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Thu 16:06:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Tuba 0.11 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1089537/
Thu 16:07:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Antoine Beaupré: The people vs the Hey Hi (AI) overlords ☞ https://anarc.at/blog/2026-08-18-people-vs-ai-overlords/
Thu 16:07:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ EasyOS: More packages compiled in woofQ2 ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202608/more-packages-compiled-in-woofq2.html
Thu 16:08:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Tuba 0.11.0 released with full Mastodon quote support ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/tuba-mastodon-quote-support-collections
Thu 16:10:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ SanDisk as the outlier with 6 failures of the 7 tested ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/microsd-cards/microsd-card-testing-database-celebrates-third-anniversary-with-133-petabytes-of-data-written-across-4-6-million-cycles-hundreds-of-cards-tested-to-failure-reveal-sandisk-as-the-outlier-with-6-failures-of-the-7-tested
Thu 16:11:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ VirtualBox 7.2.16 Released with defective chip maker Intel FRED Support ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/08/virtualbox-7-2-16-released-with-intel-fred-support/
Thu 16:11:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Pluralistic: The ordinariness of evil (19 Aug 2026) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/19/banaility/
Thu 16:11:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): VirtualBox 7.2.16 Improves Shared Clipboard in Wayland, Adds FRED Support ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/18/VirtualBox_7_2_16_Improves_Shared_Clipboard_in_Wayland_Adds_FRE.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/18/VirtualBox_7_2_16_Improves_Shared_Clipboard_in_Wayland_Adds_FRE.gmi ∎
Thu 16:11:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): OBS End-of-Week Update and openSUSE Asia Summit Pre-Schedule Is Now Available ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/OBS_End_of_Week_Update_and_openSUSE_Asia_Summit_Pre_Schedule_Is.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/OBS_End_of_Week_Update_and_openSUSE_Asia_Summit_Pre_Schedule_Is.gmi ∎
Thu 16:12:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Hunt Valley Microsoft gaming employees outraged by mass layoffs https://www.wmar2news.com/news/region/baltimore-county/hunt-valley-microsoft-gaming-employees-outraged-by-mass-layoffs
Thu 16:13:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Hundreds of union workers rally across North America to protest Xbox layoffs https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/hundreds-of-union-workers-rally-across-north-america-to-protest-xbox-layoffs
Thu 16:13:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ PAYDAY 3 is generating less and less money, nearly half of the staff have been laid off — and more from the Starbreeze report | WN Hub ⚓ https://wnhub.io/news/hr/item-51830 ䷉ | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//wnhub.io/news/hr/item-51830
Thu 16:15:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Pocock, Binface & nobodies vs Farage: defamation before UK High Court https://danielpocock.com/en/pocock-binface-nobody-vs-farage-defamation/
Thu 16:24:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Looking Ahead at September ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/20/Looking_Ahead_at_September.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/20/Looking_Ahead_at_September.gmi ∎
Thu 16:34:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Clownflare Reckons GNU/Linux is on Almost 1 in 10 Laptops/Desktops in Western Europe ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/20/Clownflare_Reckons_GNU_Linux_is_on_Almost_1_in_10_Laptops_Deskt.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/20/Clownflare_Reckons_GNU_Linux_is_on_Almost_1_in_10_Laptops_Deskt.gmi ∎
Thu 16:35:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The Framework Laptop 13 Pro is the company's most powerful notebook. The machine can be had with either Windows or Ubuntu out of the box. Framework has revealed that most people who choose Ubuntu for the Laptop 13 Pro tend to stick to the OS." https://www.notebookcheck.net/Most-Framework-Laptop-13-Pro-Linux-users-apparently-never-switch-to-Windows.1372564.0.html
Thu 16:37:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Slop kills https://www.hackster.io/news/pine64-calls-time-on-the-linux-hardware-market-ceases-production-until-the-ai-bubble-bursts-a865c8345041
Thu 16:37:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Frame Buffer Compression Promises Performance Boost for Intel GPUs on Linux https://www.techpowerup.com/351694/frame-buffer-compression-promises-performance-boost-for-intel-gpus-on-linux
Thu 16:38:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Lerd: A Free, Open Source Herd Alternative for Linux and macOS https://laravel-news.com/lerd
Thu 16:39:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Do you think Linux is just for homelabs or servers? Worried it can't handle your professional workflow? Well, I've been daily-driving Linux for 10 years, and here are five ways it helps me do real work." https://www.howtogeek.com/yes-linux-can-do-real-work-here-are-five-things-i-do-on-my-linux-pc/
Thu 16:39:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It has been about a year now since I made the jump from Windows to Linux, and my biggest regret is that I didn't do it sooner. Sure, it's better that I did eventually make the jump than never making it at all, and I'm glad I found a new home in the world of FOSS operating systems." https://www.xda-developers.com/ignored-linux-years-daily-driver/
Thu 16:39:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ These 5 simple Linux tools make Windows 11 look outdated https://www.howtogeek.com/these-five-simple-linux-tools-make-windows-11-look-outdated/
Thu 16:40:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The Framework Laptop 12 just got a welcome upgrade, particularly if you prefer Linux to Windows. Framework has updated its more affordable PC with not just Intel's newer Core Series 3 chips, but an option to have Linux pre-installed." https://www.howtogeek.com/framework-laptop-12-linux-core-series-3-launch/
Thu 16:40:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ CIQ Opens Direct Purchase of Enterprise Linux and Removes Procurement from the Path to Production https://www.hpcwire.com/aiwire/2026/08/18/ciq-opens-direct-purchase-of-enterprise-linux-and-removes-procurement-from-the-path-to-production/
Thu 16:41:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "GNOME is finally catching up to other desktop environments, thanks to Aura Glass, a fluid, modern desktop inspired by Apple's Liquid Glass." https://www.zdnet.com/article/gnome-desktop-liquid-glass-aura-glass/
Thu 16:50:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "If [slop] isn't your jam, and you're looking for an operating system that doesn't (and won't) force it on you, look no further than these Linux distributions." https://www.zdnet.com/article/top-6-ai-free-linux-distros/
Thu 16:50:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Linux hardware vendor System76 released COSMIC 1.6 today as the latest stable version of this open-source, free, and Rust-based graphical desktop environment for Linux-based operating systems." https://9to5linux.com/cosmic-1-6-desktop-environment-released-with-more-improvements
Thu 16:51:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "a smart speaker based on a BL602 RISC-V microcontroller." https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/08/19/pine64-hits-pause-on-linux-devices-due-to-ram-and-emmc-shortage-high-prices/
Thu 16:51:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Linux" brand misused for slop promotion https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/linux-foundations-akrites-go-live/
Thu 16:52:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Seems like promotional spam though https://allaboutcookies.org/best-linux-hosting
Thu 16:52:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Slop-ware https://www.howtogeek.com/ai-is-splitting-linux-and-nobody-wants-to-say-it-out-loud/
Thu 16:53:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ affiliate spam https://itsfoss.com/ultimate-ai-guide-for-linux-engineers-review/
Thu 16:54:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A good thing about it is that you don't need to know anything about the first game, it's entirely standalone" https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/tfc2-the-fertile-crescent-2-collapse-of-the-bronze-age/
Thu 16:56:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Framework announces new Framework Laptop 12 with Linux massively outselling Windows SKU https://www.notebookcheck.net/Framework-announces-new-Framework-Laptop-12-with-Linux-massively-outselling-Windows-SKU.1372543.0.html
Thu 17:01:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Fedora and Red Hat Leftovers (75% is Promotion of Slop Plagiarism for IBM) ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/Fedora_and_Red_Hat_Leftovers_75_is_Promotion_of_Slop_Plagiarism.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/Fedora_and_Red_Hat_Leftovers_75_is_Promotion_of_Slop_Plagiarism.gmi ∎
Thu 17:01:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Latest From Linux Gizmos, CNX Software, Arduino, and More ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/Latest_From_Linux_Gizmos_CNX_Software_Arduino_and_More.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/Latest_From_Linux_Gizmos_CNX_Software_Arduino_and_More.gmi ∎
Thu 17:01:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Macnica 32-Channel ST 2110, Linux Zero-Copy Media Pipelines https://content-technology.com/ibc/macnica-32-channel-st-2110-linux-zero-copy-media-pipelines/
Thu 17:03:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Cinegy To Highlight Linux-Based Playout Efficiency and Software-Defined Workflows https://www.4rfv.co.uk/industrynews/333705/cinegy_to_highlight_linux_based_playout_efficiency_and_software_defined_workflow
Thu 17:07:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Yesterday, I took off in my van. Not a big roadtrip. Just a short hop, less than 10 miles from home. The thing is, my van is my refuge. When I'm in my van, I almost immediately feel like I'm on my holidays." gemini://kunulo.smol.pub/20260820-by-the-wood
Thu 17:10:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today's 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 HowTos ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/20/today_s_howtos.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/20/today_s_howtos.gmi ∎
Thu 17:11:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Games: Quake, SteamOS, LIFTED, and More ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/20/Games_Quake_SteamOS_LIFTED_and_More.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/20/Games_Quake_SteamOS_LIFTED_and_More.gmi ∎
Thu 17:13:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Linux Kernel, Software, and Distros (EasyOS, Garuda, and More) ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/20/Linux_Kernel_Software_and_Distros_EasyOS_Garuda_and_More.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/20/Linux_Kernel_Software_and_Distros_EasyOS_Garuda_and_More.gmi ∎
Thu 17:15:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Copr, Slop, and Red Hat's Slopfest ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/20/Copr_Slop_and_Red_Hat_s_Slopfest.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/20/Copr_Slop_and_Red_Hat_s_Slopfest.gmi ∎
Thu 17:16:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): GUADEC 2026 and GNOME Boxes ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/20/GUADEC_2026_and_GNOME_Boxes.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/20/GUADEC_2026_and_GNOME_Boxes.gmi ∎
Thu 17:18:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Audiocasts/Shows: Destructive Slop, Smashing Security, and More ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/20/Audiocasts_Shows_Destructive_Slop_Smashing_Security_and_More.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/20/Audiocasts_Shows_Destructive_Slop_Smashing_Security_and_More.gmi ∎
Thu 17:20:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Debian: Tails 7.11 and experience at DebConf 2026 in Santa Fé ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/20/Debian_Tails_7_11_and_experience_at_DebConf_2026_in_Santa_Fe.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/20/Debian_Tails_7_11_and_experience_at_DebConf_2026_in_Santa_Fe.gmi ∎
Thu 17:23:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Open Hardware/Modding: Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and More ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/20/Open_Hardware_Modding_Arduino_Raspberry_Pi_and_More.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/20/Open_Hardware_Modding_Arduino_Raspberry_Pi_and_More.gmi ∎
Thu 17:25:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Databases: Postgres and SQLite News ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/20/Databases_Postgres_and_SQLite_News.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/20/Databases_Postgres_and_SQLite_News.gmi ∎
Thu 17:25:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Web Browsers/Web Servers/Feed Readers: Anubis, Netscape Navigator, Firefox, and More ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/20/Web_Browsers_Web_Servers_Feed_Readers_Anubis_Netscape_Navigator.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/20/Web_Browsers_Web_Servers_Feed_Readers_Anubis_Netscape_Navigator.gmi ∎
Thu 17:26:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Content Management Systems (CMS): Kiwi TCMS Launches Partner Store, WordPress 7.1 “Mary Lou” Released, and More ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/20/Content_Management_Systems_CMS_Kiwi_TCMS_Launches_Partner_Store.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/20/Content_Management_Systems_CMS_Kiwi_TCMS_Launches_Partner_Store.gmi ∎
Thu 17:28:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 Programming Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/20/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/20/Programming_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Thu 17:38:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Free Software, Education in Software, and Standards ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/20/Free_Software_Education_in_Software_and_Standards.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/20/Free_Software_Education_in_Software_and_Standards.gmi ∎
Thu 17:38:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): K Desktop Environment/KDE: Linux Magazine Reviews Tellico and Kdenlive's GSoC 2026 Wrap-up ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/20/K_Desktop_Environment_KDE_Linux_Magazine_Reviews_Tellico_and_Kd.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/20/K_Desktop_Environment_KDE_Linux_Magazine_Reviews_Tellico_and_Kd.gmi ∎
Thu 17:41:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Gemini Links 20/08/2026: A "Break From Routine" and "Modem Was the Problem" ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/20/Gemini_Links_20_08_2026_A_Break_From_Routine_and_Modem_Was_the_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/20/Gemini_Links_20_08_2026_A_Break_From_Routine_and_Modem_Was_the_.gmi ∎
Thu 17:44:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Links 20/08/2026: 'Linux' Foundation Promoting Slop Hype for Money (Hype as a Service), Malaysia’s Exports Jump 38% Year-on-Year ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/20/Links_20_08_2026_Linux_Foundation_Promoting_Slop_Hype_for_Money.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/20/Links_20_08_2026_Linux_Foundation_Promoting_Slop_Hype_for_Money.gmi ∎
Thu 18:30:00 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://www.tastingtable.com/1891286/spray-butters-ranked/
Thu 18:30:21 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The I Can't Believe It's Not Butter spray actually does taste good, despite not really being butter.
Thu 18:30:46 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :)
Thu 18:30:59 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ In the 90s I used to spray corn on the cob with it at the dinner table, sometimes a baked potato.
Thu 18:31:11 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ For baked potatoes I do prefer real butter though.
Thu 18:31:34 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Butter, sour cream, pepper, and when you get down to the skin pour some A1 sauce in there and eat it like a sandwich.
Thu 18:33:18 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR: I was sleeping like a stun grenade went off.
Thu 18:33:27 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ There are benefits to being unemployed.
Thu 18:33:38 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ You can sleep as much as you want.
Thu 18:33:47 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Develop odd hobbies.
Thu 18:34:02 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Take some days in the park or read library books.
Thu 18:34:47 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Start figuring out that a lot of the shit they want to sell you is just convenience food and convenience transportation (car) and convenience products (paper towels, premade cleaning solutions, etc) that you can make cheaper.
Thu 18:35:10 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Start disassembling cooking recipes and making them cheaper and higher quality because you have time to think on this problem.
Thu 18:36:11 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And when you piss someone off who uses structural violence to deal with you (the court) (like landlords or an ex-spouse or if you can't pay a hospital or something), they have no recourse because you can't take from someone who doesn't have.
Thu 18:37:38 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ A normal consumer would have apartment roaches and just be so completely bogged down in work and commute and exhaustion to deal with the little fuckers until they had them crawling all over them.
Thu 18:38:18 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So what you're supposeed to do is give up on the landlord, get a can of RAID, and start blasting them one by one until you give up and pay an exterminator at your expense for something the landlord's building caused.
Thu 18:38:50 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ A normal person has no time to pester the landlord or work through the cockroach issue with pro-grade products from Walmart and learning cockroach biology online.
Thu 18:39:41 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So they end up paying an exterminator $100-200 a month to come out and deal with a building problem but only inside their unit, and that guy actually just comes in and sprays cheap toxic clouds everywhere that don't kill the roaches, it just makes them even more recalcitrant.
Thu 18:39:58 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Then they have a service contract, like Orkin or Terminix do, because they know going in that they will fail.
Thu 18:40:11 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And they want to threaten you with a lawsuit if you stop paying for failure.
Thu 18:41:08 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.reuters.com/world/how-texas-student-blew-whistle-rogue-ai-hacking-attempt-2026-08-20/
Thu 18:41:11 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The few jobs that are out there pay so little that you lose money trying to get to work and back.
Thu 18:43:17 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/ftc-proposal-would-require-retailers-to-be-transparent-about-personalized-pricing.460549/
Thu 18:49:32 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ If you ever see a cockroach, by all means, yes, crush it to death and then clean the wall, but there's never only one. If you see one there's probably at least 100 others already.
Thu 18:50:07 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/microsd-cards/microsd-card-testing-database-celebrates-third-anniversary-with-133-petabytes-of-data-written-across-4-6-million-cycles-hundreds-of-cards-tested-to-failure-reveal-sandisk-as-the-outlier-with-6-failures-of-the-7-tested
Thu 18:52:58 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR: I told my mom the only good thing about these crime stories is when the guy finally shoots a cop because now they'll solve it. It went from being fun and games and another Thursday until that happens.
Thu 18:53:46 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ As soon as they shoot a cop the system comes down and it comes down hard.
Thu 18:55:07 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I noticed that pattern when I was a kid watching Unsolved Mysteries with my mom on TV, where the only ones that ever got an update where the guy was found was when they shot a cop in the original story.
Thu 18:57:47 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/usd10-quake-shareware-cd-locked-copies-of-all-id-software-games-behind-a-flawed-encryption-scheme-pay-over-the-phone-system-only-held-up-for-39-days-after-1996-release-leaving-developer-with-150-000-discs-it-couldnt-sell
Thu 19:01:45 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ legal slop?? https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/judges-who-use-ai-to-make-decisions-still-protected-by-judicial-immunity-court-ruling-protects-outcomes-regardless-of-ai-usage
Thu 19:04:57 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/operating-systems/china-reportedly-orders-state-agencies-to-uninstall-its-government-only-edition-of-windows-10
Thu 19:05:06 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ admfubar: In my state we have Judicial Retention elections.
Thu 19:05:22 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The judges have to have a 60% "yes" vote or they're removed from the bench.
Thu 19:05:29 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I always vote no on all of them.
Thu 19:05:48 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I really don't give a fuck about them, none of them give a fuck about me, they're a bunch of cockroaches in black robes.
Thu 19:06:38 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Only one of them I ever voted no on lost his retention, it was the first time in over 30 years, and it was because he was letting Chicago Police torture confessions out of people and then making sure the jury never heard how they obtained those.
Thu 19:08:33 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ There's various "informational websites" for voters that recommend judges, and they always recommend you vote yes because it's the judges and the lawyers, this whole Good Old Boys club, they get together and they suck each other off.
Thu 19:08:39 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So you can't trust any of those websites.
Thu 19:10:39 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The judges hide behind administrative legalese, complex state statutes, and expensive bar association voter-guide websites specifically to cloak their record from public scrutiny.
Thu 19:11:12 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ 20 205346 < IsambardPrince> As soon as they shoot a cop the system comes down and it comes down hard.
Thu 19:11:28 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ yeah, the state only ever protects itself and maybe its clients (rich and powerful ASPD enjoyers, not you)
Thu 19:11:49 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ but you get to pay for it! isn't that wonderful?
Thu 19:12:46 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It is.
Thu 19:12:57 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ You get to come out and lodge a protest vote every now and then.
Thu 19:13:10 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And in the mean time you pay about $20,000 in taxes to get to do that.
Thu 19:13:16 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :>
Thu 19:14:01 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR: That air purifier went to red alert.
Thu 19:14:28 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I always know when the cat uses the box because the air quality indicator goes to "Bad" for a few minutes.
Thu 19:14:30 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ Alarmstufe Rot
Thu 19:15:55 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I go through those filters so fast that I only buy them when they're on Amazon Resale Used-Like New. Someone bought one, didn't open it, returned it.
Thu 19:16:01 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They have to mark it down like ten bucks.
Thu 19:16:36 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ people keep doing that?
Thu 19:16:37 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Or I buy Cabiclean off brand filters. Levoit's app warns you about off brand filters, but why wouldn't they? They want you paying over twice as much money for theirs.
Thu 19:16:59 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ What you're buying from Levoit is a razors and blades system.
Thu 19:17:27 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They sell you a perfectly good air purifier very cheaply, and toss in a brand name filter to get you started.
Thu 19:18:05 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But then you get on Amazon or Levoit's app and replacement filters go for $60-70 each depending on which color you want.
Thu 19:18:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They have yellow for pet dander and green for "toxic", but the HEPA layer is exactly the same as the white ones that cost the lowest amount.
Thu 19:18:54 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The green ones are heavier, because the carbon pellet layer has more pellets in it.
Thu 19:19:08 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So they put about $2 more carbon in it and jack up the price by over $10.
Thu 19:19:28 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But active carbon doesn't do much about common apartment odors.
Thu 19:19:36 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It controls VOCs, but not much else.
Thu 19:19:53 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ When your neighbor is smoking tobacco or marijuana, no filter they make will fix that if it's leaking into your unit.
Thu 19:20:05 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ About all it will do is suck out the smoke particles, but that's the HEPA layer.
Thu 19:20:27 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Tobacco or marijuana smoke has over 260 constituent components, and the stink is not caused by the smoke particles.
Thu 19:22:10 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Levoit never actually tells a lie that a clever attorney could file a class action lawsuit for.
Thu 19:22:59 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They make vague claims about cheaper filters like "They might not fit right, causing unfiltered air to bypass the filter media." That's true, but if it doesn't fit right, you can return it to Amazon and use the A-Z Guarantee to get your money back.
Thu 19:23:40 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ backup compound?? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/20/mark-zuckerberg-buys-440-acre-strancally-castle-estate-in-ireland
Thu 19:24:39 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Amazon sanctions sellers that sell bad stuff.
Thu 19:24:54 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The first thing they do is they mark your item "This item is frequently returned. See the reviews."
Thu 19:25:54 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Cabiclean would destroy their own business instantly if their filters did not work. That warning label can reduce your sales by 70-80% right away.
Thu 19:26:17 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/20/environment-oceans-acidification-alkali-carbon-absorption-lobsters
Thu 19:26:53 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ To get around that label, they would have to re-launch the product as a different brand, and then re-list it with zero reviews and no consumer trust.
Thu 19:30:01 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2]: MinceR "A Clermont County, Ohio U.S. Army veteran accused of destroying a Flock Safety camera has had his felony charges dismissed.
Thu 19:30:02 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Cody Morelock was charged with vandalism after police alleged he removed bolts from a Flock license-plate reader camera system on Mount Carmel-Tobasco Road in Union Township on June 13, causing the camera, solar panel, and pole to fall and sustain more than $1,000 in damage.
Thu 19:30:04 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Authorities said nearby camera footage helped identify him. A Clermont County grand jury ultimately declined to indict Morelock, and the felony case was dismissed."
Thu 19:30:09 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ From "Being Libertarian" on Facebook.
Thu 19:33:18 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR: I really did like the Star Wars games on the N64.
Thu 19:33:36 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ There's almost always a technical workaround to system limitations if people try hard enough and know what they're doing.
Thu 19:33:56 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The Expansion Pak really made the later games pop with the extra working memory.
Thu 19:34:08 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The 8 MB RAM wasn't even enough for Rogue Squadron.
Thu 19:34:29 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They managed to free up another 300 KB or so iirc, by writing their own sound drivers, which worked better anyway
Thu 19:34:46 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :>
Thu 19:39:07 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The Expansion Pak was sort of dumb. It existed because it allowed Nintendo to get the N64 in your home in 1996 when RDRAM was insanely expensive and then sell you another 4 MB stick later.
Thu 19:39:25 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But then you had all these games that said don't even try to play this if you didn't buy that Pak.
Thu 19:39:57 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But I bought a Pak for like $10 on closeout at Walmart and upgraded my N64 even though that was supposed to be almost a $60 accessory.
Thu 19:40:24 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ That's how I got Rogue Squadron, Battle for Naboo, and Racer working.
Thu 19:41:22 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Rogue Squadron was trying to do something that I don't think any other N64 game tried to do before.
Thu 19:41:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It was trying to push the resolution all the way up to 640 x 480.
Thu 19:41:48 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The full resolution of a standard television set.
Thu 19:41:58 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The other games tended to have half that resolution and scale it.
Thu 19:46:33 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ for laughs.. https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/aug/20/magicians-and-margarine-10-of-the-funniest-jokes-from-the-edinburgh-fringe-2026\
Thu 19:51:24 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ (video) (audio:important) https://i.imgur.com/IqBSyHL.mp4
Thu 20:35:16 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ sounds like elon, on ketamine...https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/20/grok-keeps-sending-gibberish-responses-to-users/
Thu 20:36:42 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-holographic-laser-3d-voids-shot.html
Thu 20:38:46 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ add a lil coco butter and your jet exhaust smells like a mounds bar.... https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-coconut-blend-fuel-jet-difference.html
Thu 20:40:10 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-robots-skills-video-seconds.html
Thu 20:40:23 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2]: The landlords shut off the water for a couple hours because the city went out there and replaced a lead service pipe for free.
Thu 20:40:43 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It's back on again now.
Thu 20:41:38 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://politics.slashdot.org/story/26/08/20/1951246/voters-arent-waiting-for-november-to-try-ousting-officials-over-data-centers
Thu 20:42:23 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/08/20/1715225/youtube-offers-creators-millions-of-dollars-to-stay-off-netflix
Thu 20:44:45 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR: I was laughing about how the pro-insecticide works.
Thu 20:44:56 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It basically turns the cockroaches that eat it into suicide bombers.
Thu 20:45:06 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "Allah Snack Bar we're gonna 9/11 this bitch!!!!!"
Thu 20:46:35 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ guess the rescue wasn't "swift" enough... https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/08/19/2213259/rescue-mission-is-called-off-for-nasas-aging-swift-space-telescope
Thu 20:48:12 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ didnt hey used to be called drivers? the amazon borg are here! https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/08/19/1950233/amazons-drones-will-soon-deliver-to-nearly-500-us-cities-and-towns
Thu 20:48:50 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR: The CD game systems in the 90s did have bigger games, they also had incredibly slow CD-ROM drives that made you wait forever at loading screens.
Thu 20:49:00 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The Nintendo 64 was basically a bandwidth machine.
Thu 20:49:11 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They had cartridges and Rambus RAM.
Thu 20:49:41 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :>
Thu 20:50:08 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So while the games were not as big, they did load instantly and they did write and read program code and graphics data several times as fast between the processor and the memory.
Thu 20:50:24 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I agreed with Nintendo on that one.
Thu 20:50:52 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The trade-offs were worth it. Even though the games tended to cost more, if you wanted to make a bigger game you could buy a cartridge with more ROM space, as a developer.
Thu 20:51:40 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ While all your friends with a Playstation were waiting at load screens andd dealing with an objectively terrible controller with all these weird buttons, and cursing that they scratched a CD and now the game didn't even work at all anymore, the N64 just kept going.
Thu 20:52:02 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Those cartridges work today because they're much harder to damage by mishandling them.
Thu 20:53:10 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The original Playstation had a 2x CD-ROM drive that could only pull data at around 300 KB per second.
Thu 20:53:24 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The N64 could read from cartridges at almost 20x that speed.
Thu 20:53:56 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.rawstory.com/trump-epstein-files-2677739900/
Thu 20:55:18 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Even if you ended up using a compression algorithm on the N64 ROM it was still easily more than 10x faster at loading and running program code.
Thu 21:18:37 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-poison-arrayref-rust-crate-to-push-infostealer-malware/
Thu 21:21:04 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/calling-on-cyber-pros-to-help-city-hall
Thu 22:05:32 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/givenergy-enters-administration-legacy-home-batteries-still-expose-customer-networks/
Thu 23:18:36 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ We're back to flash memory for game storage.
Thu 23:18:45 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Even the best optical drives were very very slow.
Thu 23:19:45 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The Xbox 360 had an "optional" hard drive, but if you didn't have one, the games loaded much slower. It caches many of the game's frequently used assets to the disk so that load times will go down. It can read off the DVD and push it to the drive ahead of where the load point would be.
Thu 23:48:12 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The Advion is definitely getting chewed up by the roaches. There must have been a serious problem in the apartments next to mine and in the walls. They depleted two of my stations and I had to move some from less active areas in the apartment to cover those high traffic zones.
Thu 23:48:14 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │
Thu 23:48:15 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I ordered two more bags of Advion Arenas from Amazon. I don't want to spray down a contact killer just yet, because I want to wait for the roaches to finish gorging themselves on the Advion gel and taking it back to kill off their friends (1 poisoned roach can kill up to 72 others in the walls, and it looks like dozens of roaches were eating off each of those stations.
Thu 23:48:17 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │
Thu 23:48:18 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Once their eating goes down, I'm going to lock and load with some MGK Onslaught diluted in water to the proper ratio (shake the Onslaught concentrate, pour it in, fill with the correct amount of water) and a sprayer and I'm going to go through the house doing the baseboards, including emptying out the closets. I'm going to sequester the cat in the bedroom for about 2-3 hours to let the Onslaught dry on the baseboards. Once we've done
Thu 23:48:20 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ that, most of the remaining Arenas will go up in the cabinets where I've already been doing Terro gel.
Thu 23:48:21 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │
Thu 23:48:23 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I want to seriously screw up their colonies, then do the spraying to stop roaches from getting back in here from the pig next door. I'll also spray straight down the radiator holes in the floor and the water inlets under the sinks.
Thu 23:54:10 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Hmm, MinceR
Thu 23:54:18 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I got some loss leader beer at the store today.
Thu 23:54:33 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I've never had Miller High Life but it was so cheap I grabbed some.
Thu 23:54:57 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Definitely not what I'm used to.
Fri 00:01:32 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I'm surprised Coors Banquet scored lower than Miller High Life on Beer Advocate. I definitely like Banquet more. There's something of an unpleasant metallic taste to Miller High Life that is not there in Banquet. Banquet is also a darker beer with more barley flavor.
Fri 00:01:43 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Miller bases High Life heavily on corn grits.
Fri 00:02:10 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ There's something to be said for High Life though. It does have a lot of carbonation and a pleasant color, and a "mineral water" taste to it.
Fri 00:02:32 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ High Life isn't horrible. The slight metallic taste is almost imperceptible but definitely there.
Fri 00:02:46 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ That's apparently an artifact of the type of hops they're using in High Life.
Fri 00:02:52 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It's called Tetra-Hop.
Fri 00:03:20 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://yakimavalleyhops.com/products/tetrahop-gold
Fri 00:04:01 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It's a variety of hop that is less prone to skunking when you use it in a beer packaged in clear or green bottles.
Fri 00:04:38 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ High Life would probably taste better if they switched from Tetrahop to the same hops Coors is using in their beer that comes in dark bottles.
Fri 00:07:21 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ As much as I hate all things Europe, they actually did get a few things right.
Fri 00:07:28 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Mostly the alcohol.
Fri 00:07:45 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Because if you live in Europe you'll need to be mildly drunk all the time to tolerate it.
Fri 00:09:08 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Coors Banquet is probably the most "German-style" American macro brew that I've encountered that goes on sale regularly at a fair price at the supermarket.
Fri 00:10:54 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I think the most horrid American macrobrews are actually Budweiser or anything owned by Anheusher-Busch for that matter.
Fri 00:11:12 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ how do you tolerate living under the Pedophile King?
Fri 00:11:12 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Gonad the Barbarian knocked back Budweisers all day every day.
Fri 00:11:28 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Probably the only reason he could stand it is he ruined his pallette with chain smoking.
Fri 00:11:37 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Until he couldn't even taste anything but salt anymore.
Fri 00:12:29 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Budweiser leans heavily on rice.
Fri 00:12:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It's the same reason I hate Japanese beer.
Fri 00:13:20 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I don't like Sapporo beer, but I do like sake, especially the flavored ones, especially Yuzu.
Fri 00:17:18 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I grabbed some New Amsterdam vodka at Target today. They had two 1.75 liter bottles marked half off.
Fri 00:17:50 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The only civilized use for vodka is to mix two shots of it in with a 16 ounce glass of unpasteurized fresh orance juice and call it a double.
Fri 00:18:36 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It's the dirt cheap way to get properly fucked.
Fri 00:18:55 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ New Amsterdam has been my go to since it debuted in the big box stores about a decade ago.
Fri 00:19:22 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Most of the other relatively cheap vodkas, or as I call them "Boomer Vodka" is not neutral, it has a taste and it is NOT pleasant.
Fri 00:27:58 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ In high-end spirits like whiskey or dark beer, certain congeners are desirable because they provide flavor complexity. In vodka, they are an absolute disaster. They create that harsh, rubbing-alcohol burn, a medicinal chemical taste, and a brutal morning hangover.
Fri 00:49:49 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ [19:11] <MinceR> how do you tolerate living under the Pedophile King?
Fri 00:50:05 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Two beers and a half a pint of Ben & Jerry's Chunky Monkey seems to do it for a few hours.
Fri 00:52:11 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ ic
Fri 00:52:37 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ so the same method you hypothesize in europe :>
Fri 00:55:51 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR: With ice cream.
Fri 00:56:16 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ i scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream
Fri 00:56:52 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Hmmm. I wonder. How common is it to encounter English-speakers in the country formerly known as Orbanistan?
Fri 01:02:10 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Hungary
Fri 01:02:13 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ allegedly 16.0%
Fri 01:02:18 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ in 2011
Fri 01:02:40 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ the pedonazis tried to make it less popular but reality probably made it more popular since then
Fri 01:03:00 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ though i guess none of that affects the stupid masses anyway, who barely speak even one language
Fri 01:13:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "NVIDIA has announced that the entire Jetson Xavier line-up, including the Jetson Xavier NX and Jetson AGX Xavier system-on-modules, are approaching their end-of-life — and has already officially discontinued their development kit variants." gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202608/20260820-xavier.gmi
Fri 01:14:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Seniors are sometimes advised to reinvent themselves. After retirement some people have a feeling of lost identity, or believe their best years are behind them." gopher://box.matto.nl/0/no-need-to-reinvent-myself.txt
Fri 01:15:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A writer's block, according to Calvin, is a block that you put on your desk and it keeps you from writing. That comic strip must be a few decades old, because technology has done a lot of progress since then." gemini://detritus.smol.pub/1787251980
Fri 01:15:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "changed up my methodology this week, as to not track things all day. i decided on an hour of internet in the morning and evening, backgammon during my coffe time, and a no-internet profile on the laptop at all other times. well, low-internet." gemini://dogboy.smol.pub/limitinginternetweek2
Fri 01:16:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ plums gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/plums
Fri 01:16:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I was curious to know what it takes to build a small Rust project. The following cargo command lists, recursively, all the dependencies - without drawing a tree, so that it can be sorted and deduplicated. The grep command further deduplicates." gemini://lab6.com/mlog/2026/08/20/rust/
Fri 01:17:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Curious, how many of you have actually totally ditched the web, federation, etc for solely smolweb tech? I don't think I can, but really want to." gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/u/CalvusRex/47367
Fri 01:18:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I'm not motivated to ditch the fediverse, I see nothing wrong with it, and continue to derive enormous benefit from it. Everyone who's fedi-fed-up is right to feel that way—I just haven't experienced the same difficulties, myself, and far too many positives." gemini://shizuka.space/glog/2026/08/20/00/thoughts-on-ensmallening-the-bigweb/
Fri 01:22:19 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ wellll... https://www.firstpost.com/tech/viral-indian-anti-corruption-website-shuts-down-after-major-social-media-boost-14039254.html
Fri 01:23:20 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] typical
Fri 01:23:24 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] in bad societies
Fri 01:23:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights ⇨ https://techrights.org/ | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/ ∎
Fri 01:23:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Gemini Links 21/08/2026: "Ensmallening the BigWeb", "Rust Dependencies" ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/Gemini_Links_21_08_2026_Ensmallening_the_BigWeb_Rust_Dependenci.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/Gemini_Links_21_08_2026_Ensmallening_the_BigWeb_Rust_Dependenci.gmi ∎
Fri 01:23:30 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] pointing out the corruption is the issue
Fri 01:23:33 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] not the corruption itself
Fri 01:26:48 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ trained by elon himself... https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/tesla-robotaxi-no-driver-bollards
Fri 01:27:29 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://futurism.com/future-society/flock-network-losing-value-police-alpr-wisconsin
Fri 01:27:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ GNU/Linux 6% in Eastern Europe https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=28d&loc=eastern-europe&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP
Fri 01:31:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 6.1% in Bulgaria https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=28d&loc=BG&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP compare to https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/02/GNU_Linux_in_Bulgaria_Back_Up.shtml
Fri 01:33:42 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-teens-failure
Fri 01:34:54 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://futurism.com/health-medicine/hospitals-heat-surgeries-canceled-staff-fainting
Fri 01:35:01 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ > ChatGPT for Teens Is an Immediate, Dismal Failure
Fri 01:35:05 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ just like the human species!
Fri 01:43:38 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ in other words, how winders and macs actually work... https://www.geekwire.com/2026/game-review-investigate-a-haunted-90s-pc-in-seattle-made-mystery-adventure-desktop-explorer/
Fri 01:46:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🅸🆁🅲 techpol + social irc ■ Yesterday's #boycottnovell-social and #techpol IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-200826.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-200826.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-social-200826.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-social-200826.txt
Fri 01:46:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – IRC Proceedings: Thursday, August 20, 2026 ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/IRC_Proceedings_Thursday_August_20_2026.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/IRC_Proceedings_Thursday_August_20_2026.gmi ∎
Fri 01:47:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🅸🆁🅲 techrights irc ■ Yesterday's #techrights IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-200826.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-200826.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techrights-200826.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techrights-200826.txt
Fri 01:47:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today in Techrights ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/21/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/21/Today_in_Techrights.gmi ∎
Fri 01:48:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🅸🆁🅲 boycottnovell irc ■ Yesterday's #boycottnovell IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-200826.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-200826.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-200826.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-200826.txt
Fri 01:48:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Over at Tux Machines... ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi ∎
Fri 01:49:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🅸🆁🅲 techbytes irc ■ Yesterday's #techbytes IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-200826.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-200826.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techbytes-200826.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techbytes-200826.txt
Fri 01:49:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ✩░▒▓▆▅▃▂▁𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍▁▂▃▅▆▓▒░✩ Yesterday's 𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 bulletin is now ready! 🅷🆃🆃🅿: http://techrights.org/txt-archives/techrights-2026-08-20.txt | 🅶🅴🅼🅸🅽🅸 gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/techrights-2026-08-20.txt (tentative address, to work an hour from now)
Fri 01:50:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ✩░▒▓▆▅▃▂▁Tux Machines 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍▁▂▃▅▆▓▒░✩ Yesterday's Tux Machines bulletin is now ready! 🅷🆃🆃🅿: http://news.tuxmachines.org/txt-archives/tuxmachines-2026-08-20.txt
Fri 01:52:40 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://maketecheasier.com/mte-wi-fi-signals-struggle-through-walls-not-because-concrete-is-thick-but-because-water-in-the-plaster-absorbs-2-4-ghz-almost-exactly-the-frequency-a-microwave-oven-uses-to-heat-your-dinner/
Fri 01:56:49 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.techspot.com/news/113560-federal-judge-strikes-down-atf-ghost-gun-rule.html
Fri 02:06:34 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ stupid git... https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/github-is-down-again-and-this-time-its-hitting-almost-everything.460532/
Fri 02:26:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – SLAPP Censorship - Part 156 Out of 200: Brett Wilson LLP Becoming Wilson FC ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_156_Out_of_200_Brett_Wilson_LLP_Becoming_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_156_Out_of_200_Brett_Wilson_LLP_Becoming_.gmi ∎
Fri 02:36:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Saw a lot of the summit hires years ago do a lot of brown nosing. As the saying goes, a lot of them could not figure their way out of a wet paper bag. Not to mention poor work ethics" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kzw9cce6
Fri 02:46:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Forbes is paid by IBM to lie http://techrights.org/n/2025/10/13/Forbes_Already_Stopped_Being_a_News_Sites_Now_It_s_a_Spam_and_P.shtml
Fri 02:55:22 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] xxx> i get messages like this every so often ... (12:24:00 PM) The account has disconnected and you are no longer in this chat. You will automatically rejoin the chat when the account reconnects.
Fri 02:55:22 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] <schestowitz[TR2]> odd
Fri 02:55:22 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] <schestowitz[TR2]> let me ask
Fri 02:55:27 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] psydruid: ping
Fri 02:55:34 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i think you experienced something similar?
Fri 02:55:40 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] can you send us input?>
Fri 02:55:49 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] maybe bug in latest ergo version?
Fri 02:55:59 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] need to investigate
Fri 02:58:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – The IBM Censorship Team, PIPs (Silent Layoffs) in IBM Europe ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/The_IBM_Censorship_Team_PIPs_Silent_Layoffs_in_IBM_Europe.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/The_IBM_Censorship_Team_PIPs_Silent_Layoffs_in_IBM_Europe.gmi ∎
Fri 03:01:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Yesterday GNU/Linux measured at 11% in China https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=28d&loc=CN&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP
Fri 03:01:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Macau 5% https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=7d&loc=MO&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP
Fri 03:02:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ United Arab Emirates over 4% https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=7d&loc=AE&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP
Fri 03:03:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 3.2% in Kuwait https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=7d&loc=KW&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP 3.6% in Bahrain https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=7d&loc=BH&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP
Fri 03:03:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 5.2% in Lebanon https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=7d&loc=LB&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP
Fri 03:04:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Morocco 5% https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=7d&loc=MA&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP
Fri 03:05:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ XBox is dying, so they change plastic dyes, then call it innovation https://www.ign.com/articles/xbox-special-edition-translucent-green-controller-price-release-date-leaked
Fri 03:07:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Maybe this is about Microsoft SELLING it, as some people theorised. Will Microsoft "offload" gaming? https://www.asatunews.co.id/en/microsoft-considers-activision-studios-halo
Fri 03:07:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Like IBM, Microsoft might sell the company piece-wise to somehow still pay salaries
Fri 03:10:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ lexisnexis seems to be publishing LLM slop now. Hilarious?
Fri 03:10:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Powered by Lexis+®"
Fri 03:12:45 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://www.facebook.com/reel/1026433906300382
Fri 03:18:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – [Satire] Pocock, Binface & nobodies vs Farage: defamation before UK High Court ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/Satire_Pocock_Binface_nobodies_vs_Farage_defamation_before_UK_H.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/Satire_Pocock_Binface_nobodies_vs_Farage_defamation_before_UK_H.gmi ∎
Fri 03:21:24 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ what's the satire part?
Fri 03:22:46 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it won't happen
Fri 03:22:49 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but
Fri 03:22:55 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] see the amount
Fri 03:22:57 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] 5 million
Fri 03:22:59 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] then see:
Fri 03:23:24 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/08/14/probe-into-5-8-million-gift-to-british-far-right-leader-farage-reopens-as-he-wins-by-election_6756514_4.html?srsltid=AfmBOoqZrb1T_wV2x1wMaApPsRgbmQrF0RBiFtIDVOfZKiKLmUqoJaRq
Fri 03:23:45 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ ic
Fri 03:23:57 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so people look it up
Fri 03:24:06 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] then find out the "wrong" pagee
Fri 03:24:21 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] iu will write about this
Fri 03:24:23 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] to clartifty\
Fri 03:24:28 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ should have specified 5.8 MGBP then
Fri 03:27:15 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] " The leader of the far-right Reform UK party reclaimed his Clacton seat, triggering the reopening of a parliamentary standards probe into a £5 million donation from a crypto billionaire. "
Fri 03:27:24 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] 5 milion
Fri 03:32:34 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ ic
Fri 03:33:01 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ le monde also mentiona 5.8M
Fri 03:33:05 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ s/ona/ons/
Fri 03:33:21 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ maybe they forgot to edit the title
Fri 03:33:24 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it is frenchg
Fri 03:33:29 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so it says in euros
Fri 03:33:35 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] the money was not paid in europe
Fri 03:33:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – £5 Million Unsolicited/Undisclosed Bribes and What That Means to British Politics ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/5_Million_Unsolicited_Undisclosed_Bribes_and_What_That_Means_to.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/5_Million_Unsolicited_Undisclosed_Bribes_and_What_That_Means_to.gmi ∎
Fri 03:33:49 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] on in europs
Fri 03:33:52 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] *euros
Fri 03:34:53 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ ic
Fri 03:35:11 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ oh yeah, i missed the difference in the symbols
Fri 03:35:34 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so i wrote about it
Fri 03:35:38 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] some people didn't get the joke
Fri 03:35:42 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they don't know who farage is
Fri 03:35:46 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] or what the scandal was
Fri 03:35:49 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] or they know the scandl
Fri 03:35:55 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] not the total sum (bribe)
Fri 04:00:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – IBM Offers Workers Some Money to Fire Themselves, It's Called "Next Step" and It's Allegedly 'Extended' (Not Enough Fools Have Fired Themselves) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/IBM_Offers_Workers_Some_Money_to_Fire_Themselves_It_s_Called_Ne.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/IBM_Offers_Workers_Some_Money_to_Fire_Themselves_It_s_Called_Ne.gmi ∎
Fri 04:10:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Making Best Use of Time https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/21/making-best-use-of-time/
Fri 04:17:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ You Blog More, Then More People Visit https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/21/you-blog-more-then-more-people-visit/
Fri 04:45:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – The State of Slopfarms About "Linux" in August 2026 ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/The_State_of_Slopfarms_About_Linux_in_August_2026.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/The_State_of_Slopfarms_About_Linux_in_August_2026.gmi ∎
Fri 04:53:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Anniversaries ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/21/Anniversaries.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/21/Anniversaries.gmi ∎
Fri 05:05:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Secret Layoffs at Microsoft, Apparently More Sites Will Shut Down Entirely ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/Secret_Layoffs_at_Microsoft_Apparently_More_Sites_Will_Shut_Dow.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/Secret_Layoffs_at_Microsoft_Apparently_More_Sites_Will_Shut_Dow.gmi ∎
Fri 05:25:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Clownflare: In Past 12 Months Microsoft Windows Fell From ~80% to ~75% on Desktops/Laptops in Asia ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/Clownflare_In_Past_12_Months_Microsoft_Windows_Fell_From_80_to_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/Clownflare_In_Past_12_Months_Microsoft_Windows_Fell_From_80_to_.gmi ∎
Fri 05:34:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): In South Korea, GNU/Linux Grew From 3.5% to 5.1% in the Past 12 Months (According to Cloudflare) ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/21/In_South_Korea_GNU_Linux_Grew_From_3_5_to_5_1_in_the_Past_12_Mo.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/21/In_South_Korea_GNU_Linux_Grew_From_3_5_to_5_1_in_the_Past_12_Mo.gmi ∎
Fri 05:45:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Northern Europe Leads the Pack in Abandoning Windows After Threats Made to Greenland (Says Clownflare Data) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/Northern_Europe_Leads_the_Pack_in_Abandoning_Windows_After_Thre.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/Northern_Europe_Leads_the_Pack_in_Abandoning_Windows_After_Thre.gmi ∎
Fri 06:53:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Mainstream OS – Arch Linux-based distribution ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/21/Mainstream_OS_Arch_Linux_based_distribution.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/21/Mainstream_OS_Arch_Linux_based_distribution.gmi ∎
Fri 07:13:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Free and Open Source Software, Benchmark, and Review ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/21/Free_and_Open_Source_Software_Benchmark_and_Review.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/21/Free_and_Open_Source_Software_Benchmark_and_Review.gmi ∎
Fri 07:22:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – SLAPP Censorship - Part 157 Out of 200: What is a 'Defamation Troll'? ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_157_Out_of_200_What_is_a_Defamation_Troll.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_157_Out_of_200_What_is_a_Defamation_Troll.gmi ∎
Fri 07:25:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): GIMP 3.4 Promises New Project File Format, PSD Support Improvements, and More ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/16/GIMP_3_4_Promises_New_Project_File_Format_PSD_Support_Improveme.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/16/GIMP_3_4_Promises_New_Project_File_Format_PSD_Support_Improveme.gmi ∎
Fri 07:28:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "What struck me in listening to Feross" ☛ https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/sloppy-ui-is-security-liability/ | Source: Jim Nielsen
Fri 07:28:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Tom Rosenstiel has been one of the nation’s leading thinkers about journalism for decades." ☛ https://dicktofel.substack.com/p/what-the-next-journalism-should-be | Source: Richard J Tofel
Fri 07:29:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A Letter of Claim has been sent to Nigel Farage, leader of Reform UK in relation to the widely quoted defamation on the night of the Clacton-on-Sea by-election in 2026" ☛ https://danielpocock.com/en/pocock-binface-nobody-vs-farage-defamation/ | Source: Daniel Pocock
Fri 07:29:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Wikipedia has become one of the pillars of the free and open Internet. Across the world, reliable sources of information are under attack." ☛ https://diziet.dreamwidth.org/21442.html | Source: Diziet
Fri 07:29:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "That truth is the captains of corporate America are so rapacious that they’re willing to throw average working Americans under the bus to make billions more." ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-last-stand-of-the-corporate-democrats | Source: Robert Reich
Fri 07:29:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "He starts by conceding that, and I quote" ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/venality-cupidity-and-corruption | Source: Robert Reich
Fri 07:30:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The memo was addressed not only to Republicans, but also to executives at AI companies." ☛ https://www.8ball.report/p/data-center-doom | Source: Sean Monahan
Fri 07:30:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The Senate GOP campaign arm, in a private memo to top AI companies, warns that toxic views of U.S. data centers are killing the party's chances of holding a vital seat in Ohio." ☛ https://www.axios.com/2026/08/19/gop-data-center-memo-ai-election | Source: Axios
Fri 07:30:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Republicans are warning that former Democratic senator Sherrod Brown’s relentless campaign to tie Sen. Jon Husted" ☛ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/08/19/gop-memo-warns-ohio-sen-john-husted-is-being-dragged-down-by-data-centers/ | Source: The Washington Post
Fri 07:30:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Which brings me back to the two concerns I mentioned above. On (a), independence, SecureBio has two divisions, Detection and AI." ☛ https://www.jefftk.com/p/thoughts-on-taking-openai-foundation-funding | Source: Jeff Kaufman
Fri 07:31:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Over the last few years, right-wingers have finally started to realize that what they’re missing is empathy." ☛ https://journal.kvibber.com/2026/08/regarding-empathy/ | Source: Kelson Vibber
Fri 07:32:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Every one of these e-bikes that we have interaction with are usually modified" ☛ https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/08/19/bikes-injuries-deaths-scooters-massachusetts-pedestrians | Source: WBUR Radio
Fri 07:32:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It's really just as simple as holding the parents responsible. E-bikes are a fantastic form of transportation and should be encouraged." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2026/08/19/parents-kids-high-speed-ebikes-emotorcycles.html | Source: BoingBoing
Fri 07:33:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "We hemmed for 45 seconds and seats on the afternoon flight were snatched." ☛ https://chrisglass.com/2026/08/19/making-the-best-of-a-cancelled-flight-in-new-york/ | Source: Chris Glass
Fri 07:33:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Target material was a cuprate, specifically HgBa2Ca2Cu3O8+δ, also known as the HBCCO series or Hg1223 for short." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/08/20/superconducting-temperature-record-set-at-ambient-pressure/ | Source: Hackaday
Fri 07:34:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The Air Quality Division is accepting public comments on the proposed approval through Sept. 14" ☛ https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/08/19/plan-for-small-data-center-in-fremont-county-shines-light-on-permissive-zoning/ | Source: Cowboy State Daily
Fri 07:34:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Commission members stressed that they were considering how to regulate data centers, not whether to allow them." ☛ https://insidetowers.com/wyoming-county-moves-to-tighten-data-center-rules/ | Source: Inside Towers
Fri 07:34:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Mozambique 4% GNU/Linux https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=28d&loc=MZ&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP
Fri 07:35:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "forcing desperate public appeals on social media" ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/indonesian-borneo-wildfires-international-help-1815453 | Source: International Business Times
Fri 07:35:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "That’s money we don’t spend on schools, healthcare, roads and bridges, and social safety nets." ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/who-gets-paid-as-our-national-debt | Source: Robert Reich
Fri 07:36:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "We can have billionaires or we can have democracy." ☛ https://organizingmythoughts.org/silicon-valleys-billionaire-cults-are-coming-for-democracy/ | Source: Kelly Hayes
Fri 07:37:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "AliExpress has plenty of reasons to distinguish normal shoppers from automated or suspicious clients as well as tracking users browsing habits." ☛ https://blog.laserphile.com/2026/08/aliexpress-webpage-keeping-multipoint.html |
Fri 07:37:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A usage policy for Flock license plate reader cameras tells police not to talk about the cameras: [...]" ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/08/police-are-hiding-their-use-of-flock-surveillance-cameras.html | Source: Bruce Schneier
Fri 07:37:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "For personal accounts, Gmail only encrypts email while in transit (if supported by the receiving party) and at rest." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3203183/gmail-offers-fully-encrypted-email-but-better-alternatives-exist.html | Source: PC World
Fri 07:38:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "However, it is not good that this backup runs opaquely in the background and, in the latest versions of Windows, can only be stopped after several prompts and mouse clicks." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3215054/windows-11-quietly-backs-up-your-files-to-onedrive-heres-how-to-turn-it-off.html | Source: PC World
Fri 07:38:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The people-search tool ClarityCheck says its reverse image search service is “private and secure”—but it left a database containing more than 9 million image files exposed." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/reverse-lookup-service-exposed-millions-of-photos-of-peoples-faces/ | Source: Wired
Fri 07:38:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "All of it affects our privacy, some of it could affect our employment, some of it could affect our bank balance, some could affect our freedom, and some could affect our national interest." ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/surveillance-everything-you-wanted-to-know-but-were-afraid-to-ask/ | Source: Security Week
Fri 07:38:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "it leaves users to navigate the gap between policy and practice alone." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/singles-turn-linkedin-dating-background-checks-1815447 | Source: International Business Times
Fri 07:39:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "business data acquired from the defunct airline Spirit Airlines Inc. in an auction, but the proposed deal is being challenged by two separate parties." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2026/08/20/googles-attempt-to-buy-spirit-airlines-data-might-come-unstuck/ | Source: Silicon Angle
Fri 07:39:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I’ve been quietly seething for months now about the dumb emails I get from people wailing about my podcast’s invisibility on YouTube." ☛ https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/no-i-do-not-want-to-be-on-yt | Source: Jeremy Cherfas
Fri 07:39:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Roblox believes it meets its Online Safety Act obligations, according to eSafety. But the company will be adding further safety measures that include: [...]" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/games/982885/roblox-australia-safety-regulator-child-safety | Source: The Verge
Fri 07:40:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "knowingly withheld a critical safety measure for millions of American users—including children—in order to determine whether protecting users would impact its financial bottom-line." ☛ https://therecord.media/senators-press-tiktok-over-withholding-safety-features | Source: The Record
Fri 07:40:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A California plaintiff won the first of those cases, and the second was dropped." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/technology/social-media-addiction-lawsuit-dropped.html | Source: New York Times
Fri 07:41:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Being "in youtube" means that your "content" (what they call it) is controlled by some private company, which in turn becomes "boss" over your "content"
Fri 07:41:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴: Google Android Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/21/Android_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/21/Android_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Fri 07:42:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It seems weird that they won't stop fretting about this terrible potential – until you realize that every public pronouncement about this terrible potential is also a public boast about its potential, period." ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/19/banaility/#brackets-negative | Source: CoryDoctorow
Fri 07:42:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It's a very putinesque way of living." ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/20/epistemic-void/#expert-agencies | Source: CoryDoctorow
Fri 07:42:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Aesthetic Rebellion" ☛ https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1166/the-aesthetic-rebellion | Source: David Revoy
Fri 07:42:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "We will be artists, scholars, captains of the starship Enterprise, etc." ☛ https://borretti.me/article/our-servants-will-do-that-for-us | Source: Fernando Borretti
Fri 07:43:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Picture a fairly ordinary MSP automation project. The first version reads an incoming support ticket and produces a summary for the technician." ☛ https://www.kylereddoch.me/blog/the-model-is-not-the-security-boundary-how-to-secure-ai-workflows/ | Source: Kyle Reddoch
Fri 07:43:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The rest of popular culture, meanwhile, is finding ways to capitalize on AI hate. Just look at this new commercial for Liquid Death and Garage Beer." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/silicon-valley-doesnt-get-why-you-hate-ai/ | Source: Wired
Fri 07:43:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Compare current and former product names, see how long each identity lasted, and follow the evidence behind every transition. Now with logos, because apparently names alone were not enough paperwork." ☛ https://www.msrebrandregistry.com/index.html |
Fri 07:43:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Linear is an opinionated project management platform designed for high-performing software development and product teams." ☛ https://molodtsov.me/2026/08/how-linear-turned-craft-a-b2b-growth-strategy/ | Source: Yury Molodtsov
Fri 07:44:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Back in January, I wrote about how over the past several years I’ve actively worked to decentralize my online presence and reduce (as much as is realistic) my use of giant social media platforms." ☛ https://houseofkyle.com/2026/08/20/too-much-kyle-the-app/ | Source: Kyle Ford
Fri 07:44:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "People who aren't from the parts of the south where grits are commonly served are often suspicious of the dish." ☛ https://louplummer.lol/grits-explainer/ | Source: Lou Plummer
Fri 07:44:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [Old] "And then it came to me. Just a gamble, but I had hope." ☛ https://annarborobserver.com/inventing-the-fleetwood/ | Source: Ann Arbor Observer
Fri 07:46:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Mechanical keyboards give you the power to be maximally opinionated about your keyboard configuration." ☛ https://protesilaos.com/keeb/2026-08-20-hyperoptimiser-mechanical-keyboard-trap/ | Source: Protesilaos Stavrou
Fri 07:46:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Making some changes to my keys this week. Still one bit to come but I'm impatient." ☛ https://jasper.tandy.is/blogging/black-and-brass-and-neon | Source: Jasper Tandy
Fri 07:46:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "When I read how many things can have an effect on the readings I realised that I’m overthinking this." ☛ https://ljpuk.net/posts/casio-step-trackers-are-to-encourage-not-be-100-percent-accurate | Source: Lee Peterson
Fri 07:54:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Through a freakish coincidence, the moon happens to be exactly the right size and distance to cover the sun perfectly. The sun is 400 times as big as the moon, but also 400 times farther away." ☛ https://pogueman.substack.com/p/my-total-eclipse-sunset | Source: David Pogue
Fri 07:55:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Over the years poly(lactic acid) (PLA) – also known as polylactide – has become a popular thermoplastic for a variety of reasons." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/08/20/3d-printering-why-is-my-pla-so-brittle/ | Source: Hackaday
Fri 07:55:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It is also an old idea. Much older than actual spaceflight, in fact. But to find the beginning of the space station, we have to go back to a time when powered aircraft were still several decades in the future." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/08/20/an-early-history-of-space-stations-the-brick-moon-made-real/ | Source: Hackaday
Fri 07:55:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A new paper just came out, The Maximum-Area Small Polygon Problem. The paper solves the problem of finding, for each n, the n-gon with diameter 1 and maximum area." ☛ https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/08/18/big-little-hexagon/ | Source: John D Cook
Fri 07:55:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Since its inception in 1958, NASA has arguably played the most important role in furthering our knowledge of Earth, the universe and natural phenomena." ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/astrophotography/world-photography-day-how-nasa-imagery-has-shaped-our-understanding-of-the-earth-the-universe-and-existence | Source: Digital Camera World
Fri 07:58:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "You might be wondering why I’m already back hiking since I walked more than 40 km just a few days ago. And the answer to that is that I’m not hiking." ☛ https://manuelmoreale.com/fromthesummit/28-down-16-more-to-go | Source: Manuel Moreale
Fri 07:59:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A click rate by itself says very little. A recipient may recognize the exercise after opening the message, a gateway may rewrite the link, an automated scanner may visit it, or the reporting button may be too hard to find." ☛ https://www.kylereddoch.me/blog/cyberseckyle-security-how-to-series-light-offensive-to-think-defensively-part-2-phishing-simulation-to-study-prompts-and-controls/ | Source: Kyle Reddoch
Fri 07:59:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "When I say that our current era of video dominance has been a long time coming, I mean it." ☛ https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/deciding-what-to-do/ | Source: Baldur Bjarnason
Fri 08:07:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Links 21/08/2026: "Silicon Valley’s Billionaire Cults Are Coming for Democracy" and "Who’s Raking it in as the National Debt Explodes?" ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/Links_21_08_2026_Silicon_Valley_s_Billionaire_Cults_Are_Coming_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/Links_21_08_2026_Silicon_Valley_s_Billionaire_Cults_Are_Coming_.gmi ∎
Fri 08:17:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – North America: GNU/Linux Measured at 13%-15% Every Night ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/North_America_GNU_Linux_Measured_at_13_15_Every_Night.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/North_America_GNU_Linux_Measured_at_13_15_Every_Night.gmi ∎
Fri 08:20:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Partially agree with this regarding the popularity prejudice issue however I couldn't understand what do you mean by "Whenever a program doesn't work right the user's freedom is forfeited. Fewer bugs means more freedom." https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2026-08/msg00007.html
Fri 08:20:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "How is the bug related to the freedom? A bug-free proprietary software doesn't provide any freedom to users whereas a buggy libre software provides full freedom to users. So, bug is the technical issue whereas freedom is the ethical issue." https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2026-08/msg00007.html
Fri 08:21:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Puppy breaker moments ago: "I'd like to say extra thanks to Microsoft..."
Fri 11:47:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "HTML element does exactly what you might think it does." ☛ https://piccalil.li/blog/a-look-at-the-geolocation-html-element-and-how-it-works/ | Source: Andy Bell
Fri 11:48:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This is no longer true." ☛ https://mwl.io/archives/24954 | Source: MWL
Fri 11:48:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Completely by accident, I ended up with a four day streak of acronym titles. ORM, PEP, Q and today REPL. We developers sure love acronyms" ☛ https://hamatti.org/posts/r-is-for-repl-python-a-to-z/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala
Fri 11:48:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "So in the end I wrote this little script: [...]" ☛ https://fundor333.com/post/2026/framing-photos-with-python/ | Source: Fundor 333
Fri 12:02:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Spicy take up front: let the security vulnerabilities be legitimate and posted out in the open for anyone to see." ☛ https://jrfom.com/posts/2026/04/08/oss-security/ |
Fri 12:03:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "At the team level, the consequences of restructuring are harder to reason about than direct removal." ☛ https://infrequently.org/2026/08/notes-on-performance-remediation-strategies/ | Source: Alex Russell
Fri 12:04:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Last time we saw that sockets are pretty much just handles, and as such, they can be inherited." ☛ https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/accept-and-socket-inheritance/ | Source: Alisa Sireneva
Fri 12:04:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The reason for this is that sockets are a userland abstraction provided by Winsock2, rather than a kernel primitive. At least on paper." ☛ https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/duplicatehandle-works-on-sockets-mostly/ | Source: Alisa Sireneva
Fri 12:04:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "From a mile a way this just looks like a regular SQL query." ☛ https://remy.wang/blog/prela.html | Source: Remy Wang
Fri 12:05:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The dark secret of integration testing is that the vast, vast majority of problems that an integration environment will catch don't have anything to do with integration." ☛ https://www.simplermachines.com/most-integration-failures-are-stupid/ | Source: Nat Bennett
Fri 12:06:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The reverse prediction system has also detected many number of military vessels in the ocean." ☛ https://sprocketfox.io/xssfox/2026/08/19/sondehub-and-war/ |
Fri 12:09:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Looking at some of the most successful projects in the OSS ecosystem (Linux, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes)" ☛ https://blog.mozilla.ai/open-source-is-not-a-virtue-its-an-ownership-model/ |
Fri 12:20:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The proposals for APNIC 62 cover a wide range of topics. Some focus on IPv6 allocation sizes and address planning." ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/08/21/apnic-62-opm-just-the-facts/ | Source: APNIC
Fri 12:20:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Did you know you can poison your Postgres connection pool?" ☛ https://planetscale.com/blog/postgres-poisoned-connection-pools | Source: PlanetScale
Fri 12:20:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Is anyone at the company capable of saying and allowed to say What the actual fuck is this?" ☛ https://nikhil.io/posts/e6ba37ad73cf5e48a9f90227acc85ecd/ | Source: Nikhil Anand
Fri 12:21:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "And as always, the solution is Emacs." ☛ https://joshblais.com/blog/i-made-my-phone-emacs/ | Source: Joshua Blais
Fri 12:21:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "As test subject we got a Galaxy Z Fold 8, as an example of a modern-day foldable smartphone-tablet hybrid." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/08/20/foldable-oled-displays-and-the-bane-of-dust/ | Source: Hackaday
Fri 12:24:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "There are a lot of options for building a rig. You can build an established design from scratch, or forge out on your own and make something completely new." ☛ https://www.diybookscanner.org/en/intro.html |
Fri 12:25:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "So today, I’m sharing an open source project called Dashboard Touch, which lets you make your own Touch ID-style sensor for your Mac, using low-cost off-the-shelf part." ☛ https://www.anildash.com/2026/08/20/introducing-dashboard-touch/ | Source: Anil Dash
Fri 12:27:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This computer is a beautiful piece of homebrew engineering, constructed out of protoboard and loose wires rather than any fancy PCB. At the heart of the build lies a Motorola 68000 running at 10 MHz." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/08/20/homebrew-68k-machine-has-a-pci-bus/ | Source: Hackaday
Fri 12:27:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "For as popular as Atari was in their heyday, it wasn’t until well after they were on their famous decline that they released their first handheld, the Atari Lynx." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/08/20/miniaturizing-the-atari-2600-console/ | Source: Hackaday
Fri 12:28:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The specs are a lot nicer than the Pi 7" Touch Display, which costs twice as much, with giant bezels and half the resolution!" ☛ https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/steam-deck-lcd-pi-hat/ | Source: Jeff Geerling
Fri 12:30:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Cheap chocs https://metro.co.uk/2026/08/21/iconic-90s-chocolate-bar-controversial-past-makes-return-asdas-shelves-29428961/ https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/40126668/asda-shoppers-fill-pockets-12-p-chocolate-bar-returns/
Fri 12:38:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "More than 300 security officers employed by Mitie and working at Asda stores are at risk of redundancy in a process described as ‘shambolic’ by GMB Union." https://www.gmb.org.uk/news/asda-job-cuts-branded-shambolic-as-hundreds-of-security-roles-at-risk
Fri 12:39:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Eventually settled on Garuda Linux." ☛ https://roytang.net/2026/08/garuda-linux/ | Source: Roy Tang
Fri 12:40:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This is yet another entry in my (years/decades-long) attempt to chronicle the entirety of my gaming history." ☛ https://roytang.net/2026/08/snes-games/ | Source: Roy Tang
Fri 12:41:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "We customize and set up a lot of things, sometimes on a per-system basis." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/RecheckSettingsEverySoOften | Source: University of Toronto
Fri 12:42:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "In this ~2-hour video I talk to Per Nordlöw about some of his custom extensions for Emacs." ☛ https://protesilaos.com/prot-asks/2026-08-19-per-nordlow-emacs-extensions/ | Source: Protesilaos Stavrou
Fri 12:42:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "In this episode of PING, APNIC Chief Scientist Geoff Huston and I discuss how the DNS behaves during a ‘cold start’, when a resolver’s cache contains no data from previous queries." ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/08/20/podcast-dns-cold-start/ | Source: APNIC
Fri 12:42:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Home Assistant Setup, OpenBSD Updates, Wine 11.14, and more..." ☛ https://www.bsdnow.tv/677 | Source: The BSD Now Podcast
Fri 12:42:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Increases MTTU and MTTR" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/why-proprietary-software-isnt-retrospective-trend-trap-failure | Source: Red Hat Official
Fri 12:43:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Openwashing of slop plagiarism to ride a wave of trillions in debt ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/why-ai-infrastructure-must-be-built-open | Source: Red Hat Official
Fri 12:44:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Dumb Ways to Build brings some funny co-op from Dumb Ways to Die on September 10 | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/dumb-ways-to-build-brings-some-funny-co-op-from-dumb-ways-to-die-on-september-10/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux
Fri 12:45:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Mozilla messing about with slop and openwashing - something Microsoft paid OSI to promote ☛ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/ai/open-source-ai-framework/ | Source: Mozilla
Fri 12:45:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "However, this has changed over the years. When threat actors want to cause maximum damage, they go after the infrastructure layer" ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/linux-vulnerability-management/ | Source: TecMint
Fri 12:46:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Dominocalypse brings some clever ideas to puzzle roguelikes with dominoes | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/dominocalypse-brings-some-clever-ideas-to-puzzle-roguelikes-with-dominoes/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux
Fri 12:46:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Space bullet heaven roguelike Sublight arrives September 15 | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/space-bullet-heaven-roguelike-sublight-arrives-september-15/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux
Fri 12:47:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The Loopler is a roguelite deckbuilder about a slot car driving in mesmerizing loops | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/the-loopler-is-a-roguelite-deckbuilder-about-a-slot-car-driving-in-mesmerizing-loops/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux
Fri 12:48:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "China Reportedly Orders State Agencies to Uninstall its Government-Only Edition of Windows 10 - SoylentNews" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/08/19/0417243
Fri 12:48:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "AI-Generated Bills Are Reportedly Causing Problems in the Capitol - SoylentNews" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/08/19/0419256
Fri 12:49:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The August 17 outage, and the work ahead - The GitHub Blog" https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/the-august-17-outage-and-the-work-ahead/ http://techrights.org/n/2026/08/19/Microsoft_s_Mass_Layoffs_Impact_the_Ability_to_Run_Microsoft.shtml
Fri 12:49:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The impressive Sandustry already hit 100K sales with an early multiplayer mod out now | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/the-impressive-sandustry-already-hit-100k-sales-with-an-early-multiplayer-mod-out-now/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux
Fri 12:49:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Live-action sci-fi horror game PRECOGNITION sounds rad from Sam Barlow | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/live-action-sci-fi-horror-game-precognition-sounds-rad-from-sam-barlow/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux
Fri 12:51:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Mark Kapoberg bought an Irish castle | The Verge" https://www.theverge.com/tech/982955/meta-mark-zuckerberg-strancally-castle-ireland
Fri 12:52:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ SKINFACE is a gruesome stealth game where you steal faces | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/skinface-is-a-gruesome-stealth-game-where-you-steal-faces/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/skinface-is-a-gruesome-stealth-game-where-you-steal-faces/
Fri 12:52:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Monke bullet heaven survivor-like chaos will come in 2027 with Gorilla Tag Contagion | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/monke-bullet-heaven-survivor-like-chaos-will-come-in-2027-with-gorilla-tag-contagion/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux
Fri 12:53:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Cost of Hope is out now with a big free upgrade | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/s-t-a-l-k-e-r-2-cost-of-hope-is-out-now-with-a-big-free-upgrade/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux
Fri 12:57:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Bethesda finally fix the Skyrim Special Edition on-screen keyboard crashing SteamOS / Steam Deck | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/bethesda-finally-fix-the-skyrim-special-edition-on-screen-keyboard-crashing-steamos-steam-deck/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux
Fri 12:59:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Agent 64: Spies Never Die is pure retro FPS nostalgia bait | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/agent-64-spies-never-die-is-pure-retro-fps-nostalgia-bait/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux
Fri 13:02:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ FOSS Weekly #26.34: StillOS Review, Kernel 7.2 Released, PINE Trouble, Beautifying GNOME, Terminal Multiplexers and More ☞ https://itsfoss.com/newsletter/foss-weekly-26-34/
Fri 13:04:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Ian Jackson: Open Letter to the Wikimedia Foundation Board ☞ https://diziet.dreamwidth.org/21442.html
Fri 13:07:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Getting the Steam Deck LCD working on a Raspberry Pi ☞ https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/steam-deck-lcd-pi-hat/
Fri 13:14:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Pluralistic: The actual epistemic crisis (20 Aug 2026) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/20/epistemic-void/
Fri 13:14:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ New Jersey Teenager Drops Bellwether Social Media Addiction Lawsuit ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/technology/social-media-addiction-lawsuit-dropped.html
Fri 13:16:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Surveillance – Everything You Wanted to Know, But Were Afraid to Ask ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/surveillance-everything-you-wanted-to-know-but-were-afraid-to-ask/
Fri 13:16:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Police Are Hiding Their Use of Flock Surveillance Cameras ☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/08/police-are-hiding-their-use-of-flock-surveillance-cameras.html
Fri 13:17:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ A Sloppy Interface Is a Security Liability  ☞ https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/sloppy-ui-is-security-liability/
Fri 13:23:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Mainstream OS – Arch Linux-based distribution ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/mainstream-os-arch-linux-based-distribution/
Fri 13:24:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Linux 7.2 Enables HDMI 2.1 FRL Support for AMD Display GPUs ☞ https://www.geeky-gadgets.com/linux-7-2-kernel-updates/
Fri 13:25:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Linux Kernel 7.2 Officially Released, This Is What’s New ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/16/Linux_Kernel_7_2_Officially_Released_This_Is_What_s_New.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/16/Linux_Kernel_7_2_Officially_Released_This_Is_What_s_New.gmi ∎
Fri 13:26:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Pine64 halts all GNU/Linux hardware manufacturing through at least mid-2027 due to shortages — memory crunch forces open-source maker to freeze SBCs, tablets, and phones ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/pine64-halts-all-linux-device-production-until-at-least-mid-2027-as-memory-shortage-bites
Fri 13:36:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Pine64 Halts Production of GNU/Linux Devices ☞ http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Pine64-Halts-Production-of-Linux-Devices
Fri 13:54:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ As expected https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Networking see https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/10/If_Your_Software_Project_Welcomes_Bots_Then_All_You_ll_Have_Lef.shtml "Developers "Completely Overwhelmed" Due To AI/LLMs"
Fri 13:55:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ starkOS 20260820 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/starkos
Fri 13:55:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ FydeOS 23.0 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/fydeos
Fri 13:55:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ TrueNAS 26.0.0-beta3 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/truenas
Fri 13:55:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Tuba, the best Mastodon client for Linux, just got a BIG update ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/tuba-mastodon-quote-support-collections
Fri 13:56:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Pine64 stops making GNU/Linux devices as Hey Hi (AI) inflates component costs ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/pine64-stops-linux-device-production-chip-shortage
Fri 14:09:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – The Slop Pyramid Scheme (Not Boon!) Isn't Good for GNU/Linux, Even If the Plagiarism Engines (Framed as "Training" or "Intelligence") Almost Always Run GNU/Linux ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/The_Slop_Pyramid_Scheme_Not_Boon_Isn_t_Good_for_GNU_Linux_Even_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/The_Slop_Pyramid_Scheme_Not_Boon_Isn_t_Good_for_GNU_Linux_Even_.gmi ∎
Fri 14:11:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Around 66% of Hong Kong upper primary students experience stress from testing overload – survey ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/08/20/around-66-of-hong-kong-upper-primary-students-experience-stress-from-testing-overload-survey/
Fri 14:12:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Extreme heat: 'We're really starting now to understand how global climate is impacting our health' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/extreme-heat-we-re-really-starting-now-to-understand-how-global-climate-is-impacting-our-health
Fri 14:21:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Slop-ware: Nobody Knows What Code Goes Into Linux and Most Developers Cannot Understand the Rust Code (Even If They Tried) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/Slop_ware_Nobody_Knows_What_Code_Goes_Into_Linux_and_Most_Devel.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/Slop_ware_Nobody_Knows_What_Code_Goes_Into_Linux_and_Most_Devel.gmi ∎
Fri 14:23:00 │ 〖bms〗 │ Well, I did it, I hit fire on deleting my Facebook account after nearly 2 decades.
Fri 14:23:40 │ 〖bms〗 │ I had a "bad ex GF" get matched to me by the platform 5 years after I'd deleted her number, and a "good ex GF" had the wisdom to extricate herself from the platform many many years ago.
Fri 14:24:16 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] extricate as in?
Fri 14:25:39 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i don't do fb
Fri 14:25:40 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but
Fri 14:26:04 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] imo, having a g/f in social control media is bad for the reasonn having a colleague as a gf is
Fri 14:26:15 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] when things don't work out in the relationship it impacts work
Fri 14:26:25 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] or vice versa
Fri 14:26:32 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] issuess at work can impact relationships
Fri 14:26:34 │ 〖bms〗 │ Ditch it for good... Well, I managed to see her again because I was on the PhD ticker and I got a publication into a conference in Victoria, BC. So there's that. She'd deleted her FB account after that. She's still on LinkedIn for the work reasons, but I daren't contact her there.
Fri 14:26:48 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i have read a lot about revenges in social contol media
Fri 14:26:55 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] via mutual or overlapping nwtworks of "friends"
Fri 14:27:08 │ 〖bms〗 │ I don't doubt that, but that hasn't really been an issue for me. I'll tell you what was wird though.
Fri 14:27:14 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "LinkedIn for the work reason"
Fri 14:27:16 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] what work reasons?
Fri 14:27:27 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] you need to keep a linkedin account to not be fired? :)
Fri 14:27:54 │ 〖bms〗 │ Er, finding work as much as anything else I should imagine. She works for the provincial BC government now.
Fri 14:28:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Dihydroxyacetone Man’s Bizarre Hey Hi (AI) Post About Bombing Americans With Diarrhea Is Turning Out to Be a Weirdly Perfect Prediction of His Presidency ☞ https://futurism.com/health-medicine/trump-ai-post-bombing-americans-diarrhea-cyclosporiasis
Fri 14:28:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Protest singer Metin Turan released after 25 years in prison ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/protest-singer-metin-turan-released-after-25-years-in-prison-322676
Fri 14:28:36 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] bms: it's not a good idea
Fri 14:28:39 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it can cause problems
Fri 14:28:42 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it can backfire
Fri 14:28:42 │ 〖bms〗 │ What was weird though was my old housemate turning crazy on me, after I'd tried to restablish contact with her. I had my reasons, they mostly had to do with someone vouching for me in a way I can't really go into. All above board though.
Fri 14:28:49 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] exposing oneself in sites like these
Fri 14:29:01 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] like uploading CVs or emailing them to the whole world
Fri 14:29:08 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] that's why judges don't play with such sites
Fri 14:29:16 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and don't have their phonenumbers in phone books etc
Fri 14:29:30 │ 〖bms〗 │ So I sent a message to my old university asking the hard questions about anti-"AI" measures. I bcc'd my former housemate on this. She got a PhD too eventually, but from a different university.
Fri 14:29:48 │ 〖bms〗 │ She went flippo, totally condescending, accusing me of being a whackjob, etc etc.
Fri 14:30:19 │ 〖bms〗 │ I can't understand why someone would do that. The university honoured the request and treated it as formal FoI. I got an official response yesterday.
Fri 14:30:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ CXMT planned to use stolen Samsung IP to develop its DRAM, court hears — former Samsung engineer who jumped to Chinese memory maker now behind bars ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/cxmt-planned-to-use-stolen-samsung-ip-to-develop-its-dram-court-hears-former-samsung-engineer-who-jumped-to-chinese-memory-maker-now-behind-bars
Fri 14:30:39 │ 〖bms〗 │ I had to threaten her with legal action and cut off all communication for my own protection.
Fri 14:31:16 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] don't have enough info
Fri 14:31:25 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] sounds like relationship in the same insstitution
Fri 14:31:29 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] that can cause probs
Fri 14:31:47 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] when i was 16 or 17 i had a g/f who worked wiith my in burger king
Fri 14:31:52 │ 〖bms〗 │ Nothing untoward or unsavoury, totally platonic, shared a house, her dog liked me.
Fri 14:31:52 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but only after i had left the job
Fri 14:31:58 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] we did not date when we both worked there
Fri 14:32:24 │ 〖bms〗 │ Was it because I was daring to criticise the "Holy A.I." I wonder?
Fri 14:32:36 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] AI is not new
Fri 14:32:39 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it's old stuff
Fri 14:32:45 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and it's not so exciting
Fri 14:33:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ China Sentences Evergrande Founder to Life in Prison ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/business/evergrande-founder-life-prison.html
Fri 14:35:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ In China they imprison rich people for white-collar crimes, in the US they don't even get arrested for pedophilia and sex trafficking https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-evergrande-founder-sentenced-to-life-in-prison
Fri 14:35:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ What property giant Evergrande’s court rulings mean for China’s economy ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/what-property-giant-evergrandes-sentence-means-for-chinas-economy
Fri 14:35:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ China says it ‘firmly opposes’ Convicted Felon drone tariffs ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-says-firmly-opposes-trump-drone-tariffs
Fri 14:36:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Low-value parcel volumes from China plunge in Lithuania after EU duty takes effect ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3027122/low-value-parcel-volumes-from-china-plunge-in-lithuania-after-eu-duty-takes-effect
Fri 14:37:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Founder of China’s disgraced property giant jailed for life, as firm fined over US$2 billion ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/08/20/china-jails-founder-fines-disgraced-property-giant-evergrande/
Fri 14:38:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Proprietary, spam, sells slop. Bad optics for "It's FOSS". ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/warp-factories-launched/
Fri 14:39:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Early 764 member sentenced to 77 years, longest prison term to date for a nihilistic violent extremist ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/764-member-sentenced-longest-prison-sentence-kyle-spitze/
Fri 14:41:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The Rust Programming Language Blog: Supply chain attack on arrayref ☞ https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/08/20/supply-chain-attack-on-arrayref/
Fri 14:41:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The Rust Programming Language Blog: Announcing Rust 1.98.0 ☞ https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/08/20/Rust-1.98.0/
Fri 14:43:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ It is perfectly normal and routine for both airports and for airlines to identify issues in planes and not pass tests, then mitigate or replace a plane. Maybe Puppy Breaker has too little experience flying, so he dramatises the whole thing. It happens a lot, every day...
Fri 14:43:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Michael Catanzaro: Introduction to Injection Vulnerabilities (and Script Worlds!) ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2026/08/20/introduction-to-injection-vulnerabilities-and-script-worlds/
Fri 14:46:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ LibreDB Studio: an open source, self-hosted SQL IDE for PostgreSQL in the browser ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/libredb-studio-an-open-source-self-hosted-sql-ide-for-postgresql-in-the-browser-3368/
Fri 14:50:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Rust is not secure ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1089720/
Fri 14:51:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Qt Safe Renderer 2.2.0 Released and Certified! ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-safe-renderer-2.2.0-released-and-certified
Fri 14:52:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Stallman was right about paying in Cash. Don't be a sucker! https://old.reddit.com/r/StallmanWasRight/ https://www.reddit.com/r/StallmanWasRight/comments/1vu2719/stallman_was_right_about_paying_in_cash_dont_be_a/
Fri 14:56:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ FCC considers cuts to funds for internet access at schools and libraries ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2026/0820/fcc-e-rate-libraries-schools
Fri 14:56:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ We're Not Taking Harmful Cat Behaviors on The Internet Seriously Enough, Researchers Warn ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/were-not-taking-harmful-cat-behaviors-on-the-internet-seriously-enough-researchers-warn
Fri 15:12:35 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] bms:
Fri 15:12:39 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "
Fri 15:12:39 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] checking IRC text now
Fri 15:12:39 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "bms; Was it because I was daring to criticise the "Holy A.I." I wonder? "
Fri 15:12:39 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] ^ very likely
Fri 15:12:39 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] a lot of people are VERY frightened by something adjacent to LLMs
Fri 15:12:40 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and react that way even to questioning any aspect of the LLM bubble
Fri 15:12:42 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] or what little technology there is underneath.
Fri 15:12:44 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Maybe she got personal threats over such
Fri 15:12:46 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "
Fri 15:12:48 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] -Anon
Fri 15:19:05 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0gb74cq
Fri 15:19:06 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] MinceR:
Fri 15:19:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "
Fri 15:19:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Gonna happen. IBM assigned some finance lady Biz D to them and they are trying to go all kinds of social mktg online. Plus go to the Persistent web page and look at About Us and the "leadership team". All Indians. Game set match.
Fri 15:19:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Indian Bureau of Mainframes
Fri 15:19:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] I've Been Moved
Fri 15:19:18 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] It's Being Monitored
Fri 15:19:20 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Indian Biryani Machines
Fri 15:19:22 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Incompetent But Management
Fri 15:19:24 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Infinite Bug Maker
Fri 15:19:26 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Indian Baking Method
Fri 15:19:28 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] International Boring Machines
Fri 15:19:30 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] It Broken Mon
Fri 15:19:32 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] I Blame Marketing
Fri 15:19:36 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Indian Brainstorming Monks
Fri 15:19:38 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Id--ts Buying Management
Fri 15:19:40 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Indian Budget Managers
Fri 15:19:42 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] I'm Buying Microsoft
Fri 15:19:44 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Instant Bureaucracy Maker
Fri 15:19:46 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Indian Binary Mechanics
Fri 15:19:48 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Isolated Byte Monster
Fri 15:19:50 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Indian Byte Masters
Fri 15:19:52 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Internet's Biggest Mystery
Fri 15:19:54 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Immobile Blue Monster
Fri 15:19:56 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "
Fri 15:20:10 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ i've seen it as "I'm Buying Macintosh" -- which is now fitting, given that Dehomag is now a card-carrying crApple shill
Fri 15:20:56 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Bowel Movement
Fri 15:21:11 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "
Fri 15:21:11 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Ohhhh yes, this one is legendary already. Everybody looking around like, “Wait ah… what is happening here?” She keep getting promotion one after another rapidly, like promotion automatically come every time she open email, even though everybody still cannot see exactly what is being delivered. But maybe no need deliver when you are top guy favorite, lah.
Fri 15:21:13 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Her taking over HI was basically corporate saying, “OK, we are done here.” They were throwing in the towel on this team. Honestly, her arrival already feel like official announcement of the team’s demise. Wah.
Fri 15:21:16 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] BUT NO! Plot twist! Instead of asking any questions, she somehow get magically transported upward and promoted AGAIN! Wah, very efficient system—performance problem become promotion opportunity! Team left behind like after typhoon, picking up pieces, while she flying upstairs to collect another big title.
Fri 15:21:20 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Honestly, this no longer corporate promotion culture. This is professional-level comedy. If somebody write this as satire, people say too unrealistic. But Albany say, “Hold my tea.” Wah, cannot make this up already."
Fri 15:21:23 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kze4zqty
Fri 15:21:25 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] sounds like Sirius :)
Fri 15:21:32 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] people who know nothing about computer
Fri 15:21:40 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] assigned to manage people who do it for a living
Fri 15:21:47 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it's not even funny, it was insane
Fri 15:22:00 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] SarinGas had zero knowledge of anything computer
Fri 15:22:09 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] no qualifications, zero knowledge
Fri 15:24:46 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ ideal management material?
Fri 15:27:22 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] IMM
Fri 15:40:18 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] ICBMM
Fri 15:40:37 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] inter continential ballistic missiles management
Fri 15:40:52 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "you're fired"
Fri 15:40:56 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] management 101
Fri 15:42:02 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ (cat) (video) (audio:irrelevant) https://imgur.com/gallery/hungry-kitty-steals-entire-bag-of-sausages-701nyB6
Fri 15:42:20 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] vieable in hungary
Fri 15:42:30 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] uk blockks hungary kitten :)
Fri 15:42:44 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "
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Fri 15:42:44 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Content not available in your region.
Fri 15:42:44 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Learn more about Imgur access in the United Kingdom
Fri 15:43:36 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ https://rimgo.bloat.cat/gallery/hungry-kitty-steals-entire-bag-of-sausages-701nyB6
Fri 15:46:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Mass Layoffs at IBM, But Mostly in Secret (PIPs and 'Voluntary' Redundancies) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/Mass_Layoffs_at_IBM_But_Mostly_in_Secret_PIPs_and_Voluntary_Red.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/Mass_Layoffs_at_IBM_But_Mostly_in_Secret_PIPs_and_Voluntary_Red.gmi ∎
Fri 15:56:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today in the United States GNU/Linux Measured at 15% on Desktops/Laptops ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/21/Today_in_the_United_States_GNU_Linux_Measured_at_15_on_Desktops.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/21/Today_in_the_United_States_GNU_Linux_Measured_at_15_on_Desktops.gmi ∎
Fri 16:03:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ It is quite telling and revealing that SlopMatt has quit talking about litigation because Roy and Rianne's legal team, about 10 times more experienced then his, said that it turned out "embarrassing" for his legal team and "they basically lost"
Fri 16:04:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ (than)
Fri 16:04:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The SLOP curve for Hey Hi (AI) in schools ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/Editorials/the-monitors-view/2026/0820/The-learning-curve-for-AI-in-schools
Fri 16:05:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ What % of the pushers of slop does NOT have any background in Computer Science or equiv? HUGE proportion. There is a reason for this.
Fri 16:09:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ China: Robots box and dance at Beijing's 2026 World Robot Conference ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/china-robots-box-and-dance-at-beijing-s-2026-world-robot-conference
Fri 16:10:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ BOTH companies LOSE money. This is a SCAM, Wall Street embraced a scam wholly and happily. https://siliconangle.com/2026/08/20/report-anthropic-hopes-to-surpass-spacexs-record-ipo-raise-when-it-finally-goes-public/
Fri 16:11:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ debt financing for Hey Hi (AI) chip deal ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2026/08/20/broadcom-reportedly-seeking-up-to-100b-in-debt-financing-for-ai-chip-deal/ DEBT DEBT DEBT DEBT DEBT DEBT DEBT DEBT SUCCESS DEBT DEBT DEBT DEBT
Fri 16:11:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ So they sell chips for money that does not exist! Bravo! WHAT COULD GO WRONG???
Fri 16:14:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Flock Says It’s “Taking a Break” From Responding to Media Requests ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/flock-taking-break-responding-media
Fri 16:14:22 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.salon.com/2026/08/21/columbia-house-closure-sparks-nostalgia-for-a-bygone-music-scam/
Fri 16:14:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ OpenAI Halts Hey Hi (AI) Training on Advanced Model as It Detects Dark Signs Emerging ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-halts-training-advanced-model
Fri 16:16:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ BREAKING: Hong Kong Tiananmen vigil activists convicted under nat. security law, face up to 10 years prison ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/08/21/breaking-hong-kong-tiananmen-vigil-activists-convicted-under-nat-security-law-face-up-to-10-years-prison/
Fri 16:18:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ GivEnergy enters administration, batteries expose home networks ☞ https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/givenergy-enters-administration-legacy-home-batteries-still-expose-customer-networks/
Fri 16:19:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Corporate human rights watchdog finds forced labor persists on Dominican Republic plantations ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/08/corporate-human-rights-watchdog-finds-forced-labor-persists-on-dominican-republic-plantations/
Fri 16:20:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ French PM announces creation of unit to combat cyberattacks ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260820-french-pm-announces-creation-of-unit-to-combat-cyberattacks
Fri 16:21:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The push to designate Hey Hi (AI) as the next critical infrastructure sector ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/ai-critical-infrastructure-designation-cisa-report/
Fri 16:23:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Exploitation Expected for Critical Authentication Bypass Patched in Citrix NetScaler ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/exploitation-expected-for-critical-authentication-bypass-patched-in-citrix-netscaler/
Fri 16:23:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Cisco Patches Critical Crosswork, Secure Workload Vulnerabilities ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/cisco-patches-critical-crosswork-secure-workload-vulnerabilities/
Fri 16:23:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ MLflow Vulnerability Exploited for Cloud Credential Theft ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/mlflow-vulnerability-exploited-for-cloud-credential-theft/
Fri 16:23:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Atlassian, Splunk Patch Dozens of Critical, High-Severity Vulnerabilities ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/atlassian-splunk-patch-dozens-of-critical-high-severity-vulnerabilities/
Fri 16:27:02 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/supermicro-fires-several-employees-following-investigation-into-usd2-5-billion-china-ai-chip-smuggling-claims-that-senior-management-had-no-knowledge-of-illicit-transactions
Fri 16:27:38 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/slovakia-discovers-russian-backdoors-in-279-new-traffic-cameras-national-security-service-deactivates-offending-units
Fri 16:28:30 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/enterprise-ssds-now-cost-18-times-more-than-hard-drives-per-terabyte
Fri 16:32:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Teaching Young People to Feed Wildlife https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/21/teaching-young-people-to-feed-wildlife/
Fri 16:34:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Amazon delivery drone dumps Texas woman's parcel straight into her swimming pool ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/drones/amazon-delivery-drone-dumps-texas-womans-parcel-straight-into-her-swimming-pool-viral-video-surfaces-the-same-week-the-company-announces-500-city-prime-air-expansion
Fri 16:34:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Amazon delivery drone drops ‘shocked’ customer’s package directly into swimming pool in viral video ☞ https://nypost.com/2026/08/20/us-news/amazon-delivery-drone-drops-shocked-customers-package-directly-into-swimming-pool-in-viral-video/
Fri 16:35:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Whistleblower Says Mark Kapo-berg Is Only Pretending to Care About Child Safety ☞ https://futurism.com/future-society/whistleblower-lawsuit-meta-child-safety-mark-zuckerberg-facebook-instagram
Fri 16:36:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Germany records 14,000 heat-related deaths this summer as heatwaves scorch Europe ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260820-germany-records-14-000-heat-related-deaths-this-summer-as-heatwaves-scorch-europe
Fri 16:37:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Increasingly, court filings are citing legal cases that don’t actually exist ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/artificial-intelligence/2026/08/increasingly-court-filings-are-citing-legal-cases-that-dont-actually-exist/
Fri 16:38:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Critical GitLab Flaw Exploited Shortly After Disclosure ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/critical-gitlab-flaw-exploited-shortly-after-disclosure/
Fri 16:40:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Why are people suddenly adding Fashion Company Apple Lightning cables to Raspberry Pi Pico 2 boards? ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/08/20/why-are-people-suddenly-adding-apple-lightning-cables-to-raspberry-pi-pico-2-boards/
Fri 16:41:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Hackers Target Zimbra Servers in Active Exploitation Campaign ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/hackers-target-zimbra-servers-in-active-exploitation-campaign/
Fri 16:41:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ KDE Gear 26.08 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1089721/
Fri 16:42:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ KDE Gear ⚙️ 26.08 ☞ https://kde.org/announcements/gear/26.08.0/
Fri 16:43:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Btrfs Snapshot Integration in KDE ☞ https://bharadwajraju.com/posts/btrfs-snapshots-in-kde
Fri 16:44:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ PINE64 is Halting its GNU/Linux Hardware Line, and The Hey Hi (AI) Bubble is to Blame ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/pine64-kills-off-linux-hardware/
Fri 16:46:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): NetworkManager 1.58.1 Improves Support for Private Connections and Fixes Bugs ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/21/NetworkManager_1_58_1_Improves_Support_for_Private_Connections_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/21/NetworkManager_1_58_1_Improves_Support_for_Private_Connections_.gmi ∎
Fri 16:46:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Quectel SH602FA and SE505FE smart modules bring Android 16 to 4G LTE and 5G IoT devices ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/08/20/quectel-sh602fa-and-se505fe-smart-modules-bring-android-16-to-4g-lte-and-5g-iot-devices/
Fri 16:47:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ This Extension Displays Your Photo Images as Desktop Widget ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/08/extension-photo-desktop-widget/
Fri 16:48:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Liferea News Reader 2.0 Released with GTK4/LibAdwaita Port ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/08/liferea-news-reader-2-0-released-with-gtk4-libadwaita-port/
Fri 16:49:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Linux 7.2 release – Main changes, Arm, RISC-V, and MIPS architectures ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/08/21/linux-7-2-release-main-changes-arm-risc_v-amd-mips-architecture/
Fri 16:49:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ GNUnet News: GNUnet 0.29.0 ☞ https://gnunet.org/en/news/2026-08-0.29.0.html
Fri 16:51:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Security updates for Thursday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1089717/
Fri 16:51:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ GIMP is (finally) working on a new project file format ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/gimp-new-project-file-format
Fri 16:52:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Dynamic icons GNOME extension adds 2 new styles, Yaru fixes ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/dynamic-icons-gnome-extension-updated
Fri 16:54:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Dynamic icons GNOME extension adds 2 new styles, Yaru fixes ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/dynamic-icons-gnome-extension-updated
Fri 16:54:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The “Magic Just” ☞ https://www.rubenerd.au/the-magic-just/
Fri 16:55:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ RPM 6.1.0 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1089719/
Fri 17:03:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Self-Hosting Photos, No Social Control Media Needed https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/21/self-hosting-photos-no-social-control-media-needed/
Fri 17:03:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Final week: Wrapping Up My GSoC Journey ☞ https://roshani-gsoc.bearblog.dev/final-week-wrapping-up-my-gsoc-journey/
Fri 17:04:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ iophk: I notice they stop mentioning the deforrestation which is the main cause of the decreased rainfall: https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/panama-canal-to-reduce-shipping-over-el-nino-fueled-drought-702895946 (Strategic waterway: Panama Canal to reduce shipping over El Nino-fueled drought)
Fri 17:06:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ‘Unprecedented’ Number of Fashion Company Apple Users Received Recent Spyware Alert ☞ https://citizenlab.ca/unprecedented-number-of-apple-users-received-recent-spyware-alert/ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/08/Unlike_GAFAM_Free_Software_Serves_You_It_Does_Not_Serve_Governm.shtml
Fri 17:07:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ restrictions violate Fifth Amendment and historical tradition of DIY gunsmithing ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/3d-printing/federal-judge-strikes-down-atf-ghost-gun-rule-for-3d-printed-parts-says-restrictions-violate-fifth-amendment-and-historical-tradition-of-diy-gunsmithing
Fri 17:09:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ GNU/Linux According to Clownflare ☞ https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/20/gnulinux-according-to-clownflare/
Fri 17:10:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Tom Ritter: webaudio fingerprinting on alibaba ☞ http://ritter.vg/blog-webaudio_alibaba.html
Fri 17:10:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Over 153,000 students, staff affected in Canvas data breach, Hong Kong privacy watchdog says ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/08/21/over-153000-students-staff-affected-in-canvas-data-breach-hong-kong-privacy-watchdog-says/
Fri 17:11:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Google Hey Hi (AI) Giving Staggeringly Racist “Advice” About Being Alone With Certain Groups of People ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-ai-racist Slop is not advice and not intelligence, it's a soup of words and that's why it's doomed to fail
Fri 17:12:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ PyData Berlin Talk on our new within Fixed Effect Solver ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/08/pydata-berlin-talk-on-our-new-within-fixed-effect-solver/
Fri 17:13:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Retail theft bill spurs ‘very large and very dangerous’ surveillance fears ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/corca-retail-theft-bill-ice-surveillance/
Fri 17:14:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Proprietary: OLE-Dispatch When Doing MFC/Qt Migration ☞ https://www.kdab.com/ole-dispatch-when-doing-mfcqt-migration/
Fri 17:14:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 125: A Useful Quirk ☞ https://mwl.io/archives/24958
Fri 17:15:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Firefox Add-on Reviews: Extension starter pack ☞ https://addons.mozilla.org/blog/extension-starter-pack/
Fri 17:17:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ FOMO SPAM? Fentanylware (CheeTok) Star at 89 ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/world/europe/elder-opa-influencer-tiktok-star-matcha.html
Fri 17:20:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Automattic jumping the shark with slop plagiarism and charlatans - this can repel more WordPress users than it can attract ☞ https://wordpress.org/news/2026/08/wcus-2026-recap/
Fri 17:21:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ UNC Used Hey Hi (AI) to Help Draft Its 'Compact 2.0’ Response. Is That Hypocritical? ☞ https://www.chronicle.com/article/unc-used-ai-to-help-draft-its-compact-2-0-response-is-that-hypocritical
Fri 17:22:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The Funny Way That Stand-Up Comics Are Posting on Social Control Media ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/19/arts/comedians-social-media-photos-captions.html
Fri 17:22:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Problem Statements and the Scope of Prior Art ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/08/problem-statements-and-the-scope-of-prior-art.html
Fri 17:23:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Flash Uplink hard drive firmware patent monopoly challenge granted ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/8/20/flash-uplink-hard-drive-firmware-patent-challenge-granted
Fri 17:23:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Software Patents: Introducing UMG the Patent Licensor: Major Label’s ‘Music IP Holdings’ JV Licenses 24+ Hey Hi (AI) Patents to Udio and GRAI, Targets ‘Widespread Adoption’ With Online Portal ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/20/universal-music-patents-licensing-deals-udio-grai/
Fri 17:24:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Greens call for windfall tax on the profits of big banks to help more than a million small and medium businesses ☞ https://greenparty.org.uk/2026/08/19/greens-announce-windfall-tax-on-the-profits-of-big-banks/
Fri 17:25:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ how to install cisco packet tracer on gnu linux debian 13 ☞ https://dwaves.de/2026/08/20/how-to-install-cisco-packet-tracer-on-gnu-linux-debian-13/
Fri 17:25:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install Graylog on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS ☞ https://idroot.us/install-graylog-ubuntu/
Fri 17:26:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ FKA twigs vs. The Twigs: FKA twigs Triumphs in First Stage of Trademark Infringement Proceedings ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/20/fka-twigs-twigs-trademark-battle/
Fri 17:27:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ AI-Assisted Tool Helped Secure Satellite Communication System After 2022 Russian Hacking ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/ai-assisted-tool-helped-secure-satellite-communication-system-after-2022-russian-hacking/
Fri 17:30:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Threat Actor Hacks 14,000 IP Cameras in Ukraine and Russia ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/threat-actor-hacks-14000-ip-cameras-in-ukraine-and-russia/
Fri 17:31:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Voters Aren’t Waiting for November to Try Ousting Officials Over Data Centers ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/19/technology/data-centers-voter-concerns-independence-missouri.html https://techrights.org/datacentre_bibliography.shtml
Fri 17:32:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ LIES LIES LIES LIES LIES LIES LIES LIES in site SPONSORED by IBM!! ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2026/08/19/ibm-moves-a-step-closer-to-fault-tolerant-quantum-computing-by-linking-its-first-modular-cryogenic-fridges/ LIES LIES LIES LIES LIES LIES http://techrights.org/n/2026/06/30/Sabine_Hossenfelder_Versus_IBM_Scamming_Shareholders.shtml
Fri 17:33:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ America Is About to Get More Expensive ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/opinion/bond-market-interest-rates-affordability.html
Fri 17:35:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ This is NOT new!! They just REBRAND everything as "HEY HI" now. https://hongkongfp.com/2026/08/20/hong-kong-to-slash-crosswalk-waits-by-up-to-20-seconds-using-ai-powered-traffic-lights/
Fri 17:36:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The vaccine against HEY HI hype is DEFUNDING of bribe money for "media" https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/17/The_Register_MS_is_Publishing_Spam_for_Gartner_Group_to_Spread_.shtml
Fri 17:51:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "RPM 6.1 has been released today as a major update to this package manager system for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora Linux-based distributions." https://9to5linux.com/rpm-6-1-is-here-with-new-release-model-inspired-by-the-linux-kernel
Fri 17:51:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "PineNote and PineTab2 stock is expected to run dry within three months." https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/pine64-halts-all-linux-device-production-until-at-least-mid-2027-as-memory-shortage-bites
Fri 17:53:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ NetBSD 11 lands with RISC-V support and lightning-fast VM boots https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/08/20/netbsd-11-lands-with-risc-v-support-and-lightning-fast-vm-boots/5289713
Fri 17:54:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Framework’s Linux Laptop 12 is massively outselling Windows https://www.trustedreviews.com/news/frameworks-linux-laptop-12-is-massively-outselling-windows
Fri 17:56:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Framework Laptop 12 gets Fedora KDE Linux on pre-builts, along with new Intel Core Series 3 processors ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/Framework_Laptop_12_gets_Fedora_KDE_Linux_on_pre_builts_along_w.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/Framework_Laptop_12_gets_Fedora_KDE_Linux_on_pre_builts_along_w.gmi ∎
Fri 17:56:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Linux 7.3 will boost minimum framerates by 7x on older CPUs, which is perfect in this hardware crisis https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-73-will-boost-minimum-framerates-by-7x-on-older-cpus-which-is-perfect-in-this-hardware-crisis/
Fri 17:56:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Garuda Linux “Temeraire” is out today as the latest snapshot of this Arch Linux-based distro that promises to deliver a powerful, beautiful, and user-centric Linux desktop experience." https://9to5linux.com/arch-linux-based-garuda-linux-temeraire-released-with-linux-7-2
Fri 17:57:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The open hardware manufacturer recently posted an update on its Mastodon account, and it's not great news if you were hoping to grab new Linux-powered PINE64 hardware." https://itsfoss.com/news/pine64-kills-off-linux-hardware/
Fri 17:57:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ PINE64 is halting its Linux hardware line, and the AI bubble is to blame https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/08/20/pine64-is-halting-its-linux-hardware-line-and-the-ai-bubble-is-to-blame/
Fri 17:58:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Researcher tricks Apple’s Find My into sharing location data with Linux https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/20/researcher-tricks-apples-find-my-into-sharing-location-data-with-linux/5290496
Fri 17:59:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ UAT-10147 deploys SPECTRE: A cross-platform implant with Linux rootkit and BYOVD capabilities https://blog.talosintelligence.com/uat-10147-deploys-spectre-a-cross-platform-implant-with-linux-rootkit-and-byovd-capabilities/
Fri 18:02:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The KDE Project released KDE Gear 26.08 today as a major update to this open-source software suite companion to the KDE Plasma desktop environment in celebration of KDE’s upcoming 30th anniversary this October." https://9to5linux.com/kde-gear-26-08-software-suite-is-out-with-many-improvements-for-kde-apps
Fri 18:02:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Finally, there's a Linux distro that makes Arch and Hyprland easy - while adding the polish of MacOS. What's not to love about MainstreamOS?" https://www.zdnet.com/article/mainstreamos-linux-distro-arch-hyprland/
Fri 18:03:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Given how much competition there is on Steam, I think it's worth celebrating for smaller developers (especially so when they directly support Linux)." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/the-impressive-sandustry-already-hit-100k-sales-with-an-early-multiplayer-mod-out-now/
Fri 18:03:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Linux 7.3 Scheduler Boosts FPS for Low-Power Hardware https://www.techpowerup.com/351727/linux-7-3-scheduler-boosts-fps-for-low-power-hardware
Fri 18:04:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Google Chrome web browser for 64-bit Arm Linux and tested on Pi 5 https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/08/19/google-chrome-web-browser-for-64-bit-arm-linux-and-tested-on-pi-5/
Fri 18:04:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This is a follow-up to work they previously blogged about and now Vock said that after many months on the mailing lists that the "kernel patches are finally merged upstream and queued for Linux 7.3"." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/linux-vram-management-set-for-more-improvements-with-kernel-7-3/
Fri 18:05:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Linux gaming: Latest patch brings 7x improvements on 'potato' hardware https://www.notebookcheck.net/Linux-gaming-Latest-patch-brings-7x-improvements-on-potato-hardware.1373432.0.html
Fri 18:06:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Framework Refreshes 12-Inch Laptop, Uses Linux To Hit $699 Price https://uk.pcmag.com/laptops/166785/framework-refreshes-12-inch-laptop-uses-linux-to-hit-699-price
Fri 18:09:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Linux Kernel Space: Apple Foolishness and Change to Scheduler Boosts FPS for Low-Power Hardware ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/21/Linux_Kernel_Space_Apple_Foolishness_and_Change_to_Scheduler_Bo.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/21/Linux_Kernel_Space_Apple_Foolishness_and_Change_to_Scheduler_Bo.gmi ∎
Fri 18:11:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Audiocasts/Shows: Emacs, DNS, and BSDs ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/21/Audiocasts_Shows_Emacs_DNS_and_BSDs.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/21/Audiocasts_Shows_Emacs_DNS_and_BSDs.gmi ∎
Fri 18:12:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today's 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 HowTos ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/21/today_s_howtos.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/21/today_s_howtos.gmi ∎
Fri 18:14:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): SNES Games, Nostalgia, and New Titles for GNU/Linux ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/21/SNES_Games_Nostalgia_and_New_Titles_for_GNU_Linux.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/21/SNES_Games_Nostalgia_and_New_Titles_for_GNU_Linux.gmi ∎
Fri 18:16:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): BSD: OpenZFS Mastery and NetBSD 11's Support for 64-bit RISC-V Hardware ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/21/BSD_OpenZFS_Mastery_and_NetBSD_11_s_Support_for_64_bit_RISC_V_H.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/21/BSD_OpenZFS_Mastery_and_NetBSD_11_s_Support_for_64_bit_RISC_V_H.gmi ∎
Fri 18:16:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Trying Out Garuda Linux ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/21/Trying_Out_Garuda_Linux.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/21/Trying_Out_Garuda_Linux.gmi ∎
Fri 18:18:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): GNOME: Security, Extensions, and Liferea News Reader 2.0 ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/21/GNOME_Security_Extensions_and_Liferea_News_Reader_2_0.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/21/GNOME_Security_Extensions_and_Liferea_News_Reader_2_0.gmi ∎
Fri 18:19:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Raspberry Pi, Homebrew 68K Machine, and Android Devices ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/21/Raspberry_Pi_Homebrew_68K_Machine_and_Android_Devices.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/21/Raspberry_Pi_Homebrew_68K_Machine_and_Android_Devices.gmi ∎
Fri 18:21:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 Programming Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/21/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/21/Programming_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Fri 18:21:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Rust Gets Security Black Eye, Releases New Version ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/21/Rust_Gets_Security_Black_Eye_Releases_New_Version.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/21/Rust_Gets_Security_Black_Eye_Releases_New_Version.gmi ∎
Fri 18:23:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): "Chrome-Plated Turd" and "Google Chrome web browser for 64-bit Arm Linux and tested on Pi 5" ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/21/_Chrome_Plated_Turd_and_Google_Chrome_web_browser_for_64_bit_Ar.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/21/_Chrome_Plated_Turd_and_Google_Chrome_web_browser_for_64_bit_Ar.gmi ∎
Fri 18:23:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Firefox Add-ons and Mozilla Still Goes on About Openwashing and LLM Slop (Pyramid Scheme, Hype) ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/21/Firefox_Add_ons_and_Mozilla_Still_Goes_on_About_Openwashing_and.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/21/Firefox_Add_ons_and_Mozilla_Still_Goes_on_About_Openwashing_and.gmi ∎
Fri 18:24:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Btrfs Snapshot Integration in KDE and GSoC Journey in KDE ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/21/Btrfs_Snapshot_Integration_in_KDE_and_GSoC_Journey_in_KDE.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/21/Btrfs_Snapshot_Integration_in_KDE_and_GSoC_Journey_in_KDE.gmi ∎
Fri 18:26:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Red Hat sponsored fluff/puff pieces about slop https://techstrong.ai/videos/red-hat-brings-enterprise-ai-at-scale-into-focus/
Fri 18:27:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ IBM Red Hat is not selling Linux, it's selling hype around slop plagiarism, this is awful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLsOzdVqQVA
Fri 18:29:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): IBM: Red Hat Selling Mindless Slop (as Usual), RPM 6.1.0 is Ready ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/21/IBM_Red_Hat_Selling_Mindless_Slop_as_Usual_RPM_6_1_0_is_Ready.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/21/IBM_Red_Hat_Selling_Mindless_Slop_as_Usual_RPM_6_1_0_is_Ready.gmi ∎
Fri 18:29:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): PostgreSQL: LibreDB Studio introduced, poisoned Postgres connection pools ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/21/PostgreSQL_LibreDB_Studio_introduced_poisoned_Postgres_connecti.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/21/PostgreSQL_LibreDB_Studio_introduced_poisoned_Postgres_connecti.gmi ∎
Fri 18:31:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): GNU: GNUnet 0.29.0 is released, phone turned into emacs interface ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/21/GNU_GNUnet_0_29_0_is_released_phone_turned_into_emacs_interface.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/21/GNU_GNUnet_0_29_0_is_released_phone_turned_into_emacs_interface.gmi ∎
Fri 18:36:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Web Browsers/Web Servers: WebAudio, Automattic/WordCamp/WordPress Become Slopfest, Looking at "geolocation" in HTML ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/21/Web_Browsers_Web_Servers_WebAudio_Automattic_WordCamp_WordPress.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/21/Web_Browsers_Web_Servers_WebAudio_Automattic_WordCamp_WordPress.gmi ∎
Fri 18:39:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Education, Sharing, and More ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/21/Education_Sharing_and_More.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/21/Education_Sharing_and_More.gmi ∎
Fri 18:41:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "First off, I'm assuming that VIN stands for “Very Important Number” and not “Vulvar Intraepithelial Neoplasia.” Second, why is it a “VIN Gauge Combination Box™?” What does “gauge” have to do with it? It's not referncing a distance, quantity, capacity or dimention, just a number." gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2026/08/20.1
Fri 18:41:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Security Patches and Incidents ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/21/Security_Patches_and_Incidents.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/21/Security_Patches_and_Incidents.gmi ∎
Fri 18:42:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This other is sensitive, brilliant, desperate, isolated, possibly dangerous, profoundly loved, and terribly, terribly trapped. A kindred spirit of sorts." gemini://nullish.smol.pub/stranger-perspective-1
Fri 18:42:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Finally, after months of dryness and oppressive heat, there was a rain day. Not just a little sprinkling here and there, we'd had those and their false promises, no this was a proper rain day, steady and incessant for hours." gemini://littlecampsite.smol.pub/the-rain-returned
Fri 18:43:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Scienza Umanista gemini://omg.pebcak.club/~cage/archive/scienza-umanista.gmi
Fri 18:43:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The other day, I had noticed an internal Slack conversation regarding some emails that weren't received over the weekend by a user." gemini://enemy.org/mrfusion/rants/2026-08-21.gmi
Fri 18:44:22 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.rawstory.com/gordon-ramsay-battle/
Fri 18:44:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "For a long time I've been thinking about ways to spend less time on line, for a whole list of reasons that I'll probably describe on this journal in due course." gemini://kdan.smol.pub/small_internet
Fri 18:44:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "In the last couple of weeks I've started using IRC again for the first time in decades and accessing BBSes. Next, I had heard of Gopher 30+ years ago but I hadn't used it at the time so I did some research, and from Gopher it was a short step to finding Gemini. It feels like the thing, or one of the things, I've been looking for."
Fri 18:45:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A Christian once described Unitarian Universalism to me as church for atheists. There was one where I grew up. It was known among gay people as the church you could go to if you were gay." gemini://gemini.njms.ca/gemlog/communion.gmi
Fri 18:50:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Gemini Links 21/08/2026: Rain Coming Back and "Small Internet" ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/Gemini_Links_21_08_2026_Rain_Coming_Back_and_Small_Internet.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/Gemini_Links_21_08_2026_Rain_Coming_Back_and_Small_Internet.gmi ∎
Fri 18:55:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Links 21/08/2026: Outrage Over Politicians Who Support Slop-Feeding Data Centres, "America Is About to Get More Expensive" ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/Links_21_08_2026_Outrage_Over_Politicians_Who_Support_Slop_Feed.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/Links_21_08_2026_Outrage_Over_Politicians_Who_Support_Slop_Feed.gmi ∎
Fri 19:21:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 10cc Came From Manchester https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/21/10cc-came-from-manchester/
Fri 19:21:59 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/aug/21/tyson-foods-close-facilities-beef-prices-cattle-shortage
Fri 19:23:42 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/21/proposed-london-datacentre-will-have-annual-carbon-footprint-of-27000-flights-to-new-york
Fri 19:30:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Treat Others as They Treat You https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/21/treat-others-as-they-treat-you/
Fri 19:34:13 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] net zero
Fri 19:34:18 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] yeah, let's have 10,000 GPUs
Fri 19:34:28 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] in a "climate-frienedly' way
Fri 19:34:33 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they will fart out oxygen
Fri 19:34:37 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and raun on carbon
Fri 19:35:16 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] the concept of carbon neutral and DCs is opposite
Fri 19:35:22 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] contradiction
Fri 19:35:27 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] pure marketing lies
Fri 19:35:40 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] techrights.org/o/2020/09/02/linux-foundation-greenwashing-and-openwashing-for-microsoft/
Fri 19:35:41 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://techrights.org/o/2021/09/24/spamnil-zdnet-lf-greenwashing-microsoft/
Fri 19:35:45 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] http://techrights.org/o/2020/09/02/linux-foundation-greenwashing-and-openwashing-for-microsoft/
Fri 19:36:46 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ :)) https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/openai-fights-to-keep-chatgpt-lawsuit-away-from-a-state-jury
Fri 19:37:21 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/worlds-largest-open-library-calls-for-volunteers-to-scan-and-preserve-physical-books-as-ai-companies-buy-scan-and-destroy-them-annas-archive-says-time-is-running-out-as-knowledge-is-permanently-monopolized-on-private-servers
Fri 19:39:10 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ddr5/scalper-bots-now-outnumber-human-shoppers-10-to-1-on-one-retailers-ddr5-pages
Fri 19:39:43 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/21/trump-fcc-weakens-u-s-broadband-speed-goals-to-the-benefit-of-elon-musk-and-comcast/
Fri 19:40:28 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ oh boy! i can wait!... https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/21/walmart-to-finally-start-accepting-apple-pay-and-google-pay/
Fri 19:45:10 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ may the flock be with you.... https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/08/21/1840254/man-dressed-as-darth-vader-defends-flock-cameras-to-san-diego-city-council
Fri 19:50:20 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/20/epistemic-void/
Fri 19:51:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Ubuntu is Not Linux ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/Ubuntu_is_Not_Linux.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/Ubuntu_is_Not_Linux.gmi ∎
Fri 19:57:09 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2]: STATE OF ILL considers carbon sequestration to be green energy.
Fri 19:57:11 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It's not.
Fri 19:57:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ You have an expensive underground pipeline of highly pressurized CO2.
Fri 19:58:05 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ If the line ruptures, then it can displace the oxygen for miles around the line, and potentially kill people and animals via asphyxiation.
Fri 19:58:31 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ If it works perfectly, the carbon gets to an underground storage site, like a nearly depleted oil well.
Fri 19:58:38 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So that's cool, right? Well, maybe.
Fri 19:59:12 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Now you're pressurizing that underground void. It may start leaking into the atmosphere, in which case you aren't sequestering it.
Fri 19:59:32 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It can put pressure on a fault line and cause earthquakes. Those are bad.
Fri 19:59:56 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It can also push oil out of that nearly depleted well and make the last 10-15 feasible to recover.
Fri 20:00:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Sources-First Publication ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/Sources_First_Publication.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/Sources_First_Publication.gmi ∎
Fri 20:00:21 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So now you're extracting oil again, which means gasoline and diesel, which means more tailpipe emissions that are not being sequestered anywhere.
Fri 20:00:50 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it's all BS
Fri 20:00:55 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] lots and lots of paid-ffor BS
Fri 20:01:03 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] like the "HEY HI REVOLUTIONS"
Fri 20:01:09 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] faling lies at the wall
Fri 20:01:13 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] see what sticks
Fri 20:01:19 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] or what nobody has energy left to debunk
Fri 20:01:51 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ In February 2020, a carbon dioxide pipeline ruptured in Satartia, Mississippi.
Fri 20:02:15 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Because CO2 is odorless, colorless, and significantly heavier than oxygen, it settled low to the ground and blanketed the town. It displaced the oxygen, suffocating combustion engines (cars literally died on the road) and left over 40 people hospitalized with severe asphyxiation symptoms.
Fri 20:02:34 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Expanding a massive network of these highly pressurized pipelines across Illinois agricultural lands introduces a permanent, invisible safety threat to rural communities.
Fri 20:03:14 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ In that one incident in 2020, 45 people nearly died because of one pipeline rupturing.
Fri 20:03:33 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And they want to build thousands of these, all over the place, so that they can run LLMs on fossil fuels.
Fri 20:03:53 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] LLMs are dying
Fri 20:03:57 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] yyou see the ttrend
Fri 20:03:59 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it's downwards
Fri 20:04:08 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] as business call it failed experient
Fri 20:04:09 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and move on
Fri 20:04:18 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] set aside losses of the LLM back end companies
Fri 20:04:31 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and they told us "bitcoin is bad"
Fri 20:04:34 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] now they do the same
Fri 20:04:37 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Carbon Capture and Sequestration is too expensive, too dangerous, and too prone to failure.
Fri 20:04:42 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] at a bigger scale
Fri 20:05:00 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] while polluting us with word salads and plagiarism of arts like music and imagery
Fri 20:05:04 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It's taking money that could simply be spent to by photovoltaic cells and put them at the transmission hookups of a retired coal plant.
Fri 20:05:19 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] use the money to give people jobs and food
Fri 20:05:21 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but no..
Fri 20:05:30 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] silicon valley bros want MOAR bailouts
Fri 20:05:35 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] like boring company
Fri 20:05:36 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] very boring
Fri 20:05:41 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] as it delivered almost nobthing
Fri 20:05:43 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2]: If you give people jobs and food and homes they become comfortable.
Fri 20:05:50 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] maybe it can go public for 10 trillion dollars
Fri 20:05:53 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Comfortable people can't be threatened into working for nearly nothing.
Fri 20:05:58 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So they don't do that.
Fri 20:06:02 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] right
Fri 20:06:04 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but also
Fri 20:06:10 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] what you talk of increases crime
Fri 20:06:14 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and crime is not good for business
Fri 20:06:19 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so they need to make way
Fri 20:06:21 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] something's gotta giev
Fri 20:06:22 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It's not, but here's the kicker.
Fri 20:06:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They just spend all the money that could be used solving the root causes of crime.
Fri 20:06:43 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And expand mass surveillance and policing.
Fri 20:06:52 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They pass new Organized Retail Theft laws.
Fri 20:07:16 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They make the middle class and poor pay to jail poor people with no jobs for wiping out the diapers and Tide at Target to sell on the black market.
Fri 20:07:44 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Instead of fixing it, they just make poor people pay tax to jail other poor people who got desperate and had to operate outside the law for money.
Fri 20:08:08 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Stealing Tide and baby diapers is tne new "20 years in prison for stealing bread".
Fri 20:08:44 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They're not stealing Tide and baby diapers to eat Tide and baby diapers.
Fri 20:09:02 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They sell them on a street corner or to a bodega in the wrong side of town that doesn't care where they got itt
Fri 20:09:12 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Then they use the money to buy food and pay their slumlord.
Fri 20:09:21 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So it's the same thing as stealing bread.
Fri 20:10:51 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2]: There's a reason why everyone on Unemployment Income tries to delay finding another job until they're almost out of UI checks. If the government extends UI for 2 years, they try to stay on it for 2 years.
Fri 20:10:58 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ When they're on UI they have money coming in.
Fri 20:11:08 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It's not as good as their paycheck, but now they have money and time.
Fri 20:11:27 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Money and time and a lot of their expenses (like transportation to work) go away.
Fri 20:12:06 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They realize that they're spending so much to get to work and back and all of these "invisible taxes on being too worn out to do things yourself" that there was no value in the work, relative to their UI check.
Fri 20:13:42 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ When you subtract the "invisible taxes" of working from a low-to-moderate paycheck, the net financial difference between working a toxic job and staying on UI is often shockingly small. The worker realizes they are essentially selling 160 hours of their life a month for a microscopic financial gain.
Fri 20:14:07 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ In some cases the paycheck can be double what UI pays and they're still no better off.
Fri 20:14:36 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Because the government takes away their food stamps and Medicaid and energy assistance, and tells them to pay another $500 a month to deal with it themselves.
Fri 20:15:37 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Taxes go way up.
Fri 20:16:04 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They have to pay for gas, which is noww over $5 a gallon thanks to Trump's war.
Fri 20:16:10 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Or a commuter pass.
Fri 20:16:30 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They have to buy work clothes to look the part, they have to carefully groom themselves.
Fri 20:17:19 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ If they toss those work clothes in the washing machines at their apartment complex and a neighbor left something greasy in the machine, they can't wear a bundle of work clothes where each piece got a grease spot that didn't come out. They just lost $600 worth of laundry.
Fri 20:18:27 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ When gas prices surge, it acts as a direct, regressive tax on the working class. Unlike corporate executives who can work from home or absorb the cost easily, hourly and in-person workers have no choice but to pay that just to show up to the floor of a job that did not increase their pay a single penny to help out with that.
Fri 20:19:58 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ If a person making $200,000 a year has to spend an extra $100 a month on fuel, it represents 0.05% of their income. If an hourly worker making $30,000 a year faces that same $100 increase, it cuts a 4% hole straight out of their take-home pay.
Fri 20:20:23 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Trump is doing a collection of things that are making life in America miserable for people who actually work for a living.
Fri 20:20:38 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/12/insurance-value-of-biodiversity/
Fri 20:20:50 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ i thought corporate executives had to get to the office so they could micromanage people who don't need it
Fri 20:21:14 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR: It's not a shock to the system when gas goes up if you make so much that you won't even notice.
Fri 20:21:20 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ indeed
Fri 20:21:29 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But if you have to get to Walmart to stock the shelves, it's a big fucking deal.
Fri 20:21:45 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ There went 5-6% of your pay on additional gas prices.
Fri 20:22:01 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Credit One Bank, which markets fee harvester credit cards to the working poor sent me an email.
Fri 20:22:19 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They said wouldn't you like a $500 credit line for emergencies, like food, or gas?
Fri 20:22:37 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I said, "Wait a minute, I thought food and gas were routine expenses that you know are coming."
Fri 20:22:50 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Of course they are, and thanks to Trump they're also an emergency.
Fri 20:23:02 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ $3 a pound ground beef is now $8.99 a pound.
Fri 20:23:11 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ $2.25 a gallon for gas is now $5.29
Fri 20:25:01 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Trump says he wants to remove his own tariffs on ground beef to lower prices for 90 days. Then you can go back to paying $9-10 a pound for ground chuck after the election when the Strategic Oil Reserve also runs dry at the same time.
Fri 20:25:38 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ lol
Fri 20:40:43 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ If you're roasting in a drought, drowning in a flood, or being incinerated by a wildfire, your only move is to go shopping and hope that by buying a Tesla, you will emit a "demand signal" that "tips the market equilibrium" to "not killing you and everyone you love."
Fri 20:42:37 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ lol
Fri 20:53:44 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.osnews.com/story/145850/pervertpods-apple-is-adding-cameras-to-airpods/
Fri 20:56:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Proton 11.0-2 Brings Support for AsteroidsHD, Portal Worlds, and Plain Sight ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/21/Proton_11_0_2_Brings_Support_for_AsteroidsHD_Portal_Worlds_and_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/21/Proton_11_0_2_Brings_Support_for_AsteroidsHD_Portal_Worlds_and_.gmi ∎
Fri 21:04:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Shakshouka Time https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/21/shakshouka-time/
Fri 21:08:13 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/08/20/1628253
Fri 21:08:39 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] yes
Fri 21:08:45 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i linked to the orig days ago
Fri 21:08:51 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i never knew they had any
Fri 21:08:56 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] ever
Fri 21:10:28 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] good to know irc is picked up
Fri 21:10:32 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] after 38 years
Fri 21:10:44 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] rather than phased out as older people 'perish'
Fri 21:11:42 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ no eggs in your shakshouka?
Fri 21:12:16 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] we have a lot
Fri 21:12:30 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] 2 or 3 trays
Fri 21:18:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Peace as impermissible policy? This is not a democracy. https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/08/13/russias-supreme-court-bars-pro-peace-party-from-elections
Fri 21:18:33 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ [16:11] <admfubar> no eggs in your shakshouka?
Fri 21:18:38 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I assume you mean Shake Shake.
Fri 21:18:45 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I love the burger with the egg on it.
Fri 21:18:49 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ :D
Fri 21:18:55 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Shake Shack
Fri 21:19:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Russia lists research body as 'undesirable' https://www.dw.com/en/germany-news-russia-lists-research-body-as-undesirable/live-78378773
Fri 21:19:12 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Anyway, yeah, there's only a few fast food restaurants left with any standards.
Fri 21:19:29 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And they're very expensive because they know it's down to like Shake Shack and Chik-Fil-A.
Fri 21:19:39 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] <IsambardPrince> I love the burger with the egg on it.
Fri 21:19:40 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] no
Fri 21:19:47 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/21/shakshouka-time/
Fri 21:19:52 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I was joking anyway.
Fri 21:19:55 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ i was asking about roy's shakshouka. has lamb sausage, and chicken by the looks of it..
Fri 21:20:13 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it's not ours
Fri 21:20:13 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ A hundred eggs?
Fri 21:20:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it's some wikipedia thing
Fri 21:20:20 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ What the hell are you going to do with that?
Fri 21:20:21 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i think turkish variant
Fri 21:20:38 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They only last about 45-50 days maybe in the refrigerator.
Fri 21:20:51 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] <IsambardPrince> What the hell are you going to do with that?
Fri 21:20:57 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I usually use the "float test" to figure out if the eggs really are bad.
Fri 21:20:58 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] go to budapest
Fri 21:21:02 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] to meet steve ballmer
Fri 21:21:12 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They usually don't fail the float test until about 20 days after the date on the carton.
Fri 21:21:18 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They want you to throw food out and buy more.
Fri 21:21:47 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And not all eggs in the carton fail the float test at the same time.
Fri 21:22:03 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ If you have 12 eggs that are a few weeks out, maybe 2-3 will fail that test.
Fri 21:22:08 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ You can go ahead and use the rest.
Fri 21:22:21 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ if your eggs float it means they are a witch...
Fri 21:23:04 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I'm making chili tonight.
Fri 21:24:20 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I make this recipe a lot. It's very good except I always omit the half tsp of salt that it calls for. It's so stupid to add salt when you're using a tsp of celery salt and a tsp of seasoning salt and two Tbsp of BTB Chili Base which has roughly two more tsp of sal, and canned beans which have more salt.
Fri 21:24:57 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ At a certain point you're using so many different kinds of salt that another half tsp does nothing except maybe put it over the edge and make it too salty.
Fri 21:25:10 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I think that point is reached already.
Fri 21:25:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Perseids https://xkcd.com/3287/
Fri 21:25:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Particle Physics Equipment https://xkcd.com/3286/
Fri 21:26:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Accretionary Arc https://xkcd.com/3285/
Fri 21:26:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Geology Building https://xkcd.com/3284/
Fri 21:26:54 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I strongly prefer the Bush's Best Organic Red Kidney Beans. They do have a lot less salt in them.
Fri 21:27:13 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The Bush's Best went on sale for $1.29 a can so I only needed two for tonight but I bought six.
Fri 21:27:37 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Bush's don't explode during the pressure cook like the store brand tend to.
Fri 21:27:55 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Jewel's store brand explodes, and Aldi's come out hard as a rock even after pressure cooking them.
Fri 21:27:58 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Bush's don't.
Fri 21:28:55 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The salt in Better Than Bouillon and seasoned salts isn't just flat sodium chloride. It is loaded with hydrolyzed soy protein, yeast extracts, and natural glutamates (MSG). This creates a deep, savory, mouth-watering umami flavor that coats the tongue. Adding raw table salt on top of that would just create a sharp, stinging saltiness that cuts right through those complex flavors.
Fri 21:29:46 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Anyway, I am not trying to make brine. I'm trying to make a very complex flavor profile, and you "can't get there from here" with loads of plain salt.
Fri 21:29:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Garuda Linux 260819 https://garudalinux.org/blog
Fri 21:30:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Introducing FydeOS v23 ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/21/Introducing_FydeOS_v23.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/21/Introducing_FydeOS_v23.gmi ∎
Fri 21:31:10 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Kidney beans actually have a sorting and grading process.
Fri 21:31:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Soul-Sucking https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/gen-z-junior-lawyer-sacked-melbourne-firm-after-posting-viral-tiktok-complaining-job-was-1814063 http://techrights.org/n/2026/01/17/At_Least_5_Women_Quit_Brett_Wilson_LLP_in_Recent_Months_It_s_th.shtml
Fri 21:31:50 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The reason store brands turn out cheaper is they buy the ones that failed that sorting process and they end up in a can of cheap beans that isn't going to be held to the same standards.
Fri 21:32:17 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The Jewel Osco brand beans don't all explode, but the ones that don't, don't have that "bite" to them.
Fri 21:32:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ When the government is headed by a demented, diaper-shitting bigot https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/taylor-swift-silences-trump-tiktok-antics-1814324
Fri 21:32:53 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I also loaded up on Tillamook Triple Chedder.
Fri 21:33:06 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They cut it thicker and use an aging process that store brands don't go through.
Fri 21:33:14 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They don't use nearly as much anti-caking additive.
Fri 21:33:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ TikTok Star https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/tragic-death-pakistani-tiktok-star-violence-against-women-influencers-1814915
Fri 21:33:27 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So it actually melts like you shredded it by hand, only without all that work.
Fri 21:34:49 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Daisy and Jewel-Osco sour cream both went on sale. I've tasted both and Jewel's is pretty obviously Daisy in a store brand container. Not every off brand sour cream is. Aldi and Walmart's aren't.
Fri 21:36:15 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Jeffrey Eisner apparently drinks Budweiser. This chili calls for half a cup of beer. He used Budweiser. I hate Budweiser and it's never in my fridge. It's always Miller High Life or Coors Banquet.
Fri 21:36:44 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I don't think supermarket loss-leader beers are the best and they're not trying to be, but there's a pecking order between them that ranges from decent to horrible.
Fri 21:36:53 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And I think Budweiser is on the horrible end.
Fri 21:39:46 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] try Lite
Fri 21:39:49 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] :)
Fri 21:41:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ First They Took Our Wages, Now They Want Our Social Security https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/08/17/first-they-took-our-wages-now-they-want-our-social-security/
Fri 21:42:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ SLOP-ware: Omarchy 4.0.0 https://distrowatch.com/12921
Fri 21:44:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Development Release: TUXEDO OS 20260813 https://gitlab.com/tuxedocomputers/development/tuxedo_os/tuxedo-os-debian-open-beta
Fri 21:45:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): PrismLinux Reborn 1.0 Is Here ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/21/PrismLinux_Reborn_1_0_Is_Here.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/21/PrismLinux_Reborn_1_0_Is_Here.gmi ∎
Fri 21:45:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ copyright https://cpj.org/2026/08/from-prosecutions-to-bans-and-spurious-copyright-claims-how-kazakhstans-journalists-are-being-silenced/
Fri 21:45:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ copyright http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/08/shein-v-temu.html
Fri 21:47:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ temperatures rise https://www.dw.com/en/how-to-feed-the-world-as-temperatures-rise/a-78413324
Fri 21:49:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Rootkits next? https://linux.slashdot.org/story/26/08/17/0331227/a-rosier-future-for-linux-gamers-epic-games-announces-linux-version-of-its-storefront
Fri 21:50:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ More antifeatures/restrictions too https://linux.slashdot.org/story/26/08/16/2349224/linux-kernel-72-has-been-officially-released-with-many-new-features http://techrights.org/n/2026/08/18/Linux_Losing_Interest_in_Users_Freedom_Pursues_DRM_Instead.shtml
Fri 21:52:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "finally"!!!! As if THIS was the GOAL. https://www.neowin.net/news/linux-finally-follows-windows-and-makes-a-cpu-feature-requirement-mandatory
Fri 21:52:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (33/2026): NFC in Plasma https://linmob.net/weekly-update-33-2026/
Fri 21:53:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Microsoft Executive Jared Bridegan Murder: Trial Opens for Ex-Wife Shanna Gardner and New Husband https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/murder-trial-microsoft-executive-assassination-1815172
Fri 21:54:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ THE CYBER SHOW: "This Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate." – Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy https://cybershow.uk/content/home/home.html
Fri 21:55:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ CWA Workers Rally Again as Xbox Layoffs Cut Deeper Into Studios https://godisageek.com/2026/08/cwa-second-xbox-layoff-rally-nine-cities/
Fri 21:56:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Xbox physical sales plummet to only 4% market share https://nintendowire.com/news/2026/08/21/xbox-physical-sales-plummet-to-only-4-market-share-while-63-of-game-sales-came-from-nintendo/
Fri 22:08:39 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ [16:39] <schestowitz[TR2]> try Lite
Fri 22:08:41 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ [16:39] <schestowitz[TR2]> :)
Fri 22:08:47 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Gonad the Barbarian bought Bud Lite.
Fri 22:09:04 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Never really understood what the deal was with Lite beer.
Fri 22:09:21 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Like, it's for people who want carbonated water with some grain alcohol?
Fri 22:10:16 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The worst part about that Star Trek movie with the whales, other than being based in San Francisco, was the part where Captain Kirk was drinking Miller Lite with a pizza.
Fri 22:12:27 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Captain Kirk is not a man who would drink Miller Lite, ever.
Fri 22:12:43 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ He's from a future utopia where you can walk up to a food synthesizer and tell it what you want.
Fri 22:13:09 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ He's probably tried beer hundreds of times and knows which ones are good and which ones are crap.
Fri 22:13:24 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I guarantee that pizza place had at least five different beers that you could order.
Fri 22:13:41 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ In the 90s, they would actually bring out entire pitchers of beer to the table at Pizza Hut.
Fri 22:15:27 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Pretty much anything that says "Lite" on it is guaranteed to be swill meant for pussies and people who fried all their taste buds with cigarettes anyway.
Fri 22:17:31 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ If Kirk walked in and said "Give me an Anchor Steam." I would have totally understood that.
Fri 22:21:30 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I used to buy Rolling Rock all the time at the supermarket. It was $1 for a 24 ounce can. How do you beat that? Well, you go to Save-on-Liquor and you get a Colt 45 for $2, that's how you beat that. I got those too.
Fri 22:21:38 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Colt 45 actually isn't half bad.
Fri 22:23:20 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It's basically high octane Miller High Life. They jacked up the ABV to 5.6%.
Fri 22:24:46 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I love Colt 45. It's cheap and it gets you properly wasted for a couple bucks. There was a massive marketing backfire there that led to the stubbornly low price. They tried marketing it to middle class white people and then when that didn't work, they marketed it to working class black people.
Fri 22:25:07 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The recipe did not change, the marketing did. They even hired Billy Dee Williams as their spokesman.
Fri 22:28:25 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2]: My mom thinks "all beer is bad" because she got married to idiots that all bought weird, bad, beer.
Fri 22:28:36 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It had no depth of flavor, no body, no nothing.
Fri 22:29:07 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The only reason to reach for Lite beer in my opinion is if someone just hands you one ice cold at a party or after you mowed the lawn.
Fri 22:31:15 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Everyone's pallette is different, for sure, but mine picks up on pretty much everything that can go wrong with beer.
Fri 22:32:59 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Anyway, the chili recipe is sound, it just needs a couple of tweaks.
Fri 22:33:09 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ No Budweiser, ever. Skip the plain salt.
Fri 22:34:01 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ If you proceed with Budweiser for some reason, at least get regular Budweiser, not Bud Lite.
Fri 22:35:18 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I might see if I can find a 40 of Colt 45 anywhere next time I make chili. I can use half a cup of that and then drink the rest.
Fri 22:56:44 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ 21 231838 < IsambardPrince> I assume you mean Shake Shake.
Fri 22:56:48 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ shake 'n' bake
Fri 22:57:12 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ 21 232221 < admfubar> if your eggs float it means they are a witch...
Fri 22:57:18 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ or if you can build a bridge out of them
Fri 23:10:21 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ (cat) https://imgur.com/gallery/crouching-tiger-ndinfLO
Fri 23:21:45 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ That chili likes to give a burn notice on the instant pot I have if I only use half a cup of beer so I always give it an extra splash for good measure.
Fri 23:22:01 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Every Instant Pot seems to behave a little differently.
Fri 23:22:12 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I usually err on the side of 1-2 ounces too much liquid.
Fri 23:24:24 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ [18:10] <MinceR> (cat) https://imgur.com/gallery/crouching-tiger-ndinfLO
Fri 23:24:34 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Whose cat is that?
Fri 23:24:47 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ probably belongs to itself
Fri 23:24:55 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ A fine animal to be sure, well in its prime, well fed.
Fri 23:25:22 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Guessing wet cat food.
Fri 23:25:32 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I don't feed my cat wet cat food.
Fri 23:25:40 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ She doesn't like it anyway.
Fri 23:26:16 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I can't figure out why she comes running when she hears an electric can opener if she doesn't like wet cat food.
Fri 23:26:48 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Someone has clearly given her something that she likes but I've tried half a dozen wet foods and she just tries to bury it and walks off and eats dry cat food
Fri 23:27:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR: They are a practical pet though. They don't do "useful work" in the usual sense but they're good for human mental health.
Fri 23:27:57 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :)
Fri 23:59:40 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They can be bad for mental health when they pass though. I think Leeloo and Jabba made me cry more than most humans that I know that had a funeral.
Fri 23:59:56 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I'm considering getting a cat on Saturday, MinceR
Sat 00:00:03 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They're having a clear the shelters event.
Sat 00:00:16 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I'm looking at a cat named Gabriel if he's still there on Saturday.
Sat 00:00:26 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I'm thinking about renaming him "Gabriel Lorca".
Sat 00:00:31 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The Terran from Star Trek.
Sat 00:07:56 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :)
Sat 01:46:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🅸🆁🅲 techpol + social irc ■ Yesterday's #boycottnovell-social and #techpol IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-210826.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-210826.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-social-210826.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-social-210826.txt
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Sat 01:49:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🅸🆁🅲 techbytes irc ■ Yesterday's #techbytes IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-210826.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-210826.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techbytes-210826.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techbytes-210826.txt
Sat 01:49:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ✩░▒▓▆▅▃▂▁𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍▁▂▃▅▆▓▒░✩ Yesterday's 𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 bulletin is now ready! 🅷🆃🆃🅿: http://techrights.org/txt-archives/techrights-2026-08-21.txt | 🅶🅴🅼🅸🅽🅸 gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/techrights-2026-08-21.txt (tentative address, to work an hour from now)
Sat 01:50:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ✩░▒▓▆▅▃▂▁Tux Machines 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍▁▂▃▅▆▓▒░✩ Yesterday's Tux Machines bulletin is now ready! 🅷🆃🆃🅿: http://news.tuxmachines.org/txt-archives/tuxmachines-2026-08-21.txt
Sat 02:55:06 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://timmarinin.net/2026/bluesky-screenshots/
Sat 03:01:30 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ robotic foxcon worker? https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=uWMyAr_apWg
Sat 03:07:13 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.rawstory.com/mark-ruffalo-paramount/
Sat 03:14:47 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/08/22/cloverleaf-deal-is-latest-example-of-nvidia-using-its-war-chest-to-patch-cracks-in-the-ai-bubble/5291369
Sat 03:17:02 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/21/michael-polansky-is-training-an-ai-model-on-skin-thats-still-alive/
Sat 03:20:21 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/21/apple-is-reportedly-cutting-hundreds-of-jobs-from-siri-vision-pro-teams/
Sat 03:28:44 │ 〖bms〗 │ 22:21 <schestowitz[TR2]> to meet steve ballmer
Sat 03:28:55 │ 〖bms〗 │ Developers developers developers developers.
Sat 03:31:20 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :>
Sat 03:31:34 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ i have 4 words for you: [i, love, this, company, yeah]
Sat 05:28:30 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "hey you"
Sat 05:28:36 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "give money back to hungarian people"
Sat 05:28:47 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] [pelts eggs]
Sat 05:29:10 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] [ballmer flinging chairs at audience]
Sat 05:31:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today in Techrights ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/22/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/22/Today_in_Techrights.gmi ∎
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Sat 05:31:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – IRC Proceedings: Friday, August 21, 2026 ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/22/IRC_Proceedings_Friday_August_21_2026.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/22/IRC_Proceedings_Friday_August_21_2026.gmi ∎
Sat 05:31:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Over at Tux Machines... ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/22/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/22/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi ∎
Sat 05:43:12 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://www.reddit.com/r/beer/comments/t72f9r/why_is_coors_light_so_popular_when_coors_banquet/
Sat 05:43:28 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://old.reddit.com/r/beer/comments/t72f9r/why_is_coors_light_so_popular_when_coors_banquet/
Sat 05:43:32 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Hmm
Sat 05:43:47 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Why is Coors Light so popular when Coors Banquet is better?
Sat 05:43:53 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Because people are fucking stupid.
Sat 05:44:09 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They ignore better tasting beer from the same company, even when it goes on better sales.
Sat 05:44:12 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Maine Coors :)?
Sat 05:45:14 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://vinepair.com/articles/light-beer-men/
Sat 05:46:56 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "As disturbing as it is, the most astounding part is how well this is all working. To this day, America’s top three beers are Bud Light, Coors Light, and Miller Lite."
Sat 05:47:25 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So they went on a sexist toxic ad campaign to sell a beer only a wuss would drink to these folks and, it worked.
Sat 05:49:30 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2]: Gonad still had a horrible beer gut.
Sat 05:50:09 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It turns out that when you drink so much there's a backup refrigerator full in the basement and an emergency stash in the garage, it does not matter how many caloriees each one has.
Sat 05:50:36 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So he drank Bud Light and sometimes Coors Light.
Sat 05:51:02 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I was talking to mom back when Anheuser-Busch decided to have the tranny influencer drink Bud Light in advertising.
Sat 05:51:42 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I told her "I never thought I'd say this but I wish Brian could have lived long enough to see that after drinking it for decades and paying tens of thousands of dollars to them for it."
Sat 06:00:43 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ That would have been priceless.
Sat 06:01:03 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ In the middle of drinking a Bud Light when he sees the tranny influencer and spits it out all over his TV.
Sat 06:13:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): This Week in Plasma: UI and Performance Improvements ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/22/This_Week_in_Plasma_UI_and_Performance_Improvements.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/22/This_Week_in_Plasma_UI_and_Performance_Improvements.gmi ∎
Sat 06:16:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): KDE Linux experiences ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/22/KDE_Linux_experiences.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/22/KDE_Linux_experiences.gmi ∎
Sat 06:19:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – New Data Shows Microsoft's XBox is Really Dying ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/22/New_Data_Shows_Microsoft_s_XBox_is_Really_Dying.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/22/New_Data_Shows_Microsoft_s_XBox_is_Really_Dying.gmi ∎
Sat 06:22:49 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2]: That Advion Cockroach stuff really did the trick.
Sat 06:22:58 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Haven't seen or caught any in about a week.
Sat 06:28:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I did shoot a fly down with some sprayaway glass cleaner today though.
Sat 06:29:02 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I didn't take its ovaries though I just smacked it with a paper towel and crushed it once it fell out of the air.
Sat 06:29:08 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Honest.
Sat 06:40:10 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ [00:28] <schestowitz[TR2]> [pelts eggs]
Sat 06:40:24 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Eggs are delicious delicacies.
Sat 06:41:00 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2]: Remember that movie The Gods Must Be Crazy II where the guy steps on a honey badger and it won't let go of his boot.
Sat 06:41:25 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Finally he lures it away by putting out some eggs and pouring some beer on top.
Sat 06:41:26 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ :)
Sat 06:49:14 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2]: Maxwell House brought back the coffee can size from 1998.
Sat 06:49:21 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They call it the "Big Max" size can.
Sat 06:49:29 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Back then we just called it a coffee can.
Sat 06:49:37 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And it was $3.99, not $17.99.
Sat 06:52:56 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Coupons for "Smart Water".
Sat 06:53:01 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Whatever that is.
Sat 06:53:05 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I turn on my tap, there's water.
Sat 06:54:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): One month with my new Murena GS6 Pro: finally a Murena phone that checks all my boxes ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/22/One_month_with_my_new_Murena_GS6_Pro_finally_a_Murena_phone_tha.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/22/One_month_with_my_new_Murena_GS6_Pro_finally_a_Murena_phone_tha.gmi ∎
Sat 06:56:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): MakowiecOS – Debian-based Linux distribution ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/22/MakowiecOS_Debian_based_Linux_distribution.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/22/MakowiecOS_Debian_based_Linux_distribution.gmi ∎
Sat 07:06:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Nature Visits https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/22/nature-visits/
Sat 07:07:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ GAFAM funded front group https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260817-01.en.html https://fsfe.org/news/podcast/2026/episode-54.en.html
Sat 07:14:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Staycations https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/22/staycations/
Sat 07:26:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Clownflare: GNU/Linux Peaking at Around 10% in Canada ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/22/Clownflare_GNU_Linux_Peaking_at_Around_10_in_Canada.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/22/Clownflare_GNU_Linux_Peaking_at_Around_10_in_Canada.gmi ∎
Sat 07:33:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Free and Open Source Software ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/22/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/22/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi ∎
Sat 07:45:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Actionable Abuse of Process, or Explaining Abusive Litigation is Not Defamation https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/22/actionable-abuse-of-process-or-explaining-abusive-litigation-is-not-defamation/
Sat 07:46:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A federal copyright lawsuit targeting six of the most prominent private BitTorrent trackers, including PassThePopcorn" ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/filmmaker-who-sued-ptp-btn-and-four-other-private-torrent-trackers-may-be-an-impostor/ | Source: Torrent Freak
Sat 07:46:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A Los Angeles judge has granted Ariana Grande permission to subpoena information that will help identify the [crackers]" ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/19/ariana-grande-subpoena-hacker-info/ | Source: Digital Music News
Sat 07:46:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Right of Publicity ☛ https://www.404media.co/subtlefakes-slightly-altered-nonconsensual-ai-images-are-taking-over-x/ | Source: 404 Media
Sat 07:47:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Walmart’s statement confirms the capability and the start date." ☛ https://sqmagazine.co.uk/walmart-finally-adds-apple-pay-ending-decade-long-holdout/ | Source: SQ Magazine
Sat 07:47:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Oh man, I've been writing passionately about this topic for over five years now." ☛ https://michaelharley.net/posts/2026/08/13/re-tech-sucks-really/ | Source: Michael Harley
Sat 07:47:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "[xssfox] recently found a Cricut Maker in an e-waste disposal." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/08/21/spoofed-serial-number-unlocks-cricut-machine/ | Source: Hackaday
Sat 07:48:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "About 47 million students and library patrons depend on this access for connectivity, according to the Congressional Research Service." ☛ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2026/0820/fcc-e-rate-libraries-schools | Source: CS Monitor
Sat 07:48:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Case in point: this week the administration abandoned the FCC’s goal to nudge broadband connectivity toward 1 gigabit per second (Gbps) downstream and 500 megabit per second (Mbps) upstream" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/21/trump-fcc-weakens-u-s-broadband-speed-goals-to-the-benefit-of-elon-musk-and-comcast/ | Source: Techdirt
Sat 07:49:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "We just learned about the broad outlines of this domestic surveillance from newly released court papers related to the ongoing prosecution of a handful of protesters." ☛ https://newrepublic.com/article/214482/trump-dhs-secret-police-spying-anti-ice-americans | Source: New Republic
Sat 07:49:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Good news? Well, maybe. I mean, it’s been known for years that body cameras do more for law enforcement officers than they do for things like accountability or transparency." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/20/ice-says-it-will-fit-every-officer-with-a-body-cam-restrict-public-access-to-recordings/ | Source: Techdirt
Sat 07:49:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Deputy Public Defender Brian Cox, the head of the office’s Integrity Unit, argued police officers regularly mischaracterize normal interactions as drug transactions, and that drones amplify those risks." ☛ https://missionlocal.org/2026/08/sfpd-drone-arrest-charges-dismissed-rtic/ | Source: San Francisco, California
Sat 07:49:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The Rush is built on an enormous body of existing scholarship, and Philbrick synthesizes this research into a lively and accessible narrative." ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when-carpenter-california-found-nugget-gold-started-rush-toward-nothing-less-modern-world-180989283/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine
Sat 07:50:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Now, a museum is finally moving forward, with a groundbreaking planned for December — but at an entirely different site." ☛ https://www.lonestarlive.com/native-american-news/2026/08/an-overstep-navajo-code-talker-descendants-criticize-new-mexicos-new-plan-for-museum.html | Source: Advance Local Media LLC
Sat 07:50:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "We also recognize that people increasingly get their news from online sources." ☛ https://observer.case.edu/editors-note-3/ | Source: Case Western Reserve University
Sat 07:50:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "On August 20, 2026, an investigative judge in Lomé, the Togolese capital" ☛ https://cpj.org/2026/08/2-french-journalists-togolese-fixer-detained-26-days-following-arrest-while-documentary-filming-in-northern-togo/ | Source: CPJ
Sat 07:51:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Ahead of this month’s parliamentary election, independent journalists in Kazakhstan have faced “unprecedented” pressure" ☛ https://cpj.org/2026/08/from-prosecutions-to-bans-and-spurious-copyright-claims-how-kazakhstans-journalists-are-being-silenced/ | Source: CPJ
Sat 07:52:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The Pentagon has fired Stars and Stripes’ editor-in-chief, publisher and a reporter after a CBS interview defending the military newspaper’s independence and warning against censorship for service members." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2026-08-21/stars-stripes-editor-says-he-has-been-fired-for-insubordination-after-doing-interview | Source: Los Angeles Times
Sat 07:52:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "One important measure is to ensure accountability of take-down requests, including by the government." ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/08/intermediary-liability-brazil-intricate-path-ahead | Source: EFF
Sat 07:52:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "In seeking to dismiss the case, TikTok argues that Iowa’s claims regarding the addictive features on the app are barred by a federal statute, Section 230 of the Communication Decency Act" ☛ https://www.courthousenews.com/tiktok-seeks-section-230-shield-from-iowa-suit-over-lewd-content/ | Source: Court House News
Sat 07:52:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Lee and Chow were leaders of the now defunct Hong Kong Alliance, the group that organised annual vigils in the city's Victoria Park." ☛ https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/hong-kong-tiananmen-activists-found-guilty-of-inciting-subversion-355495363 | Source: RTL
Sat 07:53:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "They both had pleaded not guilty and face a maximum prison term of 10 years. The alliance was also found guilty." ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/tiananmen-square-vigil-organizers-convicted-9.7315066 | Source: CBC
Sat 07:57:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "China’s Model on the Offensive: Why China’s Five-Year Plan Promotion in the Pacific Matters" ☛ https://www.rfa.org/english/pacific/2026/08/20/china-pacific-five-year-plan-tafi/ | Source: RFA
Sat 07:58:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Nscale opened its first data center last year in Norway." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2026/08/21/ai-data-center-builder-nscale-reportedly-seeking-3b-ipo/ | Source: Silicon Angle
Sat 07:58:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Republican Sen. Jon Husted could lose his seat" ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2026/08/19/gop-urges-top-ai-firms-to-do-something-about-the-toxic-image-of-data-centers/ | Source: Silicon Angle
Sat 07:59:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ <li>
Sat 08:01:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "There is something about the Austrian huts that sets them apart even from their excellent counterparts in Switzerland and Italy" ☛ https://sundial.csun.edu/219759/sundialbrandstudio/sundial-marketplace/why-austria-is-europes-most-underrated-hiking-country/ | Source: California State University Northridge
Sat 08:01:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The utility, Northern Indiana Public Service Co., said on Friday that 43,400 of its customers remain without power in the region" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/us/gary-indiana-power-outage.html | Source: New York Times
Sat 08:01:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The ARINC 429 bus is a communications architecture for planes, similar to the CAN bus used in cars." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/08/21/this-week-in-security-apple-warns-users-stripe-merchants-leak-keys-copilot-helps-hack-itself-and-comcast-senses-movement/ | Source: Hackaday
Sat 08:02:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "We previously reported on the open-source engine, but there’ve been some improvements worth talking about." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/08/21/thermoacoustic-sterling-engine-is-now-fully-3d-printable/ | Source: Hackaday
Sat 08:02:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "According to Ember, during heatwaves beginning in late June, daily power demand increased by as much as 28% in Italy" ☛ https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/solar/utility-scale/how-solar-saved-the-grid-during-europes-heatwave/ | Source: Renewable Energy World
Sat 08:06:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "But if you don’t think all of that is bad enough of a look for what DOGE [sic] and the administration did to cause this" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/20/doges-screwworm-legacy-may-be-tons-of-euthanized-cats-and-dogs/ | Source: Techdirt
Sat 08:06:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Even if the fertility decline doesn’t reverse itself anytime soon, the consequences are unlikely to be apocalyptic." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/08/birth-rate-panic-overblown/688320/ | Source: The Atlantic
Sat 08:08:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "In Ulanqab, a city in Inner Mongolia home to about 1.5 million people, nearly 100 data centers have been opened or begun construction since 2016." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/the-unlikely-place-at-the-center-of-chinas-ai-boom/ | Source: Wired
Sat 08:08:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Ypsilanti Township in Michigan passed a six month moratorium on “major electric utility infrastructure” on Tuesday night." ☛ https://www.404media.co/township-fights-nuclear-weapons-data-center-by-passing-a-moratorium-on-electrical-infrastructure/ | Source: 404 Media
Sat 08:08:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This week’s episode features special guest Molly Taft from WIRED, who discusses the growing, cross-partisan opposition to AI data centers." ☛ https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/energy-business/policy-and-regulation/data-center-backlash-is-cross-partisan-this-week-in-cleantech/ | Source: Renewable Energy World
Sat 08:09:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Understanding the emissions embodied in a product is one of the trickiest parts of carbon reporting." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/measuring-whats-inside-calculating-the-carbon-footprint-of-our-products/ | Source: Raspberry Pi
Sat 08:11:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "We need to make sure it’s in the right location from a planning standpoint" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/michigan-township-combats-nuclear-weapons-data-center-by-passing-ban-on-new-electrical-infrastructure-220-000-square-foot-hyperscale-project-is-backed-by-university-of-michigan-and-the-los-alamos-national-laboratory | Source: Tom's Hardware
Sat 08:11:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "We can have billionaires or we can have democracy. We cannot have both" ☛ https://truthout.org/audio/silicon-valleys-billionaire-cults-are-coming-for-democracy/ | Source: TruthOut
Sat 08:11:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "For more nearly a year, soldiers of the 173rd Airborne Brigade have been experimenting and building their own drones" ☛ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/defense-news/2026/08/army-will-shut-down-a-unit-in-europe-focused-on-learning-drone-warfare/ | Source: Federal News Network
Sat 08:12:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "These deaths were not anomalies but symptoms of what the RCMP has declared a public safety crisis. In 2024, the Canadian Centre for Child Protection received an average of six reports of sextortion every day." ☛ https://thewalrus.ca/parents-are-suing-social-media-companies-for-harm-to-kids-will-it-work/ | Source: The Walrus
Sat 08:12:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Meet The Silicon Valley Billionaire Ruining The World" ☛ https://jaylittle.com/post/view/2026/8/marc-andreessen-is-a-demilich-of-tech/ | Source: Jay Little
Sat 08:12:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This sort of research is both exciting and terrifying: [...]" ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/08/ai-is-learning-to-write-genetic-code.html | Source: Bruce Schneier
Sat 08:13:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Advocates say legislation in the nation’s most populous state would carry particular weight in the national movement to curb tech’s influence on young people." ☛ https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/08/21/california-set-pass-strict-social-media-restrictions-protect-teens/ | Source: The Washington Post
Sat 08:13:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The claims are fuelling renewed allegations of a slow‑motion genocide against Christians in Nigeria, with Kim saying he now expects to be killed for documenting it." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/christian-communities-under-siege-nigeria-attacks-1815607 | Source: International Business Times
Sat 08:13:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This does not represent an ideological shift to the right." ☛ https://www.ndsmcobserver.com/article/e21bf920-e6ce-441e-92c7-a9445543069d |
Sat 08:13:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Never mind his "unthreatening" North Korea has weapons that reach the US; they're shipping weapons to Putin's forces in Ukraine" ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/further/be-quiet-be-quiet-we-are-all-on-the-decoy-plane-now | Source: Common Dreams
Sat 08:14:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The Army is ending an experiment with a dedicated drone battalion less than a year after tasking the infantry unit to test how such a formation could operate, an Army official said on Thursday." ☛ https://www.c4isrnet.com/news/your-military/2026/08/21/us-army-to-end-experimental-drone-battalion-in-europe/ | Source: C4ISRNET
Sat 08:15:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The cameras are said to be used by law enforcement agencies across the country to solve crimes." ☛ https://www.memphisflyer.com/what-the-flock/ | Source: Memphis Flyer
Sat 08:15:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "So even if Irish regulators try to get special treatment for the attribution cartel" ☛ https://blog.zgp.org/the-fix-is-in-for-the-attribution-cartel-or-is-it/ | Source: Don Marti
Sat 08:15:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Meta has sold millions of pairs of its AI-powered smart glasses over the last several years — but as sales boom, so too has the backlash to the devices." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/report/982414/meta-glasses-work-surveillance-labor-security | Source: The Verge
Sat 08:16:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A digital footprint is the trail of data created by everything you do online, from search queries and app permissions to the metadata embedded in photos you post." ☛ https://sqmagazine.co.uk/blog-digital-footprint-examples/ | Source: SQ Magazine
Sat 08:16:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The UK government is facing calls to cancel a sprawling health care contract with Palantir." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/the-single-english-county-saying-no-to-palantir/ | Source: Wired
Sat 08:16:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Despite policy victories over Flock, Americans are finding themselves under similar monitoring by a new company – or unable to remove the original cameras" ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/20/flock-cameras-surveillance | Source: The Guardian UK
Sat 08:17:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "That doesn’t look sustainable. And assuming this activity is driven by AI bots rather than growth in paying customers" ☛ https://sals.place/blog/github-growth/ | Source: Sal
Sat 08:17:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "GitHub had a rough Monday this week, with git operations, Actions, and the issue tracker all unavailable for several hours." ☛ https://nesbitt.io/2026/08/20/issues-in-the-repo.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt
Sat 08:18:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "That put a “hard deadline” on any attempt to save Swift, writes Scientific American’s Adam Kovac" ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/nasa-funded-mission-to-rescue-a-falling-space-telescope-officially-ends-in-failure-180989376/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine
Sat 08:18:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Meta’s other major Mac app is WhatsApp, and it comes in at over 650 MB (and over a gigabyte on Windows)." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/meta-ai-mac-app/ | Source: Nick Heer
Sat 08:19:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "TikTok violated federal privacy law along with a 2019 agreement with the government in which the app promised to take steps to protect children’s privacy, according to the government" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/technology/tiktok-settlement-justice-department.html | Source: New York Times
Sat 08:19:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "For years, defendants have knowingly allowed children under 13 to create and use TikTok accounts without their parents’ knowledge or consent" ☛ https://www.courthousenews.com/tiktok-settles-with-feds-over-child-safety-for-400m/ | Source: Court House News
Sat 08:19:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "In our testing, the phenomenon is very real." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-ai-racist | Source: Futurism
Sat 08:20:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Microsoft sells Copilot as your helpful robot servant for your organisation’s data management. Search it, analyse it, everything you could want at work!" ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/20/how-to-hack-copilot-ai-ask-it-how-to-hack-it/ | Source: Pivot to AI
Sat 08:20:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "But shame isn’t an effective strategy for stopping the advance of Big AI as a force in society." ☛ https://www.anildash.com/2026/08/21/ai-slop-and-shame/ | Source: Anil Dash
Sat 08:20:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The bigger question, though, isn’t about the negligible difference between watermarked slop and somehow purer non-watermarked slop." ☛ https://blog.zgp.org/waiter-there-s-a-watermark-in-my-slop/ | Source: Don Marti
Sat 08:20:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "What’s especially interesting about this technical report is that, unlike what we’ve been getting from OpenAI and Anthropic, we can see the exact prompt." ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/08/more-incidents-of-ais-going-rogue-in-cybersecurity-challenges.html | Source: Bruce Schneier
Sat 08:21:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "In the last few weeks, I’ve been complaining that everyone is wrong about AI watermarking: it isn’t really anti-consumer and it doesn’t make the outputs any worse" ☛ https://www.seangoedecke.com/readers-cant-identify-watermarked-ai-text/ | Source: Sean Goedecke
Sat 08:21:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Concern about AI for Americans over the age of 30 has been relatively stable, but not for people in their 20s and teens: [...]" ☛ https://512pixels.net/2026/08/younger-people-AI-pessimism/ | Source: Stephen Hackett
Sat 08:21:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "On Friday, Demand Progress Education Fund and a coalition of civil society advocates asked the FTC to investigate AI companies like Anthropic and Amazon for buying books in bulk" ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/ftc-must-investigate-ai-book-burning | Source: Common Dreams
Sat 08:21:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights ⇨ https://techrights.org/ | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/ ∎
Sat 08:21:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Clownflare Reckons GNU/Linux is on Almost 1 in 10 Laptops/Desktops in Western Europe ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/20/Clownflare_Reckons_GNU_Linux_is_on_Almost_1_in_10_Laptops_Deskt.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/20/Clownflare_Reckons_GNU_Linux_is_on_Almost_1_in_10_Laptops_Deskt.gmi ∎
Sat 08:21:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Clownflare Sees GNU/Linux at 16% Market Share on Desktops/Laptops in Tajikistan ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/20/Clownflare_Sees_GNU_Linux_at_16_Market_Share_on_Desktops_Laptop.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/20/Clownflare_Sees_GNU_Linux_at_16_Market_Share_on_Desktops_Laptop.gmi ∎
Sat 08:21:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Gemini Links 20/08/2026: A "Break From Routine" and "Modem Was the Problem" ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/20/Gemini_Links_20_08_2026_A_Break_From_Routine_and_Modem_Was_the_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/20/Gemini_Links_20_08_2026_A_Break_From_Routine_and_Modem_Was_the_.gmi ∎
Sat 08:21:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Gemini Links 20/08/2026: Planners, Pantsing, Vinylyssee ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/20/Gemini_Links_20_08_2026_Planners_Pantsing_Vinylyssee.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/20/Gemini_Links_20_08_2026_Planners_Pantsing_Vinylyssee.gmi ∎
Sat 08:21:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, August 19, 2026 ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/20/IRC_Proceedings_Wednesday_August_19_2026.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/20/IRC_Proceedings_Wednesday_August_19_2026.gmi ∎
Sat 08:22:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Links 20/08/2026: Facebook "Ran Ads for an App That Promised to Nudify Female Politicians" and Facebook Faces "Social [Control] Media Addiction Trial" ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/20/Links_20_08_2026_Facebook_Ran_Ads_for_an_App_That_Promised_to_N.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/20/Links_20_08_2026_Facebook_Ran_Ads_for_an_App_That_Promised_to_N.gmi ∎
Sat 08:22:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Links 20/08/2026: 'Linux' Foundation Promoting Slop Hype for Money (Hype as a Service), Malaysia’s Exports Jump 38% Year-on-Year ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/20/Links_20_08_2026_Linux_Foundation_Promoting_Slop_Hype_for_Money.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/20/Links_20_08_2026_Linux_Foundation_Promoting_Slop_Hype_for_Money.gmi ∎
Sat 08:22:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Looking Ahead at September ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/20/Looking_Ahead_at_September.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/20/Looking_Ahead_at_September.gmi ∎
Sat 08:22:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Over at Tux Machines... ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/20/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/20/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi ∎
Sat 08:22:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – SLAPP Censorship - Part 155 Out of 200: Throwing Stones in Houses Made of Glass ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/20/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_155_Out_of_200_Throwing_Stones_in_Houses_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/20/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_155_Out_of_200_Throwing_Stones_in_Houses_.gmi ∎
Sat 08:22:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – The Demise of Social Control Media Continues ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/20/The_Demise_of_Social_Control_Media_Continues.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/20/The_Demise_of_Social_Control_Media_Continues.gmi ∎
Sat 08:22:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – £5 Million Unsolicited/Undisclosed Bribes and What That Means to British Politics ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/5_Million_Unsolicited_Undisclosed_Bribes_and_What_That_Means_to.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/5_Million_Unsolicited_Undisclosed_Bribes_and_What_That_Means_to.gmi ∎
Sat 08:22:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Clownflare: In Past 12 Months Microsoft Windows Fell From ~80% to ~75% on Desktops/Laptops in Asia ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/Clownflare_In_Past_12_Months_Microsoft_Windows_Fell_From_80_to_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/Clownflare_In_Past_12_Months_Microsoft_Windows_Fell_From_80_to_.gmi ∎
Sat 08:22:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Gemini Links 21/08/2026: "Ensmallening the BigWeb", "Rust Dependencies" ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/Gemini_Links_21_08_2026_Ensmallening_the_BigWeb_Rust_Dependenci.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/Gemini_Links_21_08_2026_Ensmallening_the_BigWeb_Rust_Dependenci.gmi ∎
Sat 08:22:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Gemini Links 21/08/2026: Rain Coming Back and "Small Internet" ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/Gemini_Links_21_08_2026_Rain_Coming_Back_and_Small_Internet.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/Gemini_Links_21_08_2026_Rain_Coming_Back_and_Small_Internet.gmi ∎
Sat 08:22:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – IBM Offers Workers Some Money to Fire Themselves, It's Called "Next Step" and It's Allegedly 'Extended' (Not Enough Fools Have Fired Themselves) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/IBM_Offers_Workers_Some_Money_to_Fire_Themselves_It_s_Called_Ne.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/IBM_Offers_Workers_Some_Money_to_Fire_Themselves_It_s_Called_Ne.gmi ∎
Sat 08:22:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – IRC Proceedings: Thursday, August 20, 2026 ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/IRC_Proceedings_Thursday_August_20_2026.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/IRC_Proceedings_Thursday_August_20_2026.gmi ∎
Sat 08:22:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Links 21/08/2026: Outrage Over Politicians Who Support Slop-Feeding Data Centres, "America Is About to Get More Expensive" ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/Links_21_08_2026_Outrage_Over_Politicians_Who_Support_Slop_Feed.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/Links_21_08_2026_Outrage_Over_Politicians_Who_Support_Slop_Feed.gmi ∎
Sat 08:22:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Links 21/08/2026: "Silicon Valley’s Billionaire Cults Are Coming for Democracy" and "Who’s Raking it in as the National Debt Explodes?" ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/Links_21_08_2026_Silicon_Valley_s_Billionaire_Cults_Are_Coming_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/Links_21_08_2026_Silicon_Valley_s_Billionaire_Cults_Are_Coming_.gmi ∎
Sat 08:22:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Mass Layoffs at IBM, But Mostly in Secret (PIPs and 'Voluntary' Redundancies) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/Mass_Layoffs_at_IBM_But_Mostly_in_Secret_PIPs_and_Voluntary_Red.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/Mass_Layoffs_at_IBM_But_Mostly_in_Secret_PIPs_and_Voluntary_Red.gmi ∎
Sat 08:22:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – North America: GNU/Linux Measured at 13%-15% Every Night ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/North_America_GNU_Linux_Measured_at_13_15_Every_Night.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/North_America_GNU_Linux_Measured_at_13_15_Every_Night.gmi ∎
Sat 08:22:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Northern Europe Leads the Pack in Abandoning Windows After Threats Made to Greenland (Says Clownflare Data) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/Northern_Europe_Leads_the_Pack_in_Abandoning_Windows_After_Thre.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/Northern_Europe_Leads_the_Pack_in_Abandoning_Windows_After_Thre.gmi ∎
Sat 08:22:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Over at Tux Machines... ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi ∎
Sat 08:22:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – [Satire] Pocock, Binface & nobodies vs Farage: defamation before UK High Court ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/Satire_Pocock_Binface_nobodies_vs_Farage_defamation_before_UK_H.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/Satire_Pocock_Binface_nobodies_vs_Farage_defamation_before_UK_H.gmi ∎
Sat 08:22:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Secret Layoffs at Microsoft, Apparently More Sites Will Shut Down Entirely ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/Secret_Layoffs_at_Microsoft_Apparently_More_Sites_Will_Shut_Dow.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/Secret_Layoffs_at_Microsoft_Apparently_More_Sites_Will_Shut_Dow.gmi ∎
Sat 08:22:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – SLAPP Censorship - Part 156 Out of 200: Brett Wilson LLP Becoming Wilson FC ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_156_Out_of_200_Brett_Wilson_LLP_Becoming_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_156_Out_of_200_Brett_Wilson_LLP_Becoming_.gmi ∎
Sat 08:22:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – SLAPP Censorship - Part 157 Out of 200: What is a 'Defamation Troll'? ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_157_Out_of_200_What_is_a_Defamation_Troll.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_157_Out_of_200_What_is_a_Defamation_Troll.gmi ∎
Sat 08:22:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Slop-ware: Nobody Knows What Code Goes Into Linux and Most Developers Cannot Understand the Rust Code (Even If They Tried) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/Slop_ware_Nobody_Knows_What_Code_Goes_Into_Linux_and_Most_Devel.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/Slop_ware_Nobody_Knows_What_Code_Goes_Into_Linux_and_Most_Devel.gmi ∎
Sat 08:22:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Sources-First Publication ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/Sources_First_Publication.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/Sources_First_Publication.gmi ∎
Sat 08:22:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – The IBM Censorship Team, PIPs (Silent Layoffs) in IBM Europe ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/The_IBM_Censorship_Team_PIPs_Silent_Layoffs_in_IBM_Europe.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/The_IBM_Censorship_Team_PIPs_Silent_Layoffs_in_IBM_Europe.gmi ∎
Sat 08:22:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – The Slop Pyramid Scheme (Not Boon!) Isn't Good for GNU/Linux, Even If the Plagiarism Engines (Framed as "Training" or "Intelligence") Almost Always Run GNU/Linux ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/The_Slop_Pyramid_Scheme_Not_Boon_Isn_t_Good_for_GNU_Linux_Even_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/The_Slop_Pyramid_Scheme_Not_Boon_Isn_t_Good_for_GNU_Linux_Even_.gmi ∎
Sat 08:22:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – The State of Slopfarms About "Linux" in August 2026 ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/The_State_of_Slopfarms_About_Linux_in_August_2026.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/The_State_of_Slopfarms_About_Linux_in_August_2026.gmi ∎
Sat 08:22:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Ubuntu is Not Linux ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/Ubuntu_is_Not_Linux.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/Ubuntu_is_Not_Linux.gmi ∎
Sat 08:22:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – IRC Proceedings: Friday, August 21, 2026 ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/22/IRC_Proceedings_Friday_August_21_2026.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/22/IRC_Proceedings_Friday_August_21_2026.gmi ∎
Sat 08:22:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – New Data Shows Microsoft's XBox is Really Dying ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/22/New_Data_Shows_Microsoft_s_XBox_is_Really_Dying.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/22/New_Data_Shows_Microsoft_s_XBox_is_Really_Dying.gmi ∎
Sat 08:22:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Over at Tux Machines... ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/22/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/22/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi ∎
Sat 08:22:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Computer scientist Melanie Mitchell discusses why artificial intelligence doesn’t “think” or “reason” like humans, and how we can create better methods for measuring machine cognition." ☛ https://www.quantamagazine.org/are-we-thinking-correctly-about-ai-intelligence-20260820/ | Source: Quanta Magazine
Sat 08:22:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Language has historically evolved alongside technology. Expressions such as running out of steam and cog in the machine" ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/08/ai-jargon-in-everday-speech/688358/ | Source: The Atlantic
Sat 08:23:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I successfully jailbreaked my 14 year old Kindle Touch 🎉 This after support for it was ended by Amazon back in May." ☛ https://blog.x-way.org/Tech/2026/08/21/Jailbreaked-my-Kindle-Touch.html | Source: Andreas Jaggi
Sat 08:23:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The quick version is that I think I picked right with Fastmail. You can find cheaper email hosts out there. I’m sure they’re great too, but I’m really happy with Fastmail’s value considering all I’m getting." ☛ https://moddedbear.com/an-update-on-leaving-gmail-for-fastmail/ | Source: Jeremy
Sat 08:23:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The nearly 300 freshly installed NERO R-ONE cameras are thought to be rebranded Russian CORDON PRO.M traffic cameras, produced by a St. Petersburg-based firm called Semicon." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/slovakia-discovers-russian-backdoors-in-279-new-traffic-cameras-national-security-service-deactivates-offending-units | Source: Tom's Hardware
Sat 11:28:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Links 22/08/2026: TikTok Settles With Feds, Harms Caused by Social Control Media Gaining Attention ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/22/Links_22_08_2026_TikTok_Settles_With_Feds_Harms_Caused_by_Socia.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/22/Links_22_08_2026_TikTok_Settles_With_Feds_Harms_Caused_by_Socia.gmi ∎
Sat 11:28:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – SLAPP Censorship - Part 158 Out of 200: Making Alliances With Men Arrested for Strangling Women Was Always a Terrible Strategy ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/22/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_158_Out_of_200_Making_Alliances_With_Men_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/22/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_158_Out_of_200_Making_Alliances_With_Men_.gmi ∎
Sat 11:29:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Flash forward a couple of decades, and now I'm the parent trying to stretch the grocery budget." ☛ https://louplummer.lol/legendary-meals-70s/ | Source: Lou Plummer
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