●● IRC: #techrights @ Techrights IRC Network: Friday, October 24, 2025 ●● ● Oct 24 [00:00] *wael___ has quit (connection closed) [00:01] *wael___ (~quassel@hgmhm4zzuwffw.irc) has joined #techrights [00:44] *phebus has quit (Quit: POKE 1,0) [00:55] *includeals has quit (Quit: ZNC - https://znc.in) [00:55] *includeals (~includeal@bl18-27-126.dsl.telepac.pt) has joined #techrights [00:58] TR News Titan sub imploded due to engineering flaws NTSB report https://www.dw.com/en/titan-sub-imploded-due-to-engineering-flaws-ntsb-report/a-74376583 [00:58] TR Bot sub imploded due to engineering flaws NTSB report DW 10/16/2025 [00:58] TR News Paris Agreement has curbed deadly heating, but not by enough https://www.dw.com/en/paris-agreement-has-curbed-deadly-heating-but-not-by-enough/a-74371177 [00:58] TR Bot Agreement has curbed deadly heating, but not by enough DW 10/16/2025 [00:59] TR News Student Journalists At Indiana University https://scheerpost.com/2025/10/21/brazen-censorship-against-student-journalists-at-indiana-university/ [00:59] TR Bot Brazen Censorship Against Student Journalists At Indiana University [00:59] TR News Chris Hedges on Journalism, Censorship and Empire https://scheerpost.com/2025/10/20/chris-hedges-on-journalism-censorship-and-empire/ [00:59] TR Bot Chris Hedges on Journalism, Censorship and Empire ● Oct 24 [01:00] TR News Crisis without Coverage: Rwanda, the Congo, and the Unhoused https://www.projectcensored.org/crisis-coverage-rwanda-congo-unhoused/ [01:00] TR Bot stream 1 was not closed cleanly: PROTOCOL_ERROR (err 1) ( status 0 @ https://www.projectcensored.org/crisis-coverage-rwanda-congo-unhoused/ ) [01:00] TR News Censorship is Chaos Disguised as Order https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/16/censorship-is-chaos-disguised-as-order/ [01:00] TR Bot is Chaos Disguised as Order - CounterPunch.org [01:03] TR News Now just 9 active capsules short of 3.2k gemini://gemini.bortzmeyer.org/software/lupa/stats.gmi [01:04] TR News Some Linux stuff for October (bad batteries, good Zauri) gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/jirka/Phlog/2025_10_01.txt [01:04] TR News Some fancy stats! gemini://omg.pebcak.club/~freezr/pebcak/index.gmi [01:06] TR News Microsofts Profit Demands Reportedly Spark Layoffs and Studio Closures https://www.operationsports.com/microsofts-profit-demands-reportedly-spark-layoffs-and-studio-closures/ [01:06] TR Bot Microsofts Profit Demands Reportedly Spark Layoffs and Studio Closures - Operation Sports [01:07] TR News Xbox insider reveals truth behind layoffs and axed games as Microsoft set impossible goals https://metro.co.uk/2025/10/23/xbox-insider-reveals-truth-behind-layoffs-axed-games-microsoft-set-impossible-goals-24507815/ [01:07] TR Bot Xbox insider reveals truth behind layoffs and axed games as Microsoft set impossible goals | Metro News [01:07] TR News Microsoft Has Reportedly Pushed Xbox Studios to Deliver a 30% Profit Margin, Allegedly Leading to All Those Layoffs, Canceled Projects, Price Rises, and the End of Exclusives https://www.ign.com/articles/microsoft-has-reportedly-pushed-xbox-studios-to-deliver-a-30-profit-margin-allegedly-leading-to-all-those-layoffs-canceled-projects-price-rises-and-the-end-of-exclusives [01:07] TR Bot Has Reportedly Pushed Xbox Studios to Deliver a 30% Profit Margin, Allegedly Leading to All Those Layoffs, Canceled Projects, Price Rises, and the End of Exclusives - IGN [01:08] TR News Aggressive Profit Targets Prompt Xbox Layoffs, Price Increases, and Budget Cuts https://www.techpowerup.com/342187/aggressive-profit-targets-prompt-xbox-layoffs-price-increases-and-budget-cuts [01:08] TR Bot Profit Targets Prompt Xbox Layoffs, Price Increases, and Budget Cuts | TechPowerUp [01:09] TR News Microsoft has reportedly set unrealistic profit targets for Xbox https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/matthew-wilson/microsoft-has-reportedly-set-unrealistic-profit-targets-for-xbox/ [01:09] TR Bot Microsoft has reportedly set unrealistic profit targets for Xbox | KitGuru [01:10] TR News "With H1B Visas now costing $100k each, it seems that the RAs and PIPs have stopped or been delayed. There was talk of an RA in Sept/Oct this year...but it seems that was put on hold for now. It's cheaper to keep what they have on-shore than risk replacing them at $100k each (plus salary) - or not being able to replace them at all..." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k857zkc7 [01:10] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k857zkc7 ) [01:11] TR News "...you would have thought that Alvind and the McKinsey crooks would have cooked up some scheme to ensure that IBM never pays for those $100K visas. After all, Alvind's purpose is to shut down all US offices and transfer the jobs to India. But as they say, man proposes, God disposes. Is God acting via Trump ?" [01:13] TR News "Chatbots sind Bullshit-Generatoren" https://www.heise.de/news/Richard-Stallman-Chatbots-sind-Bullshit-Generatoren-10798837.html [01:13] TR Bot Richard Stallman: "Chatbots sind Bullshit-Generatoren" | heise online [01:20] TR News the Nations Elders and Disabled are About to be Stiffed https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/17/of-tariffs-and-social-security-the-nations-elders-and-disabled-are-about-to-be-stiffed/ [01:20] TR Bot Tariffs and Social Security: the Nations Elders and Disabled are About to be Stiffed - CounterPunch.org [01:29] TR News Weak. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/opt-out-october-daily-tips-protect-your-privacy-and-security [01:29] TR Bot Opt Out October: Daily Tips to Protect Your Privacy and Security | Electronic Frontier Foundation [01:31] TR News "A little more than 2 months after Debian, were finally releasing Mobian Trixie as our new stable release! Were also taking this opportunity to start rotating the PGP/GPG keys were using for signing both our images and package archive." https://blog.mobian.org/posts/2025/10/new-stable-rotating-keys/ [01:31] TR Bot A new Stable, and rotating keys // Mobian's Blog [01:32] *whatA____ (~chatzilla@4m2ne5gc3fcy8.irc) has joined #techrights [01:32] TR News (NEW): Mobile Systems: Mobian 13.0 released, GrapheneOS could break Pixel exclusivity in 2026 with major OEM deal https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/16/Mobile_Systems_Mobian_13_0_released_GrapheneOS_could_break_Pixe.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/16/Mobile_Systems_Mobian_13_0_released_GrapheneOS_could_break_Pixe.gmi [01:32] TR Bot Tux Machines Mobile Systems: Mobian 13.0 released, GrapheneOS could break Pixel exclusivity in 2026 with major OEM deal [01:32] TR News Announcing AnduinOS 1.4 https://news.anduinos.com/post/2025/10/17/announcing-anduinos-14 [01:32] TR Bot Announcing AnduinOS 1.4 - AnduinOS News [01:37] TR News Newspeak Comes to the Department of Energy https://www.truthdig.com/articles/newspeak-comes-to-the-department-of-energy/ [01:37] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/newspeak-comes-to-the-department-of-energy/ ) [01:38] TR News Energy Ministry sees 96% of private-sector energy investment going toward renewables https://mexiconewsdaily.com/business/private-sector-energy-investment-renewables/ [01:38] TR Bot Energy Ministry sees 96% of private-sector energy investment going toward renewables | Mexico News Daily [01:39] TR News Energy of the future: Solar takes off to the final frontier https://www.dw.com/en/energy-of-the-future-solar-takes-off-to-the-final-frontier/a-74291852 [01:39] TR Bot surprising places solar power is taking off DW 10/19/2025 [01:39] TR News Half of Dutch fearing higher bills due to energy transition plans https://nltimes.nl/2025/10/15/half-dutch-fearing-higher-bills-due-energy-transition-plans [01:39] TR Bot Half of Dutch fearing higher bills due to energy transition plans | NL Times [01:39] TR News US Judge Dismisses Youth Activists' Lawsuit Challenging Cheeto Mussolini's Energy Policies https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2025-10-15/us-judge-dismisses-youth-activists-lawsuit-challenging-trumps-pro-fossil-fuel-energy-policies [01:39] TR Bot stream 1 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2) ( status 0 @ https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2025-10-15/us-judge-dismisses-youth-activists-lawsuit-challenging-trumps-pro-fossil-fuel-energy-policies ) [01:40] TR News OpenAIs New Energy Chief Is a Cheeto Mussolini Administration Natural Gas Evangelist https://www.truthdig.com/articles/openais-new-energy-chief-is-a-trump-administration-natural-gas-evangelist/ [01:40] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/openais-new-energy-chief-is-a-trump-administration-natural-gas-evangelist/ ) [01:41] TR News NATO War-Games Climate Collapse https://www.truthdig.com/articles/nato-war-games-climate-collapse/ [01:41] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/nato-war-games-climate-collapse/ ) [01:45] TR News Cheeto Mussolini Cuts and Climate Change Compound Worry in Alaska After Typhoon Disaster https://truthout.org/articles/trump-cuts-and-climate-change-compound-worry-in-alaska-after-typhoon-disaster/ [01:45] TR Bot Trump Cuts and Climate Change Compound Worry in Alaska After Typhoon Disaster | Truthout [01:50] TR News Pentagon now resembles Saudi Arabia for journalists https://www.theage.com.au/world/north-america/in-trump-s-america-the-pentagon-now-resembles-saudi-arabia-for-journalists-20251019-p5n3j1.html [01:50] TR Bot In Donald Trumps America, the Pentagon now resembles Saudi Arabia for journalists [01:50] TR News Turkey sees rise in school dropouts, union warns https://bianet.org/haber/turkey-sees-rise-in-school-dropouts-union-warns-312740 [01:50] TR Bot Turkey sees rise in school dropouts, union warns [01:51] whatA____ MBS seems to have forgotten the "small kindness" Al-Maun [01:54] TR News How IGP Leaks Put IXP Route Servers in the DDoS Shooting Range https://labs.ripe.net/author/mw/how-igp-leaks-put-ixp-route-servers-in-the-ddos-shooting-range/ [01:54] TR Bot How IGP Leaks Put IXP Route Servers in the DDoS Shooting Range | RIPE Labs [01:54] TR News Zulip is The Best Open-Source Slack Alternative You Can Install on Your Server https://www.maketecheasier.com/zulip-open-source-slack-alternative/ [01:54] TR Bot Zulip is The Best Open-Source Slack Alternative You Can Install on Your Server - Make Tech Easier [01:55] *SomeGoat has quit (connection closed) [01:56] TR News Ann Arbor District Library https://www.michigandaily.com/news/ann-arbor/aadl-announces-plans-to-acquire-the-ann-arbor-observer/ [01:56] TR Bot AADL announces plans to acquire the Ann Arbor Observer [01:57] TR News How Elon Musk Ruined Twitter https://jacobin.com/2025/10/enshittification-doctorow-musk-twitter-internet/ [01:57] TR Bot How Elon Musk Ruined Twitter [01:57] TR News 'Another Reason to Quit Facebook' https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/another-reason-quit-facebook-brits-furious-meta-axes-messenger-desktop-app-15-december-1749119 [01:57] TR Bot 'Another Reason to Quit Facebook': Brits Furious as Meta Axes Messenger Desktop App From 15 December | IBTimes UK ● Oct 24 [02:00] admfubar https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/24/former_l3harris_cyber_director_charged/ [02:00] TR Bot Former L3Harris cyber director charged with selling secrets The Register [02:01] TR News Stable Clonezilla live 3.3.0-33 Released https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/news/2025/10/stable-clonezilla-live-333-33-released/ [02:01] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/news/2025/10/stable-clonezilla-live-333-33-released/ ) [02:01] TR News (NEW): Ultramarine 42 Images, Terra 43, and More! https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/24/Ultramarine_42_Images_Terra_43_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/24/Ultramarine_42_Images_Terra_43_and_More.gmi [02:01] TR Bot Tux Machines Ultramarine 42 Images, Terra 43, and More! [02:01] TR News Run Raspberry Pis PIXEL Desktop on a PC or Mac an Exton modified Build 251019 with Refracta Snapshot (so you can create your own Raspberrypi Debian 12 Pixel system) https://www.exton.se/run-raspberry-pis-pixel-desktop-on-a-pc-or-mac-an-exton-modified-build-251019-with-refracta-snapshot-so-you-can-create-your-own-raspberrypi-debian-12-pixel-system/ [02:01] TR Bot Run Raspberry Pis PIXEL Desktop on a PC or Mac an Exton modified Build 251019 with Refracta Snapshot (so you can create your own Raspberrypi Debian 12 Pixel system) | Exton Linux | Live Systems [02:02] admfubar it is more like m$'s blob https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/24/microsoft_clippy_copilot_update/ [02:02] TR Bot Clippy rises from the dead in major Copilot update The Register [02:03] TR News AgarimOS 20251021 is out https://sourceforge.net/projects/agarimos/ [02:03] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://sourceforge.net/projects/agarimos/ ) [02:03] schestowitz[TR2] admfubar: the way i see it [02:04] schestowitz[TR2] and i might not be right [02:04] schestowitz[TR2] all this clippy "ai" things [02:04] schestowitz[TR2] are about calling Windows "ai" something [02:04] schestowitz[TR2] to put it in the hype bucket [02:04] schestowitz[TR2] but that has no actual use or use cases [02:04] schestowitz[TR2] it's not for users [02:06] whatA____ https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=2_Dtmpe9qaQ [02:06] TR Bot ( status 418 @ https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=2_Dtmpe9qaQ ) [02:06] whatA____ the real clippy just wanted to help [02:06] whatA____ this clippy is slop [02:07] TR News grocery prices keep creeping up https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-inflation-rate-september-2025-9.6946556 [02:07] TR Bot Canada's annual inflation rate rose to 2.4% in September as grocery prices keep creeping up | CBC News [02:07] schestowitz[TR2] slop cannot enhance productivity [02:07] schestowitz[TR2] to borrow analogies [02:07] schestowitz[TR2] right now i look through many news links [02:07] schestowitz[TR2] if you added slop [02:08] schestowitz[TR2] low-quality junk derived from real articles [02:08] schestowitz[TR2] it would just make the job take longer [02:08] schestowitz[TR2] if you EXPAND a query to long textx [02:08] schestowitz[TR2] does that text offer more valuue than the query? [02:08] schestowitz[TR2] usually not. [02:08] schestowitz[TR2] then they sell shorteners, which claim to make summaries [sic] of ttextx [02:08] schestowitz[TR2] so the slop creates the problem [02:08] schestowitz[TR2] then claims to "solve" it [02:09] schestowitz[TR2] inflation-deflation [02:09] schestowitz[TR2] more junk out there [02:09] schestowitz[TR2] to wade through [02:10] TR News Germany news: School students lag behind in science and math https://www.dw.com/en/germany-news-school-students-lag-behind-in-science-and-math/live-74379117 [02:10] TR Bot news: School students lag behind in science and math DW 10/16/2025 [02:12] TR News (NEW): New Releases of GNU/Linux Distros: Clonezilla live 3.3.0-33, Exton modified Build 251019, and AnduinOS 1.4 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/24/New_Releases_of_GNU_Linux_Distros_Clonezilla_live_3_3_0_33_Exto.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/24/New_Releases_of_GNU_Linux_Distros_Clonezilla_live_3_3_0_33_Exto.gmi [02:12] TR News (NEW): Zulip is The Best Open-Source Slack Alternative You Can Install on Your Server https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/24/Zulip_is_The_Best_Open_Source_Slack_Alternative_You_Can_Install.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/24/Zulip_is_The_Best_Open_Source_Slack_Alternative_You_Can_Install.gmi [02:12] TR Bot Tux Machines New Releases of GNU/Linux Distros: Clonezilla live 3.3.0-33, Exton modified Build 251019, and AnduinOS 1.4 [02:12] TR Bot Tux Machines Zulip is The Best Open-Source Slack Alternative You Can Install on Your Server [02:13] TR News FreePascal webdev gopher://gopher.linkerror.com:70/0/phlog/2025/20251023 [02:14] TR News Society's task gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/agk/2025-10-23-task.txt [02:15] TR News "If you define a day or "1d" in shorthand as 86400 seconds, then you are done! However this definition ignores various annoyances. At least for now some (Earth) days may be longer the 86400 seconds (or not, if the leap second is smeared in behind the scenes), which will not bother most calculations." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2025/10/24/day.gmi [02:15] TR News [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1803.jpg [02:15] TR News [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1453.jpg [02:19] TR News Techrights Gemini Links 24/10/2025: 86,400 Seconds and "Society's Task" https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/24/Gemini_Links_24_10_2025_86_400_Seconds_and_Society_s_Task.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/24/Gemini_Links_24_10_2025_86_400_Seconds_and_Society_s_Task.gmi [02:19] TR Bot Techrights Gemini Links 24/10/2025: 86,400 Seconds and "Society's Task" [02:23] TR News nuclear power https://www.dw.com/en/can-nuclear-power-curb-shipping-s-huge-carbon-footprint/a-74335799 [02:23] TR Bot nuclear power curb shipping's huge carbon footprint? DW 10/16/2025 [02:24] TR News Techrights Links 24/10/2025: Microsoft's Killing of XBox Connected to Revenue/Profit Problems, "How Elon Musk Ruined Twitter" https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/24/Links_24_10_2025_Microsoft_s_Killing_of_XBox_Connected_to_Reven.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/24/Links_24_10_2025_Microsoft_s_Killing_of_XBox_Connected_to_Reven.gmi [02:24] TR Bot Techrights Links 24/10/2025: Microsoft's Killing of XBox Connected to Revenue/Profit Problems, "How Elon Musk Ruined Twitter" [02:24] TR News Talc, asbestos and cancer: What is the connection? https://www.dw.com/en/talc-asbestos-and-cancer-what-is-the-connection/a-74395879 [02:24] TR Bot asbestos and cancer: What is the connection? DW 10/17/2025 [02:34] admfubar Louis Rossmann After 17 years of repair, Im doing something bigger [02:34] admfubar https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=TW-mdprDL3k [02:34] TR Bot Select instance - Invidious [02:35] schestowitz[TR2] what is it in a nutshell? [02:35] schestowitz[TR2] it takes a long time to digest videos? [02:35] schestowitz[TR2] is he doing Koi Enterprises? [02:35] schestowitz[TR2] fish breeding? [02:36] admfubar no bounty program to bypass drm in abandoned iot's [02:37] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/22/exuber_cso_joe_sullivan_interview/?td=rt-3a [02:37] TR Bot Ex-Uber CSO talks teen cyber crims, CISO role with The Reg The Register [02:37] schestowitz[TR2] does he code at all? [02:37] schestowitz[TR2] can he rev-engineer? [02:38] TR News Just to re-classify another thing as "AI" and fake growth in "AI" https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/23/copilot_exchange_server/ [02:38] TR Bot Microsoft threatens to bring Copilot to on-prem Exchange The Register [02:45] TR News "I've tried using various AI tools and models over the past couple of years, but honestly it feels like it gives me a false sense of confidence. Plus, the time I supposedly save building things gets eaten up debugging, correcting, improving the AI-generated slop. Am I using the tools wrong or are others finding the same thing?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45679390 [02:45] TR Bot Ask HN: Am I the only one not using AI? | Hacker News [02:45] TR News "AI ruins your flow. That's the biggest problem. I sit here and wait for Claude to do something. Then I get distracted by social media. No these things don't actually work if you study human psychology: Switching to another work task (what for like a minute?)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45679390 [02:46] TR News Yesterday's #boycottnovell-social and #techpol IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-231025.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-231025.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-social-231025.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-social-231025.txt [02:46] TR Bot IRC: #boycottnovell-social and #techpol @ Techrights IRC Network: Thursday, October 23, 2025 [02:47] TR News "allowing AI actually increases completion time by 19%--AI tooling slowed developers down." https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09089 [02:47] TR Bot [2507.09089] Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity [02:47] TR News Yesterday's #techrights IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-231025.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-231025.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techrights-231025.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techrights-231025.txt [02:47] TR Bot IRC: #techrights @ Techrights IRC Network: Thursday, October 23, 2025 [02:48] TR News Yesterday's #boycottnovell IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-231025.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-231025.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-231025.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-231025.txt [02:48] TR Bot IRC: #boycottnovell @ Techrights IRC Network: Thursday, October 23, 2025 [02:48] admfubar no he does not code [02:49] admfubar he is funding the bounty program [02:49] TR News Yesterday's #techbytes IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-231025.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-231025.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techbytes-231025.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techbytes-231025.txt [02:49] TR Bot IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Thursday, October 23, 2025 [02:49] TR News Yesterday's bulletin is now ready! : http://techrights.org/txt-archives/techrights-2025-10-23.txt | gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/techrights-2025-10-23.txt (tentative address, to work an hour from now) [02:50] TR News Yesterday's Tux Machines bulletin is now ready! : http://news.tuxmachines.org/txt-archives/tuxmachines-2025-10-23.txt ● Oct 24 [03:01] TR News Techrights 'Vibe Coding' Doesn't Work https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/24/Vibe_Coding_Doesn_t_Work.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/24/Vibe_Coding_Doesn_t_Work.gmi [03:01] TR Bot Techrights 'Vibe Coding' Doesn't Work [03:10] Isambard_Prince schestowitz[TR2], Had a small snag with pt today. Some swelling made it into another area and impeded progress on one goal. We decided to use the rest of the session to work on something else. Hee said not to worry about it. [03:10] Isambard_Prince Added one exercise. [03:10] schestowitz[TR2] left or right? [03:10] Isambard_Prince Right [03:10] schestowitz[TR2] i assume you are right-handed [03:11] Isambard_Prince Not by the end of this. [03:11] Isambard_Prince I also have an 18 year old trans man flirting with me. [03:12] Isambard_Prince Aggressively. [03:12] schestowitz[TR2] your mom will be happy [03:12] schestowitz[TR2] finally you are hetero? [03:12] Isambard_Prince From heer pov this is worse than gay. lol [03:16] TR News Techrights More Clues Shed on Collapse of Microsoft XBox https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/24/More_Clues_Shed_on_Collapse_of_Microsoft_XBox.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/24/More_Clues_Shed_on_Collapse_of_Microsoft_XBox.gmi [03:16] TR Bot Techrights More Clues Shed on Collapse of Microsoft XBox [03:17] *includeals has quit (Quit: ZNC - https://znc.in) [03:17] TR News Techrights IRC Proceedings: Thursday, October 23, 2025 https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/24/IRC_Proceedings_Thursday_October_23_2025.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/24/IRC_Proceedings_Thursday_October_23_2025.gmi [03:17] TR Bot Techrights IRC Proceedings: Thursday, October 23, 2025 [03:19] TR News Techrights Over at Tux Machines... https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/24/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/24/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi [03:19] TR Bot Techrights Over at Tux Machines... [03:19] TR News (NEW): Today in Techrights https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/24/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/24/Today_in_Techrights.gmi [03:19] TR Bot Tux Machines Today in Techrights [03:20] *includeals (~includeal@2001:8a0:e95a:4e00::2000) has joined #techrights [03:28] TR News It's all buzzwords now (re-classifying old things as "new" and thus "growing": "booming demand for cloud services, as artificial intelligence adoption rises." https://m.economictimes.com/tech/technology/ibms-slowing-cloud-growth-eclipses-upbeat-third-quarter-results/amp_articleshow/124751571.cms [03:28] TR Bot IBM's slowing cloud growth eclipses upbeat third-quarter results - The Economic Times [03:28] TR News "Love how AK brags every qtr about the "huge and growing AI and hybrid cloud backlog". Yeah right! ISC forecasts by sales is TOTAL BS!!!!! Just put AI or cloud in the product title..." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k86vt8ew [03:28] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k86vt8ew ) [03:29] TR News They call old stuff "AI"; smokescreen for shareholders https://www.crn.com/news/ai/2025/ibm-9-5-billion-ai-book-of-business-drives-q3-growth-across-company-s-software-hardware-and-consulting-segments [03:29] TR Bot IBM: $9.5-Billion AI Book Of Business Drives Q3 Growth Across Software, Hardware And Consulting [03:32] TR News Poland became Europe's surprise economic success story https://www.dw.com/en/how-poland-became-europe-s-surprise-economic-success-story/a-74375281 [03:32] TR Bot Poland became Europe's surprise economic success story DW 10/20/2025 [03:33] TR News Proprietary systems https://www.dw.com/en/outage-at-amazon-cloud-service-unit-causes-major-disruption/a-74421381 [03:33] TR Bot at Amazon cloud service unit causes major disruption DW 10/20/2025 [03:34] TR News What is methane? https://www.dw.com/en/what-is-methane/a-69919651 [03:34] TR Bot is methane and what's its role in climate change? DW 10/22/2025 [03:35] TR News Tiny chip restores vision, hope for those with sight loss https://www.dw.com/en/tiny-chip-restores-vision-hope-for-those-with-sight-loss/a-74439974 [03:35] TR Bot chip restores vision, hope for those with sight loss DW 10/21/2025 [03:47] TR News Six surprising places solar power is taking off https://www.dw.com/en/six-surprising-places-solar-power-is-taking-off/a-74291852 [03:47] TR Bot surprising places solar power is taking off DW 10/19/2025 [03:48] TR News anti-deforestation law https://www.dw.com/en/eu-commission-suggests-easing-anti-deforestation-law/a-74445916 [03:48] TR Bot Commission suggests easing anti-deforestation law DW 10/21/2025 [03:54] TR News dead at 29 https://www.dw.com/en/chess-world-mourns-grandmaster-daniel-naroditsky-dead-at-29/a-74444154 [03:54] TR Bot world mourns grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky, dead at 29 DW 10/21/2025 ● Oct 24 [04:14] TR News Techrights Generation Chaff - Phase I: Social Control Media https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/24/Generation_Chaff_Phase_I_Social_Control_Media.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/24/Generation_Chaff_Phase_I_Social_Control_Media.gmi [04:14] TR Bot Techrights Generation Chaff - Phase I: Social Control Media [04:28] TR News Techrights Generation Chaff - Phase II: "Cloud", Blockchains and Other Hype https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/24/Generation_Chaff_Phase_II_Cloud_Blockchains_and_Other_Hype.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/24/Generation_Chaff_Phase_II_Cloud_Blockchains_and_Other_Hype.gmi [04:28] TR Bot Techrights Generation Chaff - Phase II: "Cloud", Blockchains and Other Hype [04:39] TR News Techrights Generation Chaff - Phase III: Slop and Plagiarism https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/24/Generation_Chaff_Phase_III_Slop_and_Plagiarism.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/24/Generation_Chaff_Phase_III_Slop_and_Plagiarism.gmi [04:39] TR Bot Techrights Generation Chaff - Phase III: Slop and Plagiarism [04:40] psydruid https://www.tomshardware.com/software/china-releases-ubios-standard-to-replace-uefi-huawei-backed-bios-firmware-replacement-charges-chinas-domestic-computing-goals [04:40] TR Bot China releases 'UBIOS' standard to replace UEFI Huawei-backed BIOS firmware replacement charges China's domestic computing goals | Tom's Hardware [04:49] *whatA____ has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) ● Oct 24 [05:06] *whatA____ (~chatzilla@n3nvwk4dg9yhk.irc) has joined #techrights [05:07] schestowitz[TR2] maybe they see what UEFI is [05:07] schestowitz[TR2] http://techrights.org/n/2025/09/08/If_Your_Machine_Still_Has_Secure_Boot_Enabled_Then_Microsoft_Ha.shtml [05:07] TR Bot Techrights If Your Machine Still Has "Secure Boot" Enabled, Then Microsoft Has a de Facto Kill Switch (Even If Your Machine Doesn't Have Windows and Never Had Windows) [05:08] whatA____ post-2020 computers are dead since Swintel erases BIOS boot [05:08] whatA____ so you need anything that will boot to DOS [05:08] whatA____ or to be exact FreeDOS [05:10] whatA____ Any un-"Tivoized Tyrant" computers out there? [05:10] whatA____ DOS needs BIOS, UEFI is an insult to DOS (and general booting) [05:11] TR News Techrights Generation Chaff - Phase VI: Apps Only Few Companies Decide On https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/24/Generation_Chaff_Phase_VI_Apps_Only_Few_Companies_Decide_On.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/24/Generation_Chaff_Phase_VI_Apps_Only_Few_Companies_Decide_On.gmi [05:11] TR Bot Techrights Generation Chaff - Phase VI: Apps Only Few Companies Decide On [05:11] whatA____ AMD64 possibly follow suit as soon as Swintel nuked CSM BIOS boot [05:12] whatA____ "compat support module" if one thinks CSM is Flandre/Illyagates [05:12] lxo https://snac.lx.oliva.nom.br/lxo/p/1761277049.139807 <- recording of the first public performance of Happy Hacking to GNU for GNU42 [05:12] TR Bot Oliva (@lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br) [05:23] TR News (NEW): What Happened To Limpopo https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/24/What_Happened_To_Limpopo.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/24/What_Happened_To_Limpopo.gmi [05:23] TR Bot Tux Machines What Happened To Limpopo [05:24] TR News Techrights Generation Chaff - Phase V: Censorship of Dissent (Painted as Harassment or Terrorism) https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/24/Generation_Chaff_Phase_V_Censorship_of_Dissent_Painted_as_Haras.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/24/Generation_Chaff_Phase_V_Censorship_of_Dissent_Painted_as_Haras.gmi [05:24] TR Bot Techrights Generation Chaff - Phase V: Censorship of Dissent (Painted as Harassment or Terrorism) [05:34] TR News (NEW): Taking a Spin on Bluefins Immutable Linux https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/24/Taking_a_Spin_on_Bluefin_s_Immutable_Linux.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/24/Taking_a_Spin_on_Bluefin_s_Immutable_Linux.gmi [05:34] TR Bot Tux Machines Taking a Spin on Bluefins Immutable Linux [05:39] TR News (NEW): Stable kernels: Linux 6.17.5, Linux 6.12.55, and Linux 6.6.114 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/24/Stable_kernels_Linux_6_17_5_Linux_6_12_55_and_Linux_6_6_114.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/24/Stable_kernels_Linux_6_17_5_Linux_6_12_55_and_Linux_6_6_114.gmi [05:39] TR Bot Tux Machines Stable kernels: Linux 6.17.5, Linux 6.12.55, and Linux 6.6.114 [05:41] TR News Techrights Generation Chaff - Phase VI: Centralisation of Information (X, Cheetok/Fentanylware) https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/24/Generation_Chaff_Phase_VI_Centralisation_of_Information_X_Cheet.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/24/Generation_Chaff_Phase_VI_Centralisation_of_Information_X_Cheet.gmi [05:41] TR Bot Techrights Generation Chaff - Phase VI: Centralisation of Information (X, Cheetok/Fentanylware) [05:44] TR News (NEW): Free and Open Source Software https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/24/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/24/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi [05:44] TR Bot Tux Machines Free and Open Source Software [05:51] TR News Techrights Generation Chaff - Phase VII: Curtailing Alternative Media https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/24/Generation_Chaff_Phase_VII_Curtailing_Alternative_Media.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/24/Generation_Chaff_Phase_VII_Curtailing_Alternative_Media.gmi [05:51] TR Bot Techrights Generation Chaff - Phase VII: Curtailing Alternative Media ● Oct 24 [06:00] TR News (NEW): : Google Android Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/24/Android_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/24/Android_Leftovers.gmi [06:00] TR Bot Tux Machines Android Leftovers [06:02] TR News http://techrights.org/n/2025/10/22/Cloud_Computing_Does_Not_Mean_Safety.shtml [06:02] TR Bot Techrights "Cloud Computing" Does Not Mean Safety [06:03] TR News (NEW): MutantC: An open-source, modular Linux handheld designed to be customizable for various tasks https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/24/Android_Leftovers.1.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/24/Android_Leftovers.1.gmi [06:03] TR Bot Tux Machines MutantC: An open-source, modular Linux handheld designed to be customizable for various tasks [06:06] TR News Techrights Generation Chaff - Phase VIII: In Summary https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/24/Generation_Chaff_Phase_VIII_In_Summary.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/24/Generation_Chaff_Phase_VIII_In_Summary.gmi [06:06] TR Bot Techrights Generation Chaff - Phase VIII: In Summary [06:09] *MinceR (~mincer@bringer.of.light) has joined #techrights [06:09] *irc.techrights.org gives channel operator status to MinceR [06:24] TR News Techrights Who Will be Held Accountable for Breaking Ubuntu by Imposing Rust on Otherwise-Functional Programs, in Effect Replacing GNU With Proprietary Microsoft (GitHub)? 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[06:33] TR News Techrights Rust is Very Secure https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/24/Rust_is_Very_Secure.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/24/Rust_is_Very_Secure.gmi [06:33] TR Bot Techrights Rust is Very Secure [06:41] TR News Techrights analytics.usa.gov: The Only Supported Version of Windows (This Past Week) is Only Used by About 13.9% of People in the US, the Home Base of Windows https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/24/analytics_usa_gov_The_Only_Supported_Version_of_Windows_This_Pa.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/24/analytics_usa_gov_The_Only_Supported_Version_of_Windows_This_Pa.gmi [06:41] TR Bot Techrights analytics.usa.gov: The Only Supported Version of Windows (This Past Week) is Only Used by About 13.9% of People in the US, the Home Base of Windows [06:41] whatA____ ed: GCHQ enshittifying Ubunty [06:42] whatA____ ubuntu [06:42] whatA____ the thug is on the loose [06:43] whatA____ and outsourcing it to NSA github [06:58] TR News Techrights Coping With the Site Going More Mainstream https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/24/Coping_With_the_Site_Going_More_Mainstream.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/24/Coping_With_the_Site_Going_More_Mainstream.gmi [06:58] TR Bot Techrights Coping With the Site Going More Mainstream ● Oct 24 [07:02] *whatA____ has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [07:09] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techrights [07:10] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techrights [07:16] TR News Techrights The Register MS Continues to Bag Money to Promote a Ponzi Scheme, Even Money From China https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/24/The_Register_MS_Continues_to_Bag_Money_to_Promote_a_Ponzi_Schem.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/24/The_Register_MS_Continues_to_Bag_Money_to_Promote_a_Ponzi_Schem.gmi [07:16] TR Bot Techrights The Register MS Continues to Bag Money to Promote a Ponzi Scheme, Even Money From China [07:17] *whatA____ (~chatzilla@a5tab5t7u3grw.irc) has joined #techrights [07:18] TR News Heroes of Magic - Cards will give poker the roguelike deck-builder treatment | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/heroes-of-magic-cards-will-give-poker-the-roguelike-deck-builder-treatment/ Source: GamingOnLinux [07:18] TR Bot of Magic & Cards will give poker the roguelike deck-builder treatment | GamingOnLinux [07:29] TR News Techrights Correct Information is a Valued Asset in the Age of Slopfarms and Public Relations (PR) or Spin https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/24/Correct_Information_is_a_Valued_Asset_in_the_Age_of_Slopfarms_a.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/24/Correct_Information_is_a_Valued_Asset_in_the_Age_of_Slopfarms_a.gmi [07:29] TR Bot Techrights Correct Information is a Valued Asset in the Age of Slopfarms and Public Relations (PR) or Spin [07:31] TR News The Jackbox Party Pack 11 has arrived with a whole new set of games | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/the-jackbox-party-pack-11-has-arrived-with-a-whole-new-set-of-games/ Source: GamingOnLinux | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/the-jackbox-party-pack-11-has-arrived-with-a-whole-new-set-of-games/ [07:31] TR Bot Jackbox Party Pack 11 has arrived with a whole new set of games | GamingOnLinux [07:33] TR News Fedora Linux project agrees to allow AI-assisted contributions with a new policy | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/fedora-linux-project-agrees-to-allow-ai-assisted-contributions-with-a-new-policy/ Source: GamingOnLinux [07:33] TR Bot Linux project agrees to allow AI-assisted contributions with a new policy | GamingOnLinux [07:47] *FANTOM has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) [07:48] TR News Techrights 21 Pages in Less Than 7 Hours is No Joking Matter https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/24/21_Pages_in_Less_Than_7_Hours_is_No_Joking_Matter.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/24/21_Pages_in_Less_Than_7_Hours_is_No_Joking_Matter.gmi [07:48] TR Bot Techrights 21 Pages in Less Than 7 Hours is No Joking Matter [07:49] whatA____ 3p/h [07:50] schestowitz[TR2] and none prepared in advance [07:50] schestowitz[TR2] in 2010 i did 29 or 31 on a sunday [07:51] schestowitz[TR2] but some drafting had been done on saturday [07:55] TR News Get some quality spooky games in the Dark Pictures - 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[08:43] Isambard_Prince It has xlibre prebuilt as an option. [08:45] Isambard_Prince schestowitz[TR2], Are they still trying to pait me as transphbic for rattling the lobster? [08:46] Isambard_Prince The surgical glue is flaking off finally. [08:46] Isambard_Prince The incision scar isn't as bad as it looked. [08:51] Isambard_Prince That's amazing that they could do that extensive repair with such a small scar. [08:52] Isambard_Prince Uber Eats has been paying me to post pictures of food. [08:53] Isambard_Prince Like $5 for each thing. [08:53] Isambard_Prince Ordered Chinese food and got $13 back taking pictures. [08:54] Isambard_Prince We're going to be eating a lot of food from that place. ● Oct 24 [09:07] TR News Krafton (PUBG, Subnautica, inZOI) becoming an "AI-First" company | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/krafton-pubg-subnautica-becoming-an-ai-first-company/ Source: GamingOnLinux [09:07] TR Bot (PUBG, Subnautica, inZOI) becoming an "AI-First" company | GamingOnLinux [09:07] TR News Amazon Luna cloud gaming relaunched, with Prime Gaming merged in and a new AI game | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/amazon-luna-cloud-gaming-relaunched-with-prime-gaming-merged-in-and-a-new-ai-game/ Source: GamingOnLinux [09:07] TR Bot Luna cloud gaming relaunched, with Prime Gaming merged in and a new AI game | GamingOnLinux [09:29] Isambard_Prince I'm not transphobic. I actually just don't understand removing body parts that are healthy. [09:30] Isambard_Prince Surgery is risky, expensive, and painful. [09:31] Isambard_Prince If you have a horrible medical problem and stand to gain more than you could lose, it makes sense. [09:31] Isambard_Prince I get the psychology of gender or wanting different pronouns. [09:35] Isambard_Prince Psychology is a construct, right, and so gender identity can be a spectrum, but physiology is unfortunately not properly changeable. [09:35] Isambard_Prince I'd be happy for them if it was. ● Oct 24 [10:11] *Righty has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [10:15] TR News (NEW): Games: PAYDAY 2, MicroProse, HELLDIVERS 2, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/24/Games_PAYDAY_2_MicroProse_HELLDIVERS_2_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/24/Games_PAYDAY_2_MicroProse_HELLDIVERS_2_and_More.gmi [10:15] TR Bot Tux Machines Games: PAYDAY 2, MicroProse, HELLDIVERS 2, and More [10:16] TR News There aren't enough Allen keys in the world... | "Der er ikke unbrako-ngler nok i verden... | Version2" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&u=https://www.version2.dk/holdning/der-er-ikke-unbrako-noegler-nok-i-verden [10:16] TR Bot Der er ikke unbrako-ngler nok i verden... | Version2 [10:17] TR News "iTWire - Delinea teams up with Microsoft to deliver identity security solutions in the Microsoft security store" https://itwire.com/business-it-news/security/delinea-teams-up-with-microsoft-to-deliver-identity-security-solutions-in-the-microsoft-security-store.html [10:17] TR Bot - Delinea teams up with Microsoft to deliver identity security solutions in the Microsoft security store [10:19] *nosler (~nosler@178.128.nkj.mlp) has joined #techrights [10:21] nosler =submit https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/billionaire-peter-thiel-thinks-greta-thunberg-is-one-of-the-legionnaires-of-the-antichrist/ar-AA1OsydQ [10:24] *nosler has quit (Client Quit) [10:26] *SomeGoat (~SomeGoat@r9ruxqydtdctn.irc) has joined #techrights [10:29] TR News "Chat Control 2 lgg ner!" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/10/22/chat-control-2-lagg-ner/ [10:29] TR Bot Chat Control 2 lgg ner! [10:30] *Righty (~Username@7x4uyuajkwfhc.irc) has joined #techrights [10:32] TR News "Europe's Plan to Ditch US Tech Giants is Built on Open Source - and It's Gaining Steam" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/10/22/126221 [10:32] TR Bot Europe's Plan to Ditch US Tech Giants is Built on Open Source - and It's Gaining Steam - SoylentNews [10:33] TR News IDG fails to mention GNU/Linux even once https://www.pcworld.com/article/699203/best-laptops-under-500.html http://techrights.org/wiki/IDG/ [10:33] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.pcworld.com/article/699203/best-laptops-under-500.html ) [10:33] TR Bot IDG [10:36] TR News A: Strict ID requirements for social media and the Swedish Cyber Police | "S: Strikta ID-krav fr sociala media och Ntpolis" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/10/23/s-strikta-id-krav-for-sociala-media-och-natpolis/ [10:36] TR Bot S: Strikta ID-krav fr sociala media och Ntpolis [10:37] TR News iophk: rephrased, microsoft is itself a growing problem throughout Africa https://www.techzim.co.zw/2025/10/microsoft-africa-ai-cyber-threats/ [10:37] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.techzim.co.zw/2025/10/microsoft-africa-ai-cyber-threats/ ) [10:46] *whatA____ (~chatzilla@vgvv9r5jxvf7c.irc) has joined #techrights ● Oct 24 [11:02] whatA____ arrowhead "fixing bugs" http://gnu.org/philosophy/bug-nobody-allowed-to-understand.html [11:02] TR Bot ( status 429 @ http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/bug-nobody-allowed-to-understand.html ) [11:03] whatA____ nope, there is still bugs nobody allowed to understand [11:12] cblinux the video is not live anymore :( https://tum.live/w/rms/62370 [11:12] TR Bot ( status 404 @ https://tum.live/w/rms/62370 ) [11:25] cblinux good to have the audio file with the whole talk in just 18.6M https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/21/Full_Audio_of_Today_s_Richard_Stallman_Talk_in_the_Technical_Un.shtml [11:25] TR Bot Techrights Full Audio of Today's Richard Stallman Talk in the Technical University of Munich [11:34] TR News Atorvastatin https://www.propublica.org/article/fda-transparency-atorvastatin-prescription-explainer | Source: Pro Publica [11:34] TR Bot What Happened When We Tried to Find the Factory That Made Atorvastatin ProPublica [11:34] TR News "They were the sort of disturbing discoveries that anyone taking generic medication would want to know." https://www.propublica.org/article/fda-hides-drug-names-contaminated-factories | Source: Pro Publica [11:34] TR Bot The FDA Is Hiding the Names of Drugs Made in Contaminated Factories ProPublica [11:36] TR News Western Media Use Peace Prize to Fuel War Propaganda https://fair.org/home/western-media-use-peace-prize-to-fuel-war-propaganda/ http://techrights.org/n/2025/10/10/Nobel_Exploited_Posthumously_for_AI_Hype_Now_They_Do_the_Same_W.shtml http://techrights.org/n/2025/10/06/Nobel_Prize_in_Economics_Does_Not_Exist_It_s_Propaganda_From_Sv.shtml [11:36] TR Bot Western Media Use Peace Prize to Fuel War Propaganda FAIR [11:36] TR Bot Techrights "Nobel" Exploited Posthumously for "AI" Hype, Now They Do the Same With "Quantum" [11:36] TR Bot Techrights Nobel Prize in Economics Does Not Exist, It's Propaganda From Sveriges Riksbank [11:37] TR News "Several AI have already made deals with Reddit, including OpenAI, which signed on the dotted line last year to use Reddits trove of data to train its large language models." https://siliconangle.com/2025/10/22/reddit-suing-perplexity-ai-data-scraping-firms-using-data-without-permission/ | Source: Silicon Angle [11:37] TR Bot is suing Perplexity and AI data scraping firms for using its data without permission - SiliconANGLE [11:37] TR News "Plagiarism has become one of the trickiest issues in the modern world. With access to various sources of information, people are more likely to use the found information without proper referencing." https://itwire.com/it-industry-news/strategy/plagiarism-in-it-and-the-fight-against-it.html | Source: IT Wire [11:37] TR Bot - Plagiarism In IT And The Fight Against It [11:37] TR News "Lee claimed that Oxylabs UAB, a data scraping business based in Lithuania, AWM Proxy, a former Russian botnet, and SerpApi, which advertises real-time access to scraped Google search results, represent textbook examples of this sort of illegal behavior." https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/22/reddit_sues_perplexity/ | Source: The Register UK [11:37] TR Bot Reddit to Perplexity: Get your filthy hands off our forums The Register [11:38] TR News "Then OpenAIs ChatGPT came along, kicking off an artificial intelligence revolution." https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/technology/reddit-data-scrapers-perplexity-theft.html | Source: New York Times [11:38] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/technology/reddit-data-scrapers-perplexity-theft.html ) [11:38] TR News "A decision by Canal+ to target public DNS resolvers to reinforce pirate site blocking, ended with a French court ordering Cloudflare and Google to deny access to list of streaming sites." https://torrentfreak.com/cloudflare-resists-piracy-blocks-u-s-govt-opposes-eu-intermediary-obligations-251022/ | Source: Torrent Freak [11:38] TR Bot 'Resists' Piracy Blocks, U.S. Govt. Opposes EU Co-Op Obligations * TorrentFreak [11:38] TR News "In the modern piracy ecosystem, sites and domains have become disposable, but "brands" often survive. This phenomenon is highlighted by the MPA's latest DMCA subpoena request, which hunts the "ghosts" of already defeated operations." https://torrentfreak.com/mpa-targets-zombie-pirate-brands-including-fmovies-cuevana-and-aniwave/ | Source: Torrent Freak [11:38] TR Bot Targets 'Zombie' Pirate Brands Including Fmovies, Cuevana and Aniwave * TorrentFreak [11:39] TR News "This model is broken, yet science goes on thanks to widespread civil disobedience of the copyright regime that locks up the knowledge created by researchers." https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/civil-disobedience-copyright-keeps-science-going | Source: EFF [11:39] TR Bot Civil Disobedience of Copyright Keeps Science Going | Electronic Frontier Foundation [11:40] TR News "U.S. Magistrate Judge Susan van Keulen in San Jose, California, denied Googles motion to dismiss the so-called tying claim." https://www.courthousenews.com/yelp-can-proceed-with-additional-tying-claim-in-antitrust-case-against-google/ | Source: Court House News [11:40] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.courthousenews.com/yelp-can-proceed-with-additional-tying-claim-in-antitrust-case-against-google/ ) [11:40] TR News "strategic market status." https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/google-and-apple-face-extra-uk-scrutiny-over-strategic-role-in-mobile-platforms/articleshow/124744585.cms | Source: India Times [11:40] TR Bot Google and Apple face extra UK scrutiny over 'strategic' role in mobile platforms - The Economic Times [11:40] TR News "Pretty soon it may be easier to list the significant markets in which Apple is still able to exercise complete control over iOS app distribution." https://pxlnv.com/linklog/app-store-china-uk/ | Source: Nick Heer [11:40] TR Bot App Store Restrictions Face Scrutiny in China, U.K. Pixel Envy [11:41] *whatA____ has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [11:41] TR News "Apple lost a UK lawsuit Thursday, which accuses the US tech giant of abusing the dominant position of its App Store, with claimants seeking more than 1.5 billion pounds ($2 billion) in damages." https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/apple-loses-2-billion-uk-lawsuit-over-app-store-monopoly-9506403#publisher=newsstand | Source: NDTV [11:41] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/apple-loses-2-billion-uk-lawsuit-over-app-store-monopoly-9506403#publisher=newsstand ) [11:42] TR News Digital Restrictions (DRM) https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/10/22/spotifys-discover-weekly-lists-hit-with-a-deluge-of-ai-slop/ | Source: Digital Music News [11:42] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/10/22/spotifys-discover-weekly-lists-hit-with-a-deluge-of-ai-slop/ ) [11:42] TR News "The combined entity would employ around 25 000 people across Europe, the companies said in a statement." https://techcentral.co.za/europe-firms-agree-satellite-merger-to-counter-starlink/273245/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa) [11:43] TR Bot Europe firms agree satellite merger to counter Starlink [11:43] TR News "Airbus, Thales and Italy's Leonardo said they aimed "to strengthen Europe's strategic autonomy in space" https://phys.org/news/2025-10-europe-satellite-powerhouse-rival-musk.html | Source: Omicron Limited [11:43] TR Bot ( status 422 @ https://phys.org/news/2025-10-europe-satellite-powerhouse-rival-musk.html ) [11:43] TR News "I do not believe for one second that working 9-9-6 or any of this shit makes for great companies or success." https://json.blog/2025/10/22/shoot-your-into-the-fucking.html | Source: Jason Becker [11:43] TR Bot Shoot your 9-9-6 into the fucking sun [11:43] TR News "Beyond economics, we found that judgments about excessive wealth are also shaped by deeper moral intuitions." https://phys.org/news/2025-10-wrong-money-deep-seated-values.html | Source: Omicron Limited [11:43] TR Bot ( status 422 @ https://phys.org/news/2025-10-wrong-money-deep-seated-values.html ) [11:44] TR News "People are pissed. On Tuesday night, just hours after the raid, several hundred people flooded a Broadway intersection downtown, just above City Hall" https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/ice-vs-nyc | Source: Hamilton Nolan [11:44] TR Bot ICE vs. NYC - by Hamilton Nolan - How Things Work [11:44] TR News "Amazon has invented a new kind of labor travesty: the chickenized reverse centaur." https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/23/traveling-salesman-solution/#pee-bottles | Source: CoryDoctorow [11:44] TR Bot Pluralistic: Checking in on the state of Amazons chickenized reverse-centaurs (23 Oct 2025) Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow [11:44] TR News "This letter gets right to the heart of debates about children's right to play and their right to the street." https://phys.org/news/2025-10-children-play-streets-alleys-pavements.html | Source: Omicron Limited [11:44] TR Bot ( status 422 @ https://phys.org/news/2025-10-children-play-streets-alleys-pavements.html ) [11:45] TR News "As a longtime Pitchfork reader, its actually refreshing that the site has never had comments, ever." https://tedium.co/2025/10/22/pitchfork-doesnt-need-comments/ | Source: Tedium [11:45] TR Bot Pitchfork Doesnt Need Comments. And Yet [11:45] TR News "In Cambodia, they hit hard. Nearly $7 million marked for the countrys media development evaporated overnight." https://www.thenation.com/article/society/independent-media-cambodia-usaid-budget-cuts/ | Source: The Nation [11:45] TR Bot Independent Media in Cambodia Is Collapsing. Washington Made It Worse. | The Nation [11:45] TR News "It also noted that Aranca's article had been awarded the association's 2024 Investigative Journalism Award." https://bianet.org/haber/journalist-asuman-aranca-sentenced-to-prison-over-report-on-high-profile-murder-case-312780 | Source: BIA Net [11:45] TR Bot Journalist Asuman Aranca sentenced to prison over report on high-profile murder case [11:46] TR News "This time, I felt the opposite: joy, excitement, relief. October is one of the best months in Pennsylvania, and it was a beautiful day for NKD." https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/10/us-dispatch-no-kings-day-protest-asserts-the-power-of-free-speech-and-assembly/ | Source: JURIST [11:46] TR Bot US dispatch: No Kings Day protest asserts the power of free speech and assembly - JURIST - News [11:46] TR News "A Washington, D.C., resident who protested while playing the Imperial March theme from Star Wars sued members of the National Guard and the citys police force in federal court on Thursday" https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/us/politics/protester-who-played-star-wars-song-sues-after-arrest-in-washington.html | Source: New York Times [11:46] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/us/politics/protester-who-played-star-wars-song-sues-after-arrest-in-washington.html ) [11:47] TR News "The group said in a court filing that Gregory Bovino, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection commander overseeing the federal enforcement effort in Chicago" https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2025-10-23/top-trump-official-defied-court-order-on-tear-gas-during-chicago-crackdown-protesters-say | Source: US News And World Report [11:47] TR Bot stream 1 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2) ( status 0 @ https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2025-10-23/top-trump-official-defied-court-order-on-tear-gas-during-chicago-crackdown-protesters-say ) [11:47] TR News "terrorists and extremists." https://meduza.io/en/cards/russia-s-terrorists-and-extremists-list-is-now-sweeping-up-journalists-and-academics-soon-navalny-donors-could-face-life-in-prison | Source: Meduza [11:47] TR Bot Russias terrorists and extremists list is now sweeping up journalists and academics. Soon, Navalny donors could face life in prison. Meduza [11:48] TR News Pluralistic: Checking in on the state of Amazon's chickenized reverse-centaurs (23 Oct 2025) https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/23/traveling-salesman-solution/ [11:48] TR Bot Pluralistic: Checking in on the state of Amazons chickenized reverse-centaurs (23 Oct 2025) Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow [11:52] TR News "The layoffs were in Metas so-called Superintelligence Labs, which is the umbrella name for the companys A.I. efforts. The division has around 3,000 employees, though the exact number of workers was unclear." https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/technology/meta-plans-to-cut-600-jobs-at-ai-superintelligence-labs.html | Source: New York Times [11:52] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/technology/meta-plans-to-cut-600-jobs-at-ai-superintelligence-labs.html ) [11:52] TR News "Tech enthusiasts and really anyone with hobbies have had it rough over the last couple of decades." https://techtea.io/articles/2025/tech-optimism/ | Source: TechTea [11:52] TR Bot Tech Optimism | TechTea [11:52] TR News "There is a lot to be mad about, these days." https://tracydurnell.com/2025/10/23/woke-up-angry/ | Source: Tracy Durnell [11:53] TR Bot Woke up angry Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden [11:53] TR News "Assuming the above photo is legitimate, and of course nowadays who knows, McDonalds says it will be rounding cash change to the nearest five cents." https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/10/change-is-good-so-dont-change-my-change/ | Source: Rlang [11:53] TR Bot is good, so dont change my change | R-bloggers [11:53] TR News "Diminishing returns or not, we're hooked on growth." https://www.datagubbe.se/llmfix/ | Source: Carl Svensson [11:53] TR Bot For The Next Disruptor | datagubbe.se [11:55] TR News "Utunen further noted that a recent study found the Saimaa ringed seal is Finland's only native mammal." https://yle.fi/a/74-20190053 | Source: YLE [11:55] TR Bot Bears out, seals in? Regional boss leads calls to change Finland's national animal | Yle News | Yle [11:56] TR News "The HTS is the ideal technology to be deployed for magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) as propulsion in water requires high magnetic fields in a compact package, and HTS technology is capable of enabling a more powerful, silent, and efficient MHD drive." https://interestingengineering.com/military/stealthy-submarines-no-rotating-components-pump-tech | Source: Interesting Engineering [11:56] TR Bot US' stealthy submarine could be built with key tech from Tokamak Energy [11:56] TR News "In the last probably five, six years, sales really dropped because everyone buys everything on the internet" https://www.michigandaily.com/news/business/campus-student-bike-shop-closes-following-owners-death/ | Source: University of Michigan [11:56] TR Bot Campus Student Bike Shop closes following owners death [11:56] TR News "California residents bought more than 124,700 zero-emission vehicles or plug-in hybrids from July 1 to Sept. 30, marking the highest quarterly sales of clean vehicles since the state began tracking those numbers in 2008, according to the California Energy Commission." https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-10-23/record-ev-sales-california-q3-2025 | Source: Los Angeles Times [11:56] TR Bot Californians bought a record number of EVs before Trump budget cuts - Los Angeles Times [11:57] TR News "After serving a federal prison sentence for violating anti-money-laundering laws and US sanctions, former [cryptocurrency] exchange CEO Changpeng Zhao has been pardoned by US president Donald Trump." https://www.wired.com/story/trump-pardons-cz-binance/ | Source: Wired [11:57] TR Bot on Crypto Is Over: Donald Trump Pardons Binance Founder CZ | WIRED [11:59] TR News "Bitcoin, the pioneer and most well-known cryptocurrency, is infamous for its extreme volatility. Many investors have suffered significant losses when markets crash unexpectedly." https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/cryptos-back-fca-lifts-uk-ban-bitcoin-linked-investments-experts-warn-dont-rush-1749641 | Source: International Business Times [11:59] TR Bot Crypto's Back: FCA Lifts UK Ban on Bitcoin-Linked Investments But Experts Warn 'Don't Rush In' | IBTimes UK [11:59] TR News seized ● Oct 24 [12:00] TR News "The seized bitcoin, stored in 25 wallets, are worth more than $14 billion, and were valued at nearly $15 billion on the day of the announcement." https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/us-crypto-bust-hope-battle-against-cybercrime-syndicates | Source: Dark Reading [12:00] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/us-crypto-bust-hope-battle-against-cybercrime-syndicates ) [12:00] TR News "My epic rail journey to some of the continents most creative and edgy cities mimics a cruise I hop on and off, eat too much and soak up the culture" https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/oct/23/train-tour-europe-cool-northern-capitals-london-vilnius-berlin-warsaw-amsterdam | Source: The Guardian UK [12:00] TR Bot A train tour of Europes cool northern capitals: from London to Vilnius, via Berlin and Warsaw | Rail travel | The Guardian [12:01] *whatA____ (~chatzilla@i8gtth78frzk8.irc) has joined #techrights [12:01] TR News "Deep-sea mining is capturing the attention of governments and industry. But what is the true cost of this 'clean energy' transition?" https://phys.org/news/2025-10-true-deep-sea.html | Source: Omicron Limited [12:01] TR Bot ( status 422 @ https://phys.org/news/2025-10-true-deep-sea.html ) [12:01] TR News "And now that cycle will continue uninterrupted for the foreseeable future." https://alabamareflector.com/2025/10/22/e-o-wilson-land-between-the-rivers-preserve-is-a-place-that-time-forgot/ | Source: Alabama Reflector [12:01] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://alabamareflector.com/2025/10/22/e-o-wilson-land-between-the-rivers-preserve-is-a-place-that-time-forgot/ ) [12:01] TR News "the fundamental right to a clean and healthy environment." https://arkansasadvocate.com/2025/10/21/university-students-seek-to-safeguard-arkansas-natural-resources-through-ballot-initiative/ | Source: Arkansas Advocate [12:01] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://arkansasadvocate.com/2025/10/21/university-students-seek-to-safeguard-arkansas-natural-resources-through-ballot-initiative/ ) [12:01] TR News "At the end of the interview, Goodall turns directly to the camera" https://www.mlive.com/news/2025/10/letter-from-the-editor-a-sip-of-whiskey-a-shot-of-hope-jane-goodalls-final-challenge-to-us-all.html | Source: Michigan News [12:01] TR Bot from the Editor: A sip of whiskey, a shot of hope Jane Goodalls final challenge to us all - mlive.com [12:02] TR News "The results of the poll, conducted in September, suggest that as AI reshapes work, communication and culture, its also sparking anxieties about how the growing energy demands could further harm the environment." https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2025-10-23/what-americans-think-about-the-environmental-impact-of-ai-according-to-a-new-poll | Source: US News And World Report [12:02] TR Bot stream 1 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2) ( status 0 @ https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2025-10-23/what-americans-think-about-the-environmental-impact-of-ai-according-to-a-new-poll ) [12:02] TR News "dont have water to drink, let alone to sustain their crops." https://www.ekathimerini.com/economy/1284629/cyprus-dam-levels-at-just-11-pct/ | Source: Greece [12:02] TR Bot dam levels at just 11 pct | eKathimerini.com [12:02] TR News "By virtually every key metric, efforts to fight climate change are going too slowly, according to findings by a coalition of climate groups. In some cases, things are moving in the wrong direction." https://www.wired.com/story/new-report-finds-efforts-to-slow-climate-change-are-working-just-not-fast-enough/ | Source: Wired [12:02] TR Bot Report Finds Efforts to Slow Climate Change Are WorkingJust Not Fast Enough | WIRED [12:03] TR News "That means these animals are so rare that they no longer serve a function in Floridas marine ecosystem." https://www.vox.com/climate/465829/florida-coral-reef-extinction | Source: Vox [12:03] TR Bot coral reef has lost two species that help limit hurricane damage | Vox [12:03] TR News "The experiment would blend interests of corn, sorghum and soybean farmers and address goals of renewable energy enthusiasts." https://kansasreflector.com/2025/10/23/kansas-economic-conference-awash-in-ideas-for-transforming-states-water-policy/ | Source: Kansas Reflector [12:03] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://kansasreflector.com/2025/10/23/kansas-economic-conference-awash-in-ideas-for-transforming-states-water-policy/ ) [12:04] TR News "Divers off the coast of Sapientza Island in southern Greece have launched a determined effort to remove ghost nets abandoned fishing gear that silently strangles marine ecosystems." https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/environment/1284693/greek-divers-haul-up-ghost-nets-destroying-marine-life/ | Source: Greece [12:04] TR Bot divers haul up ghost nets destroying marine life | eKathimerini.com [12:04] TR News "Melania Trump's legal battle with journalist Michael Wolff is getting uglier ... and Wolff says he can't wait to ask Melania and President Donald Trump about Jeffrey Epstein under oath." https://www.tmz.com/2025/10/22/journalist-suing-melania-trump-wants-ask-about-epstein/ | Source: TMZ [12:04] TR Bot Journalist Suing Melania Trump Says He Wants to Ask Her & Donald About Epstein [12:05] TR News "Journalist and author Michael Wolff has filed a lawsuit against First Lady Melania Trump, accusing her of shutting down questions relating to her and Jeffrey Epstein." https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/michael-wolff-melania-trump-epstein-lawsuit-b2850417.html | Source: The Independent UK [12:05] TR Bot Journalist files suit against Melania Trump saying she is stopping him from asking questions about her and Epstein | The Independent [12:05] TR News "The face-off between the two individuals started from comments Wolff made about Melania Trumps involvement with convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein." https://www.hindustantimes.com/trending/us/who-is-michael-wolff-journalist-sues-melania-trump-after-1b-threat-over-epstein-comments-101761161656134.html | Source: Hindustan Times [12:05] TR Bot Who is Michael Wolff? Journalist sues Melania Trump after $1B threat over Epstein comments | Hindustan Times [12:07] TR News "There is no court in the land that would allow that kind of corruption to go on, and I have no idea why the state of Georgia does" https://georgiarecorder.com/2025/10/22/prominent-clean-energy-advocate-accused-of-stealing-georgia-power-trade-secrets-at-public-meeting/ | Source: The Georgia Recorder [12:07] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://georgiarecorder.com/2025/10/22/prominent-clean-energy-advocate-accused-of-stealing-georgia-power-trade-secrets-at-public-meeting/ ) [12:08] TR News "US state negotiators are battling over how to manage dwindling water resources in the Colorado River Basin, a lifeline for over 40 million people spanning across seven states and two countries." https://www.dw.com/en/water-conflict-scarcity-upper-basin-lower-basin-drought-agriculture-california-rights-allocation/a-74468546 | Source: Deutsche Welle [12:08] TR Bot over water intensifies as Colorado River dries up DW 10/23/2025 [12:13] TR News "Russian Government Now Actively Managing Cybercrime Groups" https://www.securityweek.com/russian-government-now-actively-managing-cybercrime-groups-security-firm/ | Source: Security Week [12:13] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/russian-government-now-actively-managing-cybercrime-groups-security-firm/ ) [12:14] TR News "ESET researchers tracking the campaign have identified at least three organizations Lazarus has struck so far, all located in Central and Southeastern Europe." https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/lazarus-group-hunts-european-drone-manufacturing-data | Source: Dark Reading [12:14] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/lazarus-group-hunts-european-drone-manufacturing-data ) [12:14] TR News "One exception to the industry-wide lethargy is the engineering team that designs the Signal Protocol" https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/10/why-signals-post-quantum-makeover-is-an-amazing-engineering-achievement/ | Source: Ars Technica [12:14] TR Bot Why Signals post-quantum makeover is an amazing engineering achievement - Ars Technica [12:15] TR News "Where is your data on the [Internet]? I mean, outside the places you've consciously provided it" https://www.troyhunt.com/inside-the-synthient-threat-data/ | Source: Troy Hunt [12:15] TR Bot Troy Hunt: Inside the Synthient Threat Data [12:15] TR News [Old] "Microsoft France's director of public and legal affairs, was asked whether he could guarantee that French citizen data would never be transmitted to U.S. authorities without explicit French authorization." https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2025/07/22/microsoft-cant-keep-eu-data-safe-from-us-authorities/ | Source: Forbes [12:15] TR Bot Microsoft Can't Keep EU Data Safe From US Authorities [12:16] TR News "In fact, the [Internet] is a bit of a data-harvesting beast. Your data and activity are continuously being tracked." https://www.androidpolice.com/free-internet-was-a-gift-turns-out-its-bait/ | Source: Android Police [12:16] TR Bot I thought free internet was a gift. Turns out, it's bait [12:16] TR News "The claimant, Lanuszka, was dismissed after her employer recorded that she spent just over an hour browsing websites such as Amazon and Very over a two-day period. Her employer claimed this amounted to gross misconduct." https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/worker-fired-shopping-online-lunch-break-wins-14000-judge-says-boss-used-spyware-sack-her-1749631 | Source: International Business Times [12:16] TR Bot Worker Fired for Shopping Online at Lunch Break Wins 14,000 Judge Says Boss 'Used Spyware to Sack Her' | IBTimes UK [12:17] TR News "In September 2025, the UK Government announced that everyone in the UK should have mandatory Digital ID cards to prove their right to work." https://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaign/say-no-to-digital-id/ | Source: OpenRightsGroup [12:17] TR Bot Say No to Digital ID | Open Rights Group [12:18] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techrights [12:20] TR News "The plaintiffs, which include the parents of four children, aimed specifically at its Chromebook laptops, Chrome web browser and suite of education applications, referred to as Google Workspace for Education." https://www.courthousenews.com/judge-takes-up-google-bid-to-toss-suit-over-student-data-tracking/ | Source: Court House News [12:20] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.courthousenews.com/judge-takes-up-google-bid-to-toss-suit-over-student-data-tracking/ ) [12:21] TR News "Under new rules introduced earlier this year, visitors seeking to get a Russian phone number are required to register on a government services portal" https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/10/22/new-rules-keep-tourists-from-buying-russian-sim-cards-operators-complain-a90901 | Source: The Moscow Times [12:21] TR Bot New Rules Keep Tourists From Buying Russian SIM Cards, Operators Complain - The Moscow Times [12:21] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techrights [12:21] TR News "The activity targets remote digital advertising workers who have contract or part-time positions and may actively look for work while they currently have a job." https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/vietnamese-actors-fake-job-posting-campaigns/ | Source: Google [12:21] TR Bot Help Wanted: Vietnamese Actors Using Fake Job Posting Campaigns to Deliver Malware and Steal Credentials | Google Cloud Blog [12:23] TR News "A coroner has now raised a 'major concern' about the spread of these so-called challenges on TikTok, and accused the platform of 'disseminating these challenges quite happily' - making them 'easily accessible' to impressionable youngsters." https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/boy-12-dies-bedroom-tiktok-10595429 | Source: StokeonTrentLive [12:23] TR Bot Boy, 12, dies in bedroom social media trend tragedy - Stoke-on-Trent Live [12:23] TR News "Chiara Puglielli and Anne Craanen, the authors of the research paper, used SimilarWeb to identify a common group of sites that shared content, audiences, keywords and referrals." https://www.404media.co/deepfake-tools-spread-on-social-media-research/ | Source: 404 Media [12:23] TR Bot New Research Shows Deepfake Harassment Tools Spread on Social Media and Search Engines [12:23] TR News "This Dispatch concludes with an analysis of proposed European and North American policies to combat SIIA tools." https://www.isdglobal.org/digital_dispatches/the-ecosystem-of-nonconsensual-intimate-deepfake-tools-online/?ref=404media.co | [12:23] TR Bot The ecosystem of nonconsensual intimate deepfake tools online - ISD [12:24] TR News "Amazon has suffered major AWS outages before. But the timing and impact of this one comes just months after an eyebrow-raising personnel decision by the e-commerce giant." https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/aws-outage-amazon-fired-workers-ai | Source: Futurism [12:24] TR Bot AWS Outage That Took Down Internet Came After Amazon Fired Tons of Workers in Favor of AI [12:24] TR News "Its a notable new development, considering Zuckerberg has personally led an aggressive hiring spree earlier this year" https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/zuckerberg-firing-hundreds-ai-developers | Source: Futurism [12:24] TR Bot Zuckerberg Firing Hundreds of AI Developers After Hiring Spree [12:24] TR News "Meta has laid off around 600 engineers from its Artificial Intelligence (AI) division in a surprising move that has sent shockwaves through the tech industry. The job cuts, announced on 22 October 2025" https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/meta-layoffs-ai-shock-zuckerberg-axes-600-engineers-says-ai-still-future-1749549 | Source: International Business Times [12:24] TR Bot Meta Layoffs AI Shock: Zuckerberg Axes 600 Engineers but Says AI Is Still the Future | IBTimes UK [12:24] TR News "The company announced the cuts in a memo from its chief AI officer, Alexandr Wang, who was hired in June as part of Meta's $14.3 billion investment in Scale AI." https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/22/meta-layoffs-ai.html | Source: CNBC [12:24] TR Bot Meta lays off 600 from 'bloated' AI unit as Wang cements leadership [12:25] TR News "The layoffs were announced by Meta Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang in an email to employees, who gave the usual excuse that smaller teams get more work done." https://siliconangle.com/2025/10/22/meta-lays-off-600-ai-workers-looks-streamline-superintelligence-labs/ | Source: Silicon Angle [12:25] TR Bot lays off 600 AI workers to streamline its Superintelligence Labs unit - SiliconANGLE [12:26] TR News "A quick search on social media reveals that slop continues to find its way into users Discover Weekly, which are personalized playlists that refresh every Monday to serve them new music based on their listening habits." https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-slop-invading-spotify-discover-weekly-playlists | Source: Futurism [12:26] TR Bot AI Slop Now Invading Spotify's Discover Weekly Lists [12:28] TR News "I agree that harm caused by developers who use AI (whether forced or not) needs mitigation." https://hidde.blog/teaching-llms-or-companies/ | Source: Hidde de Vries [12:28] TR Bot not resolve host: hidde.blog ( status 0 @ https://hidde.blog/teaching-llms-or-companies/ ) [12:36] TR News "Nine months ago I added an infinite-nonsense honeypot to poison LLM scrapers." https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/10/exterminate-all-rational-ai-scrapers-redux-redux/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski [12:36] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/10/exterminate-all-rational-ai-scrapers-redux-redux/ ) [12:38] TR News "The announcement of Anthropics new smallish Claude model, Haiku 4.5, came with people running it through their favourite benchmarks." https://entropicthoughts.com/haiku-4-5-playing-text-adventures | Source: Chris [12:38] TR Bot Haiku 4.5 Playing Text Adventures [12:38] TR News "GitLab today announced the release of GitLab 18.5, delivering new specialised agents, security insights that cut through the noise, and a "reimagined interface that keeps the AI teammate always in view"." https://itwire.com/business-it-news/business-software/gitlab-releases-18-5-with-intelligence-that-%e2%80%98moves-software-development-forward%e2%80%99.html | Source: IT Wire [12:38] TR Bot - GitLab releases 18.5 with intelligence that moves software development forward [12:41] TR News "Reddit is now in a big legal fight against AI that could set precedents, filing a federal lawsuit against Perplexity AI and three other entities for allegedly harvesting the social platform's vast repository of conversations without explicit permission from Reddit." https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/reddit-sues-perplexity-shocking-ai-data-scraping-scandal-1749609 | Source: International Business Times [12:42] TR Bot Reddit Sues Perplexity in Shocking AI Data Scraping Scandal | IBTimes UK [12:42] TR News "Three of those companies -- SerpApi; a Lithuanian startup, Oxylabs; and a Russian company, AWMProxy -- sold data to AI companies such as OpenAI and Meta, according to the lawsuit." https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/reddit-sues-perplexity-for-scraping-data-to-train-ai-system/articleshow/124744633.cms | Source: India Times [12:42] TR Bot Reddit accuses 'data scraper' companies of stealing its information - The Economic Times [12:42] TR News "The episode has ignited fresh alarm about whether commercially deployed companion AIs are safe for minors, and whether xAI's moderation and parental controls are adequate." https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/outraged-mum-blasts-elon-musks-ai-grok-after-it-told-her-kids-send-nudes-furious-parents-1749640 | Source: International Business Times [12:42] TR Bot Outraged Mum Blasts Elon Musk's AI 'Grok' After It Told Her Kids To 'Send Nudes' Furious Parents Call For Ban | IBTimes UK [12:42] TR News "Electricity prices have been going up pretty dramatically over the past year. In some places, theyre rising by double-digit percentages, and theyre projected to rise even further." https://www.vox.com/technology/465749/electricity-costs-ai-data-centers-speculation | Source: Vox [12:42] TR Bot your electric bill is so high now: Blame AI data centers | Vox [12:43] TR News "Conservative activist Robby Starbuck sued Google on Wednesday, alleging the tech giant's artificial intelligence systems generated "outrageously false" information about him." https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/conservative-activist-sues-google-over-ai-generated-statements/articleshow/124753340.cms | Source: India Times [12:43] TR Bot Conservative activist sues Google over AI-generated statements - The Economic Times [12:43] whatA____ Reddick also tried to burn the digital Library of Alexandria http://www.theverge.com/news/757538/reddit-internet-archive-wayback-machine-block-limit [12:43] TR Bot Reddit will block the Internet Archive | The Verge [12:43] TR News "The government has proposed compulsory declarations by all social media users when posting AI-generated or modified content, with the platforms told to deploy technical measures to verify these." https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/ai-content-on-social-media-may-be-labelled-to-fight-rising-tide-of-deepfakes-misinformation/articleshow/124746743.cms | Source: India Times [12:43] TR Bot AI content on social media may be labelled to fight rising tide of deepfakes, misinformation - The Economic Times [12:43] TR News "RRA makes a lot of submissions to government inquiries. And a number of these turn out to have made-up references. Just like someone wrote them with a chatbot: [...]" https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/10/23/anti-renewables-group-uses-ai-in-government-inquiry-submissions/ | Source: Pivot to AI [12:43] TR Bot ( status 503 @ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/10/23/anti-renewables-group-uses-ai-in-government-inquiry-submissions/ ) [12:43] TR News "Whenever someone suggests using an LLM to summarize a piece of text, I cringe: We'll never know what it possibly messed up without reading the actual text ourselves. What a time-saver! But, you know, search results are so 2023." https://www.datagubbe.se/fatmike/ | Source: Carl Svensson [12:43] TR Bot Fat Mike Skate? | datagubbe.se [12:43] whatA____ remember the Critical Window? http://annas-archive.org/blog/critical-window.html [12:43] TR Bot The critical window of shadow libraries - Annas Blog [12:43] TR News "The choice was also entirely consistent with a another move the Cuomo campaign made Wednesday night." https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/cuomo-racist-sid-rosenberg-ai-video | Source: Marisa Kabas [12:43] TR Bot Cuomo goes full gutter racist down the stretch [12:44] TR News "This intersection seems primed for exploitation, especially if you consider combining different techniques weve seen as of late like weaponizing LLM agents and shipping malicious code that only runs in end-users browsers." https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/ai-browsers-frontier-security/ | Source: Jim Nielsen [12:44] TR Bot AI Browsers: Living on the Frontier of Security - Jim Nielsens Blog [12:44] TR News "Our fellow terminally online readers probably have seen this video, which originated on Chinese social media." https://www.wired.com/story/made-in-china-the-chinese-creator-who-imitates-ai-slop/ | Source: Wired [12:44] TR Bot Man Who Makes AI Slop by Hand | WIRED [12:44] TR News "And yet, AI bias is present and affects how these models respond to questions in ways that matter right now." https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/23/ai_model_bias_inevitable/ | Source: The Register UK [12:44] TR Bot AI chatbots carry hidden biases baked into their design The Register [12:45] TR News "But compared with some other AI companies, its less clear how OpenAI will generate revenue from most of these endeavors." https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/10/openai-chatgpt-atlas-web-browser/684662/ | Source: The Atlantic [12:45] TR Bot OpenAI Wants to Cure Cancer. So Why Did It Make a Web Browser? - The Atlantic [12:45] TR News "Serious F5 Breach - Schneier on Security" https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/10/serious-f5-breach.html | Source: Bruce Schneier [12:45] TR Bot F5 Breach - Schneier on Security [12:45] TR News "Office Online Server provides browser-based versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote for customers who want to keep things on-prem without having to roll out the full desktop applications." https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/22/microsoft_office_online_server/ | Source: The Register UK [12:45] TR Bot Microsoft puts Office Online Server on the chopping block The Register [12:46] TR News "The campaign, which has been running since 2021, surged in 2025, with the number of malicious videos tripling compared to previous years" https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/23/youtube_ghost_network_malware/ | Source: The Register UK [12:46] TR Bot Google and Check Point nuke massive YouTube malware network The Register [12:46] TR News "It's the second IT outage affecting the airline this year." https://abcnews.go.com/US/alaska-airlines-grounds-flights-nationwide-due-outage/story?id=126817147 | Source: ABC [12:46] TR Bot Alaska Airlines ground stop lifted as additional flight disruptions 'likely' - ABC News [12:47] TR News "Alaska is the fifth largest US airline and flies 44 million passengers each year to 120 destinations in five countries, accoring to its website." https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/23/us/alaska-airlines-it-outage | Source: CNN [12:47] TR Bot Alaska Airlines resumes operations after IT outage canceled hundreds of flights | CNN [12:48] TR News "a temporary ground stop is in place." https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/alaska-airlines-grounds-flights-amid-it-outage/ | Source: Seattle Times [12:48] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/alaska-airlines-grounds-flights-amid-it-outage/ ) [12:48] TR News "There has been a history of computer problems disrupting flights in the industry, though most of the time the disruptions are only temporary." https://www.independent.co.uk/news/alaska-airlines-hawaiian-airlines-seattle-alaska-horizon-air-b2851294.html | Source: The Independent UK [12:48] TR Bot Alaska Airlines says an information technology outage is grounding its flights | The Independent [12:49] TR News "A new study by investigators from Harvard and Mass General Brigham examined 13,547 older women, comparing their step counts over a one-week period against their mortality and cardiovascular disease rates over the next decade." https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/10/4000-counts-for-a-lot/ | Source: Harvard University [12:49] TR Bot Step study: 4,000 counts for a lot Harvard Gazette [12:49] TR News "Smartphones are not the enemy, doom scrolling is." https://thomasrigby.com/posts/smartphones-are-not-the-enemy/ | Source: Thomas Rigby [12:49] TR Bot are not the enemy | thomasrigby.com [12:49] TR News "Brooks began neglected his own health, forgoing food and sleep in order to spend more time talking with the chatbot and emailing safety officials throughout North America about his dangerous findings." https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-researcher-mental-health | Source: Futurism [12:49] TR Bot Former OpenAI Researcher Horrified by Conversation Logs of ChatGPT Driving User Into Severe Mental Breakdown [12:50] TR News "While the cameras lens was shattered, and some of the electronic hardware inside was rattled around and disconnected, the SD card survived completely undamaged, the documents said." https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/titanic-sub-sd-card | Source: Futurism [12:50] TR Bot Titanic Sub Investigators Find Camera With Intact SD Card Amid Crumpled Wreckage [12:51] TR News "Intels tick-tock isnt coming back, and everything else I just learned" https://www.theverge.com/tech/805652/intel-q3-2025-earnings-18a-panther-lake-ai-gpus-annual | Source: The Verge [12:51] TR Bot Intels tick-tock isnt coming back, and everything else I just learned | The Verge [12:51] TR News "Yubico, the leading provider of hardware authentication security keys, unveiled new Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) prototypes and expanded digital identity capabilities at the recent Authenticate conference" https://itwire.com/business-it-news/security/yubico-showcases-post-quantum-cryptography-digital-identity-innovation.html | Source: IT Wire [12:51] TR Bot - Yubico showcases post-quantum cryptography & digital identity innovation [12:53] TR News "The arrangement will include Anthropic buying as many as one million Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), which are integrated circuits custom-designed by Google, according to the San Francisco-based startup." https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-announces-massive-ai-chip-deal-with-google/articleshow/124774562.cms | Source: India Times [12:53] TR Bot Anthropic announces massive AI chip deal with Google - The Economic Times [12:54] TR News "Employers make hiring decisions based on return on investment, not on your personal expenses" https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/i-have-bills-pay-could-cost-you-salary-negotiation-hiring-coach-warns-heres-what-say-1749629 | Source: International Business Times [12:54] TR Bot 'I Have Bills To Pay' Could Cost You in a Salary Negotiation, Hiring Coach Warns Here's What to Say Instead | IBTimes UK [12:54] TR News "This fall, for the first time at Illinois Tech, I'm teaching Introduction to Theory of Computation." https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2025/10/ai-and-intro-theory.html | Source: Computational Complexity [12:54] TR Bot Computational Complexity: AI and Intro Theory [12:55] TR News "Thorn (, ) is a letter broadly pronounced as e digraph th, like in e English word the. It was replaced by e letter Y when movable typesetting kit was imported from The Low Countries to England." https://rubenerd.com/bring-back-the-letter-thorn/ | Source: Ruben Schade [12:55] TR Bot Bring back the letter thorn () [12:56] TR News "Kubrick would look at it for about five minutes and then he'd go back and he'd start adjusting the model lights again." https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/video-technique/matt-damon-reveals-how-stanley-kubrick-was-obsessed-with-studying-8x10in-stills-of-a-model-film-set-when-shooting-his-horror-film-classic-the-shining-the-level-of-artistry-insanity-and-obsession-is-just-so-beautiful | Source: Digital Camera World [12:56] TR Bot Matt Damon reveals how Stanley Kubrick was obsessed with studying 8x10in stills of a model film set when shooting his horror film classic, The Shining "The level of artistry/insanity and obsession is just so beautiful" | Digital Camera World [12:56] TR News "Kubrick would look at it for about five minutes and then he'd go back and he'd start https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/video-technique/matt-damon-reveals-how-stanley-kubrick-was-obsessed-with-studying-8x10in-stills-of-a-model-film-set-when-shooting-his-horror-film-classic-the-shining-the-level-of-artistry-insanity-and-obsession-is-just-so-beautiful | Source: Digital Camera World [12:56] TR News "Today, after a tough week clearing the place to meet a short-notice exchange deadline, I handed over the keys. After more than five decades, No. 11 is no longer ours. My heart breaks, but my memories are forever." https://colly.com/journal/number-11 | Source: Simon Collison [12:56] TR Bot Simon Collison | Number 11 [12:56] TR News "Coffee is one of my favourite ings, to which ose of you whove read my blog for more an five minutes can likely attest." https://rubenerd.com/the-time-i-reduced-my-caffeine-intake/ | Source: Ruben Schade [12:56] TR Bot e time I reduced my caffeine intake [12:57] TR News "Years later, Schulz reflected on that experience as a defining moment in his life one that enabled him to project his own fragile emotions through the downtrodden world view of good ol Charlie Brown, the comic strips main character." https://www.armytimes.com/veterans/military-history/2025/10/23/how-a-wwii-vet-created-one-of-the-most-beloved-comic-strip-characters/ | Source: Sightline Media Group [12:57] TR Bot How a WWII vet created one of the most beloved comic strip characters [12:58] TR News DeepSeek and Qwen Hey Hi (AI) Models Now Available as Ubuntu Snaps https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/10/deepseek-qwen-ubuntu-snaps [12:58] TR Bot DeepSeek and Qwen AI Models Now Available as Ubuntu Snaps - OMG! Ubuntu ● Oct 24 [13:00] TR News Serious F5 Breach https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/10/serious-f5-breach.html [13:00] TR News AI Browsers: Living on the Frontier of Security https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/ai-browsers-frontier-security/ [13:00] TR Bot AI Browsers: Living on the Frontier of Security - Jim Nielsens Blog [13:09] TR News (NEW): Games: GNOME Crosswords, New Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Clients, GNU/Linux Outperforms Windows https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/23/Games_GNOME_Crosswords_New_Steam_Games_with_Native_GNU_Linux_Cl.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/23/Games_GNOME_Crosswords_New_Steam_Games_with_Native_GNU_Linux_Cl.gmi [13:09] TR Bot Tux Machines Games: GNOME Crosswords, New Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Clients, GNU/Linux Outperforms Windows [13:09] TR News (NEW): Today's HowTos https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/23/today_s_howtos.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/23/today_s_howtos.gmi [13:09] TR Bot Tux Machines today's howtos [13:09] TR News (NEW): Hey Hi (AI) Hype IBM Red Hat and Canonical https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/24/Hey_Hi_AI_Hype_IBM_Red_Hat_and_Canonical.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/24/Hey_Hi_AI_Hype_IBM_Red_Hat_and_Canonical.gmi [13:09] TR Bot Tux Machines Hey Hi (AI) Hype IBM Red Hat and Canonical [13:14] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [13:17] TR News Techrights Links 24/10/2025: "Independent Media in Cambodia is Collapsing" and Serious F5 Breach https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/24/Links_24_10_2025_Independent_Media_in_Cambodia_is_Collapsing_an.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/24/Links_24_10_2025_Independent_Media_in_Cambodia_is_Collapsing_an.gmi [13:17] TR Bot Techrights Links 24/10/2025: "Independent Media in Cambodia is Collapsing" and Serious F5 Breach [13:20] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@4fqyq57tpudzs.irc) has joined #techrights [13:31] TR News Mirror journalists back strike action over redundancies and Hey Hi (AI) https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/nationals/mirror-journalists-back-strike-action-over-redundancies-and-ai/ [13:31] TR Bot Mirror journalists back strike action over redundancies and AI - Press Gazette [13:32] TR News Massive strike in New Zealand as 100,000 demand better pay and conditions https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/massive-strike-in-new-zealand-as-100000-demand-better-pay-and-conditions [13:32] TR Bot Massive strike in New Zealand as 100,000 demand better pay and conditions | The Straits Times [13:36] TR News Broadway Musicians Announce Tentative Agreement, Averting a Strike And Hundreds of Shows Cancellations https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/10/23/broadway-musicians-announce-tentative-agreement/ [13:36] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/10/23/broadway-musicians-announce-tentative-agreement/ ) [13:38] TR News "When software encoders reached the public in the mid nineteen nineties, developers quickly integrated MP3 support into media players like Winamp and MusicMatch." https://machaddr.com/blog/articles/2025-10-23-mp3-visionaries/ | Source: Andr Machado [13:38] TR Bot MP3 Visionaries and Their Lasting Impact on Society [13:38] TR News "There are only two public API constructs associated with context values: [...]" https://rednafi.com/go/avoid-context-key-collisions/ | Source: Redowan Delowar [13:38] TR Bot Avoiding collisions in Go context keys | Redowan's Reflections [13:38] TR News "The challenge: Use every new trick in the book of Java to simulate as many particles as possible, cpu only and maybe, just maybe, beat rust?" https://dgerrells.com/blog/how-fast-is-java-teaching-an-old-dog-new-tricks | Source: David Gerrells [13:38] TR Bot how fast is java? Teaching an old dog new tricks [13:39] TR News "TL;DR: {rixpress} lets you build multi-language data pipelines (R, Python, Julia) where each step runs in its own reproducible environment." https://brodrigues.co/posts/2025-10-23-rixpress_cran.html | Source: Bruno Rodrigues [13:39] TR Bot Orchestrating Polyglot, Reproducible Data Science with Nix and {rixpress} Econometrics and Free Software [13:39] TR News "You are given an array of integers, @ints and an integer, $x." https://raku-musings.com/form-formation.html | Source: Arne Sommer [13:39] TR Bot Form Formation with Raku - Arne Sommer [13:40] TR News "When NaN is included in a arithmetic expression, the result will always be NaN that tracks, right? Anything mathd against the very concept of not a number cant result in a number: [...]" https://piccalil.li/blog/nan-the-not-a-number-number-that-isnt-nan/?ref=main-rss-feed | Source: Andy Bell [13:40] TR Bot NaN, the not-a-number number that isnt NaN - Piccalilli [13:40] TR News "Since functional programmings move into the mainstream, many developers have embraced concepts like higher-order functions." https://citizen428.net/blog/ocaml-module-functors/ | Source: Michael Kohl [13:40] TR Bot Functors in OCaml - citizen428.net [13:40] TR News "One of the most impactful effects of professionalizing open source maintenance is that as professionals we can invest into upholding a set of standards that make our projects safer and more reliable." https://words.filippo.io/standard-of-care/ | Source: Filippo Valsorda [13:40] TR Bot The Geomys Standard of Care [13:41] TR News "The Scholarly Kitchen Chefs" https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/10/21/ask-the-chefs-who-owns-our-knowledge/ | Source: Society for Scholarly Publishing [13:41] TR Bot Ask the Chefs: Who Owns Our Knowledge? - The Scholarly Kitchen [13:41] TR News "Judges Henry T. Wingate and Julien Xavier Neals, who sit on the U.S. District Courts for the Southern District of Mississippi and District of New Jersey, respectively" https://fedscoop.com/perplexity-chatgpt-error-ridden-orders-federal-judges/ | Source: Scoop News Group [13:41] TR Bot of Perplexity, ChatGPT behind error-ridden orders, federal judges say | FedScoop [13:42] TR News "Whats going on, Internet? To the outrage of the Firefox community across the web" https://flamedfury.com/posts/disable-ai-in-firefox/ | Source: Flamed Fury [13:42] TR Bot Disable AI In Firefox [13:42] TR News "Through thick and thin, I have been a long-time die-hard Firefox user." https://ratfactor.com/cards/librewolf | Source: Dave Gauer [13:42] TR Bot - ratfactor [13:42] TR News "The Universe Browser is believed to have been downloaded millions of times. But researchers say it behaves like malware and has links to Asias booming cybercrime and illegal gambling networks." https://www.wired.com/story/universe-browser-malware-gambling-networks/ | Source: Wired [13:42] TR Bot Privacy Browser Has Dangerous Hidden Features | WIRED [13:42] TR News "This time I am back with another update and I here is the official list of the 110 operating systems that have run curl." https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/10/23/on-110-operating-systems/ | Source: Daniel Stenberg [13:42] TR Bot 110 operating systems | daniel.haxx.se [13:47] TR News "Welcome to the September 2025 development and community update." https://krita.org/en/posts/2025/monthly-update-31/ | Source: Krita [13:47] TR Bot Krita Monthly Update - Edition 31 | Krita [13:47] TR News "If you are not familiar with it, Pangolin lets users securely expose local web services to the [Internet] without opening ports or dealing with complex firewall rules." https://linuxiac.com/pangolin-reverse-proxy-moves-to-dual-licensing-with-new-enterprise-edition/ | Source: Linuxiac [13:47] TR Bot Pangolin Reverse Proxy Moves to Dual Licensing With New Enterprise Edition [13:48] TR News "I impulse ordered the new Pebble smartwatch as soon as it was announced." https://baty.blog/2025/10/pebble-core-2-duo-smartwatch/ | Source: Jack Baty [13:48] TR Bot Core 2 Duo smartwatch Baty.blog [13:50] TR News "Post about a 3D printing problem any 3D printing problem" https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/10/24/convert-a-cheap-air-fryer-into-a-high-performance-3d-printer-filament-dryer/ | Source: Arduino [13:50] TR Bot Convert a cheap air fryer into a high-performance 3D printer filament dryer | Arduino Blog [13:50] TR News "The new release adds official images for the NanoPi R3S, R3S LTS, R76S, and M5 boards." https://linuxiac.com/dietpi-9-18-adds-nanopi-r3s-r76s-and-m5-support/ | Source: Linuxiac [13:50] TR Bot DietPi 9.18 Adds NanoPi R3S, R76S, and M5 Support [13:51] TR News "I would just be laughing at this except I worry about getting stuck with a GM rental car." https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/10/23/general-motors-doubles-down-on-removing-carplay/ | Source: Michael Tsai [13:51] TR Bot Michael Tsai - Blog - General Motors Doubles Down on Removing CarPlay [13:51] TR News "In a Decoder interview with The Verges Nilay Patel, published Wednesday" https://www.theverge.com/transportation/804562/gm-apple-carplay-android-auto-gas-cars-mary-barra | Source: The Verge [13:51] TR Bot GM will ditch Apple CarPlay and Android Auto on all its cars, not just EVs | The Verge [13:52] TR News "As of today, October 22nd, 2025, Canonical has published the first working daily build ISO images of the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS" https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-26-04-lts-resolute-raccoon-daily-builds-are-now-available-for-download | Source: 9to5Linux [13:52] TR Bot 26.04 LTS "Resolute Raccoon" Daily Builds Are Now Available for Download - 9to5Linux [13:54] TR News "The other improvement that seemed especially interesting to us was that the OpenBSD TCP/IP stack is now multithreaded." https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/23/openbsd_78_and_9front_release/ | Source: The Register UK [13:54] TR Bot OpenBSD 7.8 out now and 9front's 'Release' released The Register [13:55] TR News "Most of today has been me making and editing and rendering and uploading this roughly 50 minute intro video to how I program a complex strategy game in C++!" https://www.positech.co.uk/cliffsblog/2025/10/23/c-strategy-game-programming-ridiculous-space-battles-code-video-1/ | Source: Positech Games [13:55] TR Bot C++ Strategy Game Programming: Ridiculous Space Battles code video #1 Cliffski's Blog [13:55] TR News "This means that progressively rolling out a kernel update (and rebooting things) to our important, visible core servers requires multiple people-visible reboots of machines, instead of one big downtime when everything is rebooted." https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/StagedRolloutDrawbacksForUs | Source: University of Toronto [13:55] TR Bot You're using a too-old browser [13:56] TR News "Yes but it depends on how you define the verb to optimize." https://brainbaking.com/post/2025/10/is-it-worth-it-to-optimize-images-for-your-site/ | Source: Wouter Groeneveld [13:56] TR Bot Is It Worth It To Optimize Images For Your Site? | Brain Baking [13:57] TR News "I think there is one answer for why this is a good idea in general and otherwise complex to do, although you can argue about it, and then a second historical answer based on how mount points were initially implemented." https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/MountPointsExistenceWhy | Source: University of Toronto [13:57] TR News "Why? Because why not. And also because I can. Oh, and free speech and anti-censorship and all that jazz." https://flower.codes/2025/10/23/onion-mirror.html | Source: Zach Flower [13:57] TR Bot up an Onion Mirror is Stupid Easy | flower.codes [13:57] TR News "Unfortunately, as it was the end of the day yesterday when I got back from a video shoot, I had the folder on the external drive open, and not the folder where I copy the files to on my NAS." https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/recovering-videos-my-sony-camera-i-stupidly-deleted | Source: Jeff Geerling [13:57] TR Bot Recovering videos from my Sony camera that I stupidly deleted | Jeff Geerling [13:58] TR News "Why Self-host?, Advanced ZFS Dataset Management, Building a Simple Router with OpenBSD, Minimal pkgbase jails / chroots, WSL-For-FreeBSD" https://www.bsdnow.tv/634 | Source: The BSD Now Podcast [13:58] TR Bot BSD Now 634: Why Self-Host? [13:59] TR News Steinar H. Gunderson: Modern perfect hashing http://blog.sesse.net/blog/tech/2025-10-23-21-23_modern_perfect_hashing.html [13:59] TR Bot Steinar H. Gunderson ● Oct 24 [14:02] TR News C++ Strategy Game Programming: Ridiculous Space Battles code video #1 https://www.positech.co.uk/cliffsblog/2025/10/23/c-strategy-game-programming-ridiculous-space-battles-code-video-1/ [14:03] TR News Slop Codings Real Problem Isnt BugsIts Judgment https://www.securityweek.com/vibe-codings-real-problem-isnt-bugs-its-judgment/ http://techrights.org/n/2025/10/24/Vibe_Coding_Doesn_t_Work.shtml [14:03] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/vibe-codings-real-problem-isnt-bugs-its-judgment/ ) [14:03] TR Bot Techrights 'Vibe Coding' Doesn't Work [14:04] TR News UPC is illegal and should not exist, but EPO corruption breed this abuse of the EU courts https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/upc-denies-abbott-second-injunction-against-sinocare/ [14:04] TR Bot UPC denies Abbott second injunction against Sinocare - JUVE Patent [14:04] TR News International Semiconductor Group Wi-Fi 6 patent monopoly challenge instituted https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/10/22/international-semiconductor-group-wi-fi-6-patent-challenge-instituted [14:04] TR Bot International Semiconductor Group Wi-Fi 6 patent challenge instituted Unified Patents [14:05] TR News "The validity of a couple of second medical use pharma patents may hinge on the correct interpretation of those paragraphs in G2/21." http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/10/patentees-own-post-published-data.html?showComment=1761244035243#c8546938165546879328 [14:05] TR Bot Patentee's own post-published data undermines the credibility of their broad cat antibody patent (T 0709/23) - The IPKat [14:07] TR News 2025 Economics Nobel: What the Industrial Revolution Teaches About Patent Policy https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/10/economics-industrial-revolution.html fake award http://techrights.org/n/2025/10/06/Nobel_Prize_in_Economics_Does_Not_Exist_It_s_Propaganda_From_Sv.shtml [14:07] TR Bot 2025 Economics Nobel: What the Industrial Revolution Teaches About Patent Policy | Patently-O [14:07] TR Bot Techrights Nobel Prize in Economics Does Not Exist, It's Propaganda From Sveriges Riksbank [14:07] TR News Three new stable kernels for Thursday https://lwn.net/Articles/1043081/ [14:07] TR Bot new stable kernels for Thursday [LWN.net] [14:08] TR News Sending Rough Men to My Home on a Motorcycle on Behalf of Americans Who Attack Women, Then Taking Photos and Sharing Them Around (an Overt Breach of Confidence) https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2025/10/23/another-breach-of-confidence/ [14:08] TR Bot Blog Archive Sending Rough Men to My Home on a Motorcycle on Behalf of Americans Who Attack Women, Then Taking Photos and Sharing Them Around (an Overt Breach of Confidence) [14:10] TR News Why We Support Richard Stallman and You Probably Should Too (updated) https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/23/Why_We_Support_Richard_Stallman_and_You_Probably_Should_Too.shtml [14:10] TR Bot Techrights Why We Support Richard Stallman and You Probably Should Too [14:10] TR News Some Large German Media Covers Richard Stallman's Talks in Germany Earlier This Week (updated) https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/22/Some_Large_German_Media_Covers_Richard_Stallman_s_Talks_in_Germ.shtml [14:10] TR Bot Techrights Some Large German Media Covers Richard Stallman's Talks in Germany Earlier This Week [14:12] TR News Ruby 3.3.10 Released https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2025/10/23/ruby-3-3-10-released/ [14:12] TR Bot Ruby 3.3.10 Released [14:20] TR News 105: A Fully Patched ShroomOS https://mwl.io/archives/24452 [14:20] TR Bot 105: A Fully Patched ShroomOS Michael W Lucas [14:20] TR News Understanding Type-Based Alias Analysis in C and C++ https://www.kdab.com/understanding-type-based-alias-analysis-in-c-and-cpp/ [14:20] TR Bot Alias Analysis in C and C++ | Compiler Optimizations Explained | KDAB [14:41] MinceR https://ircz.de/p/2506098 [14:41] TR Bot WHOOPSIE [14:42] TR News Migration toolkit for applications 8: Bringing modernized applications to market faster https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/migration-toolkit-applications-8-bringing-modernized-applications-market-faster [14:42] TR Bot Migration toolkit for applications 8: Bringing modernized applications to market faster [14:43] TR News California Energy Commission Chair praises energy transition in Climate Week keynote speech https://stanforddaily.com/2025/10/22/california-energy-commission-chair-david-hochschild-praises-energy-transition-in-climate-week-keynote-speech/ [14:43] TR Bot California Energy Commission Chair praises energy transition in Climate Week keynote speech [14:44] TR News More mobile settings: keyboard & wired network https://vizZzion.org/blog/2025/10/more-mobile-settings-keyboard-wired-network/ [14:44] TR Bot More mobile settings: keyboard & wired network sebas' blog [14:49] TR News Hardening your home lab https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/hardening-your-home-lab/ [14:49] TR Bot Hardening your home lab | Pen Test Partners [14:50] TR News Mozilla Open Policy & Advocacy Blog: Behind the Manifesto: Standing up for encryption to keep the internet safe https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2025/10/21/behind-the-manifesto-standing-up-for-encryption-to-keep-the-internet-safe/ [14:50] TR Bot Behind the Manifesto: Standing up for encryption to keep the internet safe - Open Policy & Advocacy [14:52] TR News How to Upgrade RHEL 9 to RHEL 10 Step-by-Step Guide https://www.linuxtechi.com/upgrade-rhel-9-to-rhel-10-step-by-step-guide/ Source: LinuxTechi | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.linuxtechi.com/upgrade-rhel-9-to-rhel-10-step-by-step-guide/ [14:52] TR Bot How to Upgrade RHEL 9 to RHEL 10 Step-by-Step Guide [14:53] TR News "Canonical Academy" https://ubuntu.com//blog/introducing-canonical-academy | Source: Ubuntu [14:53] TR Bot Canonical Academy | Ubuntu [14:54] TR News "This development follows the July 2025 launch of the EBC7700 single board computer." https://ubuntu.com//blog/eswin-computing-canonical-mini-dtx-mainboard | Source: Ubuntu [14:54] TR Bot Computing launches the EBC7702 Mini-DTX Mainboard with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS | Ubuntu [14:54] TR News "October 23, 2025 Today Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, announced an optimized, pre-installed Ubuntu image for RUBIK Pi 3 a powerful AI developer board built on Dragonwing QCS6490." https://ubuntu.com//blog/rubik-pi-3-thundercomm-canonical | Source: Ubuntu [14:54] TR Bot announces new optimized Ubuntu image for Thundercomm RUBIK Pi 3 | Ubuntu [14:55] TR News More KMS offloading, with overlay planes https://zamundaaa.github.io/wayland/2025/10/23/more-kms-offloading.html [14:55] TR Bot More KMS offloading, with overlay planes | Xavers blog [14:56] TR News YouTube Launches Hey Hi (AI) Detection Tool to Battle Deepfakes(But No Guarantees) https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/10/22/youtube-launches-ai-detection-tool-to-battle-deepfakes/ [14:56] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/10/22/youtube-launches-ai-detection-tool-to-battle-deepfakes/ ) [14:57] TR News Security updates for Thursday https://lwn.net/Articles/1043027/ [14:57] TR Bot updates for Thursday [LWN.net] ● Oct 24 [15:09] *whatA____ has quit (connection closed) [15:24] *whatA____ (~chatzilla@eu6xsuxgxtzea.irc) has joined #techrights [15:42] TR News Exposing OpenShift networks using BGP https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/10/23/exposing-openshift-networks-using-bgp [15:42] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/10/23/exposing-openshift-networks-using-bgp ) [15:42] TR News DietPi 9.18 Adds NanoPi R3S, R76S, and M5 Support https://linuxiac.com/dietpi-9-18-adds-nanopi-r3s-r76s-and-m5-support/ [15:42] TR Bot DietPi 9.18 Adds NanoPi R3S, R76S, and M5 Support [15:43] TR News Btrfs support coming to AlmaLinux 10.1 https://lwn.net/Articles/1043029/ [15:43] TR Bot support coming to AlmaLinux 10.1 [LWN.net] [15:44] TR News Stasis modern Wayland idle manager https://www.linuxlinks.com/stasis-modern-wayland-idle-manager/ [15:44] TR Bot - modern Wayland idle manager - LinuxLinks [15:44] TR News (NEW): AlmaLinux 10.1 Adds Native Btrfs Filesystem Support https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/22/AlmaLinux_10_1_Adds_Native_Btrfs_Filesystem_Support.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/22/AlmaLinux_10_1_Adds_Native_Btrfs_Filesystem_Support.gmi [15:44] TR Bot Tux Machines AlmaLinux 10.1 Adds Native Btrfs Filesystem Support [15:45] TR News mpls Markdown Preview Language Server https://www.linuxlinks.com/mpls-markdown-preview-language-server/ [15:45] TR Bot - Markdown Preview Language Server - LinuxLinks [15:51] TR News 'Linux' Foundation Uses LLM Slop to Promote Abusive Monopolist Microsoft in Linux.com (Again), Rendering It a Linux-Hostile Slopfarm https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/23/Linux_Foundation_Uses_LLM_Slop_to_Promote_Microsoft_in_Linux_co.shtml [15:51] TR Bot Techrights Linux Foundation Uses LLM Slop to Promote Microsoft in Linux.com (Again), Rendering It a Linux-Hostile Slopfarm [15:51] TR News 8 Best Free and Open Source Photo Metadata Editors https://www.linuxlinks.com/photometadataeditors/ [15:51] TR Bot Best Free and Open Source Photo Metadata Editors - LinuxLinks [15:51] TR News sshmate simplify interactions with SSH servers https://www.linuxlinks.com/sshmate-simplify-interactions-with-ssh-servers/ [15:51] TR Bot - simplify interactions with SSH servers - LinuxLinks [15:52] TR News Quirinux Devuan-based GNU/Linux distribution https://www.linuxlinks.com/quirinux-devuan-based-linux-distribution/ [15:52] TR Bot - Devuan-based Linux distribution - LinuxLinks [15:52] TR News The Tradeoff between Silence and Power with Mini PCs https://www.linuxlinks.com/tradeoff-between-silence-power-mini-pcs/ [15:52] TR Bot Tradeoff between Silence and Power with Mini PCs - LinuxLinks [15:52] TR News Qlipmon clipboard manager https://www.linuxlinks.com/qlipmon-clipboard-manager/ [15:52] TR Bot - clipboard manager - LinuxLinks [15:53] TR News fokus focus timer and stopwatch https://www.linuxlinks.com/fokus-focus-timer-stopwatch/ [15:53] TR Bot - focus timer and stopwatch - LinuxLinks [15:56] TR News KDE Unleashes Plasma 6.5 http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/KDE-Unleashes-Plasma-6.5 [15:56] TR Bot KDE Unleashes Plasma 6.5 Linux Magazine ● Oct 24 [16:01] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techrights [16:04] TR News "The OpenBSD list often has more messages on it." https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=176130020530905&w=2 [16:04] TR Bot 'Re: Let's Try To Reduce The Number Of Useless Messages On This Mailing List' - 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idroot [16:10] TR News How To Install SoftEther VPN Server on AlmaLinux 10 https://idroot.us/install-softether-vpn-server-almalinux-10/ [16:10] TR Bot How To Install SoftEther VPN Server on AlmaLinux 10 - idroot [16:11] TR News How To Install Avidemux on Debian 13 https://idroot.us/install-avidemux-debian-13/ [16:11] TR Bot How To Install Avidemux on Debian 13 - idroot [16:11] TR News How To Install Reflector on Manjaro https://idroot.us/install-reflector-manjaro/ [16:11] TR Bot How To Install Reflector on Manjaro - idroot [16:11] TR News How To Install Shadowsocks on AlmaLinux 10 https://idroot.us/install-shadowsocks-almalinux-10/ [16:11] TR Bot How To Install Shadowsocks on AlmaLinux 10 - idroot [16:12] TR News Outcome and conclusions of the VI Latin American LibreOffice Congress https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/10/23/outcome-and-conclusions-of-the-vi-latin-american-libreoffice-congress/ [16:12] TR Bot Outcome and conclusions of the VI Latin American LibreOffice Congress - 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Lithuanian start-up investigated for trading personal data https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2721051/who-s-buying-your-digital-past-lithuanian-start-up-investigated-for-trading-personal-data [17:10] TR Bot Whos buying your digital past? Lithuanian start-up investigated for trading personal data - LRT [17:10] TR News Meta Layoffs Included Employees Who Monitored Risks to User Privacy https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/technology/meta-layoffs-user-privacy.html [17:10] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/technology/meta-layoffs-user-privacy.html ) [17:11] TR News Art in the Age of Artificial Intelligence https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/critics-at-large/art-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence [17:11] TR Bot Art in the Age of Artificial Intelligence | The New Yorker [17:12] TR News Taking a Spin on Bluefins Immutable GNU/Linux https://fossforce.com/2025/10/taking-a-spin-on-bluefin-immutable-linux/ [17:12] TR Bot Taking a Spin on Bluefin's Immutable Linux - FOSS Force [17:13] TR News Chinas consumers are in a years-long funk, will anything get them to spend? https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinas-consumers-are-in-a-years-long-funk-will-anything-get-them-to-spend [17:13] TR Bot Chinas consumers are in a years-long funk, will anything get them to spend? | The Straits Times [17:13] TR News US hits $38 trillion in debt, after the fastest accumulation of $1 trillion outside of the pandemic https://federalnewsnetwork.com/financial-management/2025/10/us-hits-38-trillion-in-debt-after-the-fastest-accumulation-of-1-trillion-outside-of-the-pandemic/ [17:13] TR Bot US hits $38 trillion in debt, after the fastest accumulation of $1 trillion outside of the pandemic [17:16] TR News Lithuanian parent group fails to prove govt overstepped with Covid-19 school restrictions https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2723363/lithuanian-parent-group-fails-to-prove-govt-overstepped-with-covid-19-school-restrictions [17:16] TR Bot Lithuanian parent group fails to prove govt overstepped with Covid-19 school restrictions - LRT [17:17] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techrights [17:20] TR News Slopwatch: Surveillance Giant Google News and Slopfarms That Relay Nonsense From LLMs https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/23/Slopwatch_Google_News_and_Slopfarms_That_Relay_Nonsense_From_LL.shtml [17:20] TR Bot Techrights Slopwatch: Google News and Slopfarms That Relay Nonsense From LLMs [17:22] TR News Google Locks Down Manhattan Campus Due to Bed Bug Infestation https://futurism.com/health-medicine/google-manhattan-bed-bugs [17:22] TR Bot Google Shuts Down Office After Invasion of Nasty Creatures [17:22] TR News The odo CLI is deprecated: What developers need to know https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/10/23/odo-cli-deprecated-what-developers-need-know [17:22] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/10/23/odo-cli-deprecated-what-developers-need-know ) [17:24] TR News Red Hat (IBM) pays this publishers to push buzzwords and puff pieces for it https://siliconangle.com/2025/10/23/red-hat-aims-new-developer-lightspeed-ai-features-application-migration/ then it links to the paid-for puff https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/friday-five-october-24-2025-red-hat [17:24] TR Bot Hat aims new Developer Lightspeed AI features at application migration - SiliconANGLE [17:24] TR Bot Friday Five October 24, 2025 | Red Hat [17:26] TR News More buzzwords than subtance from Red Hat-sponsored sites https://techstrong.ai/building-with-ai/red-hat-delivers-distributed-computing-platform-for-running-ai-applications/ [17:26] TR Bot Hat Delivers Distributed Computing Platform for Running AI Applications - Techstrong.ai [17:27] TR News M5Stack Cardputer-AdvESP32-S3 computer gains improved antenna, larger 1,750 mAh battery, ES8311 audio codec https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/10/23/m5stack-cardputer-adv-esp32-s3-computer-gains-improved-antenna-larger-1750-mah-battery-es8311-audio-codec/ [17:27] TR Bot M5Stack Cardputer-AdvESP32-S3 computer gains improved antenna, larger 1,750 mAh battery, ES8311 audio codec - CNX Software [17:27] TR News "Compared to the old 8-bit Arduinos" https://hackaday.com/2025/10/23/10-cent-microcontroller-makes-music/ | Source: Hackaday [17:27] TR Bot Cent Microcontroller Makes Music | Hackaday [17:31] TR News Phishing Cloud Account for Information, (Thu, Oct 23rd) https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32416 [17:31] TR Bot Phishing Cloud Account for Information - SANS ISC [17:32] TR News Mistake in AI-generated Community Note sparks controversy about anti-Dihydroxyacetone Man protest https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20251023-anti-trump-protest-error-ai-generated-community-note [17:32] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20251023-anti-trump-protest-error-ai-generated-community-note ) [17:32] TR News The Observer signs deal to appear on Hey Hi (AI) news platform Particle https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/the-observer-signs-deal-to-appear-on-ai-news-platform-particle/ [17:32] TR Bot The Observer signs deal to appear on AI news platform Particle - Press Gazette [17:33] TR News u-blox MAX-M10N GNSS module supports Low Energy Accurate Positioning (LEAP) mode, firmware upgrades https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/10/24/u-blox-max-m10n-gnss-module-supports-low-energy-accurate-positioning-leap-mode-firmware-upgrades/ [17:33] TR Bot u-blox MAX-M10N GNSS module supports Low Energy Accurate Positioning (LEAP) mode, firmware upgrades - CNX Software [17:33] admfubar can anyone here access forums.scribus.net? [17:35] TR News Apple Loses $2 Billion App Store Lawsuit in the UKTech Giant Vows Immediate Appeal https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/10/23/apple-loses-2-billion-app-store-lawsuit-in-the-uk/ [17:35] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/10/23/apple-loses-2-billion-app-store-lawsuit-in-the-uk/ ) [17:35] TR News OpenAI Makes Bizarre Demand of Family Whose Son Was Allegedly Killed by Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-demand-family-son-killed [17:35] TR Bot OpenAI Makes Bizarre Demand of Family Whose Son Was Allegedly Killed by ChatGPT [17:37] TR News Appalling blame-shifting https://www.techzim.co.zw/2025/10/microsoft-africa-ai-cyber-threats/ see http://techrights.org/n/2025/09/11/Ron_Wyden_Microsoft_Should_be_Held_Accountable_for_Security_Bre.shtml [17:37] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.techzim.co.zw/2025/10/microsoft-africa-ai-cyber-threats/ ) [17:37] TR Bot Techrights Ron Wyden: Microsoft Should be Held Accountable for Security Breaches (He Has Said This for Years Already, It Never Happens) [17:38] TR News Two Recent Section 2(d) Oppositions Sustained by the TTAB http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/10/two-recent-section-2d-oppositions.html [17:38] TR Bot The TTABlog: Two Recent Section 2(d) Oppositions Sustained by the TTAB [17:38] TR News Secret Plans Reveal Amazon Plot to Replace 600,000 Workers With Robot Army https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/amazon-replace-workers-robots [17:38] TR Bot Secret Plans Reveal Amazon Plot to Replace 600,000 Workers With Robot Army [17:39] MinceR army! [17:40] MinceR scAmazon's going to war! [17:40] whatA____ http://alternativeto.net/news/2025/10/openai-acquires-sky-a-natural-language-interface-for-macos-to-boost-chatgpt-integration/ [17:40] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/10/openai-acquires-sky-a-natural-language-interface-for-macos-to-boost-chatgpt-integration/ ) [17:40] whatA____ the ensloppify [17:41] whatA____ microshaft tried to name the nsa drive SkyDrive back then [17:41] schestowitz[TR2] MinceR: parcelFORCE [17:41] schestowitz[TR2] and parcel forceOne [17:41] schestowitz[TR2] companies are FORCES [17:41] schestowitz[TR2] these are the AmazzzonFORCES [17:41] schestowitz[TR2] we have a company here called parcelforce [17:42] whatA____ then sky uk sued them in jul 31 2013 [17:42] schestowitz[TR2] sky.ney/drive [17:42] schestowitz[TR2] *net [17:42] schestowitz[TR2] having datacentres in the sky would be very expensive [17:43] schestowitz[TR2] keeping servers at a high altitude all year long [17:43] whatA____ now this slop went under sky uk's radar? [17:44] schestowitz[TR2] ipkitten covered this a lot [17:44] schestowitz[TR2] the sky trademark cases [17:44] schestowitz[TR2] it's mostly about whether the word sky can be trademarked [17:44] whatA____ I wonder what timeline clown computing gets ousted by - you guess it - sky uk just because cloud = sky [17:44] schestowitz[TR2] or in what domain/context [17:44] schestowitz[TR2] given the dictionary and orther factors [17:47] TR News Worker Falls Into Nuclear Reactor, Drinks a Little Cavity Water https://futurism.com/science-energy/worker-nuclear-reactor-michigan [17:47] TR Bot Worker Falls Into Nuclear Reactor [17:50] TR News What to Know About the Billion-Dollar Scam Center Industry https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/world/asia/scam-centers-myanmar-cambodia.html [17:50] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/world/asia/scam-centers-myanmar-cambodia.html ) [17:51] TR News South Korea plans to stop calling incinerating of plastic recycling 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with or containing U.S. software sweeping restriction to hit hard in response to Beijings rare earth embargo in major trade war escalation | Tom's Hardware [18:06] TR News European think tank suggests punitive DUV machine export ban following China's latest round of rare earth export controls https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/eu-considers-duv-export-ban [18:06] TR Bot European think tank suggests punitive DUV machine export ban following China's latest round of rare earth export controls | Tom's Hardware [18:08] TR News China seeks semiconductor and Hey Hi (AI) self-reliance in ambitious new 5-year plan Beijing also wants to increase domestic spending and reduce reliance on exports https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/china-seeks-semiconductor-and-ai-self-reliance-in-ambitious-new-5-year-plan-beijing-also-wants-to-increase-domestic-spending-and-reduce-reliance-on-exports [18:08] TR Bot China seeks semiconductor and AI self-reliance in ambitious new 5-year plan Beijing also wants to increase domestic spending and reduce reliance on exports | Tom's Hardware [18:09] TR News Researchers track surge in high-level Smishing Triad activity https://cyberscoop.com/unit-42-chinese-language-phishing-operation-smishing-triad/ [18:09] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://cyberscoop.com/unit-42-chinese-language-phishing-operation-smishing-triad/ ) [18:10] TR News Hooked on Sonics: Experimenting with Sound in 19th-Century Popular Science https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/science-of-sound [18:10] TR Bot Hooked on Sonics: Experimenting with Sound in 19th-Century Popular Science The Public Domain Review [18:16] TR News KDE Plasma 6.5 Released: Let Me Walk You Through What's New https://news.itsfoss.com/kde-plasma-6-5-release/ [18:16] TR Bot KDE Plasma 6.5 Released: Let Me Walk You Through What's New [18:16] TR News Court orders journalist Ercment Akdenizs release after eight months in detention https://bianet.org/haber/court-orders-journalist-ercument-akdenizs-release-after-eight-months-in-detention-312812 [18:16] TR Bot Court orders journalist Ercment Akdenizs release after eight months in detention [18:17] TR News BIND Updates Address High-Severity Cache Poisoning Flaws https://www.securityweek.com/bind-updates-address-high-severity-cache-poisoning-flaws/ [18:17] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/bind-updates-address-high-severity-cache-poisoning-flaws/ ) [18:17] TR News Exploitation of Critical Adobe Commerce Flaw Puts Many eCommerce Sites at Risk https://www.securityweek.com/exploitation-of-critical-adobe-commerce-flaw-puts-many-ecommerce-sites-at-risk/ [18:17] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/exploitation-of-critical-adobe-commerce-flaw-puts-many-ecommerce-sites-at-risk/ ) [18:18] TR News Lanscope Endpoint Manager Zero-Day Exploited in the Wild https://www.securityweek.com/lanscope-endpoint-manager-zero-day-exploited-in-the-wild/ [18:18] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/lanscope-endpoint-manager-zero-day-exploited-in-the-wild/ ) [18:18] TR News Mobile Security: Verizon Says Attacks Soar, AI-Powered Threats Raise Alarm https://www.securityweek.com/mobile-security-verizon-says-attacks-soar-ai-powered-threats-raise-alarm/ [18:18] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/mobile-security-verizon-says-attacks-soar-ai-powered-threats-raise-alarm/ ) [18:22] TR News China must gird up for high winds and rough waves, says top-level party conclave https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-must-gird-up-for-high-winds-and-rough-waves-says-top-level-party-conclave [18:22] TR Bot China must gird up for high winds and rough waves, says top-level party conclave | The Straits Times [18:27] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techrights [18:30] TR News Hackaday Superconference Communicator Badge https://hackaday.com/2025/10/23/announcing-the-2025-hackaday-superconference-communicator-badge/ | Source: Hackaday [18:30] TR Bot The 2025 Hackaday Superconference Communicator Badge | Hackaday [18:34] TR News Financialized landlords are targeting Black and Arab neighbourhoods across Canada https://breachmedia.ca/financialized-landlords-are-targeting-black-and-arab-neighbourhoods-across-canada/ [18:34] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://breachmedia.ca/financialized-landlords-are-targeting-black-and-arab-neighbourhoods-across-canada/ ) [18:36] TR News A Logical Clock That Pretends To Be Analog https://hackaday.com/2025/10/23/a-logical-clock-that-pretends-to-be-analog/ | Source: Hackaday [18:36] TR Bot Logical Clock That Pretends To Be Analog | Hackaday [18:37] TR News Myanmar scam centre raid sends hundreds fleeing to Thailand https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/over-600-flee-myanmar-scam-centre-to-thailand-after-crackdown-thai-official [18:37] TR Bot Myanmar scam centre raid sends hundreds fleeing to Thailand | The Straits Times [18:37] TR News What Is Meaningful Connectivity? https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2025/10/what-is-meaningful-connectivity/ [18:37] TR Bot What Is Meaningful Connectivity? - Internet Society [18:38] TR News Meta Lays Off 600 Employees as Wang Overhauls Hey Hi (AI) Unit https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/10/22/meta-lays-off-600-employees-as-wang-overhauls-ai-unit/ [18:38] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/10/22/meta-lays-off-600-employees-as-wang-overhauls-ai-unit/ ) [18:38] TR News Jonesing For The Next Disruptor https://www.datagubbe.se/llmfix/ [18:38] TR Bot For The Next Disruptor | datagubbe.se [18:40] TR News Meta Allows Deepfake That Irish Presidential Election Is Canceled to Go Viral https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-irish-deepfake [18:40] TR Bot Meta Allows Deepfake That Irish Presidential Election Is Canceled to Go Viral [18:40] TR News TerraMaster Launches F2-425 Plus and F4-425 Plus NAS with defective chip maker Intel N150 and Triple M.2 Slots https://news.itsfoss.com/terramaster-f4-425-plus-launch/ [18:40] TR Bot TerraMaster Launches F2-425 Plus and F4-425 Plus NAS with Intel N150 and Triple M.2 Slots [18:40] TR News Researchers Find Severe Vulnerabilities in Hey Hi (AI) Browser https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/researchers-severe-vulnerabilities-ai-browser-comet [18:40] TR Bot Researchers Find Severe Vulnerabilities in AI Browser [18:42] TR News Recording Academys Grammy House Giza Event and Additional Concerts In Motion Despite Lawsuit Challenging Pyramids Performances https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/10/23/grammy-house-giza-confirmed/ [18:42] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/10/23/grammy-house-giza-confirmed/ ) [18:42] TR News Universal Music Triumphs in Dutch Streaming Royalty Lawsuit https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/10/23/universal-music-triumphs-in-dutch-streaming-royalty-lawsuit/ [18:42] TR Bot ( status 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For people who like Debian more than Ubuntu and Linux Mint's Cinnamon more than anything, this is the perfect choice." https://itsfoss.com/newsletter/foss-weekly-25-43/ [18:48] TR Bot FOSS Weekly #25.43: NebiOS Linux, GNOME Enhancements, LMDE 7, COSMIC Beta Review and More Linux Stuff [18:50] TR News Just some mindless Linux bashing to sell DRM prison https://www.makeuseof.com/best-windows-10-alternative-isnt-linux-its-modified-windows-11/ [18:50] TR Bot The best Windows 10 alternative isn't Linuxit's modified Windows 11 [18:51] TR News Windows issues presented as "Linux" https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/25/j/agenda-ransomware-deploys-linux-variant-on-windows-systems.html [18:51] TR Bot Agenda Ransomware Deploys Linux Variant on Windows Systems Through Remote Management Tools and BYOVD Techniques | Trend Micro (US) [18:52] TR News Linux Foundation pushing dodgy scams https://www.crowdfundinsider.com/2025/10/254605-hedera-coo-and-linux-foundation-decentralized-trust-share-insights-on-hiero-project/ [18:52] TR Bot Hedera COO And Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust Share Insights On Hiero Project | Crowdfund Insider [18:53] TR News Proprietary https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-services/nordvpn-breaks-ground-with-linux-based-vpn-app-for-amazons-new-gen-fire-tv-stick [18:53] TR Bot breaks ground with Linux-based VPN app for Amazon's new-gen Fire TV Stick | TechRadar [18:53] TR News ROG Xbox Ally X Performance Tests Reveal Major Improvement On Linux Over Windows https://twistedvoxel.com/rog-xbox-ally-x-performance-tests-major-improvement-on-linux-over-windows/ [18:53] TR Bot ROG Xbox Ally X Performance Tests Reveal Major Improvement On Linux Over Windows [18:54] TR News Asus ROG Xbox Ally X is being held back by Windows running Linux boosts game performance https://www.theshortcut.com/p/asus-rog-xbox-ally-x-is-being-held-back-by-windows-as-running-linux-boosts-performance [18:54] TR Bot Asus ROG Xbox Ally X is being held back by Windows running Linux boosts game performance [18:55] TR News Actiphy Inc. Unveils New Version of ActiveImage Protector 2022 with Support for Linux KVM Virtualization Technology https://aijourn.com/actiphy-inc-unveils-new-version-of-activeimage-protector-2022-with-support-for-linux-kvm-virtualization-technology/ [18:55] TR Bot Actiphy Inc. Unveils New Version of ActiveImage Protector 2022 with Support for Linux KVM Virtualization Technology | The AI Journal [18:57] TR News NAP, free visual and media framework, now dazzles anywhere https://cdm.link/nap-08/ [18:57] TR Bot NAP, free visual and media framework, now dazzles anywhere - CDM Create Digital Music [18:57] TR News So much for Xbox full screen experience, it looks like the ROG Xbox Ally X might get much better performance on Linux with faux-SteamOS operating system Bazzite https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/handheld-gaming-pcs/so-much-for-xbox-full-screen-experience-it-looks-like-the-rog-xbox-ally-x-might-get-much-better-performance-on-linux-with-faux-steamos-operating-system-bazzite/ [18:57] TR Bot So much for Xbox full screen experience, it looks like the ROG Xbox Ally X might get much better performance on Linux with faux-SteamOS operating system Bazzite | PC Gamer [18:57] TR News People Are Turning This $1,000 Windows Handheld Into A Super Steam Deck And Getting Way Better Performance https://kotaku.com/rog-xbox-ally-x-bazzite-steamos-linux-performance-2000638543 [18:57] TR Bot The Xbox Ally X Is Already Being Turned Into A Super Steam Deck With Linux [18:58] TR News Xbox ROG Ally X Sees Up to 32% Higher FPS on Linux vs. Windows Among Other Benefits https://tech4gamers.com/xbox-rog-ally-higher-fps-linux-vs-windows/ [18:58] TR Bot Xbox ROG Ally X Sees Up to 32% Higher FPS on Linux vs. Windows Among Other Benefits [18:59] TR News "The MutantC V5 is a new handheld device that comes with a keyboard and joystick and is a slider smartphone. The device can also be connected to an external monitor, and sensors and actuators can be used." https://www.notebookcheck.net/MutantC-An-open-source-modular-Linux-handheld-designed-to-be-customizable-for-various-tasks.1145241.0.html [18:59] TR Bot An open-source, modular Linux handheld designed to be customizable for various tasks - NotebookCheck.net News ● Oct 24 [19:00] TR News Fedora council approves policy allowing AI-assisted contributions https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/23/fedora_agrees_policy_allowing_ai_assisted_code_contribs/ [19:00] TR Bot Fedora agrees policy allowing AI-assisted contributions The Register [19:01] TR News 5 pitfalls of dual-booting Windows and Linux that I wasnt prepared for https://www.xda-developers.com/5-pitfalls-of-dual-booting-windows-and-linux-that-i-wasnt-prepared-for/ [19:01] TR Bot 5 pitfalls of dual-booting Windows and Linux that I wasnt prepared for [19:01] TR News Linux supercharges the ROG Xbox Ally X higher FPS, smoother performance, and a 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It is the first LP mentioned in the Lajara katalogo de muzikaj diskoj en Esperanto and the Esperanto Wikipedias list of Esperanto music albums, among other sources." gemini://gem.eomuziko.com/blog/en/posts/litovaj-popolaj-kantoj-kaj-dancoj/ [19:36] TR News improwizacja gemini://rawtext.club/~deerbard/poetry/2025-10-24-powrt-improwizacja.gmi [19:36] TR News SpellBinding: ADFILWN Wordo: HEWER gemini://spell.ddns.net/games/gemlog/2025-10-24.gmi [19:38] TR News "You should visit my treasure portal page.. guys! there is a gemini & gopher user, who really impressed me & made me excited again. He is a programmer, but he likes to make interactive programs & social platforms like forums." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2720 [19:47] MinceR (cat) https://imgur.com/gallery/h4qHhvP = https://imgur.nerdvpn.de/gallery/h4qHhvP [19:47] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://imgur.com/gallery/h4qHhvP ) [19:47] TR Bot Making sure you're not a bot! [19:56] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techrights ● Oct 24 [20:02] TR News Techrights Slopwatch: LinuxSecurity.com, Linux Journal, and Pet Slopfarms of Google News https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/24/Slopwatch_LinuxSecurity_com_Linux_Journal_and_Pet_Slopfarms_of_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/24/Slopwatch_LinuxSecurity_com_Linux_Journal_and_Pet_Slopfarms_of_.gmi [20:02] TR Bot Techrights Slopwatch: LinuxSecurity.com, Linux Journal, and Pet Slopfarms of Google News [20:15] TR News Techrights [Video] Richard Stallman's Talk in Sweden, Attended by Nearly 700 People, is Now Online https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/24/Video_Richard_Stallman_s_Talk_in_Sweden_Attended_by_Nearly_700_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/24/Video_Richard_Stallman_s_Talk_in_Sweden_Attended_by_Nearly_700_.gmi [20:16] TR Bot Techrights [Video] Richard Stallman's Talk in Sweden, Attended by Nearly 700 People, is Now Online [20:26] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techrights [20:27] TR News "Regarding today's quantumn announcement, it seems some investors have misunderstood exactly what we announced. Some seem to think we can do away with the mighty quantumn hardware and replace it with AMD chips " https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k8a0scw8 [20:27] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k8a0scw8 ) [20:27] TR News "And it's working. IBM stock tanked 7% after announcing quarterly earnings (typical). But there's been enough AI and Quantum in the news driving up that sector that IBM stock price recovered all the loss and gained another 5%. So the smokescreen is working..." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k8a0scw8 [20:27] *whatA____ (~chatzilla@mp66st5k7ta2c.irc) has joined #techrights [20:27] TR News "Yes of course you can run cobol.ai on that system Z mainframe." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k8a0scw8 [20:28] TR News "And it's back... $300 two days later. " https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k86vt8ew [20:28] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k86vt8ew ) [20:30] TR News Target is eliminating 1,800 corporate jobs as it looks to reclaim its lost lustre https://www.inkl.com/news/target-is-eliminating-1-800-corporate-jobs-as-it-looks-to-reclaim-its-lost-lustre [20:30] TR Bot Target is eliminating 1,800 corporate jobs as it looks [20:31] *psydroid2 (~psydroid@36imbvshpgubk.irc) has joined #techrights [20:31] TR News Toys R Us Canada affected by data breach hitting personal data https://mobilesyrup.com/2025/10/23/toys-r-us-canada-data-breach/ [20:31] TR Bot Toys "R" Us Canada affected by data breach hitting personal data [20:35] TR News chaos oracle and ai gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/oracle [20:35] *Achylles (~Achylles@45.182.57.47) has joined #techrights [20:43] *Achylles has quit (Remote host closed the connection) [20:44] *Achylles (~Achylles@45.182.57.47) has joined #techrights [20:47] TR News Techrights Links 24/10/2025: Esperanto Music History, Anxiety, and New Portals https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/24/Links_24_10_2025_Esperanto_Music_History_Anxiety_and_New_Portal.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/24/Links_24_10_2025_Esperanto_Music_History_Anxiety_and_New_Portal.gmi [20:47] TR Bot Techrights Links 24/10/2025: Esperanto Music History, Anxiety, and New Portals [20:50] *Achylles has quit (Remote host closed the connection) [20:54] *whatA____ has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) ● Oct 24 [21:01] TR News Techrights The Serial Slopper Starts Up - or Restarts - His Plagiarism Machine (LLMs) https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/24/The_Serial_Slopper_Starts_Up_or_Restarts_His_Plagiarism_Machine.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/24/The_Serial_Slopper_Starts_Up_or_Restarts_His_Plagiarism_Machine.gmi [21:01] TR Bot Techrights The Serial Slopper Starts Up - or Restarts - His Plagiarism Machine (LLMs) [21:13] admfubar https://futurism.com/science-energy/trump-altman-plutonium-oklo [21:13] TR Bot Trump Administration Providing Weapons Grade Plutonium to Sam Altman ● Oct 24 [22:00] schestowitz[TR2] wtf [22:01] schestowitz[TR2] bribed, too [22:08] MinceR MICROS~1, i'm sorry, "open"ai nukes vs scAmazon robot army! 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