●● IRC: #techrights @ Techrights IRC Network: Monday, August 24, 2026 ●● ● Aug 24 [00:55] *includeals has quit (Quit: ZNC - https://znc.in) [00:55] *includeals (~includeal@2001:8a0:e95a:4e00::1c47) has joined #techrights [00:56] *fantom has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) ● Aug 24 [01:18] IsambardPrince MinceR: I need to take my TARDIS apart and replace the batteries. [01:18] IsambardPrince :P [01:19] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: An apartment that is disgusting isn't necessary in order to get a roach infestation. [01:19] IsambardPrince But you are rolling out the red carpet for them. [01:19] IsambardPrince It will be 10 times worse than if you just kept a clean house. [01:20] IsambardPrince A filthy apartment isn't a baseline for solving a roach problem. [01:20] IsambardPrince You need to clean the apartment, physically remove the roaches that are coming out into the open, and then do diagnostics with sticky traps, poison bait, and possibly even a good non-repellent insecticide deployment on the baseboards (still don't spray bait stations like Orkin did). [01:21] IsambardPrince Orkin never solved my roaches. [01:21] IsambardPrince They just came in once in a while, sprayed everything, ruined my bait operations, sprayed down my sticky traps and made it impossible to tell where roach activity was occurring because they sprayed the trap. [01:21] IsambardPrince They charge a lot of money. [01:22] IsambardPrince The exterminator should not come out, not only not solve the problem but screw up everything the customer is doing, and then send the bill. [01:22] IsambardPrince Butt that's what Orkin doees. [01:33] *fantom (~fantom@freenode-crc.udo.r9g5d1.IP) has joined #techrights [01:36] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: The subject was the death of fast food. It's not just the price hikes. [01:36] IsambardPrince They demand that you use apps that are very unstable and personally track you to get their labor costs down, then you still pay a lot, just not the full menu price. [01:37] IsambardPrince And even if you pay cash, you can't always get a person. [01:37] IsambardPrince They have signs at the cash register that say "Use the Kiosk". [01:37] IsambardPrince Well, the kiosks don't take cash, they just print out a receipt so you can stand in line to pay cash at the register, behind all the people trying to order. [01:38] IsambardPrince Then they decided to do shit like, end free refills. [01:38] IsambardPrince So you can't get another coke if you run out. [01:38] IsambardPrince They said it was for hygiene and that you could ask an employee, but then they stopped doing any refills at all. [01:38] IsambardPrince Then they came out with a "value menu" that's actually so insulting that it's another price hike. [01:39] IsambardPrince Because they replaced promotions where you could order like two Daily Doubles for $4, with a $3 Daily Double. [01:39] IsambardPrince So if you actually wanted two, you have to pay $2 more now, because that's how value works, apparently. [01:40] IsambardPrince So then their CEO of McDonald's just came out and blamed it on people being broke. [01:41] IsambardPrince Yeah, because everything is ganging up on them at once, like the landlord and the power company, and McDonald's is optional and more expensive than cooking. [01:42] IsambardPrince https://www.facebook.com/reel/2152212451992241 [01:42] TR Bot NO TITLE [01:42] IsambardPrince The reporter says "consumers don't have a lot of money and whatever money they do have they don't want to spend there". [01:42] IsambardPrince Great summary. [01:43] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: That website where I get my recipes from has cookbooks for sale, they're like $160 for the complete set. [01:44] IsambardPrince I skimmed them all at the library and used my phone's scanner to save all the ones that aren't on his website that sounded good. [01:45] IsambardPrince Like why am I going to get on Amazon when the library has over 500 cookbooks? [01:45] IsambardPrince When I open a cookbook, and skim through it, I am very obviously never going to make all 50-60 recipes out of it. I might make 4-5. So buying an entire book is very wasteful of money and it takes up space in the house. [01:46] IsambardPrince Then something happens and you move and you have to shed weight. And those cookbooks don't all come with you. [01:47] IsambardPrince And your mother who has successfully helped destabilize your marriage and tell your spouse what a bastard you are when all you ever did was help them and it was like trying to help a rabid dog that repaid you by biting you says "I would send you things but you just throw away everything I send!" [01:47] IsambardPrince My life isn't stable enough to accumulate things. [01:47] IsambardPrince I mean it must be nice to have four paychecks and not have to move every year or two. [01:48] IsambardPrince But between shitty insane landlords and a pile of bad exes, there's a limited number of things I can hold onto. [01:48] IsambardPrince It's bad when you constantly have to keep room in the back of your head for a rolling inventory of "If I had to leave today what would I fit in a car?" [01:49] IsambardPrince There's a number of reasons you have to be ready to bug-out. [01:50] IsambardPrince Your landlord could raise the rent $300 a month for no reason. They could move in shitty tenants that don't let you sleep for 6 months. They could be like Piyush, renting out rooms with black mold and cockroaches. [01:50] IsambardPrince And then you have to deal with people like John and Mandy. [01:51] IsambardPrince You know, they abuse the system to try to have you put in jail on false charges or they just want a green card and they don't even love you. [01:53] IsambardPrince Every one of those things is something that really happened to me. [01:54] IsambardPrince Anyway, I loved Scarface, because as fucked up as Tony Montana is, he has a point. [01:54] IsambardPrince Especially about the people around him being "cockroaches", [01:55] IsambardPrince Think about that word for a moment. What do cockroaches do? [01:55] IsambardPrince They live in the walls, they hate the light, they hate being in the open, they live off your crumbs, they are almost impossible to get rid of entirely. [01:56] IsambardPrince He calls these people around him cockroaches because they embody all of these traits. [01:59] IsambardPrince They finally do succeed in killing him because he became complacent. He chose to live in a mansion, start sampling his own product too much, he let his enemies surround him and burrow in. ● Aug 24 [02:00] IsambardPrince In the end he's screaming about how they're all a bunch of cockroaches, and he grabs a machine gun with a build in grenade launcher and kills like 30-40 of them but they still get him. [02:00] IsambardPrince Because there's too many. [02:05] IsambardPrince [15:00] like no hot water and all that [02:05] IsambardPrince Most landlords will keep the things functional that have to work or else the city starts fining them or the tenants move out immediately. [02:06] IsambardPrince Like they're not going to let your hot water go out without fixing it, because nobody is going to stand cold showers every day when you're telling them they owe $1750 in rent. [02:06] IsambardPrince When an entire building starts screaming at them and moving out or withholding rent and calling the city, the hot water magically stays on. [02:07] IsambardPrince But when you tell them "I saw roaches in my kitchen." That's not high priority. [02:07] IsambardPrince You're one guy, everyone else there is so gross they no longer care about roaches and they pay their rent. [02:08] IsambardPrince The reason Piyush doesn't operate in Chicago or Cook County is because their anti-slumlord laws have teeth. They bite. [02:08] IsambardPrince He goes to places where the city government doesn't care what he does. [02:08] IsambardPrince And he extracts whatever he can from people who can't qualify to live anywhere else because their income is too unstable, they have bad credit, or they're on sex offender and domestic violence registries. [02:17] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: I cleaned out the air conditioners today. With the electric bills running like they are I try to make sure nothing accumulates in the filter screens or the condenser fins. [02:17] IsambardPrince An air conditioner that does not run efficiently becomes a power hog. [02:22] IsambardPrince That air conditioner Piyush put in after the 1970s one failed was a biohazard like the rest of the apartment. [02:23] IsambardPrince I had to take it apart and clean it best I could with some AC condensor spray and an old credit card, wearing a respirator. 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[03:38] IsambardPrince The shelf was sold out and nobody bothered restocking it. [03:39] IsambardPrince So I looked around, nobody was working nearby, so I ignored the employees only sign and went into the beer cooler and pulled some myself. [03:43] IsambardPrince My guess is they're losing money on that sale beer anyway. So restocking the shelf even though they have plenty is not high priority. So they let it sit back there and stock it when the sale ends. [03:45] IsambardPrince The ad still brings in customers but they find nothing, throw a non-sale beer in the cart, and go on a "while I'm here anyway" binge. ● Aug 24 [04:10] *ewig (~Ewig@user/ewig) has joined #techrights [04:15] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techrights [04:37] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: My grandmother is dying. [04:37] IsambardPrince My mom got angry when I said I don't really feel bad about it, she was a very mean woman especially to me. [04:37] IsambardPrince And what you get when you're mean to everyone all the time is they don't miss you. 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[04:47] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: In this case the funeral is an expensive PR campaign to rebrand a very evil person. [04:48] schestowitz[TR2] munger [04:48] IsambardPrince They're spending thousands on lights, a stage, a script, and a priest to try to delete the memories we all have of her being a tyrant. [04:49] IsambardPrince Funerals are for the living, a dead person doesn't even know the funeral is happening. [04:49] schestowitz[TR2] https://old.reddit.com/r/linuxsucks101/comments/1vvlfye/richard_stallman_on_steve_jobs_death/ [04:49] TR Bot Welcome to Reddit [04:49] IsambardPrince You're spending $20,000 to put someone in a box and say things that aren't exactly true, and then everyone has to go filing out into a procession to bury them somewhere. [04:50] IsambardPrince Under a headstone that cost $4,000 in a plot that they'll be dug up from someday when nobody is around to enforce the contract. [04:51] IsambardPrince They could get together as a family and pay my medical bills from last year's surgery. [04:51] IsambardPrince Instead, they're spending it on a dead body. [04:53] TR News clothes donated to charity are going in the garbage https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/why-more-clothes-donated-to-charity-are-going-in-the-garbage-9.7307128 [04:53] TR Bot Why more clothes donated to charity are going in the garbage | CBC News [04:56] TR News Montreal police take down high-powered surveillance camera after Radio-Canada story https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-ai-cameras-police-9.7306432 [04:56] TR Bot Montreal police take down high-powered surveillance camera after Radio-Canada story | CBC News [04:57] TR News Only 3% of UK homes have air conditioning. 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That caught my attention and I've dived into disks right away, both for tunes and comments." gemini://ghosisiphus.xyz/glog/2026-08-24-acquiring-the-taste.gmi [05:10] TR News Techrights Links 24/08/2026: Vision and Skill, Doing Good, Chiperia Project https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/24/Links_24_08_2026_Vision_and_Skill_Doing_Good_Chiperia_Project.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/24/Links_24_08_2026_Vision_and_Skill_Doing_Good_Chiperia_Project.gmi [05:10] TR Bot Techrights Links 24/08/2026: Vision and Skill, Doing Good, Chiperia Project [05:32] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: When I had my shoulder broken in three places and was wondering if I'd even survive the surgery, or end up with an amputation, or what would happen, nobody offered to help me pay to fix it. [05:32] IsambardPrince I had to scrimp and save and live in a cockroach infested apartment. [05:35] IsambardPrince I told my mom "Nobody ever said 'Hey Ryan, are you eating? How can we help you pay for that surgery you need on your arm?' But apparently all you have to do is be a nasty old witch who tears into peoples' arms with your terrible claws for 94 yearrs and they will spend $30,000 on your funeral and forget all the truly nasty shit you ever did. [05:38] schestowitz[TR2] maybe [05:38] schestowitz[TR2] youseem to despise her [05:38] schestowitz[TR2] not NOT care [05:38] schestowitz[TR2] but actually despite [05:38] schestowitz[TR2] *se [05:49] *fantom has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) [05:58] TR News Away From Keyboard https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/24/away-from-keyboard/ [05:58] TR Bot Blog Archive Away From Keyboard ● Aug 24 [06:06] TR News Not Having Code of Conduct Does Not Mean Nobody Gets Banned https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/24/not-having-code-of-conduct-does-not-mean-nobody-gets-banned/ [06:06] TR Bot Blog Archive Not Having Code of Conduct Does Not Mean Nobody Gets Banned [06:17] *fantom (~fantom@freenode-crc.udo.r9g5d1.IP) has joined #techrights [06:18] TR News (NEW): Slackware-Based PorteuX 2.8 Released with Linux 7.2, COSMIC 1.6, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/Slackware_Based_PorteuX_2_8_Released_with_Linux_7_2_COSMIC_1_6_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/Slackware_Based_PorteuX_2_8_Released_with_Linux_7_2_COSMIC_1_6_.gmi [06:18] TR Bot Tux Machines Slackware-Based PorteuX 2.8 Released with Linux 7.2, COSMIC 1.6, and More [06:23] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: My partner said I was being mean. [06:23] schestowitz[TR2] what do you mean, MEAN? [06:23] IsambardPrince I said "She would have hated you for not being white, for being an immigrant, for being gay, for being Catholic, and probably a lot more. This is not a person worth celebrating." [06:23] IsambardPrince And I told my mother off at some length. [06:24] IsambardPrince I said "How dare you try to tell me there's a social contract. Where was the social contract in 1999 when it applied to you?" [06:24] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techrights [06:26] IsambardPrince I told her "Instead of staying with your family you tried defaming my dad in open court with porn magazines then you ran off to Brian. There is no social contract. It's The Lord of the Flies apparently." [06:30] IsambardPrince "You cannot tear down the walls of a civilized house, defame the husband, choose affairs, and abandon one out of two children, and then expect respect." [06:32] schestowitz[TR2] so that became about her [06:32] schestowitz[TR2] not about her moim [06:32] TR News Techrights In South Korea, Steady Increases for GNU/Linux https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/24/In_South_Korea_Steady_Increases_for_GNU_Linux.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/24/In_South_Korea_Steady_Increases_for_GNU_Linux.gmi [06:32] TR Bot Techrights In South Korea, Steady Increases for GNU/Linux [06:32] schestowitz[TR2] and you told her she had become or was in the process of becooming her mom [06:32] schestowitz[TR2] some motnsha go [06:34] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: I told her that "Roy commented, 'Your family sounds horrific.' some time ago. I think it was after I told them about how the Culley family got together and decided that Trent didn't rape his sisters because they had their hymens. And I told you, 'What is this? Game of Thrones?' You guys appear to operate on some primitive medieval code of patriarchy where virginity is a commodity and therefore rape is some sort of [06:34] IsambardPrince property crime." [06:38] TR News No Hurry Anymore https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/24/no-hurry-anymore/ [06:38] TR Bot Blog Archive No Hurry Anymore [06:38] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: My mom's attempt to deflect from her affair by taking a crowbar to a locked cabinet to trawl my dad's titty magazines into divorce court was pretty low. [06:38] schestowitz[TR2] horrific? [06:39] schestowitz[TR2] did I use that word like that? [06:39] schestowitz[TR2] i don't remember saying horrific [06:39] schestowitz[TR2] but maybe i did [06:39] schestowitz[TR2] depending on the context [06:39] schestowitz[TR2] maybe that incest stuff in the Culley family [06:39] schestowitz[TR2] re your mom and magazine [06:39] schestowitz[TR2] if the dirt she had on him was, [06:40] schestowitz[TR2] "oh, look, he likes tits" [06:40] schestowitz[TR2] then she might be shocked most men do [06:40] schestowitz[TR2] and trying to hoard more and more of the ame 'evidence' does not strenthen it [06:40] schestowitz[TR2] he could say [06:40] schestowitz[TR2] "while she was out cheating on me I had those mags" [06:40] schestowitz[TR2] this was before the web was a thing [06:41] schestowitz[TR2] if people printed out every porn they even accessed online [06:41] schestowitz[TR2] there could be "black bags" of the "stuff" [06:44] TR News IBM PIPs. "everyone in your situation really should sue. Its a no brainer" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0hx2djm "If I am outside IBM next time, it will be done :-)" [06:44] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0hx2djm ) [06:45] TR News "Its seems like ibm just accidently showed their cards. Wheres there is smoke" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0mxpee6 [06:45] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0mxpee6 ) [06:45] TR News "Better be RAed than PIPed" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0mxpee6 [06:45] TR News "Better be RAed than PIPed" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0mxpee6 [06:46] TR News "I work in the Markham lab and havent seen any PIPs yet. Anyone else?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0pby7bp "I work at the Markham site. Dont know about that 2-3 year prediction, but all stated observations are bang-on." [06:46] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0pby7bp ) [06:47] TR News "Alvind, the slimy Indian, was able to find the trick to steal (using PIPs) the hard working US employees pensions with the help of the cabal of useless POS managers. He is following in the footsteps of three fingers who engineered in late 1990's the large heist of US based companies pension in US history." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0qcwk5v [06:47] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0qcwk5v ) [06:47] TR News "IBM will never in a zillion years give a viable healthcare alternative. It all goes into Arvind's pockets." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0qcwk5v "some of them are eligible for pension through ibm even if very small and if fired rather than laid off they cant collect" [06:47] TR News "Many older employees in US almost 65 are staying until reaching 65. Reason #1 is healthcare coverage. When IBM management offers a viable alternative, thousands will retire." [06:48] TR News PIPs last "6 months in France" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0f3fqe0 [06:48] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0f3fqe0 ) [06:51] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techrights [06:55] TR News (NEW): Two Debian Days in one week https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/Two_Debian_Days_in_one_week.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/Two_Debian_Days_in_one_week.gmi [06:55] TR Bot Tux Machines Two Debian Days in one week ● Aug 24 [07:02] TR News North America: 12% GNU/Linux https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/24/north-america-12-gnulinux/ [07:02] TR Bot Blog Archive North America: 12% GNU/Linux [07:10] TR News US also 12% https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=2d&loc=US&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP [07:10] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=2d&loc=US&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP ) [07:11] TR News Cyprus 6% https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=2d&loc=CY&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP [07:11] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=2d&loc=CY&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP ) [07:16] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: Yeah, she had to resort to prying open a cabinet with a crowbar to break the locks off to get to his porn magazines. [07:16] IsambardPrince He did not just leave them unlocked or laying around in a house with children. [07:16] IsambardPrince She then took them to the court and tried to say that he was creating an unfit environment for children. [07:20] schestowitz[TR2] i see [07:20] schestowitz[TR2] did he rebut? [07:20] schestowitz[TR2] btw, many kids were not protected by locks [07:20] schestowitz[TR2] they could access their patents' stash, sometimes even careless parents with sex toys [07:21] schestowitz[TR2] so it seems like your dad went out of his way to keep the kids out [07:28] TR News (NEW): 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: August 23rd, 2026 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/9to5Linux_Weekly_Roundup_August_23rd_2026.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/9to5Linux_Weekly_Roundup_August_23rd_2026.gmi [07:28] TR Bot Tux Machines 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: August 23rd, 2026 [07:28] TR News (NEW): Stable kernels: Linux 7.1.10, Linux 6.18.46, Linux 6.12.105, Linux 6.6.153, Linux 6.1.184, Linux 5.15.217, and Linux 5.10.266 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/Stable_kernels_Linux_7_1_10_Linux_6_18_46_Linux_6_12_105_Linux_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/Stable_kernels_Linux_7_1_10_Linux_6_18_46_Linux_6_12_105_Linux_.gmi [07:28] TR Bot Tux Machines Stable kernels: Linux 7.1.10, Linux 6.18.46, Linux 6.12.105, Linux 6.6.153, Linux 6.1.184, Linux 5.15.217, and Linux 5.10.266 [07:30] TR News (NEW): Mainstream Media Intentionally Ignores Growth of GNU/Linux https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/Mainstream_Media_Intentionally_Ignores_Growth_of_GNU_Linux.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/Mainstream_Media_Intentionally_Ignores_Growth_of_GNU_Linux.gmi [07:30] TR Bot Tux Machines Mainstream Media Intentionally Ignores Growth of GNU/Linux [07:35] TR News (NEW): Mourning Steve French https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/Mourning_Steve_French.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/Mourning_Steve_French.gmi [07:35] TR Bot Tux Machines Mourning Steve French [07:37] IsambardPrince [01:21] so it seems like your dad went out of his way to keep the kids out [07:37] IsambardPrince He did. Honestly though I figured out how to get the porn out of the cabinet. [07:38] IsambardPrince I wedged the doors open, stuck in a blood pressure cuff, and pumped the cuff up until the door was propped open even though it was locked. [07:38] IsambardPrince There was enough of a "flex" in the cabinet doors. [07:43] TR News Thinking About Gemini Capsule for Schestowitz.com https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/24/thinking-about-gemini-capsule-for-schestowitz-com/ [07:43] TR Bot Blog Archive Thinking About Gemini Capsule for Schestowitz.com [07:46] schestowitz[TR2] IsambardPrince: so 80s [07:46] schestowitz[TR2] cabinet doors [07:46] schestowitz[TR2] shubb [07:48] schestowitz[TR2] there was a shop here [07:48] schestowitz[TR2] Chubbsafes Safes store [07:48] schestowitz[TR2] it shut down years ago [07:48] schestowitz[TR2] lack of demand, i guess [07:48] schestowitz[TR2] last i saw, nobody took over that abandoned unit [07:49] schestowitz[TR2] many hotels no longer have safes [07:49] schestowitz[TR2] i guess fewerr tourists carry cash [07:49] schestowitz[TR2] and they take their "phones" everywhere they go [07:52] TR News "In response to a high-profile GTA 6 leak, Take-Two has requested broad DMCA subpoenas, targeting thousands of Discord users, as well as Microsoft data" https://torrentfreak.com/take-two-expands-gta-6-leak-hunt-with-dmca-subpoenas/ | Source: Torrent Freak [07:52] TR Bot Expands GTA 6 Leak Hunt With DMCA Subpoenas to X and YouTube * TorrentFreak [07:52] TR News "Did a quick search to see some issues about the T2 security chip maybe affecting the installation of Linux though so I need to research a lot more." https://burgeonlab.com/notes/2026/0824-0100/ | Source: Naty S [07:52] TR Bot Mini 2018 i7 Hand-me-down BurgeonLab [07:53] TR News "When youre looking at a thread of social media bots sharing the same five replies to AI-generated slapfights between anthropomorphic fruits" https://www.salon.com/2026/08/23/the-internet-is-losing-its-third-places/ | Source: Salon [07:53] TR Bot internet is losing its third places - Salon.com [07:53] TR News (NEW): Low-cost 45mm NanoPi R28S offers dual GbE and Wi-Fi 6 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/Low_cost_45mm_NanoPi_R28S_offers_dual_GbE_and_Wi_Fi_6.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/Low_cost_45mm_NanoPi_R28S_offers_dual_GbE_and_Wi_Fi_6.gmi [07:53] TR Bot Tux Machines Low-cost 45mm NanoPi R28S offers dual GbE and Wi-Fi 6 [07:53] TR News "At first glance, asking whether Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) make the Internet faster may seem almost provocative at a peering forum." https://blog.apnic.net/2026/08/24/do-ixps-make-the-internet-faster-its-complicated/ | Source: APNIC [07:53] TR Bot Do IXPs make the Internet faster? Its complicated | APNIC Blog [07:55] TR News "The outlaws were so pleased with the incredibly sharp, high-quality portrait that they reportedly didnt care when Swartz kept a copy for himself." https://www.vintag.es/2026/08/fort-worth-five-photograph.html | Source: Vintage Everyday [07:55] TR Bot Members of Butch Cassidys Wild Bunch: The Story Behind the Famous Fort Worth Five Photograph in 1900 ~ Vintage Everyday [07:56] TR News "Whereas other American cities targeted by Trump with National Guard deployments found success in court, D.C.s lack of statehood limits its ability to fight back." https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/08/a-year-of-troops-in-washington/688317/ | Source: The Atlantic [07:56] TR Bot An American City, With Troops on Its Streets - The Atlantic [07:56] TR News "The districts request comes as outraged parents and students speak out against the extremely controversial devices, which are being procured by local and federal law enforcement agencies at an alarming clip." https://futurism.com/science-energy/school-district-police-electric-shock-torture-gloves | Source: Futurism [07:56] TR Bot Horrified School District Pleads Police to Stop Using Electric Shock Torture Gloves on Students [07:56] TR News "De Souza points out in her latest report that schools are referring these children to Prevent and nothing happens." https://www.spectator.com.au/2026/08/parents-should-be-held-responsible-for-the-crimes-of-their-children/ | Source: Spectator AU [07:56] TR Bot Parents should be held responsible for the crimes of their children | The Spectator Australia [07:57] TR News "Majid Adine, who was detained in Karaj on January 9 for participating in protests in Iran" https://english.anf-news.com/human-rights/iran-executes-majid-adine-86894 | Source: ANF News [07:57] TR Bot ANF | Iran executes Majid Adine [07:58] TR News "Ive been stopped by security guards when photographing architecture in London so many times" https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/street-photography/orwellian-uk-government-pamphlet-contradicts-police-on-photography-law-imagine-if-martin-parr-had-been-prevented-from-taking-photos-in-public | Source: Digital Camera World [07:58] TR Bot Orwellian UK government pamphlet contradicts police on photography law. Imagine if Martin Parr had been prevented from taking photos in public | Digital Camera World [07:59] TR News "At this point, the problem goes beyond things simply becoming more expensive. I increasingly have no idea how much any of this is supposed to cost." https://yourbrainonmoney.substack.com/p/why-does-everything-feel-like-a-scam | [07:59] TR Bot Why does everything feel like a scam? - by Hanna Horvath [07:59] TR News "IT CEOs are household namesbut famous for being untrustworthy. Thats not ideal for an industry thats trying to build popular support." https://blog.zgp.org/this-video-explains-why-people-hate-the-it-industry-and-it-doesn-t-even-have-an-it-product-or-service-in-it/ | Source: Don Marti [07:59] TR Bot This video explains why people hate the IT industry, and it doesnt even have an IT product or service in it [07:59] TR News "Nobody chooses how they are born. Some people are born rich and some are born poor." https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/never-apologize-for-being-a-class | Source: Hamilton Nolan [07:59] TR Bot Never Apologize For Being a Class Traitor ● Aug 24 [08:00] TR News Many of the people who used to rebrand themselves as "security" (with nothing to show for it, it was because of perceived "demand" in the market) nowadays do the same with "hey hi". What next, "quantum"? [08:00] TR News "Markets have a funny moral vocabulary: when a price moves against a trading book, it is near-term volatility" https://www.yesigiveafig.com/p/great-scott | Source: Michael Green [08:00] TR Bot Great, Scott... - by Michael W. Green [08:01] TR News "In the past six months, Republicans public statements about data centers have turned sharply negative, according to a Washington Post analysis." https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/08/23/most-gop-politicians-now-talk-negatively-about-data-centers-data-shows/ | Source: The Washington Post [08:01] TR Bot stream 1 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2) ( status 0 @ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/08/23/most-gop-politicians-now-talk-negatively-about-data-centers-data-shows/ ) [08:01] TR News "There are signs that the emerging data center debate is scrambling the usual partisan divisions." https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/us/politics/data-centers-midterm-elections.html | Source: New York Times [08:01] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/us/politics/data-centers-midterm-elections.html ) [08:01] TR News "All three cyclists were coming or going from work when they died, according to friends and advocates. No arrests have been made in any of the three deaths." https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/nyregion/nyc-cycling-bike-deaths.html | Source: New York Times [08:01] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/nyregion/nyc-cycling-bike-deaths.html ) [08:01] TR News "The talk starts with the story of its retrieval, then the long process of rebuilding, and finally its first run." https://hackaday.com/2026/08/23/so-you-found-a-foden-steam-lorry-in-a-field-what-next/ | Source: Hackaday [08:01] TR Bot You Found A Foden Steam Lorry In A Field. What Next? | Hackaday [08:02] TR News (NEW): DietPi v10.6 Adds Orange Pi and Odroid Images https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/DietPi_v10_6_Adds_Orange_Pi_and_Odroid_Images.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/DietPi_v10_6_Adds_Orange_Pi_and_Odroid_Images.gmi [08:02] TR Bot Tux Machines DietPi v10.6 Adds Orange Pi and Odroid Images [08:03] TR News "data centers under construction in the US by Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft estimates the sites could produce a cumulative 101.5 million tons of carbon dioxide" https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/planned-us-data-centers-set-to-produce-24m-cars-worth-of-co2/ | Source: CNET [08:03] TR Bot US Data Centers Set to Produce 24M Cars' Worth Of Carbon Dioxide - CNET [08:03] TR News (NEW): Review: umbrelOS 1.7.4 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/Review_umbrelOS_1_7_4.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/Review_umbrelOS_1_7_4.gmi [08:03] TR Bot Tux Machines Review: umbrelOS 1.7.4 [08:03] TR News "councils shutter public comment" https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/death-threats-hit-data-center-opponents-as-towns-cancel-votes-and-close-public-comment | Source: Tom's Hardware [08:03] TR Bot Officials nationwide face death threats and gunfire over AI data center projects More than 500 towns restrict builds as councils shutter public comment | Tom's Hardware [08:04] TR News "A global symbol of parties and celebrations but an environmental headache, the humble balloon is undergoing a green revolution thanks to U.K. researchers." https://phys.org/news/2026-08-humble-balloon-green-makeover.html | Source: Omicron Limited [08:04] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://phys.org/news/2026-08-humble-balloon-green-makeover.html ) [08:04] TR News "The Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of Earth taken Feb. 14, 1990, by NASAs Voyager 1 at a distance of 3.7 billion miles (6 billion kilometers) from the Sun." https://science.nasa.gov/mission/voyager/voyager-1s-pale-blue-dot/ | [08:04] TR Bot Voyager 1's Pale Blue Dot - NASA Science [08:04] TR News "The photograph became known as the Pale Blue Dot." https://www.sciencealert.com/voyager-1-took-a-final-look-back-at-earth-36-years-ago-today-its-more-relevant-than-ever | Source: Science Alert [08:04] TR Bot Sagan Turned This 1990 Photograph Into a Warning. It's More Relevant Now Than Ever : ScienceAlert [08:05] TR News "Experts in Sweden and abroad have warned that the government's climate policy jeopardises the country's emissions-cutting goals" https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260823-thousands-rally-in-sweden-to-protest-climate-policies-ahead-of-general-election | Source: France24 [08:05] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260823-thousands-rally-in-sweden-to-protest-climate-policies-ahead-of-general-election ) [08:07] TR News (NEW): VasakOS Arch Linux-based distribution https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/VasakOS_Arch_Linux_based_distribution.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/VasakOS_Arch_Linux_based_distribution.gmi [08:07] TR Bot Tux Machines VasakOS Arch Linux-based distribution [08:09] TR News "Armed with 29 external cameras, LiDAR, radar, and microphones, each robotaxi stays powered up between rides so it can respond to emergencies and reposition when needed." https://www.gadgetreview.com/across-nashville-parked-waymos-are-recording-your-neighborhood | [08:09] TR Bot Across Nashville, Parked Waymos Are Recording Your Neighborhood - Gadget Review [08:10] TR News (NEW): PolonOS Debian-based Linux distribution https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/PolonOS_Debian_based_Linux_distribution.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/PolonOS_Debian_based_Linux_distribution.gmi [08:10] TR Bot Tux Machines PolonOS Debian-based Linux distribution [08:12] IsambardPrince https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer_Kimball_(computer_programmer) [08:12] TR Bot Spencer Kimball (computer programmer) - Wikipedia [08:12] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: "CEO of Cockroach Labs" [08:13] TR News (NEW): Ancient Who owns Linux? case now has one foot very deep in the grave https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/Ancient_Who_owns_Linux_case_now_has_one_foot_very_deep_in_the_g.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/Ancient_Who_owns_Linux_case_now_has_one_foot_very_deep_in_the_g.gmi [08:13] TR Bot Tux Machines Ancient Who owns Linux? case now has one foot very deep in the grave [08:14] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: Piyush should sue him. [08:14] IsambardPrince Piyush is the CEO of Cockroach Labs. [08:14] IsambardPrince Piyush sprays and sprays and the survivors build better roaches next time. [08:15] TR News (NEW): This Linux PC-phone hybrid could be the future of Linux smartphones https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/This_Linux_PC_phone_hybrid_could_be_the_future_of_Linux_smartph.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/This_Linux_PC_phone_hybrid_could_be_the_future_of_Linux_smartph.gmi [08:15] TR Bot Tux Machines This Linux PC-phone hybrid could be the future of Linux smartphones [08:18] TR News (NEW): 4 Linux distros that are better at gaming than SteamOS https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/4_Linux_distros_that_are_better_at_gaming_than_SteamOS.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/4_Linux_distros_that_are_better_at_gaming_than_SteamOS.gmi [08:18] TR Bot Tux Machines 4 Linux distros that are better at gaming than SteamOS [08:20] TR News (NEW): T-PHANTOM OS security-focused Linux distribution for DFIR https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/T_PHANTOM_OS_security_focused_Linux_distribution_for_DFIR.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/T_PHANTOM_OS_security_focused_Linux_distribution_for_DFIR.gmi [08:20] TR Bot Tux Machines T-PHANTOM OS security-focused Linux distribution for DFIR [08:22] TR News Techrights The Issue With Omarchy is the Slop, the Politics Are a Side Issue https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/24/The_Issue_With_Omarchy_is_the_Slop_the_Politics_Are_a_Side_Issu.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/24/The_Issue_With_Omarchy_is_the_Slop_the_Politics_Are_a_Side_Issu.gmi [08:22] TR Bot Techrights The Issue With Omarchy is the Slop, the Politics Are a Side Issue [08:25] schestowitz[TR2] IsambardPrince: piyush has new software for managing properties [08:25] schestowitz[TR2] it's called AppRoach [08:25] TR News (NEW): I installed Linux on my mother-in-laws PC to prove its easier than Windows https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/I_installed_Linux_on_my_mother_in_law_s_PC_to_prove_it_s_easier.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/I_installed_Linux_on_my_mother_in_law_s_PC_to_prove_it_s_easier.gmi [08:25] TR Bot Tux Machines I installed Linux on my mother-in-laws PC to prove its easier than Windows [08:25] TR News "Parked Waymos actively record 360-degree video and audio even without passengers aboard. Waymo discloses no fixed data retention schedule, storing footage for a vague "reasonable" timeframe." https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/08/panopticars/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski [08:25] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/08/panopticars/ ) [08:26] TR News "In my view, this applies to all algorithmic surveillance technologies, whether visual, text-based or otherwise. It is a new economy of control" https://digit.site36.net/2026/08/23/berlin-installs-ai-cameras-to-detect-suspicious-behaviour-a-hamburg-project-has-researched-the-consequences-of-such-orwell-style-surveillance/ | Source: Site36 [08:26] TR Bot Berlin installs AI cameras to detect suspicious behaviour. A Hamburg project has researched the consequences of such Orwell-style surveillance | Matthias Monroy [08:26] TR News "High Court Justice Matthew Nicklin made that sizable bill official today when granting what outlets across the pond described as a rare indemnity order." https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/21/elton-john-prince-harry-case-legal-bill/ | Source: Digital Music News [08:26] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/21/elton-john-prince-harry-case-legal-bill/ ) [08:28] TR News "The sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln deserve better than mockery from people sitting comfortably behind keyboards." https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/maga-attacks-navy-sailors-uss-abraham-lincoln-1235612278/ | Source: Rolling Stone [08:28] TR Bot MAGA Attacks Navy Sailors Over USS Abraham Lincoln Complaints [08:28] TR News "Now fedi is very similar to twitter, and the more followers I had the more I felt like I was under constant surveillance." https://akselmo.dev/posts/deleted-my-fedi-account/ | Source: Akseli Lahtinen [08:28] TR Bot Deleted my fedi account | AksDev [08:28] TR News [Old] "Over one, possibly two months ago today (I lowkey lost track of time) I deleted the socials off my phone." https://www.late-review.com/p/obligatory-one-month-without-social | [08:28] TR Bot obligatory one month without social media on my phone substack essay (contrarian edition) [08:30] TR News "Over a two-month period last fall, Nevada County prosecutors filed court documents with falsehoods in them in four separate cases after using generative AI to write or proofread." https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-08-22/ai-led-to-mistakes-in-nevada-county-criminal-cases-should-d-a-be-sanctioned | Source: Los Angeles Times [08:30] TR Bot AI led to mistakes in Nevada County criminal cases. Should the D.A. be sanctioned? - Los Angeles Times [08:30] TR News "Florida's lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman has now been sitting before U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon in Fort Pierce for seven weeks without a ruling on whether it belongs there." https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/openai-fights-to-keep-chatgpt-lawsuit-away-from-a-state-jury | Source: Tom's Hardware [08:30] TR Bot Florida seeks court ruling to officially classify Sam Altman and ChatGPT as a 'public nuisance' OpenAI fights to keep lawsuit away from a state jury | Tom's Hardware [08:31] TR News "Q Developer is a free extension that lets a coding agent read a project, propose changes, and run commands on a developers behalf inside an editor." https://thenewstack.io/ai-coding-agent-security/ | Source: The New Stack [08:31] TR Bot One pull to wipe them all - The New Stack [08:32] *IsambardPrince has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [08:32] TR News "The core question is where frontend development itself lands in this new era. Sadly it feels to me like there are several trends pointing against increased investment in frontend knowledge: [...]" https://nolanlawson.com/2026/08/23/the-asteroid-currently-hitting-frontend-web-development/ | Source: Nolan Lawson [08:32] TR Bot The asteroid currently hitting frontend web development | Read the Tea Leaves [08:33] TR News "I have to admit that whenever folks start to talk like this I feel this desperate need to defend personhood, humanity, novels, the humanities, liberal arts, books, all of it." https://robinrendle.com/notes/cybernetics-and-ghosts/ | Source: Robin Rendle [08:33] TR Bot Cybernetics and Ghosts Robin Rendle [08:33] TR News "The initial implementation ties his quick-and-dirty Python control program with a web server living on his laptop, which hes configured MacroDroid to call on when his personal criterion for doomscrolling is met." https://hackaday.com/2026/08/23/bluetooth-shock-collar-keeps-wearer-on-task/ | Source: Hackaday [08:33] TR Bot Shock Collar Keeps Wearer On Task | Hackaday [08:33] TR News "The lawsuit follows years of Oura users taking to the [Internet] to share their frustration with the smart rings sleep accuracy" https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/21/oura-faces-lawsuit-accusing-it-of-misleading-consumers-about-sleep-tracking-accuracy/ | Source: TechCrunch [08:33] TR Bot faces lawsuit accusing it of misleading consumers about sleep-tracking accuracy | TechCrunch [08:33] TR News (NEW): Foldseek compare large protein structure datasets https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/Foldseek_compare_large_protein_structure_datasets.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/Foldseek_compare_large_protein_structure_datasets.gmi [08:33] TR Bot Tux Machines Foldseek compare large protein structure datasets [08:34] TR News "Companies like Google and Microsoft have used their money, their might and their massive reach to influence nearly every step of the education supply chain." https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/business/schools-big-tech-google-microsoft.html | Source: New York Times [08:34] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/business/schools-big-tech-google-microsoft.html ) [08:36] TR News "The UD series debuted in 1970, and these Type I cassettes earned a reputation as a worthy rival to TDK SD and Sony HF ferric alternatives" https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/maxell-partners-with-disk-union-to-release-ud-60u-special-edition-cassettes-black-and-red-ud-tapes-could-be-ideal-for-use-in-your-c64-datassette | Source: Tom's Hardware [08:36] TR Bot Maxell brings back classic 1970s cassette tapes 1970s ferric formula is custom-made for vintage PC data drives | Tom's Hardware [08:36] TR News "This problem is going to get even more and more exaggerated and acute to the housing industry because of the data center construction" https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/data-centers-construction-worker-labor-housing-market | Source: Futurism [08:36] TR Bot Data Centers Are Sucking Up So Many Construction Workers That There Isn't Anybody Left to Build Houses, Expert Says [08:37] TR News "That experiment did not last long. Fiction bores me, as do virtually all books." https://protesilaos.com/commentary/2026-08-23-breadth-depth-personal-connection/ | Source: Protesilaos Stavrou [08:37] TR Bot depth, and personal connection | Protesilaos [08:37] TR News "The case, which became unsealed July 30, claims Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Informa forced U.S. research institutions to submit false claims" https://retractionwatch.com/2026/07/31/federal-lawsuit-major-publishers-article-processing-charges-false-claims-act/ | Source: Retraction Watch [08:37] TR Bot Federal lawsuit accuses four major publishers of extorting article processing charges Retraction Watch [08:37] TR News "While this blog post was inspired by his post, dont consider this as any kind of rebuttal. There are some points where I point directly to his writing but everything else is just generally my ideas around the topic." https://hamatti.org/posts/theres-no-membership-card-for-indieweb/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala [08:37] TR Bot Theres no membership card for IndieWeb : Juha-Matti Santala [08:38] TR News "For better or worse, that is what this essay has amounted to, perhaps dishearteningly." https://vhbelvadi.com/re-defining-the-indieweb | Source: V H Belvadi [08:38] TR Bot V.H. Belvadi Re-defining the IndieWeb (Venkatram Harish Belvadi) [08:40] TR News "In CSS, pixels are a double lie: [...]" https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/08/death-to-px-long-live-ch/ | Source: Terence Eden [08:40] TR Bot Death to px, long live ch! Terence Edens Blog [08:40] TR News "Alice calls the order service. The order service calls the ledger on her behalf." https://blog.frankel.ch/security-baked-into-jvm/4/ | Source: Nicolas Frnkel [08:40] TR News (NEW): I switched to Pop!_OS for the most superficial reason. No, I don't regret it at all https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/I_switched_to_Pop_OS_for_the_most_superficial_reason_No_I_don_t.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/I_switched_to_Pop_OS_for_the_most_superficial_reason_No_I_don_t.gmi [08:40] TR Bot Security Baked Into the JVM: sixteen Subjects on the wire [08:40] TR Bot Tux Machines I switched to Pop!_OS for the most superficial reason. No, I don't regret it at all [08:40] TR News "This is my response to The Weekly Challenge #387." https://raku-musings.com/string-the-atoms.html | Source: Arne Sommer [08:40] TR Bot String the Atoms with Raku - Arne Sommer [08:41] TR News "Sometimes, you create a branch off another branch, do some work on it, and want to know what the original branch was pointing at." https://www.jvt.me/posts/2026/08/23/determine-branch/ | Source: Jamie Tanna [08:41] TR Bot What commit did I branch off from? Jamie Tanna | Software Engineer [08:41] TR News "I wrote a tiny language implementation: Calcium. Its meant as a demonstration of how languages like Python are implemented." https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/202608/micro_language_implementation_calcium | Source: Ned Batchelder [08:41] TR Bot Micro language implementation: Calcium | Ned Batchelder [08:41] TR News "I wanted to make a blog post like this for a long time, because its something that I wish I could find more of myself." https://blog.tymscar.com/posts/howtoreportabug/ | Source: Tymscar [08:41] TR Bot How To Report A Bug So It Actually Gets Fixed :: The Tymscar Blog [08:41] TR News [Old] "This work is entirely my own (no AI) and the code samples are my construction. Sources for all inferences are cited." https://thalia.dev/blog/unix-braces/ | [08:41] TR Bot Curly braces: An evolution of UNIX and C | Thalia Archibalds blog [08:43] TR News (NEW): Programming Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/Programming_Leftovers.gmi [08:43] TR Bot Tux Machines Programming Leftovers [08:44] TR News Techrights Links 24/08/2026: Re-defining the IndieWeb and "Data Center Backlash Bursts Into the Midterms" https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/24/Links_24_08_2026_Re_defining_the_IndieWeb_and_Data_Center_Backl.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/24/Links_24_08_2026_Re_defining_the_IndieWeb_and_Data_Center_Backl.gmi [08:44] TR Bot Techrights Links 24/08/2026: Re-defining the IndieWeb and "Data Center Backlash Bursts Into the Midterms" [08:47] TR News (NEW): : Google Android Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/Android_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/Android_Leftovers.gmi [08:47] TR Bot Tux Machines Android Leftovers [08:54] TR News "best interface" https://fossforce.com/2026/08/libreoffice-26-8-will-bring-a-better-tabbed-interface-not-a-single-best-one/ | Source: FOSS Force [08:54] TR Bot LibreOffice 26.8 Will Bring a Better Tabbed Interface Not a Single 'Best' One - FOSS Force [08:56] TR News crossposted for emphasis http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/23/Losing_a_Million_Pounds_Is_Not_Winning.shtml [08:56] TR Bot Tux Machines Losing a Million Pounds Is Not Winning ● Aug 24 [09:05] TR News Time to Boycott Evri https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/24/time-to-boycott-evri/ [09:05] TR Bot Blog Archive Time to Boycott Evri [09:07] TR News I have been put on PIP. Should I ask my manager to document and mail the tasks that needs to be done? And the outcome required? https://old.reddit.com/r/IBM_Employees/comments/1vwczg1/i_have_been_put_on_pip_should_i_ask_my_manager_to/ [09:07] TR Bot Welcome to Reddit [09:21] TR News Outcomes Where Both Parties Lose https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/24/outcomes-where-both-parties-lose/ [09:21] TR Bot Blog Archive Outcomes Where Both Parties Lose [09:29] TR News Techrights Slop Plagiarism and Chatbots Are Killing Evri (They Infuriate and Insult Clients) https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/24/Slop_Plagiarism_and_Chatbots_Are_Killing_Evri_They_Infuriate_an.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/24/Slop_Plagiarism_and_Chatbots_Are_Killing_Evri_They_Infuriate_an.gmi [09:29] TR Bot Techrights Slop Plagiarism and Chatbots Are Killing Evri (They Infuriate and Insult Clients) ● Aug 24 [10:07] *ewig has quit (Read error: Connection reset by peer) [10:11] *ewig (~ewig@user/ewig) has joined #techrights ● Aug 24 [11:11] *buzzert has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [11:12] *buzzert (~buzzert@yi4rdkpp2a7kc.irc) has joined #techrights [11:38] *darwin has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [11:39] *darwin (~darwin@ezriia7nzimpg.irc) has joined #techrights ● Aug 24 [13:24] *Obsdark (~Obsdark@2800:300:6392:d1f0:92fa:abe9:9cca:5365) has joined #techrights [13:24] *Obsdark has quit (Changing host) [13:24] *Obsdark (~Obsdark@user/obsdark) has joined #techrights [13:52] *lxo has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) ● Aug 24 [14:30] *IsambardPrince (~isambardprince@87g4yisj2dmku.irc) has joined #techrights [14:49] TR News "As a sort of demonstration that documentation about an application can be treated as a data product in and of itself" https://wrla.ch/log/2026/08/glean-dictionary-duckdb/ | Source: Wrlach [14:49] TR Bot Glean Dictionary + DuckDB [14:49] TR News "Until yesterday, this website was managed with Hugo and Bulma, but after a bit over 8 years, I decided to change." https://www.usebox.net/jjm/blog/new-website/ | Source: Juan J Martnez [14:49] TR Bot website - usebox.net [14:50] TR News "So that means when I post videos, they have to be videos I've already pumped through something like ffmpeg to prep and be sure they'll play." https://json.blog/2026/08/23/adding-video-support-to-the-blog | Source: Jason Becker [14:50] TR Bot Adding video support to the blog [14:50] TR News "Here are some options in the order of my own preferences." https://michaelharley.net/posts/2026/08/22/please-let-me-interact-with-your-blog-post/ | Source: Michael Harley [14:50] TR Bot Please let me interact with your blog post! | Michael Harley [14:51] TR News "Im with Michael mostly. And I try to follow all of his suggestions and more here on my site. Lets break it down from Mikes list: [...]" https://danq.me/2026/08/23/re-please-let-me-interact-with-your-blog-post/ | Source: Dan Q [14:51] TR Bot Re: Please let me interact with your blog post! Dan Q [14:51] TR News "Honestly, this is not a bleeding edge, will-win-design-awards website." https://chenhuijing.com/blog/i-still-like-writing-websites-by-hand/ | Source: Chen HuiJing [14:51] TR Bot I still like writing websites by hand | Chen Hui Jing [14:51] TR News "I might try and make my own site generator in Nim" https://aethrvmn.gr/microblog/site-update/ | Source: Aethrvmn [14:51] TR Bot Site Update | aethrvmn ● Aug 24 [15:01] TR News "In 2021, an heir to SCO settled with IBM for $14.25 million" https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/08/24/ancient-who-owns-linux-case-now-has-one-foot-very-deep-in-the-grave/5291513 | Source: The Register UK [15:01] TR Bot Ancient Who owns Linux? case now has one foot very deep in the grave [15:01] TR News "Developers, however, have been upset with the status-quo for years." https://erikmcclure.com/blog/what-is-the-nature-of-evil/ | Source: Eric McClure [15:01] TR Bot What is the Nature of Evil In LICENSE.MD? [15:02] TR News "Impressive as it most certainly is when an amateur fabricates a semiconductor, most of the projects weve seen are more demonstrations than workable chips." https://hackaday.com/2026/08/23/making-leds-in-the-home-fab/ | Source: Hackaday [15:02] TR Bot LEDs In The Home Fab | Hackaday [15:02] TR News "on the Game Boy Color" https://hackaday.com/2026/08/23/using-the-basic-snes-hardware-to-play-minecraft/ | Source: Hackaday [15:02] TR Bot The Basic SNES Hardware To Play Minecraft | Hackaday [15:03] TR News "As I am writing this, there is a vote ongoing in the Debian project on how to deal with AI in general and AI-assisted contributions to Debian specifically." https://aigarius.com/blog/2026/08/22/optimistic-take-on-ai/ | Source: Aigars Mahinovs [15:03] TR Bot take on AI | Aigarius Blog [15:03] TR News [Old] "Our whole Network was now running NetBSD." https://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2005/09/10/0000.html | Source: NetBSD [15:03] TR Bot netbsd-advocacy: NetBSD and my life... [15:04] TR News "Obviously when a system is cracked in such a way as to give the "cracker" super-user status that is the end of all security but if any aspect mentioned above is cracked, the results can be just as serious" https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/AUUGN/AUUGN-V01.1.pdf | Source: The Unix Heritage Society [15:04] TR News "AROS developers are making sure that Amiga legacy isnt stuck on any given hardware, so they never have to let it go." https://hackaday.com/2026/08/23/amiga-inspired-aros-goes-bare-metal-on-raspberry-pi/ | Source: Hackaday [15:04] TR Bot AROS Goes Bare Metal On Raspberry Pi | Hackaday [15:05] TR News "[...] Some people prefer to set up their own home servers and run their own services - hosting their own calendar, file synchronization, office documents, and other tools." https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20260824 | Source: Distro Watch [15:05] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20260824 ) [15:09] TR News "The NanoPi R28S is a compact networking-focused Linux board based on the Rockchip RK3528A from FriendlyELEC." https://linuxgizmos.com/low-cost-45mm-nanopi-r28s-offers-dual-gbe-and-wi-fi-6/ | Source: Linux Gizmos [15:09] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/low-cost-45mm-nanopi-r28s-offers-dual-gbe-and-wi-fi-6/ ) [15:09] TR News "The August 2026 release of DietPi v10.6 expands hardware support with new images for the Orange Pi 4 Pro, Orange Pi Zero 3W, and several Odroid boards." https://linuxgizmos.com/dietpi-v10-6-adds-orange-pi-and-odroid-images/ | Source: Linux Gizmos [15:09] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/dietpi-v10-6-adds-orange-pi-and-odroid-images/ ) [15:11] TR News Volkswagen layoffs: CEO warns several plants may not remain viable [15:18] IsambardPrince [02:25] IsambardPrince: piyush has new software for managing properties [15:18] IsambardPrince [02:25] it's called AppRoach [15:18] schestowitz[TR2] IsambardPrince: piyush has new software for managing properties [15:18] IsambardPrince Apartment roaches are a very bad problem. German Roaches are the worst. [15:18] schestowitz[TR2] just told rianne that joke [15:18] schestowitz[TR2] an hour ago [15:19] schestowitz[TR2] because she saw an ad similar to that\ [15:19] TR News "Debt and Tax Cuts - Paul Krugman" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/debt-and-tax-cuts [15:19] TR Bot Debt and Tax Cuts - Paul Krugman [15:19] IsambardPrince The reason roaches are "associated with poor people" is because you get concentrated poverty and a slumlord that does absolutely nothing to even slow the roaches down. [15:19] schestowitz[TR2] piyush did not gas those germans [15:19] IsambardPrince He actively preys on people who have no choice in housing, so there's no reason to spend any money fixing the roach problem. [15:20] TR News "What if the fascists win in Germany? - Salon.com" https://www.salon.com/2026/08/23/what-if-the-fascists-win-in-germany/ [15:20] TR Bot if the fascists win in Germany? - Salon.com [15:20] IsambardPrince So instead of a few roaches and a "We're doing the best we can." which can happen in any building, you get thousands of them pouring out of your walls in the open daylight. [15:20] IsambardPrince Then people say that poor people are "dirty". [15:20] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: You're just lucky. [15:20] IsambardPrince You go to pawn shops to buy used electronics. [15:21] IsambardPrince That's a good way to get German Roaches. [15:21] TR News and an answer is ... IRC https://www.salon.com/2026/08/23/the-internet-is-losing-its-third-places/ [15:21] TR Bot internet is losing its third places - Salon.com [15:21] IsambardPrince They love electronics. Because they're attracted to heat, like the heat a laptop processor produces. [15:21] TR News The center calls for online age limits and "digital justice" | "Centern krver ldersgrnser online och digital rttvisa" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/08/23/centern-kraver-aldersgranser-online-och-digital-rattvisa/ [15:21] TR Bot Centern krver ldersgrnser online och digital rttvisa [15:22] IsambardPrince If you absolutely must buy used laptops from Goodwill or something, toss it in the freezer for a couple days. [15:22] IsambardPrince They won't survive a hard freeze. [15:22] schestowitz[TR2] You go to pawn shops to buy used electronics. [15:22] IsambardPrince And if you ruin the laptop somehow by freezing it, it's still better than seeing roaches everywhere that breed so fast you never get them all. [15:22] schestowitz[TR2] maybe they check them for thaat [15:22] IsambardPrince I guarantee you they do not. [15:22] schestowitz[TR2] anyway, i doube the _average_ laptop in a cold country is full of hidden bugs [15:23] schestowitz[TR2] it does have bugs somethings... in WINDOWS [15:23] IsambardPrince You'd have to take the laptop apart to seee if there's any in there, even one egg sac can spawn 40 new roaches. [15:23] IsambardPrince That's enough. [15:23] IsambardPrince They love laptops, TVs, internet routers. Anything with big enough holes for them to squeeze into. [15:23] schestowitz[TR2] sounds ILL, man.!!\ [15:24] IsambardPrince Don't bring in used furniture unless you can visually inspect the entire thing and always spray it and wipe it down anyway. [15:25] IsambardPrince Always assume that an apartment that looks clean had a landlord set offf a roach grenade and enough survived. [15:26] IsambardPrince Pull out the fridge and look around it, inspect the counters and drawers and cabinets. Look for old roach bait on the hinges, or a white powder they didn't vacuum, or little brown flecks everywhere. [15:26] schestowitz[TR2] i cannot recall seeing roaches here [15:26] schestowitz[TR2] ever, but i did [15:26] schestowitz[TR2] in manchester [15:26] schestowitz[TR2] but cannot remember [15:27] schestowitz[TR2] those are rare [15:27] IsambardPrince Set up some glue traps. They're cheap. They will monitor for a problem. They'll tell you if you have roaches crawling around before it gets out of hand, when there's still time to actively treat. [15:27] IsambardPrince If you share walls with others, assume someone will bring them in eventually. [15:27] TR News europa [15:28] TR News "Ukraine's Independence Day - 24 August 2026 | EEAS" https://www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/ukraines-independence-day-24-august-2026_en [15:28] TR Bot Ukraine's Independence Day - 24 August 2026 | EEAS [15:28] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: The consumer grade roach baits are so cheap. [15:28] IsambardPrince I'm hoarding a pile of consumer grade ones I bought with Amazon coupons. [15:28] schestowitz[TR2] so amazon profiels you [15:28] IsambardPrince Yeah. [15:28] schestowitz[TR2] are the poor man with hygiene issues [15:29] IsambardPrince So what? I have roaches. Everyone in Chicago has roaches. [15:29] schestowitz[TR2] like the man who could not take ashower [15:29] IsambardPrince At least I'm trying to kill the roaches. [15:29] schestowitz[TR2] but thought he could afford something called "ROYAL court of justice" [15:29] IsambardPrince That's more than most Devil Apes do. [15:29] schestowitz[TR2] in another continent [15:29] schestowitz[TR2] you don't need to buy them from amazon [15:30] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: The reason you want cheap baits in your lineup is that Advion is very effective at killing the roaches, but it's also incredibly expensive. [15:30] schestowitz[TR2] anyway, let's get on tech or grandma [15:30] IsambardPrince It only takes like 12 bait stations placed around where your glue traps are catching roaches to solve most of the problems, that's how good Advion is. [15:30] schestowitz[TR2] is there isgradmadead.com site yet>? [15:30] IsambardPrince But the consumer grade ones work too, just not as well. [15:31] IsambardPrince So you use it to sort of diversify the treatment and pick off some that might not like Advion. [15:31] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: Yes, there's a lot of data that companies keep about you online. [15:32] IsambardPrince "Gay. Likes porn. Has a cockroach problem. Cooks at home. Left-Libertarian. Enjoys frugal hobbies and groups." [15:33] IsambardPrince There's just hundreds or thousands of data points here you know, but they're also pretty generic in each particular label. [15:33] IsambardPrince Like every item describes millions of tens of millions or hundreds of millions. [15:33] IsambardPrince But yours becomes unique. [15:33] IsambardPrince This is why Google Chrome's FLoC is so much worse than cookies. [15:33] schestowitz[TR2] schestowitz[TR2]: Yes, there's a lot of data that companies keep about you online. [15:33] schestowitz[TR2] does not mean you xshould help them [15:33] IsambardPrince And Google labeled it "Privacy Sandbox". [15:35] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: I realized eventually after buying a ton of cockroach products that did not work very well that baits work. [15:35] IsambardPrince But if you rely on one you'll always keep catching roaches. [15:36] IsambardPrince It'll go down from 2-3 every day in the sticky traps to 2-3 a month, but those are the stragglers that don't like that bait. [15:37] IsambardPrince They usually don't become immune to everything because that's more difficult. When you're using three or four insecticides at once in different bait stations, that all kill roaches a different way, it controls the problem where you're selecting for roaches that can tolerate one of them. [15:37] TR News Wouter Verhelst: Programming and GR 2026 002 https://grep.be/blog//en/computer/debian/Programming_and_GR_2026_002/ [15:37] TR Bot Programming and GR 2026 002 [15:39] TR News MikroTik as a home router https://blog.apnic.net/2026/08/24/mikrotik-as-a-home-router/ [15:39] TR Bot MikroTik as a home router | APNIC Blog [15:39] TR News https [15:39] TR News Do IXPs make the Internet faster? Its complicated https://blog.apnic.net/2026/08/24/do-ixps-make-the-internet-faster-its-complicated/ [15:39] TR Bot Do IXPs make the Internet faster? 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[16:14] TR News Why is Saudi Arabia spending billions to become a global Esports power? https://www.france24.com/en/why-saudi-arabia-is-spending-billions-to-become-a-global-esports-power [16:14] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/why-saudi-arabia-is-spending-billions-to-become-a-global-esports-power ) [16:14] IsambardPrince It really is. [16:14] IsambardPrince Nobody asked me if I wanted to pay taxes for programs I don't qualify for and to have a war and bail out Intel. [16:14] IsambardPrince Yet that's what happens. [16:15] schestowitz[TR2] in forgot which british philos it was, [16:15] schestowitz[TR2] he found ways to earn less [16:15] schestowitz[TR2] to pay less tax [16:15] schestowitz[TR2] to find things like war [16:15] schestowitz[TR2] *fund [16:15] TR News Update: base64dump.py Version 0.0.31 https://blog.didierstevens.com/2026/08/23/update-base64dump-py-version-0-0-31/ [16:15] TR Bot Update: base64dump.py Version 0.0.31 | Didier Stevens [16:16] TR News $60+ Nordic Semi nRF93M1 Development Kit (DK) targets LTE Cat 1 bis IoT applications https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/08/24/60-nordic-semi-nrf93m1-development-kit-dk-targets-lte-cat-1-bis-iot-applications/ [16:16] TR Bot $60+ Nordic Semi nRF93M1 Development Kit (DK) targets LTE Cat 1 bis IoT applications - CNX Software [16:16] TR News New Steam Games Playable on the Steam Deck, with How to Fish and Twisted Tower - 2026-08-22 Edition https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-playable-on-the-steam-deck-2026-08-22-edition/index.html [16:16] TR Bot New Steam Games Playable on the Steam Deck, with How to Fish and Twisted Tower - 2026-08-22 Edition [16:17] TR News Scientists Reveal The Strange Neurological Reason Your Pupils Dilate When You're Surprised https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-reveal-the-strange-neurological-reason-your-pupils-dilate-when-youre-surprised [16:17] TR Bot Reveal The Strange Neurological Reason Your Pupils Dilate When You're Surprised : ScienceAlert [16:18] TR News Sergio Cipriano: Two Debian Days in one week https://sergiocipriano.com/debian-day-2026.html [16:18] TR Bot Two Debian Days in one week [16:20] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@xk49uzi5amp4u.irc) has joined #techrights [16:22] TR News Ukraine's Independence Day https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/24/ukraines-independence-day/ [16:22] TR Bot Blog Archive Ukraines Independence Day [16:24] TR News South Korean survivor fights for workplace harassment justice https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korean-survivor-fights-for-workplace-harassment-justice [16:24] TR Bot South Korean survivor fights for workplace harassment justice | The Straits Times [16:25] TR News [GSoC 2026] Expanding the functionality of the Haiku Devices Application - Final Report https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/aquamatic123/2026-08-21_gsoc_2026_expanding_the_functionality_of_the_haiku_devices_application_-_final_report/ [16:25] TR Bot [GSoC 2026] Expanding the functionality of the Haiku Devices Application - Final Report | Haiku Project [16:27] TR News Google Summer of Code 2026 Reports: Improving RAIDframe http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/gsoc2026_raidframe [16:27] TR Bot NetBSD Blog [16:27] TR News Fix for pulseaudio causing app crash https://bkhome.org/news/202608/fix-for-pulseaudio-causing-app-crash.html [16:27] TR Bot Fix for pulseaudio causing app crash [16:27] TR News Colin Watson: GSS-API support split out from main Debian OpenSSHpackages https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~cjwatson/blog/openssh-gssapi-split.html [16:27] TR Bot GSS-API support split out from main Debian OpenSSHpackages | Colin Watson's blog [16:28] TR News Fake GTA VI ISO circulates on the internet a few days after leak, internet sleuths claim 113GB download is padded malware https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/fake-gta-vi-iso-circulates-on-the-internet-a-few-days-after-leak-internet-sleuths-claim-113gb-download-is-padded-malware-testers-claim-file-is-99-99-percent-empty-zeroes-with-50kb-virus-embedded [16:28] TR Bot Fake GTA VI ISO circulates on the internet a few days after leak, internet sleuths claim 113GB download is padded malware testers claim file is 99.99% empty zeroes with 50KB virus embedded | Tom's Hardware [16:28] TR News Philip Withnall: Flatpak repository key rotation https://tecnocode.co.uk/2026/08/23/flatpak-repository-key-rotation/ [16:28] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://tecnocode.co.uk/2026/08/23/flatpak-repository-key-rotation/ ) [16:29] TR News Escaping the Grue: Freeing The Inform 6 Documentation https://jxself.org/escaping-the-grue.shtml [16:29] TR Bot Escaping the Grue: Freeing The Inform 6 Documentation ● Aug 24 [17:17] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: You can legally pay less tax by earning less. [17:17] IsambardPrince You can get by with earning less if you spend less. [17:18] IsambardPrince The reason they want people to spend is so there will be more tax. [17:18] IsambardPrince People who don't spend are essentially worthless to corporations and the government. [17:20] IsambardPrince Hmmm. [17:20] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: I bought some Light beer yesterday. [17:20] IsambardPrince Just because it was dirt cheap and they didn't have the regular version in stock. [17:20] IsambardPrince This one is Miller High Life Light. [17:21] IsambardPrince I've got to say this is the first Light beer I've had that doesn't taste offensive or watered down. [17:21] IsambardPrince It's definitely slightly different than the regular, but not bad. [17:22] IsambardPrince Color and carbonation are very similar, still tastes pretty sweet and malty. [17:24] IsambardPrince I actually looked into the science behind this. [17:25] IsambardPrince Miller's process for High Life Light is completely different than Miller Light. [17:25] IsambardPrince To make a beer "Light," brewers use an enzyme called glucoamylase to break down almost all the complex, unfermentable starches into simple sugars so the yeast can eat absolutely everything. [17:26] *psydruid has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [17:26] IsambardPrince Bud Light and Coors Light let this enzyme run rampant until the beer is almost entirely devoid of leftover malt solids. [17:27] IsambardPrince Miller explicitly caps this process earlier for High Life Light. They deliberately leave a higher percentage of unfermentable dextrins (complex sugars) intact. This preserves the viscosity, giving it a heavy color and carbonation pattern instead of looking pale and washed out [17:28] IsambardPrince That was always my biggest complaint about Light Beer. They don't leave anything behind. It's just alcohol seltzer by the time they're finished. [17:29] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techrights [17:30] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techrights [17:31] MinceR well, people drink alcoholic drinks to get poisoned, so it makes sense [17:37] *ewig has quit (Remote host closed the connection) [17:38] *ewig (~ewig@user/ewig) has joined #techrights ● Aug 24 [18:06] IsambardPrince MinceR: I told my mom if I said anything at my grandmother's funeral it would be unhinged. [18:06] IsambardPrince It would be a combination of Andrew Linoge listing all the sins of everyone in the room from Storm of the Century meets Tony Montana's "You're all a bunch of cockroaches!" diatribe from Scarface. [18:07] *Obsdark has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [18:08] IsambardPrince You can't truly appreciate Tony Montana screaming about cockroaches unless you've had a proper cockroach infestation. [18:20] TR News "FOSS Force: An AlternativeApproaches web site" https://fossforce.com/ she updated the page [18:20] TR Bot FOSS Force - Keeping tech free [18:21] TR News China abruptly delays ambitious Change-7 mission to find water ice on moon https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20260823-china-abruptly-delays-ambitious-chang-e-7-mission-to-find-water-ice-on-moon [18:21] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20260823-china-abruptly-delays-ambitious-chang-e-7-mission-to-find-water-ice-on-moon ) [18:23] TR News Chinese comedian Guo Degang investigated after patriotic song gag https://hongkongfp.com/2026/08/23/chinese-comedian-guo-degang-investigated-after-patriotic-song-gag/ [18:23] TR Bot Chinese comedian Guo Degang investigated after patriotic song gag [18:23] TR News The asteroid currently hitting frontend web development https://nolanlawson.com/2026/08/23/the-asteroid-currently-hitting-frontend-web-development/ [18:23] TR Bot The asteroid currently hitting frontend web development | Read the Tea Leaves [18:25] TR News Hong Kong Tiananmen vigil activists convicted under nat. security law https://hongkongfp.com/2026/08/21/breaking-hong-kong-tiananmen-vigil-activists-convicted-under-nat-security-law-face-up-to-10-years-prison/ [18:25] TR Bot Tiananmen vigil activists convicted under nat. security law, face up to 10 years prison [18:29] TR News Amazon Delivery Drone Drops Package Directly Into Customers Swimming Pool https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/amazon-drone-package-pool [18:29] TR Bot Amazon Delivery Drone Drops Package Directly Into Customer's Swimming Pool [18:31] TR News "our mail server ended up on Gmail's internal list of non-compliant senders." https://www.arcanoae.com/customers-with-gmail-addresses-may-see-delayed-email-receipt/ [18:31] TR Bot Customers with Gmail addresses may see delayed email receipt - Arca Noae [18:32] TR News Getting an LLM to Make Me a Tool for Enriching the Color Metadata in My Icon Collection https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/use-llm-to-add-color-metadata/ [18:32] TR Bot Getting an LLM to Make Me a Tool for Enriching the Color Metadata in My Icon Collection - Jim Nielsens Blog [18:32] TR News Nvidia reportedly warns biggest customers of 15% price hikes on Hey Hi (AI) servers memory costs continue to soar https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/nvidia-reportedly-warns-biggest-customers-of-15-percent-price-hikes-on-ai-servers [18:32] TR Bot Nvidia reportedly warns biggest customers of 15% price hikes on AI servers memory costs continue to soar | Tom's Hardware [18:33] TR News Hong Kong court finds Tiananmen massacre commemorators guilty of subversion https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/08/hong-kong-court-finds-tiananmen-crackdown-commemorators-guilty-of-subversion/ [18:33] TR Bot Hong Kong court finds Tiananmen massacre commemorators guilty of subversion - JURIST - News [18:36] TR News Mesa 26.2.1 Released with A Large Collection of Bug Fixes https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/08/mesa-26-2-1-released-with-a-large-collection-of-bug-fixes/ [18:36] TR Bot Mesa 26.2.1 Released with A Large Collection of Bug Fixes | UbuntuHandbook [18:36] TR News 10-year-old bug action triggered an Ubuntu Phone dev reunion https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/ubuntu-phone-bug-reunion [18:36] TR Bot 10-year-old bug action triggered an Ubuntu Phone dev reunion - OMG! 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Supports Playing 9 More Games in Linux | UbuntuHandbook [18:39] TR News (NEW): Games: Soup Raiders, Proton 11.0-2, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/22/Games_Soup_Raiders_Proton_11_0_2_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/22/Games_Soup_Raiders_Proton_11_0_2_and_More.gmi [18:39] TR Bot Tux Machines Games: Soup Raiders, Proton 11.0-2, and More [18:40] TR News DietPi v10.6 Adds Orange Pi and Odroid Images https://linuxgizmos.com/dietpi-v10-6-adds-orange-pi-and-odroid-images/ [18:40] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/dietpi-v10-6-adds-orange-pi-and-odroid-images/ ) [18:40] TR News Low-cost 45mm NanoPi R28S offers dual GbE and Wi-Fi 6 https://linuxgizmos.com/low-cost-45mm-nanopi-r28s-offers-dual-gbe-and-wi-fi-6/ [18:40] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/low-cost-45mm-nanopi-r28s-offers-dual-gbe-and-wi-fi-6/ ) [18:41] TR News 17 GNOME Extensions To Help You Customization Desktop Looks https://itsfoss.com/gnome-extensions-customization/n [18:41] TR Bot ( status 404 @ https://itsfoss.com/gnome-extensions-customization/n/ ) [18:41] TR News Spaced 8.26.7 https://distrowatch.com/spaced [18:41] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/spaced ) [18:41] TR News ATZ GNU/Linux 12.15.1 https://distrowatch.com/atz [18:41] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/atz ) [18:41] TR News CuerdOS 2.1.1 https://distrowatch.com/cuerdos [18:41] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/cuerdos ) [18:41] TR News LajtLinux 13-20260823 https://distrowatch.com/lajtlinux [18:41] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/lajtlinux ) [18:42] TR News extrox 20260823 https://distrowatch.com/extrox [18:42] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/extrox ) [18:42] TR News PorteuX 2.8 https://distrowatch.com/porteux [18:42] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/porteux ) [18:46] TR News Microsoft is in Double Trouble in Singapore https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/23/Microsoft_is_in_Double_Trouble_in_Singapore.shtml [18:46] TR Bot Techrights Microsoft is in Double Trouble in Singapore [18:48] TR News Reintroducing 4 TB drives into our FreeBSD server https://www.rubenerd.au/reintroducing-4tb-drives-into-our-freebsd-server/ [18:48] TR Bot Rubenerd: Reintroducing 4 TB drives into our FreeBSD server [18:49] TR News Focusing More on GNU/Linux, as It Grows Fast This Summer https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/23/focusing-more-on-gnulinux-as-it-grows-fast-this-summer/ [18:49] TR Bot Blog Archive Focusing More on GNU/Linux, as It Grows Fast This Summer [18:50] TR News How to make military decision-support software reliable when comms go down https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/how-to-make-military-decision-support-software-reliable-when-comms-go-down/ [18:50] TR Bot How to make military decision-support software reliable when comms go down | The Strategist [18:50] TR News Lady Gaga Triumphs in Mayhem Trademark Lawsuit In Big First Amendment Win https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/21/lady-gaga-wins-mayhem-trademark-lawsuit/ [18:50] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/21/lady-gaga-wins-mayhem-trademark-lawsuit/ ) ● Aug 24 [19:02] TR News Bad Bunny Spent Nearly $500,000 Fending Off the Ensame Bailar Copyright Lawsuit, Court Filings Reveal (Updated) https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/21/bad-bunny-copyright-defense-spend-ensename-bailar/ [19:02] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/21/bad-bunny-copyright-defense-spend-ensename-bailar/ ) [19:07] TR News Lazy Reading for 2026/08/23 https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2026/08/23/lazy-reading-for-2026-08-23/ [19:07] TR Bot Lazy Reading for 2026/08/23 DragonFly BSD Digest [19:07] TR News mintcast 491 PROXMOX, According To Joe https://mintcast.org/491-proxmox-according-to-joe/ [19:07] TR Bot 491 PROXMOX, According To Joe mintCast [19:08] TR News Openterface KeyMod turns your smartphone into a USB keyboard, mouse, gamepad, or SSH client (Crowdfunding) https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/08/24/openterface-keymod-turns-your-smartphone-into-a-usb-keyboard-mouse-gamepad-or-ssh-client/ [19:08] TR Bot Openterface KeyMod turns your smartphone into a USB keyboard, mouse, gamepad, or SSH client (Crowdfunding) - 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No, I don't regret it at all https://www.howtogeek.com/i-switched-to-pop-os-for-the-most-superficial-reason-no-i-dont-regret-it-at-all/ [19:15] TR Bot I switched to Pop!_OS for the most superficial reason. No, I don't regret it at all [19:16] TR News I recreated my Linux KDE workflow on Windows with these 4 free utilities https://www.howtogeek.com/recreated-my-linux-kde-workflow-on-windows-utilities/ [19:16] TR Bot I recreated my Linux KDE workflow on Windows with these 4 free utilities [19:17] TR News But you kept the back doors, the bloat, the viruses. Hurrah! [19:17] TR News Apples Find My Protocol Reversed Engineered To Share Live Locations With Linux https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/apples-find-my-protocol-reversed-engineered-share-e4epe/ [19:17] TR Bot Apples Find My Protocol Reversed Engineered To Share Live Locations With Linux [19:17] TR News 4 Linux distros that are better at gaming than SteamOS https://www.makeuseof.com/4-linux-distros-that-are-better-at-gaming-than-steamos/ [19:17] TR Bot 4 Linux distros that are better at gaming than SteamOS [19:19] TR News AMD Publishes RDNA 4m Firmware Ahead Of Launch, Bringing Next-Gen APUs Closer To Linux Support https://wccftech.com/amd-publishes-rdna-4m-firmware-ahead-of-launch/ [19:19] TR Bot AMD Publishes RDNA 4m Firmware Ahead Of Launch, Bringing Next-Gen APUs Closer To Linux Support [19:20] TR News Espressif Systems releases a Linux BSP developer preview for ESP32-S31 RISC-V microprocessor https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/08/22/espressif-systems-releases-a-linux-bsp-developer-preview-for-esp32-s31-risc-v-microprocessor/ [19:20] TR Bot Espressif Systems releases a Linux BSP developer preview for ESP32-S31 RISC-V microprocessor - CNX Software [19:21] TR News Linux isn't for everyone, but these 5 types of people should seriously consider it https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-isnt-for-everyone-but-these-types-of-people-should-seriously-consider-it/ [19:21] TR Bot Linux isn't for everyone, but these 5 types of people should seriously consider it [19:21] TR News AMDs next-gen Medusa APUs are getting ready for launch, and Linux just spilled the beans https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/amd-medusa-point-rdna-4m-firmware-ryzen-ai-500/ [19:21] TR Bot AMD's next-gen Medusa APUs are getting ready for launch, and Linux just spilled the beans - Digital Trends [19:22] TR News "China plans to drop Windows earlier than planned in favor of Linux for some government bodies. The move comes as part of China's broader push to reduce dependence on foreign products and services," https://www.notebookcheck.net/China-follows-Europe-in-switching-to-Linux-with-Windows-being-shown-the-door-earlier-than-planned.1375616.0.html [19:22] TR Bot China follows Europe in switching to Linux with Windows being shown the door earlier than planned - Notebookcheck News [19:23] TR News AMD Upstreams RDNA 4m Firmware to Linux, Signaling Next-Gen APUs Are Nearing Release https://finance.biggo.com/news/f9cfdf90-b7f2-4987-af32-a55dfe6b25aa [19:23] TR Bot AMD Upstreams RDNA 4m Firmware to Linux, Signaling Next-Gen APUs Are Nearing Release BigGo Finance [19:25] TR News "he's ignoring anyone who argues against its use." https://www.xda-developers.com/linus-torvalds-fixed-a-linux-bug-using-ai-highlighting-both-the-strengths-and-weaknesses-of-the-new-tech/ [19:25] TR Bot Linus Torvalds fixed a Linux bug using AI, highlighting both the strengths and weaknesses of the new tech [19:26] bms I ran repo-slopscore on FreeBSD src. 35 slop commits within the [19:26] bms 5000 commit cut-off window. 41 for capnproto. [19:27] TR News Art: Now in fewer colors! gopher://jonsharp.net:70/0/gl2/08-23-2026-Art-now-in-fewer-colors.md [19:28] TR News "I often want to write about stuff, but I'm painfully slow at this kind of free-form writing. I end up obsessing over meaningless minutia like word choice, is my sentence structure too repetitive, am I using the right tense, is my tone coming off correctly, am I rambling, is it cringey, etc." gemini://mozz.us/journal/2026-08-23_restarting-my-gemlog.gmi [19:30] TR News "Having a soul mentality is a form of denial of owns human life. A soul is the invention of a body's value, it is an ether body. Believing and putting importance on soul, is a way of denial of body; a body that has feelings and has perceptions." gemini://tilde.club/~keyboardan/gemlog/2026-08-24__Soul_Mentality.gmi [19:32] TR News "I'm wondering what other corners of geminispace other users here hang out in? I've begun to find my way around geminispace.org, particularly the BBS. It feels very old school! (or deeply confusing, depending on your perspective)" gemini://kunulo.smol.pub/2026-08-24-other-places [19:32] TR News "Could this bbs provide a sort of external comment system for posts on smol.pub?" gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/u/lernanto/47551 [19:33] TR News "During the recent European heatwaves I have been amongst the many people to have bought various evaporative coolers and fans in the absence of having air conditioning or being able to fit it retrospectively." gemini://rrees.smol.pub/cool-the-person-not-the-room [19:34] TR News "I'll be gone for a while, and now I'm also taking antidepressants. So far it's day 3 and everything is going well. To everyone who remembers me, please know that I haven't disappeared, I'm still alive ))" gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2848 [19:34] TR News Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can. gemini://kunulo.smol.pub/2026-08-24-good-words [19:35] TR News "I have this problem where I'm always defensive whenever I'm confronted with any kind of dialogue seen as "criticism" or a reminder of something I've said/did in the past that isn't good" gemini://enemy.org/mrfusion/rants/2026-08-24.gmi [19:36] TR News Yesterday (Sunday) afternoon I was at home, still in my sleep clothes, just finished having a bite for lunch and started working on some projects at my desk and fired up my self-hosted Navidrome instance filled with well over 14,000 songs I have accumulated over the years." gemini://widdershins.verja.net/notgemlog/2026-08-24-notesnoise.gmi [19:37] schestowitz[TR2] bms: how does ir score? [19:38] schestowitz[TR2] meta or heuristics? [19:39] bms schestowitz[TR2]: I wasn't scoring, just counting commits with the tells (trailers) [19:41] bms schestowitz[TR2]: I can account for ~7 of them, 3 of them were to the hwpmc driver for performance counters over the weekend by netchild, at least 3 were imp and were verified non-slop by me months ago, 1 is a refactoring of part of the USB 3 XHCI driver which was supposed to have anothr human in the loop (another core team member) who dropped the ball on reviewing it on [19:41] bms Phabricator before it went in. [19:41] bms the XHCI commit smells. bad. [19:41] TR News (NEW): Kernel, Slop, and Graphics (Linux News) https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/Kernel_Slop_and_Graphics_Linux_News.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/Kernel_Slop_and_Graphics_Linux_News.gmi [19:41] TR Bot Tux Machines Kernel, Slop, and Graphics (Linux News) [19:41] bms I registered domains for something preemptively. [19:43] TR News (NEW): 10-year-old Ubuntu Phone Deja Vu and Canonical Selling/Upselling Bug Fixes ("10 years of security") https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/10_year_old_Ubuntu_Phone_Deja_Vu_and_Canonical_Selling_Upsellin.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/10_year_old_Ubuntu_Phone_Deja_Vu_and_Canonical_Selling_Upsellin.gmi [19:43] TR Bot Tux Machines 10-year-old Ubuntu Phone Deja Vu and Canonical Selling/Upselling Bug Fixes ("10 years of security") [19:45] TR News (NEW): Debian OpenSSHPackages and Slop as Risk to Properly Understood Debian Packages https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/Debian_OpenSSH_Packages_and_Slop_as_Risk_to_Properly_Understood.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/Debian_OpenSSH_Packages_and_Slop_as_Risk_to_Properly_Understood.gmi [19:45] TR Bot Tux Machines Debian OpenSSHPackages and Slop as Risk to Properly Understood Debian Packages [19:45] schestowitz[TR2] related to the slop? [19:45] schestowitz[TR2] the domain? [19:46] bms schestowitz[TR2]: In case FreeBSD itself has to be forked. My plan may call for a soft fork anyway, focusing on a specific application. I'm not clear on how filtering out Assisted-by tagged commits could work. git metadata for trailers isn't always consistent. [19:46] TR News (NEW): NetBSD, FreeBSD, and More BSD News/Views https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/NetBSD_FreeBSD_and_More_BSD_News_Views.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/NetBSD_FreeBSD_and_More_BSD_News_Views.gmi [19:46] TR Bot Tux Machines NetBSD, FreeBSD, and More BSD News/Views [19:48] TR News (NEW): Distributions and Operating Systems: BSDs, GNU/Linux, Amiga-Inspired AROS, and Haiku OS https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/Distributions_and_Operating_Systems_BSDs_GNU_Linux_Amiga_Inspir.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/Distributions_and_Operating_Systems_BSDs_GNU_Linux_Amiga_Inspir.gmi [19:48] TR Bot Tux Machines Distributions and Operating Systems: BSDs, GNU/Linux, Amiga-Inspired AROS, and Haiku OS [19:49] schestowitz[TR2] bms: bugs are being hallucinated into existed [19:49] schestowitz[TR2] maybe then detected by bots [19:49] schestowitz[TR2] so bots talk to bots [19:50] schestowitz[TR2] that never ends well [19:50] schestowitz[TR2] some experimented with this in social control media [19:50] schestowitz[TR2] and Facebook ("meta") bought the experiment [19:50] schestowitz[TR2] no word about it since [19:50] schestowitz[TR2] sane people quickly lose interest [19:50] schestowitz[TR2] so no human element left [19:50] schestowitz[TR2] not even human users [19:50] schestowitz[TR2] no users => only costs [19:51] schestowitz[TR2] https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/15/Omarchy_is_Already_Dying.shtml [19:51] TR Bot Techrights Omarchy is Already Dying [19:53] TR News (NEW): Open Hardware/Modding Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/Open_Hardware_Modding_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/Open_Hardware_Modding_Leftovers.gmi [19:53] TR Bot Tux Machines Open Hardware/Modding Leftovers [19:55] TR News (NEW): Content Management Systems (CMS) / Static Site Generators (SSG) Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/Content_Management_Systems_CMS_Static_Site_Generators_SSG_Lefto.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/Content_Management_Systems_CMS_Static_Site_Generators_SSG_Lefto.gmi [19:55] TR Bot Tux Machines Content Management Systems (CMS) / Static Site Generators (SSG) Leftovers [19:56] TR News (NEW): GNOME and Flatpak Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/GNOME_and_Flatpak_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/GNOME_and_Flatpak_Leftovers.gmi [19:56] TR Bot Tux Machines GNOME and Flatpak Leftovers [19:56] TR News (NEW): GNU/Linux: Audiocast and Games https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/GNU_Linux_Audiocast_and_Games.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/GNU_Linux_Audiocast_and_Games.gmi [19:56] TR Bot Tux Machines GNU/Linux: Audiocast and Games [19:58] TR News (NEW): Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.gmi [19:58] TR Bot Tux Machines Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers [19:59] bms the Fediverse is erupting in an outpouring of hate for DHH at Omarchy now ● Aug 24 [20:00] schestowitz[TR2] Fediverse is noise [20:00] schestowitz[TR2] not interested [20:00] schestowitz[TR2] http://techrights.org/n/2025/06/20/Mastodon_and_the_Fediverse_Have_an_Issue_Liability_for_Content_.shtml [20:00] TR Bot Techrights Mastodon and the Fediverse Have an Issue: Liability for Content (Even in Other Instances) and Costs [20:00] schestowitz[TR2] https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/11/Blogs_May_be_Making_a_Comeback_They_re_Not_Fediverse_They_Are_J.shtml [20:00] TR Bot Techrights Blogs May be Making a Comeback (They're Not Fediverse, They Are Joined by RSS Feeds) [20:00] schestowitz[TR2] if you can only type 10 words abnoutr a topic...\ [20:00] schestowitz[TR2] then sorry [20:00] schestowitz[TR2] not ionterested [20:00] bms I don't use Mastodon official instances any more, just the software, and I curate my feed (and block list) carefully [20:00] schestowitz[TR2] take time to think and compose [20:01] bms many key people are there [20:01] schestowitz[TR2] social control media is groupthinka nd hate [20:01] schestowitz[TR2] irratiopnal groupthink [20:01] schestowitz[TR2] which is, by def, what groupthink is [20:01] bms that might be true for GAFAM platforms, but the Fedi itself is still independent, although there is constant incursion from outside; the Chinese have been trying to scrape large instances. [20:01] schestowitz[TR2] i bet nobody there complains about the slop [20:01] schestowitz[TR2] and is instead talking politics [20:01] bms people constantly complain about slop there [20:02] schestowitz[TR2] http://techrights.org/n/2026/08/24/The_Issue_With_Omarchy_is_the_Slop_the_Politics_Are_a_Side_Issu.shtml [20:02] TR Bot Techrights The Issue With Omarchy is the Slop, the Politics Are a Side Issue [20:02] schestowitz[TR2] yes, slop everywhere [20:02] schestowitz[TR2] in social control media platforms [20:02] schestowitz[TR2] it's hard to police [20:02] schestowitz[TR2] many users [20:02] schestowitz[TR2] few mods [20:03] schestowitz[TR2] no vetting [20:03] schestowitz[TR2] so it is inevitable [20:03] schestowitz[TR2] good sites don't have such an issue [20:03] schestowitz[TR2] because their authors are vetted [20:03] schestowitz[TR2] slopfarms are suicidal domains [20:03] schestowitz[TR2] rememvere MS Spaces [20:03] schestowitz[TR2] MSN [20:03] TR News Techrights Gemini Links 24/08/2026: Soul Mentality, Words to Live by, Mozz.us Gemlog Resumes, Smol Conversations https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/24/Gemini_Links_24_08_2026_Soul_Mentality_Words_to_Live_by_Mozz_us.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/24/Gemini_Links_24_08_2026_Soul_Mentality_Words_to_Live_by_Mozz_us.gmi [20:03] TR Bot Techrights Gemini Links 24/08/2026: Soul Mentality, Words to Live by, Mozz.us Gemlog Resumes, Smol Conversations [20:03] schestowitz[TR2] when it shut down they said abnout 99% of it was slopfarming [20:03] schestowitz[TR2] no vbetting [20:03] bms not necessarily slop on the Fedi itself, that gets muted or blocked quickly, or even domain blocks [20:03] schestowitz[TR2] it was a spamfarm [20:04] bms I have domain blocks in palce so Threads or BSky can't agg my toots [20:04] schestowitz[TR2] wordpress.com agrees to let users apply to export theirs ("spaces") [20:04] schestowitz[TR2] provided they were not spammers [20:04] schestowitz[TR2] ms just ran a giant spamfarm [20:04] schestowitz[TR2] msnspace [20:04] schestowitz[TR2] and it cost money to run [20:04] bms On the Fedi, ,there is no moderation other than what you apply or your instance's site administrators [20:05] schestowitz[TR2] a lot changed [20:05] bms though there have been attempts to subvert this of course, as well as ActivityPub itself, vs BSky's ATProto which is expressly designed for large companies to come in and sloppfy [20:05] schestowitz[TR2] socmed 2008 [20:05] schestowitz[TR2] 2018 [20:05] bms Fedi is not just Mastodon now [20:05] schestowitz[TR2] 2026 [20:05] schestowitz[TR2] different issues [20:05] schestowitz[TR2] diff challenges [20:05] schestowitz[TR2] now it's a circus of shit-y things and slop [20:05] bms some people swear by gotosocial or the other really lean instances [20:05] bms djb is there, he runs his own [20:06] schestowitz[TR2] part of a hive [20:06] schestowitz[TR2] or hub [20:06] schestowitz[TR2] same issue [20:06] schestowitz[TR2] we discussed that with lxo [20:06] schestowitz[TR2] i think he uses snak [20:06] schestowitz[TR2] or snac, whatever it is called [20:06] schestowitz[TR2] so he needs to adapt his speech [20:06] schestowitz[TR2] for the groupthink [20:06] schestowitz[TR2] it reduces his freedom of expression [20:13] TR News Techrights Links 24/08/2026: "Journalism Can Help Expose Bad Science And Trigger Real-World Change"; Further Suppression and Censorship in China/HK https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/24/Links_24_08_2026_Journalism_Can_Help_Expose_Bad_Science_And_Tri.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/24/Links_24_08_2026_Journalism_Can_Help_Expose_Bad_Science_And_Tri.gmi [20:13] TR Bot Techrights Links 24/08/2026: "Journalism Can Help Expose Bad Science And Trigger Real-World Change"; Further Suppression and Censorship in China/HK [20:15] schestowitz[TR2] bms: [20:15] schestowitz[TR2] i could use your comment on https://www.salon.com/2026/08/23/the-internet-is-losing-its-third-places/ [20:15] TR Bot internet is losing its third places - Salon.com [20:16] schestowitz[TR2] for ab upcoming essay [20:19] *ewig has quit (Remote host closed the connection) [20:23] TR News (NEW): Vanilla OS 3 Reunion Released with Reproducible Builds, ARM64 Support https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/Vanilla_OS_3_Reunion_Released_with_Reproducible_Builds_ARM64_Su.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/Vanilla_OS_3_Reunion_Released_with_Reproducible_Builds_ARM64_Su.gmi [20:23] TR Bot Tux Machines Vanilla OS 3 Reunion Released with Reproducible Builds, ARM64 Support [20:42] TR News Techrights Congrats to Linux.org for Adopting or Getting Back to IRC https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/24/Congrats_to_Linux_org_for_Adopting_or_Getting_Back_to_IRC.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/24/Congrats_to_Linux_org_for_Adopting_or_Getting_Back_to_IRC.gmi [20:42] TR Bot Techrights Congrats to Linux.org for Adopting or Getting Back to IRC [20:56] TR News Very Good Day Out https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/24/very-good-day-out/ [20:56] TR Bot Blog Archive Very Good Day Out ● Aug 24 [21:05] TR News Techrights Evri Makes Us Optimistic About the Collapse of the Slop Pyramid Scheme (Bubble) https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/24/Evri_Makes_Us_Optimistic_About_the_Collapse_of_the_Slop_Pyramid.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/24/Evri_Makes_Us_Optimistic_About_the_Collapse_of_the_Slop_Pyramid.gmi [21:05] TR Bot Techrights Evri Makes Us Optimistic About the Collapse of the Slop Pyramid Scheme (Bubble) [21:25] admfubar https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/08/aliexpress-caught-fingerprinting-visitors-after-sending-inaudible-sounds-to-browsers/ [21:25] TR Bot Inaudible sounds used to fingerprint browsers catch AliExpress red-handed - Ars Technica [21:37] TR News More Activity Than Originally Expected https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/24/more-activity-than-originally-expected/ [21:37] TR Bot Blog Archive More Activity Than Originally Expected [21:50] TR News (NEW): There Cannot be Software Freedom Without Quality Control (LLM Slop Needn't be Tolerated) https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/There_Cannot_be_Software_Freedom_Without_Quality_Control_LLM_Sl.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/There_Cannot_be_Software_Freedom_Without_Quality_Control_LLM_Sl.gmi [21:50] TR Bot Tux Machines There Cannot be Software Freedom Without Quality Control (LLM Slop Needn't be Tolerated) [21:51] admfubar https://www.theregister.com/a/5291513 [21:51] TR Bot Ancient Who owns Linux? case now has one foot very deep in the grave [21:52] MinceR microslop [21:52] MinceR simple enough answer [21:55] IsambardPrince I hate being up at 8 AM but I forced myself to this morning. [21:55] IsambardPrince I drank half a pot of coffee to drag my ass out of bed. [21:56] IsambardPrince Get the cat down there to get her vaccines finished. [21:56] IsambardPrince One of them was for FHV, which is something Leeloo had. [21:56] IsambardPrince I would rather get up at 8 AM and make my way down for a free vaccine for Kiki than watch another cat suffer through FHV. [21:56] IsambardPrince That was terrible. [21:57] IsambardPrince Leeloo must never have gotten her kitten shots and maybe she was even born with it. [21:57] IsambardPrince Either way, I treated it as well as I could with eyedrops and antiviral medicine. [21:57] IsambardPrince It really started raging later on in life when she had underlying conditions. [21:58] IsambardPrince It came back the last week she was alive. It was just so sad. [21:59] IsambardPrince She seems fine. I gave her some chicken scraps from when I was deboning a rotisserie chicken for a casserole earlier. ● Aug 24 [22:00] IsambardPrince So I don't think there were any immediate effects from the vaccine. [22:01] IsambardPrince MinceR: I told my mother (regarding my partner and I getting the flu shot last year) "Not all of us can afford to be sick because we are not an eccentric old woman who goes to the ER 5 times a year and doesn't even have to pay for it." [22:02] *phebus has quit (Quit: POKE 1,0) [22:12] TR News Techrights The Tragedy of Software Developers Making Up Narratives and Making Excuses for Plagiarism (of Their Own Work, Too) https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/24/The_Tragedy_of_Software_Developers_Making_Up_Narratives_and_Mak.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/24/The_Tragedy_of_Software_Developers_Making_Up_Narratives_and_Mak.gmi [22:12] TR Bot Techrights The Tragedy of Software Developers Making Up Narratives and Making Excuses for Plagiarism (of Their Own Work, Too) [22:14] TR News Associating roles with buzzwords, not substance https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-staff-share-pay-in-internal-spreadsheet-see-the-numbers-2026-8 [22:14] TR Bot Microsoft Staff Share Pay in Internal Spreadsheet. See the Numbers. - Business Insider [22:14] TR News Everything to Know About KPMG Australias Nearly 400 Job Cuts [22:15] TR News Fannie Mae lays off a dozen senior officials https://therealdeal.com/national/2026/08/24/fannie-mae-lays-off-a-dozen-senior-officials/ [22:15] TR Bot Fannie Mae Lays Off a Dozen Senior Officials [22:16] TR News Former Bethsoft devs claim Microsoft changed the company and mishandled recent layoffs https://massivelyop.com/2026/08/24/former-bethsoft-devs-claim-microsoft-changed-the-company-and-mishandled-recent-layoffs/ [22:16] TR Bot Former Bethsoft devs claim Microsoft changed the company and mishandled recent layoffs | Massively Overpowered [22:18] TR News Daniel can do this for real, as LIP, then say: hey, if Slopmatt's AMERICAN friend (Microsoft, GNOME) who strangles women and gets charged for it can initiate such proceedings in the UK against someone who correctly reported it, why not me? https://danielpocock.com/en/pocock-binface-nobody-vs-farage-defamation/ [22:18] TR Bot Pocock, Binface & nobodies vs Farage: defamation before UK High Court [22:20] TR News Even Hamas supporters can do this, so... [22:22] TR News "they are releasing me this sept 31st" https://www.reddit.com/r/IBM_Employees/comments/1vx6xvj/what_to_do_ibm_ute_pip/ there is NO sept 31st [22:22] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Reddit [22:23] TR News IBM PIPs going on: "I was recently the recipient of a PSP from a PIP. I've tried looking online and in the HR files but I can't find it anywhere. My question is will big blue pay out my unused but accrued vacation as part of the settlement agreement?" https://www.reddit.com/r/IBM_Employees/comments/1vxdsxl/pip_separation_and_vacation/ [22:23] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Reddit [22:28] MinceR i wonder what microslop could have wanted to change about zenimax [22:28] MinceR one bunch of clueless, uncaring suits with lots of money being taken over by another bunch of clueless, uncaring suits with even more money [22:28] schestowitz[TR2] pepsimax [22:28] MinceR lol [22:28] schestowitz[TR2] their max is for cancer cells [22:29] schestowitz[TR2] because the sweetening agent is a notorious carcinogen [22:29] schestowitz[TR2] you become bones 6 feet under [22:29] schestowitz[TR2] way to lose weight [22:42] TR News 22-Year Record https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/24/22-year-record/ [22:42] TR Bot Blog Archive 22-Year Record [22:52] TR News (NEW): Covering the Mainstreaming of GNU/Linux https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/Covering_the_Mainstreaming_of_GNU_Linux.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/24/Covering_the_Mainstreaming_of_GNU_Linux.gmi [22:52] TR Bot Tux Machines Covering the Mainstreaming of GNU/Linux [22:59] IsambardPrince Which sweetener is that? ● Aug 24 [23:03] TR News Reaping What They Sow https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/24/reaping-what-they-sow/ [23:03] TR Bot Blog Archive Reaping What They Sow [23:03] schestowitz[TR2] in pepsimax? [23:03] schestowitz[TR2] Pepsi Zero Sugar [23:04] schestowitz[TR2] acesulfame potassium and aspartame [23:10] TR News "Some time ago I purchased a cheap 7 inch 1024x600 HDMI display, for a project is was working on. After the ending of the project, I attached a Raspberry Pi 4B with 4GB RAM to it, and installed FreeBSD 15.1 on it." gopher://box.matto.nl/0/beautiful-emacs-on-7-inch-hdmi-display.txt [23:11] TR News "For the longest time, I have felt as if there is something profoundly and inexplicably wrong with me. There is an air of something that separates me from the rest of the world, as if a sheet of plexiglass prohibits me from fully participating." gemini://buster.smol.pub/separated-by-plexiglass [23:12] TR News in your hair gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/in_your_hair [23:13] MinceR every sweetener is poison, including sugar [23:13] MinceR all the food is poison [23:15] *lxo (~lxo@b4xjcexteeqvi.irc) has joined #techrights [23:15] schestowitz[TR2] :D [23:15] schestowitz[TR2] so MinceR [23:15] schestowitz[TR2] gn [23:16] MinceR if something makes you feel good, it's bad for you [23:16] MinceR even if it doesn't, it's still bad for you [23:16] MinceR though maybe not to the same extent [23:34] IsambardPrince Sex, makes you feel good for a few minutes. Consequence = Possible AIDS and a dozen filthy STDs. Also, for straight people, kids. [23:34] IsambardPrince Alcohol makes you feel good for a while. Consequence = Hangovers. Longer term, organ damage. [23:35] IsambardPrince Cigarettes: Perk you up for about 10 minutes. Consequence = Need more and more until they give you cancer or lung disease. [23:35] IsambardPrince I don't want any of those ones that cause cancer and emphysema. [23:35] IsambardPrince Give me that pack that causes low birth weight. [23:36] IsambardPrince Yeah, that one. [23:36] IsambardPrince Food: Either tastes like lawn clippings or cardboard, or makes you fat and gives you heart problems. [23:37] IsambardPrince Everything that makes you feel good eventually makes you feel bad. [23:40] MinceR and even the one that tastes like lawn clippings or cardboard is going to give you health problems [23:41] MinceR and if you don't eat, you starve [23:49] IsambardPrince Yeah, life's full of tough choices, innit? [23:49] IsambardPrince (Ursula the Sea Witch) [23:50] MinceR dunno [23:50] MinceR pretty sure it has no meaningful choices [23:50] IsambardPrince Most people deal with life by not making any tough choices, never pushing back, never questioning the "human cockroaches" especially the ones in housing and banking and government. [23:50] MinceR it's like watching a really bad, really boring movie, while being tortured [23:51] IsambardPrince They drink and smoke and smoke weed and shoot up and fuck whatever comes home with them from the bar. [23:51] IsambardPrince And that helps them cope. [23:51] IsambardPrince Then horrible people die and you're expected to sit there and take it while some priest who didn't even know them probably, lies and flubs. [23:51] MinceR it's so boring and meaningless i'm not sure it even has a title [23:51] MinceR unless it's something like "humans are the worst garbage you could imagine" [23:51] IsambardPrince MinceR: I told my therapist my grandmother is about to die. [23:51] IsambardPrince Then we have a $30,000 PR campaign for a tyrant. [23:51] IsambardPrince $8,000 just for the box. [23:52] IsambardPrince She becomes the milk of human kindness. [23:52] IsambardPrince retconned. [23:52] MinceR :> [23:57] IsambardPrince Those Target off brand Ritz crackers don't taste like Ritz. [23:58] IsambardPrince But it's close enough for a casserole crumb topping after you pour a stick of melted butter over them.