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● Aug 27
[00:17]	IsambardPrince	MinceR: I got some baby gates at Walmart.
[00:17]	IsambardPrince	Kiki tries to slip past my leg and get out.
[00:18]	IsambardPrince	They'll be delivered on Saturday and that should stop her.
[00:18]	MinceR	can't Kiki just jump over the baby gates?
[00:18]	IsambardPrince	I had to use one when I lived in that motel because it opened up straight out into the open right next to a highway, and Leeloo and Bobbi were exit seeking.
[00:19]	IsambardPrince	MinceR: She could, but in my experience they try to brush past you, not jump over.
[00:19]	MinceR	:)
[00:19]	IsambardPrince	They stopped Leeloo and Bobbi from doing that.
[00:20]	IsambardPrince	MinceR: Capital One Shopping owed me $109. So I got a Chewy gift card.
[00:20]	MinceR	Chewbacca?
[00:20]	IsambardPrince	Then I set up autoship for Blue Buffalo Wilderness cat food and Arm & Hammer Clump and Seal litter.
[00:21]	IsambardPrince	That triggered them to send me a $30 and a $20 gift card under two promos I stacked.
[00:21]	IsambardPrince	So I managed to turn $109 into $159, plus I got a $30 autoship discount.
[00:21]	IsambardPrince	So $189.
[00:21]	IsambardPrince	Now I won't need cat food for quite a while.
[00:21]	IsambardPrince	That stuff is getting fucking expensive!
[00:22]	IsambardPrince	The good stuff costs like $40-50 a bag now and it's not even the 20-some pound bags you used to get.
[00:22]	IsambardPrince	It's like 14-18 pound.
[00:23]	IsambardPrince	MinceR: It used to be so cheap to buy cat food that if I filled their bowls up and had to vacuum some of it that spilled over I didn't really care.
[00:23]	IsambardPrince	But now I only fill the bowl about 60-70% full so there's no overflow.
[00:23]	IsambardPrince	Not just to control waste but to make sure there's not a bunch of cat food for cockroaches to run off with.
[00:23]	IsambardPrince	I want them eating my bait not Blue Buffalo Wilderness cat food.
[00:24]	MinceR	:>
[00:28]	IsambardPrince	MinceR: There's not much laundry room activity.
[00:29]	IsambardPrince	I think people are more focused on general cleaning right now. They know they won't be fined for a laundry hamper that's full.
[00:29]	IsambardPrince	So while they're panicking, I'm doing all my laundry.
[00:34]	IsambardPrince	MinceR: I'm reallocating all my roach bait stations to the bedroom, living room, and closets.
[00:35]	IsambardPrince	The exterminator told me he's going to do the kitchen and the bathroom and needs everything clear and not to use other insecticides.
[00:36]	IsambardPrince	Since I know there's roach activity in the utility closet at least, and under the bedroom dresser, I'm re-deploying my existing bait stations. After he leaves I'm going to break open those RAID dual action stations and deploy them in the kitchen and bathroom.
[00:36]	IsambardPrince	That way I know which traps need replaced on what cycle and on the surface it looks like I'm not "getting in his way".
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[01:21]	IsambardPrince	MinceR: I should tell Mark thank you.
[01:22]	IsambardPrince	He was the one that gave me the idea on how to get these heathens to clean up their pigsty.
[01:22]	IsambardPrince	I remember that when he was selling the building to Piyush he posted a letter on the main doors saying "There will be an inspection on Wednesday."
[01:23]	IsambardPrince	And everyone panicked and cleaned and there was so much trash and old furniture that Mark had the garbage company come out and clear it like 7-8 times.
[01:23]	IsambardPrince	So I went straight to management and asked them to perform pest control, knowing it would trigger a 48 hour notice to enter and everyone here would panic clean.
[01:24]	IsambardPrince	There are now 6 full dumpsters 1 day later.
[01:24]	IsambardPrince	I only had one kitchen bag full of trash to take out.
[01:24]	IsambardPrince	Everyone else did the rest of that.
[01:27]	IsambardPrince	I know how nasty an apartment can get if you don't deep clean it for years.
[01:28]	IsambardPrince	Between Mandy not doing anything and my arm being broken, our apartment didn't get much more than "the trash goes out once a week maybe" and "spray and wipe whatever you can casually get at" for years.
[01:28]	IsambardPrince	By the time Mark put those notices on the building, I was one of the people that had to put coffee on and spend two days doing nothing but cleaning..
[01:29]	MinceR	:>
[01:30]	IsambardPrince	Mandy didn't do anything to help me clean until I threatened to throw out piles of his stuff while he was at work.
[01:30]	IsambardPrince	Then he threw some things out and organized.
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[01:53]	admfubar	https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/08/psychiatrys-diagnostic-bible-is-finally-getting-a-biological-upgrade/
[01:53]	TR Bot	 Psychiatrys diagnostic bible is finally getting a biological upgrade - Ars Technica
[01:56]	admfubar	https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/27/london-neurosurgeons-ai-assisted-operation-brain-tumour
[01:56]	TR Bot	 London neurosurgeons perform first successful AI-assisted operation to remove brain tumour | AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian
● Aug 27
[02:09]	admfubar	https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/26/bill-gates-human-reserved-jobs-ai-takeover
[02:09]	TR Bot	 Bill Gates calls for human-reserved jobs in face of AI takeover | AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian
[02:12]	admfubar	:)) https://xkcd.com/3290/
[02:12]	TR Bot	Trade
[02:19]	admfubar	https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/nintendo/usd50k-worth-of-retro-nintendo-nes-games-stolen-in-devastating-home-robbery-crooks-took-850-games-spanning-40-years-from-family
[02:19]	TR Bot	 $50k worth of retro Nintendo NES games stolen in devastating home robbery crooks took 850 games spanning 40 years from family | Tom's Hardware
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[02:40]	admfubar	https://scheerpost.com/2026/08/26/the-next-dark-pattern/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-next-dark-pattern
[02:40]	TR Bot	 The Next Dark Pattern
[02:42]	admfubar	alien prometheus here we come!! ... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/08/ai-is-learning-to-write-genetic-code.html
[02:42]	TR Bot	Is Learning to Write Genetic Code - Schneier on Security
[02:42]	admfubar	https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/26/meta-just-paid-nearly-17-billion-to-make-sure-it-gets-to-write-the-kid-safety-rules-for-every-other-social-media-platform/
[02:42]	TR Bot	Just Paid Nearly $17 Billion To Make Sure It Gets To Write The Kid Safety Rules For Every Other Social Media Platform | Techdirt
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[02:50]	admfubar	https://www.rawstory.com/elon-musk-x-2677782785/
[02:50]	TR Bot	 Trump-appointed judge unravels Elon Musk's bid to keep X's secrets hidden - Raw Story
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● Aug 27
[04:01]	TR News	mayo coleslaw gemini://gemini.mingmengtou.org/2026-08-26-mayo-coleslaw.gmi
[04:02]	TR News	Lagrange v1.21: Inline Prompts, Gopher-over-TLS, UI Improvements gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2026/08/lagrange-1.21.gmi
[04:02]	TR News	the ledger gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/the_ledger
[04:03]	TR News	"As soon as I got home, I realised I was l going to have to find my ID card for work tomorrow. I didn't take it with me this morning since I couldn't find it. I subsequently had the ever loving crap kicked out of me by the receptionist when I clocked in." gemini://buster.smol.pub/conditioning
[04:04]	TR News	Tank break gemini://thrig.me/blog/2026/08/26/tankbreak.gmi
[04:08]	TR News	Techrights https://techrights.org/ | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/ 
[04:08]	TR Bot	 Techrights
[04:08]	TR News	Techrights Gemini Links 27/08/2026: Conditioning, Lagrange 1.21, and Computer Games https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/27/Gemini_Links_27_08_2026_Conditioning_Lagrange_1_21_and_Computer.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/27/Gemini_Links_27_08_2026_Conditioning_Lagrange_1_21_and_Computer.gmi 
[04:08]	TR Bot	 Techrights Gemini Links 27/08/2026: Conditioning, Lagrange 1.21, and Computer Games
[04:08]	TR News	loliboi sides with microsofters https://odysee.com/@BrodieRobertson:5/linus-torvalds-won't-stop-fighting:e
[04:08]	TR Bot	 Linus Torvalds Won't Stop Fighting People In Linux
[04:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	<psydroid2> apparently I'm shadowbanned on several IRC servers for whatever reason
[04:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	wgar dies shadowban mean in irc porotocol?
[04:10]	schestowitz[TR2]	you say things and they are not visible to anyone?
[04:10]	schestowitz[TR2]	(what does
[04:11]	TR News	Techrights IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, August 26, 2026 https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/27/IRC_Proceedings_Wednesday_August_26_2026.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/27/IRC_Proceedings_Wednesday_August_26_2026.gmi 
[04:11]	TR Bot	 Techrights IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, August 26, 2026
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[04:12]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Today in Techrights
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[04:13]	TR Bot	 Techrights Over at Tux Machines...
[04:17]	TR News	"The first proposal, sent in late July by Matthias Geiger, would expressly forbid any contributions to Debian that are created by or with the assistance of LLMs" https://lwn.net/Articles/1087134/
[04:17]	TR Bot	weighs eight options in vote on LLM usage [LWN.net]
[04:17]	TR News	Representing Python paths using pathlib https://lwn.net/Articles/1088781/
[04:17]	TR Bot	Python paths using pathlib [LWN.net]
[04:19]	TR News	"He began by asking attendees whether they had heard of bootstrappable builds and whether they were generally familiar with the idea; he seemed impressed that the majority knew the term and that roughly half of the audience knew more than that" https://lwn.net/Articles/1088279/
[04:19]	TR Bot	builds: how and why [LWN.net]
[04:19]	TR News	"The Linux kernel's user-space interface (AF_ALG) to the Crypto API has been linked to a number of recent high-profile security problems, including Copy Fail and successor vulnerabilities. It was deprecated earlier this year." https://lwn.net/Articles/1088489/
[04:19]	TR Bot	prepares for the end of AF_ALG [LWN.net]
[04:20]	TR News	"The information of most interest in a PTE is a physical address the address of the actual memory for bottom-level entries, or the address of the next table for higher levels." https://lwn.net/Articles/1088125/
[04:20]	TR Bot	page tables for Arm [LWN.net]
[04:21]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2]: Gamestop on Facebook said the XBOX Series X25 will debut later this year at $899.
[04:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	said
[04:21]	IsambardPrince	In an economy where Whirlpool said people have no money and can't replace their refrigerator.
[04:21]	IsambardPrince	Yeah, this will end well.
[04:21]	TR News	Development statistics for the 7.2 kernel https://lwn.net/Articles/1088776/
[04:21]	TR Bot	statistics for the 7.2 kernel [LWN.net]
[04:21]	IsambardPrince	I know how you get money and replace a refrigerator.
[04:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	bill says says
[04:21]	IsambardPrince	Quit buyiing an iphone every two years.
[04:21]	IsambardPrince	Eat at home.
[04:21]	MinceR	put it on klarna? :>
[04:21]	IsambardPrince	Eat your leftovers.
[04:22]	IsambardPrince	Make coffee in the auto drip machine, don't go to starbucks.
[04:22]	schestowitz[TR2]	<techrights-news> BS headline today: "New Xbox ROG Console Costs Over $1,000, RIP Your Wallet". No!! There is no future console, no "new XBox". This is VAPOURWARE.
[04:22]	IsambardPrince	People have bad priorities.
[04:22]	IsambardPrince	They put wants before needs.
[04:23]	IsambardPrince	It's not even like Malcolm in the Middle where they had good jobs and they just kept having more kids as their finances got worse until they couldn't replace a fridge and Hal was driving an overheating van wth a bad transmission.
[04:23]	IsambardPrince	People are just sort of broke now because they don't separate wants and needs.
[04:23]	TR News	 (NEW):  Latest in LWN: Kernel, Debian, Fedora, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Latest_in_LWN_Kernel_Debian_Fedora_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Latest_in_LWN_Kernel_Debian_Fedora_and_More.gmi 
[04:23]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Latest in LWN: Kernel, Debian, Fedora, and More
[04:24]	IsambardPrince	I got rid of the "overheating van with a bad transmission" only mine was the Buick.
[04:24]	IsambardPrince	The mass transit actually runs here.
[04:24]	schestowitz[TR2]	"i ont some meat!"
[04:24]	IsambardPrince	And the landlord is dealing with the cockroach issue tomorrow.
[04:24]	IsambardPrince	The hammer is coming down on the people living like pigs.
[04:24]	IsambardPrince	They have been filling up dumpsters all day.
[04:25]	IsambardPrince	That tells you how bad these people are. They filled up 6 dumpsters in a block with 6 apartments, and one of them was mine where the only thing I took out was a single 13 gallon trash bag.
[04:25]	MinceR	"a chainsaw! find some meat!"
[04:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	doom?
[04:25]	IsambardPrince	A chainsaw! I ont some meat!
[04:25]	IsambardPrince	Doom meets Gonad
[04:25]	IsambardPrince	Gonad the Space Marine
[04:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	gonad meets madame harmone
[04:26]	schestowitz[TR2]	"soon,. gonad"
[04:26]	schestowitz[TR2]	"she will drop dead"
[04:26]	schestowitz[TR2]	"you can ont-ont-ont"
[04:26]	IsambardPrince	That would be the best hell for both of them.
[04:26]	IsambardPrince	Just trap them both in a room together.
[04:26]	IsambardPrince	They hated each other, and neither one was even wrong about why.
[04:27]	schestowitz[TR2]	back on topic
[04:27]	schestowitz[TR2]	can you give me url re gamespot?
[04:27]	schestowitz[TR2]	they obv. help the vapourware
[04:28]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.thesixthaxis.com/2026/08/26/microsoft-announces-xbox-disc-to-digital-feature/
[04:28]	TR Bot	announces Xbox Disc to Digital feature | TheSixthAxis
[04:28]	schestowitz[TR2]	no new xbox
[04:28]	schestowitz[TR2]	just more bs
[04:28]	IsambardPrince	I can screenshot the Facebook post.
[04:28]	MinceR	27 052537 < schestowitz[TR2]> doom?
[04:28]	IsambardPrince	But they did not include a link.
[04:28]	MinceR	yes
[04:28]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2026-08-26/microsoft-to-allow-customers-to-claim-digital-entitlements-through-physical-xbox-one-xbox-series-x-/.241013
[04:28]	TR Bot	 Microsoft to Allow Customers to Claim Digital Entitlements Through Physical Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S Discs - News - Anime News Network
[04:28]	schestowitz[TR2]	might be slopfarm
[04:28]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://metro.co.uk/2026/08/26/xbox-responds-sony-physical-media-debacle-new-disc-to-digital-feature-29469995/amp/
[04:28]	TR Bot	 Xbox responds to Sony physical media debacle with new disc-to-digital feature | Metro News
[04:29]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.readers.id/en/microsoft-xbox-disc-to-digital-launch
[04:29]	TR Bot	 Microsoft Launches Xbox Disc to Digital Feature for Games Preservation
[04:29]	schestowitz[TR2]	discs are better
[04:29]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.breitbart.com/news/florida-jury-deliberates-in-the-alleged-murder-for-hire-killing-of-a-microsoft-manager/
[04:29]	TR Bot	jury deliberates in the alleged murder-for-hire killing of a Microsoft manager - Breitbart
[04:31]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2]: https://imgtree.co/direct/Xu5lbuRM.png
[04:33]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2]: Anyway, I went screaming to the landlord this time because my rent here is truly ridiculous.
[04:33]	IsambardPrince	Mark was at least cheaper.
[04:33]	IsambardPrince	So I was willing to put up with having to take care of the mess from his other tenants and his shitty roach control.
[04:33]	MinceR	the ROG thing is different from this, it's a SteamDeck-like handheld that runs xbox games
[04:34]	IsambardPrince	They never became an issue there on the scale of Piyush's building, but they were constantly reminding me they were there.
[04:34]	MinceR	they also have a version that runs ordinary windows instead, iirc
[04:41]	IsambardPrince	Yeah, I remember the original xbox OS.
[04:41]	IsambardPrince	They were running a strippeed down version of Windows 2000, basically.
[04:46]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2]: Microsoft said original xbox compatibility was a reason to buy the xbox 360.
[04:46]	IsambardPrince	Each month they added a bunch of games that the emulator could run.
[04:46]	IsambardPrince	Then they totally gave up and removed it.
[04:46]	TR News	Techrights There's No "Next XBox" https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/27/There_s_No_Next_XBox.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/27/There_s_No_Next_XBox.gmi 
[04:46]	TR Bot	 Techrights There's No "Next XBox"
[04:47]	IsambardPrince	You could only use the emulator if you already had a version of it, didn't connect to XBOX Live ever again, and it would only play the games it played when they stopped updating it.
[04:47]	IsambardPrince	They said the thing that made emulation so difficult was not that they couldn't emulate the CPU or the OS or anything like that.
[04:47]	IsambardPrince	It's that the original XBOX games had a DRM scheme that relied on the exact timing of the hardware.
[04:48]	IsambardPrince	And so eventually they just hit a wall and were not able to easily improve the emulator much, but it had served its purpose by then.
[04:48]	IsambardPrince	Everyone figured they would just buy this and keep their old games.
[04:48]	IsambardPrince	And so they brought in a XBOX 360 expecting that, just to have partial support then a forced removal of the stuff that did work.
[04:59]	MinceR	lol
● Aug 27
[05:00]	IsambardPrince	Microsoft gaslights their customers.
[05:00]	IsambardPrince	"It's going to have all this stuff.
[05:00]	MinceR	most of them seem to be enjoying it
[05:00]	IsambardPrince	"This is too hard, so it will be removed."
[05:00]	IsambardPrince	"We never guaranteed that."
[05:00]	IsambardPrince	Sony did it too.
[05:00]	IsambardPrince	Other OS/Linux
[05:01]	MinceR	devil apes apparently tend to be masochists
[05:04]	IsambardPrince	https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/illinois-meta-settlement-social-media-lawsuit/
[05:04]	TR Bot	 Illinois will get nearly $768 million from Meta settlement in social media addiction lawsuit - CBS Chicago
[05:04]	IsambardPrince	Use it to pay down debt.
[05:04]	IsambardPrince	I know I know, the Democrats are spending it in their head 10 times before the check clears.
[05:04]	IsambardPrince	Like they usually do with windfalls.
[05:09]	IsambardPrince	https://www.mystateline.com/news/federal-judge-blocks-parts-of-illinois-medical-aid-in-dying-law-amid-legal-challenges/
[05:09]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.mystateline.com/news/federal-judge-blocks-parts-of-illinois-medical-aid-in-dying-law-amid-legal-challenges/ )
[05:10]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2]: The Medical Aid in Dying law has been temporarily blocked by a federal judge.
[05:11]	IsambardPrince	https://www.ewtnnews.com/world/us/disability-advocates-file-federal-suits-over-imminent-risk-of-new-york-illinois-suicide-laws
[05:11]	TR Bot	 Disability advocates file multiple federal suits over imminent risk of assisted suicide laws
[05:11]	IsambardPrince	Which advocates are these and why are they qualified to file a lawsuit on my behalf against my beliefs?
[05:12]	IsambardPrince	I don't recall naming the Catholic Church as my legal representation for any issue.
[05:15]	TR News	Techrights SLAPP Censorship - Part 163 Out of 200: Attack on Computer Science and on Computer Security (or Associating Back Doors and Kill Switches With "Security") https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/27/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_163_Out_of_200_Attack_on_Computer_Science.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/27/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_163_Out_of_200_Attack_on_Computer_Science.gmi 
[05:15]	TR Bot	 Techrights SLAPP Censorship - Part 163 Out of 200: Attack on Computer Science and on Computer Security (or Associating Back Doors and Kill Switches With "Security")
[05:19]	IsambardPrince	MinceR: Kiki seems to enjoy water, a lot.
[05:20]	IsambardPrince	She always dips her paw in it before drinking.
[05:20]	IsambardPrince	I was joking the other day "She has to do a test to make sure that's actually water first."
[05:20]	schestowitz[TR2]	"FAKE WATER"
[05:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	"sham,e on u, human!1"
[05:22]	TR News	"Anyone at confluent here? Anyone on the GTM team at confluent? Are there layoffs?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m109tbv8 https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/13/IBM_s_Bluewashing_of_Confluent_Carries_on_More_Layoffs_Coming_S.shtml
[05:22]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m109tbv8 )
[05:22]	TR Bot	 Techrights IBM's Bluewashing of Confluent Carries on, More Layoffs Coming, Same Likely Applicable to Red Hat
[05:23]	TR News	"As others here I'm on PIP - I'm unsure what to expect after meeting my PIP goals. Hope, everything will be ok. I really need this work to feed my family." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0zvr6k3
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[05:23]	TR News	"IBM is in Big Trouble - Is it just a coincidence that literally 4 weeks after the giant IBM stock implosion caused by AK and his incompetent management that this board is filled with posts of people and entire teams getting put on PIPs, terminated etc ?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0z9bhqx
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[05:23]	TR News	"I see many people posting here is on PIP. I'll do the same. I'M ON PIP!!!" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0z426cq
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[05:24]	TR News	"Finally, I got my PIP today - Finally, I got my first PIP today. Even that I was doing lot of work and in my opinion I was top performer finally my manager decided that I deserved a PIP... Crazy company... I guess, all the posts saying RAs in September are gonna be true..." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0wkvn9n
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[05:24]	TR News	"Manager asks me politely to resign... - My manager is asking me politely to resign... Should I report it? Is there any law I can use against them?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0sdvy2w
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[05:26]	TR News	Albania: 5% + is GNU/Linux https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=28d&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP&loc=AL
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[05:27]	TR News	9.2% internationally https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide/#monthly-200902-202608
[05:27]	TR Bot	 Desktop Operating System Market Share Worldwide | Statcounter Global Stats
[05:31]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2]: 
[05:32]	IsambardPrince	One of the arguments I got into with Joy, the landlord in Roger's Park, was that she kept setting the water heater to an illegally cold level, and I kept turning it back up.
[05:32]	IsambardPrince	I eventually broke the lock off the door and turned it back up again. She put a new lock on it, I cut it off again, knocked the door off the hinges, threw the hinges in a dumpster down the street, and turned it back up.
[05:32]	IsambardPrince	Not only are cold showers annoying, but water heaters that operate below 140 F can grow the bacteria that causes Legionnaire's Disease.
[05:35]	schestowitz[TR2]	Re: ANNOUNCEMENT LibreOffice 26.8
[05:35]	schestowitz[TR2]	Thank you, added to http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/26/LibreOffice_26_8_Open_Source_Office_Suite_Officially_Released_T.shtml
[05:35]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines LibreOffice 26.8 Open-Source Office Suite Officially Released, This Is Whats New
[05:35]	schestowitz[TR2]	nice to see libreoffice contacting us directly
[05:39]	schestowitz[TR2]	IsambardPrince: at least you had
[05:39]	schestowitz[TR2]	1) water
[05:39]	schestowitz[TR2]	2) hot water
[05:40]	schestowitz[TR2]	puppy breaker had neither
[05:40]	schestowitz[TR2]	they would not shower
[05:40]	schestowitz[TR2]	no wonder the dogs died
[05:40]	bms	The BBC are misreporting on "Hey Hi" again. ML assisted surgery != "Surgical ChatGPT" and frankly confabulation like that in what is meant to be serious journalism is just unacceptable. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjwg5n7y68xo
[05:40]	TR Bot	 First patient to have brain surgery with real-time AI assistance - BBC News
[05:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	MACAI existed 20+ years ago
[05:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	computers in surgeries are nothing new
[05:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	now they say "HEY HI"
[05:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	to make it seem like "revolution"
[05:41]	bms	Oh wait, the NHS effort involved was co-funded by Google, and the current BBC Director-General is the former head of Google Europe. Not saying correlation implies causation at all. Not at all. la da da dee dee.... Officer Barbrady from South Park again
[05:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-assisted_interventions
[05:41]	TR Bot	 Computer-assisted interventions - Wikipedia
[05:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_MICCAI_Society
[05:41]	TR Bot	 The MICCAI Society - Wikipedia
[05:41]	bms	I have withdrawn support of the BBC itself some time ago as all the tells of its co-option have been there since the late 2000s, like, I file a No License Required
[05:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	"The MICCAI Society is a professional organization for scientists in the areas of Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions. Due to the multidisciplinary nature of these fields, the society brings together researchers from several scientific disciplines.[1] including computer science, robotics, physics, and medicine. The society is best known for its annual flagship event, The MICCAI Conference, which facilitates
[05:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	 the publication and presentation of original research on MICCAI-related topics.[2] However, the society provides endorsements and sponsorships for several scientific events each year.[3]
[05:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[05:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	FoundedJuly 29, 2004; 22 years ago
[05:42]	bms	I keep an RTL SDR dongle around in case I ever need to watch broadcast TV temporarily albeit illegally, but I don't leave it plugged in
[05:42]	bms	and since I wiped Ubuntu with Rocky I have no idea if Kaffeine is even available to use it
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[05:43]	schestowitz[TR2]	iirc, I submitted a paper there
[05:43]	bms	schestowitz[TR2]: I'd really like to see some dirt on why a Googler is in charge of the BBC
[05:43]	schestowitz[TR2]	in 2004
[05:43]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://schestowitz.com/Research/resindex.htm
[05:43]	TR Bot	 Research Index
[05:43]	schestowitz[TR2]	I did https://schestowitz.com/Research/Papers/MICCAI_2004/anon.pdf
[05:44]	bms	schestowitz[TR2]: I've never been into computer vision but one of my lecturers (we loathed each other) on my bachelors earned his PhD looking at boobs, basically
[05:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	html version https://schestowitz.com/Research/Papers/MICCAI_2004/HTML/
[05:44]	TR Bot	 Unification of Appearance Models and Non-rigid Registration
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[05:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://schestowitz.com/Research/Papers/MICCAI_2004/submission.pdf
[05:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	billBC is crap
[05:45]	schestowitz[TR2]	we often remind people
[05:45]	schestowitz[TR2]	but
[05:45]	schestowitz[TR2]	not many other publishers exist anymore
[05:45]	schestowitz[TR2]	afaik, bbc is not LLM slop
[05:45]	schestowitz[TR2]	it advocates it
[05:45]	schestowitz[TR2]	but does not use it
[05:45]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://techrights.org/wiki/BBC/
[05:45]	TR Bot	 BBC
[05:45]	bms	That would seem to be the case
[05:45]	schestowitz[TR2]	newer: https://techrights.org/n/2026/03/10/BBC_Lied_for_Its_Longtime_Sponsor_Bribes_for_15_Years_Bill_Epst.shtml
[05:45]	TR Bot	 Techrights BBC Lied for Its Longtime Sponsor (Bribes for 15+ Years) Bill Epsteingate, in Effect Covering Up Sex Trafficking of Underage Girls
[05:45]	schestowitz[TR2]	so BBC is still pro-pedos
[05:46]	bms	and it's pretty flimsy, and it's obvious they either know nothing to little, or are shilling deliberately (stupid vs malicious, the eternal question posited within Hanlon's Razor)
[05:46]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/31/BBC_Gaslights_Women_Sexually_Exploited_Many_Under_Legal_Age_for.shtml
[05:46]	TR Bot	 Techrights BBC Gaslights Women Sexually Exploited (Many Under Legal Age) for Its Rich Sponsor, Bill Epsteingate (Gates)
[05:46]	schestowitz[TR2]	bms: you are right on that
[05:46]	schestowitz[TR2]	btw, iirc you are based in scotland
[05:46]	schestowitz[TR2]	there is bbs scotland
[05:46]	schestowitz[TR2]	not sure if funded the same way
[05:46]	schestowitz[TR2]	or like nhs scotland
[05:47]	schestowitz[TR2]	it's a waste of money
[05:47]	schestowitz[TR2]	as the publisher is compomised
[05:47]	schestowitz[TR2]	and it's run by GAFAM people
[05:47]	schestowitz[TR2]	an obv coinflict of interest
[05:47]	schestowitz[TR2]	and worse
[05:47]	schestowitz[TR2]	from another continent
[05:47]	schestowitz[TR2]	so you have a national broadcaster beholden to FOREIGN CORPORATIONS
[05:47]	bms	BBC Scotland gets a slice of the BBC's overall license fee funding
[05:47]	bms	there have been significant problems with BBC Scotland reporting
[05:48]	bms	like not reportign things like protests directly outside their offices against them
[05:48]	bms	or dunking on the SNP
[05:48]	schestowitz[TR2]	yes
[05:48]	schestowitz[TR2]	i was about to mention snp
[05:48]	schestowitz[TR2]	and all the indyref
[05:48]	bms	I've never really been pro SNP apart from when I was an undergraduate, pre-devolution
[05:48]	schestowitz[TR2]	bbc = london
[05:48]	schestowitz[TR2]	bbc scotland = london offshot
[05:48]	bms	but I might support the SNP again for Scotland to continue to push back on GAFAM
[05:48]	schestowitz[TR2]	london = buckingham, mi5/cia, gafam etc.
[05:49]	bms	I signed the datacentre morotorium petition at gov.scot this week
[05:49]	bms	BBC Scotland ran a separate channel on Freeview, they might still do
[05:49]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://schestowitz.com/royrianne/gallery/index.php/Edinburgh/Holyrood-Palace-and-Park
[05:49]	TR Bot	 Holyrood Palace and Park
[05:50]	bms	NHS Scotland is afaik Palantir free
[05:50]	bms	gov.scot pushed back on Palantir pretty hard being SNP
[05:51]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://techrights.org/n/2023/11/23/Privatisation_Catastrophe_Starting_with_NHS_England_Microsoft_a.shtml
[05:51]	TR Bot	 Techrights Privatisation Catastrophe, Starting with NHS England: Microsoft and Partners Attack British People's Health and Steal Their Medical Records (While British Taxpayers Unwillingly Pay for This)
[05:51]	schestowitz[TR2]	palantir is microsoft ally
[05:53]	TR News	"I'll take angry and rude Linus over what a vast majority of the Linux developer community has turned into today." https://odysee.com/@BrodieRobertson:5/linus-torvalds-won't-stop-fighting:e
[05:53]	TR Bot	 Linus Torvalds Won't Stop Fighting People In Linux
[05:54]	TR News	Because people realised the mods are IBM shills censoring IBM dissent? https://old.reddit.com/r/IBM_Employees/comments/1vz9ooy/ribm_are_looking_for_new_moderators/
[05:54]	TR Bot	 Welcome to Reddit
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[06:05]	bms	I've been taking dihydrocodeine partly for tooth ache and partly for fun (I had some left over from 18 months ago when I had an infected ring finger)
[06:10]	bms	we could also do without Farage shooting his mouth off about ditching the GDPR
[06:10]	bms	he claims it would help small business streamline compliance. I call bollocks on that. If anything the GDPR helps to protect the interests of smaller companies vs big tech
[06:11]	bms	but given it was Farage who said it, of course there was a very high probability of it being bollocks
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[06:13]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2]: The news says the power is back on in Gary, Indiana after 14 days.
[06:13]	IsambardPrince	I said the only reason it was off for 2 weeks is that Gary is poor, predominantly black, and the Republicans have gerrymandered them so that nobody can punish them for this.
[06:14]	IsambardPrince	And that the National Guard should have been on the streets keeping people safe, passing out emergency rations, and assisting the power company.
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[06:55]	schestowitz[TR2]	IsambardPrince: home of the jacksons
[06:55]	schestowitz[TR2]	somehow the chatbots did not have a 12-day downtime
[06:55]	schestowitz[TR2]	makes you wonder
[06:55]	schestowitz[TR2]	priorities.
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[07:02]	TR News	iophk: The Meta/Facebook case played out as expected: they settled to avoid a decision and the settlement specifically avoids admission of wrongdoing.
[07:12]	TR News	Patent Troll InterDigital Proves UPC is a Sham, Needs to be Scuttled ASAP https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/27/patent-troll-interdigital-proves-upc-is-a-sham-needs-to-be-scuttled-asap/
[07:12]	TR Bot	Blog Archive Patent Troll InterDigital Proves UPC is a Sham, Needs to be Scuttled ASAP
[07:13]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2]: I got a message from someone on Reddit.
[07:13]	IsambardPrince	I spotted a mole that turned out to be malignant.
[07:18]	TR News	Techrights Increasing Focus on Patent Injustices https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/27/Increasing_Focus_on_Patent_Injustices.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/27/Increasing_Focus_on_Patent_Injustices.gmi 
[07:18]	TR Bot	 Techrights Increasing Focus on Patent Injustices
[07:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	which sub/s?
[07:33]	TR News	Wedding Anniversary in 3 Weeks https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/27/wedding-anniversary-in-3-weeks/
[07:33]	TR Bot	Blog Archive Wedding Anniversary in 3 Weeks
[07:38]	liberty_box	https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/uk-government-urges-households-prepare-emergencies-1816361
[07:38]	TR Bot	 UK Households Told to Stock Tinned Food and Water as Government Prepares for Attacks and Extreme Weather | IBTimes UK
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[07:44]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines The Next Level
[07:47]	TR News	 (NEW):  Debian Deciding Whether to Ban Slop Plagiarism in Debian Development https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/18/Debian_Deciding_Whether_to_Ban_Slop_Plagiarism_in_Debian_Develo.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/18/Debian_Deciding_Whether_to_Ban_Slop_Plagiarism_in_Debian_Develo.gmi 
[07:47]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Debian Deciding Whether to Ban Slop Plagiarism in Debian Development
[07:50]	IsambardPrince	I don't think that they should be accepting code written by an LLM.
[07:50]	TR News	Techrights GNU/Linux Does Not Need Social Control Media to Succeed https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/27/GNU_Linux_Does_Not_Need_Social_Control_Media_to_Succeed.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/27/GNU_Linux_Does_Not_Need_Social_Control_Media_to_Succeed.gmi 
[07:50]	TR Bot	 Techrights GNU/Linux Does Not Need Social Control Media to Succeed
[07:50]	IsambardPrince	Security vulnerabilities found by an LLM, sure, as long as they're real.
[07:50]	IsambardPrince	If the reporter submits a lot of crap, ban them.
[07:51]	IsambardPrince	An LLM can take a wider look at the code and how each module could theoretically interact than any person could, so that's a useful tool there.
[07:51]	IsambardPrince	If it's finding things that have been in Mozilla since 1998, that no person ever noticed, then I think that's probably valuable.
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[07:52]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines OpenOffice in 2026 - A relic from a better time
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[07:52]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines They Do the Same as Tux Machines
[07:54]	TR News	 (NEW):  Dolphin 26.08 and KIO, part two: what got faster and smaller https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Dolphin_26_08_and_KIO_part_two_what_got_faster_and_smaller.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Dolphin_26_08_and_KIO_part_two_what_got_faster_and_smaller.gmi 
[07:54]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Dolphin 26.08 and KIO, part two: what got faster and smaller
[07:55]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-linux-libre/2026-08/msg00028.html
[07:55]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[07:55]	schestowitz[TR2]	Why do you write "open source" in upper case and "free software" in
[07:55]	schestowitz[TR2]	lower case?  That usage accords more importance and respect to open
[07:55]	schestowitz[TR2]	source.
[07:55]	schestowitz[TR2]	I myself generally write both in lower case, but occasionally
[07:55]	schestowitz[TR2]	I refer to both of them capitalized.
[07:55]	schestowitz[TR2]	See https://gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html
[07:55]	schestowitz[TR2]	for a comparison between the free software movement and the
[07:55]	schestowitz[TR2]	open source advocates (which is not a movement in the same sense).
[07:55]	schestowitz[TR2]	See also https://gnu.org/philosophy/floss-and-foss.html which
[07:55]	schestowitz[TR2]	explains the subtle difference between "FLOSS" and "FOSS"."
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[07:56]	TR News	RMS asks for input: [GNU-linux-libre] is systemD an injustice? https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-linux-libre/2026-08/msg00016.html
[07:56]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[07:56]	schestowitz[TR2]	As far as I know, systemD and Wayland are free software, and therefore
[07:56]	schestowitz[TR2]	legitimate to include in a free GNU/Linux system.
[07:56]	schestowitz[TR2]	Ever since systemD was introduced, I've encountered people who
[07:56]	schestowitz[TR2]	abominated it.  Some called it kludgy, some called it inconvenient to
[07:56]	schestowitz[TR2]	modify.  Those criticisms may be true, and they would be drawbacks,
[07:56]	schestowitz[TR2]	but they are not vicious.  They are not _injustices_.
[07:56]	schestowitz[TR2]	Can anyone point me at a clear, concrete and calm explanation of an
[07:56]	schestowitz[TR2]	alleged injustice in systemD?  I am open to being convinced if I see
[07:56]	schestowitz[TR2]	valid evidence.
[07:56]	schestowitz[TR2]	I have never before seen a claim that Wayland is an injustice, and I'm
[07:56]	schestowitz[TR2]	surprised by the idea.  That doesn't mean it can't be true.  I am open
[07:56]	schestowitz[TR2]	to being convinced if I see a valid reason.
[07:56]	schestowitz[TR2]	Can anyone point me at a clear, concrete and calm explanation of an
[07:56]	schestowitz[TR2]	alleged injustice in Wayland?
[07:56]	schestowitz[TR2]	If the argument is complex and goes through multiple steps,
[07:56]	schestowitz[TR2]	that doesn't necessary imply it is invalid.  But that does imply
[07:56]	schestowitz[TR2]	it needs an especially clear and patient explanation.
[07:56]	schestowitz[TR2]	Please DO NOT respond by writing brief, emotional arguments.
[07:56]	schestowitz[TR2]	We don't want to be convinced so quickly -- we should think
[07:56]	schestowitz[TR2]	carefully before condemning anyone."
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[07:57]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines CarotOS Linux distribution for learning cybersecurity
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[08:02]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-linux-libre/2026-08/msg00018.html
[08:02]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[08:02]	schestowitz[TR2]	The term "FOSS" mixes the free software philosophy, which focuses on
[08:02]	schestowitz[TR2]	freedom, with the open source philosophy which never valued freedom,
[08:02]	schestowitz[TR2]	and it gives preference to the latter.  See
[08:02]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://gnu.org/philosophy/floss-and-foss.html.
[08:02]	schestowitz[TR2]	The widespread use of the term "FOSS" is both a reflection and a cause
[08:02]	schestowitz[TR2]	of that tendency.
[08:02]	schestowitz[TR2]	Since you disagree with that tendency, how about joining me in not
[08:02]	schestowitz[TR2]	using that term?  By making a careful distinction you can communicate
[08:02]	schestowitz[TR2]	that you value freedom."
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[08:03]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-linux-libre/2026-08/msg00017.html
[08:03]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[08:03]	schestowitz[TR2]	That is a very vague statement.  I can't begin to figure out a concrete
[08:03]	schestowitz[TR2]	meaning; nobody could draw from it any idea for constructive improvement.
[08:03]	schestowitz[TR2]	For one thing, where precisely is "in the wild"?  Whose documentation
[08:03]	schestowitz[TR2]	needs fixing?
[08:03]	schestowitz[TR2]	  > Guix would be great, if its architecture weren't so strange.  In theory 
[08:03]	schestowitz[TR2]	  > I like the design of Guix, but in practice, it's harder to use, because 
[08:03]	schestowitz[TR2]	  > it diverges from standard workflows on GNU/Linux, and something as 
[08:03]	schestowitz[TR2]	  > simple as changing a user can result in waiting fifteen minutes for a 
[08:03]	schestowitz[TR2]	  > system reconfigure.
[08:03]	schestowitz[TR2]	That sounds pretty bad, but it is still vague.  I can see multiple
[08:03]	schestowitz[TR2]	meanings for "changing a user".  I have never used Guix -- what does a
[08:03]	schestowitz[TR2]	"system reconfigure" mean, concretely, and what concretely triggers it?
[08:03]	schestowitz[TR2]	Should this discussion be moved to a Guix list, where Guix developers
[08:03]	schestowitz[TR2]	could receive useful feedback?  I don't know whether they will see
[08:03]	schestowitz[TR2]	anything posted here.
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[08:07]	IsambardPrince	systemd and wayland are mostly "malicious" in that they have a monolithic design that's "take everything or leave it", and a hostile upstream full of rude and arrogant people who are not interested in fixing problems except under certain limited cases.
[08:08]	IsambardPrince	There's at least one instance of Lennart Poettering winning a software award that is a lot like the Golden Raspberries for refusing to fix a critical CVE in systemd.
[08:11]	TR News	Techrights Richard Stallman Complains That Linux Gives a Bad Name to GNU and Asks for Feedback on What's Wrong with Systemd (and Wayland) https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/27/Richard_Stallman_Complains_That_Linux_Gives_a_Bad_Name_to_GNU_a.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/27/Richard_Stallman_Complains_That_Linux_Gives_a_Bad_Name_to_GNU_a.gmi 
[08:11]	TR Bot	 Techrights Richard Stallman Complains That Linux Gives a Bad Name to GNU and Asks for Feedback on What's Wrong with Systemd (and Wayland)
[08:16]	TR News	 (NEW):  What Gandhi and Open Source Have in Common https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/What_Gandhi_and_Open_Source_Have_in_Common.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/What_Gandhi_and_Open_Source_Have_in_Common.gmi 
[08:16]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines What Gandhi and Open Source Have in Common
[08:17]	TR News	 (NEW):  7 discontinued Linux projects I still miss today https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/7_discontinued_Linux_projects_I_still_miss_today.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/7_discontinued_Linux_projects_I_still_miss_today.gmi 
[08:17]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines 7 discontinued Linux projects I still miss today
[08:19]	TR News	Azerbaijan 5% GNU/Linux https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=28d&loc=AZ&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP
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[08:21]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Linux was supposed to be temporary, but these things made me forget about Windows entirely
[08:21]	TR News	Techrights Clownflare Sees GNU/Linux and ChromeOS at Over 13% in Bahamas https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/27/Clownflare_Sees_GNU_Linux_and_ChromeOS_at_Over_13_in_Bahamas.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/27/Clownflare_Sees_GNU_Linux_and_ChromeOS_at_Over_13_in_Bahamas.gmi 
[08:21]	TR Bot	 Techrights Clownflare Sees GNU/Linux and ChromeOS at Over 13% in Bahamas
[08:24]	TR News	 (NEW):  I ran the one command in Linux you should never run. Here's what happened https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/I_ran_the_one_command_in_Linux_you_should_never_run_Here_s_what.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/I_ran_the_one_command_in_Linux_you_should_never_run_Here_s_what.gmi 
[08:24]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines I ran the one command in Linux you should never run. Here's what happened
[08:27]	TR News	 (NEW):  5 reasons you might want to compile your Linux kernel from source https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/5_reasons_you_might_want_to_compile_your_Linux_kernel_from_sour.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/5_reasons_you_might_want_to_compile_your_Linux_kernel_from_sour.gmi 
[08:27]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines 5 reasons you might want to compile your Linux kernel from source
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[08:31]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Five more organizer tales: LibreLocal 2026, part three
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[08:44]	TR News	RMS Asks About Problems With systemd https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/27/rms-asks-about-problems-with-systemd/
[08:44]	TR Bot	Blog Archive RMS Asks About Problems With systemd
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[08:54]	bms	just when you thought you were safe from Hey Hi at your retail bank. I was with Nationwide ~2008 but not at the moment. https://www.itpro.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/using-generative-ai-as-a-copilot-is-the-sweet-spot-a-look-at-nationwides-ai-approach
[08:54]	TR Bot	 Using generative AI as a copilot is the sweet spot: A look at Nationwides AI approach | IT Pro
[08:54]	bms	It's puff and it just reads like wishful thinking. No ROI claims there either!  Just something about response times, and I wouldn't trust it for that alone.  I think the damage is mitigated somewhat, as unlike HSBC, they aren't using it in customer workflows apart from those stupid letters they mention; and perhaps "it will all be over by Christmas", although Zitron now predicts
[08:54]	bms	2027.
[08:55]	schestowitz[TR2]	this article is spam
[08:55]	schestowitz[TR2]	it says copilot
[08:55]	schestowitz[TR2]	so it's msft dspam
[08:55]	schestowitz[TR2]	in "case study" form
[08:55]	schestowitz[TR2]	it mrans itpro is compromised
[08:56]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2025/07/21/nationwide-bank-enshittification/
[08:56]	TR Bot	Blog Archive An Open Letter to Nationwide Bank About Enshittification
[08:57]	schestowitz[TR2]	anyway, you don't want to deposit money in banks that play ball with a pyramid scheme http://techrights.org/n/2026/06/29/Pensions_Tied_to_Ponzi_Schemes_Are_Themselves_Ponzi_Schemes.shtml
[08:57]	TR Bot	 Techrights Pensions Tied to Ponzi Schemes Are Themselves Ponzi Schemes
[08:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	they tell us to avoid scams and fraud
[08:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	while they themselves participate in some 
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[08:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	using our collective capital
[08:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/04/Worse_Than_Taking_Your_Job_the_Slop_Pyramid_Scheme_Will_Take_Yo.shtml
[08:58]	TR Bot	 Techrights Worse Than "Taking Your Job", the Slop Pyramid Scheme Will "Take Your Pension"
[08:59]	schestowitz[TR2]	they might tell us they cl;ose branches becaause something something "HEY HI"
[08:59]	schestowitz[TR2]	in reality, they offload the labour to customers
[08:59]	schestowitz[TR2]	http://techrights.org/n/2024/05/23/Video_3_Major_Issues_in_Nationwide_Including_Potentially_a_Majo.shtml
[08:59]	TR Bot	 Techrights [Video] 3 Major Issues in Nationwide, Including (Potentially) a Major Data Breach
[08:59]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2024/06/12/nationwide-issues/#comments
[08:59]	TR Bot	Blog Archive Nationwide Issues Reported, But Only After Speaking to 3 People (2 of Whom in Person)
[08:59]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://techrights.org/n/2024/06/13/Nationwide_Eventually_Did_Listen.shtmlhttps://techrights.org/n/2024/06/13/Nationwide_Eventually_Did_Listen.shtml
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[08:59]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://techrights.org/n/2024/06/13/Nationwide_Eventually_Did_Listen.shtml
[08:59]	TR Bot	 Techrights Nationwide Eventually Did Listen
● Aug 27
[09:00]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cew50nnz902o
[09:00]	TR Bot	 Nationwide: 'Cash payments making a comeback as people budget' - BBC News
[09:00]	schestowitz[TR2]	and yet
[09:00]	schestowitz[TR2]	they make it hard to use cash
[09:00]	schestowitz[TR2]	bbl
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[09:24]	bms	I'm going to get rid of my current pension provider
[09:28]	bms	no financial provider is safe now it seems
[09:29]	bms	Revolut is AI-pilled and Google-pilled to the max so I just plain need to Article 17 them
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[11:19]	bms	I'm filling out evaluation for a Google Summer of Code student
[11:19]	bms	there are a few Hey Hi questions
[11:53]	TR News	 (NEW):  Darktable 5.6.1 RAW Image Editor Improves UI Performance and Fixes More Bugs https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Darktable_5_6_1_RAW_Image_Editor_Improves_UI_Performance_and_Fi.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Darktable_5_6_1_RAW_Image_Editor_Improves_UI_Performance_and_Fi.gmi 
[11:53]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Darktable 5.6.1 RAW Image Editor Improves UI Performance and Fixes More Bugs
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[12:41]	TR News	"For those whove followed the industrys bevy of social-focused copyright suits, Sony Musics allegations will look familiar." https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/24/sony-music-kroger-lawsuit/ | Source: Digital Music News
[12:41]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/24/sony-music-kroger-lawsuit/ )
[12:41]	TR News	"routine tasks to specialized skills" https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/25/wikihow-sues-openai-copyright-infringement/ | Source: Digital Music News
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[12:42]	TR News	"Cineby has published a step-by-step schedule for shutting itself down in stages. The site started by redirecting its mirror sites Cineplay and Fmovies+" https://torrentfreak.com/cineby-starts-staged-shutdown-of-its-piracy-empire/ | Source: Torrent Freak
[12:42]	TR Bot	Starts Staged Shutdown of Its Piracy Empire * TorrentFreak
[12:42]	TR News	Patents https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/25/patent-troll-slapps-lawyer-for-saying-his-shell-companies-never-pay-up-loses-now-owes-her-money/ | Source: Techdirt
[12:42]	TR Bot	Troll SLAPPs Lawyer For Saying His Shell Companies Never Pay Up, Loses, Now Owes Her Money | Techdirt
[12:43]	TR News	"The settlement comes despite oodles of Trump promises that he was going to meaningfully crack down on Ticketmaster." https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/25/more-details-emerge-on-how-trump-cronyism-ruined-the-attempt-to-break-up-ticketmaster/ | Source: Techdirt
[12:43]	TR Bot	Details Emerge On How Trump Cronyism Ruined The Attempt To Break Up Ticketmaster | Techdirt
[12:45]	TR News	Anon: XFCE4 gets really slow after around 10 to 14 days of use, still I hate having to reboot / log out but it becomes unusably slow otherwise. Maybe I should return to FVWM and just run a bare window manager. The main reason to use XFCE4 is two panels and there are other ways to have those.
[12:47]	TR News	The issue is typically some applications that suck up and leak RAM, causing the rest to enter the file system for what should be in RAM. Getting that storage back to RAM may require shutting down the components/shells periodically, e.g. kquitapp5 plasmashell then kstart5 plasmashell
[12:48]	TR News	"The shift towards so-called hybrid subscriptions cheaper packages that include advertising breaks" https://yle.fi/a/74-20242926 | Source: Yle
[12:48]	TR Bot	 Finns turning to ad-supported streaming to curb costs | Yle News | Yle
[12:48]	TR News	"Trump has falsely claimed mail-in voting is cheating, despite how often he has voted by mail himself." https://www.salon.com/2026/08/24/supreme-court-gives-trump-green-light-to-restrict-mail-in-voting/ | Source: Salon
[12:48]	TR Bot	Court gives Trump green light to restrict mail-in voting - Salon.com
[12:49]	TR News	"If voting proceeds based on these DHS lists" https://truthout.org/video/trump-is-once-again-weaponing-the-postal-service-to-try-to-undermine-mail-voting/ | Source: TruthOut
[12:49]	TR Bot	 Trump Is Once Again Weaponing the Postal Service to Try to Undermine Mail Voting | Truthout
[12:49]	TR News	"Parton was, indeed, a union sister for the better part of 60 yearscarrying the card of multiple labor organizations" https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/dolly-parton-obituary-unions-9-to-5/ | Source: The Nation
[12:49]	TR Bot	 Dolly Parton Was a Proud Union Sister | The Nation
[12:50]	TR News	"tribe's request to halt the opening stages of border wall construction across their land part of a lawsuit launched earlier this summer" https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/082626_bp_topd_wall/border-patrol-swat-team-blocks-arizona-tribal-police-from-trespassing-border-wall-contractors/ | Source: Tuscon Sentinel
[12:50]	TR Bot	 Border Patrol SWAT team blocks Arizona tribal police from trespassing border wall contractors
[12:51]	TR News	"Earlier this year, however, a Pentagon spokesman said the administration planned to overhaul Stars & Stripes" https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/25/pentagon-fires-chief-editor-of-stars-stripes-for-promising-to-do-independent-journalism/ | Source: Techdirt
[12:51]	TR Bot	Fires Chief Editor Of Stars & Stripes For Promising To Do Independent Journalism | Techdirt
[12:53]	TR News	"Zhen, who is based in New York, was arrested during a visit to Beijing in August 2024." https://www.dw.com/en/china-dissident-artist-jailed-for-satirical-mao-sculptures/a-78502724 | Source: Deutsche Welle
[12:53]	TR Bot	 China: Dissident artist jailed for satirical Mao sculptures
[12:56]	TR News	"The Hong Kong High Court ruled Aug. 21 that the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China" https://www.rfa.org/english/china/2026/08/25/hkaspdmc-hong-kong-china-subversion/ | Source: RFA
[12:56]	TR Bot	 Hong Kong court verdict aims to erase Tiananmen memory, 1989 student protester says Radio Free Asia
[12:56]	TR News	"It seems that the city is washing its hands off the case and passing the burden on the county." https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/kansas-town-drops-charges-against-teacher-who-clapped-during-public-hearings-on-data-centers-says-that-case-has-been-dismissed-without-prejudice | Source: Tom's Hardware
[12:56]	TR Bot	 Kansas town drops charges against teacher arrested for clapping during public hearings on data centers says that case has been dismissed without prejudice | Tom's Hardware
[12:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	bms: ping
● Aug 27
[13:06]	bms	schestowitz[TR2]: pong, I was out getting my groceries
[13:06]	TR News	"Last fall you might remember that WaPos management fired opinion columnist Karen Attiah." https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/26/jeff-bezos-washington-post-forced-to-rehire-columnist-fired-for-quoting-deceased-bigot-charlie-kirk/ | Source: Techdirt
[13:06]	TR Bot	Bezos Washington Post Forced To Rehire Columnist Fired For Quoting Deceased Bigot Charlie Kirk | Techdirt
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[13:06]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines One More Business Day for August
[13:08]	bms	mostly I was checking to see if Google had any "don't condemn Google" clauses I'd inadvertently signed up to
[13:08]	bms	but it's just indemnifcation, limitation of liability the usual corpo crap
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[13:08]	bms	apart from the "irrevocable license to use your submissions"
[13:09]	bms	now it'd be interesting to see if GMail correspondence relating to a GSoC mentee is covered by that. I suspect that falls under GDPR.
[13:10]	bms	I'd be more worried about that. The code the student delivered was itself hosted on Codeberg at my recommendation. He didn't have to do much greenfield work, it was mostly about understanding how FreeBSD's network stack differed from OpenBSD's and porting accordingly.
[13:14]	TR News	4-Week Staycation https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/27/4-week-staycation/
[13:14]	TR Bot	Blog Archive 4-Week Staycation
[13:14]	schestowitz[TR2]	remember GOogle Code?
[13:14]	schestowitz[TR2]	they realised it was a way to lose money
[13:14]	schestowitz[TR2]	same thing github rrealised
[13:14]	schestowitz[TR2]	github tried to sell to google
[13:14]	bms	I do, I think I was there briefly. I snagged some projects from it.
[13:14]	schestowitz[TR2]	google walked away
[13:14]	schestowitz[TR2]	realised it would be a money loss
[13:14]	bms	Some of Dug Song's stuff dates back to GC.
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[13:15]	schestowitz[TR2]	MSFT knew it could attack the rivals by taking over
[13:15]	bms	I think GH is hanging on by a thin thread commercially due to the supposed "value adds" but even their CI is very flaky
[13:16]	bms	the inside track supposedly is that GH were supposed to be using Azure but they never got integrated properly
[13:16]	TR News	"If anyones left to run the offering. Another OpenAI executive left just yesterday Chris Malone, OpenAIs Head of Data Centers." https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/26/openai-loses-even-more-executives-ahead-of-the-alleged-ipo/ | Source: Pivot to AI
[13:16]	TR Bot	 Explained about the room interrupted itself for perhaps as much as half a.
[13:16]	bms	the network effect probably only plays a small role; any projects of vitality which aren't weighed down by the anchor of GH as the host-of-the-repo-of-record will have moved already
[13:17]	TR News	"So I am not out to cancel AOC, though I agree with her on vanishingly little. Her electoral career is for voters to decide." https://www.thenextmove.org/p/2020-accountability-is-mia | Source: The Next Move
[13:17]	TR Bot	 2020 Accountability is MIA - by Garry Kasparov
[13:17]	TR News	"Ive watched and read multiple reports like this, and I remain unconvinced." https://www.rubenerd.au/brexit-ten-years-on/ | Source: Ruben Schade
[13:17]	TR Bot	 Rubenerd: Brexit, ten years on
[13:19]	bms	SourceHut cunningly offers an --import-url flag for "hut git create". I have used it many times
[13:19]	bms	of course that just imports the git repo and not entire project state, that might be considered going too far
[13:24]	schestowitz[TR2]	we are not interetsed in sourcehut
[13:24]	schestowitz[TR2]	it is managed by a many who calls people pedos because he himself has guilt about it
[13:24]	schestowitz[TR2]	like the man who called everyone "Rapist" because he himself hides stuff 
[13:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	sourcehut has a history of abnning projects
[13:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	evern wholesale
[13:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	because drew seens them as unethical
[13:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	today because x, tomrorow because y
[13:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	he decides what is ok  what's not ok
[13:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	risky to rely on such a platform
[13:26]	schestowitz[TR2]	RMS on systemd:
[13:26]	schestowitz[TR2]	"Those criticisms may be true, and they would be
[13:26]	schestowitz[TR2]	drawbacks, but they are not vicious.  They are 
[13:26]	schestowitz[TR2]	not _injustices_."
[13:26]	schestowitz[TR2]	unless on purpose to violate the spirit of the license ...
[13:26]	schestowitz[TR2]	<schestowitz[TR2]> because drew seens them as unethical
[13:26]	schestowitz[TR2]	*deems
[13:27]	TR News	"In practice we suspect that many are simply doing the same as they have with compliance marking and waste electronic equipment regulations" https://hackaday.com/2026/08/26/how-packaging-can-kill-an-electronics-microbusiness/ | Source: Hackaday
[13:27]	TR Bot	Packaging Can Kill An Electronics Microbusiness | Hackaday
[13:28]	TR News	"Retreating from China, once Nokias largest single-country market globally, would mark an acquiescence to domestic competition" https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3364425/nokia-close-almost-all-sites-mainland-china-year-end-sources-say | Source: SCMP
[13:28]	TR Bot	 Exclusive | Nokia to close almost all sites in mainland China by year end, sources say | South China Morning Post
[13:28]	TR News	"As part of that restructuring, the company said at first it was simplifying its operating structure in China." https://insidetowers.com/nokia-takes-steps-to-exit-china-market/ | Source: Inside Towers
[13:28]	TR Bot	 Nokia Takes Steps to Exit China Market - Inside Towers
[13:28]	TR News	"The get-together is the latest unconventional outreach by the NSA, whose very existence was once a government secret." https://therecord.media/nsa-to-host-hacker-reunion-in-bid-to-rebuild-secretive-unit | Source: The Record
[13:28]	TR Bot	 Exclusive: NSA to host a hacker reunion in bid to rebuild secretive unit | The Record from Recorded Future News
[13:29]	TR News	"In-person talks between high-level American and Russian officials are rare." https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c87vg9x5d7do | Source: BBC
[13:29]	TR Bot	 CIA chief travels to Moscow for unannounced talks, US media reports
[13:29]	TR News	"The tracker showed that the flight originated from Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, best known for hosting Air Force One" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/25/cia-director-john-ratcliffe-moscow-russia | Source: The Guardian UK
[13:29]	TR Bot	 CIA director John Ratcliffe reportedly on Moscow visit | CIA | The Guardian
[13:29]	TR News	"It was not known who was on board the plane and why it was in Moscow. When asked, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said he did not have information about the aircraft." https://www.nbcnews.com/world/russia/mystery-us-military-plane-lands-moscow-rcna594262 | Source: NBC
[13:29]	TR Bot	 CIA director flies unannounced to Moscow to hold talks, source says
[13:30]	TR News	"Belgian and Dutch media report that European Sleeper now plans to start night trains to Malm, running from April 2028, in collaboration with the German company RDC." https://www.thelocal.dk/20260825/new-night-train-planned-between-brussels-and-malmo-via-denmark | Source: The Local DK
[13:30]	TR Bot	 New night train planned between Brussels and Malm, via Denmark
[13:30]	TR News	"Visiting the office today." https://blog.pcora.eu/posts/2026-08-26-visiting-the-office-today | Source: Pedro
[13:30]	TR Bot	 Visiting the office today. - Pedroblog
[13:31]	TR News	"The craft, which is roughly the length of a Boeing 747 and resembles an airship, is filled with helium and floats into the sky carrying lightweight turbines." https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3365180/china-taps-high-altitude-winds-power-generation-flying-craft-4000m | Source: SCMP
[13:31]	TR Bot	 China taps high-altitude winds for power generation by flying craft to 4,000m | South China Morning Post
[13:32]	TR News	"In proof-of-concept tests, the intense heat turned the raw materials into cement clinker within seconds, nearly 100 times faster than standard production." https://interestingengineering.com/energy/us-plasma-cement-faster-fossil-fuels | Source: Interesting Engineering
[13:32]	TR Bot	 Stanford scientists' 4,352F plasma makes low-carbon cement in seconds
[13:32]	TR News	"Unsurprisingly, as journalist Andrew Nikiforuk described the burgeoning opposition to data centres recently in The Tyee" https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026/08/26/AI-Data-Centre-Backlash/ | Source: The Tyee
[13:32]	TR Bot	 As AI Data Centre Backlash Builds, What Will Smith Do? | The Tyee
[13:33]	TR News	"Have you tried to publish a critical piece on population growth in the media? I find that such attempts usually fail." https://overpopulation-project.com/ceuta-incident-population-growth-threatens-both-poor-africans-and-climate-stability/ | Source: Overpopulation
[13:33]	TR Bot	 Ceuta incident: Population growth threatens both poor Africans and climate stability - The Overpopulation Project
[13:33]	TR News	"Class 1 e-bikes will be affected differently under the ordinance, because they only use a peddle-assisted motor." https://www.ksl.com/article/51616508/new-e-bike-proposal-aims-to-ban-some-bike-models-from-dirt-roads-in-salt-lake-county | Source: Deseret Media
[13:33]	TR Bot	e-bike proposal aims to ban some bike models from dirt roads in Salt Lake County | KSL.com
[13:38]	TR News	"For the most part, existing data centres use less than 10 megawatts (MW) of grid power each, in many cases much less" https://www.theenergymix.com/alberta-woman-maps-out-the-facts-about-power-hungry-data-centres/ | Source: Energy Mix Productions Inc
[13:38]	TR Bot	stream 1 was not closed cleanly: PROTOCOL_ERROR (err 1) ( status 0 @ https://www.theenergymix.com/alberta-woman-maps-out-the-facts-about-power-hungry-data-centres/ )
[13:38]	TR News	"This event was initially reported as a magnitude 4.4 earthquake. Additional analysis of nearby seismic stations" https://www.deccanchronicle.com/world/neighbours/nepal-disaster-caused-by-glacial-collapse-says-usgs-1982628 | Source: Deccan Chronicle
[13:38]	TR Bot	 Nepal Flash Floods Caused by Glacial Collapse, Says USGS
[13:46]	TR News	see also "Broken by design: systemd" https://ewontfix.com/14/
[13:46]	TR Bot	timed out after 10001 milliseconds ( status 0 @ https://ewontfix.com/14/ )
[13:46]	TR News	"like an inland tsunami, travelling nearly 170 kilometres down the Bhote Koshi valley into Central Nepal" https://hongkongfp.com/2026/08/27/search-for-1000-missing-after-deadly-nepal-tibet-floods/ | Source: Hong Kong Free Press
[13:46]	TR Bot	 Search for 1,000 missing after deadly Nepal-Tibet floods
[13:51]	TR News	"The candid comments were recorded by Signal Akron journalist Doug Brown" https://www.404media.co/flocks-ceo-is-lying-to-cops-about-404-medias-reporting-on-abortion-case/ | Source: 404 Media
[13:51]	TR Bot	 Flocks CEO Is Lying to Cops About 404 Media's Reporting on Abortion Case
[13:53]	TR News	"The use of apps TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat among 10-12 year olds and 13 to 15-year olds was on the rise, data from parental control app Qustodio showed" https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/social-media-use-on-the-rise-among-australian-under-16s-after-ban-data/articleshow/133527664.cms | Source: India Times
[13:53]	TR Bot	 Australian under-16s social media use: Social media use on the rise among Australian under-16s after ban: data - The Economic Times
[13:53]	TR News	"Australian under-16s are increasing their use of social media apps such as Instagram and Tiktok despite a world-leading ban" https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/social-media-use-on-the-rise-among-australian-under-16s-after-ban-data-1764502892 | Source: RTL
[13:53]	TR Bot	 Bypassing restrictions: Social media use on the rise among Australian under-16s after ban: data - RTL Today
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[13:55]	TR News	TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance, have agreed to pay $400 million to settle a Department of Justice lawsuit https://www.movieguide.org/news-articles/tiktok-to-pay-400-million-over-child-privacy-violations.html
[13:55]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.movieguide.org/news-articles/tiktok-to-pay-400-million-over-child-privacy-violations.html )
[13:55]	TR News	"Recording devices, including smart glasses, cannot be used in libraries across Cork without permission from librarians or other staff members." https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster/arid-41901367.html | Source: Irish Examiner
[13:55]	TR Bot	 New bylaws mean smart glasses cannot be used in Cork libraries without permission
[13:55]	TR News	"The New York Times has a long article (alt link) on surveillance systems aimed at babies. They are increasingly using AI." https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/08/spyware-for-babies.html | Source: Bruce Schneier
[13:55]	TR Bot	for Babies - Schneier on Security
[13:55]	TR News	"Voting data is public by design, but ICE is looking for a federal contractor to help it handle voter registration and history files to find what it describes as fraud." https://www.404media.co/ice-wants-the-countrys-voter-data/ | Source: 404 Media
[13:55]	TR Bot	 ICE Wants the Countrys Voter Data
[13:56]	TR News	"A mischief-maker in a Darth Vader suit recently endorsed Flock at a city council meeting, and it has not helped the company's fortunes." https://www.theregister.com/legal/2026/08/26/flock-shock-rocks-cop-cam-vendor-as-protests-mount/5292691 | Source: The Register UK
[13:56]	TR Bot	 Flock shock rocks cop cam vendor as protests mount
[13:56]	TR News	"Given the disinterest of both Flock and its main customers to police themselves" https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/26/as-flock-vandalism-goes-mainstream-one-grand-jury-says-alleged-flock-vandal-did-nothing-wrong/ | Source: Techdirt
[13:56]	TR Bot	Flock Vandalism Goes Mainstream, One Grand Jury Says Alleged Flock Vandal Did Nothing Wrong | Techdirt
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[13:57]	TR News	"officers accused of using the system to stalk exes or romantic interests." https://www.ksl.com/article/51616576/police-officer-arrested-after-tracking-ex-girlfriend-on-flock-camera-system-over-2000-times-authorities-say | Source: Deseret Media
[13:57]	TR Bot	officer arrested after tracking ex-girlfriend on Flock camera system over 2,000 times, authorities say | KSL.com
[13:57]	TR News	"Right of access flatly denied. SCHUFA becomes thoroughly inconsistent when it comes to the right of access: on the one hand, SCHUFA claims that the previously unknown shadow database is entirely transparent." https://noyb.eu/en/shadow-database-scandal-noyb-sends-schufa-cease-and-desist-letter-interest-list-class-action | Source: NYOB
[13:57]	TR Bot	 Shadow database scandal: noyb sends SCHUFA cease-and-desist letter; interest list for class action opened
[13:58]	TR News	"Wednesdays problem, as has so often been the case, hit Actions, GitHubs CI/CD platform for automating software builds" https://www.theregister.com/devops/2026/08/26/github-actions-was-down-yet-again/5292679 | Source: The Register UK http://techrights.org/n/2026/08/19/Microsoft_s_Mass_Layoffs_Impact_the_Ability_to_Run_Microsoft.shtml
[13:58]	TR Bot	 GitHub Actions was down yet again
[13:58]	TR Bot	 Techrights Microsoft's Mass Layoffs Impact the Ability to Run Microsoft
[13:58]	TR News	"Fortunately, NASAs flagship Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, long seen as the next great observatory, has evaded those efforts." https://futurism.com/space/nasa-test-strategy-telescopes-failed | Source: Futurism
[13:58]	TR Bot	 NASA Set Up a Major Test of Its New Strategy Under Trump by Hiring a Startup to Launch a Daring Mission to Rescue a Dying Space Telescope in Orbit. The Unfortunate Result Will Have Long-Ranging Repercussions.
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● Aug 27
[14:00]	TR News	So in mid-May they replaced all the major internal parts. http://techrights.org/n/2026/05/19/It_s_Not_Just_a_Widespread_Theory_It_s_Apparently_a_Verified_Fa.shtml and now, months later, the machine makes odd noises. As if those machines are made to fail no matter what and extended warrantees are a waste of money.
[14:00]	TR Bot	 Techrights It's Not Just a Widespread Theory, It's Apparently a Verified Fact: Home Appliances Not Made to Last Long
[14:00]	TR News	Windows TCO https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/water-system-hacks-fbi-iran-b3039960.html | Source: The Independent UK
[14:00]	TR Bot	 FBI probe into water system cyberattacks expands after tech supplier is targeted | The Independent
[14:01]	TR News	"making further false, misleading, or deceptive statements around its safety features." https://www.wired.com/story/meta-will-pay-up-to-dollar167-billion-to-settle-its-social-media-harms-case-and-thats-just-for-starters/ | Source: Wired
[14:01]	TR Bot	Will Pay Up to $16.7 Billion to Settle Its Social Media Harms Caseand Thats Not All | WIRED
[14:01]	TR News	"B. The States bring this action pursuant to the authority conferred on them by applicable federal and state law." https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press-docs/23-05448-ecf-572-1-exhibit-1-mdl-consent-judgment-final-settlment-agreement-fully-executed.pdf |
[14:01]	TR News	"The remaining $5.3 billion unlocks only if YouTube and TikTok adopt matching teen limits and matching payments." https://sqmagazine.co.uk/meta-18-billion-state-ags-teen-safety-settlement/ | Source: SQ Magazine
[14:01]	TR Bot	 Meta to Pay $18 Billion in Landmark Teen Safety Deal
[14:01]	TR News	"not exactly pocket change, but it's hardly a body blow." https://text.npr.org/2026/08/26/nx-s1-5944781/meta-settlement-child-safety-lawsuit | Source: NPR
[14:01]	TR Bot	 Meta, states agree to $17 billion settlement in child safety trial
[14:02]	TR News	"Not in the news: any comment from anyone who spends their ad money, on their clients, on Meta ads." https://blog.zgp.org/the-silence-of-the-meta-advertisers/ | Source: Don Marti
[14:02]	TR Bot	 the silence of the Meta advertisers
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[14:03]	TR News	"The jury trial, which took place in federal court in Oakland, California, began with opening statements just last week." https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/26/meta-social-media-addiction-trial-settlement | Source: The Guardian UK
[14:03]	TR Bot	 Meta agrees to major changes to Facebook and Instagram as it settles US trial over teen addiction for up to $18bn | Meta | The Guardian
[14:03]	TR News	"will be distributed in annual instalments over a 10-year period" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd68q3wynnqo | Source: BBC
[14:04]	TR Bot	 Meta to pay up to $18bn to settle claims its platforms harm children
[14:04]	TR News	"US district judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers approved the settlement on Wednesday." https://www.wired.com/story/the-meta-settlement-will-put-limits-on-instagram-for-teens-theyre-still-vulnerable/ | Source: Wired
[14:04]	TR Bot	Meta Settlement Will Put Limits on Instagram for Teens. Theyre Still Vulnerable | WIRED
[14:04]	TR News	"The regulator estimated that, during the period under review, TikTok may have processed the data of at least 8 million children" https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/brazil-fines-tiktok-owner-bytedance-for-unlawful-processing-of-teenagers-data/articleshow/133523806.cms | Source: India Times
[14:04]	TR Bot	 Brazil fines TikTok owner ByteDance for unlawful processing of teenagers' data - The Economic Times
[14:04]	TR News	"We're not particularly interested in including AI-generated music as part of that process, particularly when it's taking up a spot from an Australian artist in the chart." https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/aria-to-ban-ai-generated-music-australian-charts/g509tctuc | Source: SBS
[14:04]	TR Bot	 ARIA to ban AI-generated music from Australian charts
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[14:05]	TR News	"First, a PSA: Do NOT use Omarchy if you care about security of your machine even a little bit. You can't polish a turd" https://blog.happyfellow.dev/merchants-of-insecurity/ | Source: One Happy Fellow
[14:05]	TR Bot	 Merchants of Insecurity One Happy Fellow - blog
[14:06]	TR News	" Minions of Avian Intelligence" https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1168/the-minions-of-avian-intelligence | Source: David Revoy
[14:06]	TR Bot	 The Minions of Avian Intelligence - David Revoy
[14:06]	TR News	 (NEW):  Merchants of Insecurity https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Merchants_of_Insecurity.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Merchants_of_Insecurity.gmi 
[14:06]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Merchants of Insecurity
[14:06]	TR News	"At first glance, the AI-written code is not incomprehensible." https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/08/26/what-is-the-quality-of-software-that-ai-writes/ | Source: John D Cook
[14:06]	TR Bot	 What is the quality of software that AI writes?
[14:06]	TR News	"Brooklyn was posing the same way as he had in the picture Butler used for the missing poster." https://www.wired.com/story/ai-slop-is-ruining-the-internets-cute-animal-economy/ | Source: Wired
[14:06]	TR Bot	Slop Is Ruining Cute Animals on the Internet | WIRED
[14:07]	TR News	"In his ruling, which applies to only certain images, a federal judge asked the Supreme Court to revisit legal precedents that predated advances in AI." https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/08/26/federal-judge-warns-law-is-being-left-behind-by-ai-sex-abuse-images/ | Source: The Washington Post
[14:07]	TR Bot	stream 1 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2) ( status 0 @ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/08/26/federal-judge-warns-law-is-being-left-behind-by-ai-sex-abuse-images/ )
[14:07]	TR News	"The telling part came during the response." https://blog.talosintelligence.com/the-safety-penalty-reclaiming-operational-sovereignty-in-the-age-of-ai/ | Source: Threat Source
[14:07]	TR Bot	 The safety penalty: Reclaiming operational sovereignty in the age of AI
[14:07]	TR News	"First, it used recently disclosed bugs in my host kernel." https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/08/26/vms-wont-contain-cyber-capable-agents/ | Source: Trail of Bits
[14:07]	TR Bot	 VMs won't contain cyber-capable agents - The Trail of Bits Blog
[14:09]	TR News	Seems like a very American thing to do: "In 2013, he was accused of physical abuse by an ex-girlfriend. Arrington sued the woman for defamation and she agreed to retract her accusations against him and apologize" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Arrington
[14:09]	TR Bot	 Michael Arrington - Wikipedia
[14:10]	TR News	Now he does fake-coins (scam) under the name "Arrington Capital"
[14:11]	TR News	"The American Federation of Teachers (AFT), in collaboration with Microsoft and OpenAI, has launched an AI training program worth over 2.2 billion rupees." https://www.bhaskarenglish.in/tech-science/news/big-tech-interference-american-schools-ai-tools-protests-138831634.html | Source: Bhaskar English
[14:11]	TR Bot	 Big Tech Interference in American Schools; AI Tools & Classroom Protests
[14:11]	TR News	"The name is a reference to the click wheel of the venerable Apple iPod, and as you might imagine, thats precisely what clicky is built to emulate." https://hackaday.com/2026/08/26/emulating-the-ipod/ | Source: Hackaday
[14:11]	TR Bot	The IPod | Hackaday
[14:11]	TR News	"This fall marks the 25th anniversary of the launch of Windows XP, an event worthy of commemoration." https://www.pcworld.com/article/3221156/windows-xp-turns-25-it-still-beats-windows-8-in-market-share.html | Source: PC World
[14:11]	TR Bot	XP turns 25. It's still beating Windows 8 in market share | PCWorld
[14:14]	TR News	following
[14:15]	TR News	"The following year came the HP-35, the first successful handheld scientific calculator that put slide rules out to pasture." https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/08/the-calculator-transition.html | Source: Computational Complexity
[14:15]	TR Bot	 Computational Complexity: The Calculator Transition
[14:15]	TR News	"I was also talking to my younger son about cassettes the other day, how long the games took to load, and how we had compilation cassettes with several games on them. So we decided to load the games from tape!" https://www.usebox.net/jjm/blog/loading-from-tape/ | Source: Juan J Martnez
[14:15]	TR Bot	from tape - usebox.net
[14:15]	TR News	"Zooming way, way in on the disk reveals that hes actually printing the patterns of the MOD file row by row" https://hackaday.com/2026/08/26/encoding-mod-files-optically-on-paper-because-amigas-legacy-will-outlast-m-disks/ | Source: Hackaday
[14:15]	TR Bot	MOD Files Optically On Paper, Because Amigas Legacy Will Outlast M-Disks | Hackaday
[14:16]	TR News	"I have seen this happen in real time. Someone comes in for info or a book tied to a current event and they leave with something else (as well) because they forgot how much we have to offer." https://raforall.blogspot.com/2026/08/dollys-patrons-imagination-library-at.html | Source: Becky Spratford
[14:16]	TR Bot	 RA for All: Dolly's Patron's Imagination Library at Your Library
[14:17]	TR News	"At the moment, I have one bookshelf which I am actively outgrowing. My bookshelf has three shelves, and I keep more books on the top." https://jamesg.blog/2026/08/26/how-i-organise-my-bookshelf | Source: James G
[14:17]	TR Bot	 How I organise my bookshelf - with words, wonder
[14:17]	TR News	"It also says what coaching actually is, beyond the image of an expert handing out advice." https://jeroensangers.com/2026/08/26/blind-spots-need-someone-elses.html | Source: Jeroen Sangers
[14:17]	TR Bot	 Jeroen Sangers brain tags - Blind spots need someone else's eyes
[14:19]	TR News	"I see the same analysis paralysis in developers Ive mentored over the years, when it comes to getting started with a new language or framework." https://www.loopwerk.io/articles/2026/analysis-paralysis/ | Source: Kevin Renskers
[14:19]	TR Bot	 Loopwerk: Analysis paralysis sucks
[14:21]	TR News	"Dolly sang in church from the time she was a small child and people recognized her talent." https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/08/dolly-parton-rip |
[14:21]	TR Bot	 Dolly Parton, RIP - Lawyers, Guns & Money
[14:25]	TR News	Bad Engineering by Design https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/27/bad-engineering-by-design/
[14:25]	TR Bot	Blog Archive Bad Engineering by Design
[14:25]	TR News	"In the meantime, we are starting to support students in England who choose an established route for extending their skills and getting that effort recognised: the Extended Project Qualification (EPQ)." https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/support-for-ai-focused-qualification-young-people-england/ | Source: Raspberry Pi
[14:25]	TR Bot	 Supporting a technical AI-focused qualification for young people in England - Raspberry Pi Foundation
[14:27]	TR News	"A big thank you to Eliza, and to all of the book scanners, digitization staff, librarians, engineers, archivists, and volunteers who spend their days caring for the physical record and making it accessible in digital form." https://blog.archive.org/2026/08/26/book-scanning-goes-viral-again/ | Source: Internet Archive
[14:27]	TR Bot	 Book Scanning Goes ViralAgain | Internet Archive Blogs
[14:27]	TR News	"But it's her gift of the Imagination Library program, one of Parton's most personal philanthropic projects, that has really transformed Tamworth." https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/dolly-parton-imagination-library-tamworth/ahedyrjpl | Source: SBS
[14:27]	TR Bot	 It was Dolly Parton's proudest legacy. Now an Australian town must keep it alive
[14:29]	TR News	"The Dr. Semiconductor YouTube channel only has a few videos, but the man is quickly making a name for himself." https://www.tomshardware.com/maker-stem/mad-scientist-makes-leds-in-his-backyard-semiconductor-wizard-who-made-his-own-ram-turns-his-attention-to-blinkenlights | Source: Tom's Hardware
[14:29]	TR Bot	 Mad scientist makes LEDs in his backyard semiconductor wizard who made his own RAM turns his attention to using bathroom eBay laser to etch sapphire wafers | Tom's Hardware
[14:29]	TR News	"Orthogonal polynomials are mathematically elegant as well as very useful in applications [1]. Various families of orthogonal polynomials satisfy various differential equations." https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/08/26/junk-solutions/ | Source: John D Cook
[14:29]	TR Bot	 Junk solutions
[14:29]	TR News	"Let me tell you my favourite thing about this postcard, though: it taught me something cool." https://danq.me/2026/08/26/postcard-from-tony/ | Source: Dan Q
[14:29]	TR Bot	 A Postcard from Tony (who the heck is Tony) Dan Q
[14:30]	TR News	"For me, the focus of my blog has shifted somewhat in the meantime." https://kiko.io/post/AuguStory-The-story-of-my-blog/ | Source: Kristof Zerbe
[14:30]	TR Bot	- The story of my blog - kiko.io
[14:30]	TR News	"I've tried for months to redesign my site. I was fed up with the design and I wanted something new but every time I tried I would get halfway through the home page and decide I didn't like that either." https://rknight.me/blog/tabula-rasa/ | Source: Rob Knight
[14:30]	TR Bot	 Tabula Rasa Robb Knight
[14:30]	TR News	"They took the time to understand my request." https://svenluijten.com/blog/we-will-not-be-processing-your-email | Source: Sven Luijten
[14:30]	TR Bot	 We will not be processing your email - Sven
[14:30]	TR News	"Curry's co-stars were quick to lavish praise on the actor, with "Rocky Horror" star Susan Sarandon calling him a "funny, sexy original."" https://www.deccanchronicle.com/entertainment/hollywood/rocky-horror-picture-show-star-tim-curry-dead-at-80-1982630 | Source: Deccan Chronicle
[14:30]	TR Bot	 'Rocky Horror Picture Show' Star Tim Curry Dead at 80
[14:31]	TR News	"Currys introduction in The Rocky Horror Picture Show is legendary. Dropping down in a glass elevator, he commands the screen before uttering a single lyric." https://www.vintag.es/2026/08/tim-curry-rocky-horror-picture-show.html | Source: Vintage Everyday
[14:31]	TR Bot	 40 Amazing Photos of Tim Curry as Frank N Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) ~ Vintage Everyday
[14:31]	TR News	"Im not here to share the story of newsletters in general, and not just here to talk about newsletters for my favorite old computing platform, Atari computers." https://blog.archive.org/2026/08/27/a-computer-history-time-capsule/ | Source: Internet Archive
[14:31]	TR Bot	 A Computer History Time Capsule | Internet Archive Blogs
[14:44]	TR News	Techrights Links 27/08/2026: "Flocks CEO Is Lying to Cops" and Microsoft's GitHub Actions Breaks Down Again (Too Many Layoffs, Loss of Knowledge) https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/27/Links_27_08_2026_Flock_s_CEO_Is_Lying_to_Cops_and_Microsoft_s_G.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/27/Links_27_08_2026_Flock_s_CEO_Is_Lying_to_Cops_and_Microsoft_s_G.gmi 
[14:44]	TR Bot	 Techrights Links 27/08/2026: "Flocks CEO Is Lying to Cops" and Microsoft's GitHub Actions Breaks Down Again (Too Many Layoffs, Loss of Knowledge)
[14:49]	TR News	"However it starts, mailbox providers react the same way. They route your mail to spam or reject it at the door" https://sqmagazine.co.uk/repair-damaged-email-sender-reputation/ | Source: SQ Magazine
[14:49]	TR Bot	 How to Repair a Damaged Email Sender Reputation (2026 Guide)
[14:51]	TR News	"Suppose, not hypothetically, that you operate a multi-server Linux environment where most people get to log in to some machines" https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/SystemdUserServicesAndShell | Source: University of Toronto
[14:51]	TR Bot	 You're using a too-old browser
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[15:12]	TR News	Techrights Claims of Tens of Thousands of 'Silent Layoffs' at IBM (and Red Hat) https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/27/Claims_of_Tens_of_Thousands_of_Silent_Layoffs_at_IBM_and_Red_Ha.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/27/Claims_of_Tens_of_Thousands_of_Silent_Layoffs_at_IBM_and_Red_Ha.gmi 
[15:12]	TR Bot	 Techrights Claims of Tens of Thousands of 'Silent Layoffs' at IBM (and Red Hat)
[15:13]	TR News	"Thousands of lines of hand-written CUDA C++, now Python. Less code, and it runs faster." https://blog.scientific-python.org/awkward/rewriting-gpu-kernels-cuda-compute/ | Source: Scientific Python Blog
[15:13]	TR Bot	 Blog - Rewriting Awkward Array's GPU kernels in Python with NVIDIA's cuda.compute
[15:13]	TR News	"I recently built a website to display my Pokdex Binder." https://hamatti.org/posts/v-is-for-visible-characters-python-a-to-z/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala
[15:13]	TR Bot	 V is for visible characters - Python A to Z : Juha-Matti Santala
[15:13]	TR News	"Often in programming we end up in a situation where we want to check for an output of a function and then do something to it if its truthy." https://hamatti.org/posts/w-is-for-walrus-operator-python-a-to-z/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala
[15:13]	TR Bot	 W is for walrus operator - Python A to Z : Juha-Matti Santala
[15:37]	TR News	"In previous articles" https://statsandr.com/blog/cochrans-q-test-in-r/ | Source: Stats and R
[15:38]	TR Bot	 Cochran's Q test in R, or the extension of McNemar's test for more than two groups - Stats and R
[15:38]	TR News	"I'm regularly rewriting my history, often with the lens of improving my commit messages." https://www.jvt.me/posts/2026/08/25/git-rebase-update-refs/ | Source: Jamie Tanna
[15:38]	TR Bot	 Updating dependent branches when rebasing, automagically Jamie Tanna | Software Engineer
[15:41]	TR News	"Tasks that were both urgent and important got finished most often. Tasks that were only important, with no deadline pressing on them, were finished least often." https://jeroensangers.com/2026/08/26/urgency-not-importance-decides-what.html | Source: Jeroen Sangers
[15:41]	TR Bot	 Jeroen Sangers brain tags - Urgency, not importance, decides what gets done
[15:41]	TR News	"C++26 is generous with new containers were getting both std::hive and std::inplace_vector. In this post, well look at the latter." https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2026/08/26/cpp26-inplace-vector | Source: Sandor Dargo
[15:41]	TR Bot	 C++26: std::inplace_vector | Sandor Dargo's Blog
[15:41]	TR News	"Xinuos plans to petition for a fullbench rehearing of its case, but this kind of request has only a 0.03% success rate according to IBMs lawyers." https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/decades-long-linux-ownership-dispute-effectively-dead-after-xinuos-appeal-rejected-us-court-of-appeals-halts-the-legal-wrangling-over-ibms-and-red-hats-use-of-project-monterey-unix-code | Source: Tom's Hardware
[15:41]	TR Bot	 Decades-long Linux ownership dispute effectively dead after Xinuos appeal rejected US Court of Appeals halts the legal wrangling over IBMs and Red Hats use of Project Monterey UNIX code | Tom's Hardware
[15:42]	TR News	"Class actions famously result in a pittance for everyone other than the lawyers involved." https://www.rubenerd.au/im-part-of-my-first-class-action/ | Source: Ruben Schade
[15:42]	TR Bot	 Rubenerd: My first class action
[15:43]	TR News	"I'm moving one service after another to European companies." https://www.erikkroes.nl/blog/going-european/ | Source: Erik Kroes http://techrights.org/n/2025/02/21/Techrights_Disconnected_From_the_United_States_Two_Years_Ago.shtml
[15:43]	TR Bot	 Going European | Erik Kroes - Accessibility Consultant
[15:43]	TR Bot	 Techrights Techrights Disconnected From the United States Two Years Ago
[15:43]	TR News	"You can go into the deep end way too easily with a self-hosting project. But is a less-is-more approach possible? Heres what my attempt to build a third-place box taught me" https://tedium.co/2026/08/26/self-hosting-third-place-strategy/ | Source: Tedium
[15:43]	TR Bot	 Can Self-Hosting Be Simple? A Mini-PC Experiment
[15:43]	TR News	"In part one and two of our reports on the LibreLocal 2026 meetups, we already highlighted fifteen different LibreLocals through the eyes of their organizers." https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/2026-librelocal-part-3 | Source: FSF
[15:43]	TR Bot	 Five more organizer tales: LibreLocal 2026, part three Free Software Foundation Working together for free software
[15:44]	TR News	"WordPress has to go. The main reason chardonsbleus.org is still running WordPress is GiveWP." https://rmendes.net/articles/2026/08/26/another-reason-to-leave-wordpress/ | Source: Ricardo Mendes
[15:44]	TR Bot	 Another reason to leave WordPress behind - A Node on the Web
[15:44]	TR News	"The result is that many developers are still optimizing their code for problems that WordPress Core has already solved." https://remkusdevries.com/modern-wordpress-query-performance/ | Source: Remkus de Vries
[15:44]	TR Bot	 Modern WordPress Query Performance: What Changed - Remkus de Vries
[15:44]	bms	schestowitz[TR2]: you may have a point. Drew hasn't been responsive to my CC'ing him on stuff that's been happening with FreeBSD for example. For what it's worth FreeBSD folk are a minorotiy on SH but they're more prevalent on Codeberg.
[15:47]	TR News	"Running as an embedded library was a clever reimagining of where the work happens" https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2026/08/duckdb-and-the-changing-physics-of-analytics.html | Source: Dr Werner Vogels
[15:47]	TR Bot	 DuckDB and the changing physics of analytics | All Things Distributed
[15:47]	TR News	"This is a post about connecting R to VistA via Octo and generating interesting statistical analysis and diagrams." https://yottadb.com/r-statistics-on-a-live-vista-instance/ | Source: YottaDB
[15:47]	TR Bot	Statistics on a Live VistA Instance - YottaDB
[15:47]	TR News	"This release restores the full set of interface customisation controls missing in version 6.7, as well as the last four missing privacy toggles." https://www.waterfox.com/releases/6.7.1/ | Source: Waterfox
[15:47]	TR Bot	- Fine Tuning - Waterfox Release
[15:47]	TR News	"But for a long time, the UI was a very simple, blocky, and overused monospace fonts for every UI element." https://chrishannah.me/miniroll-ui-revamp/ | Source: Chris Hannah
[15:47]	TR Bot	 Miniroll UI Revamp | Chris Hannah
[15:48]	TR News	"A couple of weeks ago I wrote about detailing how itd taken me five attempts to get a working Apple II motherboard!" https://www.rubenerd.au/iigs-adventures-continue/ | Source: Ruben Schade
[15:48]	TR Bot	 Rubenerd: Apple II adventures continue
[15:48]	TR News	"The reception to my second post about keeping retro motherboard builds on shelves has been far more positive than the first post, which has been lovely" https://www.rubenerd.au/using-and-powering-shelf-retrocomputers/ | Source: Ruben Schade
[15:48]	TR Bot	 Rubenerd: Using and powering shelf retrocomputers
[15:48]	TR News	"Printed circuit boards were developed first for function over form." https://hackaday.com/2026/08/26/hackaday-europe-2026-pcbs-with-a-plot/ | Source: Hackaday
[15:48]	TR Bot	Europe 2026: PCBs With A Plot | Hackaday
[15:49]	TR News	"The Haiku project has released a new development snapshot of the lightweight, single-user operating system." https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12933 | Source: Distro Watch
[15:49]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12933 )
[15:50]	TR News	"SoI am still working on the online multiplayer(asynch) code and UI and UX for Ridiculous Space Battles" https://www.positech.co.uk/cliffsblog/2026/08/26/challenge-code-and-ui-almost-done/ | Source: Positech Games
[15:50]	TR Bot	 Challenge code and UI almost done! Cliffski's Blog
[15:50]	TR News	"An inconvenient part of GPU driver development is the fact that GPUs can crash and hang for various reasons, just like CPUs." https://timur.hu/blog/2026/how-does-gpu-recovery-work-on-amd-gpus-on-linux | Source: Timur Kristf
[15:50]	TR Bot	 How does GPU recovery work with AMD GPUs on Linux? | Timurs blog
[15:51]	TR News	"Meanwhile, your smart TV might be doing more than binge-watching Netflix while you sleep." https://grahamcluley.com/smashing-security-podcast-482/ | Source: Graham Cluley
[15:51]	TR Bot	 Smashing Security podcast #482: This hacker leaked GTA 6 - and launched their own cryptocurrency Graham Cluley
[15:51]	TR News	"Today Relay launched the public and private feeds of my new podcast, Designed in California." https://sixcolors.com/link/2026/08/designed-in-california-feeds-are-up-and-running/ | Source: Six Colors
[15:51]	TR Bot	 Designed in California feeds are up and running Six Colors
[15:52]	TR News	"This week Jonathan chats with Nathan Freitas of the Guardian Project! What is going on at the forefront of Open Source and privacy advocacy?" https://hackaday.com/2026/08/26/floss-weekly-episode-879-easy-like-butter/ | Source: Hackaday
[15:52]	TR Bot	Weekly Episode 879: Easy Like Butter | Hackaday
[15:53]	TR News	1047 Games stop development on EMPULSE and SPLITGATE: Arena Reloaded | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/1047-games-stop-development-on-empulse-and-splitgate-arena-reloaded/ Source: GamingOnLinux
[15:53]	TR Bot	Games stop development on EMPULSE and SPLITGATE: Arena Reloaded | GamingOnLinux
[15:53]	TR News	Dead by Daylight will be testing out Denuvo Anti-Cheat and other systems soon | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/dead-by-daylight-will-be-testing-out-denuvo-anti-cheat-and-other-systems-soon/ Source: GamingOnLinux
[15:53]	TR Bot	by Daylight will be testing out Denuvo Anti-Cheat and other systems soon | GamingOnLinux
[15:53]	TR News	Alien Deathstorm from Rebellion has a new trailer and release set for Spring 2027 | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/alien-deathstorm-from-rebellion-has-a-new-trailer-and-release-set-for-spring-2027/ Source: GamingOnLinux
[15:53]	TR Bot	Deathstorm from Rebellion has a new trailer and release set for Spring 2027 | GamingOnLinux
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[15:58]	TR News	VR co-op heist game PAYDAY: Aces High is being 'developed for Steam Frame' | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/vr-co-op-heist-game-payday-aces-high-is-being-developed-for-steam-frame/ Source: GamingOnLinux |
[15:58]	TR Bot	co-op heist game PAYDAY: Aces High is being 'developed for Steam Frame' | GamingOnLinux
[15:59]	TR News	Hollow Home is an upcoming narrative survival RPG set in a city under siege | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/hollow-home-is-an-upcoming-narrative-survival-rpg-set-in-a-city-under-siege/ Source: GamingOnLinux
[15:59]	TR Bot	Home is an upcoming narrative survival RPG set in a city under siege | GamingOnLinux
● Aug 27
[16:01]	TR News	Hollywood Hustle: A Prop Collector Simulator has a fun idea for a scavenging clean-up sim | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/hollywood-hustle-a-prop-collector-simulator-has-a-fun-idea-for-a-scavenging-clean-up-sim/ Source: GamingOnLinux
[16:01]	TR Bot	Hustle: A Prop Collector Simulator has a fun idea for a scavenging clean-up sim | GamingOnLinux
[16:14]	TR News	Techrights RSS is King: Why Having Subscribers or Followers in Sites You Neither Own Nor Control is Loss of Autonomy and Search is Mostly Slop (Plagiarising Sites, Not Linking to Them) https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/27/RSS_is_King_Why_Having_Subscribers_or_Followers_in_Sites_You_Ne.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/27/RSS_is_King_Why_Having_Subscribers_or_Followers_in_Sites_You_Ne.gmi 
[16:14]	TR Bot	 Techrights RSS is King: Why Having Subscribers or Followers in Sites You Neither Own Nor Control is Loss of Autonomy and Search is Mostly Slop (Plagiarising Sites, Not Linking to Them)
[16:14]	TR News	Gamescom Opening Night Live 2026 round-up of announcements | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/gamescom-opening-night-live-2026-round-up-of-announcements/ Source: GamingOnLinux
[16:14]	TR Bot	Opening Night Live 2026 round-up of announcements | GamingOnLinux
[16:14]	TR News	Yet Another Zombie Survivors review | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/yet-another-zombie-survivors-review/ Source: GamingOnLinux | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/yet-another-zombie-survivors-review/
[16:14]	TR Bot	Another Zombie Survivors review | GamingOnLinux
[16:14]	TR News	Blood Dungeon review | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/blood-dungeon-review/ Source: GamingOnLinux | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/blood-dungeon-review/
[16:14]	TR Bot	Dungeon review | GamingOnLinux
[16:15]	TR News	Surveillance laws are more dangerous together than individually | "vervakningslagarna r farligare tillsammans n var fr sig" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/08/25/overvakningslagarna-ar-farligare-tillsammans-an-var-for-sig/
[16:15]	TR Bot	 vervakningslagarna r farligare tillsammans n var fr sig
[16:22]	TR News	IDG (funded by Microsoft) revisionism. when launched, XP was absolutely reviled by the masses, and for good reasons, not just the UI https://www.pcworld.com/article/3221156/windows-xp-turns-25-it-still-beats-windows-8-in-market-share.html
[16:22]	TR Bot	XP turns 25. It's still beating Windows 8 in market share | PCWorld
[16:23]	TR News	 (NEW):  BcalcOS Devuan-based Linux distribution https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/BcalcOS_Devuan_based_Linux_distribution.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/BcalcOS_Devuan_based_Linux_distribution.gmi 
[16:23]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines BcalcOS Devuan-based Linux distribution
[16:28]	TR News	 (NEW):  Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Free_and_Open_Source_Software_howtos_and_Installations.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Free_and_Open_Source_Software_howtos_and_Installations.gmi 
[16:28]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations
[16:33]	TR News	 (NEW):  5 reasons Linux is the most valuable software in the world (even though it's free) https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/5_reasons_Linux_is_the_most_valuable_software_in_the_world_even.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/5_reasons_Linux_is_the_most_valuable_software_in_the_world_even.gmi 
[16:33]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines 5 reasons Linux is the most valuable software in the world (even though it's free)
[16:35]	TR News	 (NEW):  The 5 best Linux alternatives to Windows in 2026 (that aren't Mint) https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/The_5_best_Linux_alternatives_to_Windows_in_2026_that_aren_t_Mi.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/The_5_best_Linux_alternatives_to_Windows_in_2026_that_aren_t_Mi.gmi 
[16:35]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines The 5 best Linux alternatives to Windows in 2026 (that aren't Mint)
[16:38]	TR News	 (NEW):  Linux does these 5 things effortlessly that Windows still struggles with https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Linux_does_these_5_things_effortlessly_that_Windows_still_strug.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Linux_does_these_5_things_effortlessly_that_Windows_still_strug.gmi 
[16:38]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Linux does these 5 things effortlessly that Windows still struggles with
[16:39]	TR News	Techrights Mainstream Media is Paid to Link "AI" Criticism/Boosting to Jeffrey Epstein Enablers, in Effect Showing How Corrupt This Media Became https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/27/Mainstream_Media_is_Paid_to_Link_AI_Criticism_Boosting_to_Jeffr.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/27/Mainstream_Media_is_Paid_to_Link_AI_Criticism_Boosting_to_Jeffr.gmi 
[16:39]	TR Bot	 Techrights Mainstream Media is Paid to Link "AI" Criticism/Boosting to Jeffrey Epstein Enablers, in Effect Showing How Corrupt This Media Became
[16:41]	TR News	ChatGPT wants to read your messages after decryption| "ChatGPT vill lsa dina meddelanden efter dekryptering" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/08/26/chatgpt-vill-lasa-dina-meddelanden-efter-dekryptering/
[16:41]	TR Bot	 ChatGPT vill lsa dina meddelanden efter dekryptering
[16:47]	TR News	Techrights The Register MS Has Just Published Paid Spam That Says "AI" 19 Times https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/27/The_Register_MS_Has_Just_Published_Paid_Spam_That_Says_AI_19_Ti.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/27/The_Register_MS_Has_Just_Published_Paid_Spam_That_Says_AI_19_Ti.gmi 
[16:47]	TR Bot	 Techrights The Register MS Has Just Published Paid Spam That Says "AI" 19 Times
[16:50]	TR News	 (NEW):   : Google Android Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Android_Leftovers.1.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Android_Leftovers.1.gmi 
[16:50]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Android Leftovers
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[16:53]	TR News	"Skips the weights that matter least" https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/how-ai-inference-works-clearly-explained | Source: Red Hat Official
[16:53]	TR Bot	 How AI inference works, clearly explained
[16:53]	TR News	Red Hat selling slop plagiarism, not Linux
[16:53]	TR News	"To help you strategically plan and execute your Red Hat Enterprise Linux modernization" https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/migrate-confidence-how-red-hat-consulting-de-risks-your-linux-transition | Source: Red Hat Official
[16:53]	TR Bot	 Modernize with confidence: Build a threat-resistant Linux foundation with Red Hat Consulting
[16:54]	TR News	"Container (operator), virtual machine" https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/modernizing-database-workloads-red-hat-openshift | Source: Red Hat Official
[16:54]	TR Bot	 Modernizing database workloads on Red Hat OpenShift
[16:55]	TR News	Red Hat selling slop bots or automation that makes mistakes and waste people's time: "Enriched tickets with validated summaries, ready for human review or downstream action" https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/taming-agent-beast-monolithic-prompt-modular-agentic-workflow | Source: Red Hat Official
[16:55]	TR Bot	 Taming the agent beast: From monolithic prompt to modular agentic workflow
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[17:00]	TR News	Slop all the way at IBM Red Hat https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/08/27/llm-d-flow-control-priority-queuing-for-shared-gpu-inference
[17:00]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/08/27/llm-d-flow-control-priority-queuing-for-shared-gpu-inference )
[17:01]	TR News	Slop slop slop... barely anything else going on at Red Hat because of IBM https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/08/26/reinforcement-learning-from-verifiable-rewards-with-training-hub-on-red-hat-openshift-ai
[17:01]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/08/26/reinforcement-learning-from-verifiable-rewards-with-training-hub-on-red-hat-openshift-ai )
[17:02]	TR News	Slop and nothing else, this is a hype machine, not a tech company https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/08/26/how-ai-observability-works-mlflow
[17:02]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/08/26/how-ai-observability-works-mlflow )
[17:03]	TR News	They market everything as slop now, they don't try to call out the pyramid scheme instead https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/08/26/try-ansible-playbook-generation-lab-gemini-and-openai they also help Microsoft sell proprietary software here
[17:03]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/08/26/try-ansible-playbook-generation-lab-gemini-and-openai )
[17:06]	TR News	LLM plagiarism in code https://blog.verbum.org/2026/08/27/1936/
[17:06]	TR Bot	 For agentic code execution, generic tools + skills and sandbox Colin Walters
[17:06]	TR News	Security updates for Wednesday https://lwn.net/Articles/1090732/
[17:06]	TR Bot	updates for Wednesday [LWN.net]
[17:06]	TR News	Just because you are the only person criticising something does not make you wrong
[17:07]	TR News	It often turns out, other are simply afraid to do the same, it's not that it is wrong
[17:07]	TR News	"You should not talk about this, you might get in trouble"
[17:08]	TR News	And yet, someone does need to talk about what is wrong. If nobody does it, then the oppressor or the corrupt entity will get its way, unchallenged
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[17:20]	TR News	Confirmed: Evri Support (Over E-mail) is Just a Bot! https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/27/confirmed-evri-support-over-e-mail-is-just-a-bot/
[17:20]	TR Bot	Blog Archive Confirmed: Evri Support (Over E-mail) is Just a Bot!
[17:27]	TR News	Apple II adventures continue https://www.rubenerd.au/iigs-adventures-continue/
[17:28]	TR Bot	 Rubenerd: Apple II adventures continue
[17:28]	TR News	FSF Blogs: Five more organizer tales: LibreLocal 2026, part three http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/2026-librelocal-part-3
[17:28]	TR Bot	 Five more organizer tales: LibreLocal 2026, part three Free Software Foundation Working together for free software
[17:31]	TR News	VMs won't contain cyber-capable agents https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/08/26/vms-wont-contain-cyber-capable-agents/
[17:31]	TR Bot	 VMs won't contain cyber-capable agents - The Trail of Bits Blog
[17:32]	TR News	The Minions of Avian Intelligence https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1168/the-minions-of-avian-intelligence
[17:32]	TR Bot	 The Minions of Avian Intelligence - David Revoy
[17:32]	TR News	Shadow database scandal: noyb sends SCHUFA cease-and-desist letter; interest list for class action opened https://noyb.eu/en/shadow-database-scandal-noyb-sends-schufa-cease-and-desist-letter-interest-list-class-action
[17:32]	TR Bot	 Shadow database scandal: noyb sends SCHUFA cease-and-desist letter; interest list for class action opened
[17:33]	TR News	Spyware for Babies https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/08/spyware-for-babies.html
[17:33]	TR Bot	for Babies - Schneier on Security
[17:33]	TR News	Search for 1,000 missing after deadly Nepal-Tibet floods https://hongkongfp.com/2026/08/27/search-for-1000-missing-after-deadly-nepal-tibet-floods/
[17:33]	TR Bot	 Search for 1,000 missing after deadly Nepal-Tibet floods
[17:36]	TR News	CarotOS GNU/Linux distribution for learning cybersecurity https://www.linuxlinks.com/carotos-linux-distribution-cybersecurity/
[17:36]	TR Bot	- Linux distribution for learning cybersecurity - LinuxLinks
[17:37]	TR News	Amphiptere OS Debian-based Purple Team GNU/Linux distribution https://www.linuxlinks.com/amphiptere-os-debian-based-purple-team-linux-distribution/
[17:37]	TR Bot	OS - Debian-based Purple Team Linux distribution - LinuxLinks
[17:39]	TR News	IBM makes "Red Bait Consulting" like IBM Consulting https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/migrate-confidence-how-red-hat-consulting-de-risks-your-linux-transition
[17:41]	TR News	Freexian Collaborators: Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, July 2026 (by Santiago Ruano Rincn) https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-lts-report-2026-07/
[17:41]	TR Bot	report about Debian Long Term Support, July 2026 | Freexian
[17:41]	TR News	The Rust Programming Language Blog: Announcing our first Maintainers in Residence https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/08/26/announcing-our-first-maintainers-in-residence/
[17:41]	TR Bot	 Announcing our first Maintainers in Residence | Rust Blog
[17:42]	TR News	You Should Keep an Eye Out on Chromium's Flatpak Experiment https://itsfoss.com/news/experimental-chromium-flatpak-packaging/
[17:42]	TR Bot	 You Should Keep an Eye Out on Chromium's Flatpak Experiment
[17:43]	TR News	Filipe Rosset: Brother DCP-T420W (workaround for GNU/Linux aarch64 and macOS 27 Golden Gate) https://ro7bit.wordpress.com/2026/08/26/brother-dcp-t420w-workaround-for-linux-aarch64-and-macos-27-golden-gate/
[17:43]	TR Bot	 Brother DCP-T420W (workaround for Linux aarch64 and macOS 27 Golden Gate) ::: ro7bit :::
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[17:46]	TR News	On the Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm and regression models https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/08/on-the-expectation-maximization-em-algorithm-and-regression-models/
[17:46]	TR Bot	the Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm and regression models | R-bloggers
[17:46]	TR News	Cochrans Q test in R, or the extension of McNemars test for more than two groups https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/08/cochrans-q-test-in-r-or-the-extension-of-mcnemars-test-for-more-than-two-groups/
[17:46]	TR Bot	Q test in R, or the extension of McNemars test for more than two groups | R-bloggers
[17:50]	TR News	Brett Wilson LLP is Extremely Rude https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/27/brett-wilson-llp-is-extremely-rude/
[17:50]	TR Bot	Blog Archive Brett Wilson LLP is Extremely Rude
[17:53]	TR News	I Try My Best to Boycott YouTube and You Should Too https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/26/i-try-my-best-to-boycott-youtube-and-you-should-too/
[17:53]	TR Bot	Blog Archive I Try My Best to Boycott YouTube and You Should Too
[17:54]	TR News	OpenOffice in 2026 - A relic from a better time https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/openoffice-2026-usability.html
[17:54]	TR Bot	 OpenOffice in 2026 - A relic from a better time
[17:54]	TR News	LibreOffice 26.8 brings professional typography, deeper support for the worlds writing systems, and no artificial intelligence https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/08/26/libreoffice-26-8/
[17:54]	TR Bot	 LibreOffice 26.8 brings professional typography, deeper support for the world's writing systems, and no artificial intelligence - TDF Community Blog
[17:56]	TR News	Chrome Flatpak on Linux: What It Is, How to Install It, and Why Surveillance Giant Google Is Experimenting With It https://www.fosslinux.com/160521/chrome-flatpak-linux-install-guide.htm
[17:56]	TR Bot	 Chrome Flatpak on Linux: What It Is, How to Install It, and Why Google Is Experimenting With It
[17:56]	TR News	LibreOffice 26.8 released with paragraph layout changes, draft view + more https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/libreoffice-268-released
[17:56]	TR Bot	 LibreOffice 26.8 released with paragraph layout changes, draft view + more - OMG! Ubuntu
[17:57]	TR News	GXDE 25.5-beta1 https://distrowatch.com/gxde
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[17:57]	TR News	Snal 1.41 https://distrowatch.com/snal
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[17:58]	TR News	FireWire HAT with PCIe 2.0 for Tapeless DV and HDV Capture https://linuxgizmos.com/firewire-hat-with-pcie-2-0-for-tapeless-dv-and-hdv-capture/
[17:58]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/firewire-hat-with-pcie-2-0-for-tapeless-dv-and-hdv-capture/ )
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[18:01]	TR News	Roll Out the Cake: GNU/Linux Turns 35 http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Roll-Out-the-Cake-Linux-Turns-35
[18:01]	TR Bot	 Roll Out the Cake: Linux Turns 35 Linux Magazine
[18:02]	TR News	Why Your Backups Are Too Big: A Practical Guide to Content-Defined Chunking https://www.linux.com/contributed/why-your-backups-are-too-big-a-practical-guide-to-content-defined-chunking/
[18:02]	TR Bot	Your Backups Are Too Big: A Practical Guide to Content-Defined Chunking - Linux.com
[18:03]	TR News	TerriaMap build and deploy geospatial data explorers https://www.linuxlinks.com/terriamap-build-deploy-geospatial-data-explorers/
[18:03]	TR Bot	- build and deploy geospatial data explorers - LinuxLinks
[18:03]	TR News	TerriaMap build and deploy geospatial data explorers https://www.linuxlinks.com/terriamap-build-deploy-geospatial-data-explorers/
[18:04]	TR News	Papr terminal workspace for academic research https://www.linuxlinks.com/papr-terminal-workspace-academic-research/
[18:04]	TR Bot	- terminal workspace for academic research - LinuxLinks
[18:04]	TR News	Marcel modern shell https://www.linuxlinks.com/marcel-modern-shell/
[18:04]	TR Bot	- modern shell - LinuxLinks
[18:04]	TR News	Carboxyl community-maintained fork of Carbonyl https://www.linuxlinks.com/carboxyl-community-maintained-fork-carbonyl/
[18:05]	TR Bot	- community-maintained fork of Carbonyl - LinuxLinks
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[18:13]	TR News	Poking the Bear https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/27/poking-the-bear/
[18:13]	TR Bot	Blog Archive Poking the Bear
[18:14]	TR News	Sjoerd Stendahl: Impressions of my first GUADEC conference in A Corua https://blogs.gnome.org/sstendahl/2026/08/26/impressions-of-my-first-guadec-conference-in-a-coruna/
[18:14]	TR Bot	 Impressions of my first GUADEC conference in A Corua Sjoerd Stendahl
[18:14]	TR News	LibreOffice 26.8 released https://lwn.net/Articles/1090606/
[18:14]	TR Bot	26.8 released [LWN.net]
[18:15]	TR News	Dev snapshot: Godot 4.8 dev 4 https://godotengine.org/article/dev-snapshot-godot-4-8-dev-4/
[18:15]	TR Bot	 Dev snapshot: Godot 4.8 dev 4 Godot Engine
[18:18]	TR News	FSF News: Job opportunity: Systems Integration Administrator at the Free Software Foundation http://www.fsf.org/news/2026-job-opportunity-fsf-systems-integration-administrator
[18:18]	TR Bot	 Job opportunity: Systems Integration Administrator at the Free Software Foundation Free Software Foundation Working together for free software
[18:19]	TR News	GNU Emacs 31.1 Released as the First of 2026 https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/08/gnu-emacs-31-1-released/
[18:19]	TR Bot	 GNU Emacs 31.1 Released as the First of 2026 | UbuntuHandbook
[18:20]	TR News	 (NEW):  New Release of Emacs https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/25/New_Release_of_Emacs.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/25/New_Release_of_Emacs.gmi 
[18:20]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines New Release of Emacs
[18:22]	TR News	How to Install PHP 8.5 on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS https://tecadmin.net/install-php-85-on-ubuntu-26-04/
[18:22]	TR Bot	 How to Install PHP 8.5 on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS TecAdmin
[18:22]	TR News	Judge Refuses to Toss Indie Musicians David v. Goliath Lawsuit Against Suno https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/26/judge-wont-toss-indie-musician-lawsuit-v-suno/
[18:22]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/26/judge-wont-toss-indie-musician-lawsuit-v-suno/ )
[18:23]	TR News	Activist Songwriter George Johnson Doubles Down on Phono V Settlement Proposal Criticism: The RIAA and NMPA Have Had a Long History of Brazen Self-Dealing in CRB Proceedings https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/26/phonorecords-v-proposed-settlement-george-johnson-comments/
[18:23]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/26/phonorecords-v-proposed-settlement-george-johnson-comments/ )
[18:23]	TR News	OpenAI bans Russian Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot accounts posing as a fake Israeli think tank used VPNs to push pro-Kremlin narratives and steal academic papers for its website https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/openai-bans-russian-chatgpt-accounts-behind-a-fake-think-tank-pushing-pro-kremlin-narratives
[18:23]	TR Bot	 OpenAI bans Russian ChatGPT accounts posing as a fake Israeli think tank used VPNs to push pro-Kremlin narratives and steal academic papers for its website | Tom's Hardware
[18:24]	TR News	Ukraines Most Potent Weapon: The Software Orchestrating Its Drone Army https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/world/europe/ukraine-delta-battlefield-management.html
[18:24]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/world/europe/ukraine-delta-battlefield-management.html )
[18:25]	TR News	Armbian 26.8 Released
[18:26]	TR News	A hidden Ubuntu feature I use to tidy up my desktop https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/ubuntu-desktop-icons-stacks
[18:26]	TR Bot	 A hidden Ubuntu feature I use to tidy up my desktop - OMG! Ubuntu
[18:27]	TR News	Darktable Tagged 5.6.1 with Numerous Bug-fixes & Improvements https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/08/darktable-tagged-5-6-1-with-numerous-bug-fixes-improvements/
[18:27]	TR Bot	 Darktable Tagged 5.6.1 with Numerous Bug-fixes & Improvements | UbuntuHandbook
[18:27]	TR News	Dolphin 26.08, and KIO perf improvements https://blogs.kde.org/2026/08/26/dolphin-26.08-and-kio-perf-improvements/
[18:27]	TR Bot	 Dolphin 26.08, and KIO perf improvements - KDE Blogs
[18:28]	TR News	NebiOS 10.3-dev2026.08.26 https://distrowatch.com/nebios
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[18:28]	TR News	Haiku r1-beta6 https://distrowatch.com/haiku
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[18:28]	TR News	IBM's Quantum Computing Lies Explained Again by Sabine Hossenfelder https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/26/IBM_s_Quantum_Computing_Lies_Explained_Again_by_Sabine_Hossenfe.shtml
[18:28]	TR Bot	 Techrights IBM's Quantum Computing Lies Explained Again by Sabine Hossenfelder
[18:28]	TR News	"Sometimes it's necessary to disconnect" - movie playing...
[18:29]	TR News	Rapha&#235;l Hertzog: Debians General Resolution on Hey Hi (AI) and LLM https://raphaelhertzog.com/2026/08/26/debians-general-resolution-on-ai-and-llm/
[18:29]	TR Bot	 Debians General Resolution on AI and LLM
[18:30]	TR News	Kubernetes v1.37: Garhwal https://kubernetes.io/blog/2026/08/26/kubernetes-v1-37-release/
[18:30]	TR Bot	 Kubernetes v1.37: Garhwal | Kubernetes
[18:31]	TR News	SoundCloud Adds On-Platform Support for Paid Downloads, Says Artists Will Keep 100% of Each Sale https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/26/soundcloud-downloads-beta/
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[18:32]	TR News	Gocaster lightweight terminal-based podcast https://www.linuxlinks.com/gocaster-lightweight-terminal-based-podcast/
[18:32]	TR Bot	- lightweight terminal-based podcast - LinuxLinks
[18:33]	TR News	Beyond Syslog: Building a Tamper-Proof E-Commerce Audit Trail with immudb https://fossforce.com/2026/08/beyond-syslog-building-a-tamper-proof-e-commerce-audit-trail-with-immudb/
[18:33]	TR Bot	 Beyond Syslog: Building a Tamper-Proof E-Commerce Audit Trail with immudb - FOSS Force
[18:33]	TR News	Dolly Partons Other Legacy: A Fortune Given Away, Dollar by Dollar https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/business/dolly-parton-philanthropy-books-covid-vaccine.html
[18:33]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/business/dolly-parton-philanthropy-books-covid-vaccine.html )
[18:37]	TR News	vixalien: Adding Debug Adapter Protocol Support to GJS https://www.vixalien.com/blog/gjs-dap/
[18:37]	TR Bot	Debug Adapter Protocol Support to GJS - vixalien's blog
[18:37]	TR News	From Australia to Europe, countries move to curb children's social control media access https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/from-australia-to-europe-countries-move-to-curb-childrens-social-media-access6
[18:37]	TR Bot	 From Australia to Europe, countries move to curb children's social media access | The Straits Times
[18:40]	TR News	Malaysia to regulate e-commerce platforms following complaints https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-to-regulate-e-commerce-platforms-following-complaints
[18:40]	TR Bot	 Malaysia to regulate e-commerce platforms following complaints | The Straits Times
[18:43]	TR News	Inside Evergrandes unfinished fairytale castle and the long shadow of Chinas property boom gone bust https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/inside-evergrandes-unfinished-fairytale-castle-and-the-long-shadow-of-chinas-property-boom-gone-bust
[18:43]	TR Bot	 Inside Evergrandes unfinished fairytale castle and the long shadow of Chinas property boom gone bust | The Straits Times
[18:44]	TR News	Officials disrupt Chinese espionage operation that hit multiple federal agencies https://cyberscoop.com/qtfy-china-espionage-group-infrastructure-seized/
[18:44]	TR Bot	disrupt Chinese espionage operation that hit multiple federal agencies | CyberScoop
[18:46]	TR News	A Bill of Rights for Whom? H.R. 9799 Misreads the Modern Retail Market https://project-disco.org/competition/a-bill-of-rights-for-whom-h-r-9799-misreads-the-modern-retail-market/
[18:46]	TR Bot	 A Bill of Rights for Whom? H.R. 9799 Misreads the Modern Retail Market - Disruptive Competition Project
[18:47]	IsambardPrince	The exterminator came out and used MGK Vendetta in the cabinets and behind the drawers and in the bathroom.
[18:47]	IsambardPrince	I told him I had already treated the hinges with Terro gel so he just left that there.
[18:48]	IsambardPrince	I moved all the bait stations that were in use into my living room, bedroom, and closets, then when he was done I popped open a dozen RAID Double Control ones and deployed those in the corners and under appliances.
[18:49]	IsambardPrince	Wherever they go I want them to have something to feed on and die.
[18:50]	IsambardPrince	I laughed when i saw him using a syringe of MGK Vendetta. The stuff is available on Amazon. It's not cheap but you can buy it yourself if the other option is that you have to hire an exterminator out of pocket, like they got into your house or something and there is no landlord to call.
[18:52]	IsambardPrince	Orkin and the other exterminator companies are basically using stuff anyone with a web browser can buy on Amazon these days.
[18:53]	schestowitz[TR2]	amazon man
[18:53]	IsambardPrince	If you want to spray your baseboards with something the professionals use, you can just buy MGK Onslaught concentrate and shake it up and mix it in a pump sprayer per the dilution directions then pressurize it and go down the baseboards. It's non-repellent, it does work. It is not highly toxic to mammals, although pets should be kept in an area you're not treating yet until the stuff dries.
[18:54]	schestowitz[TR2]	i have just asked rianne if she saw a cockroach here
[18:54]	schestowitz[TR2]	she said no
[18:54]	schestowitz[TR2]	we saw mice and rats in facilities in the uk
[18:54]	schestowitz[TR2]	never cockroaches
[18:54]	schestowitz[TR2]	(i'm sure they exist)
[18:54]	IsambardPrince	Yeah, cockroaches are sneaky.
[18:55]	IsambardPrince	Take whatever ones you see and assume there's 30-40 more in the walls somewhere.
[18:55]	schestowitz[TR2]	in $1800 per month per bedrom place.. awful 
[18:55]	schestowitz[TR2]	to have such a thing
[18:55]	schestowitz[TR2]	should be 900ppp
[18:55]	schestowitz[TR2]	i mean $pp
[18:56]	IsambardPrince	If you see or trap 20 roaches, it means you have a big goddamn problem somewhere, and you need to immediately start baiting for them with something that actually works, and/or spraying pro-grade stuff that works following all safety directions.
[18:56]	IsambardPrince	Deltamethrin (Suspend SC/RAID Perimeter) is not very useful.
[18:56]	IsambardPrince	They can smell it, they hate it, all it does is send them burrowing even deeper from wherever you sprayed it.
[18:57]	IsambardPrince	It's only useful for establishing a line you don't want them to cross.
[18:57]	IsambardPrince	Like keeping them away from the water in your bathroom sink or bathtub.
[18:58]	TR News	Armbian 26.8 released https://lwn.net/Articles/1090741/
[18:58]	TR Bot	26.8 released [LWN.net]
[18:58]	IsambardPrince	If you actually want to kill roaches with a spray, you'll use a baseboard spray or IGR (or both) that do not panic or repel them.
[18:58]	IsambardPrince	The first thing Orkin did at the last place was spray Suspend SC. I saw roaches go crazy and walk out into the middle of the room and die.
[18:58]	IsambardPrince	But that's because the guy was blindly spraying the stuff and he just happened to hit a few of them while they were out foraging.
[18:59]	TR News	 (NEW):  Armbian 26.8 Released with Linux 7.1, Revamped Installer, and UEFI ISO Images https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/25/Armbian_26_8_Released_with_Linux_7_1_Revamped_Installer_and_UEF.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/25/Armbian_26_8_Released_with_Linux_7_1_Revamped_Installer_and_UEF.gmi 
[18:59]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Armbian 26.8 Released with Linux 7.1, Revamped Installer, and UEFI ISO Images
● Aug 27
[19:00]	TR News	Your Coworkers Are Becoming Meat Proxies for Hey Hi (AI) https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/coworkers-becoming-meat-proxies-ai
[19:00]	TR Bot	 Your Coworkers Are Becoming "Meat Proxies" for AI
[19:00]	TR News	Top WSJ Editor Approves AI-Assisted Writing, Says Hey Hi (AI) is a Fact of Modern Life in Major Inflection Point for Media Industry https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/wsj-ai-writing-fact-of-life
[19:00]	TR Bot	 Top WSJ Editor Approves AI-Assisted Writing, Says AI is a "Fact of Modern Life" in Major Inflection Point for Media Industry
[19:00]	IsambardPrince	The reason landlords are persnickety about tenants who are "clean" is, they don't want you seeing roaches because that allows there to be an undetected cockroach problem that they don't have to do anything about.
[19:01]	TR News	Meta to Pay Up to $17.1 Billion in Landmark Settlement Over Social Media Addiction Claims https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/technology/meta-settlement-social-media-addiction-lawsuit.html
[19:01]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/technology/meta-settlement-social-media-addiction-lawsuit.html )
[19:01]	IsambardPrince	There will be a few foragers, but odds are you will never see one because they're nocturnal, hate the light and don't randomly run through the middle of the room unless it's so crowded their behavior changes.
[19:03]	TR News	US Justice Department seizes domains it says Chinese state-sponsored hackers used to infiltrate systems at NASA, Senate, Federal Reserve, and more FBI moves forward with domain seizures https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/us-justice-department-claims-chinese-state-sponsored-hackers-infiltrated-systems-at-nasa-senate-federal-reserve-and-more-fbi-moves-forward-with-domain-seizures
[19:03]	TR Bot	 US Justice Department seizes domains it says Chinese state-sponsored hackers used to infiltrate systems at NASA, Senate, Federal Reserve, and more FBI moves forward with domain seizures | Tom's Hardware
[19:04]	IsambardPrince	When the problem gets flushed out into the light, it's because of the "dirty kitchen" tenant. They move in a tenant who is living like a pig.
[19:04]	TR News	Estate planningof credentials https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/estate-planning-of-credentials/
[19:04]	TR Bot	 Estate planningof credentials | Pen Test Partners
[19:04]	IsambardPrince	They're leaving an all you can eat buffet out, the roaches consume that and whatever standing water they can find, and they multiply due to this reserve of fuel.
[19:05]	IsambardPrince	The size of the problem scales upward, and then your typical tenant who complains about seeing a lot of them is running a dirty apartment.
[19:05]	IsambardPrince	The dirty kitchen doesn't create roaches, it draws them out of the walls, and gives them plenty of sustenance to breed quickly.
[19:06]	TR News	Three 10.0 security flaws fixed across Ubiquitis UniFi line https://cyberscoop.com/ubiquiti-unifi-critical-vulnerabilities-patched/
[19:06]	TR Bot	10.0 security flaws fixed across Ubiquitis UniFi line | CyberScoop
[19:07]	TR News	Case Study: Conquering the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) with 1,400 Upstream Security Fixes https://openssf.org/blog/2026/08/26/case-study-conquering-the-eu-cyber-resilience-act-cra-with-1400-upstream-security-fixes/
[19:07]	TR Bot	 EU Cyber Resilience Act Case Study: 1,400 Upstream Fixes
[19:07]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2]: I told Tony the repair man about Mark's "There will be an inspection on Wednesday." letter when he was selling the building. I said "He didn't tell any of the tenants he was selling it. I found the listing on NMLS though, so I knew.  There were 27 units and as soon as that notice got slapped on the door they filled the dumpster 8 times in two days."
[19:07]	TR News	CISA Warns of Exploited Gitea Vulnerability https://www.securityweek.com/cisa-warns-of-exploited-gitea-vulnerability/
[19:07]	TR Bot	Warns of Exploited Gitea Vulnerability - SecurityWeek
[19:08]	TR News	Sensitive Information Exposed in Nutex Health Data Breach https://www.securityweek.com/sensitive-information-exposed-in-nutex-health-data-breach/
[19:08]	TR Bot	Information Exposed in Nutex Health Data Breach - SecurityWeek
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[19:08]	schestowitz[TR2]	IsambardPrince: he knew why
[19:08]	schestowitz[TR2]	but mark was selfish
[19:08]	schestowitz[TR2]	also preventing anyone telling piyush he had been conned
[19:09]	TR News	The MFA Identity Trap: When Authentication Creates a False Sense of Security https://www.securityweek.com/the-mfa-identity-trap-when-authentication-creates-a-false-sense-of-security/
[19:09]	TR Bot	MFA Identity Trap: When Authentication Creates a False Sense of Security - SecurityWeek
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[19:11]	TR News	CISA: Over 100 Internet-Exposed Water Systems Targeted in July Cyberattacks https://www.securityweek.com/cisa-over-100-internet-exposed-water-systems-targeted-in-july-cyberattacks/
[19:11]	TR Bot	Over 100 Internet-Exposed Water Systems Targeted in July Cyberattacks - SecurityWeek
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[19:12]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2]: Mark knew what all the pain points were in the building.
[19:13]	schestowitz[TR2]	same with cars
[19:13]	IsambardPrince	To keep everything going he sent Ruben out to take care of all of it on a schedule.
[19:13]	schestowitz[TR2]	more so with cars
[19:13]	schestowitz[TR2]	house inspections here before buying as almost a must
[19:13]	IsambardPrince	He had Ruben uncap and snake the pipes before they backed up.
[19:13]	schestowitz[TR2]	to ensure no disasters like these
[19:13]	IsambardPrince	Every 2 weeks the pipes that needed replacing 20 years ago go snaked before they backed up.
[19:13]	schestowitz[TR2]	or your lasty-breath buick
[19:13]	schestowitz[TR2]	*last
[19:13]	IsambardPrince	Because that's cheaper than replacing pipes.
[19:13]	schestowitz[TR2]	yopu invested a lot in a dying auto
[19:13]	schestowitz[TR2]	that's why they sold it
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[19:14]	TR News	Adobe and Nvidia Patch Dozens of Vulnerabilities https://www.securityweek.com/adobe-and-nvidia-patch-dozens-of-vulnerabilities/
[19:15]	TR Bot	and Nvidia Patch Dozens of Vulnerabilities - SecurityWeek
[19:15]	TR News	A mini inventory management system perfect your electronic components https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/08/26/a-mini-inventory-management-system-perfect-your-electronic-components/
[19:15]	TR Bot	 A mini inventory management system perfect your electronic components | Arduino Blog
[19:20]	TR News	Whats Changing For Teens on Instagram and Facebook (Farcebook) After Meta Settlement https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/technology/meta-instagram-facebook-settlement.html
[19:20]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/technology/meta-instagram-facebook-settlement.html )
[19:21]	TR News	After Meta Settlement, Teens Divided on New Instagram and Facebook (Farcebook) Restrictions https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/style/teens-meta-instagram-facebook-restrictions.html
[19:21]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/style/teens-meta-instagram-facebook-restrictions.html )
[19:21]	TR News	Meta reaches $17 billion settlement with US states over social control media harm to teens https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260826-meta-reaches-17-billion-settlement-with-us-states-over-social-media-harm-teens
[19:21]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260826-meta-reaches-17-billion-settlement-with-us-states-over-social-media-harm-teens )
[19:21]	TR News	Meta settles closely watched social control media addiction lawsuit for $18B https://siliconangle.com/2026/08/26/meta-settles-closely-watched-social-media-addiction-lawsuit-for-18b/
[19:21]	TR Bot	settles closely watched social media addiction lawsuit for $18B - SiliconANGLE
[19:22]	TR News	Huge Leak Shows Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Salaries Thatll Make You Jump Out the Window https://futurism.com/future-society/microsoft-spreadsheet-leak-reveals-salary-engineers
[19:22]	TR Bot	 Huge Leak Shows Microsoft Salaries That'll Make You Jump Out the Window
[19:23]	TR News	IBM = Italian Business Man
[19:23]	TR News	Week 10 + Week 11: Subsetting for freetext annotations is merged https://ojasmaheshwari.github.io/b/2026/week-10-week-11-subsetting-for-freetext-annotations-is-merged
[19:23]	TR Bot	 Week 10 + Week 11: Subsetting for freetext annotations is merged
[19:23]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2]: Piyush was stupid for buying that.
[19:23]	IsambardPrince	It's probably his worst property.
[19:24]	TR News	Banana Pi BPI-AI2N A Renesas RZ/V2N-based SoM and carrier board for Vision Hey Hi (AI) applications https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/08/26/banana-pi-bpi-ai2n-a-renesas-rz-v2n-based-som-and-carrier-board-for-vision-ai-applications/
[19:24]	TR Bot	 Banana Pi BPI-AI2N - A Renesas RZ/V2N-based SoM and carrier board for Vision AI applications - CNX Software
[19:24]	TR News	Bicom 5.2.1 https://distrowatch.com/bicom
[19:24]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/bicom )
[19:24]	schestowitz[TR2]	IsambardPrince: he sold another
[19:24]	schestowitz[TR2]	so...
[19:24]	schestowitz[TR2]	who knows...
[19:24]	schestowitz[TR2]	the devil you don't know
[19:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	and a $50k lawsuit
[19:25]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2]: He can't sell that one. Nobody who does an inspection will buy it from him.
[19:25]	TR News	Re-Introducing KQuickImageEditor: New Features and Design Philosophy https://noahdvs.wordpress.com/2026/08/26/re-introducing-kquickimageeditor-new-features-and-design-philosophy/
[19:25]	TR Bot	 Re-Introducing KQuickImageEditor: New Features and Design Philosophy Noah's Blog
[19:26]	TR News	Microsoft Paint and Photos apps add invisible watermark to AI-generated content developer reverse engineers GUID embedding https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-paint-and-photos-apps-add-invisible-watermark-to-ai-generated-content-developer-reverse-engineers-guid-embedding
[19:26]	TR Bot	 Microsoft Paint and Photos apps add invisible watermark to AI-generated content developer reverse engineers GUID embedding | Tom's Hardware
[19:26]	IsambardPrince	The bank certainly won't want to foreclose on it because they'd immediately take the liabilities the building is racking up on their books.
[19:26]	TR News	'In Ceuta, they are eating the cats': Fake images and a persistent rumour https://www.france24.com/en/ceuta-eating-cats-fake-images-persistent-rumour
[19:26]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/ceuta-eating-cats-fake-images-persistent-rumour )
[19:26]	IsambardPrince	And that doesn't just include code enforcement fines, it includes the tenants.
[19:27]	schestowitz[TR2]	so he bought a sunken liability
[19:27]	schestowitz[TR2]	and no asset
[19:27]	schestowitz[TR2]	mark inflated 800k to 2.2k
[19:27]	schestowitz[TR2]	or 2.1
[19:27]	schestowitz[TR2]	and walked away laughing
[19:27]	schestowitz[TR2]	"do it again!!"
[19:27]	schestowitz[TR2]	"do it again!!"
[19:27]	schestowitz[TR2]	"do it again!!"
[19:27]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2]: What's worse is that Piyush waited until interest rates were at 30 year highs to refi his other property to foot a down payment *and* to take on the mortgage for that building.
[19:27]	schestowitz[TR2]	*2.2m
[19:28]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2]: I told Mark "Really, I can't blame you. If I had someone pay me $2.3 million for that I'd probably get a speeding ticket for doing 90 miles an hour on a city street to go cash the check."
[19:28]	TR News	Windows TCO: Who Has Admin Rights in your Entra ID Directory, (Wed, Aug 26th) https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/33284
[19:28]	TR Bot	 Who Has Admin Rights in your Entra ID Directory? - SANS ISC
[19:30]	schestowitz[TR2]	that is so funny
[19:30]	schestowitz[TR2]	a punchline
[19:31]	TR News	HomeMaster MiniPLC An ESP32 DIN-rail PLC controller for Home Assistant https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/08/26/homemaster-miniplc-an-esp32-din-rail-plc-controller-for-home-assistant/
[19:31]	TR Bot	 HomeMaster MiniPLC - An ESP32 DIN-rail PLC controller for Home Assistant - CNX Software
[19:31]	TR News	We Now Have an 'Addiction Economy' Trapping a Generation of Young American Men, Family Researcher Warns https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/addiction-economy-young-men-mental-health-1816509
[19:31]	TR Bot	 We Now Have an 'Addiction Economy' Trapping a Generation of Young American Men, Family Researcher Warns | IBTimes UK
[19:33]	TR News	Dirk Eddelbuettel: linl 0.0.6 on CRAN: Maintenance http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/08/26#linl_0.0.6
[19:33]	TR Bot	 Thinking inside the box
[19:34]	TR News	In LaMonica McIver Dissent, Judge Ambro Describes Costs of Politicized Prosecution and Speech and Debate https://emptywheel.net/2026/08/26/in-lamonica-mciver-dissent-judge-ambro-considers-politicized-prosecution-and-speech-and-debate/
[19:34]	TR Bot	 In LaMonica McIver Dissent, Judge Ambro Describes Costs of Politicized Prosecution and Speech and Debate - emptywheel
[19:34]	TR News	Building Tyr in Rust, part 3: Managing GPU memory https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2026/08/26/building-tyr-in-rust-part-3-managing-gpu-memory/
[19:34]	TR Bot	 Building Tyr in Rust, part 3: Managing GPU memory
[19:36]	admfubar	https://www.discovermagazine.com/a-rare-brain-eating-amoeba-could-spread-farther-north-as-freshwater-warms-49589
[19:36]	TR Bot	 Climate Change Could Expand the Reach of a Rare Brain-Eating Amoeba | Discover Magazine
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[19:43]	TR News	A Year of Patent Cert Denials https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/08/a-year-of-patent-cert-denials.html
[19:43]	TR Bot	 A Year of Patent Cert Denials | Patently-O
[19:44]	TR News	Fake ladders that are commercials/ads/spam for sponsors https://www.juve-patent.com/people-and-business/juve-announces-nominees-for-patent-law-firm-and-in-house-patent-team-of-the-year/
[19:44]	TR Bot	 JUVE announces nominees for Patent Law Firm and In-house Patent Team of the Year
[19:45]	TR News	AI Tools and the Patent Prior Disclosure Problem https://blog.patentology.com.au/2026/08/ai-tools-and-patent-prior-disclosure.html
[19:45]	TR Bot	 AI Tools and the Patent Prior Disclosure Problem ~ patentology
[19:47]	TR News	X Open Sources Ranking Algorithm, Offering Transparency on Shadowbans And Even a Roadmap for Going Viral https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/26/x-open-sources-ranking-algorithm/
[19:47]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/26/x-open-sources-ranking-algorithm/ )
[19:48]	TR News	Security advisories: CVE-2026-80212 and CVE-2026-80213 https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2026/08/27/multiple-vulnerabilities-in-resolv/
[19:48]	TR Bot	 Security advisories: CVE-2026-80212 and CVE-2026-80213 | Ruby
[19:48]	TR News	EC Chairs Preview: September EC Meeting and APNIC 62 https://blog.apnic.net/2026/08/27/ec-chairs-preview-september-ec-meeting-and-apnic-62/
[19:48]	TR Bot	 EC Chair's Preview: September EC Meeting and APNIC 62 | APNIC Blog
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[19:50]	TR News	Designer Creates Worlds Most Hideous Hawaiian Shirt to Hide From Hey Hi (AI) Surveillance Cameras https://futurism.com/future-society/hideous-shirt-hide-artist-ai-surveillance-camera
[19:50]	TR Bot	 Designer Creates World's Most Hideous Hawaiian Shirt to Hide From AI Surveillance Cameras
[19:50]	TR News	Chrome 152 Patches Over 300 Vulnerabilities https://www.securityweek.com/chrome-152-patches-over-300-vulnerabilities/
[19:50]	TR Bot	152 Patches Over 300 Vulnerabilities - SecurityWeek
[19:51]	TR News	Meta agrees to court-enforced limits on teen social control media use in $18B settlements https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/08/meta-agrees-to-court-enforced-limits-on-teen-social-media-use-in-18b-settlements/
[19:51]	TR Bot	 Meta agrees to court-enforced limits on teen social media use in $18B settlements - JURIST - News
[19:52]	TR News	Hong Kong privacy watchdog warns 3 domestic workers over use of employers data for loans https://hongkongfp.com/2026/08/26/hong-kong-privacy-watchdog-warns-3-domestic-workers-over-use-of-employers-data-for-loans/
[19:52]	TR Bot	 HK privacy watchdog warns domestic workers over employer data use for loans
[19:54]	TR News	AI Speeds Up Malware Development, Not Its Success Rate: Analysis https://www.securityweek.com/ai-speeds-up-malware-development-not-its-success-rate-analysis/
[19:54]	TR Bot	Speeds Up Malware Development, Not Its Success Rate: Analysis - SecurityWeek
[19:55]	TR News	Apple threat notifications and spyware: what everyone should know https://www.accessnow.org/apple-threat-notifications-and-spyware/
[19:55]	TR Bot	 Apple threat notifications and spyware: what everyone should know - Access Now
[19:55]	TR News	Rockstar releases statement after a week of GTA VI leaks, avoids mentioning leaker's demands says that gameplay leaks have been heartbreaking for our team https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/rockstar-releases-statement-after-a-week-of-gta-vi-leaks-avoids-mentioning-leakers-demands-says-that-gameplay-leaks-have-been-heartbreaking-for-our-team
[19:55]	TR Bot	 Rockstar releases statement after a week of GTA VI leaks, avoids mentioning leaker's demands says that gameplay leaks have been heartbreaking for our team | Tom's Hardware
[19:56]	TR News	Improve low-battery warning https://bkhome.org/news/202608/improve-low-battery-warning.html
[19:56]	TR Bot	 Improve low-battery warning
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[20:01]	TR News	"Linux hardware vendor System76 released COSMIC 1.7 today as the latest stable version of this open-source, free, and Rust-based graphical desktop environment for Linux-based operating systems." https://9to5linux.com/cosmic-1-7-desktop-environment-improves-cosmic-files-cosmic-edit-and-more
[20:01]	TR Bot	1.7 Desktop Environment Improves COSMIC Files, COSMIC Edit, and More - 9to5Linux
[20:01]	IsambardPrince	King Koopa
[20:01]	IsambardPrince	1 out of 5 starsRoaches Treated This Like an All-You-Can-Eat Buffet
[20:01]	IsambardPrince	Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2026
[20:01]	IsambardPrince	Size: 8 Count (Pack of 1)
[20:01]	IsambardPrince	Verified Purchase
[20:01]	IsambardPrince	Ill give this product some credit I did start seeing dead roaches after placing the baits around the house. But strangely, it also felt like more roaches started showing up afterward. At one point, I literally watched them gathering around the bait like they were enjoying a buffet.
[20:01]	IsambardPrince	The bait definitely attracts them, but in my case, it didnt seem to reduce the overall problem enough. These roaches must be evolving because they looked way too comfortable around it. Unfortunately, Ill probably move on and try a different product next time.
[20:01]	IsambardPrince	----
[20:02]	IsambardPrince	So he's complaining that  the roaches love it and they're dying if they eat it and that's why it gets a 1 star?
[20:02]	IsambardPrince	What did you buy the bait for if you didn't want a lot of roaches to come find it and die?
[20:02]	TR News	Meet the Writer: Systems Engineering from the Cessna Cockpit to the Linux Kernel with Vitaliy Gribko https://hackernoon.com/meet-the-writer-systems-engineering-from-the-cessna-cockpit-to-the-linux-kernel-with-vitaliy-gribko
[20:02]	TR Bot	 
[20:03]	admfubar	Website:https://hackaday.com/2026/08/27/the-farador-quack-medical-device/
[20:03]	TR Bot	Farador Quack Medical Device | Hackaday
[20:04]	TR News	"The Armbian team released Armbian 26.8 today as a major update to this Debian/Ubuntu-based distribution and build framework for ARM devices with a revamped installer, UEFI ISO images, and expanded hardware support." https://9to5linux.com/armbian-26-8-released-with-linux-7-1-revamped-installer-and-uefi-iso-images
[20:04]	TR Bot	26.8 Released with Linux 7.1, Revamped Installer, and UEFI ISO Images - 9to5Linux
[20:04]	TR News	IBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE https://newsroom.ibm.com/2026-08-24-ibm-unveils-next-generation-dual-architecture-processor-for-ibm-z-and-linuxone
[20:04]	TR Bot	 IBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE
[20:05]	TR News	"A lot of that came from the scandals around proprietary software and cloud services in the 2000s/2010s, plus videos of people like Richard Stallman convincing me that free software is the way to go. I still largely agree with that philosophy." https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1w01zv8/have_you_moved_away_from_selfhosting_towards/
[20:05]	TR Bot	 Welcome to Reddit
[20:06]	TR News	'self-hosting' proprietary spyware https://www.makeuseof.com/self-host-pairdrop-for-windows-android-iphone-linux-file-transfers/
[20:06]	TR Bot	 I self-hosted AirDrop and it works with Windows, Android, iPhone, and Linux
[20:07]	TR News	Proton VPNs anti-censorship Stealth protocol finally lands on the stable Linux release https://tech.yahoo.com/vpn/articles/proton-vpn-anti-censorship-stealth-112047591.html
[20:07]	TR Bot	 Proton VPNs anti-censorship Stealth protocol finally lands on the stable Linux release
[20:08]	TR News	"The Document Foundation released LibreOffice 26.8 today as a major update for this open-source, free, and cross-platform office suite software for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows systems." https://9to5linux.com/libreoffice-26-8-open-source-office-suite-officially-released-this-is-whats-new
[20:08]	TR Bot	26.8 Open-Source Office Suite Officially Released, This Is Whats New - 9to5Linux
[20:08]	TR News	Exploits and vulnerabilities in Q2 2026 https://securelist.com/vulnerabilities-and-exploits-in-q2-2026/121091/
[20:08]	TR Bot	the vulnerability landscape in Q2 2026 | Securelist
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[20:13]	admfubar	https://hackaday.com/2026/08/24/an-electronic-explanation-of-1960s-fuzz-boxes/
[20:13]	TR Bot	Electronic Explanation Of 1960s Fuzz Boxes | Hackaday
[20:17]	TR News	Proton VPNs anti-censorship Stealth protocol finally lands on the stable Linux release https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-services/proton-vpns-anti-censorship-stealth-protocol-finally-lands-on-the-stable-linux-release
[20:17]	TR Bot	VPNs anti-censorship Stealth protocol finally lands on the stable Linux release | TechRadar
[20:17]	TR News	 (NEW):  Omarchy Quattro Review: Year of the Linux Desktop? https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Omarchy_Quattro_Review_Year_of_the_Linux_Desktop.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Omarchy_Quattro_Review_Year_of_the_Linux_Desktop.gmi 
[20:17]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Omarchy Quattro Review: Year of the Linux Desktop?
[20:17]	TR News	Slopfarm amplifying scam from so-called 'Linux' Foundation https://www.scworld.com/brief/linux-foundation-to-govern-trace-specification-for-ai-agent-security slop based on https://www.securityweek.com/linux-foundation-to-govern-trace-an-open-standard-for-ai-runtime-attestation/
[20:17]	TR Bot	 Linux Foundation to govern TRACE specification for AI agent security | brief | SC Media
[20:17]	TR Bot	Foundation to Govern TRACE, an Open Standard for AI Runtime Attestation - SecurityWeek
[20:18]	TR News	This simple antivirus tool is the easiest way to scan your Linux PC for threats - for free https://www.zdnet.com/article/clamav-gui-antivirus-tool-is-the-free-easy-way-to-scan-linux-pc-for-threats/
[20:18]	TR Bot	simple antivirus tool is the easiest way to scan your Linux PC for threats - for free | ZDNET
[20:18]	TR News	"A 'trusted' Linux device can impersonate an Apple device and access already-shared Find My locations" https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/security-expert-hijacks-apples-find-my-network-to-share-data-with-a-linux-device
[20:18]	TR Bot	expert hijacks Apple's Find My network to share data with a Linux device | TechRadar
[20:19]	TR News	Amplifying scam from so-called 'Linux' Foundation https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/linux-foundation-trace-standard-ai/
[20:19]	TR Bot	 Linux Foundation Introduces TRACE Standard for AI Runtime Evidence - Infosecurity Magazine
[20:20]	TR News	"runs on 96.3 percent of top web servers" https://www.techtimes.com/articles/325592/20260826/linux-35-rust-now-permanent-kernel-after-memory-bugs-drove-80-percent-cves.htm
[20:20]	TR Bot	 Linux at 35: Rust Now Permanent in Kernel After Memory Bugs Drove 80 Percent of CVEs
[20:20]	IsambardPrince	You need to diversify your baits for roaches. They're like the borg.
[20:20]	TR News	"These are 7 discontinued Linux projects I still miss today." https://www.howtogeek.com/7-discontinued-linux-projects-i-still-miss-today/
[20:20]	TR Bot	 7 discontinued Linux projects I still miss today
[20:20]	IsambardPrince	If you set out one type of bait, they'll adapt.
[20:20]	IsambardPrince	Either it won't taste good and they ignore it, or they have a genetic mutation that makes that poison less effective.
[20:21]	TR News	"AI-generated commands look more trustworthy than they are - Written with confidence, executed with errors" https://www.howtogeek.com/a-55-year-old-linux-tool-revived-chatgpt-is-driving-me-back-to-man-pages/
[20:22]	TR Bot	 A 55 year-old Linux tool revived: ChatGPT is driving me back to man pages
[20:22]	TR News	I ran the one command in Linux you should never run. Here's what happened https://www.howtogeek.com/i-ran-the-linux-command-you-should-never-run/
[20:22]	TR Bot	 I ran the one command in Linux you should never run. Here's what happened
[20:22]	TR News	"It's been over 20 years since I had to compile a Linux kernel, and that's because the boxed copy of Red Hat Linux someone gifted me wasn't going to work with my PC back then without adding stuff that is standard today." https://www.howtogeek.com/reasons-you-might-want-to-compile-your-linux-kernel-from-source/
[20:22]	TR Bot	 5 reasons you might want to compile your Linux kernel from source
[20:23]	TR News	Intel introduces a new BFF Linux driver to deal with aging silicon & stuck bits https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/08/26/intel-introduces-a-new-bff-linux-driver-to-deal-with-aging-silicon-stuck-bits/
[20:23]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/08/26/intel-introduces-a-new-bff-linux-driver-to-deal-with-aging-silicon-stuck-bits/ )
[20:23]	TR News	temporary https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-temporary-things-forget-windows/
[20:23]	TR Bot	 Linux was supposed to be temporary, but these things made me forget about Windows entirely
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[20:26]	TR News	 (NEW):  Linux Kernel: AMD GPUs on Linux, Vitaliy Gribko, Intel BFF Driver https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Linux_Kernel_AMD_GPUs_on_Linux_Vitaliy_Gribko_Intel_BFF_Driver.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Linux_Kernel_AMD_GPUs_on_Linux_Vitaliy_Gribko_Intel_BFF_Driver.gmi 
[20:26]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Linux Kernel: AMD GPUs on Linux, Vitaliy Gribko, Intel BFF Driver
[20:27]	TR News	 (NEW):  Audiocasts/Shows: FLOSS Weekly, Designed in California, and Smashing Security https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Audiocasts_Shows_FLOSS_Weekly_Designed_in_California_and_Smashi.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Audiocasts_Shows_FLOSS_Weekly_Designed_in_California_and_Smashi.gmi 
[20:27]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Audiocasts/Shows: FLOSS Weekly, Designed in California, and Smashing Security
[20:29]	TR News	 (NEW):  Games: Godot, GTA VI, Alien Deathstorm, Blood Dungeon, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Games_Godot_GTA_VI_Alien_Deathstorm_Blood_Dungeon_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Games_Godot_GTA_VI_Alien_Deathstorm_Blood_Dungeon_and_More.gmi 
[20:29]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Games: Godot, GTA VI, Alien Deathstorm, Blood Dungeon, and More
[20:32]	TR News	 (NEW):  Capacity Growing https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Capacity_Growing.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Capacity_Growing.gmi 
[20:32]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Capacity Growing
[20:34]	TR News	 (NEW):  Today's HowTos   https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/today_s_howtos.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/today_s_howtos.gmi 
[20:34]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines today's howtos
[20:36]	TR News	 (NEW):  Red Hat: "Red Bait Consulting", Flatpak, and a Ton of Promotion of Slop Plagiarism and Bot Errors https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Red_Hat_Red_Bait_Consulting_Flatpak_and_a_Ton_of_Promotion_of_S.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Red_Hat_Red_Bait_Consulting_Flatpak_and_a_Ton_of_Promotion_of_S.gmi 
[20:36]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Red Hat: "Red Bait Consulting", Flatpak, and a Ton of Promotion of Slop Plagiarism and Bot Errors
[20:37]	TR News	 (NEW):  Another reason to leave WordPress behind and comment on over-engineering https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Another_reason_to_leave_WordPress_behind_and_comment_on_over_en.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Another_reason_to_leave_WordPress_behind_and_comment_on_over_en.gmi 
[20:37]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Another reason to leave WordPress behind and comment on over-engineering
[20:37]	TR News	 (NEW):  Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi 5, Banana Pi, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Open_Hardware_Modding_Raspberry_Pi_5_Banana_Pi_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Open_Hardware_Modding_Raspberry_Pi_5_Banana_Pi_and_More.gmi 
[20:37]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi 5, Banana Pi, and More
[20:39]	TR News	 (NEW):  FSF / Software Freedom / Digital Sovereignty / Self-hosting Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/FSF_Software_Freedom_Digital_Sovereignty_Self_hosting_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/FSF_Software_Freedom_Digital_Sovereignty_Self_hosting_Leftovers.gmi 
[20:39]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines FSF / Software Freedom / Digital Sovereignty / Self-hosting Leftovers
[20:39]	TR News	 (NEW):  Immudb, DuckDB, and YottaDB https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Immudb_DuckDB_and_YottaDB.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Immudb_DuckDB_and_YottaDB.gmi 
[20:39]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Immudb, DuckDB, and YottaDB
[20:41]	TR News	 (NEW):  KDE/Qt and GNOME/GTK Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/KDE_Qt_and_GNOME_GTK_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/KDE_Qt_and_GNOME_GTK_Leftovers.gmi 
[20:41]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines KDE/Qt and GNOME/GTK Leftovers
[20:41]	TR News	 (NEW):   Programming Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Programming_Leftovers.gmi 
[20:41]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Programming Leftovers
[20:42]	TR News	 (NEW):  Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.gmi 
[20:42]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
[20:42]	TR News	 (NEW):  GNU/Linux Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/GNU_Linux_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/GNU_Linux_Leftovers.gmi 
[20:42]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines GNU/Linux Leftovers
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[20:46]	TR News	 (NEW):  Security Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Security_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Security_Leftovers.gmi 
[20:46]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Security Leftovers
[20:48]	TR News	Techrights Links 27/08/2026: Facebook to Pay Up to $17.1 Billion to Cover Up Known Harms, Nepal Landslide Kills Many https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/27/Links_27_08_2026_Facebook_to_Pay_Up_to_17_1_Billion_to_Cover_Up.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/27/Links_27_08_2026_Facebook_to_Pay_Up_to_17_1_Billion_to_Cover_Up.gmi 
[20:48]	TR Bot	 Techrights Links 27/08/2026: Facebook to Pay Up to $17.1 Billion to Cover Up Known Harms, Nepal Landslide Kills Many
[20:50]	TR News	"Game Bub is a completly open source FPGA platform by default it is configured with the Game Boy. It can run games on cartridges or on sdcards. There is a user interface to select the game to start." gemini://gmi.noulin.net/2026-08-27-i-have-got-my-game-bub-fpga.gmi
[20:52]	TR News	"I sometimes miss this, because now I can just go out and pay for whatever I have decided to spend my money on. In the past I have put some money into a box every month and called it "Bastelkasse"[a]. So whatever I bought from this money I did not have to justify much. Of course, I ceased doing this at some point." gemini://ew.srht.site/en/2026/20260827-re-worth-the-wait.gmi
[20:54]	TR News	Revive old computers with Haiku OS gemini://sava.rocks/blog/revive-old-computers-with-haiku-os/
[20:55]	TR News	"Requesting that URL returns a blank page. I recommend making your gemlog return a proper 51 Not Found response on such URLs. Cosmos knows how to purge those automatically." | Screen Piggery gemini://spell.mywire.org:1960/~stack/0266.gmi gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/s/Cosmos/47677
[20:56]	TR News	"It's been a a few days since I've been playing, but recently I had a look at Pokmon fan games and picked Rejuvenation to give it a try. So, let's reminiscent about the first impressions." gemini://kelaino.gemcities.com/gemlog/260827Reju.gmi
[20:57]	TR News	"Of course Oklahoman Republicans voted for the Trump nominee. Of course Oklahomans voted to put voting requirements in the constitution despite them already being in law and voting being safe and secure here." gemini://dhepworth.smol.pub/of-course-oklahoma
[20:57]	TR News	"The sad passing of Dolly Parton puts me in mind of the only time I visited Tennessee." gemini://kunulo.smol.pub/2026-08-27-divided
[20:58]	TR News	"considering a tweak: what if i did all my selecting for the day - reading, music, videos etc - in the morning, moved those tabs to my "offline" account and treated that as if it's stuff i've downloaded for the day?" gemini://dogboy.smol.pub/limitinginternetweek3
[20:59]	TR News	Slop "companies are laying off thousands of employees while promising a better future with less work. This article traces how the 2026 layoff wave, broken trust and digital resistance fit a pattern already seen with Keynes' 15 hour work week and the computer era, and asks where this cycle is actually heading this time." gemini://schreibfaultier.pollux.casa/blog/2026-08-27-ai-digital-resistance.en.gmi
[20:59]	TR News	"Almost a century later, this rhetoric repeats itself almost word for word. Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan, tells his children to expect a three and a half day work week. Elon Musk claims that eventually no one will need a job at all."
[20:59]	TR News	"Leading AI companies publicly promise their tools will empower workers rather than replace them. At the same time, 2026 is seeing some of the largest layoff waves in recent tech history, at companies posting record profits, of all places."
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[21:00]	TR News	"Not every voice sounds this uncritically optimistic. Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, warned at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2026 about a concrete risk. AI, he said, could do to office workers what globalization once did to industrial workers."
[21:00]	TR News	"He therefore called for a credible plan for broader participation in the gains from AI development. This concern is not new, since economists voiced it already during the automation wave of the 1980s. Back then, it had little lasting effect on how productivity gains were actually distributed."
[21:00]	TR News	"These numbers reveal something notable: the layoffs are not primarily driven by economic hardship, since most of the affected companies report growing revenue and profits. Officially, corporations usually justify the cuts with consolidation or efficiency gains tied to AI transformation."
[21:01]	TR News	"In practice, however, a significant share of the freed up money flows directly into building AI infrastructure. Oracle, for instance, estimates that its workforce reduction frees up 8 to 10 billion dollars for AI investment."
[21:01]	TR News	"Whether today's AI investments in the tech industry are subject to the same kind of delay, or whether they form a lasting bubble, cannot be conclusively assessed at this point."
[21:02]	TR News	"What stands out, however, is the simultaneity of three developments: record investment in AI infrastructure, high valuations for the companies involved, and large scale workforce reductions, all while solid evidence of a corresponding economy wide productivity gain remains absent."
[21:02]	TR News	"Historically, this pattern is more the rule than the exception for new general purpose technologies, since high expectations paired with a lack of measurable benefit have shaped earlier introduction phases as well."
[21:03]	TR News	Cmo provocar un incendio y por qu. gemini://acastillog.flounder.online/gemlog/2026-08-27_provocar-incendio.gmi
[21:03]	TR News	"That's quite a decision to make at a fairly tender age. My Dad was an engineer and he suggested that German would be the more practical choice, but he assumed that I'd follow a similar career to him and that I'd meet German engineers and perhaps even be able to work there if I could speak the language." gemini://kdan.smol.pub/learning_latin
[21:04]	TR News	"A while back, Ava wrote a post that I enjoyed (as always), but at times offered a perspective that didn't entirely sit right with me. Ava's issue of concern is a lack of precision around labeling, using "vegan", "almost vegan" and "basically vegan" as examples." gemini://nullish.smol.pub/re-show-respect-name-things-correctly
[21:05]	TR News	"It's been more than two months, and I still want to put things onto this gemlog, so I count that as a positive. I also often wonder what to actually write. I'm at home because of disability. (It still feels so weird and imposter syndrom-y calling it that.)" gemini://kelaino.gemcities.com/gemlog/260822stuffs.gmi
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[21:09]	TR News	Techrights Gemini Links 27/08/2026: Oklahoma, Tennessee, Haiku OS, Digital Resistance, and Staying Offline https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/27/Gemini_Links_27_08_2026_Oklahoma_Tennessee_Haiku_OS_Digital_Res.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/27/Gemini_Links_27_08_2026_Oklahoma_Tennessee_Haiku_OS_Digital_Res.gmi 
[21:10]	TR Bot	 Techrights Gemini Links 27/08/2026: Oklahoma, Tennessee, Haiku OS, Digital Resistance, and Staying Offline
[21:14]	TR News	 (NEW):  We Started in Tennessee https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/We_Started_in_Tennessee.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/We_Started_in_Tennessee.gmi 
[21:14]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines We Started in Tennessee
[21:14]	admfubar	https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/27/cockroaches-used-search-rescue-earthquakes-science-technology-australia
[21:14]	TR Bot	 Cyborg cockroaches with tiny syringes designed to join search and rescue teams in major disasters | Robots | The Guardian
[21:23]	admfubar	https://thenewstack.io/x-nitter-open-source-takedown/
[21:23]	TR Bot	 X sent Nitter a cease-and-desist. Then it went after the source code. - The New Stack
[21:30]	admfubar	https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/27/sprains-pain-and-whiplash-waymo-and-zoox-test-drivers-are-getting-hurt-as-robotaxis-scale/
[21:30]	TR Bot	pain, and whiplash: Waymo and Zoox test drivers are getting hurt as robotaxis scale | TechCrunch
[21:31]	admfubar	https://futurism.com/future-society/leopold-aschenbrenner-ai-investor-buy-galaxies
[21:31]	TR Bot	 Least Delusional AI Investor Said He's Saving Money to Buy Entire Galaxies, Ignoring the Pesky Speed of Light
[21:32]	admfubar	https://futurism.com/future-society/jailed-tate-brothers-make-humiliating-confession
[21:32]	TR Bot	 Jailed Tate Brothers Make Humiliating Confession About Their "Wealth" as They Face Extradition for Terrible Crimes
[21:37]	admfubar	who's watching the watchers?? 
[21:37]	admfubar	https://futurism.com/future-society/mayor-livid-police-flock-alpr-abuse-savannah
[21:37]	TR Bot	 Mayor Livid When Even More Police Are Arrested for Using Flock Database Inappropriately
[21:39]	admfubar	melon brainrot.... https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/elon-musk-ai-incomprehensible
[21:39]	TR Bot	 Elon Musk Just Said Something About AI That's Literally Incomprehensible
[21:47]	admfubar	sony. we're fulla baloney... https://www.techspot.com/news/113603-sony-reminds-players-they-dont-actually-own-playstation.html
[21:47]	TR Bot	reminds players they don't actually own the PlayStation games they purchased | TechSpot
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[22:12]	IsambardPrince	MinceR: I rigged up a bunch of deals to get 75 pounds of Blue Buffalo Wilderness cat food coming in the mail and it only actually cost me $26 out of my pocket.
[22:13]	IsambardPrince	That $26 will feed both cats for about 8-9 months.
[22:15]	IsambardPrince	When there's an economic downturn, premium brands start bombing customers with subsidies because they realize that downturns usually last for a year or so but if your buying habits switch to a cheaper brand or something, then you never come back.
[22:15]	IsambardPrince	So Blue cat food is running deep discounts through multiple channels right now.
[22:25]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2]: I commented on BMW removing all the buttons from cars.
[22:25]	IsambardPrince	"One more thing to quickly fail. I drove cars that were thirty years old where all the buttons still worked. First of all, no BMW makes it thirty years anyway the way they build them now, but those touchscreens fail in 3-5 years a lot of the time, and without them there's no way to get the car to do much, and when you ask how much it costs to fix, you end up either leaving with a new car or they tell you nobody makes a part for a 3 
[22:25]	IsambardPrince	year old car anymore.
[22:25]	IsambardPrince	BMW doesn't even negotiate on the prepaid extended warranties. They build the car, they know what's going to go wrong, and you're just rolling it into the loan so you don't have to cough up cash later when you're broke and still paying on car loans and credit cards and mortgages and stuff."
[22:26]	IsambardPrince	MARISOL ended up paying prices like $1400 for a wheel bearing, and over $1200 for four new tires. That's how bad BMW gets you. They figure if they have people who spend that kind of money on an unreliable luxury car, why not soak them on everything?
[22:30]	IsambardPrince	Man, this "AI" slop is getting so bad.
[22:31]	IsambardPrince	They're redoing Star Wars effects and making them look worse than they did in the theatrical release.
[22:31]	darwin	20010.57601613
[22:31]	darwin	oops
[22:31]	darwin	'smart'--stupid--light bulbs most/all need Internet connection for user monitoring/profiling, so when you lose that, you can't turn them on or off or change colour/brightness.  If you need them NOW for emergency you can't turn them on, and if you need them dim or OFF to rest/sleep, you can't.  F*ck that.  Next things are going to be a 'smart'--stupid--refrigerator that stops cooling when it loses Internet so all your food rots, or a 
[22:31]	darwin	'smart'--stupid--stove/oven you can't shut off when it loses Internet and burns the house down
[22:33]	MinceR	the masses will never understand this, and market forces will eventually deprive us of choice
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