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[05:51] TR News "I do not get it. IBM announces they "stumbled onto" how to get AMD x86 chips to run an IBM quantum algorithm and plan to build a quantum system by 2029?! WTF?! How does this justify an 8% stock gain in 1day" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k86vt8ew [05:51] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k86vt8ew ) [05:51] TR News "This is the 2nd or 3rd time IBM has announced something with AMD and every time I am putting my bets on the brilliant AMD CEO Lisa Su who was the G Man's (Gerstner's TA tech assistant for a year). Is IBM gonna buy AMD? Is AMD gonna buy IBM? IBM remains adrift like a big iceberg." [05:52] TR News "Todays announcement was a typical snake oil salesman message. Fools fall for it." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k8a0scw8 [05:52] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k8a0scw8 ) [05:52] TR News IBM has also made Red Hat a buzzwords vendor [05:59] TR News Multipass: Fast, Scriptable Ubuntu VMs for Modern DevOps https://thenewstack.io/multipass-fast-scriptable-ubuntu-vms-for-modern-devops/ [05:59] TR Bot Multipass: Fast, Scriptable Ubuntu VMs for Modern DevOps - The New Stack [05:59] TR News 3 Handy Linux Apps to Try This Weekend (October 24 - 26) https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-apps-to-try-this-weekend-october-24/ [05:59] TR Bot 3 Handy Linux Apps to Try This Weekend (October 24 - 26) ● Oct 25 [06:11] *whatA____ has quit (Quit: ChatZilla 0.8.7 [Mozilla rv:1.0.0/20020530]) [06:25] TR News Microsoft's ROG Xbox Ally Runs Faster and Smoother on Linux Than on Windows https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/microsofts-rog-xbox-ally-runs-faster-and-smoother-on-linux-than-on-windows [06:25] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/microsofts-rog-xbox-ally-runs-faster-and-smoother-on-linux-than-on-windows ) [06:26] TR News Intel Xe3P Spotted In Latest Linux Kernel Patches, Confirms Pairing With Nova Lake CPUs https://wccftech.com/intel-xe3p-spotted-in-latest-linux-kernel-patches-confirms-pairing-with-nova-lake-cpus/ [06:26] TR Bot Intel Xe3P Spotted In Latest Linux Kernel Patches, Confirms Pairing With Nova Lake CPUs [06:27] TR News I ditched Windows and built a Linux laptop in minutes - here's how you can, too https://www.zdnet.com/article/i-ditched-windows-and-built-a-linux-laptop-in-minutes-heres-how-you-can-too/ [06:27] TR Bot ditched Windows and built a Linux laptop in minutes - here's how you can, too | ZDNET [06:28] TR News Intel adds Xe3P GPUs for Nova Lake S/H/U/HX to Vulkan Linux drivers, not all will support raytracing https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-adds-xe3p-gpus-for-nova-lake-s-h-u-hx-to-vulkan-linux-drivers-not-all-will-support-raytracing [06:28] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-adds-xe3p-gpus-for-nova-lake-s-h-u-hx-to-vulkan-linux-drivers-not-all-will-support-raytracing ) [06:29] TR News "Linux KVM has become a widely adopted open-source virtualisation platform, offering exceptional flexibility, performance, and stability through its integration with the Linux kernel." https://worldbusinessoutlook.com/actiphy-inc-introduces-new-version-of-activeimage-protector-2022/ [06:29] TR Bot Actiphy Inc. Introduces New Version of ActiveImage Protector 2022 World Business Outlook [06:30] TR News Show Off Your Linux Skills With an Official Ubuntu Exam https://www.howtogeek.com/you-can-show-off-your-linux-skills-with-an-official-ubuntu-exam-now/ [06:30] TR Bot Show Off Your Linux Skills With an Official Ubuntu Exam [06:30] TR News New Windows 11 25H2 versus Linux 6.17 benchmarks (no games) https://hardforum.com/threads/new-windows-11-25h2-versus-linux-6-17-benchmarks-no-games.2044242/#post-1046212541 [06:30] TR Bot New Windows 11 25H2 versus Linux 6.17 benchmarks (no games) | [H]ard|Forum [06:31] TR News Windows 10 retiring is a great opportunity for Linux and its being wasted https://medium.com/turn-on-press-play/windows-10-retiring-is-a-great-opportunity-for-linux-and-its-being-wasted-61b5326a8272 [06:31] TR Bot 10 retiring is a great opportunity for Linux and its being wasted | by Kostas Farkonas | Turn On | Press Play | Oct, 2025 | Medium [06:31] TR News "Windows 10 users are trying the open-source operating system, thanks to the end of support, but one distribution is really enjoying a rise in downloads." https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-end-of-windows-10-has-been-a-boon-for-one-particular-linux-distro-and-im-not-surprised/ [06:31] TR Bot end of Windows 10 has been a boon for one particular Linux distro - and I'm not surprised | ZDNET [06:36] TR News (NEW): Kernel: Intel Xe3P and ActiveImage Protector 2022 in Linux https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/25/Kernel_Intel_Xe3P_and_ActiveImage_Protector_2022_in_Linux.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/25/Kernel_Intel_Xe3P_and_ActiveImage_Protector_2022_in_Linux.gmi [06:36] TR Bot Tux Machines Kernel: Intel Xe3P and ActiveImage Protector 2022 in Linux [06:55] TR News Techrights IBM is Misleading IBM Shareholders https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/25/IBM_is_Misleading_IBM_Shareholders.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/25/IBM_is_Misleading_IBM_Shareholders.gmi [06:55] TR Bot Techrights IBM is Misleading IBM Shareholders ● Oct 25 [07:01] TR News (NEW): "I ditched Windows and built a Linux laptop in minutes"; "Windows 10 retiring is a great opportunity for Linux" https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/25/_I_ditched_Windows_and_built_a_Linux_laptop_in_minutes_Windows_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/25/_I_ditched_Windows_and_built_a_Linux_laptop_in_minutes_Windows_.gmi [07:01] TR Bot Tux Machines "I ditched Windows and built a Linux laptop in minutes"; "Windows 10 retiring is a great opportunity for Linux" [07:05] TR News (NEW): GNU/Linux Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/25/GNU_Linux_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/25/GNU_Linux_Leftovers.gmi [07:05] TR Bot Tux Machines GNU/Linux Leftovers [07:06] TR News (NEW): Austria Says Auf Wiedersehen to Proprietary and Willkommen to Open Source https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/25/Austria_Says_Auf_Wiedersehen_to_Proprietary_and_Willkommen_to_O.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/25/Austria_Says_Auf_Wiedersehen_to_Proprietary_and_Willkommen_to_O.gmi [07:06] TR Bot Tux Machines Austria Says Auf Wiedersehen to Proprietary and Willkommen to Open Source [07:15] TR News (NEW): Xubuntu 25.10: Best New Features https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/25/Xubuntu_25_10_Best_New_Features.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/25/Xubuntu_25_10_Best_New_Features.gmi [07:15] TR Bot Tux Machines Xubuntu 25.10: Best New Features [07:21] TR News Techrights For Second Time in a Day The Register MS Takes Money From Private Companies to Sell a Ponzi Scheme https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/25/For_Second_Time_in_a_Day_The_Register_MS_Takes_Money_From_Priva.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/25/For_Second_Time_in_a_Day_The_Register_MS_Takes_Money_From_Priva.gmi [07:21] TR Bot Techrights For Second Time in a Day The Register MS Takes Money From Private Companies to Sell a Ponzi Scheme [07:21] TR News (NEW): Libpeas and Introspection https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/25/Libpeas_and_Introspection.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/25/Libpeas_and_Introspection.gmi [07:21] TR Bot Tux Machines Libpeas and Introspection [07:28] TR News (NEW): HydraPWK security-focused Linux distribution https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/25/HydraPWK_security_focused_Linux_distribution.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/25/HydraPWK_security_focused_Linux_distribution.gmi [07:28] TR Bot Tux Machines HydraPWK security-focused Linux distribution [07:28] TR News (NEW): Linux Kamarada Manjaro based distribution https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/25/Linux_Kamarada_Manjaro_based_distribution.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/25/Linux_Kamarada_Manjaro_based_distribution.gmi [07:28] TR Bot Tux Machines Linux Kamarada Manjaro based distribution [07:40] TR News Techrights Speaking for Ourselves and Letting the Facts Speak for Themselves https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/25/Speaking_for_Ourselves_and_Letting_the_Facts_Speak_for_Themselv.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/25/Speaking_for_Ourselves_and_Letting_the_Facts_Speak_for_Themselv.gmi [07:40] TR Bot Techrights Speaking for Ourselves and Letting the Facts Speak for Themselves [07:56] TR News Techrights Why Microsoft Became the Layoffs Leader https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/25/Why_Microsoft_Became_the_Layoffs_Leader.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/25/Why_Microsoft_Became_the_Layoffs_Leader.gmi [07:56] TR Bot Techrights Why Microsoft Became the Layoffs Leader [07:57] TR News buying softpower through strategic investments: "Saudiarabien kper tv-spelsstudior och frgan r varf" https://yle.fi/a/7-10086731 [07:57] TR Bot Saudiarabien kper tv-spelsstudior och frgan r varfr? | Kultur | Svenska Yle ● Oct 25 [08:05] TR News Inspired by 1930s cartoons, MOUSE: P.I. For Hire set for launch in 2026 | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/inspired-by-1930s-cartoons-mouse-p-i-for-hire-set-for-launch-in-2026/ Source: GamingOnLinux | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/inspired-by-1930s-cartoons-mouse-p-i-for-hire-set-for-launch-in-2026/ [08:05] TR Bot by 1930s cartoons, MOUSE: P.I. For Hire set for launch in 2026 | GamingOnLinux [08:05] TR News Grab a short free horror experience with the new release of Days Without Incident | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/grab-a-short-free-horror-experience-with-the-new-release-of-days-without-incident/ Source: GamingOnLinux [08:05] TR Bot a short free horror experience with the new release of Days Without Incident | GamingOnLinux [08:06] TR News Indiana Jones and the Great Circle will perform better on AMD GPUs with Mesa 26 | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/indiana-jones-and-the-great-circle-will-perform-better-on-amd-gpus-with-mesa-26/ Source: GamingOnLinux [08:06] TR Bot Jones and the Great Circle will perform better on AMD GPUs with Mesa 26 | GamingOnLinux [08:20] TR News Techrights Trends That Must Alarm Microsoft and Mozilla https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/25/Trends_That_Must_Alarm_Microsoft_and_Mozilla.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/25/Trends_That_Must_Alarm_Microsoft_and_Mozilla.gmi [08:20] TR Bot Techrights Trends That Must Alarm Microsoft and Mozilla [08:21] TR News Award-winning gothic horror narrative adventure Scarlet Hollow gets a release date for Episode 5 | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/award-winning-gothic-horror-narrative-adventure-scarlet-hollow-gets-a-release-date-for-episode-5/ Source: GamingOnLinux [08:21] TR Bot gothic horror narrative adventure Scarlet Hollow gets a release date for Episode 5 | GamingOnLinux [08:24] TR News Roman city-builder Nova Roma from the devs of Kingdoms - Castles arrives in January | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/roman-city-builder-nova-roma-from-the-devs-of-kingdoms-castles-arrives-in-january/ Source: GamingOnLinux [08:24] TR Bot city-builder Nova Roma from the devs of Kingdoms & Castles arrives in January | GamingOnLinux [08:29] *Isambard_Prince has quit (connection closed) [08:38] *Isambard_Prince (~Isambard_Prince@uj65wqzsztp38.irc) has joined #techrights [08:41] TR News Techrights Techrights Anniversary Party on November 7th https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/25/Techrights_Anniversary_Party_on_November_7th.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/25/Techrights_Anniversary_Party_on_November_7th.gmi [08:41] TR Bot Techrights Techrights Anniversary Party on November 7th [08:42] TR News (NEW): Techrights Turns 19 Very Soon https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/25/Techrights_Turns_19_Very_Soon.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/25/Techrights_Turns_19_Very_Soon.gmi [08:42] TR Bot Tux Machines Techrights Turns 19 Very Soon [08:54] TR News Stress testing and benchmarking tool OCCT gets an essential Linux fix | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/stress-testing-and-benchmarking-tool-occt-gets-an-essential-linux-fix/ Source: GamingOnLinux [08:54] TR Bot testing and benchmarking tool OCCT gets an essential Linux fix | GamingOnLinux [08:54] TR News Spin to fight and win in Roulette Hero, a rather unique strategic roguelike deck-builder | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/spin-to-fight-and-win-in-roulette-hero-a-rather-unique-strategic-roguelike-deck-builder/ Source: GamingOnLinux [08:54] TR Bot to fight and win in Roulette Hero, a rather unique strategic roguelike deck-builder | GamingOnLinux [08:55] TR News Techrights statCounter Has Been Broken for a Long Time https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/25/statCounter_Has_Been_Broken_for_a_Long_Time.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/25/statCounter_Has_Been_Broken_for_a_Long_Time.gmi [08:55] TR Bot Techrights statCounter Has Been Broken for a Long Time ● Oct 25 [09:02] -G-Attention! In celebration of the 30th anniversary of W (and Undernet Channel Services), for a limited time only, channel managers can now bring the ancient original W to their channel and enjoy a trip down memory lane! For more info, ask in #cservice or see: https://www.undernet.org/news/w-birthday-return [09:05] TR News Techrights "Big Data" Was a Big Lie https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/25/Big_Data_Was_a_Big_Lie.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/25/Big_Data_Was_a_Big_Lie.gmi [09:05] TR Bot Techrights "Big Data" Was a Big Lie [09:05] TR News From former Telltale Games veterans, Dispatch is out and Steam Deck Verified | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/from-former-telltale-games-veterans-dispatch-is-out-and-steam-deck-verified/ Source: GamingOnLinux [09:05] TR Bot former Telltale Games veterans, Dispatch is out and Steam Deck Verified | GamingOnLinux [09:05] TR News Cronos: The New Dawn now has a demo available on Steam | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/cronos-the-new-dawn-now-has-a-demo-available-on-steam/ Source: GamingOnLinux | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/cronos-the-new-dawn-now-has-a-demo-available-on-steam/ [09:05] TR Bot The New Dawn now has a demo available on Steam | GamingOnLinux [09:07] TR News "He Co-founded Wikipedia, Now He Says the Site Needs a Radical Change" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/10/21/198229 [09:07] TR Bot He Co-founded Wikipedia, Now He Says the Site Needs a Radical Change - SoylentNews [09:07] TR News "Portal to report use of U.S. weapons on civilians has vanished from the Internet" https://boingboing.net/2025/10/23/portal-to-report-use-of-u-s-weapons-on-civilians-has-vanished-from-the-internet.html [09:07] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://boingboing.net/2025/10/23/portal-to-report-use-of-u-s-weapons-on-civilians-has-vanished-from-the-internet.html ) [09:08] TR News "Desktop Linux is Under Attack" https://odysee.com/@AlphaNerd:8/desktop-linux-is-under-attack:a [09:08] TR Bot Desktop Linux is Under Attack [09:08] TR News Vista11 ramps up its anti-dualboot capabilities: "Dual Boot Is Easy...Until It Isn't: Failsafe Techniques to Keep Microsoft From Screwing It Up" https://odysee.com/@RobBraxmanTech:6/dualboot2:c http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/08/21/Good_Reason_to_Delete_Windows_Not_Dual_Boot_and_Call_Out_the_Mi.shtml [09:08] TR Bot Dual Boot Is Easy...Until It Isnt: Failsafe Techniques to Keep Microsoft From Screwing It Up [09:08] TR Bot Tux Machines Good Reason to Delete Windows, Not Dual-Boot, and Call Out the Microsofters Who Worked to Impose 'Secure' Boot, Undermining Antitrust Complaints [09:10] Isambard_Prince schestowitz[TR2], I'm meeting someone after the sling comes off. [09:10] TR News (NEW): Games: Dispatch, OCCT, Nova Roma, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/25/Games_Dispatch_OCCT_Nova_Roma_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/25/Games_Dispatch_OCCT_Nova_Roma_and_More.gmi [09:10] TR Bot Tux Machines Games: Dispatch, OCCT, Nova Roma, and More [09:10] Isambard_Prince We've been talking this month and he wants to meet. [09:11] Isambard_Prince Apparently while I was on heavy pain medicine I said all the right thinngs. :/ [09:11] TR News "Scraping the web itself is not illegal, but if it is used as a way to violate copyright protection, the scraper could be found liable." https://www.semafor.com/article/10/24/2025/reddits-data-becomes-a-battleground-in-the-ai-gold-rush | Source: Semafor Inc [09:11] TR Bot data becomes a battleground in the AI gold rush | Semafor [09:12] Isambard_Prince It probably just drugged me into being perfectly honest. [09:12] TR News "Most reporting on this is not actually explaining the nuances, which require a deeper understanding of the law, but fundamentally, Reddit is NOT arguing that these companies are illegally scraping Reddit" https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/24/reddits-ai-scraping-lawsuit-is-an-attack-on-the-open-internet/ | Source: Techdirt [09:12] TR Bot AI Scraping Lawsuit Is An Attack On The Open Internet | Techdirt [09:12] Isambard_Prince Marijuana does this too. [09:12] TR News "Courts might accept copying for transformative learning, but they may be less forgiving when AI models generate recognizable" https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-copyright-cartoon-output | Source: Futurism [09:12] TR Bot OpenAI's Copyright Situation Appears to Be Putting It in Huge Danger [09:13] TR News "There is a patent for tetrapods written by the inventors of the tetrapod, Pierre Danel and Paul Angls dAuriac." https://dotat.at/@/2025-10-24-tetrapod.html | Source: Tony Finch [09:13] TR Bot how to draw a tetrapod Tony Finch [09:14] TR News Yesterday (23 October 2025) the Competition Appeal Tribunal handed down its unanimous judgement: [...]" https://brucelawson.co.uk/2025/apple-app-store-guilty-of-abuse-of-a-dominant-position-in-uk/ | Source: Bruce Lawson [09:14] TR Bot stream 1 was not closed cleanly: PROTOCOL_ERROR (err 1) ( status 0 @ https://brucelawson.co.uk/2025/apple-app-store-guilty-of-abuse-of-a-dominant-position-in-uk/ ) [09:14] TR News "After the success of those bounties, FULU is now adding additional campaigns. The bounties on each product included in our program will include a base award of $10,000." https://bounties.fulu.org/how-it-works | [09:14] TR Bot FULU Bounty Platform How it Works [09:15] TR News "Amazon has spent years automating its warehouses with robots. Its mechanical workforce is more than one million strong, rivaling the size of its human workforce of some 1.56 million people." https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/amazon-replace-workers-robots | Source: Futurism [09:15] TR Bot Secret Plans Reveal Amazon Plot to Replace 600,000 Workers With Robot Army [09:15] TR News "If the burka truly symbolised empowerment, women would have embraced it when given freedom to choose." https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10/24/burka-symbol-of-repression-not-freedom/ | Source: The Telegraph UK [09:15] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10/24/burka-symbol-of-repression-not-freedom/ ) [09:16] TR News "Not all Mirror NUJ journalists took part in the ballot: of the 83 members entitled to vote, 44 (53%) cast votes in the ballot. Some 42 voting members said yes to striking, while two members voted against action." https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/nationals/mirror-journalists-back-strike-action-over-redundancies-and-ai/ | Source: Press Gazette [09:16] TR Bot Mirror journalists back strike action over redundancies and AI - Press Gazette [09:16] TR News "The suspension comes amid a broad expansion of the Ethiopian Media Authoritys powers, following an April 17, 2025 amendment to the countrys media law." https://cpj.org/2025/10/ethiopian-authorities-suspend-licenses-of-deutsche-welles-local-correspondents/ | Source: CPJ [09:16] TR Bot Ethiopian authorities suspend licenses of Deutsche Welles local correspondents - Committee to Protect Journalists [09:16] TR News "Qudrat Wasefi fled Kabul after the fundamentalist regime, with its violently enforced prohibition of music, returned to power in 2021. He's part of a generation of refugees the world has largely forgotten" https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/taliban-afghanistan-music-refugees-asylum-1235450742/ | Source: Rolling Stone [09:16] TR Bot Musicians Who Fled Afghanistan After Taliban Invasion Seek Aslyum [09:16] TR News "In fact, because Intellectual Freedom in general is in jeopardy, it is important for us to pivot and focus on advocacy and information about our rights over just putting up displays of books that have been banned." https://raforall.blogspot.com/2025/10/beyond-banned-books-displays-how-did.html | Source: Becky Spratford [09:16] TR Bot RA for All: Beyond Banned Books Displays: How Did Your Library Celebrate Intellectual Freedom Earlier This Month? [09:17] TR News "Agreeing with the top down and bottom up diagnoses wonders who we can empower to help us in this perilous situation. She references Jack Balkins free speech triangle censorship used to be about states censoring individuals." https://ethanzuckerman.com/2025/10/23/govern-or-be-governed-what-are-the-threats-to-freedom-of-speech/ | Source: Ethan Zuckerman [09:17] TR Bot Govern or Be Governed: What are the Threats to Freedom of Speech? - Ethan Zuckerman [09:17] TR News "In a federal lawsuit, OHara alleges that an Ohio National Guardsman called local police on him and interrupted his right to protest." https://taskandpurpose.com/news/national-guard-dc-star-wars-lawsuit/ | Source: Task And Purpose [09:17] TR Bot Man arrested for taunting DC troops with Star Wars files lawsuit [09:18] TR News "Marketplace journalists analyzed 100 videos discussing cancer treatments and another 100 for autism therapies." https://www.cbc.ca/news/marketplace/tiktok-health-claims-marketplace-9.6949928 | Source: CBC [09:18] TR Bot We analyzed 200 cancer and autism videos on TikTok and found the majority contain misinformation | CBC News [09:18] TR News "AI videos have gone fully mainstream in political campaigns, and lawmakers are grappling with what it could mean for politics and maybe their own careers." https://www.notus.org/2026-election/artificial-intelligence-political-ads-whats-next | Source: Allbritton Journalism Institute [09:18] TR Bot Artificial Intelligence Is Hitting Politics. Nobody Knows Where It Will End. - NOTUS News of the United States [09:18] TR News "I don't think tech and political writers inside the USA fully recognize how insane Apple's bending the knee to Trump looks from outside." https://chrisenns.com/2025/10/american-apple-s/ | Source: Chris Enns [09:18] TR Bot American Apple(s) [09:18] TR News works [09:18] TR News "This is how it works: We protect each other, period. These are our neighbors, our friends, our family. We do the things we have to do to ensure that as many of us can make it to tomorrow as possible. Not everyone does." https://dansinker.com/posts/2025-10-24-understand/ | Source: Dan Sinker [09:18] TR Bot I Need You To Understand, Notes from Chicago in Late October | dansinker.com [09:19] TR News "Today, Republic Day is celebrated in Hungary. It is one of three national holidays that Hungarians celebrate. Republic Day commemorates two important events in Hungary history." https://jeffbridgforth.com/oktober-23/ | Source: Jeff Bridgforth [09:19] TR Bot Oktber 23 | Jeff Bridgforth [09:19] TR News "Google Cloud just announced that Anthropic has signed a major deal that will expand its use of the search giants TPU chips for training future Claude models." https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-signs-deal-with-google-cloud-to-expand-tpu-chip-capacity-ai-company-expects-to-have-over-1gw-of-processing-power-in-2026 | Source: Tom's Hardware [09:19] TR Bot Anthropic signs deal with Google Cloud to expand TPU chip capacity AI company expects to have over 1GW of processing power in 2026 | Tom's Hardware [09:20] TR News "Tech giants have been investing hundreds of billions of dollars into AI data centers just this year alone. But as the deals pile up, so have the concerns around their viability and sustainability." https://www.wired.com/story/uncanny-valley-podcast-how-data-centers-actually-work/ | Source: Wired [09:20] TR Bot Data Centers Actually Work | WIRED [09:20] TR News "And, buried deep inside the Fighting Delays, Building Faster Act is a ban on municipalities constructing bike lanes that would take away a lane of car traffic." https://breachmedia.ca/ontarios-plan-to-ban-bike-lanes-is-ripped-from-the-business-lobbys-wish-list/ | Source: Breach Media [09:20] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://breachmedia.ca/ontarios-plan-to-ban-bike-lanes-is-ripped-from-the-business-lobbys-wish-list/ ) [09:21] TR News "Merrimack Station had supplied electricity to the region since the 1960s." https://mainemorningstar.com/2025/10/23/new-england-says-goodbye-to-coal-as-merrimack-station-powers-down/ | Source: Maine Morning Star [09:21] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://mainemorningstar.com/2025/10/23/new-england-says-goodbye-to-coal-as-merrimack-station-powers-down/ ) [09:21] TR News "On Friday, Interpol confirmed that the seventh edition of Operation Mother Earth concluded with the detection and control of over 400 environmental crimes, of which 203 were related to forestry, 26 to illegal fishing, 23 to illegal mining and 16 to pollution." https://www.telesurenglish.net/interpol-detected-over-400-environmental-crimes/ | Source: teleSUR [09:21] TR Bot Interpol Detected Over 400 Environmental Crimes - teleSUR English [09:21] TR News "Myhrvold, who was among those who contributed to a 2003 birthday book made for Epstein, was named as a passenger for two flights on Epsteins private jet in the 1990s" https://www.seattletimes.com/business/microsoft/ex-microsoft-exec-nathan-myhrvold-named-in-epstein-flight-logs/ | Source: Seattle Times [09:21] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.seattletimes.com/business/microsoft/ex-microsoft-exec-nathan-myhrvold-named-in-epstein-flight-logs/ ) [09:22] TR News Overpopulation https://overpopulation-project.com/its-not-racist-to-say-we-are-full/ | Source: Overpopulation [09:22] TR Bot Its not racist to say: we are full - The Overpopulation Project [09:23] psydruid https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian [09:23] TR Bot DontBreakDebian - Debian Wiki [09:23] psydruid lol [09:23] TR News "Under the Oakland, California, federal court settlement, nearly 10% of the ballrooms estimated construction costs will now come from Alphabet." https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/10/22/2349884/-White-House-demolition-is-getting-funded-by-tech-bribes | Source: Daily Kos [09:23] TR Bot White House demolition is getting funded by tech bribes [09:24] TR News "Satellite imagery confirms the scale of the change, showing a flattened landscape where a historic part of the building once stood." https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/white-house-trees-cut-maga-ballroom-trump-shrugs-east-wing-heritage-vanishes-without-timeline-1749923 | Source: International Business Times [09:24] TR Bot White House Trees Cut for MAGA Ballroom: Trump Shrugs as East Wing Heritage Vanishes Without Timeline | IBTimes UK [09:24] psydruid > [notice] How Data Centers Actually Work | WIRED [09:24] psydruid ghost towns full of switched off data centers [09:24] TR News "The White House released a full list of donors this week, which included tech giants such as Amazon, Alphabet, Apple, Microsoft and Meta." https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-24/white-house-east-wing-demolished-trump-ballroom/105930582 | Source: ABC [09:24] TR Bot Satellite images show White House's East Wing has been demolished for Donald Trump's ballroom - ABC News [09:24] TR News "The work doesnt stop when we fail or when were disappointed. There is always a next step, always another challenge, and I know that I cannot allow myself to freeze up, rather than turning the next corner." https://organizingmythoughts.org/we-have-to-move/ | Source: Kelly Hayes [09:24] TR Bot We Have to Move [09:24] TR News Apple putting your hard earned money towards a ballroom for you know who https://ljpuk.net/2025/10/24/apple-putting-your-hard-earned-money-towards-a-ballroom-for-you-know-who/ | Source: Lee Peterson [09:24] TR Bot Apple putting your hard earned money towards a ballroom for you know who LJPUK [09:25] TR News "But theres a difference between playing ball and proactively offering to pay for a new baseball field." https://coyotetracks.org/blog/collaboration-privacy/ | Source: Watts Martin [09:25] TR Bot Collaboration or privacy: pick one [09:25] TR News "I assume that everyone reading this newsletter knows that Donald Trump is in the process of destroying a large part of the White House so he can construct a 90,000 square foot gold-encrusted ballroom." https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trumps-gilded-ballroom-and-the-fall | Source: Paul Krugman [09:25] TR Bot Trumps Gilded Ballroom and the Fall of the American Republic [09:25] TR News "And paying for it? Apple and Amazon. Google and Meta. Microsoft, Palantir, Coinbase, Ripple, Tetherthe Winklevoss twins too. The empires benefactors, writing checks to historys undoing." https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/buying-the-ruins | Source: Mike Brock [09:25] TR Bot Buying the Ruins - by Mike Brock - Notes From The Circus [09:25] TR News "Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird sued TikTok in January 2024 claiming the app violates the Iowa Consumer Fraud Act by misrepresenting the frequency of profanity, sexual content and nudity available to teenage users." https://www.courthousenews.com/tiktok-tells-top-iowa-court-the-state-lacks-jurisdiction-in-fraud-suit/ | Source: Court House News [09:25] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.courthousenews.com/tiktok-tells-top-iowa-court-the-state-lacks-jurisdiction-in-fraud-suit/ ) [09:26] TR News "I dont want this to be a political conversation but, I mean, the fact you bring people from other states who maybe have different politics I think it shows an administration thats trying to pit people against other people" https://tennesseelookout.com/2025/10/24/repub/trumps-national-guard-deployments-raise-worries-about-state-sovereignty/ | [09:26] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://tennesseelookout.com/2025/10/24/repub/trumps-national-guard-deployments-raise-worries-about-state-sovereignty/ ) [09:26] TR News Europe vs. App Tracking Transparency https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/10/24/europe-vs-app-tracking-transparency/ | Source: Michael Tsai [09:26] TR Bot Michael Tsai - Blog - Europe vs. App Tracking Transparency [09:27] TR News "What he says is that, by this time next year, normal communities with enough Ring cameras and a magic dusting of A.I. will have virtually no crime." https://pxlnv.com/linklog/verge-ding-dong/ | Source: Nick Heer [09:27] TR Bot The Verge Delivers a Bad Article About Amazons Ring Pixel Envy [09:27] TR News "According to a security report from Infoblox, in cooperation with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the China-focused Universe Browser is advertised as a safe and private way to bypass censorship and web blocks." https://www.pcworld.com/article/2952286/this-popular-privacy-browser-is-actually-tracking-users-and-stealing-data.html | Source: PC World [09:27] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.pcworld.com/article/2952286/this-popular-privacy-browser-is-actually-tracking-users-and-stealing-data.html ) [09:28] TR News "US border patrol is asking companies to submit plans to turn standard 4x4 trucks into AI-powered watchtowerscombining radar, cameras, and autonomous tracking to extend surveillance on demand." https://www.wired.com/story/dhs-wants-a-fleet-of-ai-powered-surveillance-trucks/ | Source: Wired [09:28] TR Bot Wants a Fleet of AI-Powered Surveillance Trucks | WIRED [09:28] TR News "Digital ID will be compulsory for anyone taking a new job after the scheme goes live by the end of this parliamentary session, the prime minister said." https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/24/digital_id_rebrand/ | Source: The Register UK [09:28] TR Bot UK digital ID plan recast as time-saver The Register [09:28] TR News "There were multiple concerns raised throughout the negotiation of the treaty around how it actually ends up compelling companies to share data" https://today.rtl.lu/news/business-and-tech/a/2349109.html | Source: RTL [09:28] TR Bot RTL Today - New framwork: More than 60 UN members sign cybercrime treaty opposed by rights groups [09:29] TR News "The report details some other counterintuitive findings, too. For example, most MENA ransomware attacks are going unattributed, and Pakistan faces twice as many ransomware attacks as any other country in the region." https://www.darkreading.com/cybersecurity-analytics/mea-hackers-govts-finance-smb-retailers | Source: Dark Reading [09:29] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.darkreading.com/cybersecurity-analytics/mea-hackers-govts-finance-smb-retailers ) [09:29] TR News "Experts emphasize, too, that the most serious cyber consequences of the shutdown won't come in the form of immediate breaches. Threat actors targeting employees today might lie in wait until some future day." https://www.darkreading.com/cybersecurity-operations/shutdown-increase-us-government-cyberattacks | Source: Dark Reading [09:29] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.darkreading.com/cybersecurity-operations/shutdown-increase-us-government-cyberattacks ) [09:29] TR News "Ransomware attacks have soared 50% in 2025 despite major changes among the leading ransomware groups, according to a new Cyble report." https://thecyberexpress.com/ransomware-attacks-surge-in-2025/ | Source: Cyble Inc [09:29] TR Bot Ransomware Attacks Have Soared This Year [09:30] TR News "FakeUpdate" https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/24/iran_muddywater_campaign/ | Source: The Register UK [09:30] TR Bot Iran's MuddyWater spies wade into 100+ government networks The Register [09:31] TR News "For Cynthia Gordon, a linguistics professor in the College of Arts & Sciences, the trend is not just a funny or perhaps frustrating" https://www.georgetown.edu/news/six-seven-meme-linguistics/ | [09:31] TR Bot What Does 6-7 Mean? We Dont Know Either, So We Asked a Linguist - Georgetown University [09:31] TR News [Old] "Metas top executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, ignored warnings for years about harms to teens on its platforms such as Instagram" https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/07/tech/meta-ignored-warnings-instagrams-harm | Source: CNN [09:31] TR Bot Meta ignored warnings on Instagrams harm to teens, whistleblower says | CNN Business [09:32] TR News "Yet the AI companies are so caught up in a race to dominance that these concerns hardly enter into the equation until the damage is already done." https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/openai-sora-2-celebrities-racial-slurs-1235452298/ | Source: Rolling Stone [09:32] TR Bot Sora 2 Can Generate Videos of Celebs Appearing to Shout Racist Slurs [09:32] TR News "Its an impressive claim, and the demos are slick. But in our line of work, were paid to be paranoid. Were trained to ask the follow-up questions, the ones that spoil the party." https://arjenwiersma.nl/posts/20251024-weird-llm/ | Source: Arjen Wiersma [09:32] TR Bot The Dutch are WEIRD, and so is ChatGPT | Arjen Wiersma [09:32] TR News "Lots of people have been seduced by Sam Altmans invocation of scaling laws. Marcus notes that Altman is a consummate salesman, and managed to carry on the illusion of improvement for years, but is reaching the end of his powers." https://ethanzuckerman.com/2025/10/24/govern-or-be-governed-gary-marcus-on-shorting-neural-networks/ | Source: Ethan Zuckerman [09:32] TR Bot Govern or Be Governed: Gary Marcus on Shorting Neural Networks - Ethan Zuckerman [09:33] TR News "A surgeon isnt a manager, they do the actual work! But their skills and time are highly leveraged with a support team that handles prep, secondary tasks, admin." https://www.geoffreylitt.com/2025/10/24/code-like-a-surgeon.html | Source: Geoffrey Litt [09:33] TR Bot Code like a surgeon [09:33] TR News "Its this AI-as-LLMs that we need to discuss today." https://jamie.ideasasylum.com/2025/10/24/why-you-need-to-adopt-ai-(as-a-software-engineer) | Source: Jamie Lawrence [09:33] TR Bot Why you need to adopt AI (as a software engineer) | Jamies blog [09:34] TR News "The Canadian Centre for Child Protection found more than 120 images of identified or known victims of CSAM in the dataset" https://www.404media.co/ai-dataset-for-detecting-nudity-contained-child-sexual-abuse-images/ | Source: 404 Media [09:34] TR Bot AI Dataset for Detecting Nudity Contained Child Sexual Abuse Images [09:34] TR News "History shows us that regulation without verification rarely works." https://siliconangle.com/2025/10/24/ai-policy-without-proof-just-politics/ | Source: Silicon Angle [09:34] TR Bot policy without proof is just politics - SiliconANGLE [09:34] TR News "As far back as 1980, the American philosopher John Searle distinguished between strong and weak AI." https://theconversation.com/the-hardest-part-of-creating-conscious-ai-might-be-convincing-ourselves-its-real-268123 | Source: The Conversation [09:35] TR Bot The hardest part of creating conscious AI might be convincing ourselves its real [09:35] TR News "continual exposure to junk web text induces lasting cognitive decline in large language models (LLMs)." https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-brain-rot | Source: Futurism [09:35] TR Bot Training AI on "Brain Rot" Content Causes Lasting Cognitive Damage, New Paper Finds [09:35] TR News "agent mode" https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-browser-victim-prompt-injection-attacks | Source: Futurism [09:35] TR Bot OpenAI's New AI Browser Is Already Falling Victim to Prompt Injection Attacks [09:36] TR News "In my mind, "Apple" as a brand used to be synonymous with "attention to detail" but sadly, over the course of the last 8 - 10 years, their choices have become anything but detail oriented." https://blog.johnozbay.com/what-happened-to-apples-attention-to-detail.html | [09:36] TR Bot What Happened to Apple's Legendary Attention to Detail? - Fragments & Reflections [09:36] TR News "One possibility is the euro stack, made in Europe alternatives to the US tech stack. But very shortly, the euro stack will hit a wall." https://ethanzuckerman.com/2025/10/24/cory-doctorow-on-the-weird-upside-of-the-trump-presidency/ | Source: Ethan Zuckerman [09:36] TR Bot Cory Doctorow on the weird upside of the Trump presidency - Ethan Zuckerman [09:37] TR News "CVE-2025-59287 allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code and a PoC exploit is available." https://www.securityweek.com/critical-windows-server-wsus-vulnerability-exploited-in-the-wild/ | Source: Security Week [09:37] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/critical-windows-server-wsus-vulnerability-exploited-in-the-wild/ ) [09:37] TR News "there's at least one proof-of-concept attack floating around in cyberspace, and it only takes one specially crafted request to exploit the bug for full system takeover" https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/24/exploitation_of_critical_windows_server/ | Source: The Register UK [09:37] TR Bot Windows Server WSUS bug exploits underway, Microsoft's mum The Register [09:37] TR News "the apparent slop running rampant throughout the Activities tab only heightened my curiosity. I wanted to know: were these games really as bad as they looked" https://www.michigandaily.com/arts/digital-culture/are-discords-neglected-activities-really-that-bad/ | Source: University of Michigan [09:37] TR Bot Discords overlooked games might not be so bad [09:38] TR News "returned to normal levels." https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-10-24/what-the-amazon-cloud-outage-reveals-about-the-weaknesses-of-the-internet.html | Source: El Pas [09:38] TR Bot What the Amazon cloud outage reveals about the weaknesses of the internet | Technology | EL PAS English [09:38] TR News "Whats in it for the AI companies in abusing humans this way, Smithing asks? Humans are collateral damage on the race to AGI" https://ethanzuckerman.com/2025/10/24/govern-or-be-governed-chatbots-as-the-new-threat-to-children-online/ | Source: Ethan Zuckerman [09:38] TR Bot Govern or Be Governed: Chatbots as the new threat to Children Online - Ethan Zuckerman [09:38] TR News "In times like these, it is of utmost importance to protect yourself and others, often in the form of wearing a mask." https://observer.case.edu/yes-people-may-stare-and-yes-you-should-still-wear-a-mask/ | Source: Case Western Reserve University [09:38] TR Bot Yes, people may stare, and, yes, you should still wear a mask The Observer [09:39] TR News "Its funny that this specific machine is largely in the same condition as that Power Mac G3 I picked up in 2006, save for a full compliment of memory." https://rubenerd.com/reunited-with-a-blue-and-white-power-mac-g3/ | Source: Ruben Schade [09:39] TR Bot Reunited with a Blue and White Power Mac G3 [09:39] TR News "According to a new report, AMD has made the decision to establish two new R&D centers in Taiwan, focusing on silicon photonics, heterogeneous integration" https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/amd-reportedly-establishes-usd280-million-silicon-photonics-hub-in-taiwan-new-r-and-d-center-could-accelerate-companys-co-packaged-optics-roadmap | Source: Tom's Hardware [09:39] TR Bot AMD reportedly establishes $280 million silicon photonics hub in Taiwan new R&D center could accelerate company's co-packaged optics roadmap | Tom's Hardware [09:40] TR News "Im not sure what is going on here. But heres a speculation." https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/wordless-thought | Source: Henrik Karlsson [09:40] TR Bot When is better to think without words? - by Henrik Karlsson [09:40] TR News "Before we get to that, lets rewind." https://kansasreflector.com/2025/10/24/in-my-kansas-college-courses-writing-feels-like-a-digital-zombie-footrace/ | Source: Kansas Reflector [09:40] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://kansasreflector.com/2025/10/24/in-my-kansas-college-courses-writing-feels-like-a-digital-zombie-footrace/ ) [09:41] TR News "Wojciech Mua posted about modern perfect hashing for strings and I wanted to make some comments about my own implementation (that sadly never got productionized because doubling the speed compared to gperf wasn't really that impactful in the end)." https://blog.sesse.net/blog/tech/2025-10-23-21-23_modern_perfect_hashing.html | Source: Steinar H Gunderson [09:41] TR Bot Steinar H. Gunderson [09:41] TR News "However, I can never quickly find a source where this formula is derived, so I decided to figure this out and write down the derivation. I will use my post about m-FSK symbol error rate as a starting point." https://destevez.net/2025/10/non-coherent-fsk-ber/ | Source: Daniel Estvez [09:41] TR Bot Non-coherent FSK BER Daniel Estvez [09:41] TR News "Jim Sanborn couldnt believe it. He was weeks away from auctioning off the answer to Kryptos, the sculpture he created for the CIA that had defied solution for 35 years." https://www.wired.com/story/kryptos-code-reveal/ | Source: Wired [09:41] TR Bot the Messy, Accidental Kryptos Reveal | WIRED [09:41] TR News "The hidden text had been uncovered, with potentially damaging effects for the sale what is the value of a secret that someone else knows?" https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/science/kryptos-cia-solution-sanborn-auction.html | Source: New York Times [09:41] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/science/kryptos-cia-solution-sanborn-auction.html ) [09:42] TR News "Two people found the solution. They used the power of research, not cryptanalysis, finding clues amongst the Sanborn papers at the Smithsonians Archives of American Art." https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/10/part-four-of-the-kryptos-sculpture.html | Source: Bruce Schneier [09:42] TR Bot Four of The Kryptos Sculpture - Schneier on Security [09:42] TR News "Scientists from the Institut Pasteur in France used advanced DNA analysis to reexamine the remains of Napoleons fallen troops." https://interestingengineering.com/culture/napoleon-army-dna-200-year-old-truth | Source: Interesting Engineering [09:42] TR Bot DNA study reveals what really killed Napoleons army in 1812 [09:43] TR News "The Japanese web feels like it stopped at 1.0 and it's a delight." https://johnnydecimal.com/20-29-communication/22-blog/22.00.0152-japanese-web/ | Source: Johnny Decimal [09:43] TR Bot 22.00.0152 The Japanese web is delightful Johnny.Decimal [09:43] TR News "It's time we change the story. When you see a story that claims to be about "technology", ask yourself: [...]" https://www.anildash.com/2025/10/24/founders-over-funders/ | Source: Anil Dash [09:43] TR Bot Founders Over Funders. Inventors Over Investors. - Anil Dash [09:45] TR News "For the longest time (all through the GTK 3 era, and until recently), weve used librsvg indirectly, through gdk-pixbuf, to obtain rendered icons" https://blogs.gnome.org/gtk/2025/10/23/svg-in-gtk/ | Source: GNOME [09:45] TR Bot SVG in GTK GTK Development Blog [09:52] TR News Techrights Links 25/10/2025: Target Layoffs and "Shutdown Sparks 85% Increase in US Government Cyberattacks" https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/25/Links_25_10_2025_Target_Layoffs_and_Shutdown_Sparks_85_Increase.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/25/Links_25_10_2025_Target_Layoffs_and_Shutdown_Sparks_85_Increase.gmi [09:52] TR Bot Techrights Links 25/10/2025: Target Layoffs and "Shutdown Sparks 85% Increase in US Government Cyberattacks" [09:57] TR News "My message as The Highest Leader of The Global Civil Society Community, in the 500 days leading up to the Great Reset, the Catastrophe, and the End of Nations." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2721 [09:58] TR News "Wow, it's been more than 5 years now and the SSL certificate I setup for this pod originally expired. I also didn't post anything for over a year so bitrot is expected. Anyway.. I've updated the certificate, it expires in 10 years so I got some time to actually write something before renewal. " gemini://rwv.io/2025-10-24-certificate-expired.gmi [09:59] TR News SpellBinding EIMNWSP Wordo: HULKS gemini://spell.ddns.net/games/gemlog/2025-10-25.gmi ● Oct 25 [10:01] TR News "a php cli script that fixes what i didn't want in the xmind md output. an improvement on my attempt with awk. useful php practice for me. i use ports and php83 so the #! will change on my other machines." gemini://gemini.mingmengtou.org/2025-10-24-another-xmind-md-fix.gmi [10:20] TR News Techrights Gemini Links 25/10/2025: "The Highest Leader of The Global Civil Society Community", SSL Certificates Causing Bitrot https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/25/Gemini_Links_25_10_2025_The_Highest_Leader_of_The_Global_Civil_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/25/Gemini_Links_25_10_2025_The_Highest_Leader_of_The_Global_Civil_.gmi [10:20] TR Bot Techrights Gemini Links 25/10/2025: "The Highest Leader of The Global Civil Society Community", SSL Certificates Causing Bitrot [10:28] TR News What The Hell Is Microsoft Doing? https://aftermath.site/aftermath-hours-podcast-microsoft-xbox-30-percent-profit-margin-twitchcon [10:29] TR Bot What The Hell Is Microsoft Doing? - Aftermath [10:38] TR News "Before getting into the analysis itself, lets review some of the salient differences between discrete-time and continuous-time Markov models." https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/10/be-mindful-of-the-time/ | Source: Rlang [10:38] TR Bot Mindful of the Time | R-bloggers [10:38] TR News "29th November 2025" https://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=11166584 | Source: PerlMonks [10:38] TR Bot London Perl Workshop 2025 (???) [10:38] TR News "The London Perl & Raku Workshop (LPW) is a free one-day technical conference in Central London, United Kingdom." https://act.yapc.eu/lpw2025/ | Source: Perl [10:38] TR Bot London Perl & Raku Workshop 2025 | Perl workshop and training in London [10:39] TR News "This post is unstructured, so you can just pick somewhere random and start reading from there with no/minimal context lost." https://bradley.chatha.dev/blog/dlang-propaganda/asn1-compiler-in-d/ | [10:39] TR Bot I spent a year of my life making an ASN.1 compiler in D [10:39] TR News "Why am I blaming React? React is a legacy framework turned cargo cult that promotes inaccessible development. There is nothing more guilty!" https://dbushell.com/2025/10/23/react-regulation/ | [10:39] TR Bot Is it Time to Regulate React? David Bushell Web Dev (UK) [10:40] TR News "Rosales saga is the result of a perplexing record-keeping process the military justice system calls titling" https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-military/2025/10/23/thousands-of-vets-saddled-with-false-criminal-histories-lawsuit-says/ | Source: US Navy Times [10:40] TR Bot Thousands of vets saddled with false criminal histories, lawsuit says [10:40] TR News "The European Bioconductor conference 2025 (EuroBioC2025) took place between September 17 and 19, 2025, and was hosted at the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB)" https://blog.bioconductor.org/posts/2025-10-24-EuroBioC2025-recap/ | [10:40] TR Bot EuroBioC2025 conference recap Bioconductor community blog [10:41] TR News "I also had some big concerns which nagged away at me: [...]" https://glfmn.io/posts/html-is-a-tree/ | [10:41] TR Bot ~ glfmn.io [10:41] TR News "I would like to announce that this blog has migrated from Hugo to WriteFreely!" https://abf.li/ive-migrated-to-writefreely | Source: Andre Franca [10:41] TR Bot I've Migrated to WriteFreely Andre Franca [10:42] TR News "These poolers can handle more connections (with lower latency) by transparently multiplexing many client connections onto a single Postgres client backend. But how does this work? And how does it behave?" https://www.enterprisedb.com/blog/transaction-pooling-postgres-pgcat | Source: EnterpriseDB Corporation [10:42] TR Bot Transaction Pooling in Postgres with Pgcat - Phil Eaton's Guide [10:42] TR News "According to Mozillas announcement, extension developers must now include a new key browser_specific_settings.gecko.data_collection_permissions" https://linuxiac.com/mozilla-to-require-data-collection-disclosure-in-all-new-firefox-extensions/ | Source: Linuxiac [10:42] TR Bot Mozilla to Require Data-Collection Disclosure in All New Firefox Extensions [10:42] TR News "Arc Browser has completely ruined me. Vertical tabs arent just a nice-to-have anymore." https://krabf.com/arc-browser-spoiled-me-on-vertical-tabs/ | Source: Kushaiah Felisilda [10:42] TR Bot Arc Browser Spoiled Me on Vertical Tabs | Kushaiah Felisilda [10:43] TR News "Extensions make Thunderbird truly yours, moving at your pace and reflecting your priorities. Thunderbirds flexibility means you can tailor the app to how you actually work." https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/10/your-workflow-supercharged/ | Source: Thunderbird [10:43] TR Bot Your Workflow, Supercharged - The Thunderbird Blog [10:43] TR News "You may remember this majestic vessel from when we wrote about it in 2021, after it had a Raspberry Pi-based makeover to become a fully automated pleasure craft." https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/sfera-baltic-boat-gets-another-raspberry-pi-based-makeover/ | Source: Raspberry Pi [10:43] TR Bot Sfera Baltic boat gets another Raspberry Pi-based makeover - Raspberry Pi [10:44] TR News "if you keep tracing this lineage backwards in time, you eventually reach a point of deus-ex-machina: A bootstrap routine that was programmed by hand" https://www.linusakesson.net/hardware/frontpanel/index.php | Source: Linus kesson [10:44] TR Bot Front-Panel Booting an ATmega88 Microcontroller [10:44] TR News "Fedora developers have proposed a system-wide change for Fedora 44 that would enforce RPM package" https://linuxiac.com/fedora-plans-to-block-unsigned-rpm-packages-by-default/ | Source: Linuxiac [10:44] TR Bot Fedora Plans to Block Unsigned RPM Packages by Default [10:44] TR News "Support has also expanded to cover the DART IOMMU on Apples M2 Pro, Max, and Ultra chips." https://linuxiac.com/asahi-linux-brings-apple-silicon-improvements-in-the-linux-6-17-cycle/ | Source: Linuxiac [10:44] TR Bot Asahi Linux Brings Apple Silicon Improvements in the Linux 6.17 Cycle [10:47] TR News "Arch Linux, the iconic rolling-release distro beloved by countless Linux enthusiasts" https://linuxiac.com/arch-linux-users-are-the-first-to-experience-kde-plasma-6-5/ | Source: Linuxiac [10:47] TR Bot Arch Linux Users Are the First to Experience KDE Plasma 6.5 [10:48] TR News "Recently I wanted to connect to a local machine with ssh but didn't know it's IP, I knew the MAC address which I could translate into the IPv6 link-local address but since the connect syscall requires the local iface name for ip6 link local" https://blog.izissise.net/posts/raconn/ | Source: Hugues [10:48] TR Bot Raconn - Ssh multi hostname [10:50] TR News "Why do some radio towers blink?" https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/why-do-some-radio-towers-blink | Source: Jeff Geerling [10:50] TR Bot Why do some radio towers blink? | Jeff Geerling [10:50] TR News "Which addresses why I take pictures. Sometimes, often, it is a simple aide-memoire. Sometimes, not often enough, it is a deliberate attempt to create an image that repays looking at." https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/photographic-fixer | Source: Jeremy Cherfas [10:50] TR Bot Photographic Fixer | Jeremy Cherfas [10:51] TR News "Before I share my opinions with you, let me clarify that this post is not about MDN." https://www.matuzo.at/blog/2025/whats-an-interactive-element | Source: Manuel Matuzovi [10:51] TR Bot What's an interactive element? - Manuel Matuzovic [10:51] TR News "Bottles, an open-source software tool built on top of Wine that helps users run Windows applications and games on Linux systems by providing a user-friendly GUI" https://linuxiac.com/bottles-51-25-released-with-st-terminal-support/ | Source: Linuxiac [10:51] TR Bot Bottles 51.25 Released With st Terminal Support [10:53] TR News "Find out how AI Quests can be used to teach 1114 year olds AI literacy by solving real-world problems." https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/play-pedagogy-and-real-world-impact-what-we-learned-from-the-ai-quests-webinars/ | Source: Raspberry Pi [10:53] TR Bot Play, pedagogy, and real-world impact: What we learned from the AI Quests webinars - Raspberry Pi Foundation [10:53] schestowitz[TR2] MinceR: partly serious question, [10:53] schestowitz[TR2] in techrights daily links, [10:53] schestowitz[TR2] since 2022 [10:54] schestowitz[TR2] we've had a category "Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine"\ [10:54] schestowitz[TR2] would it make sense to change its title [10:54] schestowitz[TR2] to something like "Russia, Belarus, Hungary and War in Ukraine" [10:54] schestowitz[TR2] Lith and Lat are part of EU [10:54] schestowitz[TR2] but are not pro-russia [10:54] schestowitz[TR2] same for estonia [10:56] TR News "Windows 11 Is a Lost Cause. Truly Destined for the Garbage. Don't Upgrade from 10" https://odysee.com/@RobBraxmanTech:6/windows-11-rant:9 [10:56] TR Bot Windows 11 Is a Lost Cause. Truly Destined for the Garbage. Don't Upgrade from 10 [10:56] TR News "The Police's Terrifying Surveillance Network" https://odysee.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Flock:3 [10:56] TR Bot The Police's Terrifying Surveillance Network [10:57] TR News iophk: the US is almost certainly already (stilL) in an ongoing recession; when the AI bubble pops it will drop out into a full blow depression however the bubble popping is not the only factor which is able to tip the US into a full depression https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/24/ai_investment_us_recession/ [10:57] TR Bot AI investment the only thing keeping the US out of recession The Register [10:58] TR News "HP plans to build millions of computers in Saudi" https://www.semafor.com/article/10/24/2025/hp-plans-to-build-millions-of-computers-in-saudi [10:58] TR Bot plans to build millions of computers in Saudi | Semafor [10:58] TR News Criminal releases criminal from prison https://www.semafor.com/article/10/23/2025/trump-pardons-billionaire-binance-founder [10:58] TR Bot pardons billionaire Binance founder Changpeng Zhao | Semafor [10:59] TR News "Its Not Just You: The Internet Is Actually Getting Worse" https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-new-yorker-radio-hour/its-not-just-you-the-internet-is-actually-getting-worse [10:59] TR Bot Its Not Just You: The Internet Is Actually Getting Worse | The New Yorker ● Oct 25 [11:14] TR News "Kontrollstaten r ett sjlvspelande piano" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/10/24/kontrollstaten-ar-ett-sjalvspelande-piano/ [11:14] TR Bot Kontrollstaten r ett sjlvspelande piano [11:27] TR News Asahi GNU/Linux Brings Fashion Company Apple Silicon Improvements in the GNU/Linux 6.17 Cycle https://linuxiac.com/asahi-linux-brings-apple-silicon-improvements-in-the-linux-6-17-cycle/ [11:27] TR Bot Asahi Linux Brings Apple Silicon Improvements in the Linux 6.17 Cycle [11:28] TR News Bottles 51.25 Released With st Terminal Support https://linuxiac.com/bottles-51-25-released-with-st-terminal-support/ [11:28] TR News Arch GNU/Linux Users Are the First to Experience KDE Plasma 6.5 https://linuxiac.com/arch-linux-users-are-the-first-to-experience-kde-plasma-6-5/ [11:28] TR Bot Arch Linux Users Are the First to Experience KDE Plasma 6.5 [11:29] TR News Fedora Plans to Block Unsigned RPM Packages by Default https://linuxiac.com/fedora-plans-to-block-unsigned-rpm-packages-by-default/ [11:29] TR Bot Fedora Plans to Block Unsigned RPM Packages by Default [11:30] TR News Mozilla to Require Data-Collection Disclosure in All New Firefox Extensions https://linuxiac.com/mozilla-to-require-data-collection-disclosure-in-all-new-firefox-extensions/ [11:30] TR Bot Mozilla to Require Data-Collection Disclosure in All New Firefox Extensions [11:31] TR News Be Mindful of the Time https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/10/be-mindful-of-the-time/ [11:31] TR Bot Mindful of the Time | R-bloggers [11:31] TR News Part Four of The Kryptos Sculpture https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/10/part-four-of-the-kryptos-sculpture.html [11:31] TR Bot Four of The Kryptos Sculpture - Schneier on Security [11:33] TR News AMD reportedly establishes $280 million silicon photonics hub in Taiwan new R&D center could accelerate company's co-packaged optics roadmap https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/amd-reportedly-establishes-usd280-million-silicon-photonics-hub-in-taiwan-new-r-and-d-center-could-accelerate-companys-co-packaged-optics-roadmap [11:33] TR Bot AMD reportedly establishes $280 million silicon photonics hub in Taiwan new R&D center could accelerate company's co-packaged optics roadmap | Tom's Hardware [11:33] TR News Critical backdoored Windows Server WSUS Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild https://www.securityweek.com/critical-windows-server-wsus-vulnerability-exploited-in-the-wild/ [11:33] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/critical-windows-server-wsus-vulnerability-exploited-in-the-wild/ ) [11:33] TR News OpenAIs New Hey Hi (AI) Browser Is Already Falling Victim to Prompt Injection Attacks https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-browser-victim-prompt-injection-attacks [11:33] TR Bot OpenAI's New AI Browser Is Already Falling Victim to Prompt Injection Attacks [11:34] TR News Training Hey Hi (AI) on Brain Rot Content Causes Lasting Cognitive Damage, New Paper Finds https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-brain-rot [11:34] TR Bot Training AI on "Brain Rot" Content Causes Lasting Cognitive Damage, New Paper Finds [11:34] TR News AI policy without proof is just politics https://siliconangle.com/2025/10/24/ai-policy-without-proof-just-politics/ [11:34] TR Bot policy without proof is just politics - SiliconANGLE ● Oct 25 [12:07] TR News Confirmed: Very Close Friend of Bill Gates and Microsoft's Biggest Patent Troll Nathan Myhrvold Flew the Lolita Express (a Gateway to Pedophilia), According to Bill Gates-Sponsored Seattle Times https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/25/Confirmed_Very_Close_Friend_of_Bill_Gates_and_Microsoft_s_Bigge.shtml [12:07] TR Bot Techrights Confirmed: Very Close Friend of Bill Gates and Microsoft's Biggest Patent Troll Nathan Myhrvold Flew the Lolita Express (a Gateway to Pedophilia), According to Bill Gates-Sponsored Seattle Times [12:07] TR News Ontarios plan to ban bike lanes is ripped from the business lobbys wish list https://breachmedia.ca/ontarios-plan-to-ban-bike-lanes-is-ripped-from-the-business-lobbys-wish-list/ [12:07] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://breachmedia.ca/ontarios-plan-to-ban-bike-lanes-is-ripped-from-the-business-lobbys-wish-list/ ) [12:07] TR News Anthropic signs deal with Surveillance Giant Google Cloud to expand TPU chip capacity Hey Hi (AI) company expects to have over 1GW of processing power in 2026 https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-signs-deal-with-google-cloud-to-expand-tpu-chip-capacity-ai-company-expects-to-have-over-1gw-of-processing-power-in-2026 [12:07] TR Bot Anthropic signs deal with Google Cloud to expand TPU chip capacity AI company expects to have over 1GW of processing power in 2026 | Tom's Hardware [12:08] TR News What does Epstein have to offer to ANYBODY who is ALREADY rich? Other than "young and underage pussies"... [12:08] TR News OpenAIs Copyright Situation Appears to Be Putting It in Huge Danger https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-copyright-cartoon-output [12:08] TR Bot OpenAI's Copyright Situation Appears to Be Putting It in Huge Danger [12:11] TR News We do not know about ALL the copyright claims against SLOP giants, we can only see the lawsuits or PRE-settlements (if ANY; some are silent). We don't know just how much copyright stuff threatens to shut down overnight. They hide this from shareholders. [12:11] TR News Ubuntu Blog: Canonical announces new optimized Ubuntu image for Thundercomm RUBIK Pi 3 https://ubuntu.com//blog/rubik-pi-3-thundercomm-canonical [12:11] TR Bot announces new optimized Ubuntu image for Thundercomm RUBIK Pi 3 | Ubuntu [12:12] TR News The Servo Blog: This month in Servo: experimental mode, Trusted Types, strokeText(), and more! https://servo.org/blog/2025/10/24/this-month-in-servo/ [12:12] TR Bot This month in Servo: experimental mode, Trusted Types, strokeText(), and more! - Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications. [12:12] TR News FreeBSD 15.0-BETA3 is out https://distrowatch.com/freebsd [12:12] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/freebsd ) [12:21] TR News 'Vibe Coding' Doesn't Work https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/24/Vibe_Coding_Doesn_t_Work.shtml [12:21] TR Bot Techrights 'Vibe Coding' Doesn't Work [12:22] TR News Standards should not have any patents on them at all! https://www.juve-patent.com/legal-commentary/keep-the-sep-system-simple/ [12:22] TR Bot Opinion: "Keep the SEP system simple" [12:23] TR News UPC is illegal and this Web site got paid to lobby for this illegal kangaroo court, which represents EPO corruption flowing outwards to the EU https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/paris-central-division-upholds-edwards-patent-in-heart-valve-saga/ [12:23] TR Bot Paris central division upholds Edwards patent in heart-valve saga - JUVE Patent [12:23] TR News Wolverine Retail QR Code Campaign Invalidity Chart Coming Soon https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/10/24/wolverine-retail-qr-code-campaign-invalidity-chart-coming-soon [12:23] TR Bot Wolverine Retail QR Code Campaign Invalidity Chart Coming Soon Unified Patents [12:23] TR News Empty Formalism: How Patent Eligibility Lost Touch with Preemption https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/10/formalism-eligibility-preemption.html [12:23] TR Bot Empty Formalism: How Patent Eligibility Lost Touch with Preemption | Patently-O [12:24] TR News "Hi Anon - I would refer you to https://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2023/02/plausibility-demystified-review-of-epo.html. I interpret the EPO positions as being a) there is more doubt that therapeutic inventions work in general e.g. compared to a mechanical invention, and therefore b) some form of suitable evidence is needed to render a therapeutic invention credible / plausible." [12:24] TR Bot Plausibility demystified - a review of EPO case law before G 2/21 - The IPKat [12:24] TR News from http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/10/patentees-own-post-published-data.html?showComment=1761306656599#c6563923177212733461 [12:24] TR Bot Patentee's own post-published data undermines the credibility of their broad cat antibody patent (T 0709/23) - The IPKat [12:24] TR News Executive Branch Ethics: Why PTAB Judges Can Own Stock That Would Disqualify Article III Judges https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/10/executive-disqualify-article.html [12:24] TR Bot Executive Branch Ethics: Why PTAB Judges Can Own Stock That Would Disqualify Article III Judges | Patently-O [12:25] TR News XSAs released on 2025-10-24 https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2025/10/24/xsas-released-on-2025-10-24/ [12:25] TR Bot XSAs released on 2025-10-24 | Qubes OS [12:26] TR News Allan Day: GNOME Foundation Update, 2025-10-24 https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2025/10/24/gnome-foundation-update-2025-10-24/ [12:26] TR Bot GNOME Foundation Update, 2025-10-24 Form and Function [12:27] TR News (NEW): Free and Open Source Software https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/25/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/25/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi [12:27] TR Bot Tux Machines Free and Open Source Software [12:27] TR News Sovereign Hey Hi (AI) in action https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/indias-sovereign-ai-vision-nxtgen-and-red-hat Red Hat still promoting nonsensical buzzwords to help IBM inflate the shares based on lies [12:27] TR Bot India's sovereign AI vision with NxtGen and Red Hat [12:29] TR News 10 essential articles to guide your hybrid cloud modernization playbook https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/guiding-your-red-hat-modernization-playbook-ai-gitops-and-more [12:29] TR Bot Guiding your Red Hat modernization playbook: AI, GitOps, and More [12:30] TR News How to modify system-reserved parameters on OpenShift nodes https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/10/24/how-modify-system-reserved-parameters-openshift-nodes [12:30] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/10/24/how-modify-system-reserved-parameters-openshift-nodes ) [12:32] TR News (NEW): I tried switching to open-source software for everything but hit a wall I didnt expect https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/25/I_tried_switching_to_open_source_software_for_everything_but_hi.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/25/I_tried_switching_to_open_source_software_for_everything_but_hi.gmi [12:32] TR Bot Tux Machines I tried switching to open-source software for everything but hit a wall I didnt expect [12:33] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techrights [12:34] TR News (NEW): AgarimOS respin of Void Linux https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/25/AgarimOS_respin_of_Void_Linux.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/25/AgarimOS_respin_of_Void_Linux.gmi [12:34] TR Bot Tux Machines AgarimOS respin of Void Linux [12:39] TR News Mozilla Thunderbird: Your Workflow, Supercharged https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/10/your-workflow-supercharged/ [12:39] TR Bot Your Workflow, Supercharged - The Thunderbird Blog [12:42] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techrights [12:43] TR News US dispatch: No Kings Day protest asserts the power of free speech and assembly https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/10/us-dispatch-no-kings-day-protest-asserts-the-power-of-free-speech-and-assembly/ [12:43] TR Bot US dispatch: No Kings Day protest asserts the power of free speech and assembly - JURIST - News [12:46] TR News "The A1200 is essentially a Linux single-board computer running emulation, possibly one of the UAE (Ultimate Amiga Emulators) that have been around for decades." https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/full-size-amiga-a1200-retro-gaming-system-comes-armed-with-modern-hdmi-port-25-classic-games-pre-orders-and-launch-date-announced [12:46] TR Bot Full-size Amiga A1200 retro gaming system comes armed with modern HDMI port, 25 classic games pre-orders and launch date announced | Tom's Hardware [12:46] TR News $35 Orange Pi 4 Pro An Allwinner A733 Edge Hey Hi (AI) SBC with up to 16GB LPDDR5, WiFi 6 https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/10/25/35-orange-pi-4-pro-an-allwinner-a733-edge-ai-sbc-with-up-to-16gb-lpddr5-wifi-6/ [12:46] TR Bot $35 Orange Pi 4 Pro - 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openSUSE News [12:50] TR News I Read the Terms of Service for My Smart TV and Now I Sleep with One Eye Open https://jxself.org/smart-tv-tos.shtml [12:50] TR Bot I Read the Terms of Service for My Smart TV and Now I Sleep with One Eye Open [12:51] TR News Xubuntu 25.10: Best New Features https://www.debugpoint.com/xubuntu-25-10-features/ [12:51] TR Bot Xubuntu 25.10: Best New Features ● Oct 25 [13:02] *GNUmoon2 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [13:02] *GNUmoon2 (~GNUmoon@6byxczt6txq2u.irc) has joined #techrights [13:09] TR News Dihydroxyacetone Man Administration Providing Weapons Grade Plutonium to Scam Altman https://futurism.com/science-energy/trump-altman-plutonium-oklo [13:09] TR Bot Trump Administration Providing Weapons Grade Plutonium to Sam Altman [13:10] TR News More than 1,500 people face prosecution in Morocco after GenZ 212 protests https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20251024-more-than-1-500-people-face-prosecution-in-morocco-after-genz-212-protests [13:10] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20251024-more-than-1-500-people-face-prosecution-in-morocco-after-genz-212-protests ) [13:12] TR News North Korea using crypto, IT workers to dodge UN sanctions: Report https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-korea-using-crypto-it-workers-to-dodge-un-sanctions-report [13:12] TR Bot North Korea using crypto, IT workers to dodge UN sanctions: Report | The Straits Times [13:15] TR News 12-year-old among 31 nabbed in anti-child porn operation in Malaysia, says police https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/12-year-old-among-31-nabbed-in-anti-child-porn-operation-in-malaysia-says-police [13:15] TR Bot 12-year-old among 31 nabbed in anti-child porn operation in Malaysia, says police | The Straits Times [13:26] *Miloud has quit (Connection closed) [13:30] *_Capucine (osmmufqlk@masked-gfls6j.abo.wanadoo.fr) has joined #techrights [13:35] MinceR 25 115410 < schestowitz[TR2]> would it make sense to change its title [13:35] MinceR i don't know. what proportion of them are about orbanistan? [13:36] MinceR it's hard to draw the line about what patsies of muscovy to include -- there's serbia, slovakia, there's the chinese empire and its colonies... 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[15:19] TR News AWS outage post-mortem fingers DNS as the culprit that took out a chunk of the internet and services for days automation systems race and crash https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/massive-amazon-web-service-outage-that-took-out-a-chunk-of-the-internet-and-services-for-days-was-due-to-dns-automation-systems-race-and-crash [15:19] TR Bot AWS outage post-mortem fingers DNS as the culprit that took out a chunk of the internet and services for days automation systems race and crash | Tom's Hardware [15:19] TR News "Following up on the recent test of a set of purported ADS1115 ADCs sourced from Amazon [James Bowman] didnt just test a genuine Ti part, but also dug into some of the questions that came up after the first article." https://hackaday.com/2025/10/24/the-great-ads1115-pricing-and-sourcing-mystery/ | Source: Hackaday [15:19] TR Bot Great ADS1115 Pricing And Sourcing Mystery | Hackaday [15:20] TR News US, Japanese firms unwittingly hired North Korean animators: Report https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/us-japanese-firms-unwittingly-hired-north-korean-animators-report [15:20] TR Bot US, Japanese firms unwittingly hired North Korean animators: Report | The Straits Times [15:20] TR News Planeta Tecno 7 is out https://distrowatch.com/planetatecno [15:20] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/planetatecno ) [15:26] lxo https://ninazeng.substack.com/p/libre-hardware-founders-project-sabotaged [15:26] TR Bot Libre Hardware Founder's Project Sabotaged - by Nina Zhang [15:26] lxo schestowitz[TR2], did you decide not to report on this ^ any more out of safety concerns or something? [15:29] schestowitz[TR2] no\did not see it [15:30] schestowitz[TR2] i did get ad hom emails [15:30] schestowitz[TR2] borderline threats [15:30] schestowitz[TR2] for reporting on that\ [15:34] TR News (NEW): Libre Hardware Founder's Project Sabotaged https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/25/Libre_Hardware_Founder_s_Project_Sabotaged.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/25/Libre_Hardware_Founder_s_Project_Sabotaged.gmi [15:34] TR Bot not resolve host: tuxmachines.org ( status 0 @ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/25/Libre_Hardware_Founder_s_Project_Sabotaged.shtml ) [15:35] lxo schestowitz[TR2], ouch [15:37] lxo see how the lead saboteur posted the only comment there attempting to rewrite the story? [15:44] schestowitz[TR2] i never replies [15:44] schestowitz[TR2] you can pass that around [15:44] schestowitz[TR2] esp. if he is defaming luke [15:44] schestowitz[TR2] *replied [15:44] TR News Security updates for Friday https://lwn.net/Articles/1043235/ [15:44] TR Bot updates for Friday [LWN.net] [15:44] schestowitz[TR2] luke was my colleague [15:45] schestowitz[TR2] he was a smart person [15:45] schestowitz[TR2] we chatted a lot in jabber [15:45] schestowitz[TR2] he was already working with chinese folks on boards [15:45] schestowitz[TR2] way back in 2011 [15:46] TR News Digital Restrictions (DRM) https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/10/24/spotify-uk-price-increase/ [15:46] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/10/24/spotify-uk-price-increase/ ) [15:46] TR News YouTube Music Continues to Struggle Against Spotify, Fashion Company Apple Music, and Amazon Music With Spotify Attracting Five Times as Many Paying Subscribers In the US https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/10/23/youtube-music-struggle-against-spotify-apple-music-amazon-music/ [15:46] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/10/23/youtube-music-struggle-against-spotify-apple-music-amazon-music/ ) [15:47] TR News Flock Can Share Driver-Surveillance Data Even When Police Departments Opt Out, And Other Flock Developments https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/flock-massachusetts-and-updates [15:47] TR Bot Flock Can Share Driver-Surveillance Data Even When Police Departments Opt Out, And Other Flock Developments | American Civil Liberties Union [15:47] lxo *nod* [15:47] schestowitz[TR2] ity saddens me [15:47] schestowitz[TR2] see the other email i passed along [15:47] schestowitz[TR2] drugging people [15:47] schestowitz[TR2] robbing them [15:47] schestowitz[TR2] after they are drugged [15:48] schestowitz[TR2] them calling them names [15:48] schestowitz[TR2] after drugging them [15:48] schestowitz[TR2] and robbing them [15:48] schestowitz[TR2] there are some examplesss in the pop culture/celeb 'scene' [15:48] schestowitz[TR2] probably lots of this in brazil [15:48] schestowitz[TR2] i know some in the uk [15:48] schestowitz[TR2] we had one victim of this in irc [15:48] schestowitz[TR2] who leaved near us [15:49] *psydroid3 (~psydroid@36imbvshpgubk.irc) has joined #techrights [15:49] schestowitz[TR2] she spoke about this in techrights irc around 2022 [15:49] TR News How To Enable SSH Login Alerts on AlmaLinux 10 https://idroot.us/enable-ssh-login-alerts-almalinux-10/ [15:49] TR Bot How To Enable SSH Login Alerts on AlmaLinux 10 - idroot [15:50] TR News How To Install Elgg on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS https://idroot.us/install-elgg-ubuntu-24-04/ [15:50] TR Bot How To Install Elgg on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS - idroot [15:50] TR News How To Install SimpleNote on Fedora 42 https://idroot.us/install-simplenote-fedora-42/ [15:50] TR Bot How To Install SimpleNote on Fedora 42 - idroot [15:51] TR News How To Install Stremio on Debian 13 https://idroot.us/install-stremio-debian-13/ [15:51] TR Bot How To Install Stremio on Debian 13 - idroot [15:54] lxo luke suggests that the journalist behind that report I linked to was disappeared afterwards, so you take care of yourself ● Oct 25 [16:00] schestowitz[TR2] as in, not online? 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[16:00] schestowitz[TR2] or found at all [16:03] TR News How To Install Squid Proxy on Rocky GNU/Linux 10 https://idroot.us/install-squid-proxy-rocky-linux-10/ [16:03] TR Bot How To Install Squid Proxy on Rocky Linux 10 - idroot [16:03] TR News How To Install Elgg on Fedora 42 https://idroot.us/install-elgg-fedora-42/ [16:03] TR Bot How To Install Elgg on Fedora 42 - idroot [16:03] TR News How To Install ReactJS on Fedora 42 https://idroot.us/install-reactjs-fedora-42/ [16:03] TR Bot How To Install ReactJS on Fedora 42 - idroot [16:04] TR News How To Install Canon Printer Driver on Debian https://idroot.us/install-canon-printer-driver-debian/ [16:04] TR Bot How To Install Canon Printer Driver on Debian - idroot [16:04] TR News How To Install Sober Roblox on Fedora 42 https://idroot.us/install-sober-roblox-fedora-42/ [16:04] TR Bot How To Install Sober Roblox on Fedora 42 - idroot [16:06] TR News Make your ODF files accessible: a simple guide for everyone https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/10/24/make-your-odf-files-accessible/ [16:06] TR Bot Make your ODF files accessible: a simple guide for everyone - The Document Foundation Blog [16:07] TR News Flathub Blog: Enhanced License Compliance Tools for Flathub https://docs.flathub.org/blog/enhanced-license-compliance-tools [16:07] TR Bot Enhanced License Compliance Tools for Flathub | Flathub Documentation [16:17] TR News Cox v. Sony Music Filing Flurry Continues Ahead of Supreme Court Decision SoundExchange, A2IM, Former Lawmakers, Copyright Officials, and Others Weigh In https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/10/23/cox-v-sony-music-amicus-briefs-2/ [16:17] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/10/23/cox-v-sony-music-amicus-briefs-2/ ) [16:32] TR News Cyber Exec Sold Secrets to Russia https://www.securityweek.com/in-other-news-ios-26-deletes-spyware-evidence-shadow-escape-attack-cyber-exec-sold-secrets-to-russia/ [16:32] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/in-other-news-ios-26-deletes-spyware-evidence-shadow-escape-attack-cyber-exec-sold-secrets-to-russia/ ) [16:34] TR News EU announces new sanctions on Russia oil, gas, cryptocurrency https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/10/eu-announces-new-sanctions-on-russia-oil-gas-and-cryptocurrency/ [16:35] TR Bot EU announces new sanctions on Russia oil, gas, cryptocurrency - JURIST - News ● Oct 25 [17:18] *admfubar has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [17:20] *admfubar (~admfubar@ae6yc8gqwe7jq.irc) has joined #techrights [17:21] TR News Firefly EC-AGXOrin Jetson AGX Orin 64GB Hey Hi (AI) inference system supports up to 8 GMSL2 cameras https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/10/24/firefly-ec-agxorin-jetson-agx-orin-64gb-ai-inference-system-supports-up-to-8-gmsl2-cameras/ [17:21] TR Bot Firefly EC-AGXOrin - Jetson AGX Orin 64GB AI inference system supports up to 8 GMSL2 cameras - CNX Software [17:21] TR News Episode 39 Production Report (wip) https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1078/episode-39-production-report [17:21] TR Bot Episode 39 Production Report (wip) - David Revoy [17:24] TR News Orchestrating Polyglot, Reproducible Data Science with Nix and {rixpress} https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/10/orchestrating-polyglot-reproducible-data-science-with-nix-and-rixpress/ [17:24] TR Bot Polyglot, Reproducible Data Science with Nix and {rixpress} | R-bloggers [17:24] TR News EuroBioC2025 conference recap https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/10/eurobioc2025-conference-recap/ [17:24] TR Bot conference recap | R-bloggers [17:25] TR News "This week, Hackadays Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos met up across the universe to bring you the latest news, mystery sound, and of course, a big bunch of hacks from the previous seven days or so." https://hackaday.com/2025/10/24/hackaday-podcast-episode-343-double-component-abuse-a-tinkercad-twofer-and-a-pair-of-rants/ | Source: Hackaday [17:25] TR Bot Podcast Episode 343: Double Component Abuse, A Tinkercad Twofer, And A Pair Of Rants | Hackaday [17:26] TR News Its Not Just You: The Internet Is Actually Getting Worse https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-new-yorker-radio-hour/its-not-just-you-the-internet-is-actually-getting-worse [17:26] TR Bot Its Not Just You: The Internet Is Actually Getting Worse | The New Yorker [17:27] TR News Relevant Upstream Package Version Information https://openbuildservice.org/2025/10/23/foster-collaboration// [17:28] TR Bot Relevant Upstream Package Version Information - Open Build Service [17:28] TR News Austria Says Auf Wiedersehen to Proprietary and Willkommen to Open Source https://fossforce.com/2025/10/austria-says-auf-wiedersehen-to-proprietary-and-willkommen-to-open-source/ [17:28] TR Bot Austria Says 'Auf Wiedersehen' to Proprietary and 'Willkommen' to Open Source - FOSS Force [17:29] TR News After Teen Suicide, Character.AI Lawsuit Raises Questions Over Free Speech Protections https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/magazine/character-ai-chatbot-lawsuit-teen-suicide-free-speech.html [17:29] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/magazine/character-ai-chatbot-lawsuit-teen-suicide-free-speech.html ) [17:29] TR News Mississippi substitute teacher fired on first day for recording, calling female student shorty in viral Fentanylware (CheeTok) video https://nypost.com/2025/10/25/us-news/mississippi-substitute-teacher-miata-borders-fired-for-calling-high-schooler-shorty-in-viral-tiktok/ [17:29] TR Bot Mississippi substitute teacher Miata Borders fired for calling high schooler 'shorty' in viral TikTok [17:30] TR News As TikTok USA Remains in Limbo, Layoffs Reported at Fentanylware (CheeTok) Music in the US and Latin Americawith More Expected to Hit the UK https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/10/24/tiktok-music-layoffs-2025/ [17:30] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/10/24/tiktok-music-layoffs-2025/ ) [17:31] TR News LHB GNU/Linux Digest #25.32: New GNU/Linux Networking Course, iotop, Chargebee Alternative and More https://linuxhandbook.com/newsletter/25-32/ [17:31] TR Bot LHB Linux Digest #25.32: New Linux Networking Course, iotop, Chargebee Alternative and More [17:32] TR News Monitoring I/O Usage and Network Traffic in GNU/Linux With iotop & ntopng https://linuxhandbook.com/iotop-ntopng/ [17:32] TR Bot How to Monitor I/O Usage and Network Traffic in Linux [17:32] TR News Linux Networking at Scale (In Progress) https://linuxhandbook.com/courses/networking-scale/ [17:32] TR Bot Linux Networking at Scale (In Progress) [17:33] TR News Jon Chiappetta: GNU/Linux Routing Load Balancing https://fossjon.wordpress.com/2025/10/24/linux-routing-load-balancing/ [17:33] TR Bot Linux Routing Load Balancing | Jon's FOSS Blog [17:33] TR News Remi Collet: PHP version 8.3.27 and 8.4.14 https://blog.remirepo.net/post/2025/10/24/PHP-version-8.3.27-and-8.4.14 [17:33] TR Bot PHP version 8.3.27 and 8.4.14 - Remi's RPM repository - Blog [17:35] TR News Notesnook private workspace https://www.linuxlinks.com/notesnook-private-workspace/ [17:35] TR Bot - private workspace - LinuxLinks [17:36] TR News HydraPWK security-focused GNU/Linux distribution https://www.linuxlinks.com/hydrapwk-security-linux-distribution/ [17:36] TR Bot - security-focused Linux distribution - LinuxLinks [17:36] TR News Animu watch anime https://www.linuxlinks.com/animu-watch-anime/ [17:36] TR Bot - watch anime - LinuxLinks [17:36] TR News Linux Kamarada Manjaro based distribution https://www.linuxlinks.com/linux-kamarada-manjaro-based-distribution/ [17:36] TR Bot Kamarada - Manjaro based distribution - LinuxLinks [17:36] TR News Stalwart all-in-one mail and collaboration server https://www.linuxlinks.com/stalwart-mail-collaboration-server/ [17:36] TR Bot - all-in-one mail and collaboration server - LinuxLinks [17:37] TR News This Week in GNOME: #222 Trip Notifications https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/10/twig-222/ [17:37] TR Bot #222 Trip Notifications [17:37] TR News Is this a journal, or a blog, or what? https://rubenerd.com/is-this-a-journal-or-a-blog/ [17:37] TR Bot Is this a journal, or a blog, or what? [17:38] TR News health @ Savannah: GNU Health Hospital Information System 5.0 now available for Raspberry Pi OS https://savannah.gnu.org/news/?id=10821 [17:38] TR Bot GNU Health - News [Savannah] [17:38] TR News Who Will be Held Accountable for Breaking Ubuntu by Imposing Rust on Otherwise-Functional Programs, in Effect Replacing GNU With Proprietary Abusive Monopolist Microsoft (GitHub)? https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/24/Who_Will_be_Held_Accountable_for_Breaking_Ubuntu_by_Imposing_Ru.shtml [17:38] TR Bot Techrights Who Will be Held Accountable for Breaking Ubuntu by Imposing Rust on Otherwise-Functional Programs, in Effect Replacing GNU With Proprietary Microsoft (GitHub)? [17:39] *phebus (~phebus@y62br8unm5ssk.irc) has joined #techrights [17:41] TR News CentOS Connect 2026 https://blog.centos.org/2025/10/centos-connect-2026/ [17:41] TR Bot Connect 2026 Blog.CentOS.org [17:42] TR News KSplash BGRT https://blog.broulik.de/2025/10/ksplash-bgrt/ [17:42] TR Bot KSplash BGRT Kai Uwe's Blog [17:42] TR News Vinari 5.0.0 is out https://distrowatch.com/vinari [17:42] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/vinari ) [17:42] TR News Security Onion 2.4.190 also out https://distrowatch.com/securityonion [17:42] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/securityonion ) [17:44] TR News Fedora 43 is coming next week following Go/No-Go meeting https://www.neowin.net/news/fedora-43-is-coming-next-week-following-gono-go-meeting/ [17:44] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.neowin.net/news/fedora-43-is-coming-next-week-following-gono-go-meeting/ ) [17:47] TR News 10 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux GUI File Encryption Tools https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-linux-file-encryption-tools/ [17:47] TR Bot Best Free and Open Source Linux GUI File Encryption Tools - LinuxLinks [17:47] TR News RustNet cross-platform network monitoring tool https://www.linuxlinks.com/rustnet-cross-platform-network-monitoring-tool/ [17:47] TR Bot - cross-platform network monitoring tool - LinuxLinks [17:47] TR News 13 Useful Free and Open Source DNS Tools https://www.linuxlinks.com/useful-free-open-source-dns-tools/ [17:47] TR Bot Useful Free and Open Source DNS Tools - LinuxLinks [17:51] TR News Techrights Bad faith: can't change Debian Social Contract (DSC) without unanimous consent of every joint author https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/25/Bad_faith_can_t_change_Debian_Social_Contract_DSC_without_unani.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/25/Bad_faith_can_t_change_Debian_Social_Contract_DSC_without_unani.gmi [17:51] TR Bot Techrights Bad faith: can't change Debian Social Contract (DSC) without unanimous consent of every joint author [17:52] TR News AgarimOS respin of Void GNU/Linux https://www.linuxlinks.com/agarimos-respin-void-linux/ [17:52] TR Bot - respin of Void Linux - LinuxLinks [17:52] TR News ggc modern Git CLI tool https://www.linuxlinks.com/ggc-modern-git-cli-tool/ [17:52] TR Bot - modern Git CLI tool - LinuxLinks [17:52] TR News 19 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux Compression Tools https://www.linuxlinks.com/compressiontools/ [17:52] TR Bot Best Free and Open Source Linux Compression Tools - LinuxLinks [17:53] TR News sudo-sh reverted to simpler design https://bkhome.org/news/202510/sudo-sh-reverted-to-simpler-design.html [17:53] TR Bot sudo-sh reverted to simpler design [17:54] TR News Mozilla Localization (L10N): Localizer spotlight: Bogo https://blog.mozilla.org/l10n/2025/10/24/localizer-spotlight-bogo/ [17:54] TR Bot Localizer spotlight: Bogo Mozilla L10N [17:54] TR News Digital Restrictions (DRM) on wheels https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/10/24/general-motors-removing-apple-carplay-and-android-auto/ [17:54] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/10/24/general-motors-removing-apple-carplay-and-android-auto/ ) [17:55] TR News Broadway Musicians Announce Tentative Agreement, Averting a Strike And Potentially Hundreds of Show Cancellations https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/10/23/broadway-musicians-announce-tentative-agreement/ [17:55] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/10/23/broadway-musicians-announce-tentative-agreement/ ) [17:57] TR News Cherish the Last World Series Where Humans Rule Supreme https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/opinion/world-series-robo-umpires.html [17:57] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/opinion/world-series-robo-umpires.html ) [17:57] TR News National cyber director says U.S. needs to counter Chinese surveillance, push American tech https://cyberscoop.com/national-cyber-director-says-u-s-needs-to-counter-chinese-surveillance-push-american-tech/ [17:57] TR Bot cyber director says U.S. needs to counter Chinese surveillance, push American tech | CyberScoop [17:59] -Awoobis/Wallops-Some users have raised concerns regarding the UK Online Safety Act and how it affects Libera; after retaining legal advice, we now have an answer. TL;DR: we believe we should be unaffected. See https://libera.chat/news/advised for more info surrounding that belief [17:59] TR News False claim spreads of Japan mass deportations ministry https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/false-claim-spreads-of-japan-mass-deportations-ministry [17:59] TR Bot False claim spreads of Japan mass deportations ministry | The Straits Times [17:59] TR News Haruna 1.6 https://haruna.kde.org/blog/2025-10-24-haruna-1.6/ [17:59] TR Bot Haruna 1.6 - Haruna ● Oct 25 [18:00] TR News Lawyers call for deeper investigation into killing of journalist Hakan Tosun https://bianet.org/haber/lawyers-call-for-deeper-investigation-into-killing-of-journalist-hakan-tosun-312877 [18:00] TR Bot Lawyers call for deeper investigation into killing of journalist Hakan Tosun [18:00] TR News Hackers Target Perplexity Comet Browser Users https://www.securityweek.com/hackers-target-perplexity-comet-browser-users/ [18:00] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/hackers-target-perplexity-comet-browser-users/ ) [18:00] TR News North Korean Hackers Aim at European Drone Companies https://www.securityweek.com/north-korean-hackers-aim-at-european-drone-companies/ [18:00] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/north-korean-hackers-aim-at-european-drone-companies/ ) [18:01] TR News Toys R Us Canada Customer Information Leaked Online https://www.securityweek.com/toys-r-us-canada-customer-information-leaked-online/ [18:01] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/toys-r-us-canada-customer-information-leaked-online/ ) [18:02] TR News "For any mission-critical computer system, its a good idea to think about how the system will handle power outages." https://hackaday.com/2025/10/24/tiny-ups-keeps-wifi-online/ | Source: Hackaday [18:02] TR Bot UPS Keeps WiFi Online | Hackaday [18:02] TR News "Ideally, an aircraft would be made of something reasonably strong, light, and weather resistant." https://hackaday.com/2025/10/24/making-a-cardboard-airplane-wing/ | Source: Hackaday [18:02] TR Bot A Cardboard Airplane Wing | Hackaday [18:03] TR News Avoid Missed Connections With The Connectorbooks Web Tool https://hackaday.com/2025/10/24/avoid-missed-connections-with-the-connectorbooks-web-tool/ | Source: Hackaday [18:03] TR Bot Missed Connections With The Connectorbooks Web Tool | Hackaday [18:03] TR News Typst 0.14 released https://lwn.net/Articles/1043242/ [18:03] TR Bot 0.14 released [LWN.net] [18:04] TR News Government shutdown likely means no inflation data next month for 1st time in decades https://federalnewsnetwork.com/government-shutdown/2025/10/government-shutdown-likely-means-no-inflation-data-next-month-for-1st-time-in-decades/ [18:04] TR Bot Government shutdown likely means no inflation data next month for 1st time in decades [18:05] TR News Scientists Just Found a Super-Earth Exoplanet Only 18 Light-Years Away https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-just-found-a-super-earth-exoplanet-only-18-light-years-away [18:05] TR Bot Just Found a Super-Earth Exoplanet Only 18 Light-Years Away : ScienceAlert [18:05] TR News Listen to The Creepy 'Sounds' From A Black Hole, Captured by NASA https://www.sciencealert.com/listen-to-the-creepy-sounds-from-a-black-hole-captured-by-nasa [18:05] TR Bot to The Creepy 'Sounds' From A Black Hole, Captured by NASA : ScienceAlert [18:06] TR News Your 'Gluten Sensitivity' May Be a Completely Different Problem, Study Says https://www.sciencealert.com/your-gluten-sensitivity-may-be-a-completely-different-problem-study-says [18:06] TR Bot 'Gluten Sensitivity' May Be a Completely Different Problem, Study Says : ScienceAlert [18:07] TR News Are press trip freebies taxable income for freelances and influencers? https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/are-press-trip-freebies-taxable-income-for-freelances-and-influencers/ [18:07] TR Bot Are press trip freebies taxable income for freelances and influencers? - Press Gazette [18:08] TR News "Making WiFi Sound Like Dial-Up Internet" https://hackaday.com/2025/10/24/making-wifi-sound-like-dial-up-internet/ | Source: Hackaday [18:08] TR Bot WiFi Sound Like Dial-Up Internet | Hackaday [18:10] TR News Many people quit Intel on their own, so Intel won't count them https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/intel-has-cut-35-500-jobs-in-less-than-two-years-more-than-20-000-let-go-in-in-recent-months-as-lip-bu-tan-continues-drastic-recovery-journey [18:10] TR Bot Intel has cut 35,500 jobs in less than two years more than 20,000 let go in in recent months as Lip-Bu Tan continues drastic recovery journey | Tom's Hardware [18:11] TR News An excuse to change the subject amid existential crisis and mountains of debt, declining usage etc. https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-atlas-web-browser-messy [18:11] TR Bot OpenAI's New AI Web Browser Is a Bit of a Mess [18:12] TR News What Tech Insiders Actually Think of Hey Hi (AI) Is Extremely Revealing https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/tech-industry-insiders-view-ai-overhyped [18:12] TR Bot What Tech Insiders Actually Think of AI Is Extremely Revealing [18:12] TR News Perplexity Just Got Caught Breaking the Rules Red-Handed https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/perplexity-caught-breaking-rules [18:12] TR Bot Perplexity Just Got Caught Breaking the Rules Red-Handed [18:13] TR News Nexperia China snubs Dutch HQ amid spat that threatens automotive production says order to dismiss executive violates labor laws https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/nexperia-china-snubs-dutch-hq-amid-spat-that-threatens-automotive-production-says-order-to-dismiss-executive-violates-labor-laws [18:13] TR Bot Nexperia China snubs Dutch HQ amid spat that threatens automotive production says order to dismiss executive violates labor laws | Tom's Hardware [18:13] 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/ [18:13] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/10/23/universal-music-triumphs-in-dutch-streaming-royalty-lawsuit/ ) [18:14] TR News Spotify Fires Back Against the MLCs Amended Bundling Lawsuit, Says the New Arguments Are Unsupportable by the Facts https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/10/24/mlc-spotify-lawsuit-amended-answer/ [18:14] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/10/24/mlc-spotify-lawsuit-amended-answer/ ) [18:15] TR News Hong Kong slams UK over despicable political manoeuvres in report calling for release of jailed tycoon Jimmy Lai https://hongkongfp.com/2025/10/24/hong-kong-slams-uk-over-despicable-political-manoeuvres-in-report-calling-for-release-of-jailed-tycoon-jimmy-lai/ [18:15] TR Bot HK slams UK over 'despicable political manoeuvres' in report calling for release of Lai [18:19] TR News Pwn2Own WhatsApp Hacker Says Exploit Privately Disclosed to Meta https://www.securityweek.com/pwn2own-whatsapp-hacker-says-exploit-privately-reported-to-meta/ [18:19] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/pwn2own-whatsapp-hacker-says-exploit-privately-reported-to-meta/ ) [18:23] lxo schestowitz[TR2], see http://lists.libre-soc.org/pipermail/libre-soc-dev/2025-October/007006.html about the missing journalist [18:23] TR Bot [Libre-soc-dev] Fwd: My wife Nina Zhang appears to be missing [18:23] TR News (NEW): Today's HowTos https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/25/today_s_howtos.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/25/today_s_howtos.gmi [18:23] TR Bot Tux Machines today's howtos [18:25] TR News (NEW): GNOME Foundation Update and This Week in GNOME https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/25/GNOME_Foundation_Update_and_This_Week_in_GNOME.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/25/GNOME_Foundation_Update_and_This_Week_in_GNOME.gmi [18:25] TR Bot Tux Machines GNOME Foundation Update and This Week in GNOME [18:25] TR News (NEW): KDE: Plasma 6.5 in Arch Linux, Kai Uwe on KSplash BGRT, and Release of Haruna 1.6 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/25/KDE_Plasma_6_5_in_Arch_Linux_Kai_Uwe_on_KSplash_BGRT_and_Releas.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/25/KDE_Plasma_6_5_in_Arch_Linux_Kai_Uwe_on_KSplash_BGRT_and_Releas.gmi [18:25] TR Bot Tux Machines KDE: Plasma 6.5 in Arch Linux, Kai Uwe on KSplash BGRT, and Release of Haruna 1.6 [18:26] TR News (NEW): Fedora, Red Hat, and CentOS Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/25/Fedora_Red_Hat_and_CentOS_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/25/Fedora_Red_Hat_and_CentOS_Leftovers.gmi [18:26] TR Bot Tux Machines Fedora, Red Hat, and CentOS Leftovers [18:26] TR News (NEW): Software: Notesnook, sudo-sh, Typst 0.14 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/25/Software_Notesnook_sudo_sh_Typst_0_14.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/25/Software_Notesnook_sudo_sh_Typst_0_14.gmi [18:26] TR Bot Tux Machines Software: Notesnook, sudo-sh, Typst 0.14 [18:30] TR News (NEW): Open Hardware/Modding: ESP32, Amiga A1200, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/25/Open_Hardware_Modding_ESP32_Amiga_A1200_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/25/Open_Hardware_Modding_ESP32_Amiga_A1200_and_More.gmi [18:30] TR Bot Tux Machines Open Hardware/Modding: ESP32, Amiga A1200, and More [18:31] TR News (NEW): GNU/Linux Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/25/GNU_Linux_Leftovers.1.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/25/GNU_Linux_Leftovers.1.gmi [18:31] TR News (NEW): Web Browsers Focus, Especially Mozilla and Firefox https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/25/Web_Browsers_Focus_Especially_Mozilla_and_Firefox.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/25/Web_Browsers_Focus_Especially_Mozilla_and_Firefox.gmi [18:31] TR Bot Tux Machines GNU/Linux Leftovers [18:31] TR Bot Tux Machines Web Browsers Focus, Especially Mozilla and Firefox [18:33] TR News (NEW): Content Management Systems (CMS) / Static Site Generators (SSG): Kiwi TCMS 15.1, Migration to WriteFreely, and html-is-a-tree https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/25/Content_Management_Systems_CMS_Static_Site_Generators_SSG_Kiwi_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/25/Content_Management_Systems_CMS_Static_Site_Generators_SSG_Kiwi_.gmi [18:33] TR Bot Tux Machines Content Management Systems (CMS) / Static Site Generators (SSG): Kiwi TCMS 15.1, Migration to WriteFreely, and html-is-a-tree [18:35] TR News (NEW): Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/25/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/25/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.gmi [18:35] TR News (NEW): Programming Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/25/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/25/Programming_Leftovers.gmi [18:35] TR Bot Tux Machines Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers [18:35] TR Bot Tux Machines Programming Leftovers [18:36] TR News (NEW): Security Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/25/Security_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/25/Security_Leftovers.gmi [18:37] TR Bot Tux Machines Security Leftovers [18:39] TR News Techrights Links 25/10/2025: Two New Smokescreens for Scam Altman and TikTok USA Remains in Limbo https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/25/Links_25_10_2025_Two_New_Smokescreens_for_Scam_Altman_and_TikTo.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/25/Links_25_10_2025_Two_New_Smokescreens_for_Scam_Altman_and_TikTo.gmi [18:39] TR Bot Techrights Links 25/10/2025: Two New Smokescreens for Scam Altman and TikTok USA Remains in Limbo [18:42] TR News xkcd Continents #3159 gemini://8by3.net/~xkcd/3159.gmi [18:44] TR News "Maybe the brains of Tech right admins and some Gemini supervisory programmers are already bitrot. (rotten)." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2722 [18:46] TR News "This also follows a recent change to the Mesa graphics drivers contributor guidelines, with a note about AI as well. Discussions on whether Mesa will actually allow AI contributions seem to still be ongoing though." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/fedora-linux-project-agrees-to-allow-ai-assisted-contributions-with-a-new-policy/ [18:46] TR Bot Linux project agrees to allow AI-assisted contributions with a new policy | GamingOnLinux ● Oct 25 [19:14] TR News Techrights Slopwatch: LinuxSecurity, UbuntuPIT, and Various Slopfarms Propped up by Google News https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/25/Slopwatch_LinuxSecurity_UbuntuPIT_and_Various_Slopfarms_Propped.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/25/Slopwatch_LinuxSecurity_UbuntuPIT_and_Various_Slopfarms_Propped.gmi [19:14] TR Bot Techrights Slopwatch: LinuxSecurity, UbuntuPIT, and Various Slopfarms Propped up by Google News [19:17] TR News RMS in Chile 11 years ago, very well attended https://uchile.cl/noticias/104608/fundador-del-movimiento-por-el-software-libre-da-charla-en-beauchef [19:17] TR Bot Fundador del movimiento por el software libre realiza charla en Beauchef [19:18] TR News "is sir timbl's "javascript trap" (richard stallman's term) a genuine alternative?" https://www.instagram.com/p/DQNKRUjjB4w/ [19:18] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Instagram [19:19] TR News "additional fraud and false reports by CALDERWOOD." http://lists.libre-soc.org/pipermail/libre-soc-dev/2025-October/007013.html [19:19] TR Bot [Libre-soc-dev] additional fraud and false reports by CALDERWOOD. [19:20] schestowitz[TR2] " [19:20] schestowitz[TR2] I am deeply shocked and alarmed in particular to learn from CALDERWOOD's [19:20] schestowitz[TR2] false and fraudulent report that the female employee (Shriya Sharma) claims [19:20] schestowitz[TR2] I physically assaulted her, when I SPECIFICALLY and very clearly reported [19:20] schestowitz[TR2] to both Hampshire and Oxford police forces that she was a witness to a [19:20] schestowitz[TR2] violent assault by CALDERWOOD and LEWIS on the 15th Jan 24." [19:20] schestowitz[TR2] http://lists.libre-soc.org/pipermail/libre-soc-dev/2025-October/007014.html [19:21] TR Bot [Libre-soc-dev] Fwd: [19:21] schestowitz[TR2] odd. [19:21] schestowitz[TR2] i sawq projections like these before [19:21] schestowitz[TR2] one notable example is, [19:21] schestowitz[TR2] daniel pocock reports sexual misconduct in diversity programs [19:21] schestowitz[TR2] and then they accuse him of that [19:21] schestowitz[TR2] after he himself raises the issue [19:22] schestowitz[TR2] other examples include: [19:22] schestowitz[TR2] https://drewdevault.com/ [19:22] schestowitz[TR2] accuse others of what they themselves are [19:22] TR Bot Drew DeVault's blog [19:22] schestowitz[TR2] tried to call RMS pedo [19:23] schestowitz[TR2] turns out that he, drew, was collecting and spreading CP [19:23] schestowitz[TR2] animated CP [19:23] schestowitz[TR2] mjg accuses rms of being bad to women [19:23] schestowitz[TR2] and guess who's attacking women [19:23] schestowitz[TR2] mjg [19:23] schestowitz[TR2] maybe they prepare for excuses [19:23] schestowitz[TR2] for when they finally get caught [19:24] schestowitz[TR2] "oh, no, i am VERY much against what I was doing ALL ALONG" [19:24] schestowitz[TR2] Peter Bright was the same [19:26] TR News Microsoft makes excuses for the XBox failing and being removed from stores https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/xboxs-biggest-competition-isnt-another-console-but-tiktok-and-movies-claims-exec/ [19:26] TR Bot Xboxs biggest competition isnt another console but TikTok and movies, claims exec | VGC [19:27] TR News Fans revolt against Microsoft after price hikes, rumors about the future of Xbox consoles https://www.themirror.com/tech/gaming/fans-revolt-against-microsoft-after-1464922 [19:27] TR Bot Fans revolt against Microsoft after price hikes, rumors about the future of Xbox consoles - The Mirror US [19:27] TR News "GM Lays Off Hundreds After Profit Forecast Surge" [19:46] TR News Techrights Microsoft is Finally Giving Up on XBox, The Chief Says the Grapes Are Sour Anyway https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/25/Microsoft_is_Finally_Giving_Up_on_XBox_The_Chief_Says_the_Grape.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/25/Microsoft_is_Finally_Giving_Up_on_XBox_The_Chief_Says_the_Grape.gmi [19:46] TR Bot Techrights Microsoft is Finally Giving Up on XBox, The Chief Says the Grapes Are Sour Anyway [19:47] TR News LLM Hallucinations in Practical Code Generation: Phenomena, Mechanism, and Mitigation https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3728894 [19:47] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3728894 ) [19:48] TR News "US citizens: call on your representative and senators to stop the magats' effort to weaponize the IRS to persecute their political opponents by spurious investigations and accusations." https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jul-oct.html#24_October_2025_(Urgent:_The_IRS_weaponization_plan) [19:49] TR Bot 2025: July - October Political Notes [19:49] -Shelob/Wallops-Boo! #libera-spooky is now temporarily open for light-hearted social chatter through the end of the month. Please bring your own costume. That is all! ● Oct 25 [20:11] TR News Techrights: "Microsoft loses hundreds of dollars on each XBox that it sells." iophk: It loses even more on the ones it doesn't sell. ;) [20:12] MinceR https://xcancel.com/mattshumer_/status/1981406315693187430?t=8Au6g7Pn13WYXwfTdJvoHA&s=19 [20:12] TR Bot ( status 503 @ https://xcancel.com/mattshumer_/status/1981406315693187430?t=8Au6g7Pn13WYXwfTdJvoHA&s=19 ) [20:16] TR News Techrights Week of EPO Leaks: Workers of the EPO Are Getting a Pay Cut While Prices Rise Fast https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/25/Week_of_EPO_Leaks_Workers_of_the_EPO_Are_Getting_a_Pay_Cut_Whil.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/25/Week_of_EPO_Leaks_Workers_of_the_EPO_Are_Getting_a_Pay_Cut_Whil.gmi [20:16] TR Bot Techrights Week of EPO Leaks: Workers of the EPO Are Getting a Pay Cut While Prices Rise Fast [20:18] TR News "A fool and his money are soon parted" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k8a0scw8 [20:18] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k8a0scw8 ) [20:18] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k8dbnhm4 [20:18] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k8dbnhm4 ) [20:18] schestowitz[TR2] "More people continue to buy online. The footprint of these big box stores is huge. The tariffs and a slow down in spending is taking effect. Right now, it is a slow time of year. We'll see more layoffs as financing costs continue to climb with rising health insurance premiums and borrowing costs. Target needs a lot of help. It's squeezed between Amazon and Walmart like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and right now it tastes li [20:18] schestowitz[TR2] ke s_h_i_t" [20:19] schestowitz[TR2] "IBM should follow Target" [20:19] TR News "IBM has always done this. Thats how they fix softwareby renaming it and making customers believe its something innovative. The only innovative thing ibm does now is finds new ways to get rid of employees." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k8a0m9jx [20:19] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k8a0m9jx ) [20:48] TR News Techrights When "Sponsored Feature" in The Register MS Means Ponzi Scheme Promotion From the Communist Party of China (CPC) https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/25/When_Sponsored_Feature_in_The_Register_MS_Means_Ponzi_Scheme_Pr.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/25/When_Sponsored_Feature_in_The_Register_MS_Means_Ponzi_Scheme_Pr.gmi [20:48] TR Bot Techrights When "Sponsored Feature" in The Register MS Means Ponzi Scheme Promotion From the Communist Party of China (CPC) ● Oct 25 [21:03] TR News Techrights Almost 2026 Already (When We Turn Twenty) https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/25/Almost_2026_Already_When_We_Turn_Twenty.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/25/Almost_2026_Already_When_We_Turn_Twenty.gmi [21:03] TR Bot Techrights Almost 2026 Already (When We Turn Twenty) [21:03] TR News "I think the coolest server host is midnight pub, but strangely it's been quiet lately, come and join the midnightpub host, friends!" gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2723 [21:04] TR News "I slept at my parents last night, and I had a nice walk back home in the morning. I bough some gifts, focaccia, and a pastry for myself." gemini://melyanna.net/2025-10-25-last-weekend [21:05] TR News Alex Schroeders Diary Portugal gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2025-portugal [21:24] TR News Techrights Gemini Links 25/10/2025: Portugal, Midnightpub, and "Tech Right Admins" https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/25/Gemini_Links_25_10_2025_Portugal_Midnightpub_and_Tech_Right_Adm.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/25/Gemini_Links_25_10_2025_Portugal_Midnightpub_and_Tech_Right_Adm.gmi [21:24] TR Bot Techrights Gemini Links 25/10/2025: Portugal, Midnightpub, and "Tech Right Admins" ● Oct 25 [22:01] *whatA____ (~chatzilla@tgn7anwsh92gk.irc) has joined #techrights [22:06] *darwin has quit (Quit: peace be with you) [22:28] *psydroid3 has quit (Quit: KVIrc 5.2.6 Quasar http://www.kvirc.net/) [22:29] *darwin (~darwin@ezriia7nzimpg.irc) has joined #techrights [22:47] *whatA____ has quit (connection closed) [22:52] *whatA____ (~chatzilla@7ty442gj7hcvy.irc) has joined #techrights [22:58] admfubar finally the perfect use case for ai.... https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/wwe-ai-storyline-wrestling [22:58] TR Bot The WWE Says It'll Use AI to Write Storylines, in the Latest Case of Forcing AI Into Everybody's Lives ● Oct 25 [23:01] MinceR :> [23:02] admfubar qhy do i feel like wiley e coyote under a useless umbrella? https://futurism.com/space/space-debris-crashing-earth [23:02] TR Bot Space Junk Now Almost Constantly Crashing Down to Earth [23:05] admfubar we are the bezos, resistance is futile... https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/amazon-reveals-smart-glasses-delivery-drivers [23:05] TR Bot Amazon Reveals Smart Glasses That Effectively Turn Its Delivery Drivers Into Cyborg Drones [23:06] MinceR :> [23:11] admfubar we are stealing tech from broke down american corporations, that is some desperation... https://futurism.com/future-society/tech-workers-honey-trap [23:11] TR Bot If You're a Tech Worker With an Attractive Girlfriend, We Have Extremely Bad News [23:49] *whytek has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) [23:49] *whytek (~whytek@freenode-t0e.sgs.rnm0h7.IP) has joined #techrights [23:49] *hvxgr has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) [23:51] *hvxgr (~wl2v_usrn@freenode-ong.pov.c33bnd.IP) has joined #techrights