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[01:08]	Isambard_Prince	schestowitz[TR2], I wonder if anyone packaged XLibre for Ubuntu.
[01:08]	Isambard_Prince	It seems like it would be worth doing.
[01:09]	Isambard_Prince	Like it or not, Ubuntu does have a lot of users.
[01:09]	Isambard_Prince	I'll probably end up doing a short blog post about how to throw the Rust replacements for sudo and coreutils out at some point but as of now they do not affect me because Neon uses LTS.
[01:10]	Isambard_Prince	If the Rust replacements are not directly compatible, not even close, then this will end badly.
[01:10]	Isambard_Prince	It will just convince people that rely on Ubuntu that they really have learned nothing from pulling in things like Unity and libav.
[01:11]	Isambard_Prince	And that this period of relative stability was not because Canonical realized the folly of bringing in buggy replacements for existing software.
[01:30]	Isambard_Prince	There's some kind of "loyalty program" that Toast restaurants are doing now.
[01:30]	Isambard_Prince	I'm sure that this is costing the restaurants even more money to use Toast as a payment processor for credit cards.
[01:30]	Isambard_Prince	And I wonder if they opted into it.
[01:31]	Isambard_Prince	schestowitz[TR2], One of the recommendations I made to the owner of that restaurant was to get rid of Square.
[01:31]	Isambard_Prince	It's not appropriate for a business with his volume of credit card transactions.
[01:31]	Isambard_Prince	About the only place the merchant wins with Square and Toast is that they give you a cheap credit card terminal.
[01:31]	Isambard_Prince	But then the fees are higher, forever, so they get you worse over time.
[01:32]	Isambard_Prince	You can easily trim off 1% of every transaction and put it back in your pocket instead of the payment processor, by opting for a traditional reader.
[01:32]	Isambard_Prince	But it's a higher up front cost, but it's not that bad.
[01:33]	Isambard_Prince	It's a disaster dealing with the credit card banks and payment processors as a merchant.
[01:33]	Isambard_Prince	They can easily take 4-5% of your GROSS receipts if you're not careful.
[01:34]	Isambard_Prince	Then it forces you to raise prices, then they get MORE, and your customers are mad at you.
[01:34]	Isambard_Prince	Some restaurants are starting to go cash only in this area.
[01:34]	Isambard_Prince	They just stick an ATM at the entrance in case you need money.
[01:35]	Isambard_Prince	Illinois passed a State law that says that credit card banks can't charge interchange fees on the part of the bill that is tax or tips.
[01:35]	Isambard_Prince	So the banks are suing us.
[01:35]	Isambard_Prince	They'll lose.
[01:35]	Isambard_Prince	But they're really angry because they know that's a lot of money.
[01:36]	Isambard_Prince	So if you go to Walmart and like 10% of that bill is a sales tax, then the bank can't charge interchange on that part.
[01:37]	Isambard_Prince	If you go to a restaurant and there's a 8% tax and you leave a $10 tip, then no interchange on that. So that adds up for the bank. If $3.20 was a tax and $10 was a tip, that's $13.20 that a bank can't charge 3% of to the merchant. So they lose like 37 cents on that receipt. But then you multiply that by an entire state with 13 million people in it.
[01:39]	Isambard_Prince	schestowitz[TR2], I've been trying to save some money. I've got this app and it lets me order leftover restaurant food that they had at the end of the day.
[01:39]	Isambard_Prince	So far I've only been displeased by one surprise bag.
[01:40]	Isambard_Prince	IKEA's restaurant is even on here. The bag usually ends up being all the stuff I'd have ordered anyway.
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● Dec 29
[02:13]	TR News	"First published December 28, 2025. There have been no updates since." gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/gemini/vocabulary/
[02:14]	TR News	"So at some point, possibly whilst waiting for it to be warm enough to get out of bed, the mind settled on the idea of determining an animal name that begins with the letter "i". Given that it was too cold the recourse of hitting up a wikipedia page for "list of animal names" was ruled out, or otherwise computering." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2025/12/28/limits-of-memory.gmi
[02:16]	TR News	[cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1519.jpg
[02:16]	TR News	[cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1869.jpg
[02:17]	TR News	CHRISTMAS UNDER A CAR gopher://aussies.space:70/0/~freet/phlog/2025-12-29Christmas_Under_a_Car.txt
[02:18]	TR News	[japan] [photos] gemini://higeki.jp/nikki/2025-12-28.gmi
[02:19]	TR News	"These side projects include writing (both blogging and my long form fiction), learning BASIC programming on my Commodore 64 Ultimate, BASH scripting, reading, and tinkering with some old tech. I don't expect myself to touch all of these in a single day, and I will continue to make a concerted effort to find time before and after work to do things that I enjoy." gemini://gem.saayaa.space/gemlog/2025-12-28-sunday-routine.gmi
[02:20]	TR News	"In the face of our inevitable loss of data, perhaps the mature thing to do would be to accept our fate and move on, but with a little bit of work there is a actually a lot we can do to delay our impending loss of data. Or rather, there's one thing to do, make a copy, but there are better and worse ways to do it." gemini://envs.net/~kyeh/computers/software/data_loss.gmi
[02:25]	TR News	Techrights Welcome to the New Techrights https://techrights.org/ | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/ 
[02:25]	TR News	Techrights Links 29/12/2025: The Sunday Routine, Limits of Memory, and Gemini Vocabulary https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/Links_29_12_2025_The_Sunday_Routine_Limits_of_Memory_and_Gemini.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/Links_29_12_2025_The_Sunday_Routine_Limits_of_Memory_and_Gemini.gmi 
[02:25]	TR Bot	 Techrights Welcome to the New Techrights
[02:25]	TR Bot	 Techrights Links 29/12/2025: The Sunday Routine, Limits of Memory, and Gemini Vocabulary
[02:26]	TR News	Eurozone: Bulgaria, Russian dirty tricks, Gold & Silver bullion https://danielpocock.com/en/eurozone-bulgaria-russia-dirty-tricks-gold-silver-bullion/
[02:26]	TR Bot	 Eurozone: Bulgaria, Russian dirty tricks, Gold & Silver bullion
[02:41]	TR News	Techrights Louis Gerstner Has Died, His Legacy of Mass Layoffs at IBM Hasn't https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/Louis_Gerstner_Has_Died_His_Legacy_of_Mass_Layoffs_at_IBM_Hasn_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/Louis_Gerstner_Has_Died_His_Legacy_of_Mass_Layoffs_at_IBM_Hasn_.gmi 
[02:41]	TR Bot	 Techrights Louis Gerstner Has Died, His Legacy of Mass Layoffs at IBM Hasn't
[02:45]	TR News	Techrights IRC Proceedings: Sunday, December 28, 2025 https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/IRC_Proceedings_Sunday_December_28_2025.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/IRC_Proceedings_Sunday_December_28_2025.gmi 
[02:45]	TR Bot	 Techrights IRC Proceedings: Sunday, December 28, 2025
[02:46]	TR News	Yesterday's #boycottnovell-social and #techpol IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-281225.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-281225.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-social-281225.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-social-281225.txt
[02:46]	TR Bot	 IRC: #boycottnovell-social and #techpol @ Techrights IRC Network: Sunday, December 28, 2025
[02:46]	TR News	 (NEW):  Today in Techrights https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/Today_in_Techrights.gmi 
[02:46]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Today in Techrights
[02:46]	TR News	Techrights Over at Tux Machines... https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi 
[02:46]	TR Bot	 Techrights Over at Tux Machines...
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[02:49]	TR Bot	 IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Sunday, December 28, 2025
[02:49]	TR News	Yesterday's bulletin is now ready! : http://techrights.org/txt-archives/techrights-2025-12-28.txt | gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/techrights-2025-12-28.txt (tentative address, to work an hour from now)
[02:50]	TR News	Yesterday's Tux Machines bulletin is now ready! : http://news.tuxmachines.org/txt-archives/tuxmachines-2025-12-28.txt
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● Dec 29
[03:04]	TR News	The corporate playbook for next year? Dont hire. https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/2026-job-hiring-growth-plans-10bc3470
[03:04]	TR Bot	( status 401 @ https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/2026-job-hiring-growth-plans-10bc3470 )
[03:05]	schestowitz[TR2]	"    This environment means many employees are
[03:05]	schestowitz[TR2]	    clinging to their jobs. At International Business
[03:05]	schestowitz[TR2]	    Machines, employees are leaving the
[03:05]	schestowitz[TR2]	    technology giant at the lowest rate in 30 years,
[03:05]	schestowitz[TR2]	    CEO Arvind Krishna said. In the U.S., voluntary
[03:05]	schestowitz[TR2]	    attrition at IBM is now under 2%, a decline from
[03:05]	schestowitz[TR2]	    the typical 7%.
[03:05]	schestowitz[TR2]	    People arent looking to change jobs, Krishna
[03:05]	schestowitz[TR2]	    said. That then leads to less hiring because
[03:05]	schestowitz[TR2]	    people arent leaving.
[03:05]	schestowitz[TR2]	    AK's not seeing enough natural attrition, eh? No doubt he has a remedy for that. . .
[03:05]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[03:05]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kdm0qny7
[03:05]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kdm0qny7 )
[03:11]	TR News	Halifax video game workers form first Ubisoft union in North America https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/ubisoft-forms-first-union-north-america-halifax-9.7028674
[03:11]	TR Bot	 Halifax video game workers form first Ubisoft union in North America | CBC News
[03:13]	TR News	Game Studios That Shut Down in 2025: Over 25 Studios Closed Their Doors Forever https://www.gamingamigos.com/post/game-studios-closure-2025
[03:13]	TR Bot	 Game Studios That Shut Down in 2025: Over 25 Studios Closed Their Doors Forever - Gaming Amigos
[03:20]	TR News	Techrights Not Turning in His Grave: When People Die, Their Corporate Destruction Becomes a "Turnaround" https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/Not_Turning_in_His_Grave_When_People_Die_Their_Corporate_Destru.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/Not_Turning_in_His_Grave_When_People_Die_Their_Corporate_Destru.gmi 
[03:20]	TR Bot	 Techrights Not Turning in His Grave: When People Die, Their Corporate Destruction Becomes a "Turnaround"
[03:23]	TR News	https://www.fsf.org/ now 81k USD away from goal
[03:23]	TR Bot	 Front Page Free Software Foundation working together for free software
[03:24]	TR News	"Naaah, although he did a great job with the kernel we should not forget about Richard Stallman and the GNU project Without him we would not have got half the applications we have today nor the GPL license which is a big reason why Linux is still linux" https://old.reddit.com/r/ArabUnix/comments/1pxhacs/we_have_freedom_because_of_this_man/
[03:24]	TR Bot	 We have freedom because of this man : ArabUnix
[03:31]	TR News	 (NEW):  Physical Safety https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/Physical_Safety.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/Physical_Safety.gmi 
[03:31]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Physical Safety
[03:58]	TR News	Techrights What IBM Will Do to Red Hat in the Coming Year or Years https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/What_IBM_Will_Do_to_Red_Hat_in_the_Coming_Year_or_Years.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/What_IBM_Will_Do_to_Red_Hat_in_the_Coming_Year_or_Years.gmi 
[03:58]	TR Bot	 Techrights What IBM Will Do to Red Hat in the Coming Year or Years
● Dec 29
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[04:35]	TR News	Techrights EPO People Power - Part XVIII - European Patent Office "Paints Itself as Progressive While Literally Being Represented by Cokeheads" https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/EPO_People_Power_Part_XVIII_European_Patent_Office_Paints_Itsel.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/EPO_People_Power_Part_XVIII_European_Patent_Office_Paints_Itsel.gmi 
[04:35]	TR Bot	 Techrights EPO People Power - Part XVIII - European Patent Office "Paints Itself as Progressive While Literally Being Represented by Cokeheads"
[04:39]	TR News	"IBM is frequently in the news, the Indian clown keeps repeating nonsense. Today, he preaching his wisdom about jobs. He is lying. IBM is not hiring in the US, it is hiring an army in India." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kdm0qny7
[04:39]	TR News	"IBM is a scam now."
[04:40]	TR News	"Wow those comments in the article are brutal. Glad to see the rest of the world sees what truly is going on with us." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kdkpvc96
[04:40]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kdkpvc96 )
[04:42]	TR News	"lawfare" https://thegrayzone.com/2025/12/28/cia-mi6-op-sting-eu-fraud-office/ | Source: The Gray Zone
[04:42]	TR Bot	 Western intelligence lawfare op plotted illegal sting on EU fraud office, leaks reveal - The Grayzone
[04:42]	TR News	"Epstein Files Unveil 'Clinically Alarming' Amazon Shopping History, Predatory Fixation on 'Eroticised Hierarchy'" https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/epstein-files-unveil-clinically-alarming-amazon-shopping-history-predatory-fixation-eroticised-1766392
[04:42]	TR Bot	 Epstein Files Unveil 'Clinically Alarming' Amazon Shopping History, Predatory Fixation on 'Eroticised Hierarchy' | IBTimes UK
[04:43]	TR News	DSA: What power to censor does the EU have? | "Femte juli" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/12/28/dsa-vilken-makt-att-censurera-har-eu/
[04:43]	TR Bot	 DSA: Vilken makt att censurera har EU?
[04:43]	TR News	"It's okay to rest this season. It's okay to do "nothing." To have sown throughout the year and enjoy the harvest" | "Est bien" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=es&tl=en&u=https://text.eapl.mx/esta-bien
[04:43]	TR Bot	 Est bien
[04:43]	TR News	"An experiment in vibe coding | Read the Tea Leaves" https://nolanlawson.com/2025/12/28/an-experiment-in-vibe-coding/
[04:43]	TR Bot	 An experiment in vibe coding | Read the Tea Leaves
[04:44]	TR News	"trump: From AI to chips, Big Tech is getting what it wants from Trump" https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/from-ai-to-chips-big-tech-is-getting-what-it-wants-from-trump/articleshow/126217285.cms https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/18/GAFAM_Kissing_the_Ring_of_the_Mafia_Don.shtml
[04:44]	TR Bot	 trump: From AI to chips, Big Tech is getting what it wants from Trump - The Economic Times
[04:44]	TR Bot	 Techrights GAFAM Kissing the Ring of the Mafia Don
[04:52]	TR News	"Works of art created in 1930 such as early Betty Boop cartoons depicting her as a dog, Disney's "Rover" prototype for Pluto, and more Mickey Mouse cartoons" https://boingboing.net/2025/12/27/works-entering-the-u-s-public-domain-in-2026.html | Source: BoingBoing
[04:52]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://boingboing.net/2025/12/27/works-entering-the-u-s-public-domain-in-2026.html )
[04:53]	TR News	"Regular observers of copyright laws favorite holiday know the drill: on January 1, 2026" https://copyrightlately.com/public-domain-2026/ |
[04:53]	TR Bot	 Public Domain Day 2026 Is Coming: Here's What to Know | Copyright Lately
[04:53]	TR News	"We are at a turning point in the decades-long war on general-purpose computing. Geopolitics are up for grabs. The future is ours to seize." https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet | Source: CCC
[04:53]	TR Bot	post-American, enshittification-resistant internet - media.ccc.de
● Dec 29
[05:04]	TR News	"Before 2025, media capture was a term used exclusively overseas, describing the compromise of a free press to curry favor with the regime in power." https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/trump-year-attacking-media-1235490875/ | Source: Rolling Stone
[05:04]	TR Bot	 Trump's Year of Attacking the Media
[05:05]	TR News	"Advent of Code 2025 lasted only 12 days. I liked the shorter format since keeping up with puzzles for over three weeks in previous years was challenging." https://mmapped.blog/posts/46-aoc-2025 | Source: Roman Kashitsyn
[05:05]	TR Bot	 Advent of Code 2025
[05:05]	TR News	"Louis Gerstner, the executive who engineered one of the most important corporate turnarounds in the history of the high-technology sector, died at the age of 83 on Saturday." https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/louis-gerstner-the-man-who-saved-ibm-dies-at-83-industry-mourns-the-passing-of-transformative-ceo | Source: Tom's Hardware
[05:05]	TR Bot	 Louis Gerstner, the man who saved IBM, dies at 83 industry mourns the passing of transformative CEO | Tom's Hardware
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[05:13]	TR News	"Now the tech industry is in the fever-dream days of generative AI, which requires new levels of computing resources" https://www.wired.com/story/expired-tired-wired-data-centers/ | Source: Wired
[05:13]	TR Bot	Data Centers Are Taking Over the World | WIRED
[05:14]	TR News	"Im about half a dozen flights into training for a Private Pilots License and wanted to write some notes while Im still firmly in the beginner mindset." https://benjamincongdon.me/blog/2025/12/27/Notes-from-Early-Flight-Training/ | Source: Ben Congdon
[05:14]	TR Bot	 Notes from Early Flight Training | Ben Congdon
[05:14]	TR News	"The following map from 2024 by Simon C. Scherrer (via @freakonometrics) indicates that one-third of the Swiss population lives in a five-kilometer-wide strip on either side of the Intercity 1 railway line." https://r.iresmi.net/posts/2025/railway_population/ | Source: Michal
[05:14]	TR Bot	population r.iresmi.net
[05:14]	TR News	"The issue is that Trump a close friend of Epsteins for more than a decade is named in these documents himself, as the Justice Department informed him in May." https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/donald-trump-jeffrey-epstein-timeline-1235464225/ | Source: Rolling Stone
[05:14]	TR Bot	 Trump and Epstein: Complete Timeline of Their Friendship
[05:15]	Isambard_Prince	schestowitz[TR2], Indians running everything into the ground.
[05:15]	Isambard_Prince	But hotels have never been cheaper.
[05:15]	Isambard_Prince	For those of us requiring an "afternoon power nap" as you put it.
[05:16]	schestowitz[TR2]	I put it like what?
[05:16]	Isambard_Prince	When I mentioned what people tend to use cheap hotel rooms for.
[05:16]	Isambard_Prince	:)
[05:16]	Isambard_Prince	You said "for an afternoon nap".
[05:17]	TR News	"Trump to Europe: Let every social media site spew Nazi trashor else" https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/12/26/2359940/-Trump-to-Europe-Let-every-social-media-site-spew-Nazi-trash-or-else | Source: Daily Kos
[05:17]	TR Bot	 Trump to Europe: Let every social media site spew Nazi trashor else
[05:17]	Isambard_Prince	You British people are so polite.
[05:17]	TR News	"Europe's hard-learned lessons about where unchecked fascist speech leads are being dismissed as regulatory overreach." https://boingboing.net/2025/12/26/trump-to-europe-embrace-nazi-trash-or-else.html | Source: BoingBoing
[05:17]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://boingboing.net/2025/12/26/trump-to-europe-embrace-nazi-trash-or-else.html )
[05:17]	schestowitz[TR2]	i didn't say nap
[05:17]	schestowitz[TR2]	I said,
[05:17]	schestowitz[TR2]	something like what I heard
[05:18]	schestowitz[TR2]	that people book rooms by the hour
[05:18]	schestowitz[TR2]	and it's not for sleep
[05:18]	Isambard_Prince	No, I think you said afternoon nap, sarcastically.
[05:18]	Isambard_Prince	I remember it because I laughed.
[05:18]	schestowitz[TR2]	so some hotels here before notorious for being a little like brothels
[05:18]	schestowitz[TR2]	unofficially
[05:18]	TR News	[Old] "With all the hype and hysteria around AI, its important to remember that AI is still just a tool." https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2025/09/ai-and-the-fight-between-democracy-and-autocracy/684095/ | Source: The Atlantic
[05:18]	TR Bot	 AI and the Rise of Techno-Fascism in the United States - The Atlantic
[05:19]	Isambard_Prince	Pretty much. It's like $45 a night and I mean, you might as well just stay there for that price.
[05:19]	TR News	"In recent years, drones have become an integral part of modern warfare." https://www.wired.com/story/the-us-must-stop-underestimating-drone-warfare/ | Source: Wired
[05:19]	TR Bot	US Must Stop Underestimating Drone Warfare | WIRED
[05:19]	Isambard_Prince	It's $35 to take someone to Steamworks for a 8 hour rental. Might as well just have the room for the night in case you want seconds.
[05:19]	TR News	"Recognizing a pattern: Putin calls, America blinks, and Zelenskyy leaves empty-handed." https://www.thenextmove.org/p/the-moscow-mar-a-lago-hotline | Source: The Next Move
[05:19]	TR Bot	 The Moscow-Mar-A-Lago Hotline - by Garry Kasparov
[05:20]	Isambard_Prince	Plus, Steamworks is just fucking eww.
[05:20]	schestowitz[TR2]	the minibar is not free
[05:20]	Isambard_Prince	Literally. Fucking. Eww.
[05:20]	schestowitz[TR2]	and there is no m-inigun
[05:20]	schestowitz[TR2]	so stay for what?
[05:20]	schestowitz[TR2]	A/C?
[05:20]	Isambard_Prince	Because Mandy isn't there and nobody cares how loud my boyfriend is screaming.
[05:20]	TR News	"We stand at the edge of a new year and at the edge of an old question: Will this be a republic of citizens or a dominion of oligarchs?" https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/a-new-year-and-a-manifesto-for-america | Source: Mike Brock
[05:20]	TR Bot	 A New Year and a Manifesto for America - by Mike Brock
[05:20]	Isambard_Prince	The place isn't in the best of shape, but it's comfortable enough.
[05:21]	Isambard_Prince	And there's breakfast the next morning.
[05:21]	TR News	"None of the Christmas cocaine boom" https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2025/12/white-christmas-why-cocaine-is-everywhere-in-december | Source: New Statesman
[05:21]	TR Bot	 White Christmas: why cocaine is everywhere in December - New Statesman
[05:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	hotels are not the same to all people
[05:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	to some people,
[05:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	for example
[05:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	drinking out in the pub is nice
[05:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	because
[05:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	1) they share a home
[05:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	2) the home is small
[05:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	3) the place is not pleasant
[05:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	4) they have no social life (at the home)
[05:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	same for hotel
[05:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	some people have a bad bedroom
[05:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	or live in a noisy area
[05:22]	schestowitz[TR2]	so for them a hotel is a big "step up"
[05:22]	Isambard_Prince	I have no privacy where I live and neither does my boyfriend.
[05:22]	Isambard_Prince	So we have to slip off somewhere.
[05:22]	TR News	"Is it any wonder that these keep biting us?" https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/12/27/the-dangers-of-ssl-certificates/ | Source: Lorin Hochstein
[05:22]	TR Bot	 The dangers of SSL certificates Surfing Complexity
[05:23]	TR News	Social Control Media https://www.androidpolice.com/i-cant-watch-youtube-videos-without-this-hidden-feature/ | Source: Android Police
[05:23]	Isambard_Prince	schestowitz[TR2], Remember when people paid for a movie ticket and it was just somewhere dark to go and make out?
[05:23]	TR Bot	 Nobody told me about this hidden YouTube feature now I can't watch videos without it
[05:23]	Isambard_Prince	Movie tickets were THAT cheap.
[05:23]	Isambard_Prince	Like $3 maybe.
[05:23]	schestowitz[TR2]	there are drive ins
[05:23]	schestowitz[TR2]	still
[05:23]	schestowitz[TR2]	but rare
[05:23]	schestowitz[TR2]	some people kissed and didn't watch movies
[05:23]	schestowitz[TR2]	i too am guilty of that
[05:23]	schestowitz[TR2]	but i was like 17
[05:24]	TR News	"At some point during experiments with Hyper-V, my external HDDs died. ZFS scrubbing would just hang and the HDDs would stop spinning." https://laplab.me/posts/media-server-journey/ | Source: Nikita Lapkov
[05:24]	TR Bot	 Media Server Journey | Nikita Lapkov
[05:25]	Isambard_Prince	schestowitz[TR2], I slip beer into the movies sometimes.
[05:25]	Isambard_Prince	They sell it there, for like $7 a bottle.
[05:25]	Isambard_Prince	Can you believe that shit?
[05:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	you could driink before
[05:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	like people do with football matches
[05:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	buy at the shop
[05:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	drink
[05:25]	Isambard_Prince	They don't make anything off the movie so they encourage people to get drunk and eat bad food that costs too much.
[05:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	enter
[05:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	they sell beer at the stadium
[05:25]	Isambard_Prince	schestowitz[TR2], That's even better.
[05:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	buit not cheap
[05:25]	Isambard_Prince	I can watch sports on the movie screen for free.
[05:26]	Isambard_Prince	Sneak in beer. Get free popcorn with my movie rewards card.
[05:26]	Isambard_Prince	LOL
[05:26]	TR News	"Drinking water from plastic bottles is fine in an emergency, but it is not something that should be used in daily life" https://www.wired.com/story/people-who-drink-bottled-water-on-a-daily-basis-ingest-90000-more-microplastics-per-year/ | Source: Wired
[05:26]	TR Bot	Who Drink Bottled Water on a Daily Basis Ingest 90,000 More Microplastic Particles Each Year | WIRED
[05:26]	Isambard_Prince	schestowitz[TR2], I just refill gallons of water from my Brita to take with me to the hotel.
[05:26]	TR News	"I am starting to feel like my whole life is lived through a screen, and I am ashamed to admit how much control my phone seems to have over me." https://www.mlive.com/advice/2025/12/dear-annie-breaking-free-from-my-phone.html | Source: Michigan News
[05:26]	TR Bot	Annie: I spend more time scrolling than I do living my life - mlive.com
[05:26]	Isambard_Prince	The hotel water tastes really foul.
[05:26]	schestowitz[TR2]	not all hotels
[05:26]	Isambard_Prince	But it costs like $2-3 per gallon for water at the store. The only reason to get a couple is to refill them out of the Brita.
[05:27]	schestowitz[TR2]	when we went to turkey they told us not to driunk
[05:27]	schestowitz[TR2]	from the tap
[05:27]	schestowitz[TR2]	it's a national issue
[05:27]	schestowitz[TR2]	not any particular hotel
[05:27]	Isambard_Prince	It's a local issue in the US.
[05:27]	Isambard_Prince	They treat it to be federally compliant and not kill you, but it doesn't have to taste good.
[05:27]	TR News	[Old] "Almost fourteen months ago, I started working on my bachelor thesis. Although I finished it half a year ago, its still part of my work as a student research assistant." https://0l.de/blog/2015/01/bachelor-thesis-abstract/ |
[05:27]	TR Bot	 Bachelor Thesis: Extended Abstract | stv0g's weblog
[05:28]	Isambard_Prince	Some cities care how it tastes or they get lucky and there's a water source they can treat that happens to not taste bad.
[05:28]	TR News	"Nevertheless, I felt like I owed whatever readers remain here at least some sort of update as to whats been going on with me this year and where my head is at." https://jaylittle.com/post/view/2025/12/persistence-in-the-face-of-existential-crisis/ | Source: Jay Little
[05:28]	TR Bot	 Persistence in the Face of Existential Crisis | Jay Little
[05:28]	Isambard_Prince	But most places just don't have the money to make it not taste bad, so they treat it and it tastes bad.
[05:28]	TR News	"Last week I was looking through my archive of 5 floppies and stumbled on a bunch of disks made by this brand, Elephant Memory Systems." https://morrick.me/archives/10196 | Source: Riccardo Mori
[05:28]	TR Bot	 A new series of short-form posts: the Elephant Memory Systems entries | Riccardo Mori
[05:28]	Isambard_Prince	schestowitz[TR2], It could be worse.
[05:28]	schestowitz[TR2]	public fountains are rare
[05:28]	Isambard_Prince	My boyfriend lost two of his brothers to contaminated drinking water in the Philippines.
[05:28]	schestowitz[TR2]	in the 80s they were normal
[05:28]	Isambard_Prince	We don't have that here.
[05:28]	schestowitz[TR2]	that was before "shit in bottle" industry took off
[05:28]	Isambard_Prince	It might taste bad but it's not going to kill you.
[05:29]	schestowitz[TR2]	and the state helpd derive people of water
[05:29]	schestowitz[TR2]	so that they buy cans and then bottles
[05:29]	schestowitz[TR2]	the slips in cans killed many animals
[05:29]	schestowitz[TR2]	and there was littering
[05:29]	schestowitz[TR2]	they are a public hazard nonetheless
[05:29]	schestowitz[TR2]	make more water fountains
[05:29]	schestowitz[TR2]	help curb cancer (DDT), obesity, and diasbetes
[05:29]	schestowitz[TR2]	and also, help make less waste
[05:30]	schestowitz[TR2]	but some cocca cola-like business will "suffer"
[05:30]	schestowitz[TR2]	there seems to be no regulatory control anymore
[05:30]	schestowitz[TR2]	the companies do anything they want
[05:30]	schestowitz[TR2]	you mentioned movies
[05:31]	schestowitz[TR2]	and how affordable they were
[05:31]	schestowitz[TR2]	i totally or nearly forgot about kissing there
[05:31]	schestowitz[TR2]	(We were both 17)
[05:31]	schestowitz[TR2]	i think it was some ben stiller movie
[05:31]	schestowitz[TR2]	i forgot the name
[05:31]	schestowitz[TR2]	we hardly watched it
[05:31]	schestowitz[TR2]	it was some story about kids, iirc
[05:31]	schestowitz[TR2]	in the 90s things were accessible
[05:31]		*Righty has quit (connection closed)
[05:32]	schestowitz[TR2]	water, entertainment
[05:32]	schestowitz[TR2]	not they say "get netflix"
[05:32]	schestowitz[TR2]	and watch some flick on your palm
[05:32]	schestowitz[TR2]	at low quality
[05:32]	schestowitz[TR2]	no dolby or anything
[05:32]	schestowitz[TR2]	and they say it's better
[05:32]	schestowitz[TR2]	because "SMARET" phone
[05:32]	schestowitz[TR2]	i am not buying that
[05:32]	schestowitz[TR2]	right now I listen to compact disc
[05:33]	TR News	"At work, I was promoted to an engineering manager position." https://rickcarlino.com/2026/2025-year-in-review.html | Source: Rick Carlino
[05:33]	TR Bot	 2025 Year in Review
[05:33]	TR News	"A lot of my readers call me a cynic when I say things like you should do things that make your manager happy or big tech companies get to decide what projects you work on." https://www.seangoedecke.com/a-little-bit-cynical/ | Source: Sean Goedecke
[05:33]	TR Bot	 Software engineers should be a little bit cynical
[05:33]	Isambard_Prince	Every time I refill a jug of water and take it with me, I save about $3 vs. buying it at the store.
[05:34]	Isambard_Prince	Nothing is cheap these days at the store, even jugs of water.
[05:34]	Isambard_Prince	Fuckers.
[05:34]	TR News	"The NIH was founded through the Ransdell Act of 1930, which converted the former Hygienic Laboratory of the Marine Hospital Services into the seeds of a new government institution." https://www.the-scientist.com/how-the-nih-became-the-backbone-of-us-medical-research-73871 | Source: LabX Media Group
[05:34]	TR Bot	 How the NIH Became the Backbone of US Medical Research | The Scientist
[05:34]	TR News	"The evidence, probably produced by some of the oldest Neanderthal groups, consists of a patch of heated clay" https://phys.org/news/2025-12-humans-years-earlier-believed-archaeological.html | Source: Omicron Limited
[05:34]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://phys.org/news/2025-12-humans-years-earlier-believed-archaeological.html )
[05:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	worse-
[05:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	they made water so expensive
[05:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	in place where tap water is rehgarded as unsafe
[05:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	so they give people options
[05:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	water for price x
[05:35]	schestowitz[TR2]	or sugar thing for x*0.1
[05:35]	schestowitz[TR2]	or DDT thing for the same
[05:35]	schestowitz[TR2]	many go for the stwet things
[05:35]	schestowitz[TR2]	the cancer or diabetes stuff
[05:35]	schestowitz[TR2]	because the price is "
[05:35]	schestowitz[TR2]	almost the same"
[05:35]	schestowitz[TR2]	(as water)
[05:35]		*Righty (~Username@hi9ujgj36gaz6.irc) has joined #techrights
[05:36]	Isambard_Prince	schestowitz[TR2], Yes, there's some restaurants that try to sell you bottled water now instead of just giving you the water out of the water button on the fountain.
[05:36]	Isambard_Prince	Like McDonald's.
[05:36]	Isambard_Prince	The one down the street tries to add a $2.50 bottle of Dasani water to your meal when you ask for water.
[05:36]	Isambard_Prince	You have to ask for tap water. You know, the stuff you flush the toilet with. Eww.
[05:37]	Isambard_Prince	schestowitz[TR2], Mom won't drink from fountains.
[05:38]	Isambard_Prince	She says you can get Meningitis from it. I said "I'm vaccinated for that." and shooed her away.
[05:38]	Isambard_Prince	Drank from the fountain right in front of her.
[05:40]	Isambard_Prince	She asked why I was vaccinated for Meningitis. I said, "Outbreak of it among gay men."
[05:42]	Isambard_Prince	As far as I know the only type of Meningitis in that outbreak was type C.
[05:43]	schestowitz[TR2]	so we were just discussing why you miss the 90s
[05:43]	schestowitz[TR2]	the bottom line is,
[05:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	90s you were a kid
[05:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	and your parents had means
[05:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	so you yearn for that
[05:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	eeing that, now, even if you save 50 bucks a month
[05:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	it'll be 6k iin a decade
[05:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	you cannot even buy a car for that
[05:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	so the 90s were more like an age of opportunity
[05:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	for anyone who could type html or do some coding
[05:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	even an accountant could get a car without a loan
[05:46]	TR News	"Its been a year since Ive posted anything on this here blog." https://www.paritybit.ca/blog/oh-right-i-have-a-blog/ | Source: Jake Bauer
[05:46]	TR Bot	not resolve host: www.paritybit.ca ( status 0 @ https://www.paritybit.ca/blog/oh-right-i-have-a-blog/ )
[05:46]	schestowitz[TR2]	another thing is,
[05:46]	schestowitz[TR2]	failure to manufacture consent for the status quo
[05:46]	schestowitz[TR2]	in the 80s you showed people havinmg large families and getting by
[05:46]	schestowitz[TR2]	the rich were rich, but
[05:46]	schestowitz[TR2]	now it's widened to the point where
[05:46]	schestowitz[TR2]	you need to explain to a child "gig worker"
[05:46]	schestowitz[TR2]	that it's OK to beg for tips to merely pay bread
[05:46]	schestowitz[TR2]	while some "tech bros:"
[05:47]	schestowitz[TR2]	claim to have trillions in "wealth"
[05:47]	schestowitz[TR2]	and that's a hard sell
[05:47]	schestowitz[TR2]	so they are not motivated to get ahead, they don't feel like they can
[05:47]	schestowitz[TR2]	(and they probably cannot unless they cheat)
[05:47]	TR News	"An islet in western Estonia will be upgraded to the status of "small island" and granted additional funding after at least five people have been registered as living on the territory for a year." https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2780175/estonia-gets-a-new-small-island | Source: LRT
[05:47]	TR Bot	 Estonia gets a new small island - LRT
[05:50]	TR News	 (NEW):  Proprietary Software (and Games) Rotting Away https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/Proprietary_Software_and_Games_Rotting_Away.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/Proprietary_Software_and_Games_Rotting_Away.gmi 
[05:50]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Proprietary Software (and Games) Rotting Away
[05:52]	TR News	Techrights Links 29/12/2025: Bottled Water Considered Harmful, Cheetos Promoting Nazis in Europe https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/Links_29_12_2025_Bottled_Water_Considered_Harmful_Cheetos_Promo.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/Links_29_12_2025_Bottled_Water_Considered_Harmful_Cheetos_Promo.gmi 
[05:52]	TR Bot	 Techrights Links 29/12/2025: Bottled Water Considered Harmful, Cheetos Promoting Nazis in Europe
[05:53]	TR News	"cheetomussolini" ... seems it has been a thing "Since March 2016" https://x.com/cheetomussolini
[05:53]	TR Bot	 NO TITLE
[05:53]	Isambard_Prince	schestowitz[TR2], Piyush
[05:53]	Isambard_Prince	Taking shortcuts.
[05:53]	Isambard_Prince	Lying to investors.
[05:53]	Isambard_Prince	Living off loans.
[05:54]	schestowitz[TR2]	you know who took loans
[05:54]	schestowitz[TR2]	to attack my wife and I
[05:54]	MinceR	voldemort?!
[05:54]	Isambard_Prince	Yeah
[05:54]	Isambard_Prince	MinceR, The voldemort who hacks the Android tablet so he can open people's hotel curtains.
[05:54]	Isambard_Prince	:)
[05:54]	MinceR	:>
[05:55]	TR News	"On first startup after upgrading, Fish performs a one-time migration, freezing the current theme and key bindings into files under ~/.config/fish/conf.d/." https://linuxiac.com/fish-shell-4-3-released-with-scripting-and-terminal-improvements/ | Source: Linuxiac
[05:55]	TR Bot	 Fish Shell 4.3 Released With Scripting and Terminal Improvements
[05:55]	schestowitz[TR2]	even boasted about it in public
[05:55]	TR News	Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 52 (Dec 22 28, 2025) https://linuxiac.com/linuxiac-weekly-wrap-up-week-52-dec-22-28-2025/
[05:55]	TR Bot	Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 52 (Dec 22 28, 2025)
[05:56]	TR News	"I have recently migrated my by now 79 repositories from GitHub to Codeberg, a decision driven by several significant factors." https://0l.de/blog/2025/12/codeberg-migration/ |
[05:56]	TR Bot	 A New Home for My Open Source Projects: Embracing Codeberg | stv0g's weblog
[05:56]	TR News	"They are so universal and effective that we sometimes dont think of them as strategies at all." https://eblog.fly.dev/onoff.html |
[05:56]	TR Bot	 Have you tried turning it off and on again?
[05:57]	TR News	"Typst is a typesetting system similar to LaTeX." https://unnamed.website/posts/haskelling-my-typst/ | Source: Unnamed Website
[05:57]	TR Bot	 Haskelling My Typst
[05:57]	Isambard_Prince	MinceR, I had enough magic water left to make ramen.
[05:57]	MinceR	will the ramen be magic too?
[05:58]	TR News	"What if you want high speed without too much work or a specialized library? You can try to roll your own" https://lemire.me/blog/2025/12/27/parsing-ip-addresses-quickly-portably-without-simd-magic/ | Source: Daniel Lemire
[05:58]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://lemire.me/blog/2025/12/27/parsing-ip-addresses-quickly-portably-without-simd-magic/ )
[05:58]	TR News	"If you maintain software projects, you see it all the time. Someone new comes along and they want to start rewriting everything." https://lemire.me/blog/2025/12/28/dont-be-so-eager-to-rewrite-your-code/ | Source: Daniel Lemire
[05:58]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://lemire.me/blog/2025/12/28/dont-be-so-eager-to-rewrite-your-code/ )
[05:59]	TR News	"In October 2012, Bundlers success was killing RubyGems.org. Dependency resolution requires knowing what each version of each gem depends on, and dependencies form a graph, not a tree." https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/28/the-compact-index.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt
[05:59]	TR Bot	 The Compact Index: How Bundler Scales Dependency Resolution | Andrew Nesbitt
[05:59]	schestowitz[TR2]	Isambard_Prince: what costs more in ILL?
● Dec 29
[06:00]	schestowitz[TR2]	the water
[06:00]	schestowitz[TR2]	or the ramen>?
[06:00]	schestowitz[TR2]	asking fora chef
[06:00]	Isambard_Prince	The water if you buy it at the store.
[06:00]	TR News	"The model follows the high-level design of a Denoising Autoencoder." https://cprimozic.net/blog/anime-recommender-model-architecture/ | Source: Casey Primozic
[06:00]	TR Bot	 A Modern Recommender Model Architecture - Casey Primozic's Homepage
[06:00]	TR News	"I like learning programming languages." https://ficd.sh/blog/permission-to-begin-learning/ | Source: Daniel Fichtinger
[06:00]	Isambard_Prince	schestowitz[TR2], I used some well water I pumped down at Schiller Woods.
[06:00]	TR Bot	 permission to begin learning
[06:01]	TR News	"Imagine a world where every time you want to share a cool app with a friend, you have to ask permission (and maybe pay extra)." https://freenetafrica.com/2025/05/24/richard-stallman-the-legend-of-software-freedom/ |
[06:01]	TR Bot	 Richard Stallman: The Legend of Software Freedom that Saved the World | FREENET AFRICA
[06:01]	MinceR	or if you can't imagine it, just wait
[06:01]	TR News	"The BSDCan Call For Papers (CFP) is open until January 17th" https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=176686773001359&w=2 | Source: Mailing list ARChives
[06:01]	TR Bot	 'The BSDCan 2026 Call For Papers (CFP) is open until January 17th, 2026' - MARC
[06:02]	Isambard_Prince	https://linuxiac.com/systemd-259-released-with-major-changes-ahead-of-legacy-sysv-removal/
[06:02]	TR Bot	 Systemd 259 Released With Major Changes Ahead of Legacy SysV Removal
[06:02]	schestowitz[TR2]	<Isambard_Prince> The water if you buy it at the store.
[06:02]	schestowitz[TR2]	if water is something you puchase at the shop
[06:02]	Isambard_Prince	Removes TPM 1.2 support. Of course, because those are integrated into the main board and you can't upgrade it to TPM 2.0.
[06:02]	schestowitz[TR2]	what is the point of pipeworks in homes? ;-)
[06:02]	Isambard_Prince	So for those users, they just can't use the TPM at all now.
[06:02]	schestowitz[TR2]	TPM uses them
[06:03]	Isambard_Prince	And the part about making sure non-VFAT filesystems can't be exposed to the firmware is just more "things that the firmware should just flat out refuse apparently cause problems".
[06:03]	TR News	"By default, 11ty uses markdown-it library to parse markdown. But, it seems that by default, markdown-it doesn't support syntax for applying an id to a header element." https://syntackle.com/blog/adding-custom-anchors-to-headings-in-markdown-eleventy-3NxBhIJO2OIr4XOj5LKc/ | Source: Murtuzaali Surti
[06:03]	TR Bot	 Adding Custom Anchors to Headings in Markdown - Eleventy
[06:04]	TR News	"While working on HTTP caching, a refresher, I learned about a recent development that immediately piqued my interest." https://danburzo.ro/notes/no-vary-search-vs-canonical/ | Source: Dan Ctlin Burzo
[06:04]	TR Bot	 On the off-label benefits of No-Vary-Search Dan Ctlin Burzo
[06:04]	TR News	"It, like caltorss before it, is hopefully well-described by its name: it converts a sitemap to an RSS feed." https://www.jmduke.com/posts/sitemaptorss.html | Source: Justin Duke
[06:04]	TR Bot	 sitemaptorss | Applied Cartography
[06:04]	TR News	"since writing that tutorial, I have made a multitude of improvements to my site, and at this point, the previous post no longer describes the current site I am running." https://mirawelner.com/posts/website_update.html | Source: Mira Welner
[06:04]	TR Bot	 Updates to my Raspberry Pi Website
[06:05]	TR News	"The longer answer has to do with how Zimbabwes mobile networks are built, powered, and used." https://www.techzim.co.zw/2025/12/zimbabwe-networks-christmas-congestion/ | Source: Zimbabwe
[06:05]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.techzim.co.zw/2025/12/zimbabwe-networks-christmas-congestion/ )
[06:06]	TR News	"LackPaint is basically a digital photo frame. Except instead of showing boring old family photos in the usual way" https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/12/28/display-your-photos-like-theyre-in-macpaint/ | Source: Arduino
[06:06]	TR Bot	 Display your photos like theyre in MacPaint | Arduino Blog
[06:07]	TR News	"this article looks at another way to help KDE improve." https://linuxiac.com/how-to-help-kde-improve-plasma-through-user-feedback/ | Source: Linuxiac
[06:07]	TR Bot	 How to Help KDE Improve Plasma Through User Feedback
[06:07]	TR News	"Motion Photos" https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/extracting-video-from-motion-photos-on-linux/ | Source: Terence Eden
[06:07]	TR Bot	 Extracting Video from Motion Photos on Linux Terence Edens Blog
[06:08]	TR News	"Its not even black-and-white, its gray-and-gray." https://maurycyz.com/misc/raw_photo/ | Source: Maury
[06:08]	TR Bot	 What an unprocessed photo looks like: (Maurycy's blog)
[06:08]	TR News	"A software vendor was using SMTP spamware to send license keys customers had paid thousands for. A measured rant was in order, and turned out to be quite enlightening." https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/12/why-451-is-good-for-you-greylisting.html | Source: BSDly
[06:08]	TR Bot	 That grumpy BSD guy: Why 451 is Good for You - Greylisting Perspectives From the Early Noughties
[06:09]	TR News	You Are Likely to Be Eaten by a Grue: The Current State of Interactive Fiction https://jxself.org/grue.shtml
[06:09]	TR Bot	 You Are Likely to Be Eaten by a Grue: The Current State of Interactive Fiction
[06:11]	TR News	How To Install Netdata on openSUSE https://idroot.us/install-netdata-opensuse/
[06:11]	TR Bot	 How To Install Netdata on openSUSE - idroot
[06:13]	TR News	Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-12-29.gmi
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[06:14]	TR News	"There are 4803 capsules. We successfully connected recently to 3241 of them."
[06:14]	TR News	Almost 4,850 capsules counted yesterday
[06:15]		*Isambard_Prince (~Isambard_Prince@78zstunev6vtq.irc) has joined #techrights
[06:16]	Isambard_Prince	Linux chose to kill HexChat because Firefox used up all my memory.
[06:16]	schestowitz[TR2]	not good
[06:16]	schestowitz[TR2]	it should kill the hog
[06:17]	schestowitz[TR2]	irc is small
[06:17]	schestowitz[TR2]	irc clients are always using little cpu
[06:17]	schestowitz[TR2]	oom never killed kate for me
[06:17]	schestowitz[TR2]	it usually picks something really horrible
[06:17]	schestowitz[TR2]	like bloated tab processes
[06:17]	schestowitz[TR2]	killing katecan result in lost work
[06:19]	TR News	Scam Altman cult: "FOSS is and always was a scam, in order to feed tons of code to LLMs and kicking coders in the balls, so they could not monetize their work. And, noone cares about the licenses, everyone steals and robs whatever is at arms length." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46398678
[06:19]	TR Bot	 FOSS is and always was a scam, in order to feed tons of code to LLMs and kicking... | Hacker News
[06:19]	TR News	Y Combinator (YC) Funds Scams, Run by Scammers https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/10/Y_Combinator_YC_Funds_Scams_Run_by_Scammers.shtml
[06:19]	TR Bot	 Techrights Y Combinator (YC) Funds Scams, Run by Scammers
[06:20]	TR News	"FOSS has been a thing for decades longer than LLMs have even been a vague notion."
[06:20]	TR News	"So FOSS is bad and commercial [sic] software is bad? What's left - going outside and touching some grass?"
[06:21]	TR News	"Arguably the most brilliant engineer in FFmpeg left because of this. He reverse engineered dozens of codecs by hand as a volunteer. Then security "researchers" and corporate employees came along repeatedly insisted "critical" security issues were fixed immediately waving their CVEs." https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1978693812672217303
[06:21]	TR Bot	 NO TITLE
[06:22]	TR News	"CVE slop" https://x.com/ffmpeg/status/1984207514389586050
[06:22]	TR Bot	 NO TITLE
[06:22]	TR News	"It's AI generated bug reports on an obscure 1990s hobby codec"
[06:23]	TR News	"And got a nice bonus at the end of the year for finding so many red CVEs"
[06:24]	TR News	"We take security very seriously but at the same time is it really fair that trillion dollar corporations run AI to find security issues on people's hobby code? Then expect volunteers to fix." https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1984178359354483058
[06:24]	TR Bot	 NO TITLE
[06:25]	TR News	"It's someone's hobby project of an obscure 1990s decoder. A trillion dollar company is tasking an AI to find bugs and is assigning CVEs. Yet expects volunteers to fix it."
[06:25]	TR News	"The author of Lucasfilm Smash, a 1990s video game codec is writing this as a hobby. A trillion dollar corporation like Google should be the one sending fixes. If Deepmind is that good, surely it should be doing it."
[06:46]	Isambard_Prince	https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/pennsylvania-supreme-court-google-searches-are-not-private
[06:46]	TR Bot	 Pennsylvania court rules Google searches are not private | Windows Central
[06:47]	TR News	Techrights LLMs Are Inherently Parasitic, We Need to Treat Them Accordingly https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/LLMs_Are_Inherently_Parasitic_We_Need_to_Treat_Them_Accordingly.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/LLMs_Are_Inherently_Parasitic_We_Need_to_Treat_Them_Accordingly.gmi 
[06:47]	TR Bot	 Techrights LLMs Are Inherently Parasitic, We Need to Treat Them Accordingly
[06:47]	MinceR	so are most humans
[06:58]	TR News	KDE Plasma 6_25.12 for Slackware-current https://blog.slackware.nl/kde-plasma-6_25-12-for-slackware-current/
[06:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	MinceR: DAs?
[06:58]	TR Bot	 KDE Plasma 6_25.12 for Slackware-current Alien Pastures
[06:59]	TR News	 (NEW):  KDE Plasma 6_25.12 for Slackware-current https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/KDE_Plasma_6_25_12_for_Slackware_current.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/KDE_Plasma_6_25_12_for_Slackware_current.gmi 
[06:59]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines KDE Plasma 6_25.12 for Slackware-current
[06:59]	TR News	 (NEW):  Night Bird and the Free Software Metaphor https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/Night_Bird_and_the_Free_Software_Metaphor.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/Night_Bird_and_the_Free_Software_Metaphor.gmi 
[06:59]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Night Bird and the Free Software Metaphor
● Dec 29
[07:00]	TR News	 (NEW):  Today's HowTos   https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/today_s_howtos.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/today_s_howtos.gmi 
[07:00]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines today's howtos
[07:01]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kdkpvc96
[07:01]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kdkpvc96 )
[07:01]	schestowitz[TR2]	"If you were here when IBM was in tatters in 1991/92, and then helped it rise from the ashes you might feel differently. Yes, we had to say good bye to alot of colleagues and it was tough. For those who hung in there, we saw IBM come back stronger than ever. Gerstner was CEO from April 1993 to December 2002. When he started our Year End Revenue was $62.7 B with 256,207 employees when he left in 2002 Revenue was $81.2B with 315,880
[07:01]	schestowitz[TR2]	 Employees."
[07:02]	TR News	 (NEW):  GuideOS beginner-friendly Linux distribution https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/GuideOS_beginner_friendly_Linux_distribution.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/GuideOS_beginner_friendly_Linux_distribution.gmi 
[07:02]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines GuideOS beginner-friendly Linux distribution
[07:02]	TR News	Musician Cancelled as Hey Hi (AI) Falsely Accuses Him of Horrific Crimes https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/musician-ai-canada-google
[07:02]	TR Bot	 Musician Cancelled as AI Falsely Accuses Him of Horrific Crimes
[07:04]	MinceR	schestowitz[TR2]: same thing
[07:08]	TR News	Twins Peaks: The Gilbertson Brothers Want to Rewrite Your Countrys Map https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/science/eric-matthew-gilbertson-mountains.html
[07:08]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/science/eric-matthew-gilbertson-mountains.html )
[07:09]	TR News	 (NEW):  Free and Open Source Software https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi 
[07:09]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Free and Open Source Software
[07:10]	TR News	South Korean President vows to reveal truth on anniversary of Jeju Air crash https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korean-president-vows-to-reveal-truth-on-anniversary-of-jeju-air-crash
[07:10]	TR Bot	 South Korean President vows to reveal truth on anniversary of Jeju Air crash | The Straits Times
[07:11]	TR News	Coupang announces $1.5 billion compensation to South Korean users for data leak https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/coupang-announces-1-5-billion-compensation-to-south-korean-users-for-data-leak
[07:11]	TR Bot	 Coupang announces $1.5 billion compensation to South Korean users for data leak | The Straits Times
[07:11]	TR News	Nearly 80% of South Koreas dog meat farms shut ahead of 2027 ban https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/nearly-80-of-south-koreas-dog-meat-farms-shut-ahead-of-2027-ban
[07:11]	TR Bot	 Nearly 80% of South Koreas dog meat farms shut ahead of 2027 ban | The Straits Times
[07:11]	schestowitz[TR2]	MinceR: speaking of DAs ^^
[07:12]	TR News	 (NEW):  Inkscape 1.4.3 Open-Source SVG Editor Improves PDF Import and Text on Path https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/26/Inkscape_1_4_3_Open_Source_SVG_Editor_Improves_PDF_Import_and_T.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/26/Inkscape_1_4_3_Open_Source_SVG_Editor_Improves_PDF_Import_and_T.gmi 
[07:12]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Inkscape 1.4.3 Open-Source SVG Editor Improves PDF Import and Text on Path
[07:18]	TR News	GuideOS beginner-friendly GNU/Linux distribution https://www.linuxlinks.com/guideos-beginner-friendly-linux-distribution/
[07:18]	TR Bot	- beginner-friendly Linux distribution - LinuxLinks
[07:19]	TR News	 (NEW):  Linux 6.19-rc3 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/Linux_6_19_rc3.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/Linux_6_19_rc3.gmi 
[07:19]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Linux 6.19-rc3
[07:19]	TR News	 (NEW):  What exactly makes Linux so bulletproof? https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/What_exactly_makes_Linux_so_bulletproof.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/What_exactly_makes_Linux_so_bulletproof.gmi 
[07:19]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines What exactly makes Linux so bulletproof?
[07:19]	TR News	google-java-format reformats Java source code https://www.linuxlinks.com/google-java-format-reformats-java-source-code/
[07:19]	TR Bot	- reformats Java source code - LinuxLinks
[07:19]	TR News	Kyanos networking analysis tool using eBPF https://www.linuxlinks.com/kyanos-networking-analysis-tool-ebpf/
[07:19]	TR Bot	- networking analysis tool using eBPF - LinuxLinks
[07:19]	TR News	Bongo Cat Wayland Overlay animated bongo cat reacting to your keyboard input https://www.linuxlinks.com/bongo-cat-wayland-overlay-animated-bongo-cat/
[07:19]	TR Bot	Cat Wayland Overlay - animated bongo cat reacting to your keyboard input - LinuxLinks
[07:20]	TR News	 (NEW):  I finally fixed my Xfce workflow with these simple settings and apps https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/I_finally_fixed_my_Xfce_workflow_with_these_simple_settings_and.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/I_finally_fixed_my_Xfce_workflow_with_these_simple_settings_and.gmi 
[07:20]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines I finally fixed my Xfce workflow with these simple settings and apps
[07:20]	TR News	Regal linter, debugger and language server for Rego https://www.linuxlinks.com/regal-linter-debugger-language-server-rego/
[07:20]	TR Bot	- linter, debugger and language server for Rego - LinuxLinks
[07:21]	TR News	why2 easy to use encryption system https://www.linuxlinks.com/why2-encryption-system/
[07:21]	TR Bot	- easy to use encryption system - LinuxLinks
[07:21]	TR News	detekt static code analysis for Kotlin https://www.linuxlinks.com/detekt-static-code-analysis-kotlin/
[07:21]	TR Bot	- static code analysis for Kotlin - LinuxLinks
[07:21]	TR News	ufo universal file opener https://www.linuxlinks.com/ufo-universal-file-opener/
[07:21]	TR Bot	- universal file opener - LinuxLinks
[07:22]	TR News	11 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux Data Mining Software https://www.linuxlinks.com/datamining/
[07:22]	TR Bot	Best Free and Open Source Linux Data Mining Software - LinuxLinks
[07:22]	TR News	fht-compositor dynamic tiling Wayland compositor https://www.linuxlinks.com/fht-compositor-dynamic-tiling-wayland-compositor/
[07:22]	TR Bot	- dynamic tiling Wayland compositor - LinuxLinks
[07:22]	TR News	syca minimal sudo-like privilege elevation tool https://www.linuxlinks.com/syca-minimal-sudo-like-privilege-elevation-tool/
[07:22]	TR Bot	- minimal sudo-like privilege elevation tool - LinuxLinks
[07:23]	TR News	8 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux Point-of-Sale Software https://www.linuxlinks.com/pointofsale/
[07:23]	TR Bot	Best Free and Open Source Linux Point-of-Sale Software - LinuxLinks
[07:23]	TR News	8 Essential Free and Open Source Python Maths Tools https://www.linuxlinks.com/essential-free-python-maths-tools/
[07:23]	TR Bot	Essential Free and Open Source Python Maths Tools - LinuxLinks
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[07:24]	TR News	letmein authenticated port/firewall knocking https://www.linuxlinks.com/letmein-authenticated-port-firewall-knocking/
[07:24]	TR Bot	- authenticated port/firewall knocking - LinuxLinks
[07:25]	TR News	New Record for GNU/Linux in Australia (at Microsoft's Expense) https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/27/New_Record_for_GNU_Linux_in_Australia_at_Microsoft_s_Expense.shtml
[07:25]	TR Bot	 Techrights New Record for GNU/Linux in Australia (at Microsoft's Expense)
[07:25]	TR News	Linus Torvalds Blasts Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) for Attempting to 'Protect' GNU/Linux https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/27/Linus_Torvalds_Blasts_Software_Freedom_Conservancy_SFC_for_Atte.shtml
[07:25]	TR Bot	 Techrights Linus Torvalds Blasts Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) for Attempting to 'Protect' Linux
[07:25]	TR News	9 Best Free and Open Source Compositing Window Managers https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-compositing-window-managers/
[07:25]	TR Bot	Best Free and Open Source Compositing Window Managers - LinuxLinks
[07:25]	TR News	Slop About "Linux" Came Only From One Slopfarm This Weekend https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/28/Slop_About_Linux_Came_Only_From_One_Slopfarm_This_Weekend.shtml
[07:25]	TR Bot	 Techrights Slop About "Linux" Came Only From One Slopfarm This Weekend
[07:26]	TR News	ripunzip unzip an archive in parallel https://www.linuxlinks.com/ripunzip-unzip-archive-parallel/
[07:26]	TR Bot	- unzip an archive in parallel - LinuxLinks
[07:26]	TR News	D7VK 1.1 Released
[07:30]	TR News	CrunchBang GNU/Linux Lives on With GreenBang https://thenewstack.io/crunchbang-linux-lives-on-with-greenbang/
[07:30]	TR Bot	 CrunchBang Linux Lives on With GreenBang - The New Stack
[07:31]	TR News	A Socket 7 Upgrade: Moving Beyond the 486 https://linuxjedi.co.uk/a-socket-7-upgrade-moving-beyond-the-486/
[07:31]	TR Bot	 A Socket 7 Upgrade: Moving Beyond the 486 - LinuxJedis /dev/null
[07:35]	TR News	Ultimate 2025.12.28 is released https://distrowatch.com/ultimate
[07:35]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/ultimate )
[07:35]	TR News	SliTaz 20251228 is released as well https://distrowatch.com/slitaz
[07:35]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/slitaz )
[07:35]	TR News	Drauger 7.8-beta1 is ready https://distrowatch.com/drauger
[07:35]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/drauger )
[07:35]	TR News	9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: December 28th, 2025 https://9to5linux.com/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-december-28th-2025
[07:35]	TR Bot	Weekly Roundup: December 28th, 2025 - 9to5Linux
[07:36]	TR News	Graphical Shutdown App KShutdown 6.2 added Beep Sound & D-Bus Help https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/12/kshutdown-6-2-beep-sound/
[07:36]	TR Bot	 Graphical Shutdown App KShutdown 6.2 added Beep Sound & D-Bus Help | UbuntuHandbook
[07:39]	TR News	Highlights from 2025 https://pointieststick.com/2025/12/28/highlights-from-2025/
[07:39]	TR Bot	 Highlights from 2025 Adventures in Linux and KDE
[07:44]	TR News	Inkscape 1.4.3 Released with 100+ Bug-Fixes & Improved PDF Import https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/12/inkscape-1-4-3-100-bug-fixes-improved-pdf/
[07:44]	TR Bot	 Inkscape 1.4.3 Released with 100+ Bug-Fixes & Improved PDF Import | UbuntuHandbook
[07:45]	TR News	Google rediscovers RSS feeds but its not the return of Surveillance Giant Google Reader https://hackwarenews.com/google-rediscovers-rss-feeds-but-its-not-the-return-of-google-reader/
[07:45]	TR Bot	 Google rediscovers RSS feeds... but it's not the return of Google Reader
[07:46]	TR News	Google planning update that will allow users to change their embarrassing old email addresses https://siliconangle.com/2025/12/28/google-planning-update-will-allow-users-change-embarrassing-old-email-addresses/
[07:46]	TR Bot	planning update that will allow users to change their embarrassing old email addresses - SiliconANGLE
[07:46]	TR News	Gmail to Let Users Change Their Addresses While Keeping Data https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/technology/gmail-change-address-email.html
[07:46]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/technology/gmail-change-address-email.html )
[07:46]	TR News	Google Confidently Wrong, Nowadays Defaming People Too https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/28/Google_Confidently_Wrong_Nowadays_Defaming_People_Too.shtml
[07:46]	TR Bot	 Techrights Google Confidently Wrong, Nowadays Defaming People Too
[07:47]	TR News	Three of the best: Geoff Huston https://blog.apnic.net/2025/12/29/three-of-the-best-geoff-huston-8/
[07:47]	TR Bot	 Three of the best: Geoff Huston | APNIC Blog
[07:47]	TR News	Extremely rare East German game console from the late 1970s tested only such device produced by communist GDR, bought for $1,000 at auction https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/extremely-rare-east-german-games-console-from-the-late-70s-tested-this-was-the-only-such-device-produced-by-the-communist-gdr
[07:47]	TR Bot	 Extremely rare East German game console from the late 1970s tested only such device produced by communist GDR, bought for $1,000 at auction | Tom's Hardware
[07:50]	TR News	110-pound cast-iron Victorian radiator modded into a gaming PC massive radiator used for cooling the bottom-mounted PC components https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/liquid-cooling/110-pound-cast-iron-victorian-radiator-upcycled-into-a-gaming-pc-its-a-truly-rad-design
[07:50]	TR Bot	 110-pound cast-iron Victorian radiator modded into a gaming PC massive radiator used for cooling the bottom-mounted PC components | Tom's Hardware
[07:52]	TR News	This Bizarre Parasitic 'Mushroom' Plant Quit Photosynthesis And It's Thriving https://www.sciencealert.com/this-bizarre-parasitic-mushroom-plant-quit-photosynthesis-and-its-thriving
[07:52]	TR Bot	Bizarre Parasitic 'Mushroom' Plant Quit Photosynthesis And It's Thriving : ScienceAlert
[07:52]	TR News	Photographing Cosmic Rays With A Consumer Camera https://hackaday.com/2025/12/28/photographing-cosmic-rays-with-a-consumer-camera/ | Source: Hackaday
[07:52]	TR Bot	Cosmic Rays With A Consumer Camera | Hackaday
[07:57]	TR News	Balasankar 'Balu' C: Granting Namespace-Specific Access in GKE Clusters https://balasankarc.in/tech/kubernetes-namespace-exec-access-for-external-users.html
[07:57]	TR Bot	 Granting Namespace-Specific Access in GKE Clusters
[07:58]	TR News	Year-end donations round, 2025 edition https://rg3.name/202512282037.html
[07:58]	TR Bot	 Geek Blight - Year-end donations round, 2025 edition
[07:59]	TR News	Rainbow Six Siege is under siege by hackers, Ubisoft forced to take all servers offline players randomly received billions of credits, ultra-exclusive skins, and bans or unbans https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/rainbow-six-siege-is-under-siege-by-hackers-ubisoft-forced-to-take-all-servers-offline-players-randomly-received-billions-of-credits-ultra-exclusive-skins-and-bans-or-unbans
[07:59]	TR Bot	 Rainbow Six Siege is under siege by hackers, Ubisoft forced to take all servers offline players randomly received billions of credits, ultra-exclusive skins, and bans or unbans | Tom's Hardware
● Dec 29
[08:05]	TR News	Amiga A500 Mini user builds working scale-sized Commodore 1084 monitor with 3D printed components 3D printer project details shared for all https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/amiga-a500-mini-user-builds-scale-sized-commodore-1084-monitor-to-rebalance-the-retro-universe-shares-their-3d-printer-project-details
[08:05]	TR Bot	 Amiga A500 Mini user builds working scale-sized Commodore 1084 monitor with 3D printed components 3D printer project details shared for all | Tom's Hardware
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[08:07]	TR News	Lazy Reading for 2025/12/28 https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2025/12/28/lazy-reading-for-2025-12-28/
[08:07]	TR Bot	 Lazy Reading for 2025/12/28 DragonFly BSD Digest
[08:07]	TR News	Plausibly Postulated Prophecies | LINUX Unplugged 647 https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/linux-unplugged/647/
[08:07]	TR Bot	 Plausibly Postulated Prophecies | LINUX Unplugged 647 | Jupiter Broadcasting
[08:08]	TR News	Going Linux #474 Bluetooth Devices https://goinglinux.com/episode-474-bluetooth-devices/index.html
[08:08]	TR Bot	 Episode 474 Bluetooth Devices Going Linux
[08:08]	TR News	Retro https://hackaday.com/2025/12/28/retro-semiconductors-the-silicon-controlled-rectifier/ | Source: Hackaday
[08:08]	TR Bot	Semiconductors: The Silicon Controlled Rectifier | Hackaday
[08:09]	TR News	Holiday Hacking 2025 https://blog.broulik.de/2025/12/holiday-hacking-2025/
[08:09]	TR Bot	 Holiday Hacking 2025 Kai Uwe's Blog
[08:09]	TR News	8 years of This Week in Plasma https://blogs.kde.org/2025/12/28/8-years-of-this-week-in-plasma/
[08:09]	TR Bot	 8 years of This Week in Plasma - KDE Blogs
[08:12]	TR News	Co-Creator of Go Language is Rightly Furious Over This Appreciation Email https://itsfoss.com/news/rob-pike-furious/
[08:12]	TR Bot	 F*** You! Co-Creator of Go Language is Rightly Furious Over This Appreciation Email
[08:13]	TR News	Nexperia China seeks new wafer suppliers amid legal standoff with Dutch parent, could take 6 months for qualification chip shortages have suspended some automotive production lines as Nexperia faces wafer shortage https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/nexperia-china-seeks-new-wafer-suppliers-amid-legal-standoff-with-dutch-parent
[08:13]	TR Bot	 Nexperia China seeks new wafer suppliers amid legal standoff with Dutch parent, could take 6 months for qualification chip shortages have suspended some automotive production lines as Nexperia faces wafer shortage | Tom's Hardware
[08:13]	TR News	Vape valley: Double standards in Chinas powering of worlds e-cigarette boom https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/vape-valley-double-standards-in-chinas-powering-of-worlds-e-cigarette-boom
[08:13]	TR Bot	 Vape valley: Double standards in Chinas powering of worlds e-cigarette boom | The Straits Times
[08:47]	TR News	Install WordPress in a Raspberry Pi: a Self-Hosted Blog Solution https://peppe8o.com/wordpress-raspberry-pi/
[08:47]	TR Bot	 Install WordPress in a Raspberry Pi: a Self-Hosted Blog Solution
[08:47]	TR News	"Before the Raspberry Pi came out, one cheap and easy way to get GPIO on a computer with a real operating system was to manipulate the pins on an old parallel port, then most commonly used for printers." https://hackaday.com/2025/12/28/raspberry-pi-gets-desktop-form-factor/ | Source: Hackaday
[08:47]	TR Bot	Pi Gets Desktop Form Factor | Hackaday
[08:47]	TR News	Top 10 Most Read Pieces from 2025 https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2025/12/top-10-most-read-pieces-from-2025
[08:47]	TR Bot	 Top 10 Most Read Pieces from 2025 The Public Domain Review
● Dec 29
[09:00]	TR News	Can You Reboot a Lamp Like a Superhero Franchise? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/business/midcentury-design-furniture-lamps.html
[09:00]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/business/midcentury-design-furniture-lamps.html )
[09:02]	TR News	Hidden gem in the Straits of Johor: Seahorses found in Malaysias largest seagrass meadow https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/hidden-gem-of-straits-of-johor-seahorses-found-in-the-largest-seagrass-meadow-in-malaysia
[09:02]	TR Bot	 Hidden gem in the Straits of Johor: Seahorses found in Malaysias largest seagrass meadow | The Straits Times
[09:06]	TR News	Cloudflare https://hackaday.com/2025/12/28/cloudflares-outages-and-why-cool-kids-test-on-prod/ | Source: Hackaday
[09:06]	TR Bot	Outages And Why Cool Kids Test On Prod | Hackaday
[09:07]	TR News	Cheetah MX4 Mini: A Pint-Sized 3D Printer Controller https://hackaday.com/2025/12/28/cheetah-mx4-mini-a-pint-sized-3d-printer-controller/ | Source: Hackaday
[09:07]	TR Bot	MX4 Mini: A Pint-Sized 3D Printer Controller | Hackaday
[09:09]	TR News	 (NEW):  Audiocasts/Shows: 2 New Episodes From LINUX Unplugged and Going Linux https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/Audiocasts_Shows_2_New_Episodes_From_LINUX_Unplugged_and_Going_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/Audiocasts_Shows_2_New_Episodes_From_LINUX_Unplugged_and_Going_.gmi 
[09:09]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Audiocasts/Shows: 2 New Episodes From LINUX Unplugged and Going Linux
[09:11]	TR News	 (NEW):  KDE Funding, Development, and Hacking https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/KDE_Funding_Development_and_Hacking.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/KDE_Funding_Development_and_Hacking.gmi 
[09:11]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines KDE Funding, Development, and Hacking
[09:12]	TR News	 (NEW):  Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/Open_Hardware_Modding_Raspberry_Pi_Arduino_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/Open_Hardware_Modding_Raspberry_Pi_Arduino_and_More.gmi 
[09:12]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and More
[09:14]	TR News	 (NEW):  Articles on FSF / Software Freedom From/About RMS and J. Self https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/Articles_on_FSF_Software_Freedom_From_About_RMS_and_J_Self.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/Articles_on_FSF_Software_Freedom_From_About_RMS_and_J_Self.gmi 
[09:14]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Articles on FSF / Software Freedom From/About RMS and J. Self
[09:17]	TR News	 (NEW):   Programming Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/Programming_Leftovers.gmi 
[09:17]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Programming Leftovers
[09:19]	TR News	 (NEW):  Web, Static Site Generators, and BSDCan 2026 Call For Papers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/Web_Static_Site_Generators_and_BSDCan_2026_Call_For_Papers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/Web_Static_Site_Generators_and_BSDCan_2026_Call_For_Papers.gmi 
[09:19]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Web, Static Site Generators, and BSDCan 2026 Call For Papers
[09:21]	TR News	 (NEW):  Today's Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/today_s_leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/today_s_leftovers.gmi 
[09:21]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines today's leftovers
[09:24]	TR News	Techrights Links 29/12/2025: Putin Critic Sergei Udaltsov Imprisoned, Cloudflares Outages Discussed https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/Links_29_12_2025_Putin_Critic_Sergei_Udaltsov_Imprisoned_Cloudf.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/Links_29_12_2025_Putin_Critic_Sergei_Udaltsov_Imprisoned_Cloudf.gmi 
[09:24]	TR Bot	 Techrights Links 29/12/2025: Putin Critic Sergei Udaltsov Imprisoned, Cloudflares Outages Discussed
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[13:54]	TR News	"A clean Linux install doesnt come with many pre-configured apps, and that can leave new users wondering where to startunsure of what they actually need for a smooth, functional system. To remove that guesswork, here are five essential Linux apps you should install on day one." https://www.howtogeek.com/install-these-5-must-have-apps-on-day-one/
[13:54]	TR Bot	 New to Linux? 5 must-have apps to install on day one
[13:55]	TR News	"GreenBang harkens back to the "good ol'" days of Linux, when the command line was necessary, and window managers were all the rage." https://thenewstack.io/crunchbang-linux-lives-on-with-greenbang/
[13:55]	TR Bot	 CrunchBang Linux Lives on With GreenBang - The New Stack
[13:55]	TR News	"Are you new to Linux and resisting the terminal? Or perhaps you're a longtime passionate user like me? Regardless, learning the Linux terminal opens up an entirely different world on Linux, and I will explain why." https://www.howtogeek.com/reasons-learning-the-linux-terminal-is-worth-it-even-for-beginners/
[13:55]	TR Bot	 Why you should learn the Linux terminal
[13:56]	TR News	"Linux Mint is famous for offering a familiar Windows-like desktop experience, but did you know its also one of the most customizable distroswith built-in tools to tweak its look and feel?" https://www.howtogeek.com/i-made-linux-mint-look-like-macos-with-these-tweaks/
[13:56]	TR Bot	 How to customize Linux Mint to look like macOS
[13:57]	TR News	"Do you want to try Linux but dont want to relearn a new interface? Worried that an unfamiliar desktop might slow down your workflow? Youre not aloneand these five Windows-like desktop environments (DEs) are designed to help you feel right at home." https://www.howtogeek.com/best-windows-like-linux-desktops-for-a-familiar-look-and-feel/
[13:57]	TR Bot	 5 best Windows-like Linux desktop environments for a familiar look and feel
[13:58]	TR News	Pushing Rust/MS GitHub https://www.howtogeek.com/terminal-text-editors-that-are-better-than-nano/
[13:58]	TR Bot	 4 Linux terminal text editors I use instead of nano
[13:58]	TR News	"Lately, several of these setups are running Hyprland, the dynamic tiling Wayland Compositor that has taken the Linux world by storm." https://itsfoss.com/best-hyprland-dotfiles/
[13:58]	TR Bot	 10 Hyprland Dotfiles to Transform Your Linux Desktop Bautifully
[13:59]	TR News	"A new version of Turntable, the universal music scrobbling tool and now playing desktop widget for Linux is out with a couple of cool new features." https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/12/turntable-linux-desktop-media-controls
[13:59]	TR Bot	 Turntable 5.0 Adds Collapsible Player Controls & Year-End Recap - OMG! Ubuntu
[13:59]	TR News	That's a crossover we never saw coming - Facebook borrows the Linux scheduler from the Steam Deck to help run its data centers https://www.techradar.com/pro/thats-a-crossover-we-never-saw-coming-facebook-borrows-the-linux-scheduler-from-the-steam-deck-to-help-run-its-data-centers
[13:59]	TR Bot	quietly moves a Steam Deck Linux scheduler into real data centers and risks reshaping server performance assumptions | TechRadar
● Dec 29
[14:00]	TR News	"Are you working in the Xfce desktop environment, or thinking of switching to an Xfce-powered Linux distribution like Linux Mint? I've spent the past several weeks using Xfce on my main desktop, and I ended up making a few changes you might want to consider too." https://www.howtogeek.com/i-finally-fixed-my-xfce-workflow-with-these-simple-settings-and-apps/
[14:00]	TR Bot	 I finally fixed my Xfce workflow with these simple settings and apps
[14:15]	TR News	Schleswig-Holstein will save 15 million in 2026 by dropping Microsoft software in favor of free Linux by Allan Tpper - ProVideo Coalition https://www.provideocoalition.com/schleswig-holstein-will-save-e15-million-in-2026-by-dropping-microsoft-software-in-favor-of-free-linux/ Source: provideocoalition
[14:15]	TR Bot	 Schleswig-Holstein will save 15 million in 2026 by dropping Microsoft software in favor of free Linux by Allan Tpper - ProVideo Coalition
[14:16]	TR News	"Look at almost any mission-critical computer system in the worldservers, workstations, embedded computers, and many moreand you'll see Linux in some form" https://www.howtogeek.com/what-exactly-makes-linux-so-bulletproof/
[14:16]	TR Bot	 What exactly makes Linux so bulletproof?
[14:24]	TR News	"As we step into 2026, I want to thank every one of you for being part of this small but meaningful corner of the internet. Whether you've been following my tinkering, experiments, tech adventures, or the occasional off-beat project, I'm grateful you're here." gemini://sava.rocks/blog/happy-new-year-2026/
[14:25]	TR News	SpellBinding EGUIOTH Wordo: WINKS gemini://spell.ddns.net/games/gemlog/2025-12-29.gmi
[14:26]	TR News	"So I quickly concluded that the right way to play Magic is that everyone builds their own deck like constructing a clever lil machine and then wed face them off." gemini://idiomdrottning.org/same-deck-magic
[14:26]	TR News	"It's no secret that, although my interest waxes and wanes over time, I love programming. It's a hobby that's kept me happily occupied since I started roughly 3.5 decades ago. I also enjoy other creative outlets. For example, I like writing - and do it professionally to some extent." gemini://thelambdalab.xyz/phlog/2025-12-29-Rebel.txt
[14:28]	TR News	"I was walking in the cold, carrying the backpack with our external backup drives, talking with my wife -- about backups, our websites, and how I didn't know how to keep things up after I died, that it would all crumble as soon as bills weren't paid, and that I didn't have any friends who had both the system administration skills and the interest in keeping my weird software collection up and running."
[14:28]	TR News	"One year ago I wondered about creating an association for people who wanted their digital legacy to endure. In return for this posthumous service, they would help keep the digital legacy of others alive. A bit like the Internet Archive, but independent." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2025-12-29-dead-archivists
[14:34]	TR News	Techrights Gemini Links 29/12/2025: Earlier "Happy New Year 2026" and &quot;Dead Archivist Society&quot; https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/Gemini_Links_29_12_2025_Earlier_Happy_New_Year_2026_and_Dead_Ar.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/Gemini_Links_29_12_2025_Earlier_Happy_New_Year_2026_and_Dead_Ar.gmi 
[14:34]	TR Bot	 Techrights Gemini Links 29/12/2025: Earlier "Happy New Year 2026" and "Dead Archivist Society"
[14:58]	TR News	 (NEW):  Hardware: LoongArch, GNU/Linux Devices, and ESP https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/23/Hardware_LoongArch_GNU_Linux_Devices_and_ESP.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/23/Hardware_LoongArch_GNU_Linux_Devices_and_ESP.gmi 
[14:58]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Hardware: LoongArch, GNU/Linux Devices, and ESP
● Dec 29
[15:00]	TR News	"IBM SHOULD NOT BE USING US RESOURCES THEN - we are literally getting sc--wed by our own tax dollars" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kdm0qny7
[15:00]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kdm0qny7 )
[15:01]	TR News	 (NEW):  Free and Open Source Software https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.1.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.1.gmi 
[15:01]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Free and Open Source Software
[15:02]	TR News	"IMO, unless someone posts a threat, or confidential information, or something else illegal, threads and posts should not get deleted on a board such as this. It really makes you wonder who runs this board and why IBM seems to have a direct line to them to get anything unflattering deleted immediately." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kdkpvc96
[15:02]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kdkpvc96 )
[15:04]	TR News	"Lou Gerstner last year package was $238000000 at a rate of $50000/hour. It was an act of thievery." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kdkpvc96
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[15:21]	TR News	 (NEW):   : Google Android Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/Android_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/Android_Leftovers.gmi 
[15:21]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Android Leftovers
[15:23]	TR News	 (NEW):  The 5 best macOS-like Linux desktop environments for a polished, modern look https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/The_5_best_macOS_like_Linux_desktop_environments_for_a_polished.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/The_5_best_macOS_like_Linux_desktop_environments_for_a_polished.gmi 
[15:23]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines The 5 best macOS-like Linux desktop environments for a polished, modern look
[15:28]	TR News	Techrights IBM Layoffs in India, More Coming Soon, Say Apparent Insiders https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/IBM_Layoffs_in_India_More_Coming_Soon_Say_Apparent_Insiders.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/IBM_Layoffs_in_India_More_Coming_Soon_Say_Apparent_Insiders.gmi 
[15:28]	TR Bot	 Techrights IBM Layoffs in India, More Coming Soon, Say Apparent Insiders
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[15:37]	schestowitz[TR2]	"Trolling correlates positively with sadism,[17][18][19][20] trait psychopathy,[17][18][19][20] and Machiavellianism[67] (see dark triad). Trolls take pleasure from causing pain and emotional suffering.[17][19][20] Their ability to upset or harm gives them a feeling of power." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolling#Psychological_characteristics
[15:37]	TR Bot	 Trolling - Wikipedia
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[15:49]	TR News	Techrights "EU's reform agenda threatens to erase a decade of digital rights" https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/EU_s_reform_agenda_threatens_to_erase_a_decade_of_digital_right.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/EU_s_reform_agenda_threatens_to_erase_a_decade_of_digital_right.gmi 
[15:49]	TR Bot	 Techrights "EU's reform agenda threatens to erase a decade of digital rights"
[15:52]	MinceR	https://pleated-jeans.com/2025/09/03/relatable-work-memes-only-people-whove-worked-in-an-office-will-get/
[15:52]	TR Bot	 35 Relatable Work Memes Only People Whove Worked In An Office Will Get
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[16:42]	TR News	canceled by Microsoft https://www.pcgamesn.com/doom/romero-games-canceled-hellslayer
[16:42]	TR Bot	 Romero Games' canceled Xbox title was reportedly Hotline Miami with priests
[16:43]	TR News	Headline today: "Xbox heads into 2026 on a wave of uncertainty" - see http://techrights.org/n/2025/12/25/Microsoft_XBox_is_Going_Online_Cloud.shtml
[16:43]	TR Bot	 Techrights Microsoft: XBox is Going "Online", "Cloud"...
[16:53]	TR News	 (NEW):  In Bosnia And Herzegovina, GNU/Linux Rose From 2% to Over 5% in a Few Years https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/In_Bosnia_And_Herzegovina_GNU_Linux_Rose_From_2_to_Over_5_in_a_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/In_Bosnia_And_Herzegovina_GNU_Linux_Rose_From_2_to_Over_5_in_a_.gmi 
[16:53]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines In Bosnia And Herzegovina, GNU/Linux Rose From 2% to Over 5% in a Few Years
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[16:59]	TR News	Revisionism: "Why so many negative comments?? He saved IBM. If it was not for him IBM Would have been extinct. His vision and turning the company around was a great success. Akers wanted to split IBM into different companies. Mr Gerstner is responsible for bringing it back to profitability. Heaven gained a true warrior in Mr Gerstner" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kdkpvc96
[16:59]	TR News	"I think it is because he ruthlessly fired thousands of people and cut their pensions etc. To save IBM he attacked and ended the careers of people who made IBM what it once was." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kdkpvc96
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[17:00]	TR News	"hope he rots in he-l for eternity for all the evil things he did to regular IBMers doing their jobs. Same thing should happen to Palmisano, Rometty, Alvind and the Pipmunks. You cannot escape the evil that you do to others."
[17:00]	TR News	"Wow that is harsh. Think of Lous family during this difficult time for them. Arvind, Ginny and the other executives should not get this anger towards them"
[17:01]	TR News	"Alvind the Indian wishes to replace all IBM US employees with Indians." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kdm0qny7
[17:02]	TR News	"AI is not a people-replacer, it is a talent-augmenter. Companies that are cutting staff to replace with AI are getting short-term SG&A benefits, but shooting themselves in the foot long term. Rather they should be focusing on training the team members they have to increase skills in the higher level tasks that AI frees them up for by taking on lower level repetitive tasks."
[17:03]	TR News	"Alvind needs to justify his 100 million payout this year so of course there will be cuts"
[17:03]	TR News	"In a recent interview, Alvind the Indian complained that fewer people leave IBM US leave voluntarily to make place for Indians hires. Alvind will most likely target more older US employees to make place for younger Indians. He should leave ...." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kdmwe55y
[17:03]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kdmwe55y )
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[17:16]	TR News	Techrights The Year Apple Would Rather Forget https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/The_Year_Apple_Would_Rather_Forget.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/The_Year_Apple_Would_Rather_Forget.gmi 
[17:16]	TR Bot	 Techrights The Year Apple Would Rather Forget
[17:19]	TR News	Windows all-time low https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/liberia/#monthly-200902-202511
[17:19]	TR Bot	 Desktop Operating System Market Share Liberia | Statcounter Global Stats
[17:21]	TR News	Who needs Proxmox templates? I built my own base image instead https://www.xda-developers.com/who-needs-proxmox-templates-built-my-own-base-image-instead/
[17:21]	TR Bot	 Who needs Proxmox templates? I built my own base image instead
[17:21]	TR News	I automated my Proxmox home lab with Terraform https://www.xda-developers.com/i-automated-my-proxmox-home-lab-with-terraform/
[17:21]	TR Bot	 I automated my Proxmox home lab with Terraform
[17:22]	TR News	After decades of using Windows, Linux's KDE Plasma is spoiling me rotten https://www.xda-developers.com/after-decades-of-windows-linux-kde-spoiling-me-rotten/
[17:22]	TR Bot	 After decades of using Windows, Linux's KDE Plasma is spoiling me rotten
[17:23]	TR News	"Turn that dusty old laptop into a quiet, capable home server that can handle media, backups, and self-hosted apps with ease." https://www.xda-developers.com/old-laptops-make-better-home-servers-most-people-realize/
[17:23]	TR Bot	 Old laptops make better home servers than most people realize
[17:25]	TR News	Running Proxmox VMs with GPU passthrough is much easier than it used to be https://www.xda-developers.com/running-proxmox-vms-with-gpu-passthrough-is-much-easier/
[17:25]	TR Bot	 Running Proxmox VMs with GPU passthrough is much easier than it used to be
[17:25]	TR News	The Arch Linux website is down for everyone not on IPv6 after a DDoS attack https://www.xda-developers.com/arch-linux-website-down-not-on-ipv6-ddos-attack/
[17:25]	TR Bot	 The Arch Linux website is down for everyone not on IPv6 after a DDoS attack
[17:27]	TR News	 (NEW):  Arch Linux Website Hit by DDoS and Temporarily Limited to IPv6 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/26/Arch_Linux_Website_Hit_by_DDoS_and_Temporarily_Limited_to_IPv6.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/26/Arch_Linux_Website_Hit_by_DDoS_and_Temporarily_Limited_to_IPv6.gmi 
[17:27]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Arch Linux Website Hit by DDoS and Temporarily Limited to IPv6
[17:28]	TR News	 (NEW):  Valnet's HowTos for Proxmox https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/Valnet_s_HowTos_for_Proxmox.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/Valnet_s_HowTos_for_Proxmox.gmi 
[17:28]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Valnet's HowTos for Proxmox
[17:44]	TR News	Techrights Dealing With Online Pogroms https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/Dealing_With_Online_Pogroms.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/Dealing_With_Online_Pogroms.gmi 
[17:44]	TR Bot	 Techrights Dealing With Online Pogroms
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[17:52]	Isambard_Prince	schestowitz[TR2], Yeah, I thought that killing HexChat was a bizarre decision for the Linux kernel.
[17:52]	Isambard_Prince	Something's wrong when you have a million browser tabs open and a few have taken all the memory, and Linux decides to kill a chat program that's using 11 megabytes.
[17:54]	Isambard_Prince	It did remind me to set browser.tabs.unloadonlowmemory to True.
[17:54]	Isambard_Prince	It's been True on WINDOWS since Firefox 93.
[17:54]	Isambard_Prince	But still off by default on Linux, so it'll run you out of memory and cause Linux to panic even though the feature does work.
[17:54]	Isambard_Prince	:P
[17:54]	Isambard_Prince	It's like they're TRYING to get us to use another browser, isn't it?
[17:55]	schestowitz[TR2]	seems like systmd
[17:55]	schestowitz[TR2]	with its oom
[17:55]	Isambard_Prince	There's a possibility that you might lose unsaved forms in a tab. Brave has a better memory saver than Firefox browsers.
[17:55]	Isambard_Prince	In Brave, you can say "Never do it on these sites, but the rest are fair game."
[17:56]	Isambard_Prince	That way if you get tab unloads it won't be your important sites. It'll go after YouTube or something.
[17:57]	Isambard_Prince	I feel like if browsers are going to consume wads of memory, they need to unload unused tabs, but they need to let you whitelist, or have some sort of heuristics like "Okay, we go after known pigs first like YouTube. There's an unsaved form over here so we only do that one if the computer is about to crash."
[17:58]	Isambard_Prince	Crashing a Youtube tab to save the system is unlikely to cause harm.
[17:58]	Isambard_Prince	You just reload the tab if you want to watch the video later.
[17:58]	Isambard_Prince	The browser should have a list of sites to never unload.
[17:59]	Isambard_Prince	Like, they know people are probably using online office software for a reason. Then it should check for unsaved forms, those are off limits unless things get really bad.
[17:59]	Isambard_Prince	Then there should be "Okay, what's actually causing the problem, and we go from worst to best."
[17:59]	Isambard_Prince	The goal should be the least annoyance for the user and the worst offender for RAM use.
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[18:00]	Isambard_Prince	You put them together and kill that way.
[18:00]	Isambard_Prince	That's supposedly what the OOM tries to do.
[18:00]	Isambard_Prince	HexChat is not a good target because it doesn't really free up anything.
[18:02]	Isambard_Prince	You free up 11 MB? That's not even a large enough amount to store something else really.
[18:02]	Isambard_Prince	11 MB was a lot of memory, in 1992.
[18:03]	Isambard_Prince	By 1998 even my Windows 98 system had 128 MB of RAM, which was a lot by then. Especially since I gutted the OS and purged Internet Explorer and all and put in the Windows 95 B shell.
[18:03]	Isambard_Prince	I think the entire OS used like 10-11 MB of RAM on startup after that.
[18:03]	Isambard_Prince	It solved a lot of the instability problems.
[18:03]	Isambard_Prince	I installed all the remaining hotfixes that mattered. I could do months of uptime under Windows 98 like that.
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[18:04]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines When People Use What They Want (in the US) Only 1 in 10 People Uses Vista 11
[18:04]	Isambard_Prince	It was massively unstable out of the box, but the code that destabilized the OS was pretty much entirely from Internet Explorer.
[18:04]	Isambard_Prince	Bill Gates claimed under oath that removing Internet Explorer would make the OS less stable.
[18:04]	Isambard_Prince	With IE, you could expect to run out of resources or otherwise get a blue screen crash about every 3-7 days.
[18:05]	Isambard_Prince	Without IE, I mean, I think I was getting 10-11 months sometimes and not seeing any crashes.
[18:05]	Isambard_Prince	I couldn't get to a year because the time I was going for that, the power went out.
[18:05]	schestowitz[TR2]	<Isambard_Prince> Bill Gates claimed under oath that removing Internet Explorer would make the OS less stable.
[18:05]	Isambard_Prince	George Carlin said nothing happens in court when you lie, unless you get caught. And that's a whole different story.
[18:05]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/30/Signing_Off_Serious_Lies_With_a_Statement_of_Truth_is_No_Joking.shtml
[18:05]	TR Bot	 Techrights Signing Off Serious Lies With a Statement of Truth is No Joking Matter
[18:06]	Isambard_Prince	Well, when you're a billionaire they don't try to catch you.
[18:06]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2025/11/22/brett-wilson-llp-lied-to-me/\
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[18:06]	TR Bot	Blog Archive The Trial Helped Confirm Brett Wilson LLP Basically Lied to Me Many Times and Possibly Defamed Me With Pejoratives
[18:06]	Isambard_Prince	I could easily prove that Bill Gates was lying.
[18:06]	Isambard_Prince	They could have had a 14 year old kid from Indiana come in and prove that he was lying.
[18:06]	Isambard_Prince	They didn't care if he lied.
[18:06]	schestowitz[TR2]	<Isambard_Prince> George Carlin said nothing happens in court when you lie, unless you get caught. And that's a whole different story.
[18:07]	schestowitz[TR2]	what if
[18:07]	schestowitz[TR2]	a solicitor
[18:07]	schestowitz[TR2]	lies
[18:07]	schestowitz[TR2]	and one who has a licence
[18:07]	schestowitz[TR2]	and provides a witness statement
[18:07]	schestowitz[TR2]	and all the witness statements were always only from him
[18:07]	schestowitz[TR2]	nobody else would testify
[18:09]	Isambard_Prince	Pretty much. 
[18:09]	Isambard_Prince	You didn't need to be a college professor to rebut Bill Gates.
[18:09]	Isambard_Prince	There was a simple utility called RoM II or RoM II SE depending on the version of Windows 98 you had.
[18:09]	Isambard_Prince	You ran it, you gave it three files from the OEM service release of Windows 95.
[18:10]	Isambard_Prince	You reboot, and there's the computer with no remnants of IE, Outlook Express, any of that garbage.
[18:10]	Isambard_Prince	It was clean, like Windows 95 only with some bug fixes and better driver support and memory management.
[18:11]	Isambard_Prince	There's just not a large difference with Windows 95 and 98. Almost all of the differences were IE. If you only did the parts that actually were an improvement it would be a very small delta.
[18:11]	Isambard_Prince	It's not very user-facing other than that.
[18:12]	Isambard_Prince	You can use WDM drivers, it has USB support, the memory manager can run code out of the disk cache. Some minor bug fixes. It can run a newer version of DirectX runtimes. It comes with some media codecs you could have added to Windows 95.
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[18:13]	TR Bot	 Techrights Vista 11 is "10" (Ten Percent)
[18:13]	Isambard_Prince	Windows Me could also be stripped of "the crap" and set up like this.
[18:13]	Isambard_Prince	If you do that, it purges System Restore too, which never worked right.
[18:14]	Isambard_Prince	The improvements over Windows 98 were a better defrag tool, Notepad could handle more text in the buffer, better support for Unicode that could be added to Windows 98, and the TCP/IP stack from Windows 2000.
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[18:14]	Isambard_Prince	So there were improvements along the way but they were massively outweighed by adding things that just didn't work right.
[18:15]	Isambard_Prince	It's like when you buy a new car and there's 3 things that work better than the last model and 20 things that are horrible that the last one didn't have.
[18:15]	MinceR	> If you only did the parts that actually were an improvement it would be a very small delta.
[18:15]	Isambard_Prince	Overall, it's worse.
[18:15]	MinceR	yeah, they don't like to improve things
[18:15]	MinceR	it sounds like actual work
[18:15]	MinceR	changing the skin and selling it as a major feature, on the other hand, now that sounds fun to them
[18:16]	Isambard_Prince	MinceR, Windows Me had an interesting feature called System File Protection.
[18:16]	MinceR	committing code into competing products to fuck them up, even more so
[18:16]	MinceR	yeah, i remember that
[18:16]	Isambard_Prince	It would check for programs doing dll stomping or replacing other system files, and it would let it happen, then do a switcheroo to replace them with the known good copy.
[18:16]	MinceR	why implement filesystem access controls if you can instead implement a bloated hack that accomplishes nothing useful?
[18:16]	Isambard_Prince	It did protect the OS, but it also made software that ran on Windows 95 and 98 fail to work.
[18:17]	Isambard_Prince	Humorously, it did accidentally add some resilience to malware because some malware happened to replace system files and did not anticipate this.
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[18:34]	TR Bot	 Techrights Slopfarms About the "Linux CEO" Linus Torvaldos [sic]
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