●● IRC: #techrights @ Techrights IRC Network: Sunday, July 27, 2025 ●● ● Jul 27 [00:00] IsambardPrince MinceR, Yeah, back when it was easier to get M80s, people used to light the fuse and toss them in toilets. [00:00] IsambardPrince https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/high-school-students-facing-felony-for-dangerous-toilet-prank/ [00:00] TR Bot High School Students Facing Felony Charges For Dangerous Toilet Prank - CBS Sacramento [00:00] MinceR :> [00:32] IsambardPrince MinceR, I guess my landlord found a way to deal with the cockroaches. [00:32] IsambardPrince Just neglect the plumbing and drown them. [00:32] IsambardPrince It was innovative, I'll give him that. [00:32] MinceR lol [00:40] IsambardPrince I knocked on the door of the unhhunghung woman. [00:40] IsambardPrince She said words. [00:40] IsambardPrince But couldn't remember the landlord's name. [00:40] IsambardPrince She drives a 2024 Mustang that she got at a reputable dealership. [00:40] IsambardPrince Where did the money come from? [00:40] IsambardPrince I'm driving a crappy car like I always do. [00:41] IsambardPrince Makes weird noises. Turn up the radio. [00:41] MinceR https://explosm.net/comics/more-muscles#comic [00:41] TR Bot & Happiness (Explosm.net) [00:45] IsambardPrince https://newsroom.transunion.com/as-financial-institutions-face-greater-rapid-default-fraud-and-credit-risks-transunion-fortifies-its-idvision-with-iovation-suite-of-solutions/ [00:45] TR Bot As Financial Institutions Face Greater Rapid Default Fraud and Credit Risks, TransUnion Fortifies its IDVision with iovation Suite of Solutions [00:45] IsambardPrince MinceR, People on FICO forums are calling this the "TURD" score. [00:45] MinceR :> [00:45] IsambardPrince It's some new credit model that TransUnion says estimates the probability of bust out fraud. [00:46] IsambardPrince Bust out fraud is when you either get your own credit looking great, get a bunch of cards, get credit increases, and then default on everything after maxing it out. [00:46] IsambardPrince Or doing it to someone else, which is obviously a felony. [00:47] MinceR i think you've talked about it before [00:50] psydruid https://apnews.com/article/walmart-stabbing-michigan-traverse-city-7d31d22005921a90e54c813a563c2457 [00:50] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://apnews.com/article/walmart-stabbing-michigan-traverse-city-7d31d22005921a90e54c813a563c2457 ) [00:51] psydruid "let's go to Walmart, kids" [00:55] *includeals has quit (Quit: ZNC - https://znc.in) [00:55] *includeals (~includeal@bl18-27-126.dsl.telepac.pt) has joined #techrights ● Jul 27 [01:05] IsambardPrince MinceR, Apparently it's become enough of a problem that everyone now has another credit score to determine their bust out risk. [01:06] IsambardPrince I suppose "TURD" is some sort of acronym. Since TransUnion markets it, that's the TU. [01:06] IsambardPrince What's the RD for? [01:06] IsambardPrince https://old.reddit.com/r/CreditCards/comments/198mzlx/usbar_cli_denial_weird_transunion_rapid_default/ [01:06] TR Bot USBAR CLI denial: weird "TransUnion Rapid Default Model Version 1" score pulled : CreditCards [01:07] IsambardPrince TransUnion Rapid Default score. [01:07] IsambardPrince They made TURD way too easy. [01:07] MinceR lol [01:07] IsambardPrince That can't be an accident. [01:08] IsambardPrince MinceR, Ask the bureau for your turd score. They say looks off. Eat more green leafy vegetables and roughage. [01:08] MinceR lol [01:09] MinceR ok, but has TransUnion bought the ratemypoo site yet? [01:09] IsambardPrince That's a thing? [01:09] MinceR hm, i guess it's checkmypoo.com [01:09] MinceR there's also a /r/ratemypoo [01:09] MinceR maybe they'll start a ratemyturd.com [01:10] IsambardPrince Someone said Game Theory is about predicting human behavior using logic. [01:11] MinceR lol [01:11] IsambardPrince I said, "Using logic and reason to predict human behavior is a serious mistake in about 70% of the population. :)" [01:11] MinceR well, it can be a tool to demonstrate that humans behave irrationally [01:26] IsambardPrince Yes, the Nash Equilibrium doesn't work with people like my mother. [01:26] IsambardPrince She'll make side deals that blow up in her face and hurt everyone. [01:26] IsambardPrince So the game So Long, Sucker would be over with quite fast. [01:29] IsambardPrince The Nash Equilibrium can be broken for better or worse. [01:29] IsambardPrince If you have rational people who cooperate with each other for mutual benefit, then it works out better for those players. [01:29] IsambardPrince If you have irrational and uncooperative players at the table it can hurt everyone. [01:30] IsambardPrince One example is that the police arrest two crime suspects. They both have information that will let the police convict the other one and to get it the police will offer them both a deal. The first one who tells them everything gets a lenient plea deal. The other one gets a conviction. [01:31] IsambardPrince Both players have a rational and cooperative advantage. If neither talk, the police don't get anything, and they both walk out of there and go home. [01:31] IsambardPrince But they're in different rooms and each has no idea what the other is doing, and has to assume the worst. So one of them probably talks, and they both get punished. [01:32] IsambardPrince This is a problem from having incomplete information, mostly. [01:33] IsambardPrince Neither one of them knows what the other might do, or when they might do it. So the pressure to be the first one to talk is immense. [01:35] *IsambardPrince has quit (Quit: Leaving) [01:45] *IsambardPrince (~isambardprince@6w3r33nqie5ty.irc) has joined #techrights [01:46] IsambardPrince https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/plainfield-man-convicted-killing-palestinian-boy-dies/ [01:46] TR Bot Illinois landlord convicted in hate crime killing of 6-year-old Palestinian boy dies in custody - CBS Chicago [01:47] MinceR (cat) https://ircz.de/p/25062836 [01:47] TR Bot WHOOPSIE [01:48] IsambardPrince https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/walmart-stabbing-traverse-city-michigan/ [01:48] TR Bot 11 injured in stabbing at Walmart in Traverse City; 1 in custody, police say - CBS Detroit [01:50] *lxo has quit (connection closed) ● Jul 27 [02:04] *lxo (~lxo@zj26zv4kdh4g2.irc) has joined #techrights [02:06] lxo schestowitz[TR3], oooh, I like it. I picture a big "Oct 4", with "decades", "freedoms" and "all users" stacked right next to the big "4" [02:14] IsambardPrince I'm continuing the family tree stuff. [02:14] IsambardPrince I found some relatives on my mother's side of the family who were originally from France. [02:15] IsambardPrince That's not surprising. [02:15] IsambardPrince They lived in Louisiana clear into the early 1960s. [02:18] schestowitz[TR3] schestowitz[TR3], The hallway's flooding. [02:18] schestowitz[TR3] to carry poisons past doorsteps? [02:18] schestowitz[TR3] into people [02:18] schestowitz[TR3] 's apartments? [02:20] TR News How far-right social media influenced judges' election to Germany's highest court https://www.dw.com/en/how-far-right-social-media-influenced-judges-election-to-germany-s-highest-court/a-73325056 [02:20] TR Bot far-right social media impacted Germany's highest court DW 07/18/2025 [02:23] TR News "There have been communities in the past that focused on "simple software". First of all, I do not yet have a good definition of what that actually is. Second, these communities/projects are either dead or they have problematic members." gopher://uninformativ.de/0/phlog/2025/2025-07/2025-07-26--in-need-for-simple-software.txt [02:24] TR News [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1364.jpg [02:24] TR News [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1714.jpg [02:26] TR News "LC19 is the name of my gemini server framework for elixir inspired by rails. The main reason I wanted to write yet another gemini server from scratch is that I like the rails way of convention over configuration, and haven't found any for gemini." gemini://lc19.net/gemlog/2025-07-26-a-gemini-server-framework-called-lc19.gmi [02:26] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3], Yes. The landlord has been notified. [02:26] IsambardPrince He had the repair man call me. Said he'll be out to look at it soon. [02:26] TR News Estonia https://www.dw.com/en/how-estonia-outpaced-the-rest-of-europe-at-digitalization/a-73098771 [02:26] TR Bot Estonia outpaced the rest of Europe at digitalization DW 07/18/2025 [02:27] IsambardPrince It's not flooding on this side of the hallway at the moment. [02:27] IsambardPrince Looks like a drip leak. [02:27] IsambardPrince Maybe a pipe rusted through a bit? [02:27] IsambardPrince He'll be fixing things like this forever because all the pipes in the building are over 50 years old. [02:29] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3], He says we're preparing for a fire inspection by having repair man in all units tomorrow between 9 a and 1 p. [02:29] IsambardPrince To make sure the smoke detectors are working. [02:29] IsambardPrince That's exactly what Mark said when he sold it. [02:30] IsambardPrince My landlord and the rest of the Syndicate wanted to know "Hey, does that air conditioner work." [02:30] IsambardPrince Mark said, "Oh yeah, I haven't had to replace an air conditioner in years." [02:30] IsambardPrince The old woman that lived next door at the time said he had to replace hers. [02:30] IsambardPrince Then shortly after the Syndicate bought the building, mine failed. [02:31] IsambardPrince He paid someone to put a newer one in there. Improperly, but it works. [02:31] IsambardPrince They ended up sealing the gaps around it with fiberglass insulation and then taping the front end with duct tape. [02:36] TR News Techrights Slopwatch: Fake Linux 'Articles' and Slopfarms With "Linux" in Their Names/Domains https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/27/Slopwatch_Fake_Linux_Articles_and_Slopfarms_With_Linux_in_Their.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/07/27/Slopwatch_Fake_Linux_Articles_and_Slopfarms_With_Linux_in_Their.gmi [02:36] TR Bot Techrights Slopwatch: Fake Linux 'Articles' and Slopfarms With "Linux" in Their Names/Domains [02:38] schestowitz[TR3] IsambardPrince: the syndicate pays some tenants for works [02:38] schestowitz[TR3] maybe illegally [02:38] schestowitz[TR3] unlicensed workers [02:38] schestowitz[TR3] "unda' the table!" [02:42] IsambardPrince MinceR, Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers changed a funding bill that would have added $300 per studennt to K-12 schools for the 2024-2025 school year. He vetoed the 20 in 2024 and 2025 and the dash. then the bill said through the 2425 school year. [02:43] IsambardPrince I would have vetoed the 0 in 2024 and the dash and changed it to read "through the 2242025 school year. [02:43] MinceR lol [02:43] IsambardPrince That way the schools are given the extra $300 per student until 2,242,025. [02:44] MinceR why not only veto the dash [02:44] MinceR then it's until 20242025 [02:45] IsambardPrince because then it could still be ruled by a court that it could be construed to mean 2024-2025. [02:45] MinceR :> [02:45] IsambardPrince But without the first 0 it can't be. [02:46] TR News Yesterday's #boycottnovell-social and #techpol IRC logs ready. 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What Happens if It Hits the Moon Instead in 2032? - Slashdot [03:45] admfubar https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/21/serial-spyware-founder-scott-zuckerman-wants-the-ftc-to-unban-him-from-the-surveillance-industry/ [03:45] TR Bot spyware founder Scott Zuckerman wants the FTC to unban him from the surveillance industry | TechCrunch [03:53] *lxoliva (~lxo@mrhucxmsbhzm4.irc) has joined #techrights [03:54] *lxo has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [03:55] *lxoliva has quit (connection closed) ● Jul 27 [04:01] TR News (NEW): Three Years https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/07/27/Three_Years.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/07/27/Three_Years.gmi [04:01] TR Bot Tux Machines Three Years [04:06] TR News Techrights The Register in Trouble https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/27/The_Register_in_Trouble.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/07/27/The_Register_in_Trouble.gmi [04:06] TR Bot Techrights The Register in Trouble [04:10] *lxo (~lxo@zj26zv4kdh4g2.irc) has joined #techrights [04:17] admfubar https://thedebrief.org/a-neurobiotic-sixth-sense-scientists-find-microscopic-organisms-can-directly-communicate-with-the-human-brain/ [04:17] TR Bot A 'Neurobiotic' Sixth Sense? Scientists Find Microscopic Organisms Can Directly Communicate with the Human Brain - The Debrief [04:26] TR News Techrights When Silence Says So Much https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/27/When_Silence_Says_So_Much.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/07/27/When_Silence_Says_So_Much.gmi [04:26] TR Bot Techrights When Silence Says So Much [04:35] IsambardPrince https://www.vantagescore.com/resources/knowledge-center/vantagescore-launches-new-industry-leading-5-0-credit-score-model [04:35] TR Bot ( status 404 @ https://www.vantagescore.com/resources/knowledge-center/vantagescore-launches-new-industry-leading-5-0-credit-score-model ) [04:36] IsambardPrince Yes, that's one reason why they change credit scoring models. Consumer behavior changes over time. When you look at it based on an old model that was built for the 1990s or 2000s even, people may not behave that way with loan products anymore, so it becomes less predictive of credit risk. [04:37] IsambardPrince Credit scores that were created in an era of plenty of disposable income, everyone could afford a house, and the place you worked at treated you like family don't account for risk in the modern world. [04:38] IsambardPrince "Enhanced Predictive Power: VantageScore 5.0 provides a significant lift in originations of up to 9% for consumers with thin files. This offers lenders a reliable way to expand their pool of creditworthy applicants without incurring additional risk." [04:38] IsambardPrince Yes, they can generate VantageScores with less data and less history, but banks are reluctant to use those. It takes 6 months to generate a FICO score, and you can have a VantageScore in as little as a month, or having barely used anything even remotely like a credit card. [04:38] IsambardPrince So banks don't want those people even if you can give them a numerical score. [04:40] TR News Techrights "New Techrights" Soon Turns 2 (A Few Days Before the FSF Turns 40) https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/27/New_Techrights_Soon_Turns_2_A_Few_Days_Before_the_FSF_Turns_40.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/07/27/New_Techrights_Soon_Turns_2_A_Few_Days_Before_the_FSF_Turns_40.gmi [04:40] TR Bot Techrights "New Techrights" Soon Turns 2 (A Few Days Before the FSF Turns 40) [04:40] IsambardPrince "The report basically said that GNU/Linux users with "old" (meaning more than a few years old) PCs may no longer be able to boot into GNU/Linux [1, 2]. The sources cited see this as a catastrophe in the making, a train wreck in motion." [04:40] IsambardPrince schestowitz-pi, The old ones will still let you turn it off completely. [04:40] IsambardPrince Which is what you should do anyway. [04:41] IsambardPrince UEFI is unreliable all over. [04:41] schestowitz[TR3] [04:40:11] "The report basically said that GNU/Linux users with "old" (meaning more than a few years old) PCs may no longer be able to boot into GNU/Linux [1, 2]. The sources cited see this as a catastrophe in the making, a train wreck in motion." [04:41] schestowitz[TR3] [04:40:23] schestowitz-pi, The old ones will still let you turn it off completely. [04:41] schestowitz[TR3] [04:40:29] Which is what you should do anyway. [04:41] schestowitz[TR3] this is about cert rotation [04:41] IsambardPrince Including "variable of death" bugs where the OS changes a value and the firmware is ruined. [04:42] schestowitz[TR3] other than lenovo, which other OEMs deny disabling secure boot in 2025? [04:42] schestowitz[TR3] not a rhetorical question [04:42] schestowitz[TR3] next q is, [04:42] schestowitz[TR3] those lenovo laptops [04:42] schestowitz[TR3] do they handle correctly a cert rotation [04:42] schestowitz[TR3] ? [04:42] schestowitz[TR3] if not, huge trouble ahead [04:42] schestowitz[TR3] with no simplee fix [04:42] IsambardPrince Based on what I've experienced with Lenovo firmware, I wouldn't trust that it does anything correctly. [04:42] schestowitz[TR3] other than risk frying your machine or bricking it [04:43] IsambardPrince And by that, I mean _anything_. [04:43] schestowitz[TR3] right [04:43] schestowitz[TR3] you wrote about it [04:43] schestowitz[TR3] and even lenovo says [04:43] schestowitz[TR3] turn the thing on [04:43] schestowitz[TR3] they added it for some microsoft stickers [04:43] schestowitz[TR3] and maybe a bribe ("discount") [04:43] IsambardPrince Dell and Lenovo and HP all say turn it off to run Linux. [04:43] schestowitz[TR3] ah, them too [04:43] IsambardPrince Even though you do not have to, strictly speaking. [04:43] IsambardPrince It just adds complexity and a point of failure. [04:43] IsambardPrince It's false security. [04:44] IsambardPrince Turning it off means that nothing that would involve it breaks and leaves your monitor black saying "SECURITY POLICY VIOLATION ON THIS MACHINE" [04:45] IsambardPrince The distributions patch something and then all of a sudden it won't boot that other distribution anymore. [04:45] IsambardPrince Even though Ubuntu never asked if you wanted to update anything. [04:45] IsambardPrince That's why I turn off Linux Vendor Firmware Service and Secure Boot. [04:45] IsambardPrince I do not authorize LVFS to update anything. In fact, I uninstall LVFS. [04:46] IsambardPrince So that nothing can set the repo back to "enabled" that I miss. [04:46] IsambardPrince It's essentially a backdoor that downloads blobs, without asking you. And when it does this, it can brick your computer. [04:46] IsambardPrince Which is just rude, really. ● Jul 27 [05:00] TR News Techrights Pushers of systemd Rewrite History (Richard Stallman Said UNIX "Was Portable and Seemed Fairly Clean") https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/27/Pushers_of_systemd_Rewrite_History_Richard_Stallman_Said_UNIX_W.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/07/27/Pushers_of_systemd_Rewrite_History_Richard_Stallman_Said_UNIX_W.gmi [05:00] TR Bot Techrights Pushers of systemd Rewrite History (Richard Stallman Said UNIX "Was Portable and Seemed Fairly Clean") [05:03] *darwin has quit (connection closed) [05:03] TR News "Richard joined The Register as a copy editor, now production editor, after working for several years as a journalist in the UK's newspaper industry." https://www.theregister.com/Author/Richard-Currie/ [05:03] TR Bot Richard Currie The Register [05:03] *darwin (~darwin@ezriia7nzimpg.irc) has joined #techrights [05:04] TR News Most of the editors of TheRegister are American, not British. "Nancy is a production editor for The Register, and is based in the US." https://www.theregister.com/Author/Nancy-Liu/ [05:04] TR Bot Nancy Liu The Register [05:05] schestowitz[TR3] https://www.theregister.com/Author/Tobias-Mann/ [05:05] TR Bot Tobias Mann The Register [05:06] schestowitz[TR3] https://www.theregister.com/Author/Jessica-Lyons/ [05:06] TR Bot Jessica Lyons The Register [05:11] *IsambardPrince has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [05:21] TR News Techrights Most Editors at The Register Are American, Including the Editor in Chief, a Decade-Long Microsoft Stenographer (Writing Prose to Sell Microsoft) https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/27/Most_Editors_at_The_Register_Are_American_Including_the_Editor_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/07/27/Most_Editors_at_The_Register_Are_American_Including_the_Editor_.gmi [05:22] TR Bot Techrights Most Editors at The Register Are American, Including the Editor in Chief, a Decade-Long Microsoft Stenographer (Writing Prose to Sell Microsoft) [05:30] *IsambardPrince (~isambardprince@6gyu3x3t7z3pc.irc) has joined #techrights [05:32] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3], This guy on FICO Forums buying a boat with a personal loan from LightStream. [05:32] IsambardPrince LOL [05:32] IsambardPrince Bankruptcy incoming. [05:32] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3], If you need a 17% interest loan for a boat, you don't need a boat. [05:35] TR News Techrights When You Tell You It's Free, Does That Mean No Charges (If So, Who's Paying and Why)? https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/27/When_You_Tell_You_It_s_Free_Does_That_Mean_No_Charges_If_So_Who.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/07/27/When_You_Tell_You_It_s_Free_Does_That_Mean_No_Charges_If_So_Who.gmi [05:35] TR Bot Techrights When You Tell You It's Free, Does That Mean No Charges (If So, Who's Paying and Why)? [05:35] schestowitz[TR3] IsambardPrince: no, put it this way: [05:35] schestowitz[TR3] if you need a loan [05:35] schestowitz[TR3] then you are likely poor [05:36] schestowitz[TR3] mentally and fiscally [05:36] schestowitz[TR3] while pretending otherwise [05:36] schestowitz[TR3] also see: MARISOL [05:36] IsambardPrince Who buys a boat with a loan? [05:37] IsambardPrince Boats are for rich people. [05:37] IsambardPrince If you need a loan, you're not rich. [05:37] IsambardPrince I mean, if you've earned that money and you have so much you can't possibly spend it all and you want a boat and you can afford the boat, sure, buy the boat. [05:38] IsambardPrince But starting off with a 17% interest personal loan means you have this thing floating in a dock you also have to rent. [05:38] IsambardPrince So you can use it sometimes. On the weekend, maybe, when the weather is okay. [05:38] IsambardPrince :) [05:38] IsambardPrince And you have to maintain it. [05:39] IsambardPrince It's one of those things where rich people don't care about the costs because they're rich. [05:39] IsambardPrince They can lose the money and not notice. [05:39] schestowitz[TR3] same for cabins in the woods [05:40] schestowitz[TR3] they are not a place to live [05:40] schestowitz[TR3] for many practical reasons [05:40] schestowitz[TR3] they're some place you can hang out [05:40] schestowitz[TR3] as a "retreat" [05:40] schestowitz[TR3] weekend maybe [05:40] schestowitz[TR3] in summertime [05:40] schestowitz[TR3] they're not too expensive [05:40] schestowitz[TR3] unlike SF [05:40] schestowitz[TR3] where an apartment can easily cost a million or more [05:41] schestowitz[TR3] some people here buy boats as homes [05:41] schestowitz[TR3] or caravans [05:41] schestowitz[TR3] those are also, like SUVs, not for living [05:41] schestowitz[TR3] people just try to accept that car ownership means "I own a home" [05:41] schestowitz[TR3] it's a nice fantasy [05:41] schestowitz[TR3] then you find out about sceptic tanks [05:41] schestowitz[TR3] and people who live in cars cannot always access public toilet [05:42] schestowitz[TR3] they go in the woods or do it in bags\ [05:42] schestowitz[TR3] not exactly a good "lifestyle" [05:42] schestowitz[TR3] "i have an iphone 29 and poo in aldi bags" [05:44] IsambardPrince How did Dave Ramsey put it? [05:45] IsambardPrince People getting loans now means in retirement they'll be buying cookbooks called "57 Ways to Cook Alpo and Love It" [05:45] IsambardPrince Loans are some evil shit. [05:45] IsambardPrince I get why you would take out a car loan. [05:45] IsambardPrince But like, for most other stuff probably not. [05:46] schestowitz[TR3] depends [05:46] schestowitz[TR3] if you ask perople who they get cars [05:46] schestowitz[TR3] which i covered in http://techrights.org/n/2025/07/17/Life_Became_Simpler_When_I_Stopped_Driving_and_I_Don_t_Miss_Dri.shtml [05:46] TR Bot Techrights Life Became Simpler When I Stopped Driving and I Don't Miss Driving When I See "Modern" Cars [05:46] schestowitz[TR3] "Why would many people still buy cars and drive? I asked around. The answers are one or some of: "I have kids", "I need to get to work", "I get one from work", "groceries", "I live far" or "everyone has one" (so it's just a conformism or status symbol). For people who choose not to have kids, to work from home, to buy "online" (or a nearby shop/market) and to live close to work/town a car is less attractive. There are also parking [05:46] schestowitz[TR3] - or traffic-related limitations (to reduce smog and noise some town centres in Europe stubbornly restrict both). [05:46] schestowitz[TR3] " [05:46] schestowitz[TR3] the common one is, [05:46] schestowitz[TR3] to get to work [05:46] schestowitz[TR3] income comes from work [05:47] schestowitz[TR3] unless you sometimes rather dodgy, IME [05:47] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3], I would make it probably the least expensive practical car possible. [05:47] schestowitz[TR3] so they look at the car as [05:47] IsambardPrince And shop around for loan rates. [05:47] schestowitz[TR3] I spend to earn [05:47] schestowitz[TR3] unlike a boat [05:47] IsambardPrince People go wild in there. [05:47] schestowitz[TR3] you don't take a boat to work [05:47] IsambardPrince They get like $60,000 cars and then live in this dump where they shit in a trash can all week. [05:47] IsambardPrince Because the landlord is talking about his profit margins. [05:47] schestowitz[TR3] the syndicate? [05:48] IsambardPrince yeah [05:48] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3], The unghunghung woman next door. [05:48] schestowitz[TR3] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Syndicate-DVD-William-Sylvester/dp/B00TA21Z44 [05:48] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Amazon.co.uk [05:48] IsambardPrince She's morbidly obese, tatted up. [05:48] IsambardPrince Piercings. [05:49] IsambardPrince Nose ring. [05:49] IsambardPrince And she's driving a 2024 Ford Mustang GT [05:49] IsambardPrince I know what year it is because I looked for insurance quotes for me and it asked if that was my car. [05:49] IsambardPrince It said white 2024 Ford Mustang GT convertible. [05:50] IsambardPrince If you're living here, where it's such a dump the cockroaches are complaining, people are busting out windows, the hall is flooding, people blast stereos all around you. [05:50] IsambardPrince What in the fuck are you doing with a car that cost that much money? [05:50] IsambardPrince Now, it's not my place to go chide her and I really don't care because it's her life. [05:51] TR News "Valve have pushed out a small update for Proton Experimental for July 25th, bringing a few fixes across a bunch of games" https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/proton-experimental-gets-fixes-for-rockstar-launcher-call-of-duty-wwii-mortal-kombat-11/ | Source: GamingOnLinux [05:51] TR Bot Experimental gets fixes for Rockstar Launcher, Call of Duty: WWII, Mortal Kombat 11 | GamingOnLinux [05:51] IsambardPrince But it's like, priorities yo. [05:51] TR News "If you're on the Steam Client Beta (Desktops), you might have noticed the Steam store looking a bit different with the latest update." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/valve-reveal-new-steam-store-menu-and-enhanced-search-now-in-beta/ | Source: GamingOnLinux [05:51] IsambardPrince If I had the money for a 2024 Ford Mustang I would not be living here. [05:51] TR Bot reveal new Steam store menu and enhanced search now in Beta | GamingOnLinux [05:51] TR News "The tough-as-nails platformer returns in three dimensions, Super Meat Boy 3D has a fresh gameplay trailer overview you can watch right now." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/super-meat-boy-3d-looks-fast-tough-and-enraging-in-the-new-gameplay-trailer/ | Source: GamingOnLinux [05:51] TR Bot Meat Boy 3D looks fast, tough and enraging in the new gameplay trailer | GamingOnLinux [05:51] IsambardPrince If I had the credit rating to obtain that car, I would not live here. [05:51] schestowitz[TR3] you do not? [05:51] schestowitz[TR3] what happened to madame buick? [05:52] IsambardPrince I don't. [05:52] schestowitz[TR3] or you mean new modern car [05:52] IsambardPrince Yeah. [05:52] schestowitz[TR3] with all the gadgets andAPPS [05:52] IsambardPrince She's got a brand new fucking decked out Ford Mustang GT convertible. [05:52] IsambardPrince And she lives HERE. [05:52] IsambardPrince Hello!? [05:52] schestowitz[TR3] roachville ILL [05:52] schestowitz[TR3] with floods [05:52] schestowitz[TR3] water in the hall!! [05:52] schestowitz[TR3] WASSER IN DAS HOL! [05:52] schestowitz[TR3] with poisons in the water [05:53] schestowitz[TR3] soak that in [05:53] IsambardPrince Yeah, cockroaches, mold, and stuck windows. [05:53] IsambardPrince So she can make a $1,000+ a month car payment on that thing (counting insurance). [05:54] IsambardPrince I'd have probably gone with a older car and a nicer apartment myself. [05:54] schestowitz[TR3] maybe peer pressure [05:54] schestowitz[TR3] colleagues, family, b/f [05:55] IsambardPrince She wears scrubs coming home from work. [05:55] TR News (NEW): Games: Super Meat Boy 3D, Steam Changes, and Proton Experimental https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/07/27/Games_Super_Meat_Boy_3D_Steam_Changes_and_Proton_Experimental.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/07/27/Games_Super_Meat_Boy_3D_Steam_Changes_and_Proton_Experimental.gmi [05:55] TR Bot Tux Machines Games: Super Meat Boy 3D, Steam Changes, and Proton Experimental [05:56] TR News old: boingboing as MICROSOFT-SPONSORED anti-Linux clickbait troll https://boingboing.net/2025/04/14/man-bribes-girlfriend-with-cruise-vaction-to-use-linux-for-a-week-relationship-somehow-survives.html ("Man bribes girlfriend with cruise vaction to use Linux for a week, relationship somehow survives") [05:56] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://boingboing.net/2025/04/14/man-bribes-girlfriend-with-cruise-vaction-to-use-linux-for-a-week-relationship-somehow-survives.html ) [05:58] TR News The Orange Nazi now does what he did to Assange: pardon in exchange for COVER UP MY CRIMES https://boingboing.net/2025/07/25/trump-on-ghislaine-pardon-im-allowed-to-do-it.html Trump sent Dana to tell Assange, tell this and that about me and Russia to become free! [05:58] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://boingboing.net/2025/07/25/trump-on-ghislaine-pardon-im-allowed-to-do-it.html ) ● Jul 27 [06:00] admfubar https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/24/geometry-hates-cars/ [06:00] TR Bot Pluralistic: Trumps FCC abandons the future (24 Jul 2025) Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow [06:00] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3], Reminds me of my cousin. [06:00] TR News fighting DRM: https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/fulu-foundation-offers-20,000-bounty-to:e ("FULU Foundation offers $20,000 bounty to unbrick echelon bikes") [06:00] TR Bot FULU Foundation offers $20,000 bounty to unbrick echelon bikes [06:00] IsambardPrince Expensive car. Bouncing checks at Papa John's. [06:01] IsambardPrince She put fucking Papa John's in a bankruptcy. [06:01] IsambardPrince Because she bounced a check she wrote for a pizza. [06:01] TR News "Trump Keeps Demanding that You Stop Talking about His Jeffrey Epstein Problem" https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/07/26/trump-keeps-demanding-that-you-stop-talking-about-his-jeffrey-epstein-problem/ http://techrights.org/o/2020/09/28/non-denying-and-false-denials/ [06:01] TR Bot Trump Keeps Demanding that You Stop Talking about His Jeffrey Epstein Problem - emptywheel [06:01] TR Bot Speaking Through Spokespeople is a Sign of Weakness, Such as Non-Denying and False Denials (or: Bill Gates Never Denied His Connections to MIT Through Jeffrey Epstein) [06:03] TR News The Register MS covering up for MS again: "Blame a leak for Microsoft SharePoint attacks: researcher" https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/26/microsoft_sharepoint_attacks_leak/ http://techrights.org/n/2025/07/23/It_s_Time_to_Dump_SharePoint_and_Here_s_What_to_Use_Instead.shtml the problem is holes, NOT leaks [06:03] TR Bot Blame a leak for Microsoft SharePoint attacks: researcher The Register [06:03] TR Bot Techrights It's Time to Dump SharePoint and Here's What to Use Instead [06:03] TR News "Hulk Hogan Was a Very Bad Man" https://jacobin.com/2025/07/hulk-hogan-wrestling-trump-mcmahon/ https://legalfundingjournal.com/the-6th-anniversary-of-the-peter-thiel-hulk-hogan-gawker-case-what-have-we-learned/ [06:03] TR Bot Hulk Hogan Was a Very Bad Man [06:03] TR Bot The 6th Anniversary of the Peter Thiel / Hulk Hogan / Gawker Case: What Have We Learned? Legal Funding Journal [06:04] TR News "Opinion | CBS: Caving. Bowing. Scraping." https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/opinion/trump-south-park-cbs.html [06:04] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/opinion/trump-south-park-cbs.html ) [06:05] TR News "Social Media Is Dead Heres What Comes Next" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/07/26/0146240 "Like mass media, social media often leads to loneliness and isolation. The point of cosy media and worker-owned publications is to rebuild community and trust. We might be witnessing the birth of a new information ecosystem, designed to help us understand the world again." [06:05] TR Bot Social Media Is Dead Heres What Comes Next - SoylentNews [06:13] TR News Techrights The Register MS is Inventing or Giving Air Time to New Conspiracy Theories so as to Distort the Narrative As High-Profile Agencies Fall Prey to Microsoft Holes https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/27/The_Register_MS_is_Inventing_or_Giving_Air_Time_to_New_Conspira.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/07/27/The_Register_MS_is_Inventing_or_Giving_Air_Time_to_New_Conspira.gmi [06:13] TR Bot Techrights The Register MS is Inventing or Giving Air Time to New Conspiracy Theories so as to Distort the Narrative As High-Profile Agencies Fall Prey to Microsoft Holes [06:17] TR News "A public presentation in Swindon Old Town, at Fringe Arts Festival in the Ecology track. We discuss how e-waste (WEEE), environmental and other societal harms are linked to monopoly and BigTech domination." https://cybershow.uk/episodes.php?id=51 | Source: The Cyber Show https://cybershow.uk/media/episodes/oldtown.mp3 [06:17] TR Bot The Cyber Show - Episodes [06:21] TR News "A new report investigates the cybersecurity risks consumers face when using digital piracy services in Southeast Asia." https://torrentfreak.com/study-reveals-a-malware-problem-on-pirate-sites-but-how-bad-is-it/ | Source: Torrent Freak [06:21] TR Bot Reveals a Malware Problem on Pirate Sites, but How Bad is It? * TorrentFreak [06:22] TR News "Hulk Hogan is a snitch he, personally, is why professional wrestlers have never been able to form a union." https://jacobin.com/2025/07/hulk-hogan-wrestling-trump-mcmahon/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine [06:22] TR News " fiscal fallout and corresponding operational obstacles" https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/07/25/npr-donations-pbs-rescissions/ | Source: Digital Music News [06:22] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/07/25/npr-donations-pbs-rescissions/ ) [06:23] TR News "Out of little more than enthusiasm, Sniffin Glue became the defining punk rock zine." https://buttondown.com/blog/zines | Source: Buttondown LLC [06:23] TR Bot In praise of zines [06:24] TR News "Stephen isnt expensive. Hes a threat. A wildly popular, truth-telling comic with moral clarity is dangerous in this moment. Especially when hes white, male, and too influential to be dismissed as fringe." https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-commentary/stephen-colbert-canceled-lizz-winstead-1235393208/ | Source: Rolling Stone [06:24] TR Bot Stephen Colberts Cancellation Should Scare You [06:24] TR News "The scientific evidence is that biological sex is immutable, and that is scientific orthodoxy, but there was a time when I just didnt feel that I could say that." https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/26/cambridge-universities-britain-free-speech/ | Source: The Telegraph UK [06:24] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/26/cambridge-universities-britain-free-speech/ ) [06:27] TR News "Payment processors hold a great deal of power over the companies that use them" https://www.wired.com/story/steam-itchio-are-pulling-porn-games-censorship/ | Source: Wired [06:27] TR Bot and Itch.io Are Pulling Porn Games. Critics Say Its a Slippery Slope to More Censorship | WIRED [06:28] TR News "Remember, though, that it's the financial institutions making the decisions here, and those decisions are made because they're afraid of the reactionaries threatening them. Anyone can play that game." https://boingboing.net/2025/07/26/pushed-by-payment-processors-game-sites-remove-adult-material.html | Source: BoingBoing [06:28] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://boingboing.net/2025/07/26/pushed-by-payment-processors-game-sites-remove-adult-material.html ) [06:28] IsambardPrince WASSER IN DAS HOL! [06:28] IsambardPrince :/ [06:28] TR News "Laws were passed in the wake of the invasion aimed at clamping down providers and promoters of so-called extremist content. Those laws themselves were ripe for abuse by the government" https://www.techdirt.com/2025/07/24/new-russian-law-will-criminalize-internet-searches-for-extremist-content/ | Source: Techdirt [06:29] TR Bot Russian Law Will Criminalize Internet Searches For Extremist Content | Techdirt [06:29] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3], At least the roaches are probably drowning. [06:29] IsambardPrince Between the water and bug poison. [06:32] TR News "'Makes no sense': JD Vance gives H-1B warning to Microsoft, Indians say he's not revealing that.... JD Vance issued a stern H-1B warning and slammed companies like Microsoft for laying off people while continuing overseas hiring." https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/makes-no-sense-jd-vance-gives-h-1b-warning-to-microsoft-indians-say-hes-not-revealing-that-/articleshow/122887840.cms | Source: India Times [06:32] TR Bot 'Makes no sense': JD Vance gives H-1B warning to Microsoft, Indians say he's not revealing that.... - Times of India [06:32] TR News "JD Vance issued a strong warning about H-1B visas, criticising companies like Microsoft for dismissing employees while continuing to hire overseas" https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/put-america-first-trump-jd-vance-slam-tech-giants-hiring-indian-h-1b-workers-over-americans-1739375 | Source: International Business Times [06:32] TR Bot 'Put America First': Trump and JD Vance Slam Tech Giants for Hiring Indian H-1B Workers Over Americans | IBTimes UK [06:33] TR News "Let me break this down into the good, the bad, and the incredibly stupid." https://www.techdirt.com/2025/07/25/the-good-the-bad-and-the-incredibly-stupid-in-trumps-ai-action-plan/ | Source: Techdirt [06:33] TR Bot Good, The Bad, And The Incredibly Stupid In Trumps AI Action Plan | Techdirt [06:33] schestowitz[TR3] schestowitz[TR3], At least the roaches are probably drowning. [06:33] schestowitz[TR3] "The Syndicate" had a good plan [06:33] schestowitz[TR3] well done, sir, now raise the rent to 1250 a month [06:34] TR News "I can't write an unbiased review of this bicycle. I haven't had a bike that fit me in decades, maybe ever in my life. The only comparison in my adult life is the bike that was too big. I can only write a biased review." https://drmollytov.bearblog.dev/biiicyclebiiicycle-i-bought-a-bicycle/ | Source: Dr molly tov [06:34] TR Bot biiicycle...biiicycle (I bought a bicycle) | dr molly tov [06:34] TR News "Left unaddressed, data centers loads threaten Western states air quality, climate, and water supplies, while risking utilities ability to meet statutory, corporate, and science-based emissions reductions goals." https://westernresourceadvocates.org/publications/data-center-impacts-in-the-west-policy-solutions-for-water-and-energy-use/ | [06:34] TR Bot Data Center Impacts in the West: WRA's Policy Solutions [06:35] TR News "This amount of water serves the annual needs of up to 194,000 people." https://www.ksl.com/article/51350223/how-much-water-do-data-centers-use-and-are-we-prepared- | Source: Deseret Media [06:35] TR Bot much water do data centers use and are we prepared? | KSL.com [06:36] TR News "The three cheapest electricity sources globally last year were onshore wind, solar panels, and new hydropower, according to an energy cost report by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)." https://www.theenergymix.com/oil-and-gas-running-out-of-road-as-renewables-cover-92-5-of-new-power-demand/ | Source: Energy Mix Productions Inc [06:36] TR Bot stream 1 was not closed cleanly: PROTOCOL_ERROR (err 1) ( status 0 @ https://www.theenergymix.com/oil-and-gas-running-out-of-road-as-renewables-cover-92-5-of-new-power-demand/ ) [06:36] TR News "The team concludes with a sentiment that is becoming more common in this field: It may be worse than we think." https://www.404media.co/scientists-report-surreal-scenes-in-the-worlds-most-northern-town/ | Source: 404 Media [06:36] TR Bot Scientists Report Surreal Scenes In the Worlds Most Northern Town [06:36] TR News "These are the same elements that could trigger a Kerr County type of catastrophe in every state in the country." https://www.wired.com/story/kerr-countys-tragic-flood-wasnt-an-outlier-it-was-a-preview/ | Source: Wired [06:36] TR Bot Texas Floods Were a Preview of Whats to Come | WIRED [06:37] TR News "In Oxford, Mississippi, we identified more than 30,000 tire wear particles in 24 liters of stormwater runoff from roads and parking lots after two rainstorms. In heavy traffic areas, we believe the concentrations could be much higher." https://www.sciencealert.com/almost-50-of-microplastic-pollution-comes-from-cars-heres-why | Source: Science Alert [06:37] TR Bot 50% of Microplastic Pollution Comes From Cars. Here's Why. : ScienceAlert [06:37] TR News "the long-term goal of all of this is to ensure that the agency cant do regulations." https://mainemorningstar.com/2025/07/26/repub/former-epa-officials-say-trump-proposal-will-gut-agencys-power-to-curb-emissions/ | Source: Maine Morning Star [06:37] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://mainemorningstar.com/2025/07/26/repub/former-epa-officials-say-trump-proposal-will-gut-agencys-power-to-curb-emissions/ ) [06:39] TR News Overpopulation https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/421254/jeffrey-epstein-files-donald-trump-national-debt-media | Source: Vox [06:39] TR Bot Jeffrey Epstein: 4 stories that actually matter more for Americas future | Vox [06:39] TR News "The new statistic is on par with fertility rates in western European countries, according to World Bank data." https://www.ksl.com/article/51350393/the-us-fertility-rate-reached-a-new-low-in-2024-cdc-data-shows | Source: Deseret Media [06:39] TR Bot US fertility rate reached a new low in 2024, CDC data shows | KSL.com [06:40] TR News "proposals to speed up the planned phaseout of Russian gas by one year" https://kyivindependent.com/eu-considering-proposals-to-speed-russian-gas-phaseout-by-1-year-reuters-reports/ | Source: The Kyiv Independent [06:40] TR Bot EU considering proposals to speed Russian gas phaseout by 1 year, Reuters reports [06:42] TR News Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-07-27.gmi [06:42] TR News "Mixer routing in a DAW can become as complicated as you want it to be. First steps might be to separate out each instrument into its own channel, then route groups of instruments (strings, the drums, etc) into a channel, and then that group channel to the master." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2025/07/27/mixerchains.gmi [06:43] TR News "2 weeks ago, I started working through Sam Harris' introductory course to meditation, after reading about Manu Moreale going through it as part of his experimental June." gemini://tilde.town/~hush/gemlog/2025-07-26.gmi [06:43] TR News "I didn't do it through the app because fuck apps; the content is dubiously legally available on Internet Archive. I'm 17 days in so far, and it's been... something." [06:44] TR News "Anytime I go on a trip with my wife, we like to watch the 2014 Wes Anderson film "The Grand Budapest Hotel." We usually bring my laptop with us so we can play the film on the hotel's TV." gemini://jsreed5.org/log/2025/202507/20250726-revitalizing-an-amazon-fire-tv-stick.gmi [06:48] TR News Techrights Gemini Links 27/07/2025: DAW Mixer Chains and Simple Software https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/27/Gemini_Links_27_07_2025_DAW_Mixer_Chains_and_Simple_Software.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/07/27/Gemini_Links_27_07_2025_DAW_Mixer_Chains_and_Simple_Software.gmi [06:48] TR Bot Techrights Gemini Links 27/07/2025: DAW Mixer Chains and Simple Software ● Jul 27 [08:08] IsambardPrince well done, sir, now raise the rent to 1250 a month [08:08] IsambardPrince Yeah, that's probably what it will be. ● Jul 27 [09:08] psydruid https://www.crn.com/news/networking/2025/intel-reveals-plan-to-spin-off-networking-business-in-memo [09:08] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.crn.com/news/networking/2025/intel-reveals-plan-to-spin-off-networking-business-in-memo ) [09:08] psydruid https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/25/intel_not_done_shedding_now/ [09:08] TR Bot Intel to jettison networking business NEX The Register [09:10] psydruid Andy Groveler and Avram Plunderer have spoken [09:17] IsambardPrince He'll be groveling for a new job soon. [09:17] IsambardPrince No part of Intel is healthy. [09:17] IsambardPrince It's going to be a meme stock at some point. [09:29] IsambardPrince https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/08/21/consumer-groups-alarmed-by-paypals-role-education-finance-want-regulators-investigate/ [09:29] TR Bot stream 1 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2) ( status 0 @ https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/08/21/consumer-groups-alarmed-by-paypals-role-education-finance-want-regulators-investigate/ ) [09:29] vanveldt well, i certainly hope Intel releases all their firmware as free software before the company well and truly goes bust, if it hasn't already. [09:30] vanveldt I don't think NSA will allow /45 [09:32] vanveldt * will allow the release of code from its ME [09:35] IsambardPrince Any relation to Van Pelt? [09:35] IsambardPrince https://jumanji.fandom.com/wiki/Van_Pelt [09:35] TR Bot Van Pelt | Jumanji Wiki | Fandom [09:36] TR News "Storing and then failing to secure photos of driving licenses is an incredible breach of trust." https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/26/official-statement-from-tea/#atom-everything | Source: Simon Willison [09:36] TR Bot Official statement from Tea on their data leak [09:36] TR News "Data protection law is not enough to protect users." https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/org-calls-for-age-assurance-industry-to-be-regulated/ | Source: OpenRightsGroup [09:36] TR Bot ORG calls for age assurance industry to be regulated | Open Rights Group [09:39] TR News "Many people in the UK have today been greeted by notifications from social networks asking them to prove they are over 18." https://www.pcmag.com/news/uk-online-safety-act-age-verification-social-adult-sites-how-it-works | Source: PC Mag [09:39] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.pcmag.com/news/uk-online-safety-act-age-verification-social-adult-sites-how-it-works ) [09:39] TR News "The problem with big, do-everything state privacy laws is they have oversized impact on smaller and more honest companies" https://blog.zgp.org/do-you-have-a-license-for-that-robot-bookie/ | Source: Don Marti [09:39] TR Bot Do you have a license for that robot bookie? [09:40] TR News "The age verification mandated by this British law, however, is worrisome, especially if it becomes a model for similar laws elsewhere." https://pxlnv.com/linklog/uk-age-verification/ | Source: Nick Heer [09:40] TR Bot The U.K. Begins Enforcing Age Verification Pixel Envy [09:40] TR News "addresses change, drivers licenses expire or have suspensions lifted, or temporary IDs are issued in lieu of obtaining permanent identification." https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/zero-knowledge-proofs-alone-are-not-digital-id-solution-protecting-user-privacy | Source: EFF [09:40] TR Bot Zero Knowledge Proofs Alone Are Not a Digital ID Solution to Protecting User Privacy | Electronic Frontier Foundation [09:44] TR News Windows TCO https://therecord.media/nascar-confirms-data-breach | Source: The Record [09:44] TR Bot NASCAR confirms data breach after March cyberattack | The Record from Recorded Future News [09:44] TR News "Some, like economist Paul Krugman and technology researcher Molly White, have created successful, crowdfunded newsletters for their work" https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26735530-100-social-media-is-dead-heres-what-comes-next/ | Source: New Scientist [09:44] TR Bot Social media is dead heres what comes next | New Scientist [09:44] TR News "Were seeing more and more cases where a vessel has set off and a watch-keeper has turned up on the bridge, but they are not looking where the ship is going, and as a consequence it runs into something." https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/07/26/seafarers-looking-smartphones-blamed-surge-collissions/ | Source: The Telegraph UK [09:44] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/07/26/seafarers-looking-smartphones-blamed-surge-collissions/ ) [09:45] IsambardPrince https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/25/illinois-sanctuary-immigration-ruling-00477916 [09:45] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/25/illinois-sanctuary-immigration-ruling-00477916 ) [09:45] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3], The judge threw out "US v. Illinois" [09:45] TR News "A surge in social media attention over the past week pushed Tea to the No. 1 spot on Apple's U.S. App Store as of July 24, according to Sensor Tower, a research firm" https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2025-07-26/the-tea-app-was-intended-to-help-women-date-safely-then-it-got-hacked | Source: US News And World Report [09:45] TR Bot stream 1 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2) ( status 0 @ https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2025-07-26/the-tea-app-was-intended-to-help-women-date-safely-then-it-got-hacked ) [09:46] schestowitz[TR3] IsambardPrince: about what? [09:46] schestowitz[TR3] oh [09:46] schestowitz[TR3] i see url [09:46] TR News "I dont want to use the products of people who saw a grift and wanted to get in on it out of FOMO and greed" https://blog.avas.space/scaldingly-hot-tea/ | Source: Ava [09:46] TR Bot scaldingly hot tea | ava's blog [09:47] TR News "Memory and managing memory in an LLM tool stack is going to be critical as we build business systems that incorporate generative AI" https://daniel.industries/2025/07/26/the-state-of-the-art-in-ai-is-no-longer-about-the-models-it-is-about-the-tooling-available-around-the-models/ | Source: Daniel Miller [09:47] TR Bot The State-of-the-art in AI Is No Longer About the Models, It Is About the Tooling Available Around the Models [09:51] TR News "Whats the real purpose of Googles AI Overview? Its affiliate marketing spam! Thats what its for." https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/26/google-ai-overview-is-just-affiliate-marketing-spam-now/ | Source: Pivot to AI [09:51] TR Bot Google AI Overview is just affiliate marketing spam now Pivot to AI [09:51] TR News "But I do not care about the plagiarizing pretend bot or what it told you about your personality or ideas or business or art or future or whatever." https://anniemueller.com/posts/hey-i-care-about-you-but-i-do-not-care-what-the-robot-says-about-you | Source: Annie Mueller [09:51] TR Bot Hey, I care about you, but I do not care what the robot says about you - annie's blog [09:52] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3], The 64 page ruling says the federal government has no standing. [09:52] IsambardPrince That they didn't state a claim. [09:52] IsambardPrince That Illinois doesn't have to enforce any federal immigration law. [09:52] TR News "Nevertheless, the use of AI sparked an outcry, and politicians took interest." https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/26/ai_surveillance_pricing/ | Source: The Register UK [09:52] TR Bot Congress introduces bill to ban AI surveillance pricing The Register [09:52] schestowitz[TR3] ok [09:52] IsambardPrince And that there are no federal laws that prevent a sanctuary law for immigrants. [09:52] schestowitz[TR3] in thought they sued "meta" [09:52] schestowitz[TR3] re privacy [09:53] schestowitz[TR3] tahat would be more tech [09:53] schestowitz[TR3] and less pol. [09:53] IsambardPrince I signed on to a class action against the police. [09:53] IsambardPrince They violated the BIPA when they took a photo of me. [09:53] IsambardPrince Or rather, their contractor, Motorola did. [09:57] TR News "For about $2,300 a month, he is posting up in an Airbnb near 16th and Mission streets." https://sfstandard.com/2025/07/21/ai-boom-rising-rents/ | Source: The San Fancisco Standard [09:57] TR Bot San Francisco's AI boom means rent costs are skyrocketing [09:57] schestowitz[TR3] IsambardPrince: 2.3k [09:57] schestowitz[TR3] probably starting point [09:57] schestowitz[TR3] live in some forest [09:57] schestowitz[TR3] pretend to be a big shot [09:58] schestowitz[TR3] no phone line [09:58] schestowitz[TR3] say you live in "SF" [09:58] schestowitz[TR3] because sometimes you go to an airport [09:58] TR News "Housing costs are already notoriously high in the San Fran area, but the AI boom has ratcheted up numbers to eye-watering figures" https://futurism.com/ai-boom-housing-costs-san-francisco | Source: Futurism [09:58] TR Bot The AI Boom Is Creating Housing Costs in the Bay Area That You'll Think You Must Be Hallucinating [09:59] schestowitz[TR3] "For about $2,300 a month, he is posting up in an Airbnb near 16th and Mission streets. His bedroom, the size of a large table, also serves as an office. He shares a bathroom with a dozen other people." [09:59] schestowitz[TR3] IsambardPrince: ^ [09:59] schestowitz[TR3] very high class [09:59] schestowitz[TR3] shoebox ● Jul 27 [10:00] TR News "Until Kagi. Kagi is a paid-for search engine. You pay a specific amount of money per month, and then you can do well" https://hacdias.com/2025/07/26/search-engines/ | Source: Henrique Dias [10:00] TR Bot Finding a Good Search Engine - Henrique Dias [10:00] TR News [Old] "I'm writing this in preparation for the Computer History Museum's The Origins and Impact of VisiCalc panel on April 8th 2003." https://rmf.vc/public/Essays/ImplementingVisicalc.pdf | [10:01] TR News [Old] "To be clear, Im against privacy-eroding mass surveillance, microchips or not." https://vale.rocks/posts/beast-implant | Source: Declan Chidlow [10:01] TR Bot I Have The Mark of the Beast | Vale.Rocks [10:02] TR News "An average function between sets, f \colon A \to B is neither surjective nor injective. We can however isolate the two failure modes if we insert a third set X in between." https://bartoszmilewski.com/2025/07/26/weak-factorization-systems/ | Source: Bartosz Milewski [10:02] TR Bot (Weak) Factorization Systems | Bartosz Milewski's Programming Cafe [10:02] TR News "We fall victim to this everyday." https://aimode.substack.com/p/the-ai-replaces-services-myth | [10:02] TR Bot The AI Replaces Services Myth - by Mert Deveci [10:03] TR News "In an emailed statement, NASA said around 3,000 employees took part in the second round of its deferred resignation program, which closed late Friday." https://phys.org/news/2025-07-nasa-percent-workforce.html | Source: Omicron Limited [10:03] TR Bot ( status 422 @ https://phys.org/news/2025-07-nasa-percent-workforce.html ) [10:05] TR News Techrights Links 27/07/2025: FSF Hackathon and "Hulk Hogan Was a Very Bad Man" https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/27/Links_27_07_2025_FSF_Hackathon_and_Hulk_Hogan_Was_a_Very_Bad_Ma.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/07/27/Links_27_07_2025_FSF_Hackathon_and_Hulk_Hogan_Was_a_Very_Bad_Ma.gmi [10:05] TR Bot Techrights Links 27/07/2025: FSF Hackathon and "Hulk Hogan Was a Very Bad Man" [10:06] IsambardPrince "For about $2,300 a month, he is posting up in an Airbnb near 16th and Mission streets. His bedroom, the size of a large table, also serves as an office. He shares a bathroom with a dozen other people." [10:06] IsambardPrince IsambardPrince: ^ [10:06] IsambardPrince very high class [10:06] IsambardPrince shoebox [10:06] IsambardPrince I don't feel so bad now. [10:06] TR News "The ePub format is the cross-platform way to package an eBook." https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/07/would-adding-brotli-compression-help-shrink-epubs/ | Source: Terence Eden [10:06] TR Bot Would adding Brotli Compression help shrink ePubs? Terence Edens Blog [10:06] TR News "Two centuries ago it was quite normal for adjacent towns to be running local times that differed by many minutes." https://eclecticlight.co/2025/07/26/a-brief-history-of-time-synchronisation/ | Source: Howard Oakley [10:06] TR Bot A brief history of time synchronisation The Eclectic Light Company [10:07] schestowitz[TR3] isak: go west [10:07] schestowitz[TR3] IsambardPrince that is [10:07] TR News "One option is to write a bash script for the automation and a markdown file for the documentation" https://holdtherobot.com/blog/heredocs-can-make-your-bash-scripts-self-documenting/ | Source: Hold The Robot LLC [10:07] TR Bot Heredocs Can Make Your Bash Scripts Self-Documenting | Hold The Robot [10:07] TR News "Last November I wrote a post about how the programming interface of threads beats the one of async/await." https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/7/26/virtual-threads/ | Source: Armin Ronacher [10:07] TR Bot From Async/Await to Virtual Threads | Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings [10:08] TR News "My Raku presentation at the Nordic Perl Workshop 2018." https://raku-musings.com/from-perl6.html | Source: Arne Sommer [10:08] TR Bot From Perl 6 to Posterity - Arne Sommer [10:08] TR News "Version 0.116 of Game of Trees has been released (and the port updated): [...]" https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250726073234 | Source: Undeadly [10:08] TR Bot Game of Trees 0.116 released [10:10] TR News "Basically, if youre a Republican, the man can do no wrong, you will die for your boy" https://birchtree.me/blog/insanity-is-trying-the-same-thing-over-again-expecting-a-different-result/ | Source: Matt Birchler [10:10] TR Bot Insanity is trying the same thing over again expecting a different result [10:10] TR News [Old] "There are other compelling reasons for why you might consider using OpenPGP in your project: [...]" https://openpgp.dev/book/ | [10:10] TR Bot OpenPGP for application developers OpenPGP for application developers [10:12] TR News It is immoral to attack good people, but the concept or the term morality does not mean anything to some people; it flies over their heads, like just merely a word in the language, void of meaning [10:12] TR News "Couldnt sleep last night due to IRL moving anxiety and I ended up moving this site to Ghost" https://www.lkhrs.com/blog/moved-to-ghost/ | Source: Luke Harris [10:12] TR Bot Ghost. [10:13] TR News "For those of you who use GNU Emacs and have never been unlucky enough to experience this" https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/EmacsForcingNoDeiconification | Source: University of Toronto [10:13] TR Bot You're using a too-old browser [10:13] TR News "But you dont have to be going for a computer engineering degree." https://www.theverge.com/this-is-my-next/713373/best-laptops-for-students | Source: The Verge [10:13] TR Bot The 12 best laptops for high school and college students | The Verge [10:14] TR News "Using fortune to reinforce habits" https://lottia.net/notes/0017-fortune-habits-in-nix.html | Source: Kivikakk [10:14] TR Bot Fortune habits in Nix - lottia notes [10:14] TR News "Created by Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston for the Apple II and later for DOS" https://www.freedos.org/about/apps/ | [10:14] TR Bot The FreeDOS Project [10:19] psydruid Silicon Valley Lifestyle: Living In a Shoebox [10:19] TR News "The latest status report from the project to improve FreeBSD's support for running on laptops mentions several significant enhancements looming for this previously more server-oriented OS. These include better Wi-Fi including support for faster standards and better power management." https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/25/freebsd_15_installer_offers_kde/ | Source: The Register UK [10:19] TR Bot FreeBSD 15 installer to offer minimal KDE desktop The Register [10:19] TR News "The one that's catching people's attention, though, is a more visible addition: the option to configure a GUI directly from the installation program." https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/25/freebsd_15_installer_offers_kde/ | Source: The Register UK [10:19] schestowitz[TR3] psydroid2: also work l;ong hours [10:19] schestowitz[TR3] it is a defective mindset [10:19] schestowitz[TR3] they say, [10:20] schestowitz[TR3] i will live like a sardine [10:20] schestowitz[TR3] commute like sardine [10:20] schestowitz[TR3] collect some money [10:20] schestowitz[TR3] lots of it will be taxed, rent etc. [10:20] schestowitz[TR3] and then some day I will enjoy the money [10:20] schestowitz[TR3] but when? [10:20] schestowitz[TR3] 40?50 [10:20] schestowitz[TR3] people get oil and frail [10:20] schestowitz[TR3] so basically, congrats [10:21] schestowitz[TR3] you spent life like a sardine [10:21] schestowitz[TR3] enjoy the rest of it [10:21] schestowitz[TR3] btw, kaniini tried it [10:21] schestowitz[TR3] burned out [10:21] schestowitz[TR3] left to some red state [10:21] schestowitz[TR3] to be near nature and alpacas [10:22] schestowitz[TR3] when i was 21 a company in london gave me a job offers as a programmer [10:22] schestowitz[TR3] i turned it down [10:22] schestowitz[TR3] much older friends of mine told me it would suck [10:22] schestowitz[TR3] i stayed in manchester and studied more [10:22] schestowitz[TR3] london can be as expensive [10:23] schestowitz[TR3] or require lots of travel [10:23] schestowitz[TR3] leave home 8am [10:23] schestowitz[TR3] to get to work at 9 [10:23] schestowitz[TR3] or even at 7:40 [10:23] schestowitz[TR3] then the same back [10:23] schestowitz[TR3] you work 10+ hours a day, just to lower prices _a bit_ [10:23] schestowitz[TR3] it's still expensive around places like luton, everything in 100kk/mile radius [10:25] TR News "First off, its beautiful. No other Linux desktop can match the aesthetic of Budgie." https://thenewstack.io/linux-budgie-desktop-a-perfect-blend-of-aesthetics-and-power/ | Source: The New Stack [10:25] TR Bot Linux Budgie Desktop: A Perfect Blend of Aesthetics and Power - The New Stack [10:25] schestowitz[TR3] some people, with or without kids, have this false notion of carrying money forwartd [10:25] schestowitz[TR3] past death [10:25] schestowitz[TR3] never mind if a job that causes stress can shorten their lives by decades [10:26] TR News "I cant quite remember how far I got into building of level 4-2 when I wrote my last Dev Log entry." https://lmika.org/2025/07/26/devlog-godot-project-level-and.html | Source: Leon Mika [10:26] TR Bot Devlog: Godot Project Level 4-2 And Level 2-3 | Leon Mika [10:26] schestowitz[TR3] GAFAM fires people regardless of performance [10:27] schestowitz[TR3] i wonder if http://the-brannons.com/ is still alive [10:27] TR Bot Chris Brannon's Homepage [10:27] schestowitz[TR3] he worked in google for a while [10:27] schestowitz[TR3] didn'thhave good things to say [10:27] TR News "When you need to analyze some suspicious pieces of code, it's interesting to detonate them in a sandbox." https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32144 | Source: SANS [10:27] TR Bot Sinkholing Suspicious Scripts or Executables on Linux - SANS Internet Storm Center [10:28] *IsambardPrince has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [10:29] TR News "The Radxa AICore AX-M1 is an M.2 M Key AI acceleration module designed for edge computing systems that require high-throughput neural processing" https://linuxgizmos.com/radxa-launches-m-2-ai-accelerator-with-axera-ax8850-and-24-tops-npu/ | Source: Linux Gizmos [10:29] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/radxa-launches-m-2-ai-accelerator-with-axera-ax8850-and-24-tops-npu/ ) [10:29] TR News "Ultra-Slim Fanless" https://linuxgizmos.com/ms-c926-ultra-slim-fanless-embedded-system-with-dual-2-5-gbe-and-m-2-expansion/ | Source: Linux Gizmos [10:29] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/ms-c926-ultra-slim-fanless-embedded-system-with-dual-2-5-gbe-and-m-2-expansion/ ) [10:34] TR News En Banc Update from the Federal Circuit https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/07/update-federal-circuit.html [10:34] TR Bot En Banc Update from the Federal Circuit | Patently-O [10:35] TR News Malikie Wi-Fi patent monopoly challenge instituted https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/7/25/malikie-wi-fi-patent-challenge-instituted-1 [10:35] TR Bot Malikie Wi-Fi patent challenge instituted Unified Patents [10:35] TR News Another Malikie Wi-Fi patent monopoly challenge instituted https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/7/25/another-malikie-wi-fi-patent-challenge-instituted [10:35] TR Bot Another Malikie Wi-Fi patent challenge instituted Unified Patents [10:37] TR News Doing My Share to Tackle Online Slop and SPAM (updated) https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/26/Doing_My_Share_to_Tackle_Online_Slop_and_SPAM.shtml [10:37] TR Bot Techrights Doing My Share to Tackle Online Slop and SPAM [10:38] TR News The Register UK Seems to Have Become American and Management is Changing (Microsofter as Editor in Chief) (updated) https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/26/The_Register_UK_Seems_to_Have_Become_American_and_Management_is.shtml [10:38] TR Bot Techrights The Register UK Seems to Have Become American and Management is Changing (Microsofter as Editor in Chief) [10:38] TR News Misinformation in Social Control Media https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/27/Misinformation_in_Social_Control_Media.shtml [10:38] TR Bot Techrights Misinformation in Social Control Media [10:39] TR News Many People Still Read Techrights Because It Says the Truth, Produces Evidence, and Does Not Self-Censor https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/26/Many_People_Still_Read_Techrights_Because_It_Says_the_Truth_Pro.shtml [10:39] TR Bot Techrights Many People Still Read Techrights Because It Says the Truth, Produces Evidence, and Does Not Self-Censor [10:40] TR News The Register is Desperate for Money, According to The Register https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/26/The_Register_is_Desperate_for_Money_According_to_The_Register.shtml [10:40] TR Bot Techrights The Register is Desperate for Money, According to The Register [10:40] TR News Microsoft Finally Finds a Use Case for Slop? https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/26/Microsoft_Finally_Finds_a_Use_Case_for_Slop.shtml [10:40] TR Bot Techrights Microsoft Finally Finds a Use Case for Slop? [10:40] TR News For Libel Reform One Must First Bring (or Raise) Awareness to the Issues and Their Magnitude https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/26/For_Libel_Reform_One_Must_First_Bring_or_Raise_Awareness_to_the.shtml [10:40] TR Bot Techrights For Libel Reform One Must First Bring (or Raise) Awareness to the Issues and Their Magnitude [10:41] TR News Blaming Programming Languages for Users' and Developers' Bad Practices https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/26/Blaming_Programming_Languages_for_Users_and_Developers_Bad_Prac.shtml [10:41] TR Bot Techrights Blaming Programming Languages for Users' and Developers' Bad Practices [10:41] TR News PD.Charger-GSM v2.5 An industrial solar MPPT charger with Wi-Fi, LTE/GPS, and RS485 https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/07/26/pd-charger-gsm-v2-5-an-industrial-solar-mppt-charger-with-wi-fi-lte-gps-and-rs485/ [10:41] TR Bot PD.Charger-GSM v2.5 An industrial solar MPPT charger with Wi-Fi, LTE/GPS, and RS485 - CNX Software [10:46] TR News Trajectory of The Register: From News Site/s Into "B2B"... and Into Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Salespeople https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/27/Trajectory_of_The_Register_From_News_Site_s_Into_B2B_and_Into_M.shtml [10:46] TR Bot Techrights Trajectory of The Register: From News Site/s Into "B2B"... and Into Microsoft Salespeople [10:46] TR News Microsoft backdoored Windows Lost 400 Million Users in a Few Years, Why Does The Register Double Down on backdoored Windows With New US Editor? https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/26/Microsoft_Windows_Lost_400_Million_Users_in_a_Few_Years_Why_Doe.shtml [10:46] TR Bot Techrights Microsoft Windows Lost 400 Million Users in a Few Years, Why Does The Register Double Down on Windows With New US Editor? [10:48] TR News Matthew Palmer: Object deserialization attacks using Ruby's Oj JSON parser https://www.hezmatt.org/~mpalmer/blog/2025/07/26/object-deserialization-ruby-oj-json-parser.html [10:48] TR Bot Brane Dump: Object deserialization attacks using Ruby's Oj JSON parser [10:49] TR News Birger Schacht: My DebConf 25 review https://bisco.org/notes/my-debconf-25-review/ [10:49] TR Bot My DebConf 25 review [10:50] TR News Amin Bandali: Mirroring Protesilaos' videos to Internet Archive https://kelar.org/~bandali/2025/07/25/protesilaos-videos-archive.html [10:50] TR Bot Mirroring Protesilaos' videos to Internet Archive - bandali ● Jul 27 [11:15] psydruid I got a glimpse of that lifestyle in Dublin and got out at the earliest opportunity [11:16] psydruid Now everything is double the price [11:16] psydruid Including sardines [11:21] *prurigro has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [11:21] *XFaCE_ has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [11:38] TR News Bits from Debian: DebConf25 closes in Brest and DebConf26 announced https://bits.debian.org/2025/07/debconf25-closes.html [11:38] TR Bot DebConf25 closes in Brest and DebConf26 announced - Bits from Debian [11:39] TR News Pluralistic: Iranian brickwork, arbitrated pillows, smothered comics, and aerogel desalination (26 Jul 2025) https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/26/manifolds/ [11:39] TR Bot Pluralistic: Iranian brickwork, arbitrated pillows, smothered comics, and aerogel desalination (26 Jul 2025) Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow [11:40] TR News Wireds Katie Drummond on What the Tech Titans Learned from DOGE https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/wireds-katie-drummond-on-what-the-tech-titans-learned-from-doge "For those in Silicon Valley who play by the Presidents rules, its open season."" [11:40] TR Bot Wireds Katie Drummond on What the Tech Titans Learned from DOGE | The New Yorker [11:42] TR News This Week in Linux 321: defective chip maker Intel nixes Clear Linux, 6% Market Share, Arch Malware, EU FOSS Funding & more GNU/Linux news https://tuxdigital.com/podcasts/this-week-in-linux/twil-321/ https://thisweekinlinux.com/321 https://tuxdigital.com/podcasts/this-week-in-linux/twil-321/ [11:42] TR Bot Intel nixes Clear Linux, 6% Market Share, Arch Malware, EU FOSS Funding & more Linux news - This Week in Linux - TuxDigital [11:44] TR News Xbox / Microsoft Layoffs from a Human Perspective (Opinion) https://lordsofgaming.net/2025/07/xbox-microsoft-layoffs-from-a-human-perspective-opinion/ [11:44] TR Bot Xbox / Microsoft Layoffs from a Human Perspective (Opinion) - Lords of Gaming [11:48] TR News More Microsoft Layoffs Coming https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/are-more-job-cuts-coming-is-he-feeling-guilty-about-or-microsoft-employees-react-to-ceo-satya-nadellas-memo/articleshow/122926472.cms [11:48] TR Bot Are more job cuts coming? Is he feeling guilty about... or...: Microsoft reportedly employees react to CEO Satya Nadella's memo - The Times of India [11:49] TR News Is computer science still a relevant stream? Students weary as US tech layoffs surge https://www.financialexpress.com/jobs-career/is-computer-science-still-a-relevant-stream-students-weary-as-us-tech-layoffs-surge-3927856/ [11:49] TR Bot Is computer science still a relevant stream? Students weary as US tech layoffs surge - Jobs and Career News | The Financial Express [11:51] TR News "Bengaluru rents drop as tech layoffs rise? Reddit post sparks debate" [11:55] TR News Nick Richards: Octopus Agile Prices For GNU/Linux https://www.nedrichards.com/2025/07/octopus-agile-prices-for-linux/ [11:55] TR Bot Octopus Agile Prices For Linux Nick Richards [11:57] TR News The Top Five For the Week Ending July 25, 2005 https://fossforce.com/2025/07/the-top-five-for-the-week-ending-july-25-2005/ [11:57] TR Bot The Top Five For the Week Ending July 25, 2005 - FOSS Force [11:58] TR News How My Hey Hi (AI) Assistants Told Me to Show My Appreciation on SysAdmin Day https://fossforce.com/2025/07/how-my-ai-assistants-told-me-to-show-my-appreciation-on-sysadmin-day/ [11:58] TR Bot How My AI Assistants Told Me to Show My Appreciation on SysAdmin Day - FOSS Force [11:59] TR News 200th 'Twitter convoy' leaves Latvia for Ukraine https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/society/26.07.2025-200th-twitter-convoy-leaves-latvia-for-ukraine.a608185/ [11:59] TR Bot 200th 'Twitter convoy' leaves Latvia for Ukraine / Article ● Jul 27 [12:06] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techrights [12:08] TR News MagOS 20250725 is out https://distrowatch.com/magos [12:08] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/magos ) [12:09] TR News hypocrite https://lunduke.substack.com/p/groupthink-and-tech-journalism [12:09] TR Bot Groupthink & Tech Journalism - by Bryan Lunduke [12:12] TR News How To Install Rancher on Fedora 42 https://idroot.us/install-rancher-fedora-42/ [12:12] TR Bot How To Install Rancher on Fedora 42 - idroot [12:13] TR News How To Enable BBR on CentOS Stream 10 https://idroot.us/enable-bbr-centos-stream-10/ [12:13] TR Bot How To Enable BBR on CentOS Stream 10 - idroot [12:13] TR News How To Install FTP Server on Linux Mint 22 https://idroot.us/install-ftp-server-linux-mint-22/ [12:13] TR Bot How To Install FTP Server on Linux Mint 22 - idroot [12:14] TR News "They keep the diverse and fire the workers, watch what happens next oops" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k139h48h [12:14] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k139h48h ) [12:16] TR News How To Install Stremio on Linux Mint 22 https://idroot.us/install-stremio-linux-mint-22/ [12:16] TR Bot How To Install Stremio on Linux Mint 22 - idroot [12:16] TR News How To Install ModSecurity with Apache on AlmaLinux 10 https://idroot.us/install-modsecurity-with-apache-almalinux-10/ [12:16] TR Bot How To Install ModSecurity with Apache on AlmaLinux 10 - idroot [12:18] TR News This is really dangerous Microsoft malware; it's not just proprietary, it also steals all user passwords, sending them to Microsoft and the NSA https://idroot.us/install-microsoft-edge-rocky-linux-10/ [12:18] TR Bot How To Install Microsoft Edge on Rocky Linux 10 - idroot [12:19] TR News Looks like this site ended its short expriment with LLM slop https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-upgrade-debian-to-latest-version [12:19] TR Bot How to Upgrade Debian 12 Bookworm to Debian 13 Trixie - LinuxConfig [12:21] TR News cgmnlm colorful Gemini line mode client https://www.linuxlinks.com/cgmnlm-colorful-gemini-line-mode-client/ [12:21] TR Bot - colorful Gemini line mode client - LinuxLinks [12:21] TR News Response to Solderpunk (Father of Gemini Protocol) About the Gemini Community https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/26/Response_to_Solderpunk_Father_of_Gemini_Protocol_About_the_Gemi.shtml [12:21] TR Bot Techrights Response to Solderpunk (Father of Gemini Protocol) About the Gemini Community [12:24] TR News JayzTwoCents Finally Tries Linux: Reacting to Jays GNU/Linux Journey with Bazzite https://tuxdigital.com/videos/jayztwocents-finally-tries-linux-reacting-to-jays-linux-journey-with-bazzite/ [12:24] TR Bot Finally Tries Linux: Reacting to Jays Linux Journey with Bazzite - Tunnell Vision - TuxDigital [12:24] TR News YouTube is a Spamfarm, Slopfarm, and Clickfarm (a Lot of Numbers There Are Fake) https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/25/YouTube_is_a_Spamfarm_Slopfarm_and_Clickfarm_a_Lot_of_Numbers_T.shtml [12:24] TR Bot Techrights YouTube is a Spamfarm, Slopfarm, and Clickfarm (a Lot of Numbers There Are Fake) [12:25] TR News 5 Open Source Apps You Can use for Seamless File Transfer Between GNU/Linux and Android https://itsfoss.com/file-transfer-apps-linux-android/ [12:25] TR Bot 5 Open Source Apps You Can use for Seamless File Transfer Between Linux and Android [12:26] TR News Playtron's Linux-based GameOS Hits the Road with 1.0 https://boilingsteam.com/playtrons-linux-based-game-os-hits-the-road-with-1-0/index.html [12:26] TR Bot Playtron's Linux-based GameOS Hits the Road with 1.0 [12:26] TR News Don Marti: Do you have a license for that robot bookie? https://blog.zgp.org/do-you-have-a-license-for-that-robot-bookie/ [12:26] TR Bot Do you have a license for that robot bookie? [12:27] TR News Who is Robert Shinn, TikTok cult leader whose home was raided in federal sex-trafficking probe? https://nypost.com/2025/07/26/us-news/who-is-robert-shinn-tiktok-cult-leader-whose-home-was-raided-in-federal-sex-trafficking-probe/ [12:27] TR Bot Who is Robert Shinn, 'TikTok cult' leader whose home was raided in federal sex-trafficking probe? [12:29] TR News Whats New in Debian 13 Trixie: RISC-V Support and Enhanced Security https://linuxconfig.org/whats-new-in-debian-13-trixie-risc-v-support-and-enhanced-security [12:29] TR Bot What's New in Debian 13 Trixie: RISC-V Support and Enhanced Security - LinuxConfig [12:30] TR News Not LLM slop this time around? Did he decide to stop? https://linuxiac.com/debian-13-to-ship-with-kde-plasma-6-3-6-desktop-environment/ [12:30] TR Bot Debian 13 to Ship with KDE Plasma 6.3.6 Desktop Environment [12:31] TR News SparkyLinux & MidoriVPN & Astian Cloud https://sparkylinux.org/sparkylinux-midorivpn-astian-cloud/ [12:31] TR Bot SparkyLinux & MidoriVPN & Astian Cloud - SparkyLinux [12:32] TR News Linux Budgie Desktop: A Perfect Blend of Aesthetics and Power https://thenewstack.io/linux-budgie-desktop-a-perfect-blend-of-aesthetics-and-power/ [12:32] TR Bot Linux Budgie Desktop: A Perfect Blend of Aesthetics and Power - The New Stack [12:34] TR News Spider web app tool https://www.linuxlinks.com/spider-web-app-tool/ [12:34] TR Bot - web app tool - LinuxLinks [12:36] TR News GNu and RMS discussed in Vietnam today https://vinahost.vn/gnu-la-gi/ [12:36] TR Bot [2025] GNU l g? | Tng quan kin thc v h iu hnh GNU [12:41] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techrights [12:42] psydroid2 there is no human perspective to Microsoft layoffs, the more get laid off and never get to work in tech again the better [12:44] schestowitz[TR3] http://techrights.org/n/2025/07/07/Microsoft_s_Nat_Friedman_Became_Unemployed_the_Same_Time_the_SL.shtml [12:44] TR Bot Techrights Microsoft's Nat Friedman Became Unemployed the Same Time the SLAPPs Against Techrights Started Coming From His Friends (Weeks After We Had Exposed Scandals About Him and the Serial Strangler, His Best Friend, Who Got Arrested a Few Days Later) [12:45] TR News KDE Plasma 6.5 will notify you if your printer's ink is low https://www.neowin.net/news/kde-plasma-65-will-notify-you-if-your-printers-ink-is-low/ [12:45] TR Bot KDE Plasma 6.5 will notify you if your printer's ink is low - Neowin [12:46] TR News Slopwatch: Fake GNU/Linux 'Articles' and Slopfarms With "Linux" in Their Names/Domains https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/27/Slopwatch_Fake_Linux_Articles_and_Slopfarms_With_Linux_in_Their.shtml [12:46] TR Bot Techrights Slopwatch: Fake Linux 'Articles' and Slopfarms With "Linux" in Their Names/Domains [12:51] TR News (NEW): Slackel 8.0 "Openbox" https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/07/27/Slackel_8_0_Openbox.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/07/27/Slackel_8_0_Openbox.gmi [12:51] TR Bot Tux Machines Slackel 8.0 "Openbox" [12:51] TR News Sam Thursfield: Thoughts during GUADEC 2025 https://samthursfield.wordpress.com/2025/07/26/thoughts-during-guadec-2025/ [12:51] TR Bot Thoughts during GUADEC 2025 Sam Thursfield [12:56] TR News New RVA23 RISC-V Chips are Coming Sooner than You Think https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/ubuntu-risc-v-rva23-hardware-coming-soon [12:56] TR Bot New RVA23 RISC-V Chips are Coming Sooner than You Think - OMG! Ubuntu [12:58] TR News Post Mid-Term Evaluation | KDE GSoC 2025 https://coosmos.github.io/posts/PostMid-Term/ [12:58] TR Bot Post Mid-Term Evaluation | GSoC 2025 | Ashutosh's Blog ● Jul 27 [13:00] TR News Kevin Fenzi: Misc fedora bits: fourth week of july 2025 https://www.scrye.com/blogs/nirik/posts/2025/07/26/misc-fedora-bits-fourth-week-of-july-2025/ [13:00] TR Bot Misc fedora bits: fourth week of july 2025 | Kevin's musings [13:00] TR News CentOS Board Meeting Recap, June 2025 https://blog.centos.org/2025/07/centos-board-meeting-recap-june-2025/ [13:00] TR Bot Board Meeting Recap, June 2025 Blog.CentOS.org [13:01] TR News Fedora 42 templates available https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2025/07/26/fedora-42-templates-available/ [13:01] TR Bot Fedora 42 templates available | Qubes OS [13:02] TR News China advances toward tech independence with new homegrown 6nm gaming and Hey Hi (AI) [sic] GPUs https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/china-advances-toward-tech-independence-with-new-homegrown-6nm-gaming-and-ai-gpus-lisuan-7g106-runs-chinese-aaa-titles-at-4k-over-70-fps-and-matches-rtx-4060-in-synthetic-benchmarks [13:02] TR Bot China advances toward tech independence with new homegrown 6nm gaming and AI GPUs Lisuan 7G106 runs Chinese AAA titles at 4K over 70 FPS and matches RTX 4060 in synthetic benchmarks | Tom's Hardware [13:02] TR News Veteran reviewers RTX 5090 Founders Edition GPU falls victim to 16-pin meltdown user admits it could have been user error despite having tested GPUs for over 15 years https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/veteran-reviewers-rtx-5090-founders-edition-gpu-falls-victim-to-16-pin-meltdown-user-admits-it-could-have-been-user-error-despite-having-tested-gpus-for-over-15-years [13:02] TR Bot Veteran reviewers RTX 5090 Founders Edition GPU falls victim to 16-pin meltdown user admits it could have been user error despite having tested GPUs for over 15 years | Tom's Hardware [13:03] TR News "Its hard to argue that Soviet-Era nuclear engineering may have some small flaws, what with the heavily-monitored exclusion zone around Chernobyl No.4." https://hackaday.com/2025/07/26/vintage-plasma-display-shows-current-rad-levels/ | Source: Hackaday [13:03] TR Bot Plasma Display Shows Current Rad Levels | Hackaday [13:09] TR News EPYTEST_PLUGINS and other goodies now in Gentoo https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2025/07/26/epytest_plugins-and-other-goodies-now-in-gentoo/ [13:10] TR Bot EPYTEST_PLUGINS and other goodies now in Gentoo Micha Grny [13:10] TR News Thousands of men shared non-consensual intimate photos on Telegram: Chinese media https://hongkongfp.com/2025/07/26/thousands-of-men-shared-non-consensual-intimate-photos-on-telegram-chinese-media/ [13:10] TR Bot Thousands of men shared non-consensual intimate photos on Telegram: Chinese media [13:11] TR News Teen-Agers in Their Bedrooms, Before the Age of Selfies https://www.newyorker.com/teen-agers-in-their-bedrooms-before-the-age-of-selfies [13:11] TR Bot Teen-Agers in Their Bedrooms, Before the Age of Selfies | The New Yorker [13:11] TR News Indian police arrest suspect over running fake embassy of fictional nation, duping job seekers https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/indian-police-arrest-man-running-fake-embassy [13:11] TR Bot Indian police arrest suspect over running fake embassy of fictional nation, duping job seekers | The Straits Times [13:12] TR News This Week in Plasma: Printer Ink Level Monitoring https://blogs.kde.org/2025/07/26/this-week-in-plasma-printer-ink-level-monitoring/ [13:12] TR Bot This Week in Plasma: Printer Ink Level Monitoring - KDE Blogs [13:12] TR News Tactigon and Raspberry PI: a New Input Concept With Integrated Hey Hi (AI) https://peppe8o.com/tactigon-raspberry-pi/ [13:12] TR Bot Tactigon and Raspberry PI: a New Input Concept With Integrated AI [13:13] TR News What to Know About the Hack at Tea, an App Where Women Share Red Flags About Men https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/us/tea-safety-dating-app-hack.html [13:13] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/us/tea-safety-dating-app-hack.html ) [13:15] TR News The dream of a Raspberry Pi laptop becomes a reality ArgonOne Up Review https://www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/the-dream-of-a-raspberry-pi-laptop-becomes-a-reality-argonone-up-review [13:15] TR Bot The dream of a Raspberry Pi laptop becomes a reality ArgonOne Up Review | Tom's Hardware [13:16] TR News (NEW): This Laptop Has a Raspberry Pi inside https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/07/25/This_Laptop_Has_a_Raspberry_Pi_inside.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/07/25/This_Laptop_Has_a_Raspberry_Pi_inside.gmi [13:16] TR Bot Tux Machines This Laptop Has a Raspberry Pi inside [13:19] TR News US slams Hong Kongs national security bounty offers targeting overseas activists https://hongkongfp.com/2025/07/27/us-slams-hong-kongs-national-security-bounty-offers-targeting-overseas-activists/ [13:19] TR Bot US slams Hong Kong's national security bounty offers targeting overseas activists [13:23] TR News Accessible Voting is Under Attack 35 Years After the ADA https://www.aclu.org/news/disability-rights/accessible-voting-is-under-attack-35-years-after-the-ada [13:23] TR Bot Accessible Voting is Under Attack 35 Years After the ADA | American Civil Liberties Union [13:24] TR News South Park mocks Convicted Felon's ego, manhood and lawsuits in controversial return https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250726-south-park-mocks-trump-s-ego-manhood-and-lawsuits-in-controversial-return [13:24] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250726-south-park-mocks-trump-s-ego-manhood-and-lawsuits-in-controversial-return ) [13:36] TR News siliconangle takes bribes from everyone to promote the "HEY HI" ponzi scheme. Now it does the same for FAKE "money"... https://siliconangle.com/2025/07/26/stablecoins-gain-legitimacy-crypto-finds-clarity-regulatory-fog/ [13:36] TR Bot gain legitimacy as crypto finds clarity in the regulatory fog - SiliconANGLE [13:37] TR News When the media promotes ponzi schemes it is a PARTICIPANT and should be held accountable, as such [13:37] TR News Almost 50% of Microplastic Pollution Comes From Cars. Here's Why. https://www.sciencealert.com/almost-50-of-microplastic-pollution-comes-from-cars-heres-why [13:37] TR Bot 50% of Microplastic Pollution Comes From Cars. Here's Why. : ScienceAlert [13:53] TR News America needs fireworks: No alternative for some Chinese goods amid trade uncertainty https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/us-needs-chinas-fireworks-no-alternative-for-some-chinese-goods-amid-trade-uncertainty [13:53] TR Bot America needs fireworks: No alternative for some Chinese goods amid trade uncertainty | The Straits Times [13:57] TR News Sorry, not sorry: How Chinas nationalistic netizens played into Malaysian rapper Namewees hands https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/sorry-not-sorry-how-chinas-nationalistic-netizens-played-into-msian-rapper-namewees-hands [13:57] TR Bot Sorry, not sorry: How Chinas nationalistic netizens played into Malaysian rapper Namewees hands | The Straits Times ● Jul 27 [14:00] TR News Johor faces healthcare worker shortage amid population boom, pull of higher Singapore salaries https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/johor-faces-healthcare-worker-shortage-amid-population-boom-pull-of-higher-singapore-salaries [14:00] TR Bot A 'critical' and 'serious' shortage of healthcare workers in Johor | The Straits Times [14:01] TR News Why more South Koreans are becoming side hustlers https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/why-more-south-koreans-are-becoming-side-hustlers [14:01] TR Bot Why more South Koreans are taking on a side hustle | The Straits Times [14:01] TR News More jobless college grads than middle school grads in South Korea for the first time https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/for-the-first-time-more-jobless-college-grads-than-middle-school-grads-in-south-korea [14:01] TR Bot More jobless college grads than middle school grads in South Korea for the first time | The Straits Times [14:02] psydroid2 the knowledge economy went bust [14:02] psydroid2 we're going back to caveman economy [14:02] schestowitz[TR3] it was a buzzword [14:02] schestowitz[TR3] promoted by waning nations [14:02] schestowitz[TR3] and riding speculation bubble [14:02] schestowitz[TR3] like pensions and shareholders [14:03] schestowitz[TR3] using our own promised money [14:03] schestowitz[TR3] plus national dent [14:03] schestowitz[TR3] to infuse "the market" [14:03] schestowitz[TR3] "yeah, tie my pension to stocks and that share" [14:03] schestowitz[TR3] if it goes down, there goes my future [14:03] schestowitz[TR3] debt leads to austerity and inflation [14:04] schestowitz[TR3] so we pay for it [14:04] schestowitz[TR3] you bail out some banks [14:04] schestowitz[TR3] and we pay as prices of everything rises [14:04] schestowitz[TR3] homes, food, insurance... [14:04] schestowitz[TR3] money "does not grow on trees" [14:05] psydroid2 tying people down in certain locations they can't escape from seems another way to force them to shoulder the burden [14:07] schestowitz[TR3] that seems like a related issue [14:08] TR News Listening To Ethernet Via Eurorack https://hackaday.com/2025/07/26/listening-to-ethernet-via-eurorack/ | Source: Hackaday [14:08] TR Bot To Ethernet Via Eurorack | Hackaday [14:10] TR News iophk: he is the only politician so far to call out social control media as being a weapon used against the nation https://yle.fi/a/7-10081682 nils torvalds uses youtube, he is mep [14:10] TR Bot Ryssland kan testa Finland medan EU:s frsvar nnu r svagt, varnar Mika Aaltola | Samhlle | Svenska Yle [14:10] TR News Read QR Codes On The Cheap https://hackaday.com/2025/07/26/read-qr-codes-on-the-cheap/ | Source: Hackaday [14:10] TR Bot QR Codes On The Cheap | Hackaday [14:34] TR News (NEW): Radxa Launches M.2 AI Accelerator with Axera AX8850 and 24 TOPS NPU https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/07/27/Radxa_Launches_M_2_AI_Accelerator_with_Axera_AX8850_and_24_TOPS.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/07/27/Radxa_Launches_M_2_AI_Accelerator_with_Axera_AX8850_and_24_TOPS.gmi [14:34] TR Bot Tux Machines Radxa Launches M.2 AI Accelerator with Axera AX8850 and 24 TOPS NPU [14:41] TR News (NEW): 5 Open Source Apps You Can use for Seamless File Transfer Between Linux and Android https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/07/27/5_Open_Source_Apps_You_Can_use_for_Seamless_File_Transfer_Betwe.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/07/27/5_Open_Source_Apps_You_Can_use_for_Seamless_File_Transfer_Betwe.gmi [14:41] TR Bot Tux Machines 5 Open Source Apps You Can use for Seamless File Transfer Between Linux and Android [14:43] *SomeGoat (~SomeGoat@r9ruxqydtdctn.irc) has joined #techrights [14:53] TR News (NEW): Free and Open Source Software https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/07/27/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/07/27/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi [14:53] TR Bot Tux Machines Free and Open Source Software [14:56] TR News (NEW): SparkyLinux & MidoriVPN & Astian Cloud https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/07/27/SparkyLinux_MidoriVPN_Astian_Cloud.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/07/27/SparkyLinux_MidoriVPN_Astian_Cloud.gmi [14:56] TR Bot Tux Machines SparkyLinux & MidoriVPN & Astian Cloud [14:57] *lxo has quit (connection closed) [14:59] TR News (NEW): GNOME Calendar: A New Era of Accessibility Achieved in 90 Days https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/07/27/GNOME_Calendar_A_New_Era_of_Accessibility_Achieved_in_90_Days.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/07/27/GNOME_Calendar_A_New_Era_of_Accessibility_Achieved_in_90_Days.gmi [14:59] TR Bot Tux Machines GNOME Calendar: A New Era of Accessibility Achieved in 90 Days ● Jul 27 [15:13] *lxo (~lxo@zj26zv4kdh4g2.irc) has joined #techrights [15:16] TR News (NEW): 5 Best Linux Distros with Native NVIDIA GPU Support https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/07/27/5_Best_Linux_Distros_with_Native_NVIDIA_GPU_Support.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/07/27/5_Best_Linux_Distros_with_Native_NVIDIA_GPU_Support.gmi [15:16] TR Bot Tux Machines 5 Best Linux Distros with Native NVIDIA GPU Support [15:18] *XFaCE_ (~XFaCE@uzfeivw9fp6ba.irc) has joined #techrights [15:23] TR News (NEW): Here's why no one can shut up about Linux gaming https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/07/27/Here_s_why_no_one_can_shut_up_about_Linux_gaming.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/07/27/Here_s_why_no_one_can_shut_up_about_Linux_gaming.gmi [15:23] TR Bot Tux Machines Here's why no one can shut up about Linux gaming [15:26] *prurigro (~prurigro@uzfeivw9fp6ba.irc) has joined #techrights [15:36] TR News (NEW): My favorite Linux graphic desktop environment will soon prod you if your printer ink is low https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/07/27/My_favorite_Linux_graphic_desktop_environment_will_soon_prod_yo.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/07/27/My_favorite_Linux_graphic_desktop_environment_will_soon_prod_yo.gmi [15:36] TR Bot Tux Machines My favorite Linux graphic desktop environment will soon prod you if your printer ink is low [15:38] TR News (NEW): How Does OpenMandriva Lx 'Rock' Stack Against Fedora? My Thoughts https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/07/27/How_Does_OpenMandriva_Lx_Rock_Stack_Against_Fedora_My_Thoughts.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/07/27/How_Does_OpenMandriva_Lx_Rock_Stack_Against_Fedora_My_Thoughts.gmi [15:38] TR Bot Tux Machines How Does OpenMandriva Lx 'Rock' Stack Against Fedora? My Thoughts [15:43] TR News (NEW): : Google Android Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/07/27/Android_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/07/27/Android_Leftovers.gmi [15:43] TR Bot Tux Machines Android Leftovers [15:47] MinceR https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/climate [15:47] TR Bot Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Climate [15:50] TR News Flake8 wrapper around PyFlakes and pycodestyle https://www.linuxlinks.com/flake8-wrapper-pyflakes-pycodestyle/ [15:50] TR Bot - wrapper around PyFlakes and pycodestyle - LinuxLinks [15:50] TR News Putout JavaScript linter, pluggable and configurable code transformer https://www.linuxlinks.com/putout-javascript-linter-pluggable-and-configurable-code-transformer/ [15:50] TR Bot - JavaScript linter, pluggable and configurable code transformer - LinuxLinks [15:51] TR News Escambo HTTP-based Hey Hi (AI) test application for GNOME https://www.linuxlinks.com/escambo-http-based-apis-test-application/ [15:51] TR Bot - HTTP-based APIs test application for GNOME - LinuxLinks [15:54] TR News 21 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux Color Pickers https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-color-pickers/ [15:54] TR Bot Best Free and Open Source Linux Color Pickers - LinuxLinks [15:54] TR News 9 Best Free and Open Source Translators https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-translators/ [15:54] TR Bot Best Free and Open Source Translators - LinuxLinks [15:54] TR News Alternatives to popular CLI tools: rm https://www.linuxlinks.com/alternatives-popular-cli-tools-rm/ [15:54] TR Bot to popular CLI tools: rm - LinuxLinks [15:55] TR News Signal Injector Might Still Be Handy https://hackaday.com/2025/07/26/signal-injector-might-still-be-handy/ | Source: Hackaday [15:55] TR Bot Injector Might Still Be Handy | Hackaday [15:56] TR News "A Clock Sans Silicon" https://hackaday.com/2025/07/26/2025-one-hertz-challenge-a-clock-sans-silicon/ | Source: Hackaday [15:56] TR Bot One-Hertz Challenge: A Clock Sans Silicon | Hackaday [15:56] TR News "But [Samcraft] shows that engraving all around a mug can be done without a motorized rotary holder." https://hackaday.com/2025/07/26/engrave-a-cylinder-without-a-rotary-attachment-no-problem/ | Source: Hackaday [15:56] TR Bot A Cylinder Without A Rotary Attachment? No Problem! | Hackaday [15:59] TR News (NEW): Today's HowTos https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/07/27/today_s_howtos.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/07/27/today_s_howtos.gmi [15:59] TR Bot Tux Machines today's howtos ● Jul 27 [16:03] TR News "Are you avoiding Linux because you've heard NVIDIA support is a nightmare? Or do you want to buy a new NVIDIA GPU for your current Linux PC and are wondering about potential issues? Well, here are five distros with native NVIDIA graphics support that should work perfectly from day one." https://www.howtogeek.com/best-linux-distros-with-native-nvidia-gpu-support/ [16:03] TR Bot 5 Best Linux Distros with Native NVIDIA GPU Support [16:04] TR News "this leaves a ton of perfectly good computers in a difficult limbo where they are too old for the latest mainstream operating systems, but still functional enough to save from the landfill." https://www.xda-developers.com/upgrading-windows-10-to-chrome-os-no-linux-windows-11/ [16:04] TR Bot I'm not upgrading to Windows 11, but I'm not tolerating Linux either [16:06] TR News (NEW): Linux Budgie Desktop: A Perfect Blend of Aesthetics and Power https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/07/27/Linux_Budgie_Desktop_A_Perfect_Blend_of_Aesthetics_and_Power.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/07/27/Linux_Budgie_Desktop_A_Perfect_Blend_of_Aesthetics_and_Power.gmi [16:06] TR Bot Tux Machines Linux Budgie Desktop: A Perfect Blend of Aesthetics and Power [16:07] TR News "I know it can get annoying hearing about Linux gaming day after day." https://www.xda-developers.com/heres-why-no-one-can-shut-up-about-linux-gaming/ [16:07] TR Bot Here's why no one can shut up about Linux gaming [16:08] TR News "I know that it is faster to transfer files, specially huge ones, via cable. But if your library has thousands of photos and videos, it takes several minutes to load them." https://itsfoss.com/file-transfer-apps-linux-android/ [16:08] TR Bot 5 Open Source Apps You Can use for Seamless File Transfer Between Linux and Android [16:08] TR News "I took OpenMandriva Lx 'Rock' for a spin this week and compared it to Fedora, my daily driver." https://news.itsfoss.com/openmandriva-lx-rock/ [16:08] TR Bot How Does OpenMandriva Lx 'Rock' Stack Against Fedora? My Thoughts [16:09] TR News "The addition of a Linux terminal to Android was long overdue, and makes Android a lot more useful aside from just Android apps. Now, it just got a lot more useful with the addition of a brand new feature: support for graphical apps." https://tech.yahoo.com/apps/articles/androids-linux-terminal-getting-feature-164010501.html [16:09] TR Bot Android's Linux Terminal Is Getting a New Feature [16:11] TR News (NEW): Debian: RISC-V Support and DebConf 25 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/07/27/Debian_RISC_V_Support_and_DebConf_25.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/07/27/Debian_RISC_V_Support_and_DebConf_25.gmi [16:11] TR Bot Tux Machines Debian: RISC-V Support and DebConf 25 [16:13] TR News (NEW): CentOS and Fedora Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/07/27/CentOS_and_Fedora_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/07/27/CentOS_and_Fedora_Leftovers.gmi [16:13] TR Bot Tux Machines CentOS and Fedora Leftovers [16:14] TR News (NEW): Games: Godot Project and GameOS https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/07/27/Games_Godot_Project_and_GameOS.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/07/27/Games_Godot_Project_and_GameOS.gmi [16:14] TR Bot Tux Machines Games: Godot Project and GameOS [16:14] TR News (NEW): Shows and Videos: JayzTwoCents Finally Tries Linux and This Week in Linux https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/07/27/Shows_and_Videos_JayzTwoCents_Finally_Tries_Linux_and_This_Week.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/07/27/Shows_and_Videos_JayzTwoCents_Finally_Tries_Linux_and_This_Week.gmi [16:15] TR Bot Tux Machines Shows and Videos: JayzTwoCents Finally Tries Linux and This Week in Linux [16:16] TR News (NEW): Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, RISC-V, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/07/27/Open_Hardware_Modding_Raspberry_Pi_RISC_V_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/07/27/Open_Hardware_Modding_Raspberry_Pi_RISC_V_and_More.gmi [16:16] TR Bot Tux Machines Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, RISC-V, and More [16:18] TR News (NEW): Programming Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/07/27/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/07/27/Programming_Leftovers.gmi [16:18] TR Bot Tux Machines Programming Leftovers [16:20] TR News (NEW): Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftover https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/07/27/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftover.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/07/27/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftover.gmi [16:20] TR News (NEW): KDE, GNOME, GNU/Linux, and BSD https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/07/27/KDE_GNOME_GNU_Linux_and_BSD.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/07/27/KDE_GNOME_GNU_Linux_and_BSD.gmi [16:20] TR Bot Tux Machines Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftover [16:20] TR Bot Tux Machines KDE, GNOME, GNU/Linux, and BSD [16:23] TR News Techrights Links 27/07/2025: More Microsoft Layoffs Coming, Science and Hardware News https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/27/Links_27_07_2025_More_Microsoft_Layoffs_Coming_Science_and_Hard.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/07/27/Links_27_07_2025_More_Microsoft_Layoffs_Coming_Science_and_Hard.gmi [16:23] TR Bot Techrights Links 27/07/2025: More Microsoft Layoffs Coming, Science and Hardware News ● Jul 27 [17:00] *darwin has quit (connection closed) [17:15] *XFaCE_ has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [17:15] *prurigro has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [17:22] *XFaCE_ (~XFaCE@uzfeivw9fp6ba.irc) has joined #techrights [17:26] *prurigro (~prurigro@uzfeivw9fp6ba.irc) has joined #techrights ● Jul 27 [18:07] TR News Free press? https://www.dw.com/en/cbs-axes-colbert-s-the-late-show-after-trump-deal-quip/a-73322132 [18:07] TR Bot axes Colbert's 'The Late Show' after Trump deal quip DW 07/18/2025 [18:10] TR News Journalists wounded, media office damaged in Syria violence https://cpj.org/2025/07/journalists-wounded-media-office-damaged-in-syria-violence/ [18:10] TR Bot Journalists wounded, media office damaged in Syria violence - Committee to Protect Journalists [18:15] TR News PFAS contamination https://www.dw.com/en/who-is-responsible-for-pfas-contamination/a-73215481 [18:15] TR Bot is responsible for PFAS contamination? DW 07/19/2025 [18:17] TR News SpellBinding ABYILNF Wordo: HYPHA gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-07-27.gmi [18:18] TR News When there's a flood coming.... gemini://whither.smol.pub/1753603524 [18:19] TR News now look at us gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/now_look_at_us [18:20] TR News "Use a library such as ncurses. This may cause problems with portability as their are operating systems, in particular weird ones from the Redmond Barrows that do their own thing, or if you delve around enough one might find unix that use some not-ncurses library that differs in various annoying ways from ncurses." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2025/07/27/terminal-escapes.gmi [18:21] TR News "Don't worry, I don't plan to spam Antenna every time I update this game. But the main feedback I got (thanks!) after my first release was that it was too confusing, so I've added a little tutorial mode on first play presenting a few short explanatory texts, which I hope improve the situation." gemini://gemini.thegonz.net/glog/250727-fearOfViewTutorial.gmi [18:23] TR News Another hot weekend gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/nm03/2025/JUL2025/entry-5 "I see many people now with little electric fans, or these cooling things around their necks (I don't know how they work.) The weather report shows nothing but sunny skies for the forseeable future." [18:25] TR News REVIEW: SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM BY T. E. LAWRENCE (1926) gopher://aussies.space:70/0/~freet/phlog/2025-07-27Review_-_Seven_Pillars_of_Wisdom_1926.txt [18:27] TR News Putin the Second https://www.dw.com/en/trump-sues-wall-street-journal-murdoch-over-epstein-report/a-73332139 [18:27] TR Bot sues Wall Street Journal, Murdoch over Epstein report DW 07/19/2025 [18:29] TR News Tariff Turmoil https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-07-18/we-are-on-our-own-africa-looks-within-to-weather-growing-global-tariff-turmoil [18:29] TR Bot stream 1 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2) ( status 0 @ https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-07-18/we-are-on-our-own-africa-looks-within-to-weather-growing-global-tariff-turmoil ) [18:29] TR News Tariffs and Uncertainty https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2025-07-18/trumps-pivot-from-aid-to-trade-leaves-africa-wary-as-it-faces-tariffs-and-uncertainty [18:29] TR Bot stream 1 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2) ( status 0 @ https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2025-07-18/trumps-pivot-from-aid-to-trade-leaves-africa-wary-as-it-faces-tariffs-and-uncertainty ) [18:30] *acer-box__ (~acer-box@freenode-g8on3q.ldvb.0amm.hij1op.IP) has joined #techrights [18:30] *techrights-sec4 has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) [18:30] *techrights-sec1 has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) [18:31] TR News Of course it should be banned, with severe penalties https://www.dw.com/en/south-african-lawyers-call-for-rules-for-ai-use-in-court/a-73365735 [18:31] TR Bot African lawyers call for rules for AI use in court DW 07/23/2025 [18:32] *acer-box has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) [18:32] *208DH8G2W (~quassel@freenode-g8on3q.ldvb.0amm.hij1op.IP) has joined #techrights [18:32] *techrights-sec1 (~quassel@freenode-g8on3q.ldvb.0amm.hij1op.IP) has joined #techrights [18:58] *darwin (~darwin@ezriia7nzimpg.irc) has joined #techrights [18:58] TR News staycation https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/affordable-vacation-canada-1.7588565 [18:58] TR Bot More Canadians may be thinking of a staycation this summer. But has domestic travel become unaffordable? | CBC News ● Jul 27 [19:00] TR News Wildfire contained after blazing through northwest Turkey, damaging farmland, livestock shelters https://bianet.org/haber/wildfire-contained-after-blazing-through-northwest-turkey-damaging-farmland-livestock-shelters-309557 [19:00] TR Bot Wildfire contained after blazing through northwest Turkey, damaging farmland, livestock shelters [19:06] TR News BlueOnyx 5212R and StormOS 07-19-2025 are released [19:29] admfubar https://www.firstpost.com/india/massive-layoffs-at-tcs-over-12000-employees-at-indian-tech-company-to-be-impacted-13913821.html [19:29] TR Bot layoffs at TCS: Over 12,000 employees at Indian tech company to be impacted Firstpost [19:30] TR News (NEW): Free and Open Source Software https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/07/27/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.1.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/07/27/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.1.gmi [19:30] TR Bot Tux Machines Free and Open Source Software [19:35] TR News Soplos 4.0.0 is out https://distrowatch.com/soplos [19:36] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/soplos ) [19:36] TR News "The Rescuezilla project has pubilshed updated media for its 2.6.x series." https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12503 [19:36] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12503 ) [19:37] *psydroid3 (~psydroid@36imbvshpgubk.irc) has joined #techrights [19:37] TR News Expirion 6.0-20250717 is out [19:38] TR News military-grade chips https://nltimes.nl/2025/07/24/research-body-tno-invests-dutch-military-grade-chips-boost-cybersecurity [19:38] TR Bot Research body TNO invests in Dutch military-grade chips to boost cybersecurity | NL Times [19:44] TR News Legal Silence and Chilling Effects: Injunctions Against the Press in Cybersecurity https://databreaches.net/2025/07/23/legal-silence-and-chilling-effects-injunctions-against-the-press-in-cybersecurity/ [19:44] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://databreaches.net/2025/07/23/legal-silence-and-chilling-effects-injunctions-against-the-press-in-cybersecurity/ ) [19:45] TR News Korea imposes 343 million won penalty on HAESUNG DS for data breach of 70,000 shareholders https://biz.chosun.com/en/en-it/2025/07/24/32ITLSSO55H4HDHILFU3FGCIIY/ [19:45] TR Bot Korea imposes 343 million won penalty on HAESUNG DS for data breach of 70,000 shareholders - CHOSUNBIZ [19:46] TR News Clorox Files $380M Suit Alleging Cognizant Gave Hackers Passwords in Catastrophic 2023 Cyberattack https://usaherald.com/clorox-files-380m-suit-alleging-cognizant-gave-hackers-passwords-in-catastrophic-2023-cyberattack/ [19:46] TR Bot Clorox Files $380M Suit Alleging Cognizant Gave Hackers Passwords in Catastrophic 2023 Cyberattack - USA Herald [19:46] TR News France Travail: At least 340,000 job seekers victims of new hack https://www.bfmtv.com/tech/cybersecurite/france-travail-au-moins-340-000-demandeurs-d-emploi-victimes-d-un-nouveau-piratage_AV-202507230252.html [19:46] TR Bot France Travail: au moins 340.000 demandeurs d'emploi victimes d'un nouveau piratage [19:47] TR News IVF provider Genea notifies patients about the cyberattack earlier this year. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-23/ivf-giant-genea-confirms-sensitive-patient-information-stolen/105562042 [19:47] TR Bot Genea IVF confirms sensitive patient health information on dark web - ABC News [19:56] admfubar https://idle.slashdot.org/story/25/07/27/0015211/creator-of-1995-phishing-tool-aohell-on-piracy-script-kiddies-and-what-he-thinks-of-ai [19:56] TR Bot Creator of 1995 Phishing Tool 'AOHell' On Piracy, Script Kiddies, and What He Thinks of AI - Slashdot [19:58] TR News Authorities released free decryptor for Phobos and 8base ransomware https://securityaffairs.com/180108/malware/authorities-released-free-decryptor-for-phobos-and-8base-ransomware.html [19:58] TR Bot Authorities released free decryptor for Phobos and 8base ransomware [19:59] TR News Government will robustly defend compensation claims from Afghans put at risk by data breach https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14920809/Government-defend-compensation-claims-Afghans-data-breach.html [19:59] TR Bot Government will 'robustly defend' any compensation claims from thousands of Afghans whose lives were put at risk by massive data breach | Daily Mail Online [19:59] TR News Missouri Adopts New Data Breach Notice Law https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/missouri-adopts-new-data-breach-notice-5921940/ ● Jul 27 [20:00] TR Bot Adopts New Data Breach Notice Law for Insurers The 10 Things Insurers and Licensed Entities Need to Know | Fisher Phillips - JDSupra [20:00] admfubar https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/07/27/0337218/did-a-vendors-leak-help-attackers-exploit-microsofts-sharepoint-servers [20:00] TR Bot Did a Vendor's Leak Help Attackers Exploit Microsoft's SharePoint Servers? - Slashdot [20:00] TR News Singapore Facing Serious Cyberattack by Espionage Group With Alleged China Ties https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20250719-singapore-facing-serious-cyberattack-by-espionage-group-with-alleged-china-ties [20:00] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20250719-singapore-facing-serious-cyberattack-by-espionage-group-with-alleged-china-ties ) [20:00] admfubar :)) https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/swedes-called-in-gay-classification-illness-1970s/ [20:00] TR Bot 'called in gay' to protest classification of homosexuality as illness in 1979 | Snopes.com [20:01] TR News North Country Healthcare responds to Stormouss claims of a breach https://databreaches.net/2025/07/17/north-country-healthcare-responds-to-stormouss-claims-of-a-breach/ [20:01] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://databreaches.net/2025/07/17/north-country-healthcare-responds-to-stormouss-claims-of-a-breach/ ) [20:03] TR News Premier Health Partners issues a press release about a breach two years ago. Why was this needed now? https://databreaches.net/2025/07/20/premier-health-partners-issues-a-press-release-about-a-breach-two-years-ago-why-was-this-needed-now [20:03] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://databreaches.net/2025/07/20/premier-health-partners-issues-a-press-release-about-a-breach-two-years-ago-why-was-this-needed-now ) [20:04] TR News Michigan ATM jackpotting: Florida men allegedly forced machines to dispense $107K https://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw-bay-city/2025/07/michigan-atm-jackpotting-florida-men-allegedly-forced-machines-to-dispense-107k.html [20:04] TR Bot ATM jackpotting: Florida men allegedly forced machines to dispense $107K - mlive.com [20:09] TR News Hungarian police arrest suspect in cyberattacks on independent media https://therecord.media/hungary-arrest-suspect-hacking-independent-media [20:09] TR Bot Hungarian police arrest suspect in cyberattacks on independent media | The Record from Recorded Future News [20:10] TR News Windows TCO: PowerSchool commits to strengthened breach measures following engagement with the Privacy Commissioner of Canada https://www.priv.gc.ca/en/opc-news/news-and-announcements/2025/nr-c-20250722/ [20:10] TR Bot News release: PowerSchool commits to strengthened breach measures following engagement with the Privacy Commissioner of Canada - Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada [20:11] TR News Inquiry launched after identities of SAS soldiers leaked in fresh data breach https://www.the-independent.com/news/uk/home-news/sas-army-data-leak-inquiry-b2792394.html [20:11] TR Bot Inquiry launched after identities of SAS soldiers leaked in fresh data breach | The Independent [20:12] TR News Bitcoin holds steady as hackers drain over $40 million from CoinCDX, Indias top exchange https://www.binance.com/en/square/post/27189713378641 [20:12] TR Bot NO TITLE [20:13] TR News UK special forces, spies included in Afghan data breach https://www.tvcnews.tv/uk-special-forces-spies-included-in-afghan-data-breach/ [20:13] TR Bot UK special forces, spies included in Afghan data breach - Trending News [20:14] TR News New TeleMessage SGNL Flaw Is Actively Being Exploited by Attackers https://hackread.com/telemessage-sgnl-flaw-actively-exploited-by-attackers/ [20:14] TR Bot New TeleMessage SGNL Flaw Is Actively Being Exploited by Attackers [20:16] TR News student data breach https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/federal-privacy-watchdog-discontinuing-student-data-breach-investigation-1.7591131 [20:17] TR Bot Federal privacy watchdog discontinuing investigation into student data breach | CBC News [20:17] TR News In Canada's auto capital, repair shops say skilled technicians are nearly impossible to find https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/windsor-auto-technicians-scarce-1.7590833 [20:17] TR Bot In Canada's auto capital, repair shops say skilled technicians are nearly impossible to find | CBC News [20:18] TR News Armenian National Extradited to the United States Faces Federal Charges for Ransomware Extortion Conspiracy https://www.justice.gov/usao-or/pr/armenian-national-extradited-united-states-faces-federal-charges-ransomware-extortion [20:18] TR Bot District of Oregon | Armenian National Extradited to the United States Faces Federal Charges for Ransomware Extortion Conspiracy | United States Department of Justice [20:18] TR News Probably Windows: United Australia Party confirms ransomware attack, personal data and email correspondence exposed https://www.cyberdaily.au/security/12393-uap-confirms-ransomware-attack-personal-data-and-email-correspondence-exposed [20:18] TR Bot UAP confirms ransomware attack, personal data and email correspondence exposed - Cyber Daily [20:19] TR News Texas Enacts Electronic Health Record Data Localization Law https://www.hunton.com/privacy-and-information-security-law/texas-enacts-electronic-health-record-data-localization-law [20:19] TR Bot Texas Enacts Electronic Health Record Data Localization Law [20:20] TR News RansomedVC is back and is still attacking its competitors https://databreaches.net/2025/07/17/ransomedvc-is-back-and-is-still-attacking-its-competitors/ [20:20] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://databreaches.net/2025/07/17/ransomedvc-is-back-and-is-still-attacking-its-competitors/ ) [20:22] TR News Gladney Adoption Center had serious data exposures in the past few months. What will they do to prevent more? https://databreaches.net/2025/07/17/gladney-adoption-center-had-serious-data-exposures-in-the-past-few-months-what-will-they-do-to-prevent-more/ [20:22] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://databreaches.net/2025/07/17/gladney-adoption-center-had-serious-data-exposures-in-the-past-few-months-what-will-they-do-to-prevent-more/ ) [20:22] TR News Windows TCO: Four people bailed after arrests over cyber attacks on M&S, Co-op and Harrods https://www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/news/national/25318490.four-people-bailed-arrests-cyber-attacks-m-s-co-op-harrods/ [20:23] TR Bot Four people bailed after arrests over cyber attacks on M&S, Co-op and Harrods | This is Oxfordshire [20:24] TR News "A new CEO was hired to take over a struggling company. The CEO who was stepping down met with him privately and presented him with three numbered envelopes. Open these if you run into serious trouble, he said." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k0zy95nr [20:24] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k0zy95nr ) [20:26] TR News "Why? The core business is shrinking. Organic growth is negative. IBM has to constantly "buy revenue" to survive. The flipside of this is selling businesses to generate cash to pursue this strategy. Kyndryl, Weather, Watson Health, Lotus to HCL, etc. This is why people say IBM is not a tech company but a financial engineering company." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k0zy95nr [20:27] TR News (NEW): KDE Plasma 6.5 Adds Low Printer Ink Notifications https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/07/27/KDE_Plasma_6_5_Adds_Low_Printer_Ink_Notifications.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/07/27/KDE_Plasma_6_5_Adds_Low_Printer_Ink_Notifications.gmi [20:27] TR Bot Tux Machines KDE Plasma 6.5 Adds Low Printer Ink Notifications [20:27] TR News "He really has no idea what he's doing, BUT needs to show that he actually does have an idea, so acquisitions are like a marketing tool. He's trying to attempt to show that he is doing things and has a plan and a clue - with the hope that the trick may work, at least for a while. It's not his money, so what's. a few millions here and there?" [20:27] TR News "Is Alvind trying to intentionally load this company up with so much debt itll need a buyout? Overpaying for these nickel and dime companies is a giant waste of money and rank and file employees pay the price while Alvind and The PipMunks get rewarded" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k0zy95nr [20:28] schestowitz[TR3] "Sounds like Alvind and the Pipmunks have been running the company into the ground while Krabanaugh cooks the books. [20:28] schestowitz[TR3] Cuts have to start somewhere - maybe with these low cost countries with too many employees. And of course Krabanaugh's F&O organization with too many managers, BS artists and big chiefs who talk with with strange accents and sit around twiddling their fingers and generating ZERO income and revenue for IBM. Plenty of room at the top to start the cutting - just think of the savings and keep on cutting and gutting F&O. Hire contracto [20:28] schestowitz[TR3] rs as they're easy to blame for the messes that the obese Krabanaugh makes. " [20:28] TR News (NEW): My Laptop Couldn't Upgrade to Windows 11, So I Switched to Linux https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/07/27/My_Laptop_Couldn_t_Upgrade_to_Windows_11_So_I_Switched_to_Linux.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/07/27/My_Laptop_Couldn_t_Upgrade_to_Windows_11_So_I_Switched_to_Linux.gmi [20:28] TR Bot Tux Machines My Laptop Couldn't Upgrade to Windows 11, So I Switched to Linux [20:30] TR News "Those are the most ignorant comments Ive seen on the site, aside from them being absolute lies. Keep blaming DEI for your issues." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k139h48h [20:30] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k139h48h ) [20:33] TR News Former U.S. Soldier Pleads Guilty to Hacking and Extortion Scheme Involving Telecommunications Companies https://databreaches.net/2025/07/17/former-u-s-soldier-pleads-guilty-to-hacking-and-extortion-scheme-involving-telecommunications-companies/ [20:33] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://databreaches.net/2025/07/17/former-u-s-soldier-pleads-guilty-to-hacking-and-extortion-scheme-involving-telecommunications-companies/ ) [20:34] TR News code script to GitHub called agent.py https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/07/doge-denizen-marko-elez-leaked-api-key-for-xai/ [20:34] TR Bot DOGE Denizen Marko Elez Leaked API Key for xAI Krebs on Security [20:35] TR News Theft from Glasgows Queen Elizabeth University Hospital sparks probe https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/25322408.theft-glasgows-queen-elizabeth-university-hospital-sparks-probe/ [20:35] TR Bot Theft from Glasgows Queen Elizabeth University Hospital sparks probe | Glasgow Times [20:35] TR News Windows again? Ransomware attack disrupts Koreas largest guarantee insurer https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10533033 [20:35] TR Bot Ransomware attack disrupts Korea's largest guarantee insurer - The Korea Herald [20:36] TR News Qantas obtains injunction to prevent hacked datas release https://www.cyberdaily.au/security/12394-qantas-obtains-injunction-to-prevent-hacked-data-s-release [20:36] TR Bot Qantas obtains injunction to prevent hacked datas release - Cyber Daily [20:42] schestowitz[TR3] weird. not done ALREADY? https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/bill-10-landlord-drug-liability-1.7588576 [20:42] TR Bot Ontario's proposed landlord drug liability law rattles supportive housing providers | CBC News [20:51] TR News Fact check: Does sunscreen increase the risk for skin cancer? https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-does-sunscreen-increase-the-risk-for-skin-cancer/a-73242617 [20:51] TR Bot check: Does sunscreen increase skin cancer risk? DW 07/19/2025 [20:51] TR News Bolsonaro https://www.dw.com/en/brazil-s-lula-slams-us-over-bolsonaro-linked-sanctions/a-73337347 [20:51] TR Bot Lula slams US over Bolsonaro-linked sanctions DW 07/19/2025 [20:54] admfubar super meat boy.. the nightmares roy must have... ● Jul 27 [21:02] MinceR https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/promise-2 [21:02] TR Bot Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Promise [21:02] schestowitz[TR3] admfubar: which url? [21:03] TR News 'premature' or just embarrassing? https://www.dw.com/en/air-india-crash-us-body-says-media-reports-premature/a-73333117 [21:03] TR Bot India crash: US body says media reports 'premature' DW 07/19/2025 [21:04] TR News Bear that killed runner in Italy moved to German sanctuary https://www.dw.com/en/bear-that-killed-runner-in-italy-moved-to-german-sanctuary/a-73342057 [21:04] TR Bot that killed runner in Italy moved to German sanctuary DW 07/20/2025 [21:08] TR News Boniface Mwangi https://www.dw.com/en/kenya-drops-terror-charges-against-activist-boniface-mwangi/a-73351406 [21:08] TR Bot drops terror charges against activist Boniface Mwangi DW 07/21/2025 [21:12] TR News hacker attack or crackers? https://www.dw.com/en/major-german-media-group-falls-victim-to-hacker-attack/a-73366418 [21:12] TR Bot German media group falls victim to hacker attack DW 07/22/2025 [21:14] TR News Good to see the term "slop" adopted by MSM instead of buzzwords https://www.dw.com/en/pakistan-lags-in-ai-readiness-but-surges-in-slop-content/a-73352652 [21:14] TR Bot lags in AI readiness, but surges in 'slop' content DW 07/23/2025 [21:15] TR News whistleblower https://www.dw.com/en/mali-basketball-whistleblower-still-fighting-for-justice/a-73360511 [21:15] TR Bot basketball whistleblower still fighting for justice DW 07/23/2025 [21:17] TR News caste https://www.dw.com/en/in-india-caste-still-defines-who-cleans-cities/a-73368510 [21:17] TR Bot India, caste still defines who cleans cities DW 07/22/2025 [21:19] TR News "I've also started reworking the frontend. Originally, I'd planned to write the whole thing in Vue, then I switched to HTMX and Thymeleaf, then to Astro. Now, I'm back to HTMX and Thymeleaf. This time, though, I've made the decision to use HTMX only for progressive enhancement." gemini://sporiff.dev/2025/07/27/devlog_15/ [21:20] TR News i now know what it costs to run (almost) everything in my house gemini://drmollytov.smol.pub/2025-07-27 [21:21] psydruid Pakistan is a sloppy country full of sloppy people [21:22] schestowitz[TR3] define sloppy? [21:22] psydruid slop-py [21:22] schestowitz[TR3] sloppy disk [21:25] TR News Techrights Gemini Links 27/07/2025: Hot in Japan and Terminal Escape Codes https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/27/Gemini_Links_27_07_2025_Hot_in_Japan_and_Terminal_Escape_Codes.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/07/27/Gemini_Links_27_07_2025_Hot_in_Japan_and_Terminal_Escape_Codes.gmi [21:25] TR Bot Techrights Gemini Links 27/07/2025: Hot in Japan and Terminal Escape Codes [21:27] TR News Techrights Links 27/07/2025: Political Affairs, Data Breaches, Attacks on Freedom of the Press https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/27/Links_27_07_2025_Political_Affairs_Data_Breaches_Attacks_on_Fre.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/07/27/Links_27_07_2025_Political_Affairs_Data_Breaches_Attacks_on_Fre.gmi [21:27] TR Bot Techrights Links 27/07/2025: Political Affairs, Data Breaches, Attacks on Freedom of the Press [21:32] *IsambardPrince (~isambardprince@6w3r33nqie5ty.irc) has joined #techrights [21:46] schestowitz[TR3] IsambardPrince: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/bill-10-landlord-drug-liability-1.7588576 [21:47] TR News Techrights Just Trying to Keep Web Sites Honest (Journalistic Integrity) https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/27/Just_Trying_to_Keep_Web_Sites_Honest_Journalistic_Integrity.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/07/27/Just_Trying_to_Keep_Web_Sites_Honest_Journalistic_Integrity.gmi [21:47] TR Bot Techrights Just Trying to Keep Web Sites Honest (Journalistic Integrity) ● Jul 27 [22:04] admfubar i wonder how many uk lawmakers have recently investing in vpn companies? https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/07/27/1957211/vpn-downloads-surge-in-uk-as-new-age-verification-rules-take-effect [22:04] TR Bot VPN Downloads Surge in UK as New Age-Verification Rules Take Effect - Slashdot [22:08] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3], Google Now is posting articles from something called "Cheezburger" as news. [22:08] IsambardPrince IsambardPrince: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/bill-10-landlord-drug-liability-1.7588576 [22:08] TR Bot Ontario's proposed landlord drug liability law rattles supportive housing providers | CBC News [22:09] IsambardPrince Yeah, Lobster was bragging about being a weed head iirc and the landlord not being allowed to do anything about it. [22:15] TR News Techrights LLM Slop Has Only Been a Boon for Misinformation Online https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/27/LLM_Slop_Has_Only_Been_a_Boon_for_Misinformation_Online.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/07/27/LLM_Slop_Has_Only_Been_a_Boon_for_Misinformation_Online.gmi [22:15] TR Bot Techrights LLM Slop Has Only Been a Boon for Misinformation Online [22:17] schestowitz[TR3] ontario criminal is a dangerous lunatic [22:17] schestowitz[TR3] canada is too soft [22:18] schestowitz[TR3] https://lunduke.locals.com/post/5111104/no-the-c-mascot-is-not-a-diseased-rat-named-keith [22:18] TR Bot Shared post - No. The C++ mascot is not a diseased rat named Keith. [22:18] schestowitz[TR3] who's Keith? [22:19] MinceR https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/consciousness-8 [22:19] TR Bot Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Consciousness [22:19] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3], I got a spam call the other day that just said "Hi, it's Keith." [22:20] IsambardPrince I traced most of my paternal grandmother's family back to England and France. [22:20] IsambardPrince Clear back to the 1200s in some cases. [22:20] IsambardPrince Surprisingly good records were kept on that side. [22:31] IsambardPrince https://finance.yahoo.com/news/wizard-oz-blown-ai-giant-194934594.html [22:31] TR Bot Wizard of Oz blown up by AI for giant Sphere screen [22:31] *psydroid3 has quit (Quit: KVIrc 5.2.6 Quasar http://www.kvirc.net/) [22:31] IsambardPrince I've seen The Wizard of Oz probably at least twenty times. [22:32] IsambardPrince I used to watch it at my aunt's house. Then it came on Turner Classic Movies one day around 2010 or so. [22:33] IsambardPrince Stuffing a classic movie with AI hallucinations is an outrage though. [22:33] IsambardPrince This is not film preservation. [22:33] IsambardPrince Legitimate preservation just takes what's there and cleans it up and rescans it as well as possible. [22:33] IsambardPrince Maybe does a re-edit with stuff from the cutting room floor. [22:34] IsambardPrince Like what happened with Spartacus where they put in scenes the director really wanted there, which were removed by the anti-communist witch hunters, and homophobes. [22:34] IsambardPrince So they restore it to be the movie the director would have approved of, and we know that because he shot the scenes and fought for them and the studio took them out. [22:35] IsambardPrince Then you also might have movies where adding stuff makes it so much worse that the director wants nothing to do with it. [22:36] IsambardPrince Like when the Sci Fi Channel extended Dune (1984) and managed to make it even worse, to the point that David Lynch made them take his name off of it and prevented a home video release. [22:37] IsambardPrince Stanley Kubrick was not dead when they restored Spartacus. He would still be alive for another 8 years. He was directing movies up until his death, so I imagine if he had any strong objections to Spartacus he would have said something. [22:38] IsambardPrince It's well known it was not his favorite movie. He was a young director at the time, and did not have much creative control over it. In fact, Kirk Douglas brought him in because very early on he chased out the original director. Douglas was financing the project so he was largely in control. [22:39] TR News Techrights We're Going to Focus Less on the Molotov Cocktail-Throwing Microsofters and More on Patents https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/27/We_re_Going_to_Focus_Less_on_the_Molotov_Cocktail_Throwing_Micr.1.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/07/27/We_re_Going_to_Focus_Less_on_the_Molotov_Cocktail_Throwing_Micr.1.gmi [22:39] TR News Techrights We're Going to Focus Less on the Molotov Cocktail-Throwing Microsofters and More on Patents https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/27/We_re_Going_to_Focus_Less_on_the_Molotov_Cocktail_Throwing_Micr.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/07/27/We_re_Going_to_Focus_Less_on_the_Molotov_Cocktail_Throwing_Micr.gmi [22:39] TR Bot Techrights We're Going to Focus Less on the Molotov Cocktail-Throwing Microsofters and More on Patents [22:39] TR Bot Techrights We're Going to Focus Less on the Molotov Cocktail-Throwing Microsofters and More on Patents ● Jul 27 [23:03] IsambardPrince https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/25/business/trump-jobs-immigration-economy [23:03] TR Bot How Trumps mass deportations could backfire on the American economy by shrinking paychecks | CNN Business [23:03] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3], The landlord warned his investors about the immigration crackdown affecting his profits. [23:04] IsambardPrince He admits on his website that they violate fair housing law and charge illegal aliens more money for deposits and rent, and seek them out as tenants. [23:04] IsambardPrince He wants illegal aliens because they're more profitable and if they lodge complaints he'll call ICE. [23:05] IsambardPrince It's also illegal under state law to threaten to call ICE. But you can do it anonymously. [23:05] IsambardPrince Nobody will ever prove it and even if they could, they'll be taken so they won't be there to complain to anyone. [23:08] IsambardPrince https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/27/middleeast/syria-first-election-since-assad-intl-latam [23:08] TR Bot Syria to hold parliamentary ballot in September, first elections since Assads removal | CNN [23:11] IsambardPrince Israel destroying the Syrian military hardware sort of makes me think of when the British sent the French fleet to the bottom before the Vichy government may have had a chance to use it to attack them. [23:12] TR News healthy environment is a human right https://www.dw.com/en/world-s-top-court-says-healthy-environment-is-a-human-right/a-73373617 [23:12] TR Bot climate inaction just got harder DW 07/23/2025 [23:13] TR News EU's rare earths source https://www.dw.com/en/could-a-village-in-norway-be-the-eu-s-rare-earths-source/a-73213623 [23:13] TR Bot a village in Norway be the EU's rare earths source? 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DW 07/27/2025 [23:15] TR News Humans are using more resources than the planet can restore https://www.dw.com/en/humans-are-using-more-resources-than-the-planet-can-restore/a-73320452 [23:15] TR Bot are using more resources than the planet can restore DW 07/23/2025 [23:20] *admfubar has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s)