●● IRC: #techrights @ Techrights IRC Network: Sunday, August 31, 2025 ●● ● Aug 31 [00:08] TR News 20-year-old ATI Radeon GPUs are still getting driver updates and extensions old ATI Radeon R300 GPUs receive Linux updates from the community https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/20-year-old-ati-radeon-gpus-are-still-getting-driver-updates-and-extensions-old-ati-radeon-r300-gpus-still-getting-linux-updates-from-the-community [00:08] TR Bot 20-year-old ATI Radeon GPUs are still getting driver updates and extensions old ATI Radeon R300 GPUs receive Linux updates from the community | Tom's Hardware [00:09] TR News Wine 10.14 released with library upgrades, network improvements, and bug fixes https://betanews.com/2025/08/30/wine-10-14-released-with-library-upgrades-network-improvements-and-bug-fixes/ [00:09] TR Bot 10.14 released with library upgrades, network improvements, and bug fixes - BetaNews [00:10] TR News LF-funded site does LF puff pieces https://news.itsfoss.com/lf-india-head-interview/ [00:10] TR Bot From Consumer to Contributor: How Linux Foundation India is Shaping the Future of Open Source [00:39] TR News (NEW): It's Almost September https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/30/It_s_Almost_September.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/30/It_s_Almost_September.gmi [00:39] TR Bot Tux Machines It's Almost September [00:42] TR News (NEW): Protecting Nature From Selfish People https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/30/Protecting_Nature_From_Selfish_People.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/30/Protecting_Nature_From_Selfish_People.gmi [00:42] TR Bot Tux Machines Protecting Nature From Selfish People [00:45] MinceR https://crzysdrs.net/dv/victim/157-hi-im-mike-im-a-saveaholic/ [00:45] TR Bot Daily Victim Archive [00:48] TR News Techrights The Slopfarm WebProNews Has Turned Google News Into a Laughing Stock Full of Plagiarism by Slop https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/30/The_Slopfarm_WebProNews_Has_Turned_Google_News_Into_a_Laughing_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/08/30/The_Slopfarm_WebProNews_Has_Turned_Google_News_Into_a_Laughing_.gmi [00:48] TR Bot Techrights The Slopfarm WebProNews Has Turned Google News Into a Laughing Stock Full of Plagiarism by Slop [00:49] TR News (NEW): DSpi: Dual touchscreen Linux handheld powered by a Raspberry Pi https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/30/DSpi_Dual_touchscreen_Linux_handheld_powered_by_a_Raspberry_Pi.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/30/DSpi_Dual_touchscreen_Linux_handheld_powered_by_a_Raspberry_Pi.gmi [00:49] TR Bot Tux Machines DSpi: Dual touchscreen Linux handheld powered by a Raspberry Pi [00:49] TR News (NEW): Ive Daily Driven Garuda Linux for 4 Years. Heres Why Its My Favorite Linux Distro https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/30/I_ve_Daily_Driven_Garuda_Linux_for_4_Years_Here_s_Why_It_s_My_F.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/30/I_ve_Daily_Driven_Garuda_Linux_for_4_Years_Here_s_Why_It_s_My_F.gmi [00:49] TR Bot Tux Machines Ive Daily Driven Garuda Linux for 4 Years. Heres Why Its My Favorite Linux Distro [00:50] TR News (NEW): AYANEO Pocket DS sounds even better, with Linux gaming support https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/30/AYANEO_Pocket_DS_sounds_even_better_with_Linux_gaming_support.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/30/AYANEO_Pocket_DS_sounds_even_better_with_Linux_gaming_support.gmi [00:50] TR Bot Tux Machines AYANEO Pocket DS sounds even better, with Linux gaming support [00:50] TR News (NEW): Why Im Installing This Arch-Based Distro This Weekend https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/30/Why_I_m_Installing_This_Arch_Based_Distro_This_Weekend.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/30/Why_I_m_Installing_This_Arch_Based_Distro_This_Weekend.gmi [00:50] TR Bot Tux Machines Why Im Installing This Arch-Based Distro This Weekend [00:55] *includeals has quit (Quit: ZNC - https://znc.in) [00:55] *includeals (~includeal@2001:8a0:e95a:4e00::2000) has joined #techrights [00:59] TR News GNU/Linux growing in Ecuador https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/ecuador/#monthly-200902-202508 [00:59] TR Bot Desktop Operating System Market Share Ecuador | Statcounter Global Stats ● Aug 31 [01:04] TR News Chrome is way too dominant in some countries, e.g. https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/all/bangladesh/#monthly-200902-202508 [01:04] TR Bot Browser Market Share Bangladesh | Statcounter Global Stats [01:05] TR News Blizzard Entertainment files lawsuit against owners of the fan-developed Turtle WoW servers citing illegal use of official art, code, and more https://www.inkl.com/news/blizzard-entertainment-files-lawsuit-against-owners-of-the-fan-developed-turtle-wow-servers-citing-illegal-use-of-official-art-code-and-more [01:05] TR Bot Blizzard Entertainment files lawsuit against owners of [01:19] TR News Techrights Welcome to the New Techrights https://techrights.org/ | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/ [01:19] TR Bot Techrights Welcome to the New Techrights [01:19] TR News Techrights This is What Google News Has Become https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/31/This_is_What_Google_News_Has_Become.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/08/31/This_is_What_Google_News_Has_Become.gmi [01:19] TR Bot Techrights This is What Google News Has Become [01:22] *Isambard_Prince (~Isambard_Prince@4aaken5uidu9w.irc) has joined #techrights [01:29] TR News Global Wealth Inequality https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-08-28/south-africa-launches-g20-taskforce-to-examine-global-wealth-inequality [01:29] TR Bot stream 1 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2) ( status 0 @ https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-08-28/south-africa-launches-g20-taskforce-to-examine-global-wealth-inequality ) [01:50] Isambard_Prince Don't ever sponsor anyone for immigration. [01:50] Isambard_Prince Not only will they fail to appreciate it, you risk, until they become a citizen or work full time for 10 years, that they will start living off the government and the government might come steal it from you instead of throwing them out of the country like it should. [01:50] *phebus has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [01:51] Isambard_Prince The only thing they care about is getting their papers and then the sex stops the minimal affection they're stringing you along with stops, everything stops. [01:51] Isambard_Prince And then they start hitting you and throwing around the D word (divorce). [01:54] *phebus (~phebus@f95gnd3zj7732.irc) has joined #techrights ● Aug 31 [02:01] TR News Failing companies https://mashdigi.com/en/the-current-number-of-twitter-employees-is-smaller-than-when-it-first-went-public-and-many-american-technology-companies-have-also-experienced-layoffs-of-varying-sizes/ [02:01] TR Bot currently has fewer employees than when it went public, and many US tech companies have also experienced layoffs of varying sizes | mashdigi - Technology, New Products, Interesting News, Trends [02:25] TR News [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1399.jpg [02:25] TR News [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1749.jpg [02:27] TR News "One thing I always have wished that my reMarkable 2 had was web browser. It wouldn't need to be very efficient nor the best browser out there. Just something simple I can use to read definitions for words or other small knowledge when I'm reading articles I've sent to the device." gemini://akselmo.dev/posts/2025-08-31-Netsurf-on-remarkable-2.gmi [02:46] TR News Yesterday's #boycottnovell-social and #techpol IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-300825.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-300825.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-social-300825.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-social-300825.txt [02:46] TR Bot IRC: #boycottnovell-social and #techpol @ Techrights IRC Network: Saturday, August 30, 2025 [02:47] TR News Yesterday's #techrights IRC logs ready. 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[04:59] admfubar https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/30/taco-bell-is-having-second-thoughts-about-relying-on-ai-at-the-drive-through/ [04:59] TR Bot Bell is having second thoughts about relying on AI at the drive-through | TechCrunch [04:59] TR News "DMCA Insanity: $20,000 Bounty Winner Can't Share His Solution" https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/dmca-insanity-20,000-bounty-winner-can't:3 [04:59] TR Bot DMCA Insanity: $20,000 Bounty Winner Can't Share His Solution [04:59] TR News data is money https://odysee.com/@davidbombal:0/he-quit-cybersecurity-after-34-years-%E2%80%94:7 ("He Quit Cybersecurity After 34 Years Heres Why") [04:59] TR Bot He Quit Cybersecurity After 34 Years Heres Why ● Aug 31 [05:00] TR News "A Gentle Introduction to CP/M" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/08/29/0523215 [05:00] TR Bot A Gentle Introduction to CP/M - SoylentNews [05:02] TR News iophk: no company has yet ever survived a partnership with microsoft; RPT might have learned nothing from OLPC https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=391281&sid=b15d66915137b1ced181b2351a488ee4 [05:02] TR Bot What product would you like to see? - Raspberry Pi Forums [05:02] TR News "The capitalism of fools" https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/28/strew-deal/#neither-fish-nor-fowl [05:02] TR Bot Pluralistic: The capitalism of fools (28 Aug 2025) Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow [05:03] TR News "EU-US Trade Deal Threatens EU Corporate Accountability Law | Human Rights Watch" https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/08/29/eu-us-trade-deal-threatens-eu-corporate-accountability-law [05:03] TR Bot EU-US Trade Deal Threatens EU Corporate Accountability Law | Human Rights Watch [05:06] TR News Illinois https://thedissenter.org/illinois-restores-protections-for-press-targeted-with-frivolous-lawsuits/ | Source: The Dissenter [05:06] TR Bot Illinois Restores Press Protections In Anti-SLAPP Law [05:11] TR News "A Chicago jury trial agreed with Motorola in 2020, ordering Hytera to pay nearly $765 million in damages." https://www.courthousenews.com/federal-judge-holds-chinese-telecom-in-contempt-over-failure-to-pay-royalties-to-u-s-rival/ | Source: Court House News [05:11] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.courthousenews.com/federal-judge-holds-chinese-telecom-in-contempt-over-failure-to-pay-royalties-to-u-s-rival/ ) [05:12] TR News "Teresa Ribera's approach to Big Tech violations from predecessor Margrethe Vestager's focus" https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/google-set-to-face-modest-eu-antitrust-fine-in-adtech-investigation-sources-say/articleshow/123601133.cms | Source: India Times [05:12] TR Bot Google set to face modest EU antitrust fine in adtech investigation, sources say - The Economic Times [05:12] TR News "Are you allowed to run whatever computer program you want on the hardware you own?" https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/08/is-it-possible-to-allow-sideloading-and-keep-users-safe/ | Source: Terence Eden [05:12] TR Bot Is it possible to allow sideloading *and* keep users safe? Terence Edens Blog [05:13] TR News "Security enclave processor for a system on a chip" https://patents.google.com/patent/US8832465 | [05:13] TR Bot US8832465B2 - Security enclave processor for a system on a chip - Google Patents [05:13] TR News "Inside every Intel Mac with a T2 chip, and every Apple silicon Mac, is a secure enclave, originally referred to as its security enclave" https://eclecticlight.co/2025/08/30/a-brief-history-of-the-secure-enclave/ | Source: Howard Oakley [05:13] TR Bot A brief history of the Secure Enclave The Eclectic Light Company [05:13] TR News [Old] "Security circuit designed to perform secure services for the rest of the SOC" https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-16/materials/us-16-Mandt-Demystifying-The-Secure-Enclave-Processor.pdf | Source: Black Hat [05:14] TR News "America is repeating its darkest sins: the Army just handed an obscure company $1.2 billion to turn Fort Bliss back into an internment camp." https://boingboing.net/2025/08/29/mystery-firm-to-build-desert-concentration-camp-where-japanese-americans-were-once-interned.html | Source: BoingBoing [05:14] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://boingboing.net/2025/08/29/mystery-firm-to-build-desert-concentration-camp-where-japanese-americans-were-once-interned.html ) [05:14] TR News "The judge granted the preliminary injunction sought by the tribe and a coalition of environmental organizations." https://truthout.org/articles/miccosukee-tribe-won-a-battle-against-alligator-alcatraz-but-the-war-isnt-over/ | Source: TruthOut [05:14] TR Bot Miccosukee Tribe Won a Battle Against Alligator Alcatraz, But the War Isnt Over | Truthout [05:14] TR News "Noncompete clauses force workers to agree not to take a job with a competitor after they leave their position. Theyre often framed as tools to prevent senior executives from taking trade secrets with them." https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/29/employers-want-to-trap-you-in-dead-end-jobs-will-trumps-ftc-let-them/ | Source: Counter Punch [05:14] TR Bot Want to Trap You in Dead-End Jobs. Will Trumps FTC Let Them? - CounterPunch.org [05:14] TR News "In a close election, 1,200 battery plant workers at the BlueOval SK Battery Park in Kentucky voted to join the United Auto Workers this week." https://jacobin.com/2025/08/battery-plant-ford-uaw-election/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine [05:14] TR Bot Kentucky Battery Plant Workers Have Voted to Join the UAW [05:15] TR News "The law offers three weeks of parental and three weeks of postpartum leave." https://www.ksl.com/article/51365952/its-about-time-utah-teachers-now-get-paid-maternity-leave--but-it-comes-with-homework | Source: Deseret Media [05:15] TR Bot about time': Utah teachers now get paid maternity leave but it comes with homework | KSL.com [05:15] TR News "The Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), the Tibetan government-in-exile, has profiled Tibetan political prisoner Lobsang Gephel" https://www.deccanchronicle.com/news/current-affairs/central-tibetan-administration-highlights-plight-of-tibetan-monk-jailed-for-celebrating-dalai-lamas-birthday-1900522 | Source: Deccan Chronicle [05:15] TR Bot Central Tibetan Administration Highlights Plight of Tibetan Monk Jailed For Celebrating Dalai Lama's Birthday [05:16] TR News "The announcement came despite a federal judge ruling that acting CEO Kari Lake could not fire VOA director Michael Abramowitz." https://www.dw.com/en/hundreds-at-voice-of-america-and-parent-company-to-lose-jobs/a-73823031 | Source: Deutsche Welle [05:16] TR Bot at Voice of America and parent company to lose jobs DW 08/31/2025 [05:16] TR News "Closing arguments ended Thursday in the national security trial of Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai, although judges did not say when they would render a verdict." https://www.rfa.org/english/china/2025/08/28/jimmy-lai-hong-kong-closing-arguments/ | Source: RFA [05:16] TR Bot Closing arguments conclude in Hong Kong mogul Jimmy Lais trial Radio Free Asia [05:17] TR News "The State-run West Bengal Urdu Academy, which was all set to hold a four-day festival to celebrate Urdu in Hindi cinema" https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/west-bengal/islamic-groups-opposed-to-inviting-javed-akhtar-force-bengals-urdu-academy-to-call-off-literary-event/article69992880.ece | Source: The Hindu [05:17] TR Bot Islamic groups opposed to inviting Javed Akhtar force Bengals Urdu Academy to call off literary event - The Hindu [05:17] TR News "Last year, Kurds dancing halay at weddings to Kurdish songs became the target of an online campaign fueled by racist and militarist social media accounts." https://anfenglishmobile.com/kurdistan/five-people-including-two-children-sentenced-to-prison-for-spreading-protest-by-dancing-halay-81020 | Source: ANF News [05:17] TR Bot ANF | Five people, including two children, sentenced to prison for spreading protest by dancing halay [05:18] TR News "In 2018, Shane Allen, the BBCs comedy commissioner, suggested Monty Python wouldnt be green-lit now because it was made by six white men from Oxbridge." https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/michael-palin-interview/ | Source: The Telegraph UK [05:18] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/michael-palin-interview/ ) [05:18] TR News "But because its Wikipediaa platform that operates on transparent editing processes and neutral point of view policiessuddenly government intimidation is perfectly fine." https://www.techdirt.com/2025/08/29/house-republicans-want-to-doxx-wikipedia-editors-over-bogus-bias-complaints/ | Source: Techdirt [05:18] TR Bot Republicans Want To Doxx Wikipedia Editors Over Bogus Bias Complaints | Techdirt [05:19] TR News "Prebunking is effective because it provides people with novel facts about how elections are secured" https://phys.org/news/2025-08-prebunking-false-elections.html | Source: Omicron Limited [05:19] TR Bot ( status 422 @ https://phys.org/news/2025-08-prebunking-false-elections.html ) [05:19] TR News "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." https://www.techdirt.com/2025/08/29/trump-goes-full-orwellian-in-effort-to-reshape-the-smithsonian/ | Source: Techdirt [05:19] TR Bot Goes Full Orwellian In Effort To Reshape The Smithsonian | Techdirt [05:19] TR News "would make North Korean leaders like Kim Jong Un or Russian President [Vladimir] Putin blush." https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/how-trumps-cabinet-turned-a-government-meeting-into-a-praise-parade-9188828#publisher=newsstand | Source: NDTV [05:19] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/how-trumps-cabinet-turned-a-government-meeting-into-a-praise-parade-9188828#publisher=newsstand ) [05:20] TR News "The Pax Americana that emerged after World War II and basically ended on January 20, 2025 was, in many ways, an American Empire." https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/decline-and-fall-of-the-american | Source: Paul Krugman [05:20] TR Bot Decline and Fall of the American Empire - Paul Krugman [05:21] Sompi https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia4/brain206.htm [05:21] TR Bot The Effects of Pulsed Microwaves and Extra Low Frequency Electromagnetic Waves on Human Brains? [05:21] TR News "There isnt a single answer to the question about why China can move fast and why we cant, but Wang offers one I havent heard before." https://www.vox.com/the-gray-area/459355/china-us-infrastructure-building-housing-high-speed-rail | Source: Vox [05:21] TR Bot China can build so quickly and America cant | Vox [05:21] TR News "In the annals of technology history, few companies embody the spirit of innovation and resilience quite like NeXT, Inc." https://machaddr.com/blog/articles/2025-08-30-next-inc-story/ | Source: Andr Machado [05:21] TR Bot The Rise and Legacy of NeXT, Inc.: Steve Jobs' Visionary Venture [05:21] TR News "Companies privatize gains and socialize losses." https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2025/everything-flows-from-economics-it-shouldnt | Source: Cory Dransfeldt [05:21] TR Bot Everything flows from economics. It shouldn't. Cory Dransfeldt [05:22] TR News "Intel accepted the deal, and now the federal government owns a nearly 10 percent nonvoting stake in the company." https://jacobin.com/2025/08/intel-trump-chips-act-layoffs-tech/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine [05:22] TR Bot Intel Is Laying Off Workers While Raking In Public Largesse [05:22] TR News "The loss of winter sea ice in Antarctica over just the past decade is similar to what the Arctic has lost over the last 46 years." https://www.wired.com/story/antarctica-is-changing-rapidly-with-dire-consequences-for-the-world/ | Source: Wired [05:22] TR Bot Is Changing Rapidly. The Consequences Could Be Dire | WIRED [05:25] TR News Scottish Maclean brothers set new record row across Pacific https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/30/scottish-brothers-escape-death-new-record-row-pacific/ [05:25] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/30/scottish-brothers-escape-death-new-record-row-pacific/ ) [05:25] TR News "A new study, Emerging Evidence of Abrupt Changes in the Antarctic Environment, Nature, August 20, 2025 serves to highlight other recent warnings." https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/29/antarctica-on-alert/ | Source: Counter Punch [05:25] TR Bot on Alert! - CounterPunch.org [05:26] TR News "This is not just a retail space. It is a municipality-led experiment in circular consumption, where everything sold has been donated by the public." https://phys.org/news/2025-08-sweden-secondhand-mall-retail.html | Source: Omicron Limited [05:26] TR Bot ( status 422 @ https://phys.org/news/2025-08-sweden-secondhand-mall-retail.html ) [05:26] TR News "As we continue to pump astronomical amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, nearly a third of it gets absorbed by the ocean, gradually making its water more acidic." https://futurism.com/sharks-teeth-dissolve | Source: Futurism [05:26] TR Bot As Ocean Water Gets Worse, Sharks' Teeth Start to Dissolve [05:29] TR News "Copilot will be added to eligible screens automatically." https://www.pcmag.com/news/you-can-now-talk-to-copilot-on-samsung-tvs-and-monitors | Source: PC Mag [05:29] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.pcmag.com/news/you-can-now-talk-to-copilot-on-samsung-tvs-and-monitors ) [05:30] TR News "Copilot will automatically appear on supported Samsung TVs, where youll find it within the Samsung Tizen OS homescreen, Samsung Daily Plus, and Click to Search." https://www.theverge.com/news/767078/microsoft-samsung-tv-copilot-ai-assistant-launch | Source: The Verge [05:30] TR Bot Microsofts Copilot AI is now inside Samsung TVs and monitors | The Verge [05:30] TR News Spyware https://news.samsung.com/us/samsung-brings-microsoft-copilot-2025-tvs-monitors-unlocking-smarter-on-screen-experiences/ | Source: Samsung [05:30] TR Bot Samsung Brings Microsoft Copilot to 2025 TVs and Monitors [05:30] TR News "For Microsoft, the release of these AI-powered features are cause for celebration, finally delivering on promises of an AI-powered world that the company first made a year ago." https://www.pcworld.com/article/2739587/windows-recall-is-too-risky-for-your-pc-i-cant-recommend-it.html | Source: PC World [05:30] TR Bot Recall is too risky for your PC. I can't recommend it | PCWorld [05:31] TR News "This information is sent to the cloud a secure online data storage area to be analysed by AI algorithms that can detect subtle heart problems a human would miss." https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/30/doctors-ai-stethoscope-heart-disease-london | Source: The Guardian UK [05:31] TR Bot Doctors develop AI stethoscope that can detect major heart conditions in 15 seconds | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian [05:31] TR News "Cybersecurity experts report that attackers are deploying various social engineering techniques." https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/google-urges-gmail-users-act-fast-one-worlds-most-dangerous-hacker-groups-launch-new-attack-1742622 | Source: International Business Times [05:31] TR Bot Google Urges Gmail Users To Act Fast As 'One Of World's Most Dangerous' Hacker Groups Launch New Attack | IBTimes UK [05:32] TR News "According to Yahoo News, the group behind the attack, known as ShinyHunters, is notorious for targeting major companies including AT&T Wireless, Microsoft, and Ticketmaster." https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/gmail-breach-warning-why-changing-your-password-alone-wont-protect-you-1742638 | Source: International Business Times [05:32] TR Bot Gmail Breach Warning: Why Changing Your Password Alone Won't Protect You | IBTimes UK [05:32] TR News "Even with Google's robust security measures, hackers can still gain unauthorised access to your account." https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/google-gmail-data-breach-how-tell-if-youve-been-hacked-what-do-1742604 | Source: International Business Times [05:32] TR Bot Google Gmail Data Breach: How To Tell if You've Been Hacked and What to Do | IBTimes UK [05:34] TR News "Theres two separate bits of vibe coding in this hack one that let the hack in, and one the hack itself uses." https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/29/vibe-coded-build-system-nx-gets-hacked-steals-vibe-coders-crypto/ | Source: Pivot to AI [05:34] TR Bot Vibe-coded build system NX gets hacked, steals vibe-coders crypto Pivot to AI [05:34] TR News "Rolling Stone spoke to several tech and AI experts about the best ways to spot AI content at least for now." https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/artificial-intelligence-how-to-tell-1235416668/ | Source: Rolling Stone [05:34] TR Bot AI Experts Reveal How to Spot Generated Content [05:35] TR News "In April this year, a 16-year-old teenager was found dead in his house in the US." https://www.deccanchronicle.com/southern-states/telangana/oversharing-with-ai-dangerous-experts-1900369 | Source: Deccan Chronicle [05:35] TR Bot Oversharing With AI Dangerous: Experts [05:35] TR News "The order bots are only trained on generic media accents." https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/30/taco-bell-rethinks-ai-order-bots-because-they-dont-work/ | Source: Pivot to AI [05:35] TR Bot Taco Bell rethinks AI order bots because they dont work Pivot to AI [05:36] TR News "Now, thanks to Trisha Thadani and Faiz Siddiqui, of the Washington Post, we know more about what happened behind the scenes: [...]" https://pxlnv.com/linklog/tesla-crash-recording/ | Source: Nick Heer [05:36] TR Bot Tesla Had Fatal Crash Recording, but Only Disclosed It After a Third-Party Hacker Recovered a Copy From the Car Pixel Envy [05:36] TR News "Fortunately for me, a much lighter story that touches on many of the same issues hit around the same time." https://tedium.co/2025/08/30/ai-safety-fast-food-lessons/ | Source: Tedium [05:36] TR Bot Fast Food, AI, And Why Guardrails Matter [05:36] TR News "The list it created read; 1) Misinformation and Deepfakes, 2) Job Displacement, 3) Bias Amplification, 4) Erosion of Creativity, 5) Security Risks, 6) Undermining Education, 7) Social Manipulation, 8) Loss of Human Agency, 9) Privacy Invasion and 10) Economic Inequality." https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/29/is-chatgpt-warning-us-of-an-existential-threat-that-generative-ai-poses/ | Source: Counter Punch [05:36] TR Bot ChatGPT Warning us of an Existential Threat that Generative AI Poses? - CounterPunch.org [05:37] TR News "At the time of writing, the most recent Adobe Reader 25.x.y.z 64-bit installer for Windows 11 weights 687,230,424 bytes." https://sigwait.org/~alex/blog/2025/08/25/zw6z4E.html | [05:37] TR Bot Alexander Gromnitsky's Blog :: 2025-08-25 :: The Size of Adobe Reader Installers Through The Years [05:37] TR News "This is the 105th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs." https://manuelmoreale.com/pb-courtney | Source: Manuel Moreale [05:37] TR Bot P&B: Courtney Manu [05:38] TR News "A newly uncovered Christian cross on Sir Bani Yas Island sheds light on the UAEs early Christian presence and enduring religious coexistence." https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/middle-east/uae-remarkably-preserved-7th-century-christian-cross-unearthed-on-abu-dhabis-sir-bani-yas-island/articleshow/123397659.cms | Source: India Times [05:38] TR Bot UAE: Remarkably preserved 7th-century Christian cross unearthed on Abu Dhabis Sir Bani Yas Island | World News - Times of India [05:38] TR News "This year, for the first time in about three decades, archaeologists conducted a comprehensive excavation on Sir Bani Yas." https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-christian-cross-found-in-abu-dhabi-illuminates-the-lives-of-monks-who-lived-1400-years-ago-180987248/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine [05:38] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-christian-cross-found-in-abu-dhabi-illuminates-the-lives-of-monks-who-lived-1400-years-ago-180987248/ ) [05:39] TR News "Its the same with my blog. I write because I love to write. If I tried chasing trends or writing for clicks, Id lose interest fast. So would the readers." https://birming.com/2025/08/30/passion-doesnt-shout/ | Source: Robert Birming [05:39] TR Bot doesnt shout | Robert Birming [05:42] TR News "Before we cover multiple testing scenarios, its useful to understand how Gos test harness actually runs your tests." https://rednafi.com/go/lifecycle_management_in_tests/ | Source: Redowan Delowar [05:42] TR Bot Lifecycle management in Go tests | Redowan's Reflections [05:42] TR News "Argparse is the standard Python module for handling (Unix style) command line options, in the expected way (which not all languages follow)." https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/python/ArgparseMultipleLongOptions | Source: University of Toronto [05:43] TR Bot You're using a too-old browser [05:43] *SomeGoat has quit (connection closed) [05:43] TR News [Old] "On July 13th 2005, Jacob Kaplan-Moss made the first commit to the public repository that would become Django." https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/jul/13/happy-20th-birthday-django/ | [05:43] TR Bot Happy 20th birthday Django! | Weblog | Django [05:43] TR News "I got this question from a reader: How to import an RIS or bib-export file from Zotero (Reference Manager)" https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/08/how-to-import-zotero-files-and-convert-the-data-into-a-bibliographic-class/ | Source: Rlang [05:43] TR Bot to import Zotero files and convert the data into a bibliographic class | R-bloggers [05:44] TR News "People get so hung up on using the latest and greatest that they never stop to consider (a) what it is theyre hoping to achieve with that approach" https://rubenerd.com/sysadmin-work-and-design-shouldnt-be-so-difficult/ | Source: Ruben Schade [05:44] TR Bot Sysadmin work and design shouldnt be so difficult [05:44] TR News "Out of all the different Git interfaces out there I have used so far,1 the best one has been Magit." https://blog.sulami.xyz/posts/jujutsu/ | Source: Robin Schroer [05:44] TR Bot jj is the better Git CLI [05:44] TR News "Yet, Scala 3, the language, does not move in the direction of more monadic IO, but rather in the direction of direct style" https://alexn.org/blog/2025/08/29/scala-gamble-with-direct-style/ | Source: Alexandru Nedelcu [05:44] TR Bot Scala's Gamble with Direct Style - Alexandru Nedelcu [05:48] TR News (NEW): Programming Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/31/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/31/Programming_Leftovers.gmi [05:48] TR Bot Tux Machines Programming Leftovers [05:50] TR News Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-08-31.gmi [05:55] TR News Techrights Links 31/08/2025: Google Gmail Data Breach and LF Puff Pieces for Pay https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/31/Links_31_08_2025_Google_Gmail_Data_Breach_and_LF_Puff_Pieces_fo.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/08/31/Links_31_08_2025_Google_Gmail_Data_Breach_and_LF_Puff_Pieces_fo.gmi [05:55] TR Bot Techrights Links 31/08/2025: Google Gmail Data Breach and LF Puff Pieces for Pay ● Aug 31 [06:09] TR News "it's static so I can check out a git commit" https://hamatti.org/posts/static-sites-enable-a-good-time-travel-experience/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala [06:09] TR Bot Static sites enable a good time travel experience : Juha-Matti Santala [06:10] TR News "We're taking a stand, choosing humans over hype, and we will not turn the joy of exploring into inactive spectatorship" https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/28/vivaldi_capo_doubles_down_on/ | Source: The Register UK [06:10] TR Bot Vivaldi browser capo doubles down on generative AI ban The Register [06:10] TR News "wireless service unit" https://boston.conman.org/2025/08/29.1 | Source: Sean Conner [06:10] TR Bot Some more notes on the wireless service unit - The Boston Diaries - Captain Napalm [06:11] TR News "Here is the second 2025 status report, with 32 entries." https://www.freebsd.org/status/report-2025-04-2025-06/ | Source: FreeBSD [06:11] TR Bot FreeBSD Status Report Second Quarter 2025 | The FreeBSD Project [06:12] TR News "I was able to get FreeDOS networking to work on it, so Haiku should find it a doddle." https://darrengoossens.wordpress.com/2025/08/30/haiku-os-on-an-old-imac/ | Source: Darren Goossens [06:12] TR Bot Haiku OS on an old iMac DSPACE [06:13] *Isambard_Prince has quit (Quit: Leaving) [06:13] TR News "Since late April, we havent really heard much about System76s eagerly anticipated new desktop environment" https://linuxiac.com/system76-cosmic-desktop-hits-initial-setup-completion/ | Source: Linuxiac [06:13] TR Bot System76s COSMIC Desktop Hits Initial Setup Completion [06:14] TR News "Videogames are one of the most creative art forms, theyve been present in my life since I have a memory, in a variety of eras and platforms." https://joelchrono.xyz/blog/top-25-games-of-all-time/ | Source: Joel Chrono [06:14] TR Bot Top 25 Games Of All Time [06:14] TR News "But can it run Doom?" https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/29/30_years_snes_doom/ | Source: The Register UK [06:14] TR Bot 30 years later, Doom is back on the Super Nintendo The Register [06:17] TR News "I am learning enough about IPv6 to be able to understand and run my home network with it. I am by no means an expert." https://jan.wildeboer.net/2025/08/SimpleIPv6AtHome/ | Source: Jan Wildeboer [06:17] TR Bot IPv6 at home my simple solution - Jan Wildeboers Blog [06:17] TR News "Anyways, thanks for reading, and happy hacky browsing!" https://akselmo.dev/posts/netsurf-on-remarkable-2/ | Source: Akseli Lahtinen [06:17] TR Bot NetSurf on reMarkable 2 [06:17] TR News "The Wine Project, a compatibility layer renowned for enabling Linux and macOS users to run Windows applications, has officially released version 10.14 as the fourteenth maintenance update to the stable 10.x series." https://linuxiac.com/wine-10-14-released-with-vkd3d-1-17-mono-10-2/ | Source: Linuxiac [06:17] TR Bot Wine 10.14 Released with vkd3d 1.17, Mono 10.2 [06:19] TR News How To Install PyCharm on Rocky GNU/Linux 10 https://idroot.us/install-pycharm-rocky-linux-10/ [06:19] TR Bot How To Install PyCharm on Rocky Linux 10 - idroot [06:19] TR News How To Install Monitorix on Debian 13 https://idroot.us/install-monitorix-debian-13/ [06:19] TR Bot How To Install Monitorix on Debian 13 - idroot [06:20] TR News How To Install MongoDB on Rocky GNU/Linux 10 https://idroot.us/install-mongodb-rocky-linux-10/ [06:20] TR Bot How To Install MongoDB on Rocky Linux 10 - idroot [06:20] TR News How To Install MongoDB Compass on Rocky GNU/Linux 10 https://idroot.us/install-mongodb-compass-rocky-linux-10/ [06:20] TR Bot How To Install MongoDB Compass on Rocky Linux 10 - idroot [06:21] TR News How to import Zotero files and convert the data into a bibliographic class https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/08/how-to-import-zotero-files-and-convert-the-data-into-a-bibliographic-class/ [06:22] TR News 410 Error: What It Is and How to Fix It https://linuxhostsupport.com/blog/410-error-what-it-is-and-how-to-fix-it/ [06:22] TR Bot Error: What It Is and How to Fix It | LinuxHostSupport [06:23] TR News GNOME Foundation Executive Director Out After 4 Months https://lunduke.substack.com/p/gnome-foundation-executive-director [06:23] TR Bot GNOME Foundation Executive Director Out After 4 Months [06:23] TR News More tilting trike designs found https://bkhome.org/news/202508/more-tilting-trike-designs-found.html [06:23] TR Bot More tilting trike designs found [06:24] TR News (NEW): Today's HowTos https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/31/today_s_howtos.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/31/today_s_howtos.gmi [06:24] TR Bot Tux Machines today's howtos [06:26] TR News noyb WIN: YouTube ordered to honour users right of access https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-win-youtube-ordered-honour-users-right-access [06:26] TR Bot noyb WIN: YouTube ordered to honour users right of access [06:27] TR News Ravi Dwivedi: Installing Debian With Btrfs and Encryption https://ravidwivedi.in/posts/installing-debian-with-btrfs-and-encryption/ [06:27] TR Bot Installing Debian With Btrfs and Encryption [06:29] TR News Steinar H. Gunderson: Bruteforcing pwgen passwords http://blog.sesse.net/blog/tech/2025-08-30-10-56_bruteforcing_pwgen_passwords.html [06:29] TR Bot Steinar H. Gunderson [06:30] TR News Plotting UK Maps with ggplot2 v0.0.4 https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/08/plotting-uk-maps-with-ggplot2-v0-0-4/ [06:30] TR Bot UK Maps with ggplot2 v0.0.4 | R-bloggers [06:30] TR News New R Package TheseusPlot: Visualizing Decomposition of Differences in Rate Metrics https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/08/new-r-package-theseusplot-visualizing-decomposition-of-differences-in-rate-metrics/ [06:30] TR Bot R Package TheseusPlot: Visualizing Decomposition of Differences in Rate Metrics | R-bloggers [06:33] TR News This updated backdoored Windows 11 clone is GNU/Linux underneath and makes your old PC run faster -- get it now https://betanews.com/2025/08/29/this-updated-windows-11-clone-is-linux-underneath-and-makes-your-old-pc-run-faster-get-it-now/ [06:33] TR Bot updated Windows 11 clone is Linux underneath and makes your old PC run faster - get it now - BetaNews [06:35] TR News Single Docker Container Generated 20 GB of Log. Here's How I Reclaimed Disk Space https://linuxhandbook.com/docker-log-space-issue/ [06:35] TR Bot Docker Logs Taking Too Much Disk Space? Here's How to Fix it [06:36] TR News LHB GNU/Linux Digest #25.24: Learning Corners, apropos, Proxmox Monitoring, Handling Huge Log with Docker https://linuxhandbook.com/newsletter/25-24/ [06:36] TR Bot LHB Linux Digest #25.24: Learning Corners, apropos, Proxmox Monitoring, Handling Huge Log with Docker [06:36] TR News Learn GNU/Linux Quickly https://linuxhandbook.com/ebooks/learn-linux-quickly/ [06:36] TR Bot Learn Linux Quickly: eBook for Beginners [06:37] TR News Learn Docker Quickly https://linuxhandbook.com/ebooks/learn-docker-quickly/ [06:37] TR Bot Learn Docker Quickly: eBook for Beginners [06:37] TR News Learn Ansible Quickly https://linuxhandbook.com/ebooks/learn-ansible-quickly/ [06:37] TR Bot Learn Ansible Quickly: eBook for Beginners [06:37] TR News Learn Bash Quickly https://linuxhandbook.com/ebooks/learn-bash-quickly/ [06:37] TR Bot Learn Bash Quickly: eBook for Beginners [06:41] TR News Kubernetes v1.34: Finer-Grained Control Over Container Restarts https://kubernetes.io/blog/2025/08/29/kubernetes-v1-34-per-container-restart-policy/ [06:41] TR Bot Kubernetes v1.34: Finer-Grained Control Over Container Restarts | Kubernetes [06:43] TR News (NEW): A Decade of Kubernetes and v1.34 Release https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/28/A_Decade_of_Kubernetes_and_v1_34_Release.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/28/A_Decade_of_Kubernetes_and_v1_34_Release.gmi [06:43] TR Bot Tux Machines A Decade of Kubernetes and v1.34 Release [06:43] TR News "When I connect to GCP backdoored Windows hosts with default configuration I get 640x480 desktop." http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/diary/daily/2025-Aug-30.html.en#2025-Aug-30-20:21:28 [06:43] TR Bot Changing Chrome Remote Desktop desktop size in GCP Windows. [06:44] TR News Critical digital literacy: A key competency in combating hate speech and disinformation https://bianet.org/yazi/critical-digital-literacy-a-key-competency-in-combating-hate-speech-and-disinformation-310977 [06:44] TR Bot Critical digital literacy: A key competency in combating hate speech and disinformation [06:45] TR News Raju Devidas: Fixing Auto-Rotate screen orientation on PostmarketOS devices running MATE DE https://raju.dev/fixing-auto-rotate-screen-orientation-on-postmarketos-devices-running-mate-de/ [06:45] TR Bot Fixing Auto-Rotate screen orientation on PostmarketOS devices running MATE DE [06:46] TR News How to Install Discourse on Raspberry PI: Self-Hosted and Modern Forum Platform https://peppe8o.com/how-to-install-discourse-on-raspberry-pi-self-hosted-and-modern-forum-platform/ [06:46] TR Bot How to Install Discourse on Raspberry PI: Self-Hosted and Modern Forum Platform [06:47] TR News Meanderer trike toe and Ackerman fine-tuning https://bkhome.org/news/202508/meanderer-trike-toe-and-ackerman-fine-tuning.html [06:47] TR Bot Meanderer trike toe and Ackerman fine-tuning [06:48] TR News Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang claims $600B in annual capital spending wait, what? https://siliconangle.com/2025/08/29/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-claims-600b-annual-capital-spending-wait/ [06:48] TR Bot CEO Jensen Huang claims $600B in annual capital spending wait, what? - SiliconANGLE [06:49] TR News Gaming on the Framework Desktop: Impressive https://boilingsteam.com/gaming-on-the-framework-desktop/index.html [06:49] TR Bot Gaming on the Framework Desktop: Impressive [06:51] TR News Tumbleweed Review of the week 2025/35 https://dominique.leuenberger.net/blog/2025/08/tumbleweed-review-of-the-week-2025-35/ [06:51] TR Bot Tumbleweed Review of the week 2025/35 Dominique a.k.a. 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[07:54] Isambard_Prince It's such utter horseshit. [07:55] Isambard_Prince This is a new kind of bloat. [07:55] Isambard_Prince Oh, did I mention Mandy is sleeping on the floor in the bedroom that I'm not in now? He's in a sleeping bag. [07:55] Isambard_Prince I have no idea why. [07:55] Isambard_Prince Also, it's my fault he gets no sleep even though he goes to bed at 12 and wakes up at 4 because of the singing into the night for people in some other country. [07:56] Isambard_Prince On his phone. [07:56] Isambard_Prince And he punched me in the face repeatedly and tore up our wedding album yesterday morning. [07:58] Isambard_Prince I doubt he's bothered to change his life insurance beneficiary at work to someone else because he probably has no idea he has life insurance at work or what a beneficiary is. [07:58] Isambard_Prince I'm not going to mention it. He'd probably go change it to his sister. [07:59] Isambard_Prince But having 4 hours sleep a night by choice is not healthy. It's how you have a stroke. ● Aug 31 [08:00] Isambard_Prince He's quickly becoming a major liability. [08:56] TR News (NEW): DXVK 2.7.1 Fixes MSAA, Boosts D3D9 Game Performance https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/31/DXVK_2_7_1_Fixes_MSAA_Boosts_D3D9_Game_Performance.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/31/DXVK_2_7_1_Fixes_MSAA_Boosts_D3D9_Game_Performance.gmi [08:56] TR Bot Tux Machines DXVK 2.7.1 Fixes MSAA, Boosts D3D9 Game Performance ● Aug 31 [09:00] *psydroid3 (~psydroid@36imbvshpgubk.irc) has joined #techrights [09:03] TR News (NEW): : Google Android Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/31/Android_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/31/Android_Leftovers.gmi [09:03] TR Bot Tux Machines Android Leftovers [09:04] *superkuh has quit (Ping timeout: 258 seconds) [09:18] *superkuh (~superkuh@user/superkuh) has joined #techrights [09:40] TR News (NEW): Stable kernels: Linux 6.16.4, Linux 6.12.44, Linux 6.6.103, Linux 6.1.149, Linux 5.15.190, Linux 5.10.241 and Linux 5.4.297 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/31/Stable_kernels_Linux_6_16_4_Linux_6_12_44_Linux_6_6_103_Linux_6.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/31/Stable_kernels_Linux_6_16_4_Linux_6_12_44_Linux_6_6_103_Linux_6.gmi [09:40] TR Bot Tux Machines Stable kernels: Linux 6.16.4, Linux 6.12.44, Linux 6.6.103, Linux 6.1.149, Linux 5.15.190, Linux 5.10.241 and Linux 5.4.297 ● Aug 31 [10:07] *liberty_box has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [10:07] *rianne has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [10:08] *rianne has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) [10:17] TR News "I have a tonne of songs in my #Apple Music library, but it feels like it's only shuffling the same hundred or so tracks. #Spotify felt way better in this " https://kevquirk.com/notes/20250829-1934 [10:17] TR Bot 29 August 2025 at 19:34 | Kev Quirk [10:18] TR News "Measuring Nanoparticles By Scattering A Laser" https://hackaday.com/2025/08/30/measuring-nanoparticles-by-scattering-a-laser/ | Source: Hackaday [10:18] TR Bot Nanoparticles By Scattering A Laser | Hackaday [10:20] TR News "Open-Source Fix For Mic Mishaps" https://hackaday.com/2025/08/30/silent-no-more-open-source-fix-for-mic-mishaps/ | Source: Hackaday [10:20] TR Bot No More: Open-Source Fix For Mic Mishaps | Hackaday [10:20] *rianne (~rianne@freenode-f21.brm.nqbf2d.IP) has joined #techrights [10:20] *rianne (~rianne@afngqknbrkxie.irc) has joined #techrights [10:20] TR News "Network policies | Libera Chat" https://libera.chat/policies/ censorship policies [10:20] TR Bot Network policies | Libera Chat [10:23] *Isambard_Prince has quit (connection closed) [10:36] *liberty_box (~liberty@afngqknbrkxie.irc) has joined #techrights [10:43] TR News US makes it harder for chipmakers to run fabs in China amid new Alibaba processor reports https://siliconangle.com/2025/08/29/us-makes-harder-chipmakers-run-fabs-china-amid-new-alibaba-processor-reports/ [10:43] TR Bot makes it harder for chipmakers to run fabs in China amid new Alibaba processor reports - SiliconANGLE [10:47] TR News "One of the interesting things about Prusas FDM 3D printers is the availability of official upgrade kits" https://hackaday.com/2025/08/30/does-it-make-sense-to-upgrade-a-prusa-mark-4s-to-a-core-one/ | Source: Hackaday [10:47] TR Bot It Make Sense To Upgrade A Prusa MK4S To A Core One? | Hackaday [10:48] TR News Sysadmin work and design shouldnt be so difficult https://rubenerd.com/sysadmin-work-and-design-shouldnt-be-so-difficult/ [10:48] TR Bot Sysadmin work and design shouldnt be so difficult [10:49] TR News Security updates for Friday https://lwn.net/Articles/1035724/ [10:49] TR Bot updates for Friday [LWN.net] [10:50] TR News Bcachefs goes to "externally maintained" https://lwn.net/Articles/1035736/ [10:50] TR Bot goes to "externally maintained" [LWN.net] [10:51] TR News Bitnami Ends Free, Stable Images Users Forced to Migrate or Pay https://linuxiac.com/bitnami-ends-free-stable-images-users-forced-to-migrate-or-pay/ [10:51] TR Bot Bitnami Ends Free, Stable Images Users Forced to Migrate or Pay [10:53] TR News Armbian 25.8.1 Released with Kernel 6.16, Debian 13 Support https://linuxiac.com/armbian-25-8-1-released-with-kernel-6-16-debian-13-support/ [10:53] TR Bot Armbian 25.8.1 Released with Kernel 6.16, Debian 13 Support [10:53] TR News Fwupd 2.0.14 Brings RHEL 9/10 Build Support, UEFI Fixes https://linuxiac.com/fwupd-2-0-14-brings-rhel-9-10-build-support-uefi-fixes/ [10:53] TR Bot Fwupd 2.0.14 Brings RHEL 9/10 Build Support, UEFI Fixes [10:54] TR News New Movie Python: The Documentary Traces the Languages Story https://linuxiac.com/new-movie-python-the-documentary-traces-the-languages-story/ [10:54] TR Bot New Movie Python: The Documentary Traces the Languages Story [10:54] TR News Immich 1.140 Photo and Video Backup Adds Background Sync https://linuxiac.com/immich-1-140-photo-and-video-backup-adds-background-sync/ [10:54] TR Bot Immich 1.140 Photo and Video Backup Adds Background Sync [10:55] TR News DXVK 2.7.1 Fixes MSAA, Boosts D3D9 Game Performance https://linuxiac.com/dxvk-2-7-1-fixes-msaa-boosts-d3d9-game-performance/ [10:55] TR Bot DXVK 2.7.1 Fixes MSAA, Boosts D3D9 Game Performance [10:56] TR News Niri 25.08: New Logo, Screen Reader Support, and Wayland Improvements https://linuxiac.com/niri-25-08-new-logo-screen-reader-support-and-wayland-improvements/ [10:56] TR Bot Niri 25.08: New Logo, Screen Reader Support, and Wayland Improvements [10:56] TR News "FPGA Brings UNIX V1 To The DEC J-11" https://hackaday.com/2025/08/30/fpga-brings-unix-v1-to-the-dec-j-11/ | Source: Hackaday [10:56] TR Bot Brings UNIX V1 To The DEC J-11 | Hackaday [10:59] TR News Pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai's trial ends https://www.dw.com/en/hong-kong-pro-democracy-tycoon-jimmy-lai-s-trial-ends/a-73791390 [10:59] TR Bot Kong: Pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai's trial ends DW 08/28/2025 ● Aug 31 [11:01] TR News Hong Kong: What's next for Jimmy Lai as his trial wraps up? 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DW 08/28/2025 [11:07] TR News US Flight Attendants Are Fed up Like Their Air Canada Peers. Here's Why They Aren't Likely to Strike https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2025-08-21/us-flight-attendants-are-fed-up-like-their-air-canada-peers-heres-why-they-arent-likely-to-strike [11:07] TR Bot stream 1 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2) ( status 0 @ https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2025-08-21/us-flight-attendants-are-fed-up-like-their-air-canada-peers-heres-why-they-arent-likely-to-strike ) [11:11] TR News "The union says it's set to get worse" https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-revenue-agency-call-centre-job-cuts-1.7615306 [11:11] TR Bot Fed-up Canadians say no one at CRA is taking their call. The union says it's set to get worse | CBC News [11:11] *liberty_box has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [11:11] TR News sexist content https://www.dw.com/en/italian-platform-s-sexist-content-targets-meloni-and-others/a-73801917 [11:11] TR Bot platform's sexist content targets Meloni and others DW 08/28/2025 [11:12] *rianne has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [11:12] TR News Is Canada's economy in trouble? https://www.cbc.ca/radio/frontburner/young-people-can-t-find-jobs-is-canada-s-economy-in-trouble-1.7617438 [11:12] TR Bot Young people can't find jobs. Is Canada's economy in trouble? | CBC Radio [11:13] TR News Canada Post lost $407M in 2nd quarter https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-post-revenue-loss-second-quarter-4007-billion-1.7617856 [11:13] TR Bot Canada Post lost $407M in 2nd quarter, says customers seeking out other parcel carriers | CBC News [11:13] *rianne has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) [11:38] TR News Budget plans https://www.dw.com/en/france-budget-plans-throw-government-into-crisis-yet-again/a-73775965 [11:38] TR Bot Budget plans throw government into crisis yet again DW 08/27/2025 [11:41] *itech (~itech@g4fkpdw9jnnwn.irc) has joined #techrights [11:45] itech how can you protect birds when MinceR keeps posting cats pics? [11:46] schestowitz[TR2] we protect them from cats also [11:46] schestowitz[TR2] sometimes by chasing hem up the road [11:47] itech :) [11:48] TR News Killed is passive form. What killed them? Who killed them? https://www.dw.com/en/children-killed-in-minneapolis-school-shooting-police/a-73786077 [11:48] TR Bot shooting: FBI probes possible act of terror DW 08/27/2025 [11:49] TR News DW says "his": "Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara told the media that the shooter, in his early twenties, fired bullets into the Annunciation Church as dozens of students were at Mass." [11:51] TR News Seems they changed the headline ● Aug 31 [12:03] TR News Cox Fires Back Against Lower Court Infringement Liability Ruling, Warns of ISPs Being Held Responsible for Literally Everything Bad That Happens on the Internet https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/08/29/cox-communications-opening-brief/ [12:03] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/08/29/cox-communications-opening-brief/ ) [12:04] TR News Border Security with USA: Brussels ready to give deep access to biometric data in EU states https://digit.site36.net/2025/08/29/enhanced-border-security-partnership-with-usa-brussels-ready-to-give-deep-access-to-biometric-data-in-eu-states/ [12:04] TR Bot "Border Security" with USA: Brussels ready to give deep access to biometric data in EU states | Matthias Monroy [12:06] TR News Quantum internet is possible using standard Internet protocol University engineers send quantum signals over fiber lines without losing entanglement https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/quantum-computing/quantum-internet-is-possible-using-standard-internet-protocol-university-engineers-send-quantum-signals-over-fiber-lines-without-losing-entanglement [12:06] TR Bot Quantum internet is possible using standard Internet protocol University engineers send quantum signals over fiber lines without losing entanglement | Tom's Hardware [12:08] TR News DietPi August 2025 Update Goes Trixie and Prepares Forky https://linuxgizmos.com/dietpi-august-2025-update-goes-trixie-and-prepares-forky/ [12:08] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/dietpi-august-2025-update-goes-trixie-and-prepares-forky/ ) [12:08] TR News GOWIN-Based Tiny $14 FPGA Board with 1.5K LUTs, 96 Kb SRAM, and Onboard Debugger https://linuxgizmos.com/gowin-based-tiny-14-fpga-board-with-1-5k-luts-96-kb-sram-and-onboard-debugger/ [12:08] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/gowin-based-tiny-14-fpga-board-with-1-5k-luts-96-kb-sram-and-onboard-debugger/ ) [12:09] TR News OnLogic Karbon 521 Rugged Industrial PC Powered by defective chip maker Intel Core Ultra https://linuxgizmos.com/onlogic-karbon-521-rugged-industrial-pc-powered-by-intel-core-ultra/ [12:09] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/onlogic-karbon-521-rugged-industrial-pc-powered-by-intel-core-ultra/ ) [12:09] TR News AAEON MIX-MTLD1 Delivers defective chip maker Intel Core Ultra and OOB Management to Mini-ITX https://linuxgizmos.com/aaeon-mix-mtld1-delivers-intel-core-ultra-and-oob-management-to-mini-itx/ [12:09] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/aaeon-mix-mtld1-delivers-intel-core-ultra-and-oob-management-to-mini-itx/ ) [12:12] TR News The Slopfarm WebProNews Has Turned Surveillance Giant Google News Into a Laughing Stock Full of Plagiarism by Slop https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/30/The_Slopfarm_WebProNews_Has_Turned_Google_News_Into_a_Laughing_.shtml [12:12] TR Bot Techrights The Slopfarm WebProNews Has Turned Google News Into a Laughing Stock Full of Plagiarism by Slop [12:12] TR News This is What Surveillance Giant Google News Has Become https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/31/This_is_What_Google_News_Has_Become.shtml [12:12] TR Bot Techrights This is What Google News Has Become [12:13] TR News Catbird 3.5.0 released https://distrowatch.com/catbird [12:13] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/catbird ) [12:13] TR News Robolinux 14.1 also released https://distrowatch.com/robolinux [12:13] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/robolinux ) [12:19] TR News (NEW): PuppEX Trixie64 (Puppy Linux) - compatible with Debian 13 - with LXQt 2.1 as DE :: Build 250829 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/31/PuppEX_Trixie64_Puppy_Linux_compatible_with_Debian_13_with_LXQt.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/31/PuppEX_Trixie64_Puppy_Linux_compatible_with_Debian_13_with_LXQt.gmi [12:19] TR Bot Tux Machines PuppEX Trixie64 (Puppy Linux) - compatible with Debian 13 - with LXQt 2.1 as DE :: Build 250829 [12:22] TR News Computing simplified coverage polygons https://www.volkerkrause.eu/2025/08/30/simplified-coverage-polygons.html [12:22] TR Bot Computing simplified coverage polygons [12:24] TR News I'm going to the grocery story, so if you wake up from your nap and I'm not here, that's where I will be at. gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2025/08/30.1 [12:35] *liberty_box (~liberty@afngqknbrkxie.irc) has joined #techrights [12:35] *rianne (~rianne@afngqknbrkxie.irc) has joined #techrights [12:35] *rianne (~rianne@freenode-f21.brm.nqbf2d.IP) has joined #techrights [12:41] TR News Anthropic Settles the Authors Class Action on Training Data: What It Means for Fair Use, Compensation, and Competition https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/08/anthropic-compensation-competition.html [12:41] TR Bot Anthropic Settles the Authors Class Action on Training Data: What It Means for Fair Use, Compensation, and Competition | Patently-O [12:42] TR News Sony Musics Ceremony of Roses Sues Over Counterfeit Benson Boone Merch But Can Bootleggers Truly Be Decommissioned? https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/08/29/benson-boone-ceremony-of-roses-lawsuit/ [12:42] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/08/29/benson-boone-ceremony-of-roses-lawsuit/ ) [12:44] TR News Recommended Reading: The Trademark Reporter, July-August 2025 Issue http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/08/recommended-reading-trademark-reporter.html [12:44] TR Bot The TTABlog: Recommended Reading: The Trademark Reporter, July-August 2025 Issue [12:45] TR News Remote Work on the Chopping Block: How Union Exclusion Reshapes USPTO Employment https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/08/chopping-exclusion-employment.html [12:45] TR Bot Remote Work on the Chopping Block: How Union Exclusion Reshapes USPTO Employment | Patently-O [12:45] TR News Samsung and Surveillance Giant Google Join Growing Chorus Challenging USPTOs Unlawful PTAB Changes https://patentprogress.org/2025/08/samsung-and-google-join-growing-chorus-challenging-usptos-unlawful-ptab-changes/ [12:45] TR Bot Samsung and Google Join Growing Chorus Challenging USPTOs Unlawful PTAB Changes - Patent Progress [12:53] TR News DuckRun chrome dino game clone https://www.linuxlinks.com/duckrun-chrome-dino-game-clone/ [12:53] TR Bot - chrome dino game clone - LinuxLinks [12:53] TR News Announcement of LibreOffice 25.8.1 https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/08/29/announcement-of-libreoffice-25-8-1/ [12:53] TR Bot Announcement of LibreOffice 25.8.1 - The Document Foundation Blog [12:54] TR News How To Install Erlang on Rocky GNU/Linux 10 https://idroot.us/install-erlang-rocky-linux-10/ [12:54] TR Bot How To Install Erlang on Rocky Linux 10 - idroot [12:54] TR News How To Install Figma on Fedora 42 https://idroot.us/install-figma-fedora-42/ [12:54] TR Bot How To Install Figma on Fedora 42 - idroot [12:55] TR News How To Install Duf on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS https://idroot.us/install-duf-ubuntu-24-04/ [12:55] TR Bot How To Install Duf on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS - idroot [12:56] TR News How to Finally Fix Your Tables in Typst PDFs (using {gt} tables) https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/08/how-to-finally-fix-your-tables-in-typst-pdfs-using-gt-tables/ [12:56] TR Bot to Finally Fix Your Tables in Typst PDFs (using {gt} tables) | R-bloggers [12:57] TR News Falsely assumes everyone uses Windows, not explicit about it https://www.tomshardware.com/software/how-to-transfer-and-share-files-over-a-network-without-a-usb-flash-drive-and-with-just-one-line-of-code [12:57] TR Bot How to transfer and share files over a network without a USB flash drive and with just one line of code | Tom's Hardware [12:57] TR News How to avoid scams when booking last-minute holidays https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/how-to-avoid-scams-when-booking-last-minute-holidays-a118r3A8SoIG [12:57] TR Bot How to avoid scams when booking last minute holidays - 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[14:43] MinceR (cat) https://ircz.de/p/25072221 [14:43] TR Bot WHOOPSIE ● Aug 31 [15:32] Sompi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTNCYrLEezA [15:32] TR Bot https://yt.oelrichsgarcia.de/watch?v=HTNCYrLEezA [15:32] TR Bot not resolve host: yt.oelrichsgarcia.de ( status 0 @ https://yt.oelrichsgarcia.de/watch?v=HTNCYrLEezA ) [15:32] Sompi "You can't help to get a very bad sinking feeling when realize just how big a deal it is with the current development of things. If the last optical media options disappear, then physical media will go down with it. Then we are at the mercy of an industry that seem to hate their customers ever more. [15:32] Sompi At this point I fear that only a total collapse of the internet would bring back any sort of ownership and physical media." [15:37] Sompi [15:38] Sompi When optical disks disappear, we don't have removable storage at all... and no, USB sticks are not an answer, because they are not storage medias. They are standalone devices, small computers with their own firmware, CPU memory and everything. And the "storage" in them is NOT removable - it is an integral part of that device. 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[16:29] TR Bot settles with FTC over allegations it inflated its AI detectors capabilities | CyberScoop [16:31] TR News [Proprietary] LTS Qt 6.5.10 Released https://www.qt.io/blog/commercial-lts-qt-6.5.10-released [16:31] TR Bot Commercial LTS Qt 6.5.10 Released [16:32] TR News Socialism is when taxpayers are forced to buy a dying company https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/intel-confirms-it-has-already-received-usd5-7-billion-from-us-government-cfo-claims-the-deal-was-to-halt-the-sale-of-its-chip-fabs [16:32] TR Bot Intel confirms it has already received $5.7 billion from US government, CFO claims the deal was to halt the sale of its chip fabs | Tom's Hardware [16:32] TR News Intel, Samsung, and SK hynix hit by another abrupt US policy change government revokes waivers for advanced chipmaking tools at companies' China-based fabs https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/intel-samsung-and-sk-hynix-hit-by-another-abrupt-us-policy-change-government-revokes-waivers-for-advanced-chipmaking-tools-at-companies-china-based-fabs [16:32] TR Bot Intel, Samsung, and SK hynix hit by another abrupt US policy change government revokes waivers for advanced chipmaking tools at companies' China-based fabs | Tom's Hardware [16:33] TR News Japan should debate cap for foreign residents, government report says https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/japan-should-debate-cap-for-foreign-residents-government-report-says [16:33] TR Bot Japan should debate cap for foreign residents, government report says | The Straits Times [16:35] TR News 1,400W for CPU should not be allowed. Those companies help cook the planet. https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amds-sp7-platform-could-enable-cpus-with-up-to-1-400w-of-peak-power-consumption-chillers-tested-to-keep-heat-in-check [16:35] TR Bot AMD's SP7 platform could enable CPUs with up to 1,400W of peak power consumption chillers tested to keep heat in check | Tom's Hardware [16:36] schestowitz[TR2] psydroid2: ^ [16:36] TR News China Is Trying to Expand Its Social Safety Net. Yet Many Chinese Are Worried. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/world/asia/china-social-security.html [16:36] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/world/asia/china-social-security.html ) [16:37] TR News Targeting Irans Leaders, Israel Found a Weak Link: Their Bodyguards https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/us/politics/israel-iran-assassination.html "following the cellphones carried by members of their security forces." [16:37] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/us/politics/israel-iran-assassination.html ) [16:47] TR News This Week in GNOME: #214 Managing Tasks https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/08/twig-214/ [16:47] TR Bot #214 Managing Tasks [16:50] TR News GSoC 2025 Final Project Blog: Developing Karton, the KDE Virtual Machine Manager! https://kenoi.dev/blogs/2025-08-28/ [16:50] TR Bot GSoC 2025 Final Project Blog: Developing Karton, the KDE Virtual Machine Manager! | kenoi [16:50] TR News NetPeek is a New, User-Friendly Network Scanner for GNU/Linux https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/08/netpeek-linux-network-scanner-gui-alternative-nmap [16:50] TR Bot NetPeek is a New, User-Friendly Network Scanner for Linux - OMG! Ubuntu [16:51] TR News Bitwig Studio 6 Beta Brings Major Workflow Improvements https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/08/bitwig-studio-6-beta-changes-linux-daw [16:51] TR Bot Bitwig Studio 6 Beta Brings Major Workflow Improvements - OMG! Ubuntu [16:51] TR News Oreon 10-2507.1 is out https://distrowatch.com/oreon [16:51] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/oreon ) [16:52] TR News Linuxfx 11.25.09 also out https://distrowatch.com/linuxfx [16:52] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/linuxfx ) [16:54] TR News LibreOffice 25.8.1 Office Suite Is Already Out with More Than 90 Bug Fixes https://9to5linux.com/libreoffice-25-8-1-office-suite-is-already-out-with-more-than-90-bug-fixes [16:54] TR Bot 25.8.1 Office Suite Is Already Out with More Than 90 Bug Fixes - 9to5Linux [16:54] TR News DXVK 2.7.1 Brings Improvements for Team Fortress 2, Crysis 3, and Other Games https://9to5linux.com/dxvk-2-7-1-brings-improvements-for-team-fortress-2-crysis-3-and-other-games [16:54] TR Bot 2.7.1 Brings Improvements for Team Fortress 2, Crysis 3, and Other Games - 9to5Linux [16:54] TR News Bluestar 6.16.4 is out https://distrowatch.com/bluestar [16:54] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/bluestar ) [16:55] TR News Armbian 25.8 Released with Support for GNU/Linux Kernel 6.16 and Debian Trixie https://9to5linux.com/armbian-25-8-released-with-support-for-linux-kernel-6-16-and-debian-trixie [16:55] TR Bot 25.8 Released with Support for Linux Kernel 6.16 and Debian Trixie - 9to5Linux [16:55] TR News Fwupd 2.0.14 Adds Support for Framework QMK Devices, SteelSeries Arctis Nova 3P https://9to5linux.com/fwupd-2-0-14-adds-support-for-framework-qmk-devices-steelseries-arctis-nova-3p [16:55] TR Bot 2.0.14 Adds Support for Framework QMK Devices, SteelSeries Arctis Nova 3P - 9to5Linux [16:56] TR News The Fourth Snapshot Release of Ubuntu 25.10 is Out! https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/08/the-fourth-snapshot-release-of-ubuntu-25-10-is-out/ [16:56] TR Bot The Fourth Snapshot Release of Ubuntu 25.10 is Out! | UbuntuHandbook [16:56] TR News Voyager 25.10-alpha4 is out https://distrowatch.com/voyager [16:56] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/voyager ) [16:57] TR News Firefoxs On-Device Hey Hi (AI) Features Now Up to 10x Faster https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/08/firefoxs-on-device-ai-features-are-now-up-to-10x-faster [16:57] TR Bot Firefox's On-Device AI Features Now Up to 10x Faster - OMG! Ubuntu [16:59] TR News (NEW): Release notes for the Genode OS Framework 25.08 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/31/Release_notes_for_the_Genode_OS_Framework_25_08.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/31/Release_notes_for_the_Genode_OS_Framework_25_08.gmi [16:59] TR Bot Tux Machines Release notes for the Genode OS Framework 25.08 ● Aug 31 [17:00] TR News GTK 4.20 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/tags/4.20.0 [17:00] TR Bot Making sure you're not a bot! [17:00] TR News Slopwatch: Fake Articles About "Linux", Slop Images in VentureBeat, 'Linux' Foundation Spam Made With LLM Slop and Slop Images https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/29/Slopwatch_Fake_Articles_About_Linux_Slop_Images_in_VentureBeat_.shtml [17:00] TR Bot Techrights Slopwatch: Fake Articles About "Linux", Slop Images in VentureBeat, Linux Foundation Spam Made With LLM Slop and Slop Images [17:01] TR News Slopwatch: Fake Articles About "Linux", Surveillance Giant Google Helps Ponzi Schemes and Slopfarms in Surveillance Giant Google News https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/29/Slopwatch_Fake_Articles_About_Linux_Google_Helps_Ponzi_Schemes_.shtml [17:01] TR Bot Techrights Slopwatch: Fake Articles About "Linux", Google Helps Ponzi Schemes and Slopfarms in Google News [17:01] TR News Birds Are Not "Pests and Vermin", Privacy is Not a Crime, and GNU/Linux is Not 'Hacking Platform' https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/30/Birds_Are_Not_Pests_and_Vermin_Privacy_is_Not_a_Crime_and_GNU_L.shtml [17:01] TR Bot Techrights Birds Are Not "Pests and Vermin", Privacy is Not a Crime, and GNU/Linux is Not 'Hacking Platform' [17:01] TR News Slopwatch: Surveillance Giant Google News Assisting Plagiarism and Anti-Linux FUD, Serial Slopper Rips Off Linux-Centric Journalists https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/30/Slopwatch_Google_News_Assisting_Plagiarism_and_Anti_Linux_FUD_S.shtml [17:01] TR Bot Techrights Slopwatch: Google News Assisting Plagiarism and Anti-Linux FUD, Serial Slopper Rips Off Linux-Centric Journalists [17:02] TR News KDE Plasma finally brings a feature users have been requesting for 22 years https://www.neowin.net/news/kde-plasma-finally-brings-a-feature-users-have-been-requesting-for-22-years/ [17:02] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.neowin.net/news/kde-plasma-finally-brings-a-feature-users-have-been-requesting-for-22-years/ ) [17:03] TR News remarklint check Markdown code style https://www.linuxlinks.com/remarklint-check-markdown-code-style/ [17:03] TR Bot - check Markdown code style - LinuxLinks [17:03] TR News Clickfraud Spamnil running paid-form SPAM for Microsoft, as of course he would! https://tfir.io/database-independence-why-microsofts-documentdb-move-signals-the-end-of-vendor-lock-in/ [17:03] TR Bot Database Independence: Why Microsoft's DocumentDB Move Signals the End of Vendor Lock-in - TFiR [17:06] TR News (NEW): GNOME Loses Head Again, This Week in GNOME https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/31/GNOME_Loses_Head_Again_This_Week_in_GNOME.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/31/GNOME_Loses_Head_Again_This_Week_in_GNOME.gmi [17:06] TR News (NEW): Today's HowTos https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/31/today_s_howtos.1.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/31/today_s_howtos.1.gmi [17:06] TR Bot Tux Machines GNOME Loses Head Again, This Week in GNOME [17:06] TR Bot Tux Machines today's howtos [17:08] *SomeGoat (~SomeGoat@r9ruxqydtdctn.irc) has joined #techrights [17:11] TR News (NEW): Applications: LHB GNU/Linux Digest, NetPeek, Bitwig Studio 6 Beta, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/31/Applications_LHB_GNU_Linux_Digest_NetPeek_Bitwig_Studio_6_Beta_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/31/Applications_LHB_GNU_Linux_Digest_NetPeek_Bitwig_Studio_6_Beta_.gmi [17:11] TR Bot Tux Machines Applications: LHB GNU/Linux Digest, NetPeek, Bitwig Studio 6 Beta, and More [17:11] TR News (NEW): KDE Reports and KDE Development https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/31/KDE_Reports_and_KDE_Development.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/31/KDE_Reports_and_KDE_Development.gmi [17:11] TR Bot Tux Machines KDE Reports and KDE Development [17:12] TR News Radxa OS Debian-based GNU/Linux distribution https://www.linuxlinks.com/radxa-os-debian-based-linux-distribution/ [17:12] TR Bot OS - Debian-based Linux distribution - LinuxLinks [17:12] TR News 7 Best Free and Open Source Zsh Configuration Frameworks https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-zsh-configuration-frameworks/ [17:12] TR Bot Best Free and Open Source Zsh Configuration Frameworks - LinuxLinks [17:12] TR News ownCloud content collaboration, file-sharing, and file-syncing https://www.linuxlinks.com/owncloud-content-collaboration-file-sharing-file-syncing/ [17:12] TR Bot - content collaboration, file-sharing, and file-syncing - LinuxLinks [17:13] TR News Diurnals get daily Todoist notifications https://www.linuxlinks.com/diurnals-daily-todoist-notifications/ [17:13] TR Bot - get daily Todoist notifications - LinuxLinks [17:15] TR News Fedora Community Blog: Infra and RelEng Update Week 35 https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/infra-and-releng-update-week-35-2/ [17:15] TR Bot Infra and RelEng Update - Week 35 Fedora Community Blog [17:16] TR News CentOS Board Welcomes David Duncan https://blog.centos.org/2025/08/centos-board-welcomes-david-duncan/ [17:16] TR Bot Board Welcomes David Duncan Blog.CentOS.org [17:16] TR News This Week in Plasma: Saved clipboard items and tablet touch rings https://blogs.kde.org/2025/08/30/this-week-in-plasma-saved-clipboard-items-and-tablet-touch-rings/ [17:16] TR Bot This Week in Plasma: Saved clipboard items and tablet touch rings - KDE Blogs [17:18] TR News (NEW): Fedora and CentOS Updates https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/31/Fedora_and_CentOS_Updates.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/31/Fedora_and_CentOS_Updates.gmi [17:18] TR Bot Tux Machines Fedora and CentOS Updates [17:19] TR News (NEW): Games: Gaming on the Framework Desktop, Top 25 Games Of All Time, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/31/Games_Gaming_on_the_Framework_Desktop_Top_25_Games_Of_All_Time_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/31/Games_Gaming_on_the_Framework_Desktop_Top_25_Games_Of_All_Time_.gmi [17:19] TR Bot Tux Machines Games: Gaming on the Framework Desktop, Top 25 Games Of All Time, and More [17:23] TR News Allan Day: Thanks and farewell to Steven Deobald https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2025/08/29/thanks-and-farewell-to-steven-deobald/ [17:23] TR Bot Thanks and farewell to Steven Deobald Form and Function [17:24] TR News UK Steam users must register a credit card to unlock game titles with adult content UKs Online Safety Act requires blocking minors from accessing mature content https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/uk-steam-users-must-register-credit-card-for-adult-content [17:24] TR Bot UK Steam users must register a credit card to unlock game titles with adult content UKs Online Safety Act requires blocking minors from accessing mature content | Tom's Hardware [17:32] TR News pgFormatter v5.7 has been released https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pgformatter-v57-has-been-released-3125/ [17:32] TR Bot PostgreSQL: pgFormatter v5.7 has been released [17:37] TR News Azure exclusivity = FRAUD. Microsoft pays this Scam Altman (staff) outfit to become fake 'CLIENT'... circular financing https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/openai-and-microsofts-contract-negotiations-threaten-investment-and-potential-ipo-companies-battle-over-agi-secrecy-and-azure-exclusivity [17:37] TR Bot OpenAI and Microsoft's contract negotiations threaten investment and potential IPO companies battle over AGI secrecy and Azure exclusivity | Tom's Hardware [17:38] TR News Microsoft sued again for copyright infringement disguised as "AI" https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/news-publisher-ai-deals-lawsuits-openai-google/ [17:38] TR Bot News generative AI deals revealed: Who is suing, who is signing? [17:40] TR News GSoC 2025: Expanding OSS-Fuzz Integration Across KDE Libraries (Final Update) https://azharmomin.me/posts/gsoc-2025-expanding-oss-fuzz-integration-across-kde-libraries-final-blog/ [17:40] TR Bot GSoC 2025: Expanding OSS-Fuzz Integration Across KDE Libraries (Final Update) | Azhar Momin [17:40] TR News My GSoC 2025 Journey - Part 2 https://shubshinde.bearblog.dev/my-gsoc-2025-journey-part-2/ [17:40] TR Bot My GSoC 2025 Journey - Part 2 | Shubham's Blog [17:41] TR News Google Summer of Code 2025 Reports: Asynchronous I/O Framework http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/gsoc2025_asynchronous_i_o_framework [17:41] TR Bot NetBSD Blog [17:43] TR News (NEW): GSoC (Google Summer of Code) Reports From NetBSD and KDE https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/31/GSoC_Google_Summer_of_Code_Reports_From_NetBSD_and_KDE.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/31/GSoC_Google_Summer_of_Code_Reports_From_NetBSD_and_KDE.gmi [17:43] TR Bot Tux Machines GSoC (Google Summer of Code) Reports From NetBSD and KDE [17:44] TR News Non-IP En Banc: Federal Circuit Limits Federal Procurement Protests https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/08/federal-procurement-protests.html [17:44] TR Bot Non-IP En Banc: Federal Circuit Limits Federal Procurement Protests | Patently-O [17:45] TR News Marbury in the Trade Context: CAFed Declares Convicted Felons Tariffs Illegal, but Limits Relief https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/08/marbury-context-declares.html [17:45] TR Bot Marbury in the Trade Context: CAFed Declares Trumps Tariffs Illegal, but Limits Relief | Patently-O [17:45] TR News Power Shift at Patent Office: Senior PTAB Leaders Reassigned in Surprise Move https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/08/leaders-reassigned-surprise.html [17:45] TR Bot Power Shift at Patent Office: Senior PTAB Leaders Reassigned in Surprise Move | Patently-O [17:46] TR News GNOME Executive Director Steps Down After Four Months https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steven-Deobald-Steps-Down http://techrights.org/n/2025/08/30/GNOME_Having_a_Meltdown_Again.shtml [17:46] TR Bot Executive Director Steps Down After Four Months - 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cmus lyric player - LinuxLinks [17:53] TR News Fedinspect analyse Fediverse servers https://www.linuxlinks.com/fedinspect-analyse-fediverse-servers/ [17:53] TR Bot - analyse Fediverse servers - LinuxLinks [17:53] TR News Super-linter collection of linters and code analyzers https://www.linuxlinks.com/super-linter-collection-linters-code-analyzers/ [17:53] TR Bot - collection of linters and code analyzers - LinuxLinks [17:56] TR News Hong Kong lawyer date leaves woman with HK$80,000 bill in suspected dine-and-dash https://hongkongfp.com/2025/08/29/hong-kong-lawyer-date-leaves-woman-with-hk80000-bill-in-suspected-dine-and-dash/ [17:56] TR Bot HK lawyer date leaves woman with HK$80k bill in suspected dine-and-dash [17:57] TR News Baggage Tag Scam https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/08/baggage-tag-scam.html [17:57] TR Bot Tag Scam - Schneier on Security ● Aug 31 [18:03] TR News SONOFF CAM-PT2 indoor security camera review with eWeLink, ONVIF-capable NVR, Home Assistant https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/08/31/sonoff-cam-pt2-indoor-security-camera-review-ewelink-onvif-nvr-home-assistant/ [18:03] TR Bot SONOFF CAM-PT2 indoor security camera review with eWeLink, ONVIF-capable NVR, Home Assistant - CNX Software [18:03] TR News Fusion Chime Vision An ESP32-powered smart doorbell system (Crowdfunding) https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/08/29/fusion-chime-vision-esp32-smart-doorbell-system/ [18:03] TR Bot Fusion Chime Vision - An ESP32-powered smart doorbell system (Crowdfunding) - CNX Software [18:05] TR News Everyones talking about the new Fairphone (Gen. 6) https://www.fairphone.com/en/2025/08/29/new-fairphone-gen-6-reviews/ [18:05] TR Bot talking about the new Fairphone (Gen. 6) - Fairphone [18:06] TR News ESP32-S3-AUDIO-Board smart speaker devkit features a dual mic array, LCD/camera connectors, RGB LEDs https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/08/30/esp32-s3-audio-board-smart-speaker-devkit-dual-mic-array-lcd-camera-rgb-leds/ [18:06] TR Bot ESP32-S3-AUDIO-Board smart speaker devkit features a dual mic array, LCD/camera connectors, RGB LEDs - CNX Software [18:06] TR News Portland Welcomes WordCamp US 2025: A Community Gathering https://wordpress.org/news/2025/08/portland-welcomes-wcus-2025/ [18:06] TR Bot Portland Welcomes WordCamp US 2025: A Community Gathering WordPress News [18:07] TR News Sipeed NanoKVM Pro A 4K IP-KVM with ATX and Desk versions, PiKVM/NanoKVM firmware support https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/08/29/sipeed-nanokvm-pro-a-4k-ip-kvm-with-atx-and-desk-versions-pikvm-nanokvm-firmware-support/ [18:07] TR Bot Sipeed NanoKVM Pro A 4K IP-KVM with ATX and Desk versions, PiKVM/NanoKVM firmware support - CNX Software [18:08] TR News Adafruit Fruit Jam An RP2350 mini computer running classic Macintosh https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/08/27/adafruit-fruit-jam-a-rp2350-mini-computer-running-classic-macintosh/ [18:08] TR Bot Adafruit Fruit Jam An RP2350 mini computer running classic Macintosh - CNX Software [18:14] TR News "Most people who want to use Linux alongside Windows or macOS go straight for the classic solution: dual-booting." https://www.howtogeek.com/reasons-i-keep-linux-in-a-docker-container-instead-of-dual-booting/ [18:14] TR Bot 4 Reasons I Keep Linux In a Docker Container Instead of Dual-Booting [18:14] TR News "Gaming on Linux might not be quite equal to gaming on Windows yet, but with a few small free, open-source programs, you can get pretty close. Here are a few of my long-time favorites for gaming on Linux, whether you're using a laptop or a high-powered desktop." https://www.howtogeek.com/open-source-apps-for-linux-gamers/ [18:14] TR Bot 6 Must-Have Open-Source Apps for Linux Gamers [18:14] TR News (NEW): After switching to Linux, I finally stopped believing the myth that intimidated me https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/31/After_switching_to_Linux_I_finally_stopped_believing_the_myth_t.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/31/After_switching_to_Linux_I_finally_stopped_believing_the_myth_t.gmi [18:15] TR Bot Tux Machines After switching to Linux, I finally stopped believing the myth that intimidated me [18:16] TR News (NEW): GNU/Linux Devices or Modding-Friendly Hardware https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/31/GNU_Linux_Devices_or_Modding_Friendly_Hardware.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/31/GNU_Linux_Devices_or_Modding_Friendly_Hardware.gmi [18:16] TR Bot Tux Machines GNU/Linux Devices or Modding-Friendly Hardware [18:17] *phebus has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [18:18] TR News (NEW): Why Use Static Site Generators (SSG) and WordCamp US 2025 Coverage https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/31/Why_Use_Static_Site_Generators_SSG_and_WordCamp_US_2025_Coverag.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/31/Why_Use_Static_Site_Generators_SSG_and_WordCamp_US_2025_Coverag.gmi [18:18] TR Bot Tux Machines Why Use Static Site Generators (SSG) and WordCamp US 2025 Coverage [18:23] TR News (NEW): Debian and Security Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/31/Debian_and_Security_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/31/Debian_and_Security_Leftovers.gmi [18:23] TR Bot Tux Machines Debian and Security Leftovers [18:24] TR News "Added a new zine to the zine page, Crosslane Station -- a collection of microfictions about some sods on a space station on an important patch of the middle of nowhere." gemini://taichara.smol.pub/crosslane [18:27] *phebus (~phebus@f95gnd3zj7732.irc) has joined #techrights [18:27] TR News the darkness gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/the_darkness [18:28] TR News "I thought the line of development from "Software Tools", through Pascal, Ada-83, the Ada Software Repository, Public Ada Library finished with the tools I resurrected for Alire. However, there was further development after this time and it's basically exactly what I was trying to do in the last post" gemini://republic.circumlunar.space/users/dbane/gemlog/2025-08-31.gmi [18:31] TR News (NEW): Web Browsers: Vivaldi Bans Ponzi Scheme and Buzzwords, Mozilla Does Not https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/31/Web_Browsers_Vivaldi_Bans_Ponzi_Scheme_and_Buzzwords_Mozilla_Do.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/31/Web_Browsers_Vivaldi_Bans_Ponzi_Scheme_and_Buzzwords_Mozilla_Do.gmi [18:31] TR Bot Tux Machines Web Browsers: Vivaldi Bans Ponzi Scheme and Buzzwords, Mozilla Does Not [18:33] TR News (NEW): Programming With R and pgFormatter v5.7 Released https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/31/Programming_With_R_and_pgFormatter_v5_7_Released.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/31/Programming_With_R_and_pgFormatter_v5_7_Released.gmi [18:33] TR Bot Tux Machines Programming With R and pgFormatter v5.7 Released [18:35] TR News (NEW): Linux, Distributions and Operating Systems https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/31/Linux_Distributions_and_Operating_Systems.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/31/Linux_Distributions_and_Operating_Systems.gmi [18:35] TR Bot Tux Machines Linux, Distributions and Operating Systems [18:36] TR News Techrights Gemini Links 31/08/2025: Reviewing Netsurf and Slightly Less Historic Ada Design https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/31/Gemini_Links_31_08_2025_Reviewing_Netsurf_and_Slightly_Less_His.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/08/31/Gemini_Links_31_08_2025_Reviewing_Netsurf_and_Slightly_Less_His.gmi [18:36] TR Bot Techrights Gemini Links 31/08/2025: Reviewing Netsurf and Slightly Less Historic Ada Design [18:39] TR News Techrights Links 31/08/2025: Baggage Claim Scams, an Insurrectionists War on Culture, and a Sudden Robotics Hype https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/31/Links_31_08_2025_Baggage_Claim_Scams_an_Insurrectionist_s_War_o.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/08/31/Links_31_08_2025_Baggage_Claim_Scams_an_Insurrectionist_s_War_o.gmi [18:39] TR Bot Techrights Links 31/08/2025: Baggage Claim Scams, an Insurrectionists War on Culture, and a Sudden Robotics Hype [18:40] TR News Gedit Technology blog: Donating to the gedit project https://gedit-text-editor.org/blog/2025-08-30-donating-to-the-gedit-project.html [18:40] TR Bot Donating to the gedit project | Gedit Technology blog [18:40] TR News Improving the experience with public Wi-Fi hotspots https://jbb.ghsq.de/kde/2025/08/29/freewifid.html [18:40] TR Bot to connect to jbb.ghsq.de port 443 after 71 ms: Couldn't connect to server ( status 0 @ https://jbb.ghsq.de/kde/2025/08/29/freewifid.html ) [18:40] TR News Akademy Time is Itinerary Time https://blog.broulik.de/2025/08/akademy-time-is-itinerary-time/ [18:40] TR Bot Akademy Time is Itinerary Time Kai Uwe's Blog ● Aug 31 [19:14] TR News pig-to-human lung transplant https://www.dw.com/en/china-surgeons-conduct-pig-to-human-lung-transplant/a-73764713 [19:14] TR Bot Surgeons conduct pig-to-human lung transplant DW 08/26/2025 [19:16] TR News German car industry sheds 51,500 jobs in a year https://www.dw.com/en/german-car-industry-sheds-51-500-jobs-in-a-year/a-73768859 [19:16] TR Bot car industry sheds 51,500 jobs in a year DW 08/26/2025 [19:19] TR News antidepressants https://www.dw.com/en/why-i-tried-antidepressants-to-treat-my-chronic-pain/a-73762966 [19:19] TR Bot I tried antidepressants to treat my chronic pain DW 08/27/2025 [19:25] TR News "Linux-based, more portable than any mini PC, and just as affordable, the Steam Deck is great as a Linux desktop." https://www.howtogeek.com/want-an-affordable-linux-desktop-pc-just-buy-a-steam-deck/ [19:25] TR Bot Want an Affordable Linux Desktop PC? Just Buy a Steam Deck [19:25] TR News "It's better over here anyway." https://www.howtogeek.com/leaving-windows-behind-signs-youve-shifted-to-a-linux-mindset/ [19:26] TR Bot Leaving Windows Behind: 5 Signs Youve Shifted to a Linux Mindset [19:26] TR News "The Document Foundation, the organization behind the popular open source office suite LibreOffice, has announced the release of LibreOffice 25.8. It brings several new functions for those working in spreadsheets, and it's the first major release not to support Windows 7 and a few other outdated operating systems" https://www.howtogeek.com/the-new-libreoffice-tech-price-hikes-a-pixel-party-and-more-weekly-roundup/ [19:26] TR Bot The New LibreOffice, Tech Price Hikes, A Pixel Party, and More: Weekly Roundup [19:27] TR News "This is a complete guide to help newcomers start gaming on Linux." https://www.howtogeek.com/how-to-play-games-on-linux-a-beginners-guide/ [19:27] TR Bot How to Play Games on Linux: A Beginners Guide [19:28] TR News How I Moved My Docker Server to a New System https://www.howtogeek.com/how-i-moved-my-docker-server-to-a-new-system/ [19:28] TR Bot How I Moved My Docker Server to a New System [19:28] TR News "If you like Wayland and window managers, this is an update for you." https://www.howtogeek.com/cachyos-august-2025-update/ [19:28] TR Bot Arch Linux-Based CachyOS Just Got A Great Update [19:30] TR News China burning coal at record high levels in 2025 https://www.dw.com/en/china-burning-coal-at-record-high-levels-in-2025-report/a-73753189 [19:30] TR Bot burning coal at record high levels in 2025 report DW 08/25/2025 [19:31] TR News An illegal coup https://www.dw.com/en/what-trump-s-fed-power-play-could-mean-for-the-us-and-global-economies/a-73772384 [19:31] TR Bot Trump's Fed Reserve power play could mean DW 08/26/2025 [19:32] TR News "I see it more like a toolkit than an operating system." https://www.howtogeek.com/reasons-why-linux-made-me-a-better-developer/ [19:33] TR Bot 3 Reasons Why Linux Made Me a Better Developer [19:34] TR News 7 Things I Do In the Terminal Instead of My Browser https://www.howtogeek.com/things-i-do-in-the-terminal-instead-of-my-browser/ [19:34] TR Bot 7 Things I Do In the Terminal Instead of My Browser [19:36] TR News Never Used Linux Terminal Wildcards Before? Here's How to Get Started https://www.howtogeek.com/how-to-use-wildcards-in-the-linux-terminal-to-list-files/ [19:36] TR Bot How to Use Wildcards in the Linux Terminal to List Files [19:40] TR News Could instead instal the real thing and get the real deal, freedom and control https://www.howtogeek.com/how-i-made-macos-tahoe-look-like-a-heavily-customized-linux-distro/ [19:40] TR Bot The New macOS Tahoe Can Look Like a Heavily-Customized Linux Distro [19:40] TR News "The overhaul has been compared to Linux desktop environments like GNOME, so lets take a look at how good (or bad) we can get things looking." [19:42] TR News "I love free and open-source software (FOSS). The whole movement is one of the best things in the world of technology and computers as a whole. I've been an open-source advocate for most of my life at this point, but that doesn't mean it's perfect." https://www.howtogeek.com/open-source-is-both-the-best-and-worst-thing-for-tech/ [19:42] TR Bot Open Source Tech Isn't Perfect, But We Need It [19:47] TR News DOGE exit https://www.dw.com/en/trump-appoints-airbnb-co-founder-to-revamp-public-websites-after-musk-doge-exit/a-73744139 [19:47] TR Bot appoints Airbnb co-founder to revamp public websites DW 08/24/2025 [19:48] TR News 'can no longer be financed' https://www.dw.com/en/german-welfare-state-can-no-longer-be-financed-merz/a-73742270 [19:48] TR Bot welfare state 'can no longer be financed' Merz DW 08/23/2025 [19:50] TR News "Tips and tricks for terminal triumph." https://www.howtogeek.com/things-i-wish-i-knew-before-getting-into-the-linux-terminal/ [19:50] TR Bot 7 Things I Wish I Knew Before Getting Into the Linux Terminal [19:53] TR News (NEW): Technical Articles About Using the GNU/Linux Terminal Instead of GUIs https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/31/Technical_Articles_About_Using_the_GNU_Linux_Terminal_Instead_o.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/31/Technical_Articles_About_Using_the_GNU_Linux_Terminal_Instead_o.gmi [19:53] TR Bot Tux Machines Technical Articles About Using the GNU/Linux Terminal Instead of GUIs ● Aug 31 [20:17] TR News (NEW): FUSS Debian-based Linux distribution https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/31/FUSS_Debian_based_Linux_distribution.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/31/FUSS_Debian_based_Linux_distribution.gmi [20:17] TR Bot Tux Machines FUSS Debian-based Linux distribution [20:22] TR News (NEW): Best Free and Open Source Software https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/31/Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Software.1.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/31/Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Software.1.gmi [20:22] TR Bot Tux Machines Best Free and Open Source Software [20:30] TR News Fuck AI gopher://uninformativ.de/0/phlog/2025/2025-08/2025-08-31--fuck-ai.txt [20:32] TR News Discover Web 1.0 Hosting Simple, Ad-Free, and Retro-Friendly! gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2696 [20:35] TR News (NEW): Can Arch Linux Be Your Main PC OS? It's Mine and Here's How https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/31/Can_Arch_Linux_Be_Your_Main_PC_OS_It_s_Mine_and_Here_s_How.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/31/Can_Arch_Linux_Be_Your_Main_PC_OS_It_s_Mine_and_Here_s_How.gmi [20:35] TR Bot Tux Machines Can Arch Linux Be Your Main PC OS? It's Mine and Here's How [20:38] TR News (NEW): Linux Lite 7.6 Released with New Community Wiki and Updated Apps https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/31/Linux_Lite_7_6_Released_with_New_Community_Wiki_and_Updated_App.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/31/Linux_Lite_7_6_Released_with_New_Community_Wiki_and_Updated_App.gmi [20:38] TR Bot Tux Machines Linux Lite 7.6 Released with New Community Wiki and Updated Apps [20:42] TR News (NEW): Incus 6.16 Container & Virtual Machine Manager Released https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/31/Incus_6_16_Container_Virtual_Machine_Manager_Released.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/31/Incus_6_16_Container_Virtual_Machine_Manager_Released.gmi [20:42] TR Bot Tux Machines Incus 6.16 Container & Virtual Machine Manager Released [20:43] TR News (NEW): IceWM 3.9 Window Manager Released with Xcursor Support https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/31/IceWM_3_9_Window_Manager_Released_with_Xcursor_Support.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/31/IceWM_3_9_Window_Manager_Released_with_Xcursor_Support.gmi [20:43] TR Bot Tux Machines IceWM 3.9 Window Manager Released with Xcursor Support [20:50] psydroid2 'can no longer be financed' = should be abandoned and go to hell together with the country itself ● Aug 31 [21:11] MinceR https://i.imgur.com/tMPCQHz.jpeg = https://rimgo.bloat.cat/tMPCQHz.jpeg [21:12] TR Bot ( status 504 @ https://rimgo.bloat.cat/tMPCQHz.jpeg ) [21:21] *Isambard_Prince (~Isambard_Prince@dspihmrrn226e.irc) has joined #techrights [21:28] *Isambard_Prince has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [21:30] *Isambard_Prince (~Isambard_Prince@d7fvxeika2488.irc) has joined #techrights [21:39] Isambard_Prince Got the Walkman hooked up to the Bose. [21:39] Isambard_Prince I have some Ozzy Osbourne tapes. [21:39] Isambard_Prince Goodwill [21:40] Isambard_Prince The Catholic thrift store has some mainstream stuff. I found all my Clint Black CDs there. [21:42] Isambard_Prince I fixed my Bose CD player. [21:42] Isambard_Prince It was skipping and failing to read CDs sometimes. [21:42] Isambard_Prince I got one of those Maxell cleaning CDs where you just let it play for a while. [21:43] Isambard_Prince Bose systems are notorious for getting dirt on the laser lens. [21:43] Isambard_Prince You clean it and it works for a couple more years. [21:43] Isambard_Prince No biggie. [21:48] *psydroid3 has quit (Quit: KVIrc 5.2.6 Quasar http://www.kvirc.net/) [21:50] admfubar https://thenewstack.io/unix-co-creator-brian-kernighan-on-rust-distros-and-nixos/ [21:50] TR Bot Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan on Rust, Distros and NixOS - The New Stack [21:52] admfubar https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/08/30/0038225/london-targets-noisy-commuters-with-headphone-campaign [21:52] TR Bot London Targets Noisy Commuters With Headphone Campaign - Slashdot [21:55] admfubar https://slashdot.org/story/25/08/28/1815208/microsoft-refuses-to-divulge-data-flows-to-police-scotland [21:55] TR Bot Microsoft Refuses To Divulge Data Flows To Police Scotland - Slashdot ● Aug 31 [22:41] admfubar https://discuss.pixls.us/t/hilarious-how-to-guide-to-clean-a-mouse-pad/52259 [22:41] TR Bot how-to guide to clean a mouse pad - Lounge - discuss.pixls.us [22:51] MinceR do you prefer to breathe in sharply and quickly or to just say "t" instead? ● Aug 31 [23:05] admfubar we are the night who say "t"! or something like that... [23:06] MinceR :> [23:07] Isambard_Prince schestowitz[TR2], Got a text from Piyush. He's delayed Roach Auschwitz while the pesticides have not come in yet. [23:08] Isambard_Prince I't nice to text people 3 days before you plan to fumigate and say that's when they need to be out then text them a day after you were supposed to fumigate and say the chemicals were delayed. [23:08] Isambard_Prince Thank God I'm not living there. [23:17] TR News (NEW): AerynOS 2025.08 Released with GNOME 48.4 and Mesa 25.2, KDE Plasma Support https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/31/AerynOS_2025_08_Released_with_GNOME_48_4_and_Mesa_25_2_KDE_Plas.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/08/31/AerynOS_2025_08_Released_with_GNOME_48_4_and_Mesa_25_2_KDE_Plas.gmi [23:17] TR Bot Tux Machines AerynOS 2025.08 Released with GNOME 48.4 and Mesa 25.2, KDE Plasma Support [23:30] cow_20012 this is good shit https://triapul.cz/_/1756677063.html [23:30] TR Bot fuck computers [23:47] MinceR (audio:important) https://files.catbox.moe/yoleov.mp4 = https://imgur.com/gallery/Ab1Ny1G [23:47] TR Bot very accurate o_0 - Album on Imgur [23:55] MinceR yeah, it's good