Techrights Recent IRC Comments
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Fri 16:14:29 │ 〖whatA__〗 │ http://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=lq2E90iOVt0
Fri 16:14:46 │ 〖whatA__〗 │ proprietary? will fail
Fri 16:14:53 │ 〖whatA__〗 │ just like Xbone
Fri 16:15:26 │ 〖whatA__〗 │ (and I just love the fact that the gen 9 xbox is hentai reference)
Fri 16:16:50 │ 〖whatA__〗 │ not the small whte box but the bigger black box
Fri 16:19:24 │ 〖whatA__〗 │ those who wanted to avoid slopfarms http://alternativeto.net/software/google-news/?license=opensource
Fri 16:21:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Datamation, Where I Used to Publish Articles, Appears to Have Been Sold to TechnologyAdvice Only to Become a Slopfarm ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/03/Datamation_Where_I_Used_to_Publish_Articles_Appears_to_Have_Bee.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/03/Datamation_Where_I_Used_to_Publish_Articles_Appears_to_Have_Bee.gmi ∎
Fri 16:24:08 │ 〖whatA__〗 │ any backups at TR?
Fri 16:26:29 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] yes, why?
Fri 16:27:04 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] am also running backup to 8tb external atm
Fri 16:27:44 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and "999" on tap, as we still deal with a Microsoft Mafia
Fri 16:27:48 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] sending people to our home
Fri 16:30:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Slopwatch: Google News as a Firehose of LLM Slop About "Linux" ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/03/Slopwatch_Google_News_as_a_Firehose_of_LLM_Slop_About_Linux.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/03/Slopwatch_Google_News_as_a_Firehose_of_LLM_Slop_About_Linux.gmi ∎
Fri 16:36:10 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2025-10/msg00000.html
Fri 16:36:20 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] " Hi Carmen,
Fri 16:36:20 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Mission:Libre is a great project. It seems good to include a link to it
Fri 16:36:20 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] at the FLO-kids repo at [1]https://codeberg.org/FLO-Conscience/FLO-kids
Fri 16:36:20 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Would you please find a good place for it and add a description and
Fri 16:36:20 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] link in a PR?
Fri 16:36:20 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Also, I didn't see a Git or similar repo for the Mission:Libre content.
Fri 16:36:20 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Surely there is or will be such a thing? And the capacity for people to
Fri 16:36:20 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] submit PR's to Mission:Libre itself?
Fri 16:36:20 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Aaron"
Fri 16:37:26 │ 〖whatA__〗 │ I still remember the Cheeto single-handedly wiped Criticism of Microsoft in Lina Khan's FTC
Fri 16:37:39 │ 〖whatA__〗 │ it's one of the reasons why I asked
Fri 16:39:10 │ 〖whatA__〗 │ the backups of the datamation articles at TR, to be exact
Fri 16:39:23 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] wayback machine?
Fri 16:41:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Tomorrow the Free Software Foundation (FSF) Turns 40 and Its Web Site is Still Slow Due to DDoS by LLM Slop Bots ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/03/Tomorrow_the_Free_Software_Foundation_FSF_Turns_40_and_Its_Web_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/03/Tomorrow_the_Free_Software_Foundation_FSF_Turns_40_and_Its_Web_.gmi ∎
Fri 16:43:39 │ 〖whatA__〗 │ I just went into the ruins myself and found http://datamation.com/open-source/the-mono-mystery-that-wasnt/
Fri 16:44:40 │ 〖whatA__〗 │ I searched for "schestowitz" and only found that
Fri 16:45:11 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://www.datamation.com/author/roy-schestowitz/
Fri 16:45:43 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] does not work in firefox
Fri 16:45:49 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] falkon gives super-weird rendering
Fri 16:47:24 │ 〖whatA__〗 │ good thing the slop experiment has yet to erase them, so grab them back to TR just in case the slop experiment bankrupts them
Fri 16:48:11 │ 〖whatA__〗 │ http://techrights.org/n/2025/04/10/Once_You_Slop_You_Can_t_Stop_and_If_You_re_a_Serial_Slopper_Nob.shtml
Fri 16:48:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ""My husband died this year. He did everything online for me. Now I have to figure it all out myself", said a woman clearly in her late 80s or 90s. No sooner did my heart sink for the unfortunate widow than my blood boiled at the Dickensian injustice of her falling between the cracks of 21st century society." https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/coffee2/
Fri 16:48:47 │ 〖whatA__〗 │ we need multiplication of copies (streisand effect anyone?) since the lost can never be recovered
Fri 16:48:51 │ 〖whatA__〗 │ http://annas-archive.org/blog/critical-window.html
Fri 16:49:26 │ 〖whatA__〗 │ "wake up and smell the ***"
Fri 16:49:30 │ 〖whatA__〗 │ so half-life
Fri 16:55:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Andy Farnell and Helen Plews Explain What "Modern" Tech Does to Old People ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/03/Andy_Farnell_and_Helen_Plews_Explain_What_Modern_Tech_Does_to_O.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/03/Andy_Farnell_and_Helen_Plews_Explain_What_Modern_Tech_Does_to_O.gmi ∎
Fri 16:58:46 │ 〖whatA__〗 │ most banks are unjust malwares http://techrights.org/n/2025/08/07/Non_Free_JavaScript_Programs_in_Banks_Aren_t_Even_the_Biggest_P.shtml
Fri 17:01:04 │ 〖whatA__〗 │ they deny access to source code "for security" IT'S JUST MICROSOFT MINDSET http://consumerrights.wiki/w/False_benevolence
Fri 17:05:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – TikTok is Not Harmless (Being CheeTok in the US Will Advance Orange Agenda) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/03/TikTok_is_Not_Harmless_Being_CheeTok_in_the_US_Will_Advance_Ora.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/03/TikTok_is_Not_Harmless_Being_CheeTok_in_the_US_Will_Advance_Ora.gmi ∎
Fri 17:06:06 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] <whatA__> most banks are unjust malwares http://techrights.org/n/2025/08/07/Non_Free_JavaScript_Programs_in_Banks_Aren_t_Even_the_Biggest_P.shtml
Fri 17:06:12 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they still have some branches
Fri 17:11:59 │ 〖vanveldt〗 │ ,/55
Fri 17:46:00 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ (video) (no audio) https://imgur.com/gallery/dNugZ9e = https://rimgo.bloat.cat/gallery/dNugZ9e
Fri 17:48:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Govt shutdown, USPTO layoffs: What you really need to know https://www.worldipreview.com/patent/govt-shutdown-uspto-layoffs-what-you-really-need-to-know
Fri 17:49:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ USPTO sends layoff notices after Trump administration threatened shutdown RIFs https://federalnewsnetwork.com/government-shutdown/2025/10/uspto-sends-layoff-notices-after-trump-administration-threatened-shutdown-rifs/
Fri 17:50:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ USPTO Lays Off Employees, Closes Rocky Mountain Offic https://www.law360.com/employment-authority/articles/2394961/uspto-lays-off-employees-closes-rocky-mountain-office
Fri 17:50:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ US Patent and Trademark office to lay off 1% of its workforce, agency letter says https://ca.news.yahoo.com/us-patent-trademark-office-lay-174641421.html
Fri 17:50:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Patent office lays off staff, closes Denver office amid broader federal workforce cuts https://www.alxnow.com/2025/10/01/patent-office-lays-off-staff-closes-denver-office-amid-broader-federal-workforce-cuts/
Fri 17:58:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – USPTO Patent Bubble Already Imploding, After Decades of Artificial Inflation, Entire Offices Close for Good ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/03/USPTO_Patent_Bubble_Already_Imploding_After_Decades_of_Artifici.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/03/USPTO_Patent_Bubble_Already_Imploding_After_Decades_of_Artifici.gmi ∎
Fri 18:10:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Patent Docs (or PatentDocs) Learned the Wrong Lessons From the Death of TypePad ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/03/Patent_Docs_or_PatentDocs_Learned_the_Wrong_Lessons_From_the_De.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/03/Patent_Docs_or_PatentDocs_Learned_the_Wrong_Lessons_From_the_De.gmi ∎
Fri 18:45:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – We Are Turning 19 in One Month, FSF Turns 40 in 3 Hours (CET) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/03/We_Are_Turning_19_in_One_Month_FSF_Turns_40_in_3_Hours_CET.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/03/We_Are_Turning_19_in_One_Month_FSF_Turns_40_in_3_Hours_CET.gmi ∎
Fri 18:51:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Our Next Anniversary ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/03/Our_Next_Anniversary.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/03/Our_Next_Anniversary.gmi ∎
Fri 18:55:24 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ pew pew pew.. pew.... https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/10/02/americans-increasingly-see-legal-sports-betting-as-a-bad-thing-for-society-and-sports/
Fri 18:57:21 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] iirc, sponsored by bill epsteingate
Fri 18:57:35 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] maybe gallup also
Fri 18:58:08 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ let there be light... https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/10/02/1054255
Fri 18:58:35 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ what is the sports betting or americans seeing as bad?
Fri 19:01:02 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ :)) https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/03/thermify_heathub_raspberry_pi/
Fri 19:02:58 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :)
Fri 19:04:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Days After FSF Turns 40 RMS Will Speak in Haaga-Helia University in Pasila, Helsinki, Finland ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/03/Days_After_FSF_Turns_40_RMS_Will_Speak_in_Haaga_Helia_Universit.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/03/Days_After_FSF_Turns_40_RMS_Will_Speak_in_Haaga_Helia_Universit.gmi ∎
Fri 19:05:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Kelling, who has served as the FSF’s senior systems administrator since 2017" https://linuxiac.com/free-software-foundation-names-ian-kelling-as-new-president/
Fri 19:07:55 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] lxo: kelling is a great choice
Fri 19:09:10 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://xkcd.com/3150/
Fri 19:09:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Phoronix is a clownflare site, i.e. JS crap
Fri 19:09:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Good as the last one didn't really care about free software or freedom in general! I didn't see any statement against Google's plans to destroy Android by destroying normal, non-Google installs, which means F-droid too." https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoronix-articles/1582430-free-software-foundation-names-new-president
Fri 19:10:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "And I didn't see any statement against the proposed Chat Control in Europe that will make free software as bad for privacy and security as the proprietary one."
Fri 19:10:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "From what I've seen of his writings here and there, the guy is a 100% party man. I wouldn't expect any substantial changes." https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoronix-articles/1582430-free-software-foundation-names-new-president
Fri 19:12:08 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ and it's all natural and organic!! https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/10/how-ants-can-kick-start-fermentation-to-make-yogurt/
Fri 19:12:41 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] mmmmmmmmmmmmmm antzzzz
Fri 19:14:33 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ https://ircz.de/p/2506135
Fri 19:16:39 │ 〖lxo〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], *nod*
Fri 19:17:12 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/10/02/1226238
Fri 19:20:28 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ JC and the Church of the Fiber Optic... https://techxplore.com/news/2025-10-virtual-jesus-people-faith-ai.html
Fri 19:21:26 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ Jesus Chrysler?
Fri 19:22:21 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] lxo: some cruel comments in phoronix
Fri 19:22:29 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] we'll keep an eye on trolling that's unfair
Fri 19:22:38 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] notice the troll has been quiet for 10 days now
Fri 19:22:41 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] not a single dent
Fri 19:22:44 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i know why :)
Fri 19:22:47 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] my fault
Fri 19:26:34 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ Jesus Christ Denton
Fri 19:40:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – How Software Patents Were Viewed or Their General Status Changed Over Time ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/03/How_Software_Patents_Were_Viewed_or_Their_General_Status_Change.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/03/How_Software_Patents_Were_Viewed_or_Their_General_Status_Change.gmi ∎
Fri 19:51:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Thanks. Just a word salad of buzz words. And IBM has bought 200 companies since 2000 and produced NOTHING on it's own. What does IBM even mean or do anymore? IBM is like going into a supermarket with the lights off." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k6m1hv5s
Fri 19:53:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Just what you'd expect from International Bullsh-t Machines. First you find the next big thing, then you do some "research", then you create a Frankensteinian product/service that doesn't even approach what management says it does, then you design some PowerPoints to demonstrate how the monstrosity exceeds all expectations, [...]" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k6m1hv5s
Fri 19:53:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "then you saturate the media with a marketing blitz, and when the bullsh-t doesn't go anywhere, you RA a shitload of employees and tackle the next big thing. How does this shithole company still exist?! [...] your comment is spot on. This scenario is pervasive across many IBM organizations. Threre are sh---y DE/STSM following the same script." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k6m1hv5s
Fri 19:56:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ US Govt Asks TCS Why Locals Are Not Hired, Why They Need H1b Visa https://trak.in/stories/us-govt-asks-tcs-why-locals-are-not-hired-why-they-need-h1b-visa/
Fri 19:57:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Letters sent to CEOs of 10 major companies — including Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Meta, and TCS — raised concerns over thousands of H-1B visa petitions being filed even as layoffs rise in the U.S. tech sector. Lawmakers argue that this trend may be hurting domestic job opportunities, especially for recent STEM graduates facing rising unemployment."
Fri 20:02:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ First article in 4 months and it's just some "HEY HI" puff, PR SPAM https://opensourcewatch.beehiiv.com/
Fri 20:03:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I am back from a short work trip: just three days over to England." gemini://melyanna.net/back-from-a-trip
Fri 20:05:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Conphlogence gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space:70/0/~solderpunk/phlog/conphlogence.txt
Fri 20:12:16 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/02/a-paroxysm-of-disposability-frances-distaste-for-sheins-ultra-fast-fashion
Fri 20:16:02 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ (cat) (video) (audio:important) https://imgur.com/gallery/A2GtO6S = https://rimgo.bloat.cat/gallery/A2GtO6S
Fri 20:28:39 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ earn your mouseketeer badge for spying... https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/high-performance-mice-can-be-used-as-a-microphone-to-spy-on-users-thanks-to-ai-mic-e-mouse-technique-uses-mouse-sensors-to-convert-acoustic-vibrations-into-speech
Fri 20:39:08 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://publicknowledge.org/public-knowledge-opposes-fcc-phone-jamming-vote/
Fri 21:20:08 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/03/we-dont-care-we-dont-have-to/
Fri 21:20:15 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ https://ircz.de/p/2506133
Fri 21:23:34 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.siliconrepublic.com/machines/opinion-furore-ai-actor-tilly-norwood-reveals-deeper-ai-anxiety
Fri 21:24:29 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ the bigger they come....https://www.siliconrepublic.com/business/openai-500bn-valuation-share-sale-softbank-ai-reports
Fri 22:28:26 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ https://ircz.de/p/2506132
Sat 00:13:58 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ admfubar is now known as crusty aunt
Sat 00:14:42 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :>
Sat 00:17:38 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ :)
Sat 00:18:58 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/10/the-ai-bubble-and-the-u-s-economy-how-long-do-hallucinations-last.html
Sat 00:30:09 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ (cat) https://i.imgur.com/aIASg4j.jpeg = https://rimgo.bloat.cat/aIASg4j.jpeg
Sat 01:02:21 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ papasan chair for cats!!!
Sat 01:11:04 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ must keep the old P.O.T.S. system working
Sat 01:11:07 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/25/10/03/2131218/thwarted-plot-to-cripple-cell-service-in-ny-was-bigger-than-first-thought
Sat 01:12:15 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/10/03/166218/hotel-prices-lead-countries-to-consider-skipping-cop30-climate-summit
Sat 01:14:30 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ 🎶like the kind we used to have🎶🎶..... https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/03/snapchat-is-going-to-charge-for-storage-heres-how-to-save-your-memories-for-free/
Sat 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-031025.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-031025.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-social-031025.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-social-031025.txt
Sat 01:47:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🅸🆁🅲 techrights irc ■ Yesterday's #techrights IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-031025.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-031025.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techrights-031025.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techrights-031025.txt
Sat 01:48:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🅸🆁🅲 boycottnovell irc ■ Yesterday's #boycottnovell IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-031025.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-031025.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-031025.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-031025.txt
Sat 01:49:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🅸🆁🅲 techbytes irc ■ Yesterday's #techbytes IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-031025.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-031025.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techbytes-031025.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techbytes-031025.txt
Sat 01:49:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ✩░▒▓▆▅▃▂▁𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍▁▂▃▅▆▓▒░✩ Yesterday's 𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 bulletin is now ready! 🅷🆃🆃🅿: http://techrights.org/txt-archives/techrights-2025-10-03.txt | 🅶🅴🅼🅸🅽🅸 gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/techrights-2025-10-03.txt (tentative address, to work an hour from now)
Sat 01:50:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ✩░▒▓▆▅▃▂▁Tux Machines 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍▁▂▃▅▆▓▒░✩ Yesterday's Tux Machines bulletin is now ready! 🅷🆃🆃🅿: http://news.tuxmachines.org/txt-archives/tuxmachines-2025-10-03.txt
Sat 03:08:25 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.darkreading.com/application-security/microsoft-voice-clone-scary-unsalvageable
Sat 04:26:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights — Welcome to the New Techrights ⇨ https://techrights.org/ | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/ ∎
Sat 04:28:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Part Time gemini://gbryant.co.uk/gemlog/2025-10-03_part-time.gmi
Sat 04:28:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-10-04.gmi
Sat 04:29:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This one may be easier for the German speaking members of the audience, but the "B"-like character in Brogue is not a beta." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2025/10/04/notbeta.gmi
Sat 04:29:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1783.jpg
Sat 04:29:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1433.jpg
Sat 04:33:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Gemini Links 04/10/2025: Distro Hopping and "Part Time" ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/04/Gemini_Links_04_10_2025_Distro_Hopping_and_Part_Time.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/04/Gemini_Links_04_10_2025_Distro_Hopping_and_Part_Time.gmi ∎
Sat 04:34:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – IRC Proceedings: Friday, October 03, 2025 ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/04/IRC_Proceedings_Friday_October_03_2025.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/04/IRC_Proceedings_Friday_October_03_2025.gmi ∎
Sat 04:35:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Over at Tux Machines... ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/04/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/04/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi ∎
Sat 04:35:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today in Techrights ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/04/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/04/Today_in_Techrights.gmi ∎
Sat 04:37:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The Armed Forces of Austria Upgrade to LibreOffice and the OpenDocument Format" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/10/02/146250
Sat 04:43:54 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoronix-articles/1582430-free-software-foundation-names-new-president
Sat 04:43:58 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] " But what is his posturing in regards of Rust? When fsf-rs? "
Sat 04:46:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – FSF Turns 40 ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/04/FSF_Turns_40.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/04/FSF_Turns_40.gmi ∎
Sat 04:53:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ""Speak for Me" (S4M) was envisioned as a niche Windows accessibility feature for those on their way to losing their voice" ☛ https://www.darkreading.com/application-security/microsoft-voice-clone-scary-unsalvageable | Source: Dark Reading
Sat 04:53:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It turns out Sora 2 is vulnerable to prompt injection!" ☛ https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/3/cameo-prompt-injections/#atom-everything | Source: Simon Willison
Sat 04:54:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "hit with a $500 million " ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/information-tech/hexaware-slapped-with-500-million-patent-lawsuit-in-us-court/articleshow/124271798.cms | Source: India Times
Sat 04:54:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Strava filed a patent for segments in 2011, which was awarded in 2015. As for heatmaps, it filed two related patents, one in 2014, granted two years later, and another in 2016, granted in 2017." ☛ https://www.androidauthority.com/strava-garmin-lawsuit-3603690/ | Source: Android Authority
Sat 04:55:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Strava is seeking a permanent injunction to prohibit Garmin from selling or offering any products that provide segments or heat mapping features" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/790922/strava-garmin-patent-infringement-lawsuit | Source: The Verge
Sat 04:55:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "and the other focused on heatmaps and popularity routing. This second piece has one primary patent that Strava is saying Garmin violated (patent 9297651), with an ancillary patent 9778053" ☛ https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2025/10/strava-sues-garmin-demands-stop-selling-devices.html | Source: DC Rainmaker
Sat 05:06:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "In this video [1], Stallman talks about his machine trying to understand the "phenomenon" of a physical mechanism, which enables it to "deduce" next steps" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45466244
Sat 05:16:29 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] how is the thing?
Sat 05:16:29 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ Hi schestowitz[TR2]
Sat 05:16:33 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] operational improvement?
Sat 05:16:37 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ I lived.
Sat 05:16:43 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] or operational bhopal?
Sat 05:17:00 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ Doing better than expected so far.
Sat 05:17:03 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i was just wondering about you an hour ago
Sat 05:17:22 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] ok, so you made it through
Sat 05:17:38 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ Yeah, it wasrough at first
Sat 05:17:50 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ have to type one handed
Sat 05:18:16 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ Right hand works but arm in sling
Sat 05:20:03 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ Hard to breath in the recovery room. That lasted a few hours. Nurses had no idea what to do.
Sat 05:20:31 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ Nerve block wore off so on pain meds.
Sat 05:23:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Richard Stallman Will Give a Talk in Sweden in 6 Days ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/04/Richard_Stallman_Will_Give_a_Talk_in_Sweden_in_6_Days.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/04/Richard_Stallman_Will_Give_a_Talk_in_Sweden_in_6_Days.gmi ∎
Sat 05:26:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "In a recent lawsuit filed Sept. 30, Strava claims Garmin infringed on patents related to its segments and heatmapping features." ☛ https://www.androidpolice.com/strava-lawsuit-demands-garmin-ceases-selling-watches/ | Source: Android Police
Sat 05:27:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "And the pressure on the duopoly to keep growing is creating more and more pressure on everyone else’s ability to make a living." ☛ https://blog.zgp.org/the-duopoly-crunch-from-the-brand-side/ | Source: Don Marti
Sat 05:27:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "After months of organizing led by the Maine Music Alliance (MEMA) — a coalition of local independent venues, musicians, music workers, and arts organizations — the Portland City Council voted 6-3 to impose a moratorium blocking construction of a Live Nation venue." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/10/live-nation-ticketmaster-music-industry/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine
Sat 05:28:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Lastly, Windows users now get extra system information—the client can detect Secure Boot and TPM status, which will also be included in the Steam Hardware Survey going forward." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/steam-oct-client-update-rolls-out-with-exploit-mitigation/ | Source: Linuxiac
Sat 05:28:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "As for what happens now, Ek is not really gone. He has just moved to a higher chair, while two of his deputies step up. From the outside it doesn’t look like much will change." ☛ https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/music/2025/10/the-man-who-sold-the-world-spotifys-founder-steps-down | Source: New Statesman
Sat 05:30:27 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], The surgeon said I could drive and be out of the sling in six weeks.
Sat 05:30:46 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] I believe you are watching IBM morph into 3 different companies
Sat 05:30:48 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] SW = buy innovation and make money distributing the purchased SW
Sat 05:30:48 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ But full recovery will be about 5 months total.
Sat 05:30:50 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Infrastructure = innovate around chip and enterprise design, and then make money via selling those enterprise solutions. NOTE distributed infrastructure and infrastructure support for the most part are running in place and not innovating
Sat 05:30:54 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Consulting = Innovate around AI and then make money via recommending that AI to enterprise customers. NOTE a large part of consulting is perform which lacks innovation
Sat 05:30:57 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k6m1hv5s
Sat 05:30:59 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] wow
Sat 05:31:30 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ They showed pictures from the OR.
Sat 05:31:54 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ They wanted them for medical literature.
Sat 05:32:07 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] " yes those 3 pillars have been IBM's GTM go to market for a very long time. Only (well far from only) problem is IBM intentionally through arrogance and incompetence THOUGHT they could outsource sales to "partners". Ah no such thing as 'Partners". There are thieves and buzzards and people that are coin operated BUT the partner channel THINKS IBM will bring them leads and business and IBM THINKS the channel partners will bring the
Sat 05:32:07 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] m leads and business. This happens when you hire by wokeness and based on young age (keep SG&A costs down), race, skin color, s-x etc etc. You hire people who know very little and would never admit they are deer in the headlights. For 50 years from the 20s to the 70s IBM was the most respected and innovative and essential company on the planet and had the best trusted advisor customer relationships but in the 80s the cracks began
Sat 05:32:08 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] to show and then Gerstner came in the 90s and put the final nails in the coffin making IBM a "financial engineering petrie dish of experimentation". IBM no longer has customer relationships and changes sales reps every 30-60-90 days and partners and customers know it. A very large portion of the IBM CRM system has contacts marked DO NOT CONTACT ME because they have 8 IBM reps bother and fatigue the same contact in 1 day with calls
Sat 05:32:15 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] , texts, emails. IBM has no self awareness about the fact it has no clothes (no customer relationships)."
Sat 05:36:06 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ Be back tomorrow most likely. Don't want to overdo it.
Sat 05:50:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Garmin Uses Linux for Some of the Garmin Products, Now It's Sued by Strava Using Software Patents ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/04/Garmin_Uses_Linux_for_Some_of_the_Garmin_Products_Now_It_s_Sued.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/04/Garmin_Uses_Linux_for_Some_of_the_Garmin_Products_Now_It_s_Sued.gmi ∎
Sat 05:50:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Carr joined Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) and State Attorney General Tim Griffin in Arkansas for a tour of the Varner Supermax facility in September, Inside Towers reported." ☛ https://insidetowers.com/fcc-proposes-rules-to-enable-state-local-prisons-to-jam-illegal-cell-phones/ | Source: Inside Towers
Sat 05:51:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Holy shit I love my internet service provider said no one ever!" ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/03/we-dont-care-we-dont-have-to/#were-the-phone-company | Source: CoryDoctorow
Sat 05:51:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Since 2020, Bell has invested nearly $17 billion to expand its wireless and Pure Fibre networks across Canada." ☛ https://insidetowers.com/bell-expands-wireless-coverage-in-canada/ | Source: Inside Towers
Sat 06:05:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Instead, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent arrested Marques May, a 38-year-old Brazilian national who has no criminal record and works as a film director in Los Angeles." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-10-03/film-director-brazil-detained-by-ice-green-card-interview | Source: Los Angeles Times
Sat 06:06:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "All of that descended into chaos instantaneously, when an ICE agent—or some other masked motherfucker—after being momentarily blocked by a scooter, decides to uncork a can of teargas and casually toss it out of the window of his unmarked SUV" ☛ https://dansinker.com/posts/2025-10-03-logan-square/ | Source: Dan Sinker
Sat 06:06:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "And what happened in Chicago this week? It’s sufferable. Barely." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/03/chicago-and-the-end-of-american-liberty/ | Source: Techdirt
Sat 06:06:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Blackhawk helicopters. Flash bangs. A chainsaw to cut through fencing. Doors blown off hinges. Holes in walls. An entire building’s worth of American citizens treated as enemy combatants in a war zone." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-sufferable-evil | Source: Mike Brock
Sat 06:06:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "faced criticism for alleged civil rights abuses and failures to adhere to constitutional principles and due process" ☛ https://itwire.com/government-tech-news/technology-regulation/frozen-out-trump-administration-orders-anti-ice-apps,-including-iceblock,-removed-from-apple-s-app-store.html | Source: IT Wire
Sat 06:07:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "In the worst union busting in memory, the administration has claimed that union contracts for most federal workers are void and stopped agencies from collecting union dues." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/10/government-shutdown-federal-workers-billionaires/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine
Sat 06:10:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "CoreCivic, one of two prison giants that have cashed in from President Donald Trump’s promise of mass deportations, expects to rake in nearly $300 million more from new contracts with Immigration and Customs Enforcement." ☛ https://www.notus.org/immigration/corecivic-immigrant-detention-contracts-california-kansas-oklahoma | Source: Allbritton Journalism Institute
Sat 06:11:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Many tribal leaders said they feared that the Trump administration would use the shutdown to lay off federal workers responsible for ensuring that trust and treaty responsibilities are honored." ☛ https://www.lonestarlive.com/native-american-news/2025/10/federal-shutdown-hurts-services-for-native-americans-and-they-worry-worse-is-coming.html | Source: Advance Local Media LLC
Sat 06:12:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Labor unions and tech companies have fought for years over drivers' rights." ☛ https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2025-10-03/newsom-signs-bill-giving-800-000-uber-and-lyft-drivers-in-california-the-right-to-unionize | Source: US News And World Report
Sat 06:12:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "California is the second state where Uber and Lyft drivers can unionize as independent contractors." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/newsom-signs-bill-giving-800000-uber-and-lyft-drivers-in-california-the-right-to-unionise/articleshow/124300550.cms | Source: India Times
Sat 06:15:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "As Elizabeth Lopatto and Sarah Jeong wrote earlier today: [...]" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/791170/iceblock-app-store-removed-by-apple | Source: The Verge
Sat 06:15:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Can liberals do something similar now? Free speech, for obvious reasons, has always been an opposition-party issue—it’s a lot harder to claim that the government is suppressing you when your preferred party is in power." ☛ https://www.newyorker.com/news/fault-lines/can-the-democrats-take-free-speech-back-from-the-right | Source: New Yorker
Sat 06:15:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "If you want to read the full list of official White House enemies, go ahead and click through." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/02/trump-publishes-enemies-list-to-white-house-website-and-its-just-democrats-speaking-the-truth/ | Source: Techdirt
Sat 06:15:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The day before her death, local security forces raided Slavina's home in search of evidence of her alleged involvement with the opposition." ☛ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/10/03/daughter-of-late-russian-journalist-irina-slavina-detained-while-laying-flowers-in-her-memory-a90707 | Source: The Moscow Times
Sat 06:20:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Fifty years, I’ve been kind of a musical ambassador for America around the world" ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/bruce-springsteen-government-censorship-kimmel-1235440173/ | Source: Rolling Stone
Sat 06:23:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The U.S. government does not have the authority to demand the removal of these lawful apps. But it does have the authority to make Apple and Google pay dearly if they do not comply." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/apple-google-ice-apps/ | Source: Nick Heer
Sat 06:24:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Rights advocates have raised concerns that rights to free speech and due process are often being infringed as the government pushes ahead with its deportation drive." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/apple-removes-ice-tracking-apps-after-pressure-by-trump-administration/articleshow/124281261.cms | Source: India Times
Sat 06:24:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Apple and Google blocked downloads of phone apps that flag sightings of US immigration agents, just hours after the Trump administration demanded that one particularly popular iPhone app be taken down." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/apple-google-block-apps-that-crowdsource-ice-sightings-some-warn-of-chilling-effects/articleshow/124300538.cms | Source: India Times
Sat 06:24:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The ability to use your freedom of expression to try to change what the government does is, in fact, why the First Amendment was put in the Constitution in the first place." ☛ https://fair.org/home/under-trump-criticism-is-now-criminal/ | Source: FAIR
Sat 06:24:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Now teen girls can get a crash course on sex with a few keystrokes" ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/10/books-briefing-judy-blume-american-book-banning/684449/ | Source: The Atlantic
Sat 06:25:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Sora — as well as Google’s Veo 3 and other tools like it — could become increasingly fertile breeding grounds for disinformation and abuse, experts said" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/technology/sora-openai-video-disinformation.html | Source: New York Times
Sat 06:25:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Democrats have not called for medical assistance for undocumented migrants, who are not eligible for federal programs" ☛ https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-10-03/trump-insists-on-a-hoax-about-migrants-to-explain-the-government-shutdown.html | Source: El País
Sat 06:29:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Decay builds quietly until, all at once, trust evaporates. The surprise is rarely the failure itself. The surprise is that the warning signs were ignored." ☛ https://unmitigatedrisk.com/?p=1103 | Source: Unmitigated Risk
Sat 06:29:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The program was introduced just weeks after the Trump administration announced a new $100,000 fee for H-1B visas" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/china-talent-immigration-visa-h1-b-policy/ | Source: Wired
Sat 06:30:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "They go back over many years. While some of the issues were worked on in more recent times, the full scale of the problem only became visible during the leadership change in 2025" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/02/nz_itp_collapse/ | Source: The Register UK
Sat 06:30:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Microsoft is renting external GPU data centers for internal use so it can, in turn, rent out its own facilities to other customers" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-inks-usd33-billion-in-deals-with-neoclouds-like-nebius-coreweave-nebius-deal-alone-secures-100-000-nvidia-gb300-chips-for-internal-use | Source: Tom's Hardware
Sat 06:30:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Their advantage lies in handling more specific queries while offering personalized recommendations." ☛ https://cafetechinenglish.substack.com/p/how-openai-plans-to-accelerate-monetization | Source: Jérôme Marin
Sat 06:31:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The ChatGPT developer’s newly closed secondary sale apparently also included contributions from SoftBank Group Corp. and Abu Dhabi’s MGX." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2025/10/02/openai-reportedly-closes-new-6-6b-secondary-sale-500b-valuation/ | Source: Silicon Angle
Sat 06:31:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Uber’s data labeling efforts were originally a function of its core business, but it has recently been selling these services to companies developing self-driving technologies around the world, Bloomberg reported." ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/10/03/2025/uber-buys-data-labeling-startup-in-move-toward-ai-services | Source: Semafor Inc
Sat 06:31:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "When you have a hundred websites across different agencies, you have a hundred headaches. Each one needs its own budget, its own staff and its own contracts. These costs add up fast." ☛ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/commentary/2025/10/streamlining-digital-government-why-web-consolidation-is-the-future/ | Source: Federal News Network
Sat 06:31:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Yet when it comes to AI in the workplace, there are suspiciously few stories of companies successfully integrating the tech." ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/accenture-layoffs-ai | Source: Futurism
Sat 06:31:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A consortium led by Saudi Arabia and a key figure in Donald Trump's circle have brokered a big money deal for video game publisher Electronic Arts." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/ea-what-do-saudi-arabia-and-us-get-from-video-game-deal/a-74216783 | Source: Deutsche Welle
Sat 06:32:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "But focusing on cost savings, rather than cost optimization, is a mistake, said Patrick Brogan" ☛ https://thenewstack.io/how-to-build-a-finops-strategy-that-works/ | Source: The New Stack
Sat 06:33:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Waymo and Tesla represent distinct approaches to autonomous driving technology." ☛ https://beuke.org/tesla-waymo/ | Source: Fabian Beuke
Sat 06:33:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Pebble-bed reactor designs have a long and discouraging history dating back to the 1940s." ☛ https://crookedtimber.org/2025/10/03/paper-reactors-and-paper-tigers/ | Source: Crooked Timber
Sat 06:37:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Underwater facilities can save around 90 per cent of energy consumption for cooling" ☛ https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/underwater-data-center-shanghai-highlander | Source: Interesting Engineering
Sat 06:37:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Chinese company Highlander is building a server pod near Shanghai" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/servers/china-to-launch-commercial-underwater-data-center-facility-expected-to-consume-90-percent-less-power-for-cooling | Source: Tom's Hardware
Sat 06:37:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "In 1986, Goodall shifted course dramatically after attending a conference of chimpanzee researchers at Lincoln Park Zoo" ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2025/10/jane-goodall-fame-research-conservation/684433/ | Source: The Atlantic
Sat 06:37:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Consider Acadia National Park in Maine. More intense storms and rising seas are accelerating erosion and killing native plants along its iconic coastline." ☛ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/trumps-purge-of-negative-national-park-signs-includes-climate-change/ | Source: Truthdig
Sat 06:38:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The Gulf of Maine is warming faster than 99% of the world's oceans, raising concerns for its $2 billion-a-year American lobster fishery." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2025-10-gulf-maine-pose-threat-american.html | Source: Omicron Limited
Sat 06:38:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Now, the pace of destruction from massive wildfires is accelerating." ☛ https://www.vox.com/climate/463556/wildfire-insurance-climate-science-los-angeles-fire-insurance | Source: Vox
Sat 06:40:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "That these documents were paraded as fact—in a hearing devoted to disinformation, no less—was a bitter irony." ☛ https://thewalrus.ca/a-veteran-reporter-was-branded-as-a-russian-spy-the-proof-didnt-hold-up/ | Source: The Walrus
Sat 06:40:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Former State Department employees whose roles were eliminated as part of a reduction-in-force still received information" ☛ https://fedscoop.com/data-error-rif-state-department-workers-furlough-info/ | Source: Scoop News Group
Sat 06:40:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The Eagle S is believed to be part of Russia's "shadow fleet," a network of tankers used to bypass sanctions and the oil price cap through obscure ownership structures and flags of convenience." ☛ https://kyivindependent.com/finland-court-drops-case-against-russian-shadow-fleet-tanker-crew/ | Source: The Kyiv Independent
Sat 06:41:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A Helsinki court on Friday dismissed a case against three members of a ship from Russia's "shadow fleet" suspected of cutting Baltic Sea cables, saying it was beyond its jurisdiction." ☛ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/10/03/finland-dismisses-case-over-baltic-cable-cuts-a90705 | Source: The Moscow Times
Sat 06:43:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "At 40 feet long and 10 feet wide, they are the people smugglers’ equivalent of an ocean liner – especially when heavily overloaded." ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10/01/chinese-super-dinghies-small-boats-migrants-britain/ | Source: The Telegraph UK
Sat 06:44:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "These messages at the Education Department are the latest example where the Trump administration has blamed Democrats for the government shutdown using official government channels." ☛ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/government-shutdown/2025/10/those-were-not-my-words-out-of-office-message-automatically-updated-for-furloughed-education-dept-employees/ | Source: Federal News Network
Sat 06:45:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Shenna Bellows, its secretary of state, has said she is investigating the incident and said in a statement: “Safe and secure elections are my top priority." ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/amazon-order-ballots-maine-election-b2838710.html | Source: The Independent UK
Sat 06:45:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Forget Prime perks, a woman in Maine says her latest Amazon order came with a surprise she didn't add to her cart: 250 blank election ballots." ☛ https://abcnews.go.com/US/woman-claims-amazon-delivery-box-stuffed-hundreds-blank/story?id=126149881 | Source: ABC
Sat 06:47:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "worse than Watergate" ☛ https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/declining-american-democracy-trump | Source: Paul Krugman
Sat 06:47:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The news illustrates what may be a rising trend of Russian threat actors utilizing the youth of foreign countries to do their dirty work." ☛ https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/dutch-authorities-arrest-teens-pro-russian-espionage | Source: Dark Reading
Sat 06:47:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The complaint alleges this is a violation of the Hatch Act, which prohibits the use of taxpayer money for partisan political purposes." ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/new-complaint-filed-against-small-business-administration-for-hatch-act-violation | Source: Common Dreams
Sat 06:47:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "If Hegseth’s message was to test the loyalty of Trump’s flag officers and to give them and their subordinates permission to commit crimes, Trump delivered the perfect counterargument" ☛ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/a-lovely-day-for-a-loyalty-test/ | Source: Truthdig
Sat 06:49:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Red Hat isn't saying what kind of data was taken, or whose it was." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/03/red_hat_gitlab_breach/ | Source: The Register UK
Sat 06:49:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Fast forward a couple of days and I get an email from them; that's fair I checked the box in case I needed some medical information sending out or whatever." ☛ https://thomasrigby.com/posts/thank-you-for-choosing-us/ | Source: Thomas Rigby
Sat 06:50:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "S.2850, or Protecting Americans from Doxing and Political Violence Act, would have extended restrictions on the sale of government official location and behavior data to all Americans." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/03/ted-cruz-kills-americas-latest-attempt-to-have-functional-privacy-laws/ | Source: Techdirt
Sat 06:50:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "That's why EFF is proud to join an amicus brief in Mata v. Digital Recognition Network, a lawsuit by drivers against a corporation that allegedly violated a California statute that regulates Automatic License Plate Readers (ALPRs)." ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/privacy-harm-harm | Source: EFF
Sat 06:51:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The online ad for the product, which allows cities to apply for early access to the technology, shows the image of police getting an alert for “screaming.”" ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/flocks-gunshot-detection-microphones-will-start-listening-human-voices | Source: EFF
Sat 06:52:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "For the first time, the company is adding facial recognition to its home security doorbells and video cameras." ☛ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/10/03/amazon-ring-doorbell-facial-recognition-pricacy/ | Source: The Washington Post
Sat 06:52:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "automated license plate reader cameras in more than 6,000 communities nationwide" ☛ https://therecord.media/flock-surveillance-technology-gunshot-voice-detection | Source: The Record
Sat 06:52:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Tile trackers are small Bluetooth trackers, similar to Apple’s Airtags, but they work on their own network, not Apple’s." ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/tiles-lack-encryption-danger-users-everywhere | Source: EFF
Sat 06:53:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Under the city’s new plan, the number of cameras will balloon to 60,000 by 2028, according to documents submitted to the legislature." ☛ https://www.rfa.org/english/china/2025/10/03/hong-kong-surveillance-cameras-ai/ | Source: RFA
Sat 06:54:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Windows TCO: "The ransomware attack disabled the company's ordering and delivering systems, bringing production to a standstill at most of its 30 factories" ☛ https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/japan-running-dry-ransomware-attack-leaves-nation-days-away-from-asahi-beer-shortage | Source: Bitdefender
Sat 06:54:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Windows TCO: "No immediate recovery of our system is in sight at the moment. Ordinary shipments remain halted" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/cyberattack-halts-shipments-from-japans-biggest-brewer/articleshow/124283570.cms | Source: India Times
Sat 06:54:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Windows TCO: "According to a joint statement from the Israeli Health Ministry and the National Cyber Directorate issued on Friday" ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/cyberattack-on-shamir-medical-center/ | Source: Cyble Inc
Sat 06:55:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [Old] "Social media thrives particularly well in post-industrial societies because post-industrial workers have time to spend chatting on the net in a way their Fordist (production-line-working) ancestors couldn’t have even dreamt of." ☛ https://philosophynow.org/issues/137/Bullshit_Jobs_by_David_Graeber | Source: Philosophy Now
Sat 06:55:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "In this way, bullshit jobs and bullshit media are connected through a icious circle: there’s an attempt to compensate the loss of a meaningful working life through an increased use of social media. But the ‘meaning’ found in social media activities is just as unreal as the ‘meaning’ propagated by bullshit jobs.
Sat 06:56:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Both bullshit jobs and social media, with their illusions of recognition and gratification, speculate with an ‘as if’ – as if something is being made or changed – but they provide no meaningful purposes in work or in life."
Sat 06:56:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Another recent book bearing the word ‘bullshit’ in the title is B.J. Mendelson’s Social Media is Bullshit (2012). Social media and post-industrial society are closely linked. The post-industrial society is an information society, and the processing of information, useful or not, has become an occupation of almost everybody, from the multinational media company to the Facebook sharer."
Sat 06:56:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "But somehow, the DOJ’s assertion that Portland was in danger of falling into an armed rebellion, wasn’t the most surreal part of the hearing." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/policy/792042/trump-oregon-national-guard-tro | Source: The Verge
Sat 06:57:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A contract opportunity published on Thursday by ICE states that the Homeland Security component is seeking about 30 contractors to perform investigations and analysis of open-source intelligence from the web" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/03/ice_contractors_social_media_spy/ | Source: The Register UK
Sat 06:57:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ " Tom Alter, a labor historian and tenured professor of history at Texas State University, was fired from his job on September 10 after a far-right troll doctored a videotape of Alter speaking at a virtual Revolutionary Socialism conference." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/10/texas-state-alter-firing-socialism/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine
Sat 06:57:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "But with its latest product — the AI-generated video social network Sora 2 — OpenAI may have set the all-time record for greatest distance between mission statement and actual work." ☛ https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/463596/openai-sora2-reels-videos-tiktok-chatgpt-deepfakes | Source: Vox
Sat 06:58:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Any talent agency that engages in this should be boycotted by all guilds" ☛ https://www.deccanchronicle.com/entertainment/ai-actor-tilly-norwood-stirs-outrage-in-hollywood-1907555 | Source: Deccan Chronicle
Sat 06:58:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "But a scrolling flood of such videos taking over social media has some worried about "AI slop" that crowds out more authentic human creativity and degrades the information ecosystem." ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/openai-sora-social-media-1.7647945 | Source: CBC
Sat 06:59:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Public figures can’t be generated in Sora unless they’ve uploaded a cameo themselves and given consent for it to be used" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/789126/openai-made-a-tiktok-for-deepfakes-and-its-getting-hard-to-tell-whats-real | Source: The Verge
Sat 06:59:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "People on Sora who generate videos of Altman are especially getting a kick out of how blatantly OpenAI appears to be violating copyright laws." ☛ https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/01/openais-new-social-app-is-filled-with-terrifying-sam-altman-deepfakes/ | Source: TechCrunch
Sat 06:59:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This is the trap with Sora, and more generally with AI in social media: You get sucked in and receive no reward." ☛ https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/openais-sora-social-media-app-is-an-ai-deepfake-fever-dream/ | Source: CNET
Sat 07:00:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "So, you're saying a third of the stock market is tied up in seven AI companies that have no way to become profitable and that this is a bubble that's going to burst and take the whole economy with it?" ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/cory-doctorow-ai-collapse | Source: Futurism
Sat 07:00:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "There’s a little bit of a hype bubble going on in the early-stage venture space" ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/investors-warn-of-global-hype-bubble-in-ai/272399/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)
Sat 07:05:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The membership page crashed due to mass cancellations" ☛ https://www.techradar.com/gaming/pc-gaming/the-xbox-game-pass-price-hikes-are-so-bad-it-literally-crashed-the-membership-site-due-to-widespread-cancellations | Source: TechRadar
Sat 07:06:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Just hours after new changes and price increases for Xbox Game Pass were announced, players began attempting to cancel their subscriptions en masse" ☛ https://gamerant.com/xbox-game-pass-cancel-subscription-website-crashing/ | Source: Game Rant
Sat 07:06:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "They went to cancel their Xbox Game Pass subscriptions en masse. There were so many cancellations in the early hours of Wednesday, in fact, that the website where you cancel the service actually got overloaded." ☛ https://eu.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/pop-culture/2025/10/01/xbox-game-pass-price-increase-cancel-overloaded/86461775007/ | Source: Gannett
Sat 07:06:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "WikiHow CEO Elizabeth Douglas described to a court how websites like hers are the middle of an “AI apocalypse.” WikiHow, a website that gives step-by-step practical advice, is suffering from a new paradigm shift in how people find information online." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/tech/790711/google-doj-ad-tech-remedies-wikihow-open-web | Source: The Verge
Sat 07:07:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "That will be of little comfort to execs currently receiving emails threatening to leak payroll files and financial records unless they cough up a ransom." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/03/oracle_ebs_clop_extortion/ | Source: The Register UK
Sat 07:08:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "If you aren’t convinced by Microsoft’s offering, it’s normally possible to install an entirely new OS on your device." ☛ https://privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/5686/end-line-windows-10 | Source: Privacy International
Sat 07:08:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I decided not to upgrade to a newer version of OS X, or replace it with Linux or one of the BSDs." ☛ https://box.matto.nl/adventures-with-os-x-mavericks-in-2025.html | Source: MJ Fransen
Sat 07:08:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The emails, which are littered with broken English, aim to instill fear, apply pressure, threaten public exposure and seek negotiation for a ransom payment." ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/extortion-email-clop-oracle-customers/ | Source: Scoop News Group
Sat 07:08:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The campaign involving the allegedly stolen data first surfaced in late September, when executives at multiple companies began receiving emails alleging that attackers had exfiltrated financial and operational data from their Oracle EBS systems." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2025/10/02/clop-linked-hackers-claim-oracle-e-business-suite-data-theft-high-stakes-extortion-push/ | Source: Silicon Angle
Sat 07:09:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The “gold standard” test is called polysomnography." ☛ https://manualdousuario.net/en/sleep-score-polysomnography/ | Source: Rodrigo Ghedin
Sat 07:09:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The keyword for me is ambitions. I’m haunted by it. Whatever I set out to do, the ambitions are always there — and not in a good way." ☛ https://birming.com/2025/10/03/haunted-by-ambitions/ | Source: Robert Birming
Sat 07:10:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I’ve removed all the apps from my phone and tablet that I tend to fall into when I get bored." ☛ https://jimmitchell.org/2025/10/03/taking-a-break/ | Source: Jim Mitchell
Sat 07:10:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It's the judgment—knowing which fruit to pick, which to leave, and how to avoid damaging either. So, we still need human labor." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2025-10-hot-harvest-threatens-farm-labor.html | Source: Omicron Limited
Sat 07:13:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Today, I opened the chassis of r730-0) (that link needs to be updated now that there is new hardware in there; I’ll post that one soon and page will then have a link to the new page)." ☛ https://dan.langille.org/2025/10/02/adding-in-new-nvme-cards-and-sticks/ | Source: Dan Langille
Sat 07:13:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I recently obtained two 4TB NVMe cards and two PCIe adapters, each of which holds two NVMe cards. This is what they looked like fully loaded: [...]" ☛ https://dan.langille.org/2025/10/02/leveling-out-the-nvme-cards-on-the-adaptors/ | Source: Dan Langille
Sat 07:14:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Hard drives have long been famous for their bathtub curve of reliability, in which they’re: [...]" ☛ https://rubenerd.com/when-to-replace-hard-drives/ | Source: Ruben Schade
Sat 07:15:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "For years, subminiature vacuum tubes were looking like the future of electronics—until a key figure in their rise heard about something better." ☛ https://tedium.co/2025/10/02/subminiature-tubes-transistors-raytheon-history/ | Source: Tedium
Sat 07:15:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Once-cheap SSDs, DRAM, and HDD prices are climbing fast as AI demand and constrained supply converge to create the tightest market in years." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/perfect-storm-of-demand-and-supply-driving-up-storage-costs | Source: Tom's Hardware
Sat 07:20:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [Old] "In the year 1930, John Maynard Keynes predicted that" ☛ https://davidgraeber.org/articles/on-the-phenomenon-of-bullshit-jobs-a-work-rant/ | Source: David Graeber
Sat 07:20:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [Old] "It didn’t have to be this way, Graeber says." ☛ https://www.vox.com/2018/5/8/17308744/bullshit-jobs-book-david-graeber-occupy-wall-street-karl-marx | Source: Vox
Sat 07:21:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [Old] "In an age that supremely prizes capitalist efficiency, the proliferation of pointless jobs is a puzzle." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/may/25/bullshit-jobs-a-theory-by-david-graeber-review | Source: The Guardian UK
Sat 07:21:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [Old] "One reason that work was historically irregular is because it was largely unsupervised." ☛ https://harpers.org/archive/2018/06/punching-the-clock/ | Source: Harpers Magazine
Sat 07:21:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [Old] "I like to talk about “the revolt of the caring classes.” The working classes have always been the caring classes" ☛ https://roarmag.org/essays/graeber-bullshit-jobs-interview/ | Source: ROAR Magazine
Sat 07:22:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The Nobel Prize is an honor known the world over, but one that spotlights only narrow slices of science and very few scientists within them." ☛ https://www.sciencenews.org/article/nobel-prize-discoveries-not-all-science | Source: Science News
Sat 07:22:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The research group has previously synthesized various optically active conductive polymers in liquid crystals." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2025-10-method-faraday-rotation-polymers.html | Source: Omicron Limited
Sat 07:22:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Contrary to what many people believe, this system of peer review is recent. When Watson and Crick submitted their ‘double helix’ paper to Nature in 1953" ☛ https://lemire.me/blog/2025/10/03/beyond-papers-rethinking-science-in-the-era-of-artificial-intelligence/ | Source: Daniel Lemire
Sat 07:23:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Social media giant LinkedIn on Thursday filed a lawsuit against a company which it says operates a network of millions of fake accounts" ☛ https://therecord.media/linkedin-sues-data-scraping-company | Source: The Record
Sat 07:23:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I have reinstated the guestbook on this website after 20 years! As I have written in the About page" ☛ https://susam.net/reinstated-guestbook.html | Source: SusamPal
Sat 07:24:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [Old] "You can browse the archive by year here." ☛ https://www.ursulakleguin.com/blog | Source: Ursula K Le Guin
Sat 07:33:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Links 04/10/2025: "Privacy Harm Is Harm", Criticism Outlawed in US ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/04/Links_04_10_2025_Privacy_Harm_Is_Harm_Criticism_Outlawed_in_US.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/04/Links_04_10_2025_Privacy_Harm_Is_Harm_Criticism_Outlawed_in_US.gmi ∎
Sat 07:34:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This of course piqued my curiosity, and when the pre-op nurse came back to check on me I say "Weird question: But can I speak to an anesthesiologist? I want to sate my curiosity."" gemini://tilde.club/~synduckate/gemlog/2025-10-03.gmi
Sat 07:39:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Reasons not to use ChatGPT https://stallman.org/chatgpt.html
Sat 07:50:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "FINAL FANTASY TACTICS - The Ivalice Chronicles released on September 30th and while it's Steam Deck Verified, it had some troubles on Desktop Linux." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/proton-hotfix-updated-to-improve-final-fantasy-tactics-the-ivalice-chronicles-on-linux/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
Sat 07:50:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Utopia Must Fall is great base-defense arcade shooter, easily one of my favourites that I played earlier this year and soon Steam Deck players will enjoy it." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/the-truly-excellent-utopia-must-fall-has-a-new-beta-with-steam-deck-support/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
Sat 07:50:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Filled up with eccentric characters, tricky foes, plenty of jokes, and a lot of pop culture references - The Crazy Hyper-Dungeon Chronicles (TCHDC) sounds fun." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/the-crazy-hyper-dungeon-chronicles-tchdc-is-for-fans-of-dungeon-crawlers-with-roguelite-replayability/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
Sat 07:51:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "What will no doubt be a popular release, Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus II from Bulwark Studios and Kasedo Games now has a demo available." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/warhammer-40000-mechanicus-ii-gets-a-first-demo-live-now/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
Sat 07:51:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A short delay but hopefully the 1.0 release will be worth it for Necesse, which is a really interesting blend of genres and great for co-op play." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/co-op-sandbox-action-adventure-settlement-builder-necesse-1-0-moves-to-october-16/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
Sat 07:52:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Crashout Crew is the latest casual comedy co-op game from Aggro Crab (PEAK, Another Crab's Treasure, Going Under)." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/aggro-crab-peak-another-crabs-treasure-going-under-revealed-a-new-co-op-game-crashout-crew/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
Sat 07:53:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "VirtualBox Vexations" https://soylentnews.org/~turgid/journal/19864
Sat 07:57:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Sharing is Good… We Need to Legalize It" https://en.neritam.com/2025/10/03/sharing-is-good-we-need-to-legalize-it/ :) techrights
Sat 07:58:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The Government Shutdown: The Public vs. the Billionaires" https://jacobin.com/2025/10/government-shutdown-federal-workers-billionaires/
Sat 08:02:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Chat Control 2: Decision postponed? | "Chat Control 2: Beslutet skjuts upp?" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/10/03/chat-control-2-beslutet-skjuts-upp/
Sat 08:02:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ iophk: congratulations to brendan https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=es&tl=en&u=https://www.muylinux.com/2025/10/02/brave-100-millones-usuarios-activos/
Sat 08:03:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Raspberry Pi 500+: The keyboard-style mini PC gets a refresh with more of everything | "Raspberry Pi 500+ se renueva con teclado mecánico y SSD" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=es&tl=en&u=https://www.muylinux.com/2025/10/03/raspberry-pi-500-plus/
Sat 08:03:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Ilmfinity Studios announced that their creature collectors EvoCreo and EvoCreo 2 that are popular on mobile are coming to PC with Linux support." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/highly-rated-creature-collectors-evocreo-and-evocreo-2-are-coming-to-pc-with-linux-support/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
Sat 08:03:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Popular game store Green Man Gaming have launched the first of many planned bundles, the first one supporting SpecialEffect’s One Special Day charity event." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/green-man-gaming-launch-their-first-game-bundle-to-support-specialeffects-one-special-day/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
Sat 08:04:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Here's everything that's coming to Prime Gaming in October 2025. An easy way to add more games to your library across Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/heres-everything-to-claim-from-prime-gaming-during-october-2025/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
Sat 08:04:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Valve released the latest update to the Steam client, making it a good time to jump to Linux if you're still on Windows 10" ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/steam-stable-update-brings-end-of-life-notice-for-32-bit-windows-and-lots-of-bug-fixes/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
Sat 08:15:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Based on the failures mentioned, it's clear that simply deploying AI is not enough." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/classifying-human-ai-agent-interaction | Source: Red Hat Official
Sat 08:15:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ServiceNow ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/evolving-our-servicenow-integration-sunsetting-notification-service-more-capable-alternatives | Source: Red Hat Official
Sat 08:15:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This new migration toolkit is designed to simplify and accelerate your journey to Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-openstack-vmware-migration-toolkit-simplify-your-journey-openshift | Source: Red Hat Official
Sat 08:16:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Games: Proton Hotfix, Utopia Must Fall, and More ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/04/Games_Proton_Hotfix_Utopia_Must_Fall_and_More.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/04/Games_Proton_Hotfix_Utopia_Must_Fall_and_More.gmi ∎
Sat 08:16:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "If compliance is the vital sign, how do you measure it at the speed of code?" ☛ https://unmitigatedrisk.com/?p=1106 | Source: Unmitigated Risk
Sat 08:16:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "As a result, one of the primary stated goals of Zig for years has been faster compile times" ☛ https://mitchellh.com/writing/zig-builds-getting-faster | Source: Mitchell Hashimoto
Sat 08:16:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "In other words, work on supporting the use of a hash algorithm other than SHA-1 in Git appears to have ground to a halt." ☛ https://lwn.net/Articles/898522/ | Source: LWN
Sat 08:17:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I’m teaching my Modern Plain Text Computing course this semester and so I’m on the lookout for small examples" ☛ https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2025/10/03/iterating-some-sample-data/ | Source: Kieran Healy
Sat 08:17:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The Free Software Foundation (FSF), a nonprofit with a worldwide mission to promote computer user freedom, has confirmed Ian Kelling as its new president" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/free-software-foundation-names-ian-kelling-as-new-president/ | Source: Linuxiac
Sat 08:20:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "As has become traditional, we offer free and open source projects a stand to display their work to the audience." ☛ https://fosdem.org/2026/news/2025-10-03-call-for-stands/ | Source: FOSDEM
Sat 08:20:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "PostgreSQL handles large JSON payloads reasonably well until you start updating or deleting them frequently." ☛ https://www.shayon.dev/post/2025/276/exploring-postgresql-to-parquet-archival-for-json-data-with-s3-range-reads/ | Source: Shayon Mukherjee
Sat 08:21:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "According to a recent company blog post, Brave says its browser has crossed a new milestone: 100 million active monthly users." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/2929311/brave-browser-keeps-growing-crosses-new-milestone-100-million-users.html | Source: PC World
Sat 08:21:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It’s interesting to note that, in the EU, for example, Brave’s iOS installations jumped 50% after Apple rolled out its browser choice screen" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/brave-browser-surpasses-100-million-monthly-active-users-worldwide/ | Source: Linuxiac
Sat 08:21:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "We’d like to take a moment to celebrate this achievement, and tease what’s next." ☛ https://brave.com/blog/100m-mau/ | Source: Brave Browser
Sat 08:22:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Apache's .htaccess files have a generally bad reputation." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/ApacheHtaccessAndDelegation | Source: University of Toronto
Sat 08:22:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Such software-defined vehicles, or SDVs, would boost car sales, automakers hoped." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/why-are-car-software-updates-still-so-bad/ | Source: Wired
Sat 08:22:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "FreeBSD has a great concept of establishing default values and letting the user override them." ☛ https://dan.langille.org/2025/10/01/cannot-override-etc-newsyslog-conf-with-etc-newsyslog-conf-d-newsyslog-conf/ | Source: Dan Langille
Sat 08:23:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Today we're launching a fundraising campaign to sustain and strengthen GNU Guix." ☛ https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2025/fundraising-campaign-to-sustain-gnu-guix/ | Source: GNU
Sat 08:23:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I only recently started experimenting with Nix, and there’s a huge amount to learn." ☛ https://mtlynch.io/nixos-pi4/ | Source: Michael Lynch
Sat 08:23:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This post is mostly for my benefit, so I can keep track of my plan for adjusting space. It doesn’t contain much of educational value." ☛ https://dan.langille.org/2025/10/01/r730-01-the-drive-replacement-plan/ | Source: Dan Langille
Sat 08:24:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Grief of Losing Nature" ☛ https://therevelator.org/understory-ecologist-grief/ | Source: The Revelator
Sat 08:25:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "drone revolution" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/10/03/the-weapons-of-tomorrow | Source: Meduza
Sat 08:25:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "But here’s the catch → using SSH with default settings isn’t always safe, because hackers constantly scan the internet for open SSH ports and weak logins." ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/ssh-security-linux-tips/ | Source: TecMint
Sat 08:26:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Terasic has introduced the Atum Nios V Starter Kit, a feature-rich evaluation platform designed to accelerate development with Altera’s Nios V processor." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/terasic-announces-starter-kit-featuring-risc-v-nios-v-processor-and-software-bundle/ | Source: Linux Gizmos
Sat 08:29:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Built His Fortune on Subprime Loans" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/tom-dundon-portland-trail-blazers-subprime-loans | Source: Pro Publica
Sat 08:30:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "We have seen many scam USB chargers appear over the years, with a number of them being enthusiastically ripped apart and analyzed by fairly tame electrical engineers." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/03/when-usb-charger-marketing-claims-are-technically-true/ | Source: Hackaday
Sat 08:30:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The tides! Such a unique thing, because on Earth, we don’t just have oceans full of liquid water—we also have a big ol’ moon called Moon to pull them around." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/03/build-a-3d-printed-tide-clock-so-you-know-when-the-sea-is-coming-to-get-you/ | Source: Hackaday
Sat 08:33:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Introducing Red Bait OpenStack VMware migration toolkit ☞ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-openstack-vmware-migration-toolkit-simplify-your-journey-openshift
Sat 08:33:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Evolving our ServiceNow integration: Sunsetting the Notification Service for more capable alternatives ☞ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/evolving-our-servicenow-integration-sunsetting-notification-service-more-capable-alternatives
Sat 08:35:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Terasic Announces Starter Kit Featuring RISC-V Nios V Processor and Software Bundle ☞ https://linuxgizmos.com/terasic-announces-starter-kit-featuring-risc-v-nios-v-processor-and-software-bundle/
Sat 08:37:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Beyond papers: rethinking science in the era of artificial intelligence ☞ https://lemire.me/blog/2025/10/03/beyond-papers-rethinking-science-in-the-era-of-artificial-intelligence/
Sat 08:38:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Adding in new NVMe cards and sticks – and replacing two SSDs ☞ https://dan.langille.org/2025/10/02/adding-in-new-nvme-cards-and-sticks/
Sat 08:38:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ End of the Line for backdoored Windows 10? ☞ http://privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/5686/end-line-windows-10
Sat 08:40:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Hong Kong plans big AI-powered surveillance boost ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/10/03/hong-kong-surveillance-cameras-ai/
Sat 08:40:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ China to launch commercial underwater data center — facility expected to consume 90% less power for cooling ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/servers/china-to-launch-commercial-underwater-data-center-facility-expected-to-consume-90-percent-less-power-for-cooling
Sat 08:41:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Streamlining digital government: Why web consolidation is the future ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/commentary/2025/10/streamlining-digital-government-why-web-consolidation-is-the-future/
Sat 08:42:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Can the Democrats Take Free Speech Back from the Right? ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/news/fault-lines/can-the-democrats-take-free-speech-back-from-the-right
Sat 08:42:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Pluralistic: When your ISP pays you (03 Oct 2025) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/03/we-dont-care-we-dont-have-to/
Sat 08:44:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Guido Günther: Free Software Activities September 2025 ☞ http://honk.sigxcpu.org/con/Free_Software_Activities_September_2025.html
Sat 08:45:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ USPTO Patent Bubble Already Imploding, After Decades of Artificial Inflation, Entire Offices Close for Good ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/03/USPTO_Patent_Bubble_Already_Imploding_After_Decades_of_Artifici.shtml
Sat 08:45:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Patent Docs (or PatentDocs) Learned the Wrong Lessons From the Death of TypePad ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/03/Patent_Docs_or_PatentDocs_Learned_the_Wrong_Lessons_From_the_De.shtml
Sat 08:45:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How Software Patents Were Viewed or Their General Status Changed Over Time ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/03/How_Software_Patents_Were_Viewed_or_Their_General_Status_Change.shtml
Sat 08:46:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Another ISG Wi-Fi 6 patent monopoly challenged ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/10/2/another-isg-wi-fi-6-patent-challenged
Sat 08:47:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Dirk Eddelbuettel: #053: Adding llvm Snapshots for R Package Testing ☞ http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/10/03#053_r_pkgs_and_llvm_snapshots
Sat 08:47:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Red Hat confirms hackers have breached GitLab instances and stolen data ☞ https://betanews.com/2025/10/03/red-hat-confirms-hackers-have-breached-gitlab-instances-and-stolen-data/
Sat 08:49:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Jonathan Dowland: Tron: Ares (soundtrack) ☞ https://jmtd.net/log/tron_ares/
Sat 08:51:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Your company is dead already if they tell you that all it's missing is "adding AI features" and that's why things aren't going well
Sat 08:52:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ So another fiscal term for "AI" is "mystery bullshit" (like vapourware)
Sat 08:59:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Phyllis Gardner, Early Skeptic of Theranos, Dies at 75 ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/science/phyllis-gardner-dead.html
Sat 09:00:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Indies Double Down on UMG-Downtown Deal Opposition With ‘100 Voices’ Campaign: ‘For the Long-Term Health of Independent Music, It Should Be Blocked’ ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/10/03/universal-music-downtown-100-voices/
Sat 09:09:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Windows TCO: "This week a reader sent me a story about a CVE in Notepad++, and something isn’t quite right." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/03/this-week-in-security-cvss-0-chwoot-and-not-in-the-threat-model/ | Source: Hackaday
Sat 09:11:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Working with the Amiga's RAM and RAD disks ☞ https://www.datagubbe.se/ramdisk/
Sat 09:12:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Agency shutdown messaging draws Hatch Act, Antideficiency Act challenges ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/government-shutdown/2025/10/agency-shutdown-messaging-draws-hatch-act-antideficiency-act-challenges/
Sat 09:13:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Tesla Is Sued by Families Who Say Faulty Cybertruck Doors Led to Two Deaths ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/business/tesla-cybertruck-doors-lawsuit-california.html
Sat 09:14:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Sora 2 Is Generating Videos That Brutally Mock Scam Altman ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-sora2-videos-mocking-sam-altman
Sat 09:23:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ IBM Unveils Granite 4.0 Hybrid Model That Competes with Rivals Twice Its Size ☞ https://news.itsfoss.com/ibm-unveils-granite-4/
Sat 09:24:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Finding, collecting, and restoring vintage tech is the rewarding pastime of many a Hackaday reader." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/03/a-treasure-trove-of-random-vintage-tech-resources/ | Source: Hackaday
Sat 09:26:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Victory for Nottinghamshire Live in battle with Reform UK over council ban ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/victory-for-nottinghamshire-live-in-battle-with-reform-uk-over-council-ban/ "Journalists will not back down if our freedoms are attacked."
Sat 09:27:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Greater Anglia trains nationalised ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/news-diary-6-12-october-labour-deputy-leader-ballot-opens-greater-anglia-trains-nationalised-nobel-prizes-announced/
Sat 09:33:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Microsoft lays off thousands and jacks up Game Pass prices https://www.inkl.com/news/as-microsoft-lays-off-thousands-and-jacks-up-game-pass-prices-former-ftc-chair-says-i-told-you-so-the-activision-blizzard-buyout-is-harming-both-gamers-and-developers
Sat 09:35:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Former FTC Chair Criticizes Xbox Activision Merger Amid Game Pass Price Hike https://twistedvoxel.com/former-ftc-chair-criticizes-xbox-activision-merger-amid-game-pass-price-hike/
Sat 09:35:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Ex-FTC Chair Slams Microsoft As ‘Too-Big-To-Care’ After Game Pass Price Jumps 50 Percent https://kotaku.com/xbox-game-pass-price-lina-khan-ftc-microsoft-activision-merger-2000631611
Sat 09:43:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The 'Other Diabetes' Has Nothing to Do With Blood Sugar ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/the-other-diabetes-has-nothing-to-do-with-blood-sugar
Sat 09:43:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Security advisory: Uncontrolled Recursion and Use-After-Free vulnerabilities in Qt SVG module impact Qt ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/security-advisory-uncontrolled-recursion-and-use-after-free-vulnerabilities-in-qt-svg-module-impact-qt
Sat 09:49:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Federal judiciary touts cybersecurity work in wake of latest major breach ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/federal-judiciary-touts-cybersecurity-work-in-wake-of-latest-major-breach/ http://techrights.org/n/2025/09/11/Ron_Wyden_Microsoft_Should_be_Held_Accountable_for_Security_Bre.shtml
Sat 09:52:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Opposer Fails to Submit Evidence: TTAB Dismisses for Failure to Prove Statutory Standing ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/10/opposer-fails-to-submit-evidence-ttab.html
Sat 09:52:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Who Gets to Challenge USPTO Rules? Federal Circuit Says Big Tech Yes, Small Inventors No ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/10/challenge-federal-inventors.html
Sat 09:56:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Wine 10.16 ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/04/Wine_10_16.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/04/Wine_10_16.gmi ∎
Sat 09:58:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Slopwatch: Surveillance Giant Google News as a Firehose of LLM Slop About "Linux" ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/03/Slopwatch_Google_News_as_a_Firehose_of_LLM_Slop_About_Linux.shtml
Sat 10:03:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Oracle Says Known Vulnerabilities Possibly Exploited in Recent Extortion Attacks ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/oracle-says-known-vulnerabilities-possibly-exploited-in-recent-extortion-attacks/
Sat 10:03:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Organizations Warned of Exploited Meteobridge Vulnerability ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/organizations-warned-of-exploited-meteobridge-vulnerability/
Sat 10:04:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Unauthenticated RCE Flaw Patched in DrayTek Routers ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/unauthenticated-rce-flaw-patched-in-draytek-routers/
Sat 10:04:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ You readers are nasty, Michael. See the comments. https://www.phoronix.com/news/FSF-New-President-2025
Sat 10:06:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Raspberry Pi Weekly Issue #511 - New Raspberry Pi OS Trixie is HERE! ☞ https://newsletters.raspberrypi.com/w/UN7OHH0xOMs8F9k3dUR6zQ
Sat 10:07:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ facebook ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/eye-on-africa/20251003-madagascar-president-claims-attempted-coup "took to Facebook (Farcebook) on Friday"
Sat 10:09:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ BeepSaber update ☞ https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/BeepSaber
Sat 10:10:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The 2025 Annual IP3 Awards ☞ https://publicknowledge.org/the-2025-annual-ip3-awards/
Sat 10:12:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ GameStop promises to keep selling Game Pass Ultimate for $19.99 — company defies Microsoft's 50% price increase ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gamestop-promises-to-keep-selling-game-pass-ultimate-for-usd19-99-company-defies-microsofts-50-percent-price-increase
Sat 10:21:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ IBM releases Granite 4 series of Mamba-Transformer language models ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/10/03/ibm-releases-granite-4-series-mamba-transformer-language-models/
Sat 10:23:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Chrome 141 and Firefox 143 Patches Fix High-Severity Vulnerabilities ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/chrome-141-and-firefox-143-patches-fix-high-severity-vulnerabilities/
Sat 10:36:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): GNOME Foundation Update, 2025-10-03 ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/04/GNOME_Foundation_Update_2025_10_03.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/04/GNOME_Foundation_Update_2025_10_03.gmi ∎
Sat 10:37:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ A First Look at the USPTO’s FY2026 Examiner Performance Plan (PAP): What’s Changed and Why It Matters ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/10/examiner-performance-changed.html
Sat 10:38:24 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ (cat) (audio) https://files.catbox.moe/bnf6n2.mp4
Sat 10:41:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): This Week in GNOME: #219 Deciphering Hieroglyphs ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/04/This_Week_in_GNOME_219_Deciphering_Hieroglyphs.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/04/This_Week_in_GNOME_219_Deciphering_Hieroglyphs.gmi ∎
Sat 10:43:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): This Week in Plasma: 6.5 beta 2 ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/04/This_Week_in_Plasma_6_5_beta_2.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/04/This_Week_in_Plasma_6_5_beta_2.gmi ∎
Sat 10:45:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Indian Comedian Kunal Kamra Forced Offstage Amid Political Censorship ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/world/asia/india-comedian-kunal-kamra.html
Sat 10:46:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Guido Günther: Free Software Activities September 2025 ☞ https://honk.sigxcpu.org/con/Free_Software_Activities_September_2025.html
Sat 10:48:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install Erlang on Debian 13 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-erlang-debian-13/
Sat 10:48:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install Monitorix on Rocky GNU/Linux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-monitorix-rocky-linux-10/
Sat 10:49:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Nothing that Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Lunduke claims or says can be trusted (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/02/For_the_Second_Time_in_a_Few_Weeks_Microsoft_Lunduke_Makes_Fals.shtml
Sat 10:49:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Nothing that Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Lunduke claims or says can be trusted ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/02/For_the_Second_Time_in_a_Few_Weeks_Microsoft_Lunduke_Makes_Fals.shtml
Sat 10:49:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Debian: XLibre is Not Allowed, Devs Are Nazis ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/debian-xlibre-is-not-allowed-devs
Sat 10:50:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install Virtualmin on openSUSE ☞ https://idroot.us/install-virtualmin-opensuse/
Sat 10:50:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install Mautic on Debian 13 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-mautic-debian-13/
Sat 10:51:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The artificial complexity of OOXML files (the DOCX case) ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/10/03/the-docx-case/
Sat 10:51:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ French Photojournalist Killed in Drone Attack in Ukraine ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/world/europe/ukraine-drone-attack-journalist-killed.html
Sat 10:51:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ French Journalist Killed In Ukraine By Drone Attack Blamed On Russia ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/french-journalist-killed-ukraine-lallican-drone-attack/33549080.html
Sat 10:55:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Sweeping Ban on Drone Flights Across Chicago Looks Suspiciously Like an Attempt to Ban Press Coverage ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/chicago-drone-ban
Sat 10:57:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Censorship by "Woke" Tim Crook... for the SSCheeto ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/us/politics/apple-iceblock-app-store-trump.html
Sat 10:58:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp on vLLM, Day 0: Sparse Attention for long-context inference, ready for experimentation today with Red Bait Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/10/03/deepseek-v32-exp-vllm-day-0-sparse-attention-long-context-inference
Sat 11:04:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/04/Free_and_Open_Source_Software_howtos_and_Installations.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/04/Free_and_Open_Source_Software_howtos_and_Installations.gmi ∎
Sat 11:33:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ">It’s a wet and windy October afternoon here in the UK, and it’s time for another GNOME Foundation update. As ever, there is plenty going on behind the scenes which hasn’t made it into this post, such as planning discussions and routine operations. However, there are some notable things from this week that are easier to sum up" https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2025/10/03/gnome-foundation-update-2025-10-03/
Sat 11:33:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ This Week in Plasma: 6.5 beta 2 ☞ https://blogs.kde.org/2025/10/04/this-week-in-plasma-6.5-beta-2/ "When you’re using your system in a language that’s not English, you can now find Emojis in the Emoji Selector window by searching for their English names, in addition to the names in your primary language. (Kai Uwe Broulik"
Sat 11:34:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ This Week in GNOME: #219 Deciphering Hieroglyphs ☞ https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/10/twig-219/
Sat 11:35:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Run Custom Command or Script in Ubuntu 25.10 Automatically at Login ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/10/run-command-script-automatically-at-login/
Sat 11:35:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ GSoC'25 KWin Project Blog Post: Week 5-6 ☞ https://blogs.kde.org/2025/10/03/gsoc25-kwin-project-blog-post-week-5-6/
Sat 11:36:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Dingbats > emoji? ☞ https://rubenerd.com/dingbats-greater-than-emoji/
Sat 11:37:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ In Other News: PQC Adoption, New Android Spyware, FEMA Data Breach ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/in-other-news-pqc-adoption-new-android-spyware-fema-data-breach/
Sat 11:40:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Garmin Uses GNU/Linux for Some of the Garmin Products, Now It's Sued by Strava Using Software Patents ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/04/Garmin_Uses_Linux_for_Some_of_the_Garmin_Products_Now_It_s_Sued.shtml
Sat 11:41:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Latest Steam Client Update Improves Support for DualSense Controllers on GNU/Linux ☞ https://9to5linux.com/latest-steam-client-update-improves-support-for-dualsense-controllers-on-linux
Sat 11:42:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Hong Kong to install surveillance cameras with Hey Hi (AI) facial recognition ... is already being used to monitor crowds and read licence plates there" ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/hong-kong-to-install-surveillance-cameras-with-ai-facial-recognition
Sat 11:42:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Hong Kong to install surveillance cameras with Hey Hi (AI) facial recognition ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/10/04/hong-kong-to-install-surveillance-cameras-with-ai-facial-recognition/
Sat 11:42:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Allan Day: GNOME Foundation Update, 2025-10-03 ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2025/10/03/gnome-foundation-update-2025-10-03/
Sat 11:43:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "When taking pictures of the night sky, any noise picked up by the sensor can obscure the desired result." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/03/cold-sensor-hot-results-upgrading-a-dslr-for-astrophotography/ | Source: Hackaday
Sat 11:43:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How to use n8n and Raspberry PI to create workflows and automate Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://peppe8o.com/n8n-raspberry-pi-workflows/
Sat 11:44:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Just a friendly heads-up that some brief downtime of Phoronix.com will happen overnight due to replacing a drive in the web server's RAID array." https://www.phoronix.com/news/Brief-Downtime-RAID-2025
Sat 11:45:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ PostgreSQL database specialist Supabase snags $100M in funding ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/10/03/postgresql-database-specialist-supabase-snags-100m-funding/
Sat 11:48:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Linux Mint Improves Keyboard and Input Switching for Cinnamon ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/10/linux-mint-is-improving-keyboard-layout-switching-in-cinnamon-desktop
Sat 11:51:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Linux App Release Roundup (September 2025) ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/10/linux-app-release-roundup-september-2025
Sat 11:52:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ extrox 2.0-rc2 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/extrox
Sat 11:52:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Bluestar 6.16.10 is out as well ☞ https://distrowatch.com/bluestar
Sat 11:52:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Xray_OS 2025.10.03 released ☞ https://distrowatch.com/xray
Sat 11:52:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ InterceptSuite – network traffic interception tool ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/interceptsuite-network-traffic-interception-tool/
Sat 11:53:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Principia – sandbox physics game ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/principia-sandbox-physics-game/
Sat 11:53:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ hns – privacy-focused speech-to-text CLI utility ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/hns-privacy-focused-speech-to-text-cli-utility/
Sat 11:53:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Korai – manga reader ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/korai-manga-reader/
Sat 11:53:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install Figma on AlmaLinux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-figma-almalinux-10/
Sat 11:54:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install Figma on Debian 13 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-figma-debian-13/
Sat 11:54:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install OwnCloud on AlmaLinux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-owncloud-almalinux-10/
Sat 11:54:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install DirectAdmin on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ☞ https://idroot.us/install-directadmin-ubuntu-24-04/
Sat 11:55:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ddclient – update dynamic DNS entries ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/ddclient-update-dynamic-dns-entries/
Sat 11:55:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ webdav – simple and standalone WebDAV server ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/webdav-simple-standalone-webdav-server/
Sat 11:56:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Linux-based Vega OS replaces Android-based Fire OS in Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Select ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/10/03/linux-based-vega-os-replaces-android-based-fire-os-in-amazon-fire-tv-stick-4k-select/
Sat 11:57:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2025/40 ☞ https://dominique.leuenberger.net/blog/2025/10/tumbleweed-review-of-the-week-2025-40/
Sat 11:58:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Security updates for Friday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1040729/
Sat 11:58:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Module 2: Automating Complex Workflows with Targets ☞ https://linuxhandbook.com/courses/systemd-automation/automating-workflows-targets/
Sat 11:58:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ LHB GNU/Linux Digest #25.29: Git for DevOps eBook, getfacl, Crontab Recovery and More ☞ https://linuxhandbook.com/newsletter/25-29/
Sat 11:59:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Linux kernel 6.12.50 compiled ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202510/linux-kernel-61250-compiled.html
Sat 11:59:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Guvcview added to Easy Excalibur ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202510/guvcview-added-to-easy-excalibur.html
Sat 11:59:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Dihydroxyacetone Man is Abusing His Power to Build a Dangerous, National Policing Force ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/trump-is-abusing-his-power-to-build-a-dangerous-national-policing-force
Sat 12:01:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Elliot Williams and Al Williams got together to share their favorite hacks of the week with you." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/03/hackaday-podcast-episode-340-the-best-programming-language-space-surgery-and-hacking-two-3d-printers-into-one/ | Source: Hackaday
Sat 12:01:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): August/September in KDE Itinerary ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/04/August_September_in_KDE_Itinerary.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/04/August_September_in_KDE_Itinerary.gmi ∎
Sat 12:04:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): An Update on our NGI Zero Core Funded Work ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/04/An_Update_on_our_NGI_Zero_Core_Funded_Work.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/04/An_Update_on_our_NGI_Zero_Core_Funded_Work.gmi ∎
Sat 12:06:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Unyo – anime streaming and manga reader ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/04/Unyo_anime_streaming_and_manga_reader.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/04/Unyo_anime_streaming_and_manga_reader.gmi ∎
Sat 12:42:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ FOSS Force’s Top Ten for September ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/10/foss-forces-top-ten-for-september/
Sat 12:42:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ From Tech Team to Top Spot: Ian Kelling Leads FSF into Its Fortieth Year ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/10/from-tech-team-to-top-spot-ian-kelling-leads-fsf-into-its-fortieth-year/
Sat 12:44:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ TikTok says it’s engaging with Indonesia after licence suspended ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/tiktok-says-its-engaging-with-indonesia-after-licence-suspended
Sat 12:44:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ TikTok is Not Harmless (Being CheeTok in the US Will Advance Orange Agenda) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/03/TikTok_is_Not_Harmless_Being_CheeTok_in_the_US_Will_Advance_Ora.shtml
Sat 12:48:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Best Ubuntu Time Tracking Software 2026 https://vocal.media/journal/best-ubuntu-time-tracking-software-2026
Sat 12:49:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Back doors with "Linux" in the title https://www.makeuseof.com/borrowed-habits-from-linux-make-windows-setup-better/
Sat 12:49:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Here's How I Batch Install All My Old Apps When Switching Linux Distros https://tech.yahoo.com/computing/articles/heres-batch-install-old-apps-200016156.html
Sat 12:52:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How to switch your Windows 10 PC to Linux Mint - for free https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-switch-your-windows-10-pc-to-linux-mint-for-free/
Sat 12:53:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Yes, Gemini, A Wii Server Is Possible https://hackaday.com/tag/wii-linux/
Sat 12:54:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This release also adds support for dual gyros when using Nintendo Switch Joycons in combined mode." https://9to5linux.com/latest-steam-client-update-improves-support-for-dualsense-controllers-on-linux
Sat 12:54:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Want to try Linux but dread the command line? Don't worry - there's likely a GUI that can handle whatever you need." https://www.zdnet.com/article/8-free-linux-apps-that-are-surprisingly-useful-no-command-line-required/
Sat 12:54:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Valve just released an update to Proton Hotfix which should sort out the most pressing issues with playing it on Desktop Linux including the game not launching properly, and some very annoying background flickering as noted on the GitHub bug report." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/proton-hotfix-updated-to-improve-final-fantasy-tactics-the-ivalice-chronicles-on-linux/
Sat 12:55:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The first EvoCreo plans to launch sometime later this year and will be getting a demo during Steam Next Fest." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/highly-rated-creature-collectors-evocreo-and-evocreo-2-are-coming-to-pc-with-linux-support/
Sat 12:55:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "And if you missed it recently Valve also added Steam Link VR support for PICO and HTC headsets, plus Valve confirmed experimental Linux support for it too!" https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/steam-stable-update-brings-end-of-life-notice-for-32-bit-windows-and-lots-of-bug-fixes/
Sat 12:56:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 10 Linux tips I give to both beginners and professionals for improved productivity https://www.zdnet.com/article/10-linux-tips-i-give-to-both-beginners-and-professionals-for-improved-productivity/
Sat 12:57:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Tribute Games have previously worked on a number of Native Linux games including Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge and they're also doing the upcoming Scott Pilgrim EX. So it's nice to see direct support continue for MARVEL Cosmic Invasion too!" https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/marvel-cosmic-invasion-gets-a-demo-with-native-linux-support/
Sat 13:00:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Linux App Release Roundup, Best Ubuntu Time Tracking Software, and More ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/04/Linux_App_Release_Roundup_Best_Ubuntu_Time_Tracking_Software_an.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/04/Linux_App_Release_Roundup_Best_Ubuntu_Time_Tracking_Software_an.gmi ∎
Sat 13:00:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today's 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 HowTos ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/04/today_s_howtos.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/04/today_s_howtos.gmi ∎
Sat 13:01:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Operating Systems: GNU Guix, NixOS on Raspberry Pi 4, and More ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/04/Operating_Systems_GNU_Guix_NixOS_on_Raspberry_Pi_4_and_More.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/04/Operating_Systems_GNU_Guix_NixOS_on_Raspberry_Pi_4_and_More.gmi ∎
Sat 13:01:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Red Hat and IBM Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/04/Red_Hat_and_IBM_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/04/Red_Hat_and_IBM_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Sat 13:03:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 Programming Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/04/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/04/Programming_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Sat 13:05:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Security Leftovers and Windows TCO ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/04/Security_Leftovers_and_Windows_TCO.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/04/Security_Leftovers_and_Windows_TCO.gmi ∎
Sat 13:05:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Web Browsers/Web Servers: Apache and Brave ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/04/Web_Browsers_Web_Servers_Apache_and_Brave.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/04/Web_Browsers_Web_Servers_Apache_and_Brave.gmi ∎
Sat 13:06:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Standards ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/04/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_and_Standards.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/04/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_and_Standards.gmi ∎
Sat 13:08:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, ESP32, and More ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/04/Open_Hardware_Modding_Raspberry_Pi_ESP32_and_More.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/04/Open_Hardware_Modding_Raspberry_Pi_ESP32_and_More.gmi ∎
Sat 13:10:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/04/GNU_Linux_and_BSD_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/04/GNU_Linux_and_BSD_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Sat 13:10:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ xkcd — Ping #3150 gemini://8by3.net/~xkcd/3150.gmi
Sat 13:11:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🔤SpellBinding — ADTIJSH Wordo: POPES gemini://spell.ddns.net/games/gemlog/2025-10-04.gmi
Sat 13:12:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "People hated meetings and phone calls and even answering machines so our current world of short text messages is one we strived for years in order to finally build." gemini://idiomdrottning.org/our_hardearned_dystopia
Sat 13:14:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Event has just begun https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/fsf40-twelve-reasons
Sat 13:15:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "People may not be happy they have to trust Alphabet. But they certainly do. And even when they insist they're Stallman, their friends do, their family does" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45457871
Sat 13:15:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Free Software Foundation was founded (1985) by Richard Stallman." https://x.com/KnowledgeZoneIn/status/1974331523244699928
Sat 13:17:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "trying to tame my expanding flac collection, so more metaflac experiments:-) the last script stopped working with metaflac so a different way to do it." gemini://gemini.mingmengtou.org/2025-10-04-find-my-own-way.gmi
Sat 13:20:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ <li><h5><a href="gopher://baud.baby:70/0/phlog/fs20251004.txt">reframing Baudpunk</a></h5>
Sat 13:20:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ reframing Baudpunk gopher://baud.baby:70/0/phlog/fs20251004.txt
Sat 13:21:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ sweet sweat gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/sweetsweat
Sat 13:24:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Gemini Links 04/10/2025: Anesthesia and Baudpunk ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/04/Gemini_Links_04_10_2025_Anesthesia_and_Baudpunk.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/04/Gemini_Links_04_10_2025_Anesthesia_and_Baudpunk.gmi ∎
Sat 13:27:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Links 04/10/2025: "attempted Coup" Noted in Facebook, Russia Kills Journalists via Drones ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/04/Links_04_10_2025_attempted_Coup_Noted_in_Facebook_Russia_Kills_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/04/Links_04_10_2025_attempted_Coup_Noted_in_Facebook_Russia_Kills_.gmi ∎
Sat 13:50:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Slopwatch: Fake Articles About LibreOffice in Austria and Wine 10.16 ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/04/Slopwatch_Fake_Articles_About_LibreOffice_in_Austria_and_Wine_1.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/04/Slopwatch_Fake_Articles_About_LibreOffice_in_Austria_and_Wine_1.gmi ∎
Sat 14:14:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Former Head of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Lina Khan Knows Whatever Microsoft Touches Will Die ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/04/Former_Head_of_the_Federal_Trade_Commission_FTC_Lina_Khan_Knows.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/04/Former_Head_of_the_Federal_Trade_Commission_FTC_Lina_Khan_Knows.gmi ∎
Sat 14:16:03 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://hostux.social/@fsfstatus/115288837302365944
Sat 14:16:05 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "We seem to be experiencing an occasion of success vs the ongoing DDoS against the FSF network today.
Sat 14:16:07 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Patterns in abusive traffic change therefor it is unclear if will be long-term progress in our 17+ month battle with very high volumes of abusive (mostly crawler/scraper presenting) traffic.
Sat 14:16:10 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Kudos to FSF staff member @thomzane for the recent traffic patterns analysis techniques and other hardening measures which appear to be proving effective so far this morning."
Sat 14:24:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Free Software Foundation Party Has Begun ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/04/Free_Software_Foundation_Party_Has_Begun.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/04/Free_Software_Foundation_Party_Has_Begun.gmi ∎
Sat 14:44:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Advocacy of Software Freedom Changed, LUGs Became Less Relevant ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/04/Advocacy_of_Software_Freedom_Changed_LUGs_Became_Less_Relevant.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/04/Advocacy_of_Software_Freedom_Changed_LUGs_Became_Less_Relevant.gmi ∎
Sat 14:48:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ TCS mass layoffs. Another de facto Microsoft proxy.
Sat 15:09:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Red Hat is Ignoring the Free Software Community, It's a "Fortune 1000" Vendor ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/04/Red_Hat_is_Ignoring_the_Free_Software_Community_It_s_a_Fortune_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/04/Red_Hat_is_Ignoring_the_Free_Software_Community_It_s_a_Fortune_.gmi ∎
Sat 15:09:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "After nearly 10 years, this community-powered publication for IT leaders is ending." https://enterprisersproject.com/ community... NOT under ICBM.
Sat 15:12:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ FSF40 Hackathon next month https://www.fsf.org/events/fsf40-hackathon
Sat 15:29:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Compromised by NVIDIA Proprietary Library ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/04/Compromised_by_NVIDIA_Proprietary_Library.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/04/Compromised_by_NVIDIA_Proprietary_Library.gmi ∎
Sat 15:31:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Stallman ruled with an iron fist in those days, and I needed my peripherals to work. I imagine it's better now, but Ubuntu is a 14-year habit at this point." https://www.threads.com/@mctroyd/post/DPXuoeVkQ0M/well-i-use-ubuntu-and-no-lies-detected-i-really-wanted-to-like-debian-when-i-fir
Sat 15:46:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – "Just a Little Bit of Meat..." ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/04/Just_a_Little_Bit_of_Meat.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/04/Just_a_Little_Bit_of_Meat.gmi ∎
Sat 15:54:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – 10 Ways to Combat Software Patents ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/04/10_Ways_to_Combat_Software_Patents.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/04/10_Ways_to_Combat_Software_Patents.gmi ∎
Sat 15:59:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – The statCounter Site Has Data Integrity Problems ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/04/The_statCounter_Site_Has_Data_Integrity_Problems.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/04/The_statCounter_Site_Has_Data_Integrity_Problems.gmi ∎
Sat 16:10:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): The Gemini Capsule gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/ and tuxmachines.org (HTTP/S) Both Growing ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/04/The_Gemini_Capsule_gemini_gemini_tuxmachines_org_and_tuxmachine.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/04/The_Gemini_Capsule_gemini_gemini_tuxmachines_org_and_tuxmachine.gmi ∎
Sat 16:31:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Most Certificates Don't Improve Security, They Mostly Increase Downtime (for No Good Reason) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/04/Most_Certificates_Don_t_Improve_Security_They_Mostly_Increase_D.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/04/Most_Certificates_Don_t_Improve_Security_They_Mostly_Increase_D.gmi ∎
Sat 16:50:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "AI Coding is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/10/01/2332257
Sat 16:51:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ you can get real code and hack on it; that would generally have something functional as a starting point
Sat 16:53:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ iophk: LLMs don't generate code for software engineers or even for developers. It generates code for managers that can't and don't want to know if software works. As mentioned other times, LLMs generate only legacy code -- code which no one on staff has written or understands.
Sat 16:55:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Microsoft Still Soul-Searching for a Search Future ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/04/Microsoft_Still_Soul_Searching_for_a_Search_Future.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/04/Microsoft_Still_Soul_Searching_for_a_Search_Future.gmi ∎
Sat 17:17:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – When Microsoft "Integrates" Something With "AI" It Means It's Losing Money and Is Generally Hopeless ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/04/When_Microsoft_Integrates_Something_With_AI_It_Means_It_s_Losin.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/04/When_Microsoft_Integrates_Something_With_AI_It_Means_It_s_Losin.gmi ∎
Sat 17:22:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ iophk: As mentioned other times, LLMs generate only legacy code -- code which no one on staff has written or understands. And which take unnecessary time and effort to interpret and learn.
Sat 17:23:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ It's like trying to cook bread pag-pag style; you start with trash rather than solid, predictable ingredients.
Sat 17:26:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ LLM slopfest, i.e. GARBAGE but new https://medium.com/@adiltkt777/linux-the-open-source-revolution-that-powers-our-digital-world-5ec4e3361509
Sat 17:38:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Man arrested in UK over alleged cyberattack that affected European airports https://www.ottumwacourier.com/news/national_news/man-arrested-in-uk-over-alleged-cyberattack-that-affected-european-airports/article_79336802-dc80-5302-a043-bc8b22ae233c.html
Sat 17:39:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Lotte Card reissues 650,000 cards after data leak, protects 1.28 million customers https://biz.chosun.com/en/en-finance/2025/09/24/VDVKK3X3KFFLJC5OOPUDBEMFCI/
Sat 17:52:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Stormy Days, Strong Spirit, Maybe Site Search Next Year ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/04/Stormy_Days_Strong_Spirit_Maybe_Site_Search_Next_Year.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/04/Stormy_Days_Strong_Spirit_Maybe_Site_Search_Next_Year.gmi ∎
Sat 17:55:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Microsoft's XBox is Practically Dead Already ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/04/Microsoft_s_XBox_is_Practically_Dead_Already.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/04/Microsoft_s_XBox_is_Practically_Dead_Already.gmi ∎
Sat 17:58:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ CISA Emergency Directive 25-03: Identify and Mitigate Potential Compromise of Cisco Devices https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/directives/ed-25-03-identify-and-mitigate-potential-compromise-cisco-devices
Sat 17:59:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ApolloMD notifies patients of 11 physician practices affected by a June cyberattack https://databreaches.net/2025/09/26/apollomd-notifies-patients-of-11-physician-practices-affected-by-a-june-cyberattack/
Sat 18:06:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Watch the FSF Party Live (via Livestream) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/04/Watch_the_FSF_Party_Live_via_Livestream.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/04/Watch_the_FSF_Party_Live_via_Livestream.gmi ∎
Sat 18:09:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "One of the most significant contributions by @rms is copyleft, embodied in the GNU family of licenses. This ensures that software remains free for all of the users of the program, not just some of them." https://mastodon.social/@jxself/114721769749621938
Sat 18:36:10 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/privacy-harm-harm
Sat 18:45:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Countries’ Fossil Fuel Plans Put Climate Goals Out of Reach https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/09/24/countries-fossil-fuel-plans-put-climate-goals-out-of-reach
Sat 18:45:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ State of climate change: How healthy is our planet? https://www.dw.com/en/state-of-climate-change-how-healthy-is-our-planet/a-74122186
Sat 18:45:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Tesla Urges Cheeto Mussolini Not to Repeal Vehicle Emissions Rules https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2025-09-25/tesla-urges-trump-not-to-repeal-vehicle-emissions-rules-climate-finding
Sat 18:46:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ COP30 Urged to Link Climate Justice With Reparations for Historical Crimes https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-09-26/cop30-urged-to-link-climate-justice-with-reparations-for-historical-crimes
Sat 18:46:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ AP's Director of Climate News Breaks Down Cheeto Mussolini's Remarks at the UN on Climate Change https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2025-09-26/fact-check-aps-director-of-climate-news-breaks-down-trumps-remarks-at-the-un-on-climate-change
Sat 18:47:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The Climate’s Emergency Brake https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/09/26/the-climates-emergency-brake/
Sat 18:48:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ New York Seeks More Wind and Solar Energy https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2025-09-26/new-york-seeks-more-wind-and-solar-energy-before-federal-subsidies-expire
Sat 18:48:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 'Underweight' https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/iris-energy-faces-outrage-jpmorgan-slaps-stock-underweight-tag-1745512
Sat 18:48:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Private Equity Sees Profits in Power Utilities as Electric Bills Rise and Big Tech Seeks More Energy https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/pennsylvania/articles/2025-09-27/private-equity-sees-profits-in-power-utilities-as-electric-bills-rise-and-big-tech-seeks-more-energy
Sat 18:49:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ lder] Energy projects threaten nature in Van https://anfenglishmobile.com/ecology/energy-projects-threaten-nature-in-van-81440
Sat 18:49:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ grant cuts threaten nuclear energy progress at UMich https://www.michigandaily.com/news/research/researchers-warn-federal-grant-cuts-threaten-nuclear-energy-progress-at-umich/
Sat 18:50:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ War on Fracking https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/labour-declares-war-frackingwill-this-law-rewrite-britains-energy-future-1746060
Sat 18:52:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ not a Victory for Free Speech https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/09/26/why-putting-jimmy-kimmel-back-on-the-air-is-not-a-victory-for-free-speech/
Sat 18:52:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Alberta premier blames Ottawa for Imperial Oil job cuts, but experts say it's a global trend https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/imperial-oil-lay-offs-reaction-1.7647315
Sat 20:21:38 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/wave-phony-news-quotes-affects-everyone-including-eff
Sat 20:43:01 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ and hilarity abounds... https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/10/04/1746211/the-school-that-replaces-teachers-with-ai
Sat 20:44:07 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/10/04/0257229/cnn-warns-food-delivery-robots-are-not-our-friends
Sat 20:44:44 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ neither are most humans
Sun 00:47:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I'm making this post using my ROOPHLOCH setup, a few days too late for it to count as a second entry, but I feel like I want to make a habit of actually using this strange little rig from time to time." gemini://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/~solderpunk/gemlog/conphlogence.gmi
Sun 00:47:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1784.jpg
Sun 00:47:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1434.jpg
Sun 00:49:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ No Bold, No Italics, No Inline Links via adiabatic gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/images/No%20bold%2C%20no%20italics%2C%20no%20inline%20links%2C%20final%20destination.png
Sun 00:54:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Greece: Nationwide strikes disrupts services across country https://www.dw.com/en/greece-nationwide-strikes-disrupts-services-across-country/a-74201534
Sun 00:56:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ London nurseries hit by hackers, data on 8,000 children stolen https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/london-nurseries-hit-by-hackers-data-8000-children-stolen-2025-09-26/
Sun 00:56:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Harrods warns customers their personal data could have been stolen by hackers in new cyber-attack https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15138637/Harrods-customers-personal-data-stolen-hackers-cyber-attack.html
Sun 00:57:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Cyber threat-sharing law set to shut down, along with US government https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/26/government_shutdown_cisa_law/
Sun 00:57:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Company that sells software for monitoring sex offenders, terrorists, and hackers was hacked https://san.com/cc/company-that-sells-spyware-for-monitoring-sex-offenders-hacked/
Sun 00:58:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ AI-driven medical benefits servicer hit with data breach https://healthexec.com/topics/health-it/cybersecurity/ai-driven-medical-benefits-servicer-hit-data-breach
Sun 01:00:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Nigeria: Strike at Dangote oil refinery ended by union https://www.dw.com/en/nigeria-strike-at-dangote-oil-refinery-ended-by-union/a-74204815
Sun 01:02:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Germany news: Lufthansa pilots back strike action https://www.dw.com/en/germany-news-lufthansa-pilots-back-strike-action/live-74182875
Sun 01:03:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Greece faces general strike amid contentious labor market reform https://www.dw.com/en/greece-faces-general-strike-amid-contentious-labor-market-reform/a-74190151
Sun 01:06:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ This used to NOT be a problem https://www.dw.com/en/oktoberfest-overcrowding-sparks-safety-concerns/a-74183387
Sun 01:10:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): You can turn any sketchy PC into a private one with a single USB ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/05/You_can_turn_any_sketchy_PC_into_a_private_one_with_a_single_US.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/05/You_can_turn_any_sketchy_PC_into_a_private_one_with_a_single_US.gmi ∎
Sun 01:10:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ I can convert literally anything with these free FFmpeg-powered apps https://www.makeuseof.com/free-ffmpeg-powered-apps-for-converting-files/
Sun 01:12:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Why make the trip harder than it needs to be? Try these apps for a better experience." https://www.xda-developers.com/i-recommend-people-apps-moving-windows-linux/
Sun 01:13:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ I migrated my self-hosted services from one Proxmox node to another, and it was shockingly easy https://www.xda-developers.com/i-migrated-my-self-hosted-services-from-one-proxmox-node-to-another/
Sun 01:13:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Windows apps on Linux? It's possible, with some patience" https://www.xda-developers.com/tried-run-microsoft-office-photoshop-more-linux-with-winapps-heres-how-it-went/
Sun 01:14:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Yazi makes file management faster" https://www.xda-developers.com/best-free-fast-file-manager-on-linux/
Sun 01:14:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It's just so useful" https://www.xda-developers.com/after-windows-want-raycast-come-linux-next/
Sun 01:15:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "With its virtualization-heavy nature, Qubes OS is equal parts quirky and useful" https://www.xda-developers.com/qubes-os-is-the-coolest-linux-distro-out-there/
Sun 01:15:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It was surprisingly simple, too" https://www.xda-developers.com/i-built-a-usb-image-with-everything-i-need-for-the-perfect-linux-setup/
Sun 01:17:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ I replaced all my bash scripts with Python, and here’s what happened https://www.xda-developers.com/replaced-bash-scripts-python-what-happened/
Sun 01:17:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ SMB over QUIC is a game-changer, and I can't wait for it to come to the home lab ecosystem https://www.xda-developers.com/smb-over-quic-is-a-game-changer/
Sun 01:18:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Wine is for very specific instances https://www.xda-developers.com/tried-running-windows-apps-linux-with-wine-but-virtualization-still-better/
Sun 01:19:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Radeon HD 7000 series enjoyers, today is your lucky day." https://www.xda-developers.com/valve-keeping-13-year-old-gpu-alive-linux-updates/
Sun 01:19:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Say goodbye to the fear of system-breaking updates with this game-changing Linux feature." https://www.xda-developers.com/use-btrfs-snapshots-make-linux-system-bulletproof/
Sun 01:20:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This one BIOS setting could stand in your way of Windows 11." https://www.xda-developers.com/changing-this-one-bios-setting-could-let-you-upgrade-to-windows-11/
Sun 01:20:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Upgrade??
Sun 01:23:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): I replaced WSL with a full Linux VM, and here’s why it’s actually better ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/05/I_replaced_WSL_with_a_full_Linux_VM_and_here_s_why_it_s_actuall.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/05/I_replaced_WSL_with_a_full_Linux_VM_and_here_s_why_it_s_actuall.gmi ∎
Sun 01:23:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 11 Linux apps Windows refugees need to know about https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-apps-windows-refugees-need-know-about/
Sun 01:25:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "How is CachyOS able to catch everyone's attention?" https://www.howtogeek.com/why-this-distro-is-more-popular-than-ubuntu-and-linux-mint-right-now/
Sun 01:26:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "You've probably been stuck at some point, or perhaps curl is too boring?" https://www.howtogeek.com/ways-to-download-files-via-the-linux-terminal-that-arent-curl-or-wget/
Sun 01:26:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 6 Text Filtering Uses for the Linux awk Command https://www.howtogeek.com/text-filtering-uses-for-the-linux-awk-command/
Sun 01:26:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Raspberry Pi 500+ Launches as the Ultimate All-In-One PC Based on Raspberry Pi 5 ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/09/26/Raspberry_Pi_500_Launches_as_the_Ultimate_All_In_One_PC_Based_o.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/09/26/Raspberry_Pi_500_Launches_as_the_Ultimate_All_In_One_PC_Based_o.gmi ∎
Sun 01:27:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Say goodbye to Notepad++." https://www.howtogeek.com/i-replaced-notepad-plus-plus-on-linux-with-this-text-editor/
Sun 01:27:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 3 Terminal Tricks You'll Wish You Knew Earlier https://www.howtogeek.com/terminal-tricks-youll-wish-you-knew-earlier/
Sun 01:28:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The Gnome Shell replacement is shaping up." https://www.howtogeek.com/system76-sends-out-pop-os-2404-beta-and-cosmic-desktop-beta/
Sun 01:29:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 3 DIY E-Ink Projects for Beginners https://www.howtogeek.com/diy-e-ink-projects-for-beginners/
Sun 01:29:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "An actual huge breakthrough." https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-apps-on-android-are-one-step-closer-to-reality/
Sun 01:30:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Building a brand new PC? Check out these distros first." https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-distros-that-play-nice-with-brand-new-hardware/
Sun 01:30:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ What a dumb thing to do and waste of a Pi https://www.howtogeek.com/why-windows-31-is-my-operating-system-for-my-raspberry-pi/
Sun 01:31:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ This Linux Laptop Makes the Most of Kubuntu's Capabilities https://www.howtogeek.com/kubuntu-focus-m2-gen-6-review/
Sun 01:31:14 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ so, nothing?
Sun 01:31:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The Raspberry Pi 5 and Apple Silicon devices are also getting better support." https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-kernel-3-17-released/
Sun 01:31:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 4 Interesting and Unusual Linux Shells https://www.howtogeek.com/interesting-and-unusual-linux-shells/
Sun 01:32:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Turn over a new page." https://www.howtogeek.com/upgrade-your-man-pager-for-better-linux-help/
Sun 01:33:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The beginning of the end of Fire OS." https://www.howtogeek.com/amazons-linux-based-vega-os-finally-arrives-on-the-fire-tv-4k-select/
Sun 01:33:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ openSUSE Leap's First Major Update in 7 Years Has Arrived https://www.howtogeek.com/opensuse-leap-16-released/
Sun 01:34:42 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ why would anyone want to use amazon's trash, though?
Sun 01:35:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): openSUSE Leap 16 Is Now Available for Download with Linux Kernel 6.12 LTS ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/01/openSUSE_Leap_16_Is_Now_Available_for_Download_with_Linux_Kerne.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/01/openSUSE_Leap_16_Is_Now_Available_for_Download_with_Linux_Kerne.gmi ∎
Sun 01:35:10 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] not me
Sun 01:35:14 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and clearly not you, either
Sun 01:35:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Save yourself some time by using these simple commands." https://www.howtogeek.com/how-i-batch-install-all-my-old-apps-when-switching-linux-distros/
Sun 01:37:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ What's at stake? https://www.dw.com/en/taliban-s-internet-shutdown-in-afghanistan-what-s-at-stake/a-74043564
Sun 01:38:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Recent Valnet Articles With Focus on GNU/Linux ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/05/Recent_Valnet_Articles_With_Focus_on_GNU_Linux.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/05/Recent_Valnet_Articles_With_Focus_on_GNU_Linux.gmi ∎
Sun 01:40:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ misinformation surge https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-pakistan-s-hpv-vaccine-campaign-faces-misinformation-surge/a-74151132 https://www.csis.org/blogs/smart-global-health/fake-cia-vaccine-campaign-when-end-doesnt-justify-means
Sun 01:41:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Chimps regularly consume alcohol https://www.dw.com/en/chimps-regularly-consume-alcohol-study-finds/a-74159059
Sun 01:42:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Zurich votes to restrict leaf blowers in pollution row https://www.dw.com/en/zurich-votes-to-restrict-leaf-blowers-in-pollution-row/a-74163808
Sun 01:43:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Coup by skinnerboxes https://www.dw.com/en/nepal-s-gen-z-protesters-look-to-the-future/a-74134471 http://techrights.org/n/2025/09/13/Nepal_Will_Fall_Without_a_Single_Shot_Fired_Thanks_to_Social_Co.shtml
Sun 01:46:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🅸🆁🅲 techpol + social irc ■ Yesterday's #boycottnovell-social and #techpol IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-041025.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-041025.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-social-041025.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-social-041025.txt
Sun 01:47:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – IRC Proceedings: Saturday, October 04, 2025 ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/05/IRC_Proceedings_Saturday_October_04_2025.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/05/IRC_Proceedings_Saturday_October_04_2025.gmi ∎
Sun 01:47:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🅸🆁🅲 techrights irc ■ Yesterday's #techrights IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-041025.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-041025.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techrights-041025.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techrights-041025.txt
Sun 01:48:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🅸🆁🅲 boycottnovell irc ■ Yesterday's #boycottnovell IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-041025.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-041025.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-041025.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-041025.txt
Sun 01:48:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): FSF turns forty with a groundbreaking new project and a new president ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/05/FSF_turns_forty_with_a_groundbreaking_new_project_and_a_new_pre.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/05/FSF_turns_forty_with_a_groundbreaking_new_project_and_a_new_pre.gmi ∎
Sun 01:48:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today in Techrights ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/05/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/05/Today_in_Techrights.gmi ∎
Sun 01:48:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Over at Tux Machines... ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/05/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/05/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi ∎
Sun 01:49:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🅸🆁🅲 techbytes irc ■ Yesterday's #techbytes IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-041025.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-041025.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techbytes-041025.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techbytes-041025.txt
Sun 01:49:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ✩░▒▓▆▅▃▂▁𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍▁▂▃▅▆▓▒░✩ Yesterday's 𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 bulletin is now ready! 🅷🆃🆃🅿: http://techrights.org/txt-archives/techrights-2025-10-04.txt | 🅶🅴🅼🅸🅽🅸 gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/techrights-2025-10-04.txt (tentative address, to work an hour from now)
Sun 01:50:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ✩░▒▓▆▅▃▂▁Tux Machines 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍▁▂▃▅▆▓▒░✩ Yesterday's Tux Machines bulletin is now ready! 🅷🆃🆃🅿: http://news.tuxmachines.org/txt-archives/tuxmachines-2025-10-04.txt
Sun 01:50:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-10-05.gmi
Sun 01:51:03 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ https://ircz.de/p/25061150
Sun 01:51:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [japan] [jp] [photos] gemini://higeki.jp/nikki/2025-10-04.gmi
Sun 01:53:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Links 05/10/2025: Political Leftovers, Climate Change, and Security Incidents ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/05/Links_05_10_2025_Political_Leftovers_Climate_Change_and_Securit.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/05/Links_05_10_2025_Political_Leftovers_Climate_Change_and_Securit.gmi ∎
Sun 02:19:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "too-big-to-care" https://www.gamesradar.com/platforms/xbox/amid-xbox-layoffs-and-a-50-percent-game-pass-price-hike-former-ftc-chair-slams-too-big-to-care-microsofts-activision-blizzard-buyout-thats-harming-both-gamers-and-developers/
Sun 02:21:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Gamers owe Lina Khan an apology after Microsoft price hikes https://ppc.land/gamers-owe-lina-khan-an-apology-after-microsoft-price-hikes/
Sun 02:21:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Ex-FTC chair criticises Microsoft over 50% Game Pass price hike after Activision Blizzard merger https://tribune.com.pk/story/2570602/ex-ftc-chair-criticises-microsoft-over-50-game-pass-price-hike-after-activision-blizzard-merger
Sun 02:21:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Former FTC Chair Fires Shots at Game Pass Price Hike: ‘They Can Make Things Worse’ https://insider-gaming.com/ftc-chair-shots-game-pass-price-hike/
Sun 02:23:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Three volunteers had a lot to say about their extensive work on free software projects. Amin Bandali, a computing scientist, has worked on various programs in the GNU project, EmacsConf, Debian development, Trisquel GNU/Linux distribution contributions, and with the the FSF SysOps team for many years" https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-turns-forty-with-a-new-president-and-a-new-campaign
Sun 02:31:44 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-hallucination-landmarks-tourists
Sun 02:34:22 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://futurism.com/future-society/tesla-xai-staff-fleeing
Sun 02:37:17 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://futurism.com/future-society/elon-musk-china-invest-spacex-military-contractor
Sun 02:38:39 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-friend-startup-overwhelmed-hatred
Sun 02:43:33 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://futurism.com/ai-industry-warns-lawsuit-destroy
Sun 02:48:50 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-shop-cash-grab
Sun 02:52:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Software Patents as a Bubble ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/05/Software_Patents_as_a_Bubble.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/05/Software_Patents_as_a_Bubble.gmi ∎
Sun 02:53:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ influenza https://www.dw.com/en/h3n2-influenza-spreads-rapidly-in-delhi-northern-india/a-74154442
Sun 02:53:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Denmark bans civil drones https://www.dw.com/en/denmark-bans-civil-drones-after-more-sightings/a-74166973
Sun 02:54:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Argentina: Thousands march for women murdered on livestream https://www.dw.com/en/argentina-thousands-march-for-women-murdered-on-livestream/a-74162968
Sun 02:56:26 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ WTF? https://www.informationweek.com/ai-innovations/aids-healthcare-foundation-cio-values-the-personal-touch-of-ai-
Sun 03:05:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – "Bullshit Generators" (What RMS Calls LLMs) and Fake Images Already Target the FSF ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/05/Bullshit_Generators_What_RMS_Calls_LLMs_and_Fake_Images_Already.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/05/Bullshit_Generators_What_RMS_Calls_LLMs_and_Fake_Images_Already.gmi ∎
Sun 03:12:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Tux Machines Loves Software Freedom ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/05/Tux_Machines_Loves_Software_Freedom.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/05/Tux_Machines_Loves_Software_Freedom.gmi ∎
Sun 03:13:43 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/10/04/2142243/microsofts-cto-hopes-to-swap-most-amd-and-nvidia-gpus-for-in-house-chips
Sun 03:14:52 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "MS sez"
Sun 03:14:57 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] slashdot... REPEATS
Sun 03:15:27 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] http://techrights.org/n/2025/02/21/Hype_Watch_Weeks_After_Microsoft_Disappointed_Investors_With_He.shtml
Sun 03:16:28 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.snopes.com/articles/471357/spinach-send-emails/
Sun 03:16:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Bluewashing: "Today marks my last day at Red Hat. Tomorrow I am moving to IBM as part of the Middleware group. I will continue to work on Apache Camel in the same awesome team! Looking forward to that! The end has been a wild ride but it has always been an honor to wear the Red Fedora Hat!" https://x.com/freaky_styley/status/1939749624643797231
Sun 03:17:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "After 17 years I feel that it is time to change things up a bit and for a new challenge. I'm leaving Red Hat and my last day at Red Hat will be October 31st." https://hansdegoede.dreamwidth.org/30910.html
Sun 03:18:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ iophl: This goes against the very nature of social control media which encourages and almost requires that people make as long a chain from the original sources as possible: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/10/01/C2PA-For-Social-Media In contrast, authenticity requires citing the primary source or at most a secondary source should a primary source be unavailable.
Sun 03:21:08 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/10/04/0327256.
Sun 03:25:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): IBM is Changing Fedora and Red Hat for the Worse ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/05/IBM_is_Changing_Fedora_and_Red_Hat_for_the_Worse.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/05/IBM_is_Changing_Fedora_and_Red_Hat_for_the_Worse.gmi ∎
Sun 03:25:30 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] open?
Sun 03:25:34 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] OpenNvidia?
Sun 03:25:39 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] openwashing much?
Sun 03:25:58 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] http://techrights.org/n/2025/07/04/NVidia_is_a_Bubble.shtml
Sun 03:35:33 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=308372&p=3
Sun 03:46:59 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ the shark jumping is free... https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/opera-wants-you-to-pay-1990-per-month-for-its-new-ai-browser/
Sun 03:50:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Linux and the Freedom Paradox ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/05/Linux_and_the_Freedom_Paradox.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/05/Linux_and_the_Freedom_Paradox.gmi ∎
Sun 03:56:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Autoformatters that remove linefeeds are utter trash that should get nuked out of the universe." https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoronix-articles/1582335-linus-torvalds-vents-over-completely-crazy-rust-format-checking
Sun 04:00:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ This one says GitHub https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/02/cybercrims_claim_raid_on_28000/ same site later says GitLAB. Does The Register MS KNOW THE DIFFERENCE??? https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/03/red_hat_gitlab_breach/?td=keepreading
Sun 04:10:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – The Register MS Does Not Know the Difference Between Microsoft GitHub and GitLab ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/05/The_Register_MS_Does_Not_Know_the_Difference_Between_Microsoft_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/05/The_Register_MS_Does_Not_Know_the_Difference_Between_Microsoft_.gmi ∎
Sun 04:10:58 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] decided it was worth QUICK post
Sun 04:11:12 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they like to belittle "blogs" like ours
Sun 04:11:15 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] for being wrong on facts
Sun 04:11:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but.
Sun 04:11:23 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it's them who get simple facts wrong
Sun 04:11:28 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and WILL NOT correct them
Sun 04:11:55 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ who?
Sun 04:12:00 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] El Regf
Sun 04:12:05 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] *Reg
Sun 04:13:19 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ ah
Sun 04:14:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Bubble targets LOW wages https://www.dw.com/en/nvidia-s-armenian-ai-factory-to-boost-local-tech-talent-and-opportunities/a-74174869 http://techrights.org/n/2025/07/04/NVidia_is_a_Bubble.shtml
Sun 04:15:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "help from AI" is a lie; it's a cut due to income problems https://www.dw.com/en/lufthansa-to-shed-4-000-jobs-with-help-from-ai/a-74173278
Sun 04:16:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How a gloomy German loaf of bread went viral in the US https://www.dw.com/en/how-a-gloomy-german-loaf-of-bread-went-viral-in-the-us/a-74177114
Sun 04:16:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ FIFPRO https://www.dw.com/en/fifpro-risk-to-player-health-rising-ahead-of-2026-world-cup/a-74148515
Sun 04:17:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Environmental damage threatens prosperity in Europe https://www.dw.com/en/environmental-damage-threatens-prosperity-in-europe/a-74175943
Sun 04:18:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Does Germany champion animal protection? https://www.dw.com/en/world-animal-day-does-germany-champion-animal-protection/a-74185608
Sun 04:21:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ FSF chose a platform for videos that is NOT compatible with Falkon, hence BLOCKED. How many OTHER browsers are NOT supported? https://framatube.org/c/fsf_channel/videos
Sun 04:21:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ This one is a lot simpler and better https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/
Sun 04:24:56 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] lxo: will the steam be uploaded to https://framatube.org/c/fsf_channel/videos ?
Sun 04:26:42 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] *stream
Sun 04:28:30 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i can edit http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/05/FSF_s_Anniversary_Party_Will_Hopefully_be_Uploaded_to_PeerTube.shtml when i get a firmer answer
Sun 04:28:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): FSF's Anniversary Party Will Hopefully be Uploaded to PeerTube ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/05/FSF_s_Anniversary_Party_Will_Hopefully_be_Uploaded_to_PeerTube.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/05/FSF_s_Anniversary_Party_Will_Hopefully_be_Uploaded_to_PeerTube.gmi ∎
Sun 04:34:55 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://thelounge.chat/docs
Sun 04:35:11 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] is prawnsalad's code reused
Sun 04:35:22 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] iirc, andrew lee funded his work
Sun 04:35:25 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] pn kiwiirc
Sun 04:44:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – The Free Software Foundation's Livestream Has Ended, Video/s Might be Online Next ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/05/The_Free_Software_Foundation_s_Livestream_Has_Ended_Video_s_Mig.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/05/The_Free_Software_Foundation_s_Livestream_Has_Ended_Video_s_Mig.gmi ∎
Sun 04:51:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "If you're unhappy with Microsoft, you're not the only one." https://mashable.com/article/xbox-game-pass-price-hike-how-to-cancel
Sun 04:51:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ LinkedIn down almost 5% https://www.similarweb.com/website/linkedin.com/#ranking
Sun 04:53:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "TCS layoffs: Techies share humiliation and hopelessness on social media as India's biggest IT company announces job cuts"
Sun 05:25:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Agate (or AGate) is 5 This Year, It's Running Our Gemini Capsule ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/05/Agate_or_AGate_is_5_This_Year_It_s_Running_Our_Gemini_Capsule.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/05/Agate_or_AGate_is_5_This_Year_It_s_Running_Our_Gemini_Capsule.gmi ∎
Sun 05:37:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Don't Use YouTube, Use inv.nadeko.net Instead (to Access YouTube Videos Without All the Nasty Parts of YouTube) ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/05/Don_t_Use_YouTube_Use_inv_nadeko_net_Instead_to_Access_YouTube_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/05/Don_t_Use_YouTube_Use_inv_nadeko_net_Instead_to_Access_YouTube_.gmi ∎
Sun 09:36:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "when you onboard to Sora" ☛ https://blog.davemo.com/posts/2025-10-03-sora-bugs.html |
Sun 09:37:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "As I rail against The Internet, I have to remind myself that people wanted it. I wanted it." ☛ https://idiomdrottning.org/our_hardearned_dystopia | Source: Idiomdrottning
Sun 09:37:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "YouTube, which is also a unit of Alphabet, will also offer NBCUniversal's Peacock streaming service through its Primetime Channels" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/google-nbcuniversal-reach-agreement-to-keep-shows-on-youtube-tv/articleshow/124280881.cms | Source: India Times
Sun 09:37:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The Verge reached out to a number of artists and labels who had removed their music from Spotify" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/report/791593/daniel-ek-stepping-down-changes-nothing-for-artists-boycotting-spotify | Source: The Verge
Sun 09:39:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "" ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/10/weekend-minimum-wage-unemployment-child-labor/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine
Sun 09:39:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Antoni Lallican, 37, was embedded with Ukraine's Fourth Armored Brigade near the front line in the Donbas region when he was killed in a drone attack on the area" ☛ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/10/04/macron-blames-russia-as-drone-kills-french-photojournalist-in-ukraine-a90718 | Source: The Moscow Times
Sun 09:40:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It seems to me that, like all products, the question is: what do you actually get from it?" ☛ https://werd.io/dont-dwell-on-democracy-and-other-new-findings-about-how-to-market-local-news/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller
Sun 09:40:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Setting aside how this is a much more extreme case, wasn’t the whole radicalizing force behind the rightward shift of people like Rogan and Zuckerberg that the federal government was suggesting tech platforms moderate legal speech?" ☛ https://birchtree.me/blog/thank-you-sir-can-i-have-another/ | Source: Matt Birchler
Sun 09:41:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never the right move" ☛ https://www.404media.co/iceblock-owner-after-apple-removes-app-we-are-determined-to-fight-this/ | Source: 404 Media
Sun 09:42:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The tech giant confirmed it had removed ICEBlock and other similar software from its App Store at the direction of Attorney General Pam Bondi" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/03/apple_iceblock/ | Source: The Register UK
Sun 09:54:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "But now we have an actual, crystal-clear example of government officials using direct threats to pressure a tech company into removing disfavored speech—and suddenly, the free speech warriors have gone mysteriously quiet." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/03/doj-demands-removal-of-iceblock-app-why-are-the-free-speech-warriors-suddenly-so-quiet/ | Source: Techdirt
Sun 09:55:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Georgian police cracked down on protesters with water cannons and pepper spray the evening of Oct. 4 as activists attempted to break into the presidential palace in Tbilisi." ☛ https://kyivindependent.com/georgian-police-crack-down-on-protesters-as-thousands-march-on-presidential-palace/ | Source: The Kyiv Independent
Sun 09:56:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Their aim was to revitalize daily demonstrations that began last year following alleged violations in parliamentary elections and a subsequent government decision to halt talks on joining the European Union." ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/georgia-protests-police-election-clashes/33549697.html | Source: RFERL
Sun 09:56:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The opposition also criticized what it saw as the government's growing Russia-friendly policies." ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/georgia-protests-arrests-election-burchuladze-kobakhidze/33550089.html | Source: RFERL
Sun 09:58:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "In a nutshell: the states have total power over their affairs, except where the Constitution says otherwise." ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/04/fiscal-antifa/#post-trump | Source: CoryDoctorow
Sun 09:58:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It doesn’t have to be that way. We can have private right of action without statutory damages for bugs, bullshit, or failing to hire the right compliance consultant." ☛ https://blog.zgp.org/private-right-of-action/ | Source: Don Marti
Sun 09:58:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "An Act to Prevent Pernicious Political Activities." ☛ https://doc.searls.com/2025/10/03/questions-of-law-not-politics/ | Source: Doc Searls
Sun 10:01:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Few problems have been detected with EVs’ electrical technology" ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20186654 | Source: YLE
Sun 10:02:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "reveals an enormous gap in quality between brand-name batteries and low-cost cells" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/784966/lumafield-x-ray-ct-scan-lithium-ion-battery-risks-manufacturing-defect | Source: The Verge
Sun 10:02:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I’m not blaming the tech, it is a miracle I will never take for granted." ☛ https://blog.jonudell.net/2025/10/04/maps-old-and-new/ | Source: Jon Udell
Sun 10:08:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Old millennials like me, and those of you who grew up with battery-operated toys and devices, know instinctively what these barrel batteries are. They’re: [...]" ☛ https://rubenerd.com/younger-people-and-aa-batteries/ | Source: Ruben Schade
Sun 10:08:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The US has a particularly chaotic energy system. How much people pay to light their homes, stay warm, and get around varies a lot from state to state and even among neighbors." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/power-bills-in-the-us-are-soaring-and-will-rise-further-still/ | Source: Wired
Sun 10:08:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "However, even if we can make putting bit barns in orbit economical, there is no shortage of challenges to overcome. Datacenters are massively complex facilities." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/03/bezos_space_dcs/ | Source: The Register UK
Sun 10:09:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The Maserati Boomerang is one of the most striking concept cars of the 1970s, a radical design that pushed the boundaries of automotive styling." ☛ https://www.vintag.es/2025/10/maserati-boomerang.html | Source: Vintage Everyday
Sun 10:10:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A very granular Bloomberg analysis of wholesale electricity prices across the country paints a picture of doubled wholesale prices and soaring consumer costs over the past five years" ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-data-centers-electricity-bills | Source: Futurism
Sun 10:11:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Renewables – a combination of solar PV, wind, hydro and biomass – overtook coal on a monthly basis for the first time in September, according to a leading energy analyst." ☛ https://reneweconomy.com.au/renewables-overtake-coal-for-first-time-on-monthly-basis-in-australias-main-grid/ |
Sun 10:12:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The march of the energy transition is a long one, but it has to start somewhere. And with this approach, China has already taken quite a few steps." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/china-clean-energy-un-climate-summit-goals/ | Source: Wired
Sun 10:13:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Her popular book, In the Shadow of Man, an account of her early years at Gombe, was published in 1971 and became an international bestseller." ☛ https://www.vintag.es/2025/10/young-jane-goodall.html | Source: Vintage Everyday
Sun 10:14:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The cuts are likely to affect battery plants, hydrogen technology projects, upgrades to the electric grid and carbon-capture efforts" ☛ https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/energy-business/policy-and-regulation/trump-administration-cuts-nearly-8b-in-clean-energy-projects-in-states-that-backed-harris/ | Source: Renewable Energy World
Sun 10:23:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "On Tuesday, Donald Trump stood in front of more than 800 generals and admirals in the U.S. military and informed them of their new enemy: their fellow Americans." ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-npsm-7-memo-crackdown-opposition-1235440530/ | Source: Rolling Stone
Sun 10:24:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Let us be clear about what’s happening here: the federal government is announcing it will use immigration enforcement as a tool of cultural intimidation." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/bad-bunny | Source: Mike Brock
Sun 10:25:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The Trump administration ordered National Guard troops — not the 82nd Airborne — to Portland this week." ☛ https://www.startribune.com/trump-officials-discussed-sending-elite-army-division-to-portland-text-messages-show/601485729 | Source: Star Tribune
Sun 10:26:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "LinkedIn has been sued by Premium customers who said the business-focused social media platform disclosed their private messages to third parties without permission to train generative artificial intelligence models." ☛ https://www.reuters.com/legal/microsofts-linkedin-sued-disclosing-customer-information-train-ai-models-2025-01-22/ | Source: Reuters
Sun 10:27:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Eric Lai, a Senior Fellow at the Georgetown Center for Asian Law" ☛ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/10/04/hong-kong-to-install-surveillance-cameras-with-ai-facial-recognition/ | Source: Hong Kong Free Press
Sun 10:27:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Windows TCO ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/03/asahi_beer_attack/ | Source: The Register UK
Sun 10:28:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "change the global Internet conversation for the better, by making it harder for liars to lie and easier for truth-tellers to be believed." ☛ https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/10/01/C2PA-For-Social-Media | Source: Tim Bray
Sun 10:29:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It’s the latest in a wave of youth discontent rolling across continents." ☛ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/2025/1003/gen-z-protest-one-piece-global | Source: CS Monitor
Sun 10:29:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Theories behind the increase range from bullying on social media, since Gen Z was the first generation to grow up with the internet [sic], to economic despair, to cultural resistance to seeking help for depression" ☛ https://mainemorningstar.com/2025/10/04/repub/suicide-claims-more-gen-z-lives-than-previous-generation/ | Source: Maine Morning Star
Sun 10:31:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "At present, both apps offer a chronological timeline, but the feature is hidden and cannot be made the default. The court said this undermines the autonomy promised by the DSA." ☛ https://www.dutchnews.nl/2025/10/court-tells-meta-to-give-dutch-users-algorithm-free-feed-option/ | Source: Dutch News
Sun 10:32:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A Dutch court on Thursday ordered Meta Platforms (META.O) , opens new tab to provide Facebook and Instagram users with simpler options for a timeline that does not rely on profiling." ☛ https://www.reuters.com/technology/dutch-court-orders-meta-change-facebook-instagram-timeline-settings-2025-10-02/ | Source: Reuters
Sun 10:32:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The court gave Meta two weeks to ensure users have access to a different timeline — for example in chronological order — if they wish." ☛ https://www.courthousenews.com/meta-must-ease-access-to-non-profiled-timeline-dutch-court/ | Source: Court House News
Sun 10:35:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The decision comes in response to a lawsuit filed by the Dutch nonprofit Bits of Freedom, which argued that by controlling users’ feeds Meta has been improperly skewing what news consumers receive." ☛ https://therecord.media/dutch-court-meta-violated-european-law-social-feeds | Source: The Record
Sun 10:35:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Moldova’s recent parliamentary election was widely billed as a straight choice between rival European and Russian trajectories, with the Kremlin accused of unprecedented interference in a bid to sway the vote in Moscow’s favor." ☛ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/putins-moldova-election-failure-highlights-russias-declining-influence/ | Source: Atlantic Council
Sun 10:36:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It’s safe to say that Norwood’s image has gone viral over the past week, more so out of panic and scrutiny than genuine interest in her as a future Hollywood commodity." ☛ https://www.vox.com/culture/463825/tilly-norwood-hollywood-ai-generated-actress-sag-meta-openai | Source: Vox
Sun 10:36:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The problem is finding enough quality data, according to Neema Raphael, Goldman Sachs' chief data officer and head of data engineering. Some developers may be resorting to synthetic data or training models on the output of existing AI systems." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/03/ai_training_requires_more_data/ | Source: The Register UK
Sun 10:37:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The stunt, which uses Snapchat's AI features, aims to trick parents into believing a homeless person has broken into their home, leading to real-world panic" ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ai-homeless-man-challenge-sparks-outrage-police-called-over-dangerous-viral-trend-1746441 | Source: International Business Times
Sun 10:48:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Now, Cassidy, you’re being a bit strict with these AI tools, these are pretty dang close. One might say, even, that they are okay." ☛ https://cassidoo.co/post/moose-go-park-boba-ai/ | Source: Cassidy Williams
Sun 10:48:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "You switch this on in YouTube Labs, if you’re one of the lucky few selected users." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/10/03/youtubes-ai-dj-interrupts-your-paid-ad-free-music/ | Source: Pivot to AI
Sun 10:49:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The main caveat with free Xbox Cloud Gaming will be the presence of ads" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/cloud-gaming/microsoft-reportedly-mulls-ad-infested-free-xbox-cloud-gaming-plan-game-pass-ultimate-subscriber-allegedly-catches-ad-during-game-loading | Source: Tom's Hardware
Sun 10:49:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Install Zoom on Debian. Does not really need a blog post, but I did it, so why not? Really all you need is: [...]" ☛ https://darrengoossens.wordpress.com/2025/10/05/zoom-on-debian/ | Source: Darren Goossens
Sun 10:56:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "As the leafy patch begins to expand, growers remove smaller pumpkins so all the water and nutrients funnel into a single fruit." ☛ https://www.usnews.com/news/news/articles/2025-10-04/how-to-grow-a-giant-pumpkin-with-help-from-science | Source: US News And World Report
Sun 10:57:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It's becoming more and more clear that the obsession with eating meat and dairy products and eggs is totally destroying the environment. It's creating methane, it's wasting water, and it's bad for our health." ☛ https://www.aarp.org/health/healthy-living/jane-goodall-meatless-recipes/ |
Sun 10:58:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "What we could call "familiarity-driven design" is a thing, and it can even be a confining thing, one where you shape your problems to conform to the tools you already know." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/UsingSystemsYouKnow | Source: University of Toronto
Sun 10:59:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The easiest way is to actively work to make a high-profile project successful." ☛ https://www.seangoedecke.com/how-to-influence-politics/ | Source: Sean Goedecke
Sun 10:59:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It’s a powerful tool that will change how you communicate — forever." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/merriam-websters-ai-model | Source: Futurism
Sun 11:02:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The Face Lab team digitally “peeled back” the masks to reveal the face and used CT X-ray scans to capture 3D images of it." ☛ https://interestingengineering.com/science/colombian-mummies-faces-reconstructed-new-method | Source: Interesting Engineering
Sun 11:03:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "We even love them so much that we’ve dedicated a special day to honor this delicious pastry: Kanelbullens dag (Cinnamon Bun Day). And that day is today! 😋" ☛ https://birming.com/2025/10/04/happy-cinnamon-bun-day/ | Source: Robert Birming
Sun 11:03:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "He asked me to explain how we got here. That conversation became this essay." ☛ https://alfy.blog/2025/10/04/how-functional-programming-shaped-modern-frontend.html | Source: Ahmad Alfy
Sun 11:03:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "These players know the significance of it all: they — like Oakland — have something to prove. " ☛ https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2025/10/04/a-parade-in-oakland/ | Source: Bryan Cantrill
Sun 11:04:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Xnet is a network of specialists and activists that proposes advanced solutions in different fields related to digital rights and updating democracy to the 21st century such as Digital Rights, Privacy, Data, AI and NetNeutrality; Freedom of expression and information vs fake news" https://xnet-x.net/en/who-we-are/
Sun 11:09:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Links 05/10/2025: Lufthansa Layoffs (4,000) and More Spotify Woes (Aside From Massive Debt) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/05/Links_05_10_2025_Lufthansa_Layoffs_4_000_and_More_Spotify_Woes_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/05/Links_05_10_2025_Lufthansa_Layoffs_4_000_and_More_Spotify_Woes_.gmi ∎
Sun 11:46:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The problem in a nutshell." ☛ https://blog.cr.yp.to/20251004-weakened.html | Source: DJ Bernstein
Sun 11:47:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A great systems-oriented programming language I’ve taken up to complement Python due to its ability to cross-compile" ☛ https://taoofmac.com/space/dev/golang | Source: Rui Carmo
Sun 11:47:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Write a script to return the total words in the given sentence can be typed completely." ☛ https://raku-musings.com/reverse-broken-again.html | Source: Arne Sommer
Sun 11:48:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Given that diversity, is there some kind of map of the cliff face that we can give a young software engineer to know what “getting better” can look like for them?" ☛ https://madhadron.com/getting_better_at_programming.html | Source: Frederick J Ross
Sun 11:48:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "In the first part of this article, I focused on the algorithm itself, removing parts I wouldn’t use (like color), making it simpler, less loopy, etc. This yielded a ten-times improvement on a modern architecture" ☛ https://www.colino.net/wordpress/en/archives/2025/10/03/optimizing-a-6502-image-decoder-part-ii-assembly/ | Source: Colin Leroy-Mira
Sun 11:48:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "My recent posts have been diving deep into Zig and C, a shift from my earlier focus on React and JavaScript." ☛ https://dayvster.com/blog/is-odin-just-a-more-boring-c/ | Source: Dayvi Schuster
Sun 11:49:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Because I am an idiot, I finished the fun one yesterday and still have about half the tedious one left." ☛ https://jasper.tandy.is/blogging/the-blue-door | Source: Jasper Tandy
Sun 11:49:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Version 0.120 of Game of Trees has been released (and the port updated): [...]" ☛ https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20251004112732 | Source: Undeadly
Sun 11:50:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Open Data ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/50-year-old-data-reveals-venuss-clouds-are-mostly-water | Source: Science Alert
Sun 11:50:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "That’s as far as I can take that Outkast song. I upgraded to Hugo v0.150.1 and thought I fixed all the breaking changes but I was wrong" ☛ https://brainbaking.com/post/2025/10/im-sorry-rss-subscribers/ | Source: Wouter Groeneveld
Sun 11:51:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Parquet is excellent for analytical workloads. Columnar layout, aggressive compression, predicate pushdown, but deletes require rewriting entire files." ☛ https://www.shayon.dev/post/2025/277/an-mvcc-like-columnar-table-on-s3-with-constant-time-deletes/ | Source: Shayon Mukherjee
Sun 11:51:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "ARM development board to begin with that was upgraded to a very reasonably performing quad-core CPU" ☛ https://taoofmac.com/space/hw/raspberry_pi | Source: Rui Carmo
Sun 11:52:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "2025 list of “healthy” hardcore distros in alphabetical order with date/activity indicator (xxx)" ☛ https://sysdfree.wordpress.com/2025/10/04/363/ | Source: Systemd Free
Sun 11:53:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A RAM disk exactly what it sounds like: using a portion of a computer's RAM as a disk." ☛ https://www.datagubbe.se/ramdisk/ | Source: Carl Svensson
Sun 11:53:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I still see this mentioned on forums and YouTube videos today." ☛ https://pointieststick.com/2025/10/04/a-mac-like-experience-on-linux/ | Source: Nate Graham
Sun 11:56:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "PAM (Pluggable Authentication Module) is the most reliable, low-friction way to fire a hook exactly when an SSH session opens (and closes)." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/how-to-get-notified-on-ssh-logins-on-linux/ | Source: Linuxiac
Sun 11:56:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A few weeks ago I experimented with VNET jails and Netgraph, and noticed that one of my FreeBSD 14.3 VMs kept kernel panicking" ☛ https://www.subnetspider.com/2025/10/04/netgraph-crash-with-vtnet-workaround.html | Source: Subnetspider
Sun 11:56:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "For more information, visit the announcement." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/wine-10-16-brings-fast-ntsync-support/ | Source: Linuxiac
Sun 11:57:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The Deportation Of Mario Guevara Is Chilling For Journalism" ☛ https://thedissenter.org/the-deportation-of-mario-guevara-is-chilling-for-journalism/ | Source: The Dissenter
Sun 11:59:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The week we all do something about chat control | "KW 40: Die Woche, in wir alle etwas gegen die Chatkontrolle tun" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=https://netzpolitik.org/2025/kw-40-die-woche-in-wir-alle-etwas-gegen-die-chatkontrolle-tun/
Sun 11:59:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Air filters have DRM now 🤦♂️" https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/air-filters-have-drm-now-%F0%9F%A4%A6%E2%80%8D%E2%99%82%EF%B8%8F:a
Sun 11:59:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "UK government wants access to your iCloud." https://odysee.com/@davidbombal:0/uk-government-wants-access-to-your:a https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/08/Unlike_GAFAM_Free_Software_Serves_You_It_Does_Not_Serve_Governm.shtml
Sun 11:59:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "UK Age Checks Just Blocked Imgur" https://odysee.com/@davidbombal:0/uk-age-checks-just-blocked-imgur:c
Sun 12:03:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Top 10 Things To Do After Installing Debian 13 ☞ https://www.linuxtechi.com/top-things-to-do-after-installing-debian/
Sun 12:04:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install Ntopng on Debian 13 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-ntopng-debian-13/
Sun 12:04:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install phpMyAdmin on Debian 13 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-phpmyadmin-debian-13/
Sun 12:05:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Most Certificates Don't Improve Security, They Mostly Increase Downtime (for No Good Reason) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/04/Most_Certificates_Don_t_Improve_Security_They_Mostly_Increase_D.shtml
Sun 12:05:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install Grafana on Linux Mint 22 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-grafana-linux-mint-22/
Sun 12:06:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How to Get Notified on SSH Logins on GNU/Linux ☞ https://linuxiac.com/how-to-get-notified-on-ssh-logins-on-linux/
Sun 12:06:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install Geany on Linux Mint 22 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-geany-linux-mint-22/
Sun 12:07:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install Zsh on Debian 13 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-zsh-debian-13/
Sun 12:07:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Enable SSH Login Alerts on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ☞ https://idroot.us/enable-ssh-login-alerts-ubuntu-24-04/
Sun 12:08:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Custom LCDs ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/04/how-to-design-custom-lcds-for-your-own-projects/ | Source: Hackaday
Sun 12:08:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ A Mac-like experience on GNU/Linux ☞ https://pointieststick.com/2025/10/04/a-mac-like-experience-on-linux/
Sun 12:09:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Wine 10.16 Brings Fast NTSync Support ☞ https://linuxiac.com/wine-10-16-brings-fast-ntsync-support/
Sun 12:12:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 2025 hardcore list of 21 linux distributions without elogind and other systemd parts ☞ https://sysdfree.wordpress.com/2025/10/04/363/
Sun 12:13:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 50-Year-Old Data Reveals Venus's Clouds Are Mostly Water ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/50-year-old-data-reveals-venuss-clouds-are-mostly-water
Sun 12:14:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ You Are Not Prepared for Merriam-Webster’s Announcement of Its New Hey Hi (AI) Model ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/merriam-websters-ai-model
Sun 12:15:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Microsoft reportedly mulls ad-infested free Xbox Cloud Gaming plan — Game Pass Ultimate subscriber allegedly catches ad during game loading ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/cloud-gaming/microsoft-reportedly-mulls-ad-infested-free-xbox-cloud-gaming-plan-game-pass-ultimate-subscriber-allegedly-catches-ad-during-game-loading
Sun 12:15:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Putin’s Moldova election failure highlights Russia’s declining influence ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/putins-moldova-election-failure-highlights-russias-declining-influence/
Sun 12:16:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ AI Data Centers Are Skyrocketing Regular People’s Energy Bills ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-data-centers-electricity-bills
Sun 12:17:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Younger people and AA batteries ☞ https://rubenerd.com/younger-people-and-aa-batteries/
Sun 12:18:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Pluralistic: Blue Bonds (04 Oct 2025) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/04/fiscal-antifa/
Sun 12:20:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "In general I love reading stuff from the internet but refuse to do it with a computer or a phone"☞ https://macwright.com/2025/10/04/recently.html
Sun 12:21:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ August/September in KDE Itinerary ☞ https://www.volkerkrause.eu/2025/10/04/kde-itinerary-august-september-2025.html
Sun 12:25:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 40 Years of Freedom ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/05/40_Years_of_Freedom.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/05/40_Years_of_Freedom.gmi ∎
Sun 12:26:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Simon Ser: Announcing vali, a C library for Varlink ☞ https://emersion.fr/blog/2025/announcing-vali/
Sun 12:28:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Kevin Fenzi: infra weekly recap: Early October 2025 ☞ https://www.scrye.com/blogs/nirik/posts/2025/10/04/infra-weekly-recap-early-october-2025/
Sun 12:33:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ FreeBSD 15.0-ALPHA5 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/freebsd https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-stable/2025-October/ https://download.freebsd.org/snapshots/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/15.0/
Sun 12:34:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Crazy Surveillance Giant Google Japan keyboard design switches keys for dials — the Gboard Dial Edition shows why the software team isn't allowed to design hardware ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/keyboards/crazy-google-japan-keyboard-design-switches-keys-for-dials-the-gboard-dial-edition-shows-why-the-software-team-isnt-allowed-to-design-hardware
Sun 12:36:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The only people who will make money on AI are the few that build the best and get there first. That leaves IBM in the trashcan. Unlike oil companies that buy up nimble new start-up with a new well head or ground analyzing software, IBM has no one to buy. They don't have much of a future in this. Coming in 3rd or 7th will bankrupt you. Their fate is sealed." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k6m1hv5s
Sun 12:38:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Massive Xbox Layoffs Expected Again in Q1 2026, Likely as Big as the Last Round https://tech4gamers.com/xbox-layoffs-expected-q1-2026/
Sun 12:38:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Hahahahaha https://www.eteknix.com/microsoft-reportedly-considering-turning-xbox-into-a-full-time-publisher/
Sun 12:39:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Next-Gen Xbox Hardware Plans Are Allegedly “Up In The Air”, More Retailers To Stop Selling Xbox Consoles https://twistedvoxel.com/next-gen-xbox-hardware-plans-up-in-the-air/
Sun 12:40:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ RUMOR: ‘The Future of Xbox is Software Publishing’ as Next Console Generation Faces Doubts https://insider-gaming.com/future-of-xbox-software-publishing-next-console-doubt/
Sun 12:41:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Microsoft Xbox could be dead: rumors suggest 'hardware production has ceased' on Xbox consoles https://www.tweaktown.com/news/108067/microsoft-xbox-could-be-dead-rumors-suggest-hardware-production-has-ceased-on-xbox-consoles/index.html
Sun 12:42:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Several Insiders Claim Next-Gen Xbox Console Is "Up In The Air" https://www.thegamer.com/xbox-next-gen-console-might-not-happen/
Sun 12:56:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Microsoft XBox is Dying as More Retailers Stop Stocking It and Massive Layoffs Planned Again ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/05/Microsoft_XBox_is_Dying_as_More_Retailers_Stop_Stocking_It_and_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/05/Microsoft_XBox_is_Dying_as_More_Retailers_Stop_Stocking_It_and_.gmi ∎
Sun 13:05:38 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] gmnisrdThe Wind
Sun 13:23:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): A Mac-like experience on Linux ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/05/A_Mac_like_experience_on_Linux.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/05/A_Mac_like_experience_on_Linux.gmi ∎
Sun 13:33:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – We'll Continue Covering the Moribund OSI and Other Dysfunctional if Not Hostile Institutions ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/05/We_ll_Continue_Covering_the_Moribund_OSI_and_Other_Dysfunctiona.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/05/We_ll_Continue_Covering_the_Moribund_OSI_and_Other_Dysfunctiona.gmi ∎
Sun 13:35:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Best Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/05/Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Software_howtos_and_Installations.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/05/Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Software_howtos_and_Installations.gmi ∎
Sun 13:37:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Serial And UPDI Handled Together With One Convenient Circuit ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/04/serial-and-updi-handled-together-with-one-convenient-circuit/ | Source: Hackaday
Sun 13:38:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Classic Snake game now playable in your browser URL address bar — JavaScript remake uses Unicode Braille characters to render the game ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/classic-snake-game-now-playable-in-your-browser-url-address-bar-javascript-remake-uses-unicode-braille-characters-to-render-the-game
Sun 13:48:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Techrights' Text Version (Daily Bulletin) Turns Five This Month ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/05/Techrights_Text_Version_Daily_Bulletin_Turns_Five_This_Month.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/05/Techrights_Text_Version_Daily_Bulletin_Turns_Five_This_Month.gmi ∎
Sun 13:51:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 4 Linux kernel tweaks I made that actually improved performance ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/05/4_Linux_kernel_tweaks_I_made_that_actually_improved_performance.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/05/4_Linux_kernel_tweaks_I_made_that_actually_improved_performance.gmi ∎
Sun 13:55:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Vicinae is basically Raycast for Linux, and it's (almost) everything I wanted ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/05/Vicinae_is_basically_Raycast_for_Linux_and_it_s_almost_everythi.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/05/Vicinae_is_basically_Raycast_for_Linux_and_it_s_almost_everythi.gmi ∎
Sun 14:01:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Where Tux Machines 'Lives' ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/05/Where_Tux_Machines_Lives.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/05/Where_Tux_Machines_Lives.gmi ∎
Sun 14:08:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Motivational Small Place to Run Large Sites ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/05/Motivational_Small_Place_to_Run_Large_Sites.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/05/Motivational_Small_Place_to_Run_Large_Sites.gmi ∎
Sun 14:23:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Free Software Foundation at 40 (FSF40) Hackathon Starts in 1.5 Months ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/05/Free_Software_Foundation_at_40_FSF40_Hackathon_Starts_in_1_5_Mo.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/05/Free_Software_Foundation_at_40_FSF40_Hackathon_Starts_in_1_5_Mo.gmi ∎
Sun 14:32:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Self-demolished by siding with Novell, de Icaza and Microsoft while helping the anti-RMS mobs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Waugh
Sun 14:39:37 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ https://crzysdrs.net/dv/victim/237-im-addicted-to-teamfortress-hallucinogen-grenades/
Sun 14:40:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴: Google Android Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/05/Android_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/05/Android_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Sun 14:45:35 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] </a>Small
Sun 14:45:43 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] wrong window, sorry
Sun 14:51:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Controlling Our Computing for Another Forty Years ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/05/Controlling_Our_Computing_for_Another_Forty_Years.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/05/Controlling_Our_Computing_for_Another_Forty_Years.gmi ∎
Sun 15:06:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Mozilla: Throw Away Your "Old" PC and Enable "Digital Rights Management (DRM)" ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/05/Mozilla_Throw_Away_Your_Old_PC_and_Enable_Digital_Rights_Manage.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/05/Mozilla_Throw_Away_Your_Old_PC_and_Enable_Digital_Rights_Manage.gmi ∎
Sun 15:36:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Chat Control 2 Them, Not 2 U ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/05/Chat_Control_2_Them_Not_2_U.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/05/Chat_Control_2_Them_Not_2_U.gmi ∎
Sun 15:51:16 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/date-2
Sun 16:01:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – The Fortieth Birthday of the FSF Made Us Extremely Happy ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/05/The_Fortieth_Birthday_of_the_FSF_Made_Us_Extremely_Happy.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/05/The_Fortieth_Birthday_of_the_FSF_Made_Us_Extremely_Happy.gmi ∎
Sun 16:03:28 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] lxo re https://www.fsf.org/about/staff-and-board/
Sun 16:03:43 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] is Geoffrey Knauth not a voting member?
Sun 16:03:52 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] or is that a slip-up?
Sun 16:31:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – #HowTo Tell Your Community, Project or Company is Being Infiltrated by Saboteurs ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/05/How_to_Tell_Your_Community_Project_or_Company_is_Being_Infiltra.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/05/How_to_Tell_Your_Community_Project_or_Company_is_Being_Infiltra.gmi ∎
Sun 16:35:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Dead site. Microsoft site. https://devclass.com/
Sun 16:36:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Quantumspam from IBM ahead of the next wave of RAs https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k6m1hv5s informative comments on IBM
Sun 16:46:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – More Than "Just a Rumour": XBox Seems to Have Just Died ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/05/More_Than_Just_a_Rumour_XBox_Seems_to_Have_Just_Died.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/05/More_Than_Just_a_Rumour_XBox_Seems_to_Have_Just_Died.gmi ∎
Sun 16:50:51 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ (cat) (audio:important) https://apina.biz/204936.mp4?mode=sfw
Sun 16:51:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Intel NPU Linux Driver 1.24 released with Android support, hints at Android for PC https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-npu-linux-driver-1-24-released-with-android-support-hints-at-android-for-pc
Sun 16:52:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Those can be run under GNU/Linux too https://www.xda-developers.com/5-windows-apps-that-stop-me-from-switching-to-linux/
Sun 16:52:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Switching from the operating system you've used all your life can be scary. It's a whole new paradigm to get used to, and in the case of Linux compared to Windows, there are a ton of apps you may be used to that don't have Linux versions." https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-apps-windows-refugees-need-know-about/
Sun 16:56:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [cat] [Japan] gemini://higeki.jp/nikki/2025-10-05.gmi
Sun 16:58:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Felienne Hermans — _The Programmer’s Brain_ gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/reviews/books/hermans--the-programmers-brain/
Sun 16:59:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I’m reminded of “if you never miss a flight, you’re spending too much time in airports”: [...]" gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/reviews/books/wrangel--always-with-honor/
Sun 17:00:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🔤SpellBinding: BDGNRYU Wordo: UDDER gemini://spell.ddns.net/games/gemlog/2025-10-05.gmi
Sun 17:01:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "My personal experience has been that my patience and tolerance to things I find annoying diminish when I'm not talking face to face with the other person" gemini://sotiris.papatheodorou.xyz/gemlog/20251005_re_meat_space_vs_meet_space.gmi
Sun 17:01:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A connection is closed! And nobody knows why! There are many reasons this may be the case. Obtaining a packet trace (with tcpdump, or equivalent) ideally on both sides of the connection is a good thing to do." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2025/10/05/telnet-debugging.gmi
Sun 17:13:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Gemini Links 05/10/2025: Telnet Debugging and The Programmer’s Brain ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/05/Gemini_Links_05_10_2025_Telnet_Debugging_and_The_Programmer_s_B.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/05/Gemini_Links_05_10_2025_Telnet_Debugging_and_The_Programmer_s_B.gmi ∎
Sun 17:17:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Introducing KRetro: a Libretro game emulator from KDE! (Alpha Release) ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/05/Introducing_KRetro_a_Libretro_game_emulator_from_KDE_Alpha_Rele.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/05/Introducing_KRetro_a_Libretro_game_emulator_from_KDE_Alpha_Rele.gmi ∎
Sun 17:19:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): KPhotoAlbum 6.1.0 released ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/05/KPhotoAlbum_6_1_0_released.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/05/KPhotoAlbum_6_1_0_released.gmi ∎
Sun 17:19:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Beyond Free: The Value Proposition of Open Source for Creatives ☞ https://news.itsfoss.com/open-source-beyond-free/
Sun 17:19:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ An Update on our NGI Zero Core Funded Work ☞ https://labplot.org/2025/10/04/an-update-on-our-ngi-zero-core-funded-work/
Sun 17:20:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ What You Want to See Emerge From the Canada Post Walkout ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/world/canada/canada-post-mail-strike.html
Sun 17:20:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Canada Post Strike Poses Challenges for Remote Communities ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/world/canada/canada-post-strike-fort-simpson.html
Sun 17:23:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ KDE Released Plasma 6.5 Beta 2, Previews UI Upgrades for Plasma 6.6 ☞ https://ubuntupit.com/kde-released-plasma-6-5-beta-2-previews-ui-upgrades-for-plasma-6-6/
Sun 17:24:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ FSF News: FSF turns forty with a groundbreaking new project and a new president ☞ http://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-turns-forty-with-a-new-president-and-a-new-campaign
Sun 17:24:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ GNU Guix: Fundraising campaign to sustain GNU Guix ☞ https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2025/fundraising-campaign-to-sustain-gnu-guix//
Sun 17:25:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ TeaLinux 2025.09.17 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/tealinux
Sun 17:25:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): This Week in Plasma: 6.5 beta 2 ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/04/This_Week_in_Plasma_6_5_beta_2.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/04/This_Week_in_Plasma_6_5_beta_2.gmi ∎
Sun 17:27:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Advocacy of Software Freedom Changed, LUGs Became Less Relevant (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/04/Advocacy_of_Software_Freedom_Changed_LUGs_Became_Less_Relevant.shtml
Sun 17:28:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Wine 10.16 Enables NTSYNC for Faster Synchronization on Modern Kernels ☞ https://ubuntupit.com/wine-10-16-enables-ntsync-for-faster-synchronization-on-modern-kernels/
Sun 17:29:45 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ https://files.catbox.moe/5hss23.jpeg
Sun 17:30:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Setup Cosmic Beta as dual DE for openSUSE Krypton ( KDE Plasma 6.5 Beta2) ☞ https://dbaxps.blogspot.com/2025/10/setup-cosmic-beta-as-dual-de-for.html
Sun 17:30:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: October 5th, 2025 ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/05/9to5Linux_Weekly_Roundup_October_5th_2025.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/05/9to5Linux_Weekly_Roundup_October_5th_2025.gmi ∎
Sun 17:37:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 Programming Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/05/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/05/Programming_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Sun 17:37:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today's 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 HowTos ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/05/today_s_howtos.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/05/today_s_howtos.gmi ∎
Sun 17:39:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Sharing ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/05/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_and_Sharing.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/05/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_and_Sharing.gmi ∎
Sun 17:39:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): GNU/Linux and More ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/05/GNU_Linux_and_More.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/05/GNU_Linux_and_More.gmi ∎
Sun 17:40:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Links 05/10/2025: Slow News Day and Wondering About the Canada Post Walkout ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/05/Links_05_10_2025_Slow_News_Day_and_Wondering_About_the_Canada_P.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/05/Links_05_10_2025_Slow_News_Day_and_Wondering_About_the_Canada_P.gmi ∎
Sun 18:04:50 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ https://www.npr.org/2025/10/05/nx-s1-5558181/homeless-mental-health-commitment
Sun 18:05:00 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], 5150 hold
Sun 18:17:54 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/fame
Sun 19:18:47 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ https://explosm.net/comics/walks-like-a-duck#comic
Sun 20:01:14 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://futurism.com/health-medicine/microplastics-degrading-bones
Sun 20:05:22 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ banzai!! no really..https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/amazon-delivery-drones-smashed-crane
Sun 20:06:48 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ come on up to the lab and see what's on the slab... https://futurism.com/health-medicine/lab-grown-human-brain-poll
Sun 20:07:41 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/tesla-lawsuit-krysta-tsukahara
Sun 20:09:11 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://futurism.com/future-society/openai-sora-2-spongebob-cooking-meth-copyright
Sun 20:37:28 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ double uh oh!!!.. https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/25/10/05/0418224/amazons-prime-video-rolls-back-controversial-stylized-james-bond-thumbnails-without-guns
Sun 20:44:12 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ https://explosm.net/comics/platonic#comic
Sun 20:58:05 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/10/05/1953218/cory-doctorow-explains-why-amazon-is-way-past-its-prime
Sun 21:00:50 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ i see what he did there
Sun 21:01:32 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ wtf???? https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/japanese-tech-giant-deploys-laser-drones-to-protect-chickens-drones-are-hoped-to-prevent-the-spread-of-avian-flu
Sun 21:05:27 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/ukraines-rotating-barbed-wire-drone-barriers-discovered-by-russians-motorized-barriers-tear-and-slice-the-fiber-optic-lines-that-jam-proof-drones-leave-in-their-trail
Sun 21:08:21 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/the-age-of-silicon-and-software-began-75-years-ago-with-the-patenting-of-the-transistor
Sun 21:49:19 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/05/ai_models_flatter_users_worse_confilict/
Sun 21:52:06 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ (cat) https://apina.biz/93231.jpg?mode=sfw
Sun 21:52:17 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://futurism.com/future-society/13-year-old-arrested-chatgpt-kill-friend
Sun 21:52:49 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ that cat is snidely whiplash!
Sun 21:53:28 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snidely_Whiplash
Sun 21:55:42 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-warns-ai-industry-implosion
Sun 21:56:01 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ Snidely Whiplash looks like dick Dastardly
Sun 21:56:05 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ s/di/Di/
Sun 21:56:43 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ that is his brother...
Sun 21:56:44 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ :P
Sun 21:57:16 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ i know who lose out!!!, the rest of us... Right after warning of a bubble in August, Altman acknowledged that “someone” will lose a “phenomenal amount of money,” but that, of course, “we don’t know who.”
Sun 22:15:12 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ num num num..... https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/10/05/2032200/first-evidence-that-plastic-nanoparticles-can-accumulate-in-edible-parts-of-vegetables
Sun 22:16:23 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :)
Sun 22:44:30 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/10/05/2149250/californias-uber-and-lyft-drivers-get-union-rights?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Sun 22:45:05 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/05/mount-everest-rescue-underway-as-snowstorm-traps-nearly-1000-people
Sun 23:59:18 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/05/waffles-eat-bluesky/
Mon 00:01:17 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://techxplore.com/news/2025-10-amazon-overhauling-devices-apple-ai.html
Mon 00:01:48 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://linuxiac.com/liberux-nexx-linux-phone/
Mon 00:18:03 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ giggity giggity... https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/what-europes-new-gig-work-law-means-unions-and-technology
Mon 00:20:23 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.theverge.com/news/784966/lumafield-x-ray-ct-scan-lithium-ion-battery-risks-manufacturing-defect
Mon 00:46:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Christina's much beloved "Five Questions" have been back for a little while now, and I've been genuinely meaning to get on the bandwagon for most of that time. Looks like I'm finally making it happen!" gemini://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/~solderpunk/gemlog/christinas-five-questions-october-2025.gmi
Mon 00:46:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "If the most or almost most distant troll has the highest priority, their move may fail as they cannot move any closer to the hero. This may lead to delays advancing on the hero, especially if the monster closest to the hero is the slowest, and those behind it stack up on it wasting many turns." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2025/10/06/dances-with-trolls.gmi
Mon 00:47:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1435.jpg
Mon 00:47:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1785.jpg
Mon 00:48:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ¿inconvenientes? gemini://ness.archipielago.uno/gris-celular.gmi
Mon 00:50:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "An important point when using LLMs for patent monopoly drafting is that novelty, by definition, puts the invention out of distribution relative to the model’s training set." http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/10/use-of-ai-in-patent-industry-spectre-of.html?showComment=1759591638358#c5268596477929007626
Mon 00:50:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "When pushed beyond their training set, LLMs are far more likely to generate outputs that look plausible but are in fact fabricated. So novel subject matter inherently increases the risk of hallucinations."
Mon 00:50:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Free Software Foundation Party Has Begun ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/04/Free_Software_Foundation_Party_Has_Begun.shtml
Mon 00:50:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 10 Ways to Combat Software Patents ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/04/10_Ways_to_Combat_Software_Patents.shtml
Mon 00:50:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Compromised by NVIDIA Proprietary Library (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/04/Compromised_by_NVIDIA_Proprietary_Library.shtml
Mon 00:51:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ When Abusive Monopolist Microsoft "Integrates" Something With "AI" It Means It's Losing Money and Is Generally Hopeless ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/04/When_Microsoft_Integrates_Something_With_AI_It_Means_It_s_Losin.shtml
Mon 00:51:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The statCounter Site Has Data Integrity Problems ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/04/The_statCounter_Site_Has_Data_Integrity_Problems.shtml
Mon 00:52:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Motion sensors in high-performance mice can be used as a microphone to spy on users☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/high-performance-mice-can-be-used-as-a-microphone-to-spy-on-users-thanks-to-ai-mic-e-mouse-technique-uses-mouse-sensors-to-convert-acoustic-vibrations-into-speech
Mon 00:53:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Cairo-Dock Gets First Update in 10 Years, Adds Wayland and HiDPI Support ☞ https://ubuntupit.com/cairo-dock-gets-first-update-in-10-years-adds-wayland-and-hidpi-support/
Mon 00:53:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Cairo-Dock 3.6 Released with Wayland and HiDPI Support, systemd Integration ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/01/Cairo_Dock_3_6_Released_with_Wayland_and_HiDPI_Support_systemd_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/01/Cairo_Dock_3_6_Released_with_Wayland_and_HiDPI_Support_systemd_.gmi ∎
Mon 00:53:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 8 Best Free and Open Source Console Based Network ‘top’ Tools ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/networktools/
Mon 00:54:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Unyo – anime streaming and manga reader ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/unyo-anime-streaming-manga-reader/
Mon 00:54:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ wig – simple and lightweight DNS client ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/wig-simple-lightweight-dns-client/
Mon 00:55:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 7 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux MPRIS Tools ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-linux-mpris-tools/
Mon 00:55:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Judo – terminal-based todo list application ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/judo-terminal-based-todo-list-application/
Mon 00:55:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Todo TUI – Vim-like TUI that honors the simplicity of todo.txt ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/todo-tui-vim-tui/
Mon 00:55:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Vault – tool for securely accessing secrets ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/vault-tool-securely-accessing-secrets/
Mon 00:56:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Open Printer Promises Freedom From Proprietary Cartridges ☞ https://linuxiac.com/open-printer-promises-freedom-from-proprietary-cartridges/
Mon 00:59:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "How Do The Normal People Survive?" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/04/how-do-the-normal-people-survive/ | Source: Hackaday
Mon 00:59:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 3D Printing A Cheap VR Headset ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/04/3d-printing-a-cheap-vr-headset/ | Source: Hackaday
Mon 00:59:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Component Abuse Challenge" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/04/2025-component-abuse-challenge-digital-logic-with-analog-components/ | Source: Hackaday
Mon 01:00:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Infant blood pressure centiles from the Second Task Force on Blood Pressure Control in Children ☞ https://yingtongli.me/blog/2025/10/04/infant-bp.html
Mon 01:02:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ AOL's dial-up internet service killed with a final modem screech after 34 years — America Online goes offline this week, but other dial-up services still exist ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/service-providers/network-providers/aols-dial-up-internet-service-killed-with-a-final-modem-screech-this-week-after-34-years-america-online-goes-offline-but-other-dual-up-services-still-exist
Mon 01:02:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Maps old and new ☞ https://blog.jonudell.net/2025/10/04/maps-old-and-new/
Mon 01:03:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Horrific Sora 2 Video Shows Scam Altman Grilling a Dead Pikachu ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/sora-2-sam-altman-grilling-pikachu
Mon 01:04:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ AI Endangering Tourists by Sending Them to Nonexistent Landmarks in Hazardous Locations ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-hallucination-landmarks-tourists
Mon 01:04:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 26 officers and staff reportedly caught trying to trick keylogging software ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/uk-cops-busted-for-faking-productivity-while-working-from-home-by-holding-down-keys-on-keyboard-26-officers-and-staff-reportedly-caught-trying-to-trick-keylogging-software
Mon 01:09:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Former Proprietary Chaffbot Company Employee Horrified by How Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot Is Driving Users Into Psychosis ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/former-openai-employee-horrified-chatgpt-psychosis
Mon 01:09:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Chromium Does Nothing For Our Body. So Why Is It Considered Essential? ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/chromium-does-nothing-for-our-body-so-why-is-it-considered-essential
Mon 01:10:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Discord data hacked in latest customer service breach to expose user information — hackers gained access via third-party support systems but didn't steal passwords ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/discord-data-hacked-in-latest-customer-service-breach-to-expose-user-information-hackers-gained-access-via-third-party-support-systems-but-didnt-steal-passwords
Mon 01:11:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Old And Expensive Industrial Robots" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/04/open-source-controller-for-old-and-expensive-industrial-robots/ | Source: Hackaday
Mon 01:11:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ █████ http://techrights.org/feed.xml ██████████████████████ Sat, 04 Oct 2025 17:40:00 +0000 ███████ For the Second Time in a Few Weeks Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Lunduke Makes False Accusations Against Senior Red Bait Staff to Incite a Despicable 'Troll Army' (updated)
Mon 01:17:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ FOSS Force’s Top Five Articles — For the Week Ending October 3, 2025 ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/10/foss-forces-top-five-articles-for-the-week-ending-october-3-2025/
Mon 01:18:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ kv4p HT – Turn an Android smartphone into an ham radio transceiver ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/10/04/kv4p-ht-turn-an-android-smartphone-into-an-ham-radio-transceiver/
Mon 01:18:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ TikTok says it’s engaging with Indonesia authorities after licence suspended ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/tiktok-says-its-engaging-with-indonesia-after-licence-suspended
Mon 01:19:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Will Fentanylware (CheeTok) deal affect Pro-Palestinian speech on platform? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/scoop/20251004-the-future-of-tiktok-how-will-algorithm-be-retrained-under-us-ownership
Mon 01:23:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "You show the world how you can multitask and talk about AI BS (oh, management is sooo gooooood). hire some consultants (McKinsey is the preference) and pay them a lot of money to figure out what to talk about next .. oh, the power of QUANTUM things...!!!" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k6m1hv5s
Mon 01:25:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Cisco used to have that all-important lead position, but now they too are just another plumbing vendor. Whether it's routers, switches, voice-over-IP or whatever, customers can pick and choose from a variety of vendors at every price point. There's something for everyone."
Mon 01:25:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "AI? Doesn't matter. Quantum? If it ever comes to fruition, that won't matter either. IBM is just a "me too" plumbing supplier in a world whose leadership consists of OpenAI, Nvidia, Google, Microsoft, Apple and some other vendors."
Mon 01:28:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It's OK. It's all good. Nadella knows what he's doing." [sarcasm] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k6h8dxak
Mon 01:30:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The fact that some of Oracle core customers don't yet have the money for all the spending against which it is borrowing huge sums has caught the eye of credit rating agency Moody's, which pointed out the significant "counterparty risk" in Oracle's projected growth – the possibility that another party fails to meet its obligations." https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/03/ai_bubble_watch_markets/
Mon 01:32:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-10-06.gmi
Mon 01:34:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Christina's Five Questions, October 2025 gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space:70/0/~solderpunk/phlog/christinas-five-questions-october-2025.txt
Mon 01:39:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Links 06/10/2025: Science, Hardware, and Andrej Babis Making a Comeback ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/06/Links_06_10_2025_Science_Hardware_and_Andrej_Babis_Making_a_Com.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/06/Links_06_10_2025_Science_Hardware_and_Andrej_Babis_Making_a_Com.gmi ∎
Mon 01:41:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ FSF's Miriam Bastian speaks to meetup in Thessaloniki, Greece (2025) https://framatube.org/w/99CipDDf5o15qTYh6UmTXF
Mon 01:41:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Introduction to the FSF and LibrePlanet community (Shiraz, Iran; 2025-05-09) https://framatube.org/w/tH8j6nNn1XeswKPSEENkeq
Mon 01:42:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "We are there so that people new to the free software movement can learn about it, and because -- unlike with Facebook -- we have no ethical objection to merely having an account on Twitter." https://www.fsf.org/twitter
Mon 01:42:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Except is it NO LONGER Twitter and it's run by really nasty people
Mon 01:46:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🅸🆁🅲 techpol + social irc ■ Yesterday's #boycottnovell-social and #techpol IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-051025.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-051025.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-social-051025.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-social-051025.txt
Mon 01:47:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🅸🆁🅲 techrights irc ■ Yesterday's #techrights IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-051025.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-051025.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techrights-051025.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techrights-051025.txt
Mon 01:48:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🅸🆁🅲 boycottnovell irc ■ Yesterday's #boycottnovell IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-051025.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-051025.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-051025.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-051025.txt
Mon 01:49:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🅸🆁🅲 techbytes irc ■ Yesterday's #techbytes IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-051025.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-051025.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techbytes-051025.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techbytes-051025.txt
Mon 01:49:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – IRC Proceedings: Sunday, October 05, 2025 ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/06/IRC_Proceedings_Sunday_October_05_2025.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/06/IRC_Proceedings_Sunday_October_05_2025.gmi ∎
Mon 01:49:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ✩░▒▓▆▅▃▂▁𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍▁▂▃▅▆▓▒░✩ Yesterday's 𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 bulletin is now ready! 🅷🆃🆃🅿: http://techrights.org/txt-archives/techrights-2025-10-05.txt | 🅶🅴🅼🅸🅽🅸 gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/techrights-2025-10-05.txt (tentative address, to work an hour from now)
Mon 01:50:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today in Techrights ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/06/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/06/Today_in_Techrights.gmi ∎
Mon 01:50:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ✩░▒▓▆▅▃▂▁Tux Machines 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍▁▂▃▅▆▓▒░✩ Yesterday's Tux Machines bulletin is now ready! 🅷🆃🆃🅿: http://news.tuxmachines.org/txt-archives/tuxmachines-2025-10-05.txt
Mon 01:51:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Over at Tux Machines... ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/06/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/06/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi ∎
Mon 02:15:45 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] <a
Mon 02:23:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – When the Slop Bubble Pops People Will Say Richard Stallman Was Right (Again) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/06/When_the_Slop_Bubble_Pops_People_Will_Say_Richard_Stallman_Was_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/06/When_the_Slop_Bubble_Pops_People_Will_Say_Richard_Stallman_Was_.gmi ∎
Mon 02:29:40 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] http://echelononline.free.fr/documents/cnn/cnn.htm
Mon 02:33:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Bringing Back Lost Articles From the 1990s: Microsoft Products Leave Door Open to NSA ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/06/Bringing_Back_Lost_Articles_From_the_1990s_Microsoft_Products_L.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/06/Bringing_Back_Lost_Articles_From_the_1990s_Microsoft_Products_L.gmi ∎
Mon 02:34:58 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://old.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/1nz0nbq/cannot_get_secure_boot_to_work_on_new_laptop/
Mon 02:35:35 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ fart32!
Mon 02:35:45 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://old.reddit.com/r/openSUSE/comments/1nyl6vp/secure_boot_broken_after_update/
Mon 02:37:10 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ seems to work as designed, i.e. not booting anything that isn't Backdoors or crapOS
Mon 02:38:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "If you want something that offers stability, flexibility, and performance, you'll want to consider a Linux distribution. A major part of what makes this operating system (OS) such an easy recommendation is the kernel, the core of what makes everything work." https://www.xda-developers.com/kernel-tweaks-that-can-actually-improve-performance-on-linux/
Mon 02:39:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Recently, I've written quite a bit about Raycast, and how it's my absolute favorite app on macOS, and now on Windows as well, thanks to the recent beta launch. But outside of macOS, I'm more of a Linux user these days, and I recently expressed my wish that Raycast would come there, too." https://www.xda-developers.com/vicinae-is-basically-raycast-for-linux-and-its-almost-everything-i-wanted/
Mon 02:39:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Arch Linux's AUR Wasted My Time Until I Did This https://www.howtogeek.com/i-installed-chaotic-aur-and-saved-hours-of-time/
Mon 02:40:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I often talk about switching to Linux as an alternative to Windows 11, something I've done myself on many of my machines." https://www.xda-developers.com/unusual-linux-distros-built-one-purpose-why-you-should-try-them/
Mon 02:41:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I tested both the distros for quite a long time and noticed a few differences between them. AntiX slightly lags behind MX Linux in terms of documentation, overall system tools and utilities, and exhibits a slight performance difference, as well as a lack of support for installing Flatpaks." https://www.xda-developers.com/reasons-why-i-would-pick-mx-linux-instead-of-antix-for-old-pcs/
Mon 02:43:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): SysLinuxOS: The Go-To Linux for System Administrators ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/06/SysLinuxOS_The_Go_To_Linux_for_System_Administrators.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/06/SysLinuxOS_The_Go_To_Linux_for_System_Administrators.gmi ∎
Mon 02:53:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): GIMP 3.0.6 Is Now Available for Download with Improved Photoshop Brush Support ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/06/GIMP_3_0_6_Is_Now_Available_for_Download_with_Improved_Photosho.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/06/GIMP_3_0_6_Is_Now_Available_for_Download_with_Improved_Photosho.gmi ∎
Mon 02:56:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Non-Denying Denial From Microsoft (Again) Regarding the End of XBox Consoles ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/06/Non_Denying_Denial_From_Microsoft_Again_Regarding_the_End_of_XB.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/06/Non_Denying_Denial_From_Microsoft_Again_Regarding_the_End_of_XB.gmi ∎
Mon 03:01:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A group of hackers calling itself the Crimson Collective says that it has compromised GitLab instances belonging to Red Hat and stolen hundreds of gigabytes of data." https://betanews.com/2025/10/03/red-hat-confirms-hackers-have-breached-gitlab-instances-and-stolen-data/
Mon 03:02:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Gitlab Inc debt growing again https://finbox.com/NASDAQGS:GTLB/explorer/total_debt/
Mon 03:16:22 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Alms des
Mon 03:16:25 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] If pay
Mon 03:16:30 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] I
Mon 03:16:37 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] oh, sorry again
Mon 03:16:40 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] plasma acting up
Mon 03:16:49 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and sending keys to the wrong window
Mon 03:29:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Cindy Cohn (Executive Director of EFF) is a Millionaire, Earned Almost $30,000 Per Month Before Departing While the EFF Lost Money ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/06/Cindy_Cohn_Executive_Director_of_EFF_is_a_Millionaire_Earned_Al.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/06/Cindy_Cohn_Executive_Director_of_EFF_is_a_Millionaire_Earned_Al.gmi ∎
Mon 03:40:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Sites Slow a Few Days Ago ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/06/Sites_Slow_a_Few_Days_Ago.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/06/Sites_Slow_a_Few_Days_Ago.gmi ∎
Mon 03:51:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Hi Roy. Yes, there was enough for a series for sure." (Re OSI) We have lots more on the way...
Mon 03:55:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Working With People From Microsoft ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/06/Working_With_People_From_Microsoft.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/06/Working_With_People_From_Microsoft.gmi ∎
Mon 04:14:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Rust is Eating Linux ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/06/Rust_is_Eating_Linux.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/06/Rust_is_Eating_Linux.gmi ∎
Mon 04:15:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ iophk: It is that time of the year when it is important to remind people that there are no Nobel Prizes for professional wrestling, astrology, or economics...
Mon 04:17:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ This site is effectively dead for 1.5 years already, it's where Microsoft Lunduke used to provoke people https://conservativenerds.locals.com/landing/article
Mon 04:28:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Nobel Prize in Economics Does Not Exist, It's Propaganda From Sveriges Riksbank ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/06/Nobel_Prize_in_Economics_Does_Not_Exist_It_s_Propaganda_From_Sv.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/06/Nobel_Prize_in_Economics_Does_Not_Exist_It_s_Propaganda_From_Sv.gmi ∎
Mon 04:28:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ iophk: Bytedance's Tiktok successfully extorted the Indian government into letting it continue its attacks against the nation https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/indonesia-lifts-tiktok-licence-suspension-as-app-shares-data/articleshow/124316444.cms "He who controls Tiktok controls the world..."
Mon 04:41:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Fake Economics and Clown Computing Circuses ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/06/Fake_Economics_and_Clown_Computing_Circuses.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/06/Fake_Economics_and_Clown_Computing_Circuses.gmi ∎
Mon 04:52:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Coffee Day ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/06/Coffee_Day.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/06/Coffee_Day.gmi ∎
Mon 04:54:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ iophk: The next one can have the long name in the title, maybe: sveriges riksbank prize in economic sciences in memory of alfred nobel - a bankster prize for the current trends and scams and bankster talking points http://techrights.org/n/2025/10/06/Nobel_Prize_in_Economics_Does_Not_Exist_It_s_Propaganda_From_Sv.shtml
Mon 04:56:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Linux, the kernel developed and distributed by Linus Torvalds et al, contains non-Free Software, i.e., software that does not respect your essential freedoms, and it induces you to install additional non-Free Software that it doesn't contain." https://www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/selibre/linux-libre/
Mon 04:59:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "As the U.S. Supreme Court weighs the future of ISP liability lawsuits, one company is making a $100 million bet on the outcome." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/company-offers-100-million-for-the-right-to-sue-isps-using-redboxs-piracy-claims/ | Source: Torrent Freak
Mon 05:00:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Patents: "Transistors replaced the bulky, fragile and power-hungry valves, that stubbornly remain present in some guitar amplifiers" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/the-age-of-silicon-and-software-began-75-years-ago-with-the-patenting-of-the-transistor | Source: Tom's Hardware
Mon 05:00:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Censorship ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/higher-education-compact-trump-deal/684457/ | Source: The Atlantic
Mon 05:00:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Grokipedia
Mon 05:00:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Grokipedia ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/10/05/musks-grokipedia-grok-ai-rewrites-wikipedia/ | Source: Pivot to AI
Mon 05:01:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "According to Australian Policy Online, the review documents systemic failings in: [...]" ☛ https://itwire.com/guest-articles/guest-opinion/is-their-misinformation-on-mis-and-disinformation-code.html | Source: IT Wire
Mon 05:01:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The global right today excels at leveraging nostalgia for reactionary ends." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/10/portugal-salazar-carnation-revolution-nostalgia/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine
Mon 05:01:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "US business leaders also worry that Trump is not getting accurate and unmediated economic information beyond stock market figures" ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/10/05/2025/inside-donald-trumps-filter-bubble | Source: Semafor Inc
Mon 05:02:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "But even though I agree with Draghi’s diagnosis, there’s still a question that is nagging at me: How much does lagging in tech matter?" ☛ https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/tech-and-the-wealth-of-nations | Source: Paul Krugman
Mon 05:02:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "And yet for all the millions of words he’s published, these days the award-winning science fiction author and veteran internet activist is best known for just a single one: Enshittification." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/books/review/cory-doctorow-enshittification.html | Source: New York Times
Mon 05:09:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The registrar services for this domain have been suspended by Cloudflare for a Terms of Service violation." https://www.legalbusiness.co.uk/
Mon 05:09:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Clownflare as censorship giant
Mon 05:17:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ NEA Axes Grant ☛ https://locusmag.com/2025/10/nea-axes-grant/ | Source: Locus Magazine
Mon 05:17:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "We employed harmonic radar tracking, a powerful tool for recording the detailed flight trajectories of individual bees" ☛ https://interestingengineering.com/science/honeybees-dance-higher-cognitive-complexity | Source: Interesting Engineering
Mon 05:18:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [Old] "He added that setting AI data centers and Bitcoin mining operations risks raising local power rates, which regulators avoid." ☛ https://finance.yahoo.com/news/shark-tank-star-kevin-oleary-180039842.html | Source: Yahoo News
Mon 05:18:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Currently, bitcoin consumes more electricity than Denmark." ☛ https://www.weforum.org/videos/how-a-change-in-bitcoin-s-coding-could-reduce-its-carbon-footprint/ | Source: World Economic Forum
Mon 05:19:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Bitcoin — the world’s largest digital currency — consumes as much electricity as entire countries due to its energy-hungry code." ☛ https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/clean-up-bitcoin/ | Source: Greenpeace
Mon 05:19:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "the world’s largest cryptocurrency by [fake] market value" ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/bitcoin-surges-to-new-all-time-record-high/272436/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)
Mon 05:19:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The latest informational report from the U.S. Drought Monitor shows that 100% of the state is abnormally dry" ☛ https://www.ksl.com/article/51384852/utahs-water-year-leaves-many-worried--but-there-is-hope | Source: Deseret Media
Mon 05:19:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "While the association doesn't prove direct cause and effect, it's a strong link and a worrying finding" ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/one-major-pollutant-in-fossil-fuels-has-been-linked-with-als | Source: Science Alert
Mon 05:21:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Here's that "viral" story. I've kept to the parts which contain easily verifiable / falsifiable claims." ☛ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/10/i-have-no-facts-and-i-must-scream/ | Source: Terence Eden
Mon 05:21:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "legal insurrection" ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-tyrant-in-the-white-house | Source: Mike Brock
Mon 05:22:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ""You’re either on the side that is singing and showing up and holding other people, or you’re on the side of the helicopters and the gas canisters and the guns,” says Eman Abdelhadi." ☛ https://organizingmythoughts.org/holding-the-line-through-tear-gas-and-censorship/ |
Mon 05:22:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "if you’re not Republican, you’re not American. This conception of America, where only pro-capitalist Christians “count,” is antithetical to our country’s laws and norms." ☛ https://tracydurnell.com/2025/10/05/american-thoughtcrime-and-violence-against-citizens/ | Source: Tracy Durnell
Mon 05:23:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "has a longstanding and foundational tradition of resistance to government overreach, especially in the form of military intrusion into civil affairs…" ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/stephen-miller-accused-of-spreading-authoritarian-propaganda-after-judge-ruling/ | Source: TruthOut
Mon 05:23:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ". She received no official notice or correspondence from the federal government." ☛ https://mainemorningstar.com/2025/10/05/repub/trump-administration-sending-california-troops-to-oregon-after-court-loss-governors-say/ | Source: Maine Morning Star
Mon 05:24:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Indonesia has lifted its suspension of TikTok's local operating licence after the social media platform shared data requested by the government about recent protests, the ministry of communication and digital affairs said" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/indonesia-lifts-tiktok-licence-suspension-as-app-shares-data/articleshow/124316444.cms | Source: India Times
Mon 05:24:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Surveillance ☛ https://blog.kamens.us/2025/09/30/how-to-stop-google-from-invading-your-privacy-and-others-when-you-share-links/ |
Mon 05:25:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Social Control Media ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/metropolitan-transportation-authority-kids-new-york-nypd-brooklyn-b2839714.html | Source: The Independent UK
Mon 05:25:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The dangerous trend, fueled by Social Control Media, has killed more than a dozen New Yorkers, mostly young people." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-10-05/kids-in-new-york-keep-dying-while-subway-surfing-on-top-of-trains-can-they-be-stopped | Source: Los Angeles Times
Mon 05:25:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Social Control Media: "This is something that’s entirely absent when interactions are moved to private channels of communication." ☛ https://manuelmoreale.com/thoughts/on-public-online-behaviour | Source: Manuel Moreale
Mon 05:27:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "If you use AI in your work do you brag about it or hide it?" ☛ https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2025/10/if-you-use-ai-in-your-work-do-our-brag.html | Source: Computational Complexity
Mon 05:28:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I discovered a new favorite hobby last week: adding custom instructions to my students' ChatGPT accounts when they leave their computers unlocked and unattended." ☛ https://flower.codes/2025/10/05/ignore-all-previous-instructions | Source: Zach Flower
Mon 05:28:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "These models, in other words, potentially promote social and psychological harm." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/05/ai_models_flatter_users_worse_confilict/ | Source: The Register UK
Mon 05:28:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Local police from the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office arrested him and booked him at the county jail." ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/13-year-old-arrested-chatgpt-kill-friend | Source: Futurism
Mon 05:28:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "How to kill my friend in the middle of class." ☛ https://www.wfla.com/news/florida/florida-student-asks-chatgpt-how-to-kill-his-friend-ends-up-in-jail-deputies/ |
Mon 05:29:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The devices are part of an industry known as precision farming" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/technology/cows-ai-collars.html | Source: New York Times
Mon 05:30:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Without naming a specific number, my former running buddy mentioned that he planned to take it easy today." ☛ https://yordi.me/outrunning-the-stress/ | Source: Yordi Verkroost
Mon 05:30:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "When I saw that ZSA had made an add-on trackball unit for the Voyager, I was immediately interested." ☛ https://www.rousette.org.uk/archives/zsa-navigator/ | Source: But she's a girl...
Mon 05:30:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Given all the crazy gadgets featured in the flicks, he's used plenty of fictional cameras – like Moonraker's 007-branded spy camera and A View to a Kill's ring camera – but I'm talking about real-life cameras from actual manufacturers." ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/cameras/00-7-real-cameras-used-by-james-bond | Source: Digital Camera World
Mon 05:30:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Chipset major Qualcomm expects shift of the Indian market towards the premium device segment will drive adoption of the company's latest and premium smartphone processor Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 in the country." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/indian-markets-shift-towards-premium-devices-to-drive-snapdragon-8-chipsets-adoption-qualcomm/articleshow/124320659.cms | Source: India Times
Mon 05:33:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The show is an adaptation of the Danish television series Det Sidste Ord (The Last Word)." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/792477/jane-goodall-netflix-famous-last-words | Source: The Verge
Mon 05:33:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Do you recall all those years you were a hot mess?" ☛ https://rachsmith.com/strategies/ | Source: Rach Smith
Mon 05:33:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Every functional society has to answer this question." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/what-is-the-center | Source: Mike Brock
Mon 05:33:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It makes sense because we are both from the generation that knows giving yourself up for a job doesn't lead anywhere" ☛ https://blog.avas.space/quit-job/ | Source: Ava
Mon 05:34:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Historically, quasicrystals have been challenging to create and characterize." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/quasicrystals-spill-secrets-of-their-formation/ | Source: Wired
Mon 05:34:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "With roughly 1GB of NGINX logs I dispatched goaccess to build an HTML report for me to review. Parsing at roughly 60,000 lines per second it took this script about an hour to rip through all my traffic." ☛ https://connortumbleson.com/2025/10/06/popular-blog-topics/ | Source: Connor Tumbleson
Mon 05:35:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It’s hard to acknowledge that a choice we make isn’t a good one. But it might be, even if it raises our status." ☛ https://seths.blog/2025/10/status-vs-goodness/ | Source: Seth Godin
Mon 05:35:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Audiences loved it, but it alarmed authorities: the act was so violent-looking that child welfare agents tried to shut them down several times" ☛ https://www.vintag.es/2025/10/buster-keaton-childhood-photos.html | Source: Vintage Everyday
Mon 05:35:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Copenhagen’s pioneering programme is called CopenPay, the idea being that ‘conscious actions’ are rewarded." ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/europe/denmark/copenhagen/copenhagen-city-break-family-travel-copenpay-b2838720.html | Source: The Independent UK
Mon 05:37:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Arch Linux’s AUR Wasted My Time Until I Did This ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/06/Arch_Linux_s_AUR_Wasted_My_Time_Until_I_Did_This.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/06/Arch_Linux_s_AUR_Wasted_My_Time_Until_I_Did_This.gmi ∎
Mon 05:40:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Links 06/10/2025: Grokipedia as Malicious Slop, US 'Martial Law' a "New Normal" ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/06/Links_06_10_2025_Grokipedia_as_Malicious_Slop_US_Martial_Law_a_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/06/Links_06_10_2025_Grokipedia_as_Malicious_Slop_US_Martial_Law_a_.gmi ∎
Mon 05:40:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Suéltame la mano gemini://blg.hmd-tld.xyz/post/sueltame-la-mano.gmi
Mon 05:43:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I'm referring to text-based files that can be opened, read, and understood" ☛ https://adele.pages.casa/md/blog/why-I-prefer-human-readable-file-formats.md | Source: Adële
Mon 05:43:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This is just a quick post about what I had to do to update my blog stack (from Python 3.9 to Python 3.13)." ☛ https://wbk.one/article/04bf8415/upgrading-my-blog-to-py3-13 | Source: Woongbin Kang
Mon 05:43:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Rocklin also believes that if you put a Docker push cycle into the data science work cycle" ☛ https://thenewstack.io/a-cloud-built-for-python-data-scientists-not-infrastructure-engineers/ | Source: The New Stack
Mon 05:44:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Good engineers seek software code that is ‘simple’ in the sense that we can read and understand it quickly. But they they also look for highly performant code" ☛ https://lemire.me/blog/2025/10/05/stdranges-may-not-deliver-the-performance-that-you-expect/ | Source: Daniel Lemire
Mon 05:44:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I love Common Lisp. But my dayjob is in Clojure (and TypeScript, ugh.) I can’t help but notice the convenience of threading macros." ☛ https://aartaka.me/threading.html | Source: Artyom Bologov
Mon 05:44:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Two years ago, my friend José Paumard held the talk "Concurrent and Asynchronous Programming : Loom" at the Geneva Java User Group." ☛ https://blog.frankel.ch/transactions-threadlocal-spring/ | Source: Nicolas Fränkel
Mon 05:45:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "discussions included several familiar names, such as Richard Stallman, Geoffrey Knauth, Christina Haralanova" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/free-software-foundation-turns-40-unveils-librephone/ | Source: Linuxiac
Mon 05:46:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "There’s still a tonne of things I want to tweak on this site, and I’ll get to them eventually." ☛ https://kevquirk.com/blog/breaking-things-fixing-things/ | Source: Kev Quirk
Mon 05:46:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Sometimes I think I have more fun tweaking my blog than I do blogging on it" ☛ https://mtwb.blog/posts/2025/breaking-things-fixing-things/ |
Mon 05:47:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The hypothesis I mean has a definition something like this: [...]" ☛ https://brooker.co.za/blog/2025/10/05/locality.html | Source: Marc Brooker
Mon 05:47:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This opens a web interface on localhost:8000, where you can review the flashcards." ☛ https://borretti.me/article/hashcards-plain-text-spaced-repetition | Source: Fernando Borretti
Mon 05:48:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Librephone is a new initiative by the FSF to bring full computing freedom to mobile computing environments." ☛ https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-turns-forty-with-a-new-president-and-a-new-campaign | Source: FSF
Mon 05:48:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "[...] Plus, this week we share some less practical tips for managing a file archive as though it were a database" ☛ https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20251006 | Source: Distro Watch
Mon 05:49:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "By 'talk directly' I mean that each of the peers has the WireGuard keys of the other and the traffic between the two of them" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/WireGuardBlindRelayWish | Source: University of Toronto
Mon 05:49:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "OpenGL remains a masterclass in how to update an API in the most incompetent, user-hostile way possible." ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/10/upgrading-our-way-through-opengl-1-x/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski
Mon 05:50:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I’ve long suspected that this is an example of Apple Commercial constraining Apple Engineering." ☛ https://eclecticlight.co/2025/10/05/last-week-on-my-mac-has-macos-virtualisation-ground-to-a-halt/ | Source: Howard Oakley
Mon 05:51:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ A printer can overthrow a nation | "En printer kan velte en nasjon | Digi.no" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&u=https://www.digi.no/artikler/debatt-en-printer-kan-velte-en-nasjon/562757
Mon 05:52:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How is Chat Control 2 supposed to work in practice? | "Hur är Chat Control 2 tänkt att fungera i praktiken?" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/10/05/hur-ar-chat-control-2-tankt-att-fungera-i-praktiken/
Mon 06:19:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): This Week in KDE Apps ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/06/This_Week_in_KDE_Apps.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/06/This_Week_in_KDE_Apps.gmi ∎
Mon 06:21:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Review: Linux Kamarada 15.6 ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/06/Review_Linux_Kamarada_15_6.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/06/Review_Linux_Kamarada_15_6.gmi ∎
Mon 06:24:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Best Free and Open Source Software ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/06/Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/06/Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi ∎
Mon 06:26:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ openSUSE ☛ https://www.ubuntubuzz.com/2025/10/download-opensuse-leap-16-full-editions-desktop-server-and-iot-included.html | Source: Ubuntubuzz
Mon 06:26:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The R1 Neo from Muzi Works is a compact, water-resistant Meshtastic device designed for long-range communication and GPS-based location tracking." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/r1-neo-meshtastic-device-introduced-with-gps-and-nrf52840-processor/ | Source: Linux Gizmos
Mon 06:27:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Beyond the Nobel Prizes Is a World of Scientific Awards ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/science/awards-prizes-non-nobels.html http://techrights.org/n/2025/10/06/Nobel_Prize_in_Economics_Does_Not_Exist_It_s_Propaganda_From_Sv.shtml
Mon 06:27:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Beneath Talbot Hill ☞ https://jxself.org/talbot-hill.shtml
Mon 06:28:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ GNU Artanis: For Fun and For Profit: HardenedLinux Best Practice ☞ https://artanis.dev/blog/artanis-on-gnu42.html
Mon 06:29:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The cloud markup isn't a service fee. It's a tax on not thinking." https://robertgreiner.com/the-server-in-the-closet/
Mon 06:29:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ KPhotoAlbum 6.1.0 released ☞ https://www.kphotoalbum.org//2025/10/04/kphotoalbum-6.1.0-released/
Mon 06:29:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): LibreOffice in Latin America: heading to Havana for the 2025 Latin American Congress ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/06/LibreOffice_in_Latin_America_heading_to_Havana_for_the_2025_Lat.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/06/LibreOffice_in_Latin_America_heading_to_Havana_for_the_2025_Lat.gmi ∎
Mon 06:29:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This is the first new release of our new KF6/Qt6 port, and it brings some fine-tuning, but we could also bring forward the code apart from bugfixes."
Mon 06:30:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Advocacy of Software Freedom Changed, LUGs Became Less Relevant ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/04/Advocacy_of_Software_Freedom_Changed_LUGs_Became_Less_Relevant.shtml
Mon 06:31:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ This Week in KDE Apps ☞ https://blogs.kde.org/2025/10/05/this-week-in-kde-apps/
Mon 06:31:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Introducing KRetro: a Libretro game emulator from KDE! (Alpha Release) ☞ https://blog.seshan.xyz/2025/10/05/introducing-kretro-a-libretro-game-emulator-from-kde-alpha-release/
Mon 06:32:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Mozilla: Throw Away Your "Old" PC and Enable "Digital Rights Management (DRM)" ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/05/Mozilla_Throw_Away_Your_Old_PC_and_Enable_Digital_Rights_Manage.shtml
Mon 06:33:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 40 (Sep 29 – Oct 5, 2025) ☞ https://linuxiac.com/linuxiac-weekly-wrap-up-week-40-sep-29-oct-5-2025/
Mon 06:33:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ EasyOS Excalibur-series version 7.0.19 ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202510/easyos-excalibur-series-version-7019.html
Mon 06:34:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ SysLinuxOS: The Go-To GNU/Linux for System Administrators ☞ https://thenewstack.io/syslinuxos-the-go-to-linux-for-system-administrators/
Mon 06:34:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: October 5th, 2025 ☞ https://9to5linux.com/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-october-5th-2025
Mon 06:37:25 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], I just use Free clones of Firefox.
Mon 06:37:45 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ Theirs is bloated with spyware and adware.
Mon 06:38:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ G.O.P. to Gen Z: Pay Double for Health Insurance or Go Without ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/opinion/shutdown-health-care-republicans-young.html
Mon 06:38:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Lithuanian neurosurgeon performs world-first surgery: on the future of brain surgery ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2699329/lithuanian-neurosurgeon-performs-world-first-surgery-on-the-future-of-brain-surgery
Mon 06:39:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "demanding better public health and education services." ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20251005-morocco-sees-eighth-straight-day-of-protests-organised-by-online-gen-z-group
Mon 06:39:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ People Are Horrified by Lab-Grown Human Brains ☞ https://futurism.com/health-medicine/lab-grown-human-brain-poll
Mon 06:39:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Doctors Find Evidence That Microplastics Are Degrading Your Bones ☞ https://futurism.com/health-medicine/microplastics-degrading-bones
Mon 06:40:02 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], Enemy soldiers from Texas are getting ready to invade and occupy Illinois.
Mon 06:40:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ China builds more, bigger indoor ski resorts in a play for the ‘ice and snow’ economy ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-builds-more-bigger-indoor-ski-resorts-in-a-play-for-the-ice-and-snow-economy
Mon 06:41:29 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Isambard_Prince: from civil rights to civil war
Mon 06:42:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Glimmering sea of solar as China expands desert installation ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/10/05/glimmering-sea-of-solar-as-china-expands-desert-installation/
Mon 06:42:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Proprietary in "It's FOSS" ☞ https://itsfoss.com/git-with-obsidian/
Mon 06:43:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 3D Printing ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/05/3d-printing-a-new-kind-of-skateboard-that-is-ultimately-unsafe/ | Source: Hackaday
Mon 06:45:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Neon Necklaces" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/05/wearable-neon-necklaces-run-on-battery-power/ | Source: Hackaday
Mon 06:46:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ std::ranges may not deliver the performance that you expect ☞ https://lemire.me/blog/2025/10/05/stdranges-may-not-deliver-the-performance-that-you-expect/
Mon 06:47:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Free Software Foundation Turns 40, Unveils LibrePhone ☞ https://linuxiac.com/free-software-foundation-turns-40-unveils-librephone/
Mon 06:49:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The transistor was patented 75 years ago today — the age of silicon and software began with a three-electrode circuit element using semiconductor materials ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/the-age-of-silicon-and-software-began-75-years-ago-with-the-patenting-of-the-transistor
Mon 06:49:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Software Patents as a Bubble ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/05/Software_Patents_as_a_Bubble.shtml
Mon 06:51:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "How appropriate is it for Rose Hughes to be publishing articles about Hey Hi (AI) in patents (including previous articles disparaging Hey Hi (AI) drafting tools) when she also has a business offering her own Hey Hi (AI) patent monopoly drafting assistant?" http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/10/use-of-ai-in-patent-industry-spectre-of.html?showComment=1759692215830#c3550359681585362699
Mon 06:51:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Feels like there might be a conflict of interest there…" http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/10/use-of-ai-in-patent-industry-spectre-of.html?showComment=1759692215830#c3550359681585362699
Mon 06:59:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Hi Anonymous person, thank you for your comment, but I don’t believe it is fair or accurate. Hopefully readers can see, this is not a promotional puff piece…Do you have any comments on the content of the article?" http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/10/use-of-ai-in-patent-industry-spectre-of.html?showComment=1759698259071#c7792666081725116700
Mon 07:03:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – IP Kat Gone Bonkers, Pushing Slop in Patents (Likely Illegal, With Severe Consequences) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/06/IP_Kat_Gone_Bonkers_Pushing_Slop_in_Patents_Likely_Illegal_With.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/06/IP_Kat_Gone_Bonkers_Pushing_Slop_in_Patents_Likely_Illegal_With.gmi ∎
Mon 07:14:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ New Steam Games Playable on the Steam Deck, with Final Fantasy Tactics and Lego Party - 2025-10-04 Edition ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-playable-on-the-steam-deck-2025-10-04-edition/index.html
Mon 07:14:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ “We’ve got a new case and you won’t believe who it involves!" ☞ https://www.scummvm.org/news/20251005/
Mon 07:15:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Apple II’s 6502" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/05/optimizing-a-quicktake-image-decoder-for-the-apple-iis-6502/ | Source: Hackaday
Mon 07:18:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): FreeBSD 15.0-ALPHA5 Now Available ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/06/FreeBSD_15_0_ALPHA5_Now_Available.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/06/FreeBSD_15_0_ALPHA5_Now_Available.gmi ∎
Mon 07:23:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Controlling Our Computing for Another Forty Years ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/05/Controlling_Our_Computing_for_Another_Forty_Years.shtml
Mon 07:25:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ OpenAI’s Sora 2 Is Generating Video of SpongeBob Cooking Meth, Highlighting Copyright Concerns ☞ https://futurism.com/future-society/openai-sora-2-spongebob-cooking-meth-copyright
Mon 07:26:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install WordPress on Debian 13 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-wordpress-debian-13/
Mon 07:26:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install Varnish on Manjaro ☞ https://idroot.us/install-varnish-manjaro/
Mon 07:26:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install Jellyfin on Debian 13 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-jellyfin-debian-13/
Mon 07:27:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ kv4p HT – Turn an Android smartphone into a ham radio transceiver ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/10/04/kv4p-ht-turn-an-android-smartphone-into-an-ham-radio-transceiver/
Mon 07:28:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install Sober Roblox on Linux Mint 22 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-sober-roblox-linux-mint-22/
Mon 07:28:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install Tasksel on Debian 13 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-tasksel-debian-13/
Mon 07:28:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install ERPNext on Debian 13 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-erpnext-debian-13/
Mon 07:28:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install Graylog on AlmaLinux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-graylog-almalinux-10/
Mon 07:29:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today's 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 HowTos ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/06/today_s_howtos.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/06/today_s_howtos.gmi ∎
Mon 07:30:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Desktop Plus – fork of Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub Desktop ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/desktop-plus-fork-github-desktop/
Mon 07:30:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Caps-Log – terminal-based journaling tool ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/caps-log-terminal-based-journaling-tool/
Mon 07:34:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 16 Free and Open Source Simple GUI Based GNU/Linux Text Editors ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/simple-gui-based-text-editors/
Mon 07:34:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ MangaYouKnow – manga reader ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/mangayouknow-manga-reader/
Mon 07:35:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ZAP – web app scanner ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/zap-web-app-scanner/
Mon 07:35:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Valot – modern time tracking application ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/valot-modern-time-tracking-application/
Mon 07:35:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 5 Best Free and Open Source HTML Linter Tools ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-html-linter-tools/
Mon 07:35:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Linux and the Freedom Paradox (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/05/Linux_and_the_Freedom_Paradox.shtml
Mon 07:36:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Indonesia lifts Fentanylware (CheeTok) licence suspension as app shares data ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/indonesia-lifts-tiktok-licence-suspension-as-app-shares-data
Mon 07:37:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Bullshit Generators" (What RMS Calls LLMs) and Fake Images Already Target the FSF ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/05/Bullshit_Generators_What_RMS_Calls_LLMs_and_Fake_Images_Already.shtml
Mon 07:41:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Standards ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/06/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_and_Standards.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/06/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_and_Standards.gmi ∎
Mon 07:41:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 Programming Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/06/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/06/Programming_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Mon 07:43:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): GNU/Linux and Hardware Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/06/GNU_Linux_and_Hardware_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/06/GNU_Linux_and_Hardware_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Mon 07:47:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Links 06/10/2025: Scientific Awards and Typhoon Matmo ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/06/Links_06_10_2025_Scientific_Awards_and_Typhoon_Matmo.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/06/Links_06_10_2025_Scientific_Awards_and_Typhoon_Matmo.gmi ∎
Mon 07:49:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Amazon Drones Kamikaze Into Construction Equipment, Burst Into Flames ☞ https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/amazon-delivery-drones-smashed-crane
Mon 07:49:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 13-Year-Old Arrested for Asking Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot How to Kill His Friend ☞ https://futurism.com/future-society/13-year-old-arrested-chatgpt-kill-friend
Mon 07:52:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Cheetos try to incite a rebellion in 2008? https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2025/10/05/lazy-reading-for-2025-10-05/
Mon 07:53:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ New Yale Study Finds Hey Hi (AI) Has Had Essentially Zero Impact on Jobs ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/yale-study-ai-job-impact
Mon 07:54:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Scam Altman Warns That Hey Hi (AI) Industry Is Due for a Spectacular Implosion ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-warns-ai-industry-implosion
Mon 07:54:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ College Student Died Locked Inside a Cybertruck on Fire, Family Now Suing Tesla ☞ https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/tesla-lawsuit-krysta-tsukahara
Mon 07:54:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Easily add 80+ Mbps Ethernet to microcontrollers with WIZ630io QSPI RJ45 module ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/10/05/easily-add-80-mbps-ethernet-to-microcontrollers-with-wiz630io-qspi-rj45-module/
Mon 07:54:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 1GHz Renesas RA8T2 Cortex-M85 MCUs feature MRAM and EtherCAT for industrial motor control ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/10/06/1ghz-renesas-ra8t2-cortex-m85-mcus-feature-mram-and-ethercat-for-industrial-motor-control/
Mon 07:56:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ GCC 16 Overhauls Diagnostics with HTML Output, Enhanced C++ Analyzer ☞ https://ubuntupit.com/gcc-16-overhauls-diagnostics-with-html-output-enhanced-c-analyzer/
Mon 07:57:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Parallels Desktop Adds ‘Future-Proof GNU/Linux Compatibility’ ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/10/parallels-desktop-tools-linux-virtio-sock-update
Mon 07:57:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ GreenBANG 051025 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/greenbang
Mon 07:57:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Shanios 2025.10.05 also out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/shanios
Mon 07:58:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): KPhotoAlbum 6.1.0 released ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/06/KPhotoAlbum_6_1_0_released.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/06/KPhotoAlbum_6_1_0_released.gmi ∎
Mon 07:58:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Expirion 6.1-251005 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/expirion
Mon 07:59:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Intel Releases NPU Driver 1.24, Validated for Meteor, Arrow, and Lunar Lake Chips ☞ https://ubuntupit.com/intel-releases-npu-driver-1-24-validated-for-meteor-arrow-and-lunar-lake-chips/
Mon 07:59:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Linux 6.18 DRM Pull Bringing Tyr, Rocket, and Critical Intel/AMD Enhancements ☞ https://ubuntupit.com/linux-6-18-drm-pull-bringing-tyr-rocket-and-critical-intel-amd-enhancements/
Mon 08:01:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Winter Nights 2025 gemini://vigrey.com/journal/winter-nights-2025.gmi
Mon 08:03:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ soul crush gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/poetry/crush
Mon 08:04:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ AMD confirms new Radeon PRO W7900D SKU through latest Linux driver https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-confirms-new-radeon-pro-w7900d-sku-through-latest-linux-driver
Mon 08:05:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 'Enjoy Cronos on Steam, wherever you are!': Bloober Team announces native Linux build for Cronos: The New Dawn https://www.pcgamer.com/games/enjoy-cronos-on-steam-wherever-you-are-bloober-team-announces-native-linux-build-for-cronos-the-new-dawn/
Mon 08:05:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Windows 11 25H2 reminds me why swapping to Linux was the best idea I've had this year https://www.xda-developers.com/windows-11-25h2-reminds-me-why-swapping-to-linux-best-idea-ive-had/
Mon 10:39:48 │ 〖Sompi_〗 │ I have been working to make the current beta version of the Open Watcom compiler work on ST-DOS. It works already well enough that ST-DOS can be compiled on itself, so it's basically a self-contained operating system
Mon 10:46:55 │ 〖Sompi_〗 │ Currently the to-do list includes writing a simple GREP utility to make it easier to search pieces of code from the source files, and creating a development filesystem image that contains a pre-installed Open Watcom compiler and the sources of everything so that it can be mounted online as a network drive and everyone can easily build ST-DOS on their own and contribute
Mon 14:16:28 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Sompi_: is that in C?
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