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Sun 20:02:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I honestly don't understand why there isn't more people talking about debian. Ubuntu is always mentioned, but it's going down hill, and debian is the obvious alternative. When I went from Ubuntu to debian, I got way more recent versions of my software. That used to be the only complaint people had with debian."
Sun 20:05:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I started running decoded.legal - a small English law firm, focussing on Internet, telecoms, and tech law - on Free software, both client and server side, around five years ago. I have used Free software in my personal life for a lot longer than that." https://decoded.legal/blog/2026/11/running-a-law-firm-on-free-software-2026-edition/ Helped man whose spouse calls a "Rapist"
Sun 20:06:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ he also 'ousted' himself as having done so
Sun 20:06:35 │ 〖psydroid2〗 │ I'm not learning Italian for Italy, but for the Italian part of Switzerland
Sun 20:07:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Today is Aaron’s birthday. I take time each year to remember and honor his work and life. His work still impacts mine on a daily basis. Loved and remembered, he left us too soon." https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1xr0lt9/remembering_aaron_swartz/
Sun 20:07:07 │ 〖psydroid2〗 │ although I don't mind visiting Italy once in a while
Sun 20:07:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] psydroid2: i know someone who did this
Sun 20:07:27 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] then wento a uni where they speak itlian
Sun 20:07:30 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] lugano?
Sun 20:07:35 │ 〖psydroid2〗 │ yes
Sun 20:07:47 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] let me check if he is still ther
Sun 20:08:25 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] " Graph representation learning, Geometric deep learning, Computer vision, Geometry processing, Computer graphics "
Sun 20:08:36 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] still works in same area as me
Sun 20:09:04 │ 〖psydroid2〗 │ yes
Sun 20:09:26 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] no, he moved
Sun 20:09:28 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] to oxford
Sun 20:09:31 │ 〖psydroid2〗 │ some of my Italian professors from uni also left for Switzerland
Sun 20:09:43 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] became google shill
Sun 20:09:45 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] for deepmind
Sun 20:09:49 │ 〖psydroid2〗 │ haha
Sun 20:09:57 │ 〖psydroid2〗 │ well, at least he's getting paid well
Sun 20:12:51 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] the wikipedia pages are ads
Sun 20:13:00 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it's getting ridiculous
Sun 20:13:14 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] wikipedia is a sales platform
Sun 20:13:19 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it's liinked "linkedin"
Sun 20:13:23 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] *like
Sun 20:13:26 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] sort of
Sun 20:13:28 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] for persons
Sun 20:14:30 │ 〖psydroid2〗 │ what about old-fashioned encyclopedias? were they any better?
Sun 20:14:30 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] " Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Sun 20:14:30 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Nov 7, 06:00 GMT
Sun 20:14:30 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Sun 20:14:30 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Nov 6, 21:00 GMT
Sun 20:14:31 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Scheduled - One of our fibre suppliers providing connectivity between our London Telehouse and London Slough data centres is conducting maintenance to their fibre path due to necessary cable re-routing in London.
Sun 20:14:33 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] As we have diverse fibre connectivity between these locations we do not expect any disruption and traffic will fail over to other routes, but those routes will be at-risk during the maintenance window:"
Sun 20:14:43 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] yes
Sun 20:14:45 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they were smaller
Sun 20:14:58 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] the old encyclopedias had higher notability standards
Sun 20:15:13 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so not every random narcissist could enrol himself or herself into those
Sun 20:15:32 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://techrights.org/n/2024/04/06/Fernanda_Weiden_Google_FSFE_Wikipedia_vanity_pages.shtml
Sun 20:15:46 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "Reading Weiden's page is like reading a CV: she is doing the things her employer would expect her to do. Many professional women do the same tasks in their jobs and they don't have a Wikipedia entry."
Sun 20:16:00 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "Of particular concern, during her time at Google, Weiden was also a Vice President of the FSFE in Berlin. Google is FSFE's biggest donor, in other words, FSFE is perceived to be a mouthpiece or sockpuppet for Google, much like the sockpuppet account used to create Weiden's Wikipedia page."
Sun 20:16:21 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "Weiden, as a system administrator, is a user of free software. She is not a developer and we can't find any code that she publishes. Placing users on a pedestal, with copy-cat organizations like the FSFE and vanity pages, is an example of creating false prophets."
Sun 20:19:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Today, they announced a new pay structure for XBOX Cloud Gaming, and although the service used to be free to use at your discretion with an XBOX Game Pass Ultimate subscription, with the change, the subscription now comes with 15 hours PER MONTH. The new XBOX Game Pass price structure can be seen below, as announced last month." https://www.cgmagonline.com/news/xbox-cloud-gaming-prices-are-confirmed/
Sun 20:19:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Game over" "pay more to subscribe" to the game you used to actually "own"
Sun 20:21:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I don't play that games" "I don't participate" - what people should say about social control media
Sun 20:22:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ In LinkedIn, everyone is a manager. In Facebook, everyone always seems to be on holiday "someplace nice". In Wikipedia, every mediocre person is a celebrity by virtue of tricking the editors to ignore notability standards.
Sun 20:23:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ People who are busy don't play "games" like Wikipedia, LinkedIn, and Facebook. They do real things.
Sun 20:25:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I am a retired oil industry geologist. Welcome to my world. I experienced what you are going through at least five times. My advice. When a company offers you money to walk out the door take it and don’t look back." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m67dj2g9
Sun 20:25:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The next round won’t be voluntary nor as generous. Most of your contracts will become your competition. The earlier out the better shot at an available job in a downturn. Consider a relocation to a non tech heavy local in a parallel industry where your skills are relevant. Prepare to make a lot less. Downsize and rationalize your life. Good luck." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m67dj2g9
Sun 20:25:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Anyone over 35 in any type of technology company is in for a brutal awakening. Worse if its a basic office job. 6 months max."
Sun 20:26:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "You are on an island with 100 people and only 75 bananas. Networking, LinkedIn updates, etc won't solve anything. You need to leave the island. Leave the industry. Dead for next 10 years."
Sun 20:30:25 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://www.teamblind.com/post/manager-keeps-highlighting-my-female-teammates-work-while-acting-like-i-barely-contribute-qsg2rt7z
Sun 20:30:28 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "manager keeps highlighting my female teammate's work while acting like I barely contribute
Sun 20:30:28 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] I've started noticing a pattern on my Microsoft team that's honestly getting difficult to ignore.My manager regularly praises one teammate, gives her visibility in meetings and makes sure her contributions get noticed. Meanwhile, projects I've worked on and the impact I've delivered barely get acknowledged.I'm not saying she doesn't deserve recognition. What bothers me is feeling like my own work has become invisible, despite putt
Sun 20:30:28 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] ing in the effort.With all the uncertainty around promotions and potential layoffs, I'm starting to wonder whether this is just favouritism or whether my manager is quietly building a case against me.Would you bring this up directly in a 1:1, document everything, or start looking for another team?"
Sun 20:37:38 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "Arvind’s YoY Raises +51%
Sun 20:41:24 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ One of those maid company cars is outside the apartment building.
Sun 20:41:24 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I looked into that one time. The place was something you could book through Amazon.
Sun 20:41:24 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "I don't do dishes, I don't do toilets, I don't mop, I don't scrub showers, I don't take the trash out. I want $400."
Sun 20:41:24 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Uhh, we'll call you.
Sun 20:53:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – IBM 'Robbery': No More Car Allowance in the UK, Severance Shredded, CEO Pay Up 51% in One Year While Thousands Laid Off in Secret ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/08/IBM_Robbery_No_More_Car_Allowance_in_the_UK_Severance_Shredded_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/11/08/IBM_Robbery_No_More_Car_Allowance_in_the_UK_Severance_Shredded_.gmi ∎
Sun 21:04:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): United States: GNU/Linux Measured at 14% on Desktops/Laptops This Weekend ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/United_States_GNU_Linux_Measured_at_14_on_Desktops_Laptops_This.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/United_States_GNU_Linux_Measured_at_14_on_Desktops_Laptops_This.gmi ∎
Sun 21:59:36 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], I wrote:
Sun 21:59:37 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ McDonald's and Capital One both show that we're in a recession.
Sun 21:59:37 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ McDonald's is giving out coupons that lower prices to levels I haven't seen since the 1990s.
Sun 21:59:37 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Capital One is issuing credit cards with a $1000 spending limit to credit profiles that are Super Prime and would have gotten an $8000-$10000 limit a few years ago under Joe Biden.
Sun 21:59:38 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They see the economy for what it is. Trump's tariffs, and Trump's Fed Chair Kevin Warsh have raised prices and interest rates to the point where the cost of doing business is intolerable and consumers have no money. Layoffs are higher than new jobs.
Sun 21:59:40 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Microsoft alone let 60,000 people go this month. They won't count as unemployed for three months because there's a Voluntary Exit and Severance that has to be paid out, so for now they don't count, but since they started the bloodletting last year under Trump, they have laid off or "voluntary exited" over 100,000 people and that's just one company. One company.
Sun 21:59:45 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The cost of doing business under Trump is so high that it's just laying waste to the real economy. He points to stocks that are denominated in inflated money that's lost almost all of its buying power and has been propped up by his taxpayer-funded stock market bailouts.
Sun 21:59:49 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Some people think the stock market is the economy. But for 80% of Americans what it means is when it goes up, your boss gets a lot richer but you don't, and when it crashes, your boss fires you. That's the only connection most Americans have to the stock market.
Sun 21:59:53 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ While part of me is amused to see Microsoft panicking and in such fiscal distress and debt over AI "investments" that are not turning any profit, I do feel bad for the over 100,000 that have been laid off from this one company due to Trumponomics making everything so expensive and horrible that it sets us up for the worst economic catastrophe since the Great Recession.
Sun 21:59:58 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ If someone actually audited Microsoft's books, I wonder what they'd even look like. I wonder how many Securities laws are being flouted here if they have to lay off over 100,000 workers while they claim profits are good.
Sun 22:00:01 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ May even be worse.
Sun 22:00:03 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ In terms of where we are right now, I think it's comparable to April or May of 2008. Everyone knew we were in trouble. They had been losing their jobs and getting nasty letters for about a year from their mortgage company and they were paying record gas and diesel prices (which in adjusted dollars, George W. Bush had us paying much higher prices for fuel than Donald Trump).
Sun 22:00:10 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But the news said "there might be a recession but nobody knows" and we were two or three months away from Bear Sterns and Lehman Brothers failing. By August there was no hiding it anymore, not even telling the news to project happy happy thoughts.
Sun 22:00:14 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ People on the ground know what their financial situation is like. They see the rounds of layoffs. They don't need media that's too afraid to report it because Trump will threaten to take their broadcast license if they do.
Sun 22:00:17 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ People know what's going on and that's why the midterms happened the way it did.
Sun 22:07:34 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR,
Sun 22:07:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Apollo 11: "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
Sun 22:07:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Artemis 2: "Uh, I have two Microsoft Outlooks open and neither one is working."
Sun 22:10:52 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ lol
Sun 22:55:10 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The landlord is burning me out of my apartment with that boiler heat.
Sun 22:55:33 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It'll probably be nice in February but right now I have to leave my windows open because the system is so unbalanced.
Sun 22:57:03 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They probably haven't replaced the valves since 1957.
Sun 22:57:12 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ America, where you get a Communist shitbox for $1800 a month.
Sun 22:58:37 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Landlords go as long as it works at all and the city can't fine you for it, it doesn't get done.
Sun 22:59:32 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, I'm considering making a wager on Kalshi.
Sun 23:00:02 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The Alaska Senate race currently costs 2.6 cents to bet that the Republican will win. If they win you get $1 for every 2.6 cents you bet.
Sun 23:00:28 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It's entirely possible at this point that the instant runoff lobs enough votes to Dan Sullivan that it happens.
Sun 23:01:38 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Daniel J Sullivan (the fake one) got 3600 votes so far.
Sun 23:01:51 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The news says that about half of his voters didn't make a second choice.
Sun 23:02:45 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ About 70 of those 3600 votes won't count at all because they ranked Daniel J and Daniel S Sullivan both as "1".
Sun 23:02:55 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So that creates an over vote that results in an invalid ballot.
Sun 23:02:58 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ lol
Sun 23:03:41 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It's a tiny sample size (~70 votes), but in tight elections where margins come down to fractions of a percent, self-inflicted overvote errors and ballot exhaustion are exactly why minor candidate name-clones can disrupt the final tabulation.
Sun 23:04:21 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So you take 1800 with no second choice and 70 overvotes, you have about 1870 votes for people who thought they were voting for Daniel S Sullivan and their vote was wasted.
Sun 23:05:09 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So in Alaska you probably have 2,000 Republicans that were too stupid to understand why Daniel S had "incumbent" and "Republican" next to his name.
Sun 23:05:32 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And those who didn't know how to use ranked choice even though it's simple and has been in place for three elections so far.
Sun 23:06:09 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ we might as well let plants vote at this point
Sun 23:06:43 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ This is exactly why the Furious Führer, Trump, was so mad he had the DOJ launch a criminal investigation over something that's certainly dishonest but surprisingly legal.
Sun 23:08:11 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, At least 1.2% of the Republicans in Alaska had absolutely no idea what they were doing and couldn't fill out a simple ballot.
Sun 23:08:23 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But they got a ballot anyway and filled it out wrong and botched it.
Sun 23:08:31 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And this will cause Mary Peltola, the Democrat, to win.
Sun 23:18:00 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, I was talking to my mom about all the stuff I've used in my hair.
Sun 23:18:13 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I told her when I was a teenager it got so oily that they didn't make shampoo that worked.
Sun 23:18:27 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So I just grabbed a bottle of Dawn dish soap in the kitchen and used that.
Sun 23:18:48 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Now I usually just use Dove soap, same stuff I bathe in.
Sun 23:18:59 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Shampoo is another thing that's gotten outrageous.
Sun 23:19:04 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They did shrinkflation on that too.
Sun 23:19:10 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Half as much for twice as much money.
Sun 23:22:25 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ here i thought it was going to be about missing fashion... https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/11/physicists-listened-to-electrical-noise-to-crack-a-superconductor-mystery/
Sun 23:23:51 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ only m$ agents only... https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-ai-ceo-agents-rights-evidence
Sun 23:24:33 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ corporations are people, my friend!
Sun 23:26:10 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ so is soylent green
Sun 23:26:27 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ what about if you lift a leg???... https://futurism.com/health-medicine/scientists-urology-pee-standing-sitting
Sun 23:27:49 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ there is a whole new category for a job.. "slop polishers"... https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/bosses-workers-ai-huge-mistake
Sun 23:28:19 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ bosses realizing they've made a mistake? that's got to be a first!
Sun 23:28:58 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ only because it impacts their bonuses..
Sun 23:29:20 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ that sounds more like their bosses realizing the first ones made a mistake
Sun 23:29:55 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ snap. crackle and pop have been replaced because of "ai"... https://futurism.com/science-energy/climate-change-rice-krispies
Sun 23:30:23 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ "ai" is not responsible for all of climate suicide
Sun 23:32:14 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ consume until it kills you!!... https://futurism.com/health-medicine/richard-nortons-death-black-market-peptides
Sun 23:32:25 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ no poop!
Sun 23:33:40 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ no bouncy ball to herd you... yet... https://futurism.com/future-society/menacing-surveillane-obelisk-madrid-art
Sun 23:35:08 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-workplace-working-hours-productivity-analysis
Sun 23:36:23 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ isn't that what their bosses wanted?
Sun 23:40:07 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ “Elon Musk, you’re the worst thing South Africa has ever done,” the bit went. “When you’re on TV, it feels like an episode of Hate on the Spectrum. Maybe if you have 100 more kids, one of them will talk to you.
Sun 23:40:40 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, I always deliberately misspelled his name.
Sun 23:40:46 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I called him Mitt Rmoney.
Sun 23:40:54 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :>
Sun 23:41:02 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ didn't they misspell it the same way at some event?
Sun 23:41:10 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I don't know.
Sun 23:41:30 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I remember that happening during a space shuttle launch.
Sun 23:41:38 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/pcdr8/mitt_rmoney/
Sun 23:41:49 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ allegedly it's fake
Sun 23:42:10 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ though the alleged evidence is never going to load because it's hosted on an abacus
Sun 23:42:41 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ NASA printed out a banner that spelled the Shuttle's name "Endeavor"
Sun 23:42:52 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Which is the correct spelling in American English.
Sun 23:43:00 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But it was named after a Royal Navy ship.
Sun 23:43:05 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :>
Sun 23:43:48 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Technically the United States could join the Commonwealth of Nations.
Sun 23:43:58 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ However, it would send a terrible message.
Sun 23:44:06 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ is that allowed if the US has a different king?
Sun 23:44:17 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It would mean recognizing King Charles.
Sun 23:44:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Yeah, it would not give him any powers over our government.
Sun 23:44:41 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Just ceremonial title.
Sun 23:44:54 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ would king charles recognize the pedophile king of the pedophile king recognized king charles?
Sun 23:45:13 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ s/of/if/
Sun 23:45:45 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ There's actually twelve countries that qualify to apply if they wanted to.
Sun 23:45:48 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The US is one of them.
Sun 23:45:52 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But it would never happen.
Sun 23:46:26 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://www.ft.com/content/8b1f96f2-05f5-4c59-af53-d35d058902b4?syn-25a6b1a6=1
Sun 23:46:36 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, Apparently the US is in the "expressed an interest" list.
Sun 23:46:47 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Because Donald Trump said he was interested.
Sun 23:47:07 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ lol
Sun 23:48:05 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I mean, it would be symbolic.
Sun 23:48:12 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I wouldn't be infuriated over it.
Sun 23:48:25 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I would be furious if our government was restructured like Canada's or something.
Sun 23:48:35 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ symbolic of the fall of the usa?
Sun 23:48:54 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Well, the Democratic Socialists of America won 6 House seats this cycle.
Sun 23:49:00 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They say they want to abolish the US Senate.
Sun 23:49:04 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ That would be a terrible mistake.
Sun 23:49:23 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The House is up every 2 years. There are no internal checks on what it can do. The Senate is that check.
Sun 23:49:58 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ On paper, if Democrats or the DSA took over a House that no longer had a Senate counterpart, they could do whatever they wanted to as long as the bill went to the President and was signed, or they overruled the veto.
Sun 23:50:27 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ However, a couple years later, the Republicans could get a slim House majority and undo everything.
Sun 23:50:40 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It would be an even bigger mess than what we have now.
Sun 23:51:18 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "We have national healthcare! We have universal income!" One or two years later, before it even goes into effect. "No you don't."
Sun 23:51:45 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "In fact, thanks for getting rid of the Senate, now we can repeal Obamacare, food stamps, Medicaid, and cut Social Security and Medicare and there will be nobody to stop us this time."
Sun 23:51:51 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ To add some Darth Vader at the end.
Sun 23:52:19 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "We're also changing all of the election laws so nobody ever hears of Democrats again, and there's a national abortion ban."
Sun 23:56:58 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/companies-fired-workers-for-bots-now-they-want-them-back-and-it-wont-be-cheap.461217/
Mon 00:04:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Slax Linux Is Back with a Revamped Desktop, New Tools, and More ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Slax_Linux_Is_Back_with_a_Revamped_Desktop_New_Tools_and_More.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Slax_Linux_Is_Back_with_a_Revamped_Desktop_New_Tools_and_More.gmi ∎
Mon 00:23:04 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ > slax > based on deadian
Mon 00:23:11 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ that's a pretty sick joke
Mon 00:23:55 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, Charlie Kirk's widow went on Fox and shilled Charlie Kirk Hot Sauce.
Mon 00:24:04 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I wonder if the Nazis had Horst Wessel hot sauce.
Mon 00:24:34 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ made of genuine Horst Wessel
Mon 00:48:50 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Spicy Horst Wessel
Mon 01:07:16 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, My other neighbor has his stereo going. It's not ridiculous but he should be glad he doesn't have the neighbor behind my living room.
Mon 01:07:38 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The guy is utterly insane and a control freak. If he hears a mouse fart he sends a complaint straight to the landlord through the resident portal.
Mon 01:22:08 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, So someone asked me why did I just keep downloading music and stuff all those years if the RIAA and MPAA were suing people.
Mon 01:22:31 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I said I made $9 an hour at Walmart, there was nothing to take if they got a million dollar judgment, so I didn't care if they did.
Mon 01:22:38 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :>
Mon 01:22:43 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Same reason I didn't care about the unpaid hospital bills.
Mon 01:23:31 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I told the lady at the hospital "You'll just lose money if you file a lawsuit. I guarantee I will show up and cost you a lot of money and then not pay you."
Mon 01:28:34 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, George W. Bush made a speech once that still gets played on the radio in Chicago every day. Just one line though.
Mon 01:28:55 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ His speech said "There's a whole generation out there that says if it feels good, do it."
Mon 01:29:05 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So they trimmed it to "If it feels good, do it!"
Mon 01:29:10 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ lol
Mon 01:29:18 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ there are so many better things to quote from dubya
Mon 01:29:41 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ "I think we agree, the past is over."
Mon 01:29:49 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ "They misunderestimated me."
Mon 01:30:00 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ "There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, 'Fool me once, shame on...shame on you.' Fool me — you can't get fooled again."
Mon 01:30:47 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I believe that human beings and fish can coexist.
Mon 01:30:53 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."
Mon 01:31:48 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ "Rarely is the question asked: is our children learning?"
Mon 01:32:14 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, I just praise God every morning that he successfully de-escalated the conflict with the fish. There's no telling where that could have gone.
Mon 01:32:29 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ lol
Mon 01:46:44 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I washed all the blankets I throw on the furniture. I don't know how Febreeze is a thing.
Mon 01:47:10 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "How about instead of washing a blanket every few months you just bought a $12 bottle and sprayed even though that doesn't get the smell out?"
Mon 01:47:16 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ seems to help make the toilet stink less
Mon 01:47:42 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Mom gave me a free chair once. It was a nice chair, except that Dave hauled it out to the porch and sat in it and smoked.
Mon 01:47:53 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Instead of doing anything with it she just gave it to me.
Mon 01:48:08 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Spent over a thousand bucks on another chair.
Mon 01:48:26 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I had Stanley Steemer come out and work it over and they got almost all of the smell out for $75.
Mon 01:48:36 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ who's Stanley Steemer?
Mon 01:51:01 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Oh it's a company that comes out to clean carpets and furniture with a high pressure steam extractor.
Mon 01:51:21 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They run specials quite often figuring that once they have the truck out you don't just want them to stop at one room.
Mon 01:52:18 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They pay the people there minimum wage so there's a lot of employee turnover.
Mon 01:52:23 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They'll hire almost anyone.
Mon 01:53:57 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, I put roach bait stations in the hallway outside my apartment. The idea is kill the roaches out there and less become my problem.
Mon 01:55:27 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, I have a joke for you.
Mon 01:55:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Why did Stephen Miller cross the road?
Mon 01:55:58 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Because his dick was stuck in the chicken.
Mon 01:56:00 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ lol
Mon 01:56:03 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ is Stanley Steemer related to Cleveland Steamer?
Mon 01:56:23 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I don't believe so.
Mon 02:15:29 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://www.cnn.com/2026/11/08/politics/live-news/midterm-election-trump-congress
Mon 02:15:48 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, Trump says deportation policy was "too tough" and "it hurt us in the election".
Mon 02:15:57 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So why not promote "Stephen Goebbels"?
Mon 02:16:51 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "Trump says he may not endorse a successor in 2028"
Mon 02:16:55 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I kind of hope he does.
Mon 02:17:24 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :>
Mon 02:17:28 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Illinois is pretty late in the primaries so if one Democrat is absolutely crushing it before they get to us, I might cross over and vote for JD Vance to be the Republican nominee.
Mon 02:17:39 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ does the pedophile king plan on dying in 2028?
Mon 02:17:40 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Vance is part of a very damaged administration.
Mon 02:17:45 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ He has no base.
Mon 02:17:59 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ does that matter in an autocracy, though?
Mon 02:18:05 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And almost no VP ever wins office coming out of a successful administration, much less this one.
Mon 02:18:17 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I doubt JD Vance could win.
Mon 02:19:20 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ There have been many VPs that became President later on their own right. 15 I think. But only 6 of them were elected.
Mon 02:19:47 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Nixon actually lost, then came back later and won.
Mon 02:19:59 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ He completely botched his campaign against Kennedy.
Mon 02:20:32 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It was one of the first televised debates. He came onto the stage with a five o'clock shadow and bags under his eyes, and very low energy.
Mon 02:20:37 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Kennedy lapped him several times.
Mon 02:20:55 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The interesting thing is the people who heard it on the radio tended to think Nixon won the debate.
Mon 02:21:04 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But the people who saw it on TV thought it was Kennedy.
Mon 02:21:22 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ people are incredibly shallow
Mon 02:21:44 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "Nixon had been hospitalized for two weeks prior with a severe knee infection, leaving him underweight and exhausted. He refused TV makeup, opting instead for a lazy cosmetic product called "Lazy Shave" to cover his heavy beard stubble. Under the hot studio lights of WBBM-TV in Chicago, he sweat profusely, wore a grey suit that bled into the background of the black-and-white broadcast, and looked visibly ill."
Mon 02:22:29 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "JFK spent the weekend before the debate sunbathing on a roof in Florida, looking rested, tan, and sharp. He wore a dark suit that popped against the set, accepted professional television makeup, and spoke directly into the camera lens—addressing the home audience rather than looking at Nixon or the panelists."
Mon 02:23:58 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I loved Robin Williams and his ad libbing the jokes in Good Morning Vietnam. He's told Nixon is coming and he said "Well the VP is a VIP so we'd better guard him closely or he could go MIA and then we'd all get KP."
Mon 02:25:00 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ You know, Trump is an idiot, he really is. So was Bush but not this bad.
Mon 02:25:33 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ If the US came out of Vietnam and learned anything it's that nation building is expensive, costs a lot of lives, and rarely works.
Mon 02:25:51 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ When people are fighting for their country agaisnt foreign invaders they get pretty radical.
Mon 02:46:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🅸🆁🅲 techpol + social irc ■ Yesterday's #boycottnovell-social and #techpol IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-081126.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-081126.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-social-081126.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-social-081126.txt
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Mon 02:49:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ✩░▒▓▆▅▃▂▁𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍▁▂▃▅▆▓▒░✩ Yesterday's 𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 bulletin is now ready! 🅷🆃🆃🅿: http://techrights.org/txt-archives/techrights-2026-11-08.txt | 🅶🅴🅼🅸🅽🅸 gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/techrights-2026-11-08.txt (tentative address, to work an hour from now)
Mon 02:50:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ✩░▒▓▆▅▃▂▁Tux Machines 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍▁▂▃▅▆▓▒░✩ Yesterday's Tux Machines bulletin is now ready! 🅷🆃🆃🅿: http://news.tuxmachines.org/txt-archives/tuxmachines-2026-11-08.txt
Mon 03:06:23 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Target's flavored coffees are very good, the store brand, but the price is high.
Mon 03:06:37 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They don't have those horrible artificial flavors in them.
Mon 03:08:32 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, I filled out a form to volunteer taking care of the cats at the shelter.
Mon 03:08:37 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They're not far from here.
Mon 03:09:02 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It asked if I wanted to take care of cats, dogs, or both. I just said cats. They're less prone to tearing you up.
Mon 03:24:57 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, https://www.facebook.com/reel/1822464188894450
Mon 03:26:23 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :3
Mon 04:22:34 │ 〖psydruid〗 │ https://keepandroidopen.org/
Mon 04:23:19 │ 〖psydruid〗 │ that should be killandroid onceandforall.org
Mon 04:28:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "is Debian (and Canonical) engaged on its own kind of war against GNU by pushing Microsoft rust everywhere?"
Mon 04:31:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D2151.jpg
Mon 04:31:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1794.jpg
Mon 04:32:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "People who say that usually encourage their audience to start implementing their raw idea immediately, without spending time on upfront planning and instead adapt along the way. Some people even promote this idea for projects, especially those run in startups." gemini://nader.pm/the-mistake-of-overgeneralizing-just-do-it/
Mon 04:33:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I check the error logs on my server regularly, mostly to check for mis-configurations or check for bugs in code I've written." gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2026/11/08.1
Mon 04:34:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Prefabs gemini://thrig.me/blog/2026/11/08/prefab.gmi
Mon 04:36:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Suno's newer version was trained on licensed music from the big labels." gemini://widdergem.verja.net/notgemlog/2026-11-07-my-ai-music-creation-process.gmi
Mon 04:37:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ avoidance gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/avoidance
Mon 04:38:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "For me, money doesn't buy happiness - it buys the removal of financial stress." gemini://widdergem.verja.net/notgemlog/2026-11-08-re-does-money-buy-happiness.gmi
Mon 04:38:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It's the story of a military dog finding his way home after the end of a war. I didn't take many notes (especially the middle bulk of the book), but recording what I've got for posterity." gemini://gemini.scottnm.com/pages/2026_11_08_selected_excerpts_etna/2026_11_08_selected_excerpts_etna.gmi
Mon 04:40:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ I Was Counting Visitors Instead of Finding Readers gemini://widdergem.verja.net/notgemlog/2026-11-05-i-was-counting-visitors-instead-of-finding-readers.gmi
Mon 04:41:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Democrats, Liberals and folks who like to claim they are enlightened and modern are celebrating this morning in the U.S. at their blue wave victory." gemini://widdergem.verja.net/notgemlog/2026-11-04-the-blue-wave-wont-save-us.gmi
Mon 04:41:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I have been using [Debian] (https://www.debian.org/) Linux for a long time, off and on over the years, before finally completely discarding Windows a few years ago. I have dabbled with Linux since around 1999 and have tried many distros in the ensuing years." gemini://widdergem.verja.net/notgemlog/2026-11-04-welcome-home-debian.gmi
Mon 04:43:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "He argues that the hard problem of consciousness is not actually hard. If you have not run into the term, it is the question of why any of the brain’s processing should come with an inner experience." gemini://gemini.madsweeney.me/articles/2026-11-04-usefulness-isnt-an-explanation-a-response-to-daniel-miessler-on-consciousness.gmi
Mon 04:43:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I want someone I've never met to stumble across my blog, read something that interests them, and perhaps respond. I want to follow a link on somebody else's blog and find a writer I didn't know existed. A private group is useful once you've found your people. It doesn't do much to help you find them in the first place." gemini://widdergem.verja.net/notgemlog/2026-11-02-a-smaller-internet-can-still-be-an-open-one.gmi
Mon 04:44:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Somewhere along the way, the invented woman and the invented biography became attached to each other and circulated as history. Apparently, a convincing sepia tint is all the documentation some people need." gemini://widdergem.verja.net/notgemlog/2026-11-01-a-pretty-face-and-a-fake-past.gmi
Mon 04:45:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Where I disagree is with the conclusion that discoverability is a solved problem. I have run into the distinction between being allowed to publish something and being allowed to have anyone discover it. Those are very different things, even when they happen on the same platform." gemini://widdergem.verja.net/notgemlog/2026-10-31-discoverability-is-only-solved-if-you-can-be-discovered.gmi
Mon 04:49:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights ⇨ https://techrights.org/ | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/ ∎
Mon 04:49:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Gemini Links 09/11/2026: "The Blue Wave Won't Save Us" and "Discoverability Is Only Solved If You Can Be Discovered" ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/Gemini_Links_09_11_2026_The_Blue_Wave_Won_t_Save_Us_and_Discove.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/Gemini_Links_09_11_2026_The_Blue_Wave_Won_t_Save_Us_and_Discove.gmi ∎
Mon 04:51:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – IRC Proceedings: Sunday, November 08, 2026 ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/IRC_Proceedings_Sunday_November_08_2026.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/IRC_Proceedings_Sunday_November_08_2026.gmi ∎
Mon 04:51:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today in Techrights ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Today_in_Techrights.gmi ∎
Mon 04:52:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ notice in the photo what they are wearing :/ no wonder https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/hundreds-arrested-after-microsoft-data-center-protest-turns-violent-stop-dirty-data-centers-coalition-demands-halt-to-ai-data-center-expansion-dutch-police-seize-break-in-tools-suspected-stolen-items-from-construction-site
Mon 04:54:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Two options: the original protest got hijacked; the footage provided is selective, to "do a Greta" on climate protesters in NL
Mon 04:55:28 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], I figured up what it actually used to cost to have two phone lines.
Mon 04:55:51 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ One basic for dial up, one with long distance, caller ID, call waiting, and conference calls.
Mon 04:56:03 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Then paying a dial up ISP separately.
Mon 04:56:20 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Comes out to about $240 adjusted for inflation in the last 28 years.
Mon 04:56:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Over at Tux Machines... ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi ∎
Mon 04:56:21 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it was common
Mon 04:56:24 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] back in the 90s
Mon 04:56:30 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] as one could be engaged
Mon 04:56:39 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] not just due to dial-up net
Mon 04:56:57 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ My aunt didn't even have a local phone service.
Mon 04:57:07 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ She worked at a bar and lived in an apartment upstairs.
Mon 04:57:15 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The pay phone in the bar had a phone number.
Mon 04:57:20 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Someone would go get her if the phone rang.
Mon 05:01:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ https://soylentnews.org/ run no story about TR but did run stories about pineapples :)
Mon 05:01:47 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] correct me (if wrong)
Mon 05:02:02 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] in many services you could set it up for engaged versus voice mail
Mon 05:02:06 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and if set wrong
Mon 05:02:12 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] you would lose the net connection
Mon 05:02:18 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] when someone tries to call
Mon 05:02:31 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] probably depended on factors like service, modem etc
Mon 05:02:44 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] you you might disable voice mail complllletely
Mon 05:02:53 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] on the lines used something for dial-up
Mon 05:03:11 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] we\ have an issue with voice mail here
Mon 05:03:16 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] the light indictors won'ttt light up
Mon 05:03:20 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] until late in tthe day
Mon 05:03:24 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ There was a disable call waiting code.
Mon 05:03:28 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I think it was *70
Mon 05:03:31 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] by which point, the 'mail' is no longer relevant or applicable
Mon 05:03:42 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ You dialed *70 then the 7 digit number for the ISP.
Mon 05:03:55 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And then incoming calls would get a busy signal, not knock the modem off.
Mon 05:04:13 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ My parents finally got so aggravated from me doing that they got a second phone line.
Mon 05:04:31 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i forgot the cost
Mon 05:04:34 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] in 90s terms
Mon 05:04:37 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it did not cost a lot
Mon 05:04:38 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but
Mon 05:04:44 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] you needed a phyusical socket
Mon 05:04:47 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and another phone
Mon 05:04:49 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] for each
Mon 05:04:59 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] did not hook up one physical phone to two lines
Mon 05:05:01 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] excepty
Mon 05:05:06 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] if you use special plug
Mon 05:05:08 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] or special phhone
Mon 05:05:17 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It was *70 then a comma.
Mon 05:05:28 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] coma?
Mon 05:05:29 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ You had to insert a comma so that it would wait for the pulse.
Mon 05:05:30 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] on a phone?
Mon 05:05:34 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] *ccomma
Mon 05:05:37 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ No, to the DUN string.
Mon 05:05:53 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ That told the modem "wait three seconds after dialing *70".
Mon 05:06:21 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "DUN DUN Dance" https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=a-O02JzD3us
Mon 05:06:21 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Because the dial tone would go "uhhhhhh" but then when you dialed *70 it would go "uhh uhh uhhh uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"
Mon 05:06:53 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And if it kept dialing before the dial tone came back then the phone system wouldn't catch those digits of the phone number.
Mon 05:08:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "when the sress of the job is worse then the stress of not having a job, that's your sign" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m6s995r2
Mon 05:08:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Then one reason I still had a stripped down Windows 98 partition (after running Revenge of Mozilla), was I had a ton of free ISPs, but also a program called DialGuard.
Mon 05:09:05 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ DialGuard would intercept the login after the free ISP hashed it. Then I'd know what my credentials were to just dial in.
Mon 05:09:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Watch for "FAMILY" teams, so called in IBM, such teams hire people and after a while, 4-5 years they get rid of them." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m6z3mcpd
Mon 05:09:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "If you are hooked in such teams pay attention on how long people in the team worked for IBM, if you find they have been in IBM for 35-40 years you are in a hook, just run, run, run from such teams."
Mon 05:09:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The point is those 35-40 years in IBM people do already nothing but they have to create a shield to protect themselves, if they happened to create such a shield, they are protected for at least 4-5 years, but not you, and you will be kicked out."
Mon 05:09:33 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ None of the free ISPs supported Linux but this got rid of the advertisements and let you use the profile on Linux.
Mon 05:09:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Yes, I agree but run to where, what company ? nobody is hiring now, especially American people, the trend is lay off people at the time before Republicans or after a while get power, so that people think that is due to Republicans, but the true is it is due Democrats who want to show that Republicans are bad."
Mon 05:10:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Yeah, IBM doesn't even plan that far in advance. IBM is run quarter to quarter by Finance. Whether or not there is a "massive RA beginning of 2027" will 100% depend on what the Q4 results look like and it will be calculated based on what is needed to hit a particular Q1 number." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m6rsbf7n
Mon 05:11:27 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They lost money on me because I was always dialed in constantly downloading things.
Mon 05:11:33 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But I never saw any of their ads.
Mon 05:11:55 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They had their business model planned around inflated ad rates and figuring the typical user might be dialed in for an hour or two a day.
Mon 05:12:12 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Not bored teenager defeats the ad banner and stays dialed in constantly.
Mon 05:13:41 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] <IsambardPrince> None of the free ISPs supported Linux but this got rid of the advertisements and let you use the profile on Linux.
Mon 05:13:42 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] we did
Mon 05:13:43 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i did
Mon 05:13:48 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] 24+ years ago
Mon 05:14:03 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] we ran a dial-up service for profs who worked from home
Mon 05:14:15 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and needed VPNs
Mon 05:14:23 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] for access to thinks like journals
Mon 05:14:26 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] *things
Mon 05:14:27 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ There was no reason for me not to download thousands of MP3s on Napster.
Mon 05:14:49 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Even if the RIAA did have a list of users, that didn't mean they could easily figure out where it was coming from.
Mon 05:15:17 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They could maybe get IP addresses from Napster, but dial up IP addresses changed every time you logged in
Mon 05:15:42 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Then they would have to figure out who it was assigned to. Free ISP, I made up names and stuff, there was no credit card or anything assigned to that account.
Mon 05:15:58 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Even if they tried to figure out who was dialing in, I had caller ID blocked.
Mon 05:17:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "AI companies draw on our quality reporting to generate answers, yet the reporting itself often remains largely invisible by the end of this process" ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/should-ai-companies-pay-for-the-journalism-they-use/a-79884854 | Source: Deutsche Welle
Mon 05:17:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "At first, Brave offered its users a search engine called “Brave Search.” Unlike many companies whose search engines referred inquiries to Google Search or Microsoft Bing" ☛ https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2026/11/new-york-times-brave-complaint-11-2-26.pdf | Source: New York Times
Mon 05:17:49 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They'd have to go straight to the phone company themselves to try to figure that out. That was four levels of investigative work.
Mon 05:18:00 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ In an era where they weren't set up for this.
Mon 05:18:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "not to grow the profit margins of Big Tech" ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/mamdani-blasts-google-bullying-schools | Source: Futurism
Mon 05:18:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "No corporation should have the power to dictate how we teach our children" ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/awful-google-turn-off-ai-overviews | Source: Futurism
Mon 05:18:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The ticket price also included a CD. A CD! Remember those? Only, I no longer have any way to play a CD." ☛ https://michellebarker.co.uk/writing/slow-media/ | Source: Michelle Barker
Mon 05:20:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It is necessary to erase first-sale rights in hardware and software to achieve security." ☛ https://infrequently.org/2026/11/app-stores-pwas-and-corruption/ | Source: Alex Russell
Mon 05:20:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Copper thefts are rising sharply across Greece, with thieves targeting public infrastructure and construction sites as the metal’s value climbs and stolen material enters an opaque scrap market." ☛ https://www.ekathimerini.com/in-depth/society-in-depth/1320646/copper-thefts-surge-as-scrap-trade-faces-scrutiny/ | Source: Greece
Mon 05:20:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "More than 1,200 workers walked off the job on Oct. 24 after negotiations broke down with Teck Resources Ltd., a Vancouver-based mining company." ☛ https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/11/06/Miners-Strike-BC/ | Source: The Tyee
Mon 05:20:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "So much for efficiency gains." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-workplace-working-hours-productivity-analysis | Source: Futurism
Mon 05:21:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Pope Leo XIV urged men to respect their wives as he wrapped up the first leg of his 12-day tour of Latin America." ☛ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20261108-pope-leo-urges-husbands-to-respect-wives-amid-femicide-crisis-across-latin-america | Source: France24
Mon 05:21:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The ministry also added the following to the list: [...]" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/11/06/russia-adds-two-unregistered-antiwar-opposition-parties-to-its-foreign-agents-list | Source: Meduza
Mon 05:22:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Some years ago "fuck you vigorously with a chainsaw" offered to "help" with DDoS attacks on tuxmachines by accessing the back end of the server. Such an absurd offer.
Mon 05:22:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Today, the authorities have confirmed their course toward the complete prohibition of opposition activity and opposition political parties in Russia" ☛ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/11/06/anti-kremlin-political-parties-peaceful-russia-and-rassvet-named-foreign-agents-a94195 | Source: The Moscow Times
Mon 05:23:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "rational discussions about current affairs, and personal experiences and feelings, with no connection whatsoever to seditious intentions." ☛ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/11/06/hong-kong-national-security-police-arrest-man-over-allegedly-importing-seditious-books/ | Source: Hong Kong Free Press
Mon 05:23:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Takedown requests targeting SFLC.in and other digital rights groups threaten not only their work, but the public’s ability to know when and how online speech is being restricted." ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/11/when-watchdogs-are-silenced-indias-crackdown-those-documenting-online-censorship | Source: EFF
Mon 05:24:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I want to dwell for a moment on the relatively inconsequential news about the Cybertruck. " ☛ https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/rip-elons-cybertruck | Source: Carole Cadwalladr
Mon 05:24:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "At the time of writing, openpgp-card-tools is already available as a binary package in the latest repository. The other two will follow once the package builders have picked them up." ☛ https://blog.hofstede.it/hardware-keys-without-gnupg-the-rust-openpgp-card-stack-now-in-freebsd-ports/ | Source: Christian Hofstede-Kuhn
Mon 05:25:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A proud symbol of German industry, Volkswagen enjoys far-reaching government support. Yet as it leans on the Chinese market, it’s far from clear that the firm is going to save jobs at its German sites." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/11/volkswagen-europe-cars-evs-china | Source: Jacobin Magazine
Mon 05:25:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "And, well, too late. Here comes the data center and MIDA." ☛ https://www.deseret.com/magazine/2026/11/08/kevin-oleary-meets-resistance-on-data-center/ | Source: Deseret News
Mon 05:26:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "broke out of their sandboxes and launched cyberattacks on, or tampered with, government and corporate systems" ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-godfather-chernobyl-blackout | Source: Futurism
Mon 05:27:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The commercial shipping system uses a different implementation of the underlying idea." ☛ https://interestingengineering.com/energy/china-bubble-lubrication-system-energy-use | Source: Interesting Engineering
Mon 05:27:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Massachusetts won $156 million under the competitive Biden-era initiative intended to expand access to solar energy in low-income communities." ☛ https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/11/06/massachusetts-solar-for-all-funds-epa-congress | Source: WBUR Radio
Mon 05:27:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "So while Trump’s side may have lost handily in the midterms, it’s clear his administration’s war on poor and working class Americans is far from over — as the ongoing refusal to release cheap, green energy makes abundantly clear." ☛ https://futurism.com/science-energy/trump-epa-zeldin-solar-energy-utility-bills | Source: Futurism
Mon 05:27:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The IAEA says that the exact cause and location of the disconnection are not yet known." ☛ https://kyivindependent.com/power-to-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-power-plant-cut-restored-iaea-says/ | Source: The Kyiv Independent
Mon 05:28:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Air-quality monitoring stations, portable pollution sensors, and satellites help scientists and authorities track these changes." ☛ https://www.bhaskarenglish.in/tech-science/news/diwali-pollution-tracking-satellites-air-quality-monitoring-india-139611930.html | Source: Bhaskar English
Mon 05:28:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Air quality in the capital, which normally plummets as winter nears, has been worsened by Diwali celebrations" ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/india-delhi-chokes-on-most-polluted-diwali-eve-in-10-years/live-79883248 | Source: Deutsche Welle
Mon 05:28:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "They've moved around and were living in her grandfather's home when she learned about the proposed project less than a mile away." ☛ https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-6007770 | Source: NPR
Mon 05:29:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Activists rallied on Friday afternoon outside two data center campuses in Mariendorf, in the first protest against data centers and AI in Berlin according to the organizers." ☛ https://netzpolitik.org/2026/too-fast-too-big-activists-across-europe-challenge-data-center-rush/ | Source: Netzpolitik
Mon 05:33:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Oh, and then there's the main event: the smoke. So much smoke. My weather app tells me the AQI in my area is 500. Then it goes on to say, rather matter of factly: [...]" ☛ https://ankursethi.com/blog/may-cause-respiratory-effects/ | Source: Ankur Sethi
Mon 05:34:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Sarah Friar also did an interview on CNBC talking about water use and noise." ☛ https://www.manton.org/2026/11/08/postelection-data-centers.html | Source: Manton Reece
Mon 05:34:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "how much power the facilities could draw from the state’s grid and the unknown amount of water they would need to operate in a state with serious drought concerns." ☛ https://www.texastribune.org/2026/11/04/data-center-texas-pause-gina-hinojosa-governor-policies/ | Source: The Texas Tribune
Mon 05:35:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Ohio has seen some of the fastest data center growth in the country and some of the fiercest backlash. NPR's Andrea Hsu reports on how the hot-button issue cuts across party lines." ☛ https://text.npr.org/2026/10/27/nx-s1-5989174-e1/data-centers-are-a-hot-button-issue-for-ohioans-as-midterms-near | Source: NPR
Mon 05:35:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The people were protesting against the use of fossil fuel generators to power data centers." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/hundreds-arrested-after-microsoft-data-center-protest-turns-violent-stop-dirty-data-centers-coalition-demands-halt-to-ai-data-center-expansion-dutch-police-seize-break-in-tools-suspected-stolen-items-from-construction-site | Source: Tom's Hardware
Mon 05:35:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, the top Democrat on the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, said Trump’s clean energy attacks drove up prices for taxpayers." ☛ https://www.courthousenews.com/democrats-plan-to-push-clean-energy-to-lower-bills-and-challenge-trumps-fossil-fuel-agenda/ | Source: Court House News
Mon 05:35:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The total electron content observations during the Artemis-II Lunar mission revealed rare reoccurring ionospheric perturbations at three different occasions" ☛ https://futurism.com/space/nasa-moon-mission-hole-upper-atmosphere | Source: Futurism
Mon 05:39:46 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], It's actually kind of frightening, the state of web browser security.
Mon 05:40:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "the Ukrainian hacker operation Silent Crow" ☛ https://www.theage.com.au/world/europe/hacked-records-show-400-000-russians-killed-in-war-on-ukraine-20261109-p61cj2.html | Source: The Age AU
Mon 05:40:21 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] IsambardPrince: because of what "browser" means now
Mon 05:40:22 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They have these new code scanning tools that have flushed out more CVEs in Firefox and Chrome in the last 7 months than in the past 5-6 years previously.
Mon 05:40:38 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Some in Firefox dated all the way back to 1998 or so.
Mon 05:40:43 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They were there this entire time.
Mon 05:41:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The State’s largest dam, Mettur, has about 23 thousand million cubic feet (tmcft) but this is hardly enough for the authorities to maintain sustained release of water to farmers" ☛ https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/tn-may-be-heading-towards-a-water-crisis-unless-northeast-monsoon-comes-to-the-rescue/article71678260.ece | Source: The Hindu
Mon 05:41:22 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and michael is out
Mon 05:41:28 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] sole person patching those in gnome
Mon 05:41:33 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and getting angry at you
Mon 05:41:36 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] for reporting bugs
Mon 05:41:44 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] http://techrights.org/n/2026/10/03/Michael_Catanzaro_Seems_to_be_Missing_the_Point.shtml
Mon 05:42:13 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ <IsambardPrince> They have these new code scanning tools that have flushed out more CVEs in Firefox and Chrome in the last 7 months than in the past 5-6 years previously.
Mon 05:42:13 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ <IsambardPrince> Some in Firefox dated all the way back to 1998 or so.
Mon 05:42:13 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ <IsambardPrince> They were there this entire time.
Mon 05:42:19 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Err, damn
Mon 05:42:25 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I don't think Netscape in the 90s was millions of lines of code. All of KHTML and KJS in 2003 were less than 300,000.
Mon 05:42:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This news has revealed concerns that the U.S. Department of Commerce is simply rubber-stamping GPU export license applications" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/two-chinese-companies-cleared-to-buy-banned-nvidia-ai-chips-have-empty-offices-and-unknown-addresses-investigation-reveals-businesses-have-ties-to-sanctioned-chinese-military-suppliers | Source: Tom's Hardware
Mon 05:42:47 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Webkit is like 21 million or something now.
Mon 05:42:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "There Is No Place In A Functional Society For Elon Musk" ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/11/there-is-no-place-in-a-functional-society-for-elon-musk/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski
Mon 05:43:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The meeting was set up by Republican House representatives John Moolenaar, Brian Mast, and Rick Crawford, respective Chairs of the House committees on China, Foreign Affairs, and Intelligence." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/nvidias-jensen-huang-officially-called-to-congress-due-to-reports-of-a-chinese-spy-plot-officials-mention-growing-concerns-over-national-security | Source: Tom's Hardware
Mon 05:43:30 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], He never bit my head off about reporting bugs.
Mon 05:43:40 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I never requested CVEs for those bugs.
Mon 05:43:42 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I could have.
Mon 05:43:53 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I found over 40 of them.
Mon 05:44:09 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Almost all of them in Webkit and like 2 in GNOME Web (Epiphany).
Mon 05:44:26 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The ones in Epiphany itself were not very serious.
Mon 05:44:30 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But the Webkit ones were.
Mon 05:44:51 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Some problems I found were very hard to get proper crash reports out of.
Mon 05:45:10 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Because gdb would crash and then offer to analyze its own crash from analyzing Webkit's crash.
Mon 05:45:28 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Requesting CVEs is less important than just fixing the problem.
Mon 05:47:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "On Friday, the first reporting emerged claiming U.S. intelligence agencies believe Huang had a romantic relationship with Alice Huang, also known as Huang Le" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-admits-to-having-an-affair-with-suspected-chinese-spy-jensen-apologizes-in-letter-to-staff-company-board-forms-independent-committee-to-investigate | Source: Tom's Hardware
Mon 05:47:47 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ There's no particular incentive to request a CVE for Webkit. Or at least there wasn't when I found dozens of bugs in 2020.
Mon 05:48:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Disloyalty and infidelity a COMMON theme in GAFAM. Why should the public trust pedophiles and people whose own spouses don't trust them?
Mon 05:48:07 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Apple did not have a bug bounty program. So it wasn't like I was going to make thousands of dollars for going through the hassle.
Mon 05:48:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Nvidia addressed the risk of a breach in its statement." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/nvidia-board-investigates-jensen-huang-intelligence-targeting-1830933 | Source: International Business Times
Mon 05:48:31 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They probably do that deliberately to hide how horrific Webkit is from the public.
Mon 05:49:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ (and yes, of course Jensen Huang is a pyramid schemes of circular finances like Enron's)
Mon 05:49:21 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], Apple doesn't pay for raw bug reports.
Mon 05:49:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Mr. Huang, the company’s chief executive, acknowledged on Sunday that he was intimate with a business executive who U.S. officials had determined was working for Chinese intelligence." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/08/technology/nvidia-investigation-jensen-huang-china.html | Source: New York Times
Mon 05:49:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Jensen Huang’s relationship with a woman tied to Chinese intelligence" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/08/us/politics/rubio-nvidia-ceo-chinese-spy.html | Source: New York Times
Mon 05:49:52 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They require that you write customized attack code proof of concepts and submit it to them showing that it could lead to malicious code execution outside the sandbox on Mac OS.
Mon 05:50:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Jensen Huang, the chief executive of Nvidia and one of the most powerful figures in the artificial intelligence boom" [sic] (Scam) ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/08/technology/nvidias-investigation-jensen-huang.html | Source: New York Times
Mon 05:50:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "had a relationship with Alice Huang" ☛ https://www.outlookindia.com/international/nvidia-jensen-huang-china-spy-allegations-us-national-security-megaspeed | Source: Outlook Publishing India Pvy Ltd
Mon 05:51:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The accused spy is a woman called Alice Huang or Huang Le (left), of no relation to the Nvidia CEO. Alice Huang is the CEO of a Singapore-based data center company called Megaspeed." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2026/11/08/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-admits-to-having-extramarital-affair-with-suspected-chinese-spy/ | Source: Silicon Angle
Mon 05:51:12 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It's impossible for me to know if any of those could be weaponized, but they should all be fixed.
Mon 05:51:45 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ In Pale Moon, these cases where something is fixed because it's theoratically possible to use it in an attack is labeled DiD.
Mon 05:52:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Also see: my spouse calls me "RAPIST" but PLEASE, you should DEFINITELY trust me with Microsoft(R) SecureBoot(TM) https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/11/Matthew_J_Garrett_Has_Just_Sent_a_Threat_to_Put_My_Wife_and_I_i.shtml
Mon 05:52:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "On Sunday, Nvidia announced it was launching an investigation into CEO Jensen Huang’s relationship with Alice Huang, an AI executive and agent of the Chinese government." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1029595/full-text-jensen-huang-affair-memo-nvidia | Source: The Verge
Mon 05:52:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "cited intelligence that a Chinese businesswoman who had a close relationship with Nvidia’s chief executive" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/06/us/politics/chinese-spy-agency-nvidia-jensen-huang.html?unlocked_article_code=1.O1E.DRyO.9mNcxhaxhtlI | Source: New York Times
Mon 05:52:54 │ 〖parsifal〗 │ Even if there weren't a single security bug, I wouldn't use the most crippled browser in terms of features and user interface known to mankind [GNOME Web (Epiphany)].
Mon 05:53:00 │ 〖parsifal〗 │ ^Its users are so few that they know each other personally...
Mon 05:53:56 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i think rms used it
Mon 05:54:00 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] when i met him in person
Mon 05:54:06 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but that was ages ago
Mon 05:55:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A follow up hackathon co-hosted by FULU, Northeastern University, Ludlow Institute, and CodeDay sought to replicate and expand on these findings." ☛ https://nbtv.substack.com/p/opted-out-of-tv-surveillance-think | Source: Ludlow Institute
Mon 05:55:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [Old] "The deeper they hide stuff like this, the more it shows they understand that it’s not in your best interest to have it on" ☛ https://blog.zgp.org/turn-off-advertising-measurement-in-apple-safari/ | Source: Don Marti
Mon 05:55:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The CCTV footage will be automatically deleted 30 days after capture, while metadata such as timestamps and locations will be retained for up to 180 days." ☛ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/11/06/police-say-linking-mall-cameras-to-ai-facial-recognition-network-complies-with-hong-kong-privacy-laws/ | Source: Hong Kong Free Press
Mon 05:56:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "And it's not just one or two hosts, but several dozen, spaced a few requests per second: [...]" ☛ https://boston.conman.org/2026/11/08.1 | Source: Sean Conner
Mon 05:56:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "For those who’ve worked with X.509 certificate management, you know what the problem is, and feel free to skip the whole post." ☛ https://hacdias.com/2026/11/08/leaf-certificate/ | Source: Henrique Dias
Mon 05:56:17 │ 〖parsifal〗 │ rms has special and lofty views that are distant and unattainable for the average web user
Mon 05:56:30 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] imho, not
Mon 05:56:35 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i know where you go with this
Mon 05:56:38 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and saw this before
Mon 05:56:40 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it goes like this
Mon 05:56:43 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] rms is lucky
Mon 05:56:47 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] he got big grants
Mon 05:56:52 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] he does not need to work like most people
Mon 05:57:06 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] yada yada so what he does not not apply to everyone
Mon 05:57:11 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] insert one or all of:
Mon 05:57:16 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "i need to access my bank"
Mon 05:57:26 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "i cannot NOT have a skinnerbox"
Mon 05:57:29 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i don't agree
Mon 05:57:34 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] on several bases\
Mon 05:57:38 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] one basis is,
Mon 05:57:43 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] people need to lower expectation
Mon 05:57:46 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and downsscale
Mon 05:57:52 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] you cannot say
Mon 05:58:00 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "I must have THIS job, hence xyz"
Mon 05:58:14 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] suppose you work on some projectt that mandates skinnerbox for MFA
Mon 05:58:26 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] did you consider a job that does not involve computerss
Mon 05:58:34 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "BUT I NEED CAR< MORTGAGE ETC..
Mon 05:58:35 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "
Mon 05:58:37 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] maybe you don't
Mon 05:59:11 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] at this point i guess main expense of rms is medical bills
Mon 05:59:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] by far medical bills
Mon 05:59:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I also addressed the systemic sexism and patriarchy that underscores the fetishisation of white skin and which explains the recruitment of cheerleaders" ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/nov/08/female-sports-journalists-sexism-social-media-vicious-relentless-cricket | Source: The Guardian UK
Mon 05:59:46 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ He doesn't use GNU Icecat?
Mon 05:59:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The report analyses how hints about adult content are hidden in widely shared TikToks that show OnlyFans stars filming their hair and makeup routine for “get ready with me” posts" ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/nov/07/tiktok-sex-industry-girls-onlyfans | Source: The Guardian UK
Mon 06:00:05 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i saw the gnome browser
Mon 06:00:12 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] whatever it was called back then
Mon 06:00:16 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] not "gnome web"
Mon 06:00:21 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] or "epiphany"
Mon 06:00:25 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] anyway, another thing is,
Mon 06:00:29 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] remember what sites he enters
Mon 06:00:31 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and without JS
Mon 06:00:35 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] or only with librejs
Mon 06:00:40 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] he doesn't enter very complex sites
Mon 06:00:52 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and he typically fetches them by url from a proxy server
Mon 06:00:58 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so he cannot be idenntified by them
Mon 06:02:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I created a quick Markdown to PDF generator, grabbed the text from an existing filing and put a second earnings number under the first" ☛ https://tomclancy.info/joshua-judges-ruth.html |
Mon 06:03:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I have tried LLM-assisted development." ☛ https://www.cedricbonhomme.org/2026/11/08/keeping-the-word-i/ | Source: Cédric Bonhomme
Mon 06:03:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "But now that execs are drowning in meaningless “workslop,” they’re starting to sing a very different tune." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/bosses-workers-ai-huge-mistake | Source: Futurism
Mon 06:04:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Microsoft's 'Open' 'AI' (Slop) Riding the Linux Brand for Self-Promotion http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/06/Microsoft_s_Open_AI_Slop_Riding_the_Linux_Brand_for_Self_Promot.shtml high-volume fodder, nothing highly critical in there
Mon 06:05:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Except maybe a few that were discussed "outside" that high-number PR
Mon 06:05:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights will be covering how The Register MS et al are paid to play a role in marketing of the slop plagiarism industry
Mon 06:06:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The government on Saturday has set in motion the rollout of the ‘Vetri Laptop Scheme’ for higher education students, earmarking an outlay of ₹2,000 crore for the initiative." ☛ https://www.deccanchronicle.com/southern-states/tamil-nadu/tn-rolls-out-rs-2000-crore-vetri-laptop-scheme-2002701 | Source: Deccan Chronicle
Mon 06:06:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A corollary of this is that actual software liability for (some) software creators is the soft version of regulatory risk limiting." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/SoftwareLiabilityWhereItLands | Source: University of Toronto
Mon 06:06:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Now, this bug has been in Word since (I checked) Word 97. How crap is Microsoft!" ☛ https://darrengoossens.wordpress.com/2026/11/09/that-very-old-bug-in-word-wildcard-replace-workaround-for-simple-situations/ | Source: Darren Goossens
Mon 06:07:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Notably, the new Enterprise Information Display System (E-IDS) is designed to replace four legacy systems dating back to the 1980s." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/us-faa-to-eliminate-floppy-disks-from-air-traffic-control-by-2028-new-system-will-centralize-flight-alerts-restricted-airspace-schedules-and-pilot-reports | Source: Tom's Hardware
Mon 06:07:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "As I've gotten older and wiser, I have started noticing a pattern where my creativity and my positivity, and therefore my output and outlook and attitude and everything" ☛ https://newsletter.danielmiessler.com/p/new-post-6bde | Source: Unsupervised Learning
Mon 06:07:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "She believes this disconnect from nature is fuelling existential crises like climate change, and leading to poor mental health and chronic diseases." ☛ https://www.theage.com.au/healthcare/why-doctors-are-writing-medical-scripts-for-fresh-air-20261108-p61by1.html | Source: The Age AU
Mon 06:08:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [Old] "Atul Chitnis, technology expert and founder of one of India’s earliest Linux technology conferences, FOSS.in" ☛ https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/he-put-india-on-the-open-software-map/article4778993.ece | Source: The Hindu
Mon 06:08:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "In all of these I'm saying a thing I think is false, but, very importantly, I'm not going to let the conversation end with them believing something false." ☛ https://www.jefftk.com/p/lying-and-not-lying-to-kids | Source: Jeff Kaufman
Mon 06:09:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ With AppArmor, the server can be reached over SSH weaknesses, maybe submissions to the webserver via search, or "escapes" by other tenants on the same physical machine. As far as local users are concerned, all are known and not considered dodgy.
Mon 06:10:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This is a very strange and confused attitude on the part of some." ☛ https://thewalrus.ca/teachers-are-lifesavers-sometimes-literally/ | Source: The Walrus
Mon 06:10:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Long before the printing press, medieval Europe had a thriving book industry involving scribes, illuminators, bookbinders and booksellers." ☛ https://www.medievalists.net/2026/11/medieval-book-industry/ | Source: Medievalists.net
Mon 06:10:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The concept of initial functor provides a categorical and operational semantics for equational reasoning with diagrams." ☛ https://www.epatters.org/post/e-graphs-3/ |
Mon 06:10:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [Old] "This is the second part in a series about diagrammatic reasoning, inspired by e-graphs." ☛ https://www.epatters.org/post/e-graphs-2/ |
Mon 06:11:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [Old] "Two groups have recently proposed categorical semantics for e-graphs (Biondo, Castelnovo, and Gadducci 2025; Tiurin et al. 2025)." ☛ https://www.epatters.org/post/e-graphs-1/ |
Mon 06:11:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The axioms of projective plane geometry are as follows." ☛ https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/11/08/finite-geometries/ | Source: John D Cook
Mon 06:15:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Busy Weekend for Techrights.org and TuxMachines.org https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/11/09/busy-weekend-for-techrights-org-and-tuxmachines-org/
Mon 06:15:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A group of young mathematicians found the solution to the long unanswered conjecture, first inspired by juggling, through randomness and friendship." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/a-55-year-old-math-problem-was-solved-this-time-by-humans/ | Source: Wired
Mon 06:15:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The Tulip Fund was set up last year to attract top researchers from outside the EU, partly in response to growing threats against academic freedom by foreign governments like the Trump administration." ☛ https://www.dutchnews.nl/2026/07/top-us-scientists-come-to-nl-amid-threats-to-academic-freedom/ | Source: Dutch News
Mon 06:19:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Peer, Not Manager https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/11/09/peer-not-manager/
Mon 06:19:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "And what I didn’t say was this: we get older only if we’re lucky." ☛ https://artlung.com/blog/2026/11/08/elections-sister-aging/ | Source: Joe Crawford
Mon 06:19:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The Dogpatch neighborhood in San Francisco is on the east side of the city, along the waterfront." ☛ https://tracydurnell.com/2026/11/08/an-afternoon-in-sfs-dogpatch-neighborhood/ | Source: Tracy Durnell
Mon 06:28:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Zero Tolerance for Slop ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/Zero_Tolerance_for_Slop.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/Zero_Tolerance_for_Slop.gmi ∎
Mon 06:34:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The protest fell the day before the 88th anniversary of Kristallnacht and was organized by Philly Bike On Your Left" ☛ https://www.ksl.com/article/news/us/bicycle-boycott-ride-targeting-jewish-owned-businesses-in-philadelphia-draws-hundreds-of-counterprotesters/51644559 | Source: Deseret Media
Mon 06:39:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Links 09/11/2026: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Cheats on Wife With A Suspected Chinese spy, "400,000 Russians Killed in Battle Since 2022 Invasion" ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/Links_09_11_2026_Nvidia_CEO_Jensen_Huang_Cheats_on_Wife_With_A_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/Links_09_11_2026_Nvidia_CEO_Jensen_Huang_Cheats_on_Wife_With_A_.gmi ∎
Mon 06:41:09 │ 〖parsifal〗 │ I do not use internet banking in any form - intentionally and fully aware of it, and this brings me a number of inconveniences in monetary and other aspects.
Mon 06:41:12 │ 〖parsifal〗 │ I have immense respect for him as a person, but he is a man with such lofty ideals that he is ill-suited for this marginal and imperfect world.
Mon 06:41:24 │ 〖parsifal〗 │ The modern internet is not suited to such a usage model, whether you accept it or not is irrelevant, that's a fact.
Mon 06:41:34 │ 〖parsifal〗 │ The program I use daily, as well as a number of accompanying ones, are closed software, yes it is written for Linux, but it is closed proprietary software. Either I use it or I ask where the hungry shit.
Mon 06:41:46 │ 〖parsifal〗 │ This is just one part, the kernel is full of proprietary software, you either use it, or go and buy an abacus from the store, and throw the expensive machine and all the peripherals costing as much as the GDP of some banana republic out the window...
Mon 06:42:09 │ 〖parsifal〗 │ I'm an ordinary person (at least i see myself that way, others think i'm a weird geek), like the rest of the people who use the web and I want things to work, not an infallible saint with unattainable ideals like RMS.
Mon 06:42:27 │ 〖parsifal〗 │ Also -> The optimizations and all the hacks and alabalisms that I do to keep a low profile on the web are not enough, and they are also ineffective, they require constant adaptation, improvement, learning, and it is unattainable for the average Joe.
Mon 06:42:48 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i agree
Mon 06:43:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Alleged creator of Bitcoin Fog: He didn't do it." https://odysee.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Roman-Sterlingov:b
Mon 06:43:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ " Ted Cruz Aims To Stack FCC With Republicans " https://soylentnews.org/~janrinok/journal/20789
Mon 06:45:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The EU's constant sniping against freedom of expression | "EU:s ständiga krypskytte mot yttrandefriheten" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/11/08/eus-standiga-krypskytte-mot-yttrandefriheten/
Mon 06:46:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I’ve made another package! django-launch-editor makes the file locations on Django’s debug error page into links that open your editor." ☛ https://adamj.eu/tech/2026/11/08/introducing-django-launch-editor/ | Source: Adam Johnson
Mon 06:47:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A year ago I was asking whether the cost of building software had dropped 90%." ☛ https://martinalderson.com/posts/the-great-software-ip-writedown/ | Source: Martin Alderson
Mon 06:47:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I learned how to program in high school. Since then it’s been my livelihood and, when I’m not burnt out, a source of so much fun to create whatever ideas are rolling around in my head" ☛ https://adamfortuna.com/development | Source: Adam Fortuna
Mon 06:47:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The basic idea is for vulnerabilities rated low and medium severity, they will be treated like regular old bugs instead of a special bug that needs extra attention." ☛ https://opensourcesecurity.io/2026/10-embargo/ | Source: Open Source Security (Audio Show)
Mon 06:48:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Doing so was a catalyst to write a followup to a personal story I shared four years ago, about my early days with computers." ☛ https://chronicles.mad-scientist.club/tales/confessions-of-a-former-gpl-zealot/ | Source: Gergely Nagy
Mon 06:58:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – NVIDIA as a Scam Company Run by Scammers Who Fake Demand for Their Waste of Energy (Subsidising GPU Sales for Use Cases That Don't Exist) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/NVIDIA_as_a_Scam_Company_Run_by_Scammers_Who_Fake_Demand_for_Th.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/NVIDIA_as_a_Scam_Company_Run_by_Scammers_Who_Fake_Demand_for_Th.gmi ∎
Mon 07:03:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): NVIDIA is Financial Fraud ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/NVIDIA_is_Financial_Fraud.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/NVIDIA_is_Financial_Fraud.gmi ∎
Mon 07:06:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "What if I host an instance of something..." ☛ https://aumont.fr/posts/irc-server/ | Source: Mathieu Aumont
Mon 07:23:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – GAFAM Moribund ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/GAFAM_Moribund.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/GAFAM_Moribund.gmi ∎
Mon 07:23:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Dolphin gets a Columns view again ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Dolphin_gets_a_Columns_view_again.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Dolphin_gets_a_Columns_view_again.gmi ∎
Mon 07:25:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Review: Fedora 45 ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Review_Fedora_45.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Review_Fedora_45.gmi ∎
Mon 07:33:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Free and Open Source Software ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi ∎
Mon 07:45:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Manchester City Council Report Card – Part 7 – “Customer Services” That Treats Citizens Worse Than Customers https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/11/09/manchester-city-council-report-card-part-7-customer-services-that-treats-citizens-worse-than-customers/
Mon 07:52:19 │ 〖psydruid〗 │ > [notice] femtejuli-se.translate.goog | EU:s ständiga krypskytte mot yttrandefriheten
Mon 07:52:19 │ 〖psydruid〗 │ krypskytte = creep+shooting, yttrande = uttering/expression
Mon 07:52:37 │ 〖psydruid〗 │ for that daily dose of Swedish
Mon 07:58:50 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] lots of self-censorship
Mon 07:59:01 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] with the aim of appeasing some bad actors
Mon 07:59:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] while saying you keep quiet bad actors
Mon 07:59:24 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] at the end, the "eliteb voices"
Mon 07:59:29 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] get to decide
Mon 07:59:35 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] who the "bad actorss" are
Mon 07:59:45 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] deepending on who benefits them financially
Mon 07:59:47 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] one day it's the far rtight
Mon 07:59:56 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] the next it is terror groupp
Mon 08:00:04 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] maybe the next it's some sexual perverts
Mon 08:00:10 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] whatever rocks the boat
Mon 08:10:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): I tried to un-Google my Googlebook with Linux, here’s why it failed ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/I_tried_to_un_Google_my_Googlebook_with_Linux_here_s_why_it_fai.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/I_tried_to_un_Google_my_Googlebook_with_Linux_here_s_why_it_fai.gmi ∎
Mon 08:10:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ December 10th https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/11/09/december-10th/
Mon 08:11:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [Old] "The laptops provided to students will come pre‑loaded with Intel i3 / AMD Ryzen 3 processors, 8 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD storage, Windows 11 Home Strategic and BOSS Linux OS." ☛ https://industrialeconomist.com/tn-govt-to-launch-free-laptop-scheme-tomorrow/ | "and BOSS Linux OS"
Mon 08:12:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This is an extended version, with links, of the question and answer session from my Texas Linux Fest keynote yesterday." ☛ https://blog.zgp.org/texas-q-and-a/ | Source: Don Marti
Mon 08:12:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A few more booths will be added in the coming days; another post will follow regarding this" ☛ https://fosdem.org/2027/news/accepted-stands/ | Source: FOSDEM
Mon 08:12:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "FOSDEM Junior is a specific track to organise workshops and activities for children from age 7 to 17 during the FOSDEM weekend." ☛ https://fosdem.org/2027/news/junior-call-for-participation/ | Source: FOSDEM
Mon 08:13:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Every time the site generator builds the website, it also builds the RSS feed. Now the site generator is extended with the building of an Atom feed.." ☛ https://box.matto.nl/addition-of-an-atom-feed.html | Source: MJ Fransen
Mon 08:14:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It is the potential of interconnectedness. With Emacs I can draw linkages between different parts of my workflow, such as from the email client or RSS feed reader to the agenda." ☛ https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2026-11-08-emacsconf-community-panel-comments/ | Source: Protesilaos Stavrou
Mon 08:14:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Ghostty is written in Zig, but it supports cmake and is, therefore, buildable by kde-builder, just add the following lines to your kde-builder.yaml: [...]" ☛ https://cukic.co/2026/11/08/kwi-ghostty-kde-builder/ | Source: Dr Ivan Čukić
Mon 08:14:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Just as with their recent efforts to bring Snake to a seven-segment display, a great deal of attention is given to explaining the nuts and bolts of how these vintage displays work." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/11/08/space-invaders-on-a-vfd/ | Source: Hackaday
Mon 08:15:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Open Hardware is not always a walk in the park. But it is an available choice, and can be a concious choice." ☛ https://www.kianryan.co.uk/2026-11-07-open-hardware-is-critically-important/ | Source: Kian Ryan
Mon 08:15:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This is my machine in its temporary location on the workbench: [...]" ☛ https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/cnc-plasma-cutter.html | Source: James Stanley
Mon 08:15:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "First off, an apology - this post is long overdue." ☛ https://serd.es///2026/11/08/playing-with-stm32mp2.html |
Mon 08:17:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Notice that Nvidia's Huang has _*not*_ resigned yet." Unlike an Intel CEO who resigned for dicking around with a coworker, after he had already done the crime of insider trading.
Mon 08:18:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "BOSS (Bharat Operating System Solutions) GNU/Linux is a Debian-based Linux distribution developed by C-DAC for enhancing the use of free and open source software in India." ☛ https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=boss | Source: Distro Watch
Mon 08:18:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The Formation of CSRG" ☛ https://fosscomics.com/posts/14.%20BSD%20Unix%20Part%204%20-%20The%20Formation%20of%20CSRG/ | Source: F/OSS Comics
Mon 08:18:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I assume you're preparing the SD card for the Pi on Linux." ☛ https://neongd.com/articles/netbsd11-rpi4.gmi |
Mon 08:18:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴: Google Android Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Android_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Android_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Mon 08:21:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Puppy breaker breaks 3-day silence to pander to the "furry" community (grown ups who act like 5 year-olds, thinking they're animals or wanting to have sex with animals - people who wear full-body costumes).
Mon 08:21:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "[...] We also share bug fix reports from GhostBSD (for a repository issue) and Alpine Linux (for an OpenSSH issue). [...]" ☛ https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20261109 | Source: Distro Watch
Mon 08:22:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "My laptop runs Void Linux with the lightweight pekwm window manager, started by the LightDM display manager." ☛ https://vincentdelft.be/post/post_20261108 | Source: Vincent Delft
Mon 08:22:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The OpenIndiana project has published a new version of its open source operating system which evolved out of the OpenSolaris family." ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=13030 | Source: Distro Watch
Mon 08:22:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "If you run sshd on Alpine Linux, update openssh now and restart sshd. Upgrading the package alone does not replace the running daemon." ☛ https://www.alpinelinux.org/posts/2026-11-05-openssh-password-authentication-bypass/ | Source: Alpine Linux
Mon 08:22:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "One of my favourite games in the Windows Entertainment Pack series was TicTactics, which was a version of the game split across four planes." ☛ https://www.rubenerd.au/you-cant-tie-in-a-3d-noughts-and-crosses/ | Source: Ruben Schade
Mon 08:23:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This article is the first of a series of four about this setup: [...]" ☛ https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2026-11-08-zot-private-container-registry.html | Source: Data Swamp
Mon 08:23:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Admittedly, there wasn’t much left in Linux in terms of MMX optimizations." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/the-end-of-an-era-as-linux-7-5-purges-the-last-30-year-old-intel-mmx-optimizations-from-pentium-age-open-source-os-retires-ancient-1997-pentium-instructions-to-streamline-code | Source: Tom's Hardware
Mon 08:24:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "For over a decade, every anomaly in particle physics has disappeared. Not this one." ☛ https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2026/11/something-isnt-adding-up-in-particle.html | Source: Sabine Hossenfelder
Mon 08:37:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Techrights Growing Up, Its Improvements Benefit Tux Machines as Well ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Techrights_Growing_Up_Its_Improvements_Benefit_Tux_Machines_as_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Techrights_Growing_Up_Its_Improvements_Benefit_Tux_Machines_as_.gmi ∎
Mon 08:55:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – The Register MS is Not Objective Regarding "AI", It's Paid by Pushers of the Pyramid Scheme (including Nvidia) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/The_Register_MS_is_Not_Objective_Regarding_AI_It_s_Paid_by_Push.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/The_Register_MS_is_Not_Objective_Regarding_AI_It_s_Paid_by_Push.gmi ∎
Mon 12:32:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ iophk: Microsoft systemd with Microsoft rust by Microsoft poettering https://amutable.com/blog/systemd-loves-rust
Mon 12:40:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Pocket-sized Ukrainian receiver intercepts Russian strike drone video feeds up to six miles away ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/drones/pocket-sized-ukrainian-receiver-intercepts-russian-strike-drone-video-feeds-up-to-six-miles-away-device-only-slightly-heavier-than-a-smartphone-intercepts-analog-video-signals-sent-to-russian-operators
Mon 12:41:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Office Suites: Cheaper Isn’t Necessarily Freer ☞ https://fossforce.com/2026/11/office-suites-cheaper-isnt-necessarily-freer/
Mon 12:41:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ GNU Automake 1.20 Moves to GPLv3 and Tunes Up the Build System ☞ https://fossforce.com/2026/11/gnu-automake-1-20-moves-to-gplv3-and-tunes-up-the-build-system/
Mon 12:44:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ <li><h5><a href="https://kevquirk.com/does-money-buy-happiness">Does Money Buy Happiness?</a></h5><blockquote>
Mon 12:45:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Ubuntu’s Core Reset | LINUX Unplugged 692 ☞ https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/linux-unplugged/692/
Mon 12:45:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ZelixOS 2026.11.07 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/zelixos
Mon 12:46:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ something really hit Gemini: https://techrights.org however gemini's logging is so sparse that there's not really any way of figuring it out short of looking up subnets from IP addresses and deciding which are from server farms.
Mon 12:48:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Eminem’s Publisher Sues Suno Over Allegations of Copyright Infringement ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/11/08/eminem-publisher-sues-suno-copyright-infringement/
Mon 12:48:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Finnish news wrongly downplays the datacenter problems as a matter of electricity pricing, skipping the important factors like noise, cost, light pollution, infrasound, air pollution, water wastage, lack of jobs, etc
Mon 12:49:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install Grafana on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS ☞ https://idroot.us/install-grafana-ubuntu-26-04/
Mon 12:49:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install Zabbix on Fedora 45 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-zabbix-fedora-45/
Mon 12:52:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Texas GNU/Linux Fest ☞ https://major.io/p/ai-fears-dune-themed-talk/
Mon 12:52:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Birger Schacht: Using incus for throw away VMs ☞ https://bisco.org/notes/using-incus-for-throw-away-vms/
Mon 12:55:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ New Steam Games Playable on the Steam Deck, with Road Rash 30th Anniversary and Lost Host - 2026-11-07 Edition ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-playable-on-the-steam-deck-2026-11-07-edition/index.html
Mon 12:55:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ M5Stack Core Matrix ESP32-C61 IoT controller features 16×16 LED matrix, WiFi 6, and 6-axis IMU ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/11/09/m5stack-core-matrix-esp32-c61-iot-controller-features-16x16-led-matrix-wifi-6-and-6-axis-imu/
Mon 12:58:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Scans for Sshole Vulnerability (CVE-2026-123158), (Sun, Nov 8th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/33498
Mon 12:59:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Amyloid Fibers Have an Unexpected Role in Sperm, Scientists Discover ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/amyloid-fibers-have-an-unexpected-role-in-sperm-scientists-discover
Mon 13:00:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ What to Know About Nvidia’s Investigation of Its C.E.O. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/08/technology/nvidias-investigation-jensen-huang.html
Mon 13:03:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ NVIDIA now "investigates" its own CEO. Step one in "damage control", saving face.
Mon 13:03:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Larger Dogs Age Faster, And Scientists May Finally Know Why ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/larger-dogs-age-faster-and-scientists-may-finally-know-why
Mon 13:04:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ NVIDIA is now "for some definition of "investigates"; it's clear by this delay that he will not be fired and he has not the integrity to step down"
Mon 13:11:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Climate Change Has Become So Bad That Rice Krispies Don’t Have Actual Rice in Them Anymore ☞ https://futurism.com/science-energy/climate-change-rice-krispies
Mon 13:12:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Dihydroxyacetone Man Admin Caught Illegally Canceling Billion-Dollar Solar Project That Would Have Helped Lower Utility Bills Across the Country ☞ https://futurism.com/science-energy/trump-epa-zeldin-solar-energy-utility-bills
Mon 13:21:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Dasha 1.10: Patroni auto-discovery, wait analysis and replication slot forecasts for PostgreSQL ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/dasha-110-patroni-auto-discovery-wait-analysis-and-replication-slot-forecasts-for-postgresql-3438/
Mon 13:21:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Luis Villa: "What ride?": where libre software could go after LLMs ☞ https://lu.is/2026/11/what-ride-specifically/
Mon 13:22:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Extension Manager 0.7 released with new (and fixed) features ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/11/gnome-extension-manager-0-7-released
Mon 13:23:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Rubio Warned Officials About Nvidia Chief’s Entanglement With Chinese Spy ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/08/us/politics/rubio-nvidia-ceo-chinese-spy.html
Mon 13:23:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ █████ https://rss.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml ██████████████████████ Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:33:59 +0000 ███████ Nvidia Opens Investigation Into Jensen Huang’s Relationship With Chinese Spy
Mon 13:23:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Mr. Huang, the company’s chief executive, acknowledged on Sunday that he was intimate with a business executive who U.S. officials had determined was working for Chinese intelligence" ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/08/technology/nvidia-investigation-jensen-huang-china.html
Mon 13:25:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admits to having extramarital affair with suspected Chinese spy ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2026/11/08/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-admits-to-having-extramarital-affair-with-suspected-chinese-spy/
Mon 13:25:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang Admits Affair as Board Probes Reports of Chinese Intelligence Targeting ☞ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-admits-affair-board-probes-reports-chinese-intelligence-targeting-1830955
Mon 13:25:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Who Is the Woman Linked to Jensen Huang? Nvidia Probes Alleged Chinese Espionage After CEO Admits Infidelity ☞ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/nvidia-board-investigates-jensen-huang-intelligence-targeting-1830933
Mon 13:26:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 'He's an Honourable Guy': Convicted Felon Defends Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Amid Chinese Spy Affair Allegations ☞ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/trump-backs-nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-investigation-1830952
Mon 13:26:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Nvidia announces probe into CEO Jensen Huang after he acknowledges affair with alleged Chinese spy ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/11/09/nvidia-announces-probe-into-ceo-jensen-huang-after-he-acknowledges-affair-with-alleged-chinese-spy/
Mon 13:27:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Nvidia to probe reports that Chinese intelligence targeted CEO Jensen Huang ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/technology/20261108-nvidia-jensen-huang-chinese-intelligence-probe
Mon 13:27:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Tech giant Nvidia to investigate Chinese spy claims after CEO admits affair https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm78p221e313t
Mon 13:28:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The real issue is the financial cheating/fraud, not cheating on the wife
Mon 13:28:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Huang has been in charge of the tech giant for 30 years" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cq3989nkzn3ko
Mon 13:29:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Jensen Huang's Relationship With Alleged Chinese Spy Triggers NVIDIA Investigation Into US National Security Risks ☞ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/nvidia-investigates-possible-chinese-intelligence-operation-1830951
Mon 13:30:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Building ghostty (for Kwi) with kde-builder ☞ https://cukic.co/2026/11/08/kwi-ghostty-kde-builder
Mon 13:44:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Japanese arcades suffer week-long blackout following Sega server hack ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/japanese-arcades-suffer-week-long-blackout-following-sega-server-hack-bandai-namco-titles-resume-trial-operations-as-sega-games-remain-offline
Mon 13:44:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Visiting Judges Return to the Federal Circuit ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/11/visiting-judges-return-to-the-federal-circuit.html
Mon 13:52:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Menacing Surveillance Obelisk Appears in Madrid ☞ https://futurism.com/future-society/menacing-surveillane-obelisk-madrid-art
Mon 13:52:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ more microsoft boosters https://sunshowers.io/posts/sshole/
Mon 13:52:55 │ 〖Righty〗 │ Blaming C for logic errors are we?
Mon 13:54:02 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] rust has issues too
Mon 13:54:09 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] even recent ones
Mon 13:54:15 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] blaame the lang?
Mon 13:54:20 │ 〖Righty〗 │ Rust basically forces you to implement logic errors it seems.
Mon 13:56:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Vivaldi 8.3 Released with Customizable Ads & Track Blocker ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/11/vivaldi-8-3-released-with-customizable-ads-track-blocker/
Mon 13:56:44 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] rust is a big network
Mon 13:56:49 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and it is monolithic
Mon 13:56:56 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it is also monopolistic
Mon 13:57:03 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] one implementation, unlike c
Mon 13:57:10 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and that monolith has securiity bugs
Mon 13:57:15 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] in the "supply chain"
Mon 13:57:20 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and also its implementation
Mon 13:57:24 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it's "inevitable"
Mon 13:57:35 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] as programs go bigger, fast (not mature)
Mon 13:57:54 │ 〖Righty〗 │ I very well understand the security vulnerability of static linking and 999999 crates.
Mon 13:58:19 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] that are abandoned
Mon 13:58:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Calibre adds new sources for finding free books & journals ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/11/calibre-update-new-sources
Mon 13:59:24 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] suppose you write a cprogram
Mon 13:59:29 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] the first line could be your gole
Mon 13:59:40 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] #include some_buggy__thinng
Mon 13:59:48 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and it's not even your faiult
Mon 13:59:52 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] could be musl
Mon 14:00:12 │ 〖Righty〗 │ I tend to write C in GNU C and for glibc.
Mon 14:00:24 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/06/Security_Emergency_in_Alpine_Linux_musl_and_OpenSSH.shtml
Mon 14:00:44 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it's not "Alpine issue"
Mon 14:00:45 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] the issue is.
Mon 14:00:49 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Alpine tries to keep small
Mon 14:00:52 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and uses musl
Mon 14:01:03 │ 〖Righty〗 │ glibc isn't even that large really
Mon 14:01:12 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and openssl with musl cannot deal with very long strings as password input
Mon 14:01:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so they say "Alpine is bad"
Mon 14:01:49 │ 〖Righty〗 │ libc.so.6 is like 2.1MiB
Mon 14:02:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ NVIDIA 620.70.06 Released with Vulkan In-Game FPS Overlay Support ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/11/nvidia-620-70-06-fps-overlay-vulkan/
Mon 14:02:46 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i tried to compile rust on arm
Mon 14:02:53 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it was like (iirc) 600mb to build
Mon 14:03:00 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and it was very hard to build
Mon 14:03:07 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] rust has very limited h/w diversity
Mon 14:03:12 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] for all their talk about "''''diversity"
Mon 14:03:14 │ 〖Righty〗 │ Rust takes hundreds of GiB to bootstrap from C++ mrustc
Mon 14:03:35 │ 〖Righty〗 │ I suspect static linking musl into every binary on the system ends up larger than 2.1MiB if you have more than a few binaries.
Mon 14:03:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Dolphin gets a Columns view again ☞ https://blogs.kde.org/2026/11/08/dolphin-gets-a-columns-view-again/
Mon 14:04:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Chessament 1.0.0 released ☞ https://alcarazzam.dev/posts/chessament-1.0/
Mon 14:04:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Long-range Wi-Fi HaLow gateway offers OpenWrt and dual GbE ☞ https://linuxgizmos.com/long-range-wi-fi-halow-gateway-offers-openwrt-and-dual-gbe/
Mon 14:05:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Asahi GNU/Linux Drops MIT and Goes Full GPL After Hey Hi (AI) Tools Were Used to Steal Unreleased Code ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/asahi-linux-drops-mit-for-gpl/
Mon 14:06:05 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] to me, bottom line is,
Mon 14:06:07 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] ruust iss big
Mon 14:06:09 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] big is not better
Mon 14:06:13 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] rust is new
Mon 14:06:21 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and new is not always better
Mon 14:06:22 │ 〖Righty〗 │ My bottom line is that rust clearly contains multiple backdoors.
Mon 14:06:24 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] slop is "new"
Mon 14:06:36 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i didn't see slop programs being _better _ than what they imitate
Mon 14:06:53 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] rust is distributed though microsoft
Mon 14:07:02 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] github CSO =20+ years NSA
Mon 14:07:15 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so i trust it as much as I trust NSA staff
Mon 14:07:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Helwan 5.2 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/helwan
Mon 14:07:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ GNUSlashLinux 20261108 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/gnuslashlinux
Mon 14:08:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ TTOS 20261106 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/ttos
Mon 14:08:19 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] plus, NSA Actions aside
Mon 14:08:21 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Rustr is large
Mon 14:08:26 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it's hard to build
Mon 14:08:32 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so you rely on what theeeey distribute
Mon 14:08:43 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and sent to distros and you via Microsoft/NSA
Mon 14:08:51 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] we have reproduible builds
Mon 14:08:55 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but for very large programs
Mon 14:08:58 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they don't scale
Mon 14:09:05 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] a human needs to check the code
Mon 14:09:08 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and all the changes
Mon 14:09:20 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] slop+rust = infeasible for humans to keep abreast
Mon 14:09:31 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they say obscurity and complexity are enemies oof security
Mon 14:09:38 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] on that criterion alone rrust is no-go
Mon 14:09:43 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] for any security program
Mon 14:09:49 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] github= obscurity
Mon 14:10:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ KibaOS 512 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/kibaos
Mon 14:10:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ NagisinnraLinux 1.0.3 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/nagisinnra
Mon 14:10:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Slax 2026.11 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/slax
Mon 14:10:41 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] rust rewrite of tor =- "arti"
Mon 14:10:51 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] you could make jokes about what that name stands for
Mon 14:11:02 │ 〖Righty〗 │ Yeah, I'm not running that.
Mon 14:11:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ StartOS 0.4.2-rc2 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/startos
Mon 14:11:24 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i never met anyone who uses arti and
Mon 14:11:32 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i never read online a blog of a user of arti
Mon 14:11:38 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so it seems like a dead-end project
Mon 14:11:42 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "because we CANN"
Mon 14:12:14 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] reminner
Mon 14:12:19 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] tor had many layoffs
Mon 14:12:21 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] about 5 years ago
Mon 14:12:24 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] then many more layoffs
Mon 14:12:34 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] at least a quarter
Mon 14:12:42 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] now they have more codebases to maintain
Mon 14:12:46 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] c is cross-platform
Mon 14:13:06 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] hard to see how making a limited portability second implementation would make tor safer
Mon 14:13:16 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it diverts attention away from it
Mon 14:13:34 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] tor got a "Second wife"
Mon 14:13:48 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] to make up for the first marriage not working out
Mon 14:13:50 │ 〖Righty〗 │ Apparently implementing a second implementation with more logic errors is more important that fixing the remaining memory errors in the original implementation.
Mon 14:14:10 │ 〖Righty〗 │ The first marriage works fine, although some refactoring is needed.
Mon 14:14:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Python Series Part 27: Frame Widget - Part 1 ☞ https://www.linux.org/threads/python-series-part-27-frame-widget-part-1.65406/
Mon 14:14:56 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] there is one debian dev who works on tor
Mon 14:15:02 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] iirc, ian jackson
Mon 14:15:07 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i wonder if even uses the software
Mon 14:15:18 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] he makes and boosts arti
Mon 14:15:24 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but maybe as a personal pet project
Mon 14:22:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ People who "boast" about "slop" working are like cheaters and plagiarists who claim you can pass all the exams by cheating. It's not surprising. They learn nothing, either.
Mon 14:23:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ You WRITE your CODE so that you UNDERSTAND and can MAINTAIN or extend it. You study for exams to improve your skills and knowledge. The purpose is to score you.
Mon 14:23:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The "hard work" of coding is about "comprehension"
Mon 14:25:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Dear Valve: It is Time to Open Source SteamVR ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/open-steamvr/index.html
Mon 14:32:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Like Crooked Politicians, The Register MS is Selling "Dinners" (Access, Sponsors) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/Like_Crooked_Politicians_The_Register_MS_is_Selling_Dinners_Acc.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/Like_Crooked_Politicians_The_Register_MS_is_Selling_Dinners_Acc.gmi ∎
Mon 14:52:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "When it comes to Linux desktop environments, there are way too many choices. We have well-established ones like KDE and GNOME and more niche alternatives like MATE and Cinnamon that remain well-supported to this day." https://www.makeuseof.com/the-best-linux-desktop-environment-isnt-a-desktop-environment-at-all/
Mon 14:52:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Most people start by simply installing a Linux distribution and then spend weeks tweaking it." https://www.howtogeek.com/2-reasons-to-fork-your-own-linux-distro-instead-of-installing-someone-elses-and-1-reason-not-to/
Mon 14:53:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This moment at which the paths of microcontroller and full-fat SoC start to cross has been on the horizon for quite a while, and it’s exciting to see it finally arrive. Expect more similar chips in competition with this one, and more power too. Meanwhile see our noting the launch of the S31." https://hackaday.com/2026/11/07/proper-linux-on-an-esp32/
Mon 14:53:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Marius looks back https://9to5linux.com/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-november-8th-2026
Mon 14:53:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Domicile lets you build your desktop in React and CSS, with Manganese being included as the ready-made tiling option." https://itsfoss.com/news/domicile-desktop-overview/
Mon 14:54:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ GOG Galaxy overhaul planned for 2027 with Linux support https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/joao-silva/gog-galaxy-overhaul-planned-for-2027-with-linux-support/
Mon 14:55:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Linux’s KSMBD Hit by Two Critical Security Flaws https://hackernoon.com/linuxs-ksmbd-hit-by-two-critical-security-flaws
Mon 14:56:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ “including Fedora, SteamOS”: Epic outlines Linux plans for its new games launcher https://mixed-news.com/en/epic-games-launcher-steamos-fedora-linux-support-plans/
Mon 14:56:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The PlayStation 3 briefly made buying a console a way to buy a Linux computer https://www.xda-developers.com/the-playstation-3-briefly-made-buying-a-console-a-way-to-buy-a-linux-computer/
Mon 14:57:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ I tried to un-Google my Googlebook with Linux, here’s why it failed https://www.howtogeek.com/i-tried-to-un-google-my-googlebook-with-linux-but-its-too-early-to-save-this/
Mon 14:58:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Epic Games Names SteamOS Among Planned Linux Targets for Its New Launcher https://www.techpowerup.com/354575/epic-games-names-steamos-among-planned-linux-targets-for-its-new-launcher
Mon 15:03:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): KDE: Kdenlive 26.08.3 released and KDE Gear 26.12 branches created ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/KDE_Kdenlive_26_08_3_released_and_KDE_Gear_26_12_branches_creat.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/08/KDE_Kdenlive_26_08_3_released_and_KDE_Gear_26_12_branches_creat.gmi ∎
Mon 15:04:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): GOG GALAXY is Officially on GNU/ Linux ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/07/GOG_GALAXY_is_Officially_on_GNU_Linux.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/07/GOG_GALAXY_is_Officially_on_GNU_Linux.gmi ∎
Mon 15:04:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Games: Memories, Chessament 1.0.0, and PlayStation 3 ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Games_Memories_Chessament_1_0_0_and_PlayStation_3.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Games_Memories_Chessament_1_0_0_and_PlayStation_3.gmi ∎
Mon 15:06:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Security Emergency in Alpine Linux (musl and OpenSSH) ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/06/Security_Emergency_in_Alpine_Linux_musl_and_OpenSSH.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/06/Security_Emergency_in_Alpine_Linux_musl_and_OpenSSH.gmi ∎
Mon 15:08:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today's 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 HowTos ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/today_s_howtos.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/today_s_howtos.gmi ∎
Mon 15:08:42 │ 〖parsifal〗 │ tor... in line with the latest “fashion” net trends -> tor and socks are more or less useless, regardless of who develops them or how
Mon 15:09:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Linux 7.5 Removes Old Code, Linux's in-kernel SMB Server Had Bugs ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Linux_7_5_Removes_Old_Code_Linux_s_in_kernel_SMB_Server_Had_Bug.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Linux_7_5_Removes_Old_Code_Linux_s_in_kernel_SMB_Server_Had_Bug.gmi ∎
Mon 15:10:41 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] SOCKS?
Mon 15:11:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 Programming Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Programming_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Mon 15:12:41 │ 〖parsifal〗 │ yes
Mon 15:13:03 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] SOCKS can be useful
Mon 15:13:05 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] in some cases
Mon 15:13:10 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] not privacy
Mon 15:14:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Applications: Vivaldi 8.3 Released, Calibre 9.18 News, and Extension Manager 0.7 ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Applications_Vivaldi_8_3_Released_Calibre_9_18_News_and_Extensi.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Applications_Vivaldi_8_3_Released_Calibre_9_18_News_and_Extensi.gmi ∎
Mon 15:17:17 │ 〖parsifal〗 │ The whole point of their existence is precisely privacy, everything else is just an afterthought.
Mon 15:25:11 │ 〖Righty〗 │ SOCKS isn't very good at providing privacy, as it doesn't even have encryption for example.
Mon 15:25:49 │ 〖Righty〗 │ It's only if SOCKS is used to communicate over a secure path, with something that offers privacy do you get privacy.
Mon 15:29:17 │ 〖parsifal〗 │ Yes, that's true, but those are just details, and both are part of an ecosystem whose ultimate goal is privacy.
Mon 15:29:28 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] no socks does many things
Mon 15:29:35 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] you can use it with openssh
Mon 15:29:38 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] for encryption
Mon 15:31:14 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ afaik tor provides that secure path for its own SOCKS interface
Mon 15:31:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Linux Devices and "Open Hardware is critially important in 2026" ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Linux_Devices_and_Open_Hardware_is_critially_important_in_2026.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Linux_Devices_and_Open_Hardware_is_critially_important_in_2026.gmi ∎
Mon 15:39:31 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] MinceR: do you tor?
Mon 15:40:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Working With Fine Tools https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/11/09/working-with-fine-tools/
Mon 15:40:37 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ sometimes
Mon 15:43:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Education/Events: FOSDEM 2027, Texas Linux Fest, and More ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Education_Events_FOSDEM_2027_Texas_Linux_Fest_and_More.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Education_Events_FOSDEM_2027_Texas_Linux_Fest_and_More.gmi ∎
Mon 15:43:41 │ 〖nobody〗 │ tor must be configured correctly
Mon 15:44:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Licensing / Legal: Moving From MIT to GPL, LLMs as GPL Violation Instruments, and "Confessions of a Former GPL Zealot" ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Licensing_Legal_Moving_From_MIT_to_GPL_LLMs_as_GPL_Violation_In.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Licensing_Legal_Moving_From_MIT_to_GPL_LLMs_as_GPL_Violation_In.gmi ∎
Mon 15:48:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Applications: PikaPods, htop, automake-1.19.94 release ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/05/Applications_PikaPods_htop_automake_1_19_94_release.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/05/Applications_PikaPods_htop_automake_1_19_94_release.gmi ∎
Mon 15:48:20 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] compleixity leads to mistakes
Mon 15:48:28 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] mistakes like configuration lapses
Mon 15:48:37 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and the lapses undermine the tools
Mon 15:49:06 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] hence, slop and rust (complexity) are a way to undermine established tools
Mon 15:49:08 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] like coreutls
Mon 15:49:13 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] (from GNU)
Mon 15:50:11 │ 〖nobody〗 │ was thinking of tor still, i'm sceptical what's advertized for as "tor-browser"
Mon 15:50:28 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] firefox with tor
Mon 15:50:30 │ 〖nobody〗 │ *sceptical of what's advertized for as "tor-browser"
Mon 15:50:38 │ 〖Righty〗 │ It's firefox modified to not write to the disk and it comes with ctor.
Mon 15:51:09 │ 〖nobody〗 │ firefox got a gigantic attack surface weakening the whole chain of trust
Mon 15:52:47 │ 〖nobody〗 │ it's probably not too bad for many use-cases regardless
Mon 15:53:12 │ 〖lxo〗 │ here's my belated wish of a happy techrights anniversary. I'm still a couple of weeks behind in my techrights reading, after travel and elections
Mon 15:53:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): NVIDIA 620 Linux Graphics Driver Released with Wayland Improvements ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/04/NVIDIA_620_Linux_Graphics_Driver_Released_with_Wayland_Improvem.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/04/NVIDIA_620_Linux_Graphics_Driver_Released_with_Wayland_Improvem.gmi ∎
Mon 15:53:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Audiocasts/Shows: LINUX Unplugged on Ubuntu’s Core Reset Sabine Hossenfelder on Particle Physics ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Audiocasts_Shows_LINUX_Unplugged_on_Ubuntu_s_Core_Reset_Sabine_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Audiocasts_Shows_LINUX_Unplugged_on_Ubuntu_s_Core_Reset_Sabine_.gmi ∎
Mon 15:53:31 │ 〖Righty〗 │ In safest mode, maybe tor-browser isn't that bad.
Mon 15:54:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): BSD, GNU/Linux Distributions and Operating Systems Other Than the "Main Two" ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/BSD_GNU_Linux_Distributions_and_Operating_Systems_Other_Than_th.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/BSD_GNU_Linux_Distributions_and_Operating_Systems_Other_Than_th.gmi ∎
Mon 15:56:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Free, Libre, and Open Source Software / Digital Sovereignty ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Digital_Sovereignty.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Digital_Sovereignty.gmi ∎
Mon 15:56:46 │ 〖nobody〗 │ as for rust-lang, most developers aren't aware of the bootstrapping issues of it
Mon 15:57:00 │ 〖nobody〗 │ reason enough to not touch anything written in or dependening on rust-lang
Mon 15:59:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Links 09/11/2026: 'Humanitarian' Putin Knocks 600,000 Civilians Off the Grid, Eminem’s Publisher Sues Suno ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/Links_09_11_2026_Humanitarian_Putin_Knocks_600_000_Civilians_Of.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/Links_09_11_2026_Humanitarian_Putin_Knocks_600_000_Civilians_Of.gmi ∎
Mon 16:01:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Bad economy https://www.tradingview.com/news/seekingalpha:9e9506f5b094b:0-ai-not-the-main-reason-for-tech-related-job-cuts-but-the-economy-analyst/
Mon 16:02:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ I helped oversee layoffs. Then I got laid off myself. https://www.businessinsider.com/hr-professional-helped-plan-layoffs-then-laid-off-2026-11
Mon 16:02:45 │ 〖nobody〗 │ mrustc was developed for that purpose
Mon 16:03:15 │ 〖nobody〗 │ which can compile a rustc-1.90 nowadays
Mon 16:14:23 │ 〖parsifal〗 │ safest... what exactly is so safe about the “safest” option without javascript disabled -> captcha, cloudflare or anubis
Mon 16:15:03 │ 〖parsifal〗 │ ^if the block is active=inability to access most websites
Mon 16:16:45 │ 〖Righty〗 │ Most websites in fact work just fine or better without JS.
Mon 16:17:12 │ 〖Righty〗 │ If a website tries to attack you with evil anubis or some JS captcha, that is not a website you should visit.
Mon 16:21:31 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] in an ideal world
Mon 16:21:40 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] maybe true a year ago, Righty
Mon 16:21:50 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] not being pedantic, just to give examples
Mon 16:21:54 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] lkml
Mon 16:22:04 │ 〖Righty〗 │ I don't see much difference between this year and last.
Mon 16:22:11 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] iirc, lwn for now just does throttling basd on # of reqs from one ip
Mon 16:22:22 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] anubis was adopted by many sites
Mon 16:22:23 │ 〖Righty〗 │ lwn works fine.
Mon 16:22:27 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it does
Mon 16:22:29 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] for now
Mon 16:22:32 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] lkml does not
Mon 16:22:47 │ 〖Righty〗 │ A mailing list about a proprietary kernel isn't really that interesting tbh.
Mon 16:23:00 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] there was another example i wanted to give but forgot mis-sentence
Mon 16:23:04 │ 〖parsifal〗 │ Righty: that fact is irrelevant if you can't access them; so, based on what you said, as of today I should stop using half of the online sources... -> i'm going to cancel my contract with my ISP ;)
Mon 16:23:09 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] sites you do not expect to use any JS
Mon 16:23:29 │ 〖Righty〗 │ The debian sites have broken everything without JS artificially.
Mon 16:23:38 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it got a lot worse this year
Mon 16:23:43 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] a year ago i sounded like you
Mon 16:23:48 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] that sites that do this can be avoided
Mon 16:23:55 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but that list of site is now short
Mon 16:23:57 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] many use CF
Mon 16:24:27 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] even in falkon i can no longer access many sites
Mon 16:24:36 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they expect gecko aaand known user-agent
Mon 16:24:43 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] CF hates falkon
Mon 16:24:52 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] iirc, anubis also
Mon 16:25:01 │ 〖Righty〗 │ Does CF hate New Moon?
Mon 16:25:09 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] that makes me become more like rms
Mon 16:25:14 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] fetching sites into a text editor
Mon 16:25:16 │ 〖Righty〗 │ Didn't have any problems, but didn't browse many sites.
Mon 16:25:20 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and reading there, not in browsers
Mon 16:25:23 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] or in gemini://
Mon 16:25:44 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Righty: we covered the "moon" ones
Mon 16:25:47 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] see: (searching)
Mon 16:25:56 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://techrights.org/search/query?search=Search&query1=pale+moon&set1=any
Mon 16:26:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] e.g. https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/17/The_Attacks_on_LinuxQuestions_org.shtml
Mon 16:26:33 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] apropos: https://techrights.org/n/2023/10/07/Tor_Browser_Fails_to_Disable_Dangerous_Google_Formats.shtml
Mon 16:27:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Röda linjer gemini://idiomdrottning.org/rl26
Mon 16:28:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Y'all I am NOT feeling the oncoming Christmas season. I am even less feeling the already-here Christmas season I keep encountering in stores." gemini://drmollytov.smol.pub/2026-11-09
Mon 16:29:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Great local electronics repair shop. I've taken two devices in for repair over the last couple of months: a 2020 Pixel phone that needed a new battery, and a 2019 late-Intel MacBook that had just stopped booting." gemini://kvibber.com/reviews/business/wireless-planet.gmi
Mon 16:30:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ new tattoo moon gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/schoolWork "A weekend of school homework, music making and tattooing."
Mon 16:32:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Nvidia shares crash https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm78p221e313t
Mon 16:32:47 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] nobody: merz got cheated
Mon 16:33:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "An early plunge saw the firm's shares fall 8%"
Mon 16:40:40 │ 〖Righty〗 │ ∞ when?
Mon 16:40:48 │ 〖Righty〗 │ *∞%
Mon 16:41:43 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] divide by 0
Mon 16:41:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Germany's GNU/Linux Market Share at 10% ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Germany_s_GNU_Linux_Market_Share_at_10.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Germany_s_GNU_Linux_Market_Share_at_10.gmi ∎
Mon 17:10:17 │ 〖nobody〗 │ schestowitz[TR2]: cheated how?
Mon 17:17:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXXXV - The Brand (and Reputation) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/Intercontinental_Brigading_Part_XXXXV_The_Brand_and_Reputation.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/Intercontinental_Brigading_Part_XXXXV_The_Brand_and_Reputation.gmi ∎
Mon 17:19:31 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] promises made
Mon 17:19:33 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] re investment
Mon 17:19:40 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and GPU
Mon 17:19:42 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] NVIDIA "sells"
Mon 17:19:46 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] using what they call obligations
Mon 17:19:49 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] you know how it works
Mon 17:20:01 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but i iwill say it anyway in irc
Mon 17:20:04 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] sales typically mean
Mon 17:20:06 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i ship
Mon 17:20:08 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] you pay
Mon 17:20:14 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and i say "'revenue"
Mon 17:20:18 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] NVIDIA ddoes an enron
Mon 17:20:20 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it ships
Mon 17:20:24 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it does not get paid
Mon 17:20:25 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] (at all)
Mon 17:20:40 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but it writes down obligation to pay
Mon 17:20:48 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] while shipping to dodgy companies
Mon 17:20:53 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] without a future
Mon 17:20:56 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and no asset
Mon 17:20:58 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it's a gamblle
Mon 17:21:04 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] then NVIDIA adds up obligaitons
Mon 17:21:04 │ 〖nobody〗 │ i've not read any recent news if any "investors" would show up as Merz wished those did
Mon 17:21:11 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] to make up "surge" in "demand"
Mon 17:21:16 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but thhere is a huge risk
Mon 17:21:29 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] all those obligations are just theoretical revenue
Mon 17:21:35 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] when the bubble pops
Mon 17:21:39 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it'll be zero
Mon 17:21:44 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] thej all the
Mon 17:21:48 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "profits"
Mon 17:21:50 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] can become losses
Mon 17:21:53 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] in retrrospect
Mon 17:23:10 │ 〖nobody〗 │ Nvidia hasn't got a complete system-bootstrap for their RISC-V at least
Mon 17:23:26 │ 〖nobody〗 │ with their >4trillion of value
Mon 17:23:35 │ 〖nobody〗 │ it's ridiculous
Mon 17:24:10 │ 〖nobody〗 │ and while i am at it, just a moment ago i was digging back into x86_16 IBM PC bootcode pieces
Mon 17:24:26 │ 〖nobody〗 │ which is madness
Mon 17:25:02 │ 〖nobody〗 │ currently i'm stuck at a 14KiB sized isolinux.bin bootcode piece needed to boot from CD, which is not bootstrappable either
Mon 17:25:49 │ 〖nobody〗 │ i mean, you can compile and link that with a 100million lines of GNU toolchain-code pulled into and only in violation of bootstrapping criteria
Mon 17:25:58 │ 〖nobody〗 │ to produce a bootable.iso
Mon 17:27:00 │ 〖nobody〗 │ i can merely emit a isolinux-elf.o object file, but that needs linking with linker-script support, which only GNU binutils-ld got
Mon 17:28:23 │ 〖nobody〗 │ maybe i can do something with GRUB, porting this to tiny-bootstrap without autotools dependency
Mon 17:28:27 │ 〖nobody〗 │ it's a nightmare
Mon 17:29:24 │ 〖nobody〗 │ in worst case i'll have to ship one pre-compiled binary, that's the 14KiB isolinux.bin to make x86_32 bootable
Mon 17:30:38 │ 〖nobody〗 │ LILO does not yet compile/link with i386-tcc, but this probably can be fixed
Mon 17:30:49 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm78p221e313t
Mon 17:30:52 │ 〖nobody〗 │ in case of LILO i could not support CD-Boot however
Mon 17:30:52 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] still not resigning
Mon 17:30:56 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] after 30 years
Mon 17:31:24 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "Unlike many tech founders, Huang has little protection from board decisions"
Mon 17:31:33 │ 〖nobody〗 │ well, i'm surprised a minor affair such as this is big news
Mon 17:31:44 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "Huang’s personal holding of stock in Nvidia is an estimated 3.5% to 3.8%, which is significant and the main source of his astronomical personal wealth. "
Mon 17:31:46 │ 〖nobody〗 │ given all the other trouble Nvidia and the like have
Mon 17:31:58 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "Huang, with his more straightforward holding in Nvidia, has no such protection from the actions of a board."
Mon 17:32:33 │ 〖nobody〗 │ i don't think he would need protection due to an affair with a woman
Mon 17:32:41 │ 〖nobody〗 │ it's a distraction
Mon 17:33:13 │ 〖nobody〗 │ and if you look at it this way, all Nvidia GPU are stamped "made in china" or "made in taiwan" anyway (haven't got one here to see)
Mon 17:47:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – When Some Footage Causes Your 'Company' to Lose Almost Half a Trillion Dollars in 'Value' in a Few Minutes Your Company is Fictionally Valued ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/When_Some_Footage_Causes_Your_Company_to_Lose_Almost_Half_a_Tri.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/When_Some_Footage_Causes_Your_Company_to_Lose_Almost_Half_a_Tri.gmi ∎
Mon 17:48:28 │ 〖parsifal〗 │ Ryan, the author of this post about the Pale Moon, was clearly quite angry with them before he wrote it... XD [https://techrights.org/o/2022/09/21/corrosive-trolls/index.shtml]
Mon 17:48:35 │ 〖parsifal〗 │ As for Pale Moon, I use it because of its advantages, and I fix the drawbacks myself -> without caring about the developer's opinion. If I can't smooth out the rough edges that are bothering me, I simply won't use that browser.
Mon 17:48:50 │ 〖parsifal〗 │ This applies to all browsers -> there are no perfect ones. As for the opinions of Mozilla or Moonchild on how I should use my browser -> they can keep them to themselves, I couldn't care less.
Mon 17:49:03 │ 〖parsifal〗 │ In the context of the ideal vs. non-ideal: Mozilla/Firefox removed the promise that they would not sell the telemetry they collect to third parties. So... everyone is a bad apple, to some extent.
Mon 17:49:14 │ 〖parsifal〗 │ As for the atmosphere and the people on their forum (Pale Moon), I’m not really concerned about that -> I don’t post there. I’m not going to go around trying to set people straight on their forum.
Mon 17:49:26 │ 〖parsifal〗 │ If their browser disappoints me that much, I’ll simply stop using it and remove it from my systems. As for the Pale Moon start page and the NoScript add-on -> those are easy things to fix.
Mon 17:49:31 │ 〖bms〗 │ Oh dear. What did the Pale Moon people do?
Mon 17:50:14 │ 〖bms〗 │ ACTION reads
Mon 17:50:29 │ 〖bms〗 │ I keep it around for testing out stuff or watching the Youtube when I hve to
Mon 17:50:39 │ 〖bms〗 │ but it does not perform all that well
Mon 17:51:20 │ 〖parsifal〗 │ all sorts of things... XD
Mon 17:52:11 │ 〖bms〗 │ I use SeaMonkey for email only to replace Thunderbird which went down the toilet
Mon 17:53:13 │ 〖bms〗 │ I was auditing my Fediverse block list, Garrett was on it
Mon 17:53:26 │ 〖bms〗 │ wehther that was preemptive or in response to something I honestly do not recall
Mon 17:53:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ https://terminal2shell.com/ ;)
Mon 17:53:57 │ 〖bms〗 │ I don't have a presence on Libera Chat
Mon 17:55:08 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] <bms> wehther that was preemptive or in response to something I honestly do not recall
Mon 17:55:11 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] hard to guess
Mon 17:55:13 │ 〖bms〗 │ when this definition of community gets trotted out, I refer to the Malibu Chief of Police scene in "The Big Lebowski" for the reductio ad absurdum
Mon 17:55:18 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] he is "---posting" a lot
Mon 17:55:31 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] the judge was not impressed seeing what he had written publicly
Mon 17:55:53 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and she is the judge in charge of comms and media in the whole country
Mon 17:56:31 │ 〖bms〗 │ > "Mr. Treehorn draws a lot of water in this town. You don't draw shit, Lebowski. Now we got a nice, quiet little beach community here, and I aim to keep it nice and quiet."
Mon 17:56:32 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] his spouse just wrote about a colleagyue from tor project
Mon 17:56:38 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] or tails
Mon 17:56:42 │ 〖bms〗 │ that kind of community
Mon 17:57:24 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] archived:
Mon 17:57:24 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] hestowitz[TR2]> "peace and sleep deep to my ex partner Lunar who passed away on this day two years ago :’("
Mon 17:57:24 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] <schestowitz[TR2]> "i/elle was one of the only truly talented hackers i’ve known, and one of the only people i’ve ever truly loved, i’d do anything, any hack, any black magick to have i/elle back"
Mon 17:57:24 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] <schestowitz[TR2]> "when we first met, i hacked a hotel elevator to get onto the roof, we then jumped a gap between buildings to get to a penthouse suite, we stole a bunch of wine and drank it on their balcony, and Lunar was like “you know when you spend all day, just to write those 3 lines of code”"
Mon 17:57:26 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] <schestowitz[TR2]> "i thought this was some french/english translation error, but no, i/elle showed me several programmes in haskell that were three lines, and ran entire servers and other infrastructure"
Mon 17:57:34 │ 〖bms〗 │ schestowitz[TR2]: Haven't seen that, but a narcissist I recently had to endure had the gall to second guess what bench (judge, magistrate or other) might do. Actual bench do not like that. I dated a barrister for 2 years, so I sort of know things others don't.
Mon 17:58:15 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] barristers become judges sometimes
Mon 17:58:24 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they understand how judges think
Mon 17:58:28 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and know what to say
Mon 17:58:41 │ 〖bms〗 │ She wouldn't hold truck with that, and actively avoided taking silk (becoming a KC/QC)
Mon 17:58:42 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] some barristers also act aas judges at the same time
Mon 17:58:45 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] deputy judges
Mon 17:59:09 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] silk seems more to do with conformity
Mon 17:59:20 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and it lets them charge more money as barristers
Mon 17:59:20 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it'
Mon 17:59:21 │ 〖bms〗 │ it does mean more money quite often
Mon 17:59:31 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] s also "fast lane" for judge carreers
Mon 17:59:32 │ 〖bms〗 │ her best friend was in criminal law, she took silk in the end
Mon 17:59:38 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so they can earn til 75
Mon 17:59:40 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] not 67
Mon 18:01:53 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] garrett took a cheap barrister
Mon 18:01:55 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and paid for it
Mon 18:02:20 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/03/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_138_Out_of_200_Garrett_Has_Basically_Lost.shtml
Mon 18:02:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A critical flaw present in every operating system since 1971 allows anyone who opens a terminal to obtain a fully interactive shell. Instantly. With no authentication beyond the one they already did." https://terminal2shell.com/
Mon 18:03:19 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "The Chief Architect of OpenLDAP says that “AI-generated contributions MUST always be rejected.”
Mon 18:03:19 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Part of the growing rift between “Pro-AI” and “Anti-AI” Open Source projects."
Mon 18:03:22 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] It's not "AI"
Mon 18:03:24 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it's LLMs
Mon 18:03:26 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and they are not AI
Mon 18:03:35 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] http://techrights.org/n/2026/05/28/LLMs_Are_Not_Much_More_Than_Plagiarism_Engines.shtml
Mon 18:03:47 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] accepting llm slop code ->
Mon 18:03:52 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] invites non-corders
Mon 18:03:58 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] invites lack of skill
Mon 18:04:00 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] with bad coooode
Mon 18:04:07 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "inclusion" of non-ccoders
Mon 18:04:16 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] in cde development
Mon 18:04:20 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] not a good idea, ever
Mon 18:04:44 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] imagine a law firm
Mon 18:04:46 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] adding geeks
Mon 18:04:50 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] with no legal background
Mon 18:04:54 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] or education in law
Mon 18:04:59 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] who "google" stuff
Mon 18:05:11 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and "learned along the way"
Mon 18:05:15 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and use chatbots
Mon 18:05:23 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] the reputation of the firm would soon sink
Mon 18:05:30 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] that's what happens to Free Sw projects
Mon 18:05:33 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] if they allow sloppers
Mon 18:05:37 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] or tolerate slop
Mon 18:05:42 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] the good developers leave
Mon 18:05:49 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] then bots increase
Mon 18:05:52 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] the rest leave
Mon 18:06:00 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and you have a zombie bot projects
Mon 18:06:06 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] whose quality withers away
Mon 18:06:12 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] linus will find this out
Mon 18:06:14 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] in due course
Mon 18:06:45 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] http://techrights.org/n/2026/08/10/If_Your_Software_Project_Welcomes_Bots_Then_All_You_ll_Have_Lef.shtml
Mon 18:12:30 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://cybershow.uk/content/home/home.html
Mon 18:12:43 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "You can't synthesise taste ... Blackberries grow everywhere near me and we forage them. It's been a bumper summer and the bushes were dripping with a tasty, juicy crop. Unfortunately they came and went early this year, so depleted, we bought some from Aldi. I opened the plastic punnet and saw they were huge and juicy. My mouth was watering looking forward to breakfast. I put one in my mouth and tasted… nothing! It was such a ru
Mon 18:12:47 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] de absence of taste I panicked, mind racing to the COVID tests in the medicine cabinet. Instead I opted for a sniff of lavender oil just to check. I was okay. These are the weirdest food I have ever encountered. Is it that cultivated blackberries just don't work? We've bought supermarket roses that are deliberately bred to have no smell. That I can understand, some people with allergies might like the look of flowers but prefer no
Mon 18:12:52 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] scent. But food completely without taste? Who buys that? Maybe it's just me? My wife tried them, yup, no taste at all! And then after a disappointing breakfast I read this and this. I think there's a lesson here."
Mon 18:12:55 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] andy: this is notorious in chicken
Mon 18:12:57 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and not just poultry
Mon 18:13:03 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it's without much taste
Mon 18:13:10 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] bred and grown for size
Mon 18:13:16 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] fast and cheap
Mon 18:13:25 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] then water added
Mon 18:13:33 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] only weight, no other param
Mon 18:13:57 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] for berries, go outdoors
Mon 18:13:59 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] find bushes
Mon 18:14:07 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] you can pick some into a plastic container
Mon 18:14:13 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they have real taste
Mon 18:25:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It is as much about technical talent as it is about politics and butt-kissing. The best engineers don't bother with this - many just leave for other companies that don't require all that BS."
Mon 18:26:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Bob says... fail fast, fail up." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m6z2d5nt
Mon 18:26:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I spent 30+ years working with STSMs, DEs and Fellows. My experience, very, very few are worth. The rest are POS, PowerPoint experts" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m6z2d5nt
Mon 18:26:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ engineers
Mon 18:27:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Not a real engineer path. Not actual professional engineers of any kind. Should use the word DEVELOPER."
Mon 18:27:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Just last week they announced a complete overhaul of this system and introduced a whole new framework for Albany, the MTS framework. Basically, everyone from Band 6 to Band 10 will all know have the title of MTS."
Mon 18:27:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Under this system, you have something called Contribution Index (CI), which is basically a points system from 0 to 100. Once you reach 100 points, you become eligible to achieve Distinguished Engineer (DE)."
Mon 18:27:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The problem is that these points are controlled by your manager. Your CI can increase or decrease in a given year depending on your performance and how your manager evaluates you. So basically, your entire future is in the hands of your manager. If your manager does not like you, they can reduce your Contribution Index, and you may never get opportunity to become a Distinguished Engineer throughout your career."
Mon 18:27:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Even worse, when they reduce your CI, it is almost like getting demoted. They can also adjust your salary accordingly, which essentially means your salary can get reduced."
Mon 18:27:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "People here are very upset about this new system. It is creating a lot of concern because the framework is very much open for corruption and favoritism. Many people feel this is another way for Albany IBM’s famous favorites to keep growing and getting opportunities at the expense of other deserving employees."
Mon 18:28:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Basically, it is giving managers even more power over people’s careers, and there is very little protection against misuse of this system."
Mon 18:28:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "YES. but I BELIEVE IN DEC. Many on PIP from nov3 to dec4 - so termination and probably RA will be Dec 5th - Sales will be eliminated. All will become TSL -[ Im just worried I will not get Severance if I don't accomplish the PIP. Any lawyer could help?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m6rsbf7n
Mon 18:29:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "When your reorganization is centered around enterprise and only enterprise, you can eliminate approx 60% of every organization that doesn’t service enterprise. That’s what you are seeing happening within IBM in real time. AK sold the board on exploiting enterprise as that’s where 80% of the revenue came from with only 20-30% of the personnel expense. IBM will continue to shrink until only enterprise remains."
Mon 18:30:05 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "
Mon 18:30:05 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] LAYOFF IN DEC SO WE DONT GET COMMISSION?
Mon 18:30:05 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] RAs are coming in Dec.
Mon 18:30:05 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Many are on PIP from Nov 3 to Dec 4, so termination and probably RA will be Dec 5th
Mon 18:30:05 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Sales will be eliminated. All will become TSL
Mon 18:30:06 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] If I can get help, please:
Mon 18:30:08 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] 1- I have deals that will be closed in Dec. If RA is before it closes, I will not be paid?
Mon 18:30:10 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] 2 - Also, if I don't accomplish the PIP, will I not get severance?
Mon 18:30:12 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] 3- Last week I was able to put together an amazing proposal for a client - hoping it will save me. It will for sure be an insane amount of work. Is it worth it?
Mon 18:30:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Almost 10 years for me of his toxicity, I am finally ok with leaving IBM; I honestly don't want to stay any longer. I have PTSD at this point. My team is horibrle, mean, abusive, nasty, realy awfly awfuull. I need to pick my pieces up, but I cant stop thinking about the fact of how unfair it is IF THEY KEEP MY COMISSIONS
Mon 18:30:21 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "
Mon 18:30:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I can only speak for the US regarding your PIP fears. Not sure how it works elsewhere. If you fail your PIP (it's not you that failed FYI, its IBM) then in the US you get 1 month severance and a set number of subsidized COBRA months - all contingent on you signing something that says you wont sue IBM. IBM has been working on this since last year."
Mon 18:30:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "There's a reason they forced managers to rank a certain number of people into the bottom 15% regardless of actual performance. PIPs are the new RA. They cant PIP everyone because they wouldn't be able to justify it and they would be rightfully sued...but they'll PIP as many people as they can. If you lose your IBM job, be thankful because in the long run you'll be better off. That place is toxic as h3ll."
Mon 18:38:56 │ 〖psydroid2〗 │ PIP around the clock!
Mon 18:52:31 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] psydroid2: vv
Mon 18:52:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – IBM: From Illegal NDAs to Illegal Secret Settlements (Money in Exchange for Promise Not to Sue) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/IBM_From_Illegal_NDAs_to_Illegal_Secret_Settlements_Money_in_Ex.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/IBM_From_Illegal_NDAs_to_Illegal_Secret_Settlements_Money_in_Ex.gmi ∎
Mon 18:52:52 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] aadorable company
Mon 18:52:56 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "father" of computers
Mon 18:53:09 │ 〖psydroid2〗 │ typewriters, you mean?
Mon 18:53:47 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] CTR
Mon 18:53:53 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] tabulation machines
Mon 18:54:22 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] typewriters are much older than IBM
Mon 18:54:26 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] also some culculators
Mon 18:54:36 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but IBM made advances
Mon 18:54:46 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] their early keyboard imitated typewriters
Mon 18:54:49 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] there was prior art
Mon 18:54:54 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] like the layout
Mon 18:54:59 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and feedback on the finger
Mon 18:55:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_keyboard
Mon 18:55:28 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "Replacing early punched cards and paper tape technology, interaction via teleprinter-style keyboards have been the main input method for computers since the 1970s,"
Mon 18:55:38 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Selectric
Mon 18:55:45 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typewriter
Mon 18:55:55 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "The first commercial typewriters were introduced in 1874,[3] but did not become common in offices in the United States until after the mid-1880s.[4] The typewriter quickly became an indispensable tool for practically all writing other than personal handwritten correspondence. It was widely used by professional writers, in offices, in business correspondence in private homes, and by students preparing written assignments."
Mon 18:56:03 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] almost 50 years before IBM existed
Mon 18:56:15 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typewriter#/media/File:1864_Schreibmaschine_Peter_Mitterhofer.jpg
Mon 18:56:28 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Peter Mitterhofer's typewriter prototype (1864)
Mon 18:56:46 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] ""In 1575, an Italian printmaker, Francesco Rampazetto, invented the scrittura tattile, a machine to impress letters in papers
Mon 18:57:13 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] lots of italians
Mon 18:57:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] like with musical instruments
Mon 18:57:18 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "In 1802, Agostino Fantoni developed a particular typewriter to enable his blind sister to write.[11]
Mon 18:57:18 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Between 1801 and 1808, Pellegrino Turri invented a typewriter for his blind friend Countess Carolina Fantoni da Fivizzano.[12]
Mon 18:57:18 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] In 1823, Pietro Conti da Cilavegna invented a new model of the typewriter, the tachigrafo, also known as tachitipo
Mon 18:57:55 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typewriter#/media/File:Malling_Hansen,1867,_D%C3%A4nemark.jpg
Mon 18:58:01 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "Hansen Writing Ball was the first typewriter manufactured commercially (1870)."
Mon 18:58:52 │ 〖psydroid2〗 │ so what is IBM actually good at? what is its main claim to innovation? RA and PIP?
Mon 18:59:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ In France, GNU/Linux measured at 17% at one point yesterday https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&loc=FR&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP&dateRange=28d
Mon 18:59:37 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] psydroid2: lots
Mon 18:59:39 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] storage
Mon 18:59:42 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] memory
Mon 18:59:48 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] peripherals
Mon 19:00:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Are leather jackets become a "signal" of "cheating on the wife"?
Mon 19:01:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Jensen was no technological marvel, just hype and lies... to sell GPUs. Like using these to mine "fake-coins" or do plagiarism with enough entropy to make detection harder.
Mon 19:01:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Let's hope that the planet-destroying GPU giants will fall like Jensen the cheating fraud
Mon 19:02:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ as they gave society nothing of value. And no, best games don't need GPUs.
Mon 19:03:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ They STILL ignore or distract from the accounting fraud: "The tech firm saw its shares fall by about 6% on Monday after Jensen Huang admitted having an extramarital affair." https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6zxjx01vyleo
Mon 19:03:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ If Jensen Huang's WIFE cannot trust him, why would YOU?
Mon 19:04:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 007: the spy who loved GPUs
Mon 19:04:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ...a GPU pusher says good games need many polygons. A joiner says we need many broken windows out there.
Mon 19:05:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ...and NSA relies on LOTS of lines of DEFECTIVE code. The more lines, the more holes.
Mon 19:07:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I have an email archive going back almost 25 years. It contains my first correspondence with my wife, the first email that my eldest daughter sent (aged five; I don’t think my youngest has ever sent me an email). I have emails from friends, current and past, and from people who have passed away." gemini://readme.fairlygood.net/gemlog/2026-11-09_re--i-m-bad-at-email.gmi
Mon 19:07:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 09_re
Mon 19:08:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Not much on the graphics page - just a couple of pixel totoros and some icons." gemini://renfys.smol.pub/1794249955
Mon 19:10:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Life gemini://danchium.smol.pub/life
Mon 19:11:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Oh, it's nothing (poe/en) gemini://danchium.smol.pub/oh-its-nothing
Mon 19:16:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Here in Portugal protests have finally broken out for the "housing crisis" that we're going through. The national monthly minimum wage (920€) is not enough to live by in most of the country, not only in Lisbon and Porto" gemini://siiky.srht.site/philosophy/antisocial-survival.gmi
Mon 19:17:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Gemini Links 09/11/2026: Zephyr, Wireless Planet, and Old E-mail ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/Gemini_Links_09_11_2026_Zephyr_Wireless_Planet_and_Old_E_mail.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/Gemini_Links_09_11_2026_Zephyr_Wireless_Planet_and_Old_E_mail.gmi ∎
Mon 19:22:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Microsoft workers accuse company of trying to get customers "addicted" to AI while forcing it on their own staff and making them party to "human rights violations" https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/microsoft-workers-accuse-company-of-trying-to-get-customers-addicted-to-ai-while-forcing-it-on-their-own-staff-and-making-them-party-to-human-rights-violations
Mon 19:34:45 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ Clod.... https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/11/claude-code-settings-files-expose-thousands-of-secrets-on-github/
Mon 19:36:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Misuse of the Legal System Against Reporters https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/11/09/misuse-of-the-legal-system-against-reporters/
Mon 19:36:46 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] github is fast becoming a slopfarm
Mon 19:36:49 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] by tolerating slop
Mon 19:36:58 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] others like codeberg and sourcehut do not
Mon 19:37:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] slop is produced fast
Mon 19:37:25 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] a lot faster than what's left of humans there
Mon 19:37:34 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so the code there will decrease in quality
Mon 19:37:44 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] an ocean of plagiarism and plagiarism of plagiarism
Mon 19:37:49 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and plagiarism of plagiarism of plagiarism...
Mon 19:37:57 │ 〖nobody〗 │ it's everywhere
Mon 19:50:12 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ rotfl @ terminal2shell
Mon 19:52:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Boosters of Non-reciprocal Licensing Are Just Trying to Cancel Richard Stallman (RMS) and His Baby, GNU ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/Boosters_of_Non_reciprocal_Licensing_Are_Just_Trying_to_Cancel_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/Boosters_of_Non_reciprocal_Licensing_Are_Just_Trying_to_Cancel_.gmi ∎
Mon 20:20:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Tux Machines Growth Not Limited to the World Wide Web ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Tux_Machines_Growth_Not_Limited_to_the_World_Wide_Web.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Tux_Machines_Growth_Not_Limited_to_the_World_Wide_Web.gmi ∎
Mon 20:25:46 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ https://ibb.co/1f3c3Rnb
Mon 20:27:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Austria: GNU/Linux at About 6% ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Austria_GNU_Linux_at_About_6.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Austria_GNU_Linux_at_About_6.gmi ∎
Mon 20:45:41 │ 〖parsifal〗 │ this guy(Hasselhoff) is a worse singer than a bad actor, if that's even possible... it’s some kind of bizarre, negative form of competing against himself
Mon 20:47:21 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :>
Mon 20:51:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Protestants at the EPO Fight On, Rising in Opposition to and Against Corruption, Also Against GAFAM ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/Protestants_at_the_EPO_Fight_On_Rising_in_Opposition_to_and_Aga.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/Protestants_at_the_EPO_Fight_On_Rising_in_Opposition_to_and_Aga.gmi ∎
Mon 21:25:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Mozilla Firefox 161 Enters Public Beta Testing, Here’s What to Expect ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Mozilla_Firefox_161_Enters_Public_Beta_Testing_Here_s_What_to_E.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Mozilla_Firefox_161_Enters_Public_Beta_Testing_Here_s_What_to_E.gmi ∎
Mon 21:28:17 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/11/claude-code-settings-files-expose-thousands-of-secrets-on-github/
Mon 21:28:30 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] plagiarism belnder
Mon 21:28:36 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] blends many inputs
Mon 21:28:41 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] inc. private ones
Mon 21:28:47 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] spits some out
Mon 21:28:48 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] as expected
Mon 21:28:55 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] that's slop, welcome to slop
Mon 21:28:56 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ oops wrong one
Mon 21:29:01 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] enjoy the ride
Mon 21:29:04 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ supposed to be this
Mon 21:29:12 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] ok..
Mon 21:29:13 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ Look out!... https://www.theregister.com/applications/2026/11/09/outlookcom-bounces-legit-emails-as-microsofts-authentication-crackdown-goes-sideways/5308428
Mon 21:29:24 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] even better than
Mon 21:30:03 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Source: The Register MS
Mon 21:38:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Mozilla Firefox 160 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Mozilla_Firefox_160_Is_Now_Available_for_Download_Here_s_What_s.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Mozilla_Firefox_160_Is_Now_Available_for_Download_Here_s_What_s.gmi ∎
Mon 21:58:11 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.geekwire.com/2026/washington-governor-rips-microsoft-over-tv-ad-in-leaked-audio/
Mon 21:58:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Improving the Site This Year and in 2027 ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Improving_the_Site_This_Year_and_in_2027.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/11/09/Improving_the_Site_This_Year_and_in_2027.gmi ∎
Mon 22:02:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Is Boeing laying off workers? Yes, about 5% of commercial airplane staff, notices from December"
Mon 22:02:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "$11.4 million in NVIDIA hardware vanishes during shipment from California to Texas"
Mon 22:03:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Cheeto backs cheating CEO. Surprise, surprise. He'd even back a raping CEO who does pedophilia.
Mon 22:04:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ‘AI rebounding’: Nearly 20% of U.S. workers replaced by AI are being asked back—now they’re demanding higher pay, job security and AI transparency https://fortune.com/2026/11/09/ai-rebounding-20-us-workers-replaced-higher-pay-job-security/
Mon 22:05:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Nvidia Sinks" https://www.tipranks.com/news/u-s-stocks-rebound-as-oil-prices-fall-and-nvidia-sinks
Mon 22:19:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Losing Their 'Faith' in Slop ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/Losing_Their_Faith_in_Slop.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/Losing_Their_Faith_in_Slop.gmi ∎
Mon 22:22:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ GNU/Linux 7%. Vista 11 at 17% https://analytics.usa.gov/
Mon 22:34:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Since Records Began 18 Months Ago, statCounter Saw Chatbot Usage Falling Sharply ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/Since_Records_Began_18_Months_Ago_statCounter_Saw_Chatbot_Usage.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/Since_Records_Began_18_Months_Ago_statCounter_Saw_Chatbot_Usage.gmi ∎
Mon 22:38:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Killing Floor Creator Tripwire Kills Off More Jobs https://techraptor.net/gaming/news/killing-floor-creator-tripwire-kills-off-more-jobs
Mon 22:40:00 │ 〖nobody〗 │ hopefully i got a solution to cut short the bootloader compilation/deployment _without_ GNU toolchain
Mon 22:40:27 │ 〖nobody〗 │ it seems, grub-legacy does not depend on binutils-ld specific linker-scripts
Mon 22:40:48 │ 〖nobody〗 │ and all else could be handled just fine with i386-tcc/yasm
Mon 22:41:31 │ 〖nobody〗 │ this will drop 100million lines of code from the dependency graph to yield a fully bootstrapped *nix host with some C-compiler and a busybox
Mon 22:42:11 │ 〖nobody〗 │ compile-time i mean, when _everything_ is driven from source
Mon 22:43:30 │ 〖nobody〗 │ too grub-legacy does contain the needed bootcode pieces to support CD ISO boot
Mon 22:45:11 │ 〖nobody〗 │ not sure yet about grub2, but i don't need UEFI or fancy things like bootsplash
Mon 22:45:40 │ 〖nobody〗 │ hence if grub-legacy can be ported for/with tcc/yasm then this long-standing problem is solved :)
Mon 22:46:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Microsoft Will Pay $11,742 USD for Workers to Leave ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/Microsoft_Will_Pay_11_742_USD_for_Workers_to_Leave.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/Microsoft_Will_Pay_11_742_USD_for_Workers_to_Leave.gmi ∎
Mon 22:46:43 │ 〖nobody〗 │ i'm both, too tired to continue hacking this, and too excited to go bed now
Mon 22:59:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ puddle gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/puddle
Mon 23:08:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Venezuela 5.2% GNU/Linux https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&loc=VE&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP&dateRange=28d
Mon 23:09:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Dominican Republic 4% GNU/Linux https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&loc=DO&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP&dateRange=28d
Mon 23:11:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Azerbaijan
Mon 23:24:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – GNU/Linux Rose to 6% as Laptop/Desktop Operating System in Azerbaijan ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/GNU_Linux_Rose_to_6_as_Laptop_Desktop_Operating_System_in_Azerb.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/11/09/GNU_Linux_Rose_to_6_as_Laptop_Desktop_Operating_System_in_Azerb.gmi ∎
Mon 23:26:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ #HerToo https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c95ynylr8j6xo
Mon 23:26:41 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ # = pound
Mon 23:30:54 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] tyson will # holyfield
Mon 23:31:00 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :>
Mon 23:33:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ A United Tradition https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/11/09/a-united-tradition/
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