beat/cZ00fsgReD1 )
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[21:39]	TR News	Techrights The Solution is Never 'Free Hosting' in Proprietary GitHub (Microsoft), the Solution is Self-Hosting https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/21/The_Solution_is_Never_Free_Hosting_in_Proprietary_GitHub_Micros.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/21/The_Solution_is_Never_Free_Hosting_in_Proprietary_GitHub_Micros.gmi 
[21:39]	TR Bot	 Techrights The Solution is Never 'Free Hosting' in Proprietary GitHub (Microsoft), the Solution is Self-Hosting
[21:41]	TR News	"In a statement on his website, Pocock, who is a software engineer, is asking voters to read about his work on ethics in technology, safety of children online, artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency and cybersecurity." https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/bin-two-foxes-mystic-candidates-041711975.html
[21:41]	TR Bot	 The candidates standing in the Clacton by-election
[21:43]	TR News	GNU/Linux 10% https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/iceland/#monthly-200902-202607
[21:43]	TR Bot	 Desktop Operating System Market Share Iceland | Statcounter Global Stats
[21:49]	TR News	Techrights Oman: GNU/Linux Up to 7% https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/21/Oman_GNU_Linux_Up_to_7.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/21/Oman_GNU_Linux_Up_to_7.gmi 
[21:49]	TR Bot	 Techrights Oman: GNU/Linux Up to 7%
[21:54]	TR News	An Introduction to Shogi, a Japanese Chess variant gemini://shizuka.space/glog/2026/07/21/shogi/
[21:56]	TR News	simple day gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/highKid
[21:58]	TR News	Freedom of Information Act https://www.dw.com/en/germany-set-to-restrict-its-freedom-of-information-act/a-77939695
[21:58]	TR Bot	 Germany set to restrict its Freedom of Information Act
[21:58]	TR News	social media restrictions for kids under 13 https://www.dw.com/en/eu-experts-urge-social-media-restrictions-for-kids-under-13/a-77931424
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[21:58]	TR Bot	 EU experts urge social media restrictions for kids under 13
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[22:00]	TR News	Iranian newspaper threatens Chancellor Merz with 'retaliation' https://www.dw.com/en/iranian-newspaper-threatens-chancellor-merz-with-retaliation/a-77958683
[22:00]	TR Bot	 Germany's Merz receives death threat from Iranian newspaper
[22:07]	TR News	GNU/Linux 8% https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/dominica/#monthly-200902-202607
[22:07]	TR Bot	 Desktop Operating System Market Share Dominica | Statcounter Global Stats
[22:09]	TR News	6% https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/saudi-arabia/#monthly-200902-202607
[22:09]	TR Bot	 Desktop Operating System Market Share Saudi Arabia | Statcounter Global Stats
[22:10]	TR News	7.3% https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/south-africa/#monthly-200902-202607
[22:10]	TR Bot	 Desktop Operating System Market Share South Africa | Statcounter Global Stats
[22:17]	TR News	EU and UK hit Russia with joint sanctions over cyberattacks https://www.bgnes.com/european-union/eu-and-uk-hit-russia-with-joint-sanctions-over-cyberattacks
[22:17]	TR Bot	and UK hit Russia with joint sanctions over cyberattacks | BGNES
[22:18]	TR News	Russia plans infrastructure attacks https://cphpost.dk/2026-07-15/news/round-up/baltic-presidents-russia-plans-infrastructure-attacks/
[22:18]	TR Bot	stream 1 was not closed cleanly: PROTOCOL_ERROR (err 1) ( status 0 @ https://cphpost.dk/2026-07-15/news/round-up/baltic-presidents-russia-plans-infrastructure-attacks/ )
[22:19]	TR News	Time Change https://xkcd.com/3272/
[22:19]	TR Bot	Time Change
[22:20]	IsambardPrince	MinceR: The people running that dental hygiene clinic are a box of rocks.
[22:20]	TR News	The Princess and the Pea https://xkcd.com/3271/
[22:20]	TR Bot	The Princess and the Pea
[22:20]	IsambardPrince	It's $15, if they don't reject you for having a cold sore or slightly high blood pressure.
[22:21]	IsambardPrince	I think next time I schedule something there I'm going to skip the bp pill the night before, take it an hour before my appointment, no caffeine that day, skip at night, then go back to nightly.
[22:21]	IsambardPrince	I'm about to have no dental insurance again and without that a simple cleaning and exam can be $300 at a dental office.
[22:21]	TR News	 (NEW):  OPNsense 26.7 released https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/21/OPNsense_26_7_released.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/21/OPNsense_26_7_released.gmi 
[22:21]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines OPNsense 26.7 released
[22:23]	TR News	 (NEW):  Trace Labs OSINT VM 2026.05: Rebuilt on Debian https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/21/Trace_Labs_OSINT_VM_2026_05_Rebuilt_on_Debian.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/21/Trace_Labs_OSINT_VM_2026_05_Rebuilt_on_Debian.gmi 
[22:23]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Trace Labs OSINT VM 2026.05: Rebuilt on Debian
[22:24]	TR News	Why Is EVERYONE Suddenly Obsessed With CachyOS? [#1 on Distrowatch] https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=dAAwVAp0cHE
[22:24]	TR Bot	( status 418 @ https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=dAAwVAp0cHE )
[22:27]	IsambardPrince	Groupon has new patient specials for dental cleanings then it encourages you to put it on Klarna.
[22:27]	IsambardPrince	It puts the Groupon on the Klarna. It does this whenever it's told.
[22:27]	IsambardPrince	MinceR: ^
[22:28]	MinceR	:>
[22:28]	MinceR	or else it gets the hose again
[22:33]	TR News	GNU/Linux 4% https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/lebanon/#monthly-200902-202607
[22:33]	TR Bot	 Desktop Operating System Market Share Lebanon | Statcounter Global Stats
[22:34]	MinceR	(cat) https://i.imgur.com/GGFasaS.png
[22:39]	TR News	Techrights Guyana: GNU/Linux Rises to New High, 7% https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/21/Guyana_GNU_Linux_Rises_to_New_High_7.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/21/Guyana_GNU_Linux_Rises_to_New_High_7.gmi 
[22:39]	TR Bot	 Techrights Guyana: GNU/Linux Rises to New High, 7%
[22:42]	TR News	Re: i was corrected on the internet about my inefficient use of awk today gemini://gemini.sh0.xyz/cgi-bin/gemlog.py/post/re-i-was-corrected-on-the-internet-about-my-inefficient-use-of-awk-today.gmi "My departure from Windows happened way back when Win95 was released."
[22:43]	TR News	"Last night at a music festival, during the set for Matchbox 20 Rob Thomas made a comment about how he started the band not thinking that one day their music would become nostalgia for a generation." gemini://gemini.sh0.xyz/cgi-bin/gemlog.py/post/the-era-of-nostalgia.gmi
[22:43]	TR News	"Just testing out my new gemlog system. Hopefully this post works." gemini://gemini.sh0.xyz/cgi-bin/gemlog.py/post/testing-from-my-phone.gmi
[22:44]	TR News	"Nothing much of interest as of yet. I am testing out a new CGI gemlog generator I'm working on. It uses SQLite for storage and a few shell scripts for creating posts. I hope that this will be easier to use and still be mobile friendly via termux." gemini://gemini.sh0.xyz/cgi-bin/gemlog.py/post/testing-out-a-new-gemlog-system.gmi
[22:45]	TR News	"There was a discussion over on BBS about what everyone uses for gemlogs. Not wanting to be the odd one out I decided to change from flat files over to a database solution." gemini://gemini.sh0.xyz/cgi-bin/gemlog.py/post/syncing_sucks_new_gemlog_system.gmi
[22:45]	slartibartfast	gemini://gemini.sh0.xyz/cgi-bin/gemlog.py/post/testing-from-my-phone.gmi  works on Amfora 
[22:47]	TR News	Techrights Gemini Links 21/07/2026: Nostalgia, Shogi, and New Gemlog System https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/21/Gemini_Links_21_07_2026_Nostalgia_Shogi_and_New_Gemlog_System.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/21/Gemini_Links_21_07_2026_Nostalgia_Shogi_and_New_Gemlog_System.gmi 
[22:47]	TR Bot	 Techrights Gemini Links 21/07/2026: Nostalgia, Shogi, and New Gemlog System
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