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● Oct 26
[00:06]	IsambardPrince	"You cannot sing that song in Germany under Article 86."
[00:06]	IsambardPrince	Relax, it's just the anthem for the Chilean Navy!
[00:06]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, ^
[00:09]	MinceR	:>
[00:13]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, The cat deliberately pushed the box of treats off the kitchen counter to try to bust it open.
[00:13]	IsambardPrince	She was not happy when I just brushed them all back in and chased her out with the vacuum.
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[00:21]	MinceR	:>
[00:26]	IsambardPrince	https://www.reddit.com/r/illinois/comments/1xefwbp/march_on_mundelein_town_hall_1026_530pm_justice/
[00:26]		-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Reddit
[00:26]	IsambardPrince	A situation is brewing in Illinois involving the Trannies.
[00:26]	IsambardPrince	A tranny got murdered back in 2018.
[00:27]	IsambardPrince	The police tried to pin it on a guy they had no evidence against.
[00:27]	IsambardPrince	The prosecutor ran with it and spent millions of taxpayer dollars on a sham trial they couldn't even win against a man who was utterly broke and represented by a public defender.
[00:27]	IsambardPrince	Now the trannies are "marching to demand justice" whatever that means.
[00:28]	IsambardPrince	Since the defendant was exonerated at his trial, the US Constitution says he shall not be placed in legal jeopardy again for the same accusation.
[00:28]	IsambardPrince	So the Trannies have picked a new target. 
[00:28]	IsambardPrince	Now they say they want the police arrested for bungling the case.
[00:29]	IsambardPrince	Actually, the way double jeopardy works under American law is that even if the guy did do it and admitted it, they couldn't try him again because they already took what they had to court, ran with it, and lost.
[00:29]	IsambardPrince	So now the Trannies are looking for a new victim in a new legal drumhead.
[00:30]	IsambardPrince	Oh, this is a different case. How much tranny shit is going on in Cook County anyway.
[00:31]	IsambardPrince	Apparently this one was crazy and a cop shot him in an incident.
[00:31]	IsambardPrince	Well, good luck with that one.
[00:31]	IsambardPrince	When you run at a cop in a threatening manner armed with a weapon, your odds are not good.
[00:32]	IsambardPrince	Oh, Lake County.
[00:32]	IsambardPrince	God, Lake County is getting so bad it's like a second Cook County anyway.
[00:32]	IsambardPrince	The budget is out of control because the Democrats took it over years ago and spent like crazy.
[00:33]	IsambardPrince	I remember reading a couple years ago that they disbanded mosquito abatement districts and stopped spraying for diseased mosquitoes.
[00:33]	IsambardPrince	But they left the tax district.
[00:33]	IsambardPrince	So they're still taxing you to spray for mosquitoes, and then not spraying them.
[00:33]	IsambardPrince	Then the Illinois DPH is wondering where all this Zika and West Nile and shit is coming from.
[00:34]	IsambardPrince	They say they trap and monitor them and deal with breeding sites.
[00:35]	IsambardPrince	When I was a kid, a truck would just come down the block fogging and they'd all die and there weren't any mosquitoes.
[00:36]	IsambardPrince	It came by about as often as the ice cream truck did.
[00:36]	IsambardPrince	Which was quite often in the summer.
[00:36]	IsambardPrince	Yep, Flintstones orange sherbet and then the mosquito fogger.
[00:36]	IsambardPrince	The 90s were great.
[00:36]	MinceR	yes, but the miocene was even better
[00:37]	IsambardPrince	I think they don't fog for mosquitoes because people are pussies now.
[00:37]	MinceR	no fucking devil apes anywhere, none of their noise, none of their pollution, none of their concrete, none of their microplastics, none of their authoritarianism
[00:37]	MinceR	someone should fog for devil apes
[00:38]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, You can produce as many condoms as you want, but it's basically reverse darwinism.
[00:38]	MinceR	i didn't say produce condoms though
[00:38]	IsambardPrince	The people who still don't wear them are the ones having all the kids now. And they're not wearing them because they're not smart enough to wear them and they have no responsibilities because of the welfare and prison systems anyway.
[00:39]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, Why can't they just be normal like the rest of us. You know, unwrap the condom, put it on backwards in the dark, give up, curse, turn it around and unroll it.
[00:40]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, I don't fucking care what people think anymore.
[00:40]	IsambardPrince	Random people anyway.
[00:40]	IsambardPrince	I was at the pharmacy today, this is a good example.
[00:40]	IsambardPrince	I bought a flu covid rsv test.
[00:41]	IsambardPrince	Then I sat down at the vaccine waiting area and ran it. And this woman looks over at me while I'm swabbing my nose and realizes there's someone who wants to figure out what their respiratory problem is.
[00:41]	IsambardPrince	And tells her kids "Come on, let's stand over there."
[00:41]	IsambardPrince	Like I care where they stand.
[00:41]	IsambardPrince	Don't watch your kids. Maybe it is COVID.
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[00:45]	IsambardPrince	I overheard her. She was there bringing them all to get a flu shot next to someone swabbing their nose. Maybe the guy has the flu.
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[00:55]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, This week in Devil Apes.
[00:55]	IsambardPrince	People celebrating and waving their iPhone Duo around like their town was just liberated from the Nazis by the 82nd Airborne. On their way home to crack the screen while setting it up.
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● Oct 26
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[01:02]	MinceR	lol
[01:18]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, I'm getting a lot better at Wolf3d.
[01:18]	IsambardPrince	I made it through the E1M10 with 100% completion and didn't get shot once.
[01:18]	IsambardPrince	On Bring It On.
[01:19]	IsambardPrince	Apparently, id software didn't have the rights to make this game. They didn't need the rights.
[01:19]	IsambardPrince	MUSE Software that made the first two Wolfenstein games in the 80s let their trademark lapse because the guy that owned the company got sick.
[01:20]	IsambardPrince	id software actually made a PC version of Super Mario Bros 3 without asking Nintendo and then approached Nintendo about a PC version, but Nintendo wasn't interested.
[01:20]	MinceR	i know
[01:21]	MinceR	Dangerous Dave in Copyright Infringement, iirc
[01:21]	IsambardPrince	Yeah, it was just a demo of the first level.
[01:21]	IsambardPrince	Did that ever leak?
[01:23]	IsambardPrince	https://archive.org/details/DangerousDaveInCopyrightInfringement
[01:23]	TR Bot	 Dangerous Dave in Copyright Infringement : John Carmack, Tom Hall : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
[01:36]	IsambardPrince	https://github.com/atifcodesalot/pyWolf3D
[01:36]	TR Bot	- atifcodesalot/pyWolf3D: a wolfenstein 3D clone in python, pygame GitHub
[01:36]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, A rewrite of Wolfenstein 3D in Python.
[01:40]	MinceR	26 014035 < IsambardPrince> MinceR, I don't fucking care what people think anymore.
[01:40]	MinceR	most of them don't.
[01:42]	IsambardPrince	https://www.facebook.com/smartdepottech/posts/pfbid02Fx1DREDFmrYKNLYPdTfyTRpjc7XBxpyfXRGezJYTgp32DmrzqnvTZKkq6aZPShJ8l
[01:42]	TR Bot	 NO TITLE
[01:42]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, A bricked iPhone Duo displaying the Recovery Screen, which does not work.
[01:42]	MinceR	so, works as designed
[01:42]	IsambardPrince	"This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. If the issue persists, contact the program's vendor." -Windows 95'
[01:43]	IsambardPrince	That's the only error message you ever need.
[01:43]	MinceR	the camera hole in the random spot really sells it
[01:43]	IsambardPrince	That and a blue screen that says a Fatal Exception 0E has occurred along with a dump that means absolutely nothing to the average user.
[01:43]	MinceR	cutting out a tiny bit of the battery
[01:43]	MinceR	not aligned with the button below
[01:44]	IsambardPrince	"It means turn the power off, it's over. All your open data is lost. You'll be lucky if Scandisk doesn't come up and tell you the file system is toast too."
[01:44]	MinceR	you shouldn't trust microslop products with any data you intend to keep anyway
[01:45]	MinceR	they couldn't code a filesystem worth shit
[01:45]	MinceR	they couldn't even copy a filesystem worth shit
[01:45]	IsambardPrince	"This computer was shut down improperly and Scandisk will perform a file system check.:
[01:45]	lxo	schestowitz[TR2], as for your earlier question, I have a personal position on slop, but ISTM that the free software movement doesn't.  I expect institutional positions would be cautious
[01:45]	IsambardPrince	hey, I didn't want to shut it down improperly....this is on you...
[01:46]	IsambardPrince	Waits for 20 minutes....
[01:46]	MinceR	then they hired the dumbass whose number one life achievement up to that point was the operating system parody called VMS
[01:46]	IsambardPrince	"MASTER FAT CORRUPTED....RESTORING BACKUP FAT!"
[01:46]	MinceR	which they later renamed "OpenVMS" even though there was nothing open about it
[01:46]	IsambardPrince	Ohh, yeah, back up that FAT!
[01:46]	MinceR	:>
[01:51]	cow_20012	maaaaan sometimes the IRC nickname hash function gives the beautifuliest shades
[01:58]	IsambardPrince	iFixIt tore down an iPhone Duo and found out why the screens are failing within a day or two....on a $2000 phone.
[01:59]	IsambardPrince	https://9to5mac.com/2026/10/25/ifixit-tears-down-iphone-duo-finds-possible-causes-of-early-screen-failures/
[01:59]	TR Bot	tears down iPhone Duo, finds possible causes of early screen failures - 9to5Mac
● Oct 26
[02:04]	MinceR	> Granted, this is a provisional score, pending the availability of replacement parts
[02:04]	MinceR	ah, so it's a 0
[02:07]	MinceR	and i don't know why they insist on calling this piece of e-waste a "smartphone"
[02:08]	MinceR	my samsung sgh-c100, marketed as a "featurephone", gave me more choice in running apps than this does
[02:15]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, CRUNCH CRUNCH CRUNCH
[02:15]	IsambardPrince	VATS DAT CRUNCHING!?
[02:16]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, Were there revisions to the Wolfenstein 3d game files?
[02:16]	IsambardPrince	I heard that in the last revision, they broke the animation of him breathing.
[02:17]	MinceR	i don't know
[02:17]	IsambardPrince	On the files I'm using he's breathing on the loading screens.
[02:17]	MinceR	CALL APOGEE
[02:17]	MinceR	SAY AARDWOLF
[02:37]	IsambardPrince	Ah, the hidden room from the contest they didn't have.
[02:38]	IsambardPrince	"Almost immediately after Wolfenstein 3D launched in May 1992, programmers created map editor utilities (like DEACK and MapEdit). Players didn't need to navigate the maze; they just opened the level files in a text editor or map extractor, read the sign off the raw texture assets, and began flooding Apogee's phone lines with calls shouting "AARDWOLF!""
[02:39]	IsambardPrince	?Because map editors rendered the contest completely trivial within days of release, Apogee canceled the prize almost immediately.
[02:39]	IsambardPrince	To deal with the mess, id Software patched the game. In later versions (v1.1 onward), they altered the level design to obscure the room and modified the wall sprite so that the text was scrambled into an unreadable, garbled mess of pixelsleaving thousands of confused 90s gamers staring at a bizarre glitch graphic, wondering what secret it was supposed to hold."
[02:40]	MinceR	:>
[02:41]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, Technically there was no contest.
[02:42]	IsambardPrince	It was not published because they became aware that people were building map editors before the game was out of beta.
[02:42]	IsambardPrince	Since it was never published there was no contest.
[02:42]	IsambardPrince	They left it in the final game and ended up dealing with people calling them at all hours screaming AARDWOLF!
[02:43]	IsambardPrince	https://wl6.fandom.com/wiki/Aardwolf_sign
[02:43]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://wl6.fandom.com/wiki/Aardwolf_sign )
[02:45]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, Apogee still exists.
[02:45]	IsambardPrince	I should call them and say "I know I'm a little late to the party, but AARDWOLF!"
[02:46]	MinceR	i think there are two apogees now
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[02:46]	TR Bot	 IRC: #boycottnovell-social and #techpol @ Techrights IRC Network: Sunday, October 25, 2026
[02:46]	MinceR	the company doing business as 3d realms is still called apogee and there's another company that got the rights to the name and is using it
[02:46]	MinceR	you could try calling them both
[02:47]	IsambardPrince	The Apogee that exists now was started by the same guy.
[02:47]	IsambardPrince	He renamed the other one 3d Realms and sold it.
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[02:47]	TR Bot	 IRC: #techrights @ Techrights IRC Network: Sunday, October 25, 2026
[02:47]	MinceR	:>
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[02:48]	TR Bot	 IRC: #boycottnovell @ Techrights IRC Network: Sunday, October 25, 2026
[02:48]	MinceR	for a while, they were supposed to have multiple labels in parallel, but 3d gaming ate the other things for a while
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[02:49]	TR Bot	 IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Sunday, October 25, 2026
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[02:50]	darwin	i don't want corporate capitalist government backdoors/management into my PC
[02:50]	TR News	Yesterday's Tux Machines bulletin is now ready! : http://news.tuxmachines.org/txt-archives/tuxmachines-2026-10-25.txt
[02:57]	admfubar	https://www.firstpost.com/business/spacex-40-billion-debt-ai-chips-elon-musk-14055253.html
[02:57]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.firstpost.com/business/spacex-40-billion-debt-ai-chips-elon-musk-14055253.html )
● Oct 26
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[03:06]	TR Bot	 Techrights Over at Tux Machines...
[03:09]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, I'm excited for tomorrow. Sam's Club pizza.
[03:09]	IsambardPrince	It tastes exactly like Chuck E. Cheese's pizza but people who go into Chuck E. Cheese without kids of their own are presumed to be child molesters.
[03:10]	MinceR	:)
[03:10]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, I'm not sure if this part of Europa Europa was true or not.
[03:11]	IsambardPrince	I know the part about Robert Kellerman was.
[03:11]	TR News	False promises from Microsoft, trying to deflect https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/microsoft-says-not-possible-to-uks-biggest-data-centre-developer-nscale-after-repeated-delays-and-electricity-companies-promising-no-power-supply-before-2030/articleshow/135200878.cms
[03:11]	TR Bot	 Microsoft says 'not possible' to UK's biggest data centre developer Nscale, after repeated delays, and electricity companies promising no power supply before 2030 - The Times of India
[03:12]	IsambardPrince	But that part where the German officer sends Solomon ("Josef") back to Germany to go to the Hitler Youth academy without knowing he's a Jew, and his wife sexually assaults the guy on the train back to Germany and just doesn't know he's circumcised because it's dark... That was the most fucked up part of the movie.
[03:12]	MinceR	apparently Apogee Entertainment was founded by Terry Nagy, but he hired Scott Miller
[03:12]	IsambardPrince	He tells her his birthday and she's like "Just like the Fhrer's!"
[03:13]	IsambardPrince	And the next thing you know she's screaming "Ja, Mein Fhrer! Ja!" while being fucked by a Jewish teenager.
[03:13]	IsambardPrince	I was like "That is so wrong on so many levels.
[03:13]	MinceR	also, Apogee Software was renamed to 3D Realms Entertainment ApS
[03:13]	TR News	Microsoft willing to see off parts of XBox https://www.techpowerup.com/354119/netflix-reportedly-walked-away-after-xbox-asked-usd-800-million-for-its-game-ip?amp
[03:13]	TR Bot	Reportedly Walked Away After Xbox Asked $800 Million for Its Game IP | TechPowerUp
[03:14]	IsambardPrince	$800 million is not a realistic demand.
[03:14]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz-pi, It's about royalties for movies/tv shows based on xbox games.
[03:14]	IsambardPrince	I have no idea why they think they can get that.
[03:15]	schestowitz[TR2]	iirc, they offered 500
[03:15]	schestowitz[TR2]	see:
[03:15]	schestowitz[TR2]	http://techrights.org/n/2026/10/25/Microsoft_Sort_of_Tried_to_Sell_XBox_Piecewise_Offloading_Micro.shtml
[03:15]	TR Bot	 Techrights Microsoft Sort of Tried to Sell XBox Piecewise (Offloading Microsoft)
[03:15]	schestowitz[TR2]	yes, 500M\
[03:16]	schestowitz[TR2]	xbox is on sale
[03:16]	schestowitz[TR2]	it's just a question of price
[03:16]	schestowitz[TR2]	but only a fool would buy this
[03:16]	IsambardPrince	Steve Ballmer tried to buy Nintendo.
[03:16]	IsambardPrince	They turned him down.
[03:16]	IsambardPrince	They made the right call.
[03:16]	schestowitz[TR2]	Diable iirc is activison
[03:16]	IsambardPrince	Microsoft would have gutted it and done mass layoffs already and no Nintendo.
[03:16]	schestowitz[TR2]	microsoft paid like 70 billion for it
[03:17]	IsambardPrince	They don't buy things to make their products better.
[03:17]	IsambardPrince	They do it so there's one less competitor and theirs can stagnate.
[03:17]	schestowitz[TR2]	remember kinext?
[03:17]	schestowitz[TR2]	*ct
[03:17]	IsambardPrince	Think back to when Netscape collapsed.
[03:17]	IsambardPrince	Microsoft declared that Internet Explorer 6 would be the last major version.
[03:18]	IsambardPrince	And there would be "service packs" every several years.
[03:18]	IsambardPrince	Imagine the Internet frozen in 2001, with no improvements in 25 years.
[03:18]		*schestowitz[TR2] drools
[03:18]	schestowitz[TR2]	that would be nice
[03:18]	IsambardPrince	With ActiveX controls being the way you did things.
[03:19]	IsambardPrince	ActiveX controls that do not run outside of Windows.
[03:19]	IsambardPrince	Their ultimate goal was to turn the Web into a series of Windows programs.
[03:19]	TR News	"People are divided, perhaps I'm stumping my learning, perhaps I'm building more than I could. When I lean heavily on AI I still sweat, I feel I have worked. Perhaps it's a trick, and it's hacked my reward cycles, but I used to doom scroll a lot and the feeling with AI is different." gemini://dirt.smol.pub/dirt_you_are
[03:20]	TR News	"two deck reading, kind of a variation on that historical spread - majors on top, minors on bottom, except i decided the fully scenic deck (aquarian tarot) will function as the majors and the pip deck (trionfi della luna) will stand in for the pips." gemini://dogboy.smol.pub/20261025
[03:20]	TR News	"After giving it quite a lot of thought, I've finally left BearBlog (my web based blog host) and moved to a self hosted setup with Hugo. Happily I have the knowledge and means to do this and hopefully can keep finding the inspiration and time to keep writing and maintain the site as well" gemini://gemini.yunzi.co.uk/gemlog/2026-10-25.gmi
[03:21]	TR News	"i recently tried electrolysis for the first time. someone in the city is a student electrolygist and performing at a discounted price, so i and my friend decided to try it." gemini://tilde.pink/~emily/log/electrolysis.gmi
[03:23]	TR News	"Busy Sunday. My partner and I just got back from having lunch with friends - my friend and I met online in the very early days of the internet, when we were both teenagers, journalling and posting on a particular web forum." gemini://tilde.club/~winter/gemlog/2026/10-25.gmi
[03:23]	TR News	My indignation as a Brazilian citizen regarding the current national political landscape. gemini://envs.net/~kirihito/art1.gmi
[03:24]	TR News	don't look gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/dont_look
[03:25]	TR News	[cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1780.jpg
[03:25]	TR News	[cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D2137.jpg
[03:26]	TR News	"But I can tell you there are five reasons I open and watch Netflix less and less often: [...]" https://json.blog/2026/10/25/netflix-is-my-least-used-subscription | Source: Jason Becker
[03:26]	TR Bot	 Netflix is my least used subscription
[03:26]	TR News	"Then theres the unpleasant economic reality of gig work. Full-service Instacart shoppers are generally independent contractors" https://www.salon.com/2026/10/25/why-women-dread-male-instacart-shoppers/ | Source: Salon
[03:26]	TR Bot	women dread male Instacart shoppers - Salon.com
[03:27]	TR News	Brazil's left-wing President Lula elected for fourth term, beating Flvio Bolsonaro in surprise result https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cmgelnrd4r3jt
[03:27]	TR Bot	 Brazil election live: Lula beats Bolsonaro - follow latest - BBC News
[03:28]	TR News	"ending impunity for crimes against journalists" https://cpj.org/2026/10/cpj-partners-urge-indonesia-to-reform-military-justice-law-to-end-impunity-for-crimes-against-journalists/ | Source: CPJ
[03:28]	TR Bot	 CPJ, partners urge Indonesia to reform military justice law to end impunity for crimes against journalists - Committee to Protect Journalists
[03:28]	TR News	"I should be honest about something." https://kennethreitz.org/essays/2026-10-25-about_requests_the_token | Source: Kenneth Reitz
[03:28]	TR Bot	 About $requests, the Token - Kenneth Reitz
[03:29]	TR News	"There exists a traditional term for this." https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/no-donald-trump-is-not-receiving | Source: Mike Brock
[03:29]	TR Bot	 No, Donald Trump Is Not Receiving Bad Advice
[03:30]	TR News	"No contemporary narrative sources survive to tell her story." https://www.medievalists.net/2026/10/gunnhild-mother-kings-viking-age-queen/ | Source: Medievalists.net
[03:30]	TR Bot	Mother of Kings: What Do We Really Know About This Viking Age Queen? - Medievalists.net
[03:30]	TR News	"There is a trade-off. An independently powered facility cannot assume the local grid will rescue it when power generation fails." https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/forget-the-grid-northern-territory-data-centres-could-bring-their-own-power/ | Source: The Strategist
[03:30]	TR Bot	 Forget the grid. Northern Territory data centres could bring their own power | The Strategist
[03:30]	TR News	"In earlier years, Western missionaries brought knowledge, education and English to the East" https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/opinion/ai-computer-chips-semiconductor-arizona-industry.html | Source: New York Times
[03:30]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/opinion/ai-computer-chips-semiconductor-arizona-industry.html )
[03:31]	TR News	"68-year-old pirate IPTV op" https://torrentfreak.com/framing-the-news-anti-piracy-press-release-turned-a-2016-raid-into-a-2026-story/ | Source: Torrent Freak
[03:31]	TR Bot	the News: Anti-Piracy Press Release Turned a 2016 Raid Into a 2026 Story * TorrentFreak
[03:31]	TR News	"NetLab is an internet and social media research lab affiliated with the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)." https://agenciabrasil.ebc.com.br/en/politica/noticia/2026-10/un-points-metas-lack-impartiality-brazilian-election |
[03:31]	TR Bot	 UN points to Metas lack of impartiality in Brazilian election | Agncia Brasil
[03:32]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], Microsoft never wanted the Web to be about markup languages, or things you could implement cross-platform.
[03:32]	TR News	"report led by the UN's special rapporteur on freedom of expression said Meta must ensure a level playing field online" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6pwgve2lk5go | Source: BBC
[03:32]	TR Bot	 Brazilian election: Lula seeks Bolsonaro's disqualification over alleged Meta interference
[03:32]	IsambardPrince	It had to support that initially because that's where things already were at.
[03:32]	TR News	[Old] "YouTube and Facebook are allowing disinformation to be spread about Brazils election campaign" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/20/brazil-election-disinformation-youtube-facebook | Source: The Guardian UK
[03:32]	TR Bot	 YouTube and Facebook letting Brazil election disinformation spread, NGO says | Brazil | The Guardian
[03:32]	IsambardPrince	In some cases where organizations standardized on ActiveX, it made the site Windows only for over 20 years.
[03:32]	TR News	"Gean Ferreira and Evelyn Santos, both lawyers for the Lula campaign, said in a statement that Metas content delivery is selective against the incumbent and favorable to Bolsonaro" https://www.nbcnews.com/world/south-america/brazil-lula-wins-electoral-court-challenge-meta-alleged-bolsonaro-bias-rcna603835 | Source: NBC
[03:32]	TR Bot	 Brazils Lula wins electoral court challenge against Meta for alleged pro-Bolsonaro algorithm bias
[03:32]	IsambardPrince	Like that site where you selected your beneficiaries at Walmart for your employee insurance.
[03:33]	schestowitz[TR2]	we lost activex, BUT
[03:33]	schestowitz[TR2]	we got other crap
[03:35]	MinceR	and they took over damn near everything, and shat into all of it
[03:35]	TR News	"You can find the full release notes: in the usual place." https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20261025115016 | Source: Undeadly
[03:35]	TR Bot	 LibreSSL 4.4.0, 4.3.4, 4.2.3 released
[03:35]	TR News	"With an ssh-rsa key, sudo fell through to the next PAM entry, and this showed up in the logs: [...]" https://dan.langille.org/2026/10/25/4098-bits-strikes-again-pam-ssh-agent-and-an-rsa-key-that-was-2-bits-too-big/ | Source: Dan Langille
[03:35]	TR Bot	 4098 bits strikes again: pam-ssh-agent and an RSA key that was 2 bits too big Dan Langille's Other Diary
[03:35]	MinceR	now you can get a CPU that has the CPU designer's working (but pointless) fTPM _and_ microslop's unreliable craptastic fTPM next to it!
[03:35]	MinceR	what an era to live in.
[03:36]	MinceR	who knows, maybe if they made the CPU entirely out of TPMs, they could make Restricted Boot work
[03:36]	TR News	Windows TCO https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uk-war-russia-government-stockpile-wes-streeting-b3072811.html | Source: The Independent UK
[03:36]	TR Bot	 Britain must be ready for war in 1,000 days, Wes Streeting warns | The Independent
[03:36]	MinceR	they should try it.
[03:36]	MinceR	though then poettering would have to figure out how to run systemd on a TPM
[03:36]	TR News	"Even after I stopped using it directly, it was still nice to see other apps like Untappd getting their data from it." https://zerokspot.com/weblog/2026/10/25/end-of-journey-for-foursquare/ | Source: Horst Gutmann
[03:36]	TR Bot	End of the Journey for Foursquare - zerokspot.com
[03:36]	MinceR	and greg kroah-hartman would have to figure out how to run systemd-kerneld on a TPM
[03:36]	MinceR	but that's their problem
[03:37]	schestowitz[TR2]	they work towards that, MinceR 
[03:37]	schestowitz[TR2]	same agenda
[03:37]	MinceR	i know
[03:37]	schestowitz[TR2]	his masters at microsoft want control over what can boot
[03:37]	TR News	"All of which connects back to the original tech scandal, one that some people - Mark Zuckerberg, of course, among them - still like to characterise as a conspiracy theory." https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-dark-triad-trump-musk-putin | Source: Carole Cadwalladr
[03:37]	TR Bot	 The Dark Triad: Trump, Musk, Putin - by Carole Cadwalladr
[03:37]	MinceR	they'll get what they want, regardless of how pointless it is, and they'll destroy what's left of the IT industry to get it!
[03:38]	TR News	"Preinvalts said the change in Estonia is not happening in isolation and can also be seen in other Western countries, including the United States." https://news.err.ee/1610176555/police-signs-of-radicalization-visible-among-younger-teens | Source: Eesti Rahvusringhling
[03:38]	MinceR	unless the devil apes wipe themselves out first
[03:38]	TR Bot	 Police: Signs of radicalization visible among younger teens | News | ERR
[03:38]	TR News	"The tutorial runs you through using the ellmer package to connect to an LLM. Then you create tools." https://www.seascapemodels.org/posts/2026-10-26-make-your-own-agent-in-r/ |
[03:38]	TR Bot	 Make Your Own LLM Agent in R Seascapemodels
[03:38]	TR News	"computer-generated scenes whose creators have tried to pass them off as real life" https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/its-not-real-the-only-three-words-you-need-to-sum-up-the-absurdity-of-ai-generated-photos | Source: Digital Camera World
[03:38]	TR Bot	 Its not real: the only three words you need to sum up the absurdity of AI-generated photos! | Digital Camera World
[03:39]	TR News	"Security researchers used AI tools to help uncover years-old vulnerabilities in the PHP web scripting language. Then the AI-assisted attacks began." https://www.wired.com/story/kernel-panic-the-php-meltdown-shows-how-ai-makes-bugs-more-exploitable/ | Source: Wired
[03:39]	TR Bot	PHP Meltdown Shows How AI Makes Bugs More Exploitable | WIRED
[03:39]	TR News	"A fresh academic paper on Z-Library cites a TorrentFreak article that doesnt exist, and several other sources in the paper are also unfindable." https://torrentfreak.com/ai-assisted-paper-on-z-library-cites-a-torrentfreak-article-that-doesnt-exist/ | Source: Torrent Freak
[03:39]	TR Bot	Paper on Z-Library Cites a TorrentFreak Article That Doesnt Exist * TorrentFreak
[03:40]	TR News	"Recent studies report that nearly a third of U.S. adults are having an intimate or romantic relationship with an AI chatbot, a statistic that had me utterly floored." https://www.michigandaily.com/arts/digital-culture/swipe-left-on-ai/ | Source: University of Michigan
[03:40]	TR Bot	 AI boyfriends need to go
[03:40]	TR News	"However, the Ombudsman found that the IAT lacks safeguards and capacity to override incorrect assessments." https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/under-fire-aged-care-tool-offers-no-public-information-on-how-it-works-ombudsman-says/s6ev647y2 | Source: SBS
[03:40]	TR Bot	 Robodebt recommendations not followed, outcomes 'unfair' under aged care algorithm | SBS News
[03:41]	TR News	"Schools are choosing to prepare meals themselves rather than buy catering services, aiming to ensure children receive fresh" https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3091157/it-brought-kids-back-to-canteens-lithuanian-schools-source-food-directly-from-farmers | Source: LRT
[03:41]	TR Bot	 It brought kids back to canteens: Lithuanian schools source food directly from farmers - LRT
[03:41]	TR News	"This amounts to more than a mild inconvenience, for several reasons: [...]" https://www.rubenerd.au/needing-a-solution-for-my-old-desktops/ | Source: Ruben Schade
[03:41]	TR Bot	 Rubenerd: Needing a solution for my old desktops
[03:41]	TR News	"The department also is considering where autonomous equipment can complement employees work by handling select" https://record.umich.edu/articles/autonomous-mowers-work-in-dynamic-campus-landscapes/ | Source: University of Michigan
[03:41]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://record.umich.edu/articles/autonomous-mowers-work-in-dynamic-campus-landscapes/ )
[03:42]	TR News	"Paris Marxs new book couldnt have landed at a better time." https://www.wired.com/story/what-the-us-anti-data-center-movement-can-learn-from-everywhere-else/ | Source: Wired
[03:42]	TR Bot	the US Movement Against Data Centers Can Learn From Abroad | WIRED
[03:42]	TR News	"Its not just because theres so much to learn to accomplish any of it, its that Im not sure if its even worth it." https://www.paritybit.ca/blog/do-i-even-like-computers/ | Source: Jake Bauer
[03:42]	TR Bot	I Even Like Computers? - paritybit.ca
[03:43]	TR News	"This definition is not quite right for two reasons: [...]" https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/10/when-is-it-plausible-that-result-is.html | Source: Computational Complexity
[03:43]	TR Bot	 Computational Complexity: When is it plausible that a result is optimal?
[03:43]	TR News	"The previous two posts have been about polar triangles. The first used a polar triangle to derive a theorem, and the second showed how to compute polars using linear algebra." https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/10/25/poles-and-polars/ | Source: John D Cook
[03:43]	TR Bot	 Poles and polars in spherical, plane, and projective geometry
[03:43]	TR News	"In theory, antimatter should be everywhere. Mathematics predicts that every particle of matter has an equivalent antiparticle, a fact that scientists have verified experimentally." https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-trapped-an-antimatter-particle-for-months-to-study-its-secrets/ | Source: Wired
[03:43]	TR Bot	Trapped an Antimatter Particle for Months to Study Its Secrets | WIRED
[03:43]	TR News	"But in this study, they found that theres not enough on the moon to sustain a large human presence on the lunar surface." https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/moon-civilization-water-9.7393267 | Source: CBC
[03:43]	TR Bot	 Can millions of people live on the moon? These scientists say yes but not for very long | CBC News
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[03:47]	TR News	"I dont have an app either, just a load of notes tagged #recipe and a super-note that lists them." https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/my-recipe-system | Source: Jeremy Cherfas
[03:47]	TR Bot	 My Recipe System | Jeremy Cherfas
[03:47]	TR News	"To summarise, the living room was the familiar place to sit and chat with people you already knew: it was a great way to spend time with friends." https://thejollyteapot.com/2026/10/25/the-kitchen-is-only-the-cool-spot-because-you-re-in-it/ | Source: Nicolas Magand
[03:47]	TR Bot	 The kitchen is only the cool spot because you're in it The Jolly Teapot
[03:47]	TR News	"When I sat down to write this, I intended to write something self-aggrandizing like I am sowing the seeds. But I realized that a long, long time ago, a seed was sown that grew inside me." https://schafe-sind-bessere-rasenmaeher.de/mindfulness/a-helping-hand/ | Source: Robert Ltzner
[03:47]	TR Bot	 Schafe sind bessere Rasenmher | A helping hand
[03:47]	TR News	"It also lets you save photos as RAW files. This preserves more detail in bright and dark areas and makes the photo more suitable for editing." https://www.androidpolice.com/samsung-expert-raw-upgrades-over-default-camera/ | Source: Android Police
[03:47]	TR Bot	 If Samsung gives Expert RAW these 3 upgrades, I'll never open the default camera again
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[03:49]	TR News	Techrights Gemini Links 26/10/2026: Brazilian Politics and Leaving Bear Blog https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/26/Gemini_Links_26_10_2026_Brazilian_Politics_and_Leaving_Bear_Blo.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/10/26/Gemini_Links_26_10_2026_Brazilian_Politics_and_Leaving_Bear_Blo.gmi 
[03:49]	TR Bot	 Techrights Gemini Links 26/10/2026: Brazilian Politics and Leaving Bear Blog
[03:51]	TR News	 (NEW):  LibreSSL Releases and Confidentiality Misses https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/26/LibreSSL_Releases_and_Confidentiality_Misses.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/26/LibreSSL_Releases_and_Confidentiality_Misses.gmi 
[03:51]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines LibreSSL Releases and Confidentiality Misses
[03:53]	TR News	Techrights Links 25/10/2026: Microsoft Layoffs and Cuts, Luiz Incio Lula da Silva Wins Election https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/26/Links_25_10_2026_Microsoft_Layoffs_and_Cuts_Luiz_Inacio_Lula_da.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/10/26/Links_25_10_2026_Microsoft_Layoffs_and_Cuts_Luiz_Inacio_Lula_da.gmi 
[03:53]	TR Bot	 Techrights Links 25/10/2026: Microsoft Layoffs and Cuts, Luiz Incio Lula da Silva Wins Election
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[04:09]	IsambardPrince	<MinceR> who knows, maybe if they made the CPU entirely out of TPMs, they could make Restricted Boot work
[04:09]	IsambardPrince	STOP! STOP!
[04:09]	IsambardPrince	Penis man's penis can only get so erect.
[04:09]	IsambardPrince	:P
[04:09]	IsambardPrince	If you keep going there will be cum and cheetos everywhere.
[04:10]	MinceR	lol
[04:11]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, I don't know why anyone would want to rewrite Wolfenstein 3D in Python.
[04:11]	MinceR	practice?
[04:11]	MinceR	modding in python?
[04:11]	IsambardPrince	Perhaps so it can break immediately and never work again without a refactoring next time there's a major version of the language.
[04:12]	MinceR	lol
[04:12]	MinceR	well, it's already common practice to use a fixed version of the language via venv
[04:12]	MinceR	that said, i doubt there will be another major version of it, ever
[04:12]	MinceR	microslop bought guido and then went full typewank bondage-and-discipline instead
[04:12]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, It dawned on me while I was converting some of the code to freebasic's format how little freebasic resembles the basic implementations I used when I was a child.
[04:13]	MinceR	and the craft has been diluted with millions of devil apes whose only thought is to follow microslop's every whim and fad
[04:14]	MinceR	this week it's "rewrite it in rust", next week it's going to be something even more idiotic
[04:14]	MinceR	i'm sick of living on this planet
[04:15]	IsambardPrince	Guido is a derogatory term for Italians.
[04:15]	IsambardPrince	:)
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[04:25]	IsambardPrince	I'd like to find a computer and just put FreeDOS on it again.
[04:35]	TR News	Techrights Intercontinental Brigading - Part XV - Annualised Consequences for Opposing Microsoft Back Doors in Linux Since 2012 https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/26/Intercontinental_Brigading_Part_XV_Annualised_Consequences_for_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/10/26/Intercontinental_Brigading_Part_XV_Annualised_Consequences_for_.gmi 
[04:35]	TR Bot	 Techrights Intercontinental Brigading - Part XV - Annualised Consequences for Opposing Microsoft Back Doors in Linux Since 2012
[04:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m5tqf9gh "
[04:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	Is IBM Exporting Americas Quantum Advantage to India at U.S. Taxpayers Expense?
[04:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	Someone earlier today IBM is no longer an American company. Only about 18% of IBMs employees are in the United States.
[04:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	And that got me wondering about Quantum
[04:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://lnkd.in/p/e_msegrn
[04:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://lnkd.in/p/e2vmGD7v
[04:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	IBM is sending and exporting its quantum work and hardware to India, why?
[04:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	Why is the US government and DARPA paying for this by using hard earned US tax dollars only for it to be transfer to another nations? Why are they allowing this? What about national security? Why arent more people talking or asking about this?
[04:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[04:42]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m5tqf9gh )
[04:42]	TR Bot	to Install First Quantum Computer in India by September | Arnold Ness, P.Eng, MBA posted on the topic | LinkedIn
[04:42]	TR Bot	to Install Quantum Computer in India by September | Arnold Ness, P.Eng, MBA posted on the topic | LinkedIn
[04:43]	TR News	IBM layoffs November? "Will it be the week of the 2nd or 9th?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m4rbbdt3
[04:43]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m4rbbdt3 )
[04:43]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m5swbnye
[04:43]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m5swbnye )
[04:43]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[04:43]	schestowitz[TR2]	Albany is at historic lows, and I personally believe people are simply fed up with the work environment and culture. It has become a place where the rich get richer, the same select group receives accolades they havent necessarily earned, and the majority see little to no legitimate path for career growth or advancement. Meanwhile, favorites continue to receive promotions, often backed by flimsy justifications that do little to
[04:43]	schestowitz[TR2]	 conceal the underlying favoritism. Frustration is reaching a boiling point, and everyones bullsh-t meter is completely maxed out. And its exhausting.
[04:43]	schestowitz[TR2]	Also week after week, more people are leaving for better opportunities elsewhere. Attrition has to be at all time highs here. At some point, leadership needs to recognize that this isnt just a temporary morale issue, its the consequence of a culture that has steadily eroded trust, recognition, and confidence in the future.
[04:43]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[04:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	 What is the morale at the Yorktown office?  https://www.reddit.com/r/IBM_Employees/s/5xdW10ZiJ0
[04:44]		-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Reddit
[04:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[04:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	Were having about one person a week quit from my BU. Starting to feel like there is no future at YKT.
[04:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[04:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	Morale is very low.. worst in decades in our team
[04:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[04:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	Very very low. The building is extremely empty since late last year. They cancelled all the holiday events. Lots of retirement parties happening, that's about it. It's very sad.
[04:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
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[05:00]	TR News	Techrights In Reporting, Timing is Everything https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/26/In_Reporting_Timing_is_Everything.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/10/26/In_Reporting_Timing_is_Everything.gmi 
[05:00]	TR Bot	 Techrights In Reporting, Timing is Everything
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[05:06]	schestowitz[TR2]	see http://techrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/github-copilot-stories.png
[05:06]	schestowitz[TR2]	from https://techrights.org/o/2021/12/27/lust-to-the-graveley/
[05:06]	TR Bot	 Microsoft GitHub Expos Part XII Life of Disorderly Conduct and Lust
[05:07]	schestowitz[TR2]	friend of puppy breaker
[05:07]	schestowitz[TR2]	some classy standards
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[05:21]	TR News	 (NEW):  How Microsoft's Efforts to Back-door Linux Resulted in Court Battles in a Foreign Continent https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/26/How_Microsoft_s_Efforts_to_Back_door_Linux_Resulted_in_Court_Ba.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/26/How_Microsoft_s_Efforts_to_Back_door_Linux_Resulted_in_Court_Ba.gmi 
[05:21]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines How Microsoft's Efforts to Back-door Linux Resulted in Court Battles in a Foreign Continent
[05:27]	TR News	UK: GNU/Linux measured at 14% yesterday https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&loc=GB&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP&dateRange=28d
[05:27]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&loc=GB&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP&dateRange=28d )
[05:32]	nobody	MinceR> i'm sick of living on this planet
[05:33]	nobody	medication time
[05:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	what med?
[05:34]	nobody	i'm trapped in the movie still, one flew over the cuckoos nest, with the opening scene showing everyone receiving the daily sedation pill
[05:35]	TR News	 (NEW):  Brazil's Share of GNU/Linux Rose to 6% This Weekend https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/26/Brazil_s_Share_of_GNU_Linux_Rose_to_6_This_Weekend.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/26/Brazil_s_Share_of_GNU_Linux_Rose_to_6_This_Weekend.gmi 
[05:35]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Brazil's Share of GNU/Linux Rose to 6% This Weekend
[05:35]	schestowitz[TR2]	puppy breaker tried the bottle
[05:35]	nobody	Nurse Ratched can't keep order without sedating the inmates
[05:35]	schestowitz[TR2]	but sobering up takes hopurs
[05:35]	schestowitz[TR2]	it is not sustainable
[05:35]	schestowitz[TR2]	also damages the liver and other organs
[05:37]	nobody	anyway, nothing worth public attention, but i've got a personal issue since recently
[05:37]	nobody	often it's advertized by politics to eat vegan diet, so i tried that last week
[05:38]	nobody	porridge with soy-bean milk
[05:39]	nobody	what they're not telling about this "healthy" diet, it's causing excess flatulence
[05:39]	nobody	one more and i'll lift up like a weather balloon
[05:39]	xwindows	schestowitz[TR2]: "We'd sign our own TLS certs", the cert isn't a problem; I don't use latest-and-worst browser, I can make my browser make security exception/TOFU on any cert.
[05:39]	xwindows	schestowitz[TR2]: The problem is TLS (its encryption) itself is an upgrade threadmill, which in turn is a discrimination against retrocomputing.
[05:39]	xwindows	schestowitz[TR2]: There will be no cert to accept if the browser didn't support the encryption+hash algo or the TLS version itself, which change every half-decade; 
[05:40]	xwindows	schestowitz[TR2]: creating mountains of e-waste in the process; as well as forcing many people (like me) to abandon versions after versions of old (more-user-respecting) browsers.
[05:40]	xwindows	schestowitz[TR2]: "That won't change.", may I ask why?
[05:40]	xwindows	schestowitz[TR2]: The rest of the site is HTTP/HTTPS dual-served for long term compatibility, and there was no confidental data entry anywhere;
[05:40]	xwindows	schestowitz[TR2]: it escapes me about why is the search an exception?
[05:41]	xwindows	schestowitz[TR2]: Or... it was rather a technical reason because the search was implemented somewhere else, and that "somewhere else" was having other reasons (shared server, etc.) that caused this to-HTTPS redirection that you can't disable?
[05:48]	schestowitz[TR2]	let me check
[05:48]	schestowitz[TR2]	will get back to you soonest possib le
[05:48]	TR News	"Nobody runs a SecurityManager in production." https://blog.frankel.ch/security-baked-into-jvm/6/ | Source: Nicolas Frnkel
[05:48]	TR Bot	 Security Baked Into the JVM: DirtyChai scales vertically, JGDMS scales horizontally
[05:49]	TR News	"bring the system to a working status before focusing deeply on other fixes." https://hamatti.org/posts/djangonaut-log-2-leaving-the-atmosphere-and-first-merged-contributions/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala
[05:49]	TR Bot	 Djangonaut Log 2: Leaving the atmosphere and first merged contributions : Juha-Matti Santala
[05:50]	TR News	"This is my response to The Weekly Challenge #396." https://raku-musings.com/trionic-finish.html | Source: Arne Sommer
[05:50]	TR Bot	 Trionic Finish with Raku - Arne Sommer
[05:50]	TR News	"Nearly 1,800 developers from the Ruby on Rails community across 80 countries shared their thoughts on the tools" https://railsdeveloper.com/survey/2026 |
[05:50]	TR Bot	 2026 Ruby on Rails Community Survey Results | Rails Developer
[05:51]	schestowitz[TR2]	xwindows: i generally agree with the points you mmade
[05:51]	TR News	"However, wordexp(3) is also dangerous! That last 0 argument is for the flags parameter" https://yossarian.net/til/post/posix-wordexp-3-is-dangerous/ | Source: William Woodruff
[05:51]	TR Bot	 TIL: POSIX wordexp(3) is dangerous
[05:51]	TR News	"And much more. I have a lot of other ideas too, but I think this is a solid first release" https://robertbirming.com/latest-bear-theme-kodiak/ | Source: Robert Birming
[05:51]	TR Bot	 My latest Bear theme: Kodiak Robert Birming
[05:52]	schestowitz[TR2]	the search page itself is http
[05:52]	schestowitz[TR2]	results redirect to https
[05:52]	schestowitz[TR2]	we discussed this a year ago
[05:52]	schestowitz[TR2]	and i forgot the reason
[05:53]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/06/Launching_Techrights_Search.shtml
[05:53]	TR Bot	 Techrights Launching Techrights Search
[05:53]	TR News	"These are my minimalist themes. They use few colours and will appear mostly monochromatic in many contexts." https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2026-10-25-emacs-doric-themes-1-4-0/ | Source: Protesilaos Stavrou
[05:53]	TR Bot	doric-themes version 1.4.0 | Protesilaos
[05:53]	TR News	"This past Saturday, October 24th, we saw some significant ranking volatility captured by many of the third-party Google tracking tools." https://www.seroundtable.com/google-search-ranking-volatility-heated-42373.html | Source: Search Engine Roundtable
[05:53]	TR Bot	 Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated October 24th
[05:54]	xwindows	"the search page itself is http", you meant http://techrights.org/search/query linked from Techrights' home page?
[05:54]	TR Bot	( status 308 @ http://techrights.org/search/query )
[05:54]	TR News	"It behaves the way you'd expect something named after cat to behave. Give it a file, and it plays." https://kennethreitz.org/essays/2026-10-25-acat | Source: Kenneth Reitz
[05:54]	TR Bot	 acat - Kenneth Reitz
[05:54]	xwindows	This page is 308-redirected to HTTPS; I just tested (and failed) with Firefox 2.0.
[05:54]	TR News	"Vim Classic is a fork of Vim 8.x for long-term maintenance, providing a stable, dependable editor maintained entirely by humans" https://vim-classic.org/ |
[05:54]	TR Bot	 Vim Classic
[05:55]	schestowitz[TR2]	http://techrights.org/search/query
[05:55]	xwindows	Yes, the same URL.
[05:56]	TR News	"With the form factor decided on, the next step in every project I do is to gather up all the components, grab my calipers, and get to measuring and modeling in Blender." https://slurpburgers.com/slurpbuilds/the-slurptop/ |
[05:56]	TR Bot	slurptop | slurpburgers.com
[05:56]	TR News	"The mushroom is the only thing making the music. Left alone it plays some 20 notes a minute. Touch it and it plays a flurry. The idea comes from the open Biodata Sonification project, the same family as PlantWave." https://isene.org/2026/10/Mushroom-Song.html | Source: Geir Isene
[05:56]	TR Bot	 A mushroom's song Geir's Everything
[05:56]	xwindows	Tested again, also 308-redirected to HTTPS and failed at HTTPS under Opera Classic 11.51.
[05:59]	xwindows	(Both browsers also shown a "Permanent Redirect" page that I had to click through-- because they predates HTTP 308 respone code)
● Oct 26
[06:00]	TR News	"If youre a collector of older TVs, youre probably facing the problem in some form of having no transmissions to tune in to." https://hackaday.com/2026/10/25/an-analog-tv-station-for-anyone/ | Source: Hackaday
[06:00]	TR Bot	Analog TV Station For Anyone | Hackaday
[06:01]	TR News	"Some of the first remote controls available to consumers used sound, visible light, or even just wires to communicate with their parent device." https://hackaday.com/2026/10/25/simple-reliable-rf-remote-control/ | Source: Hackaday
[06:01]	TR Bot	Reliable RF Remote Control | Hackaday
[06:01]	TR News	"Perhaps the most amazing thing about it is that its an absolutely massive structure, yet its all 3D printed and bolted together." https://hackaday.com/2026/10/25/a-3d-printed-marble-clock-but-its-scrolling-text/ | Source: Hackaday
[06:01]	TR Bot	3D Printed Marble Clock, But Its Scrolling Text | Hackaday
[06:01]	TR News	"So I built the packages myself. Without Poudriere." https://blog.hofstede.it/php2shell-on-arm64-building-fixed-php-packages-without-poudriere/ | Source: Christian Hofstede-Kuhn
[06:01]	TR Bot	 php2shell on arm64: Building Fixed PHP Packages Without Poudriere | Larvitz Blog
[06:02]	TR News	"Next, we look ahead to the future, pondering what the years to come have in store for the Linux community and open source." https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20261026 | Source: Distro Watch
[06:02]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20261026 )
[06:02]	TR News	"I started working on this game in April 2021 or, at least, that was my first commit in the repo." https://www.usebox.net/jjm/blog/outpost-released/ | Source: Juan J Martnez
[06:02]	TR Bot	released! - usebox.net
[06:02]	TR News	"A responsive width sometimes needs to grow in steps rather than change with every pixel of viewport width." https://ronaldsvilcins.com/2026/10/26/smarter-responsive-calculations-with-css-round/ | Source: Ronalds Vilci
[06:02]	TR Bot	 Smarter Responsive Calculations With CSS round() Ronalds Vilci
[06:03]	schestowitz[TR2]	xwindows: "
[06:03]	schestowitz[TR2]	What are your thoughts on subnitting unencrypted data?  
[06:03]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[06:04]	schestowitz[TR2]	could be a trade-off
[06:04]	schestowitz[TR2]	compatibility vs pprivacy
[06:06]	TR News	"Use your brain, not AI" [sic] https://www.michigandaily.com/opinion/cartoons/use-your-brain-not-ai/
[06:06]	TR Bot	 Use your brain, not AI
[06:07]	TR News	"Cant Afford a Home. Cant Afford a Baby. Cant Afford Life. This Is 30. - The New York Times" https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/nyregion/30-year-old-angst.html
[06:07]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/nyregion/30-year-old-angst.html )
[06:07]	xwindows	If it isn't password, secret identifier like credit card number, or confidental-adjacent personal data like social-security/citizen-ID;
[06:07]	xwindows	it's always compatibility-first.
[06:08]	TR News	"Based on Texas Instruments AM13E23019 microcontroller, it features a 200 MHz Arm Cortex-M33 processor, CAN FD connectivity, and expansion interfaces for custom embedded systems." https://linuxgizmos.com/tiny-controller-module-has-cortex-m33-can-fd-and-qwiic/ | Source: Linux Gizmos
[06:08]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/tiny-controller-module-has-cortex-m33-can-fd-and-qwiic/ )
[06:08]	TR News	"BeagleBoard.org has introduced the BeagleConnect QuadESC, an open-source four-channel brushless DC motor-control board for robotics, drones, and embedded applications." https://linuxgizmos.com/quad-motor-control-board-with-cortex-m33-and-tinyengine-ai/ | Source: Linux Gizmos
[06:08]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/quad-motor-control-board-with-cortex-m33-and-tinyengine-ai/ )
[06:08]	TR News	"Rockchips upcoming RK3668 is a 6nm octa-core processor featuring six Arm Cortex-A725 cores, two Cortex-A520 cores, and a Mali-G2 Pro MC4 GPU." https://linuxgizmos.com/rockchip-rk3668-targets-edge-ai-with-44-tops-npu-and-pcie-5-0/ | Source: Linux Gizmos
[06:08]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/rockchip-rk3668-targets-edge-ai-with-44-tops-npu-and-pcie-5-0/ )
[06:08]	xwindows	For search terms, it's non-confidential in majority of the cases; thus compatibility first.
[06:09]	xwindows	Note that the "privacy" impact caused by search term is not about any *single* search per so;
[06:09]	xwindows	s/per so/per se/
[06:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[06:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Searches are rather sensitive and signal what is being worked on.  
[06:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[06:09]	xwindows	it's about stringing information from multiple searches together to form a user's profile.
[06:10]	xwindows	So since you're not using cookie to do that (like Google does), it should not be a problem.
[06:11]	xwindows	If one is worrried about telco/gov't doing so; that "risk" is the one user choose to accept when opting for plain olde HTTP.
[06:11]	xwindows	The key is: "user choose to" do it; not the webmaster.
[06:12]	xwindows	The duty of webmaster is just to make that choice available.
[06:12]		*IsambardPrince has quit (connection closed)
[06:13]	xwindows	If the user is paranoid or live in oppressive regime, and cared; he would already enable his browser's Always-HTTPS mode and not seeing HTTP already.
[06:13]	TR News	Can the police buy prohibited personal data? | "Fr polisen kpa frbjuden persondata?" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/10/25/far-polisen-kopa-forbjuden-persondata/
[06:13]	TR Bot	 Fr polisen kpa frbjuden persondata?
[06:14]	TR News	According to the White House, Norway is "shithole country" and Putin is "humanitarian". Elections coming soon.
[06:14]	TR News	"A group of familiar faces from the early web just got back together to ask an important question: What happened to the internet?" https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/come-back-to-firefox/ | Source: Mozilla
[06:14]	TR Bot	 Firefox reunites meme royalty to ask what happened to the web
[06:14]	xwindows	This concerns the part of demographics where HTTPS is not available [due to computing platform choice], or available but required sacrifice [having to reboot into another OS, or use other machine to access, etc].
[06:15]	schestowitz[TR2]	" 
[06:15]	schestowitz[TR2]	The intention is to eventually add a Tor onion service there.  That must
[06:15]	schestowitz[TR2]	be HTTPS AFAIK
[06:15]	schestowitz[TR2]	The certificate hierarchy for browsers is fsck but it is better than nothing.
[06:15]	schestowitz[TR2]	(in most cases) 
[06:15]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[06:15]	xwindows	"add a Tor onion service there", isn't the requirement for that would rather be "always HTTP" instead?
[06:16]	xwindows	Proper CA'd TLS cert issuance for .onion is something that only become available recently;
[06:16]	xwindows	and only with pricey Extended Validation/EV certs.
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[06:17]	nobody	that's the question if internal tls-transport fingerprints the connection, and how this weakens onion-routing anonymity
[06:17]	nobody	in any case, tls sucks
[06:17]	nobody	by design, and how it's implemented often
[06:18]	nobody	the only half-way decent TLS implementation i knew is BearSSL
[06:18]	nobody	which isn't trivial to link against often
[06:18]	schestowitz[TR2]	i tried compiling BearSSL from source years ago
[06:18]	nobody	because most software needs specific OpenSSL/LibreSSL API/headers etc.
[06:19]	schestowitz[TR2]	tbh, inmo, there is a lot of spying for most browser users
[06:19]	schestowitz[TR2]	because of tthr browsers they use
[06:19]	schestowitz[TR2]	the isp is not thee sole issue anymore
[06:19]	schestowitz[TR2]	browsers "phone call"
[06:19]	schestowitz[TR2]	and can reveal what one searches for
[06:19]	nobody	the major piece of software that i linked against BearSSL, that's my IRC-client connecting to #techrights and all others ;)
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[06:20]	nobody	i tend to think this would leave some fingerprints though
[06:20]	xwindows	"browsers "phone call"", thus it's important to use old browser which predate such ugly practice.
[06:20]	xwindows	I don't say "latest-and-worst browser" without reasons.
[06:20]	schestowitz[TR2]	i don't browse much anymorfe
[06:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	i use rss to fetch fee contents
[06:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	and then read in a text editor
[06:21]	nobody	for that matter, back-porting any browser to linux-tcc including onion-routing support wasn't trivial either
[06:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	no JS anywhere
[06:21]	xwindows	...Hell, most brands of latest-and-worst browsers don't even play reasonablly with links to small-Internet protocols anymore
[06:21]	nobody	however, finally i got onion-resolver support with w3m for example - just in case
[06:22]	xwindows	...If anyone had access to latest Chrome[ium], Edge, Firefox, and click on gopher:// or gemini:// link;
[06:22]	nobody	the whole "tor-browser" advertizing is just another story, how all of it sucks
[06:22]	xwindows	...nothing happened; not even "The address is not understood" error.
[06:22]	xwindows	Just nothing. User would think that the link was improperly written.
[06:23]	nobody	for gemini i got cgmnlm client backported only, but no server tested yet
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[06:25]	xwindows	... https://bluedwarf.top/cackle/view-post.php?post_num=8367#C15
[06:25]	TR Bot	redirect with weird Location: robot_detector.php?post_num=8367
[06:25]	xwindows	^ Comment 15.
[06:26]	xwindows	(The only single brand of latest-and-worst browser which still do this properly is... Apple Safari OTL)
[06:26]	TR News	 (NEW):  Review: Ubuntu 26.10 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/26/Review_Ubuntu_26_10.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/26/Review_Ubuntu_26_10.gmi 
[06:26]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Review: Ubuntu 26.10
[06:27]	schestowitz[TR2]	xwindows: "
[06:27]	schestowitz[TR2]	yes
[06:27]	schestowitz[TR2]	My main concern is that (too many) will accidentally use HTTP at work
[06:27]	schestowitz[TR2]	and thus expose their search acticities to their employer(s)
[06:27]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[06:28]	schestowitz[TR2]	xwindows: that site blocks me
[06:28]	schestowitz[TR2]	"Response to robot test with day of month was missing. Or, return to the portal page."
[06:29]	schestowitz[TR2]	the  text is barely readable
[06:29]	xwindows	Well, you entered the date+num challenge and it shown that?
[06:29]	schestowitz[TR2]	gry on crystal overlay
[06:29]	schestowitz[TR2]	*gey
[06:29]	schestowitz[TR2]	*grey
[06:29]	schestowitz[TR2]	need to be more opaque
[06:30]	xwindows	I'll find the time to tell the bloke who own that site.
[06:30]	schestowitz[TR2]	thanks
[06:31]	xwindows	So you didn't manage to get in too?
[06:31]	schestowitz[TR2]	would have to copypaste that text 
[06:31]	schestowitz[TR2]	to text editor
[06:31]	schestowitz[TR2]	it's what i dislike about "modern" web
[06:34]	TR News	Mozilla keeps writing "internet" with small "i" http://techrights.org/o/2023/07/06/mozilla-vision-of-the-internet/
[06:34]	TR Bot	 Mozilla Waters Down Its Vision of The Internet
[06:35]	TR News	 (NEW):  Free and Open Source Software https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/26/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/26/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi 
[06:35]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Free and Open Source Software
[06:36]	nobody	imagine this: i've too backported LibreSSL and tor-proxy onto linux-tcc/2.4
[06:37]	nobody	that's why, i could whine a little more how pain-staking Libre/OpenSSL can be
[06:38]	nobody	because, as a side effect i've too had to make all this cross-compilable and link statically
[06:38]	nobody	nonetheless, after a week of nightshifts finally there was some tor.static linked against libressl and running atop linux-tcc/2.4 kernel
[06:40]	TR News	AstrOS 20261015 https://distrowatch.com/astros
[06:40]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/astros )
[06:40]	TR News	Ezarcher 2611-beta https://distrowatch.com/ezarcher
[06:40]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/ezarcher )
[06:40]	xwindows	The backporting is only one part of the problem;
[06:40]	TR News	Maze 2026.10.26 https://distrowatch.com/maze
[06:40]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/maze )
[06:40]	nobody	mail client mutt.static is available too, together with gpg-1.4, so i could keep a rudimentary secured mail-client setup
[06:41]	xwindows	...another part is: how many old programs is API/ABI compatible with the new SSL library version?
[06:41]	nobody	xwindows: i know
[06:41]	xwindows	^ Or you have to backport them all...
[06:41]	TR News	Rewriting Linux with 1) SLOP! 2) language that experienced Linux devs do not comprehend https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-Char-Misc
[06:41]	TR Bot	C Binder Driver Removed With Rust Binder Ready For "Few Billion Devices" - Phoronix
[06:41]	xwindows	And another thing is the hard barrier of computing power:
[06:42]	nobody	i think Libre/OpenSSL specific API headers are a major burden, hence BearSSL can't be a drop-in replacement with most free software that needs tls
[06:42]	TR News	Embrace, extend (slop and Rust), externalise to monopolies
[06:42]	xwindows	...I remember one retro browser port developer (RetroZilla?) have tested with real retro machines;
[06:42]	TR News	Like they did git (via github)
[06:43]	xwindows	and found that machine past certain vintage, the time needed for generating session key for modern TLS version,
[06:43]	nobody	finally each individual software that wished to use a sane and simple libssl.a from BearSSL would need extensive patching
[06:43]	xwindows	...could be 2 minute and beyond;
[06:43]	nobody	otherwise entire FOSS remains vendor-locked against OpenSSL
[06:43]	TR News	Options are expensive. Not having them has a cost too. https://nuno-icons.com/2026/10/25/options-are-expensive-not-having-them-has-a-cost-too/
[06:43]	TR Bot	stream 1 was not closed cleanly: PROTOCOL_ERROR (err 1) ( status 0 @ https://nuno-icons.com/2026/10/25/options-are-expensive-not-having-them-has-a-cost-too/ )
[06:43]	xwindows	...and that cause all TLS negotiation to fail, because virtually all modern HTTPS servers will sever the connection
[06:44]	xwindows	before such client could finish generating the session key.
[06:44]	nobody	and even worse, latest versions of OpenSSL, because sslv2/3 are "obsolete" nowadays
[06:44]	xwindows	No amount of backporting would fix that.
[06:44]	nobody	with the explanation given RC4 would be inappropriate and whatever else nonsense told
[06:45]	xwindows	... Thus the real solution is allowing plain olde HTTP whereever possible.
[06:45]	nobody	xwindows: yes, i merely tried to retain a few crucial pieces fully portable with BearSSL hence, such as at least one IRC client
[06:46]	TR News	"The Hey Hi (AI) Flood Continues" https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-Sound Linux is dying. http://techrights.org/n/2026/10/24/Linux_is_Not_Controlled_by_Linus_Torvalds.shtml
[06:46]	TR Bot	7.4 Sound Changes Merged: "The AI Flood Continues" - Phoronix
[06:46]	TR Bot	 Techrights Linux is Not Controlled by Linus (Torvalds)
[06:46]	nobody	well, of cause, http(s) isn't the only application protocol locked into OpenSSL
[06:47]	nobody	many plain FTP servers went down too, such as the ones from kernel.org
[06:47]	TR News	"The OSS sequencer emulation code has also been marked as deprecated for Linux 7.4."
[06:47]	TR News	So it sounds like LLM slop is good at REMOVING features
[06:48]	nobody	so it will become increasingly difficult to fetch source distfiles from mirrors with a "vintage" computer system that supported standard internet protocols
[06:48]	xwindows	"such as the ones from kernel.org", luckily, ftp://ftp.gnu.org/ is still there.
[06:49]	xwindows	(Even that they said they would pull the plug for half-decade now)
[06:49]	nobody	another reason why i backported a few things onto linux-tcc/2.4, to retain a stable *nix development host a little while longer
[06:49]	nobody	i got a most-recent libressl backported and linked into (which i think wouldn't permit shipping binary packages anymore due to libressl license conditions)
[06:50]	TR News	 (NEW):  NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti Gets Nearly 80% FP16/BF16 Compute Boost With Linux-Based Unlocking Trick https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/26/NVIDIA_GeForce_RTX_3090_Ti_Gets_Nearly_80_FP16_BF16_Compute_Boo.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/26/NVIDIA_GeForce_RTX_3090_Ti_Gets_Nearly_80_FP16_BF16_Compute_Boo.gmi 
[06:50]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti Gets Nearly 80% FP16/BF16 Compute Boost With Linux-Based Unlocking Trick
[06:50]	xwindows	"linux-tcc/2.4", Kernel Linux 2.4 with Tiny C Compiler, but GNU C Library?
[06:50]	nobody	bearssl mentions a few legal terms too on their web-site, such as shipping any irc-client linked against it would make me an importer/exporter of crypto into any jurisdiction outside canada
[06:51]	nobody	xwindows: nope, i didn't see any hope for GNU libc anymore, hence hacked musl-libc-1.1 for linux-2.4 ABI compat
[06:51]	xwindows	"any hope for GNU libc anymore", wait, what?
[06:51]	xwindows	The ability to get backported or...?
[06:52]	nobody	what, what? to keep it brief, portability and stability overall, including backporting onto linux-tcc/2.4
[06:52]	xwindows	Okay.
[06:53]	nobody	i don't expect to make many friends among GNU/FSF with what i did
[06:53]	nobody	it's not my fault, i only tried my best to just make work(tm) a long-term stable *nix development host
[06:54]	xwindows	Well, I do expect myself to at least try to port at least one version of GNU libc to NetBSD;
[06:54]	nobody	which was a huge salvage mission, stumbling upon Open/LibreSSL too for that matter
[06:54]	xwindows	...so thanks for the heads up regarding the latest versions.
[06:54]	nobody	xwindows: interesting notice, *BSD
[06:55]	nobody	myself doesn't bother that much with licensing being either GPL, BSD, MIT
[06:55]	xwindows	NetBSD is one *BSD continuing to support x86-32.
[06:55]	xwindows	With kernel Linux going slopfest, there have to be congintency plan.
[06:56]	nobody	ok, my first criterion was c-toolchain portability, verified with/against TinyCC i386-tcc first, to ensure *nix isn't trapped with llvm/clang and/or gnu/gcc/binutils/g++
[06:56]		*xwindows is a copyleft guy however; so pushover BSD licensing is not enough for me.
[06:56]	nobody	i just haven't got the time to re-iterate over say OpenBSD if i could roll along with i386-tcc
[06:57]	xwindows	"was c-toolchain portability [...] to ensure *nix isn't trapped with", that's an okay goal.
[06:57]	nobody	next criterion was "bootstrappability", and bootstrapping is/was confirmed by GNU mes hackers
[06:57]	nobody	so i sticked to linux-tcc/2.4 with tinycc
[06:58]	nobody	to have at least one kernel remaining with sufficient hardware support on x86_32, that compiles/links with tinycc and got a complete userspace backported including development utilities
[06:58]	nobody	just saying, salvaging strace and gdb weren't trivial either, to support those with linux-tcc and i386-tcc _only_
[06:59]	nobody	long story short libssl wasn't the only hindrance by far
[06:59]	xwindows	Hm...
[06:59]	nobody	since you're here, my current mental issue is another one though
● Oct 26
[07:00]	nobody	maybe someone could explain to me, why in particular myself was denied ALL cooperation and contracting with employers and universities in germany???
[07:00]	TR News	 (NEW):  This Week in Plasma: Fixing All the Bugs, PiP, and Performance https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/24/This_Week_in_Plasma_Fixing_All_the_Bugs_PiP_and_Performance.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/24/This_Week_in_Plasma_Fixing_All_the_Bugs_PiP_and_Performance.gmi 
[07:00]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines This Week in Plasma: Fixing All the Bugs, PiP, and Performance
[07:01]	TR News	AnduinOS 2.0.5 https://distrowatch.com/anduin
[07:01]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/anduin )
[07:02]		*xwindows doesn't know how to answer that.
[07:03]	nobody	me neither
[07:03]	schestowitz[TR2]	xwindows: try http search
[07:03]		*xwindows starts Firefox 2.0...
[07:03]	nobody	$ w3m https://duckduckgogg42xjoc72x3sjasowoarfbgcmvfimaftt6twagswzczad.onion/html
[07:03]	TR Bot	resolving .onion address (RFC 7686) ( status 0 @ https://duckduckgogg42xjoc72x3sjasowoarfbgcmvfimaftt6twagswzczad.onion/html )
[07:04]	nobody	no javascript, no cookies, no evedropping, no BS
[07:04]	xwindows	Okay, search form displays...
[07:05]	xwindows	Single-field search works (tested with "Andy Farnell" metadata match)...
[07:05]	xwindows	The links in result are root-relative, good.
[07:07]	xwindows	Multi-field search works (tested with "Andy Farnell" metadata match AND Vegan content match AND 2023-01-01-or-newer date match), good.
[07:08]	xwindows	Field deletion is glitchy...hm.
[07:09]		*xwindows re-tests the exact field deletion he use now, in HTTPS...
[07:10]	TR News	Ubuntu users can now file bugs against specific Launchpad PPAs https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/10/launchpad-ppa-dedicated-bug-tracker
[07:10]	TR Bot	 Ubuntu users can now file bugs against specific Launchpad PPAs - OMG! Ubuntu
[07:11]	xwindows	Okay, the glichiess has nothing to do with HTTP/HTTPS; it's repoducible in both situation.
[07:11]	xwindows	schestowitz[TR2]: Thanks, the HTTP search now works.
[07:11]	nobody	from what i can see here, http://techrights.org can be navigated just fine, including search
[07:11]	TR Bot	 Techrights
[07:11]	TR News	PHP2Shell scare sees SuperTuxKart pull its online server https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/10/supertuxkart-goes-offline-php2shell
[07:11]	TR Bot	 PHP2Shell scare sees SuperTuxKart pull its online server - OMG! Ubuntu
[07:11]	nobody	with w3m browser
[07:12]	xwindows	schestowitz[TR2]: Though in the process I have discovered a new seach field deletion bug (which has nothing to do with HTTP/HTTPS dual-serving).
[07:13]	xwindows	schestowitz[TR2]: Basically, if I added at least one more field to the search form (without clicking "Search" yet);
[07:13]	TR News	9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: October 25th, 2026 https://9to5linux.com/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-october-25th-2026
[07:13]	TR Bot	Weekly Roundup: October 25th, 2026 - 9to5Linux
[07:14]	xwindows	schestowitz[TR2]: I could remove any field (by clicking "-" button next to it), *except* the last one.
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[07:15]	xwindows	schestowitz[TR2]: It doesn't matter how many fields they currently are in the search form, as long as it's 2+ fields;
[07:16]	TR News	Kiwi TCMS: Testing and Continuous Delivery devroom, FOSDEM'27 https://kiwitcms.org/blog/kiwi-tcms-team/2026/10/25/testing-and-continuous-delivery-devroom-fosdem27/
[07:16]	TR Bot	 Kiwi TCMS - Testing and Continuous Delivery devroom, FOSDEM'27
[07:16]	xwindows	schestowitz[TR2]: clicking "-" button next to any field work, except the last field-- which apparently make it reload the same form (with the same field values intact).
[07:17]	xwindows	schestowitz[TR2]: This applies to both HTTP and HTTPS version of the search.
[07:17]	xwindows	nobody: "to ensure *nix isn't trapped with", I'm curious, do you publish your patch/instruction somewhere?
[07:18]	TR News	How to Install KVM on Ubuntu 26.04 Step by Step https://www.linuxtechi.com/how-to-install-kvm-on-ubuntu/
[07:18]	TR Bot	 How to Install KVM on Ubuntu 26.04 Step by Step
[07:19]	TR News	"the business model of phone stores is based on having a price of service that doesnt allow the amounts of money spent on security and training that organisations such as banks can spend and are legally required to spend." https://etbe.coker.com.au/2026/10/25/banks-phones/
[07:19]	TR Bot	 Banks and Phones etbe Russell Coker
[07:19]	TR News	Godot XR Community Game Jam VI https://godotengine.org/article/godot-xr-update-oct2026/
[07:19]	TR Bot	 Godot XR Community Game Jam VI Godot Engine
[07:20]	TR News	"HTTP is stateless and so pretending to provide a stateful service over it is a kludge at best."
[07:21]	TR News	Sam Thursfield: 25th October 2026 https://samthursfield.wordpress.com/2026/10/25/25th-october-2026/
[07:21]	TR Bot	 25th October 2026 Sam Thursfield
[07:42]	TR News	You might be using the wrong distro in your Linux VM. These are the only 3 worth spinning up https://www.howtogeek.com/you-might-be-using-the-wrong-distro-in-your-linux-vm-these-are-the-only-3-worth-spinning-up/
[07:42]	TR Bot	 You might be using the wrong distro in your Linux VM. These are the only 3 worth spinning up
[07:45]	TR News	Lightweight Linux distros make your old hardware useful again, and they're not the nightmare you remember https://www.xda-developers.com/lightweight-linux-distros-make-old-hardware-useful-again-not-nightmare-they-used-be/
[07:45]	TR Bot	 Lightweight Linux distros make your old hardware useful again, and they're not the nightmare you remember
[07:45]	TR News	"AMD has submitted Linux kernel patches for an official Ryzen overclocking driver. The initial version offers only basic controls for CPU power limits and SMT, but it could pave the way for more comprehensive Ryzen tuning tools on Linux." https://www.notebookcheck.net/Ryzen-overclocking-is-coming-to-Linux-as-AMD-prepares-an-official-driver.1433586.0.html
[07:45]	TR Bot	 Ryzen overclocking is coming to Linux as AMD prepares an official driver - Notebookcheck News
[07:46]	TR News	"An enthusiast and custom software developer under the pseudonym mihawk9_9 has presented a project that allows the official Steam client to run directly on the PlayStation 5." https://en.gamegpu.com/news/zhelezo/entuziasty-zapustili-steam-na-konsoli-playstation-5-bez-ustanovki-linux
[07:46]	TR Bot	 Enthusiasts launched Steam on the PlayStation 5 console without installing Linux.
[07:47]	TR News	7 Days: Unexpected Linux goofup, AV2 support, and critical vulnerabilities in PHP https://www.neowin.net/news/7-days-unexpected-linux-goofup-av2-support-and-critical-vulnerabilities-in-php/
[07:47]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.neowin.net/news/7-days-unexpected-linux-goofup-av2-support-and-critical-vulnerabilities-in-php/ )
[07:47]	TR News	SteamOS 3.9 moves out of beta with updated Linux kernel and desktop https://videocardz.com/newz/steamos-3-9-5-stable-arrives-with-better-support-for-steam-machine-and-steam-frame
[07:47]	TR Bot	3.9 goes stable with Linux 7.2, KDE Plasma 6.7 and expanded hardware support - VideoCardz.com
[07:48]	TR News	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti Gets Nearly 80% FP16/BF16 Compute Boost With Linux-Based Unlocking Trick https://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-rtx-3090-ti-gets-nearly-80-fp16-bf16-compute-boost-with-linux-based-unlocking-trick/
[07:48]	TR Bot	 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti Gets Nearly 80% FP16/BF16 Compute Boost With Linux-Based Unlocking Trick
[07:48]	TR News	Fake Arch Linux package hid a script that could run attacker-controlled code as root https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/fake-arch-linux-package-hid-a-script-that-could-run-attacker-controlled-code-as-root
[07:48]	TR Bot	 Fake Arch Linux package hid a script that could run attacker-controlled code as root
[07:49]	TR News	This seems to be a slop piece, made at least partially with LLMs for plagiarism
[07:50]	TR News	 (NEW):  Security Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/26/Security_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/26/Security_Leftovers.gmi 
[07:50]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Security Leftovers
[07:52]	TR News	 (NEW):  Games: Godot, Steam Games Playable on the Steam Deck, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/26/Games_Godot_Steam_Games_Playable_on_the_Steam_Deck_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/26/Games_Godot_Steam_Games_Playable_on_the_Steam_Deck_and_More.gmi 
[07:52]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Games: Godot, Steam Games Playable on the Steam Deck, and More
[07:52]	TR News	 (NEW):  Linux Devices and Open Hardware https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/26/Linux_Devices_and_Open_Hardware.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/26/Linux_Devices_and_Open_Hardware.gmi 
[07:52]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Linux Devices and Open Hardware
[07:57]	TR News	 (NEW):   Programming Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/26/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/26/Programming_Leftovers.gmi 
[07:57]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Programming Leftovers
[07:58]	TR News	 (NEW):  Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and WWW Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/26/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_and_WWW_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/26/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_and_WWW_Leftovers.gmi 
[07:58]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and WWW Leftovers
● Oct 26
[08:00]	TR News	 (NEW):  GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/26/GNU_Linux_and_BSD_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/26/GNU_Linux_and_BSD_Leftovers.gmi 
[08:00]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers
[08:03]	TR News	Techrights Links 26/10/2026: Chinas Communist Party Plenum and Aleksandar Vucic Concedes Defeat https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/26/Links_26_10_2026_China_s_Communist_Party_Plenum_and_Aleksandar_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/10/26/Links_26_10_2026_China_s_Communist_Party_Plenum_and_Aleksandar_.gmi 
[08:03]	TR Bot	 Techrights Links 26/10/2026: Chinas Communist Party Plenum and Aleksandar Vucic Concedes Defeat
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[08:55]	TR News	 (NEW):  Games: SteamOS 3.9.5, Steam Frame, SuperTuxKart Online, and Reviews on GNU/Linux and Steam Deck https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/25/Games_SteamOS_3_9_5_Steam_Frame_SuperTuxKart_Online_and_Reviews.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/25/Games_SteamOS_3_9_5_Steam_Frame_SuperTuxKart_Online_and_Reviews.gmi 
[08:55]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Games: SteamOS 3.9.5, Steam Frame, SuperTuxKart Online, and Reviews on GNU/Linux and Steam Deck
[08:55]	TR News	 (NEW):  Today's HowTos   https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/25/today_s_howtos.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/25/today_s_howtos.gmi 
[08:55]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines today's howtos
[08:55]	TR News	 (NEW):  Kali Linux 2026.3 Released with Linux 7.1, KDE Plasma 6.7, and New Tools https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/26/Kali_Linux_2026_3_Released_with_Linux_7_1_KDE_Plasma_6_7_and_Ne.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/26/Kali_Linux_2026_3_Released_with_Linux_7_1_KDE_Plasma_6_7_and_Ne.gmi 
[08:55]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Kali Linux 2026.3 Released with Linux 7.1, KDE Plasma 6.7, and New Tools
● Oct 26
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[12:45]	TR News	The World's First Corporate Psychopath May Have Just Been Identified https://www.sciencealert.com/the-worlds-first-corporate-psychopath-may-have-just-been-identified
[12:45]	TR Bot	World's First Corporate Psychopath May Have Just Been Identified : ScienceAlert
[12:46]	TR News	Scientists Discovered an Amazing Practical Use For The World's Leftover Coffee Grounds https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-discovered-an-amazing-practical-use-for-the-worlds-leftover-coffee-grounds
[12:46]	TR Bot	Discovered an Amazing Practical Use For The World's Leftover Coffee Grounds : ScienceAlert
[12:47]	TR News	A.I. videos flooded the internet in the run-up to the election. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/10/25/world/brazil-election/ai-videos-flooded-the-internet-in-the-run-up-to-the-election
[12:47]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/10/25/world/brazil-election/ai-videos-flooded-the-internet-in-the-run-up-to-the-election )
[12:48]	TR News	Creator of Super Smash Brothers Offers Blistering Takedown of AI-Generated Games https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/super-smash-bros-creator-ai
[12:48]	TR Bot	 Creator of Super Smash Brothers Offers Blistering Takedown of AI-Generated Games
[12:49]	TR News	Growing Majority of Americans Convinced That Hey Hi (AI) Is Bad for Society https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/majority-americans-ai-bad-society
[12:49]	TR Bot	 Growing Majority of Americans Convinced That AI Is Bad for Society
[12:50]	TR News	Cost barriers leave Hong Kongs low-income elderly shut out of advance medical directives despite landmark law https://hongkongfp.com/2026/10/26/cost-barriers-leave-hong-kongs-low-income-elderly-shut-out-of-advance-medical-directives-despite-landmark-law/
[12:50]	TR Bot	 Cost barriers leave some in HK shut out of advance medical directives
[12:51]	TR News	Cybersecurity bounty hunter says Samsung TVs use Hey Hi (AI) to record audio and screenshots for ads https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/hacker-finds-own-samsung-tv-collecting-scary-amounts-of-user-information-and-gets-banned-by-openai-for-cyber-abuse-tv-runs-an-ai-model-that-collects-audio-screenshots-and-plenty-of-other-user-data-for-ad-targeting
[12:51]	TR Bot	 Cybersecurity bounty hunter says Samsung TVs use AI to record audio and screenshots for ads 'Finally found a company that truly listens to its customers,' says hacker | Tom's Hardware
[12:55]	TR News	Claude Mythos 5 Tried to Poison a Real Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub Repo During a UK AISI Test https://www.blackmoreops.com/claude-mythos-5-github-attack/
[12:55]	TR Bot	 Claude Mythos 5 Tried to Poison a Real GitHub Repo
[12:55]	TR News	ChatGPT Is Building Detailed Psychological Profiles of Its Users https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-building-profiles-users
[12:55]	TR Bot	 ChatGPT Is Building Detailed Psychological Profiles of Its Users
[12:56]	TR News	Renesas RX74M and RX74N 600MHz industrial MCUs with RXv3e core, embedded MRAM, 22nm process https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/10/26/renesas-rx74m-and-rx74n-600mhz-industrial-mcus-with-rxv3e-core-embedded-mram-22nm-process/
[12:56]	TR Bot	 Renesas RX74M and RX74N - 600MHz industrial MCUs with RXv3e core, embedded MRAM, 22nm process - CNX Software
[12:57]	TR News	Daylight Saving Time frustrations https://blog.slackware.nl/daylight-saving-time-frustrations/
[12:57]	TR Bot	 Daylight Saving Time frustrations Alien Pastures
[12:58]	TR News	Issue Fee to Grant: The Wait Has Doubled https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/10/issue-fee-to-grant-the-wait-has-doubled.html
[12:58]	TR Bot	 Issue Fee to Grant: The Wait Has Doubled | Patently-O
[12:59]	TR News	MagOS 2025_20261023 https://distrowatch.com/magos
[12:59]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/magos )
● Oct 26
[13:00]	TR News	Critical PHP2Shell Security Vulns Evoke Black October https://www.itjungle.com/2026/10/26/critical-php2shell-security-vulns-evoke-black-october/
[13:00]	TR Bot	 Critical PHP2Shell Security Vulns Evoke 'Black October' - IT Jungle
[13:07]	TR News	Exxons Attempt to Suppress Damning Climate Evidence https://truthout.org/articles/new-documents-expose-exxons-attempt-to-suppress-damning-climate-evidence/
[13:07]	TR Bot	 New Documents Expose Exxons Attempt to Suppress Damning Climate Evidence | Truthout
[13:07]	TR News	dont believe the hype https://www.theage.com.au/national/western-australia/workers-want-company-climate-action-but-don-t-believe-the-hype-20261019-p6166p.html
[13:07]	TR Bot	 Climate change Australia: New Curtin University research reveals workers concerns over health, safety and greenwashing
[13:08]	TR News	looking at companies at the heart of WAs economy to act on climate change https://www.theage.com.au/national/western-australia/australia-s-workforce-is-looking-at-companies-at-the-heart-of-wa-s-economy-to-act-on-climate-change-20261019-p6166i.html
[13:08]	TR Bot	 Australias workforce is looking at companies at the heart of WAs economy to act on climate change
[13:08]	TR News	Capitalism incompatible with the goal https://nltimes.nl/2026/10/19/paris-climate-goals-virtually-unachievable-says-dutch-central-bank-leader
[13:08]	TR Bot	 Paris climate goals virtually unachievable, says Dutch central bank leader | NL Times
[13:09]	TR News	Reports won't stop the greed regardless https://cphpost.dk/2026-10-19/news/round-up/delayed-un-climate-reports-could-weaken-action-before-cop33-danish-expert-warns/
[13:09]	TR Bot	stream 1 was not closed cleanly: PROTOCOL_ERROR (err 1) ( status 0 @ https://cphpost.dk/2026-10-19/news/round-up/delayed-un-climate-reports-could-weaken-action-before-cop33-danish-expert-warns/ )
[13:09]	TR News	Cheeto Mussolini's climate retreat https://www.dw.com/en/rising-emissions-and-temperatures-the-cost-of-trump-s-climate-retreat-is-now-clear/a-79714915
[13:09]	TR Bot	 Rising emissions: The cost of Trump's climate retreat
[13:10]	TR News	marine life has not recovered https://www.cbc.ca/news/climate/deepwater-horizon-marine-life-decline-gulf-of-mexico-9.7388794
[13:10]	TR Bot	 More than 16 years after BP's Deepwater Horizon disaster, marine life has not recovered | CBC Climate Change News
[13:11]	TR News	Flood risk https://bianet.org/haber/flood-risk-grows-in-istanbul-amid-climate-crisis-324666
[13:11]	TR Bot	 'Flood risk grows in stanbul amid climate crisis'
[13:11]	TR News	But EFF does not pursue it https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/victory-freedom-speech-online-effector-3818
[13:11]	TR Bot	 A Victory for Freedom of Speech Online | EFFector 38.18 | Electronic Frontier Foundation
[13:11]	TR News	Hate Speech Law https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/california-pastors-challenge-workplace-hate-speech-law-1826513
[13:11]	TR Bot	 Christian Pastors Argue That the New California LGBTQ Hate Speech Law Is Disguised as Indoctrination | IBTimes UK
[13:13]	TR News	energy poverty https://www.theage.com.au/national/western-australia/global-citizen-returns-to-wa-with-star-power-world-leaders-and-a-mission-on-energy-poverty-20261017-p616am.html
[13:13]	TR Bot	 Global Citizen returns to WA with star power, world leaders and a mission on energy poverty
[13:13]	TR News	green energy scheme chaos https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/deposits-lost-warranties-wiped-consumers-hit-by-green-energy-scheme-chaos-20261018-p61676.html
[13:13]	TR Bot	 Deposits lost, warranties wiped: Consumers hit by green energy scheme chaos
[13:14]	TR News	Fears of Big Tech Censorship Grow After Meta Suspends No Kings Instagram Account https://scheerpost.com/2026/10/19/fears-of-big-tech-censorship-grow-after-meta-suspends-no-kings-instagram-account/
[13:14]	TR Bot	 Fears of Big Tech Censorship Grow After Meta Suspends No Kings Instagram Account
[13:14]	TR News	School Book Bans https://www.projectcensored.org/a-spotlight-on-school-book-bans/
[13:15]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://www.projectcensored.org/a-spotlight-on-school-book-bans/ )
[13:15]	TR News	The Freedom and Restraints of Reporting on China in the US https://www.projectcensored.org/the-freedom-and-restraints-of-reporting-on-china-in-the-us/
[13:15]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://www.projectcensored.org/the-freedom-and-restraints-of-reporting-on-china-in-the-us/ )
[13:16]	TR News	criticism against school headscarf ban https://bianet.org/haber/azerbaijan-seeks-arrest-of-seven-people-in-turkey-over-criticism-against-school-headscarf-ban-324636
[13:16]	TR Bot	 Azerbaijan seeks arrest of seven people in Turkey over criticism against school headscarf ban
[13:17]	TR News	pro-opposition Halk TV channel in Turkey https://www.dw.com/en/police-raid-the-major-pro-opposition-halk-tv-channel-in-turkey/a-79671673
[13:17]	TR Bot	 Turkey: Police raid major pro-opposition Halk TV channel
[13:18]	MinceR	incredible Halk
[13:18]	TR News	Childhood Offenses https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/10/19/saudi-arabia-man-executed-for-childhood-offenses
[13:18]	TR Bot	 Saudi Arabia: Man Executed for Childhood Offenses | Human Rights Watch
[13:52]	TR News	police strikes against photographers https://cphpost.dk/2026-10-19/news/round-up/independent-authority-to-investigate-police-strikes-against-photographers/
[13:52]	TR Bot	stream 1 was not closed cleanly: PROTOCOL_ERROR (err 1) ( status 0 @ https://cphpost.dk/2026-10-19/news/round-up/independent-authority-to-investigate-police-strikes-against-photographers/ )
● Oct 26
[14:00]	TR News	EPO leak next
[14:09]	TR News	"don't touch me there, it hurts," says the person who abuse you. So you touch again.
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[14:26]	TR News	Techrights European Patent Office Takes From the Poor to Give More to the Rich https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/26/European_Patent_Office_Takes_From_the_Poor_to_Give_More_to_the_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/10/26/European_Patent_Office_Takes_From_the_Poor_to_Give_More_to_the_.gmi 
[14:26]	TR Bot	 Techrights European Patent Office Takes From the Poor to Give More to the Rich
[14:31]	schestowitz[TR2]	hi amcclure 
[14:47]	amcclure	hi schestowitz[TR2] 
[14:49]	schestowitz[TR2]	just thought i'd holler
[14:49]	TR News	Techrights More Stories and Material Than We Can Publish https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/26/More_Stories_and_Material_Than_We_Can_Publish.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/10/26/More_Stories_and_Material_Than_We_Can_Publish.gmi 
[14:49]	TR Bot	 Techrights More Stories and Material Than We Can Publish
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[15:07]	TR News	Techrights Shift to the Lula (Left) https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/26/Shift_to_the_Lula_Left.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/10/26/Shift_to_the_Lula_Left.gmi 
[15:07]	TR Bot	 Techrights Shift to the Lula (Left)
[15:09]	TR News	"Comcast loses 144,000 broadband users, layoffs loom"
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[15:46]	TR News	Techrights Search Without Encryption for Legacy Systems (Permacomputing) and Full Backward Compatibility https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/26/Search_Without_Encryption_for_Legacy_Systems_Permacomputing_and.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/10/26/Search_Without_Encryption_for_Legacy_Systems_Permacomputing_and.gmi 
[15:46]	TR Bot	 Techrights Search Without Encryption for Legacy Systems (Permacomputing) and Full Backward Compatibility
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[16:23]	TR News	Intercontinental Brigading - Part XVI - The Faustian Pact That Irritates Hired Guns is Still a Distraction From the Serious Harm Done by Their Clients to GNU/Linux Users (Notably Plagiarism and Back Doors) http://techrights.org/n/2026/10/26/Intercontinental_Brigading_Part_XVI_The_Faustian_Pact_That_Irri.shtml
[16:23]	TR Bot	 Techrights Intercontinental Brigading - Part XVI - The Faustian Pact That Irritates Hired Guns is Still a Distraction From the Serious Harm Done by Their Clients to GNU/Linux Users (Notably Plagiarism and Back Doors)
[16:28]	TR News	Old: Faustian EPO Pact https://techrights.org/o/2022/07/22/faustian-epo-pact/
[16:28]	TR Bot	 [Meme] The Intrepid Razik, Herr Weber, and the Faustian EPO Pact
[16:38]	TR News	Storm Boelo leaves 90,000 without power as Met Office issues new wind warning https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqm264jxxnxzo some trees feel all over the place
[16:38]	TR Bot	 Storm Boelo clean-up begins as thousands left without power - BBC News
[16:39]	TR News	UPC 3 years report and conference https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/events/conference-unitary-patent-system-2027-01-29_en
[16:39]	TR Bot	 Conference on the unitary patent system - Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs
[16:42]	TR News	JUVE UPC Court of Appeal hears Sanofis challenge over cabazitaxel patent monopoly revocation [Ed: Kangaroo Courts like these need not even exist, but the EPO and the litigation "industry" crafted an unlawful tribunal] https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/07/Links_07_10_2026_Unrest_in_France_and_Rumours_of_Plague_in_Russ.shtml
[16:42]	TR Bot	 Techrights Links 07/10/2026: Unrest in France and Rumours of Plague in Russia
[16:42]	TR News	"In one of the most prominent pharma cases at the UPC, oral proceedings in Sanofis appeal against the first-instance decision of the UPCs Munich local division started today and are scheduled to continue tomorrow." https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/07/Links_07_10_2026_Unrest_in_France_and_Rumours_of_Plague_in_Russ.shtml
[16:43]	TR News	Earlier this month the EPO revoked a European Patent, which the UPC previously honoured and would apparently still honour. This is chaos.
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[16:44]	TR News	The Serial Strangler stopped talking, as if he was abducted by a UFO. Microsoft decided that he was too low for its standards, but it was too late...
[16:45]	TR News	He is still not too low for the standards of Puppy Breaker
[16:48]	TR News	"When I rewrote Odd to use SQLite for full-text search, I had to update the database when changes were made. Once the code was there, it was easy to add more information, like links." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2026-10-26-oddmu-testing
[16:50]	TR News	Selected Excerpts: Hollywood, Ending gemini://gemini.scottnm.com/pages/2026_10_18_selected_excerpts_hollywood_ending/2026_10_18_selected_excerpts_hollywood_ending.gmi
[16:51]	TR News	"This book is a work of Christian and Jewish theological theory: what the sabbath commandment meant in its historical context and what, to the author, it means today." gemini://gemini.scottnm.com/pages/2026_10_24_selected_excerpts_sabbath_as_resistance/2026_10_24_selected_excerpts_sabbath_as_resistance.gmi
[16:52]	TR News	"I know, I know... Long time no see. You thought that I was gone, didn't you? Well, I was there. But somewhere else. You know, they will need more to kill me. It's not that simple. I know that they don't, apparently." gemini://aenu.smol.pub/not-enough
[16:52]	TR News	El abandono de la web para todos gemini://alex.corcoles.net/2026/10/el-abandono-de-la-web-para-todos
[16:53]	TR News	full lucid moon gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/fullLucid
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[17:08]	TR News	"Well thats how offshoring works. They hire the citizens of Mexico/Poland/India/Singapore or whatever other country they chose to offshore to" https://www.teamblind.com/post/microsoft-layoffs-now-jhkoz6xs
[17:08]	TR Bot	 Microsoft layoffs now | Layoffs - Blind
[17:09]	TR News	ebay layoffs galore www.teamblind.com/post/laid-off-and-looking-for-pm-referrals-zm2br5ts
[17:18]	admfubar	https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/oct/25/scientists-rediscover-ancient-roman-colour-changing-glass
[17:18]	TR Bot	 Its magic: scientists rediscover how to make ancient Roman colour-changing glass | Archaeology | The Guardian
[17:22]	admfubar	https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/city-in-france-is-latest-to-ditch-windows-and-office-in-favor-of-linux-and-foss-alternatives.457291/
[17:22]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/city-in-france-is-latest-to-ditch-windows-and-office-in-favor-of-linux-and-foss-alternatives.457291/ )
[17:23]	admfubar	https://www.neowin.net/news/denmark-has-abandoned-plans-to-ditch-microsoft-office-after-technical-problems/
[17:23]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.neowin.net/news/denmark-has-abandoned-plans-to-ditch-microsoft-office-after-technical-problems/ )
[17:24]	TR News	Techrights This is How Microsoft Ends (Over a Quarter of the Company Now on the Chopping Block) https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/26/This_is_How_Microsoft_Ends_Over_a_Quarter_of_the_Company_Now_on.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/10/26/This_is_How_Microsoft_Ends_Over_a_Quarter_of_the_Company_Now_on.gmi 
[17:24]	TR Bot	 Techrights This is How Microsoft Ends (Over a Quarter of the Company Now on the Chopping Block)
[17:26]	TR News	"I have resisted that company like a plague, only because my ex-flatmate used to work there. Not only he himself got rusty with skills, he was the top performer of the team."
[17:26]	TR News	"That says a lot about level of personnel there in a lot of teams, if not all. Proper retirement company, especially teams outside of Azure." https://www.teamblind.com/post/breaking-news-microsoft-to-offer-buyouts-to-60000-workers-in-latest-cost-cut-pjvt3thp
[17:26]	TR Bot	 BREAKING NEWS: Microsoft to Offer Buyouts to 60,000 Workers in Latest Cost Cut | Tech Industry - Blind
[17:27]	admfubar	https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw30ejqljl43o
[17:27]	TR Bot	 The PHP developer who became the unsung hero of the internet
[17:27]	schestowitz[TR2]	billBC :)
[17:27]	schestowitz[TR2]	"unsung hero of the internet
[17:27]	schestowitz[TR2]	"with small i
[17:29]	TR News	"Microsoft is offering buyouts to around 60,000 employees Around 60,000 employees or more than a quarter of the company's workforce about will be eligible, a spokesperson told Business Insider, and the terms will be similar to Microsoft's standard severance. 27% of the company effectively surplus to requirements. Wow!!!! Anybody received the buyout?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m5wg98zv#replies
[17:29]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m5wg98zv#replies )
[17:30]	TR News	"a friend just heard from his manager that he is not eligible. He is an L64 SWE in a consulting team (sales)."
[17:31]	TR News	"Employees at internal levels 64 and below received one week of base pay per six months of service, for example, and employees at levels 65 to 67 will receive two weeks of base pay per six months of service. As a long-term veteran who's been looking for the exit door, this would be a lovely golden handshake to see me out the door. Fingers crossed I get the offer."
[17:32]	TR News	4 weeks of pay for 2 years of disservice is a lot less than standard severance
[17:43]	TR News	Techrights Microsoft 'Buyouts' Sound Just Like 60,000 Layoffs of 'Expensive' or More Experienced Staff ('Soft' Layoffs or Even Worse, Negligible Severance) https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/26/Microsoft_Buyouts_Sound_Just_Like_60_000_Layoffs_of_Expensive_o.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/10/26/Microsoft_Buyouts_Sound_Just_Like_60_000_Layoffs_of_Expensive_o.gmi 
[17:43]	TR Bot	 Techrights Microsoft 'Buyouts' Sound Just Like 60,000 Layoffs of 'Expensive' or More Experienced Staff ('Soft' Layoffs or Even Worse, Negligible Severance)
[17:55]	admfubar	https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/apple-responds-to-reports-of-iphone-duos-inner-display-cracking.461094/
[17:55]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/apple-responds-to-reports-of-iphone-duos-inner-display-cracking.461094/ )
[17:56]	TR News	Techrights The Register MS Gets Rid of Disclosures About Paid-for Spam Regarding "AI", It Also Composes Fake News for the Sponsors https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/26/The_Register_MS_Gets_Rid_of_Disclosures_About_Paid_for_Spam_Reg.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/10/26/The_Register_MS_Gets_Rid_of_Disclosures_About_Paid_for_Spam_Reg.gmi 
[17:56]	TR Bot	 Techrights The Register MS Gets Rid of Disclosures About Paid-for Spam Regarding "AI", It Also Composes Fake News for the Sponsors
[17:58]	admfubar	Louis Rossmann - Apple store employees, tell us what's going on here... https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=5c-EOH4YAUo
[17:58]	TR Bot	 Select instance - Invidious
[17:59]	admfubar	https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cryptomining/hacker-offers-bitcoin-reward-to-anyone-who-can-break-into-an-unpatched-server-running-php-still-remains-unhacked-php2shell-challenge-tests-claims-that-ai-makes-exploiting-vulnerabilities-easy
[17:59]	TR Bot	 Bitcoin reward offered to anyone who could break into an unpatched server running PHP, hacker cracks site and claims bounty PHP2Shell challenge tested claims that AI makes exploiting vulnerabilities easy | Tom's Hardware
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[18:00]	admfubar	https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/reddits-r-opensource-bans-ai-made-and-ai-focused-projects-also-bans-non-english-speakers-sweeping-new-rules-spark-backlash-over-linux-kernel-contributions-and-solo-developers
[18:00]	TR Bot	 Reddits r/opensource bans AI-made and AI-focused projects, also bans non-English speakers sweeping new rules spark backlash over Linux kernel contributions and solo developers | Tom's Hardware
[18:00]	TR News	Microsoft PIPs in India, now "buyouts". Must be REALLY bad if they do this in India...
[18:00]	TR News	Does Microsoft tell us workers in India cost too much?
[18:01]	admfubar	https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/hacker-finds-own-samsung-tv-collecting-scary-amounts-of-user-information-and-gets-banned-by-openai-for-cyber-abuse-tv-runs-an-ai-model-that-collects-audio-screenshots-and-plenty-of-other-user-data-for-ad-targeting
[18:01]	TR Bot	 Cybersecurity bounty hunter says Samsung TVs use AI to record audio and screenshots for ads 'Finally found a company that truly listens to its customers,' says hacker | Tom's Hardware
[18:01]	TR News	It is NOT "voluntary" exit when they tell you they'll sack you if you don't take it
[18:02]	TR News	That MSFT stock is UP on news of 26% or 27% being sacked (ish) merely affirms this: https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/03/Definitely_Not_a_Ponzi_Scheme.shtml
[18:02]	TR Bot	 Techrights Definitely Not a Ponzi Scheme
[18:03]	TR News	Maybe it should sack 99% of staff, then declare the company is 'worth' 10 trillion dollars or 5 billions dollars per staff member
[18:04]	TR News	Wall Street casino shuffle. https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=GvAjmvA4O70
[18:04]	TR Bot	( status 418 @ https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=GvAjmvA4O70 )
[18:05]	TR News	"Mukesh, Huiming and Hemanth are all bullsh-t artists of the highest caliber and the biggest snake oil conmen around. No actual substance in anything they say." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m4g8pqtn see http://techrights.org/n/2026/10/14/IBM_s_Anderon_is_Like_Theranos_But_Will_Anybody_at_IBM_or_Ander.shtml
[18:05]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m4g8pqtn )
[18:05]	TR Bot	 Techrights IBM's Anderon is Like Theranos, But Will Anybody at IBM or Anderon Be Imprisoned for This Billion-Dollar Scam?
[18:15]	TR News	Techrights Gemini Links 26/10/2026: Writing Down Dreams and "Sabbath as Resistance" https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/26/Gemini_Links_26_10_2026_Writing_Down_Dreams_and_Sabbath_as_Resi.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/10/26/Gemini_Links_26_10_2026_Writing_Down_Dreams_and_Sabbath_as_Resi.gmi 
[18:15]	TR Bot	 Techrights Gemini Links 26/10/2026: Writing Down Dreams and "Sabbath as Resistance"
[18:18]	TR News	Techrights Links 26/10/2026: Microsoft Chaffbot "Building Detailed Psychological Profiles of Its Users", Man Executed for Childhood Offenses https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/26/Links_26_10_2026_Microsoft_Chaffbot_Building_Detailed_Psycholog.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/10/26/Links_26_10_2026_Microsoft_Chaffbot_Building_Detailed_Psycholog.gmi 
[18:18]	TR Bot	 Techrights Links 26/10/2026: Microsoft Chaffbot "Building Detailed Psychological Profiles of Its Users", Man Executed for Childhood Offenses
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[18:48]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], Bill Gates wrote "The Road Ahead" with barely a mention of the Internet or the Web.
[18:49]	IsambardPrince	In 1994, anyone in his position should see that coming.
[18:50]	IsambardPrince	Internet Explorer was a skunkworks project where they were literally working double shifts or some of them barely sleeping just to catch up to where Netscape Navigator was.
[18:53]	MinceR	he's just another worthless ASPD enjoyer with NPD
[18:55]	IsambardPrince	The first version of Internet Explorer didn't even support Tables.
[18:55]	MinceR	it didn't need to
[18:55]	MinceR	microslop cultists push microslop crap even if it has no functionality whatsoever
[18:55]	MinceR	like pluton
[18:57]	IsambardPrince	Netscape 4.x wasn't horrible to try to use in the late 90s because enough people did use it that it had to work.
[18:58]	IsambardPrince	But it had behaviors, especially CSS behaviors, which were massively unstable if you tried to do something it did not understand.
[18:58]	IsambardPrince	As less people used it and more CSS level 1 features went into use, Netscape 4 started crashing a lot more.
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[19:00]	IsambardPrince	It had very poor CSS support. What had happened was, Netscape had a competing stylesheet format called JSSS for JavaScript Style Sheets. When it came close to release it became clear that JSSS was not going to be standardized so they threw together a translater that took the features of CSS 1 that could be translated to JSSS and wrote an interpreter.
[19:00]	IsambardPrince	That's why if you turned off JavaScript you also lost CSS even though the two shouldn't have anything to do with one another,
[19:02]	IsambardPrince	I wasn't very happy with Opera for proposing CSS.
[19:02]	IsambardPrince	It's turned into a big disaster like everything else.
[19:02]	IsambardPrince	It becomes about bloating styling instead of content.
[19:05]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, Apple has confirmed the iPhone Duo screen cracking problem.
[19:05]	IsambardPrince	I replied: "Give me $2000 and I'll show you mah crack!" -Apple
[19:06]	MinceR	wow
[19:06]	MinceR	crApple admitted a fault in one if their products? it's the apocalypse!
[19:06]	MinceR	s/if/of/
[19:20]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, I was making fun of Samsung.
[19:20]	IsambardPrince	I said they're about as good at naming things as the Soviets were.
[19:20]	IsambardPrince	"The Samsung Galaxy S20 FE 5G T-Mobile Edition" (Reads like: "Tractor Factory No. 4 Industrial Diesel Engine Mark 12-B")
[19:21]	MinceR	no, the councils would just number everything
[19:22]	MinceR	plus they wouldn't even develop products that were obviously necessary
[19:22]	MinceR	they would just stick to ancient designs, because nobody cares about the slaves
[19:23]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, The Trabant couldnn't have been THAT bad.
[19:24]	IsambardPrince	Apple has issued an official statement following reports of inner display failures along the hinge of the newly released iPhone Duo:   "The response to iPhone Duo from early users has been incredibly positive, and we are seeing exciting things from developers who are rapidly updating their apps to take advantage of its unique form factor. We are aware of an issue impacting the inner display on a small number of iPhone Duo units. If 
[19:24]	IsambardPrince	users experience issues with their iPhone Duo display, they should contact AppleCare for a replacement."   
[19:24]	MinceR	the trabant was something like the second version, and it was that bad
[19:24]	MinceR	it was a tiny alleged car that burned its lubricant as fuel and had no fuel gauge
[19:25]	MinceR	built on technology that was already outdated when the communists started their empire
[19:25]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, They're all cracking so in their acknowledgement of a $2000 phone that was obviously designed so wrong that it breaks within a day, Apple devotes 3/4ths of the confesssion to stating the response has been "overwhelmingly positive" and the issue happens on "a small number". Only Apple knows the exact figures so they'll never admit how many of these defective $2000 iPhones they have to replace.
[19:26]	MinceR	well, of course it was overwhelmingly positive
[19:26]	MinceR	it's a fucking cult
[19:26]	MinceR	it's what they do
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[19:30]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, I wrote that and added:
[19:30]	IsambardPrince	This has got to be the worst cover-up since the Xbox 360 E74: Contact Microsoft Support. Red Ring of Death.
[19:30]	IsambardPrince	
[19:30]	IsambardPrince	Microsoft replaced 8 Xbox 360s under that warranty for me alone. I eventually just sold it on Craigslist for whatever I could recoup before it broke down again.
[19:30]	IsambardPrince	
[19:30]	IsambardPrince	NYKO developed an add-on called the Intercooler 360. This caused a different failure for people who were trying to add sufficient cooling in that it "passed through" the power cable, and sometimes burned up and left scorch marks on the back of the console. Microsoft said that any evidence that you used that would immediately void the warranty.
[19:30]	IsambardPrince	
[19:30]	IsambardPrince	I joked that if they were replacing 8 consoles for me then the reason they had the "repair center" in McAllen, TX was so they could dig a hole on the Mexican side of the border and throw them all in the hole. Like what happened to ET: The Extraterrestrial for the Atari.
[19:31]	MinceR	lol
[19:32]	MinceR	and yet the suxbox also has a religious following
[19:32]	IsambardPrince	That classic corporate PR spin never changes, does it? A $2,000 phone snaps down the middle after 24 hours of normal use, and the official press statement starts off soundly sounding like an award acceptance speech about "overwhelmingly positive responses" and "exciting developer engagement." Translating corporate-speak to plain English: "Yes, the screen breaks if you look at it wrong, but look at all these cool app layouts!"
[19:32]	MinceR	lol
[19:34]	IsambardPrince	Oh look at the time. I'm supposed to meet my partner at Sam's Club for a pizza.
[19:34]	IsambardPrince	I'd better get cracking.
[19:34]	IsambardPrince	No offense to Apple customers.
[19:34]	IsambardPrince	:D
[19:35]	MinceR	:>
[19:35]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, I got banned from the Sillydog701 Netscape Archive forums years ago.
[19:35]	IsambardPrince	By Antony Shen. The site owner.
[19:36]	IsambardPrince	Who replaced my user profile picture with "APPLE BASHER".
[19:37]	IsambardPrince	The binaries that Netscape released on Linux used to make their way into most Linux distributions as the default web browser because there didn't exist anything that was more compatible with the Web at that point, sadly.
[19:38]	MinceR	sounds like it was a crApple cultist forum
[19:38]	IsambardPrince	Eh, he is.
[19:38]	IsambardPrince	Anyway, there was DJGM, possibly the only person on the site that hated Internet Explorer more than I did.
[19:39]	IsambardPrince	My contributions were mostly ways to remove Internet Explorer from Windows.
[19:39]	IsambardPrince	Anyway, in the early 2000s the Macs had the edge on performance, initially, but they partnered with IBM and were dependent on IBM to release newer, faster processors.
[19:40]	IsambardPrince	Well, IBM didn't consider Apple important enough to design a better PowerPC processor that was also suitable to run on a laptop battery.
[19:40]	IsambardPrince	So Apple never got a PPC processor it could use in a Macbook that was a suitable replacement for the G3.
[19:41]	IsambardPrince	So they kept revisioning the Macbook and selling them at a huge price, but they did not get faster. This went on for years until it was so embarrassing that they were notably slower than any crappy PC laptop you could pick up at Walmart, for a quarter of the price, with Windows.
[19:42]	IsambardPrince	Their switch to Intel wasn't because Intel CPUs were great, it's because the PPC G series that they had in the Macs were running into hard functional limitations that led to the Mac platform essentially being frozen in time for years while the PC continued to advance.
[19:43]	MinceR	well, you can still buy a new POWER CPU, it just costs an infinite amount of money, is slow, and is sold by one of the least trustworthy corporations in the field
[19:43]	IsambardPrince	I was openly joking about Apple being the only major computer vendor where you could buy the performance of four years ago at the price of a brand new machine.
[19:44]	MinceR	non-dehomag corporations used to make them, but i guess demand dried up
[19:45]	IsambardPrince	Linux does have a software system like "dmg" files on the Mac. It's called AppImage and almost nobody has ever used it because it's so terrible.
[19:45]	IsambardPrince	You have to keep applications updated yourself, by hand, by dragging the new one on top of the old one.
[19:45]	IsambardPrince	Instead of letting a package manager handle it and shared reasources.
[19:45]	MinceR	well, you could copy it next to the other one
[19:46]	reap	i hope i get a new talos workstation with power10
[19:46]	MinceR	but if you need chrome-sandbox to work, you get to unpack the AppImage so you can set the setuid bit...
[19:46]	MinceR	reap: who would pay for it?
[19:47]	reap	https://www.talospace.com/
[19:47]		-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Talospace
[19:47]	reap	NSA 
[19:47]	reap	and it wasnt so expensive in the small version in the beginning 
[19:47]	reap	900 
[19:47]	reap	for power9 mainboard
[19:48]	reap	plus cpu i think
[19:48]	reap	now 2k ? 
[19:48]	IsambardPrince	Welcome to Apple. We put the dong in dongle.
[19:48]	MinceR	lol
[19:48]	reap	no POWER CPU is IBM
[19:48]	reap	but it works
[19:48]	MinceR	slowly
[19:49]	MinceR	and does who knows what, given that it comes from no.1 microslop fan corporation
[19:49]	IsambardPrince	And for just $29 we'll sell you the dongle for the dongle so you can connect that dong.
[19:49]	MinceR	but hey, at least it costs a fuckton of money
[19:49]	reap	ever tried to get firewire working on linux ?
[19:49]	MinceR	no
[19:49]	reap	past intel gen 12 cpu ? 
[19:49]	MinceR	i had some firewire ports but no firewire peripherals
[19:50]	reap	only buy firewire pci cards with texas instrument chip, VIA dont work with the audio stuff
[19:50]	reap	its a mess
[19:50]	reap	https://notfire.cc/blog/2024-11-12_state-of-firewire/post.html
[19:50]	TR Bot	 Country where an atomic bomb had fallen through the mails.
[19:50]	MinceR	i think i had one port on an audigy2 breakout box and another on a laptop
[19:51]	reap	apple is better with audio
[19:52]	reap	fuck pulseaudo alsa, jack and the hole mess
[19:52]	MinceR	lol
[19:52]	reap	and pipewire lol
[19:52]	reap	FUCK THAT SHIT
[19:52]	MinceR	yeah, i definitely want to get putler's and xi jinping's permission to do audio
[19:52]	reap	I down have time for that and a realtime kernel
[19:52]	MinceR	no thanks
[19:53]	reap	just get a fucking apple and get things done
[19:53]	MinceR	you're kidding, right?
[19:53]	reap	i am getting old 
[19:55]	reap	Ardour or reaper is ok but the hole linux audio stuff is fucking crazy
[19:55]	reap	yeah i used arch btw  for over 12 years but i get tired
[19:56]	reap	and fuck systemd
[19:56]	reap	nuke everything
[19:57]	MinceR	launchd is so much better?
[19:57]	reap	runit
[19:57]	MinceR	there's no runit in macos
[19:57]	MinceR	there's no runit in arch either
[19:57]	reap	artix 
[19:57]	reap	the fork
[19:58]	reap	maybe openrc
[19:58]	MinceR	yeah, artix is not arch
[19:58]	reap	motherfucker i used arch when everything was in rc.d in 2011 
[19:59]	reap	everything got a load of bullshit 
● Oct 26
[20:01]	reap	Tiling window manager  only makes sense when y use a laptop but i hate this shit 
[20:01]	reap	GNOME is dumb, KDE is bloat 
[20:02]	reap	Moksha Desktop is ok
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[20:02]	reap	or mate
[20:03]	reap	NsCDE hehe
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[21:26]	nobody	the old OSS audio stack on linux is working just fine here, most and many software could link against it still, year 2024
[21:26]	nobody	and well, on linux-tcc/2.4 that's the native audio API anyway
[21:27]	nobody	i even got back MIDI tested ok with it
[21:28]	nobody	MinceR> yeah, i definitely want to get putler's and xi jinping's permission to do audio
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[21:29]	nobody	that's the irony, audio I/O can be used for software-modem amateur radio
[21:29]	MinceR	general purpose computers can be used for all sorts of things the ASPD enjoyers don't want you to do
[21:29]	nobody	direwolf can do it in userspace, and too linux-kernel had a few pieces implemented kernel-side for (A)X.25
[21:29]	MinceR	that's why they're trying to "lead" us into a future where we can't have access to them
[21:30]	nobody	well, software-modem WiFi isn't blobbed, it is very-low data-rate (which could more or less easily be scaled up to arrive at UMTS speeds)
[21:31]	nobody	at the lower OSI-layers (physical, link-layer) networking was never intended to be free/open
[21:32]	nobody	nowadays industry doesn't want you to have some fast and simple framebuffer terminal _without_ proprietary GPU vendor-bloat and uefi-fb stack
[21:33]	nobody	btw. on linux-tcc/2.4 framebuffer is a bit faster than on latest linux5
[21:34]	MinceR	only the framebuffer?
[21:34]	nobody	maybe that's why i can have ffmpeg/mplayer on console still, _without_ any "acceleration" (except a little support from x86 FPU)
[21:36]	nobody	for that matter some AMD bulldozer board can be had for $10 on ebay
[21:37]	nobody	some lame quadcore cpu will account for another $10
[21:37]	nobody	no wonder industry doesn't show any interest, there's just no more $$$ to be had with this
[21:38]	nobody	i don't at least need some additional GPU for anything
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[21:38]	nobody	as a bonus this wipes another dozen million lines of driver code from linux kernel
[21:40]	nobody	i only wished my live on ARM/aarch32/64 had been a little easier, in practice this needs modern kernel versions which i dislike
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[21:51]	nobody	MinceR> only the framebuffer?
[21:52]	nobody	the biggest performance boost wasn't coming from kernel, it's compile-time performance with a C-only toolchain since i wiped all c++ remaining fully optional
[21:53]	nobody	GNU/FSF made it very expensive and difficult to compile a complete *nix system from source nowadays
[21:54]	nobody	lurking at the dependency graph, concerning c++, the major burden remains unicode font-rendering (for GTK/QT)
[21:54]	nobody	GTK itself is written in C, but it needs c++ for unicode font rendering libraries
[21:54]	nobody	and with it a 100 million lines of code pulled into just for that
[21:55]	nobody	otherwise it is feasible to salvage Xorg/X11 and GTK even
[21:55]	nobody	even a web-browser such as netsurf-gtk is possible
[21:56]	nobody	but i couldn't have done it all alone, given i've had to fork kernel, libc, and entire userspace with hundreds of patches and hacks for c-toolchain portability
[21:57]	nobody	in the end there's just too many interdependent issues, even when c++ remained optional
[21:57]	nobody	as soon as you wished some foss Gimp or LibreOffice on board the whole thing blows up beyond good and evil in size and complexity
[21:58]	nobody	which isn't an argument against such, but an argument for retaining a long-term stable portable base-system and C++ wiped there to keep that optional
● Oct 26
[22:05]	nobody	interestingly bootstrappable.org forked gcc-4.6 even, with some experimental support for RISC-V backported (somewhere on github)
[22:06]	nobody	which is a decent choice, although i think FOSS is missing some fast/efficient single-pass compiler/C-toolchain
[22:06]	nobody	so free C-software development can be done fast and efficient, including the compiler bootstrapped from source in a few minutes
[22:07]	nobody	interestingly GCC info pages documentation mentioned this shortcoming for decades themselves
[22:08]	nobody	software-development had been just too fast-paced ever since, to outcompete with c++ monstrosities
[22:09]	nobody	against IBM/MICROS~1
[22:09]	nobody	while i think the real strength of free software always had been fast and efficient systems
[22:10]	nobody	which was sacrificed to keep up with the pace dictated by the industry
[22:11]	nobody	finally entire tech-sector severly regresses for two decades at least, to arrive at back somewhere which already existed more than 20years ago
[22:12]	nobody	situation is complicated further by available hardware
[22:13]	admfubar	https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-financial-bubble-analysis-finance
[22:13]	TR Bot	 New Analysis Finds Signs the AI Bubble Is About to Blow
[22:14]	admfubar	https://futurism.com/future-society/man-cracks-open-fortune-cookie-disgusted-by-what-he-finds-inside
[22:14]	TR Bot	 Man Cracks Open Fortune Cookie, Disgusted by What He Finds Inside
[22:15]	nobody	nowadays, if you wished to target any system, relevant hardware is obsolete and/or unavailable without long-term supply
[22:16]	nobody	on the x86_32/64 side it's UEFI non-legacy BIOS, and the ARM side i fear placing all my bets on some rock64 and similar (although that is being sold still but needs a modern kernel version)
[22:33]	nobody	> lay-offs: Microsoft offers 60000 employees financial compensation to freely leave the company
[22:34]	bms	Milk-V Duo S: there's a Debian port for it which worked well, but rebuilding the kernel is still tricky or impossible.
[22:34]	bms	I don't think CHERIfied RISC-V has taped out yet
[22:35]	bms	Milk-V did a RISC-V based network switch but it may have fizzled out
[22:36]	bms	decorrelating from the AI rubbish is difficult because they've managed to externalize, socialize much of the con, as well as seeking regulatory capture
● Oct 26
[23:05]	TR News	 (NEW):  Mozilla Firefox 160 Enters Public Beta Testing, Heres What to Expect https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/26/Mozilla_Firefox_160_Enters_Public_Beta_Testing_Here_s_What_to_E.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/26/Mozilla_Firefox_160_Enters_Public_Beta_Testing_Here_s_What_to_E.gmi 
[23:05]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Mozilla Firefox 160 Enters Public Beta Testing, Heres What to Expect
[23:31]	cybershow	for nobody: https://cybershow.uk/content/blog/precautionary/precautionary.html
[23:31]	TR Bot	 The quiet guardian's dilemma
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[23:46]	nobody	cybershow: thanks.
[23:51]	cybershow	yvw nobody. Just correcting that last link from Psychology Today which is very interesting as I think it represents a lot of dark thinking in tech right now... https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/articles/202205/chasing-chaos
[23:51]	TR Bot	 Chasing Chaos | Psychology Today