●● IRC: #techrights @ Techrights IRC Network: Friday, August 28, 2026 ●● ● Aug 28 [00:06] IsambardPrince $2.99 for a bean burrito at Taco Bell. [00:07] IsambardPrince They were 59 cents in 1991. [00:12] *FANTOM has quit (Ping timeout: 252 seconds) [00:24] *FANTOM (~fantom@90.251.50.60) has joined #techrights [00:26] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@xk49uzi5amp4u.irc) has joined #techrights [00:26] TR News (NEW): Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS Is Now Available for Download, Heres Whats New https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Ubuntu_26_04_1_LTS_Is_Now_Available_for_Download_Here_s_What_s_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Ubuntu_26_04_1_LTS_Is_Now_Available_for_Download_Here_s_What_s_.gmi [00:26] TR Bot Tux Machines Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS Is Now Available for Download, Heres Whats New [00:30] *FANTOM (~fantom@freenode-crc.udo.r9g5d1.IP) has joined #techrights [00:30] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [00:35] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@xk49uzi5amp4u.irc) has joined #techrights [00:59] *includeals has quit (Quit: ZNC - https://znc.in) ● Aug 28 [01:00] *includeals (~includeal@2001:8a0:e95a:4e00::1c47) has joined #techrights [01:28] IsambardPrince [16:33] the masses will never understand this, and market forces will eventually deprive us of choice [01:28] IsambardPrince MinceR: I got to report the government to the government today. [01:29] IsambardPrince That was fun. [01:29] IsambardPrince The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency says to report "smoking vehicles". [01:29] IsambardPrince It's meant so you'll report people who are "rolling coal" or burning oil. [01:29] IsambardPrince I used it to report a school bus that was belching out black smoke. [01:51] IsambardPrince Grandma Harmon made my mom and her sister sick all the time. [01:52] IsambardPrince Because they had a refrigerator but my grandmother didn't use it. [01:52] IsambardPrince She'd just leave leftovers out for a couple days and feed it to them again. [01:52] IsambardPrince And go "Oh those girls have that stomach flu again!" [01:52] IsambardPrince It didn't occur to my mother until she was an adult that most people didn't get sick to their stomach all the time. [01:52] IsambardPrince Food safety was pretty lax in that house. [01:52] IsambardPrince My uncle went to open a can of spaghetti-os in the 1970s and it was so far past its date, the tomato sauce sprayed out all over the ceiling. [01:52] IsambardPrince My brother was over at Grandma's house in 2012 and found a can that expired in 1979. [01:52] IsambardPrince My brother was over at Grandma's house in 2012 and found a can that expired in 1979. [01:53] IsambardPrince None of the soda there tasted right because she'd put it out in the garage and then say "There's a Coke out there!" and you'd find out it expired 5 years ago. [01:55] MinceR :> [01:55] IsambardPrince When my Aunt Karen lost her house in bank foreclosure she moved back in with Grandma. [01:55] IsambardPrince Grandma made a pot roast one night, then left it on the counter for 4 days. [01:55] IsambardPrince Then she put it in the fridge and told Karen "There's some of that roast left." [01:55] IsambardPrince Karen said, "Oh I just went by Arby's on the way back from work! Thanks, though." [01:57] MinceR lol [01:58] IsambardPrince Mom said that when she was a girl, grandma would sometimes leave things on the counter so long, maggots would start growing in it. [01:58] IsambardPrince She frequently dumped that sort of thing over the fence into the farmer's field. [01:58] IsambardPrince Everything they didn't want that couldn't be burned with the household garbage went over the fence, including all their Christmas trees. [01:58] IsambardPrince One year, my grandparents could't find the star for the top of the tree, and my aunt went out and grabbed it off the one they threw over the fence the last year, and came back in shouting "Everyone in this house is crazy!" ● Aug 28 [02:06] MinceR lol [02:08] *nobody has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [02:09] *nobody (~nobody@ikcgfy7b282sc.irc) has joined #techrights [02:10] IsambardPrince https://www.facebook.com/reel/1361609495604133 [02:10] TR Bot NO TITLE [02:10] IsambardPrince Amazon delivery drone drops package in swimming pool. [02:11] MinceR soft landing! [02:46] TR News Yesterday's #boycottnovell-social and #techpol IRC logs ready. 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[03:13] IsambardPrince MinceR: An HOA in Georgia installed Flock cameras without asking any of the residents so someone went out and sawed them down. [03:22] IsambardPrince My mom keeps telling me to shop at Aldi, but the way I shop at Jewel isn't the way she would shop there. [03:23] IsambardPrince I meal plan around loss leaders and coupons. I usually end up beating Aldi by a lot. Like, Aldi has a $2.05 every day price on a bag of spinach, but organic spinach goes on sale at Jewel for $1.99 all the time and regular goes on sale for 99 cents. [03:23] MinceR inorganic spinach intrigues me [03:26] IsambardPrince It's been decarbonized. [03:27] MinceR :> [03:41] IsambardPrince MinceR: I always err on the side of too much spinach when I'm cooking. [03:41] IsambardPrince It cooks down to almost nothing. [03:41] MinceR :> [03:42] IsambardPrince It's cheap, it's very nutritious. [03:42] IsambardPrince If those flavor bomb tomatoes are on a good sale, I use too many of them too. [03:42] IsambardPrince They release liquid but you can compensate somewhere else. [03:46] IsambardPrince I grabbed a bunch of mayo packets at Chik-Fil-A and I'm using them to make egg salad. [03:49] IsambardPrince Coors is the loss leader of the week. [03:49] IsambardPrince That means Coors Banquet is on sale. [03:52] IsambardPrince MinceR: My therapist laughed when I went and grabbed a beer. ● Aug 28 [04:09] admfubar https://theonion.com/bill-gates-invests-in-new-sex-trafficking-startup/ [04:09] TR Bot Bill Gates Invests In New Sex Trafficking Startup - The Onion [04:22] TR News (NEW): Calibre 9.14 Open-Source E-Book Manager Is Out with More AI Features https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/28/Calibre_9_14_Open_Source_E_Book_Manager_Is_Out_with_More_AI_Fea.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/28/Calibre_9_14_Open_Source_E_Book_Manager_Is_Out_with_More_AI_Fea.gmi [04:22] TR Bot Tux Machines Calibre 9.14 Open-Source E-Book Manager Is Out with More AI Features [04:29] TR News "90 Day Pip Ends Tuesday - I may have passed my PIP but I doubt it. Education was a measurement and I still have a few Stand and Delivers to submit. Met with manager at 2week interval and never again. We began focusing on the other PIP objectives ie, ensuring good customer..." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m12nythk [04:29] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m12nythk ) [04:35] *IsambardPrince has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [04:37] admfubar https://www.theregister.com/a/5286772 [04:37] TR Bot SPONSORED: Schrdinger's backup: not actually recovered until you try to restore IT [04:38] schestowitz[TR2] SPONSORED: [04:38] schestowitz[TR2] spam [04:38] schestowitz[TR2] http://techrights.org/n/2026/08/27/The_Register_MS_Has_Just_Published_Paid_Spam_That_Says_AI_19_Ti.shtml [04:38] TR Bot Techrights The Register MS Has Just Published Paid Spam That Says "AI" 19 Times [04:38] schestowitz[TR2] covered here ^ [04:39] TR News Techrights After Many Waves of PIPs (Silent Layoffs) IBM Makes Non-Silent Layoffs, Effective Next Week (September) https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/28/After_Many_Waves_of_PIPs_Silent_Layoffs_IBM_Makes_Non_Silent_La.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/28/After_Many_Waves_of_PIPs_Silent_Layoffs_IBM_Makes_Non_Silent_La.gmi [04:39] TR Bot Techrights After Many Waves of PIPs (Silent Layoffs) IBM Makes Non-Silent Layoffs, Effective Next Week (September) [04:40] TR News Techrights IRC Proceedings: Thursday, August 27, 2026 https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/28/IRC_Proceedings_Thursday_August_27_2026.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/28/IRC_Proceedings_Thursday_August_27_2026.gmi [04:40] TR Bot Techrights IRC Proceedings: Thursday, August 27, 2026 [04:42] TR News (NEW): Today in Techrights https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/28/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/28/Today_in_Techrights.gmi [04:42] TR Bot Tux Machines Today in Techrights [04:42] TR News Techrights Over at Tux Machines... https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/28/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/28/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi [04:42] TR Bot Techrights Over at Tux Machines... [04:44] *IsambardPrince (~isambardprince@x3bptgd4k8yba.irc) has joined #techrights [04:51] TR News Second Test https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/28/second-test/ [04:51] TR Bot Blog Archive Second Test ● Aug 28 [05:17] IsambardPrince I'm looking at the lunar eclipse through my binoculars. [05:24] schestowitz[TR2] near [05:24] schestowitz[TR2] "WHY U NO WATCH YOUTUBE"? [05:24] schestowitz[TR2] "because" [05:30] IsambardPrince Why bother? [05:31] IsambardPrince It's mostly a slopfarm. [05:31] IsambardPrince I watched an exterminator dealing with a horrible cockroach infestation. [05:31] IsambardPrince I don't know why that would be entertaining. [05:31] IsambardPrince I've lived through something that bad. [05:31] IsambardPrince Piyush the Excellent Landlord [05:32] IsambardPrince A $100 rent increase every year and cockroaches and overflowing dumpsters and my apartment flooding when it rained. [05:32] IsambardPrince He sent a boy of about 15 to use a chainsaw to get rid of that tree. [05:32] IsambardPrince Unsupervised. [05:33] IsambardPrince That had to be some kind of a crime. [05:33] IsambardPrince I was allowed to use the lawnmower when I was a child, but not a chainsaw. [05:33] IsambardPrince The closest thing to a chainsaw I was allowed to use was a hedge trimmer. [05:33] IsambardPrince There's a big difference. [05:34] IsambardPrince Maybe these days they call the police on you for letting a 10 year old mow the lawn but they didn't back then. [05:34] IsambardPrince So the kid grows up and the result of not being allowed to do anything is they don't know how to do anything. [05:34] IsambardPrince They don't know how to use the oven and their parents don't either. [05:35] IsambardPrince So they get on a iPhone and order Doordash every night like cum and cheetos. [05:39] schestowitz[TR2] ewww [05:39] schestowitz[TR2] puppy breaker [05:40] TR News "Back in February, Sony Music broadly denied any wrongdoing or liability." https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/26/los-lobos-case-v-sony-music-dismissed/ | Source: Digital Music News [05:40] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/26/los-lobos-case-v-sony-music-dismissed/ ) [05:41] TR News "The scope of the Quebec streaming law has unsurprisingly caught the attention of Internet streaming services." https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/08/why-ottawa-will-likely-join-the-u-s-in-opposing-the-quebec-online-streaming-law-at-the-centre-of-the-trade-battle/ | Source: Michael Geist [05:41] TR Bot Why Ottawa Will Likely Join the U.S. in Opposing the Quebec Online Streaming Law at the Centre of the Trade Battle - Michael Geist [05:41] TR News "Apple surprised us all by announcing a new Mac mini this week with an M6 processor and a higher price tag than the comparable M4 model it replaces." https://www.macworld.com/article/3221993/if-you-ordered-an-m4-mac-mini-you-may-be-getting-a-free-m6-upgrade.html | Source: Macworld [05:41] TR Bot you ordered an M4 Mac mini, you may be getting a free M6 upgrade | Macworld [05:41] TR News "The phones! They were one of the basic utilities of the 20th century, and were just about as reliable as death and taxes." https://hackaday.com/2026/08/27/australias-nationwide-phone-outage-was-an-embarrassing-failure/ | Source: Hackaday [05:41] TR Bot Nationwide Phone Outage Was An Embarrassing Failure | Hackaday [05:42] TR News "2degrees and One NZ say they plan to merge their radio access networks in a jointly-owned wholesale business." https://billbennett.co.nz/2degrees-one-nz-mobile-network-sharing/ | Source: Bill Bennett [05:42] TR Bot 2degrees and One NZ plan shared network infrastructure [05:45] TR News IBM September Layoffs (2026) https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/28/ibm-september-layoffs-2026/ [05:45] TR Bot Blog Archive IBM September Layoffs (2026) [05:46] TR News "posed for pictures as Adolf Hitler" https://www.404media.co/florida-deputy-of-the-year-used-flock-to-stalk-ex-held-gun-in-her-mouth-did-a-nazi-salute/ | Source: 404 Media [05:46] TR Bot Florida Deputy of the Year Used Flock to Stalk Ex, Held Gun in Her Mouth, Did a Nazi Salute [05:46] TR News "The plan, which complies with President Trumps executive order to curtail mail voting, will only go into effect if the Supreme Court rules in the orders favor." https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/us/politics/postal-service-rule-restrict-mail-ballots.html?smid=nytcore-android-share | Source: New York Times [05:46] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/us/politics/postal-service-rule-restrict-mail-ballots.html?smid=nytcore-android-share ) [05:47] TR News "Some people shouldnt be represented. They should be cast out." https://www.csmonitor.com/Arts-Culture/Books/2026/0827/sisters-of-the-midnight-sun-arctic-alaska | Source: CS Monitor [05:47] TR Bot womens murder case examined in public defenders memoir - CSMonitor.com [05:48] TR News "Such ongoing extreme hostility from the president has contributed to Americans loss of faith in the news media, which has plummeted to an all-time low." https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/27/comparing-nixons-attacks-on-the-press-to-trumps/ | Source: Techdirt [05:48] TR Bot Nixons Attacks On The Press To Trumps | Techdirt [05:48] TR News "The move was not exactly a bolt out of the blue." https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-pentagons-war-against-the-stars-and-stripes/ | Source: Truthdig [05:48] TR Bot The Pentagons War Against Stars and Stripes [05:48] TR News "Were coming for the books." https://txfreadomfighters.substack.com/p/deja-vu-part-two | [05:48] TR Bot Deja Vu Part Two - by Texas FReadomFighters [05:49] TR News "Policy 500-19 restricts access to Young Adult (YA) books in schools for students under the age of 18, and brings new disciplinary standards for school employees found in violation of the policy." https://www.wmdt.com/2026/08/somerset-board-of-education-responds-to-state-superintendents-stay-of-new-media-policy/ | [05:49] TR Bot Somerset BOE Responds to State Supt.'s Stay of New Media Policy - 47abc [05:49] TR News "But consider the bigger picture." https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/joy-sewing/article/dan-patrick-wants-punish-schools-books-22398971.php | Source: Houston Chronicle [05:49] TR Bot Client Challenge [05:49] TR News "So, Section 230 protects both Oracle, and its large investment in TikTok." https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/27/oracle-helped-kneecap-section-230-then-bought-15-of-a-company-that-needs-it/ | Source: Techdirt [05:49] TR Bot Helped Kneecap Section 230, Then Bought 15% Of A Company That Needs It. | Techdirt [05:49] TR News "A favored tool in these speech chilling investigations are administrative subpoenas sent to technology companies, requesting basic subscriber data about their users." https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/08/list-ice-subpoenas-tech-companies | Source: EFF [05:49] TR Bot A List of ICE Subpoenas to Tech Companies | Electronic Frontier Foundation [05:53] schestowitz[TR2] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2026-08/msg00010.html [05:53] schestowitz[TR2] "I'd like to show you a historical account relevant to the issue of how [05:53] schestowitz[TR2] bugs affect freedom. [05:53] schestowitz[TR2] History of computing in the Soviet Union - Wikipedia [05:53] schestowitz[TR2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computing_in_the_Soviet_Union [05:53] schestowitz[TR2] History [05:53] schestowitz[TR2] Early 1980s [05:53] schestowitz[TR2] ... [05:53] schestowitz[TR2] The spread of computer systems in Soviet companies was similarly [05:53] schestowitz[TR2] slow, with one-third of Soviet plants with over 500 workers having [05:53] schestowitz[TR2] access to a mainframe computer in 1984 (compared to nearly 100 [05:53] schestowitz[TR2] percent in the United States). The success of Soviet managers was [05:53] schestowitz[TR2] measured by the degree to which they met plan goals, and computers [05:53] schestowitz[TR2] made it more difficult to alter accounting calculations to [05:53] schestowitz[TR2] artificially reach targets; companies with computer systems seemed to [05:53] schestowitz[TR2] perform worse than companies without them. [05:53] schestowitz[TR2] ... [05:53] schestowitz[TR2] Piracy was especially common in the software industry, where copies [05:53] schestowitz[TR2] of Western applications were widespread. American intelligence [05:53] schestowitz[TR2] agencies, having learned about Soviet piracy efforts, placed bugs in [05:53] schestowitz[TR2] copied software which caused later, catastrophic failures in [05:53] schestowitz[TR2] industrial systems. One such bug caused an explosion in a Siberian [05:53] schestowitz[TR2] gas pipeline in 1982, after pump and valve settings were altered to [05:53] schestowitz[TR2] produce pressures far beyond the tolerance of pipeline joints and [05:53] schestowitz[TR2] welds. The explosion caused no casualties, but led to significant [05:53] schestowitz[TR2] economic damage. [05:53] schestowitz[TR2] " [05:53] TR Bot Re: Pursuit of popularity [05:53] TR Bot History of computing in the Soviet Union - Wikipedia [05:54] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: Speaking of insane people... [05:55] IsambardPrince With the roach situation I got a sort of revenge on the neighbor that was throwing shit at my wall and calling management with the noise complaint a couple months ago. [05:55] IsambardPrince He had the dirtiest apartment in the whole segment of this building. [05:55] schestowitz[TR2] piyush and pull [05:55] IsambardPrince He had to spend all day yesterday going up and down the fourth floor stairwell detrashing his apartment before they saw it. [05:56] TR News "KPMG Australia to Lay Off 5% of Workforce After 17% Slide in Consulting Revenue"... not blaming SLOP, for a change? [05:56] TR News "But to date, consumers have received no refunds on the increased prices they paid and giant corporations that raised prices appear to have no plan to provide these refunds." https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/warren-pushes-giant-corporations-to-give-billions-in-tariff-refunds-back-to-consumers/ | Source: US Senate [05:56] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/warren-pushes-giant-corporations-to-give-billions-in-tariff-refunds-back-to-consumers/ ) [05:56] TR News "For historical reasons, it is impossible for a Republican to get elected in this city, so all the Republicans register as Democrats and call themselves "moderates"." https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/08/periodic-reminder-that-moderate-democrat-is-how-you-spell-republican-in-san-francisco/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski [05:56] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/08/periodic-reminder-that-moderate-democrat-is-how-you-spell-republican-in-san-francisco/ ) [05:56] TR News "When we look at a growth at all costs mentality, we can rationalize the worst attrocities in the name of progress." https://joshblais.com/blog/growth-at-all-costs-is-cancer/ | Source: Joshua Blais [05:57] TR Bot Growth at all costs is cancer - The Universe of Joshua Blais [05:57] TR News "The polling backs this up." https://jacobin.com/2026/08/ai-data-centers-construction-unions | Source: Jacobin Magazine [05:57] TR Bot The Fight Over Data Centers Is Dividing the Labor Movement [05:57] schestowitz[TR2] isak: you know what they say [05:57] schestowitz[TR2] and it is backed by evidennce [05:57] schestowitz[TR2] people who live in dirty places [05:57] schestowitz[TR2] or trash their places [05:57] schestowitz[TR2] say a lot about themelves [05:57] schestowitz[TR2] and their view of themselves [05:57] schestowitz[TR2] every person CAN keep a place clean and tidy [05:58] schestowitz[TR2] it is not a special skill [05:58] schestowitz[TR2] it's down to DESIRE [05:58] schestowitz[TR2] yesterday i casually commented on puppy breaker [05:58] schestowitz[TR2] how he is unshaved... grey beard [05:58] schestowitz[TR2] and his place is 1) a mess 2) visibly dirty [05:58] schestowitz[TR2] cheap furnishing [05:58] TR News "Flock recently made some changes with an eye on curbing cop misuse of its massive database." https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/27/flock-claims-its-the-first-company-to-expose-police-misuse-of-surveillance-tech/ | Source: Techdirt [05:58] TR Bot Claims Its The First Company To Expose Police Misuse Of Surveillance Tech | Techdirt [05:59] TR News "This is galling, especially because its one of those California intersections where in order to cross legally I, the pedestrian in question" https://defector.com/every-right-on-red-frays-the-social-contract-a-little-further | Source: Defector [05:59] TR Bot Right On Red Frays The Social Contract A Little Further | Defector [05:59] TR News "Just about everything we do to make driving a car easier instead seems to make people complacent." https://pxlnv.com/linklog/right-on-red-social-contract/ | Source: Nick Heer [05:59] TR Bot Every Right on Red Frays the Social Contract a Little Further Pixel Envy ● Aug 28 [06:02] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: Nothing to live for so trash the house why not [06:02] schestowitz[TR2] no [06:02] schestowitz[TR2] it's not that [06:02] schestowitz[TR2] dirt is passive [06:02] schestowitz[TR2] mess is passive [06:02] schestowitz[TR2] if you do nothing [06:02] schestowitz[TR2] no dishes [06:02] schestowitz[TR2] no dusting [06:03] schestowitz[TR2] so people who give up on life live in a modern swamp [06:03] schestowitz[TR2] reacting only when something gets "too much" [06:03] schestowitz[TR2] like roaches walking in and about [06:03] schestowitz[TR2] and walk on you while you sleep [06:03] TR News "The snarl is exacerbating already years-long wait times for viable projects, and it's messing with attempts to forecast energy demand and plan grid expansions." https://www.wired.com/story/uk-data-centers-logjam-ofgem-regulations/ | Source: Wired [06:03] TR Bot UK Power Grid Has a Phantom Data Center Problem | WIRED [06:04] TR News "The department halted multiple ongoing projects for being hostile to vehicles and ended a grant that would have made a street intersection in Boston safer for pedestrians but could impede vehicle capacity and speed." https://www.salon.com/2026/08/27/real-men-dont-bike-how-cars-became-the-symbol-of-american-manhood-partner/ | Source: Salon [06:04] TR Bot men dont bike: How cars became the symbol of American manhood - Salon.com [06:04] TR News "Just a couple of years ago, hearing the term data center wouldnt have struck a nerve with most Americans. Now, mention the noisy oversized warehouses and youll spark a fierce debate." https://www.wired.com/story/livestream-the-great-data-center-backlash/ | Source: Wired [06:04] TR Bot Your Questions: The Great Data Center Backlash | WIRED [06:05] schestowitz[TR2] some women turn down men for being dirty [06:05] schestowitz[TR2] or lazy [06:05] schestowitz[TR2] it's a sign of other issues [06:05] schestowitz[TR2] owning to my mom, i was always clean and tidy even before i married [06:05] TR News "A glacial collapse that resulted in a flash flood in the Nepal-Tibet border shows that climate delay is proving to be deadlier and more destructive than world leaders admit, climate groups said." https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/nepal-tibet-flash-flood-shows-the-deadly-price-of-climate-delay | Source: Common Dreams [06:05] TR Bot Nepal-Tibet flash flood shows the deadly price of climate delay | Common Dreams [06:05] TR News "They estimated that emissions since 1950 traced to a group known as the Carbon Majors accounted for roughly 40 to 64 percent of the changes in those water measurements that the study attributed to human-caused climate change." https://www.western-water.com/2026/08/27/study-links-major-emitters-to-western-water-loss/ | Source: Western Water [06:06] TR Bot Study links major emitters to Western water loss | Western Water [06:06] schestowitz[TR2] in my experience, [06:06] schestowitz[TR2] people whose home is a mess [06:06] schestowitz[TR2] also are not good at remembering events [06:06] schestowitz[TR2] and are generally unreliable [06:06] schestowitz[TR2] if you cannot do your dishes on time [06:06] schestowitz[TR2] why stick to deadlines or remember to phone back? [06:06] TR News "The number of acres devoted to farming in Michigan has declined in recent decades, and ownership of that land is changing." https://bridgemi.com/business-watch/as-family-farms-decline-more-michigan-farmers-trying-to-preserve-their-land/ | Source: Bridge Michigan [06:06] TR Bot As family farms decline, more Michigan farmers trying to preserve their land - Bridge Michigan [06:07] IsambardPrince Roaches are a vile nasty bug. [06:07] TR News "The push for data center projects has united conservative ranching and farming communities with left-leaning environmental advocacy groups." https://www.minnpost.com/elections/2026/08/heres-all-the-ways-that-data-center-controversies-have-transformed-the-midterm-elections/ | Source: MinnPost [06:07] TR Bot data center controversies have transformed the midterms - MinnPost [06:07] IsambardPrince They're primarily good at being a disease vector and causing severe psychological distress. [06:11] schestowitz[TR2] your divorce? [06:11] schestowitz[TR2] i know the deeper issue predate piyuish [06:11] schestowitz[TR2] as you told me about it [06:12] schestowitz[TR2] [06:12] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.quora.com/Does-the-saying-%E2%80%9Cyou-can-take-the-person-out-of-the-ghetto-but-you-can-not-take-the-ghetto-out-of-the-person%E2%80%9D-fit-many-people-in-New-York-City [06:12] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.quora.com/Does-the-saying-%E2%80%9Cyou-can-take-the-person-out-of-the-ghetto-but-you-can-not-take-the-ghetto-out-of-the-person%E2%80%9D-fit-many-people-in-New-York-City ) [06:12] schestowitz[TR2] "If what that saying is getting at is No matter where you end up living throughout your life, you will continue to hold onto the values and customs and social standing and religious identification, etc. with which you were raised with in your formative years, at least in some form, regardless of how easily you adhere to them, then, uh, yes. It does. [06:12] schestowitz[TR2] " [06:13] schestowitz[TR2] " [06:13] schestowitz[TR2] I remember a White South African quoting You can take a black man out of the bush, but you can't take the bush away from the black man. Obviously a very racist comment. [06:13] schestowitz[TR2] " [06:14] schestowitz[TR2] "Its called adapting to the environment. Black people do it to adapt to the work culture and avoid confrontation. In movies like Bodied and White Men Cant Jump we see black characters who act more laid back to appeal to racist standards. White people do that too though .You cant tell me you think the guy at the desk is always dressing fancy and acts proper. Trust me, after work, hes throwing on a dad hat [06:14] schestowitz[TR2] , his teams shirt and chugging back beers or going to a sports game yelling profanities. You wouldnt believe the type of stuff I hear and then find out that these guys are lawyers, doctors, or office people. [06:14] schestowitz[TR2] " [06:18] TR News Friday again. Many people say they leave IBM, e.g. hours ago: "Last Friday was my last day at IBM. My time there was incredible. I had the opportunity to work with so many different technologies" [06:19] TR News "2 years ago, I walked into IBMs New York City office, eager and ready to learn. What I didnt expect was how much the culture around the work would" [06:23] *FANTOM has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) [06:27] TR News Techrights Rumours of More PIPs and Layoffs at Confluent Just Months After IBM Bought It https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/28/Rumours_of_More_PIPs_and_Layoffs_at_Confluent_Just_Months_After.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/28/Rumours_of_More_PIPs_and_Layoffs_at_Confluent_Just_Months_After.gmi [06:27] TR Bot Techrights Rumours of More PIPs and Layoffs at Confluent Just Months After IBM Bought It [06:29] TR News "Satellite imagery taken at the Nepal-Tibet border shows extensive destruction from flooding and landslides that inundated the area Wednesday leaving hundreds of people dead or missing" https://www.rfa.org/english/tibet/2026/08/27/tibet-nepal-flood-landslide-blackout/ | Source: RFA [06:29] TR Bot Satellite imagery shows extensive damage from Nepal-Tibet border floods Radio Free Asia [06:29] TR News "Researchers have observed the iconic glacier has separated from the lake and may no longer form icebergs" https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/mount-robson-berg-glacier-berg-lake-retreat-9.7322045 | Source: CBC [06:29] TR Bot 'Visual symbol of climate change': Mount Robson's Berg Glacier no longer reaches lake | CBC News [06:30] TR News "Every year since 1993, hackers, researchers, computer security specialists, and government intelligence employees have gathered in Las Vegas for the annual DEF CON." https://boingboing.net/2026/08/26/fountain-pen-cliff-stoll-def-con.html | Source: BoingBoing [06:30] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://boingboing.net/2026/08/26/fountain-pen-cliff-stoll-def-con.html ) [06:30] TR News "OpenAIs postmortem has been eagerly awaited by AI researchers and policymakers hoping to prevent AI agents from causing similar kinds of real-world harm." https://www.wired.com/story/openais-hugging-face-hack-debrief-raises-more-questions-than-it-answers/ | Source: Wired [06:30] TR Bot We Still Dont Know About OpenAIs Hugging Face Hack | WIRED [06:30] TR News "However, West Feliciana Parish proved that it could get a data center deal without keeping its details top secret." https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/many-talks-between-data-center-developers-and-local-governments-are-under-nda-residents-question-the-needs-for-secrecy-but-developer-argues-its-important-to-avoid-running-afoul-of-insider-trading-rules | Source: Tom's Hardware [06:30] TR Bot Many talks between data center developers and local governments are wrapped in secrecy behind non-disclosure agreements residents question the need for NDAs, but developers argue its important to avoid running afoul of insider trading rules | Tom's Hardware [06:31] TR News "The negotiations between the data center developer Dallas-based Applied Digital Corp. and local officials were shielded under nondisclosure agreements (NDAs)." https://text.npr.org/2026/08/27/nx-s1-5879528/data-center-nda-disclosure-louisiana | Source: NPR [06:31] TR Bot NDAs are hiding data center deals, drawing ire from locals and attention from lawmakers [06:31] TR News "In recent years, operatives from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) have infamously posed as IT workers" https://www.darkreading.com/insider-threats/red-flags-expose-fake-north-korean-it-workers | Source: Dark Reading [06:31] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.darkreading.com/insider-threats/red-flags-expose-fake-north-korean-it-workers ) [06:32] TR News "Prosecutors have alleged that crewmembers allowed the tanker's massive anchor to drag across the sea floor and damage five undersea cables" https://yle.fi/a/74-20243196 | Source: Yle [06:32] TR Bot Court u-turn: Finland does have jurisdiction in Eagle S cable damage case | Yle News | Yle [06:32] TR News "The company Flock Safety, which makes automated license plate readers that police use to track vehicles, held its annual conference this week." https://text.npr.org/2026/08/21/nx-s1-5931849/amid-intense-backlash-people-are-vandalizing-flock-surveillance-cameras | Source: NPR [06:32] TR Bot Amid intense backlash, people are vandalizing Flock surveillance cameras [06:32] *FANTOM (~fantom@freenode-crc.udo.r9g5d1.IP) has joined #techrights [06:33] TR News "The software company Flock Safety is at the center of a firestorm over its license plate readers, a technology which police use to track cars and solve crimes." https://text.npr.org/2026/08/23/nx-s1-5931446-e1/flock-safety-alternatives-new-names-same-surveillance | Source: NPR [06:33] TR Bot Flock Safety alternatives: new names, same surveillance [06:33] TR News "When I looked into the changes in November, it seemed like this signal could be ignored by publishers and media companies who would be free to ask for consent anyway." https://pxlnv.com/linklog/kill-the-cookie-banner/ | Source: Nick Heer [06:33] TR Bot E.U. Privacy Organizations Launch Initiative to Kill Cookie Consent Banners Pixel Envy [06:33] TR News "What happened? I watched the promise of the early internet give way to the reality of its potential for abuse. I myself was already fully in the throes of smartphone and social media obsession." https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/26/1141949/editors-letter-september-2026/ | Source: MIT Technology Review [06:33] TR Bot Raised on AI | MIT Technology Review [06:33] TR News "While tracking from digital advertising technology has become ubiquitous and structural change is needed to address these threats, you can take actions to limit the information gathered through these systems." https://cpj.org/2026/08/protecting-against-advertising-technology/ | Source: CPJ [06:33] TR Bot Protecting against advertising technology - Committee to Protect Journalists [06:34] TR News "collection, retention, and dissemination" https://www.vox.com/today-explained-newsletter/500873/flock-cameras-bipartisan-backlash | Source: Vox [06:34] TR Bot growing bipartisan backlash against Flock cameras | Vox [06:34] TR News "On September 1, Russians will be able to start paying with digital rubles." https://meduza.io/en/cards/russia-s-digital-ruble-goes-live-on-september-1-here-s-what-we-know | Source: Meduza [06:34] TR Bot Russias digital ruble goes live on September 1. Heres what we know. Meduza [06:38] TR News Wikileaks @ twitter has not been active for 2+ months https://x.com/wikileaks relic of its former self [06:38] TR Bot (@wikileaks) / X [06:39] TR News Privatisation https://www.sciencenews.org/article/swift-space-telescope-failed-rescue | Source: Science News [06:39] TR Bot A space telescope was falling from orbit. Its rescue mission fell apart too [06:39] TR News Windows TCO https://blog.himanshuanand.com/2026/08/a-fake-resume-invoked-chinas-defence-tech-elite-then-installed-vshell/#how-this-started | Source: Himanshu Anand [06:39] TR Bot a fake resume invoked China's defence-tech elite, then installed VShell :: Himanshu Anand :: Security & Other Notes [06:40] TR News "The US Navy has told its entire workforce of 340,000 active-duty personnel, 58,000 reservists, and 210,000 civilian employees to clean up their social media profiles" https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/us-navy-sailors-families-scrub-social-media-enemies-watching | Source: Bitdefender [06:40] TR Bot US Navy tells sailors and their families: scrub your social media, enemies are watching [06:40] TR News "Nothing in this Consent Judgment or the Agreement shall be construed to apply to, establish a standard of care for, or serve as precedent in any non-participating U.S. state or any international jurisdiction whatsoever" https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.401490/gov.uscourts.cand.401490.3447.1.pdf | Source: Free Law Project [06:40] TR News "By now youve almost certainly heard the news that Meta has settled with 52 state and local Attorneys General who had sued the company in some form or another over child safety on Metas platforms." 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/ | Source: Techdirt [06:40] 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 [06:41] TR News "The service also powers a number of other sites, including XCancel, that allow people to view X posts directly." https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/25/x-sends-cease-and-desist-to-open-source-project-nitter-over-alleged-scraping/ | Source: TechCrunch [06:41] TR Bot sends cease-and-desist to open source project Nitter over alleged scraping | TechCrunch [06:41] TR News "Based on its source code, the platform classifies content and accounts across categories such as spam and adult material, information that can then be used by a separate system to determine whether a post is shown." https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/26/x-open-sources-ranking-algorithm/ | Source: Digital Music News [06:41] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/26/x-open-sources-ranking-algorithm/ ) [06:41] TR News "Investors also seemed unbothered; Meta's shares rose 1 percent Wednesday." https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/meta-settlement-puts-social-media-industry-on-notice-there-will-be-more/articleshow/133558617.cms | Source: India Times [06:41] TR Bot Meta settlement: Meta settlement puts social media industry on notice: 'There will be more' - The Economic Times [06:42] IsambardPrince [00:11] your divorce? [06:42] IsambardPrince [00:11] i know the deeper issue predate piyuish [06:42] IsambardPrince [00:11] as you told me about it [06:42] IsambardPrince Mandy was wilful, which is not necessarily a condemning trait, but the part that made it so damning is that he's such a fool. [06:42] TR News "AI waste" https://www.minnpost.com/opinion/sacks-view/2026/08/ai-waste/ | Source: MinnPost [06:42] TR Bot Steve Sack: AI waste [06:43] TR News "Last year, netizens coined a new term to reflect our growing disdain for AI bots slowly usurping our human agency." https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/coworkers-becoming-meat-proxies-ai | Source: Futurism [06:43] TR Bot Your Coworkers Are Becoming "Meat Proxies" for AI [06:43] TR News "The issue is that industry was the only technical expertise at the table." https://www.michigandaily.com/opinion/columns/ais-rulebook-is-being-written-without-the-scientists-who-could-check-it/ | Source: University of Michigan [06:43] TR Bot AIs rulebook is being written without the scientists who could check it [06:43] TR News "Amazon announced it's shuttering Mechanical Turk, a platform that matches workers with small digital tasks, on Sept. 30." https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/25/amazon-service-that-jeff-bezos-called-artificial-ai-is-shutting-down.html | Source: CNBC [06:43] TR Bot Amazon service that Jeff Bezos called artificial AI is shutting down [06:44] TR News "Despite being branded as autonomous and self-sustaining, artificial intelligence relies heavily on human labor an army of data workers all over the world, primarily in the Global South." https://truthout.org/video/exploited-data-workers-are-the-secret-ingredient-of-ai-itself/ | Source: TruthOut [06:44] TR Bot Exploited Data Workers Are the Secret Ingredient of AI Itself | Truthout [06:44] schestowitz[TR2] IsambardPrince: maybe this iw what walmart want [06:44] schestowitz[TR2] it's like cows [06:44] schestowitz[TR2] they want big teats [06:44] schestowitz[TR2] and low temper [06:44] schestowitz[TR2] they don't need smart cows [06:44] schestowitz[TR2] they sell meat andf milk [06:45] TR News "I would rather your event flyer look like this than see more AI slop" https://www.404media.co/businesses-go-viral-for-making-signs-without-ai/ | Source: 404 Media [06:45] TR Bot Businesses Go Viral for Making Signs Without AI [06:45] IsambardPrince They want him obediently showing up until the day they can figure out how to replace him with a machine. [06:45] IsambardPrince And then whatever happens to him, he's on his own without me to figure anything out for him. [06:46] TR News "The paper identified a number of names that co-authored hundreds of AI-generated academic papers, articles, and books." https://www.404media.co/the-ai-ghosts-contaminating-academic-publishing/ | Source: 404 Media [06:46] TR Bot The AI Ghosts Contaminating Academic Publishing [06:46] IsambardPrince Dolly Parton died recently, and her song 9 to 5 was a very fitting description of my marriage. [06:46] TR News "Calling these events agent escapes misattributes responsibility." https://www.provos.org/p/security-research-without-asking-permission/ | Source: Niels Provos [06:46] TR Bot Security Research Without Asking Permission [06:46] IsambardPrince My relationships in general but also my marriage especially. [06:46] IsambardPrince They just use your mind and they never give you credit, it's enough to drive you crazy if you let it. [06:47] TR News "The use of LLMs or other generative AI tools to produce or assist with the production of source code, assets, tickets, emails, and so on, will no longer be permitted on SourceHut once these terms take effect." https://sourcehut.org/blog/2026-08-27-tos-changes-and-llms/ | Source: Srht [06:47] TR Bot Changes to SourceHut's terms of service regarding LLMs [06:47] TR News "On our timeline, the platform companies design the rules of the advertising game to facilitate fraud." https://blog.zgp.org/the-secret-ingredient-is-crime/ | Source: Don Marti [06:47] TR Bot The secret ingredient is crime [06:48] TR News "CISA ordered federal agencies on August 26 to patch Citrix NetScaler flaw CVE-2026-8452" https://sqmagazine.co.uk/citrix-netscaler-cve-2026-8452-exploited/ | Source: SQ Magazine [06:48] TR Bot Citrix NetScaler CVE-2026-8452 Exploited in the Wild [06:48] TR News "A common thing that folks should "worry" about in Entra (or any platform really) is "who has rights to administer"?" https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/33284 | Source: SANS [06:48] TR Bot Who Has Admin Rights in your Entra ID Directory? - SANS ISC [06:48] TR News "The company disclosed the incident in an 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday and in a statement on its official website." https://thecyberexpress.com/boston-scientific-cyberattack-disruption/ | Source: Cyble Inc [06:48] TR Bot Boston Scientific Cyberattack Disrupts Order Processing, Shipping Worldwide - The Cyber Express [06:48] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: My music player skipped from that to Sabrina Carpenter's Please Please Please. [06:49] IsambardPrince So there's another couple lines from that song I'd say directly to Mandy if I could. [06:49] IsambardPrince If you wanna go and be stupid, don't do it in front of me. [06:51] IsambardPrince Mandy was literally stupid, and he was so toxic and prideful and arrogant while he was always finding ways to fuck up and make me have to stop and fix it. [06:51] TR News "With this in mind, Tess, a PhD candidate in the School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh" https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/lesioniq-skin-cancer-diagnostic/ | Source: Raspberry Pi [06:51] TR Bot LesionIQ skin cancer diagnostic - Raspberry Pi [06:51] TR News "Just start with the top dial and rotate it until you feel it click. Then do the opposite dial, then the middle one." https://wiki.alcidesfonseca.com/blog/til-opening-a-3-digit-lock/ | Source: Alcides Fonseca [06:51] TR Bot TIL: Opening a 3 digit lock by Alcides Fonseca [06:51] IsambardPrince When I was bankrupt and trying to get our application past Mark so we'd have somewhere to live, Mandy said "They're cutting my hours." and I had to say "Oh they just gave him like $1500 in COVID bonuses and now the managers have to get the payroll back in line for a bit." [06:52] TR News "This post is a full presentation of my X-engine implementation." https://destevez.net/2026/08/x-engine-correlator-on-a-ryzen-npu/ | Source: Daniel Estvez [06:52] TR Bot X-engine correlator on a Ryzen NPU Daniel Estvez [06:52] TR News "This article accompanies my video review of the XPpen Artist 12" 3rd, a small sized display drawing tablet." https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1169/xppen-artist-12-3rd-review-on-gnulinux | Source: David Revoy [06:52] TR Bot XPpen Artist 12 3rd - review on GNU/Linux - David Revoy [06:52] IsambardPrince When we were sitting at the immigration interview, he blurted out that he worked before he got his work permit, and I had to motion for the lawyer I hired to cut him off and explain that he got the date wrong. [06:54] IsambardPrince He blurts things out that would immediately be killed by an internal check, for no reason, right at the worst moment. [06:57] IsambardPrince I am NOT exaggerating how bad the roach problem was at Piyush's building As soon as he took that building over, maybe a year went by before I started seeing roaches and before I knew it they had practically taken over my apartment, especially my kitchen, they built a nest in my laptop, my stereo, my television set. It wasn't really safe to take anything with us except Mark's other building where we moved to already had roaches, just [06:57] IsambardPrince like this place did. [06:57] IsambardPrince What are you going to do, throw everything away every move and still have cockroaches anyway? [06:57] IsambardPrince But Piyush's building was next level shit. [06:57] IsambardPrince That's why Mark sold it to him. [06:58] IsambardPrince Then Mandy said "And then we had to move all because you were afraid of some tiny little roaches." [06:58] IsambardPrince He just walked around the apartment doing his stuff fully aware that there were cockroaches everywhere. [06:58] IsambardPrince Shitting all over things, leaving frass trails, breeding in the electronics. ● Aug 28 [07:01] IsambardPrince [00:44] and low temper [07:02] IsambardPrince Mandy definitely has a temper but he only takes it out on you if he thinks there won't be any consequences. [07:02] IsambardPrince Which is why he was verbally and physically abusive to me for years, but only in private where he didn't think anyone would witness it. [07:02] IsambardPrince He'll only do it at home and only if nobody else sees it happen. [07:03] IsambardPrince Abusers are like that, they do NOT want witnesses. That way they can pretend it never happened and just say you're lying if you ever tell anyone about it. [07:06] IsambardPrince He would hit me and throw things at me, call me foul things in Tagalog. [07:07] IsambardPrince Then he would threaten to call 911 and say that I did something to him. [07:07] IsambardPrince Because he knew that I am scared of the police. [07:07] IsambardPrince He can do that to someone who puts up with it now. [07:09] IsambardPrince The cops are usually weaponized against domestic violence victims. [07:09] IsambardPrince They don't really care who they arrest. They have to make an arrest and a narrative, that's all they have to do. [07:10] IsambardPrince And the abuser is usually better at handling the police than the person they abused, who they are also complaining about. [07:10] TR News Techrights SLAPP Censorship - Part 164 Out of 200: Patent Troll SLAPPs, Defamation Trolls, and Stranglers From America https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/28/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_164_Out_of_200_Patent_Troll_SLAPPs_Defama.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/28/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_164_Out_of_200_Patent_Troll_SLAPPs_Defama.gmi [07:10] TR Bot Techrights SLAPP Censorship - Part 164 Out of 200: Patent Troll SLAPPs, Defamation Trolls, and Stranglers From America [07:12] IsambardPrince The police operate under a flawed premise. [07:12] IsambardPrince That the person who called them, who is totally calm when they talk with them, is the one telling the truth. [07:13] IsambardPrince Mandy didn't abuse me because it made sense, or because it ultimately got him any sort of a prize. He did it because he's a mean person. He's screwed up in the head and it made him feel powerful to have me running to him like an idiot begging him to change. [07:15] IsambardPrince Without me, things immediately get harder for him. He's broke, he has no life skills. He's moving into some room with someone he works with. I told him "We'll see how they like it when you move all your hoarded crap into their house and they have German Cockroaches that they have never seen in that house before." [07:17] schestowitz[TR2] The police operate under a flawed premise. [07:17] schestowitz[TR2] we will have a story on that [07:18] schestowitz[TR2] how ontario criminal [07:18] schestowitz[TR2] who did many illegal things [07:18] schestowitz[TR2] had the audacity to call cops here [07:18] IsambardPrince If he brings anything with him then within 3-6 months, there will be German roaches in that house and they'll be falling out of the cabinets. [07:18] schestowitz[TR2] after doing illegal stuff [07:18] schestowitz[TR2] if challenged, it's down to [07:18] IsambardPrince My advantage here is I know the apartment building is compromised. [07:18] schestowitz[TR2] "I am autistic" [07:18] schestowitz[TR2] "i might kill myself" [07:18] IsambardPrince And I can clean and set out bait and traps. [07:18] schestowitz[TR2] "I am a woman... I just sound like a dude" [07:19] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: Did you make a "sour face" at him? [07:19] schestowitz[TR2] this is why the average biritish cop loathes them [07:19] schestowitz[TR2] they are forced to be nice [07:19] schestowitz[TR2] to people who use their lives as a hotage [07:19] schestowitz[TR2] *hostage [07:19] schestowitz[TR2] we'll cover this one day [07:20] schestowitz[TR2] puppy breaker likes people like these [07:20] schestowitz[TR2] he uses them as pwns and weapons [07:20] schestowitz[TR2] *pawns [07:20] TR News "This website was born. First as a straight website, as I was mostly blogging on Tumblr in those days, but later I turned it into proper blog, with an RSS feed and everything." https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/the-story-of-this-blog-so-far/ | Source: Baldur Bjarnason [07:20] TR Bot The story of this blog so far: 'AI', the death of web dev, and feeling like an outsider [07:20] TR News "It's clear by now that veteran Software developers are good at using AI to build powerful Software." https://rohanrd.mataroa.blog/blog/freedom-to-handcraft-software/ | [07:20] TR Bot Freedom to Handcraft Software rohanrd [07:20] TR News "My good news first. Starting in June 2027, I will be joining the McGill Max Bell School of Public Policy as the Eddie Goldenberg Research Chair in the Digital Public Sphere." https://ethanzuckerman.com/2026/08/27/my-personal-contribution-to-the-us-canada-trade-war/ | Source: Ethan Zuckerman [07:20] TR Bot My personal contribution to the US/Canada trade war - Ethan Zuckerman [07:21] TR News "This is the conversation me and Zach have been having from the start of this year on the topic of intersecting interests, by iterating with posing questions and answering them by email." https://sarajaksa.eu/2026/08/conversation-about-intersecting-interests-with-zachary-kai-and-sara-jaksa/ | Source: Sara Jaka [07:21] TR Bot Conversation about Intersecting Interests with Zachary Kai and Sara Jaka | Blog of Sara Jaka [07:22] TR News "If you want to live with uncompromised integrity, you dont need anyone to tell you how: simply always do exactly and only what you want to do." https://www.seangoedecke.com/selling-out/ | Source: Sean Goedecke [07:22] TR Bot Selling out [07:22] TR News "From as early as age 1, children are explicitly taught how to function as members of a community." https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/opinion-finland-is-a-model-of-academic-success-the-reason-starts-earlier-than-i-thought/2026/08 | Source: EducationWeek [07:22] TR Bot Finland Is a Model of Academic Success. The Reason Starts Earlier Than I Thought (Opinion) [07:22] TR News "The data center industry lags behind other industries in permanent job creation." https://www.minnpost.com/fact-briefs/2026/08/do-data-centers-have-low-rates-of-permanent-job-creation-compared-to-other-sectors/ | Source: MinnPost [07:22] TR Bot data centers have low rates of permanent job creation? - MinnPost [07:22] TR News "Every four years, leading scholars of the Viking Age gather for the Viking Congress, an invitation-only conference bringing together specialists from across the field." https://www.medievalists.net/2026/08/inside-the-20th-viking-congress-where-viking-studies-is-heading/ | Source: Medievalists.net [07:22] TR Bot the 20th Viking Congress: Where Viking Studies Is Heading - Medievalists.net [07:23] TR News "The other day, I found myself wondering how big 52! (52 factorial) is, and that led me to ponder how these could be estimated without a calculator or a computer." https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2026/how-big-are-factorials/ | Source: Eli Bendersky [07:23] TR Bot How big are factorials? - Eli Bendersky's website [07:23] TR News "Naming Things by Tom Benner a tiny but neat book about the naming of identifies in code (variables, classes, methods, so not packages or libraries)." https://masalmon.eu/2026/08/27/naming-things-reading-notes/ | [07:23] TR Bot Reading notes on Naming Things by Tom Benner Malle's R Blog [07:23] TR News "This post provides a couple examples to go along with two earlier posts." https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/08/27/second-solutions/ | Source: John D Cook [07:23] TR Bot Second solutions [07:23] TR News "807 blog posts across 14 years." https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/blog-calendar-view/ | Source: Jim Nielsen [07:23] TR Bot A Calendar View For My Blog - Jim Nielsens Blog [07:24] TR News "I walked the stage for my degree, launched The Defender's Dispatch, built new tools around my Jellyfin server, and have been trying to enjoy what I am making without running myself into the ground." https://www.kylereddoch.me/blog/august-2026/ | Source: Kyle Reddoch [07:24] TR Bot August 2026 - CybersecKyle [07:27] TR News Techrights Links 28/08/2026: "UK Power Grid Has a Phantom Data Center Problem" and "Growth at All Costs is Cancer" https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/28/Links_28_08_2026_UK_Power_Grid_Has_a_Phantom_Data_Center_Proble.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/28/Links_28_08_2026_UK_Power_Grid_Has_a_Phantom_Data_Center_Proble.gmi [07:27] TR Bot Techrights Links 28/08/2026: "UK Power Grid Has a Phantom Data Center Problem" and "Growth at All Costs is Cancer" [07:30] TR News Jugulans version 1.0.3 released gopher://box.matto.nl/0/jugulans-version-103-released.txt [07:31] TR News "I am sitting in front of a 24" 2560 x 1440 monitor. I am very annoyed that this resolution seems to bring me the minimum comfort. Anything lower and I start feeling cramped." gemini://spell.mywire.org:1960/~stack/0265.gmi [07:31] TR News more gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/more [07:32] TR News Mr. Pringle gemini://buster.smol.pub/mr-pringle [07:33] TR News "I have been enjoying Tomodachi Life all summer and one thing I particularly appreciate is its total innocence. It is designed for low-stakes drama and vignettes of rather mundane life scenarios. It's all very jovial and light-hearted. Someone receives a bad gift, there's a minor argument, or a Mii experiences a strange dream." gemini://buster.smol.pub/absurd-tomodachi-summer [07:34] TR News "Conservatives and their supposed "liberal feminist" allies have long aimed their attacks at trans youth. They claim that they are merely protecting impressionable children from indoctrination and irreversible mutilation. Many, though not all, of them argue that adults are free to pursue gender change" gemini://willowashmaple.smol.pub/2026-08-27-my-cynical-take [07:34] TR News "I've been an alcoholic for over 15 years, since I was a teenager. My mind has always been my own worst enemy, and from a young age I found that booze was really the only way to shut that guy up." gemini://nullish.smol.pub/bob [07:35] TR News "As new entries will be added, I will organize them into categories. For now they can just pile up here freely. I also haven't fully figured out everything about Gemini space so if something looks silly, well, that's my newness showing." gemini://hwaldar.gemcities.com/blog/main.gmi [07:35] TR News "A good while ago I've read someone say that any thing that's worth doing is worth doing poorly because, above all else, you ended up doing something rather than nothing. I think that makes sense, so instead of thinking "Ah shit, I already missed my self-set schedule" I'm just gonna pretend that didn't happen this time and go on as normal." gemini://hwaldar.gemcities.com/blog/aug28.gmi [07:36] TR News "Anyway, this is the start of the gemlog and the capsule and I am headbutting the wall once again. I don't expect anything to come out of this to be honest, I mean everyone's got a gemlog here and I'm hardly unique in that aspect, but there's something about Gemini that feels more... liberating?" gemini://hwaldar.gemcities.com/blog/aug25.gmi [07:39] TR News Techrights Gemini Links 28/08/2026: Absurd Tomodachi Summer, Screen Piggery, and Jugulans 1.0.3 Released https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/28/Gemini_Links_28_08_2026_Absurd_Tomodachi_Summer_Screen_Piggery_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/28/Gemini_Links_28_08_2026_Absurd_Tomodachi_Summer_Screen_Piggery_.gmi [07:39] TR Bot Techrights Gemini Links 28/08/2026: Absurd Tomodachi Summer, Screen Piggery, and Jugulans 1.0.3 Released [07:49] TR News (NEW): Waiting to See September Data on GNU/Linux Usage https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/28/Waiting_to_See_September_Data_on_GNU_Linux_Usage.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/28/Waiting_to_See_September_Data_on_GNU_Linux_Usage.gmi [07:49] TR Bot Tux Machines Waiting to See September Data on GNU/Linux Usage [07:51] TR News "Rolling the clock forward, we now routinely run networks using methods other than fixed TCP or UDP port assignments to identify services." https://blog.apnic.net/2026/08/28/the-lingering-legacy-of-reserved-ports/ | Source: APNIC [07:51] TR Bot The lingering legacy of 'reserved' ports | APNIC Blog [07:51] TR News "Often it is useful to deploy moteus in a system where it is controlled and monitored by a microcontroller" https://blog.mjbots.com/2026/08/27/uart-command-and-control-for-moteus/ | Source: Robotic Systems LLC [07:51] TR Bot UART command and control for moteus - mjbots blog [07:51] TR News "Im starting with a story time: [...]" https://hamatti.org/posts/x-is-for-xml-parsing-python-a-to-z/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala [07:51] TR Bot X is for XML parsing - Python A to Z : Juha-Matti Santala [07:57] TR News No evidence of any university degree in https://patternsinthevoid.net/cv.pdf [07:58] TR News "Languages Rust, C/C++, Python, Swift, Julia, Go, x86/ARM/MIPS/6510 ASMs, Common Lisp, Bash, Lua, Javascript, HTML5, CSS3, and Java" [07:59] TR News (NEW): Orange Pi Zero 4 with Octa-Core Allwinner A733, PCIe 3.0, and Wi-Fi 6 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/28/Orange_Pi_Zero_4_with_Octa_Core_Allwinner_A733_PCIe_3_0_and_Wi_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/28/Orange_Pi_Zero_4_with_Octa_Core_Allwinner_A733_PCIe_3_0_and_Wi_.gmi [07:59] TR Bot Tux Machines Orange Pi Zero 4 with Octa-Core Allwinner A733, PCIe 3.0, and Wi-Fi 6 ● Aug 28 [08:11] TR News Techrights If Linux Was Written in Rust, 80% or More of Linux Developers Would Not Understand It (Same If It's Composed by LLM Slop) https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/28/If_Linux_Was_Written_in_Rust_80_or_More_of_Linux_Developers_Wou.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/28/If_Linux_Was_Written_in_Rust_80_or_More_of_Linux_Developers_Wou.gmi [08:11] TR Bot Techrights If Linux Was Written in Rust, 80% or More of Linux Developers Would Not Understand It (Same If It's Composed by LLM Slop) [08:29] TR News (NEW): Free and Open Source Software https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/28/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/28/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi [08:29] TR Bot Tux Machines Free and Open Source Software [08:42] TR News (NEW): Germany Said It Would Dump Microsoft and It's Actually Happening https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/28/Germany_Said_It_Would_Dump_Microsoft_and_It_s_Actually_Happenin.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/28/Germany_Said_It_Would_Dump_Microsoft_and_It_s_Actually_Happenin.gmi [08:42] TR Bot Tux Machines Germany Said It Would Dump Microsoft and It's Actually Happening [08:44] TR News (NEW): Why your broken Linux drivers aren't actually Linux's fault https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/28/Why_your_broken_Linux_drivers_aren_t_actually_Linux_s_fault.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/28/Why_your_broken_Linux_drivers_aren_t_actually_Linux_s_fault.gmi [08:44] TR Bot Tux Machines Why your broken Linux drivers aren't actually Linux's fault [08:47] TR News "I closed all three PRs without comment." https://neilalexander.dev/2026/06/30/flooding-contributions | [08:47] TR Bot stop flooding our projects with AI slop to furnish your CV | neilalexander.dev [08:47] TR News "To make use of this in your code, add a call to lockPointers() when you first store a pointer to an element or a slice of elements backed by the ArrayList, and call unlockPointers() when those pointers are no longer needed." https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-08-27 | Source: Zig [08:47] TR Bot Devlog Zig Programming Language [08:47] TR News "Bazel is a build tool first, and its module system (bzlmod, the default since Bazel 7) is mostly used to pull in existing C++, Java and Go projects that already have their own release histories." https://nesbitt.io/2026/08/27/bazel-module-versions-arent-semver.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt [08:47] TR Bot Bazel Module Versions Arent SemVer | Andrew Nesbitt [08:48] TR News "The last thing to do is to make my life a little easier." https://piccalil.li/projects/personal-site/10/?ref=main-rss-feed | Source: Andy Bell [08:48] TR Bot A CLI for adding new music to the collection - Piccalilli [08:48] TR News "Recency bias and time discounting explain most of it." https://jeroensangers.com/2026/08/27/unplanned-tasks-get-finished-more.html | Source: Jeroen Sangers [08:48] TR Bot Jeroen Sangers brain tags - Unplanned tasks get finished more often than planned ones [08:48] TR News "Consistency requires coordination, and coordination sucks." https://markuseliasson.se/article/consistency-and-the-damage-done | Source: Markus Eliasson [08:48] TR Bot Consistency and the damage done - Markus Eliasson [08:48] TR News "Anyone whose first computing experience came in the form of an 8-bit home computer will tell you about booting straight into a BASIC interpreter." https://hackaday.com/2026/08/27/all-the-best-computers-boot-to-basic/ | Source: Hackaday [08:48] TR Bot The Best Computers Boot To BASIC | Hackaday [08:50] TR News "The legislative efforts to combat online harms in Canada have focused chiefly on platform responsibility" https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/08/unleashing-the-trolls-ontario-court-opens-the-door-to-liability-for-influencers-who-weaponize-their-audiences/ | Source: Michael Geist [08:50] TR Bot Unleashing the Trolls: Ontario Court Opens the Door to Liability for Influencers Who Weaponize Their Audiences - Michael Geist [08:50] TR News "This role is intended for someone with approximately 5 years of relevant professional experience and a strong technical background." https://www.fsf.org/news/2026-job-opportunity-fsf-systems-integration-administrator | Source: FSF [08:50] TR Bot Job opportunity: Systems Integration Administrator at the Free Software Foundation Free Software Foundation Working together for free software [08:51] TR News "Except search stopped behaving like a supermarket." https://www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/fragmentation-is-not-reach/ | Source: Jono Alderson [08:51] TR Bot Fragmentation is not reach - Jono Alderson [08:52] TR News "Physically this build is very similar to the God Machine II sculpture we covered previously" https://hackaday.com/2026/08/27/analog-optical-feedback-generates-4k-fractals-with-no-computer/ | Source: Hackaday [08:52] TR Bot Optical Feedback Generates 4K Fractals With No Computer | Hackaday [08:54] TR News (NEW): : Google Android Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/28/Android_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/28/Android_Leftovers.gmi [08:54] TR Bot Tux Machines Android Leftovers [08:57] TR News Rainy Season is Here https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/28/rainy-season-is-here/ [08:57] TR Bot Blog Archive Rainy Season is Here ● Aug 28 [09:02] TR News IBM Layoffs At Rocket Center https://www.wcbcradio.com/news/ibm-layoffs-at-rocket-center/ [09:02] TR Bot IBM Layoffs At Rocket Center WCBC Radio [09:02] TR News "Copyright (C) 2015, Daniel Pocock http://danielpocock.com " https://git.logicalhacking.com/adbrucker/gitx-ics/src/commit/6ed23d8da4c99597674d12f620afc6c1da1e4e89 [09:02] TR Bot Daniel Pocock's personal blog [09:03] TR Bot Making sure you're not a bot! [09:04] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.facebook.com/WCBCRadio/posts/ibm-layoffs-at-rocket-centerwcbc-has-learned-that-the-loss-of-a-major-services-c/1727659019369214/ [09:04] TR Bot NO TITLE [09:04] schestowitz[TR2] "IBM Layoffs At Rocket Center [09:04] schestowitz[TR2] WCBC has learned that the loss of a major services contract with the Internal Revenue Service has resulted in a layoff of approximately 100 employees at the IBM location in Rocket Center, West Virginia. The federal agency chose not to renew the contract with IBM. Sources say the layoffs are effective September 4. The Rocket Center location for IBM supports federal technology and consulting programs. WCBC has reached out to IBM fo [09:04] schestowitz[TR2] r comment." [09:04] schestowitz[TR2] "IBM has announced a reduction in its workforce at the Rocket Center facility, impacting approximately 100 employees. This decision follows the non-renewal of a significant services contract with the Internal Revenue Service. The federal agency opted not to extend its agreement with IBM. We understand these layoffs are scheduled to take effect on September 4. The Rocket Center location primarily provides support for federal techno [09:04] schestowitz[TR2] logy and consulting programs." [09:06] *IsambardPrince has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [09:29] bms good morning [09:29] bms oh crap they're flooding the DOI space with slop now https://www.404media.co/the-ai-ghosts-contaminating-academic-publishing/ [09:29] TR Bot The AI Ghosts Contaminating Academic Publishing [09:46] *ewig (~Ewig@user/ewig) has joined #techrights ● Aug 28 [11:17] *Disconnected (Connection timed out). [11:20] *Now talking on #techrights [11:20] *djslocker.scuttled.net sets mode +n #techrights [11:20] *djslocker.scuttled.net sets mode +t #techrights ● Aug 28 [12:24] *psydroid2 (~psydroid@kcvnmgbxt8eqq.irc) has joined #techrights [12:26] schestowitz[TR2] now? it has gone on for a while [12:26] TR News "Oliver Reiche has announced the release of Ubuntu 26.04.1, an update to the distribution's latest long-term support release. [...]" https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12936 | Source: Distro Watch [12:26] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12936 ) [12:27] TR News "The sixth beta for Haiku R1 comes just about a week after Haikus 25th anniversary. Weve come a long way since the project began a quarter-century ago in 2001." https://www.haiku-os.org/get-haiku/r1beta6/release-notes/ | Source: HaikuOS [12:27] TR Bot R1/beta6 Release Notes | Haiku Project [12:28] TR News "A practical guide to turning lab findings into defensive fixes: write clear evidence, explain impact, recommend realistic remediation, validate closure" https://www.kylereddoch.me/blog/cyberseckyle-security-how-to-series-light-offensive-to-think-defensively-part-4-from-findings-to-fixes-with-a-short-report/ | Source: Kyle Reddoch [12:28] TR Bot From Security Findings to Fixes with a Short Report - CybersecKyle [12:28] TR News "We have every reason to assume that the 7870 XT should just work, so why doesnt it?" https://timur.hu/blog/2026/the-gcn-outcast-radeon-hd-7870-xt | Source: Timur Kristf [12:28] TR Bot The GCN outcast - Radeon HD 7870 XT | Timurs blog [12:29] TR News "In theory this should mean basically perfect isolation between kernels, which is one of the main selling points along with increased performance." https://hackaday.com/2026/08/27/running-multiple-linux-kernels-without-hypervisor/ | Source: Hackaday [12:29] TR Bot Multiple Linux Kernels Without Hypervisor | Hackaday [12:29] *ewig has quit (Remote host closed the connection) [12:29] TR News "The BPF Token prevents a process from gaining full root-level access to execute BPF code." https://naveensrinivasan.com/posts/2026-08-27-bpf-token-delegation/ | Source: Naveen Srinivasan [12:29] TR Bot BPF Token Delegation :: naveen srinivasan Write code.Loves to read [12:30] TR News "I'm excited to announce Route 53 Files, a new file system that seamlessly connects any AWS compute resource with Amazon's highest-availability database" https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2026-08-27-Launching-Route-53-Files.html | Source: Daemonology [12:30] TR Bot Launching Route 53 Files [12:30] TR News "Eben Upton, Founder and CEO of Raspberry Pi, discusses AI demand, chip prices and supply, and the outlook for the sector." https://www.cnbc.com/video/2026/08/27/raspberry-pi-ceo-paying-10-times-more-for-dram-now-than-18-months-ago.html | Source: CNBC [12:30] TR Bot Raspberry Pi CEO: Paying 10 times more for DRAM now than 18 months ago [12:30] TR News "Switches in your ceiling, AI affecting interest in things, Commodore Phone and more..." https://www.bsdnow.tv/678 | Source: The BSD Now Podcast [12:30] TR Bot BSD Now 678: Ceiling Cat has another meaning [12:33] TR News "A recent Crowd Supply campaign features the Firehat" https://linuxgizmos.com/firewire-hat-with-pcie-2-0-for-tapeless-dv-and-hdv-capture/ | Source: Linux Gizmos [12:33] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/firewire-hat-with-pcie-2-0-for-tapeless-dv-and-hdv-capture/ ) [12:35] TR News "In manufacturing, unplanned downtime translates directly to lost production, which is ultimately lost revenue." https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/automating-edge-recovery-minimizing-unplanned-downtime-with-red-hat-edge | Source: Red Hat Official [12:35] TR Bot Automating edge recovery: Minimizing unplanned downtime with Red Hat Edge [12:36] TR News Promoting slop instead of Linux: "Enterprise AI initiatives often fail because the conversation ends at the model." https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/beyond-model-architecting-production-grade-enterprise-ai-systems | Source: Red Hat Official [12:36] TR Bot Beyond the model: Architecting production-grade enterprise AI systems [12:37] TR News STAR WARS Zero Company is out now | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/star-wars-zero-company-is-out-now/ Source: GamingOnLinux | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/star-wars-zero-company-is-out-now/ [12:37] TR Bot WARS Zero Company is out now | GamingOnLinux [12:46] TR News Ride a sentient motorcycle-plane to make deliveries in Into the Wind | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/ride-a-sentient-motorcycle-plane-to-make-deliveries-in-into-the-wind/ Source: GamingOnLinux [12:46] TR Bot a sentient motorcycle-plane to make deliveries in Into the Wind | GamingOnLinux [12:46] TR News The new 18 minute Fable gameplay has sold me - I want it | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/the-new-18-minute-fable-gameplay-has-sold-me-i-want-it/ Source: GamingOnLinux | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/the-new-18-minute-fable-gameplay-has-sold-me-i-want-it/ [12:46] TR Bot new 18 minute Fable gameplay has sold me - I want it | GamingOnLinux [12:53] TR News Slayblade review - spinning top battles | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/slayblade-review/ Source: GamingOnLinux | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/slayblade-review/ [12:53] TR Bot review - spinning top battles | GamingOnLinux [12:53] TR News Gun Fu action game SPINE looks super-slick in the new trailer, releasing in 2027 | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/gun-fu-action-game-spine-looks-super-slick-in-the-new-trailer-releasing-in-2027/ Source: GamingOnLinux | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/gun-fu-action-game-spine-looks-super-slick-in-the-new-trailer-releasing-in-2027/ [12:53] TR Bot Fu action game SPINE looks super-slick in the new trailer, releasing in 2027 | GamingOnLinux [12:54] TR News "SVT: Sweden sending military units to help Finland monitor eastern border" https://yle.fi/a/74-20243433 way to say SUPO sees invasion threat [12:54] TR Bot SVT: Sweden sending military units to help Finland monitor eastern border | Yle News | Yle [12:55] TR News Outpost building strategy game Star Trek: Outposts Unknown launches October 20 | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/outpost-building-strategy-game-star-trek-outposts-unknown-launches-october-20/ Source: GamingOnLinux [12:55] TR Bot building strategy game Star Trek: Outposts Unknown launches October 20 | GamingOnLinux ● Aug 28 [13:02] TR News Kingdom III: Rising Realms, Bye Bye Bonnie and more fun stuff revealed by Raw Fury | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/kingdom-iii-rising-realms-bye-bye-bonnie-and-more-fun-stuff-revealed-by-raw-fury/ Source: GamingOnLinux | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/kingdom-iii-rising-realms-bye-bye-bonnie-and-more-fun-stuff-revealed-by-raw-fury/ [13:02] TR Bot III: Rising Realms, Bye Bye Bonnie and more fun stuff revealed by Raw Fury | GamingOnLinux [13:03] TR News PvPvE extraction-style raid shooter Active Matter arrives September 15 | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/pvpve-extraction-style-raid-shooter-active-matter-arrives-september-15/ Source: GamingOnLinux [13:03] TR Bot extraction-style raid shooter Active Matter arrives September 15 | GamingOnLinux [13:04] TR News Grab some more hits in the Beyond the Metroidverse Humble Bundle | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/grab-some-more-hits-in-the-beyond-the-metroidverse-humble-bundle/ Source: GamingOnLinux [13:04] TR Bot some more hits in the Beyond the Metroidverse Humble Bundle | GamingOnLinux [13:04] TR News "That makes dmesg especially useful when youre troubleshooting problems related to hardware, drivers, storage devices, USB devices, networking, or the boot process." https://www.tecmint.com/dmesg-commands/ | Source: TecMint [13:04] TR Bot 12 Ways to Use dmesg in Linux to Troubleshoot Kernel Messages [13:05] TR News "DNF (Dandified YUM) has been the default package manager on Fedora since Fedora 22 (2015) and on RHEL since RHEL 8 (2019). It is used across RHEL 8/9/10, Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux, CentOS Stream, and Fedora." https://www.tecmint.com/dnf-commands-linux/ | Source: TecMint [13:05] TR Bot 20 Essential DNF Commands for Package Management in Linux [13:05] TR News "DefCon 34 - Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later - Cliff Stoll" https://yewtu.be/watch?v=656058JxTM0 [13:05] TR Bot Verifying your browser [13:07] TR News WTF, EFF compromised after GAFAM bribes: "abortions or gender-affirming care." https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/08/eff-statement-meta-settlement see http://techrights.org/n/2025/09/17/Fact_EFF_Got_Corrupted_by_Corporate_Money_Microsoft_Lunduke_Pol.shtml [13:07] TR Bot EFF Statement on Meta Settlement | Electronic Frontier Foundation [13:07] TR Bot Techrights Fact: EFF Got Corrupted by Corporate Money. Microsoft Lunduke (Political Noise): The Issue With EFF is, It Kills Babies. [13:07] TR News USA: Rebellion against camera surveillance | "USA: Uppror mot kameravervakning" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/08/27/usa-uppror-mot-kameraovervakning/ [13:07] TR Bot USA: Uppror mot kameravervakning [13:11] TR News Building hermetic notebook images for Open Data Hub and Red Bait OpenShift Hey Hi (AI) https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/08/28/hermetic-notebook-images-for-open-data-hub-and-red-hat-openshift-ai [13:11] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/08/28/hermetic-notebook-images-for-open-data-hub-and-red-hat-openshift-ai ) [13:11] TR News IBM compels Red Hat to rebrand everything for slop [13:14] TR News Timur Kristf: The GCN outcast - Radeon HD 7870 XT https://timur.hu/blog/2026/the-gcn-outcast-radeon-hd-7870-xt [13:14] TR Bot The GCN outcast - Radeon HD 7870 XT | Timurs blog [13:17] TR News Unleashing the Trolls: Ontario Court Opens the Door to Liability for Influencers Who Weaponize Their Audiences https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/08/unleashing-the-trolls-ontario-court-opens-the-door-to-liability-for-influencers-who-weaponize-their-audiences/ [13:17] TR Bot Unleashing the Trolls: Ontario Court Opens the Door to Liability for Influencers Who Weaponize Their Audiences - Michael Geist [13:21] TR News The lingering legacy of reserved ports https://blog.apnic.net/2026/08/28/the-lingering-legacy-of-reserved-ports/ [13:21] TR Bot The lingering legacy of 'reserved' ports | APNIC Blog [13:23] *ewig (~Ewig@user/ewig) has joined #techrights [13:23] TR News XPpen Artist 12 3rd - review on GNU/Linux https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1169/xppen-artist-12-3rd-review-on-gnulinux [13:24] TR Bot XPpen Artist 12 3rd - review on GNU/Linux - David Revoy [13:30] TR News Dolphin 26.08 and KIO, part two: what got faster and smaller https://blogs.kde.org/2026/08/27/dolphin-26.08-and-kio-part-two-what-got-faster-and-smaller/ [13:30] TR Bot Dolphin 26.08 and KIO, part two: what got faster and smaller - KDE Blogs [13:30] *ewig has quit (Remote host closed the connection) [13:31] TR News This Week In Rust: This Week in Rust 666 https://this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2026/08/26/this-week-in-rust-666/ [13:31] TR Bot This Week in Rust 666 This Week in Rust [13:32] TR News Serge Guelton: Pros and Cons of Unified Build http://serge-sans-paille.github.io/pythran-stories/pros-and-cons-of-unified-build.html [13:32] TR Bot Pythran stories - Pros and Cons of Unified Build [13:33] TR News ISTIO-SECURITY-2026-006 https://istio.io/latest/news/security/istio-security-2026-006/ [13:33] TR Bot Istio / ISTIO-SECURITY-2026-006 [13:34] *ewig (~Ewig@user/ewig) has joined #techrights [13:34] TR News Announcing Istio 1.30.4 https://istio.io/latest/news/releases/1.30.x/announcing-1.30.4/ [13:34] TR Bot Istio / Announcing Istio 1.30.4 [13:34] TR News Kiwi TCMS: 3-year plans and pay by Wire Transfer https://kiwitcms.org/blog/kiwi-tcms-team/2026/08/27/3-year-plans-and-pay-by-wire-transfer/ [13:34] TR Bot Kiwi TCMS - 3-year plans and pay by Wire Transfer [13:35] TR News Police Use Surveillance Cameras to Narc On Guy Who Found $30 on the Ground https://futurism.com/future-society/police-surveillance-man-money-ground [13:35] TR Bot Police Use Surveillance Cameras to Narc On Guy Who Found $30 on the Ground [13:35] TR News Prince Harry and Co-Claimants Ordered To Pay 9.54m Interim Legal Costs by 28 August https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/prince-harry-legal-costs-payment-1816758 [13:35] TR Bot Prince Harry and Co-Claimants Ordered To Pay 9.54m Interim Legal Costs by 28 August | IBTimes UK [13:36] TR News Private Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot Conversations Are Increasingly Turning Up as Evidence in US Court Cases https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ai-chatbot-conversations-legal-risks-privacy-concerns-1816765 [13:36] TR Bot Private ChatGPT Conversations Are Increasingly Turning Up as Evidence in US Court Cases | IBTimes UK [13:37] TR News Opener is an open-source reference implementation of the DECT NR+ massive IoT, low-latency standard https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/08/27/opener-open-source-reference-implementation-of-the-dect-nr-massive-iot-standard/ [13:37] TR Bot Opener is an open-source reference implementation of the DECT NR+ massive IoT, low-latency standard - CNX Software [13:38] TR News Tickets in Transitous https://jbb.ghsq.de/kde/2026/08/27/GTFS-Ticketing.html [13:38] TR Bot Tickets in Transitous [13:39] TR News Digital Sanctuary https://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaign/digital-sanctuary/ [13:39] TR Bot Digital Sanctuary | Open Rights Group [13:40] TR News Gunnar Wolf: As far as LLMs go in Debian, I think that 936241857 https://gwolf.org/2026/08/as-far-as-llms-go-in-debian-i-think-that-936241857.html [13:40] TR Bot Gunnar Wolf As far as LLMs go in Debian, I think that 936241857 [13:44] TR News BBC writes about datacentres, heading says "new industrial revolution". Is that another term for pyramid scheme? [13:45] TR News Streamers Now Going Live With Grizzly Bears, Which Will Surely End Well and Not Like in Grizzly Man https://futurism.com/science-energy/live-streamers-bear-grizzly-man-clout [13:45] TR Bot Streamers Now Going Live With Grizzly Bears, Which Will Surely End Well and Not Like in "Grizzly Man" [13:45] TR News Near-Total Lunar Eclipse Will Turn Moon Blood Red https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/science/lunar-eclipse-blood-moon.html [13:45] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/science/lunar-eclipse-blood-moon.html ) [13:47] TR News Media funded by the pyramid scheme will look down and talk down on people who dare ask questions about the pyramid scheme or oppose the expansion of this scheme. [13:52] TR News BBC for Pyramid Scheme https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/28/bbc-for-pyramid-scheme/ [13:52] TR Bot Blog Archive BBC for Pyramid Scheme [13:58] TR News Proposal to declare state of emergency in Latvia's border area https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defence/27.08.2026-proposal-to-declare-state-of-emergency-in-latvias-border-area.a660542/ [13:58] TR Bot Proposal to declare state of emergency in Latvia's border area / Article [13:58] TR News iophk: the companies that order the centers make out like bandits but they are now starting to stiff the companies which do the actual construction So the bubble is now on the edge of popping http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/28/bbc-for-pyramid-scheme/ [13:58] TR Bot Blog Archive BBC for Pyramid Scheme ● Aug 28 [14:00] TR News social control media youth protection changes should apply globally, says South Korean media regulator https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-media-commission-says-metas-youth-protection-changes-should-apply-globally [14:00] TR Bot South Korea media commission says Metas youth protection changes should apply globally | The Straits Times [14:06] TR News Nepal floods: Relatives, friends turn to social control media for news of uncontactable Malaysians https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/nepal-floods-relatives-friends-turn-to-social-media-for-news-of-uncontactable-malaysians [14:06] TR Bot Nepal floods: Malaysians missing after pilgrimage trip | The Straits Times [14:10] bms I got robocalled again on the number I'm getting rid of [14:12] schestowitz[TR2] are they legal in .scot? [14:12] schestowitz[TR2] we got some nuisance calls in the old number [14:12] schestowitz[TR2] in the new number nuisance calls are like 1% of all calls [14:12] schestowitz[TR2] very high s/n [14:12] bms I've had this one before, it was a disembodied female voice, perhaps "AI" generated, asking me to add them on WhatsApp about a job [14:13] bms despite the fact that I have no such account [14:13] schestowitz[TR2] voice synthesis [14:13] schestowitz[TR2] thhat's the term [14:13] schestowitz[TR2] or CG [14:13] schestowitz[TR2] not "hey hi" [14:13] schestowitz[TR2] it's 1980s tech [14:13] bms htank you, I must stop using the hey hi term. [14:13] schestowitz[TR2] yes [14:13] schestowitz[TR2] if possible [14:14] bms given I had to rage quite watching Democracy Now! on the subject because they were doing it too [14:14] schestowitz[TR2] if we adopt their vocab, then they "win" [14:14] schestowitz[TR2] yes, sanders does too [14:14] schestowitz[TR2] it's not about wing [14:14] schestowitz[TR2] it's money corrupting lang [14:15] schestowitz[TR2] " [14:15] schestowitz[TR2] Apparently in the US voice calls are all but useless because any voice [14:15] schestowitz[TR2] number is *overwhelmed* with robocalls all day and all evening. [14:15] schestowitz[TR2] That more than ruins the utility that the phones once offered. " [14:15] schestowitz[TR2] -Anon [14:16] TR News The limits of superpowerdom as countries refuse to bend to Americas will https://www.csmonitor.com/Perspectives/Essays/2026/0827/trump-china-iran-canada-superpower [14:16] TR Bot US is facing pushback from China, Iran, and Canada - CSMonitor.com [14:21] bms schestowitz[TR2]: I will be changing numbers soon anyway, but I need to synchronize it with GDPR Article 17 action on Google [14:22] bms schestowitz[TR2]: it's the 3rd party data brokers beyond the GAFAM, Companies House, and so on to worry about. Two new numbers. I had to PAC in a PAYG Vodafone number on my new EE-MVNO business eSIM because... the number the MVNO issued me with was getting CHINESE robocalls filling up the voicemail! [14:23] bms the personal number I used for Signal transfer to new GrapheneOS device, that's on another EE-MVNO who are Austrian and have their own +447xxx inward prefix so customers are easily identified as such. Close friends only for that one. [14:24] *Obsdark (~Obsdark@user/obsdark) has joined #techrights [14:26] bms schestowitz[TR2]: David Gerard from pivot-to-ai.com broke the news the other month that the UK CMA had forced Google to implement "AI" summary opt-outs, but Google ended up implementing it globally. I've determined it's possible to use a pseudonymous account to access Google Search Console, and this can also be used for Bing via a federated OAuth login. Bing optouts however... [14:26] bms should be done via Google first. [14:27] bms schestowitz[TR2]: This is because Google will allow one to use a TXT record at the top of the DNS zone to authenticate domain ownership, and Bing will trust that, so one does not get d0xxed. [14:36] *schestowitz[TR2] back from run [14:37] schestowitz[TR2] David Gerard from pivot-to-ai.com used to be here [14:37] schestowitz[TR2] but that was almost two decades ago [14:38] TR News China's YMTC aims to become the world's largest NAND maker by the end of 2027, report says company plans to overtake Samsung and SK hynix https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/chinas-ymtc-aims-to-become-the-worlds-largest-nand-maker-by-the-end-of-2027 [14:38] TR Bot China's YMTC aims to become the world's largest NAND maker by the end of 2027, report says company plans to overtake Samsung and SK hynix | Tom's Hardware [14:40] TR News LibreOffice 26.8 Doubles Down on No SLOP, Right After Collabora Welcomed It https://itsfoss.com/news/libreoffice-26-8-release/ [14:40] TR Bot LibreOffice 26.8 Doubles Down on No AI, Right After Collabora Welcomed It [14:40] schestowitz[TR2] bms: back then david had news of the news [14:40] schestowitz[TR2] satire site [14:40] schestowitz[TR2] on news of the world [14:41] schestowitz[TR2] which was shut down due to illegal cracking [14:41] schestowitz[TR2] afaik, david jokes about Zucker-Kapo-Berg's "pivot to video" [14:41] schestowitz[TR2] but says "pivot to ai" [14:41] schestowitz[TR2] which still says "ai" [14:41] schestowitz[TR2] i believe he is stilll based in london. he is from aussie. [14:44] TR News Anxious Generation Author Jonathan Haidt on the Meta Settlement https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/style/meta-jonathan-haidt-anxious-generation.html evils of social control media [14:44] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/style/meta-jonathan-haidt-anxious-generation.html ) [14:44] TR News Gwyneth Paltrows Hamptons Dinner for Scam Altman Postponed https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/style/gwyneth-paltrows-sam-altman-dinner-postponed.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/sam-altman-sexual-assault-sister-annie-abuse-lawsuit-b2950916.html [14:44] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/style/gwyneth-paltrows-sam-altman-dinner-postponed.html ) [14:44] TR Bot ( status 429 @ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/sam-altman-sexual-assault-sister-annie-abuse-lawsuit-b2950916.html ) [14:45] TR News Inside the Iceland Eclipse Festival: $1,000-a-Week Yurts and Endless Optimism https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/style/iceland-eclipse-festival.html [14:45] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/style/iceland-eclipse-festival.html ) [14:45] TR News Thursday nights blood moon eclipse over Mexico: How and when to watch it https://mexiconewsdaily.com/lifestyle/thursday-nights-blood-moon-eclipse-over-mexico-how-and-when-to-watch/ [14:45] TR Bot How and when to watch Thursday's eclipse over Mexico [14:45] TR News Scientists Find Signs of Artery Damage in Nearly 8 in 10 Young Adults https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-find-ominous-signs-of-artery-damage-in-nearly-8-in-10-young-adults [14:45] TR Bot Find Signs of Artery Damage in Nearly 8 in 10 Young Adults : ScienceAlert [14:47] TR News Running on 4 Hours of Sleep? 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SecurityWeek [15:01] TR News US Disrupts Chinese Hacking Platform Used in Military and Critical Infrastructure Attacks https://www.securityweek.com/us-disrupts-chinese-hacking-platform-used-in-military-and-critical-infrastructure-attacks/ [15:01] TR Bot Disrupts Chinese Hacking Platform Used in Military and Critical Infrastructure Attacks - SecurityWeek [15:01] TR News Cyberattack Causes Global Disruption at Boston Scientific https://www.securityweek.com/cyberattack-causes-global-disruption-at-boston-scientific/ [15:01] TR Bot Causes Global Disruption at Boston Scientific - SecurityWeek [15:01] TR News Australia Arrests 2 Alleged TeamPCP Hackers https://www.securityweek.com/australia-arrests-2-alleged-teampcp-hackers/ [15:01] TR Bot Arrests 2 Alleged TeamPCP Hackers - SecurityWeek [15:02] TR News Dihydroxyacetone Man Order Aims to Block Foreign Backdoors in US Power Grid Gear https://www.securityweek.com/trump-order-aims-to-block-foreign-backdoors-in-us-power-grid-gear/ https://techrights.org/n/2026/03/11/An_American_War_on_GNU_Linux_Software_Freedom_and_British_Inves.shtml [15:02] TR Bot Order Aims to Block Foreign Backdoors in US Power Grid Gear - SecurityWeek [15:02] TR Bot Techrights An American War on GNU/Linux, Software Freedom, and British Investigative, Science-Based Reporting - Part V - Attempts to Take Down and Suppress Criticism of Back Doors Controlled by Microsoft and the American Government [15:02] TR News Latvia's election system check finds flaws https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/election/27.08.2026-latvias-election-system-check-finds-flaws.a660629/ [15:02] TR Bot Latvia's election system check finds flaws / Article [15:03] TR News Sovereign Tech Agency Providing Massive Investment Into IBM's Flatpak https://www.phoronix.com/news/Sovereign-Tech-Agency-Flatpak [15:03] TR Bot Tech Agency Providing Massive Investment Into Flatpak - Phoronix [15:03] TR News (Because Germany is moving to GNU/Linux) [15:04] TR News Blue Proton Initiative: four 17-year-olds are building [slop]-powered livestock monitoring with Arduino https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/08/27/blue-proton-initiative-four-17-year-olds-are-building-ai-powered-livestock-monitoring-with-arduino/ [15:04] TR Bot Blue Proton Initiative: four 17-year-olds are building AI-powered livestock monitoring with Arduino | Arduino Blog [15:04] TR News @ FOSSY 2026 http://jaiden.sh/blog/fossy.html https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/11/FOSSY_SFC_Platforming_GAFAM_Sells_Endorsement.shtml [15:05] TR News Meta settlement aims to protect kids. Much more is needed, experts say. https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2026/0827/meta-settlement-facebook-instagram [15:05] TR Bot settlement aims to protect kids. Experts worry it wont. - CSMonitor.com [15:05] TR News Meta Forced to Make Massive Changes Limiting How Minors Can Use Instagram and Facebook (Farcebook) https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-massive-changes-limiting-minors-instagram-facebook [15:05] TR Bot Meta Forced to Make Massive Changes Limiting How Minors Can Use Instagram and Facebook [15:05] TR News Ticket scalpers in S. Korea face fines of up to 50 times of resale price https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/ticket-scalpers-in-s-korea-face-fines-of-up-to-50-times-of-resale-price [15:05] TR Bot South Korea enforces strict anti-ticket scalping laws | The Straits Times [15:06] TR News Attempt to setup KVM Host on Sparky 2026.06 tolerant to Timeshift rollbacks (Assisted by Surveillance Giant Google Hey Hi (AI) ) https://dbaxps.blogspot.com/2026/08/attempt-to-setup-kvm-host-on-sparky.html [15:06] TR Bot Openstack RDO && KVM Hypervisor: Attempt to setup KVM Host on Sparky 2026.06 tolerant to Timeshift rollbacks (Assisted by Google AI ) [15:07] TR News Announcing Istio 1.29.7 https://istio.io/latest/news/releases/1.29.x/announcing-1.29.7/ [15:07] TR Bot Istio / Announcing Istio 1.29.7 [15:08] TR News You Can Now Run Multiple Linux Kernels on One Machine at Once https://itsfoss.com/news/multikernel-public-release/ [15:08] TR Bot You Can Now Run Multiple Linux Kernels on One Machine at Once [15:14] TR News "Please note ! once you are on pip you will never get rid of it. You are marked for termination, no matter how hard you try." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m12nythk [15:14] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m12nythk ) [15:15] schestowitz[TR2] " [15:15] schestowitz[TR2] It does not sound good. You mgr sounds like an ars. I know of a similar case where a cloud seller who was very good selling IBM's horrible cloud "stuff)"; white guy in his 50s, was given a PIP list (long) and worked his ars off and in the end his mgr said "...nope you did not complete it. You did not do the stand and deliver...:" He said WHAT?! I emailed you 4 times to schedule it! About a month later he was laid off. F IBM! [15:15] schestowitz[TR2] " [15:16] TR News North America: GNU/Linux 15% today https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=28d&loc=north-america&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP [15:16] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=28d&loc=north-america&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP ) [15:18] TR News Savista will lay off 39 workers in Bethesda https://www.thebanner.com/economy/growth-development/bethesda-healthcare-operations-company-layoffs-Y6ZRYUZYHVGI3GHUPPL64FIV2E/ "Savista, a global company that helps medical practices and hospitals manage billing, insurance and other aspects of their operations, plans to lay off 39 employees in Bethesda." [15:18] TR Bot Health care operations company Savista will lay off 39 workers in Bethesda - The Banner [15:20] TR News "IBM is already doing it albeit not so dramatically. September 2024 8000-10000 positions were cut, then in March 2025 another 5000 positions" https://old.reddit.com/r/IBM/comments/1s9mqwx/its_scary_hearing_about_oracle_layoffs_would_ibm/ [15:20] TR Bot Welcome to Reddit [15:28] TR News CDs From When I Was a Kid https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/28/cds-from-when-i-was-a-kid/ [15:28] TR Bot Blog Archive CDs From When I Was a Kid [15:44] TR News Justifying the Heavy Investments in the Club https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/28/justifying-the-heavy-investments-in-the-club/ [15:44] TR Bot Blog Archive Justifying the Heavy Investments in the Club [15:46] *cow_20012 has quit (Quit: ) [15:46] TR News Mozilla Performance Blog: The Road to Better Performance Profiles Part 2 https://blog.mozilla.org/performance/2026/08/26/the-road-to-better-performance-profiles-part-2/ [15:46] TR Bot The Road to Better Performance Profiles Part 2 Mozilla Performance [15:48] TR News DVinyl self-hosted collection manager https://www.linuxlinks.com/dvinyl-self-hosted-collection-manager/ [15:48] TR Bot - self-hosted collection manager - LinuxLinks [15:48] TR News cjsh POSIX-oriented shell https://www.linuxlinks.com/cjsh-posix-oriented-shell/ [15:48] TR Bot - POSIX-oriented shell - LinuxLinks [15:49] TR News Social Control Media: New Research Reveals Americans Spend More Time Watching YouTube Over Live TV https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/27/youtube-v-live-tv-study-2026/ [15:49] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/27/youtube-v-live-tv-study-2026/ ) [15:50] TR News Security updates for Thursday https://lwn.net/Articles/1090938/ [15:50] TR Bot updates for Thursday [LWN.net] [15:51] TR News Kubernetes v1.37: Metrics API graduates to stable https://kubernetes.io/blog/2026/08/27/kubernetes-v1-37-metrics-api-ga/ [15:51] TR Bot Kubernetes v1.37: Metrics API graduates to stable | Kubernetes [15:52] TR News USB-C Deskradar An ESP32-C3 ADS-B flight tracker with a 1.28-inch round display https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/08/27/usb-c-deskradar-an-esp32-c3-ads-b-flight-tracker-with-a-1-28-inch-round-display/ [15:52] TR Bot USB-C Deskradar - An ESP32-C3 ADS-B flight tracker with a 1.28-inch round display - CNX Software [15:59] TR News Australian police arrest two men accused of widespread open-source software hacking https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/australian-police-arrest-two-men-accused-of-widespread-open-source-software-hacking [15:59] TR Bot Australian police arrest men for open-source software hacking | The Straits Times ● Aug 28 [16:00] TR News 126: Low Distress Tolerance https://mwl.io/archives/24961 [16:00] TR Bot 126: Low Distress Tolerance Michael W Lucas [16:01] TR News Mark Kapo-berg Wants to Make Sure YouTube and Fentanylware (CheeTok) Share His Pain https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/technology/meta-settlement-mark-zuckerberg-youtube-tiktok.html [16:01] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/technology/meta-settlement-mark-zuckerberg-youtube-tiktok.html ) [16:02] TR News Going Linux #481 GNU/Linux and Open Source Back-to-Basics https://goinglinux.com/episode-481-linux-and-open-source-back-to-basics/index.html [16:02] TR Bot Episode 481 Linux & Open Source Back-to-Basics Going Linux [16:04] TR News Libgcrypt 1.12.3 Released With Bug Fixes, Curve Alias, and Faster Crypto https://fossforce.com/2026/08/libgcrypt-1-12-3-released-with-bug-fixes-curve-alias-and-faster-crypto/ [16:04] TR Bot Libgcrypt 1.12.3 Released With Bug Fixes, Curve Alias, and Faster Crypto - FOSS Force [16:05] *cow_20012 (~username@wusiwah4aa7ye.irc) has joined #techrights [16:05] TR News GNU/Linux on macbook pro with HD 4000 how to use intel i965 onboard gpu hardware acceleration to reencode x264 half size with 64Bit mp3 audio to make it web compatible and small https://dwaves.de/2026/08/27/gnu-linux-on-macbook-pro-with-hd-4000-how-to-use-intel-i965-onboard-gpu-hardware-acceleration-to-reencode-x264-half-size-with-64bit-mp3-audio-to-make-it-web-compatible-and-small/ [16:05] TR Bot GNU Linux on macbook pro with HD 4000 how to use intel i965 onboard gpu hardware acceleration to reencode x264 half size with 64Bit mp3 audio to make it web compatible and small | dwaves.de [16:09] TR News Finland heightens border alertness as Cheeto Kings visit Moscow. Maybe Norway should fortify its western border too, same for Denmark/Greenland. [16:10] TR News Pro-Russian Hackers Claim Responsibility for Major Cyberattack on Norways Public Digital Services https://www.securityweek.com/pro-russian-hackers-claim-responsibility-for-major-cyberattack-on-norways-public-digital-services/ [16:10] TR Bot Hackers Claim Responsibility for Major Cyberattack on Norways Public Digital Services - SecurityWeek [16:11] TR News Russian Sanctions Are Fueling a Canadian Car Theft Epidemic https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/world/canada/canada-car-theft-russia-sanctions.html [16:11] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/world/canada/canada-car-theft-russia-sanctions.html ) [16:13] TR News Two Alleged TeamPCP Hackers Arrested in Australia https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/08/two-alleged-teampcp-hackers-arrested-in-australia/ [16:13] TR Bot Two Alleged TeamPCP Hackers Arrested in Australia Krebs on Security [16:14] TR News Freedom for Hacking!!1 https://sfconservancy.org/news/2026/aug/27/dmca-renewal-submission-2026/ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/11/FOSSY_SFC_Platforming_GAFAM_Sells_Endorsement.shtml [16:14] TR Bot Freedom for Hacking!!1 - Software Freedom Conservancy [16:14] TR Bot Techrights FOSSY (SFC) Platforming GAFAM, Sells Endorsement [16:15] TR News Federal Judge Refuses to Toss Indie Musicians David v. Goliath Lawsuit Against Suno (Updated) https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/26/judge-wont-toss-indie-musician-lawsuit-v-suno/ [16:15] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/26/judge-wont-toss-indie-musician-lawsuit-v-suno/ ) [16:24] TR News Hardware modder builds overclocked PS3 Pro v3 with 3D-printed cooling mod dual Noctua fans and server heatsinks provide FPS boost in 'almost every game' https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/playstation/hardware-modder-builds-overclocked-ps3-pro-v3-with-3d-printed-cooling-mod-dual-noctua-fans-and-server-heatsinks-provide-fps-boost-in-almost-every-game [16:24] TR Bot Hardware modder builds overclocked PS3 Pro v3 with 3D-printed cooling mod dual Noctua fans and server heatsinks provide FPS boost in 'almost every game' | Tom's Hardware [16:25] TR News Take bribes to help the bubble expand (bribes from pyramid schemers): data center exemptions https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/policy/trump-administration-weighs-expanding-chip-tariffs-to-laptops-consoles-and-servers [16:25] TR Bot Trump administration weighs expanding chip tariffs to laptops, consoles, and servers, report claims January's data center exemptions may be scrapped | Tom's Hardware [16:26] TR News LLM-Based Social Engineering Scams https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/08/llm-based-social-engineering-scams.html [16:26] TR Bot Social Engineering Scams - Schneier on Security [16:27] TR News EPA faces lawsuit over claims it fast-tracked approval of toxic 'data center chemicals' https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/epa-faces-lawsuit-over-claims-it-fast-tracked-approval-of-toxic-data-center-chemicals-exposure-to-photoacid-generators-used-for-semiconductor-manufacturing-could-result-in-sudden-death-also-appear-to-be-long-lasting-pfas [16:27] TR Bot EPA faces lawsuit over claims it fast-tracked approval of toxic 'data center chemicals' exposure to photoacid generators used for semiconductor manufacturing could result in sudden death, also appear to be long-lasting PFAS | Tom's Hardware [16:27] TR News A polymorphic phishing page (that occasionally breaks itself), (Thu, Aug 27th) https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/33290 [16:27] TR Bot A polymorphic phishing page (that occasionally breaks itself) [16:30] TR News WordPress lost the plot, got swallowed up by slop plagiarism frenzy https://wordpress.org/news/2026/08/open-weight/ [16:30] TR Bot WordPress Signs the Open Weights and American AI Leadership Letter WordPress News [16:31] TR News Atari revives 39 Activision games on cartridges that run seamlessly across five decades of hardware Ultimate Deluxe collection that includes every title costs a wild $999.96 https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/atari-drops-39-activision-games-on-cartridges-the-run-seamlessly-across-five-decades-of-hardware-ultimate-deluxe-collection-that-includes-every-title-clocks-in-at-usd999-96 [16:31] TR Bot Atari revives 39 Activision games on cartridges that run seamlessly across five decades of hardware Ultimate Deluxe collection that includes every title costs a wild $999.96 | Tom's Hardware [16:32] TR News Two alleged TeamPCP members arrested and charged after months of software supply-chain chaos https://cyberscoop.com/teampcp-cybercrime-arrests-supply-chain-attacks/ [16:32] TR Bot alleged TeamPCP members arrested and charged after months of software supply-chain chaos | CyberScoop [16:32] TR News Firefox Tooling Announcements: MozPhab 2.18.0 Released https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/mozphab-2-18-0-released/149287 [16:32] TR Bot MozPhab 2.18.0 Released - Firefox Tooling Announcements - Mozilla Discourse [16:33] TR News Dirk Eddelbuettel: prrd 0.0.7 at CRAN: Maintenance http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/08/27#prrd_0.0.7 [16:33] TR Bot Thinking inside the box [16:34] TR News European Court of Human Rights rules Trkiye violated Osman Kavalas free speech and assembly rights https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/08/european-court-of-human-rights-rules-turkiye-violated-osman-kavalas-free-speech-and-assembly-rights/ [16:35] TR Bot European Court of Human Rights rules Trkiye violated Osman Kavala's free speech and assembly rights - JURIST - News [16:35] *psydroid3 (~psydroid@kcvnmgbxt8eqq.irc) has joined #techrights [16:39] *psydroid3 has quit (Quit: KVIrc 5.2.10 Quasar http://www.kvirc.net/) [16:47] TR News Michael Catanzaro: Change in Timeline to Some Changes to GNOME Security Tracking https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2026/08/27/change-in-timeline-to-some-changes-to-gnome-security-tracking/ [16:47] TR Bot Change in Timeline to Some Changes to GNOME Security Tracking Michael Catanzaro's Blog [16:49] MinceR https://fartlang.org/ [16:49] TR Bot NO TITLE [16:52] TR News Techrights Michael Catanzaro's Latest Blog Post Affirms Rumours of Red Hat Changes and RAs/PIPs at IBM https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/28/Michael_Catanzaro_s_Latest_Blog_Post_Affirms_Rumours_of_Red_Hat.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/28/Michael_Catanzaro_s_Latest_Blog_Post_Affirms_Rumours_of_Red_Hat.gmi [16:52] TR Bot Techrights Michael Catanzaro's Latest Blog Post Affirms Rumours of Red Hat Changes and RAs/PIPs at IBM [16:52] schestowitz[TR2] lxo: bullet dodged [16:59] TR News Eight stable kernels for Thursday https://lwn.net/Articles/1090940/ [16:59] TR Bot stable kernels for Thursday [LWN.net] [16:59] TR News Short of Disavowal: Narrowing Provision and Activate in Zilkr v. Cisco https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/08/short-of-disavowal-narrowing-provision-and-activate-in-zilkr-v-cisco.html [16:59] TR Bot Short of Disavowal: Narrowing 'Provision' and 'Activate' in Zilkr v. Cisco ● Aug 28 [17:00] TR News Increasing Focus on Patent Injustices https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/27/Increasing_Focus_on_Patent_Injustices.shtml [17:00] TR Bot Techrights Increasing Focus on Patent Injustices [17:00] TR News How is the hiring of one low-level person newsworthy? Marketing spam? https://www.juve-patent.com/people-and-business/osborne-clarke-hires-brinkhof-litigator-jan-pot-for-amsterdam/ [17:00] TR Bot Osborne Clarke hires Brinkhof litigator Jan Pot for Amsterdam - JUVE Patent [17:01] 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/ [17:01] TR Bot Blog Archive Patent Troll InterDigital Proves UPC is a Sham, Needs to be Scuttled ASAP [17:01] TR News Online voting for NRO NC election 2026 opens today https://blog.apnic.net/2026/08/27/online-voting-for-nro-nc-election-2026-opens-today/ [17:01] TR Bot Online voting for NRO NC election 2026 opens today | APNIC Blog [17:02] TR News The hidden Ubuntu feature that brings order to my desktop icons https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/ubuntu-desktop-icons-stacks [17:02] TR Bot The hidden Ubuntu feature that brings order to my desktop icons - OMG! Ubuntu [17:03] TR News Useless gimmick that failed in the 1990s and is brought up with "HEY HI" buzzwords to furnish the pyramid scheme with faked demand https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/testing-ubuntu-ai-voice-dictation [17:03] TR Bot Hands-on with Ubuntu's AI-powered speech to text feature, Myna [17:04] TR News Chrome moves a step closer to an official Flatpak https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/chromium-adds-flatpak-packaging-support [17:04] TR Bot Google adds build support for an official Chrome Flatpak [17:09] MinceR omg, official fatpak [17:10] schestowitz[TR2] oh, snap [17:11] MinceR :> [17:15] TR News Nile Rodgers After Almost 55 Years in the Music Industry https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/28/nile-rodgers-after-almost-55-years-in-the-music-industry/ [17:15] TR Bot Blog Archive Nile Rodgers After Almost 55 Years in the Music Industry [17:20] bms schestowitz[TR2]: Mr Gerard moved to Glasgow the other month, so he's not too far from me, as the crow flies at least. Mountains in the way. [17:27] bms https://yumechi.jp/en/blog/2025/proof-of-mutex-outspeeding-anubis-with-valid-pow/ [17:27] TR Bot Proof of Mutex: Outspeeding Anubis with Valid PoW [17:28] schestowitz[TR2] london is expensive [17:29] *IsambardPrince (~isambardprince@nix7ebawp3d6u.irc) has joined #techrights [17:31] *Obsdark has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [17:46] TR News (NEW): DXVK 3.1 Released with Initial Support for DXGI Present Parameters https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/28/DXVK_3_1_Released_with_Initial_Support_for_DXGI_Present_Paramet.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/28/DXVK_3_1_Released_with_Initial_Support_for_DXGI_Present_Paramet.gmi [17:46] TR Bot Tux Machines DXVK 3.1 Released with Initial Support for DXGI Present Parameters [17:55] TR News Syslog-ng end of August news, and about scaling back Java support https://peter.czanik.hu/other/syslog-ng-end-of-august-scaling-back-java/ [17:55] TR Bot Syslog-ng end of August news, and about scaling back Java support | Random thoughts of Peter 'CzP' Czanik [17:56] TR News LibreOffice 26.8 Released with OpenType Font Variations & Improved RTL https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/08/libreoffice-26-8-released-with-opentype-font-variations-improved-rtl/ [17:56] TR Bot LibreOffice 26.8 Released with OpenType Font Variations & Improved RTL | UbuntuHandbook [17:56] IsambardPrince MinceR: The cat supplies have started arriving. I cleaned up on that deal. [17:57] TR News Ubuntu 24.04 to 26.04 upgrade path opens with point release https://www.neowin.net/news/ubuntu-2404-to-2604-upgrade-path-opens-with-point-release/ [17:57] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.neowin.net/news/ubuntu-2404-to-2604-upgrade-path-opens-with-point-release/ ) [17:57] IsambardPrince For $50 actual cash spent I got the cats 8 months worth of food and 4 months of litter. [17:58] IsambardPrince My mother said "I don't get it, you say you're broke and you go buy the best cheese at the store or feed your cats blue buffalo." [17:58] IsambardPrince I told her, "I don't shop like you do where I just walk into Walmart and pay it and don't worry if I get a good price or not." [17:58] TR News 26 [17:58] TR News FOSS Weekly #26.35: Performance Boost in Kernel 7.3, Omarchy Rising, Kernel, Root Demystifed, and More https://itsfoss.com/newsletter/foss-weekly-26-35/ [17:58] TR Bot FOSS Weekly #26.35: Performance Boost in Kernel 7.3, Omarchy Rising, Kernel, Root Demystifed, and More [17:59] TR News LibreOffice 26.8 brings paragraph layout changes, draft view + more https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/libreoffice-268-released [17:59] TR Bot LibreOffice 26.8 brings paragraph layout changes, draft view + more - OMG! Ubuntu [17:59] TR News Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS is now available to download https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/ubuntu-26041-lts-point-release-download [17:59] TR Bot Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS has been released, bu existing users don't need ● Aug 28 [18:00] TR News Kader 2026.08.27 https://distrowatch.com/kader42 [18:00] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/kader42 ) [18:00] TR News TROMjaro 2026.08.27 https://distrowatch.com/tromjaro [18:00] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/tromjaro ) [18:00] IsambardPrince LOL Petco lets you put cat food on Klarna. [18:01] schestowitz[TR2] loans for pet food [18:01] IsambardPrince If you have to put cat food on Klarna you should go to a pet food bank. They have those. [18:01] schestowitz[TR2] what next>? [18:01] IsambardPrince There's a pet food bank where I got Kiki. [18:01] IsambardPrince pet food companies donate to those, and the shelter passes out bags for free. [18:01] TR News Mauna 25,3 https://distrowatch.com/mauna [18:01] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/mauna ) [18:01] IsambardPrince It'll be whatever they have, but it's better than taking out a loan. [18:01] TR News Ubuntu 26.04.1 https://distrowatch.com/ubuntu [18:01] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/ubuntu ) [18:02] schestowitz[TR2] maybe it's like Microsoft Stabber [18:02] schestowitz[TR2] with a starving dog [18:02] TR News Kubuntu 26.04.1 https://distrowatch.com/kubuntu [18:02] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/kubuntu ) [18:02] TR News Ubuntu Studio 26.04.1 https://distrowatch.com/ubuntustudio [18:02] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/ubuntustudio ) [18:02] TR News Edubuntu 26.04.1 https://distrowatch.com/edubuntu [18:02] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/edubuntu ) [18:03] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: The manufacturers literally donate bags of food that retail for $60 to the pet shelters to be given to the poor. [18:04] TR News Google Chrome may soon be getting official Flatpak support on GNU/Linux https://www.neowin.net/news/google-chrome-may-soon-be-getting-official-flatpak-support-on-linux/ [18:04] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.neowin.net/news/google-chrome-may-soon-be-getting-official-flatpak-support-on-linux/ ) [18:04] IsambardPrince It's a tax write off, they usually donate bags that are within 6 months of "expiring". [18:04] schestowitz[TR2] and you take itr [18:04] schestowitz[TR2] *it [18:05] IsambardPrince A 52 foot semi trailer pulled up in 2021, right across from my apartment. [18:05] TR News Why ODF is the only document format compatible with digital sovereignty https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/08/27/why-odf-is-the-only-document-format-compatible-with-digital-sovereignty/ [18:05] TR Bot Why ODF is the only document format compatible with digital sovereignty - TDF Community Blog [18:05] IsambardPrince They were passing out big bags of Purina One cat and dog food. [18:06] IsambardPrince I took one and I told Mitzie next door about it. [18:06] schestowitz[TR2] semi trailer? [18:06] IsambardPrince She went and got one. She was living on Social Security checks and a part time job at a gas station. [18:06] schestowitz[TR2] Mitzie sounds like the cat's name [18:06] schestowitz[TR2] michi [18:06] schestowitz[TR2] in spanish, i think [18:06] IsambardPrince Yes. [18:06] IsambardPrince She went by Mitzie, but her name was Mittie. [18:07] schestowitz[TR2] pssst pssst there is cat food [18:07] schestowitz[TR2] go get it [18:07] IsambardPrince There's different grades of Purina cat food. [18:07] IsambardPrince So my mom just went and got the lowest grade cat food and fed it to Molly. [18:08] schestowitz[TR2] she could knock her mom off her bed [18:08] schestowitz[TR2] and get the cans [18:08] schestowitz[TR2] from nelow [18:08] IsambardPrince She got lucky and the cat lived or 20 years despite eating that and never going to the vet for anything because my mother was shopping on Amazon and QVC and ordering my brother pizza and xbox games. [18:08] schestowitz[TR2] and fed it to the cat [18:08] IsambardPrince So now my mom mocks me and says "Well why did your cats die and mine lived 20 years on Friskies?" [18:09] IsambardPrince I mean, does this sound like something a nice person says? [18:09] schestowitz[TR2] luck [18:09] IsambardPrince "Your cat died and mine happened to live in utter neglect for 20 years!" Haha!" [18:09] IsambardPrince Basically. [18:10] schestowitz[TR2] jabba died young [18:10] IsambardPrince Well when you get them from shelters nobody knows exactly how old the cat is unless they arrived there as a kitten. [18:10] TR News Why your broken Linux drivers aren't actually Linux's fault https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-gets-blamed-for-non-functioning-devices-or-drivers-but-its-not-linuxs-fault/ [18:10] TR Bot Why your broken Linux drivers aren't actually Linux's fault [18:11] schestowitz[TR2] or what is wrong with them [18:11] schestowitz[TR2] sometimes it's like cars [18:11] schestowitz[TR2] people give them away because of known defects\ [18:11] schestowitz[TR2] kids for adoption, same [18:11] schestowitz[TR2] the "Beatful" kids are not up for adoption [18:11] IsambardPrince Dealing with death is fundamentally the same process your whole life. It doesn't get easier just because you're older. You've just seen it before so instead of screaming a lot it's depression and not wanting to get out of bed. [18:12] IsambardPrince Wondering what's the point. [18:12] IsambardPrince There is no point in working except you have to make money to eat. [18:12] schestowitz[TR2] uyijng MOAR earpods [18:12] IsambardPrince Most of what you create, the value you create, goes to people who didn't work to earn any of it. [18:12] IsambardPrince You get very little except for a big fat tax bill and people trying to swindle, cheat, sue, and otherwise steal. [18:13] IsambardPrince So there's just not much point in accumulating a lot of money. [18:13] IsambardPrince Someone will steal it. [18:13] TR News 5 reasons Linux is the most valuable software in the world (even though it's free) https://www.howtogeek.com/reasons-linux-is-the-most-valuable-software-in-the-world-even-though-its-free/ [18:13] TR Bot 5 reasons Linux is the most valuable software in the world (even though it's free) [18:13] TR News Linux does these 5 things effortlessly that Windows still struggles with https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-does-these-things-effortlessly-that-windows-still-struggles-with/ [18:13] TR Bot Linux does these 5 things effortlessly that Windows still struggles with [18:13] IsambardPrince 90% of whatever value you create goes to some jerk that didn't work for it, they just monitored some bossware or push papers around all day for more money than you get. [18:14] TR News Dead by Daylight Switches to Denuvo Anti-CheatSteam Deck and Linux Support Remains https://www.techpowerup.com/352015/dead-by-daylight-switches-to-denuvo-anti-cheat-steam-deck-and-linux-support-remains [18:14] TR Bot by Daylight Switches to Denuvo Anti-CheatSteam Deck and Linux Support Remains | TechPowerUp [18:14] IsambardPrince Some people say, "I have value because I reproduced." but this is a huge logical error. [18:15] schestowitz[TR2] like transhumanism [18:15] IsambardPrince "I reproduced." means "I have to run on a second hamster wheel to pay for the kids, then turn them over to be exploited the same way they're cheating me!" [18:16] schestowitz[TR2] what is cost of a kid in us now? [18:16] schestowitz[TR2] it was 300k til college [18:16] schestowitz[TR2] but that was like 20 years ago [18:16] schestowitz[TR2] https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/25/Wife_of_Dan_Williams_Has_Explained_Mental_Factors_Leading_to_Hi.shtml [18:16] TR Bot Techrights Wife of Dan Williams Has Explained Mental Factors Leading to His Death [18:16] schestowitz[TR2] he had 4 girls, IIRC [18:17] schestowitz[TR2] imagine how much college for 4 kids would cost [18:17] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: The reason why they all say "put your money in a bank" is that way if the government wants it, they can take it. [18:17] schestowitz[TR2] just college [18:17] IsambardPrince If someone sues you, it's gone. [18:17] IsambardPrince If there's banks like Silicon Valley Bank and there's uninsured deposits belonging to important people, they'll raid the FDIC fund to make them whole and leave your insured deposits as a total loss. [18:19] TR News CISA Adds Six Exploited Flaws to KEV, Including NetScaler, Linux, and SQL Server Bugs https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/cisa-adds-six-exploited-flaws-to-kev.html [18:19] TR Bot CISA Adds Six Exploited Flaws to KEV, Including NetScaler, Linux, and SQL Server Bugs [18:19] schestowitz[TR2] IsambardPrince: you said puppy breaker asked about taking out his pension money [18:19] schestowitz[TR2] to sue people [18:19] TR News "Looking to leave Windows? I've used Linux for years and there's never better a better time to make the leap." https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-5-best-linux-alternatives-to-windows-in-2026-that-arent-mint/ [18:19] TR Bot 5 best Linux alternatives to Windows in 2026 (that aren't Mint) | ZDNET [18:20] IsambardPrince Taking money out of a 401(k) is stupid. [18:20] IsambardPrince It triggers immediate tax penalties, and money in a 401(k) is safe from people who could never ever force you to hand it over. [18:20] IsambardPrince It even survives bankruptcy. [18:21] IsambardPrince There's only a few ways money can be taken out of a 401(k) if you don't want to hand it over. Taxes, child support, alimony. [18:22] IsambardPrince They can't automatically take it for criminal fines, but it could be used to say you could pay the fines if you wanted to when they're discussing whether to send you to jail over it. [18:22] TR News CISA Warns of Six Exploited Flaws in Microsoft, Linux, Red Hat and Citrix Products https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/cisa-kev-microsoft-citrix/ [18:22] TR Bot CISA Warns of Six Exploited Flaws in Microsoft, Linux and Citrix - Infosecurity Magazine [18:23] IsambardPrince That guy next door at my last apartment who threatened to kill me for asking him to move further from my door with his marijuana had a conviction for domestic battery. [18:23] IsambardPrince He never paid his fines. [18:23] TR News Box of Bass is a FREE complete bass rig plugin for macOS, Windows, and Linux https://bedroomproducersblog.com/2026/08/27/box-of-bass/ [18:23] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://bedroomproducersblog.com/2026/08/27/box-of-bass/ ) [18:23] IsambardPrince They extended his probation a few times then eventually just let him go and never made any serious effort to try to collect over $4,000. [18:24] IsambardPrince Mark's main concern is that you pay him. [18:24] IsambardPrince He ignores almost anything as long as he's getting paid and you're not doing serious damage to the apartment. [18:25] IsambardPrince He "deals with roaches" using the absolute cheapest stuff he can find that clears out most of them long enough to rent the apartments out. [18:25] TR News Selling slop scams for a fee https://www.thefastmode.com/technology-solutions/50359-linux-foundation-advances-runtime-evidence-for-ai-workloads [18:25] TR Bot Linux Foundation Advances Runtime Evidence for AI Workloads [18:26] IsambardPrince My guess is that Piyush's building had roaches when Mark owned it, but the reason they never got so bad they started exploding from the walls when he owned it is that he would come in and dust for them whenever the apartments changed over or someone complained. [18:26] IsambardPrince So their numbers were controlled and there wasn't a visible caastrophe. [18:26] schestowitz[TR2] was built on farmland [18:27] schestowitz[TR2] with sewer plumbing [18:27] schestowitz[TR2] for farms [18:27] schestowitz[TR2] so you get insects [18:27] schestowitz[TR2] and people live in the "farm" [18:28] IsambardPrince Using "roach powder" does work. [18:28] IsambardPrince It's one of the oldest tricks in the book. [18:29] schestowitz[TR2] how fine is the roach? [18:29] schestowitz[TR2] in the roach power? :) [18:29] schestowitz[TR2] *powder [18:29] IsambardPrince The US government approved boric acid for roach control in 1947. [18:29] IsambardPrince You basically dust the cabinets and stuff where you're seeing them and any roach that walks across it will die. [18:29] IsambardPrince but it won't take out the nest. [18:29] schestowitz[TR2] IsambardPrince: today iis was room for 46 pounds [18:30] schestowitz[TR2] for a friday night [18:30] schestowitz[TR2] an expensive night [18:30] schestowitz[TR2] you coukd live in a hotel in central manchester for less than 1./8k in dollars [18:30] TR News (NEW): Games: STAR WARS Zero Company, Into the Wind, DRM, and Rootkits https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/28/Games_STAR_WARS_Zero_Company_Into_the_Wind_DRM_and_Rootkits.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/28/Games_STAR_WARS_Zero_Company_Into_the_Wind_DRM_and_Rootkits.gmi [18:30] TR Bot Tux Machines Games: STAR WARS Zero Company, Into the Wind, DRM, and Rootkits [18:30] schestowitz[TR2] which.. makes no sense [18:30] schestowitz[TR2] for 1br [18:30] IsambardPrince Mark doesn't care about kiling the nest. [18:30] IsambardPrince He just wants them out of his cabinets long enough to get a lease signed. [18:31] IsambardPrince The powder gets them out of the cabinets, out of the fridge, out of everywhere you'll see them. [18:31] IsambardPrince Then you sweep it up and the place looks totally clean. [18:32] TR News (NEW): Content Management Systems (CMS): Plans of Kiwi TCMS and WordPress Overtaken by Slop Plagiarism Hype https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/28/Content_Management_Systems_CMS_Plans_of_Kiwi_TCMS_and_WordPress.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/28/Content_Management_Systems_CMS_Plans_of_Kiwi_TCMS_and_WordPress.gmi [18:32] TR Bot Tux Machines Content Management Systems (CMS): Plans of Kiwi TCMS and WordPress Overtaken by Slop Plagiarism Hype [18:32] TR News (NEW): Today's HowTos https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/28/today_s_howtos.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/28/today_s_howtos.gmi [18:32] TR Bot Tux Machines today's howtos [18:32] schestowitz[TR2] sounds like a lot of work [18:32] schestowitz[TR2] both manual and unpleasant [18:32] schestowitz[TR2] dealing with these bugs [18:32] IsambardPrince Yeah, he sends Andreas to dust for the roaches. [18:32] IsambardPrince He actually sent me a text message admitting there's roaches. [18:32] schestowitz[TR2] piyush used to work in an office [18:32] schestowitz[TR2] and he is old now [18:32] schestowitz[TR2] i doubt he is thin [18:32] IsambardPrince He said Andreas would come to use "non toxic powder for roaches". [18:33] schestowitz[TR2] maybe he thoiught landlording would be just... [18:33] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: Piyush deserves any bad thing that happens to him. [18:33] schestowitz[TR2] take payment, makie call, advertise rooms [18:33] schestowitz[TR2] (or units) [18:33] IsambardPrince He has no conscience. [18:33] IsambardPrince He doesn't care what tenants had to live in. [18:33] schestowitz[TR2] and it shows how little strteetsmarts he has [18:33] IsambardPrince His plan was to come in swinging his dick around, raise rent 17% every year, and not fix anything. [18:33] IsambardPrince And it's backfiring horribly on him. [18:34] IsambardPrince His building is in such bad condition he hasn't been able to raise rents in over two years now. [18:34] IsambardPrince So there goes his "projections". [18:34] schestowitz[TR2] now he goes 90mph to the bank [18:34] schestowitz[TR2] to cancel the cheque [18:35] TR News (NEW): Programming Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/28/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/28/Programming_Leftovers.gmi [18:35] TR Bot Tux Machines Programming Leftovers [18:35] IsambardPrince When you rent, the problems that crop up with the apartment are at least the landlord's problems. [18:35] IsambardPrince When you have a mortgage, you owe the bank for 30 years with interest. [18:35] IsambardPrince The interest alone is as much as the house. [18:35] IsambardPrince They don't fix anything, so you will need more loans whenever anything goes wrong. [18:36] IsambardPrince The landlord has a property upkeep crew that does nothing except fix stuff. [18:36] IsambardPrince You don't. [18:36] IsambardPrince You have to go to the home improvement stores and see if there's some guy who knows how. [18:36] IsambardPrince And you have to hope he needs beer so he'll show up. [18:37] schestowitz[TR2] naa [18:37] schestowitz[TR2] you need to pay [18:37] schestowitz[TR2] they need food [18:37] IsambardPrince In exchange for this arrangement where you rent a house from the bank and you have to fix it, you also have to take care of the lawn or get fined. [18:37] schestowitz[TR2] beer is not the only reason they look for work [18:37] IsambardPrince The property tax is in your mortgage, and your mortgage can go up based on how greedy the govt is this time. [18:38] schestowitz[TR2] mort- death [18:38] IsambardPrince You take what you paid in renter's insurance, and it goes up 15x because they have to insure the entire building now. [18:38] schestowitz[TR2] some people don't reach final year [18:38] schestowitz[TR2] the bank keeps the home [18:38] schestowitz[TR2] mort. [18:38] schestowitz[TR2] fin. [18:38] schestowitz[TR2] the end. [18:38] schestowitz[TR2] "thank you for fixing the hjomer" [18:38] schestowitz[TR2] "you added value to it" [18:38] schestowitz[TR2] -bank [18:38] IsambardPrince If someone trespasses on your property, they sue you. [18:38] IsambardPrince If they get hurt. [18:39] IsambardPrince If you don't shovel the sidewalk every snowfall, they can fall down and sue you. [18:39] schestowitz[TR2] usa [18:39] IsambardPrince Even though you did not consent to having a sidewalk there. [18:39] IsambardPrince The city put it there but it's your problem. [18:39] *ewig has quit (Remote host closed the connection) [18:39] IsambardPrince If pests get in, you have to pay someone to get them back out. [18:39] schestowitz[TR2] so you take the city the court [18:39] IsambardPrince There's no landlord with a pest control contract. [18:39] schestowitz[TR2] and you fight in court [18:39] schestowitz[TR2] and when you cannot pay the lawyer [18:39] schestowitz[TR2] you phone texas [18:40] schestowitz[TR2] and ask graveley [18:40] schestowitz[TR2] in his dad's home [18:40] schestowitz[TR2] to file another lawsuit [18:40] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: There's actually a law here that says you can't get sued if someone falls on the sidewalk in winter, as long as you shoveled and salted it. [18:40] IsambardPrince Joy had me shoveling and salting and took it off the rent. [18:40] schestowitz[TR2] he's like that burglar bundy punched [18:40] schestowitz[TR2] strangle women [18:41] schestowitz[TR2] then sue women [18:41] schestowitz[TR2] and sue people who talk about it [18:41] schestowitz[TR2] iirc, in maried with children [18:41] schestowitz[TR2] he got hurt [18:41] schestowitz[TR2] ater he broke into al's home [18:41] schestowitz[TR2] then sued [18:41] IsambardPrince Joy decided to hate me even though I was not the source of any problems she was having with the building. [18:41] IsambardPrince She rented to bad tenants upstairs who cost thousands of dollars in damages. [18:41] schestowitz[TR2] you didn't want her [18:41] IsambardPrince Then she said that i was "sabotaging her building". [18:42] IsambardPrince I told her in August "You want to fix that door closer. It'll run you about $50 at the hardware store. If that door gets stuck open in winter it will damage the pipes." [18:42] IsambardPrince She never fixed it. [18:42] IsambardPrince They left the door hanging open, it blew up the pipes. [18:43] IsambardPrince She paid for emergency repairs, and they did it again to her the next day. [18:43] *ewig (~ewig@user/ewig) has joined #techrights [18:43] IsambardPrince I had no reason to leave the back door hanging open, my unit opened up to the laundry area from my apartment. [18:44] IsambardPrince Joy was worse than cockroaches. [18:44] IsambardPrince At least cockroaches are quiet. [18:45] *\join_subline has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [18:45] TR News (NEW): Open Hardware/Modding: ESP32, Arduino, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/28/Open_Hardware_Modding_ESP32_Arduino_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/28/Open_Hardware_Modding_ESP32_Arduino_and_More.gmi [18:45] TR Bot Tux Machines Open Hardware/Modding: ESP32, Arduino, and More [18:47] TR News (NEW): Security Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/28/Security_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/28/Security_Leftovers.gmi [18:47] TR Bot Tux Machines Security Leftovers [18:47] TR News (NEW): Ubuntu: Integrating Unnecessary Gimmicks, 24.04 to 26.04 Upgrade Path, New LTS Build https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/28/Ubuntu_Integrating_Unnecessary_Gimmicks_24_04_to_26_04_Upgrade_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/28/Ubuntu_Integrating_Unnecessary_Gimmicks_24_04_to_26_04_Upgrade_.gmi [18:47] TR Bot Tux Machines Ubuntu: Integrating Unnecessary Gimmicks, 24.04 to 26.04 Upgrade Path, New LTS Build [18:49] IsambardPrince [12:41] ater he broke into al's home [18:49] IsambardPrince [12:41] then sued [18:49] IsambardPrince I liked how Al handled the judge. [18:49] IsambardPrince He said he'd make it so simple that even someone as stupid as a judge could understand it. [18:49] IsambardPrince Then he demonstrated how he defended his own home without waiting two hours for the police. [18:49] schestowitz[TR2] "i'm going to disneyland" [18:50] TR News (NEW): Audiocasts/Shows: BSD Now, Going Linux, Eben Upton on Price Hikes https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/28/Audiocasts_Shows_BSD_Now_Going_Linux_Eben_Upton_on_Price_Hikes.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/28/Audiocasts_Shows_BSD_Now_Going_Linux_Eben_Upton_on_Price_Hikes.gmi [18:50] TR Bot Tux Machines Audiocasts/Shows: BSD Now, Going Linux, Eben Upton on Price Hikes [18:50] IsambardPrince I like how he demonstrated giving the burglar a one-two punch. [18:50] IsambardPrince he called his right hook the "87th Airborne". [18:50] IsambardPrince :D [18:51] *ewig has quit (Remote host closed the connection) [18:53] TR News (NEW): Red Hat Promoting Slop Hype, Michael Catanzaro Hinting at Silent Layoffs at Red Hat, Chrome's Lip Service to Flatpak https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/28/Red_Hat_Promoting_Slop_Hype_Michael_Catanzaro_Hinting_at_Silent.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/28/Red_Hat_Promoting_Slop_Hype_Michael_Catanzaro_Hinting_at_Silent.gmi [18:53] TR Bot Tux Machines Red Hat Promoting Slop Hype, Michael Catanzaro Hinting at Silent Layoffs at Red Hat, Chrome's Lip Service to Flatpak [18:53] schestowitz[TR2] i don't remember the details [18:53] schestowitz[TR2] that was like 30+ years ago [18:54] schestowitz[TR2] I remember the burglar with hen cast [18:54] schestowitz[TR2] we watched "burglar" last nifght [18:54] schestowitz[TR2] old movie [18:54] schestowitz[TR2] they say "ibm" [18:54] schestowitz[TR2] they mean Italian Business Man [18:57] TR News (NEW): Kernel Space: Multikernel, BPF, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/28/Kernel_Space_Multikernel_BPF_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/28/Kernel_Space_Multikernel_BPF_and_More.gmi [18:57] TR Bot Tux Machines Kernel Space: Multikernel, BPF, and More [18:58] TR News (NEW): Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/28/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/28/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.gmi [18:58] TR Bot Tux Machines Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers [18:59] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: Indian Business Man. [18:59] IsambardPrince Piyush [18:59] IsambardPrince 1 million roaches and counting. ● Aug 28 [19:00] TR News (NEW): Linux, HaikuOS, and BSD Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/28/Linux_HaikuOS_and_BSD_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/28/Linux_HaikuOS_and_BSD_Leftovers.gmi [19:00] TR Bot Tux Machines Linux, HaikuOS, and BSD Leftovers [19:00] IsambardPrince Mark wasn't anywhere near as bad as Piyush. [19:00] IsambardPrince Mark wasn't willing to expend serious capital to get rid of the roaches. [19:00] IsambardPrince But he didn't let them get so bad they were crawling on you when you slept. [19:01] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: I'm running my own bait and trap setup for roaches. I'm just keeping my stuff to where it won't interfere with what the exterminator did yesterday. [19:01] IsambardPrince I only treated the areas that he didn't. [19:02] IsambardPrince The more experience you have with something, the better you get with it. [19:02] IsambardPrince Better Homes and Gardens posted a list of "the best" roach products. And it included two things that I've observed to be the worst. [19:02] IsambardPrince Black Flag Roach Motels and Harris Roach Tablets. [19:04] IsambardPrince The roach tablets are very similar to what the Amish recommend except with the Amish method, it's quite cheap to make it yourself and it works better. [19:05] IsambardPrince They make a homemade trap that mixes either boric acid or baking soda with powdered sugar. [19:05] IsambardPrince The reason those tablets don't work is because they're too hard. [19:05] IsambardPrince When it's in powder form it's much more attractive to cockroaches. [19:05] TR News Techrights Links 28/08/2026: Chatbot Pushers Admit They're Used Heavily for Social Engineering Scams, Strong Backlash Against "Smart Glasses" (CCTV on Legs) https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/28/Links_28_08_2026_Chatbot_Pushers_Admit_They_re_Used_Heavily_for.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/28/Links_28_08_2026_Chatbot_Pushers_Admit_They_re_Used_Heavily_for.gmi [19:05] TR Bot Techrights Links 28/08/2026: Chatbot Pushers Admit They're Used Heavily for Social Engineering Scams, Strong Backlash Against "Smart Glasses" (CCTV on Legs) [19:06] IsambardPrince The Amish are big on "natural" solutions to things like pest problems. [19:06] schestowitz[TR2] are TVs a pest? [19:07] IsambardPrince The way it's going I can't see TV being a big thing for much longer. [19:07] IsambardPrince There's quite a few people I know in my age group who don't even have one anymore, much less a TV in every room like we used to have. [19:08] schestowitz[TR2] right [19:08] schestowitz[TR2] Social Control Media: New Research Reveals Americans Spend More Time Watching YouTube Over Live TV https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/27/youtube-v-live-tv-study-2026/ [19:08] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/27/youtube-v-live-tv-study-2026/ ) [19:16] schestowitz[TR2] thew tap water smells like chlorine [19:16] schestowitz[TR2] and did hours ago too [19:16] schestowitz[TR2] didn't taste it [19:16] schestowitz[TR2] never experienced this before [19:24] MinceR 28 191459 < IsambardPrince> Some people say, "I have value because I reproduced." but this is a huge logical error. [19:24] MinceR yay, more victims for the Torment Nexus! [19:25] MinceR and more louche for the ASPD enjoyers [19:27] TR News "I have just finished Emily Wilson's 2017 translation of The Odyssey and I can see what Keats meant. I felt I'd seldom read anything which more clearly supports the idea that "the past is a foreign country; they do things differently there"." gemini://kdan.smol.pub/the_odyssey [19:27] TR News "There's no reason for anyone else to care, but I've been playing with my new account on sdf.org. I've been using linux for a few years, but even so it's a learning curve: similar enough to look familiar, different enough to be confusing." gemini://kunulo.smol.pub/2026-08-28-gopher [19:28] TR News "Via Facebook, from one of the profs who ran the research lab I was associated with: the admin assistant in charge of grad studies when I was there has passed away." gemini://tilde.club/~winter/gemlog/2026/8-27.gmi [19:48] *psydroid3 (~psydroid@kcvnmgbxt8eqq.irc) has joined #techrights [19:59] admfubar https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/microsofts-latest-ai-rebrand-is-renaming-microsoft-365-roadmap-to-ai-at-work.460609/ [19:59] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/microsofts-latest-ai-rebrand-is-renaming-microsoft-365-roadmap-to-ai-at-work.460609/ ) ● Aug 28 [20:01] MinceR finally microslop found the solution [20:01] MinceR same as the last time: just rename it. [20:01] MinceR funny how microslop's solution to almost everything is to rename it [20:02] *psydroid|2 (~psydroid@kcvnmgbxt8eqq.irc) has joined #techrights [20:05] *psydroid|2 has quit (Quit: KVIrc 5.2.10 Quasar http://www.kvirc.net/) [20:07] IsambardPrince MinceR: Having kids is great for oligarchs. Not great for you. [20:08] IsambardPrince "How about we take these miserable people who can't do anything except come crawling back to us for more minimum wage hours, and we get them to fuck and make more workers? And, what if, just bear with me for a moment, what if they paid for it and thought it was a good idea? [20:12] MinceR :> [20:18] admfubar https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/aug/28/sweetener-xylitol-used-in-chewing-gum-and-jam-linked-to-strokes-and-heart-attacks-study [20:18] TR Bot Sweetener used in chewing gum and jam linked to strokes and heart attacks | Health | The Guardian [20:19] MinceR all the food is poison, all the food is poison [20:29] admfubar "Memo to Ridley Scott: no one needs more Alien: Covenant movies get the franchise back to stalknslash--- we got Noah Hawleys Alien: Earth, which reminded us that giant, murderous space insects are in fact less awful than tech trillionaires." [20:32] IsambardPrince I am so done with Trump and people who either help him or will not do anything to stop him. [20:32] IsambardPrince I supported Juliana Stratton in the Senate primary because I think Dick Durbin is a weak Senator who may as well not even be there. [20:32] IsambardPrince He's a Democrat who gave up and funded ICE to get the government to reopen. [20:32] IsambardPrince People like me didn't respond well to that. [20:32] IsambardPrince Durbin is warming a bench and he has no fight in him. [20:32] IsambardPrince We need less people like that in the Senate. [20:34] IsambardPrince Durbin gave up and retired, but the Primary came down to Stratton vs. Raja Krishnamoorthi. Krishnamoorthi got so much money pouring in from billionaires. [20:34] IsambardPrince It was just ridiculous. When I see money like that pouring in I know who they're going to represent, so why should I vote for that? I don't have anything in common with a billionaire. [20:35] IsambardPrince I didn't grow up on the south side of Chicago but I have more in common with someone who did than I do with Raja Krishnamoorthi. [20:35] IsambardPrince I'm very skeptical of Indians anyway, I probably shouldn't say that, but it's true. I haven't seen one Indian immigrant who was running an honest business, ever. [20:36] IsambardPrince They're all like Piyush or that dude that runs the Batteries Plus Bulbs where your phone swells up after he works on it and also breaks the fingerprint sensor, then he calls you at your house saying he's going to contact the police over your credit card dispute. [20:37] IsambardPrince He sells counterfeit batteries. [20:37] IsambardPrince They swell up, they break things, they cause the phone to complain that a counterfeit battery was detected. [20:38] IsambardPrince I learned a valuable lesson from that guy. [20:39] IsambardPrince When manufacturers say take it to an authorized repair center it's because they source better parts that are not going to break anything. [20:40] IsambardPrince I took a shot in the dark with this laptop and got a battery off Amazon for $38 that works fine. [20:40] IsambardPrince Lenovo doesn't have any concept of service after the sale. I've been servicing this thing myself since the 1 year warranty ran out. [20:41] IsambardPrince MinceR: The first batch of cat supplies arrived today. [20:41] IsambardPrince I've gotten the cost of feeding the cats locked in at next to nothing for nearly a year. [20:56] admfubar elon's next project... https://xkcd.com/3291/ [20:56] TR Bot Launchpad ● Aug 28 [21:03] *psydroid3 has quit (Quit: KVIrc 5.2.6 Quasar http://www.kvirc.net/) [21:30] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: I noticed that Tony is putting sticky paper out for the roaches. [21:30] IsambardPrince He caught some downstairs. [21:52] admfubar https://restofworld.org/2026/india-data-center-boom-local-community-impact-osama-manzar/ [21:52] TR Bot Indias data center boom risks leaving local communities behind - Rest of World ● Aug 28 [22:03] admfubar https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/08/gates-and-rockefeller-foundations-green-revolution-failing-africa.html [22:04] TR Bot Gates and Rockefeller Foundations' Green Revolution Failing Africa | naked capitalism [22:17] admfubar cha ching$$$.. https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/08/28/184210/apple-tv-and-apple-one-subscription-prices-increase-by-up-to-20 [22:17] TR Bot Apple TV and Apple One Subscription Prices Increase By Up To 20% - Slashdot [22:18] MinceR https://files.catbox.moe/in8g77.png [22:22] IsambardPrince Step 1 with something like Apple TV is get them addicted even if it's losing money. [22:22] IsambardPrince Make expensive TV shows with high production values. [22:22] admfubar https://prospect.org/2026/08/26/cracking-down-on-big-insurance-in-oklahoma/ [22:22] IsambardPrince Don't charge them nearly enough. [22:23] TR Bot Cracking Down on Big Insurance in Oklahoma? - The American Prospect [22:23] IsambardPrince Sit back and wait. [22:23] admfubar oh kiddo all the streaming services do this not just apple [22:23] IsambardPrince When there's enough subscribers play around with price increases. [22:23] IsambardPrince Modest at first to see how sticky your customer base is. [22:23] IsambardPrince Then more aggressive. [22:24] IsambardPrince When it looks like everyone is forgetting to cancel, you fill the app with garbage, produced cheaply. [22:24] IsambardPrince Raise prices aggressively. [22:24] IsambardPrince Introduce an ad-sponsored tier. [22:24] IsambardPrince [16:23] oh kiddo all the streaming services do this not just apple [22:25] IsambardPrince Right, the early Netflix streaming years were awesome. [22:25] IsambardPrince It was cheap. [22:25] IsambardPrince They ignored password sharing. [22:25] IsambardPrince You had stuff like Lost in Space or Altered Carbon, MST3K came back. [22:26] IsambardPrince Now you can watch all the Sharknado movies. And it's doubled in price. [22:27] IsambardPrince They promoted Lost in Space very hard. [22:27] IsambardPrince They even started wrapping L trains in Chicago in advertising for it. [22:28] IsambardPrince Things like this don't get canceled because ratings are bad. [22:28] IsambardPrince They get canceled because it's bleeding money. [22:28] IsambardPrince Every season they renew, the pay for the actors and crew goes up. [22:30] IsambardPrince Canceling a popular series without even bothering to wrap it up quickly makes sense from their end. [22:30] IsambardPrince It did what it was supposed to do. Drive subscriber growth. [22:30] IsambardPrince In the 1960s, canceling a popular series was unthinkable unless the ratings crashed. [22:30] IsambardPrince You spent years building the thing, the audience. [22:31] IsambardPrince Advertisers were willing to pay more every year it was on the air, budgets got bigger, sets and effects got better mid-series. This was even common in the 90s and 2000s. [22:32] IsambardPrince The economics of the future are somewhat different. -Picard :P [22:32] IsambardPrince Only in our case, not in a good way. [22:34] admfubar https://lectronz.com/u/lectronz/articles/how-europe-is-killing-makers-and-micro-entrepreneurs [22:34] TR Bot How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs [22:50] IsambardPrince The sticky board downstairs had several roaches and a spider. [22:50] IsambardPrince That tells me that there are spiders in the building because they're eating the roaches. [22:51] IsambardPrince I told my partner if he sees a roach kill it, if he sees a spider, just leave it alone. [22:51] IsambardPrince The spider has no interest in us but it could kill dozens of roach nymphs. [22:52] IsambardPrince [13:16] thew tap water smells like chlorine [22:52] IsambardPrince [13:16] and did hours ago too [22:52] IsambardPrince [13:16] didn't taste it [22:52] IsambardPrince [13:16] never experienced this before [22:52] IsambardPrince Call the water department and ask about it. [22:53] IsambardPrince I use Brita filters so I don't taste any of that crap anyway. [22:54] IsambardPrince Bottled water started out as something of a scam. 40 years ago when things were in better order. [22:54] IsambardPrince Then the infrastructure got totally neglected so congress could pay for wars and entitlement programs.. [22:54] IsambardPrince So people started having actual water quality issues, [22:54] IsambardPrince The bottled water companies don't pass out truckloads of water to places like Flint because they want to be charitable. [22:55] IsambardPrince They do it because you literally cannot buy advertising like this. [22:55] IsambardPrince They'll send 500 trucks full of water if every American looking at the news sees Dasani and Aquafina trucks pulling up. [22:56] IsambardPrince Brita got in on the action too, so did Pur and ZeroWater. [22:56] IsambardPrince They all sent their top of the line lead reduction filter cartridges and dispensers. [22:56] IsambardPrince The free stuff runs out and you have an entire city that will never trust their government again buying $18 filters. [22:56] IsambardPrince To say nothing about being on the news. [22:57] IsambardPrince I don't buy bottled water if I can help it. [22:58] IsambardPrince It's a vile business, what they did. [22:58] IsambardPrince They took something that people need to live, which was basically free and piped into every home, and they turned it into a $50 a month purchase at the grocery store. [22:59] IsambardPrince During the late 1980s and 1990s, brands like Dasani and Aquafina launched massive public relations campaigns designed to subtly link municipal tap water with impurity, chemical taint, and poor social status. ● Aug 28 [23:00] IsambardPrince They trained the consumer base to voluntarily purchase a highly compressed, plastic-packaged version of the exact same water, successfully moving millions of people off a stable public utility and onto an artificial, high-overhead corporate subscription. [23:00] IsambardPrince They put the idea in your mind that only a savage drinks out of the tap. [23:01] MinceR > will never trust their government again [23:01] MinceR if only [23:47] IsambardPrince MinceR: If their trust in government mattered, the Republicans wouldn't have suspended the government and installed a dictator who was the reason the water got poisoned in the first place. [23:49] IsambardPrince MinceR: The elected government still legally existed, but they couldn't spend money without the permission of a dictator installed by Governor Rick Snyder. [23:49] MinceR if the alleged "republicans" didn't trust government, they wouldn't have voted to make it even more overbearing and authoritarian, and to not have a choice in replacing it later [23:50] IsambardPrince The dictator wasn't up for election, answered only to the governor (who was installed by Michigan's white majority who didn't live anywhere near Flint), and had legal immunity for anything he did to them. [23:51] IsambardPrince His main job was to cut spending drastically and improve cash flow for the city's creditors, and that included switching to a cheaper water source and not buying the chemical that prevents lead pipes from deteriorating and leeching into the drinking water. [23:51] IsambardPrince General Motors had tried using the water from the Flint River before and it was so bad that it did millions of dollars worth of damage to their machinery and they had to go back to buying water from Detroit. [23:52] MinceR (not to mention also enforce religious rules, which apparently fits nicely into this idea of "small government") [23:52] IsambardPrince The Financial Dictator's job was to run Flint like Piyush ran the apartment building he bought from Mark. [23:53] IsambardPrince Cut trash removal, let the sinks back up vs. paying someone to snake them, don't clean anything, and quit masking the cockroach problem with cheap powders. [23:54] IsambardPrince Any money spent on basic upkeep was unacceptable. Piyush wasn't living in this hellhole so he didn't care what it devolved into. [23:56] IsambardPrince That's what the dictator of Flint was there to do. [23:56] IsambardPrince And the voters in Michigan voted to repeal that law at the ballot box. [23:56] IsambardPrince So the Republicans passed another one that was almost the same thing. [23:57] IsambardPrince The Democrats are running Michigan again, they've repealed the state's trigger law that was going to ban abortion and the so-called Right to Work law.