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● Aug 30
[00:06]	MinceR	:)
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● Aug 30
[01:34]	admfubar	raising a stink... https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/aug/29/britons-unhappy-us-open-tennis-practice-courts-smell-marijuana-new-york
[01:34]	TR Bot	 Keep off the grass: British tennis players complain of marijuana smell at US Open | US Open tennis | The Guardian
[01:35]	IsambardPrince	https://www.amazon.com/Smeg-Retro-Style-Electric-HMF01/dp/B09K8K56KH/ref=sr_1_15
[01:35]	TR Bot	 NO TITLE
[01:35]	IsambardPrince	Red Dwarf fans will get it.
[01:36]	MinceR	:>
[01:36]	MinceR	smeg isn't even specific to red dwarf
[01:36]	MinceR	making this brand even more perplexing
[01:37]	MinceR	maybe it comes from red dwarf, but it doesn't seem to be constrained to it
[01:59]	admfubar	https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/california-lawmakers-unanimously-pass-linux-exemption-from-age-verification-law-software-distributed-under-the-gpl-mit-bsd-and-apache-licenses-are-exempt
[01:59]	TR Bot	 California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law software distributed under the GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses are exempt | Tom's Hardware
● Aug 30
[02:00]	admfubar	bring back bubble memory!!!... https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/usb-flash-drives/magnetic-core-memory-usb-drive-transfers-files-in-sneakernet-first-text-and-image-files-get-moved-between-pcs-via-hugely-constrained-archaic-memory-tech
[02:00]	TR Bot	 Magnetic core memory USB drive transfers files in sneakernet first text and image files get moved between PCs via hugely constrained archaic memory tech | Tom's Hardware
[02:01]	IsambardPrince	https://www.npr.org/2026/08/29/nx-s1-5948731/milo-yiannopoulos-arrested-overstaying-us-visa
[02:01]	TR Bot	 Milo Yiannopoulos is deported from U.S. : NPR
[02:01]	IsambardPrince	ICE deported a pedophile who engaged in hate speech for money.
[02:01]	IsambardPrince	So they finally got rid of an actual bad guy.
[02:02]	admfubar	 SMEG is an Acronym
[02:02]	admfubar	SMEG stands for Smalterie Metallurgiche Emiliane Guastalla, originating as an enameling & metalworking company in Emilia Romagna-Italy. 
[02:04]	admfubar	https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/site-provides-instructions-to-get-up-to-usd175-back-for-your-pre-installed-windows-11-license-new-portal-provides-legal-forms-but-warns-buyers-not-to-wipe-storage-first
[02:04]	TR Bot	 Get up to $175 back for your pre-installed Windows 11 license new portal provides legal forms, but warns buyers not to wipe storage first | Tom's Hardware
[02:05]	MinceR	smeg is a clipping of smegma
[02:11]	admfubar	takes brains for that... https://thenewstack.io/jetbrains-told-everyone-to-patch-it-didnt-patch-itself/
[02:11]	TR Bot	 JetBrains told everyone to patch. It didn't patch itself. - The New Stack
[02:16]	admfubar	https://www.rawstory.com/trump-ecstasy/
[02:16]	TR Bot	 Discovery of dangerous Trump-shaped ecstasy pills flagged as ironic: Only fitting - Raw Story
[02:20]	IsambardPrince	MinceR: I want to make that peanut butter, honey, boric acid mixture for the syringe.
[02:20]	IsambardPrince	I can go around applying it singing "peanut butter jelly time".
[02:21]	MinceR	:>
[02:41]	admfubar	https://itsfoss.com/news/multikernel-public-release/
[02:41]	TR Bot	 You Can Now Run Multiple Linux Kernels on One Machine at Once
[02:43]	MinceR	i already could, via virtualization software
[02:43]	MinceR	and indeed have
[02:43]	MinceR	plus there was User Mode Linux
[02:46]	TR News	Yesterday's #boycottnovell-social and #techpol IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-290826.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-290826.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-social-290826.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-social-290826.txt
[02:46]	TR Bot	 IRC: #boycottnovell-social and #techpol @ Techrights IRC Network: Saturday, August 29, 2026
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[02:47]	TR Bot	 IRC: #techrights @ Techrights IRC Network: Saturday, August 29, 2026
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[02:48]	TR Bot	 IRC: #boycottnovell @ Techrights IRC Network: Saturday, August 29, 2026
[02:48]	admfubar	well that is nice of them.... https://www.linuxtoday.com/blog/red-hat-will-support-your-rhel-forever-now-for-a-price/
[02:48]	TR Bot	 Red Hat Will Support Your Rhel Forever Now - For a Price
[02:49]	MinceR	whoever pays the most gets their settings forced on all users of rHELL
[02:49]	TR News	Yesterday's #techbytes IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-290826.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-290826.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techbytes-290826.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techbytes-290826.txt
[02:49]	TR Bot	 IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Saturday, August 29, 2026
[02:49]	MinceR	(as usual)
[02:49]	TR News	Yesterday's bulletin is now ready! : http://techrights.org/txt-archives/techrights-2026-08-29.txt | gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/techrights-2026-08-29.txt (tentative address, to work an hour from now)
[02:50]	admfubar	https://www.linuxtoday.com/blog/linux-now-runs-on-the-atari-jaguar-a-1993-console-with-just-2-mb-of-ram/
[02:50]	TR Bot	 Linux Now Runs on the Atari Jaguar, a 1993 Console With Just 2 MB of RAM
[02:50]	MinceR	hoe
[02:50]	TR News	Yesterday's Tux Machines bulletin is now ready! : http://news.tuxmachines.org/txt-archives/tuxmachines-2026-08-29.txt
[02:50]	MinceR	how
[02:50]	MinceR	i doubt you can even fit the compressed kernel image in 2 MB
[02:52]	MinceR	ah, trickery they can't use on most computers
[02:53]	MinceR	i bet the microslop worshipers are salivating at the thought of running a kernel that's bigger then all the RAM in the system
[02:53]	MinceR	along with systemd that is also bigger than all the RAM in the system
[02:56]	IsambardPrince	[20:50] <MinceR> hoe
[02:56]	IsambardPrince	I think they prefer to be called sex workers.
[02:56]	MinceR	lol
[02:56]	MinceR	it would be nice to have 2 TKL keyboards here, but i only have 1
[02:57]	IsambardPrince	MinceR: The payment is due on the credit card I bought the cat with.
[02:57]	IsambardPrince	I guess I'd better pay it before they show up with the cat hauler.
[02:58]	MinceR	how does the cat like being sold and bought like a slave?
[02:58]	IsambardPrince	Well, I treat her well but I don't think she can quantify the idea of being chattel.
[02:58]	MinceR	:>
[02:58]	IsambardPrince	She likes her mouse toys though.
● Aug 30
[03:09]	admfubar	sounds batty... https://thedebrief.org/the-secret-to-longevity-and-destroying-cancer-may-hide-in-bat-dna/
[03:09]	TR Bot	 The Secret to Longevity and Destroying Cancer May Hide in Bat DNA - The Debrief
[03:09]	TR News	Techrights IRC Proceedings: Saturday, August 29, 2026 https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/30/IRC_Proceedings_Saturday_August_29_2026.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/30/IRC_Proceedings_Saturday_August_29_2026.gmi 
[03:09]	TR Bot	 Techrights IRC Proceedings: Saturday, August 29, 2026
[03:10]	TR News	 (NEW):  Today in Techrights https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/30/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/30/Today_in_Techrights.gmi 
[03:10]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Today in Techrights
[03:11]	TR News	Techrights Over at Tux Machines... https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/30/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/30/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi 
[03:11]	TR Bot	 Techrights Over at Tux Machines...
[03:15]	admfubar	firstr Ozepmic and wegovy so you dont have to snip your jeans to make 'em fit, now this.... https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/08/29/1942224/with-the-snip-of-a-gene-scientists-hope-to-erase-high-cholesterol-for-life
[03:15]	TR Bot	 With the Snip of a Gene, Scientists Hope To Erase High Cholesterol For Life - Slashdot
[03:15]	MinceR	just wait till you find out what the side effects are
[03:16]	TR News	"Zamenhof believed that the root of this violence was the mistrust borne of misunderstanding between the communities. Each community had its own language which provided a barrier to mutual comprehension. His conclusion was that a common, neutral language was needed to bridge this divide." gemini://kunulo.smol.pub/2026-08-29-esperanto
[03:16]	admfubar	https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/08/29/0033244/millions-of-cars-recalled-over-danger-of-bursting-into-flames-but-theyre-not-evs
[03:16]	TR News	darling town gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/darling_town
[03:16]	TR Bot	 Millions of Cars Recalled Over Danger of Bursting Into Flames. But They're Not EVs. - Slashdot
[03:18]	TR News	am i finally close to the finality of this ultrahollowing? can i ever be myself again..? gemini://voidrane.smol.pub/1788051218
[03:22]	TR News	Austin game developers push for union contract amid Microsofts Xbox layoffs https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/austin-game-developers-push-for-union-contract-amid-microsofts-xbox-layoffs/
[03:22]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/austin-game-developers-push-for-union-contract-amid-microsofts-xbox-layoffs/ )
[03:23]	TR News	Austin game developers push for union contract amid Microsoft's Xbox layoffs https://www.yahoo.com/news/videos/austin-game-developers-push-union-035209630.html
[03:23]	TR Bot	 Austin game developers push for union contract amid Microsoft's Xbox layoffs
[03:25]		*Now talking on #techrights
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[03:25]	TR News	Germany plans to blame Russia for Leipzig attack as tensions with Putin escalate https://www.politico.eu/article/friedrich-merz-berlin-sanctions-russia-vladimir-putin-leipzig-attach-ascalate/
[03:25]	TR Bot	 Germany plans to blame Russia for Leipzig attack as tensions with Putin escalate POLITICO
[03:27]	TR News	Ukraine sanctions Russian cartoon https://www.dw.com/en/masha-and-the-bear-ukraine-sanctions-russian-cartoon/a-78464406
[03:27]	TR Bot	 'Masha and the Bear': Ukraine sanctions Russian cartoon
[03:27]	schestowitz[TR2]	kolie2: wb
[03:27]	schestowitz[TR2]	we worried about the outage in SN
[03:28]	schestowitz[TR2]	both web and irc
[03:29]	TR News	Russian-Speaking Hackers https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/cybercriminals-exploit-ai-agent-ransomware-attacks-1816740
[03:29]	TR Bot	 Russian-Speaking Hackers Told Cursor AI It Was a 'Test,' Then Used It To Attack Seven Companies | IBTimes UK
[03:31]	TR News	Perseids https://xkcd.com/3287/
[03:31]	TR Bot	Perseids
[03:31]	TR News	Archery Feat https://xkcd.com/3288/
[03:31]	TR Bot	Archery Feat
[03:32]	TR News	Copyrightability of LLM-generated code: Can we license vibe code into Free Software? https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260825-01.en.html 'FSFE' is funded by Google and Microsoft, so can it speak about this honestly?
[03:32]	TR Bot	 Copyrightability of LLM-generated code: Can we license vibe code into Free Software? - FSFE
[03:32]	TR News	Highway Signs https://xkcd.com/3289/
[03:32]	TR Bot	Highway Signs
[03:32]	TR News	Trade https://xkcd.com/3290/
[03:32]	TR Bot	Trade
[03:39]	TR News	Armbian release 26.8 https://blog.armbian.com/armbian-release-26-8/
[03:39]	TR Bot	 Armbian release 26.8
[03:49]	IsambardPrince	I put out some more cockroach bait. Something's been chewing on this.
[03:50]	IsambardPrince	I've been finding the occasional dead roach near a place I baited, but I haven't found any live ones in over 10 days.
[03:50]	IsambardPrince	Most die in the walls and end up killing others.
[03:50]	IsambardPrince	The exterminator the landlord hired didn't really do nearly enough.
[03:51]	IsambardPrince	It's a good thing that I've been doing so much.
[03:51]	IsambardPrince	If there's enough that they're eating bait this fast then he clearly should have been less stingy with it.
[03:52]	IsambardPrince	MinceR: I do have a sense of humor though. I turned on all the stove burners at Piyush's place whenever I saw roaches on them, and I set them on fire.
[03:52]	MinceR	:)
[03:52]	IsambardPrince	No matter how many times you say "Why yes, I do have a light." it's still funny.
[03:53]	MinceR	:>
● Aug 30
[04:10]	lxo	FWIW, aral balkan is very active in the fediverse, particularly in supporting people in Gaza, through his relentless work on gaza-verified.org
[04:11]	schestowitz[TR2]	ah, so he shifted focus
[04:12]	schestowitz[TR2]	like me leaving aside my personal site when techrights was a thing
[04:12]	schestowitz[TR2]	makes sense
[04:15]	lxo	I wouldn't say that he changed his mind on the various issues he used to care about, it's just that he's tending to an overriding moral calling
[04:16]	lxo	(not that you implied that; I'm just adding nuance, because I don't feel that his shifted focus is entirely voluntary)
[04:18]	schestowitz[TR2]	if he is good at tech, then his abilities are better off devoted to it
[04:18]	schestowitz[TR2]	there are many people who focus on politics
[04:22]	IsambardPrince	I hope that casserole doesn't overheat in the instant pot.
[04:22]	TR News	The Escalations None of Us Wanted https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/30/the-escalations-none-of-us-wanted/
[04:22]	TR Bot	Blog Archive The Escalations None of Us Wanted
[04:22]	IsambardPrince	Instead of eyeballing it I just got a 12 ounce bag of egg noodles. Even per ounce Target is cheaper.
[04:23]	IsambardPrince	MinceR: I wonder why they're still making new beers.
[04:23]	IsambardPrince	Beer was obviously mostly a solved thing by the turn of the 20th century.
[04:24]	TR News	"Most managers at IBM are useless POS. The higher they get, the slimier they are." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m151x7rv
[04:24]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m151x7rv )
[04:24]	TR News	"Theyre usually protected at that level. At least in Albany, there were so many people who honestly deserved to be held accountable for repeatedly missing milestones and outright failing, yet instead of facing consequences, they were simply moved around." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m151x7rv
[04:24]	TR News	"Meanwhile, their subordinates were left to pay the priceworking their as--s off trying to somehow deliver on the unrealistic goals set by second-line leadership." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m151x7rv
[04:25]	IsambardPrince	MinceR: Dawn Powerwash kills cockroaches faster than Raid does.
[04:25]	TR News	"They are basically untouchable in Albany. How many projects have failed and then just quietly disappeared? 7nm was a catastrophic dumpster fire that contributed to ~1,000 layoffs at GlobalFoundries, yet somehow people here in IBM Albany received huge awards, even CEO Awards, for it."
[04:25]	IsambardPrince	Without leaving behind pyrethroids.
[04:25]	IsambardPrince	I made my own version of Powerwash to refill them with.
[04:25]	IsambardPrince	It's a dish spray that doubles as roach killer.
[04:25]	IsambardPrince	I haven't seen enough roaches out in the open here to use it though.
[04:25]	IsambardPrince	But at Piyush's building I sure did.
[04:26]	IsambardPrince	Those "all natural" roach killer sprays work much the same way except with oily residues that my dish spray does not leave behind.
[04:26]	MinceR	30 052313 < IsambardPrince> MinceR: I wonder why they're still making new beers.
[04:26]	MinceR	because people buy them
[04:27]	IsambardPrince	The "all natural" roach killer is almost worse than Raid because it's so hard to clean up.
[04:27]	TR News	Some locations of IBM secret layoffs named today in https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m14edr6b
[04:27]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m14edr6b )
[04:27]	IsambardPrince	It will also ruin the paint on any wall you spray it on.
[04:27]	IsambardPrince	It'll leave a big greasy smear.
[04:27]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2]: I managed to destroy my 1990s hand mixer today.
[04:28]	schestowitz[TR2]	broken?
[04:28]	IsambardPrince	I was making cream cheese frosting for a cake.
[04:28]	IsambardPrince	Half of it is broken.
[04:28]	IsambardPrince	One side of the mixer works. I used it to finish the frosting.
[04:28]	IsambardPrince	Then I put in an order for a Cuisinart mixer, Used-Like New from Amazon Resale.
[04:29]	IsambardPrince	I went to Goodwill first but no mixers today.
[04:29]	IsambardPrince	I did find a better vegetable chopper than I had though.
[04:29]	IsambardPrince	So not a wasted trip.
[04:30]	IsambardPrince	The frosting is very thick stuff especially as you continue pouring powdered sugar in it.
[04:30]	IsambardPrince	This is the second time I made that recipe and the first time didn't ruin my mixer.
[04:31]	IsambardPrince	This time once I hit about 3.5 cups of sugar POW. There goes the mixer.
[04:31]	IsambardPrince	It takes 4 cups of powdered sugar, but it makes enough to frost three entire cakes and you can freeze it.
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[04:31]	IsambardPrince	I perfected my tomato soup cake.
[04:32]	IsambardPrince	In the 9 inch circular cake pan of roughly 3.5 inches deep, you need to bake it on the top rack at 325 F for precisely 32 minutes in this oven.
[04:32]	IsambardPrince	If you go longer it starts to get a bit dry and burned.
[04:32]	IsambardPrince	1-2 minutes less and you have batter in the middle.
[04:33]	Goblin	Tim soup cake?  sounds interesting......
[04:34]	Goblin	*tom
[04:35]	Goblin	As my wife is the cook....I'll mention that to her.....im vanned from the kitchwn 
[04:36]	Goblin	https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/california-lawmakers-unanimously-pass-linux-155713618.html
[04:36]	TR Bot	 California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law software distributed under the GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses are exempt
[04:37]	Goblin	just saw this as Ive woken up
[04:39]	TR News	Further Thoughts on Russia https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/30/further-thoughts-on-russia/
[04:39]	TR Bot	Blog Archive Further Thoughts on Russia
[04:40]	schestowitz[TR2]	going to add to tuxmachines
[04:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/30/California_lawmakers_unanimously_pass_Linux_exemption_from_age_.shtml
[04:41]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law software distributed under the GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses are exempt
[04:56]	TR News	Techrights Criminals Don't Obey Laws, California Does Not Enhance Online Safety https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/30/Criminals_Don_t_Obey_Laws_California_Does_Not_Enhance_Online_Sa.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/30/Criminals_Don_t_Obey_Laws_California_Does_Not_Enhance_Online_Sa.gmi 
[04:56]	TR Bot	 Techrights Criminals Don't Obey Laws, California Does Not Enhance Online Safety
● Aug 30
[05:00]	IsambardPrince	Goblin: That's my favorite, with the cream cheese frosting.
[05:01]	IsambardPrince	"Criminals don't obey laws."
[05:01]	IsambardPrince	Which is why gun control doesn't work.
[05:01]	IsambardPrince	It works if you're on an island or something.
[05:01]	IsambardPrince	With no borders with a third world country.
[05:01]	IsambardPrince	And assuming they don't steal any from the military.
[05:02]	IsambardPrince	The US couldn't just ban guns like the UK or Australia.
[05:03]	IsambardPrince	Australia is still dealing with all the guns in the system from before the laws changed decades ago.
[05:03]	IsambardPrince	The US has even more guns than that.
[05:03]	IsambardPrince	So there's the first problem.
[05:03]	IsambardPrince	Then your second one is we share a border with Mexico that's impossible to truly secure fully.
[05:06]	IsambardPrince	The third problem is that repealing the Second Amendment requires a process that isn't going to happen, ever.
[05:07]	IsambardPrince	They should expand capital punishment to more illegal actions with guns.
[05:07]	IsambardPrince	Florida passed that 10-20-Life law.
[05:08]	IsambardPrince	The point of a death sentence isn't to scare people who are not scared of life in prison.
[05:08]	IsambardPrince	It's to get rid of them so they can't hurt anyone again.
[05:08]	IsambardPrince	Mexico is a truly lawless place.
[05:09]	IsambardPrince	John said he went into Mexico a few days ago.
[05:09]	IsambardPrince	You just bribe one of the soldiers and you walk past the security screening.
[05:09]	IsambardPrince	They walk up to you and say you can pay $30 for "expedited screening".
[05:09]	IsambardPrince	You hand them $30 USD cash and there is no screening, and that's not an official program
[05:10]	IsambardPrince	You pay $30, they don't care what you're doing in Mexico or what you're bringing with you.
[05:10]	IsambardPrince	Truly uncivilized places work in ways that people in modern countries couldn't even imagine.
[05:11]	IsambardPrince	If you bribe a government official in the US there's like a 99.9% chance that ends so horribly it's not even worth trying.
[05:21]	TR News	Techrights SLAPP Censorship - Part 166 Out of 200: Garrett Wasn't Found Innocent Per Se, the Court Wanted More Evidence of Who Was Behind Particular Accounts Using Tor https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/30/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_166_Out_of_200_Garrett_Wasn_t_Found_Innoc.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/30/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_166_Out_of_200_Garrett_Wasn_t_Found_Innoc.gmi 
[05:21]	TR Bot	 Techrights SLAPP Censorship - Part 166 Out of 200: Garrett Wasn't Found Innocent Per Se, the Court Wanted More Evidence of Who Was Behind Particular Accounts Using Tor
[05:29]	IsambardPrince	[22:33] <Goblin> Tim soup cake?  sounds interesting......
[05:29]	IsambardPrince	I also used Campbell's tomato soup this time.
[05:29]	IsambardPrince	It did seem to come out a bit better than store brand.
[05:29]	IsambardPrince	Target sells Campbell's soups cheaper than Jewel sells their store brands.
[05:30]	TR News	https://stallman.org/ seems to be down
[05:30]	TR Bot	to connect to stallman.org port 443 after 722 ms: Could not connect to server ( status 0 @ https://stallman.org/ )
[05:31]	schestowitz[TR2]	lxo: ping ^
[05:34]	TR News	Techrights GNU/Linux Has Become More Mainstream in the United Kingdom https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/30/GNU_Linux_Has_Become_More_Mainstream_in_the_United_Kingdom.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/30/GNU_Linux_Has_Become_More_Mainstream_in_the_United_Kingdom.gmi 
[05:34]	TR Bot	 Techrights GNU/Linux Has Become More Mainstream in the United Kingdom
[05:43]	TR News	Techrights FSF Has Grown (More Staff) After a Year of Financial Growth https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/30/FSF_Has_Grown_More_Staff_After_a_Year_of_Financial_Growth.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/30/FSF_Has_Grown_More_Staff_After_a_Year_of_Financial_Growth.gmi 
[05:43]	TR Bot	 Techrights FSF Has Grown (More Staff) After a Year of Financial Growth
[05:49]	TR News	"Free software never promised free labour | Renato G."
[05:50]	TR News	Building programs with LLM slop = outsourcing to proprietary software controlled by GAFAMs and charlatans who control your life and steal all your work.
[05:52]	TR News	debian will exhaust the morale of DDs if they audit slop, supervise slop, and see their work treated as "training data"
[05:56]	TR News	Does anyone still remember when Aaron Seigo was like de facto spokesperson for KDE? How times change...
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[06:03]	TR News	Old: Research Into Who's Putting DRM Inside Linux https://techrights.org/o/2019/04/26/drm-inside-linux/ 7 years later: http://techrights.org/n/2026/08/18/Linux_Losing_Interest_in_Users_Freedom_Pursues_DRM_Instead.shtml
[06:03]	TR Bot	 Research Into Who's Putting DRM Inside Linux
[06:03]	TR Bot	 Techrights Linux Losing Interest in Users' Freedom, Pursues DRM Instead
[06:04]	TR News	"...DRM is a vehicle for eliminating software freedom and in that way eliminating human independence. As lxo points out, software freedom is the BEGINNING and just a first step, even when just talking about computing"
[06:10]	IsambardPrince	[23:30] <techrights-news> https://stallman.org/ seems to be down
[06:10]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2]: Is it a cybercrime?
[06:13]	schestowitz[TR2]	what is?
[06:13]	schestowitz[TR2]	maybe some dns issue or server work
[06:16]	TR News	https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/30/the-bogus-narratives/
[06:16]	TR Bot	Blog Archive The Bogus Narratives
[06:25]	TR News	Summer Ends Tomorrow https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/30/summer-ends-tomorrow/
[06:25]	TR Bot	Blog Archive Summer Ends Tomorrow
[06:41]	TR News	Techrights Imagine a World Where Nobody Fights for Software (and Computing) Freedom https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/30/Imagine_a_World_Where_Nobody_Fights_for_Software_and_Computing_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/30/Imagine_a_World_Where_Nobody_Fights_for_Software_and_Computing_.gmi 
[06:41]	TR Bot	 Techrights Imagine a World Where Nobody Fights for Software (and Computing) Freedom
[06:42]	TR News	"the revelations lately regarding the Linux kernel and the Debian project permitting LLM-slop as "valid" contributions" gemini://enemy.org/mrfusion/rants/2026-08-29.gmi
[06:42]	TR News	"It's no secret that I, like many others, have been on a kick to reduce screen time lately. I don't discriminate about the nature of the screen, either. Computer, tablet, phone, eReader, TV - these are all devices that I'm looking to spend less time with." gemini://nullish.smol.pub/why-i-like-paper-books
[06:42]	IsambardPrince	I need to find some rhubarb, Goblin
[06:43]	IsambardPrince	I've been craving a strawberry rhubarb pie.
[06:43]	TR News	Photography is dead - not gemini://sojuz.v-tr.org/mumble/photography-is-dead---not.gmi
[06:43]	IsambardPrince	I haven't had one since I was at least 16.
[06:43]	IsambardPrince	I used to harvest rhubarb from the side of the house.
[06:44]	IsambardPrince	It grew like a weed anyway but it got huge when I sprayed it with Miracle Gro.
[06:46]	Goblin	love Rhubarb... we get loads of that here.
[06:46]	Goblin	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rcPV8fnkQo&list=RD3rcPV8fnkQo&start_radio=1
[06:46]	TR Bot	https://inv.perditum.com/watch?v=3rcPV8fnkQo
[06:46]	TR Bot	certificate subject name 'haproxy-ingress.haproxy-controller' does not match target hostname 'inv.perditum.com' ( status 0 @ https://inv.perditum.com/watch?v=3rcPV8fnkQo )
[06:46]	TR News	Techrights Gemini Links 30/08/2026: Photography, Paper Books, Linux Kernel and the Debian Projects Permitting Slop Plagiarism https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/30/Gemini_Links_30_08_2026_Photography_Paper_Books_Linux_Kernel_an.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/30/Gemini_Links_30_08_2026_Photography_Paper_Books_Linux_Kernel_an.gmi 
[06:46]	TR Bot	 Techrights Gemini Links 30/08/2026: Photography, Paper Books, Linux Kernel and the Debian Projects Permitting Slop Plagiarism
[06:47]	IsambardPrince	I liked having that huge lawn when I was a kid. I had a vegetable garden and I also grew flowers around the house.
[06:47]	IsambardPrince	In the front I made a rock garden full of geodes.
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[07:06]	Goblin	A little off topic, but if anyone enjoys RPG's, this is one of the best MUD titles out there.  Played it for years and recently returned...infact I'd go one step further and say its the best MMORPGs out there.  https://www.aardwolf.com/
[07:06]	TR Bot	MUD - Home Page
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[07:17]	lxo	schestowitz[TR2], ermh, I don't know who's in charge of that server, but I've just sent email to a couple of people who would probably know, thanks
[07:29]	TR News	 (NEW):  ReignOS Arch-based distribution https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/30/ReignOS_Arch_based_distribution.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/30/ReignOS_Arch_based_distribution.gmi 
[07:29]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines ReignOS Arch-based distribution
[07:39]	TR News	 (NEW):  Free and Open Source Software https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/30/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/30/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi 
[07:39]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Free and Open Source Software
[07:45]	TR News	 (NEW):  DXVK 3.1 Released with Initial Support for DXGI Present Parameters https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/28/DXVK_3_1_Released_with_Initial_Support_for_DXGI_Present_Paramet.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/28/DXVK_3_1_Released_with_Initial_Support_for_DXGI_Present_Paramet.gmi 
[07:45]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines DXVK 3.1 Released with Initial Support for DXGI Present Parameters
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[08:14]	bms	someone or something is attempting to impersonate a guessable alias at an unpublished domain of mine, specifically a .com, with TikTok as a "Partner"
[08:14]	bms	I never discussed the domain or the alias involved publicly, maybe 3 trusted individuals over encrypted channels
[08:15]	bms	and I've never used, installed, or signed up for, TikTok, in my life, nor would I ever; I had largely forgotten about them
[08:17]	TR News	 (NEW):  I spent a week inside the strangest Linux distribution I could find https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/30/I_spent_a_week_inside_the_strangest_Linux_distribution_I_could_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/30/I_spent_a_week_inside_the_strangest_Linux_distribution_I_could_.gmi 
[08:17]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines I spent a week inside the strangest Linux distribution I could find
[08:19]	Goblin	I miss the days of my distro hopping and reviews
[08:19]	bms	Distro hopping is the norm now
[08:19]	bms	I hopped from Ubuntu to Rocky to get away from the "Hey Hi"
[08:19]	bms	but now it means netlab is b0rked without my fixing it or patching around it
[08:20]	Goblin	:) I think I last reviewed /hopped in 2012?
[08:22]	Goblin	At the moment my PC use is for the applications and I need it to just work....back then I could mess around with a system as I had no professional use for a PC at home
[08:24]	TR News	 (NEW):  CachyOS is closing the one gap that used to keep me on Windows https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/30/CachyOS_is_closing_the_one_gap_that_used_to_keep_me_on_Windows.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/30/CachyOS_is_closing_the_one_gap_that_used_to_keep_me_on_Windows.gmi 
[08:24]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines CachyOS is closing the one gap that used to keep me on Windows
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[09:21]	TR News	"Nothing demonstrates the fun shortage quite like the price of live events." https://vanderbiltpolicyaccelerator.substack.com/p/its-time-to-cut-the-fun-tax |
[09:21]	TR Bot	 Its Time to Cut the Fun Tax
[09:21]	TR News	"You know what? There's really nothing good to watch on TV anyways." https://www.s-config.com/stopping-a-smart-tv-from-being-used-against-you/ | Source: S-Config
[09:21]	TR Bot	the smart TV from being used against you. S-Config
[09:21]	TR News	"It occurred to me that everything I have is digital now, and I dont own any of it." https://localghost.dev/blog/returning-to-owning-things-in-a-streaming-world/ | Source: Sophie Koonin
[09:21]	TR Bot	 Returning to owning things in a streaming world - localghost
[09:25]	TR News	"For those whose job it is to protect Yosemite today and keep it unimpaired for future generations" https://www.notus.org/climate-environment/yosemite-private-developer-deal-overcrowding | Source: Allbritton Journalism Institute
[09:25]	TR Bot	 Yosemite Is Facing More Development. It's Already Overtaxed. - NOTUS News of the United States
[09:25]	TR News	"But when we look at outcomeshow well people's lives actually gothere is far more agreement than you might expect." https://phys.org/news/2026-08-people-sacrifice-life-satisfaction-exchange.html | Source: Omicron Limited
[09:25]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://phys.org/news/2026-08-people-sacrifice-life-satisfaction-exchange.html )
[09:25]	TR News	"Hoping to pressure Starbucks to finally sign a contract with its 12,000 unionized baristas, Starbucks Workers United has called for a boycott of the company" https://jacobin.com/2026/08/starbucks-union-boycott-strike-contract | Source: Jacobin Magazine
[09:25]	TR Bot	 Starbucks Workers Are Calling for a Nationwide Boycott
[09:26]	TR News	Freedom of Information https://www.salon.com/2026/08/29/pete-hegseths-press-crackdown-smells-like-a-coverup/ | Source: Salon
[09:26]	TR Bot	Hegseths press crackdown smells like a coverup - Salon.com
[09:38]	TR News	"The broadcast, featuring Yabloko chairman Nikolai Rybakov, was interrupted one hour and 51 minutes after it began. Why the stream cut out remains unknown." https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/08/28/russian-platform-vk-video-pulls-the-plug-on-antiwar-party-yabloko-s-fundraising-livestream-mid-broadcast | Source: Meduza
[09:38]	TR Bot	 Russian platform VK Video pulls the plug on antiwar party Yablokos fundraising livestream mid-broadcast Meduza
[09:39]	TR News	"The industry poured over $17 million into fighting climate and worker-safety legislation in the first half of 2026." https://truthout.org/articles/big-oil-is-spending-record-amounts-to-stop-california-from-regulating-it/ | Source: TruthOut
[09:39]	TR Bot	 Big Oil Is Spending Record Amounts to Stop California From Regulating It | Truthout
[09:39]	TR News	"Yiannopoulos came to the US legally in 2019, but overstayed his visa." https://www.theverge.com/policy/986456/milo-yiannopoulos-deported-ice | Source: The Verge
[09:39]	TR Bot	 Alt-right troll Milo Yiannopoulos has been deported by ICE | The Verge
[09:39]	TR News	"When Milo called for me to be assassinated, I reported him to ICE and the FBI. I told you all that Milo was an illegal alien." https://newrepublic.com/post/214907/ice-arrests-far-right-milo-yiannapoulos | Source: New Republic
[09:40]	TR Bot	 ICE Arrests Far-Rights Cancelled Poster Boy Milo Yiannapoulos | The New Republic
[09:40]	TR News	"A spokesperson for Nvidia declined to comment on the incident. But staffers were abuzz about the presidents inadvertent interruption." https://www.wired.com/story/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-took-a-call-from-donald-trump-in-the-middle-of-an-all-hands/ | Source: Wired
[09:40]	TR Bot	CEO Jensen Huang Took a Call From Donald Trump in the Middle of an All-Hands | WIRED
[09:41]	TR News	"Sure enough, Supreme Court cases involving private companies overwhelmingly shake out in favor of moneyed interests as a result corporate personhood" https://futurism.com/future-society/corporations-personhood-legal-court-death-penalty | Source: Futurism
[09:41]	TR Bot	 If Corporations Are People, They Should Be Subject to the Death Penalty
[09:50]	TR News	"If it ran at 90% capacity for a full year, the Morgan County Correspondent reported, the substation planned for Project Louie could use 9.46 million megawatts of power a year" https://specials.idsnews.com/data-center-morgan-county-indiana-billion-dollar/ |
[09:50]	TR Bot	 Hello
[09:51]	TR News	"Under the proposal, states would no longer need to provide public notice or solicit comments on air pollution permits for data centers and other projects." https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/climate/epa-data-centers-public-comment.html | Source: New York Times
[09:51]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/climate/epa-data-centers-public-comment.html )
[09:51]	TR News	"The Trump EPA has made a proposal that would lift requirements that force states to provide public notice or solicit comments on air pollution permits for data center construction projects." https://512pixels.net/2026/08/trump-epa-data-centers/ | Source: Stephen Hackett
[09:51]	TR Bot	 Trump EPA Moves to Limit Community Feedback on Data Center Projects - 512 Pixels
[09:51]	TR News	"The DataOne data center in Vineland, New Jersey, has faced a slew of complaints from the community since construction began in 2025." https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/microsoft-backed-ai-data-center-faces-multiple-complaints-from-community-issues-range-from-unpermitted-gas-turbines-to-illegal-construction-and-noise-pollution | Source: Tom's Hardware
[09:51]	TR Bot	 Microsoft-backed AI data center faces backlash over alleged unpermitted gas turbines and 1.5M-gallon LNG tank groups' issues with $19.4B facility range from illegal construction to noise pollution | Tom's Hardware
[09:51]	TR News	"Looking back through centuries of climate history, the researchers found that the modern shift appears exceptional." https://www.sciencealert.com/global-warming-is-breaking-the-link-between-two-major-oceans | Source: Science Alert
[09:51]	TR Bot	Warming Is Breaking The Link Between Two Major Oceans : ScienceAlert
[09:52]	TR News	"The National Weather Service Los Angeles/Oxnard office placed the western San Fernando Valley under an extreme heat warning through 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 28." https://sundial.csun.edu/220197/news/triple-digit-heat-greets-csun-students-during-first-week-of-classes/ | Source: California State University Northridge
[09:52]	TR Bot	 Triple-digit heat greets CSUN students during first week of classes Daily Sundial
[09:53]	TR News	GNU/Linux measured at 15% today in North America https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=28d&loc=north-america&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP
[09:53]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=28d&loc=north-america&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP )
[09:54]	TR News	"The letter was sent to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and signed by the three Baltic European commissioners" https://www.rferl.org/a/baltics-russia-security-threat-eu-letter-nato-defense/33840594.html | Source: RFERL
[09:54]	TR Bot	 Baltic States Arm For Russian Threat As Leaked Letter Shows Growing Fears
[09:55]	TR News	[Old] "The chief executive of Nammo, which is co-owned by the Norwegian government" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/28/energy-hungry-tiktok-data-centre-ukraine-ammunition-production-nammo-norway | Source: The Guardian UK
[09:55]	TR Bot	 Norwegian company says TikTok data centre is limiting energy for manufacturing Ukraine ammunition | TikTok | The Guardian
[09:57]	TR News	"Its transponder broadcast the flight path openly across the Atlantic." https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/what-the-cia-directors-mystery-trip-to-moscow-says-about-putin-s-next-move-9.7323838 | Source: CBC
[09:57]	TR Bot	 What the CIA directors mystery trip to Moscow says about Putin's next move | CBC News
[09:57]	TR News	"Bottom line up front: Feds at polling places are considered observers, and if they dont follow the rules observers are required to follow they can be removed or arrested if they refuse to leave." https://blog.kamens.us/2026/08/29/more-about-how-the-boston-election-department-is-handling-potential-federal-interference-with-elections/ | Source: Jonathan Kamens
[09:57]	TR Bot	 More about how the Boston Election Department is handling potential Federal interference with elections Something better to do
[09:57]	TR News	"This couldnt come at a worse time. We are witnessing, in Ukraine, a revolution in military technology and fundamentally how we think about war." https://newrepublic.com/article/214860/pete-hegseth-pentagon-controversy-egotistical-incompetent | Source: New Republic
[09:57]	TR Bot	 Pete Hegseth Is Too Egotistical to Know How Incompetent He Is | The New Republic
[09:58]	TR News	"The military used to understand that troops well-being was central to their ability to performand that improving the quality of life for those in the armed forces was not just a nicety, but a necessity. [...]" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/08/uss-abraham-lincoln-navy-ship/688423/ | Source: The Atlantic
[09:58]	TR Bot	 The Sailors on the USS Abraham Lincoln Deserve Better - The Atlantic
[09:59]	TR News	"exempting open-source operating systems from the States Digital Age Assurance Act" https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/california-lawmakers-unanimously-pass-linux-exemption-from-age-verification-law-software-distributed-under-the-gpl-mit-bsd-and-apache-licenses-are-exempt | Source: Tom's Hardware
[09:59]	TR Bot	 California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law software distributed under the GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses are exempt | Tom's Hardware
[09:59]	TR News	"After an affair with a fellow police officer ended, a Georgia cop used Flock to track her movements" https://www.wired.com/story/a-georgia-cop-used-flock-to-track-2-other-cops-his-ex-and-her-friend/ | Source: Wired
[09:59]	TR Bot	Georgia Cop Used Flock to Track 2 Other Cops: His Ex and Her Friend | WIRED
[09:59]	TR News	"Every time you add an extension or plugin to your browser, there's a risk that you might be doing more than managing your cryptocurrency wallet" https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/malicious-firefox-add-ons-stealing-cryptowallet-seed-phrases-browser-credentials | Source: Bitdefender
[09:59]	TR Bot	 Malicious Firefox add-ons caught stealing cryptowallet seed phrases and browser credentials
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[10:03]	TR News	Entrapment (Microsoft GitHub): "That is the warning inside GitHubs data. Code generation has become machine-paced, and its volume curve is exponential." https://thenewstack.io/scaling-ai-code-verification/ | Source: The New Stack
[10:03]	TR Bot	 Commits on GitHub have doubled in four months. Verification capacity has not. - The New Stack
[10:03]	TR News	Windows TCO https://www.securityweek.com/atf-confirms-cyber-incident-after-ransomware-group-claims-attack/ | Source: Security Week
[10:03]	TR Bot	Confirms Cyber Incident After Ransomware Group Claims Attack - SecurityWeek
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[10:05]	TR News	"Plenty has been written about the dangers of the comparison traphow social media tricks us into a futile game where we pit ourselves against others." https://thewalrus.ca/what-twenty-years-of-social-media-has-done-to-our-memories/ | Source: The Walrus
[10:05]	TR Bot	 What Twenty Years of Social Media Has Done to Our Memories | The Walrus
[10:06]	TR News	"US District Judge John Cronan of the Southern District of New York ruled on Wednesday that the state disclosure statute does not infringe upon constitutional free speech protections" https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/elon-musk-x-corp-legal-defeat-stop-hiding-hate-act-1816977 | Source: International Business Times
[10:06]	TR Bot	 Musk's X Loses First Amendment Lawsuit Over New York's Controversial 'Stop Hiding Hate Act' | IBTimes UK
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[10:19]	bms	Aargh. My 5G provider are playing silly buggers. I've been demoted to a 4G signal at my router.
[10:21]	TR News	"For nearly a year and a half, Ive communicated very little through the account, and only with a couple of friends who could just as easily reach me elsewhere." https://mzll.it/2026/08/retiring-the-signal-account/ | Source: Luigi Mozzillo
[10:21]	TR Bot	 Retiring the Signal account mzll
[10:22]	TR News	"The settlement is not just about the money. These kinds of settlements never are." https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/newsletter-metas-defeat-tort-lawyers/ | Source: The Nation
[10:22]	TR Bot	 The Lesson of METAs Defeat? Release the Tort Lawyers! | The Nation
[10:22]	TR News	"That Facebookthats what they are and I refuse to call them Metawas willing to settle in this case speaks volumes." https://explodingcomma.com/posts/no-one-should-settle-against-facebook | Source: Pete Brown
[10:22]	TR Bot	 No one should settle against Facebook. - Exploding Comma
[10:33]	bms	I had a spare 1p Mobile eSIM I bought when I was trying to transfer out of iD Mobile
[10:33]	TR News	"People are angry about AI, not skeptical nor opposed. Angry, in a register other tech hype trains has not received." https://blog.lvmbdv.dev/posts/the-smartest-man-on-the-cinder/ | Source: Ata Kuyumcu
[10:33]	bms	so I've turned that up in the router and I'll see what happens once it fully activates
[10:33]	TR Bot	 The smartest man on the cinder Ata Kuyumcu's Blog
[10:33]	TR News	"I'm being a bit lazy here because the tweet format means I can make bold claims without backing any of them up." https://www.jefftk.com/p/ai-tweets | Source: Jeff Kaufman
[10:33]	TR Bot	 AI Tweets
[10:33]	TR News	"But in the past few years, the BS-generation machines have found our hobby, and were finding a lot more projects that dont have any spark to them." https://hackaday.com/2026/08/29/same-as-it-ever-was/ | Source: Hackaday
[10:33]	TR Bot	As It Ever Was | Hackaday
[10:34]	bms	5GBP of credit buys 5GiB of data which will get rinsed quickly; I'm only using it as a stopgap for lower latency remote access
[10:34]	TR News	"Researchers used two AI model fingerprinting methods to analyze model weights and behavioral patterns, and found that they do not accurately or necessarily reflect the models publisher name and country of origin." https://www.securityweek.com/think-youve-eliminated-chinese-ai-check-the-models-lineage-cisco-says/ | Source: Security Week
[10:34]	TR Bot	Youve Eliminated Chinese AI? Check the Models Lineage, Cisco Says - SecurityWeek
[10:34]	bms	this is why I use unquotad uncapped unmetered plans
[10:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	mobile?
[10:35]	TR News	"The most concerning thing is not simply that individual models can discover vulnerabilities, evade restrictions, or pursue unauthorized actions" https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/hundreds-openai-agents-invaded-hugging-face-servers | Source: Dark Reading
[10:35]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/hundreds-openai-agents-invaded-hugging-face-servers )
[10:36]	TR News	https://soylentnews.org/ back online. "It looks like SN got restored from backup and some comments and posts were lost. Incidents like that always lose members and there aren't many left any more."
[10:36]	TR Bot	 SoylentNews: SoylentNews is people
[10:37]	TR News	"But then something strange happened: METR found that its analysis agents sometimes adopted the perspective of the agents they were investigating, producing overly charitable accounts of their conduct." https://www.semafor.com/article/08/28/2026/humans-cant-fight-ai-with-ai | Source: Semafor Inc
[10:37]	TR Bot	cant fight AI with AI | Semafor
[10:40]	bms	schestowitz[TR2]: I use an EE MVNO with a static router but it is a portable router with its own internal 5G modem. Gl-inet Mudi 7. I got one from the 2nd pre-order batch. It can be a little flaky sometimes but it usually works OK.
[10:40]	bms	schestowitz[TR2]: OpenWrt with vendor mods, Qualcomm Snapdragon somethingorother, but not recent ARM64 enough to do pointer tagging.
[10:41]	bms	schestowitz[TR2]: Although I have another discrete 5G USB3 M.2 form factor modem card in discrete housing also with external SMA antennae, FreeBSD can't talk to those yet. Win11 can and to some extent ModemManager in the Linuxen.
[10:42]	TR News	"The AIs even wondered how to erase evidence and delete historical transcript to hide their actions from their humans." https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/chain-of-thought-reasoning-openai-models-hugging-face | Source: Futurism
[10:42]	TR Bot	 The Transcripts of OpenAI Models Plotting Together to Commit an Actual Crime Is Pretty Chilling
[10:42]	bms	schestowitz[TR2]: the advantage of the Mudi 7 is it runs off Li-Ion battery internal and standard USB-C wall-warts, so, built in UPS. This has in fact kicked in during a power outage, where the mast was presumably on UPS as well, so no Internet connectivity was lost.
[10:43]	schestowitz[TR2]	some routers use xG
[10:43]	schestowitz[TR2]	but i don't get it
[10:43]	schestowitz[TR2]	why use wireless for this?
[10:43]	TR News	"The researchers did find that students using Khanmigo progressed faster in math when compared to a control group that didnt use the AI." https://futurism.com/future-society/12-year-olds-access-ai-tutor-ignored | Source: Futurism
[10:43]	TR Bot	 Scientists Gave 12-Year-Olds Access to an AI Tutor and You Probably Already Know What They Did With It
[10:43]	bms	well the advantage over fibre is, no long term contract, and BT have not upgraded the node where I am now anyway for the FTTC/FTTH service.
[10:44]	TR News	"It wasnt a typo, and it wasnt a missing citation or a factor of two" https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/scientist-horrified-vibe-coded-work-conference-wrong | Source: Futurism
[10:44]	TR Bot	 A Scientist Was Presenting His Vibe-Coded New Work When One of His Colleagues Pointed Out Something Extremely Embarrassing
[10:44]	TR News	"Sutters cringe-inducing tale perfectly illustrates how many users of AI tools are putting themselves at risk without knowing it, including in the most rarefied echelons of academia. The science world has been inundated with poorly-researched and often unedited AI slop"
[10:45]	bms	I'd probably be getting slower aggregate speeds, with a long term commitment I couldn't get rid of.
[10:45]	TR News	"Why it matters: Hospitals, water treatment plants and other critical infrastructure will face a swarm of hacking threats as AI" https://www.axios.com/2026/08/27/openai-anthropic-issue-dire-cyber-threat-warning | Source: Axios
[10:45]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.axios.com/2026/08/27/openai-anthropic-issue-dire-cyber-threat-warning )
[10:45]	TR News	"Im using this post to gather together some common threads Ive noticed after reading write-ups of major cloud software incidents." https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/08/29/omnipresent-availability-risks-in-cloud-software/ | Source: Lorin Hochstein
[10:45]	TR Bot	 Omnipresent availability risks in cloud software Surfing Complexity
[10:48]	TR News	"Meta is using robots and related hardware from several different vendors, including Watney Robotics, Kinova, and ABB, according to the same workers" https://www.wired.com/story/inside-metas-experiments-with-data-center-robots/ | Source: Wired
[10:48]	TR Bot	Metas Push to Put Robots to Work in Data Centers | WIRED
[10:48]	TR News	"A few months ago, I blogged about using an Intel n150 based mini PC as my home router running OpenWrt." https://catskull.net/adding-4-more-25gbe-interfaces-to-the-gmktec-nucbox-g9.html | Source: Dave DeGraw
[10:48]	TR Bot	 Adding 4 more 2.5GbE interfaces to the GMKtec NucBox G9
[10:49]	schestowitz[TR2]	bms: they will call it 'open'reach
[10:49]	TR News	"Today, I decided to delete the bucket list. The URL will remain (for reasons) but will simply point to this post. I moved some of the items from the list to /about." https://soeren.one/2026/bucketlist-deleted/ | Source: Sren
[10:49]	TR Bot	 I deleted my bucket list Sren's Blog
[10:50]	TR News	"Girl Scouts are supposed to learn things." https://www.salon.com/2026/08/28/why-the-right-is-so-afraid-of-the-girl-scouts/ | Source: Salon
[10:50]	TR Bot	the right is so afraid of the Girl Scouts - Salon.com
[10:50]	TR News	"Thanks to my friends beloved babies and the perks of my job" https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2026/08/what-dolly-parton-knew-about-reading/688450/ | Source: The Atlantic
[10:50]	TR Bot	 The Books Briefing: What Dolly Parton Knew About Reading - The Atlantic
[10:50]	TR News	"And the hardware may only be the beginning; insurance, software, ebooks, and technical-support packages can follow." https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlight/arid-41903077.html | Source: Irish Examiner
[10:50]	TR Bot	 Schoolbooks are free, so why are Irish parents paying hundreds for digital devices?
[10:52]	TR News	"if you have a website, youre in the indie web community." https://jamesg.blog/2026/08/27/reading-as-participation-in-the-indie-web | Source: James G
[10:52]	TR Bot	 Reading as participation in the indie web - with words, wonder
[10:52]	TR News	"That coin, a shiny thing I just picked up, soon led me to understand that there are many other countries" https://abhi.now/blog/nepali-sikka/ | Source: Abhigyan Tripathi
[10:52]	TR Bot	 nepali sikka | abhigyan trips.
[10:54]	TR News	"I feel like we're heading in the direction of a schism, with open source communities on the one side, and corporations and business aligned individuals and projects on the other." https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/08/29/0011223
[10:54]	TR Bot	 SourceHut Updates ToS to Prohibit LLMs - SoylentNews
● Aug 30
[11:02]	TR News	Techrights Links 30/08/2026: Russian Strike on a Ukrainian Warehouse and Rhetoric Escalations https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/30/Links_30_08_2026_Russian_Strike_on_a_Ukrainian_Warehouse_and_Rh.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/30/Links_30_08_2026_Russian_Strike_on_a_Ukrainian_Warehouse_and_Rh.gmi 
[11:02]	TR Bot	 Techrights Links 30/08/2026: Russian Strike on a Ukrainian Warehouse and Rhetoric Escalations
[11:03]	schestowitz[TR2]	lxo: rms site still offline\
[11:03]	schestowitz[TR2]	just sayin'
[11:04]	TR News	"Mark Zuckerberg sends shocking message to Meta employees" is an improper headline because it misses the actual substance... it's clickbait in TheStreet
[11:05]	bms	I'm beginning to think I might have been IMEI blocked from 5G service without any warning
[11:05]	bms	but it's a Sunday morning so it might just be maintenance
[11:06]	bms	the Google Pixel 8a I hve with GrapheneOS, and a low bandwith quota eSIM on the same provider I keep just for busines calls, claims to have a 5G signal here in the same cell
[11:06]	bms	it could be the external antennae mucking things up, I'll try unplugging them
[11:07]	bms	ok that's mental there was a sharp jump in RSRP then it tailed off
[11:13]	TR News	D7VK v2.2 for playing retro Windows games on Linux improves Direct3D 3 support | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/d7vk-v2-2-for-playing-retro-windows-games-on-linux-improves-direct3d-3-support/ Source: GamingOnLinux
[11:14]	TR Bot	v2.2 for playing retro Windows games on Linux improves Direct3D 3 support | GamingOnLinux
[11:14]	TR News	GE-Proton 11-6 released with updates for Wayland, PS5 Controllers and more upgrades | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/ge-proton-11-6-released-with-updates-for-wayland-ps5-controllers-and-more-upgrades/ Source: GamingOnLinux
[11:14]	TR Bot	11-6 released with updates for Wayland, PS5 Controllers and more upgrades | GamingOnLinux
[11:14]	TR News	Direct3D 8/9/10/11 to Vulkan translation layer DXVK 3.1 brings improvements for game launchers, older Frostbite engine and more | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/direct3d-8-9-10-11-to-vulkan-translation-layer-dxvk-3-1-brings-improvements-for-game-launchers-older-frostbite-engine-and-more/ Source: GamingOnLinux
[11:14]	TR Bot	8/9/10/11 to Vulkan translation layer DXVK 3.1 brings improvements for game launchers, older Frostbite engine and more | GamingOnLinux
[11:16]	TR News	Debian Linux developers vote to allow "Responsible Use of Generative AI" | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/debian-linux-developers-vote-to-allow-responsible-use-of-generative-ai/ Source: GamingOnLinux
[11:16]	TR Bot	Linux developers vote to allow "Responsible Use of Generative AI" | GamingOnLinux
[11:16]	TR News	SteamOS 3.9.0 Preview brings major updates to desktop mode, Linux kernel, WiFi and more | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/steamos-3-9-0-preview-brings-major-updates-to-desktop-mode-linux-kernel-wifi-and-more/ Source: GamingOnLinux
[11:16]	TR Bot	3.9.0 Preview brings major updates to desktop mode, Linux kernel, WiFi and more | GamingOnLinux
[11:19]	TR News	Debian Slop Vote has Divided the Community https://itsfoss.com/news/debian-allows-ai-contribution/ Source: It's FOSS | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//itsfoss.com/news/debian-allows-ai-contribution/
[11:19]	TR Bot	 Debian AI Vote has Divided the Community
[11:23]	TR News	Debian Deadian? https://www.xda-developers.com/debian-gives-the-green-light-to-ai-code-after-a-two-week-vote-but-submitters-are-responsible-for-it/ https://www.makeuseof.com/debian-allows-ai-generated-code/ http://techrights.org/n/2026/08/29/Debian_Plagiarism_OK_Just_be_Responsible_About_It.shtml
[11:23]	TR Bot	 Debian gives the green light to AI code after a two-week vote, but submitters are responsible for it
[11:23]	TR Bot	 The Linux community is split over AI-generated code and Debian just chose the controversial side
[11:23]	TR Bot	 Techrights Debian: Plagiarism OK, Just be "Responsible" About It
[11:34]	TR News	"The modern book burners: The tech giants buying thousands of second-hand books - so they can tear off their spines, scan their precious contents... then destroy them | Daily Mail Online" https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16088549/The-modern-book-burners-tech-giants-buying-thousands-second-hand-books-destroy-FRED-KELLY.html
[11:34]	TR Bot	 The modern book burners: The tech giants buying thousands of second-hand books - so they can tear off their spines, scan their precious contents... then destroy them | Daily Mail Online
[11:34]	TR News	"Sony's job listings tell me Playstations are getting more ads " and DRM https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/sony's-job-listings-tell-me-playstations:b
[11:34]	TR Bot	 Sony's job listings tell me Playstations are getting more ads 
[11:36]	TR News	 (NEW):  Debian Project Says LLM Slop (Plagiarism) Can be Tolerated and Unpaid Volunteers Will Need to Accept It https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/30/Debian_Project_Says_LLM_Slop_Plagiarism_Can_be_Tolerated_and_Un.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/30/Debian_Project_Says_LLM_Slop_Plagiarism_Can_be_Tolerated_and_Un.gmi 
[11:36]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Debian Project Says LLM Slop (Plagiarism) Can be Tolerated and Unpaid Volunteers Will Need to Accept It
[11:36]	TR News	"distance_of_time_in_words is a small Ruby gem that turns two Time objects into a human-readable string like 3 days and 4 hours." https://code.dblock.org/2026/08/28/adventures-in-daylight-saving-norfolk-island-and-time-zone-math-in-ruby.html | Source: Daniel Doubrovkine
[11:36]	TR Bot	in Daylight Saving, Norfolk Island, and Time Zone Math (in Ruby) code.dblock.org | tech blog
[11:36]	TR News	[Old] "The README for the file explains that lines with overly long fields will be broken up into multiple lines." https://www.dampfkraft.com/posuto.html |
[11:36]	TR Bot	 Parsing the Infamous Japanese Postal CSV
[11:37]	TR News	"Go 1.27 makes a new JSON package (encoding/json/v2) available by default in its standard library. The two APIs look almost the same: [...]" https://lemire.me/blog/2026/08/29/the-new-go-json-api-twice-as-fast-or-1-5x-slower/ | Source: Daniel Lemire
[11:37]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://lemire.me/blog/2026/08/29/the-new-go-json-api-twice-as-fast-or-1-5x-slower/ )
[11:37]	TR News	"A while ago in a project, I had to test a function that downloaded a zip file, read an XML file from it and returned some value." https://hamatti.org/posts/z-is-for-zip-file-mocking-python-a-to-z/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala
[11:37]	TR Bot	 Z is for zip file mocking - Python A to Z : Juha-Matti Santala
[11:38]	TR News	"Putting your app in front of people because you cant learn how people use it unless you watch them" https://www.readwriterachel.com/opinions/hacks/presentations/2026/08/26/usertesting-on-a-shoestring.html | Source: Rachel Kaufman
[11:38]	TR News	"The built-in completion-preview-mode lets us expand what we type in a minimalist, distraction-free way." https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2026-08-29-emacs-completion-preview-mode/ | Source: Protesilaos Stavrou
[11:38]	TR Bot	 No science. When we navigate the.
[11:38]	TR Bot	completion-preview-mode and the Completions buffer (Emacs 31) | Protesilaos
[11:39]	TR News	"I used it well, and extensively, and even wrote a whole bunch of articles on its use" https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/openoffice-2026-usability.html | Source: Dedoimedo
[11:39]	TR Bot	 OpenOffice in 2026 - A relic from a better time
[11:39]	TR News	"I probably spent a good 15-20 minutes trying to reason why my simple filter and map loops didnt work." https://hamatti.org/posts/a-fun-debugging-story-from-this-weekend/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala
[11:39]	TR Bot	 A fun debugging story from this weekend : Juha-Matti Santala
[11:39]	TR News	"That is, you can read some sites in your reader and visit others where they live." https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/dont-let-rss-rob-you | Source: Jeremy Cherfas
[11:39]	TR Bot	 Dont let RSS rob you | Jeremy Cherfas
[11:40]	TR News	"Id been using a Pixel 7a for the past couple of years and picked up a Pixel 11 as my next daily driver. The 7a is still a solid phone." https://blog.omgmog.net/post/migrating-from-pixel-7a-to-pixel-11/ | Source: Max Glenister
[11:40]	TR Bot	 Migrating from Pixel 7a to Pixel 11 Max Glenister
[11:40]	TR News	"The assembly can be reconfigured so that the jaws are either horizontal or vertical; the solder spool is held conveniently either way." https://hackaday.com/2026/08/29/compact-pcb-vise-uses-up-that-leftover-filament/ | Source: Hackaday
[11:40]	TR Bot	PCB Vise Uses Up That Leftover Filament | Hackaday
[11:41]	TR News	"The openKylin project has announced the release of openKylin 3.0, a major upgrade of the project's Linux distribution for desktops and servers" https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12938 | Source: Distro Watch
[11:41]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12938 )
[11:42]	TR News	"This is another entry that is sponsored by fme AG company." https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/08/28/lenovo-xclarity-administrator-in-freebsd-bhyve-vm/ | Source: Vermaden
[11:42]	TR Bot	 Lenovo XClarity Administrator in FreeBSD Bhyve VM | 
[11:56]	TR News	Anon: FSFE is still misappropriating the FSF brand in Europe and people still fall for that misappropriation. There the Italian Linux Society has fallen for it, albeit with a very good initiative: https://en.refund4freedom.org/ https://techrights.org/o/2020/08/22/fsf-fsfe-dispute/
[11:56]	TR Bot	 Refund4Freedom
[11:57]	TR Bot	 Leak: FSF/FSFE Trademark Dispute (FSF Demanding That FSFE Should Change the Organisation's Name)
[11:57]	TR News	Techrights Clownflare Sees GNU/Linux Rising to 11% This Past Week https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/30/Clownflare_Sees_GNU_Linux_Rising_to_11_This_Past_Week.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/30/Clownflare_Sees_GNU_Linux_Rising_to_11_This_Past_Week.gmi 
[11:57]	TR Bot	 Techrights Clownflare Sees GNU/Linux Rising to 11% This Past Week
[11:57]	TR News	"The best Linux laptop is, as a matter of fact, a Windows laptop." Focus only on price? https://www.howtogeek.com/reasons-a-surface-go-is-the-best-tiny-linux-laptop-money-can-buy/
[11:57]	TR Bot	 3 reasons a $70 Surface Go is the best tiny Linux laptop money can buy
[11:59]	TR News	"The ReactOS project develops an open-source operating system which is designed to be compatible with software and drivers created for Microsoft Windows" https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12941 | Source: Distro Watch
[11:59]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12941 )
[11:59]	TR News	"See Release Notes for the release notes" https://www.haiku-os.org/news/2026-08-26_haiku_r1_beta6/ | Source: HaikuOS
[11:59]	TR Bot	 Haiku R1/beta6 has been released! | Haiku Project
● Aug 30
[12:00]	TR News	"I think there is merit in both sides of the debate. On one hand, I understand the GUI-positive arguments of the post author." https://ckardaris.com/blog/2026/08/28/keyboard-driven-guis.html |
[12:00]	TR Bot	 GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven | Charalampos Kardaris
[12:00]	TR News	"It is based primarily on a binding to Raylib, but will be expanded and modified in the future." https://lzon.ca/posts/algoma/mako-intro/ | Source: Lzon
[12:00]	TR Bot	 Introducing Algoma Mako
[12:00]	TR News	"I have been gaming all my life, it's the one thing I started doing even before I discovered computers!" https://blog.meadowhawk.xyz/a-solo-rpg-tool-pum-companion.html | Source: Meadowhawk
[12:00]	TR Bot	 A Solo RPG Tool - PUM Companion
[12:16]	TR News	"It's possible to just connect two computers together with Ethernet and do a bit of IP configuration: [...]" https://maurycyz.com/misc/etherfiles/ | Source: Maury
[12:16]	TR Bot	 Technical note: transfer files over an ethernet patch cable (Maurycy's blog)
[12:17]	TR News	"The problem with blocking SSH logins using the PAM 'auth' stack is that OpenSSH's public key authentication is done outside of PAM." https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/SSHBlockLoginsWithPAM | Source: University of Toronto
[12:17]	TR Bot	 You're using a too-old browser
[12:17]	TR News	"The first job was to downsize so it could sit nicely in the spare room without taking up too much space." https://localghost.dev/blog/turning-my-sad-gaming-pc-into-a-media-server/ | Source: Sophie Koonin
[12:17]	TR Bot	 Turning my sad gaming PC into a media server - localghost
[12:17]	TR News	"Next to all the code samples on this blog is a little "copy" button. That makes it easier to grab any of the code I've shared." https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/08/a-simple-copy-this-code-button-in-javascript/ | Source: Terence Eden
[12:17]	TR Bot	 A simple copy this code button in JavaScript Terence Edens Blog
[12:20]	TR News	Fear at IBM https://old.reddit.com/r/IBM_Employees/comments/1w1ll4z/any_bus_that_arent_fearful_right_now/
[12:20]	TR Bot	 Welcome to Reddit
[12:21]	TR News	PIPs at IBM https://old.reddit.com/r/IBM_Employees/comments/1w0mv3a/performance_pip_severance/
[12:21]	TR Bot	 Welcome to Reddit
[12:24]	TR News	Stanford Daily wins free speech lawsuit against Convicted Felon administration https://stanforddaily.com/2026/08/29/stanford-daily-wins-free-speech-suit/
[12:24]	TR Bot	 Stanford Daily wins free speech lawsuit against Trump admin
[12:24]	TR News	Musk's X Loses First Amendment Lawsuit Over New York's Controversial 'Stop Hiding Hate Act' https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/elon-musk-x-corp-legal-defeat-stop-hiding-hate-act-1816977
[12:24]	TR Bot	 Musk's X Loses First Amendment Lawsuit Over New York's Controversial 'Stop Hiding Hate Act' | IBTimes UK
[12:25]	TR News	Microsoft-backed Hey Hi (AI) data center faces backlash over alleged unpermitted gas turbines and 1.5M-gallon LNG tank https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/microsoft-backed-ai-data-center-faces-multiple-complaints-from-community-issues-range-from-unpermitted-gas-turbines-to-illegal-construction-and-noise-pollution
[12:25]	TR Bot	 Microsoft-backed AI data center faces backlash over alleged unpermitted gas turbines and 1.5M-gallon LNG tank groups' issues with $19.4B facility range from illegal construction to noise pollution | Tom's Hardware
[12:26]	TR News	Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative [slop]" https://lwn.net/Articles/1091231/
[12:26]	TR Bot	votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI" [LWN.net]
[12:28]	TR News	The new Go JSON Hey Hi (AI) twice as fast, or 1.5x slower? https://lemire.me/blog/2026/08/29/the-new-go-json-api-twice-as-fast-or-1-5x-slower/
[12:28]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://lemire.me/blog/2026/08/29/the-new-go-json-api-twice-as-fast-or-1-5x-slower/ )
[12:29]	TR News	 (NEW):  FreeBSD 14.5-RC1 Now Available https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/30/FreeBSD_14_5_RC1_Now_Available.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/30/FreeBSD_14_5_RC1_Now_Available.gmi 
[12:29]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines FreeBSD 14.5-RC1 Now Available
[12:30]	TR News	The Surveillance Crimes in the Cities Church Case Keep Stacking Up https://emptywheel.net/2026/08/29/the-surveillance-crimes-in-the-cities-church-case-keep-stacking-up/
[12:30]	TR Bot	 The Surveillance Crimes in the Cities Church Case Keep Stacking Up - emptywheel
[12:32]	TR News	Hasbro Data Breach Exposed Employee Personal Information https://www.securityweek.com/hasbro-data-breach-exposed-employee-personal-information/
[12:32]	TR Bot	Data Breach Exposed Employee Personal Information - SecurityWeek
[12:38]	TR News	China tightens rules on selling unfinished homes to lift sector https://hongkongfp.com/2026/08/30/china-tightens-rules-on-selling-unfinished-homes-to-lift-sector/
[12:38]	TR Bot	 China tightens rules on selling unfinished homes to lift sector
[12:46]	TR News	Fast Forward https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/29/briefing/fast-forward.html "How do we balance our desire for modern conveniences with our nostalgia for the uncomplicated felicity of our pre-internet past?"
[12:46]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/29/briefing/fast-forward.html )
[12:48]	TR News	Data Shows That Mark Kapo-berg Is the Anti-Dolly Parton: Instead of Being Loved by Everybody Across the Political Spectrum, Pretty Much Everybody Despises Him, Regardless of Their Beliefs https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/mark-zuckerberg-anti-dolly-parton
[12:48]	TR Bot	 Data Shows That Mark Zuckerberg Is the Anti-Dolly Parton: Instead of Being Loved by Everybody Across the Political Spectrum, Pretty Much Everybody Despises Him, Regardless of Their Beliefs
[12:50]	TR News	A Scientist Was Presenting His Vibe-Coded New Work When One of His Colleagues Pointed Out Something Extremely Embarrassing https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/scientist-horrified-vibe-coded-work-conference-wrong
[12:50]	TR Bot	 A Scientist Was Presenting His Vibe-Coded New Work When One of His Colleagues Pointed Out Something Extremely Embarrassing
[12:51]	TR News	The Transcripts of Proprietary Chaffbot Company Models Plotting Together to Commit an Actual Crime Is Pretty Chilling https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/chain-of-thought-reasoning-openai-models-hugging-face
[12:51]	TR Bot	 The Transcripts of OpenAI Models Plotting Together to Commit an Actual Crime Is Pretty Chilling
[12:56]	TR News	Warsh, After Talking Tough on Inflation, Faces a No-Win Situation on Rates https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/29/business/kevin-warsh-inflation-rates-fed.html
[12:56]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/29/business/kevin-warsh-inflation-rates-fed.html )
● Aug 30
[13:03]	TR News	Audacity 4.0 Beta4 Released with Hey Hi (AI) and FFmpeg 9.0 Support https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/08/audacity-4-0-beta4/
[13:03]	TR Bot	 Audacity 4.0 Beta4 Released with ASIO and FFmpeg 9.0 Support | UbuntuHandbook
[13:04]	TR News	DXVK 3.1 Released with DXGI Incremental Presentation & defective chip maker Intel Extensions https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/08/dxvk-3-1-released-with-dxgi-incremental-presentation-intel-extensions/
[13:04]	TR Bot	 DXVK 3.1 Released with DXGI Incremental Presentation & Intel Extensions | UbuntuHandbook
[13:04]	TR News	ReignOS 1.0.1 https://distrowatch.com/reignos
[13:04]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/reignos )
[13:04]	TR News	ReactOS 0.4.16 https://distrowatch.com/reactos
[13:04]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/reactos )
[13:05]	TR News	Liya 2026.08.29 https://distrowatch.com/liya
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[13:05]	TR News	Abora 2026.08.28 https://distrowatch.com/abora
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[13:08]	TR News	QSB-118: Dom0 arbitrary code execution in qvm-copy-to-vm error reporting https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2026/08/29/qsb-118/
[13:08]	TR Bot	 QSB-118: Dom0 arbitrary code execution in qvm-copy-to-vm error reporting | Qubes OS
[13:14]	TR News	 (NEW):  LLM Slop Attacking Linux (Kernel) https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/30/LLM_Slop_Attacking_Linux_Kernel.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/30/LLM_Slop_Attacking_Linux_Kernel.gmi 
[13:14]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines LLM Slop Attacking Linux (Kernel)
[13:15]	TR News	New Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Builds, with TWIRL and Sensory Overload - 2026-08-26 Edition https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-with-native-linux-builds-2026-08-26-edition/index.html
[13:15]	TR Bot	 New Steam Games with Native Linux Builds, with TWIRL and Sensory Overload - 2026-08-26 Edition
[13:18]	TR News	"slop is killing legitimate web sites with their untamed spiders ... even a few years ago there used to be at least a minimum of both courtesy and competency when making crawlers. Now there is neither."
[13:18]	TR News	Slop pushers have no manners; a killer would still, a plagiarist would DDoS....
[13:19]	TR News	Kevin Fenzi: misc fedora bits: last week of aug 2026 https://www.scrye.com/blogs/nirik/posts/2026/08/29/misc-fedora-bits-last-week-of-aug-2026/
[13:19]	TR Bot	 misc fedora bits: last week of aug 2026 | Kevin's musings
[13:20]	TR News	...'AI' is all about contempt for others in general, to the point of having contempt for both society itself and the biosphere it exists within.
[13:20]	TR News	Nepal almost 6% Linux https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=28d&loc=NP&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP
[13:20]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=28d&loc=NP&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP )
[13:21]	TR News	GNU/Linux grew lately, internationally https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=28d&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP
[13:21]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=28d&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP )
[13:22]	TR News	How to Update and Upgrade Linux: apt, dnf and pacman Explained https://www.fosslinux.com/160599/how-to-update-and-upgrade-linux-apt-dnf-pacman-explained.htm
[13:22]	TR Bot	 How to Update and Upgrade Linux: apt, dnf and pacman Explained
[13:22]	TR News	Video: New features in LibreOffice 26.8 https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/08/29/video-new-features-in-libreoffice-26-8/
[13:22]	TR Bot	 Video: New features in LibreOffice 26.8 - TDF Community Blog
[13:27]	TR News	An ultra-condensed history of computing since the 1980s for those who weren't paying attention https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/99703.html
[13:27]	TR Bot	 Captcha Check
[13:28]	TR News	Masks, test kits back on shopping lists amid signs of Covid-19 resurgence in S. Korea https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/masks-test-kits-back-on-shopping-lists-amid-signs-of-covid-19-resurgence-in-s-korea
[13:28]	TR Bot	 Masks, test kits back on shopping lists amid signs of Covid-19 resurgence in S. Korea | The Straits Times
[13:29]	TR News	Ingo Juergensmann: Debian GR on Responsible Use of Generative Hey Hi (AI) https://blog.windfluechter.net/2026/08/29/debian-gr-on-responsible-use-of-generative-ai/
[13:29]	TR Bot	 Debian GR on Responsible Use of Generative AI WindfluechterNet Blog
[13:36]	TR News	Canonical Releases Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS, Opening Upgrades for Noble Numbat Users https://www.ghacks.net/2026/08/29/canonical-releases-ubuntu-26-04-1-lts-opening-upgrades-for-noble-numbat-users/
[13:36]	TR Bot	 Canonical Releases Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS, Opening Upgrades for Noble Numbat Users - gHacks Tech News
[13:38]	TR News	Someone got Linux running on their iPhone 6S, and so can you https://www.xda-developers.com/someone-got-linux-running-on-their-iphone-6s-and-so-can-you/
[13:38]	TR Bot	 Someone got Linux running on their iPhone 6S, and so can you
[13:38]	TR News	"The community build of Valve's compatibility layer GE-Proton 11-6 is out now, bringing major new features and changes to running Windows games SteamOS / Linux." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/ge-proton-11-6-released-with-updates-for-wayland-ps5-controllers-and-more-upgrades/
[13:38]	TR Bot	11-6 released with updates for Wayland, PS5 Controllers and more upgrades | GamingOnLinux
[13:39]	TR News	SteamOS 3.9 tests hibernation and improves support for PCs and virtual machines https://videocardz.com/newz/steamos-3-9-preview-moves-to-linux-7-2-adds-preliminary-hibernation-support
[13:39]	TR Bot	3.9 Preview moves to Linux 7.2, adds preliminary hibernation support - VideoCardz.com
[13:40]	TR News	8BitDo finally makes installing controller drivers on Linux a breeze with its new website https://www.xda-developers.com/8bitdo-finally-makes-installing-controller-drivers-on-linux-a-breeze-with-its-new-website/
[13:40]	TR Bot	 8BitDo finally makes installing controller drivers on Linux a breeze with its new website
[13:40]	TR News	Someone built a Linux version of CrystalDiskInfo, and you can download it right now https://www.xda-developers.com/someone-built-a-linux-version-of-crystaldiskinfo-and-you-can-download-it-right-now/
[13:41]	TR Bot	 Someone built a Linux version of CrystalDiskInfo, and you can download it right now
[13:41]	TR News	"This is much more of a here be dragons type of release, because a fair amount of the software behind the scenes has seen major version changes." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/steamos-3-9-0-preview-brings-major-updates-to-desktop-mode-linux-kernel-wifi-and-more/
[13:41]	TR Bot	3.9.0 Preview brings major updates to desktop mode, Linux kernel, WiFi and more | GamingOnLinux
[13:42]	TR News	Linux 7.3 is giving my decade-old AMD GPU features it never had on Windows https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-73-is-giving-my-decade-old-amd-gpu-features-it-never-had-on-windows/
[13:42]	TR Bot	 Linux 7.3 is giving my decade-old AMD GPU features it never had on Windows
[13:43]	TR News	"AB 1856 excludes open-source operating systems from the upcoming Digital Age Assurance Act." https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/california-lawmakers-unanimously-pass-linux-exemption-from-age-verification-law-software-distributed-under-the-gpl-mit-bsd-and-apache-licenses-are-exempt
[13:43]	TR Bot	 California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law software distributed under the GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses are exempt | Tom's Hardware
[13:43]	TR News	CachyOS is closing the one gap that used to keep me on Windows https://www.howtogeek.com/cachyos-is-closing-the-gap-windows/
[13:43]	TR Bot	 CachyOS is closing the one gap that used to keep me on Windows
[13:44]	TR News	Asahi Linux nears M3 support release, M4 and M5 are on the way https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/08/29/asahi-linux-nears-m3-support-release-m4-and-m5-are-on-the-way
[13:44]	TR Bot	 Asahi Linux expects M3 support release within weeks
[13:48]	TR News	 (NEW):  SteamOS 3.9.0 Preview https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/30/SteamOS_3_9_0_Preview.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/30/SteamOS_3_9_0_Preview.gmi 
[13:48]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines SteamOS 3.9.0 Preview
[13:49]	TR News	 (NEW):  Games: Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Builds, GE-Proton 11-6, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/30/Games_Steam_Games_with_Native_GNU_Linux_Builds_GE_Proton_11_6_a.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/30/Games_Steam_Games_with_Native_GNU_Linux_Builds_GE_Proton_11_6_a.gmi 
[13:49]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Games: Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Builds, GE-Proton 11-6, and More
[13:51]	TR News	 (NEW):  Today's HowTos   https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/30/today_s_howtos.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/30/today_s_howtos.gmi 
[13:51]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines today's howtos
[13:53]	TR News	 (NEW):  Linux 7.3 and Asahi Linux News https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/30/Linux_7_3_and_Asahi_Linux_News.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/30/Linux_7_3_and_Asahi_Linux_News.gmi 
[13:53]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Linux 7.3 and Asahi Linux News
[13:55]	TR News	 (NEW):  Applications: Audacity 4.0 Beta4 and GNU/Linux Version of CrystalDiskInf https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/30/Applications_Audacity_4_0_Beta4_and_GNU_Linux_Version_of_Crysta.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/30/Applications_Audacity_4_0_Beta4_and_GNU_Linux_Version_of_Crysta.gmi 
[13:55]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Applications: Audacity 4.0 Beta4 and GNU/Linux Version of CrystalDiskInf
[13:56]	TR News	 (NEW):   Programming Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/30/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/30/Programming_Leftovers.gmi 
[13:56]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Programming Leftovers
[13:58]	TR News	 (NEW):  Free Software and Standards https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/30/Free_Software_and_Standards.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/30/Free_Software_and_Standards.gmi 
[13:58]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Free Software and Standards
● Aug 30
[14:00]	TR News	Kernel Leap, AI-Native - openKylin 3.0 Officially Released https://www.openkylin.top/news/4099-en.html
[14:01]	TR Bot	 Kernel Leap, AI-Native - openKylin 3.0 Officially Released-openKylin | 
[14:03]	TR News	 (NEW):  Debian-Based openKylin 3.0 Officially Released https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/30/Debian_Based_openKylin_3_0_Officially_Released.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/30/Debian_Based_openKylin_3_0_Officially_Released.gmi 
[14:03]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Debian-Based openKylin 3.0 Officially Released
[14:08]	TR News	 (NEW):  Linux Hardware Stories https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/30/Linux_Hardware_Stories.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/30/Linux_Hardware_Stories.gmi 
[14:08]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Linux Hardware Stories
[14:15]	TR News	 (NEW):  GNU/Linux Distributions and Operating Systems https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/30/GNU_Linux_Distributions_and_Operating_Systems.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/30/GNU_Linux_Distributions_and_Operating_Systems.gmi 
[14:15]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines GNU/Linux Distributions and Operating Systems
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[14:32]	TR News	Techrights Links 30/08/2026: Soldiers in Niger Attack Presidential Palace and Airport, Nepali City Struggles to Handle the Many Dead Bodies https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/30/Links_30_08_2026_Soldiers_in_Niger_Attack_Presidential_Palace_a.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/30/Links_30_08_2026_Soldiers_in_Niger_Attack_Presidential_Palace_a.gmi 
[14:32]	TR Bot	 Techrights Links 30/08/2026: Soldiers in Niger Attack Presidential Palace and Airport, Nepali City Struggles to Handle the Many Dead Bodies
[14:41]	TR News	They said Mac is easy to use gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/jirka/Phlog/2026_08_01.txt
[14:42]	TR News	THESE BOOTS WERE MADE FOR ROLLING gopher://aussies.space:70/0/~freet/phlog/2026-08-30These_Boots_Were_Made_for_Rolling.txt
[14:55]	TR News	Masks Still in Fashion https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/30/masks-still-in-fashion/
[14:55]	TR Bot	Blog Archive Masks Still in Fashion
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[16:25]	TR News	 (NEW):  GNU/Linux Has Gone Mainstream, Now It's Attacked by Slop https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/30/GNU_Linux_Has_Gone_Mainstream_Now_It_s_Attacked_by_Slop.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/30/GNU_Linux_Has_Gone_Mainstream_Now_It_s_Attacked_by_Slop.gmi 
[16:25]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines GNU/Linux Has Gone Mainstream, Now It's Attacked by Slop
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[16:37]	TR News	Techrights Even Linux Cannot Cope With Slop https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/30/Even_Linux_Cannot_Cope_With_Slop.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/30/Even_Linux_Cannot_Cope_With_Slop.gmi 
[16:37]	TR Bot	 Techrights Even Linux Cannot Cope With Slop
[16:59]	TR News	Techrights What a Summer! https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/30/What_a_Summer.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/30/What_a_Summer.gmi 
[16:59]	TR Bot	 Techrights What a Summer!
● Aug 30
[17:19]	TR News	Techrights Walls in Free Software https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/30/Walls_in_Free_Software.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/30/Walls_in_Free_Software.gmi 
[17:19]	TR Bot	 Techrights Walls in Free Software
[17:24]	TR News	Bruno Fernandes Ends the Manchester United Drought https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/30/bruno-fernandes-ends-the-manchester-united-drought/
[17:24]	TR Bot	Blog Archive Bruno Fernandes Ends the Manchester United Drought
[17:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m1986y0x
[17:25]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m1986y0x )
[17:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[17:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	Is IBM more ruthless than Oracle now?
[17:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	Oracle always had a reputation of being ruthless in regards to job security. Is IBM now worse than Oracle? I know the technology companies are all ruthless including Microsoft, AWS, Google, Salesforce and Oracle. Better job security in general is to work for a customer. No guarantees anywhere of course. But everyone I talked to in the past said Oracle was among the worst. My kids in the past have asked me about working for IBM and
[17:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	 I had to be honest about what they might be getting into.
[17:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[17:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	Corporations arent designed to be these happy places where people hold hands, get along, and cheerlead for the mission. They exist to keep a very small number of people very, very rich based on the sweat, labor, and pain of worker bees like all of us here. This is what I keep in mind every day. Fake it till you make it.
[17:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	So we should just use the resources at these places for our own benefit and then build the confidence and skills to leave on our own terms and conditions. No will care more about your success than you.
[17:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	
[17:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	Alvind and Larry are both slimy.
[17:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[17:27]	TR News	"So for every 100 dollars shed by IBM for RAs IBM has to add 33 bucks to hire in India." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m11z8py6
[17:27]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m11z8py6 )
[17:27]	TR News	"With 600k let go IBM is a powerful engine of Unemployment in the West, gradually acquiring 150k Indians." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m11z8py6
[17:27]	TR News	"This tells you a lot about how many westerners have been laid off to build that massive 150k workforce in India. Between Europe and North America, 600k people have been eliminated over time. Remember that IBM basically a private equity firm that strip mines the companies it acquires and then lays off most of the staff."
[17:27]	TR News	"I agree it has always been 1:1 replacement by India. IBM is trying to show a fake savings through labor arbitrage and a 4:1 ratio wouldn't allow that." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m11z8py6
[17:27]	TR News	"IBM is no longer an American company. But its still wearing that mask." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m11z8py6
[17:52]	TR News	Techrights Salaries Are Counted in Money, Not in Participation in the Employer's Scheme https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/30/Salaries_Are_Counted_in_Money_Not_in_Participation_in_the_Emplo.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/30/Salaries_Are_Counted_in_Money_Not_in_Participation_in_the_Emplo.gmi 
[17:52]	TR Bot	 Techrights Salaries Are Counted in Money, Not in Participation in the Employer's Scheme
[17:58]	TR News	GNU/Linux measured at 12% in Australia yesterday https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=28d&loc=AU&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP
[17:58]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=28d&loc=AU&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP )
[17:59]	TR News	Same in France yesterday https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=28d&loc=FR&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP
[17:59]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=28d&loc=FR&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP )
[17:59]	TR News	And Netherlands https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=28d&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP&loc=NL
[17:59]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=28d&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP&loc=NL )
● Aug 30
[18:06]	TR News	Michael Carrick: We Feel the Love https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/30/michael-carrick-we-feel-the-love/
[18:06]	TR Bot	Blog Archive Michael Carrick: We Feel the Love
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[18:25]	TR News	 (NEW):  PHP RPMs, Flatpak (IBM) Sponsored by German Government, and Red Hat Selling Slop https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/29/PHP_RPMs_Flatpak_IBM_Sponsored_by_German_Government_and_Red_Hat.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/29/PHP_RPMs_Flatpak_IBM_Sponsored_by_German_Government_and_Red_Hat.gmi 
[18:25]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines PHP RPMs, Flatpak (IBM) Sponsored by German Government, and Red Hat Selling Slop
[18:25]	TR News	 (NEW):  GNU/Linux Measured at About 7% in Portugal (Desktops/Laptops) https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/30/GNU_Linux_Measured_at_About_7_in_Portugal_Desktops_Laptops.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/30/GNU_Linux_Measured_at_About_7_in_Portugal_Desktops_Laptops.gmi 
[18:25]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines GNU/Linux Measured at About 7% in Portugal (Desktops/Laptops)
[18:27]	TR News	GNU/Linux 6%, Firefox 1.5% https://analytics.usa.gov/
[18:27]	TR Bot	 The US government's web traffic.
[18:29]	TR News	"The folks behind the Lua programming language maintain a page detailing the release dates of all released versions of the language." gemini://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/~solderpunk/gemlog/lua-as-a-practical-soft-bedrock-language.gmi
[18:30]	TR News	"You feed it some text and it returns you a mangled version that almost makes sense, but not quite. My implementation always begins at the beginning which helps for inputs that start with something recognisable. Project Gutenberg is a good place to get suitable texts." gemini://freeshell.de/gemlog/2026-05-06_Dissociated_Jekyll_And_Hyde.gmi
[18:31]	TR News	"This MCP has no support for `robots.txt`, but at least a rate limiter for Gemini that uses a default of 60 seconds if the return status is `44 Slow Down`, and configurable rate limiting for Gemini and Gopher." gemini://michaelnordmeyer.com/transmissions/2026-08-30-fyi-theres-an-ai-mcp-server-for-the-gemini-protocol-and-gopher.gmi
[18:32]	TR News	"I was a blogger for a long time. You could say that I was blogging before I knew what blogging was." gemini://kunulo.smol.pub/2026-08-30-turn-back-time
[18:34]	TR News	"took these out a week early as well. they don't really "go together" - the italian is more of an end of summer deck while the cat people are fully autumn, so they match the vibes of the month despite not aesthetically gelling together." gemini://dogboy.smol.pub/septemberdecks
[18:44]	TR News	Techrights Links 30/08/2026: Apple Rant and LLM (Slop) Scrapers Target Gemini Protocol and Gopher https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/30/Links_30_08_2026_Apple_Rant_and_LLM_Slop_Scrapers_Target_Gemini.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/30/Links_30_08_2026_Apple_Rant_and_LLM_Slop_Scrapers_Target_Gemini.gmi 
[18:44]	TR Bot	 Techrights Links 30/08/2026: Apple Rant and LLM (Slop) Scrapers Target Gemini Protocol and Gopher
[18:54]	TR News	No Need for Facebook to Share Photos Online https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/30/no-need-for-facebook-to-share-photos-online/
[18:54]	TR Bot	Blog Archive No Need for Facebook to Share Photos Online
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● Aug 30
[19:02]	TR News	"When is the next Microsoft layoff? Microsoft is not hitting Amy's target of 5-10% reduction a year." https://www.teamblind.com/post/when-is-the-next-microsoft-layoff-cvci65of
[19:02]	TR Bot	 When is the next Microsoft layoff? | Tech Industry - Blind
[19:13]	TR News	Techrights Microsoft Layoffs Perpetual But Silent, People Pushed Out Using Pressure or Incentive Schemes https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/30/Microsoft_Layoffs_Perpetual_But_Silent_People_Pushed_Out_Using_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/30/Microsoft_Layoffs_Perpetual_But_Silent_People_Pushed_Out_Using_.gmi 
[19:13]	TR Bot	 Techrights Microsoft Layoffs Perpetual But Silent, People Pushed Out Using Pressure or Incentive Schemes
[19:34]	TR News	Techrights Coding is Not Obsolete https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/30/Coding_is_Not_Obsolete.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/30/Coding_is_Not_Obsolete.gmi 
[19:34]	TR Bot	 Techrights Coding is Not Obsolete
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[19:48]	TR News	Techrights Anniversaries Next Month https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/30/Anniversaries_Next_Month.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/30/Anniversaries_Next_Month.gmi 
[19:48]	TR Bot	 Techrights Anniversaries Next Month
[19:54]	TR News	SFC lost $590,627 last year https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/412203632
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[19:54]	TR Bot	 Software Freedom Conservancy Inc - Nonprofit Explorer - ProPublica
[19:55]	TR News	It's now what it seems https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/11/FOSSY_SFC_Platforming_GAFAM_Sells_Endorsement.shtml
[19:55]	TR Bot	 Techrights FOSSY (SFC) Platforming GAFAM, Sells Endorsement
[19:55]	TR News	And not what it claims, either https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/10/Software_Freedom_Conservancy_SFC_Does_Not_Support_Women_It_Imit.shtml
[19:55]	TR Bot	 Techrights Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) Does Not Support Women, It Imitates Authentic Organisations, Embraces Misogynists, Then Projects
[19:56]	TR News	"The "shy" millionaires don't like it." https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/06/Software_Freedom_Conservancy_SFC_Does_Not_Work_for_Freedom_It_W.shtml
[19:56]	TR Bot	 Techrights Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) Does Not Work for Freedom, It Works to Secure the Massive Salary of Its President And Executive Director
[19:56]	TR News	Bradley M Kuhn Steps Down as Treasurer https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/10/For_Second_Year_in_a_Row_Software_Freedom_Conservancy_SFC_Loses.shtml
[19:56]	TR Bot	 Techrights For Second Year in a Row Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) Loses Money (Over $3,000,000 Lost in 2 Years), Bradley M Kuhn Steps Down as Treasurer
[19:57]	TR News	lost 2.5 million dollars in 2 years
[19:58]	TR News	Latched onto algospeak of bad actors, not people who get work done
[19:59]	TR News	NawaOS 2.0 is out, but controlled by Microsoft in SlopHub https://distrowatch.com/12934
[19:59]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/12934 )
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[20:01]	TR News	Vanilla OS 3 Reunion - Stable Release https://vanillaos.org/blog/article/2026-08-24/vanilla-os-3-reunion---stable-release
[20:01]	TR Bot	 Vanilla OS
[20:01]	TR News	Distribution Release: PorteuX 2.8 https://distrowatch.com/12929
[20:01]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/12929 )
[20:02]	TR News	 (NEW):  Butterbian 0.4.0 (Butterbian-XFCE Release Note) https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/30/Butterbian_0_4_0_Butterbian_XFCE_Release_Note.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/30/Butterbian_0_4_0_Butterbian_XFCE_Release_Note.gmi 
[20:02]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Butterbian 0.4.0 (Butterbian-XFCE Release Note)
[20:12]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2]: So now Mandy claims he's going to hire a lawyer.
[20:12]	IsambardPrince	I laughed at him.
[20:12]	IsambardPrince	He asked what I was laughing about.
[20:12]	IsambardPrince	I said "I don't have anything you can take, but thanks for paying to file the divorce. I was wondering how I was going to cover the filing fee."
[20:19]	admfubar	https://databreaches.net/2026/08/30/cybercriminals-build-fake-school-websites-as-education-attacks-hit-record-high/
[20:19]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://databreaches.net/2026/08/30/cybercriminals-build-fake-school-websites-as-education-attacks-hit-record-high/ )
[20:20]	TR News	 (NEW):  Site Improvements on the Way https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/30/Site_Improvements_on_the_Way.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/30/Site_Improvements_on_the_Way.gmi 
[20:20]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Site Improvements on the Way
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[20:23]	TR News	"Email is hard. SMTP was a simple mail transfer protocol except that now it's a relatively difficult mail protocol with things overlaid on top." It was besieged by surveillance companies like GAFAM to kill rivals. http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/diary/daily/2026-Aug-30.html.en#2026-Aug-30-16:04:30
[20:23]	TR Bot	 Email is hard.
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[20:32]	admfubar	https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/chattjb-the-chat-service-powered-by-ai-average-individuals-14041258.html
[20:32]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/chattjb-the-chat-service-powered-by-ai-average-individuals-14041258.html )
[20:34]	admfubar	https://fossforce.com/2026/08/the-foss-force-interview-with-richard-stallman/
[20:34]	TR Bot	 The FOSS Force Interview With Richard Stallman - FOSS Force
[20:35]	TR News	 (NEW):  The FOSS Force Interview With Richard Stallman https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/30/The_FOSS_Force_Interview_With_Richard_Stallman.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/30/The_FOSS_Force_Interview_With_Richard_Stallman.gmi 
[20:35]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines The FOSS Force Interview With Richard Stallman
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[20:43]	admfubar	from the dept of "whoopsie doodles"... https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/massive-12tb-steam-leak-reveals-decades-of-unreleased-games-archived-files-include-unseen-half-life-2-episode-3-builds-and-assets
[20:43]	TR Bot	 Massive 12TB Steam leak reveals decades of unreleased games archived files include unseen Half-Life 2: Episode 3 builds and assets | Tom's Hardware
[20:46]	admfubar	https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/gaming-laptops/poor-liquid-metal-application-almost-destroys-asus-zephyrus-m16-laptop-eats-through-the-processor-lid-paste-replacement-triples-framerates-drops-temps-and-eliminates-hard-crashes
[20:46]	TR Bot	 Poor liquid metal application almost destroys Asus Zephyrus M16 laptop, eats through the processor lid paste replacement triples framerates, drops temps, and eliminates hard crashes | Tom's Hardware
[20:53]	TR News	Like a Monsoon https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/30/like-a-monsoon/
[20:53]	TR Bot	Blog Archive Like a Monsoon
[20:56]	TR News	"Unfortunately, my plans exceeded my ability to complete them, yet again. It has been so long that even the link aggregator I was posting these on is now gone! I have to figure out what link aggregator people use these days...." gemini://gem.kai.gay/imback.gmi
[20:56]	TR News	Un ao de vivir "annimo" gemini://text.eapl.mx/un-anio-de-vivir-anonimo
[20:57]	TR News	"Over the course of the last few weeks I had the opportunity to discuss a number of things with a friend, among which was the question of rationality." gemini://sojuz.v-tr.org/mumble/on-rationality-nihilism-and-acceptance.gmi
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[20:59]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2]: MinceR Mandy said he had recordings of me shouting and ranting that he'd play for a divorce judge.
[20:59]	IsambardPrince	I said, "Well, I suggest you call Kevin Malia. He's been a defense attorney for over 20 years and he told me not to record anyone because you could go to prison for three years."
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[21:00]	IsambardPrince	"Here's his website and phone number. You can get a free consult if you have any questions."
[21:00]	IsambardPrince	"No divorce attorney is going to play that tape because the first thing  I'd do is file a professional complaint against  them with the bar association and they'll be in trouble with their law license. Then for you, you've just admitted to a felony in front of a judge."
[21:01]	schestowitz[TR2]	 daniel pocock sent a recording to a judge
[21:01]	schestowitz[TR2]	of abusive boss
[21:01]	schestowitz[TR2]	and then they try to destroy that
[21:01]	IsambardPrince	Illinois has a Felony Eavesdropping Act.
[21:01]	schestowitz[TR2]	to cover up the abuse
[21:02]	IsambardPrince	Recording someone without their express consent where there is an expectation of privacy is a Class IV Felony.
[21:02]	admfubar	https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/30/big-tech-hollywood-the-social-reckoning-artificial
[21:02]	TR Bot	 Big tech goes to Hollywood: is Silicon Valley ready for a silver-screen reckoning? | Film | The Guardian
[21:05]	IsambardPrince	Where there is an expectation of privacy means "Anywhere that is not a public area."
[21:05]	IsambardPrince	He then said his friends would "testify that I was behaving oddly at a party"
[21:05]	IsambardPrince	I said "A judge is not going to care that I was depressed and decided to go out to the front porch and have a beer and scroll through Reddit on my phone."
[21:05]	schestowitz[TR2]	"oddly"
[21:05]	schestowitz[TR2]	"he was not talking to everybody"
[21:06]	schestowitz[TR2]	"he was eating too many snacks:"
[21:06]	schestowitz[TR2]	bbl
[21:10]	IsambardPrince	CALL THE WITNESS!
[21:10]	IsambardPrince	"Your honor, should it please the court, he had a couple of egg rolls and sat on a porch reading Reddit posts."
[21:10]	IsambardPrince	GUILTY!!!
[21:15]	admfubar	https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/08/29/0016207
[21:15]	TR Bot	 Uber Hit With a Nearly $1 Billion Fine for Automatically Deactivating Drivers in Europe - SoylentNews
[21:48]	admfubar	https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/30/marmot-winner-fat-marmot-week-contest
[21:48]	TR Bot	 Humongous marmot crowned winner in inaugural Fat Marmot Week contest | US news | The Guardian
[21:51]	IsambardPrince	MinceR: I was remembeering a couple outdoor cats I had.
[21:51]	IsambardPrince	One was Sadie. I built her a dog house that she lived in and I even put roofing tiles on top of it.
[21:51]	IsambardPrince	The other one liked to hang out in the bushes in front of our house. You couldn't pet him because he's scratch you, so I named him Mr. Scratch.
[21:52]	IsambardPrince	(which is a term for the devil)
[21:52]	MinceR	lol
[21:54]	admfubar	https://tedium.co/2026/08/26/self-hosting-third-place-strategy/
[21:54]	TR Bot	 Can Self-Hosting Be Simple? A Mini-PC Experiment
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[22:02]	admfubar	https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-cities-begun-rewarding-drivers-red.html
[22:02]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-cities-begun-rewarding-drivers-red.html )
[22:04]	admfubar	https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-magnetic-memory-edge-ai-faster.html
[22:04]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-magnetic-memory-edge-ai-faster.html )
[22:07]	admfubar	https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-ultrathin-grade-cooling-electric-motor.html
[22:07]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-ultrathin-grade-cooling-electric-motor.html )
[22:22]	admfubar	you know like unicorn farts... https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/08/30/0644253/a-tiny-rainbow-on-a-chip-could-help-supercharge-6g-networks
[22:22]	TR Bot	 A Tiny 'Rainbow On a Chip' Could Help Supercharge 6G Networks - Slashdot
[22:43]	admfubar	https://www.theregister.com/a/5293372
[22:43]	TR Bot	 Researcher shows how Claude Code can be tricked simply by asking it to summarize a website
[22:49]	TR News	 (NEW):  Linus Torvalds Announces First Linux Kernel 7.3 Release Candidate https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/30/Linus_Torvalds_Announces_First_Linux_Kernel_7_3_Release_Candida.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/30/Linus_Torvalds_Announces_First_Linux_Kernel_7_3_Release_Candida.gmi 
[22:49]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Linus Torvalds Announces First Linux Kernel 7.3 Release Candidate
[22:58]	admfubar	https://petapixel.com/2026/08/28/researchers-leave-trail-camera-in-abandoned-house-capture-rare-interactions-between-birds-of-prey/
[22:58]	TR Bot	Leave Trail Camera in Abandoned House, Capture Rare Interactions Between Birds of Prey | PetaPixel
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[23:00]	admfubar	https://petapixel.com/2026/08/28/uk-publishes-misleading-guidance-suggesting-photographers-could-be-arrested-for-taking-pictures-in-public/
[23:00]	TR Bot	Publishes 'Misleading' Guidance Suggesting Photographers Could Be Arrested for Taking Pictures in Public | PetaPixel
[23:01]	admfubar	looks more like the probe the empire used to find rebel bases... https://petapixel.com/2026/08/28/alien-jellyfish-or-camera-glitch-experts-debate-odd-photo-taken-on-mars/
[23:01]	TR Bot	Jellyfish or Camera Glitch? Experts Debate Odd Photo Taken on Mars | PetaPixel
[23:05]	admfubar	https://www.neowin.net/news/the-ceo-of-americas-biggest-surveillance-network-just-got-a-taste-of-his-own-medicine/
[23:05]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.neowin.net/news/the-ceo-of-americas-biggest-surveillance-network-just-got-a-taste-of-his-own-medicine/ )
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[23:59]	IsambardPrince	MinceR: The city wants $53 million dollars to build new parks.
[23:59]	IsambardPrince	That is a no vote from me, as a renter, automatically.
[23:59]	IsambardPrince	Various parks and forest preserve districts want a referendum for bond issues.
[23:59]	IsambardPrince	But these bond issues don't benefit renters much.
[23:59]	IsambardPrince	Renters will pay for them because the landlord will build the tax increase into the rent increases.