Techrights Recent IRC Comments
Full logs (past days) in http://techrights.org/category/irc-logs/ and latest below.
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Sat 06:35:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It has been quite a while since we switched from GitHub to Fossil for development. Since we don’t expect people to tool around an uncommon tool we also mirror to git hosted on Codeberg." ☛ https://arcan-fe.com/2025/12/27/arcan-0-7-1-minutes-to-midnight/ | Source: Arcan
Sat 06:35:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "For more detailed information on the changes in 1.4.3, you can read the release notes." ☛ https://inkscape.org/news/2025/12/26/bugs-banished-inkscape-143-is-out/ | Source: Inkscape
Sat 06:36:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Last year, over 100 cybersecurity professionals participated in Dark Reading's annual State of Enterprise Application Security survey" ☛ https://www.darkreading.com/application-security/dark-reading-opens-state-appsec-survey | Source: Dark Reading
Sat 06:37:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "These calipers may be huge, but they do the same thing as the digital calipers you have in your desk drawer." ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/12/26/a-super-sized-set-of-digital-calipers-for-giants/ | Source: Arduino
Sat 06:37:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Sometimes, no news is good news. And early news is bad news." ☛ https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/slimbook-executive-report-12.html | Source: Dedoimedo
Sat 06:38:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Christmas Music Project: Back to When Music Was Music (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/26/Christmas_Music_Project_Back_to_When_Music_Was_Music.shtml
Sat 06:38:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Trina got me a Playdate for Christmas this year!" ☛ https://sethmlarson.dev/getting-started-with-playdate-on-ubuntu | Source: Seth Michael Larson
Sat 06:38:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The coreboot project is pleased to announce the release of coreboot 25.12, continuing our commitment to advancing open-source firmware development." ☛ https://blogs.coreboot.org/blog/2025/12/26/announcing-coreboot-25-12-release/ | Source: Coreboot (Official)
Sat 06:40:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The good news is that users who still want to use Pascal or older GPUs with Arch Linux are not left with zero options." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/arch-linux-kills-off-pascal-gpu-support-users-still-running-gtx-10-series-graphics-cards-will-have-to-manually-install-older-drivers | Source: Tom's Hardware
Sat 06:40:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Arch users can continue using older Nvidia Linux drivers that support these GPUs by uninstalling the official Nvidia packages and installing the older "Nvidia-580xx-dkms" package."
Sat 06:42:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Thank you to everybody who contributed to this release" ☛ https://www.qemu.org/2025/12/24/qemu-10-2-0/ | Source: Qemu
Sat 06:43:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "actually, if it's not audio-only and available via RSS for free, it's not a podcast" ☛ https://birchtree.me/blog/what-if-we-ended-the-podcast/ | Source: Matt Birchler
Sat 06:43:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): QEMU 10.2 Officially Released with Live Update Support and Improvements ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/25/QEMU_10_2_Officially_Released_with_Live_Update_Support_and_Impr.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/25/QEMU_10_2_Officially_Released_with_Live_Update_Support_and_Impr.gmi ∎
Sat 06:43:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Framework is giving buyers the option to bring their own memory and even links to PCPartPicker so they can find more affordable options." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/laptop-maker-framework-announces-another-memory-price-hike-says-another-increase-is-coming-within-a-month-encourages-buyers-to-bring-their-own-memory-and-check-pcpartpicker-for-better-deals | Source: Tom's Hardware
Sat 06:44:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "laptop weirdo" ☛ https://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/im-a-laptop-weirdo-and-thats-why-i-like-my-new-framework-13/ | Source: Matthew Brunelle
Sat 06:45:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ My Favorite Books of 2023-2025 ☞ https://benjamincongdon.me/blog/2025/12/25/My-Favorite-Books-of-2023-2025/
Sat 06:46:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ FSF Fundraiser ☞ https://blog.lx.oliva.nom.br/2025-12-26-fsf-fundraiser.en.html
Sat 06:48:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "We live in a hostile world where user control is under intense attack. If you care, you should be part of the resistance."
Sat 06:48:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "As the earliest Free Software advocacy organization to fight for users' rights to control their own computing, the FSF is in a great position to not only highlight the path to freedom, but also to walk us all together there, and to fight with us to clear the path from the roadblocks placed in it."
Sat 06:48:57 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] ACTION waits for MinceR to jeer and sneer at systemd something something
Sat 06:49:25 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ i guess the path to money from MICROS~1 is more enticing
Sat 06:49:42 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] what money, shares?
Sat 06:50:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ My Apologies, but Your Creative Expression Isn't Covered by Your Subscription ☞ https://jxself.org/my-apologies.shtml
Sat 06:52:02 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ donations
Sat 06:58:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Slimbook Executive report 12 - Still no joy ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/27/Slimbook_Executive_report_12_Still_no_joy.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/27/Slimbook_Executive_report_12_Still_no_joy.gmi ∎
Sat 06:59:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This week the Hackaday Podcast is on vacation, but we’d like to wish you all happy holidays and a great 2026. Thanks for tuning in! We’ll be back next week." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/26/hackaday-podcast-2025-holiday-placeholder-edition/ | Source: Hackaday
Sat 07:00:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Free and Open Source Software ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/26/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/26/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi ∎
Sat 07:01:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The World's Smallest Programmable Robot Can Barely Be Seen ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/the-worlds-smallest-programmable-robot-can-barely-be-seen
Sat 07:01:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Going boldly into the COSMIC desktop environment ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/25/Going_boldly_into_the_COSMIC_desktop_environment.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/25/Going_boldly_into_the_COSMIC_desktop_environment.gmi ∎
Sat 07:02:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Working Out While Losing Weight Keeps Muscles 'Young', Study Finds ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/working-out-while-losing-weight-keeps-muscles-young-study-finds
Sat 07:04:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Linux Fundamentals ☞ https://www.linuxteck.com/linux-fundamentals/
Sat 07:05:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ e2c – proprietary trap AWS EC2 Terminal UI Manager ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/e2c-aws-ec2-terminal-ui-manager/
Sat 07:05:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Mago – extremely fast PHP linter, formatter, and static analyzer ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/mago-extremely-fast-php-linter-formatter-static-analyzer/
Sat 07:06:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 19 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux Physics Tools ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/physics/
Sat 07:06:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ lla – fast ls replacement with superpowers ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/lla-fast-ls-replacement-superpowers/
Sat 07:07:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 7 Best Free and Open Source MongoDB GUIs ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/mongodbguis/
Sat 07:07:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 10 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux Biology Tools ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/biology/
Sat 07:07:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Infatuation or Infestation? ☞ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-2025-Highlights http://techrights.org/n/2025/10/24/Who_Will_be_Held_Accountable_for_Breaking_Ubuntu_by_Imposing_Ru.shtml
Sat 07:08:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ fortty – terminal emulator ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/fortty-terminal-emulator/
Sat 07:15:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Free and Open Source Software ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/27/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/27/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi ∎
Sat 07:18:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ turm – interface for the Slurm Workload Manager ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/turm-interface-slurm-workload-manager/
Sat 07:18:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ squawk – linter for Postgres migrations & SQL ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/squawk-linter-postgres-migrations-sql/
Sat 07:18:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Conar – AI-powered tool to simplify database interactions ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/conar-ai-powered-tool-simplify-database-interactions/
Sat 07:19:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Taskmaster – keep track of time ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/taskmaster-keep-track-time/
Sat 07:19:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ clrsync – color scheme manager ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/clrsync-color-scheme-manager/
Sat 07:19:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ FolderHost – share files ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/folderhost-share-files/
Sat 07:19:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Veretino – folder integrity checker ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/veretino-folder-integrity-checker/
Sat 07:20:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ MeTube – self-hosted YouTube downloader ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/metube-self-hosted-youtube-downloader/
Sat 07:20:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Everyone brings something to the table ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/27/Everyone_brings_something_to_the_table.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/27/Everyone_brings_something_to_the_table.gmi ∎
Sat 07:20:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Toad – unified interface for Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/toad-unified-interface-ai/
Sat 07:23:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Linux-libre's Oliva and Self on FSF and Sharing ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/27/Linux_libre_s_Oliva_and_Self_on_FSF_and_Sharing.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/27/Linux_libre_s_Oliva_and_Self_on_FSF_and_Sharing.gmi ∎
Sat 07:23:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 8 Best Free and Open Source Ruby-Based Web Content Management Systems ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-ruby-web-content-management-systems/
Sat 07:24:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 16 Best Free and Open Source Replacements for ls ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-replacements-ls/
Sat 07:24:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 16 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux Medical Imaging Software ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/medicalimaging/
Sat 07:24:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 17 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux Wiki Engines ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/wiki/
Sat 07:25:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): My 11 favorite Linux distributions of all time, ranked ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/27/My_11_favorite_Linux_distributions_of_all_time_ranked.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/27/My_11_favorite_Linux_distributions_of_all_time_ranked.gmi ∎
Sat 07:26:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ PorteuX 2.5 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/porteux
Sat 07:27:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Pearl 13 is out as well ☞ https://distrowatch.com/pearl
Sat 07:27:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Turntable 5.0 Adds Collapsible Player Controls & Year-End Recap ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/12/turntable-linux-desktop-media-controls
Sat 07:31:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ When wealthy call themselves poor: Social media trend in South Korea fuels criticism ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/when-wealthy-call-themselves-poor-social-media-trend-in-south-korea-fuels-criticism
Sat 07:33:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Drug bust in Malaysia uncovers major scam call centre ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/drug-bust-in-malaysia-uncovers-major-scam-call-centre
Sat 07:34:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ China’s high-speed rail network passes 50,000km mark ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinas-high-speed-rail-network-passes-50000km-mark
Sat 07:38:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Another X11 revival for Linux has arrived, but what's the point? ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/27/Another_X11_revival_for_Linux_has_arrived_but_what_s_the_point.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/27/Another_X11_revival_for_Linux_has_arrived_but_what_s_the_point.gmi ∎
Sat 07:40:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 3D Printed PC Case ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/26/3d-printed-pc-case-focuses-on-ease-of-access/ | Source: Hackaday
Sat 07:40:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Quantum Spin Dynamics On Consumer Hardware" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/26/simulating-driven-dissipative-quantum-spin-dynamics-on-consumer-hardware/ | Source: Hackaday
Sat 07:50:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): An Ecosystem's Equilibrium, Balance, Symbiosis ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/27/An_Ecosystem_s_Equilibrium_Balance_Symbiosis.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/27/An_Ecosystem_s_Equilibrium_Balance_Symbiosis.gmi ∎
Sat 07:58:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Resuming EPO Coverage Today, Can António Campinos 'Survive' Cocainegate? ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/27/Resuming_EPO_Coverage_Today_Can_Antonio_Campinos_Survive_Cocain.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/27/Resuming_EPO_Coverage_Today_Can_Antonio_Campinos_Survive_Cocain.gmi ∎
Sat 08:01:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ This is a SLOPFARM. Microsoft now uses slopfarms to DISTRACT from the fact COMMERCIAL FAILURE left Microsoft over 120 billion dollars in DEBT https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/microsoft-ai-ceo-mustafa-suleyman-says-it-is-going-to-cost-hundreds-of-billions-of-dollars-to-compete-in-ai-over-next-5-10-years-not-to-mention-prices-that-we-are-paying-for-/articleshow/126160061.cms
Sat 08:01:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ OF COURSE they will just try to blame "HEY HI" (not their companies sucking and engaging in accounting fraud) https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/article-15409451/amp/ai-job-losses-america-executives-companies.html
Sat 08:03:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Almost all of them sacked by Microsoft https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-12-27/todd-green-head-of-the-company-that-created-candy-crush-success-for-us-is-that-players-want-to-play-for-years.html puff piece
Sat 08:06:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Bugs banished – Inkscape 1.4.3 is out! ☞ https://inkscape.org/news/2025/12/26/bugs-banished-inkscape-143-is-out/
Sat 08:06:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Size of /tmp inadequate ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202512/size-of-tmp-inadequate.html
Sat 08:08:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Phoenix Emerges as a Modern X Server Written From Scratch in Zig ☞ https://linuxiac.com/phoenix-emerges-as-a-modern-x-server-written-from-scratch-in-zig/
Sat 08:08:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Postgresus Renamed to Databasus as Backup Tool Expands Beyond PostgreSQL ☞ https://linuxiac.com/postgresus-renamed-to-databasus-as-backup-tool-expands-beyond-postgresql/
Sat 08:08:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Inkscape 1.4.3 Delivers 124 Bug and Crash Fixes in Major Maintenance Update ☞ https://linuxiac.com/inkscape-1-4-3-vector-graphic-editor-delivers-124-bug-and-crash-fixes/
Sat 08:09:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Itching to Try the Hot COSMIC DE on Ubuntu Linux? Here's an Easy Way ☞ https://itsfoss.com/install-cosmic-de-ubuntu/
Sat 08:10:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 9 New GNU/Linux Distros That Could Grow Big in 2026 ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/new-distro-go-big-26/
Sat 08:11:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ COSMIC ☞ https://sparkylinux.org/cosmic/
Sat 08:11:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ OpenMediaVault 8 (OMV8) ” Synchrony” released for 64-bit x86 (AMD64) and Arm (ARM64) platforms only ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/12/26/openmediavault-8-omv8-synchrony-released-for-64-bit-x86-amd64-and-arm-arm64-platforms-only/
Sat 08:13:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): openmediavault – NAS solution based on Debian Linux ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/27/openmediavault_NAS_solution_based_on_Debian_Linux.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/27/openmediavault_NAS_solution_based_on_Debian_Linux.gmi ∎
Sat 08:14:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ PorteuX 2.5 Is Out with Flatpak Support, Cinnamon 6.6, COSMIC 1.0, and GNU/Linux 6.18 ☞ https://9to5linux.com/porteux-2-5-is-out-with-flatpak-support-cinnamon-6-6-cosmic-1-0-and-linux-6-18
Sat 08:15:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Inkscape 1.4.3 Open-Source SVG Editor Improves PDF Import and Text on Path ☞ https://9to5linux.com/inkscape-1-4-3-open-source-svg-editor-improves-pdf-import-and-text-on-path
Sat 08:15:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ GStreamer 1.26.10 Released with Support for FLAC Audio in DASH Manifests ☞ https://9to5linux.com/gstreamer-1-26-10-released-with-support-for-flac-audio-in-dash-manifests
Sat 08:16:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It’s no surprise that NVIDIA is gradually dropping support for older videocards" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/26/nvidia-drops-pascal-support-on-linux-causing-chaos-on-arch-linux/ | Source: Hackaday
Sat 08:21:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ FSF Blogs: Everyone brings something to the table ☞ http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/everyone-brings-something-to-the-table
Sat 08:24:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ask-save-zram1 path fix ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202512/ask-save-zram1-path-fix.html
Sat 08:24:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Security updates for Friday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1052070/
Sat 08:24:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The next cyber battlefield: Preparing federal networks for autonomous malware ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/commentary/2025/12/the-next-cyber-battlefield-preparing-federal-networks-for-autonomous-malware/
Sat 08:25:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ IoT Hack ☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/12/iot-hack.html
Sat 08:29:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Thaura.ai: An Hey Hi (AI) model against big tech domination ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/thaura-ai-an-ai-model-against-big-tech-domination-314891
Sat 08:30:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2025/52 ☞ https://dominique.leuenberger.net/blog/2025/12/tumbleweed-review-of-the-week-2025-52/
Sat 08:30:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Postgresus Renamed to Databasus as Backup Tool Expands Beyond PostgreSQL ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/27/Postgresus_Renamed_to_Databasus_as_Backup_Tool_Expands_Beyond_P.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/27/Postgresus_Renamed_to_Databasus_as_Backup_Tool_Expands_Beyond_P.gmi ∎
Sat 08:32:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ M5Stack NanoH2 – An ultra-compact ESP32-H2 IoT development kit with Zigbee, Thread, and Matter connectivity ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/12/26/m5stack-nanoh2-an-ultra-compact-esp32-h2-iot-development-kit-with-zigbee-thread-and-matter-connectivity/
Sat 08:32:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Announcing coreboot 25.12 release ☞ https://blogs.coreboot.org/blog/2025/12/26/announcing-coreboot-25-12-release/
Sat 08:34:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Most Cited Fed Cir Cases 2020-2025 ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/12/most-cited-cases.html
Sat 08:36:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ YouTube Reportedly Terminates Channels Behind Fake Hey Hi (AI) Film Trailers — Are Hey Hi (AI) Music Page Takedowns Next? ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/12/26/youtube-ai-film-trailers-takedowns/
Sat 08:37:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Cerelog ESP-EEG – A low-cost ESP32-based EEG acquisition board for brain computer interface (BCI) experiments ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/12/26/cerelog-esp-eeg-a-low-cost-esp32-based-eeg-acquisition-board-for-brain-computer-interface-bci-experiments/
Sat 08:39:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Copy of Grand Theft Auto that runs in a web browser gets taken down by DMCA ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/browser-run-copy-of-grand-theft-auto-gets-taken-down-by-dcma-take-two-says-dos-zone-infringed-companys-intellectual-property-rights-despite-disclaimers-and-requirement-to-own-original-copy-of-title-to-run-full-game-online
Sat 08:45:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install Lua Scripting Language on Fedora 43 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-lua-scripting-language-fedora-43/
Sat 08:47:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ VAPOURWARE ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/nvidia-restructures-dgx-cloud-team-refocuses-cloud-efforts-internally
Sat 08:50:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How to Install PHP 8.5 on Ubuntu ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-php-8-5-on-ubuntu-linux/
Sat 08:50:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Geminispace: 5,000 Capsules in 2026 ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/26/Geminispace_5_000_Capsules_in_2026.shtml
Sat 08:51:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ PostgreSQL RPM repository now supports multiple RHEL minor versions ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-rpm-repository-now-supports-multiple-rhel-minor-versions-3202/
Sat 08:53:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Monitor Your Servers With Free Uptime Kuma Container ☞ https://thenewstack.io/monitor-your-servers-with-free-uptime-kuma-container/
Sat 08:53:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ CachyOS Wants to Improve Your Server Performance Now ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/cachyos-server-edition-plans/
Sat 08:54:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ credcheck v4.3 has been released ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/credcheck-v43-has-been-released-3203/
Sat 08:55:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Judge blocks Convicted Felon effort to strip security clearance from whistleblower attorney ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/litigation/2025/12/judge-blocks-trump-effort-to-strip-security-clearance-from-attorney-who-represented-whistleblowers/
Sat 08:56:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Enjoy the holidays! ☞ https://blog.slackware.nl/enjoy-the-holidays/
Sat 08:59:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Wine 11.0-rc4 https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/releases/wine-11.0-rc4
Sat 09:25:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): BSD Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/27/BSD_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/27/BSD_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Sat 09:25:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Open Hardware/Modding :Cerelog, Coreboot, Arduino, and More ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/27/Open_Hardware_Modding_Cerelog_Coreboot_Arduino_and_More.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/27/Open_Hardware_Modding_Cerelog_Coreboot_Arduino_and_More.gmi ∎
Sat 09:27:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today's 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 HowTos ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/27/today_s_howtos.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/27/today_s_howtos.gmi ∎
Sat 09:28:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): GNU/Linux Desktop/Laptop, Graphics, and More ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/27/GNU_Linux_Desktop_Laptop_Graphics_and_More.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/27/GNU_Linux_Desktop_Laptop_Graphics_and_More.gmi ∎
Sat 09:28:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): PostgreSQL News and Releases ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/27/PostgreSQL_News_and_Releases.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/27/PostgreSQL_News_and_Releases.gmi ∎
Sat 09:30:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/27/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/27/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Sat 09:32:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Links 27/12/2025: US Cracking Down on Whistleblowers, Expanding Bombardment Campaigns Worldwide ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/27/Links_27_12_2025_US_Cracking_Down_on_Whistleblowers_Expanding_B.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/27/Links_27_12_2025_US_Cracking_Down_on_Whistleblowers_Expanding_B.gmi ∎
Sat 13:05:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 39C3 starts today. Live: https://streaming.media.ccc.de/39c3
Sat 13:07:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🔤SpellBinding — CDIOPSR Wordo: IMAMS gemini://spell.ddns.net/games/gemlog/2025-12-27.gmi
Sat 13:08:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🖼️ xkcd — Truly Universal Outlet #3186 gemini://8by3.net/~xkcd/3186.gmi
Sat 13:09:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Household appliances gopher://sdf.org:70/1/users/xiled/phlog/2025/20251226_appliances
Sat 13:10:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Hafa Adai! gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/nm03/2025/DEC2025/entry-1
Sat 13:11:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [jp] [photos] gemini://higeki.jp/nikki/2025-12-26.gmi
Sat 13:13:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "There are 4815 capsules. We successfully connected recently to 3239 of them." gemini://gemini.bortzmeyer.org/software/lupa/stats.gmi
Sat 13:14:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Did you know you can get COSMIC on Ubuntu? This unofficial PPA makes it possible." https://itsfoss.com/install-cosmic-de-ubuntu/
Sat 13:14:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "We do not need a mythical “year of the Linux desktop” for Linux to keep growing. We just need good ideas, consistent execution, and projects that keep getting better with every release." https://itsfoss.com/news/new-distro-go-big-26/
Sat 13:14:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ NVIDIA Drops Pascal Support On Linux, Causing Chaos On Arch Linux https://hackaday.com/2025/12/26/nvidia-drops-pascal-support-on-linux-causing-chaos-on-arch-linux/
Sat 13:15:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ No VM because you use WINDOWS, NOT "Linux" https://tech.yahoo.com/computing/articles/ho-run-linux-gui-apps-143014497.html see http://techrights.org/n/2025/05/22/The_Evolution_of_Microsoft_s_War_on_GNU_Linux.shtml
Sat 13:15:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 23-Year-Old Radeon GPUs get a fix from the open-source Linux driver https://videocardz.com/newz/23-year-old-radeon-gpus-get-a-fix-from-the-open-source-linux-driver
Sat 13:19:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Red Hat posting slop images in social control media today
Sat 13:23:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Slop is a distraction from XBox dying; they try to claim something "new" where there's none https://www.gamingbible.com/news/platform/xbox/new-xbox-ai-feature-is-impressing-users-625451-20251227
Sat 13:24:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Orcs have hijacked the word "Ubuntu". From "humanity for/to others" to "war crimes for the impaler" https://hornobserver.com/articles/3568/Lavrovs-Ubuntu-Philosophy-Contracts-With-Russia-Africa-Media-Cooperation MinceR
Sat 13:24:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This release ships with GNOME 49.2, KDE Plasma 6.5.4, Cinnamon 6.6, LXQt 2.3, COSMIC 1.0, Xfce 4.20, LXDE 0.11.1, and MATE 1.28.2 desktops." https://9to5linux.com/porteux-2-5-is-out-with-flatpak-support-cinnamon-6-6-cosmic-1-0-and-linux-6-18
Sat 13:25:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Mark Shuttleworth (MS) chose to go to space with Russia (with love)
Sat 13:27:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Labor rights in Europe https://www.dw.com/en/labor-rights-in-europe-who-s-working-over-christmas/a-75246315
Sat 13:28:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ first wheelchair user to visit space https://www.dw.com/en/german-engineer-becomes-first-wheelchair-user-to-visit-space/a-75254342
Sat 13:29:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Expensive, but also primitive https://www.dw.com/en/us-tens-of-thousands-left-without-power-in-san-francisco/a-75255957
Sat 13:33:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ health-care crisis https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ontario-jail-health-care-crisis-9.7012663
Sat 13:36:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Slavery Reparations https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-12-20/ghanas-president-urged-to-rally-african-leaders-behind-push-for-slavery-reparations
Sat 13:37:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Record Bank Fine https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2025-12-17/global-financial-crime-auditors-visit-canada-after-record-bank-fine
Sat 13:39:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ spoofed email https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/andrea-petzold-spoofed-emails-jonathan-denis-family-friends-9.7009130
Sat 13:40:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ $3K worth of goods https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/santa-claus-montreal-police-grocery-store-theft-9.7020673
Sat 13:42:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ War on media https://www.dw.com/en/israel-netanyahu-to-shut-down-respected-army-radio-station/a-75272453
Sat 13:43:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Holcim https://www.dw.com/en/indonesians-set-to-face-cement-giant-holcim-in-swiss-court/a-75262039
Sat 13:47:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Charger of batteries from early 90s/late 80s? No problem. Still working fine after 30+ years. Why can't they still produce things like these?
Sat 13:47:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ world's largest nuclear power plant https://www.dw.com/en/japan-to-restart-world-s-largest-nuclear-power-plant/a-75265382
Sat 13:49:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Sony Buys a Majority Stake in the 'Peanuts' Comic for $457 Million From Canada's WildBrain https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2025-12-19/sony-buys-a-majority-stake-in-the-peanuts-comic-for-457-million-from-canadas-wildbrain
Sat 13:57:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ duped by poems https://www.dw.com/en/ai-language-models-duped-by-poems/a-75180648
Sat 13:57:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ due to biology not tolerance https://www.dw.com/en/women-get-drunk-faster-than-men-due-to-biology-not-tolerance/a-75223854
Sat 13:58:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Cheeto Mussolini is backing Bayer in weedkiller cancer battle https://www.dw.com/en/why-trump-is-backing-bayer-in-weedkiller-cancer-battle/a-75188139
Sat 14:00:58 │ 〖darwin〗 │ 'I am hacker. That okay. I code all night and I sleep all day'--Nimbus/pi31415/SunDragon, ftp://ftp/modland.com/pub/modules/Impulsetracker/Nimbus
Sat 14:19:15 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] wow, ftp
Sat 14:19:20 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] not even over ssh
Sat 14:36:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ misleading international students https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-private-school-pacific-link-college-shut-down-9.7021444
Sat 14:40:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ food bank https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/sewer-bags-swatches-steinbach-food-bank-9.7016699
Sat 14:40:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Bad for the Vulnerable https://jacobin.com/2025/12/canada-austerity-assisted-suicide-autonomy/
Sat 14:41:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ chatbots https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-elections-artificial-intelligence-9.7021876
Sat 14:42:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 'gift card draining' https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/scammed-gift-cards-tim-hortons-windsor-9.7021349
Sat 14:43:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ tentative agreement https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-post-tentative-agreement-9.7025313
Sat 14:44:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The Housing Crisis Is Solvable https://jacobin.com/2025/12/canada-housing-crisis-zoning-policy/
Sat 14:51:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): WinBoat, WinApps, and Windows Mislabeled as "Linux" ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/26/WinBoat_WinApps_and_Windows_Mislabeled_as_Linux.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/26/WinBoat_WinApps_and_Windows_Mislabeled_as_Linux.gmi ∎
Sat 14:51:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 23-Year-Old Radeon GPUs get a fix from the open-source Linux driver ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/27/23_Year_Old_Radeon_GPUs_get_a_fix_from_the_open_source_Linux_dr.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/27/23_Year_Old_Radeon_GPUs_get_a_fix_from_the_open_source_Linux_dr.gmi ∎
Sat 14:56:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Gemini Links 27/12/2025: Household Appliances and Flight Fright ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/27/Links_27_12_2025_Household_Appliances_and_Flight_Fright.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/27/Links_27_12_2025_Household_Appliances_and_Flight_Fright.gmi ∎
Sat 14:57:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Links 27/12/2025: Canada Post Strike Called Off, Debate About Europeans "Working Over Christmas" ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/27/Links_27_12_2025_Canada_Post_Strike_Called_Off_Debate_About_Eur.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/27/Links_27_12_2025_Canada_Post_Strike_Called_Off_Debate_About_Eur.gmi ∎
Sat 15:05:30 │ 〖darwin〗 │ that is, ftp://ftp.modland.com/pub/modules/Impulsetracker/Nimbus/i am hacker.it
Sat 15:14:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Days Without Slop About "Linux" ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/27/Days_Without_Slop_About_Linux.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/27/Days_Without_Slop_About_Linux.gmi ∎
Sat 15:29:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Linux Turns 35 Next Year, Its Creator Turns 56 Tomorrow ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/27/Linux_Turns_35_Next_Year_Its_Creator_Turns_56_Tomorrow.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/27/Linux_Turns_35_Next_Year_Its_Creator_Turns_56_Tomorrow.gmi ∎
Sat 15:47:37 │ 〖darwin〗 │ that is, ftp://ftp.modland.com/pub/modules/Impulsetracker/Nimbus/i am hacker.it
Sat 15:47:39 │ 〖darwin〗 │ oops
Sat 16:31:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Wooden Horses in the Community ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/27/Wooden_Horses_in_the_Community.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/27/Wooden_Horses_in_the_Community.gmi ∎
Sat 16:43:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Anon: "Software freedom is more central to overall human rights these days than most anything else, almost without exception. However, the pool of those allowed to nominate anyone for the Nobel Peace Prize is largely constrained to those with great distance from any ICT concepts."
Sat 16:43:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Otherwise RMS would be a good candidate. He is anyway, but the odds of any authorized people understanding his role in advancing global human rights is very low."
Sat 16:44:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ RMS won better awards (less compromised) than Nobel(TM)
Sat 16:53:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Challenges for EPO Insiders to Try to Tackle in 2026 ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/27/Challenges_for_EPO_Insiders_to_Try_to_Tackle_in_2026.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/27/Challenges_for_EPO_Insiders_to_Try_to_Tackle_in_2026.gmi ∎
Sat 17:09:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A post-American, enshittification-resistant [Internet] - 39C3" https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2025/fahrplan/event/a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet
Sat 17:10:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Violent Christmas AI-generated images https://www.newsweek.com/republican-lawmaker-posts-images-of-himself-beating-up-santa-on-christmas-11273076 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/indiana-republican-chris-garten-ai-santa-wrestling-takedown_n_694dc74ce4b0d33e39fe4a3e via Akira
Sat 17:10:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ I'd say "computer-generated" (CG)
Sat 17:14:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – EPO People Power - Part XVI - Berenguer Does Not Speak German, So What Did He Tell German Police That Busted Him? ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/27/EPO_People_Power_Part_XVI_Berenguer_Does_Not_Speak_German_So_Wh.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/27/EPO_People_Power_Part_XVI_Berenguer_Does_Not_Speak_German_So_Wh.gmi ∎
Sat 17:19:57 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] psydroid2: https://www.mancity.com/citytv/mens/nottingham-forest-1-2-city-two-minute-highlights-63902446
Sat 17:38:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – "But Corruption is Everywhere" ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/27/But_Corruption_is_Everywhere.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/27/But_Corruption_is_Everywhere.gmi ∎
Sat 17:56:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Microsoft's Mass Layoffs (30,000+ in 2025) Not About "AI", Just Business Failure ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/27/Microsoft_s_Mass_Layoffs_30_000_in_2025_Not_About_AI_Just_Busin.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/27/Microsoft_s_Mass_Layoffs_30_000_in_2025_Not_About_AI_Just_Busin.gmi ∎
Sat 18:01:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "IBM also said in November that it plans to reduce its workforce by thousands as it shifts its focus towards higher-growth AI consulting and software businesses." https://www.nst.com.my/amp/business/corporate/2025/12/1345064/malaysia-may-not-be-immune-ai-led-job-cuts
Sat 18:02:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ HEY. HI! HO HO HO.
Sat 18:07:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Richard Stallman warned us about this." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46253002
Sat 18:41:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Starting a Book With a Flawed Premise or Weak Hypothesis ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/27/Starting_a_Book_With_a_Flawed_Premise_or_Weak_Hypothesis.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/27/Starting_a_Book_With_a_Flawed_Premise_or_Weak_Hypothesis.gmi ∎
Sat 18:49:11 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://futurism.com/space/max-space-station-expands-thunderbird
Sat 19:03:26 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ :))... https://www.salon.com/2025/12/27/christianity-grapples-with-the-rise-of-an-ai-jesus/
Sat 19:03:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – You Know Your Critics Are Jealous and Have Inferiority Complex When... ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/27/You_Know_Your_Critics_Are_Jealous_and_Have_Inferiority_Complex_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/27/You_Know_Your_Critics_Are_Jealous_and_Have_Inferiority_Complex_.gmi ∎
Sat 19:05:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Nonsense, fantasy: "You are going to see layoffs sky rocket as AI becomes more powerful and begins to replace human jobs exponentially." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kcyazpc9
Sat 19:06:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Slop boosters online are sometimes THEMSELVES slop, i.e. slop trying to sell slop.
Sat 19:06:15 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ mesh or meh?... https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/25/12/27/002258/mesh-networks-are-about-to-escape-apple-amazon-and-google-silos
Sat 19:06:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ So one has to be sceptical; any booster of slop ("AI") might in fact NOT be human
Sat 19:32:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Fighting Over Whose Pockets Are Deeper (or Who Borrows More Money) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/27/Fighting_Over_Whose_Pockets_Are_Deeper_or_Who_Borrows_More_Mone.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/27/Fighting_Over_Whose_Pockets_Are_Deeper_or_Who_Borrows_More_Mone.gmi ∎
Sat 19:42:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – New Record for GNU/Linux in Australia (at Microsoft's Expense) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/27/New_Record_for_GNU_Linux_in_Australia_at_Microsoft_s_Expense.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/27/New_Record_for_GNU_Linux_in_Australia_at_Microsoft_s_Expense.gmi ∎
Sat 20:05:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Linus Torvalds Blasts Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) for Attempting to 'Protect' Linux ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/27/Linus_Torvalds_Blasts_Software_Freedom_Conservancy_SFC_for_Atte.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/27/Linus_Torvalds_Blasts_Software_Freedom_Conservancy_SFC_for_Atte.gmi ∎
Sat 20:21:30 │ 〖club〗 │ omg Mac OS dropping off a cliff
Sat 20:21:49 │ 〖club〗 │ It looks like a direct replacement with "other". Weird
Sat 20:31:05 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ 27 142426 < 𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS> Orcs have hijacked the word "Ubuntu". From "humanity for/to others" to "war crimes for the impaler" https://hornobserver.com/articles/3568/Lavrovs-Ubuntu-Philosophy-Contracts-With-Russia-Africa-Media-Cooperation MinceR
Sat 20:31:18 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ maybe "humanity to others" means "what humans do to others", so it's accurate
Sat 20:35:23 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] humans or "devil ape"?
Sat 20:37:03 │ 〖club〗 │ oh this is an anti russia channel huh
Sat 20:39:36 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] opposing invasion by russia, yes
Sat 20:39:38 │ 〖club〗 │ my perspective as an american: huge, huge, irreversible mistake being made by uk. it might destroy your entire country and usa won't be helping you. I guarantee that. we've been on russia's side in 2 wws started by euros already. if you're on the same side as germany this time, RIP.
Sat 20:45:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Seems like "Linux" rose sharply https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/macedonia/#monthly-200902-202512
Sat 20:46:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Similar here https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/libya/#monthly-200902-202512
Sat 20:47:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ holidays gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/holidays
Sat 20:49:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Sometimes I wonder: Why am I so enamoured with 2d6 systems when most of the games I run use AD&D 1st edition, which I do not like at all?" gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2025-12-27-fascination-2d6
Sat 21:04:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Once Again, GAFAM Deletes All Your Data, Only Corrects This After Millions of People Lead an Uproar Online ("Richard Stallman Warned Us About This") ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/27/Once_Again_GAFAM_Deletes_All_Your_Data_Only_Corrects_This_After.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/27/Once_Again_GAFAM_Deletes_All_Your_Data_Only_Corrects_This_After.gmi ∎
Sat 21:05:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ libreplanet-discuss 'dead' this month https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2025-12/index.html
Sat 21:13:42 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ wow, another incoherent nazi visited us
Sat 21:25:31 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ or a trumper
Sat 21:26:18 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ trumpers are nazis
Sat 21:26:40 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ i bet this retard doesn't even know whose side his beloved orcs started ww2 on
Sat 21:51:31 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://pirg.org/articles/more-than-one-quarter-of-americans-covered-by-right-to-repair-come-jan-1/
Sat 21:52:20 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ yes trumpers are nazis, they just dont know that is what they are...
Sat 22:12:13 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], Think I got a bad KDE update.
Sat 22:12:34 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ The kwin_wayland screen locker seems to die and need a hard reset sometimes of the entire computer.
Sat 22:12:49 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ I might switch over to the X11 one and see if the issue persists.
Sat 22:13:23 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ Rumors of the demise of kwin_x11 have been greatly exagerated. They're still fixing issues with that one. It's not as much "work" purely because the code is more mature.
Sat 22:14:49 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ every KDE update starting with 4.x is a bad one
Sat 22:18:09 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ There we go, in X11 now.
Sat 22:21:45 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :)
Sat 23:01:04 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ (dog) https://files.catbox.moe/kmy24c.jpg
Sun 02:46:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🅸🆁🅲 techpol + social irc ■ Yesterday's #boycottnovell-social and #techpol IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-271225.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-271225.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-social-271225.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-social-271225.txt
Sun 02:46:22 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], X11 screen locking still works fine.
Sun 02:46:32 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ Under Wayland it's freezing and I have to restart the entire laptop.
Sun 02:46:52 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ Yet another reason why Wayland shouldn't have happened.
Sun 02:47:15 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ From a user-facing perspective it does nothing X11 didn't already do and it's all new code with a lot of bugs. And it also has feature gaps.
Sun 02:47:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🅸🆁🅲 techrights irc ■ Yesterday's #techrights IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-271225.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-271225.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techrights-271225.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techrights-271225.txt
Sun 02:48:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🅸🆁🅲 boycottnovell irc ■ Yesterday's #boycottnovell IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-271225.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-271225.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-271225.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-271225.txt
Sun 02:49:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🅸🆁🅲 techbytes irc ■ Yesterday's #techbytes IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-271225.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-271225.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techbytes-271225.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techbytes-271225.txt
Sun 02:49:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ✩░▒▓▆▅▃▂▁𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍▁▂▃▅▆▓▒░✩ Yesterday's 𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 bulletin is now ready! 🅷🆃🆃🅿: http://techrights.org/txt-archives/techrights-2025-12-27.txt | 🅶🅴🅼🅸🅽🅸 gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/techrights-2025-12-27.txt (tentative address, to work an hour from now)
Sun 02:50:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ✩░▒▓▆▅▃▂▁Tux Machines 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍▁▂▃▅▆▓▒░✩ Yesterday's Tux Machines bulletin is now ready! 🅷🆃🆃🅿: http://news.tuxmachines.org/txt-archives/tuxmachines-2025-12-27.txt
Sun 02:57:08 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ resistance is futile... https://www.tomshardware.com/maker-stem/robot-kits/robots-fashioned-from-dead-lobster-exoskeletons-have-awesome-strength-light-weight-and-flexibility-necrobotics-advance-mixes-sustainable-food-waste-with-synthetic-components
Sun 03:06:09 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ MinceR, I told my mom I have gray hairs popping up all over the place.
Sun 03:06:19 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ And if I had another 5 years with Mandy it would all fall out.
Sun 03:06:32 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ He's sucking the life out of me.
Sun 03:06:45 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ I think he's some kind of evil robot sent from the future to ruin my happiness.
Sun 03:08:24 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :>
Sun 03:08:44 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ finally we have a use for da lobsta...
Sun 03:31:33 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/tesla-robotaxis-true-fleet-size
Sun 03:35:04 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ > It would also mean that Musk’s boast that it had “doubled” its fleet was technically true.
Sun 03:35:08 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ the best kind of true
Sun 03:43:44 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.alternet.org/gun/
Sun 03:49:26 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.firstpost.com/tech/china-wants-to-put-emotional-ai-on-leash-as-beijing-moves-to-rein-in-chatbots-that-act-human-ws-e-13963292.html
Sun 03:50:23 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/cybertrucks-firefighters-nightmare
Sun 03:52:00 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://futurism.com/health-medicine/northwestern-university-possible-alzheimers
Sun 03:54:14 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ and there is no right to repair... https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/children-character-ai-addicted
Sun 03:54:37 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ just make new ones
Sun 03:54:40 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ or don't
Sun 03:57:19 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ <MinceR> finally we have a use for da lobsta...
Sun 03:57:45 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ We can lock him in a room with Mandy until Mandy commits suicide and I inherit everything and the life insurance?
Sun 03:57:50 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ lol
Sun 04:03:27 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/27/what-to-do-when-your-foucault-pendulum-stops-swinging/
Sun 04:04:03 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ prepare for the end times
Sun 04:08:43 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ MinceR, I think that's what's happening anyway.
Sun 04:09:39 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ The entire world is at war, hyperinflation is raging, no jobs to be found anywhere, people accept "worse than mediocrity" and convince themselves that Trump will make it better, or they are too drugged to care and are listening to rap about "n****s and pussy juice".
Sun 04:10:47 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ A lot of younger people don't even care if they get a sexually transmitted infection and don't even bother to use condoms for anonymous sex, which is more of a thing because it's "cheap kicks" in a world gone utterly crazy and terrible.
Sun 04:11:34 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ When it's so bad that you don't care if you get HIV or Syphilis anymore because at least someone from Grindr will come shove something in you, things are bad.
Sun 04:11:59 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ maybe they don't even believe you can get HIV or syphilis
Sun 04:12:08 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ after all, the pathogens aren't in the bible
Sun 04:12:22 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ I personally care a great deal about whether I get any of those things.
Sun 04:12:41 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ My life is utterly terrible but I understand how it could get worse.
Sun 04:13:24 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ The only bright spots are seeing my boyfriend over his days off and for the rest of the week eating those yummy cheeseburgers at the grocery store and shower masturbation.
Sun 04:13:26 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ I mean seriously.
Sun 04:13:39 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ You know, it's getting harder to even distract myself anymore.
Sun 04:13:46 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ There's nowhere to go. Culture is dead.
Sun 04:14:27 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ Every time I hear Mandy come out of the bedroom I cringe because there's a chance he could come in here and demand something unreasonable again.
Sun 04:14:47 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ Like telling someone who wants to choke you to death already, "Hey, drive me to this guy's house in Chicago."
Sun 04:15:52 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ Why don't you just tell a spouse who is barely coping with living with you already "Drive me to someone's house."
Sun 04:18:15 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ MinceR, Anyway, what's the use for Lobsta?
Sun 04:18:22 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ Canada hasn't seemed to find one yet.
Sun 04:18:26 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ https://www.tomshardware.com/maker-stem/robot-kits/robots-fashioned-from-dead-lobster-exoskeletons-have-awesome-strength-light-weight-and-flexibility-necrobotics-advance-mixes-sustainable-food-waste-with-synthetic-components
Sun 04:18:32 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ And I'm sure they put the best minds in Canada on what to do with him.
Sun 04:18:47 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ So far all they came up with is castrate him so the genes don't spread.
Sun 04:19:46 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ Letting him persist in this state is some sort of "kindness" they think, even as he expends what effort he does make to harass other people, productive people,
Sun 04:21:17 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ MinceR, Even nature had ways of dealing with these people.
Sun 04:22:01 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ If you had a bunch of cave dwellers foraging and hunting and fishing and making crude clothing out of animal hyde, and one of them was a man who said he was a woman who would go to a commission about him....
Sun 04:22:11 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ He'd be the one that didn't get food or clothes.
Sun 04:22:45 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ About *them* rather
Sun 04:23:04 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ They made a sour face while they were draining a deer, you know.
Sun 04:23:44 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ That world was a crucible. Everything that didn't contribute, wasn't smart, wasn't productive, usually starved or froze to death.
Sun 04:23:59 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ Then something happened and now we have all these programs and stuff, we have to keep EVERYONE alive.
Sun 04:25:36 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ You know, you have people like me who have been through hard times and learned to survive anyway.
Sun 04:25:56 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ And you have people like the Microsoft employees that John rented apartments to who couldn't figure out a toilet plunger and a garage door remote.
Sun 04:25:59 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ MinceR, ^
Sun 04:26:01 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ True story.
Sun 04:26:29 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ And you go "What the fuck are these people doing at Microsoft?"
Sun 04:27:02 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :>
Sun 04:27:13 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ They can't figure out how to plunge a toilet or use a remote that has a button on it for open the garage and one for close the garage.
Sun 04:27:16 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ doesn't surprise me, knowing what their products and "services" are like
Sun 04:27:38 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ they can't fix outhouse, but they can fix a new skin for it every year, and it's a big deal every time
Sun 04:28:04 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ they're doing the same thing with teams
Sun 04:28:21 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ the usb stack in windows is still a trash fire and no one will ever fix it
Sun 04:28:34 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ so's the filesystem
Sun 04:29:23 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ but at least with all the extra crap they've piled on and the whole "i'll just do whatever i want to your computer, for your own good" instead of rebooting once when you need, it keeps doing bursts of several reboots when it feels like
Sun 04:30:07 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ and of course you have to enter the BitFucker PIN for every reboot, even though BitFucker doesn't do jack shit except waste space, time and power
Sun 04:30:45 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ but hey, they've found the solution to all these problems: just let all the same retarded chucklefucks push code into Linux and ruin the competition
Sun 04:30:55 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ also, systemd
Sun 04:32:47 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ systemd and Wayland need to be thrown on the ash heap of history.
Sun 04:33:17 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ they could be a containment system for all these toxic idiots
Sun 04:33:26 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ They both claim to solve problems I've never had, and they insist that they don't cause problems that they cause that I've been having.
Sun 04:33:37 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ as long as they keep fucking with Linux, systemd and waylandows, they aren't fucking with the remaining free unixes or X
Sun 04:33:59 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ I can't ever recall actually having a problem inserting or removing USB devices with HAL and sysvinit.
Sun 04:34:22 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ And the computer did not refuse to shut down because it was waiting forever on a zombified service that was going to have to shut down anyway.
Sun 04:35:07 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ With systemd I actually do have problems getting the computer to reliably shut down. I have not had so many problems with this since Windows Me.
Sun 04:35:32 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ And I actually do have the whole "plug it in and maybe something happens, maybe it doesn't" experience they SAID HAL had, but it didn't.
Sun 04:45:18 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/12/is-your-dog-or-cat-getting-old-these-simple-gestures-could-help-them-live-longer-and-happier-lives.html
Sun 05:08:04 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/27/more-than-20-of-videos-shown-to-new-youtube-users-are-ai-slop-study-finds
Sun 05:11:18 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ the donor must not like the police.... https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/28/las-vegas-police-free-tesla-cybertrucks
Sun 05:14:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – IRC Proceedings: Saturday, December 27, 2025 ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/28/IRC_Proceedings_Saturday_December_27_2025.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/28/IRC_Proceedings_Saturday_December_27_2025.gmi ∎
Sun 05:16:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today in Techrights ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/28/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/28/Today_in_Techrights.gmi ∎
Sun 05:16:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Over at Tux Machines... ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/28/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/28/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi ∎
Sun 05:16:27 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/26/georgia-jailbreak-lyft-hijack
Sun 05:20:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I want to emphasize that I'm not advocating for Whitmer's teaching, or eager to put him in a good light. But I gathered a few notes from the book which are highly relevant to the discussion of Mormonism." gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/your-word/20251227-0.gmi
Sun 05:21:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-12-28.gmi
Sun 05:21:55 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/12/27/225211/researchers-show-some-robots-can-be-hijacked-just-through-spoken-commands
Sun 05:22:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1868.jpg
Sun 05:22:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1518.jpg
Sun 05:38:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Andy Farnell on Standing Up Against Technological Oppression ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/28/Andy_Farnell_on_Standing_Up_Against_Technological_Oppression.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/28/Andy_Farnell_on_Standing_Up_Against_Technological_Oppression.gmi ∎
Sun 05:55:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Linux CEO"??? https://www.livemint.com/companies/people/when-linux-ceo-linus-torvalds-warned-the-world-about-nvidia-called-it-the-worst-company-weve-worked-with-11766817904450.html
Sun 05:55:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ He has his birthday today
Sun 05:56:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Torvaldos !!! "Torvaldos then moved on to use the ‘F-word’ for Nvidia, while showing the company the middle finger."
Sun 05:57:02 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ then he moved on to advertising windows
Sun 05:57:25 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ and in between, he allowed the redmond mafia to push their CoC into the kernel, and then fuck it up with extremely low quality code
Sun 05:58:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "After using Linux for nearly 30 years, I've created a list of the best Linux distributions I've used since the beginning. Here they are." https://www.zdnet.com/article/my-11-favorite-linux-distributions-of-all-time-ranked/
Sun 05:59:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): How Linux helped me escape tech boredom and endless scrolling ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/28/How_Linux_helped_me_escape_tech_boredom_and_endless_scrolling.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/28/How_Linux_helped_me_escape_tech_boredom_and_endless_scrolling.gmi ∎
Sun 06:00:23 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] MinceR: slop or code?
Sun 06:00:44 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ code, some of which could be slop
Sun 06:08:31 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] to people who cannot code, slop is code
Sun 06:08:37 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] to people who cannot eat, grass is food
Sun 06:08:52 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] to people who cannot fly, buying a passanger seat is "flying"
Sun 06:11:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Raffles for the Immaterial: Unauthorised Bingo for Red Hat "Vouchers" ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/28/Raffles_for_the_Immaterial_Unauthorised_Bingo_for_Red_Hat_Vouch.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/28/Raffles_for_the_Immaterial_Unauthorised_Bingo_for_Red_Hat_Vouch.gmi ∎
Sun 06:12:00 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kdh315a8
Sun 06:12:04 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "
Sun 06:12:04 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Join and Fight back
Sun 06:12:04 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://www.reddit.com/r/AmericanTechWorkers/
Sun 06:12:05 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Are you concerned about the impact of H-1B abuse and offshoring on the U.S. tech industry?
Sun 06:12:05 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Join a community of American tech workers dedicated to advocating for fair labor practices, ending visa exploitation, and protecting the domestic job market. Let's work together to keep local talent at the forefront of U.S. innovation.
Sun 06:12:07 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "
Sun 06:12:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "LOL, I just saw on LinkedIn that ol’ “Director of process tech and 300mm Fab” up there in Albany got promoted again—to director, again. How many times is that now, five in three years? Shoot, that’s gotta be some kind of record. That fella’s got more lives than a barn cat and always manages to land on his feet." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kcmx0g24
Sun 06:17:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ This is SLOP and FAKE news https://dixiesunnews.com/articles/xbox-confirms-next-gen-consoles-amidst-buzzing-rumors-what-to-expect/
Sun 06:28:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Microsoft's Weapon Against the Reality of XBox (the Console) Dying Seems to be LLM Slop ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/28/Microsoft_s_Weapon_Against_the_Reality_of_XBox_the_Console_Dyin.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/28/Microsoft_s_Weapon_Against_the_Reality_of_XBox_the_Console_Dyin.gmi ∎
Sun 06:29:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Viktor Orbán ☛ https://insighthungary.444.hu/2025/12/27/orban-questions-whether-russia-is-the-aggressor-in-ukraine-war | Source: Insight Hungary
Sun 06:30:02 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] MinceR ^
Sun 06:30:09 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] like the person in IRC last night
Sun 06:30:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Options to Break Free From Smart TV Ads and Tracking" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/12/26/1546258
Sun 06:30:48 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ yeah, the gypsy king likes to contradict what he said earlier
Sun 06:30:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Reddit challenges AUS Social Media law in court" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/12/23/0432237
Sun 06:31:09 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ and his idiot followers lap it up with devotion
Sun 06:31:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ old: "Free Software and Platform Regulation: The impact of the Digital Market Act on Free Software" https://media.ccc.de/v/2025-11-15-free-software-and-platform-regulation FSFE [sic] http://techrights.org/o/2020/08/22/fsf-fsfe-dispute/
Sun 06:31:34 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ ruscist propaganda in general tends to contradict itself, but that would only matter if humans were an intelligent species
Sun 06:31:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Chatkontrolle - Ctrl+Alt+Delete - media.ccc.de" https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-episode-ii-der-rat-schlagt-zuruck
Sun 06:32:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ EFF = GAFAM and CCP apologists https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/lawmakers-must-listen-young-people-regulating-their-internet-access-2025-review http://techrights.org/n/2023/12/09/Electronic_Frontier_Foundation_Incorporated_is_Run_by_for_Corpo.shtml
Sun 06:38:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Links 28/12/2025: Fascination, Holidays, and Mormonism ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/28/Links_28_12_2025_Fascination_Holidays_and_Mormonism.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/28/Links_28_12_2025_Fascination_Holidays_and_Mormonism.gmi ∎
Sun 06:38:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Suddnly this gets promoted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46405306 https://old.reddit.com/r/hypeurls/comments/1pxbcnm/richard_stallman_at_the_first_hackers_conference/
Sun 07:08:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 10 Hyprland Dotfiles to Transform Your Linux Desktop Beautifully ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/28/10_Hyprland_Dotfiles_to_Transform_Your_Linux_Desktop_Beautifull.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/28/10_Hyprland_Dotfiles_to_Transform_Your_Linux_Desktop_Beautifull.gmi ∎
Sun 07:18:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Free and Open Source Software ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/28/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/28/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi ∎
Sun 07:28:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): NVIDIA Drops Pascal Support On Linux, Causing Chaos On Arch Linux ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/28/NVIDIA_Drops_Pascal_Support_On_Linux_Causing_Chaos_On_Arch_Linu.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/28/NVIDIA_Drops_Pascal_Support_On_Linux_Causing_Chaos_On_Arch_Linu.gmi ∎
Sun 07:30:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Debian Officially Welcomes Loong64 as a Supported Architecture ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/28/Debian_Officially_Welcomes_Loong64_as_a_Supported_Architecture.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/28/Debian_Officially_Welcomes_Loong64_as_a_Supported_Architecture.gmi ∎
Sun 07:36:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴: Google Android Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/28/Android_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/28/Android_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Sun 10:19:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Richard Stallman: The Legend of Software Freedom that Saved the World | FREENET AFRICA" https://freenetafrica.com/2025/05/24/richard-stallman-the-legend-of-software-freedom/
Sun 10:25:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The complaint centers not merely on code reuse, but on Rockchip’s decision to relicense FFmpeg-derived code under an incompatible license" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/github-takes-down-rockchip-mpp-repository-after-ffmpeg-copyright-claim/ | Source: Linuxiac
Sun 10:25:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Furthermore, as 1930 is talkies territory, music that debuted in films during the year will likewise enter the public domain in 2026." ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/12/26/public-domain-music-2026/ | Source: Digital Music News
Sun 10:26:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Digital Restrictions (DRM) ☛ https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-hacking-washing-machines | Source: CCC
Sun 10:26:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Deleting that annotated example exploit allowed me to send the letter!" ☛ https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/28/substack-network-error/#atom-everything | Source: Simon Willison
Sun 10:26:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "And Rutger Bregman gave this year's very good Reith Lectures, agitating for a "moral revolution"… " ☛ https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/xmas2025/ | Source: The Cyber Show
Sun 10:28:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "On the subway, I'm missing a lot of my normal setup. I don't have multiple monitors or a fancy keyboard. I don't even have an internet connection." ☛ https://www.scd31.com/posts/programming-on-the-subway |
Sun 10:29:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Of course, the real measure of car orientation may not be ownership metrics, but instead something like vehicle-miles traveled per capita (or even time in vehicles per capita" ☛ https://json.blog/2025/12/27/how-do-we-measure-if.html | Source: Jason Becker
Sun 10:29:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The program sets a declining limit on total planet-warming emissions in the state from major polluters." ☛ https://www.courthousenews.com/california-drops-lawsuit-seeking-to-reinstate-federal-funding-for-the-states-bullet-train/ | Source: Court House News
Sun 10:31:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ iophk: SystemD keeps getting better and better: https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20251228.101226.eb20d935.en.html
Sun 10:32:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Cause why not? Simply start extra instances of sshd by default… Simply do about anything that the mighty Systemd god's decide as being good for us dumb system administrators who are not able to setup some secure access to a VM or (probably) containers themselves. I don't even have any more words for this."
Sun 10:32:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "And that's not just baby boomers' nostalgic memory of childhood winters — FMI data shows that Decembers are becoming more frequently snowless in the south" ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20201513 | Source: YLE
Sun 10:36:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "According to Elon Musk, Sxam Altman, and some other “tech bros”" ☛ https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-all-sorted-by-machines-of-loving-grace-ai-cybernetics-and-fascism-and-how-to-intervene | Source: CCC
Sun 10:37:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [Old] "Two quick notes: first, we wrote this for engineers, not lawyers and activists." ☛ https://www.latacora.com/blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem/ |
Sun 10:37:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Beyond the underlying mathematics of cryptographic algorithms, there is a whole other layer of implementation code, assigning meaning to the processed data." ☛ https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-to-sign-or-not-to-sign-practical-vulnerabilities-i | Source: CCC
Sun 10:54:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ CCC feed: https://media.ccc.de/c/39c3/podcast/webm-hq.xml
Sun 10:54:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "If you care about your privacy, you might want to start taking the bus." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2025/12/26/uber-wants-to-sell-your-data-to-the-highest-bidders.html | Source: BoingBoing
Sun 10:55:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "In terms of the EU's digital rulebook, it has already started in May with the deletion of a core compliance element in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)" ☛ https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-throwing-your-rights-under-the-omnibus-how-the-eu-s-reform-agenda-threatens-to-erase-a-decade-of-digital-rights | Source: CCC
Sun 10:55:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "There is a path forward! Many, in fact. But the impasse framing seriously limits how policymakers, technologists, advocates, and our communities understand child sexual abuse (CSA)." ☛ https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-not-an-impasse-child-safety-privacy-and-healing-together | Source: CCC
Sun 10:56:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Shortly after last year's talk, we were contacted about some *interesting* looking tickets someone noticed, issued by the Vetter GmbH Omnibus- und Mietwagenbetrieb" ☛ https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-all-my-deutschlandtickets-gone-fraud-at-an-industrial-scale | Source: CCC
Sun 10:57:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The attack surface includes anyone who can influence any metric: maintainers who control release schedules, security researchers who control vulnerability disclosures, and anyone with a credit card and access to a botnet." ☛ https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/27/how-to-ruin-all-of-package-management.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt
Sun 10:58:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Social Control Media ☛ https://www.manton.org/2025/12/27/fediverse-predictions.html | Source: Manton Reece
Sun 10:59:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A pretty provocative headline, no? But I think I can justify it." ☛ https://dianne.skoll.ca/writings/ai-is-bad/ |
Sun 10:59:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It began as a standard maintenance project: I wanted to write a tool to find and fix broken ISBN references in Wikipedia. Using the built-in checksum, this seemed like a straightforward technical task." ☛ https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-ai-generated-content-in-wikipedia-a-tale-of-caution | Source: CCC
Sun 11:00:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Let’s check in on our current industry’s hottest trend, blockchain. The metaverse? NFTs? No, sorry, I’ll get it eventually." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/an-ai-check-in/ | Source: Ruben Schade
Sun 11:01:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "But the channels, having reportedly generated a combined one billion or so views" ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/12/26/youtube-ai-film-trailers-takedowns/ | Source: Digital Music News
Sun 11:02:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "In a way that makes it intentionally hard to switch services or add other devices." ☛ https://bastiangruber.ca/posts/mass-quitting-apple/ |
Sun 11:02:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "They fixed most of it. But the authentication bypass that lets anyone login to any account?" ☛ https://bobdahacker.com/blog/petlibro |
Sun 11:03:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Anyone on-site can obtain subscriber lines (POTS, ISDN BRI or PRI service) and use them for a variety of services, including telephony, fax machines, modem dial-up into BBSs as well as dial-up internet access and video telephony." ☛ https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-isdn-pots-telephony-at-congress-and-camp | Source: CCC
Sun 11:04:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This talk presents a reverse engineering effort to document Espressif’s proprietary Bluetooth stack" ☛ https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-liberating-bluetooth-on-the-esp32 | Source: CCC
Sun 11:05:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Well, it's a $4,000+ box built specifically for developers in Nvidia's ecosystem, deploying code to Nvidia servers that cost half a million dollars each." ☛ https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/dells-version-dgx-spark-fixes-pain-points | Source: Jeff Geerling
Sun 11:05:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The reMarkable Paper Pro Move appears to be an answer — maybe the answer — to that dreaded mid-zone between analog and digital note-taking." ☛ https://thenewsprint.co/2025/12/27/the-remarkable-paper-pro-move/ | Source: The Newsprint
Sun 11:07:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Today I learned something amazing: Safari supports higher than 60Hz refresh." ☛ https://birchtree.me/blog/how-to-enable-120hz-mode-in-safari-mac-iphone-and-ipad/ | Source: Matt Birchler
Sun 11:07:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This is the first in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2025 across their major product lines (iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro, and wearables)." ☛ https://birchtree.me/blog/apples-2025-report-card-iphone/ | Source: Matt Birchler
Sun 12:19:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The break I took in October was liberating." ☛ https://jimmitchell.org/2025/12/26/one-simple-goal/ | Source: Jim Mitchell
Sun 12:20:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "New York Governor Kathy Hochul on Friday signed into law a bill that requires platforms to alert users of addictive features that can harm the mental health of younger users." ☛ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/12/new-york-governor-signs-bill-requiring-warning-labels-on-addictive-social-media-platforms/ | Source: JURIST
Sun 12:21:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The announcement was made on the debian-devel-announce mailing list" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/debian-officially-welcomes-loong64-as-a-supported-architecture/ | Source: Linuxiac
Sun 12:21:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "My monitor in the office is a Dell 4K, 34-inch monitor, and that works wonderfully too." ☛ https://merecivilian.com/considering-a-32-inch-monitor/ | Source: Mere Civilian
Sun 12:22:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Voight's path to becoming a CISO is anything but conventional." ☛ https://www.darkreading.com/cybersecurity-careers/mentorship-and-diversity-shaping-the-next-generation-of-cyber-experts | Source: Dark Reading
Sun 12:23:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I think writing is one of the most valuable things you can do, and I recommend everyone try it. Here’s why: [...]" ☛ https://www.dbreunig.com/2025/12/27/why-i-write.html | Source: Drew Breunig
Sun 12:23:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Like I said then, I’m going to miss a lot of things that happened during the year, but I’m OK with that." ☛ https://www.usebox.net/jjm/blog/and-that-was-2025/ | Source: Juan J Martínez
Sun 12:24:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Now I’m 31 and the years are flying by so fast that I have to desperately seize their trailing collars so that I don’t suddenly find myself seventy without noticing. So, as is becoming tradition, what happened this year?" ☛ https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/merry-christmas-ya-filthy-animals-2025/ | Source: Lucidity
Sun 12:24:43 │ 〖Coolsecretspy〗 │ xD
Sun 12:25:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "There are three key ways his advice has improved how I make coffee. First, is something that precedes the second. The taste has also been elevated." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/coffee-technique-works-for-cheap-stuff-too/ | Source: Ruben Schade
Sun 12:25:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The easiest way to avoid The Haneda Problem is to introduce strategic ambiguity." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/the-haneda-problem/ | Source: Ruben Schade
Sun 12:26:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "While I was waiting for the ticket to be printed, the Metrolink arrived early." ☛ https://my-notes.dragas.net/2025/12/27/the-two-pound-lifeboat/ | Source: Stefano Marinelli
Sun 12:26:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I am writing this from an interstate hotel, where I'm recovering from the norovirus I caught from my newest (and extremely cute) niece." ☛ https://smallcypress.bearblog.dev/2025-wrap-up-and-looking-forward-to-the-future/ | Source: Small Cypress
Sun 12:30:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Links 28/12/2025: "Mass Quitting Apple" and "Generative AI Industry is Fraudulent, Immoral and Dangerous" ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/28/Links_28_12_2025_Mass_Quitting_Apple_and_Generative_AI_Industry.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/28/Links_28_12_2025_Mass_Quitting_Apple_and_Generative_AI_Industry.gmi ∎
Sun 12:39:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "With PTP 1588, AES67, and SMPTE 2110, we can transmit synchronous audio and video with sub-millisecond latency over the asynchronous medium Ethernet." ☛ https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-excuse-me-what-precise-time-is-it | Source: CCC
Sun 12:39:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "We’ll start by showing what GNSS interference actually means in practice: aircraft losing navigation data, ships switching to manual control, and entire regions facing timing outages" ☛ https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-who-cares-about-the-baltic-jammer-terrestrial-navigation-in-the-baltic-sea-region | Source: CCC
Sun 12:41:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Merry Christmas all! This is my annual Advent of Code post!" ☛ https://blog.jle.im/entry/advent-of-code-2025.html |
Sun 12:41:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Only the engineers who work on a large software system can meaningfully participate in the design process." ☛ https://www.seangoedecke.com/you-cant-design-software-you-dont-work-on/ | Source: Sean Goedecke
Sun 12:42:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "After all these years programming, it's fun to catch myself changing my style preferences in real-time." ☛ https://www.jmduke.com/posts/single-use-variables.html | Source: Justin Duke
Sun 12:42:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "For anyone else using the Ebitengine that wants to render text as an outline, I’ve had had some success using the shapes package." ☛ https://lmika.org/2025/12/28/rendering-outlined-text-in-ebitengine.html | Source: Leon Mika
Sun 12:48:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "You should not have to pay for software you don't want. Devices like laptops and smartphones are general purpose computers so" ☛ https://en.refund4freedom.org/ |
Sun 12:49:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "At 39C3, I gave a workshop about Jujutsu, a new-ish version control system that I fell in love with last year! :)" ☛ https://blinry.org/jj-workshop/ | Source: Blinry
Sun 12:50:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "If you are in the database field, you probably know that the Postgresus project was started with a simple goal: to provide an accessible, self-hosted user interface around the pg_dump command." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/postgresus-renamed-to-databasus-as-backup-tool-expands-beyond-postgresql/ | Source: Linuxiac
Sun 12:51:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "My concern is that Mozilla is too excited about a technology that has inherent downsides and ethical problems, and I would like to see better defaults and clearer risk mitigations." ☛ https://hidde.blog/mozilla-ai-kill-switch/ | Source: Hidde de Vries
Sun 12:52:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Over seven months after its previous 1.4.2 bugfix release, the popular open-source vector graphics editor Inkscape has issued its latest version, 1.4.3, as the third maintenance update to the 1.4 series, which includes roughly 124 bug and crash fixes." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/inkscape-1-4-3-vector-graphic-editor-delivers-124-bug-and-crash-fixes/ | Source: Linuxiac
Sun 12:52:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The release announcement includes more detail, including updates to PostgreSQL, QEMU, and LXQt. Is it silly to admit that I’m also unreasonably happy to see CDE in these sorts of announcements as well?" ☛ https://rubenerd.com/pkgsrc-2025q4-released/ | Source: Ruben Schade
Sun 12:53:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This is NOT a super small, credit card format SBC. We are talking about something that’s definitely larger, and that comes directly with an integrated heatsink." ☛ https://boilingsteam.com/orange-pi-6-plus-review/index.html | Source: Boiling Steam
Sun 12:53:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The RP2350 is one of the first generally available microcontrollers with active security-features against fault-injection such as glitch-detectors" ☛ https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-of-boot-vectors-and-double-glitches-bypassing-rp2350-s-secure-boot | Source: CCC
Sun 12:54:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "QNX, a real-time operating system for embedded systems, has released the initial version of its Self-Hosted Developer Desktop" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/qnx-introduces-a-self-hosted-developer-desktop/ | Source: Linuxiac
Sun 12:54:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A commentator on my early notes on dgit mentioned that they found packaging in Debian overly complicated (and I think perhaps RPMs as well) and would rather build and ship a container." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/PackagesWhyComplicated | Source: University of Toronto
Sun 12:55:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It is a new X server project that takes a fundamentally different approach to X11. Written entirely from scratch in the Zig programming language, it is not yet another fork of the Xorg codebase and does not reuse its legacy code."
Sun 12:55:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Instead, according to devs, Phoenix aims to show that the X11 protocol itself is not inherently obsolete and can be implemented in a simpler, safer, and more modern way." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/phoenix-emerges-as-a-modern-x-server-written-from-scratch-in-zig/ | Source: Linuxiac
Sun 12:57:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I’ve always wanted to play one but with physical cards, it’s so freaking expensive especially these days to purchase a booster box for each set that it never seemed doable." ☛ https://hamatti.org/posts/we-played-a-full-scarlet-and-violet-progression-series/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala
Sun 12:57:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "If you are using Firefox or a Chromium browser (for me Google Chrome 143.0.7499.170)" ☛ https://lr0.org/blog/p/pngchanges/ |
Sun 12:58:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I think of client-side validation as a progressive enhancement for your users." ☛ https://www.htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2025/28/ | Source: Manuel Matuzović
Sun 12:58:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "For many years now, JavaScript has been the workhorse of the web." ☛ https://www.htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2025/27/ | Source: Manuel Matuzović
Sun 12:58:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Due to the use of frameworks, a lot of sites nowadays have become a div and class soup that makes the HTML code unreadable and hard to troubleshoot." ☛ https://www.htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2025/26/ | Source: Manuel Matuzović
Sun 12:59:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A few years ago I had switched variables and calculations from SASS to CSS, but I still needed SASS for nesting" ☛ https://www.redblobgames.com/blog/2025-12-27-goodbye-sass/ | Source: Amit Patel
Sun 12:59:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "If you have any doubts, then you're the target audience of this guide." ☛ https://osteophage.dreamwidth.org/10105.html | Source: Coyote
Sun 12:59:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Please select adjacent seats." ☛ https://www.eliseomartelli.it/blog/2025-12-27-reverse-engineering-the-cinema-bypassing-seat-adjacency-rules-with-devtools | Source: Eliseo Martelli
Sun 13:00:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This is no good. I don’t need to explain how bad a supply-chain attack on the 1Password browser extension would be." ☛ https://borretti.me/article/1password-dependency-breaks-syntax-highlighting | Source: Fernando Borretti
Sun 13:00:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I am not a fan of injecting scripts into things that you want to be as fast as humanly possible, but here's one exception: I use the enter hook to print a little welcome message when I cd into a project: [...]" ☛ https://www.jmduke.com/posts/mise-hooks.html | Source: Justin Duke
Sun 13:01:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Typography is the art of arranging type to make written language legible, readable, and appealing when displayed." ☛ https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-the-art-of-text-rendering | Source: CCC
Sun 13:03:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Kevin Fenzi: a look back at 2025 ☞ https://www.scrye.com/blogs/nirik/posts/2025/12/27/a-look-back-at-2025/
Sun 13:05:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install Yarn on Debian 13 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-yarn-debian-13/
Sun 13:06:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ LibreOffice Viewer now available on Meta Quest VR headsets ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/12/27/libreoffice-viewer-now-available-on-meta-quest-vr-headsets/
Sun 13:07:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How to Install LightZone on Ubuntu ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-lightzone-on-ubuntu-linux/
Sun 13:07:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How to Install Exaile on Ubuntu ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-exaile-music-player-on-ubuntu-linux/
Sun 13:07:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How to Install UrBackup on Ubuntu ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-urbackup-on-ubuntu-linux/
Sun 13:08:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How to Install Kodi on Ubuntu ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-kodi-on-ubuntu-linux/
Sun 13:08:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 'Digital Detox' Is a Trick. Here's How to Actually Switch Off. ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/digital-detox-is-a-trick-heres-how-to-actually-switch-off
Sun 13:12:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Winux Tries to Mimic backdoored Windows While Staying Fully GNU/Linux ☞ https://linuxiac.com/winux-tries-to-mimic-windows-while-staying-fully-linux/
Sun 13:13:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ MagOS 20251226 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/magos
Sun 13:13:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Rajeesh K Nambiar: A font with built-in TeX syntax highlighting ☞ https://rajeeshknambiar.wordpress.com/2025/12/27/a-font-with-built-in-tex-syntax-highlighting/
Sun 13:13:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ xpdig – tools to explore crossplane resources ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/xpdig-tools-explore-crossplane-resources/
Sun 13:14:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ dtrx – intelligent archive extraction tool ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/dtrx-intelligent-archive-extraction-tool/
Sun 13:14:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Fernflower – decompiler from Java bytecode to Java ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/fernflower-decompiler-java-bytecode/
Sun 13:17:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ treemd – modern Markdown viewer ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/treemd-modern-markdown-viewer/
Sun 13:17:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Seanime – media server ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/seanime-media-server/
Sun 13:17:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Wallpaper Splitter – apply a single image ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/wallpaper-splitter-apply-single-image/
Sun 13:18:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ hcxdumptool – capture packets from wlan devices ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/hcxdumptool-capture-packets-wlan-devices/
Sun 13:18:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Optimize Web Delivery with these Open Source Tools ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/webdelivery/
Sun 13:19:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Hextazy – colorful hexadecimal editor ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/hextazy-colorful-hexadecimal-editor/
Sun 13:19:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 11 Best Free and Open Source Python Data Validation ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-python-data-validation/
Sun 13:23:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Bit-Brick Cluster K1 – A 4-slot RISC-V cluster board for SpacemiT K1-based SSOM-K1 system-on-module ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/12/28/bit-brick-cluster-k1-a-4-slot-risc-v-cluster-board-for-spacemit-k1-based-ssom-k1-system-on-module/
Sun 13:24:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ FOSS Force’s Top Five Articles — For the Week Ending December 26, 2025 ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/12/foss-forces-top-five-articles-for-the-week-ending-december-26-2025/
Sun 13:24:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ After Vizio Ruling, SFC Pushes Back And Torvalds Weighs In ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/12/after-vizio-ruling-sfc-pushes-back-and-torvalds-weighs-in/
Sun 13:25:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ DHS official rips Kilmar Abrego Garcia for ‘making TikToks’ while agency faces gag order ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/12/28/us-news/kilmar-abrego-garcia-ripped-by-dhs-for-making-tiktoks-during-agency-gag-order/
Sun 13:26:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Sophie Herold: GNOME in 2025: Some Numbers ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/sophieh/2025/12/27/gnome-in-2025-some-numbers/
Sun 13:27:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 6 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux Electronic Medical Records Software ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/electronicmedicalrecords/
Sun 13:27:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ lnko – simple stow-like dotfile linker ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/lnko-simple-stow-like-dotfile-linker/
Sun 13:27:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 10 Best Free and Open Source Distraction-Free Tools for Writers ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/distractionfreetools/
Sun 13:27:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 10 Hyprland Dotfiles to Transform Your GNU/Linux Desktop Bautifully ☞ https://itsfoss.com/best-hyprland-dotfiles/
Sun 13:39:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ She Studied the Health Effects of Wildfires, Until the E.P.A. Cut Her Grant ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/science/trump-wildfires-vance-epa.html
Sun 13:42:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ This is the end. They have NO CLUE how to stop losing money. This will just turn away everyone. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-could-prioritize-sponsored-content-as-part-of-ad-strategy-sponsored-content-could-allegedly-be-given-preferential-treatment-in-llms-responses-openai-to-use-chat-data-to-deliver-highly-personalized-results
Sun 13:43:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Qt Hearts – classic Hearts card game ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/qt-hearts-classic-hearts-card-game/
Sun 13:43:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Harlequin – Terminal-based SQL IDE ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/harlequin-terminal-based-sql-ide/
Sun 13:43:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ flir – parse and rewrite R code ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/flir-parse-rewrite-r-code/
Sun 13:45:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ DWARF Explorer – GUI utility for navigating the DWARF debug information ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/dwarf-explorer-gui-utility-navigating-dwarf-debug-information/
Sun 13:45:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ b4n – TUI for the Kubernetes API ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/b4n-tui-kubernetes-api/
Sun 13:45:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ibtop – real-time terminal monitor ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/ibtop-real-time-terminal-monitor/
Sun 13:46:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Pyprland – customization tool for Hyprland ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/pyprland-customization-tool-hyprland/
Sun 13:46:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Linus Torvalds Blasts Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) for Attempting to 'Protect' GNU/Linux (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/27/Linus_Torvalds_Blasts_Software_Freedom_Conservancy_SFC_for_Atte.shtml
Sun 13:46:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ New Record for GNU/Linux in Australia (at Microsoft's Expense) (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/27/New_Record_for_GNU_Linux_in_Australia_at_Microsoft_s_Expense.shtml
Sun 13:46:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Days Without Slop About "Linux" ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/27/Days_Without_Slop_About_Linux.shtml
Sun 13:47:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ " While this particular move, and others like it, are being publicly lauded and celebrated, a more impartial assessment would treat them as cautionary signals rather than successes. The repeated reshuffling of the same group of leaders does not reflect organizational health; it suggests unresolved structural issues."
Sun 13:47:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "In a stable and well-functioning environment, such levels of internal rotation would be unnecessary." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kcmx0g24
Sun 13:53:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Cars turned into weapon against the owner/driver would be natural progression with all those "SMART" things https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/car-breathalysers-to-be-mandated-for-habitual-offenders-in-south-korea
Sun 13:53:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Maybe also attach anal cameras to every driver or every car. Just in case...
Sun 13:58:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ China revises aviation law to regulate drones, tighten safety rules ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-revises-aviation-law-to-regulate-drones-tighten-safety-rules
Sun 13:58:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ China issues draft rules to govern use of human-like Hey Hi (AI) systems ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-issues-draft-rules-to-govern-use-of-human-like-ai-systems
Sun 14:00:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ China’s high-speed rail network passes 50,000km mark ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/12/28/chinas-high-speed-rail-network-passes-50000km-mark/
Sun 14:00:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Print Your Next LED Bezel ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/27/print-your-next-led-bezel/ | Source: Hackaday
Sun 14:05:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ AI Backlash Grew Massively in 2025 ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-backlash-2025
Sun 14:06:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Gretl has a new release ☞ https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Gretl
Sun 14:06:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Vm has a new release ☞ https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Vm
Sun 14:07:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This sounds like an effective display for DOOM in a pinch. [Bringus Studios] managed to find such a printer and got the classic shooter running" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/27/playing-doom-on-a-receipt-printer/ | Source: Hackaday
Sun 14:08:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ users will have to wait until 2026 ☞ https://hackwarenews.com/firefox-promises-a-button-to-disable-ai-but-users-will-have-to-wait-until-2026/ incompetence? No! Malice.
Sun 14:08:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ After Outcry, Firefox Promises “Kill Switch” That Turns Off All Hey Hi (AI) Features ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/outcry-firefox-promises-kill-switch-ai-features
Sun 14:10:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Firefox will die and Google will laugh. Because it paid for it.
Sun 14:10:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ And Baker took home about 30 million dollars in salaries for doing this. Unbelievable.
Sun 14:11:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Sam Thursfield: Musical update ☞ https://samthursfield.wordpress.com/2025/12/27/musical-update/
Sun 14:11:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Knock, Knock: MIT’s Ethanol Engine Patents Run Out of Gas at the Federal Circuit ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/12/47472.html
Sun 14:14:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ESP32-C6 development board features 1.8-inch AMOLED touch display, built-in mic and speaker, IMU, RTC, and more ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/12/27/esp32-c6-amoled-development-board-touch-display-built-in-mic-and-speaker-imu-rtc/
Sun 14:14:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Google Rapidly Deploying Huge CO2 Battery Facilities That Store 200 Megawatt Hours of Power ☞ https://futurism.com/science-energy/google-co2-battery-facilities
Sun 14:15:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The "GNOME" codebase is up to 6,692,516 lines of code at the end of 2025" ☞ https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-2025-Code-Stats
Sun 14:18:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Ungoogled Chromium is back ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202512/ungoogled-chromium-is-back.html
Sun 14:20:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Mono boosting by OMGJoey ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/12/pinta-3-1-released-new-axonometric-grids
Sun 14:21:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Christmas Music Project: Back to When Music Was Music ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/26/Christmas_Music_Project_Back_to_When_Music_Was_Music.shtml
Sun 14:21:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Pinta 3.1 Open-Source Paint App Released with New Cells Effect, Axonometric Grid ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/24/Pinta_3_1_Open_Source_Paint_App_Released_with_New_Cells_Effect_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/24/Pinta_3_1_Open_Source_Paint_App_Released_with_New_Cells_Effect_.gmi ∎
Sun 14:21:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Nobara 43 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/nobara
Sun 14:21:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Canaima 8.3 is out as well ☞ https://distrowatch.com/canaima
Sun 14:22:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ HarfBuzz 12.3 Released
Sun 14:24:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ playful jab for never releasing a third installment for blockbuster game franchises like Half-Life, Dota, or Counter-Strike ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/gamestop-trolls-valves-gabe-newell-for-his-inability-to-count-to-three-playful-jab-for-never-releasing-a-third-installment-for-blockbuster-game-franchises-like-half-life-dota-or-counter-strike
Sun 14:24:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Building Beautiful LED Lanterns With Black LED Acrylic ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/27/building-beautiful-led-lanterns-with-black-led-acrylic/ | Source: Hackaday
Sun 14:25:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Elegant Aimbot" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/27/moving-mousepad-is-an-elegant-aimbot/ | Source: Hackaday
Sun 14:25:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Foucault Pendulum ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/27/what-to-do-when-your-foucault-pendulum-stops-swinging/ | Source: Hackaday
Sun 14:27:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today's 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 HowTos ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/28/today_s_howtos.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/28/today_s_howtos.gmi ∎
Sun 14:29:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Distributions and Operating Systems: Winux QNX, and Debian ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/28/Distributions_and_Operating_Systems_Winux_QNX_and_Debian.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/28/Distributions_and_Operating_Systems_Winux_QNX_and_Debian.gmi ∎
Sun 14:29:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Open Hardware/Modding: ESP32, RISC-V, and More ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/28/Open_Hardware_Modding_ESP32_RISC_V_and_More.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/28/Open_Hardware_Modding_ESP32_RISC_V_and_More.gmi ∎
Sun 14:31:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): GNOME/Code and Music Reports From GNOME's Sophie Herold and Sam Thursfield ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/28/GNOME_Code_and_Music_Reports_From_GNOME_s_Sophie_Herold_and_Sam.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/28/GNOME_Code_and_Music_Reports_From_GNOME_s_Sophie_Herold_and_Sam.gmi ∎
Sun 14:34:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 Programming Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/28/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/28/Programming_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Sun 14:36:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Standards ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/28/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_and_Standards.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/28/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_and_Standards.gmi ∎
Sun 14:36:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): GNU/Linux Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/28/GNU_Linux_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/28/GNU_Linux_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Sun 14:36:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Licensing / Legal: Torvalds Blasts SFC, Refund4Freedom Wants OS Freedom ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/28/Licensing_Legal_Torvalds_Blasts_SFC_Refund4Freedom_Wants_OS_Fre.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/28/Licensing_Legal_Torvalds_Blasts_SFC_Refund4Freedom_Wants_OS_Fre.gmi ∎
Sun 14:39:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Links 28/12/2025: 'Digital Detox' and Slop "Backlash Grew Massively in 2025" ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/28/Links_28_12_2025_Digital_Detox_and_Slop_Backlash_Grew_Massively.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/28/Links_28_12_2025_Digital_Detox_and_Slop_Backlash_Grew_Massively.gmi ∎
Sun 15:13:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 3 ways to have more fun with a Linux PC this weekend (December 26 - 28) https://www.howtogeek.com/ways-to-have-fun-on-linux-this-weekend-december-26/
Sun 15:13:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 3 ways to have more fun with a Linux PC this weekend (December 26 - 28) https://www.howtogeek.com/ways-to-have-fun-on-linux-this-weekend-december-26/
Sun 15:14:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Windows 12" is nonsense vapourware, "AI" is more nonsense, and this is curious-trolling, not journalism https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/dual-booting-windows-linux-total-harmony-2025
Sun 15:15:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ It also overlooks what is already happening/underway
Sun 15:15:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 10 Linux apps I tried in 2025 that I'm still using daily https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-apps-i-tried-in-2025-that-are-actually-worth-installing/
Sun 15:17:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ New to Linux? 5 must-have apps to install on day one https://www.howtogeek.com/install-these-5-must-have-apps-on-day-one/ https://tech.yahoo.com/apps/articles/linux-5-must-apps-install-161515728.html
Sun 15:18:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Why have choice? https://www.howtogeek.com/another-x11-revival-has-arrived-but-what-is-the-point/
Sun 15:19:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How to Connect to a VPN Service from the Linux Command Line https://www.howtogeek.com/how-to-connect-to-a-vpn-service-from-the-linux-command-line/
Sun 15:20:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "On Christmas day this week, the team behind the popular CachyOS Linux distribution published a "2025 recap" blog post looking back how the distro has changed over the year, and also previewing what's to come." https://www.howtogeek.com/cachyos-announces-upcoming-server-edition/
Sun 15:29:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Weekend Stories From HowTo Geek About GNU/Linux ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/28/Weekend_Stories_From_HowTo_Geek_About_GNU_Linux.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/28/Weekend_Stories_From_HowTo_Geek_About_GNU_Linux.gmi ∎
Sun 15:38:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Cory's presentation at 39C3;the recording is online now. "A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet - 39C3" https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2025/fahrplan/event/a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet
Sun 15:38:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Or not YET
Sun 15:47:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Slop About "Linux" Came Only From One Slopfarm This Weekend ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/28/Slop_About_Linux_Came_Only_From_One_Slopfarm_This_Weekend.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/28/Slop_About_Linux_Came_Only_From_One_Slopfarm_This_Weekend.gmi ∎
Sun 15:50:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "After two CT scans and more cameras down the back of my nose to look at my throat, and discussion of a possible transfer to a bigger hospital, the conclusion was to open me up to drain some areas of infection" gemini://freeshell.de/gemlog/2025-12-28_What_What_happened_next__you_numpty_.gmi
Sun 15:51:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I wanted to set up a streaming station featuring songs from my band but my cloud server doesn't have the storage or memory. Solution?" gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/u/bluesman/36151
Sun 15:52:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🔤SpellBinding: ACDWNOH Wordo: PINKS gemini://spell.ddns.net/games/gemlog/2025-12-28.gmi
Sun 15:53:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Last month I found out the EHX Superego was being discontinued. When I'm at the office, I've been listening to music on my old iPod nano." gemini://tilde.club/~winter/gemlog/2025/12-28.gmi
Sun 15:57:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Gemini Links 28/12/2025: Health Ordeals and Discontinued Pedals ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/28/Gemini_Links_28_12_2025_Health_Ordeals_and_Discontinued_Pedals.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/28/Gemini_Links_28_12_2025_Health_Ordeals_and_Discontinued_Pedals.gmi ∎
Sun 16:12:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – EPO People Power - Part XVII - Drugged, Stoned, and Drunk at the Office During Working Hours (Campinos Friend and Propaganda Chief Has Long Done This) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/28/EPO_People_Power_Part_XVII_Drugged_Stoned_and_Drunk_at_the_Offi.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/28/EPO_People_Power_Part_XVII_Drugged_Stoned_and_Drunk_at_the_Offi.gmi ∎
Sun 16:32:23 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://databreaches.net/2025/12/28/steward-health-care-insurance-mess-leaves-doctors-liable-for-settlements/
Sun 16:33:47 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://databreaches.net/2025/12/28/thousands-of-medical-records-found-in-auctioned-storage-unit/
Sun 16:35:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – 2026 Will Have EPO Focus, People Will See What the EPO is Trying to Hide ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/28/2026_Will_Have_EPO_Focus_People_Will_See_What_the_EPO_is_Trying.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/28/2026_Will_Have_EPO_Focus_People_Will_See_What_the_EPO_is_Trying.gmi ∎
Sun 16:40:56 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ waaaaayyyy mo' problems.... https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/waymo-shuts-down-again
Sun 16:42:47 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/musician-ai-canada-google
Sun 16:44:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – What Happens When Americans Are Out of Office (Away From Work) for a Week? Vista 11 "Share" Falls to Just 10%. ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/28/What_Happens_When_Americans_Are_Out_of_Office_Away_From_Work_fo.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/28/What_Happens_When_Americans_Are_Out_of_Office_Away_From_Work_fo.gmi ∎
Sun 16:47:46 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://itsfoss.com/news/rob-pike-furious/
Sun 16:51:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Sharing in Winter ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/28/Sharing_in_Winter.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/28/Sharing_in_Winter.gmi ∎
Sun 16:53:13 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] admfubar: simply not reliable cars
Sun 16:53:15 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] change anything
Sun 16:53:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] in the condition
Sun 16:53:21 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they go apeshit
Sun 16:53:28 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] or "devil ape" as MinceR puts it ;-)
Sun 17:06:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Google Confidently Wrong, Nowadays Defaming People Too ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/28/Google_Confidently_Wrong_Nowadays_Defaming_People_Too.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/28/Google_Confidently_Wrong_Nowadays_Defaming_People_Too.gmi ∎
Sun 17:54:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Misunderstood Weapons of Censorship ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/28/Misunderstood_Weapons_of_Censorship.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/28/Misunderstood_Weapons_of_Censorship.gmi ∎
Sun 18:02:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A post-American, enshittification-resistant [Internet]" https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet
Sun 18:05:51 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], That lock screen bug doesn't happen under kwin_x11.
Sun 18:06:31 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ I haven't noticed any downside to using X11, but there definitely are bugs under Wayland still. Not usually as bad as there were a year or two ago, but there's really no advantage of using the Wayland session.
Sun 18:11:35 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] as one might expect
Sun 18:11:44 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] a lot can go wrong
Sun 18:11:46 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but you say,
Sun 18:11:50 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "oh, i use this new thing"
Sun 18:11:58 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] what practical benefit is there to that?
Sun 18:12:08 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] if it works less reliably?
Sun 18:41:25 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ Right, it's like when car companies make a new engine and everyone rushes to buy that one the first year they say it's ready for the market.
Sun 18:41:48 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ That's going to be the model year that has the most problems because they have no idea how any of that new stuff will age over the next several years.
Sun 18:42:03 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ A completely new design always has problems for early adopters.
Sun 18:42:32 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ And as time goes on they figure out what they did wrong and what the solution is, and 5 years later that engine on a new car typically won't have so many issues.
Sun 18:42:46 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ The company wants to get you out of the warranty phases where they have to do something with it if it breaks.
Sun 18:42:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Doxing is Illegal in the UK (Even If You're Based in the US) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/28/Doxing_is_Illegal_in_the_UK_Even_If_You_re_Based_in_the_US.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/28/Doxing_is_Illegal_in_the_UK_Even_If_You_re_Based_in_the_US.gmi ∎
Sun 18:43:49 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], But meanwhile I'm driving around in a car that's pushing 20. The engine works okay. Sometimes it needs a repair but it's well known what to expect out of this type because people have been using some version of them since 1962.
Sun 18:44:26 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ Even GM used to worry about how a car would hold up and if they'd get a reputation for making a product that couldn't even outlast the warranty much.
Sun 18:44:56 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ They found out later that people will now just buy a new car all the time and roll over all the negative equity into the new loan until they're bankrupt
Sun 18:45:11 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ So they make products that don't last long.
Sun 18:46:22 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.osnews.com/story/144083/apples-terrible-ui-design-is-not-the-fault-of-just-one-fall-guy/
Sun 18:46:35 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], To make something new in software that doesn't even work as well as something that's been patched up since 1985 is just insane.
Sun 18:46:44 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ It's like why would you do that?
Sun 18:55:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 8 years of “This Week in Plasma” ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/28/8_years_of_This_Week_in_Plasma.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/28/8_years_of_This_Week_in_Plasma.gmi ∎
Sun 18:56:09 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it is insane to you
Sun 18:56:14 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but maybe not to some company
Sun 18:58:23 │ 〖psydruid〗 │ it's not insane to insane companies employing insane people
Sun 18:59:19 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ seems to be the cool thing to do in the last few decades
Sun 18:59:48 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ might be because all sorts of idiots use computers (or fashion accessories with a computer hidden inside)
Sun 19:36:04 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ https://pleated-jeans.com/2025/09/04/computer-software-fails-that-prove-the-machines-wont-be-our-overlords-anytime-soon/
Sun 20:33:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): How-To Geek: Linux Distributions, Linux Terminals, Linux desktops, and Howtos ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/28/How_To_Geek_Linux_Distributions_Linux_Terminals_Linux_desktops_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/28/How_To_Geek_Linux_Distributions_Linux_Terminals_Linux_desktops_.gmi ∎
Sun 21:36:19 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/12/28/0234206/is-dark-energy-weakening
Sun 21:47:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: December 28th, 2025 ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/28/9to5Linux_Weekly_Roundup_December_28th_2025.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/28/9to5Linux_Weekly_Roundup_December_28th_2025.gmi ∎
Sun 21:56:13 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.snopes.com/articles/472051/woven-strips-towels/
Sun 22:05:11 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://spectator.com/article/ai-will-kill-all-the-lawyers/
Sun 22:21:06 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://theintercept.com/2025/12/28/fisa-warrant-surveillance-dan-goldman-primary/
Sun 22:21:59 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/liquid-cooling/110-pound-cast-iron-victorian-radiator-upcycled-into-a-gaming-pc-its-a-truly-rad-design
Sun 23:17:08 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ (cat) https://imgchest.com/p/ej7mmrbj7dl
Mon 01:08:50 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], I wonder if anyone packaged XLibre for Ubuntu.
Mon 01:08:58 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ It seems like it would be worth doing.
Mon 01:09:05 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ Like it or not, Ubuntu does have a lot of users.
Mon 01:09:42 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ I'll probably end up doing a short blog post about how to throw the Rust replacements for sudo and coreutils out at some point but as of now they do not affect me because Neon uses LTS.
Mon 01:10:15 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ If the Rust replacements are not directly compatible, not even close, then this will end badly.
Mon 01:10:53 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ It will just convince people that rely on Ubuntu that they really have learned nothing from pulling in things like Unity and libav.
Mon 01:11:30 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ And that this period of relative stability was not because Canonical realized the folly of bringing in buggy replacements for existing software.
Mon 01:30:04 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ There's some kind of "loyalty program" that Toast restaurants are doing now.
Mon 01:30:24 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ I'm sure that this is costing the restaurants even more money to use Toast as a payment processor for credit cards.
Mon 01:30:29 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ And I wonder if they opted into it.
Mon 01:31:00 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], One of the recommendations I made to the owner of that restaurant was to get rid of Square.
Mon 01:31:15 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ It's not appropriate for a business with his volume of credit card transactions.
Mon 01:31:35 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ About the only place the merchant wins with Square and Toast is that they give you a cheap credit card terminal.
Mon 01:31:47 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ But then the fees are higher, forever, so they get you worse over time.
Mon 01:32:31 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ You can easily trim off 1% of every transaction and put it back in your pocket instead of the payment processor, by opting for a traditional reader.
Mon 01:32:42 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ But it's a higher up front cost, but it's not that bad.
Mon 01:33:32 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ It's a disaster dealing with the credit card banks and payment processors as a merchant.
Mon 01:33:47 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ They can easily take 4-5% of your GROSS receipts if you're not careful.
Mon 01:34:08 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ Then it forces you to raise prices, then they get MORE, and your customers are mad at you.
Mon 01:34:24 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ Some restaurants are starting to go cash only in this area.
Mon 01:34:34 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ They just stick an ATM at the entrance in case you need money.
Mon 01:35:10 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ Illinois passed a State law that says that credit card banks can't charge interchange fees on the part of the bill that is tax or tips.
Mon 01:35:16 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ So the banks are suing us.
Mon 01:35:20 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ They'll lose.
Mon 01:35:32 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ But they're really angry because they know that's a lot of money.
Mon 01:36:07 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ So if you go to Walmart and like 10% of that bill is a sales tax, then the bank can't charge interchange on that part.
Mon 01:37:36 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ If you go to a restaurant and there's a 8% tax and you leave a $10 tip, then no interchange on that. So that adds up for the bank. If $3.20 was a tax and $10 was a tip, that's $13.20 that a bank can't charge 3% of to the merchant. So they lose like 37 cents on that receipt. But then you multiply that by an entire state with 13 million people in it.
Mon 01:39:44 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], I've been trying to save some money. I've got this app and it lets me order leftover restaurant food that they had at the end of the day.
Mon 01:39:55 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ So far I've only been displeased by one surprise bag.
Mon 01:40:35 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ IKEA's restaurant is even on here. The bag usually ends up being all the stuff I'd have ordered anyway.
Mon 02:13:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "First published December 28, 2025. There have been no updates since." gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/gemini/vocabulary/
Mon 02:14:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "So at some point, possibly whilst waiting for it to be warm enough to get out of bed, the mind settled on the idea of determining an animal name that begins with the letter "i". Given that it was too cold the recourse of hitting up a wikipedia page for "list of animal names" was ruled out, or otherwise computering." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2025/12/28/limits-of-memory.gmi
Mon 02:16:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1519.jpg
Mon 02:16:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1869.jpg
Mon 02:17:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ CHRISTMAS UNDER A CAR gopher://aussies.space:70/0/~freet/phlog/2025-12-29Christmas_Under_a_Car.txt
Mon 02:18:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [japan] [photos] gemini://higeki.jp/nikki/2025-12-28.gmi
Mon 02:19:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "These side projects include writing (both blogging and my long form fiction), learning BASIC programming on my Commodore 64 Ultimate, BASH scripting, reading, and tinkering with some old tech. I don't expect myself to touch all of these in a single day, and I will continue to make a concerted effort to find time before and after work to do things that I enjoy." gemini://gem.saayaa.space/gemlog/2025-12-28-sunday-routine.gmi
Mon 02:20:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "In the face of our inevitable loss of data, perhaps the mature thing to do would be to accept our fate and move on, but with a little bit of work there is a actually a lot we can do to delay our impending loss of data. Or rather, there's one thing to do, make a copy, but there are better and worse ways to do it." gemini://envs.net/~kyeh/computers/software/data_loss.gmi
Mon 02:25:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights — Welcome to the New Techrights ⇨ https://techrights.org/ | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/ ∎
Mon 02:25:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Links 29/12/2025: The Sunday Routine, Limits of Memory, and Gemini Vocabulary ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/Links_29_12_2025_The_Sunday_Routine_Limits_of_Memory_and_Gemini.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/Links_29_12_2025_The_Sunday_Routine_Limits_of_Memory_and_Gemini.gmi ∎
Mon 02:26:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Eurozone: Bulgaria, Russian dirty tricks, Gold & Silver bullion https://danielpocock.com/en/eurozone-bulgaria-russia-dirty-tricks-gold-silver-bullion/
Mon 02:41:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Louis Gerstner Has Died, His Legacy of Mass Layoffs at IBM Hasn't ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/Louis_Gerstner_Has_Died_His_Legacy_of_Mass_Layoffs_at_IBM_Hasn_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/Louis_Gerstner_Has_Died_His_Legacy_of_Mass_Layoffs_at_IBM_Hasn_.gmi ∎
Mon 02:45:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – IRC Proceedings: Sunday, December 28, 2025 ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/IRC_Proceedings_Sunday_December_28_2025.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/IRC_Proceedings_Sunday_December_28_2025.gmi ∎
Mon 02:46:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🅸🆁🅲 techpol + social irc ■ Yesterday's #boycottnovell-social and #techpol IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-281225.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-281225.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-social-281225.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-social-281225.txt
Mon 02:46:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today in Techrights ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/Today_in_Techrights.gmi ∎
Mon 02:46:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Over at Tux Machines... ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi ∎
Mon 02:47:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🅸🆁🅲 techrights irc ■ Yesterday's #techrights IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-281225.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-281225.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techrights-281225.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techrights-281225.txt
Mon 02:48:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🅸🆁🅲 boycottnovell irc ■ Yesterday's #boycottnovell IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-281225.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-281225.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-281225.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-281225.txt
Mon 02:49:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🅸🆁🅲 techbytes irc ■ Yesterday's #techbytes IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-281225.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-281225.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techbytes-281225.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techbytes-281225.txt
Mon 02:49:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ✩░▒▓▆▅▃▂▁𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍▁▂▃▅▆▓▒░✩ Yesterday's 𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 bulletin is now ready! 🅷🆃🆃🅿: http://techrights.org/txt-archives/techrights-2025-12-28.txt | 🅶🅴🅼🅸🅽🅸 gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/techrights-2025-12-28.txt (tentative address, to work an hour from now)
Mon 02:50:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ✩░▒▓▆▅▃▂▁Tux Machines 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍▁▂▃▅▆▓▒░✩ Yesterday's Tux Machines bulletin is now ready! 🅷🆃🆃🅿: http://news.tuxmachines.org/txt-archives/tuxmachines-2025-12-28.txt
Mon 03:04:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The corporate playbook for next year? Don’t hire. https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/2026-job-hiring-growth-plans-10bc3470
Mon 03:05:16 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] " This environment means many employees are
Mon 03:05:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] clinging to their jobs. At International Business
Mon 03:05:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Machines, employees are leaving the
Mon 03:05:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] technology giant at the lowest rate in 30 years,
Mon 03:05:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] CEO Arvind Krishna said. In the U.S., voluntary
Mon 03:05:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] attrition at IBM is now under 2%, a decline from
Mon 03:05:19 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] the typical 7%.
Mon 03:05:21 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] “People aren’t looking to change jobs,” Krishna
Mon 03:05:25 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] said. “That then leads to less hiring because
Mon 03:05:27 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] people aren’t leaving.”
Mon 03:05:29 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] AK's not seeing enough natural attrition, eh? No doubt he has a remedy for that. . .
Mon 03:05:31 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "
Mon 03:05:33 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kdm0qny7
Mon 03:11:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Halifax video game workers form first Ubisoft union in North America https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/ubisoft-forms-first-union-north-america-halifax-9.7028674
Mon 03:13:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Game Studios That Shut Down in 2025: Over 25 Studios Closed Their Doors Forever https://www.gamingamigos.com/post/game-studios-closure-2025
Mon 03:20:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Not Turning in His Grave: When People Die, Their Corporate Destruction Becomes a "Turnaround" ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/Not_Turning_in_His_Grave_When_People_Die_Their_Corporate_Destru.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/Not_Turning_in_His_Grave_When_People_Die_Their_Corporate_Destru.gmi ∎
Mon 03:23:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ https://www.fsf.org/ now 81k USD away from goal
Mon 03:24:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Naaah, although he did a great job with the kernel we should not forget about Richard Stallman and the GNU project Without him we would not have got half the applications we have today nor the GPL license which is a big reason why Linux is still linux" https://old.reddit.com/r/ArabUnix/comments/1pxhacs/we_have_freedom_because_of_this_man/
Mon 03:31:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Physical Safety ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/Physical_Safety.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/Physical_Safety.gmi ∎
Mon 03:58:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – What IBM Will Do to Red Hat in the Coming Year or Years ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/What_IBM_Will_Do_to_Red_Hat_in_the_Coming_Year_or_Years.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/What_IBM_Will_Do_to_Red_Hat_in_the_Coming_Year_or_Years.gmi ∎
Mon 04:35:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – EPO People Power - Part XVIII - European Patent Office "Paints Itself as Progressive While Literally Being Represented by Cokeheads" ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/EPO_People_Power_Part_XVIII_European_Patent_Office_Paints_Itsel.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/EPO_People_Power_Part_XVIII_European_Patent_Office_Paints_Itsel.gmi ∎
Mon 04:39:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "IBM is frequently in the news, the Indian clown keeps repeating nonsense. Today, he preaching his wisdom about jobs. He is lying. IBM is not hiring in the US, it is hiring an army in India." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kdm0qny7
Mon 04:39:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "IBM is a scam now."
Mon 04:40:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Wow those comments in the article are brutal. Glad to see the rest of the world sees what truly is going on with us." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kdkpvc96
Mon 04:42:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "lawfare" ☛ https://thegrayzone.com/2025/12/28/cia-mi6-op-sting-eu-fraud-office/ | Source: The Gray Zone
Mon 04:42:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Epstein Files Unveil 'Clinically Alarming' Amazon Shopping History, Predatory Fixation on 'Eroticised Hierarchy'" https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/epstein-files-unveil-clinically-alarming-amazon-shopping-history-predatory-fixation-eroticised-1766392
Mon 04:43:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ DSA: What power to censor does the EU have? | "Femte juli" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/12/28/dsa-vilken-makt-att-censurera-har-eu/
Mon 04:43:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It's okay to rest this season. It's okay to do "nothing." To have sown throughout the year and enjoy the harvest" | "Está bien" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=es&tl=en&u=https://text.eapl.mx/esta-bien
Mon 04:43:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "An experiment in vibe coding | Read the Tea Leaves" https://nolanlawson.com/2025/12/28/an-experiment-in-vibe-coding/
Mon 04:44:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "trump: From AI to chips, Big Tech is getting what it wants from Trump" https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/from-ai-to-chips-big-tech-is-getting-what-it-wants-from-trump/articleshow/126217285.cms https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/18/GAFAM_Kissing_the_Ring_of_the_Mafia_Don.shtml
Mon 04:52:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Works of art created in 1930 such as early Betty Boop cartoons depicting her as a dog, Disney's "Rover" prototype for Pluto, and more Mickey Mouse cartoons" ☛ https://boingboing.net/2025/12/27/works-entering-the-u-s-public-domain-in-2026.html | Source: BoingBoing
Mon 04:52:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Regular observers of copyright law’s favorite holiday know the drill: on January 1, 2026" ☛ https://copyrightlately.com/public-domain-2026/ |
Mon 04:53:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "We are at a turning point in the decades-long war on general-purpose computing. Geopolitics are up for grabs. The future is ours to seize." ☛ https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet | Source: CCC
Mon 05:04:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Before 2025, “media capture” was a term used exclusively overseas, describing the compromise of a free press to curry favor with the regime in power." ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/trump-year-attacking-media-1235490875/ | Source: Rolling Stone
Mon 05:05:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Advent of Code 2025 lasted only 12 days. I liked the shorter format since keeping up with puzzles for over three weeks in previous years was challenging." ☛ https://mmapped.blog/posts/46-aoc-2025 | Source: Roman Kashitsyn
Mon 05:05:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Louis Gerstner, the executive who engineered one of the most important corporate turnarounds in the history of the high-technology sector, died at the age of 83 on Saturday." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/louis-gerstner-the-man-who-saved-ibm-dies-at-83-industry-mourns-the-passing-of-transformative-ceo | Source: Tom's Hardware
Mon 05:13:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Now the tech industry is in the fever-dream days of generative AI, which requires new levels of computing resources" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/expired-tired-wired-data-centers/ | Source: Wired
Mon 05:14:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I’m about half a dozen flights into training for a Private Pilot’s License and wanted to write some notes while I’m still firmly in the “beginner mindset”." ☛ https://benjamincongdon.me/blog/2025/12/27/Notes-from-Early-Flight-Training/ | Source: Ben Congdon
Mon 05:14:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The following map from 2024 by Simon C. Scherrer (via @freakonometrics) indicates that one-third of the Swiss population lives in a five-kilometer-wide strip on either side of the Intercity 1 railway line." ☛ https://r.iresmi.net/posts/2025/railway_population/ | Source: Michaël
Mon 05:14:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The issue is that Trump — a close friend of Epstein’s for more than a decade — is named in these documents himself, as the Justice Department informed him in May." ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/donald-trump-jeffrey-epstein-timeline-1235464225/ | Source: Rolling Stone
Mon 05:15:33 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], Indians running everything into the ground.
Mon 05:15:48 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ But hotels have never been cheaper.
Mon 05:15:59 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ For those of us requiring an "afternoon power nap" as you put it.
Mon 05:16:22 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] I put it like what?
Mon 05:16:37 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ When I mentioned what people tend to use cheap hotel rooms for.
Mon 05:16:41 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ :)
Mon 05:16:58 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ You said "for an afternoon nap".
Mon 05:17:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Trump to Europe: Let every social media site spew Nazi trash—or else" ☛ https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/12/26/2359940/-Trump-to-Europe-Let-every-social-media-site-spew-Nazi-trash-or-else | Source: Daily Kos
Mon 05:17:23 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ You British people are so polite.
Mon 05:17:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Europe's hard-learned lessons about where unchecked fascist speech leads are being dismissed as regulatory overreach." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2025/12/26/trump-to-europe-embrace-nazi-trash-or-else.html | Source: BoingBoing
Mon 05:17:50 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i didn't say nap
Mon 05:17:52 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] I said,
Mon 05:17:56 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] something like what I heard
Mon 05:18:06 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] that people book rooms by the hour
Mon 05:18:09 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and it's not for sleep
Mon 05:18:21 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ No, I think you said afternoon nap, sarcastically.
Mon 05:18:35 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ I remember it because I laughed.
Mon 05:18:42 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so some hotels here before notorious for being a little like brothels
Mon 05:18:45 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] unofficially
Mon 05:18:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [Old] "With all the hype and hysteria around AI, it’s important to remember that AI is still just a tool." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2025/09/ai-and-the-fight-between-democracy-and-autocracy/684095/ | Source: The Atlantic
Mon 05:19:08 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ Pretty much. It's like $45 a night and I mean, you might as well just stay there for that price.
Mon 05:19:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "In recent years, drones have become an integral part of modern warfare." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/the-us-must-stop-underestimating-drone-warfare/ | Source: Wired
Mon 05:19:44 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ It's $35 to take someone to Steamworks for a 8 hour rental. Might as well just have the room for the night in case you want seconds.
Mon 05:19:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Recognizing a pattern: Putin calls, America blinks, and Zelenskyy leaves empty-handed." ☛ https://www.thenextmove.org/p/the-moscow-mar-a-lago-hotline | Source: The Next Move
Mon 05:19:59 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ Plus, Steamworks is just fucking eww.
Mon 05:20:05 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] the minibar is not free
Mon 05:20:07 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ Literally. Fucking. Eww.
Mon 05:20:08 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and there is no m-inigun
Mon 05:20:11 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so stay for what?
Mon 05:20:13 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] A/C?
Mon 05:20:32 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ Because Mandy isn't there and nobody cares how loud my boyfriend is screaming.
Mon 05:20:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "We stand at the edge of a new year and at the edge of an old question: Will this be a republic of citizens or a dominion of oligarchs?" ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/a-new-year-and-a-manifesto-for-america | Source: Mike Brock
Mon 05:20:55 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ The place isn't in the best of shape, but it's comfortable enough.
Mon 05:21:02 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ And there's breakfast the next morning.
Mon 05:21:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "None of the Christmas cocaine boom" ☛ https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2025/12/white-christmas-why-cocaine-is-everywhere-in-december | Source: New Statesman
Mon 05:21:12 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] hotels are not the same to all people
Mon 05:21:15 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] to some people,
Mon 05:21:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] for example
Mon 05:21:22 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] drinking out in the pub is nice
Mon 05:21:23 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] because
Mon 05:21:25 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] 1) they share a home
Mon 05:21:29 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] 2) the home is small
Mon 05:21:34 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] 3) the place is not pleasant
Mon 05:21:43 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] 4) they have no social life (at the home)
Mon 05:21:45 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] same for hotel
Mon 05:21:50 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] some people have a bad bedroom
Mon 05:21:55 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] or live in a noisy area
Mon 05:22:03 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ I have no privacy where I live and neither does my boyfriend.
Mon 05:22:04 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so for them a hotel is a big "step up"
Mon 05:22:12 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ So we have to slip off somewhere.
Mon 05:22:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Is it any wonder that these keep biting us?" ☛ https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/12/27/the-dangers-of-ssl-certificates/ | Source: Lorin Hochstein
Mon 05:23:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Social Control Media ☛ https://www.androidpolice.com/i-cant-watch-youtube-videos-without-this-hidden-feature/ | Source: Android Police
Mon 05:23:16 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], Remember when people paid for a movie ticket and it was just somewhere dark to go and make out?
Mon 05:23:22 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ Movie tickets were THAT cheap.
Mon 05:23:27 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ Like $3 maybe.
Mon 05:23:34 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] there are drive ins
Mon 05:23:35 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] still
Mon 05:23:36 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but rare
Mon 05:23:47 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] some people kissed and didn't watch movies
Mon 05:23:50 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i too am guilty of that
Mon 05:23:53 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but i was like 17
Mon 05:24:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "At some point during experiments with Hyper-V, my external HDDs died. ZFS scrubbing would just hang and the HDDs would stop spinning." ☛ https://laplab.me/posts/media-server-journey/ | Source: Nikita Lapkov
Mon 05:25:04 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], I slip beer into the movies sometimes.
Mon 05:25:10 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ They sell it there, for like $7 a bottle.
Mon 05:25:14 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ Can you believe that shit?
Mon 05:25:34 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] you could driink before
Mon 05:25:38 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] like people do with football matches
Mon 05:25:41 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] buy at the shop
Mon 05:25:42 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] drink
Mon 05:25:42 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ They don't make anything off the movie so they encourage people to get drunk and eat bad food that costs too much.
Mon 05:25:43 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] enter
Mon 05:25:47 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they sell beer at the stadium
Mon 05:25:49 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], That's even better.
Mon 05:25:50 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] buit not cheap
Mon 05:25:56 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ I can watch sports on the movie screen for free.
Mon 05:26:06 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ Sneak in beer. Get free popcorn with my movie rewards card.
Mon 05:26:08 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ LOL
Mon 05:26:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Drinking water from plastic bottles is fine in an emergency, but it is not something that should be used in daily life" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/people-who-drink-bottled-water-on-a-daily-basis-ingest-90000-more-microplastics-per-year/ | Source: Wired
Mon 05:26:32 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], I just refill gallons of water from my Brita to take with me to the hotel.
Mon 05:26:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I am starting to feel like my whole life is lived through a screen, and I am ashamed to admit how much control my phone seems to have over me." ☛ https://www.mlive.com/advice/2025/12/dear-annie-breaking-free-from-my-phone.html | Source: Michigan News
Mon 05:26:38 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ The hotel water tastes really foul.
Mon 05:26:56 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] not all hotels
Mon 05:26:58 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ But it costs like $2-3 per gallon for water at the store. The only reason to get a couple is to refill them out of the Brita.
Mon 05:27:03 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] when we went to turkey they told us not to driunk
Mon 05:27:06 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] from the tap
Mon 05:27:19 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it's a national issue
Mon 05:27:22 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] not any particular hotel
Mon 05:27:31 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ It's a local issue in the US.
Mon 05:27:46 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ They treat it to be federally compliant and not kill you, but it doesn't have to taste good.
Mon 05:27:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [Old] "Almost fourteen months ago, I started working on my bachelor thesis. Although I finished it half a year ago, it’s still part of my work as a student research assistant." ☛ https://0l.de/blog/2015/01/bachelor-thesis-abstract/ |
Mon 05:28:02 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ Some cities care how it tastes or they get lucky and there's a water source they can treat that happens to not taste bad.
Mon 05:28:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Nevertheless, I felt like I owed whatever readers remain here at least some sort of update as to what’s been going on with me this year and where my head is at." ☛ https://jaylittle.com/post/view/2025/12/persistence-in-the-face-of-existential-crisis/ | Source: Jay Little
Mon 05:28:19 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ But most places just don't have the money to make it not taste bad, so they treat it and it tastes bad.
Mon 05:28:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Last week I was looking through my archive of 5¼″ floppies and stumbled on a bunch of disks made by this brand, Elephant Memory Systems." ☛ https://morrick.me/archives/10196 | Source: Riccardo Mori
Mon 05:28:25 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], It could be worse.
Mon 05:28:35 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] public fountains are rare
Mon 05:28:40 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ My boyfriend lost two of his brothers to contaminated drinking water in the Philippines.
Mon 05:28:42 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] in the 80s they were normal
Mon 05:28:43 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ We don't have that here.
Mon 05:28:52 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] that was before "shit in bottle" industry took off
Mon 05:28:55 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ It might taste bad but it's not going to kill you.
Mon 05:29:01 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and the state helpd derive people of water
Mon 05:29:07 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so that they buy cans and then bottles
Mon 05:29:18 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] the slips in cans killed many animals
Mon 05:29:25 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and there was littering
Mon 05:29:31 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they are a public hazard nonetheless
Mon 05:29:37 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] make more water fountains
Mon 05:29:49 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] help curb cancer (DDT), obesity, and diasbetes
Mon 05:29:58 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and also, help make less waste
Mon 05:30:09 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but some cocca cola-like business will "suffer"
Mon 05:30:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] there seems to be no regulatory control anymore
Mon 05:30:23 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] the companies do anything they want
Mon 05:30:57 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] you mentioned movies
Mon 05:31:02 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and how affordable they were
Mon 05:31:08 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i totally or nearly forgot about kissing there
Mon 05:31:14 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] (We were both 17)
Mon 05:31:20 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i think it was some ben stiller movie
Mon 05:31:22 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i forgot the name
Mon 05:31:26 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] we hardly watched it
Mon 05:31:37 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it was some story about kids, iirc
Mon 05:31:57 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] in the 90s things were accessible
Mon 05:32:01 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] water, entertainment
Mon 05:32:07 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] not they say "get netflix"
Mon 05:32:15 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and watch some flick on your palm
Mon 05:32:19 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] at low quality
Mon 05:32:23 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] no dolby or anything
Mon 05:32:26 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and they say it's better
Mon 05:32:29 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] because "SMARET" phone
Mon 05:32:34 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i am not buying that
Mon 05:32:49 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] right now I listen to compact disc
Mon 05:33:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "At work, I was promoted to an engineering manager position." ☛ https://rickcarlino.com/2026/2025-year-in-review.html | Source: Rick Carlino
Mon 05:33:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A lot of my readers call me a cynic when I say things like “you should do things that make your manager happy” or “big tech companies get to decide what projects you work on”." ☛ https://www.seangoedecke.com/a-little-bit-cynical/ | Source: Sean Goedecke
Mon 05:33:53 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ Every time I refill a jug of water and take it with me, I save about $3 vs. buying it at the store.
Mon 05:34:03 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ Nothing is cheap these days at the store, even jugs of water.
Mon 05:34:04 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ Fuckers.
Mon 05:34:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The NIH was founded through the Ransdell Act of 1930, which converted the former Hygienic Laboratory of the Marine Hospital Services into the seeds of a new government institution." ☛ https://www.the-scientist.com/how-the-nih-became-the-backbone-of-us-medical-research-73871 | Source: LabX Media Group
Mon 05:34:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The evidence, probably produced by some of the oldest Neanderthal groups, consists of a patch of heated clay" ☛ https://phys.org/news/2025-12-humans-years-earlier-believed-archaeological.html | Source: Omicron Limited
Mon 05:34:43 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] worse-
Mon 05:34:47 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they made water so expensive
Mon 05:34:53 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] in place where tap water is rehgarded as unsafe
Mon 05:34:57 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so they give people options
Mon 05:34:59 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] water for price x
Mon 05:35:08 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] or sugar thing for x*0.1
Mon 05:35:18 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] or DDT thing for the same
Mon 05:35:22 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] many go for the stwet things
Mon 05:35:28 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] the cancer or diabetes stuff
Mon 05:35:31 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] because the price is "
Mon 05:35:35 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] almost the same"
Mon 05:35:38 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] (as water)
Mon 05:36:07 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], Yes, there's some restaurants that try to sell you bottled water now instead of just giving you the water out of the water button on the fountain.
Mon 05:36:11 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ Like McDonald's.
Mon 05:36:35 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ The one down the street tries to add a $2.50 bottle of Dasani water to your meal when you ask for water.
Mon 05:36:51 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ You have to ask for tap water. You know, the stuff you flush the toilet with. Eww.
Mon 05:37:56 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], Mom won't drink from fountains.
Mon 05:38:16 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ She says you can get Meningitis from it. I said "I'm vaccinated for that." and shooed her away.
Mon 05:38:24 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ Drank from the fountain right in front of her.
Mon 05:40:37 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ She asked why I was vaccinated for Meningitis. I said, "Outbreak of it among gay men."
Mon 05:42:04 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ As far as I know the only type of Meningitis in that outbreak was type C.
Mon 05:43:53 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so we were just discussing why you miss the 90s
Mon 05:43:57 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] the bottom line is,
Mon 05:44:00 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] 90s you were a kid
Mon 05:44:04 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and your parents had means
Mon 05:44:08 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so you yearn for that
Mon 05:44:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] eeing that, now, even if you save 50 bucks a month
Mon 05:44:24 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it'll be 6k iin a decade
Mon 05:44:29 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] you cannot even buy a car for that
Mon 05:44:36 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so the 90s were more like an age of opportunity
Mon 05:44:44 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] for anyone who could type html or do some coding
Mon 05:44:52 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] even an accountant could get a car without a loan
Mon 05:46:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It’s been a year since I’ve posted anything on this here blog." ☛ https://www.paritybit.ca/blog/oh-right-i-have-a-blog/ | Source: Jake Bauer
Mon 05:46:05 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] another thing is,
Mon 05:46:15 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] failure to manufacture consent for the status quo
Mon 05:46:25 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] in the 80s you showed people havinmg large families and getting by
Mon 05:46:28 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] the rich were rich, but
Mon 05:46:35 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] now it's widened to the point where
Mon 05:46:43 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] you need to explain to a child "gig worker"
Mon 05:46:52 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] that it's OK to beg for tips to merely pay bread
Mon 05:46:57 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] while some "tech bros:"
Mon 05:47:10 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] claim to have trillions in "wealth"
Mon 05:47:12 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and that's a hard sell
Mon 05:47:23 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so they are not motivated to get ahead, they don't feel like they can
Mon 05:47:32 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] (and they probably cannot unless they cheat)
Mon 05:47:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "An islet in western Estonia will be upgraded to the status of "small island" and granted additional funding after at least five people have been registered as living on the territory for a year." ☛ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2780175/estonia-gets-a-new-small-island | Source: LRT
Mon 05:50:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Proprietary Software (and Games) Rotting Away ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/Proprietary_Software_and_Games_Rotting_Away.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/Proprietary_Software_and_Games_Rotting_Away.gmi ∎
Mon 05:52:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Links 29/12/2025: Bottled Water Considered Harmful, Cheetos Promoting Nazis in Europe ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/Links_29_12_2025_Bottled_Water_Considered_Harmful_Cheetos_Promo.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/Links_29_12_2025_Bottled_Water_Considered_Harmful_Cheetos_Promo.gmi ∎
Mon 05:53:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "cheetomussolini" ... seems it has been a thing "Since March 2016" https://x.com/cheetomussolini
Mon 05:53:15 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], Piyush
Mon 05:53:19 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ Taking shortcuts.
Mon 05:53:22 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ Lying to investors.
Mon 05:53:25 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ Living off loans.
Mon 05:54:20 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] you know who took loans
Mon 05:54:24 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] to attack my wife and I
Mon 05:54:31 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ voldemort?!
Mon 05:54:34 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ Yeah
Mon 05:54:51 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ MinceR, The voldemort who hacks the Android tablet so he can open people's hotel curtains.
Mon 05:54:53 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ :)
Mon 05:54:57 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :>
Mon 05:55:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "On first startup after upgrading, Fish performs a one-time migration, freezing the current theme and key bindings into files under ~/.config/fish/conf.d/." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/fish-shell-4-3-released-with-scripting-and-terminal-improvements/ | Source: Linuxiac
Mon 05:55:27 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] even boasted about it in public
Mon 05:55:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 52 (Dec 22 – 28, 2025) ☞ https://linuxiac.com/linuxiac-weekly-wrap-up-week-52-dec-22-28-2025/
Mon 05:56:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I have recently migrated my by now 79 repositories from GitHub to Codeberg, a decision driven by several significant factors." ☛ https://0l.de/blog/2025/12/codeberg-migration/ |
Mon 05:56:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "They are so universal and effective that we sometimes don’t think of them as strategies at all." ☛ https://eblog.fly.dev/onoff.html |
Mon 05:57:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Typst is a typesetting system similar to LaTeX." ☛ https://unnamed.website/posts/haskelling-my-typst/ | Source: Unnamed Website
Mon 05:57:24 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ MinceR, I had enough magic water left to make ramen.
Mon 05:57:53 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ will the ramen be magic too?
Mon 05:58:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "What if you want high speed without too much work or a specialized library? You can try to roll your own" ☛ https://lemire.me/blog/2025/12/27/parsing-ip-addresses-quickly-portably-without-simd-magic/ | Source: Daniel Lemire
Mon 05:58:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "If you maintain software projects, you see it all the time. Someone new comes along and they want to start rewriting everything." ☛ https://lemire.me/blog/2025/12/28/dont-be-so-eager-to-rewrite-your-code/ | Source: Daniel Lemire
Mon 05:59:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "In October 2012, Bundler’s success was killing RubyGems.org. Dependency resolution requires knowing what each version of each gem depends on, and dependencies form a graph, not a tree." ☛ https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/28/the-compact-index.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt
Mon 05:59:59 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Isambard_Prince: what costs more in ILL?
Mon 06:00:00 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] the water
Mon 06:00:06 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] or the ramen>?
Mon 06:00:28 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] asking fora chef
Mon 06:00:39 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ The water if you buy it at the store.
Mon 06:00:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The model follows the high-level design of a Denoising Autoencoder." ☛ https://cprimozic.net/blog/anime-recommender-model-architecture/ | Source: Casey Primozic
Mon 06:00:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I like learning programming languages." ☛ https://ficd.sh/blog/permission-to-begin-learning/ | Source: Daniel Fichtinger
Mon 06:00:53 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], I used some well water I pumped down at Schiller Woods.
Mon 06:01:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Imagine a world where every time you want to share a cool app with a friend, you have to ask permission (and maybe pay extra)." ☛ https://freenetafrica.com/2025/05/24/richard-stallman-the-legend-of-software-freedom/ |
Mon 06:01:49 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ or if you can't imagine it, just wait
Mon 06:01:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The BSDCan Call For Papers (CFP) is open until January 17th" ☛ https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=176686773001359&w=2 | Source: Mailing list ARChives
Mon 06:02:07 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ https://linuxiac.com/systemd-259-released-with-major-changes-ahead-of-legacy-sysv-removal/
Mon 06:02:15 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] <Isambard_Prince> The water if you buy it at the store.
Mon 06:02:23 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] if water is something you puchase at the shop
Mon 06:02:30 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ Removes TPM 1.2 support. Of course, because those are integrated into the main board and you can't upgrade it to TPM 2.0.
Mon 06:02:31 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] what is the point of pipeworks in homes? ;-)
Mon 06:02:38 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ So for those users, they just can't use the TPM at all now.
Mon 06:02:55 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] TPM uses them
Mon 06:03:13 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ And the part about making sure non-VFAT filesystems can't be exposed to the firmware is just more "things that the firmware should just flat out refuse apparently cause problems".
Mon 06:03:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "By default, 11ty uses markdown-it library to parse markdown. But, it seems that by default, markdown-it doesn't support syntax for applying an id to a header element." ☛ https://syntackle.com/blog/adding-custom-anchors-to-headings-in-markdown-eleventy-3NxBhIJO2OIr4XOj5LKc/ | Source: Murtuzaali Surti
Mon 06:04:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "While working on HTTP caching, a refresher, I learned about a recent development that immediately piqued my interest." ☛ https://danburzo.ro/notes/no-vary-search-vs-canonical/ | Source: Dan Cătălin Burzo
Mon 06:04:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It, like caltorss before it, is hopefully well-described by its name: it converts a sitemap to an RSS feed." ☛ https://www.jmduke.com/posts/sitemaptorss.html | Source: Justin Duke
Mon 06:04:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "since writing that tutorial, I have made a multitude of improvements to my site, and at this point, the previous post no longer describes the current site I am running." ☛ https://mirawelner.com/posts/website_update.html | Source: Mira Welner
Mon 06:05:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The longer answer has to do with how Zimbabwe’s mobile networks are built, powered, and used." ☛ https://www.techzim.co.zw/2025/12/zimbabwe-networks-christmas-congestion/ | Source: Zimbabwe
Mon 06:06:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "LackPaint is basically a digital photo frame. Except instead of showing boring old family photos in the usual way" ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/12/28/display-your-photos-like-theyre-in-macpaint/ | Source: Arduino
Mon 06:07:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "this article looks at another way to help KDE improve." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/how-to-help-kde-improve-plasma-through-user-feedback/ | Source: Linuxiac
Mon 06:07:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Motion Photos" ☛ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/extracting-video-from-motion-photos-on-linux/ | Source: Terence Eden
Mon 06:08:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It’s not even black-and-white, it’s gray-and-gray." ☛ https://maurycyz.com/misc/raw_photo/ | Source: Maury
Mon 06:08:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A software vendor was using SMTP spamware to send license keys customers had paid thousands for. A measured rant was in order, and turned out to be quite enlightening." ☛ https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/12/why-451-is-good-for-you-greylisting.html | Source: BSDly
Mon 06:09:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ You Are Likely to Be Eaten by a Grue: The Current State of Interactive Fiction ☞ https://jxself.org/grue.shtml
Mon 06:11:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install Netdata on openSUSE ☞ https://idroot.us/install-netdata-opensuse/
Mon 06:13:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-12-29.gmi
Mon 06:14:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "There are 4803 capsules. We successfully connected recently to 3241 of them."
Mon 06:14:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Almost 4,850 capsules counted yesterday
Mon 06:16:16 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ Linux chose to kill HexChat because Firefox used up all my memory.
Mon 06:16:49 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] not good
Mon 06:16:54 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it should kill the hog
Mon 06:17:00 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] irc is small
Mon 06:17:09 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] irc clients are always using little cpu
Mon 06:17:29 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] oom never killed kate for me
Mon 06:17:39 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it usually picks something really horrible
Mon 06:17:47 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] like bloated tab processes
Mon 06:17:56 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] killing katecan result in lost work
Mon 06:19:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Scam Altman cult: "FOSS is and always was a scam, in order to feed tons of code to LLMs and kicking coders in the balls, so they could not monetize their work. And, noone cares about the licenses, everyone steals and robs whatever is at arms length." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46398678
Mon 06:19:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Y Combinator (YC) Funds Scams, Run by Scammers https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/10/Y_Combinator_YC_Funds_Scams_Run_by_Scammers.shtml
Mon 06:20:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "FOSS has been a thing for decades longer than LLMs have even been a vague notion."
Mon 06:20:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "So FOSS is bad and commercial [sic] software is bad? What's left - going outside and touching some grass?"
Mon 06:21:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Arguably the most brilliant engineer in FFmpeg left because of this. He reverse engineered dozens of codecs by hand as a volunteer. Then security "researchers" and corporate employees came along repeatedly insisted "critical" security issues were fixed immediately waving their CVEs." https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1978693812672217303
Mon 06:22:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "CVE slop" https://x.com/ffmpeg/status/1984207514389586050
Mon 06:22:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It's AI generated bug reports on an obscure 1990s hobby codec"
Mon 06:23:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "And got a nice bonus at the end of the year for finding so many red CVEs"
Mon 06:24:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "We take security very seriously but at the same time is it really fair that trillion dollar corporations run AI to find security issues on people's hobby code? Then expect volunteers to fix." https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1984178359354483058
Mon 06:25:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It's someone's hobby project of an obscure 1990s decoder. A trillion dollar company is tasking an AI to find bugs and is assigning CVEs. Yet expects volunteers to fix it."
Mon 06:25:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The author of Lucasfilm Smash, a 1990s video game codec is writing this as a hobby. A trillion dollar corporation like Google should be the one sending fixes. If Deepmind is that good, surely it should be doing it."
Mon 06:46:36 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/pennsylvania-supreme-court-google-searches-are-not-private
Mon 06:47:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – LLMs Are Inherently Parasitic, We Need to Treat Them Accordingly ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/LLMs_Are_Inherently_Parasitic_We_Need_to_Treat_Them_Accordingly.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/LLMs_Are_Inherently_Parasitic_We_Need_to_Treat_Them_Accordingly.gmi ∎
Mon 06:47:26 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ so are most humans
Mon 06:58:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ KDE Plasma 6_25.12 for Slackware-current ☞ https://blog.slackware.nl/kde-plasma-6_25-12-for-slackware-current/
Mon 06:58:56 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] MinceR: DAs?
Mon 06:59:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): KDE Plasma 6_25.12 for Slackware-current ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/KDE_Plasma_6_25_12_for_Slackware_current.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/KDE_Plasma_6_25_12_for_Slackware_current.gmi ∎
Mon 06:59:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Night Bird and the Free Software Metaphor ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/Night_Bird_and_the_Free_Software_Metaphor.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/Night_Bird_and_the_Free_Software_Metaphor.gmi ∎
Mon 07:00:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today's 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 HowTos ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/today_s_howtos.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/today_s_howtos.gmi ∎
Mon 07:01:03 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kdkpvc96
Mon 07:01:04 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "If you were here when IBM was in tatters in 1991/92, and then helped it rise from the ashes you might feel differently. Yes, we had to say good bye to alot of colleagues and it was tough. For those who hung in there, we saw IBM come back stronger than ever. Gerstner was CEO from April 1993 to December 2002. When he started our Year End Revenue was $62.7 B with 256,207 employees when he left in 2002 Revenue was $81.2B with 315,880
Mon 07:01:04 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Employees."
Mon 07:02:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): GuideOS – beginner-friendly Linux distribution ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/GuideOS_beginner_friendly_Linux_distribution.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/GuideOS_beginner_friendly_Linux_distribution.gmi ∎
Mon 07:02:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Musician Cancelled as Hey Hi (AI) Falsely Accuses Him of Horrific Crimes ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/musician-ai-canada-google
Mon 07:04:12 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ schestowitz[TR2]: same thing
Mon 07:08:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Twins’ Peaks: The Gilbertson Brothers Want to Rewrite Your Country’s Map ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/science/eric-matthew-gilbertson-mountains.html
Mon 07:09:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Free and Open Source Software ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi ∎
Mon 07:10:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ South Korean President vows to reveal truth on anniversary of Jeju Air crash ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korean-president-vows-to-reveal-truth-on-anniversary-of-jeju-air-crash
Mon 07:11:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Coupang announces $1.5 billion compensation to South Korean users for data leak ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/coupang-announces-1-5-billion-compensation-to-south-korean-users-for-data-leak
Mon 07:11:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Nearly 80% of South Korea’s dog meat farms shut ahead of 2027 ban ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/nearly-80-of-south-koreas-dog-meat-farms-shut-ahead-of-2027-ban
Mon 07:11:46 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] MinceR: speaking of DAs ^^
Mon 07:12:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Inkscape 1.4.3 Open-Source SVG Editor Improves PDF Import and Text on Path ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/26/Inkscape_1_4_3_Open_Source_SVG_Editor_Improves_PDF_Import_and_T.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/26/Inkscape_1_4_3_Open_Source_SVG_Editor_Improves_PDF_Import_and_T.gmi ∎
Mon 07:18:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ GuideOS – beginner-friendly GNU/Linux distribution ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/guideos-beginner-friendly-linux-distribution/
Mon 07:19:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Linux 6.19-rc3 ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/Linux_6_19_rc3.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/Linux_6_19_rc3.gmi ∎
Mon 07:19:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): What exactly makes Linux so bulletproof? ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/What_exactly_makes_Linux_so_bulletproof.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/What_exactly_makes_Linux_so_bulletproof.gmi ∎
Mon 07:19:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ google-java-format – reformats Java source code ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/google-java-format-reformats-java-source-code/
Mon 07:19:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Kyanos – networking analysis tool using eBPF ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/kyanos-networking-analysis-tool-ebpf/
Mon 07:19:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Bongo Cat Wayland Overlay – animated bongo cat reacting to your keyboard input ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/bongo-cat-wayland-overlay-animated-bongo-cat/
Mon 07:20:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): I finally fixed my Xfce workflow with these simple settings and apps ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/I_finally_fixed_my_Xfce_workflow_with_these_simple_settings_and.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/I_finally_fixed_my_Xfce_workflow_with_these_simple_settings_and.gmi ∎
Mon 07:20:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Regal – linter, debugger and language server for Rego ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/regal-linter-debugger-language-server-rego/
Mon 07:21:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ why2 – easy to use encryption system ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/why2-encryption-system/
Mon 07:21:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ detekt – static code analysis for Kotlin ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/detekt-static-code-analysis-kotlin/
Mon 07:21:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ufo – universal file opener ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/ufo-universal-file-opener/
Mon 07:22:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 11 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux Data Mining Software ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/datamining/
Mon 07:22:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ fht-compositor – dynamic tiling Wayland compositor ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/fht-compositor-dynamic-tiling-wayland-compositor/
Mon 07:22:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ syca – minimal sudo-like privilege elevation tool ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/syca-minimal-sudo-like-privilege-elevation-tool/
Mon 07:23:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 8 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux Point-of-Sale Software ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/pointofsale/
Mon 07:23:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 8 Essential Free and Open Source Python Maths Tools ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/essential-free-python-maths-tools/
Mon 07:24:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ letmein – authenticated port/firewall knocking ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/letmein-authenticated-port-firewall-knocking/
Mon 07:25:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ New Record for GNU/Linux in Australia (at Microsoft's Expense) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/27/New_Record_for_GNU_Linux_in_Australia_at_Microsoft_s_Expense.shtml
Mon 07:25:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Linus Torvalds Blasts Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) for Attempting to 'Protect' GNU/Linux ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/27/Linus_Torvalds_Blasts_Software_Freedom_Conservancy_SFC_for_Atte.shtml
Mon 07:25:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 9 Best Free and Open Source Compositing Window Managers ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-compositing-window-managers/
Mon 07:25:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Slop About "Linux" Came Only From One Slopfarm This Weekend ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/28/Slop_About_Linux_Came_Only_From_One_Slopfarm_This_Weekend.shtml
Mon 07:26:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ripunzip – unzip an archive in parallel ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/ripunzip-unzip-archive-parallel/
Mon 07:26:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ D7VK 1.1 Released
Mon 07:30:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ CrunchBang GNU/Linux Lives on With GreenBang ☞ https://thenewstack.io/crunchbang-linux-lives-on-with-greenbang/
Mon 07:31:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ A Socket 7 Upgrade: Moving Beyond the 486 ☞ https://linuxjedi.co.uk/a-socket-7-upgrade-moving-beyond-the-486/
Mon 07:35:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Ultimate 2025.12.28 is released ☞ https://distrowatch.com/ultimate
Mon 07:35:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ SliTaz 20251228 is released as well ☞ https://distrowatch.com/slitaz
Mon 07:35:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Drauger 7.8-beta1 is ready ☞ https://distrowatch.com/drauger
Mon 07:35:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: December 28th, 2025 ☞ https://9to5linux.com/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-december-28th-2025
Mon 07:36:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Graphical Shutdown App KShutdown 6.2 added Beep Sound & D-Bus Help ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/12/kshutdown-6-2-beep-sound/
Mon 07:39:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Highlights from 2025 ☞ https://pointieststick.com/2025/12/28/highlights-from-2025/
Mon 07:44:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Inkscape 1.4.3 Released with 100+ Bug-Fixes & Improved PDF Import ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/12/inkscape-1-4-3-100-bug-fixes-improved-pdf/
Mon 07:45:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Google rediscovers RSS feeds… but it’s not the return of Surveillance Giant Google Reader ☞ https://hackwarenews.com/google-rediscovers-rss-feeds-but-its-not-the-return-of-google-reader/
Mon 07:46:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Google planning update that will allow users to change their embarrassing old email addresses ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/12/28/google-planning-update-will-allow-users-change-embarrassing-old-email-addresses/
Mon 07:46:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Gmail to Let Users Change Their Addresses While Keeping Data ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/technology/gmail-change-address-email.html
Mon 07:46:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Google Confidently Wrong, Nowadays Defaming People Too ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/28/Google_Confidently_Wrong_Nowadays_Defaming_People_Too.shtml
Mon 07:47:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Three of the best: Geoff Huston ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/12/29/three-of-the-best-geoff-huston-8/
Mon 07:47:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Extremely rare East German game console from the late 1970s tested — only such device produced by communist GDR, bought for $1,000 at auction ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/extremely-rare-east-german-games-console-from-the-late-70s-tested-this-was-the-only-such-device-produced-by-the-communist-gdr
Mon 07:50:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 110-pound cast-iron Victorian radiator modded into a gaming PC — massive radiator used for cooling the bottom-mounted PC components ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/liquid-cooling/110-pound-cast-iron-victorian-radiator-upcycled-into-a-gaming-pc-its-a-truly-rad-design
Mon 07:52:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ This Bizarre Parasitic 'Mushroom' Plant Quit Photosynthesis – And It's Thriving ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/this-bizarre-parasitic-mushroom-plant-quit-photosynthesis-and-its-thriving
Mon 07:52:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Photographing Cosmic Rays With A Consumer Camera ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/28/photographing-cosmic-rays-with-a-consumer-camera/ | Source: Hackaday
Mon 07:57:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Balasankar 'Balu' C: Granting Namespace-Specific Access in GKE Clusters ☞ https://balasankarc.in/tech/kubernetes-namespace-exec-access-for-external-users.html
Mon 07:58:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Year-end donations round, 2025 edition ☞ https://rg3.name/202512282037.html
Mon 07:59:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Rainbow Six Siege is under siege by hackers, Ubisoft forced to take all servers offline — players randomly received billions of credits, ultra-exclusive skins, and bans or unbans ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/rainbow-six-siege-is-under-siege-by-hackers-ubisoft-forced-to-take-all-servers-offline-players-randomly-received-billions-of-credits-ultra-exclusive-skins-and-bans-or-unbans
Mon 08:05:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Amiga A500 Mini user builds working scale-sized Commodore 1084 monitor with 3D printed components — 3D printer project details shared for all ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/amiga-a500-mini-user-builds-scale-sized-commodore-1084-monitor-to-rebalance-the-retro-universe-shares-their-3d-printer-project-details
Mon 08:07:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Lazy Reading for 2025/12/28 ☞ https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2025/12/28/lazy-reading-for-2025-12-28/
Mon 08:07:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Plausibly Postulated Prophecies | LINUX Unplugged 647 ☞ https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/linux-unplugged/647/
Mon 08:08:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Going Linux #474 · Bluetooth Devices ☞ https://goinglinux.com/episode-474-bluetooth-devices/index.html
Mon 08:08:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Retro ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/28/retro-semiconductors-the-silicon-controlled-rectifier/ | Source: Hackaday
Mon 08:09:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Holiday Hacking 2025 ☞ https://blog.broulik.de/2025/12/holiday-hacking-2025/
Mon 08:09:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 8 years of “This Week in Plasma” ☞ https://blogs.kde.org/2025/12/28/8-years-of-this-week-in-plasma/
Mon 08:12:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Co-Creator of Go Language is Rightly Furious Over This Appreciation Email ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/rob-pike-furious/
Mon 08:13:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Nexperia China seeks new wafer suppliers amid legal standoff with Dutch parent, could take 6 months for qualification — chip shortages have suspended some automotive production lines as Nexperia faces wafer shortage ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/nexperia-china-seeks-new-wafer-suppliers-amid-legal-standoff-with-dutch-parent
Mon 08:13:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ‘Vape valley’: Double standards in China’s powering of world’s e-cigarette boom ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/vape-valley-double-standards-in-chinas-powering-of-worlds-e-cigarette-boom
Mon 08:47:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Install WordPress in a Raspberry Pi: a Self-Hosted Blog Solution ☞ https://peppe8o.com/wordpress-raspberry-pi/
Mon 08:47:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Before the Raspberry Pi came out, one cheap and easy way to get GPIO on a computer with a real operating system was to manipulate the pins on an old parallel port, then most commonly used for printers." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/28/raspberry-pi-gets-desktop-form-factor/ | Source: Hackaday
Mon 08:47:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Top 10 Most Read Pieces from 2025 ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2025/12/top-10-most-read-pieces-from-2025
Mon 09:00:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Can You Reboot a Lamp Like a Superhero Franchise? ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/business/midcentury-design-furniture-lamps.html
Mon 09:02:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Hidden gem in the Straits of Johor: Seahorses found in Malaysia’s largest seagrass meadow ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/hidden-gem-of-straits-of-johor-seahorses-found-in-the-largest-seagrass-meadow-in-malaysia
Mon 09:06:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Cloudflare ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/28/cloudflares-outages-and-why-cool-kids-test-on-prod/ | Source: Hackaday
Mon 09:07:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Cheetah MX4 Mini: A Pint-Sized 3D Printer Controller ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/28/cheetah-mx4-mini-a-pint-sized-3d-printer-controller/ | Source: Hackaday
Mon 09:09:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Audiocasts/Shows: 2 New Episodes From LINUX Unplugged and Going Linux ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/Audiocasts_Shows_2_New_Episodes_From_LINUX_Unplugged_and_Going_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/Audiocasts_Shows_2_New_Episodes_From_LINUX_Unplugged_and_Going_.gmi ∎
Mon 09:11:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): KDE Funding, Development, and Hacking ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/KDE_Funding_Development_and_Hacking.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/KDE_Funding_Development_and_Hacking.gmi ∎
Mon 09:12:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and More ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/Open_Hardware_Modding_Raspberry_Pi_Arduino_and_More.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/Open_Hardware_Modding_Raspberry_Pi_Arduino_and_More.gmi ∎
Mon 09:14:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Articles on FSF / Software Freedom From/About RMS and J. Self ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/Articles_on_FSF_Software_Freedom_From_About_RMS_and_J_Self.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/Articles_on_FSF_Software_Freedom_From_About_RMS_and_J_Self.gmi ∎
Mon 09:17:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 Programming Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/Programming_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Mon 09:19:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Web, Static Site Generators, and BSDCan 2026 Call For Papers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/Web_Static_Site_Generators_and_BSDCan_2026_Call_For_Papers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/Web_Static_Site_Generators_and_BSDCan_2026_Call_For_Papers.gmi ∎
Mon 09:21:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today's 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/today_s_leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/today_s_leftovers.gmi ∎
Mon 09:24:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Links 29/12/2025: Putin Critic Sergei Udaltsov Imprisoned, Cloudflare’s Outages Discussed ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/Links_29_12_2025_Putin_Critic_Sergei_Udaltsov_Imprisoned_Cloudf.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/Links_29_12_2025_Putin_Critic_Sergei_Udaltsov_Imprisoned_Cloudf.gmi ∎
Mon 13:54:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A clean Linux install doesn’t come with many pre-configured apps, and that can leave new users wondering where to start—unsure of what they actually need for a smooth, functional system. To remove that guesswork, here are five essential Linux apps you should install on day one." https://www.howtogeek.com/install-these-5-must-have-apps-on-day-one/
Mon 13:55:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "GreenBang harkens back to the "good ol'" days of Linux, when the command line was necessary, and window managers were all the rage." https://thenewstack.io/crunchbang-linux-lives-on-with-greenbang/
Mon 13:55:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Are you new to Linux and resisting the terminal? Or perhaps you're a longtime passionate user like me? Regardless, learning the Linux terminal opens up an entirely different world on Linux, and I will explain why." https://www.howtogeek.com/reasons-learning-the-linux-terminal-is-worth-it-even-for-beginners/
Mon 13:56:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Linux Mint is famous for offering a familiar Windows-like desktop experience, but did you know it’s also one of the most customizable distros—with built-in tools to tweak its look and feel?" https://www.howtogeek.com/i-made-linux-mint-look-like-macos-with-these-tweaks/
Mon 13:57:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Do you want to try Linux but don’t want to relearn a new interface? Worried that an unfamiliar desktop might slow down your workflow? You’re not alone—and these five Windows-like desktop environments (DEs) are designed to help you feel right at home." https://www.howtogeek.com/best-windows-like-linux-desktops-for-a-familiar-look-and-feel/
Mon 13:58:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Pushing Rust/MS GitHub https://www.howtogeek.com/terminal-text-editors-that-are-better-than-nano/
Mon 13:58:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Lately, several of these setups are running Hyprland, the dynamic tiling Wayland Compositor that has taken the Linux world by storm." https://itsfoss.com/best-hyprland-dotfiles/
Mon 13:59:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A new version of Turntable, the universal music scrobbling tool and ‘now playing’ desktop widget for Linux is out with a couple of cool new features." https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/12/turntable-linux-desktop-media-controls
Mon 13:59:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ That's a crossover we never saw coming - Facebook borrows the Linux scheduler from the Steam Deck to help run its data centers https://www.techradar.com/pro/thats-a-crossover-we-never-saw-coming-facebook-borrows-the-linux-scheduler-from-the-steam-deck-to-help-run-its-data-centers
Mon 14:00:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Are you working in the Xfce desktop environment, or thinking of switching to an Xfce-powered Linux distribution like Linux Mint? I've spent the past several weeks using Xfce on my main desktop, and I ended up making a few changes you might want to consider too." https://www.howtogeek.com/i-finally-fixed-my-xfce-workflow-with-these-simple-settings-and-apps/
Mon 14:15:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Schleswig-Holstein will save €15 million in 2026 by dropping Microsoft software in favor of free Linux by Allan Tépper - ProVideo Coalition ⚓ https://www.provideocoalition.com/schleswig-holstein-will-save-e15-million-in-2026-by-dropping-microsoft-software-in-favor-of-free-linux/ ䷉ Source: provideocoalition
Mon 14:16:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Look at almost any mission-critical computer system in the world—servers, workstations, embedded computers, and many more—and you'll see Linux in some form" https://www.howtogeek.com/what-exactly-makes-linux-so-bulletproof/
Mon 14:24:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "As we step into 2026, I want to thank every one of you for being part of this small but meaningful corner of the internet. Whether you've been following my tinkering, experiments, tech adventures, or the occasional off-beat project, I'm grateful you're here." gemini://sava.rocks/blog/happy-new-year-2026/
Mon 14:25:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🔤SpellBinding — EGUIOTH Wordo: WINKS gemini://spell.ddns.net/games/gemlog/2025-12-29.gmi
Mon 14:26:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "So I quickly concluded that the right way to play Magic is that everyone builds their own deck like constructing a clever li’l machine and then we’d face them off." gemini://idiomdrottning.org/same-deck-magic
Mon 14:26:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It's no secret that, although my interest waxes and wanes over time, I love programming. It's a hobby that's kept me happily occupied since I started roughly 3.5 decades ago. I also enjoy other creative outlets. For example, I like writing - and do it professionally to some extent." gemini://thelambdalab.xyz/phlog/2025-12-29-Rebel.txt
Mon 14:28:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I was walking in the cold, carrying the backpack with our external backup drives, talking with my wife -- about backups, our websites, and how I didn't know how to keep things up after I died, that it would all crumble as soon as bills weren't paid, and that I didn't have any friends who had both the system administration skills and the interest in keeping my weird software collection up and running."
Mon 14:28:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "One year ago I wondered about creating an association for people who wanted their digital legacy to endure. In return for this posthumous service, they would help keep the digital legacy of others alive. A bit like the Internet Archive, but independent." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2025-12-29-dead-archivists
Mon 14:34:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Gemini Links 29/12/2025: Earlier "Happy New Year 2026" and "Dead Archivist Society" ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/Gemini_Links_29_12_2025_Earlier_Happy_New_Year_2026_and_Dead_Ar.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/Gemini_Links_29_12_2025_Earlier_Happy_New_Year_2026_and_Dead_Ar.gmi ∎
Mon 14:58:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Hardware: LoongArch, GNU/Linux Devices, and ESP ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/23/Hardware_LoongArch_GNU_Linux_Devices_and_ESP.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/23/Hardware_LoongArch_GNU_Linux_Devices_and_ESP.gmi ∎
Mon 15:00:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "IBM SHOULD NOT BE USING US RESOURCES THEN - we are literally getting sc--wed by our own tax dollars" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kdm0qny7
Mon 15:01:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Free and Open Source Software ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.1.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.1.gmi ∎
Mon 15:02:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "IMO, unless someone posts a threat, or confidential information, or something else illegal, threads and posts should not get deleted on a board such as this. It really makes you wonder who runs this board and why IBM seems to have a direct line to them to get anything unflattering deleted immediately." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kdkpvc96
Mon 15:04:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Lou Gerstner last year package was $238000000 at a rate of $50000/hour. It was an act of thievery." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kdkpvc96
Mon 15:21:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴: Google Android Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/Android_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/Android_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Mon 15:23:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): The 5 best macOS-like Linux desktop environments for a polished, modern look ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/The_5_best_macOS_like_Linux_desktop_environments_for_a_polished.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/The_5_best_macOS_like_Linux_desktop_environments_for_a_polished.gmi ∎
Mon 15:28:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – IBM Layoffs in India, More Coming Soon, Say Apparent Insiders ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/IBM_Layoffs_in_India_More_Coming_Soon_Say_Apparent_Insiders.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/IBM_Layoffs_in_India_More_Coming_Soon_Say_Apparent_Insiders.gmi ∎
Mon 15:37:35 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "Trolling correlates positively with sadism,[17][18][19][20] trait psychopathy,[17][18][19][20] and Machiavellianism[67] (see dark triad). Trolls take pleasure from causing pain and emotional suffering.[17][19][20] Their ability to upset or harm gives them a feeling of power." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolling#Psychological_characteristics
Mon 15:49:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – "EU's reform agenda threatens to erase a decade of digital rights" ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/EU_s_reform_agenda_threatens_to_erase_a_decade_of_digital_right.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/EU_s_reform_agenda_threatens_to_erase_a_decade_of_digital_right.gmi ∎
Mon 15:52:35 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ https://pleated-jeans.com/2025/09/03/relatable-work-memes-only-people-whove-worked-in-an-office-will-get/
Mon 16:42:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ canceled by Microsoft https://www.pcgamesn.com/doom/romero-games-canceled-hellslayer
Mon 16:43:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Headline today: "Xbox heads into 2026 on a wave of uncertainty" - see http://techrights.org/n/2025/12/25/Microsoft_XBox_is_Going_Online_Cloud.shtml
Mon 16:53:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): In Bosnia And Herzegovina, GNU/Linux Rose From 2% to Over 5% in a Few Years ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/In_Bosnia_And_Herzegovina_GNU_Linux_Rose_From_2_to_Over_5_in_a_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/In_Bosnia_And_Herzegovina_GNU_Linux_Rose_From_2_to_Over_5_in_a_.gmi ∎
Mon 16:59:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Revisionism: "Why so many negative comments?? He saved IBM. If it was not for him IBM Would have been extinct. His vision and turning the company around was a great success. Akers wanted to split IBM into different companies. Mr Gerstner is responsible for bringing it back to profitability. Heaven gained a true warrior in Mr Gerstner" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kdkpvc96
Mon 16:59:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I think it is because he ruthlessly fired thousands of people and cut their pensions etc. To save IBM he attacked and ended the careers of people who made IBM what it once was." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kdkpvc96
Mon 17:00:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "hope he rots in he-l for eternity for all the evil things he did to regular IBMers doing their jobs. Same thing should happen to Palmisano, Rometty, Alvind and the Pipmunks. You cannot escape the evil that you do to others."
Mon 17:00:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Wow that is harsh. Think of Lous family during this difficult time for them. Arvind, Ginny and the other executives should not get this anger towards them"
Mon 17:01:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Alvind the Indian wishes to replace all IBM US employees with Indians." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kdm0qny7
Mon 17:02:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "AI is not a people-replacer, it is a talent-augmenter. Companies that are cutting staff to replace with AI are getting short-term SG&A benefits, but shooting themselves in the foot long term. Rather they should be focusing on training the team members they have to increase skills in the higher level tasks that AI frees them up for by taking on lower level repetitive tasks."
Mon 17:03:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Alvind needs to justify his 100 million payout this year so of course there will be cuts"
Mon 17:03:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "In a recent interview, Alvind the Indian complained that fewer people leave IBM US leave voluntarily to make place for Indians hires. Alvind will most likely target more older US employees to make place for younger Indians. He should leave ...." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kdmwe55y
Mon 17:16:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – The Year Apple Would Rather Forget ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/The_Year_Apple_Would_Rather_Forget.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/The_Year_Apple_Would_Rather_Forget.gmi ∎
Mon 17:19:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Windows all-time low https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/liberia/#monthly-200902-202511
Mon 17:21:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Who needs Proxmox templates? I built my own base image instead https://www.xda-developers.com/who-needs-proxmox-templates-built-my-own-base-image-instead/
Mon 17:21:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ I automated my Proxmox home lab with Terraform https://www.xda-developers.com/i-automated-my-proxmox-home-lab-with-terraform/
Mon 17:22:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ After decades of using Windows, Linux's KDE Plasma is spoiling me rotten https://www.xda-developers.com/after-decades-of-windows-linux-kde-spoiling-me-rotten/
Mon 17:23:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Turn that dusty old laptop into a quiet, capable home server that can handle media, backups, and self-hosted apps with ease." https://www.xda-developers.com/old-laptops-make-better-home-servers-most-people-realize/
Mon 17:25:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Running Proxmox VMs with GPU passthrough is much easier than it used to be https://www.xda-developers.com/running-proxmox-vms-with-gpu-passthrough-is-much-easier/
Mon 17:25:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The Arch Linux website is down for everyone not on IPv6 after a DDoS attack https://www.xda-developers.com/arch-linux-website-down-not-on-ipv6-ddos-attack/
Mon 17:27:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Arch Linux Website Hit by DDoS and Temporarily Limited to IPv6 ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/26/Arch_Linux_Website_Hit_by_DDoS_and_Temporarily_Limited_to_IPv6.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/26/Arch_Linux_Website_Hit_by_DDoS_and_Temporarily_Limited_to_IPv6.gmi ∎
Mon 17:28:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Valnet's HowTos for Proxmox ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/Valnet_s_HowTos_for_Proxmox.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/Valnet_s_HowTos_for_Proxmox.gmi ∎
Mon 17:44:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Dealing With Online Pogroms ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/Dealing_With_Online_Pogroms.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/Dealing_With_Online_Pogroms.gmi ∎
Mon 17:52:00 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], Yeah, I thought that killing HexChat was a bizarre decision for the Linux kernel.
Mon 17:52:37 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ Something's wrong when you have a million browser tabs open and a few have taken all the memory, and Linux decides to kill a chat program that's using 11 megabytes.
Mon 17:54:11 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ It did remind me to set browser.tabs.unloadonlowmemory to True.
Mon 17:54:20 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ It's been True on WINDOWS since Firefox 93.
Mon 17:54:40 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ But still off by default on Linux, so it'll run you out of memory and cause Linux to panic even though the feature does work.
Mon 17:54:42 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ :P
Mon 17:54:57 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ It's like they're TRYING to get us to use another browser, isn't it?
Mon 17:55:23 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] seems like systmd
Mon 17:55:27 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] with its oom
Mon 17:55:36 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ There's a possibility that you might lose unsaved forms in a tab. Brave has a better memory saver than Firefox browsers.
Mon 17:55:52 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ In Brave, you can say "Never do it on these sites, but the rest are fair game."
Mon 17:56:12 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ That way if you get tab unloads it won't be your important sites. It'll go after YouTube or something.
Mon 17:57:29 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ I feel like if browsers are going to consume wads of memory, they need to unload unused tabs, but they need to let you whitelist, or have some sort of heuristics like "Okay, we go after known pigs first like YouTube. There's an unsaved form over here so we only do that one if the computer is about to crash."
Mon 17:58:01 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ Crashing a Youtube tab to save the system is unlikely to cause harm.
Mon 17:58:09 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ You just reload the tab if you want to watch the video later.
Mon 17:58:35 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ The browser should have a list of sites to never unload.
Mon 17:59:08 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ Like, they know people are probably using online office software for a reason. Then it should check for unsaved forms, those are off limits unless things get really bad.
Mon 17:59:29 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ Then there should be "Okay, what's actually causing the problem, and we go from worst to best."
Mon 17:59:55 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ The goal should be the least annoyance for the user and the worst offender for RAM use.
Mon 18:00:02 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ You put them together and kill that way.
Mon 18:00:17 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ That's supposedly what the OOM tries to do.
Mon 18:00:34 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ HexChat is not a good target because it doesn't really free up anything.
Mon 18:02:00 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ You free up 11 MB? That's not even a large enough amount to store something else really.
Mon 18:02:06 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ 11 MB was a lot of memory, in 1992.
Mon 18:03:04 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ By 1998 even my Windows 98 system had 128 MB of RAM, which was a lot by then. Especially since I gutted the OS and purged Internet Explorer and all and put in the Windows 95 B shell.
Mon 18:03:21 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ I think the entire OS used like 10-11 MB of RAM on startup after that.
Mon 18:03:32 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ It solved a lot of the instability problems.
Mon 18:03:56 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ I installed all the remaining hotfixes that mattered. I could do months of uptime under Windows 98 like that.
Mon 18:03:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): When People Use What They Want (in the US) Only 1 in 10 People Uses Vista 11 ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/When_People_Use_What_They_Want_in_the_US_Only_1_in_10_People_Us.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/29/When_People_Use_What_They_Want_in_the_US_Only_1_in_10_People_Us.gmi ∎
Mon 18:04:18 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ It was massively unstable out of the box, but the code that destabilized the OS was pretty much entirely from Internet Explorer.
Mon 18:04:33 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ Bill Gates claimed under oath that removing Internet Explorer would make the OS less stable.
Mon 18:04:55 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ With IE, you could expect to run out of resources or otherwise get a blue screen crash about every 3-7 days.
Mon 18:05:12 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ Without IE, I mean, I think I was getting 10-11 months sometimes and not seeing any crashes.
Mon 18:05:24 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ I couldn't get to a year because the time I was going for that, the power went out.
Mon 18:05:43 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] <Isambard_Prince> Bill Gates claimed under oath that removing Internet Explorer would make the OS less stable.
Mon 18:05:53 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ George Carlin said nothing happens in court when you lie, unless you get caught. And that's a whole different story.
Mon 18:05:54 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/30/Signing_Off_Serious_Lies_With_a_Statement_of_Truth_is_No_Joking.shtml
Mon 18:06:03 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ Well, when you're a billionaire they don't try to catch you.
Mon 18:06:03 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2025/11/22/brett-wilson-llp-lied-to-me/\
Mon 18:06:07 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2025/11/22/brett-wilson-llp-lied-to-me/#comments
Mon 18:06:38 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ I could easily prove that Bill Gates was lying.
Mon 18:06:51 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ They could have had a 14 year old kid from Indiana come in and prove that he was lying.
Mon 18:06:55 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ They didn't care if he lied.
Mon 18:06:59 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] <Isambard_Prince> George Carlin said nothing happens in court when you lie, unless you get caught. And that's a whole different story.
Mon 18:07:00 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] what if
Mon 18:07:02 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] a solicitor
Mon 18:07:04 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] lies
Mon 18:07:10 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and one who has a licence
Mon 18:07:21 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and provides a witness statement
Mon 18:07:33 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and all the witness statements were always only from him
Mon 18:07:38 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] nobody else would testify
Mon 18:09:01 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ Pretty much.
Mon 18:09:16 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ You didn't need to be a college professor to rebut Bill Gates.
Mon 18:09:35 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ There was a simple utility called RoM II or RoM II SE depending on the version of Windows 98 you had.
Mon 18:09:49 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ You ran it, you gave it three files from the OEM service release of Windows 95.
Mon 18:10:05 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ You reboot, and there's the computer with no remnants of IE, Outlook Express, any of that garbage.
Mon 18:10:25 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ It was clean, like Windows 95 only with some bug fixes and better driver support and memory management.
Mon 18:11:46 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ There's just not a large difference with Windows 95 and 98. Almost all of the differences were IE. If you only did the parts that actually were an improvement it would be a very small delta.
Mon 18:11:53 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ It's not very user-facing other than that.
Mon 18:12:58 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ You can use WDM drivers, it has USB support, the memory manager can run code out of the disk cache. Some minor bug fixes. It can run a newer version of DirectX runtimes. It comes with some media codecs you could have added to Windows 95.
Mon 18:13:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Vista 11 is "10" (Ten Percent) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/Vista_11_is_10_Ten_Percent.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/Vista_11_is_10_Ten_Percent.gmi ∎
Mon 18:13:32 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ Windows Me could also be stripped of "the crap" and set up like this.
Mon 18:13:43 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ If you do that, it purges System Restore too, which never worked right.
Mon 18:14:25 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ The improvements over Windows 98 were a better defrag tool, Notepad could handle more text in the buffer, better support for Unicode that could be added to Windows 98, and the TCP/IP stack from Windows 2000.
Mon 18:14:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ https://www.fsf.org now about 75k USD away from goal
Mon 18:14:46 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ So there were improvements along the way but they were massively outweighed by adding things that just didn't work right.
Mon 18:15:17 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ It's like when you buy a new car and there's 3 things that work better than the last model and 20 things that are horrible that the last one didn't have.
Mon 18:15:18 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ > If you only did the parts that actually were an improvement it would be a very small delta.
Mon 18:15:21 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ Overall, it's worse.
Mon 18:15:26 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ yeah, they don't like to improve things
Mon 18:15:33 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ it sounds like actual work
Mon 18:15:55 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ changing the skin and selling it as a major feature, on the other hand, now that sounds fun to them
Mon 18:16:05 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ MinceR, Windows Me had an interesting feature called System File Protection.
Mon 18:16:15 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ committing code into competing products to fuck them up, even more so
Mon 18:16:23 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ yeah, i remember that
Mon 18:16:32 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ It would check for programs doing dll stomping or replacing other system files, and it would let it happen, then do a switcheroo to replace them with the known good copy.
Mon 18:16:43 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ why implement filesystem access controls if you can instead implement a bloated hack that accomplishes nothing useful?
Mon 18:16:49 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ It did protect the OS, but it also made software that ran on Windows 95 and 98 fail to work.
Mon 18:17:14 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ Humorously, it did accidentally add some resilience to malware because some malware happened to replace system files and did not anticipate this.
Mon 18:34:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Slopfarms About the "Linux CEO" Linus Torvaldos [sic] ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/3_Slopfarms_About_the_Linux_CEO_Linus_Torvaldos_sic.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/3_Slopfarms_About_the_Linux_CEO_Linus_Torvaldos_sic.gmi ∎
Mon 18:36:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A bigger RA is coming in Q1" at IBM, said someone moments ago https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kdmwe55y
Mon 18:46:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Slopfarm: Firing 35,000 Employee is "Saving the Company" ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/Slopfarm_Firing_35_000_Employee_is_Saving_the_Company.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/29/Slopfarm_Firing_35_000_Employee_is_Saving_the_Company.gmi ∎
Mon 19:16:13 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ https://pleated-jeans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/funny-nostalgic-90s-memes3-768x940.jpg
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