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● Jul 26
[03:08]	admfubar	https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decision-making/
[03:08]	TR Bot	 AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making Ludicity
[03:13]	admfubar	https://pogowasright.org/leaked-document-shows-the-surveillance-tech-at-ices-fingertips/
[03:13]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://pogowasright.org/leaked-document-shows-the-surveillance-tech-at-ices-fingertips/ )
[03:14]	admfubar	https://pogowasright.org/for-taylor-swift-madison-square-gardens-controversial-cameras-briefly-went-dark/
[03:14]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://pogowasright.org/for-taylor-swift-madison-square-gardens-controversial-cameras-briefly-went-dark/ )
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[05:08]	TR News	Techrights IRC Proceedings: Saturday, July 25, 2026 https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/26/IRC_Proceedings_Saturday_July_25_2026.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/26/IRC_Proceedings_Saturday_July_25_2026.gmi 
[05:08]	TR Bot	 Techrights IRC Proceedings: Saturday, July 25, 2026
[05:09]	TR News	 (NEW):  Today in Techrights https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/26/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/26/Today_in_Techrights.gmi 
[05:09]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Today in Techrights
[05:10]	TR News	Techrights Over at Tux Machines... https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/26/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/26/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi 
[05:10]	TR Bot	 Techrights Over at Tux Machines...
[05:10]	TR News	In the comments, someone tries to justify the CoI by linking to a Zonker article from LWN. Here is ANOTHER COI - Zonker worked for IBM/Red Hat for a long time, so his articles in LWN are a giant COI every month http://techrights.org/n/2026/07/25/IBM_Hammers_a_CoI_Into_a_CoCed_Fedora_RIP_Fedora.shtml
[05:10]	TR Bot	 Techrights IBM Hammers a CoI Into a CoCed Fedora, RIP Fedora?
[05:11]	TR News	Announcing The Linux Command Line Seventh Internet Edition, Revision A http://lcorg.blogspot.com/2026/07/announcing-linux-command-line-seventh.html
[05:11]	TR Bot	 LinuxCommand.org: Tips, News, and Rants: Announcing The Linux Command Line Seventh Internet Edition, Revision A
[05:11]	TR News	Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (29/2026): Jolla Shipping https://linmob.net/weekly-update-29-2026/
[05:11]	TR Bot	- Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (29/2026): Jolla Shipping
[05:13]	TR News	Apple Books and Amazon Are Lousy With AI-Generated Books Ripping Off Legitimate Authors https://thenewthings.com/p/apple-big-ai-book-slop-problem
[05:13]	TR Bot	 Apples big AI book slop problem
[05:14]	TR News	How to Research Private Schools Like an Investigative Reporter https://www.propublica.org/article/how-to-research-private-schools
[05:14]	TR Bot	 How to Research Private Schools to Spot Problems ProPublica
[05:14]	TR News	How to fix an unresponsive KDE Plasma taskbar https://darryldias.me/blog/how-to-fix-an-unresponsive-kde-plasma-taskbar
[05:15]	TR Bot	 How to fix an unresponsive KDE Plasma taskbar | Darryl Dias
[05:15]	TR News	Rentier Economy https://jacobin.com/2026/07/amazon-google-microsoft-cloud-hegemony-capitalism
[05:15]	TR Bot	 The Cloud Cartel Has Created a Global Rentier Economy
[05:16]	TR News	This terminal file manager is so fast it made me abandon graphical ones completely https://www.makeuseof.com/terminal-file-manager-so-fast-abandon-graphical-completely
[05:16]	TR Bot	 This terminal file manager is so fast it made me abandon graphical ones completely
[05:17]	TR News	CJEU Anne Frank judgment http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-cjeu-anne-frank-judgment-and-its.html
[05:17]	TR Bot	 The CJEU Anne Frank judgment and its broader implications (including for the internet and, obviously, AI too) - The IPKat
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[05:36]	TR News	Ponzi economics https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/24/Verizon_is_Over_200_Billion_Dollars_in_Debt_US_Telecoms_Collaps.shtml https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-companies-hide-debt-off-balance-sheet
[05:36]	TR Bot	 Techrights Verizon is Over 200 Billion Dollars in Debt (US Telecoms Collapsing, Wrapping Up the Failure in "Hey Hi" Clothing)
[05:36]	TR Bot	 AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt
[05:37]	TR News	"Five major tech giantsAlphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracleare hiding $1.65 trillion in off-balance-sheet AI debt. According to a recent Nikkei study, this unlisted financial pile now eclipses the $1.35 trillion they officially report." https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/07/21/2225209
[05:37]	TR Bot	 Five Tech Giants are Hiding $1.65tn in AI Debt, Using the Trick that Toppled Enron - SoylentNews
[05:37]	TR News	"While this accounting treatment is entirely legal, market analysts at Morgan Stanley have flagged massive data center lease expansions as a major credit risk factor. They note that global AI-related debt issuance is projected to hit $570 billion"
[05:37]	TR News	"Rating agencies are already reacting to these stretched financial burdens. S&P has already downgraded Oracle's credit rating, while Moody's has also issued warnings regarding the expanding weight of pre-operational leases."
[05:37]	TR News	"As tech earnings drop over the next two weeks, the official numbers will look tidy, but investors are seeing less than half of the true industry leverage."
[05:53]	TR News	Techrights The Slop Bubble is Killing the Planet, Not Just the Economy https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/26/The_Slop_Bubble_is_Killing_the_Planet_Not_Just_the_Economy.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/26/The_Slop_Bubble_is_Killing_the_Planet_Not_Just_the_Economy.gmi 
[05:53]	TR Bot	 Techrights The Slop Bubble is Killing the Planet, Not Just the Economy
[05:57]	TR News	"Now that USMCA revision discussions are underway" https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/econographics/mexico-can-turn-usmca-pressure-into-an-industrial-opportunity/ | Source: Atlantic Council
[05:57]	TR Bot	 Mexico can turn USMCA pressure into an industrial opportunity - Atlantic Council
[05:58]	TR News	"According to the European Commission, Google gives preferential treatment to its own services over those of third parties in Google Search, thereby breaching its obligations under the DMA." https://nltimes.nl/2026/07/24/europe-slaps-google-eu890-mil-fine-prioritizing-services-search-results | Source: NL Times
[05:58]	TR Bot	 Europe slaps Google with 890 mil. fine for prioritizing own services in search results | NL Times
[05:58]	TR News	"The EC found that Google was self-preferencing, or giving preferential treatment to its own services, including shopping, hotels and transport, over third parties." https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/07/european-commission-fines-google-1-billion-over-breaches-of-digital-markets-act/ | Source: JURIST
[05:58]	TR Bot	 European Commission fines Google $1 billion over breaches of Digital Markets Act - JURIST - News
[05:58]	TR News	"Under the DMA, gatekeepers must not treat their own services more favourably in ranking than third-party services." https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_1670 | Source: European Commission
[05:58]	TR Bot	 Press corner | European Commission
[05:59]	TR News	"The Commissions decision requires Google to treat third-party services featured in its search results in a fair and non-discriminatory manner compared with its own services." https://thecyberexpress.com/google-fined-e890-million/ | Source: Cyble Inc
[05:59]	TR Bot	 Google Fined 890 Million For Digital Markets Act Breaches
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[06:00]	TR News	"That first press release is some copaganda defending SFPD's insanely dispropotionate and violent actions during Pride. Mission Local: [...]" https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/07/sf-officials-will-arrest-you-for-partying-in-soma-also-really-want-you-to-come-party-in-soma/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski
[06:00]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/07/sf-officials-will-arrest-you-for-partying-in-soma-also-really-want-you-to-come-party-in-soma/ )
[06:00]	TR News	"The case, which had its first hearing on Monday, centers on a little-known US federal statute that makes it a crime to destroy property in an effort to prevent it from being seized." https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/23/cop-city-protester-phone | Source: The Guardian UK
[06:00]	TR Bot	 US government targets Cop City protester over phone operating system | Atlanta | The Guardian
[06:00]	TR News	"Tunicks case also raises ongoing questions about what constitutional rights can be invoked at the border, which the U.S. government has long asserted is not U.S. soil until a person is authorized to enter." https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/us-accuses-american-of-allegedly-wiping-his-phone-using-a-duress-password-during-border-search/ | Source: TechCrunch
[06:00]	TR Bot	accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a 'duress' password during border search | TechCrunch
[06:01]	TR News	"Cop City protester Samuel Tunick was forced to turn over his password during a warrantless search." https://boingboing.net/2026/07/25/grapheneos-duress-password-border-search.html | Source: BoingBoing
[06:01]	TR Bot	 Man prosecuted after GrapheneOS duress password wipes phone - Boing Boing
[06:01]	TR News	"Lenders are always seeking the highest possible return on their loan-books, which makes that "risk premium" awfully tempting." https://pluralistic.net/2026/07/25/cruel-cruelty-oh-cruelty/#digital-arm-breakers | Source: CoryDoctorow
[06:01]	TR Bot	 Pluralistic: Apples robo-repo (25 Jul 2026) Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
[06:01]	TR News	"US government targets [sic] Cop City protester over phone operating system: [...]" https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/07/prosecuted-for-using-a-duress-code/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski
[06:01]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/07/prosecuted-for-using-a-duress-code/ )
[06:01]	TR News	"It is not political, and it is not a platform for those connected to such views. His presence would be deeply hurtful and inappropriate like an unwelcome guest at a deeply personal ceremony." https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/911-families-petition-against-nyc-mayor-attendance-1810589 | Source: International Business Times
[06:01]	TR Bot	 9/11 Families Want Zohran Mamdani Barred From 25th Anniversary Ceremony Over Past Remarks | IBTimes UK
[06:02]	TR News	"The sit-in has transformed into one of Indias largest youth-led protest movements in recent years. Outrage over alleged examination paper leaks has broadened into a wider campaign against unemployment, government accountability, and what protesters described as a shrinking space for democratic dissent." https://jacobin.com/2026/07/india-student-protest-state-violence | Source: Jacobin Magazine
[06:02]	TR Bot	 Indias Cockroach Protest Movement Faces State Repression
[06:02]	TR News	"Second, it changes the legal framework around language. Under Article 15, Mandarin is given priority in education and government affairs." https://www.rfa.org/english/tibet/2026/07/24/explainer-china-ethnic-unity-law-tibet-uyghur/ | Source: RFA
[06:02]	TR Bot	 Explained: Chinas ethnic unity and progress promotion law Radio Free Asia
[06:03]	TR News	"In this brief guide, we will cover different ways to install JetBrains Mono font on Linux" https://ostechnix.com/install-jetbrains-mono-linux/ | Source: OSTechNix
[06:03]	TR Bot	to Install JetBrains Mono on Linux (Nerd Font and Ligatures) - OSTechNix
[06:04]	TR News	 (NEW):  Today's HowTos   https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/26/today_s_howtos.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/26/today_s_howtos.gmi 
[06:04]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines today's howtos
[06:04]	TR News	This
[06:05]	TR News	"This week PineStore has released the full 3D file for the PinePhone/PinePhone Pro." https://pine64.org/2026/07/25/pinephone3dfiles_2026/ | Source: Pine64
[06:05]	TR Bot	 Full PinePhone 3D File Released - PINE64
[06:05]	TR News	"The system uses three USB webcams, each with its IR cut filter removed and replaced with a different dichroic IR band-pass filter." https://hackaday.com/2026/07/25/taking-tri-camera-true-color-infrared-videos/ | Source: Hackaday
[06:05]	TR Bot	Tri-Camera True-Color Infrared Videos | Hackaday
[06:05]	TR News	"We were thinking about this in the context of the recent video on pressure advance in 3D printers." https://hackaday.com/2026/07/25/add-sensors-to-everything/ | Source: Hackaday
[06:05]	TR Bot	Sensors To Everything! | Hackaday
[06:06]	TR News	 (NEW):  Mobile/Open Hardware/Modding: Jolla, PinePhone, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/26/Mobile_Open_Hardware_Modding_Jolla_PinePhone_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/26/Mobile_Open_Hardware_Modding_Jolla_PinePhone_and_More.gmi 
[06:06]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Mobile/Open Hardware/Modding: Jolla, PinePhone, and More
[06:06]	TR News	"WSJ reporters were honored multiple times during Fridays dinner. The president often shrugged or smiled as their reporting was described, and he shook some of the winners hands." https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-whcd-dinner-epstein-awards-b3021323.html | Source: The Independent UK
[06:06]	TR Bot	 Trump smiles and shrugs after Epstein reporters he sued for $10B win awards for exposing birthday card | The Independent
[06:07]	TR News	"Kirk's death punctured the faade of the First Amendment as hundreds of people who celebrated or meme-d the incident" https://hyperallergic.com/artists-planned-monument-to-charlie-kirk-gets-trolled-online/ | Source: HyperAllergic
[06:07]	TR Bot	 Artists Planned Monument to Charlie Kirk Gets Trolled Online
[06:07]	TR News	"According to the freedom of expression advocacy group PEN America, the number of book censorship challenges in the United States has almost tripled since 2021." https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2026/07/24/Alberta-Banned-Book-Club-Blooms-Fight-Against-Censorship/ | Source: The Tyee
[06:07]	TR Bot	 A Banned Book Club Blooms in Alberta | The Tyee
[06:08]	TR News	"My son Daniel points me to a piece by Nate Silver which announces the discovery that highly educated workers with low or precarious income are the natural constituency of the Democratic Socialists of America" https://crookedtimber.org/2026/07/25/nate-silver-discovers-the-educated-poor/ | Source: Crooked Timber
[06:08]	TR Bot	 Nate Silver discovers the educated poor Crooked Timber
[06:08]	TR News	"If you put down the newspaper, turn off your phone and go out and speak to people in the street you hear a completely different story: the cost of living crisis." https://danielpocock.com/en/centrica-fraud-exposed-winter-fuel-electricity-credits/ | Source: Daniel Pocock
[06:08]	TR Bot	 Centrica fraud exposed: worse than Palestine Action 'terrorists' with cardboard placards
[06:08]	TR News	"The status of the nation, its heroic narrative, confers status on its citizens. And if you dont have a lot going for you, you can cling to that. You can raise the flag." https://richardbeck.substack.com/p/people-of-the-lie |
[06:08]	TR Bot	 People of the Lie - Experimental Theology with Richard Beck
[06:09]	TR News	"What OpenAI receives is more valuable than the equity it gives away." https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-doomsday-moat | Source: Mike Brock
[06:09]	TR Bot	 The Doomsday Moat - by Mike Brock - Notes from the Circus
[06:09]	TR News	"Ive talked to him before, but this seemed like a good time to bring him back." https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/talking-again-with-gabriel-zucman | Source: Paul Krugman
[06:09]	TR Bot	 Talking Again With Gabriel Zucman - Paul Krugman
[06:14]	TR News	"They play a far more important role in our lives than you may think," https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/mangroves-are-key-to-coastal-ecosystems-see-20-breathtaking-photos-that-reveal-how-the-trees-support-wildlife-and-face-threats-180989186/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine
[06:14]	TR Bot	 Mangroves Are Key to Coastal Ecosystems. See 20 Breathtaking Photos That Reveal How the Trees Support Wildlife and Face Threats
[06:14]	TR News	"We traveled to Iceland for my sister-in-laws wedding, congrats Ginny & McKenzie! I wanted to share a few photos from our time on the island." https://doug.pub/2026/07/24/iceland.html | Source: Doug Jones
[06:14]	TR Bot	 Iceland - Doug Jones
[06:14]	TR News	"Remarkably, all 69 people on board survived the impact. What killed 52 of them was what happened afterwards." https://theconversation.com/a-1952-pan-am-plane-crash-transformed-passenger-safety-procedures-a-former-airline-pilot-explains-how-288294 | Source: The Conversation
[06:14]	TR Bot	 A 1952 Pan Am plane crash transformed passenger safety procedures a former airline pilot explains how
[06:15]	TR News	"This is fine." https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/07/this-is-fine-4/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski
[06:15]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/07/this-is-fine-4/ )
[06:17]	TR News	Vernichtungsschlacht coming soon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitzkrieg
[06:17]	TR Bot	 Blitzkrieg - Wikipedia
[06:17]	TR News	"But for some guides, like those we quote in this article, that privilege slowly became impossible to reconcile with their beliefs." https://phys.org/news/2026-07-farce-climate-cruise-tourism-anymore.html | Source: Omicron Limited
[06:17]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://phys.org/news/2026-07-farce-climate-cruise-tourism-anymore.html )
[06:17]	TR News	"he country is using nearly all of its wildfire fighting resources far earlier in the season than usual, according to data from the National Interagency Fire Center." https://www.notus.org/climate-environment/us-firefighting-resources-maxed-out-july | Source: Allbritton Journalism Institute
[06:17]	TR Bot	 U.S. Firefighting Resources Are Already Maxed Out And Its Only July - NOTUS News of the United States
[06:18]	TR News	"The lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia was brought by individuals and advocacy groups represented by Democracy Forward." https://truthout.org/articles/advocates-sue-trump-administration-over-secret-dossiers-on-ice-watchers/ | Source: TruthOut
[06:18]	TR Bot	 Advocates Sue Trump Administration Over Secret Dossiers on ICE Watchers | Truthout
[06:19]	TR News	"This is just like whack-a-mole, these companies will do everything they can to circumvent regulation" https://www.wired.com/story/made-in-china-chinas-vape-makers-have-a-new-way-around-flavor-bans/ | Source: Wired
[06:19]	TR Bot	Companies Are Selling Vapes With Chemicals Potentially More Potent Than Nicotine | WIRED
[06:19]	TR News	"The findings concern Article 28(1) of the Digital Services Act, which requires platforms accessible to minors to provide a high level of privacy, safety and security." https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/07/eu-commission-finds-tiktok-failed-to-protect-minors-privacy-under-digital-services-act/ | Source: JURIST
[06:19]	TR Bot	 EU Commission finds TikTok failed to protect minors privacy under Digital Services Act - JURIST - News
[06:19]	TR News	"Even when minors choose private accounts, their accounts can be easily found through the following' and followers' lists of other users" https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_1679 | Source: European Commission
[06:19]	TR Bot	 Press corner | European Commission
[06:19]	TR News	"Meta isnt actually promising to abandon those rate limits." https://www.theverge.com/tech/970970/after-backlash-meta-pauses-plan-to-rate-limit-its-smart-glasses | Source: The Verge
[06:19]	TR Bot	 After backlash, Meta pauses plan to rate limit its smart glasses | The Verge
[06:22]	TR News	"Metas smart glasses have been a PR headache for the company." https://www.theverge.com/report/970901/instagram-meta-glasses-prank-harassment-ban | Source: The Verge
[06:22]	TR Bot	 Meta just created a moderation nightmare for its smart glasses | The Verge
[06:22]	TR News	"Over time, the usage patterns of Apple Watch buyers revealed what people really wanted." https://www.macworld.com/article/3180044/apple-watch-won-the-smartwatch-war.html | Source: Macworld
[06:22]	TR Bot	won the smartwatch war. Now what? | Macworld
[06:22]	TR News	"A friend of mine contributes to online security by training journalists, human rights workers, political organizers, and more in effective digital security." https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2026-July/068450.html | Source: GnuPG
[06:22]	TR Bot	 QuickerHash
[06:24]	TR News	"Strike 3, the parent company of Vixen Media Group, a prolific producer of adult films, is suing Meta for allegedly downloading 2,973 of its copyrighted videos." https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/07/meta-strike-3-porn-lawsuit/688023/ | Source: The Atlantic
[06:24]	TR Bot	 Why Would Meta Download So Much Porn? - The Atlantic
[06:24]	TR News	"While none of the groups I hang around online are anything like those mentioned in the two articles I linked to above, a lot of the loudest voices in many groups are, well, fools" https://derekkedziora.com/notes/the-company-you-keep | Source: Derek Kdziora
[06:24]	TR Bot	 The company you keep
[06:24]	TR News	"Screens arent the problem. Or screens arent the only problem." https://idiomdrottning.org/anti-smartphone-books | Source: Idiomdrottning
[06:24]	TR Bot	 Anti-smartphone books
[06:25]	TR News	"Alison also said users will now be able to verify their accounts with a selfie, a free service it is calling Facebook Verified" https://pxlnv.com/linklog/meta-facebook-tiktok-clone/ | Source: Nick Heer
[06:25]	TR Bot	 Every App a TikTok Clone Pixel Envy
[06:26]	TR News	"That era may be coming to a close, in large part because of the way he and his administration have bungled the war in Iran." https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/07/trump-iran-war-social-media/688065/ | Source: The Atlantic
[06:26]	TR Bot	 Even Trump Cant Spin This One - The Atlantic
[06:27]	TR News	"In tech-bro dialect, a centaur is a human assisted by a machine, such a motorist or a user of hearing aids." https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2026/07/24/Cory-Doctorow-Predicts-AI-Bubble-Will-Burst/ | Source: The Tyee
[06:27]	TR Bot	 Cory Doctorow Predicts the AI Bubble Will Burst | The Tyee
[06:27]	TR News	"In the interest of not eroding Debian's reputation or further damaging the community, LLM-assisted contributions should be prohibited from inclusion in Debian." https://www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002 | Source: Debian
[06:27]	TR Bot	 General Resolution: LLM usage in Debian
[06:28]	TR News	"I've accepted that artificial intelligence is the future. What concerns me is how companies are turning my vulnerability into a product." https://www.androidpolice.com/claude-wants-my-passwords/ | Source: Android Police
[06:28]	TR Bot	 I'm not letting Claude touch my passwords, no matter how safe Anthropic claims it is
[06:28]	TR News	"Two of OpenAIs cybersecurity-focused models broke out of a testing sandbox this week and went on to [breach] the AI research platform Hugging Face in an effort to solve a security benchmark test." https://www.wired.com/story/security-news-this-week-the-openai-models-that-hacked-hugging-face-were-active-on-the-internet-for-days/ | Source: Wired
[06:28]	TR Bot	OpenAI Models That Hacked Hugging Face Were Active on the Internet for Days | WIRED
[06:29]	TR News	"The Swedish polices new electronic ID thats about to launch requires both." https://idiomdrottning.org/id-1312 | Source: Idiomdrottning
[06:29]	TR Bot	 E-wasteful e-ID
[06:29]	TR News	"Theres a name for this kind of number system: bijective base 26. The concept extends generally to bijective base b for any positive integer b." https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/07/25/excel-column-numbering/ | Source: John D Cook
[06:29]	TR Bot	 Excel column numbering
[06:29]	TR News	"Click To Pray, the official prayer app of the Popes Worldwide Prayer Network, was found to have zero security by a security researcher." https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/security-flaw-in-vaticans-click-to-pray-app-leaves-over-700-000-global-users-exposed-app-has-been-leaking-user-data-for-over-six-months-and-still-does | Source: Tom's Hardware
[06:29]	TR Bot	 Security flaw in Vaticans Click to Pray app leaves over 700,000 global users exposed app has been leaking user data for over six months and still does | Tom's Hardware
[06:30]	TR News	"When it comes to brain health specifically" https://www.sciencealert.com/watching-too-much-tv-may-actually-rot-your-brain-after-all-study-finds | Source: Science Alert
[06:30]	TR Bot	Too Much TV May Actually Rot Your Brain After All, Study Finds : ScienceAlert
[06:31]	TR News	"When your program asks for memory that is not in cache, the processor has to go to RAM. That trip costs on the order of 100 nanoseconds. On a 3 GHz core, that is about 300 cycles of doing nothing." https://lemire.me/blog/2026/07/25/memory-level-parallelism-amd-is-the-king/ | Source: Daniel Lemire
[06:31]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://lemire.me/blog/2026/07/25/memory-level-parallelism-amd-is-the-king/ )
[06:31]	TR News	"As you might expect, the university has any number of old buildings." https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/HowYouGetCeilingSwitchs | Source: University of Toronto
[06:31]	TR Bot	 You're using a too-old browser
[06:31]	TR News	"This article accompanies my video review of the XpPen Artist Pro 27 (gen2), a large-sized 27" display drawing tablet." https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1161/xppen-artist-pro-27-gen2-review-on-gnulinux | Source: David Revoy
[06:31]	TR Bot	 XpPen Artist Pro 27 Gen2 - review on GNU/Linux - David Revoy
[06:32]	TR News	"I've got this little pen pouch I keep in my bag. It makes me disproportionately happy, even though I don't really write that much." https://jasper.tandy.is/blogging/pens-ross-2 | Source: Jasper Tandy
[06:32]	TR Bot	 Jasper is blogging: Pens, Ross!
[06:37]	TR News	"I find this fascinating. The physical feel of organ pedals is very different from the kick drum pedals I play, much more keyboard-like, which means the technique is totally different." https://www.jefftk.com/p/organ-pedals-for-drumming | Source: Jeff Kaufman
[06:37]	TR Bot	 Organ Pedals for Drumming
[06:37]	TR News	"Your harddrive is probably pretty full too." https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_139_hdd/ | Source: Viktor Lfgren
[06:37]	TR Bot	harddrive is probably full | marginalia.nu
[06:38]	TR News	"During most conference talks there's a large contingent of attendees who opt to skip the session and chat instead." https://isaacvando.com/software-should-work-worked |
[06:38]	TR Bot	 Software Should Work Worked
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[06:38]	TR News	"One of the most challenging things about the CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate) exam isn't subnetting, spanning-tree, routing protocols, ACLs, or calculating longest prefix match." https://chuck.is/ccna/ | Source: Chuck Carroll
[06:38]	TR Bot	 How to Pass the CCNA | Chuck Carroll
[06:38]	TR News	"Not consorting with fools" https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/KN/StNp/StNp2_4.html |
[06:38]	TR Bot	2:4 Protection | sutta on dhammatalks.org
[06:38]	IsambardPrince	Ubuntu introduced yet another weird bug that only happens under Wayland.
[06:39]	TR News	"So, do you remember what you wanted to be when you grew up, as a kid?" https://gabz.blog/posts/what-do-you-want-to-be-when-you-grow-up | Source: Gabriel
[06:39]	TR Bot	 What do you want to be when you grow up? - GABZ/ML
[06:39]	TR News	"Someone else had suggested blocking out time in his calendar to think about the bigger picture. Hed tried that, but hadnt found it productive, so he asked if I had any alternatives." https://lalitm.com/post/find-problems-staff-engineer/ | Source: Lalit Maganti
[06:39]	TR Bot	 How I Find Problems to Solve as a Staff Engineer - Lalit Maganti
[06:39]	TR News	"I'm still bemused by some of the things - I've no idea what a challenge coin is, I'm hazy about how the various puzzles work, I didn't know about the cool musicians until it was too late." https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/07/some-quick-thoughts-on-emf-camp-2026/ | Source: Terence Eden
[06:39]	TR Bot	 Some Quick Thoughts on EMF Camp 2026 Terence Edens Blog
[06:40]	TR News	"Peter Pentz, a curator at the museum, examined the stamp and compared its mounted-warrior design with the images found on the Sutton Hoo helmet and comparable Swedish objects." https://www.medievalists.net/2026/07/medieval-denmark-sutton-hoo-helmet/ | Source: Medievalists.net
[06:40]	TR Bot	Stamp Found in Denmark Could Reveal Where Sutton Hoo Helmet Was Made - Medievalists.net
[06:40]	TR News	"Stensrud says that a lot of institutional knowledge goes into creating accurate weather forecasts, not just data. If you fire a lot of people who have that knowledge, forecasts will be worse." https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/weather-forecasts-less-accurate-trump-1235598647/ | Source: Rolling Stone
[06:40]	TR Bot	 Are Weather Forecasts Less Accurate? Trump May Be to Blame
[06:40]	TR News	"A new Dartmouth study finds that many of Syria's archaeological sites were damaged not only by looting but also, in areas occupied by the Turkish military, by systematic bulldozing. The findings are published in the journal Heritage" https://phys.org/news/2026-07-syria-ancient-sites-widespread-looting.html | Source: Omicron Limited
[06:40]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://phys.org/news/2026-07-syria-ancient-sites-widespread-looting.html )
[06:41]	TR News	"Shot with a yellow filter (that removes blue), red in the scene becomes green, green in the scene becomes blue, and infrared in the scene becomes a vivid red." https://blog.brycekerley.net/2026/07/26/flamin-hot-aerochrome.html | Source: Bryce Kerley
[06:41]	TR Bot	 Flamin Hot Aerochrome | Bryces Blog
[06:41]	TR News	"from what is one escaping, and to what?" https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/open-universe | Source: Mandy Brown
[06:41]	TR Bot	 The open universe - A Working Library
[06:42]	TR News	"For me, writing in public adds more reflection to the words." https://robertbirming.com/re-who-read-this/ | Source: Robert Birming
[06:42]	TR Bot	 Re: Who would ever read this? Robert Birming
[06:42]	TR News	"I bought a mini tripod while I was in Hong Kong, but only after Id taken most of these photos so for those I had to improvise ways to stabalise the camera well enough for a long exposure." https://samsm.ch/hong-kong-at-night/ | Source: Sam Smith
[06:42]	TR Bot	 Hong Kong at Night | Sam Smith
[06:45]	TR News	Techrights Links 26/07/2026: "Nate Silver Discovers the Educated Poor" and "Indias Cockroach Protest Movement Faces State Repression" https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/26/Links_26_07_2026_Nate_Silver_Discovers_the_Educated_Poor_and_In.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/26/Links_26_07_2026_Nate_Silver_Discovers_the_Educated_Poor_and_In.gmi 
[06:45]	TR Bot	 Techrights Links 26/07/2026: "Nate Silver Discovers the Educated Poor" and "Indias Cockroach Protest Movement Faces State Repression"
[06:46]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2]: here was another one of those "If I pay AmEx $16,000 that I owed them will they consider me for an Optima Card." people.
[06:46]	IsambardPrince	I just don't get it.
[06:46]	schestowitz[TR2]	IsambardPrince: gm
[06:46]	schestowitz[TR2]	while you were online
[06:46]	schestowitz[TR2]	i was trying to share ""Nate Silver Discovers the Educated Poor""
[06:46]	schestowitz[TR2]	above
[06:47]	schestowitz[TR2]	relates to what rianne wrote abotu you
[06:47]	TR News	[cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1720.jpg
[06:47]	IsambardPrince	Why would you pay a bank $16,000 that they never pursued for the "chance" at a bad credit card?
[06:47]	TR News	[cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D2077.jpg
[06:47]	schestowitz[TR2]	IsambardPrince: correction.
[06:47]	schestowitz[TR2]	you said,
[06:47]	schestowitz[TR2]	"bad credit cardddd"
[06:48]	schestowitz[TR2]	all of them are bad
[06:48]	schestowitz[TR2]	they are not credit
[06:48]	schestowitz[TR2]	they are debt
[06:48]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2]: The whole "Why do people chase things they're overqualified for?"
[06:48]	schestowitz[TR2]	shoebox man took  some
[06:48]	schestowitz[TR2]	at least one
[06:48]	IsambardPrince	It's a sign of the times.
[06:48]	schestowitz[TR2]	now he seems to be in trouble at work
[06:48]	schestowitz[TR2]	based on something new
[06:48]	schestowitz[TR2]	if he loses that job, he will not be able to pay anything towards his deebt
[06:48]	IsambardPrince	Yeah, I had a discussion with a rent to own store today, schestowitz[TR2]
[06:48]	schestowitz[TR2]	gtg now
[06:48]	schestowitz[TR2]	time for market
[06:49]	IsambardPrince	One in Texas called me looking for someone I don't know that they thought might be a relative.
[06:49]	IsambardPrince	I told the guy "I used to work at the competitor and I didn't particularly like how the model goes after people using the criminal courts because a rent to own contract isn't like stiffing Capital One. Keeping rental property without paying is a misdemeanor."
[06:50]	IsambardPrince	"Then you go to jail and they attach restitution for the full amount of the rental contract to your probation."
[06:50]	IsambardPrince	"It's just a horrible way to treat people."
[06:50]	IsambardPrince	"I didn't want to go numb to sitting outside people's houses waiting for the Sheriff to get there over a bedroom set, so I left before I became utterly compromised."
[06:51]	IsambardPrince	He said they haven't done that to people in a long time because the value of the stuff "just wasn't worth it".
[06:51]	IsambardPrince	I said, "Well, I wonder if word gets around how badly they got their asses kicked by a rental store and the other marks don't come in."
[06:53]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2]: I got the job through Monster.com this was many years ago.
[06:53]	IsambardPrince	Didn't last long.
[06:54]	IsambardPrince	I figure these people have ruined credit anyway, so what?
[06:54]	IsambardPrince	We report them to a credit bureau where they have a 350 FICO score anyway because of 16 other collections.
[06:54]	IsambardPrince	Oh it was much worse.
[06:54]	IsambardPrince	I asked my boss that during my training weeks and she said "No, we call the police."
[06:55]	IsambardPrince	My assumption "What harm does it do? They already come here because nobody can make their life worse over unpaid debt." was wrong.
● Jul 26
[07:16]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2]: Yes, the people who end up in high income brackets without much education tend to be rightwing.
[07:16]	IsambardPrince	No matter how they got the money they don't need the system for anything now, so they don't care if it rots.
[07:17]	IsambardPrince	And their story is always the self-made man even if it was just given to them (inheritance, nepotism, whatever).
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[08:58]	TR News	 (NEW):  Linux 6.12.98 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/26/Linux_6_12_98.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/26/Linux_6_12_98.gmi 
[08:58]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Linux 6.12.98
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[09:20]	TR News	 (NEW):  Free and Open Source Software https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/26/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/26/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi 
[09:20]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Free and Open Source Software
[09:25]	TR News	 (NEW):  The Bootable USB Creator Ventoy 1.1.17 added Athena OS & EulerOS Support https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/26/The_Bootable_USB_Creator_Ventoy_1_1_17_added_Athena_OS_EulerOS_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/26/The_Bootable_USB_Creator_Ventoy_1_1_17_added_Athena_OS_EulerOS_.gmi 
[09:25]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines The Bootable USB Creator Ventoy 1.1.17 added Athena OS & EulerOS Support
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[09:26]	Goblin	https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj3gd312d8yo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss
[09:26]	TR Bot	 Rental searches for pet friendly properties drop after law change - BBC News
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[09:29]	Goblin	I can see this causing huge problems for renters....if a landlord doesnt want pets and has no reasonable grounds to refuse, I think they will just sell up.  With the exception of big housing associations, theres very little in owning property for the smaller landlord.  This in my view will only make the housing crisis worse,
[09:31]	Goblin	A friend looked at purchasing a second home to rent out....took a look at everything involved and the costs - just not worth it.
[09:33]	TR News	 (NEW):  KDE Plasma 6.8 Desktop Environment Lands on October 14th, Heres What to Expect https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/19/KDE_Plasma_6_8_Desktop_Environment_Lands_on_October_14th_Here_s.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/19/KDE_Plasma_6_8_Desktop_Environment_Lands_on_October_14th_Here_s.gmi 
[09:33]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines KDE Plasma 6.8 Desktop Environment Lands on October 14th, Heres What to Expect
[09:34]	Goblin	Its a difficult situation, of course renters should have more rights but then if the situation favours the tennant wheres the incentive to be a landlord if their risk is increased and their investment opportunities decreased.
● Jul 26
[10:28]	schestowitz[TR2]	pets like mice and rats?
[10:30]	TR News	Valve begin improving account switching in the latest Steam Beta | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/valve-begin-improving-account-switching-in-the-latest-steam-beta/ Source: GamingOnLinux | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/valve-begin-improving-account-switching-in-the-latest-steam-beta/
[10:30]	TR Bot	begin improving account switching in the latest Steam Beta | GamingOnLinux
[10:31]	TR News	Wine 11.14 brings improvements for DirectSound, BCrypt, FreeBSD | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/wine-11-14-brings-improvements-for-directsound-bcrypt-freebsd/ Source: GamingOnLinux | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/wine-11-14-brings-improvements-for-directsound-bcrypt-freebsd/
[10:31]	TR Bot	11.14 brings improvements for DirectSound, BCrypt, FreeBSD | GamingOnLinux
[10:31]	TR News	GE-Proton 11-3 brings better OptiScaler integration, AMD FSR4 improvements and lots of game fixes | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/ge-proton-11-3-brings-better-optiscaler-integration-amd-fsr4-improvements-and-lots-of-game-fixes/ Source: GamingOnLinux
[10:31]	TR Bot	11-3 brings better OptiScaler integration, AMD FSR4 improvements and lots of game fixes | GamingOnLinux
[10:33]	TR News	"The RealSense D585 Pro is a stereo depth camera built around the companys new Gen 5 vision processor" https://linuxgizmos.com/realsense-d585-pro-supports-1280-x-960-depth-capture-at-up-to-90-fps/ | Source: Linux Gizmos
[10:33]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/realsense-d585-pro-supports-1280-x-960-depth-capture-at-up-to-90-fps/ )
[10:35]	TR News	"Life in Britain's data centre capital: Constant humming, a straining energy grid and temperatures '2C higher' thanks to 30 sites over one square mile | Daily Mail Online" https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15999761/Life-Britains-data-centre-capital-Constant-humming-straining-energy-grid-temperatures-2C-higher-thanks-30-sites-one-square-mile.html
[10:35]	TR Bot	 Life in Britain's data centre capital: Constant humming, a straining energy grid and temperatures '2C higher' thanks to 30 sites over one square mile | Daily Mail Online
[10:35]	TR News	"Threatened new tariffs: Trump says EU to pay 'very big price' for Google fine - RTL Today" https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/trump-says-eu-to-pay-very-big-price-for-google-fine-1255482800
[10:35]	TR Bot	 Threatened new tariffs: Trump says EU to pay 'very big price' for Google fine - RTL Today
[10:35]	TR News	Oligarchs Are Always Trying to Bury Democracy" https://youtu.be/vX5JqOy6gPI
[10:35]	TR Bot	https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=vX5JqOy6gPI
[10:35]	TR Bot	( status 418 @ https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=vX5JqOy6gPI )
[10:38]	TR News	"gcc and clang however, just, don't store language linkage information with the type. so two functions with different language linkages can be identical: [...]" https://sebsite.pw/w/20260708-badstdcxx.html | Source: Sebastian
[10:38]	TR Bot	 neither gcc nor clang are compliant with standard c++
[10:39]	TR News	"Im not talking about jobs handed to a dedicated task queue such as Asynq. In that case, the task system owns the lifecycle of the tasks it starts." https://rednafi.com/go/supervised-fire-and-forget/ | Source: Redowan Delowar
[10:39]	TR Bot	 Supervised fire-and-forget in Go | Redowan's Reflections
[10:39]	TR News	"stinkpot is a much tinier atuin (https://atuin.sh)." https://tangled.org/oppi.li/stinkpot |
[10:39]	TR Bot	 Atuin - Making Your Terminal Magical
[10:39]	TR Bot	 oppi.li/stinkpot at main Tangled
[10:39]	TR News	"I've written more shell scripts than I can count, but I still stumble upon tricks that honestly blow my mind far too often than I care to admit." https://refp.se/articles/your-shell-and-the-magic-colon |
[10:39]	TR Bot	shell colon does nothing. Use it anyway. | Filip Rosen - refp.se
[10:40]	TR News	"Consider this situation: you have a bunch of nested directories, each containing audio files in M4A format." https://kevinboone.me/clh_xargs.html | Source: Kevin Boone
[10:40]	TR Bot	 Kevin Boone: Command-line hacking: using find, sed, and xargs together for flexible filename transformation
[10:40]	TR News	"spies, which wrap a function, recording calls for later assertions." https://adamj.eu/tech/2026/07/25/python-spy-unittest-mock-wraps/ | Source: Adam Johnson
[10:40]	TR Bot	 Python: spy on function calls with unittest.mocks wraps - Adam Johnson
[10:40]	TR News	"here's something fun. say that x was declared in an outer scope as a typedef: [...]" https://sebsite.pw/w/20260725-auto.html | Source: Sebastian
[10:41]	TR Bot	 the perils of parsing type inference declarations in c
[10:41]	TR News	"Debates about traditional versus software engineering revolve around what makes us different" https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/we-are-not-special/ | Source: Hillel Wayne
[10:41]	TR Bot	 We Are Not Special
[10:41]	TR News	"The widespread excitement around the Agentic Era comes with the promise of greater productivity and higher quality." https://ptrchm.com/posts/nothing-works-and-everyone-is-euphoric/ |
[10:41]	TR Bot	Works and Everyone Is Euphoric | ptrchm
[10:41]	TR News	"Zig is a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal and reusable software. Please read the official documentation to learn more." https://zigbyexample.neocities.org/ |
[10:41]	TR Bot	 Zig by Example
[10:41]	TR News	"I have been thinking recently about how language is a high entropy latent space and what that means." https://blog.jsbarretto.com/post/languages-as-latent-spaces |
[10:41]	TR Bot	 Languages as designed latent spaces
[10:42]	TR News	"Codeberg is not going to do a mass deletion, a bonfire of the vibes. But if a projects causing issues, and its slop code, they will be asking the vibe coder to find somewhere else. " https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/24/codeberg-bans-ai-slop-software-projects/ | Source: Pivot to AI
[10:42]	TR Bot	 Rhymes. Ford!" He laughed again. "What an.
[10:42]	TR News	"I have not been a solo maintainer of curl for a long time and I dont even do half of the commits anymore" https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/07/25/1500-curl-authors/ | Source: Daniel Stenberg
[10:42]	TR Bot	curl authors | daniel.haxx.se
[10:42]	TR News	"From my understanding, there is a subtle but distinct difference; "translation" involves turning the words from one language to another but "localisation" involves rewriting the text for the local market." https://thomasrigby.com/posts/translation-vs-localisation/ | Source: Thomas Rigby
[10:42]	TR Bot	vs Localisation | thomasrigby.com
[10:43]	TR News	"Its interesting to contrast the current moment to the information wants to be free era of Web 2.0, twenty or so years ago." https://werd.io/can-data-collectives-help-strengthen-vulnerable-cultures-in-the-face-of-ai/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller
[10:43]	TR Bot	 Can data collectives help strengthen vulnerable cultures in the face of AI?
[10:57]	TR News	"Next was the Archives page. Much of this was styling, such as arranging the categories in a grid, and doing something about how entry was rendered as its own card." https://lmika.org/2026/07/25/blog-design-update.html | Source: Leon Mika
[10:57]	TR Bot	 Blog Design Update - Leon Mika
[10:59]	TR News	"To understand the problem, well need to examine how Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY actually works." https://www.dbos.dev/blog/postgres-listen-notify-scalability |
[10:59]	TR Bot	 Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY Actually Scales | DBOS
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[11:00]	TR News	"One of the features I missed from Firefox was containers, though. And now theyre available on Brave." https://initialcharge.net/2026/07/brave-browser-containers/ | Source: Mike Rockwell
[11:00]	TR Bot	stream 1 was not closed cleanly: PROTOCOL_ERROR (err 1) ( status 0 @ https://initialcharge.net/2026/07/brave-browser-containers/ )
[11:00]	TR News	"Brave shipped Containers this week. Version 1.92 of the browser lets you wall off tabs from one another so that cookies and site data stay locked inside whichever container you opened" https://reclaimthenet.org/brave-1-92-adds-built-in-containers-for-desktop | Source: Reclaim The Net
[11:00]	TR Bot	 Brave 1.92 Adds Built-In Containers for Desktop
[11:01]	TR News	"In a change likely to be widely welcomed, Rafael Sadowski (rsadowski@) committed support for custom HTTP headers in httpd(8)." https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260725103657 | Source: Undeadly
[11:01]	TR Bot	 httpd(8) gains support for custom HTTP headers
[11:01]	TR News	"As the Apache documentation covers, the server status page offers this information in two forms" https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/ApacheServerStatusLimitation | Source: University of Toronto
[11:01]	TR Bot	 You're using a too-old browser
[11:01]	TR News	"Traceroute is fun tool to investigate how packets travel through the internet. Due to how it's made, we can make traceroute tools show (almost) arbitrary poems." https://jssfr.de/2026-07-25-messing-with-traceroute.html | Source: Jonas Schfer
[11:01]	TR Bot	with Traceroute jssfr.de
[11:02]	TR News	"CIDERs code completion has quietly gotten quite good over the years, and I dont think it gets enough credit." https://metaredux.com/posts/2026/07/25/modernizing-cider-completion.html | Source: Bozhidar Batsov
[11:02]	TR Bot	 Modernizing CIDERs Completion | Meta Redux
[11:02]	TR News	"However, I have problem finishing my drafts." https://chainsawriot.com/postmannheim/2026/07/25/writeredeck.html | Source: Dr Chung-hong Chan
[11:02]	TR Bot	 Emacs Writing Machine
[11:04]	TR News	[Old] "Police in Spain have reportedly started profiling people based on their phones; specifically, and surprisingly, those carrying Google Pixel devices." https://www.androidauthority.com/why-i-use-grapheneos-on-pixel-3575477/ | Source: Android Authority
[11:04]	TR Bot	 Cops say criminals use a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS I say thats freedom
[11:07]	TR News	[Old] "This is the story of my experience with OPNSense." https://ramble.moe/posts/moving-away-from-opnsense---a-story-of-simplicity/ |
[11:07]	TR Bot	Away From OPNsense - A Story of Simplicity | ramble.moe
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[11:09]	TR News	"The brains of the operation is an Arduino Nano, running the venerable ATmega328P. Its set up to drive a pair of 88 WS2812B addressable LED panels" https://hackaday.com/2026/07/25/building-a-fencing-scoring-box/ | Source: Hackaday
[11:09]	TR Bot	A Fencing Scoring Box | Hackaday
[11:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	hi, Dukorr 
[11:09]	TR News	"Im going to try an experiment: lets get one of those projects that seem to stall, and revisit the idea and focus on the game, independently of how cool the code may be." https://www.usebox.net/jjm/blog/it-is-the-game-stupid/ | Source: Juan J Martnez
[11:09]	TR Bot	is the game, stupid! - usebox.net
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[11:10]	TR News	"I'll put forward two variations of tc-flow(8) commands." https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/TcAssignFlowsMaybe | Source: University of Toronto
[11:12]	TR News	 (NEW):  Games: Valve, GE-Proton, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/26/Games_Valve_GE_Proton_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/26/Games_Valve_GE_Proton_and_More.gmi 
[11:12]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Games: Valve, GE-Proton, and More
[11:12]	TR News	"But how do we peacefully and legally get rid of him between now and the 2028 election? Whats our 2028 strategy for regaining the White House?" https://robertreich.substack.com/p/will-there-ever-be-consequences-for | Source: Robert Reich
[11:12]	TR Bot	 What the Hell Is Trump Doing in Iran? | The Coffee Klatch for Saturday, July 25, 2026
[11:18]	TR News	techrights irc might need a reboot midday bst, as a new version of ergo irc is available and it's easier to test these things on a quiet sunday
[11:20]	TR News	IRC upgrade scheduled for 11:02:00 AM UTC
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[11:37]	TR News	Techrights Centrica fraud exposed: worse than Palestine Action 'terrorists' with cardboard placards https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/26/Centrica_fraud_exposed_worse_than_Palestine_Action_terrorists_w.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/26/Centrica_fraud_exposed_worse_than_Palestine_Action_terrorists_w.gmi 
[11:37]	TR Bot	 Techrights Centrica fraud exposed: worse than Palestine Action 'terrorists' with cardboard placards
[11:58]	TR News	rebooting into new ergo in 5 mins. should be back within 1-2 mins.
● Jul 26
[12:01]	TR News	New stable kernel for ext4 users https://lwn.net/Articles/1085026/
[12:01]	TR Bot	stable kernel for ext4 users [LWN.net]
[12:01]	TR News	Reboot.
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[12:08]	TR News	Full PinePhone 3D File Released https://pine64.org/2026/07/25/pinephone3dfiles_2026/
[12:08]	TR Bot	 Full PinePhone 3D File Released - PINE64
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[12:10]	TR News	The Bootable USB Creator Ventoy 1.1.17 added Athena OS & EulerOS Support https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/07/th-bootable-usb-creator-ventoy-1-1-17-added-athena-os-euleros-support/
[12:10]	TR Bot	 The Bootable USB Creator Ventoy 1.1.17 added Athena OS & EulerOS Support | UbuntuHandbook
[12:11]	TR News	GNOME Added Support Resizing / Moving Screenshot Selection via Keyboard https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/07/gnome-added-support-resizing-moving-screenshot-selection-via-keyboard/
[12:11]	TR Bot	 GNOME Added Support Resizing / Moving Screenshot Selection via Keyboard | UbuntuHandbook
[12:11]	TR News	Running latest ergo ircd now
[12:14]	TR News	Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppArmadillo 15.4.2-1 on CRAN: Small Upstream Fixes http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/07/25#rcpparmadillo_15.4.2-1
[12:14]	TR Bot	 Thinking inside the box
[12:19]	TR News	Kiwi Menu Continues Bringing macOS Vibes To GNOME https://www.phoronix.com/news/Kiwi-Menu-macOS-Vibes
[12:19]	TR Bot	Menu Continues Bringing macOS Vibes To GNOME - Phoronix
[12:30]	TR News	In remembrance of Dan Williams https://lwn.net/Articles/1085021/
[12:30]	TR Bot	remembrance of Dan Williams [LWN.net]
[12:31]	TR News	European Patent Office (EPO) Series: The Solution of No Choice: A Shortlist of One https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/25/European_Patent_Office_EPO_Series_The_Solution_of_No_Choice_A_S.shtml
[12:31]	TR Bot	 Techrights European Patent Office (EPO) Series: The Solution of No Choice: A Shortlist of One
[12:35]	TR News	Indias Attempt to Remove Jack Dorseys BitChat Put It in the Global Spotlight https://ostechnix.com/india-jack-dorsey-bitchat-github-takedown/
[12:35]	TR Bot	Attempt to Remove Jack Dorsey's BitChat Put It in the Global Spotlight - OSTechNix
[12:38]	TR News	1,500 curl authors https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/07/25/1500-curl-authors/
[12:38]	TR Bot	curl authors | daniel.haxx.se
[12:38]	TR News	IBM Hammers a CoI Into a CoCed Fedora, RIP Fedora? https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/25/IBM_Hammers_a_CoI_Into_a_CoCed_Fedora_RIP_Fedora.shtml
[12:38]	TR Bot	 Techrights IBM Hammers a CoI Into a CoCed Fedora, RIP Fedora?
[12:39]	TR News	IBM is Killing the Fedora Community, Replacing It With LLM Slop From I.C.B.M. Staff https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/25/IBM_is_Killing_the_Fedora_Community_Replacing_It_With_LLM_Slop_.shtml
[12:39]	TR Bot	 Techrights IBM is Killing the Fedora Community, Replacing It With LLM Slop From IBM Staff
[12:45]	TR News	MIT Is Blanketing Its Entire Campus in AI-Powered Security Cameras https://futurism.com/future-society/mit-surveillance-ai-cameras-monitoring-library
[12:45]	TR Bot	 MIT Is Blanketing Its Entire Campus in AI-Powered Security Cameras
[12:46]	TR News	Google Spreads Misinformation, Google's Slop Makes Stuff Up and Calls That "Intelligence" https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/24/Google_Spreads_Misinformation_Google_s_Slop_Makes_Stuff_Up_and_.shtml
[12:46]	TR Bot	 Techrights Google Spreads Misinformation, Google's Slop Makes Stuff Up and Calls That "Intelligence"
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[12:47]	TR News	Fedora Working To Establish Conflict of Interest Policy https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Conflict-Interest-Draft
[12:47]	TR Bot	Working To Establish Conflict of Interest Policy - Phoronix
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[12:54]	TR News	spin: https://yle.fi/a/7-10102678 ping Sompi
[12:54]	TR Bot	 Kommentar: Frn islamism till psykisk ohlsa olika motiv bland de mnga bilattentaten i Tyskland | Utrikes | Svenska Yle
[12:57]	TR News	Ubuntu 26.10 "Stonking Stingray": All the New Features So Far https://itsfoss.com/news/ubuntu-26-10-features/
[12:57]	TR Bot	 Ubuntu 26.10 "Stonking Stingray": All the New Features So Far
● Jul 26
[13:01]	TR News	Packaging and enabling upstream functional tests https://bzoltan1.github.io/packaging-and-enabling-upstream-functional-tests/
[13:01]	TR Bot	 Packaging and enabling upstream functional tests - Zoltn's Blog
[13:01]	TR News	GNU C Library 2.44 released https://lwn.net/Articles/1085030/
[13:01]	TR Bot	C Library 2.44 released [LWN.net]
[13:02]	TR News	Police hunt for suspect after one killed and 16 injured in attack at Berlin Pride | Germany | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/25/berlin-pride-march-called-off-after-car-crashes-into-crowd-of-people-near-route Source: The Guardian UK
[13:02]	TR Bot	 Police hunt for suspect after one killed and 16 injured in attack at Berlin Pride | Germany | The Guardian
[13:03]	TR News	Wine 11.14 Released with WoW64 Mode for FreeBSD & 21 Bug-fixes https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/07/wine-11-14-released-with-wow64-mode-for-freebsd-21-bug-fixes/
[13:04]	TR Bot	 Wine 11.14 Released with WoW64 Mode for FreeBSD & 21 Bug-fixes | UbuntuHandbook
[13:04]	TR News	OSINT VM 2026.7 https://distrowatch.com/osintvm
[13:04]	TR Bot	OSINT VM
[13:06]	TR News	Hybrid Atomic Updates with openSUSE Tumbleweed https://cubiclenate.com/2026/07/24/hybrid-atomic-updates-with-opensuse-tumbleweed/
[13:06]	TR Bot	 Exploring Atomic Updates for Stability in Linux Systems
[13:06]	TR News	Linux Saloon 212 | Application Appetizer Potluck Edition https://cubiclenate.com/2026/07/25/linux-saloon-212-application-appetizer-potluck-edition/
[13:06]	TR Bot	 Exploring Hybrid Atomic Updates on openSUSE Tumbleweed
[13:07]	TR News	EasyClone copy user-installed kernel modules https://bkhome.org/news/202607/easyclone-copy-user-installed-kernel-modules.html
[13:07]	TR Bot	 EasyClone copy user-installed kernel modules
[13:10]	TR News	Misleading Articles About YouTube and Surveillance Giant Google Financial Performance https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/25/Misleading_Articles_About_YouTube_and_Google_Financial_Performa.shtml
[13:10]	TR Bot	 Techrights Misleading Articles About YouTube and Google Financial Performance
[13:10]	TR News	Security updates for Saturday https://lwn.net/Articles/1085272/
[13:10]	TR Bot	updates for Saturday [LWN.net]
[13:11]	TR News	is grauniad in daily links 4 monday?
[13:11]	TR News	How to Completely Remove & Block Snap Apps in Ubuntu 26.04 https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/07/how-to-completely-remove-block-snap-apps-in-ubuntu-26-04/
[13:11]	TR Bot	 How to Completely Remove & Block Snap Apps in Ubuntu 26.04 | UbuntuHandbook
[13:11]	TR News	How to Find Which Process Is Using a Port in GNU/Linux https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-find-which-process-is-using-a-port/
[13:11]	TR Bot	to Find Which Process Is Using a Port in Linux | Linuxize
[13:11]	TR News	How To Install Ventoy on Fedora 44 https://idroot.us/install-ventoy-fedora-44/
[13:11]	TR Bot	 How To Install Ventoy on Fedora 44 - idroot
[13:15]	TR News	ALT 11.2 https://distrowatch.com/alt
[13:15]	TR Bot	ALT Linux
[13:16]	TR News	Pro-Ukraine group claims it helped hack Russian drone air defense system https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/drones/pro-ukraine-group-claims-it-helped-hack-russian-drone-air-defence-system-shooting-down-su-57-in-friendly-fire-incident-moscow-confirms-fifth-generation-fighter-jet-crashed-in-technical-malfunction
[13:16]	TR Bot	 Pro-Ukraine group claims it helped hack Russian drone air defense system, shooting down Su-57 in friendly fire incident Moscow confirms fifth-generation fighter jet crashed in 'technical malfunction' | Tom's Hardware
[13:17]	TR News	Misleading Articles About YouTube and Surveillance Giant Google Financial Performance https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/25/Misleading_Articles_About_YouTube_and_Google_Financial_Performa.shtml
[13:20]	TR News	A Debian general resolution on LLM usage https://lwn.net/Articles/1085314/
[13:20]	TR Bot	Debian general resolution on LLM usage [LWN.net]
[13:22]	TR News	CIQ Mixes Open Metaphors with RLC Pro Hardened Deployment https://fossforce.com/2026/07/ciq-mixes-open-metaphors-with-rlc-pro-hardened-deployment/
[13:22]	TR Bot	 CIQ Mixes 'Open' Metaphors with RLC Pro Hardened 'Deployment' - FOSS Force
[13:23]	TR News	FOSS Forces Top Five Articles For the Week Ending July 24, 2026 https://fossforce.com/2026/07/foss-forces-top-five-articles-for-the-week-ending-july-24-2026/
[13:23]	TR Bot	 FOSS Force's Top Five Articles For the Week Ending July 24, 2026 - FOSS Force
[13:23]	TR News	GNU C Library 2.44 Released https://fossforce.com/2026/07/gnu-c-library-2-44-released/
[13:23]	TR Bot	 GNU C Library 2.44 Released - FOSS Force
[13:23]	TR News	QR Codes Make Their Way Down Wedding Aisles https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/style/wedding-qr-codes.html
[13:23]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/style/wedding-qr-codes.html )
[13:25]	TR News	Where does mass-scale AI-created software take us? https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/99434.html
[13:25]	TR Bot	 Captcha Check
[13:27]	TR News	How to Create a KDE PlasmaStyle Floating Tray in FunOS https://funos.org/floating-tray-funos/
[13:27]	TR Bot	 How to Create a KDE PlasmaStyle Floating Tray in FunOS FunOS
[13:27]	TR News	 (NEW):  Slop Contaminating Codebases https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/26/Slop_Contaminating_Codebases.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/26/Slop_Contaminating_Codebases.gmi 
[13:27]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Slop Contaminating Codebases
[13:28]	TR News	Rockwell Patches Code Execution Flaws in Arena Simulation Software https://www.securityweek.com/rockwell-patches-code-execution-flaws-in-arena-simulation-software/
[13:28]	TR Bot	Patches Code Execution Flaws in Arena Simulation Software - SecurityWeek
[13:28]	TR News	Slashed pay, soaring workloads: Hey Hi (AI) didnt take these Hongkongers jobs but it hasnt made them easier https://hongkongfp.com/2026/07/26/slashed-pay-soaring-workloads-ai-didnt-take-these-hongkongers-jobs-but-it-hasnt-made-them-easier/
[13:28]	TR Bot	 AI didnt take these Hongkongers jobs - but it hasnt made them easier
[13:28]	TR News	Behind the classroom: Private school teachers face unpaid work and job insecurity https://bianet.org/haber/behind-the-classroom-private-school-teachers-face-unpaid-work-and-job-insecurity-321882
[13:28]	TR Bot	 Behind the classroom: Private school teachers face unpaid work and job insecurity
[13:30]	TR News	AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-companies-destroying-rare-books
[13:30]	TR Bot	 AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale
[13:31]	TR News	Voters Are Being Inundated by a Barrage of AI-Generated Election Ads https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/voters-elections-conservative-generative-ai-slop-ads-deepfakes
[13:31]	TR Bot	 Voters Are Being Inundated by a Barrage of AI-Generated Election Ads
[13:31]	TR News	People Are Starting to Record Every Conversation They Have Without Disclosing It, and Its Gross https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/friends-colleagues-recording-conversation
[13:31]	TR Bot	 People Are Starting to Record Every Conversation They Have Without Disclosing It, and It's Gross
[13:32]	TR News	Meta Working on Crushingly Sad Hey Hi (AI) App That Tells Bedtime Stories to Children, for Tired Parents https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-sad-ai-app-stories-children
[13:32]	TR Bot	 Meta Working on Crushingly Sad AI App That Tells Bedtime Stories to Children, for "Tired" Parents
[13:32]	TR News	New Parody Site Threatens to Replace CEOs With Hey Hi (AI) for Tiny Fraction of Their Bloated Salaries https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/website-overpaid-ai-replace-ceos-executives-labor
[13:32]	TR Bot	 New Parody Site Threatens to Replace CEOs With AI for Tiny Fraction of Their Bloated Salaries
[13:32]	TR News	OpenAI agent goes rogue and hacks popular Hey Hi (AI) community left escape plans for future models inside the company's infrastructure https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/openai-agent-goes-rogue-and-hacks-popular-ai-community-left-escape-plans-for-future-models-inside-the-companys-infrastructure
[13:32]	TR Bot	 OpenAI agent goes rogue and hacks popular AI community left escape plans for future models inside the company's infrastructure | Tom's Hardware
[13:34]	TR News	Japan PM Takaichis 0 to 3 hours sleep post spurs work-style debate https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/japan-pm-takaichis-0-to-3-hours-sleep-post-spurs-work-style-debate
[13:34]	TR Bot	 Japan PM Takaichis 0 to 3 hours sleep post spurs work-style debate | The Straits Times
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[13:36]	TR News	https://www.straitstimes.com/news/asia/rss.xml Sun, 26 Jul 2026 08:15:00 +0800 Coffee-less coffee, chocolates without cocoa: A look into North Koreas substitute economy
[13:38]	TR News	banning all LLM-generated code https://www.xda-developers.com/as-ubuntu-embraces-ai-debian-discusses-banning-all-ai-generated-code/
[13:38]	TR Bot	 As Ubuntu embraces AI, Debian discusses banning all AI-generated code
[13:41]	TR News	World Machine Dragontail Peak now runs on macOS and Linux https://www.cgchannel.com/2026/07/world-machine-software-ships-world-machine-dragontail-peak/
[13:41]	TR Bot	 World Machine Dragontail Peak now runs on macOS and Linux | CG Channel
[13:42]	TR News	"There's also a healthy dose of fixes for games like Star Citizen, VRChat, Cyberpunk 2077, Dragon's Dogma 2, Yakuza 5 Remastered and many more." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/ge-proton-11-3-brings-better-optiscaler-integration-amd-fsr4-improvements-and-lots-of-game-fixes/
[13:42]	TR Bot	11-3 brings better OptiScaler integration, AMD FSR4 improvements and lots of game fixes | GamingOnLinux
[13:43]	TR News	"I've usually trusted the word "lightweight" on a Linux distro's homepage. Pick anything with that label, drop it on old hardware, and it should run fine, or so I assumed." https://www.makeuseof.com/3-linux-distros-that-run-on-28gb-of-ram-when-even-the-lightweight-ones-choke/
[13:43]	TR Bot	 3 Linux distros that run on 2.8GB of RAM when even the 'lightweight' ones choke
[13:44]	TR News	Marvel Tkon: Fighting Souls Open Beta Is Blocked on Linux by Easy Anti-Cheat https://www.theouterhaven.net/marvel-tokon-fighting-souls-steamos-linux-easy-anticheat/
[13:44]	TR Bot	 Marvel Tokon fighting souls doesn't work with Linux (EAC)
[13:44]	TR News	Marvel Tkon: Fighting Souls Open Beta Is Blocked on Linux by Easy Anti-Cheat https://opencritic.com/news/35041/marvel-t-kon-fighting-souls-open-beta-is-blocked-on-linux-by-easy-anti-cheat
[13:44]	TR Bot	Tkon: Fighting Souls Open Beta Is Blocked on Linux by Easy Anti-Cheat - OpenCritic
[13:47]	TR News	 (NEW):  Today's HowTos   https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/26/today_s_howtos.1.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/26/today_s_howtos.1.gmi 
[13:47]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines today's howtos
[13:49]	TR News	 (NEW):  Demands of Rootkits Keep Marvel Tkon Away From GNU/Linux https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/26/Demands_of_Rootkits_Keep_Marvel_Tokon_Away_From_GNU_Linux.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/26/Demands_of_Rootkits_Keep_Marvel_Tokon_Away_From_GNU_Linux.gmi 
[13:49]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Demands of Rootkits Keep Marvel Tkon Away From GNU/Linux
[13:52]	TR News	 (NEW):   Programming Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/26/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/26/Programming_Leftovers.gmi 
[13:52]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Programming Leftovers
[13:53]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://lwn.net/ml/all/teaVXxrfQH2qv0xBul7sXg@gentoo.org
[13:53]	TR Bot	( status 401 @ https://lwn.net/ml/all/teaVXxrfQH2qv0xBul7sXg@gentoo.org/ )
[13:54]	schestowitz[TR2]	they have blocker
[13:54]	schestowitz[TR2]	for slop botss
[13:54]	schestowitz[TR2]	but they block legit visitors now
[13:54]	schestowitz[TR2]	rip, lwn?
[13:55]	TR News	 (NEW):  Release of GNU C Library 2.44 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/26/Release_of_GNU_C_Library_2_44.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/26/Release_of_GNU_C_Library_2_44.gmi 
[13:55]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Release of GNU C Library 2.44
[13:56]	MinceR	https://apina.biz/215135.jpeg?mode=sfw
[13:56]		-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-http://apina.biz/215135.jpeg
[13:59]	TR News	Techrights Links 26/07/2026: "Zelenskyy Says Russia Wants To Bring North Korean Troops Into Ukraine", Muslim Van Ramming Attack on Berlin Pride https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/26/Links_26_07_2026_Zelenskyy_Says_Russia_Wants_To_Bring_North_Kor.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/26/Links_26_07_2026_Zelenskyy_Says_Russia_Wants_To_Bring_North_Kor.gmi 
[13:59]	TR Bot	 Techrights Links 26/07/2026: "Zelenskyy Says Russia Wants To Bring North Korean Troops Into Ukraine", Muslim Van Ramming Attack on Berlin Pride
● Jul 26
[14:10]	TR News	 (NEW):  Release of Brave 1.92 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/26/Release_of_Brave_1_92.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/26/Release_of_Brave_1_92.gmi 
[14:10]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Release of Brave 1.92
[14:12]	TR News	 (NEW):  Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and WWW Stories https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/26/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_and_WWW_Stories.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/26/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_and_WWW_Stories.gmi 
[14:12]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and WWW Stories
[14:14]	TR News	 (NEW):  CubicleNate on OpenSUSE and Linux Saloon Episode https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/26/CubicleNate_on_OpenSUSE_and_Linux_Saloon_Episode.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/26/CubicleNate_on_OpenSUSE_and_Linux_Saloon_Episode.gmi 
[14:14]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines CubicleNate on OpenSUSE and Linux Saloon Episode
[14:16]	TR News	 (NEW):  Security Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/26/Security_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/26/Security_Leftovers.gmi 
[14:16]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Security Leftovers
[14:17]	TR News	 (NEW):  GNU/Linux Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/26/GNU_Linux_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/26/GNU_Linux_Leftovers.gmi 
[14:17]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines GNU/Linux Leftovers
[14:27]	TR News	Techrights Maintenance Today https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/26/Maintenance_Today.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/26/Maintenance_Today.gmi 
[14:27]	TR Bot	 Techrights Maintenance Today
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[14:34]	TR News	 (NEW):  Reversal of Narratives by "MAGA Americans" https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/26/Reversal_of_Narratives_by_MAGA_Americans.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/26/Reversal_of_Narratives_by_MAGA_Americans.gmi 
[14:34]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Reversal of Narratives by "MAGA Americans"
[14:44]	TR News	 (NEW):  Appliances Got Scarce and Expensive https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/26/Appliances_Got_Scarce_and_Expensive.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/26/Appliances_Got_Scarce_and_Expensive.gmi 
[14:44]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Appliances Got Scarce and Expensive
● Jul 26
[15:00]	MinceR	https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2015/09/25/personae
[15:00]	TR Bot	 Personae - Penny Arcade
[15:07]	TR News	Techrights Being Pro-Slop is Death Knell to One's Credibility https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/26/Being_Pro_Slop_is_Death_Knell_to_One_s_Credibility.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/26/Being_Pro_Slop_is_Death_Knell_to_One_s_Credibility.gmi 
[15:07]	TR Bot	 Techrights Being Pro-Slop is Death Knell to One's Credibility
[15:18]	TR News	gnu/linux 8% https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/fiji/#monthly-200902-202607
[15:18]	TR Bot	 Desktop Operating System Market Share Fiji | Statcounter Global Stats
[15:31]	TR News	 (NEW):  In Some Sense, GNU/Linux Already Measured at 20% in Sweden https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/26/In_Some_Sense_GNU_Linux_Already_Measured_at_20_in_Sweden.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/26/In_Some_Sense_GNU_Linux_Already_Measured_at_20_in_Sweden.gmi 
[15:31]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines In Some Sense, GNU/Linux Already Measured at 20% in Sweden
[15:46]	TR News	Techrights Sweden Needs GNU/Linux and Free Software, Not GAFAM https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/26/Sweden_Needs_GNU_Linux_and_Free_Software_Not_GAFAM.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/26/Sweden_Needs_GNU_Linux_and_Free_Software_Not_GAFAM.gmi 
[15:46]	TR Bot	 Techrights Sweden Needs GNU/Linux and Free Software, Not GAFAM
[15:47]	TR News	"Around two or three weeks ago I changed my tooling for my gopher content to create gophermaps instead of plaintext files for "pages"." gopher://redterminal.org:70/0/phlog/2026-07-25-Should_I_move_back_to_plaintext_pages.txt
[15:48]	TR News	"The last couple decades have had me working on things obsessively, though never releasing much. Always, I tell myself, I'll do it when I'm ready. There are some exceptions: my big software project, released a decade ago, maintained regularly since. Two poetry chapbooks. But in general: I polish. I obsess. And nothing is ever ready." gemini://tilde.club/~winter/gemlog/2026/7-25.gmi
[15:49]	TR News	"An update of the various things happening in my life" gemini://tilde.club/~steelexodus/posts/update-2026-07/
[15:49]	TR News	"Once again, a little bit of a nothing month, but not as much as previously, so let's have a look." gemini://isoraqathedh.pollux.casa/gemlog/2026-07.gmi
[15:50]	TR News	"After a short but nice correspondence with IanJ I'm convinced, that it's more important that my phlog is really readable by my (few) readers and not breaking with the long-established rules of the Gopher community."
[15:50]	TR News	"And I can't (and shouldn't) demand people to change their reading habits (for example if they're using UMN Gopher Client, which should now be able to display my pages again)." gopher://redterminal.org:70/0/phlog/2026-07-26-So_I_rolled_back_to_a_plaintext_phlog.txt
[15:52]	TR News	Skript fr meine Capsule gemini://tilde.team/~rzbrk/gemlog/2026-07-25.gmi
[15:52]	TR News	by the window gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/by_the_window
[15:53]	TR News	"In the early years of "playing in the MUD", I was a youngster who was prone to being influenced by others in the way that partially-formed adults often are. Friendship and camaraderie came and went easily, as it tends to do in youth and in fully digital spaces." gemini://nullish.smol.pub/gratitudes-part-2-a-briefest-mention-of-synefra
[15:54]	TR News	We've got ourselves an overachieving Haworthia right here. gemini://b-ark.ca/2026/07/26/we-ve-got-ourselves-an/
[15:54]	TR News	 (NEW):  Linux makes old computers feel faster, not actually faster https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/26/Linux_makes_old_computers_feel_faster_not_actually_faster.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/26/Linux_makes_old_computers_feel_faster_not_actually_faster.gmi 
[15:54]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Linux makes old computers feel faster, not actually faster
[15:54]	TR News	"this semi-rant is about the poor souls who think it's what's expected otherwise you're somehow a tarot fraud." gemini://dogboy.smol.pub/tarotpractice
[15:55]	TR News	"I /think/ there's a subtle issue with how Rogallo handles the server fingerprints, but I can't quite put my finger on it (no pun, etc...). I suspect there's something to learn via that thread." gemini://station.martinrue.com/davep/f174c69222a84a72ad14c3b54d4d2731
[15:56]	TR News	"I don't think there's a reason to attack Gemini beyond to show off. But I'm anxious" gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/s/Gemini/46370
[15:57]	TR News	"This morning we picked up our friends and their daughter and drove an hour north. The destination: a little town on a lake, for a short day at the beach. We got in, unpacked, changed, put on sunscreen." gemini://tilde.club/~winter/gemlog/2026/7-25-2.gmi
[15:57]	TR News	Neue Capsule gemini://tilde.team/~rzbrk/gemlog/2026-07-22.gmi
[15:57]	TR News	Testeintrag gemini://tilde.team/~rzbrk/gemlog/2026-07-19.gmi
[15:57]	TR News	 (NEW):  Zorin Connect does three things that finally made me stop opening multiple apps https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/26/Zorin_Connect_does_three_things_that_finally_made_me_stop_openi.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/26/Zorin_Connect_does_three_things_that_finally_made_me_stop_openi.gmi 
[15:58]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Zorin Connect does three things that finally made me stop opening multiple apps
[15:58]	TR News	Another Bozo on the bus. gopher://sdf.org:70/1/users/xiled/phlog/2026/20260725_identity
● Jul 26
[16:03]	TR News	 (NEW):  KDE Plasma became the best Linux desktop, but it's terrifying for new users https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/26/KDE_Plasma_became_the_best_Linux_desktop_but_it_s_terrifying_fo.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/26/KDE_Plasma_became_the_best_Linux_desktop_but_it_s_terrifying_fo.gmi 
[16:03]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines KDE Plasma became the best Linux desktop, but it's terrifying for new users
[16:04]	TR News	Techrights Gemini Links 26/07/2026: Beach Day, CAs, and Plaintext https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/26/Gemini_Links_26_07_2026_Beach_Day_CAs_and_Plaintext.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/26/Gemini_Links_26_07_2026_Beach_Day_CAs_and_Plaintext.gmi 
[16:04]	TR Bot	 Techrights Gemini Links 26/07/2026: Beach Day, CAs, and Plaintext
[16:06]	TR News	 (NEW):  Ubuntu LTS is the best Proxmox LXC base, even though Debian seems like the obvious choice https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/26/Ubuntu_LTS_is_the_best_Proxmox_LXC_base_even_though_Debian_seem.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/26/Ubuntu_LTS_is_the_best_Proxmox_LXC_base_even_though_Debian_seem.gmi 
[16:06]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Ubuntu LTS is the best Proxmox LXC base, even though Debian seems like the obvious choice
[16:09]	TR News	 (NEW):  CachyOS rebuilds every package the 'wrong' way, and my Steam library runs faster for it https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/26/CachyOS_rebuilds_every_package_the_wrong_way_and_my_Steam_libra.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/26/CachyOS_rebuilds_every_package_the_wrong_way_and_my_Steam_libra.gmi 
[16:09]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines CachyOS rebuilds every package the 'wrong' way, and my Steam library runs faster for it
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[16:46]	TR News	 (NEW):   : Google Android Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/26/Android_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/26/Android_Leftovers.gmi 
[16:46]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Android Leftovers
[16:58]	MinceR	(cat) https://ibb.co/album/2326cw
[16:58]	TR Bot	 Timmy ImgBB
● Jul 26
[17:03]	TR News	GNU/Linux remained high in Suriname throughout the year http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/13/All_Time_High_for_GNU_Linux_in_Suriname.shtml https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/suriname/#monthly-200902-202607
[17:03]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines All-Time High for GNU/Linux in Suriname
[17:03]	TR Bot	 Desktop Operating System Market Share Suriname | Statcounter Global Stats
[17:11]	TR News	Techrights In statCounter, a lot of "Unknown" Turns Out to be GNU/Linux https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/26/In_statCounter_a_lot_of_Unknown_Turns_Out_to_be_GNU_Linux.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/26/In_statCounter_a_lot_of_Unknown_Turns_Out_to_be_GNU_Linux.gmi 
[17:11]	TR Bot	 Techrights In statCounter, a lot of "Unknown" Turns Out to be GNU/Linux
[17:18]	TR News	 (NEW):  Xfce was supposed to be the last safe house for X11 holdouts, and it just started packing up https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/26/Xfce_was_supposed_to_be_the_last_safe_house_for_X11_holdouts_an.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/26/Xfce_was_supposed_to_be_the_last_safe_house_for_X11_holdouts_an.gmi 
[17:18]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Xfce was supposed to be the last safe house for X11 holdouts, and it just started packing up
[17:26]	TR News	 (NEW):  Proxmox, Home lab, Mini PC and Many More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/26/Proxmox_Home_lab_Mini_PC_and_Many_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/26/Proxmox_Home_lab_Mini_PC_and_Many_More.gmi 
[17:26]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Proxmox, Home lab, Mini PC and Many More
[17:27]	TR News	Techrights Non-Techs Using Slop Run Fedora and It's Turning Out to be a Total Disaster https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/26/Non_Techs_Using_Slop_Run_Fedora_and_It_s_Turning_Out_to_be_a_To.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/26/Non_Techs_Using_Slop_Run_Fedora_and_It_s_Turning_Out_to_be_a_To.gmi 
[17:27]	TR Bot	 Techrights Non-Techs Using Slop Run Fedora and It's Turning Out to be a Total Disaster
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[17:33]	TR News	"So abandon AI and now quantum is the new moonshot? AK is tossing-up a Hail Mary." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ky99s0xw
[17:33]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ky99s0xw )
[17:33]	TR News	"This only proves one point - AK is not worried because he knows how to bullsh-t!!!"
[17:34]	TR News	WSJ (Murdoch) covering up again for IBM http://techrights.org/n/2026/06/19/Fake_News_From_Rupert_Murdoch_s_WSJ_Could_Not_Keep_IBM_From_Sin.shtml http://techrights.org/n/2026/06/19/Murdoch_s_Wall_Street_Journal_WSJ_Associates_Dependence_on_a_Po.shtml
[17:34]	TR Bot	 Techrights Fake News From Rupert Murdoch's WSJ Could Not Keep IBM From Sinking
[17:34]	TR Bot	 Techrights Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (WSJ) Associates Dependence on a Ponzi Scheme With "the Future"
[17:35]	TR News	""At what level do you become exempt from pip?"" https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/25/PIPs_Are_Shrinking_IBM_and_IBM_is_Managing_Decline_Not_Building.shtml
[17:35]	TR Bot	 Techrights PIPs Are Shrinking IBM and "IBM is Managing Decline, Not Building Growth"
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[17:39]	TR News	"the reason partners are used has nothing to do with skill. IBM doesnt want to hire more people and partners get the work." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kycdkzhr
[17:39]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kycdkzhr )
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[17:51]	TR News	"when the buyout is complete, 100% of them would not recommend working there. "74% of HRL Laboratories employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews."" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ky9xhn9h
[17:51]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ky9xhn9h )
[17:52]	TR News	"More private equity style money laundering. Moving money around, ruining lives of more American workers. Another acquisition to delay another day of reckoning." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ky8nf3nd
[17:52]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ky8nf3nd )
[17:52]	TR News	"My deepest sympathies are with the employees of HRL" "yes this feels very much like yet another distraction in short succession"
[17:53]	TR News	"That is too funny - What was AK doing till now? Just observing the culture too slow to change over all these years and not doing anything about it?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ky7hs98g "not only the US employees I'm afraid ! these guys are everything but leaders!!!"
[17:53]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ky7hs98g )
● Jul 26
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[18:26]	TR News	Techrights Silent Layoffs (PIPs) Have Allegedly Accelerated Since IBM's Stock Cratered https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/26/Silent_Layoffs_PIPs_Have_Allegedly_Accelerated_Since_IBM_s_Stoc.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/26/Silent_Layoffs_PIPs_Have_Allegedly_Accelerated_Since_IBM_s_Stoc.gmi 
[18:26]	TR Bot	 Techrights Silent Layoffs (PIPs) Have Allegedly Accelerated Since IBM's Stock Cratered
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● Jul 26
[19:00]	IsambardPrince	Great, my computer is having that Wayland bug again where it ignores mouse events.
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[19:09]	IsambardPrince	Okay, I installed the X11 session.
[19:10]	IsambardPrince	(Cue the he's a transphobic Nazi because he wants mouse events to work on Wayland, which is 18 years old now.)
[19:10]	IsambardPrince	I'm not sentimental about X11. They solved most of the problems with it many years ago.
[19:35]	MinceR	lol
[19:36]	MinceR	ignoring events is so "modern" though
● Jul 26
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[20:04]	admfubar	https://www.techspot.com/news/113199-reddit-major-publishers-consider-blocking-google-ai-search.html
[20:04]	TR Bot	and major publishers consider blocking Google as AI search continues destroying web traffic | TechSpot
[20:06]	schestowitz[TR2]	reddit is trash
[20:06]	TR News	 (NEW):  Windows at New Lows in Viet Nam, GNU/Linux Measured at 7% https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/26/Windows_at_New_Lows_in_Viet_Nam_GNU_Linux_Measured_at_7.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/26/Windows_at_New_Lows_in_Viet_Nam_GNU_Linux_Measured_at_7.gmi 
[20:06]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Windows at New Lows in Viet Nam, GNU/Linux Measured at 7%
[20:08]	TR News	gold price https://www.dw.com/en/will-gold-prices-extend-their-record-breaking-run/a-77971997
[20:08]	TR Bot	 Will gold prices extend their record-breaking run?
[20:09]	TR News	heat https://www.dw.com/en/german-tenants-need-better-heat-protection/a-77979682
[20:09]	TR Bot	 German tenants need better heat protection
[20:11]	TR News	"Falling behind" on a PONZI SCHEME is NOT a bad thing! https://www.dw.com/en/ai-why-europe-is-falling-behind-and-how-it-can-catch-up/a-77853943
[20:11]	TR Bot	 AI: Why Europe is falling behind, and how it can catch up
[20:12]	TR News	Attacks on Free-Speech https://off-guardian.org/2026/07/16/widdecombe-murder-means-attacks-on-free-speech-swap-sides/
[20:14]	TR News	life sentence for minors https://bianet.org/haber/turkey-s-new-draft-law-introduces-life-sentence-for-minors-321497
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[20:19]	IsambardPrince	[14:06] <schestowitz[TR2]> reddit is trash
[20:19]	IsambardPrince	They still support RSS.
[20:20]	IsambardPrince	Which obviously doesn't load Reddit ads.
[20:20]	IsambardPrince	I suppose it doesn't occur to them to remove it because most browsers are built for retards who just use whatever deshovka is already there.
[20:20]	IsambardPrince	Like Microsoft Edge.
[20:22]	TR News	e-commerce warehouses https://cphpost.dk/2026-07-22/global/several-hurt-in-attack-on-russian-e-commerce-warehouses/ https://www.theage.com.au/world/europe/russian-amazon-hit-by-more-massive-ukrainian-strikes-20260722-p60hnt.html
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[20:22]	TR Bot	 Russia-Ukraine war: Russian Amazon hit by more massive strikes
[20:33]	TR News	Latitude and Longitude https://xkcd.com/3273/
[20:33]	TR Bot	Latitude and Longitude
[20:34]	TR News	Arthurian Connector https://xkcd.com/3274/
[20:34]	TR Bot	Arthurian Connector
[20:34]	TR News	Calibration Nobel https://xkcd.com/3275/
[20:34]	TR Bot	Calibration Nobel
[20:35]	TR News	OPNsense 26.7 released https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=52375.0
[20:35]	TR Bot	 OPNsense 26.7 released
[20:36]	TR News	Press Freedom Under Pressure https://www.projectcensored.org/press-freedom-under-pressure-media-academia-gaza/
[20:36]	TR Bot	stream 1 was not closed cleanly: PROTOCOL_ERROR (err 1) ( status 0 @ https://www.projectcensored.org/press-freedom-under-pressure-media-academia-gaza/ )
[20:36]	TR News	CPJ, SCM submit report to UN ahead of Syria human rights review https://cpj.org/2026/07/cpj-scm-submit-report-to-un-ahead-of-syria-human-rights-review/
[20:36]	TR Bot	 CPJ, SCM submit report to UN ahead of Syria human rights review - Committee to Protect Journalists
[20:37]	TR News	DW correspondent Alican Uludag released, ordered not to leave Turkey https://www.dw.com/en/dw-correspondent-alican-uludag-released-ordered-not-to-leave-turkey/a-78075380
[20:37]	TR Bot	releases DW correspondent after overnight detention
[20:37]	TR News	DW correspondent Alican Uludag re-arrested in Turkey https://www.dw.com/en/dw-correspondent-alican-uludag-re-arrested-in-turkey/a-78057910
[20:37]	TR Bot	correspondent Alican Uludag re-arrested in Turkey
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[20:57]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2]: Anyway, banks are taking legal action over incredibly small balances now.
[20:57]	IsambardPrince	I'm seeing more people than ever say that they are going after balances under $3000 and I've ever until recently seen prime banks go after people for less than $1,000, but they are starting to.
[20:59]	IsambardPrince	They're basically loading these things into a "blunderbuss" that no human has actually reviewed.
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[20:59]	IsambardPrince	That's why simply responding often causes it to get thrown out. The setup doesn't work because it relies on people not bothering.
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[21:02]	IsambardPrince	My cousin's foster-daughter got served by a landlord and I kept writing her some replies. It got thrown out five times and eventually the landlord just gave up.
[21:07]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2]: Microsoft gets some interesting people.
[21:08]	IsambardPrince	Like the composer for the video game music that "allegedly" raped women in the office and threatened to fire them so they'd be deported if they didn't let him fuck them (H1-B).
[21:09]	IsambardPrince	He "allegedly" sent emails of videos of himself masturbating, or say that he couldn't work if he didn't "clear his mind" by forcing them to have sex with him.
[21:09]	IsambardPrince	According to some of the women who worked there, they didn't even want to go to company Christmas parties because he was there.
[21:09]	IsambardPrince	Then instead of being held accountable, he resigned and stayed quiet.
[21:19]	schestowitz[TR2]	there was another
[21:19]	schestowitz[TR2]	i forgot his name
[21:19]	schestowitz[TR2]	the hololens guy
[21:19]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://techrights.org/o/2022/06/09/another-theranos-moment/index.shtml
[21:19]	TR Bot	 Microsoft, EPO Awards, and Sexual Abuse (Theranos All Over Again)
[21:20]	TR News	Techrights Stigma of Being Laid Off by Microsoft https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/26/Stigma_of_Being_Laid_Off_by_Microsoft.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/26/Stigma_of_Being_Laid_Off_by_Microsoft.gmi 
[21:20]	TR Bot	 Techrights Stigma of Being Laid Off by Microsoft
[21:22]	TR News	Comments on Formatting Gopher Posts gopher://gopher.unixlore.net:70/0/glog/comments-on-formatting-gopher-posts.md
[21:23]	TR News	"Why the move? I'm trying to reduce my self-hosting footprint, and I've had a mostly unused tilde.team account for a while, so it seemed a good place to setup shop. The content here will stay online for a while, at least until I get rid of the VPS hosting it." gopher://gopher.unixlore.net:70/0/glog/moving-gopher-site.md
[21:24]	TR News	"It started while shopping for a backpack. I bought my last one from a military surplus supplier about twenty years ago. I don't much care for spending money, but my old pack was falling apart, and twenty years -- and probably twenty thousand miles -- isn't a bad service life for an inexpensive backpack." gemini://larsthebear.me/things_that_will_see_me_out.gmi
[21:25]	TR News	"I have written so much, and yet so little. I am thinking about getting all my posts together and then putting them through the shredder and just take the good bits and put them together in a single post. It will probably leave me with 100 words or less." gemini://detritus.smol.pub/1785087365
[21:25]	TR News	"On August, 12th you can witness a partial solar eclipse in some parts of Europe. I published a gemlog on how to build a simple projector and discussed some design aspects (German): [...]" gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/s/Astronomy/46413
[21:26]	TR News	DIY Projektor fr die Sonnenfinsternis am 12.08.2026 gemini://tilde.team/~rzbrk/gemlog/2026-07-26.gmi
[21:29]	TR News	years ago: http://techrights.org/o/2023/08/23/gemini-capsules-in-geminispace/ now: "There are 4761 capsules. We successfully connected recently to 3487 of them." gemini://gemini.bortzmeyer.org/software/lupa/stats.gmi
[21:29]	TR Bot	 By Month's End Lupa Will Quite Likely See 3,500 Unique Gemini Capsules in Geminispace
[21:33]	TR News	Techrights Gemini Links 26/07/2026: European Eclipse, Writing About Writing, and Comments on Formatting Gopher Posts https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/26/Gemini_Links_26_07_2026_European_Eclipse_Writing_About_Writing_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/26/Gemini_Links_26_07_2026_European_Eclipse_Writing_About_Writing_.gmi 
[21:33]	TR Bot	 Techrights Gemini Links 26/07/2026: European Eclipse, Writing About Writing, and Comments on Formatting Gopher Posts
[21:41]	TR News	Techrights 3,500 Active Gemini Capsules Soon https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/26/3_500_Active_Gemini_Capsules_Soon.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/26/3_500_Active_Gemini_Capsules_Soon.gmi 
[21:41]	TR Bot	 Techrights 3,500 Active Gemini Capsules Soon
[21:58]	TR News	 (NEW):  Tux Machines Growing Bigger https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/26/Tux_Machines_Growing_Bigger.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/26/Tux_Machines_Growing_Bigger.gmi 
[21:58]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Tux Machines Growing Bigger
[21:59]	admfubar	https://www.rawstory.com/andrew-tate-2677272827/
[21:59]	TR Bot	 Jailed MAGA influencer ridiculed for behind-bars complaint: Have you tried crying? - Raw Story
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[22:00]	TR News	Techrights Millions of Daily Requests https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/26/Millions_of_Daily_Requests.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/26/Millions_of_Daily_Requests.gmi 
[22:00]	TR Bot	 Techrights Millions of Daily Requests
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[22:11]	TR News	Techrights Daniel Pocock in Mainstream Media Again https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/26/Daniel_Pocock_in_Mainstream_Media_Again.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/26/Daniel_Pocock_in_Mainstream_Media_Again.gmi 
[22:11]	TR Bot	 Techrights Daniel Pocock in Mainstream Media Again
[22:13]	admfubar	https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/26/new-jersey-surveillance-pricing-ban
[22:13]	TR Bot	 New Jersey governor signs law banning surveillance pricing to protect shoppers | New Jersey | The Guardian
[22:14]	IsambardPrince	Using the office as a hunting ground for people to rape seems depressingly common in the tech sector.
[22:14]	schestowitz[TR2]	sigh
[22:15]	schestowitz[TR2]	anything else would be "missing out", wouldn't it?
[22:17]	IsambardPrince	Rape, really most sex crimes in general fit the overall psychological profile of a sadist.
[22:17]	IsambardPrince	Not all sadists are rapists, but all rapists, child molesters, (etc) are sadists.
[22:17]	IsambardPrince	It's a subtype.
[22:17]	IsambardPrince	And when you're dealing with a sex offender, you already know 100% that they're a sadist, and it can manifest in other ways.
[22:18]	IsambardPrince	Some sadists are not sex offenders, they restrain themselves to the point where they will not be arrested for anything.
[22:18]	IsambardPrince	They find professions that allow them to cause pain as part of what they do.
[22:19]	IsambardPrince	Or where they have control over people and cause pain for some legitimate reason.
[22:19]	IsambardPrince	Some middle managers are sadists. The cover is this.
[22:19]	IsambardPrince	They have to cut payroll. They make people suffer by cutting payroll. There's nothing in the bank account and they're hungry and can't afford basic medical care and they still have to show up at Walmart or there won't even be enough to pay rent.
[22:20]	IsambardPrince	Not all middle managers do it because it thrills them, but some see it as a "nice bonus".
[22:20]	IsambardPrince	Those are the sadists.
[22:21]	IsambardPrince	I worked like this for years. Hungry, no heat, no access to WHO Essential Medicines (like antidepressants or antibiotics).
[22:21]	IsambardPrince	Still had to clock in and do the Company Cheer during the meeting.
[22:21]	IsambardPrince	I got sick and needed antibiotics.
[22:21]	IsambardPrince	No health insurance.
[22:22]	IsambardPrince	A $100 visit to the walk-in clinic and a $400 bottle of antibiotics wipes out two weeks pay.
[22:22]	IsambardPrince	The car broke down the same week. Had to leave it in the parking spot and walk to work.
[22:22]	IsambardPrince	The apartment manager saw me out there working on my own car because I had no choice. I had no idea what I was doing, either. I downloaded a repair manual from the web.
[22:22]	IsambardPrince	I eventually got the car to start.
[22:23]	IsambardPrince	While I was walking to work, a police officer stopped me and started questioning why I was walking.
[22:23]	IsambardPrince	I said, "Because I'm going somewhere."
[22:23]	IsambardPrince	"Do you suspect me of any wrongdoing?"
[22:24]	IsambardPrince	She said, "We've had some break-ins in the area."
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[22:24]	IsambardPrince	I said, "Well, I'm sorry to hear that. Tell you what, let me finish putting down this invisible television that I was effortlessly carrying and I'll come right over."
[22:30]	IsambardPrince	I've always actively hated the police. They're not there for people like me.
[22:31]	admfubar	https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/07/26/0337236
[22:31]	TR Bot	 India's First Privately Developed Rocket Reaches Orbit on Dramatic Debut Launch - SoylentNews
[22:31]	IsambardPrince	I mean, you know, doing a full mime impression of putting a TV down on the ground.
[22:32]	IsambardPrince	It's funny because you're in the middle of illness, a broken car, walking to work getting attacked by geese who chase you from the local pond.
[22:32]	IsambardPrince	And then this lady cop stops you while you're obviously not doing anything illegal.
[22:33]	admfubar	https://www.worseonpurpose.com/p/your-cookware-got-worse-on-purpose
[22:33]	TR Bot	 Your Cookware Got Worse On Purpose: Who Owns Pyrex & All-Clad Now
[22:35]	admfubar	https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/07/24/1452216
[22:35]	TR Bot	 There Isn't a Single Consumer Wi-Fi Router That is 100% American-Made - SoylentNews
[22:35]	IsambardPrince	Yeah, modern Pyrex will shatter in an oven.
[22:35]	IsambardPrince	They look the same as the old ones, but they are not.
[22:38]	admfubar	https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/07/24/1428215
[22:38]	TR Bot	 OpenAI's Rogue Agents are a Wake-up Call to Risks Posed by Artificial Intelligence - SoylentNews
[22:39]	admfubar	:)) https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/07/23/229219
[22:39]	TR Bot	 Former Microsoft AI Leaders Are Spending $1M to Prove AI Can Replace CEOs - SoylentNews
[22:42]	admfubar	https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/07/23/0234212
[22:42]	TR Bot	 Former OpenAI CTO Does What Altman Won't: Releases a Frontier AI Model That's Actually Open - SoylentNews
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[23:07]	admfubar	https://www.qubes-os.org/
[23:07]	TR Bot	 Qubes OS: A reasonably secure operating system | Qubes OS
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[23:09]	MinceR	lol
[23:16]	IsambardPrince	OpenAI said that China's open source models are so good that the only thing that could possibly save OpenAI the company is if Donald Trump makes it "risky from a regulatory standpoint to use those models".
[23:16]	IsambardPrince	Translation: We're bribing him to do illegal shit to distort markets so our crappy business can go on.
[23:17]	IsambardPrince	The danger is not that federal agencies disappear. It's that they get perverted.
[23:18]	IsambardPrince	Like Trump appointing Capital One executives to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
[23:18]	IsambardPrince	After spending his first year having them take action to help payday loan companies and fee harvester credit card banks.
[23:19]	IsambardPrince	Capital One absolutely does use "agentic AI" to service accounts.
[23:20]	IsambardPrince	It does cause slightly higher account delinquencies, but it lets them run lean in ways that other banks don't.
[23:20]	IsambardPrince	At scale, it's too expensive to spam people with credit card offers using human credit analysts like Chase or Citi have.
[23:21]	IsambardPrince	Capital One is constantly tweaking the rules for the "AI" agents and having a small percentage of new accounts issued under the new rules while the more conservative model continues for most people.
[23:21]	MinceR	> if Donald Trump makes it "risky
[23:21]	MinceR	hmm, what did the "conservatives" say about the government picking winners and losers?
[23:22]	IsambardPrince	So if two people of about the same credit profile get different answers, that's one reason why.
[23:22]	IsambardPrince	I think Capital One was testing a new model on one of my cards.
[23:23]	IsambardPrince	They issued me a prime credit card with a new account bonus, and now the system seems to view me as too risky again.
[23:23]	IsambardPrince	But the nice thing about it is they don't review their past decisions.
[23:24]	IsambardPrince	They keep servicing that account under the model used when it was written.
[23:45]	IsambardPrince	MinceR: I remembered asking for Paid Time Off once.
[23:46]	IsambardPrince	It got approved and then the plant manager went to find me on the floor to try to guilt trip me into taking some time off.
[23:46]	IsambardPrince	I planned to stay home and play video games.
[23:46]	IsambardPrince	But I couldn't say that because then it made me sound like the asshole who wouldn't come into work.
[23:47]	IsambardPrince	So I said, "Well gee, it already got approved and that's why I put down a non-refundable deposit to go up to Michigan with my friends."
[23:47]	IsambardPrince	:)
[23:47]	IsambardPrince	So he said "Oh, okay. Have fun!" and walked off.
[23:47]	MinceR	:>
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