Techrights Recent IRC Comments
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Tue 18:20:12 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it was less when i last paid
Tue 18:20:14 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ People who said it was about Medicare.
Tue 18:20:19 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Medicare doesn't call people.
Tue 18:20:19 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] maybe half a deccade back
Tue 18:20:38 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ 17 191757 < IsambardPrince> "I just wanted to be sure I could afford this heart attack I think I'm having!"
Tue 18:20:41 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The only time they call you is if they send a letter in the mail saying call them and you call it and it asks you to schedule a call back at a specific time.
Tue 18:20:45 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ if you have to ask, you can't afford it
Tue 18:21:05 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ If yyou didn't get any letters and schedule a specific call at an exact time, it's not Medicare.
Tue 18:21:06 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ if you have a heart attack in hungary, you'd better have a helicopter ready
Tue 18:21:28 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Even then, they'll call you back and tell you exactly what it is about, with the reference number from the letter.
Tue 18:21:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Proprietary https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/02/16/lockbit-5-0-ransomware-windows-linux-esxi/
Tue 18:21:44 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ it's fucking insane how 90% of the ads on TV here are for products you can only buy at a pharmacy and i STILL have to go hunt down the products i need
Tue 18:21:57 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They don't just say it's Medicare.
Tue 18:22:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The Mint project's latest post thanks a record-breaking 1,000 + donors, and talks about future plans – which may include a slower release schedule." https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/mints_success_and_stress/
Tue 18:22:10 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ hungarians can't fucking do anything right
Tue 18:22:14 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ this country is a fucking failure
Tue 18:22:32 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Fraud has gotten so bad in the US that it's an everyday thing now.
Tue 18:23:00 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ 20 years ago the prevailing fraud was maybe someone clones your credit card.
Tue 18:23:08 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But even then you weren't responsible for the charges.
Tue 18:23:23 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They'd issue you another credit card with different numbers and remove all the charges that weren't yours.
Tue 18:23:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Microsoft provocateur and his latest concern trolling https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-replace-windows-with-linux/
Tue 18:23:48 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Now they figure out a way to run fraud involving everything.
Tue 18:24:01 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Even things you'd never think were worth doing.
Tue 18:25:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ These 3 Linux software names make a lot more sense once you know the full story https://www.howtogeek.com/these-linux-software-names-make-a-lot-more-sense-once-you-know-the-full-story/
Tue 18:26:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ A Linux distro has dropped KDE Plasma after 12 years as it tries to escape Systemd https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-distro-dropped-kde-plasma-support-tries-to-escape-systemd/
Tue 18:26:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Egosoft have announced that X4: Foundations is finally getting cross-platform Steam Cloud saves, but desktop Linux users may need to make some backups." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/x4-foundations-is-getting-cross-platform-cloud-saves-possible-breakage-coming-for-linux/
Tue 18:27:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Linux Mint isn't the best Windows replacement anymore https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-mint-isnt-the-best-windows-replacement-anymore/
Tue 18:27:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Unreal Tournament 2004 is now free with a community patch over 20 years later, Linux and macOS support included https://www.pcguide.com/news/unreal-tournament-2004-is-now-free-with-a-community-patch-over-20-years-later-linux-and-macos-support-included/
Tue 18:28:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ If you dual-boot Linux, don't make these costly 4 mistakes https://www.makeuseof.com/if-you-dual-boot-linux-dont-make-these-costly-mistakes/
Tue 18:29:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ You can now download a Fedora Atomic OS for your Android device https://www.xda-developers.com/you-can-now-download-fedora-atomic-os-for-android/
Tue 18:30:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ This Bash script replaced 3 apps I use everyday https://www.howtogeek.com/this-bash-script-replaced-apps-i-use-everyday/
Tue 18:31:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Even with Linux being free, why does almost everyone still choose Windows? Here are 3 reasons that explain the dominance that began in the 80s and continues strong to this day. https://en.clickpetroleoegas.com.br/Even-with-Linux-being-free--why-does-almost-everyone-still-choose-Windows-Three-reasons-that-explain-its-dominance--which-began-in-the-80s-and-continues-strong-to-this-day.-flpc96/
Tue 18:33:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ I installed this Linux distro on my gaming PC, and it runs Windows games better than Windows https://www.makeuseof.com/using-nobara-on-desktop-pc-for-gaming/
Tue 18:33:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ I replaced three productivity apps with built-in Linux tools and didn’t miss them https://www.makeuseof.com/replaced-productivity-apps-with-built-in-linux-tools-didnt-miss-them/
Tue 18:34:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ I tried running Linux on an Apple silicon Mac and regretted it https://www.makeuseof.com/i-tried-running-linux-on-an-apple-silicon-mac-and-regretted-it/
Tue 18:34:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ On The Inside: This writer's daily driver is a Linux laptop https://www.howtogeek.com/on-the-inside-jordan/
Tue 18:35:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ I run terminal commands on my Linux PC from my Android home screen—here's how https://www.howtogeek.com/how-i-run-terminal-commands-on-my-linux-pc-from-my-android-home-screen/
Tue 18:38:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Security Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/17/Security_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/17/Security_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Tue 18:38:12 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], It was so nice of the police to take a picture of me.
Tue 18:38:31 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I got so much money in that settlement that I was able to use it to pay off the hospital for the surgery on my shoulder.
Tue 18:38:47 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I think I'll write them a sarcastic thank you letter and put it in the mail.
Tue 18:38:53 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] how is the arm?
Tue 18:38:54 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] 80%?
Tue 18:38:58 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] how do you meausre it?
Tue 18:39:02 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Nope, better.
Tue 18:39:27 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Yesterday at physical therapy, the therapist said that I had regained over 95% so far and that it will keep healing some more in the coming months.
Tue 18:39:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today's 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 HowTos ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/17/today_s_howtos.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/17/today_s_howtos.gmi ∎
Tue 18:40:00 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Some measurements are now slightly better than my left arm, which nothing happened to.
Tue 18:40:16 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I gained 2 degrees of external rotation vs. my left arm, for example.
Tue 18:40:23 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ and 2 degrees of flexion
Tue 18:41:16 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], That's the "good" thing about surgery, if there is anything good about it.
Tue 18:41:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Applications: 3 New Releases of Istio and a Look at NoteDiscovery ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/17/Applications_3_New_Releases_of_Istio_and_a_Look_at_NoteDiscover.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/17/Applications_3_New_Releases_of_Istio_and_a_Look_at_NoteDiscover.gmi ∎
Tue 18:41:36 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ While the surgeon is in there anyway, he can correct other problems that would not have been worth taking you to surgery about on their own.
Tue 18:42:02 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ He said that I had a little extra part of the bone in the humeral head on both shoulders that most people would not have there.
Tue 18:42:23 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So he went ahead and shaved that so that my shoulder would move around more freely.
Tue 18:43:01 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So my right arm has more range of motion in most ways than the left now.
Tue 18:43:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): EasyOS Development News From Barry Kauler ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/17/EasyOS_Development_News_From_Barry_Kauler.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/17/EasyOS_Development_News_From_Barry_Kauler.gmi ∎
Tue 18:43:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): PostgreSQL: pgdsat version 1.2 and postgres_dba 7.0 released ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/17/PostgreSQL_pgdsat_version_1_2_and_postgres_dba_7_0_released.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/17/PostgreSQL_pgdsat_version_1_2_and_postgres_dba_7_0_released.gmi ∎
Tue 18:43:04 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ If jsut slightly.
Tue 18:43:38 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], I also asked him why most people told me that the post-op was the worst pain imaginable and why mine wasn't.
Tue 18:44:01 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ He said that most surgeons wouldn't have used that nerve block, so the first week would have been terrible.
Tue 18:44:18 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And the government is pressuring them to not give their patients real pain medicine, or at least not enough.
Tue 18:44:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Games: Godot 4.6.1, Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Builds, and Unreal Tournament 2004 ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/17/Games_Godot_4_6_1_Steam_Games_with_Native_GNU_Linux_Builds_and_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/17/Games_Godot_4_6_1_Steam_Games_with_Native_GNU_Linux_Builds_and_.gmi ∎
Tue 18:44:59 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ He said it's because some patients abuse it, so they're saying nobody should have any.
Tue 18:45:15 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So they toss you out with maybe a bottle of celebrex and tell you to deal with it.
Tue 18:45:54 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I was on celebrex, tylenol, and oxycodone for about the first two weeks.
Tue 18:45:57 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I didn't feel much.
Tue 18:46:12 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] celebrex?
Tue 18:46:15 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] sounds like celeb
Tue 18:46:19 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] what does it do
Tue 18:46:20 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] ?
Tue 18:46:45 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Celecoxib is the generic name.
Tue 18:47:00 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It's a NSAID like ibuprofen, but more selective.
Tue 18:47:19 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Ibuprofen can eventually eat a hole into your stomach lining.
Tue 18:47:24 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Celebrex doesn't do that.
Tue 18:48:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Getting Accustomed to GNU/Linux, Microsoft's Ad Bot (Bought) Concern-Trolling "Linux", and Why Some People Stick With Windows ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/17/Getting_Accustomed_to_GNU_Linux_Microsoft_s_Ad_Bot_Bought_Conce.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/17/Getting_Accustomed_to_GNU_Linux_Microsoft_s_Ad_Bot_Bought_Conce.gmi ∎
Tue 18:48:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Latest From Red Hat's Site ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/17/Latest_From_Red_Hat_s_Site.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/17/Latest_From_Red_Hat_s_Site.gmi ∎
Tue 18:49:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 Programming Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/17/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/17/Programming_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Tue 18:51:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Standards ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/17/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_and_Standards.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/17/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_and_Standards.gmi ∎
Tue 18:53:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Audiocasts/Shows: Late Night Linux and Linux User Space ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/17/Audiocasts_Shows_Late_Night_Linux_and_Linux_User_Space.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/17/Audiocasts_Shows_Late_Night_Linux_and_Linux_User_Space.gmi ∎
Tue 18:54:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Kernel, Distributions and Operating Systems, Hardware for Tinkering ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/17/Kernel_Distributions_and_Operating_Systems_Hardware_for_Tinkeri.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/17/Kernel_Distributions_and_Operating_Systems_Hardware_for_Tinkeri.gmi ∎
Tue 18:59:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Links 17/02/2026: Machine Rage and Microsoft Kills XBox Social Clubs ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/17/Links_17_02_2026_Machine_Rage_and_Microsoft_Kills_XBox_Social_C.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/17/Links_17_02_2026_Machine_Rage_and_Microsoft_Kills_XBox_Social_C.gmi ∎
Tue 18:59:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I've just become aware that my changes to James Tomasinos "burrow" Gopher Hole manager have been merged! So everybody should update their version from the James' github repository: [...]" gopher://envs.net:70/1/~dan/phlog/20260217-my-changes-to-burrow-have-been-merged-by-tomasino/
Tue 19:00:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I've had a few emails from people that got banned from my sites over the weeks and months and years of the bots scraping the wikis. The wikis are valuable "content" -- text written by humans! -- so of course the AI companies want their bots to copy it and to train their products with it." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2026-02-17-bot-check
Tue 19:01:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I have been noticing, that the Gopher burrow named "Gopher Bay" has been offline, for quite some months now. Gopher Bay was my last place where I could see films and download other great stuff. It is dead, now." gemini://tilde.club/~keyboardan/gemlog/2026-02-17__Gopher_Bay_is_dead.gmi
Tue 19:02:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Scottish maker and silversmith Math Campbell has built a smartwatch with a difference: this one goes in your pocket, not on your wrist." gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202602/20260217-watch.gmi
Tue 19:03:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🖼️ xkcd: SNEWS #3208 gemini://8by3.net/~xkcd/3208.gmi
Tue 19:04:30 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ (cat) https://imgur.com/gallery/february-13-hgVUFHU
Tue 19:12:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Gemini Links 17/02/2026: 3D-Printed Stainless Steel Smartwatch and Gopher Bay Offline ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/17/Gemini_Links_17_02_2026_3D_Printed_Stainless_Steel_Smartwatch_a.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/17/Gemini_Links_17_02_2026_3D_Printed_Stainless_Steel_Smartwatch_a.gmi ∎
Tue 19:18:03 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], I got an Eddie Merlot's rebate on the AmEx.
Tue 19:18:13 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Apparently, there's a dress code. Swanky. :P
Tue 19:18:55 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I like how the first couple of paragraphs tell people not to come in wearing sandals, tank tops, and shirts with offensive imagery or words on them, and not to have an "offensive odor".
Tue 19:18:59 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ :)
Tue 19:19:11 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ You have to tell people this in a restaurant that costs about $100 a person, I guess.
Tue 19:19:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ shtml
Tue 19:20:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ At least £1m of clients’ cash missing after collapse of PM Law https://www.thetimes.com/business/companies-markets/article/at-least-1m-of-clients-cash-missing-after-collapse-of-pm-law-hx5sbrbtp https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/17/Solicitors_Regulation_Authority_SRA_Way_Too_Slow_to_Respond_to_.shtml
Tue 19:20:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ too late https://www.insidermedia.com/news/midlands/sra-confirms-fraud-investigation-in-relation-to-closure-of-group-of-law-firms
Tue 19:25:05 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] IsambardPrince: what other ways to offend?
Tue 19:25:10 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] can you just order water?
Tue 19:28:06 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Perrier or toilet flushing water?
Tue 19:28:07 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ :D
Tue 19:28:26 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Or are you talking about people so rich that they flush the toilet with Perrier?
Tue 19:28:28 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, ^
Tue 19:28:33 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ lol
Tue 19:28:56 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ "Water? You mean like from the toilet?"
Tue 19:29:11 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ maybe you meant Brawndo
Tue 19:29:19 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The thirst mutilator.
Tue 19:29:24 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It's got what plants crave.
Tue 19:29:26 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Electrolytes.
Tue 19:29:37 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :>
Tue 19:29:46 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ You are a bad mother, Hardee's is taking your children into custody!
Tue 19:29:47 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ :)
Tue 19:30:05 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ (Carl's Jr. is what they call Hardee's in the south. Up here it's Hardee's.)
Tue 19:36:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This release ships with a new “Plasma Login Manager” display manager that could replace existing login managers like SDDM." https://9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-6-6-desktop-environment-officially-released-this-is-whats-new
Tue 19:37:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Mesa 26.0 improves ray-tracing performance for AMD Radeon GPUs on Linux https://tech.sportskeeda.com/gaming-news/news-mesa-26-0-improves-ray-tracing-performance-amd-radeon-gpus-linux
Tue 19:39:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The Banana Pi BPI-R4 Pro router board is now available following its earlier preview. Built around the MediaTek MT7988A (Filogic 880) quad-core Arm Cortex-A73 processor at 1.8GHz, it targets Wi-Fi 7 access points and multi-gigabit gateway applications." https://linuxgizmos.com/bpi-r4-pro-router-board-delivers-mt7988a-soc-with-tri-band-wi-fi-7-capability/
Tue 19:39:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Mesa 26.0 Open-Source Graphics Stack Officially Released, Here’s What’s New ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/11/Mesa_26_0_Open_Source_Graphics_Stack_Officially_Released_Here_s.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/11/Mesa_26_0_Open_Source_Graphics_Stack_Officially_Released_Here_s.gmi ∎
Tue 19:46:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Still Some Slopfarms in View, Sometimes Targetting "Linux" ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/17/Still_Some_Slopfarms_in_View_Sometimes_Targetting_Linux.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/17/Still_Some_Slopfarms_in_View_Sometimes_Targetting_Linux.gmi ∎
Tue 19:58:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – IBM suffers "worst weekly drop in six years", Microsoft's MSN calls it "buying opportunity" ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/17/IBM_suffers_worst_weekly_drop_in_six_years_Microsoft_s_MSN_call.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/17/IBM_suffers_worst_weekly_drop_in_six_years_Microsoft_s_MSN_call.gmi ∎
Tue 20:02:26 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "
Tue 20:02:26 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] 15 hours ago:
Tue 20:02:26 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] <p class="center"><img src="/i/2026/02/ibm-bs.png" alt="IBM stock suffers worst weekly drop in six years – retail calls it ‘generational’ buying opportunity while analysts remain cautious" /></p>
Tue 20:02:26 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Right now:
Tue 20:02:26 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] <p class="center"><img src="/i/2026/02/ibm-down.2.png" alt="IBM Common Stock" /></p>
Tue 20:02:28 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] <p class="dropcap-first">Ask Cramer what to do. <a href="http://techrights.org/n/2026/02/03/You_Know_Your_Company_is_Dead_or_Basically_a_Pyramid_Scheme_Whe.shtml">Cramer always knows</a>. He has the connections. He has IBM (and Red Hat) guests whose name he cannot even pronounce. They pay him to "pump" their stock.
Tue 20:02:34 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Alternatively go to Microsoft's MSN. It says you might want to buy IBM shares. <a href="http://techrights.org/n/2026/02/12/IBM_Continues_Tanking_Today_Already_58_Lower_Than_Recent_High_I.shtml">IBM is tanking</a>, hence it's time to buy.
Tue 20:02:38 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] <a href="http://techrights.org/n/2026/02/11/With_an_IBM_Company_Down_Over_75_After_Apparent_Accounting_Frau.shtml">It's not like the share price is based on a fraud</a>, right? <a href="#top">█</a></p>
Tue 20:02:41 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "
Tue 20:02:43 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] oops
Tue 20:02:45 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "Now, let me add a brief perspective of my own. For reasons beyond the scope of this article, systemd has long been a divisive topic in the Linux community. Some strongly support it, while others reject it outright, to the point that an entire category of distributions has emerged around the idea of being systemd-free."
Tue 20:02:49 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://linuxiac.com/kde-responds-to-fud-over-alleged-systemd-mandate/
Tue 20:03:53 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] ""
Tue 20:06:01 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] That’s a misconception: systemd != RedHat.
Tue 20:06:02 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] systemd was initially developed by Lennart Poettering while working for RH yes, but also Kay Sievers who at the time worked for SUSE/Novell.
Tue 20:06:02 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Poettering doesn’t work for RH anymore, he was untill recently a Microsoft employee.
Tue 20:06:04 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Personally, I think the hatred for systemd stems more from Poettering who is a very controversial figure in the FOSSphere, than from actual technical qualities of the software.
Tue 20:06:07 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] And as you hint at the end: this is FOSS, there’s always a choice 🙂
Tue 20:06:09 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "
Tue 20:08:03 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ lol
Tue 20:08:19 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ "there's always a choice, but we do our damndest to take it away"
Tue 20:08:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ European Parliament bars lawmakers from using AI tools https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/17/european_parliament_bars_lawmakers_from/
Tue 20:08:35 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ also, it's not FOSS
Tue 20:08:41 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it's just init system
Tue 20:08:45 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it's just a loigin managggger
Tue 20:08:49 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it's just an extensionb
Tue 20:08:52 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it's better anyway
Tue 20:08:55 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] sttoip hating,,,,, loser!
Tue 20:09:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Russian bomb injures journalist https://cpj.org/2026/02/russian-bomb-injures-journalist-in-eastern-ukraine/
Tue 20:10:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Telegram CEO vows to fight for app amid Russia pressure https://www.dw.com/en/telegram-ceo-vows-to-fight-for-app-amid-russia-pressure/a-75903663
Tue 20:11:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ CPJ welcomes Oscar nomination for documentary about US journalist killed in Russia-Ukraine war https://cpj.org/2026/02/cpj-welcomes-oscar-nomination-for-documentary-about-us-journalist-killed-in-russia-ukraine-war/
Tue 20:16:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Russia Fully Blocks WhatsApp, Talks up State-Backed Alternative https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2026-02-11/russia-blocks-metas-whatsapp-messaging-service-ft-reports
Tue 20:16:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ WhatsApp Says Russia Has Tried to Fully Block the Messaging App https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2026-02-12/whatsapp-says-russia-has-tried-to-fully-block-the-messaging-app
Tue 20:16:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Russia moves to block WhatsApp as Moscow pushes state-backed rival https://www.dw.com/en/russia-moves-to-block-whatsapp-as-moscow-pushes-state-backed-rival/a-75922756
Tue 20:17:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Russia blocks WhatsApp https://cphpost.dk/2026-02-12/news/round-up/russia-blocks-whatsapp/
Tue 20:18:44 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] MinceR: https://www.dw.com/en/orban-says-eu-bigger-threat-to-hungary-than-russia/a-75974022
Tue 20:18:55 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] he said it when hungary is not in USSR
Tue 20:18:59 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but IS in EU
Tue 20:19:06 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] hungary, go home, you are drunk
Tue 20:19:15 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ might as well be in USSR at this point
Tue 20:19:24 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ also, it's still possible to leave
Tue 20:20:04 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] where to?
Tue 20:20:21 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ to being a non-member of EU
Tue 20:21:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ TikTok does ISIS https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2026-02-10/dutch-arrest-15-suspected-of-spreading-islamic-state-propaganda-on-tiktok
Tue 20:22:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ why are they even in NL? https://www.dw.com/en/dutch-police-arrest-15-over-islamic-state-tiktok-posts/a-75900127
Tue 20:23:09 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] when budapest becomes another grozny
Tue 20:26:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Carbon Dating https://xkcd.com/3205/
Tue 20:27:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Installation https://xkcd.com/3206/
Tue 20:27:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Bad Map Projection: Zero Declination https://xkcd.com/3207/
Tue 20:34:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Did social control media really fall below 1% there? https://gs.statcounter.com/search-vs-social-vs-ai-chatbot-market-share/all/singapore/#monthly-200902-202602
Tue 20:36:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ MS slop down by a lot https://gs.statcounter.com/ai-chatbot-market-share/all/singapore/#monthly-200902-202602
Tue 20:50:21 │ 〖lxo〗 │ https://sightlessscribbles.com/the-colonization-of-confidence/ introduces the notion of "Blended [word] Salad" as LLM output. (it's great and pleasant writing, too) BS generator takes on a new meaning!
Tue 20:51:29 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] we call it word(s) salad
Tue 20:56:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Red Hat Is Not a Company Anymore, Amid Bluewashing and Mass Layoffs It's Merely IBM "Division" or "Brand" or "Product" ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/17/Red_Hat_Is_Not_a_Company_Anymore_Amid_Bluewashing_and_Mass_Layo.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/17/Red_Hat_Is_Not_a_Company_Anymore_Amid_Bluewashing_and_Mass_Layo.gmi ∎
Tue 20:57:44 │ 〖lxo〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], I know! but blending a salad turns it into sludge. it's perfect!
Tue 21:03:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Microsoft Had Mass Layoffs Every Month Last Year, This Year It's Delaying a Lot to "Prove" Rumours That Crashed Its Stock... 'Wrong' ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/17/Microsoft_Had_Mass_Layoffs_Every_Month_Last_Year_This_Year_It_s.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/17/Microsoft_Had_Mass_Layoffs_Every_Month_Last_Year_This_Year_It_s.gmi ∎
Tue 21:03:21 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i think in heard this term in uni
Tue 21:03:45 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] gobbledegook
Tue 21:03:48 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] or words slaad
Tue 21:03:52 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] yes, you can write many boosk
Tue 21:04:00 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] or make llms spew out grammaticallyt correct text
Tue 21:04:05 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] BUT WHO WOULD READ THESE?
Tue 21:04:08 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] What is the POINT?
Tue 21:06:18 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ what is your favorite dressing to put on word salad?
Tue 21:11:01 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-effects-workers-psychological
Tue 21:21:31 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] brainwash by bribed media
Tue 21:21:35 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] brubed by slop pushers
Tue 21:21:42 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and conflating robotics with "AI"
Tue 21:35:35 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/fsd-lake
Tue 21:47:20 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I was mainly calling the hospital to see what bills I have left outstanding.
Tue 21:47:40 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I want to get as many things paid as I can that nobody is going to beat me up for in a divorce proceeding.
Tue 21:51:43 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It's already going to be absolutely horrible, and it was so avoidable if he only had a brain.
Tue 21:52:02 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ He thinks he'll have freedom without me. What he'll have is a bankruptcy if he finances a car.
Tue 21:52:26 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ When you finance a car, they do a lot of dumb shit to make the payments work out to the budget you have when you buy the car.
Tue 21:52:50 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But that doesn't account for the duration risk of having a loan that goes on for 7-8 years, or all the interest you'll pay.
Tue 21:53:12 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They just want to get some bank to approve the loan. They do not care if you go bankrupt. They don't care if the car is repossessed.
Tue 21:53:16 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But you will.
Tue 21:53:39 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Because then you'll have to get by with bad credit, which makes it almost as hard to find a place to live as being on a sex offender list.
Tue 21:53:49 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Because the worst thing you can do in this country is not pay your bills.
Tue 21:54:24 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I've seen Mark rent to people with domestic battery convictions, I've seen him rent to sex offenders.
Tue 21:54:41 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ He doesn't rent to people who don't pay him, you don't pay him you have until the police come get you out.
Tue 21:55:24 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The police are not there to help you if your adjusted gross income is low.
Tue 21:55:37 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They're there to protect the people who exploit you and crush you to death.
Tue 21:55:42 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ With loans and high rents and stuff.
Tue 22:10:56 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ https://i.imgur.com/q9kDvRJ.jpeg
Tue 23:25:36 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, I like to do the Liam Neeson voice sometimes.
Tue 23:25:51 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "Pardon me, I was told that Trix are exclusively for children. Is that enforced by law?"
Tue 23:25:57 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :)
Tue 23:26:04 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "So what you're telling me is that if I buy this, nobody will follow me home?"
Tue 23:26:15 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ no, it's enforced by aircraft
Tue 23:26:15 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "Thank you. I wpoon't forget what you've done for me today."
Tue 23:26:48 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ https://imgur.com/screen-shot-2016-08-22-09-16-53-w3e1VDV
Tue 23:49:19 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, I love how politicians frame a tax hike.
Tue 23:49:27 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "We'll ask them to pay a little more."
Tue 23:49:53 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I don't recall anyone asking if I wanted to file taxes and pay the IRS for things that I don't benefit from.
Tue 23:49:53 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ "what if they say no?"
Tue 23:50:03 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ That's why we have prisons. Duh.
Tue 23:50:08 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :>
Tue 23:50:10 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ You ask, and if they say no, prison.
Tue 23:50:32 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ statists love this
Tue 23:50:47 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Who the statists are seems to change depending on how the election went.
Tue 23:50:59 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ All the positions have changed now that Trump is in office.
Tue 23:51:20 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The Democrats are now the ones calling for state's rights and a limit to federal power, and they are buying guns.
Tue 23:51:45 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ it's a pity that most devil apes never learn
Tue 23:53:12 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, The Democrats are usually the ones that want to maximize federal power and ban guns.
Tue 23:53:22 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They also want huge tax increases.
Tue 23:53:28 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Well, now they got their huge tax increases.
Tue 23:53:29 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ i know
Tue 23:53:32 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They're called Tariffs.
Tue 23:53:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And they're funding ICE.
Tue 23:53:47 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ the "democrats"
Tue 23:54:21 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They're also the ones that now want to shut down the federal government indefinitely.
Tue 23:54:28 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Just to embarrass the president.
Tue 23:54:38 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Which they said was irresponsible when the Republicans did it.
Tue 23:55:02 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Most of the federal government is open.
Tue 23:55:18 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They've managed to defund DHS, after allowing a bill that gave $75 billion to ICE and CBP.
Tue 23:55:26 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So they're still getting paid and everyone is going to work there.
Tue 23:55:45 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It's just shut down FEMA, the air traffic controller, the FAA, and a bunch of other stuff that has nothing to do with ICE.
Tue 23:55:58 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The TSA is shut down.
Tue 23:56:01 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ None of them get paid.
Tue 23:56:05 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They're not Immigration.
Tue 23:56:20 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ USCIS is fee funded. They're raising fees and letting ICE borrow USCIS officers.
Tue 23:56:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The Democrats have shut down pretty much everything in DHS except ICE.
Tue 23:56:41 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ lol
Tue 23:57:41 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They might make it hard to get on a plane to go to Disney World with the credit card for the third time this year the next time my broke cousins with three bankruptcies each go to do it again.
Tue 23:57:46 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But they haven't shut down ICE.
Tue 23:58:27 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, Today, Mandy, who wants a divorce, asked me to cosign for him to get a car loan.
Tue 23:58:39 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I said "Motherfucker have you lost your goddamned mind!?"
Tue 23:59:15 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ He may get a car loan, but when I move out and take my income with me, he'll end up living in it.
Tue 23:59:22 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ He asked how high the bills were.
Tue 23:59:31 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ they say "taxation isn't robbery. there's nothing violent about taxation. if you don't pay, the state will simply lock you up and have you beaten."
Tue 23:59:41 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I said "So high that when I'm gone and it's just you, you'll get rent and an electric bill, and you'll have no money left."
Tue 23:59:53 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "Then you won't eat and they'll want that car back."
Wed 00:00:23 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, They're very good at repossessing cars.
Wed 00:00:28 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They always find them eventually.
Wed 00:00:48 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And even if you manage to hide it and put it somewhere they can't get, they will change from pursuing the repo, to what's called Replevin.
Wed 00:01:07 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ That's where they go back to court and the judge orders you to give them the car, now, and if you don't you'll go to jail.
Wed 00:01:37 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ My grandfather was out digging ditches for work back in the 50s before he got on at General Motors.
Wed 00:01:43 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ He looked up and his car was gone.
Wed 00:01:51 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They hopped in and drove off with it.
Wed 00:02:06 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ That was a long time before cars were connected to satellites and the cell phone network.
Wed 00:02:19 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Now when you drive the car places, it just logs everywhere you go with it.
Wed 00:02:34 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ When they start the repo, they know everywhere the car usually is, already.
Wed 00:06:39 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ take 1 Replevin after every major meal
Wed 00:15:55 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ (video) (audio:music) https://imgur.com/gallery/no-comment-iIwn0z3
Wed 00:17:10 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ When you're out there driving around in a $40,000-50,000 car you're not paying for, they take it back quickly.
Wed 00:17:29 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But that doesn't even help you because they're not going to get a good price on it at an auction.
Wed 00:17:40 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And they will take the price they got and subtract the costs for repossessing it.
Wed 00:17:53 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So the longer you hide it from them, the more that gets subtracted.
Wed 00:18:20 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Then you owe them the difference between the remaining loan, and what they got for the car minus the repossession fees and storage and getting it ready to sell.
Wed 00:18:30 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They're very good at making the entire amount they got for the car disappear.
Wed 00:18:36 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Then you pay them for a car and get no car.
Wed 00:29:16 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, I told Mandy he has two options.
Wed 00:29:47 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Settle with me and we'll just keep what's ours or if he wants to go fight me, I'll ask for everything of his that I think I can get and we'll just go for broke and he'll be wiped out.
Wed 00:30:07 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I'm not going to play games with him.
Wed 00:30:56 │ 〖lxo〗 │ me, I prefer the name Ars Sloppica
Wed 00:31:49 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ arse
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Wed 02:49:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🅸🆁🅲 techbytes irc ■ Yesterday's #techbytes IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-170226.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-170226.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techbytes-170226.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techbytes-170226.txt
Wed 02:49:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ✩░▒▓▆▅▃▂▁𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍▁▂▃▅▆▓▒░✩ Yesterday's 𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 bulletin is now ready! 🅷🆃🆃🅿: http://techrights.org/txt-archives/techrights-2026-02-17.txt | 🅶🅴🅼🅸🅽🅸 gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/techrights-2026-02-17.txt (tentative address, to work an hour from now)
Wed 02:50:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ✩░▒▓▆▅▃▂▁Tux Machines 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍▁▂▃▅▆▓▒░✩ Yesterday's Tux Machines bulletin is now ready! 🅷🆃🆃🅿: http://news.tuxmachines.org/txt-archives/tuxmachines-2026-02-17.txt
Wed 02:56:21 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], I did not know that Berkshire Hathaway owned a significant amount of American Express.
Wed 02:56:28 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/17/berkshire-hathaway-trims-apple-stake-buys-nytimes-stock-in-buffetts-last-moves-as-ceo.html
Wed 02:56:48 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ There's also this.
Wed 02:56:48 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/17/amazon-stock-losing-streak.html
Wed 02:57:00 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ $450 billion in "value" gone in 9 days.
Wed 02:57:07 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Because that's how "value" works.
Wed 02:57:19 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "Investors went on a selling spree after Amazon said it expects to spend $200 billion this year on artificial intelligence initiatives."
Wed 02:57:33 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ This is becoming a liability.
Wed 02:57:47 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They're announcing spend and it's getting to where it's trying people's patience.
Wed 03:17:25 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/02/most-vmware-users-still-actively-reducing-their-vmware-footprint-survey-finds/
Wed 03:19:04 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ understandable
Wed 03:21:31 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/02/what-happens-to-a-car-when-the-company-behind-its-software-goes-under/
Wed 03:22:17 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.discovermagazine.com/5-000-year-old-bacteria-strain-found-in-ice-cave-resistant-to-10-common-antibiotics-48698
Wed 03:22:34 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ i didn't know ice caves could be resistant to antibiotics
Wed 03:28:28 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, I got actual data on the volume of hard pulls on the US credit bureaus.
Wed 03:28:50 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Last year, TransUnion got 1.2 billion hard pull requests, Experian got a billion, and Equifax only got 900,000.
Wed 03:29:05 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Must be why MyFICO just gives you Equifax for free.
Wed 03:29:43 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ In my experience, only Capital One has ever pulled my Equifax.
Wed 03:29:59 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Some others have soft pulled it for various reasons.
Wed 03:30:13 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ American Express does not use Equifax at all.
Wed 03:34:40 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/02/17/ronit-ghose-citi-institute-quantum-risk-financial-services/
Wed 03:55:05 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ what could possibly go wrong!! https://www.linuxtoday.com/news/apple-face-id-smart-doorbell-home-security-rumor/
Wed 03:59:57 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ already 404
Wed 04:01:28 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, The Amazing iPhone.
Wed 04:01:32 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ but i guess we're going to find out what could possibly go wrong
Wed 04:01:34 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ With the security chip.
Wed 04:01:38 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ lol
Wed 04:01:42 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The one that says literally every Asian person is the same person.
Wed 04:09:41 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ app-holes.... https://www.theverge.com/tech/880293/apple-ai-hardware-smart-glasses-pin-airpods
Wed 04:11:13 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ uh oh! https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/02/17/1836238/britain-lost-14000-pubs-a-quarter-in-13-years
Wed 04:18:50 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ aint that some sh!t..... https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/japanese-toilet-maker-the-most-undervalued-and-overlooked-ai-memory-beneficiary-investors-claim-shares-up-nearly-40-percent-in-first-two-months-of-2026
Wed 04:23:10 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/02/16/2246259
Wed 04:23:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "IBM is synonymous with layoff" www.thelayoff.com/t/1khcfn7v1
Wed 04:24:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Layoff Severance negotiation - Has anybody been involved with IBM for severance negotiation during layoff in the united states through an attorney . What is the outcome when the attorney is not successful in getting a bigger package . Does IBM still pay the 3 month severance even if you tried to negotiate through an attorney ?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khpvk7zz
Wed 04:25:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Amazon Scraps Partnership With Surveillance Company After Super Bowl Ad Backlash https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2026-02-13/amazon-scraps-partnership-with-surveillance-company-after-super-bowl-ad-backlash
Wed 04:26:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The Surveillance State Just Bought a Super Bowl Ad https://scheerpost.com/2026/02/13/amazons-ring-and-googles-nest-unwittingly-reveal-the-severity-of-the-u-s-surveillance-state/
Wed 04:26:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Protesters Demand Amazon Cut Ties With ICE and Palantir https://truthout.org/articles/protesters-demand-amazon-cut-ties-with-ice-and-palantir/
Wed 04:27:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The Amazon Imperative: Unions Must Join Forces https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-amazon-imperative-unions-must-join-forces/
Wed 04:32:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, February 17, 2026 ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/18/IRC_Proceedings_Tuesday_February_17_2026.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/18/IRC_Proceedings_Tuesday_February_17_2026.gmi ∎
Wed 04:32:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today in Techrights ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Today_in_Techrights.gmi ∎
Wed 04:33:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Over at Tux Machines... ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/18/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/18/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi ∎
Wed 04:43:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Does the cold really ‘seep into your bones’? https://theconversation.com/does-the-cold-really-seep-into-your-bones-275870
Wed 04:44:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Sharding a Database - presentation at the German Perl Workshop 2026 https://blogs.perl.org/users/max_maischein/2026/02/sharding-a-database---presentation-at-the-german-perl-workshop-2026.html
Wed 04:45:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ANN: CPAN::MetaCurator V 1.08, Perl.Wiki V 1.40 etc https://blogs.perl.org/users/ron_savage/2026/02/ann-cpanmetacurator-v-108-perlwiki-v-140-etc.html
Wed 04:49:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Recursive Resolver Upgrade ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Recursive_Resolver_Upgrade.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Recursive_Resolver_Upgrade.gmi ∎
Wed 04:52:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (07/2026): Foundations and Forward Motion https://linmob.net/weekly-update-07-2026/
Wed 04:54:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Slashdot got very badly confused. Linked to 2 pages from 4 years ago, called it "news" or "new" https://linux.slashdot.org/story/26/02/15/0249259/oldest-active-linux-distro-slackware-finally-releases-version-150
Wed 05:01:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Paris Court of Appeal clarifies platforms’ obligations under Article 15 DSM Directive in twin decisions against X http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/02/guest-post-paris-court-of-appeal.html
Wed 05:01:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ creative fairness http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/02/rethinking-creative-fairness-under-uks.html
Wed 05:02:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The economy's secret lifeline? Nature https://www.dw.com/en/the-economy-s-secret-lifeline-nature/a-75873269
Wed 05:04:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Wrong approach https://www.dw.com/en/nigerian-lawmakers-approve-real-time-online-election-results/a-75901046
Wed 05:22:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – The Register MS Paid-for 'Articles' (Ads) Seem to be LLM Slop Again ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/18/The_Register_MS_Paid_for_Articles_Ads_Seem_to_be_LLM_Slop_Again.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/18/The_Register_MS_Paid_for_Articles_Ads_Seem_to_be_LLM_Slop_Again.gmi ∎
Wed 05:35:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Linux Foundation Puts Slop Images, Not Just Slop Text, in Linux.com ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/18/Linux_Foundation_Puts_Slop_Images_Not_Just_Slop_Text_in_Linux_c.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/18/Linux_Foundation_Puts_Slop_Images_Not_Just_Slop_Text_in_Linux_c.gmi ∎
Wed 05:47:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – "Senior AI Reporter" at Slop Technica/Ars Sloppica Has Written Nothing in Nearly a Week, Did Conde Nast Suspend Him for Fake Articles With Fake Quotes? ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/18/Senior_AI_Reporter_at_Slop_Technica_Ars_Sloppica_Has_Written_No.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/18/Senior_AI_Reporter_at_Slop_Technica_Ars_Sloppica_Has_Written_No.gmi ∎
Wed 05:47:52 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] lxo: sloppica :()
Wed 05:47:57 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] for you..
Wed 05:49:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Pluralistic: The online community trilemma" https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/16/fast-good-cheap/#getting-up
Wed 05:50:02 │ 〖lxo〗 │ :-)
Wed 06:02:15 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], I asked mom if she'd ever been to Eddie Merlot's.
Wed 06:02:23 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I was thinking of going there. Huge rebate on the AmEx.
Wed 06:02:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – France Does Not Need Digital Weapons Disguised as Social and as Media ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/18/France_Does_Not_Need_Digital_Weapons_Disguised_as_Social_and_as.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/18/France_Does_Not_Need_Digital_Weapons_Disguised_as_Social_and_as.gmi ∎
Wed 06:02:50 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ She said some drug company representatives took the entire team of doctors and nurses at the nursing home she worked at to eat there.
Wed 06:02:59 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So they could pitch new drugs for old people.
Wed 06:03:26 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I said "Well it's nice that they're using all that money I pay them to research innovative new medicines, and totally not to commit bribery."
Wed 06:03:49 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Each person will easily spend nearly $100 there.
Wed 06:04:09 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ If they took 12 people there, they just spent more than $1200 on a business dinner.
Wed 06:05:00 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ A lot of prescription drugs are priced by volume being sold.
Wed 06:05:20 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ CVS will convert two 90 day fills to a single 180 if you want if you're paying cash.
Wed 06:05:42 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ If you're using a drug discount it can be a lot cheaper over the span of six months to just fill the entire thing at once at the 180 day contractual price.
Wed 06:14:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – "How Many Friends Do You Have? ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/18/How_Many_Friends_Do_You_Have.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/18/How_Many_Friends_Do_You_Have.gmi ∎
Wed 06:18:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "OK, that claim needs some backup, doesn't it? You can't jump that high on Earth. Big rockets are needed to get into space here. The moon isn't as big, so you could jump higher but you'd still come back down. We need to go somewhere smaller." gemini://freeshell.de/gemlog/2026-02-17_Astronomical_fact_of_the_day.gmi
Wed 06:18:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2026-02-18.gmi
Wed 06:21:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1564.jpg
Wed 06:21:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1920.jpg
Wed 06:22:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I have been a fan of Texinfo for quite some time. The option to link pages, read info pages in the terminal, and the immutability of the pages, including the ones you have written yourself for your self, makes this a great information and knowledge system." gopher://box.matto.nl/0/use-texinfo-to-create-gorgeous-pdf-files.txt
Wed 06:22:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ worm second day gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/wormSecond
Wed 06:30:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Helen and Andy review recent episodes and plans for 2026 (with potty-mouth warning). Side effects and backlash to Online Safety Act. Tech collapsing at scale. Funding and sposorship for show." https://cybershow.uk/episodes.php?id=59
Wed 06:47:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Are IBM CEO and IBM CFO Ready for Financial Audit That Topples the Shares by 50% in One Day? ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/18/Are_IBM_CEO_and_IBM_CFO_Ready_for_Financial_Audit_That_Topples_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/18/Are_IBM_CEO_and_IBM_CFO_Ready_for_Financial_Audit_That_Topples_.gmi ∎
Wed 06:54:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Gemini Links 18/02/2026: Astronomy and Texinfo ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/18/Gemini_Links_18_02_2026_Astronomy_and_Texinfo.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/18/Gemini_Links_18_02_2026_Astronomy_and_Texinfo.gmi ∎
Wed 07:04:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Mrhbaan Syria! Fedora now available in Syria ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Mrhbaan_Syria_Fedora_now_available_in_Syria.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Mrhbaan_Syria_Fedora_now_available_in_Syria.gmi ∎
Wed 07:09:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Mozilla Firefox Died in Afghanistan ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/18/Mozilla_Firefox_Died_in_Afghanistan.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/18/Mozilla_Firefox_Died_in_Afghanistan.gmi ∎
Wed 07:21:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): KDE 6_26.02 for Slackware-current ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/KDE_6_26_02_for_Slackware_current.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/KDE_6_26_02_for_Slackware_current.gmi ∎
Wed 07:25:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – The Techrights Team Makes the Platform Faster ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/18/The_Techrights_Team_Makes_the_Platform_Faster.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/18/The_Techrights_Team_Makes_the_Platform_Faster.gmi ∎
Wed 07:30:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 8 Years Later, Linux-based AsteroidOS 2.0 is Here to Add New Life to Your Old Smartwatch ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/8_Years_Later_Linux_based_AsteroidOS_2_0_is_Here_to_Add_New_Lif.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/8_Years_Later_Linux_based_AsteroidOS_2_0_is_Here_to_Add_New_Lif.gmi ∎
Wed 07:31:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Someone Just Made an Immutable Gentoo-Based Distro Tailored for Gaming ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Someone_Just_Made_an_Immutable_Gentoo_Based_Distro_Tailored_for.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Someone_Just_Made_an_Immutable_Gentoo_Based_Distro_Tailored_for.gmi ∎
Wed 07:40:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Microsoft lying to and INSULTING people. Good strategy? https://www.moneycontrol.com/europe/?url=https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/information-technology/ai-summit-microsoft-india-continues-to-hire-for-demand-driven-skills-says-puneet-chandok-13833291.html https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-effects-workers-psychological
Wed 07:43:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Free and Open Source Software ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi ∎
Wed 07:45:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Why is Debian Called the Universal Operating System, Again? ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Why_is_Debian_Called_the_Universal_Operating_System_Again.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Why_is_Debian_Called_the_Universal_Operating_System_Again.gmi ∎
Wed 07:46:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Maintaining what we love all year long ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Maintaining_what_we_love_all_year_long.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Maintaining_what_we_love_all_year_long.gmi ∎
Wed 07:50:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Why We Still Won't Link to Linuxiac (Anymore) ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Why_We_Still_Won_t_Link_to_Linuxiac_Anymore.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Why_We_Still_Won_t_Link_to_Linuxiac_Anymore.gmi ∎
Wed 07:55:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): These are the only Linux distros I recommend for developers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/These_are_the_only_Linux_distros_I_recommend_for_developers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/These_are_the_only_Linux_distros_I_recommend_for_developers.gmi ∎
Wed 07:56:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): I just set up a new Linux desktop, here are the first 5 things I did ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/I_just_set_up_a_new_Linux_desktop_here_are_the_first_5_things_I.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/I_just_set_up_a_new_Linux_desktop_here_are_the_first_5_things_I.gmi ∎
Wed 08:00:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 5 atomic Linux distros I trust for stress-free OS updates - and why ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/5_atomic_Linux_distros_I_trust_for_stress_free_OS_updates_and_w.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/5_atomic_Linux_distros_I_trust_for_stress_free_OS_updates_and_w.gmi ∎
Wed 08:03:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): These 5 underrated Linux desktop environments need more attention ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/These_5_underrated_Linux_desktop_environments_need_more_attenti.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/These_5_underrated_Linux_desktop_environments_need_more_attenti.gmi ∎
Wed 08:08:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): The 14th Anniversary of Our Foundation ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/The_14th_Anniversary_of_Our_Foundation.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/The_14th_Anniversary_of_Our_Foundation.gmi ∎
Wed 08:12:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Responds to Crises Only After It's Way Too Late ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/18/Solicitors_Regulation_Authority_SRA_Responds_to_Crises_Only_Aft.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/18/Solicitors_Regulation_Authority_SRA_Responds_to_Crises_Only_Aft.gmi ∎
Wed 08:23:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴: Google Android Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Android_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Android_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Wed 08:36:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): A Unique 22nd Anniversary for Tux Machines, Motif Will be Green ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/A_Unique_22nd_Anniversary_for_Tux_Machines_Motif_Will_be_Green.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/A_Unique_22nd_Anniversary_for_Tux_Machines_Motif_Will_be_Green.gmi ∎
Wed 08:50:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) on Firms That Have Nothing Left Except a Legal Licence ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Solicitors_Regulation_Authority_SRA_on_Firms_That_Have_Nothing_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Solicitors_Regulation_Authority_SRA_on_Firms_That_Have_Nothing_.gmi ∎
Wed 09:02:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Twitter Falling to 1% in Africa's Largest Nation (Algeria) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/18/Twitter_Falling_to_1_in_Africa_s_Largest_Nation_Algeria.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/18/Twitter_Falling_to_1_in_Africa_s_Largest_Nation_Algeria.gmi ∎
Wed 09:05:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The entertainment industry’s legal claims in AI copyright cases are strong, but the launch of Bytedance’s Seedance 2.0 highlights the harder challenge: enforcing them across borders." ☛ https://copyrightlately.com/meet-seedance-2-0-hollywoods-newest-ai-copyright-headache/ | Source: CopyrightLately
Wed 09:05:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "In a first-of-its-kind ruling, a Spanish court has labeled VPN services as "technological intermediaries," ordering them to actively block IP addresses that host illegal LaLiga matches." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/spanish-court-orders-protonvpn-and-nordvpn-to-block-pirate-football-streams/ | Source: Torrent Freak
Wed 09:06:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Day 2 of the India AI Impact Summit featured additional announcements, sessions, and policy discussions focused on emerging technology." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/newsletters/tech-top-5/balancing-ai-and-copyright-adanis-100b-bet/articleshow/128467239.cms | Source: India Times
Wed 09:06:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A fight between Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt on the rooftop of a building in a devastated city." ☛ https://cafetechinenglish.substack.com/p/the-chinese-ai-threatening-hollywood | Source: Jérôme Marin
Wed 09:07:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "On the latest episode of ATP, a show I should mention that I really love" ☛ https://birchtree.me/blog/a-passionate-defense-of-the-m-pro-series-of-chips/ | Source: Matt Birchler
Wed 09:07:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The Turkish government has used internal codes like “N-82” and “G-87” to issue entry bans or deny permit renewals to at least 160 foreign Christians since 2019, according to the legal advocacy group ADF International." ☛ https://www.christianpost.com/news/christians-being-labeled-security-threat-in-turkey.html | Source: Christian Post
Wed 09:08:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Homeland Security Demands Social Media Sites Reveal Names Behind Anti-ICE Posts" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/dhs-anti-ice-social-media.html | Source: New York Times
Wed 09:08:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It's a whole other level of frequency and lack of accountability." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2026/02/16/dhs-sent-hundreds-of-subpoenas-to-google-meta-and-reddit-demanding-names-of-people-who-criticize-ice.html | Source: BoingBoing
Wed 09:08:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "He did, in the end, get something in return – a trip in the back of a police car." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/dutch_cops_breach/ | Source: The Register UK
Wed 09:09:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I'm not talking about stealing tips here (though gig-work platforms do steal tips, like crazy): [...]" ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/17/no-piecework/#no-justice | Source: CoryDoctorow
Wed 09:10:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The company, Xcelerate Solutions, is looking for a Top Secret-cleared analyst to join the “watchlisting team” for the purpose of “Supporting US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE),” to quote from the job announcement." ☛ https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-expands-watchlist-effort | Source: Ken Klippenstein
Wed 09:12:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "DHS is using a repurposed Navy logistics program to fund the buildings and materials necessary to create these concentration camps quickly, as first reported by CNN in October." ☛ https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-concentration-camps-wexmac-titus | Source: Marisa Kabas
Wed 09:14:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "use of force" ☛ https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/17/ice-officials-use-of-force-00782501 | Source: Politico LLC
Wed 09:14:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "requested records from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The agencies failed to release the records as required by law, so we sued for their release in Jun" ☛ https://americanoversight.org/what-we-know-about-how-ice-is-being-trained-on-the-use-of-force/ | Source: American Oversight
Wed 09:15:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "sharp escalation in use-of-force incidents" ☛ https://americanoversight.org/report-ice-officials-knew-use-of-force-was-rising-well-before-minneapolis-shootings/ | Source: American Oversight
Wed 09:15:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Microsoft abusing people using words ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-effects-workers-psychological | Source: Futurism
Wed 09:17:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The revocation of Reuters’ credentials is the latest in a troubling pattern of repressive regulatory action against international and independent press in Ethiopia" ☛ https://cpj.org/2026/02/ethiopia-revokes-reuters-journalists-accreditation-following-investigative-report/ | Source: CPJ
Wed 09:17:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The commercially available spyware can provide access to an infected device’s microphone, camera, and data, including contacts, messages, photos, and videos, without the user’s knowledge." ☛ https://cpj.org/2026/02/i-literally-felt-naked-angolan-journalist-teixeira-candido-targeted-with-predator-spyware/ | Source: CPJ
Wed 09:19:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Project Censored’s fiftieth anniversary yearbook, State of the Free Press 2026, has been receiving a lot of positive attention." ☛ https://www.projectcensored.org/project-censored-newsletter-january-2026/?doing_wp_cron=1771401594.2710061073303222656250 | Source: Project Censored
Wed 09:19:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "an absolute exodus" ☛ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/wapo-layoffs-are-another-way-for-bezos-to-suck-up-to-trump/ | Source: Truthdig
Wed 09:19:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The network tried to bury an interview critical of Trump. Stephen Colbert made it an indictment of the administration’s assaults on the First Amendment." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/society/cbs-stephen-colbert-equal-time-doctrine-bari-weiss/ | Source: The Nation
Wed 09:20:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "In the first case, Siahgourabi was sentenced to one year and ten months in prison. The second case remains open, Efe said." ☛ https://bianet.org/haber/iranian-journalist-faces-deportation-from-turkey-despite-protection-request-316814 | Source: BIA Net
Wed 09:20:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Now, however, Save This Life has gone out of business and gone offline, leaving all the microchips in their database unregistered." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2026/02/16/pet-microchip-company-went-out-of-business-and-took-your-pets-info-with-it.html | Source: BoingBoing
Wed 09:20:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Show ID or pay a fee to attend a “public” meeting?" ☛ https://papersplease.org/wp/2026/02/17/show-id-or-pay-a-fee-to-attend-a-public-meeting/ | Source: Papers Please
Wed 09:21:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Horne’s warning is blunt: the gap between knowing cybersecurity is important and actually implementing protective measures is widening." ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/cyber-essentials-in-focus-ncsc-warns/ | Source: Cyble Inc
Wed 09:21:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Specifically, H.R.5419 directs federal agencies to conduct a comprehensive review of administrative barriers that delay the review of communications" ☛ https://insidetowers.com/house-panel-advances-bill-to-boost-broadband-deployment/ | Source: Inside Towers
Wed 09:22:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "You can’t profit maximize your way to greatness." ☛ https://seths.blog/2026/02/misguided-optimization/ | Source: Seth Godin
Wed 09:22:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "In 1991, the American astronomer and superstar science popularizer Carl Sagan was nominated for membership in the National Academy of Sciences" ☛ https://en.neritam.com/2026/02/17/why-was-carl-sagan-blackballed-from-the-national-academy-of-sciences/ | Source: Neritam
Wed 09:23:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The openSUSE Project is a worldwide community effort promoting the use of Linux everywhere." ☛ https://sysadmin-journal.com/opensuse-board-election-2025-has-been-announced/ | Source: Ish Sookun
Wed 09:23:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A crucial aspect of the proposal, which Jacob Kaplan-Moss calls the one weird trick, is to "decide who decides"." ☛ https://blog.torproject.org/tpa-adr/ | Source: Tor
Wed 09:24:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Under the planned shake-up, St Pancras passengers will be able to board Eurostar trains straight away rather than having to wait in the departures hall." ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/02/16/eurostar-to-cut-boarding-times-by-30-minutes/ | Source: The Telegraph UK
Wed 09:25:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The figures each Lambda model card gives us that are relevant for calculating the energy per query are: the hardware used, token generation throughput and total token throughput (input+output tokens)." ☛ https://muxup.com/2026q1/minipost-additional-figures-for-per-query-energy-consumption-of-LLMs | Source: Muxup
Wed 09:25:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I don't know how well this one bag journey will go but I have given myself the best possible chance of success." ☛ https://merecivilian.com/1-bag-1-device-10-days-in-bali/ | Source: Mere Civilian
Wed 09:27:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The collapse itself, if triggered, might unfold over 50 to 100 years rather than happening suddenly. Still, scientists describe the probability as higher than past estimates." ☛ https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/science/scientists-warn-gulf-stream-collapse-could-trigger-severe-global-disruption/articleshow/128431569.cms | Source: India Times
Wed 09:28:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The consequences of such an event would be severe. The tropical rainfall belt, on which millions depend for food production, could shift dramatically." ☛ https://arcticportal.org/ap-library/news/3785-new-research-warns-of-growing-risk-of-gulf-stream-collapse | Source: Arctic Portal
Wed 09:28:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This became known as the Kessler Syndrome." ☛ https://blog.dshr.org/2026/02/the-kessler-syndrome.html | Source: David Rosenthal
Wed 09:28:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "In January, the EPA ruled against xAI in a case in which Elon Musk’s CSAM machine/AI company said that if gas turbines were used in a temporary fashion, they were exempt from regulations." ☛ https://512pixels.net/2026/02/xai-ramps-turbine-usage-in-southaven-repeating-its-actions-in-memphis/ | Source: Stephen Hackett
Wed 09:28:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "AI facilities may end up emitting carbon dioxide at levels equivalent to millions of passenger cars each year." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/data-center-boom-is-fueling-an-expansion-of-natural-gas-projects/ | Source: TruthOut
Wed 09:29:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Allegedly." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/ars-technica-fabricated-quotes/ | Source: Nick Heer
Wed 09:29:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Though she’d done this work for more than a decade, Nixon couldn’t understand why the person behind the Waifu/Judische accounts was suddenly threatening her." ☛ https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/16/1132526/allison-nixon-hackers-security-researcher/ | Source: MIT Technology Review
Wed 09:30:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The experts said crimes outlined in documents released by the US Justice Department were committed against a backdrop of supremacist beliefs, racism, corruption, and extreme misogyny." ☛ https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/allegations-in-epstein-files-may-amount-to-crimes-against-humanity-un-experts-11051701#publisher=newsstand | Source: NDTV
Wed 09:30:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "So grave is the scale, nature, systematic character, and transnational reach of these atrocities against women and girls, that a number of them may reasonably meet the legal threshold of crimes against humanity" ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/18/epstein-files-crimes-against-humanity-un-experts | Source: The Guardian UK
Wed 09:31:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Mark Zuckerberg is due to take the stand in a landmark trial that could set a precedent for thousands of lawsuits alleging major social media platforms intentionally engineered addictive features" ☛ https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/zuckerberg-to-testify-in-landmark-social-media-addiction-trial-2016788999 | Source: RTL
Wed 09:32:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The Irish Examiner understands the plan will confirm Ireland’s intention to introduce legislation to restrict social media for under-16s." ☛ https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41795567.html | Source: Irish Examiner
Wed 09:32:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "blatant “From Apple Music” label on playback in the TikTok" ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/02/16/tiktok-apple-music-integrations/ | Source: Digital Music News
Wed 09:33:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The key driver is climate change. We’re living in a world that will have fewer livable places and fewer resources. This will happen quickly." ☛ https://werd.io/an-increasingly-dangerous-world/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller
Wed 09:35:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The Register contacted the European Parliament for comment." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/17/european_parliament_bars_lawmakers_from/ | Source: The Register UK
Wed 09:35:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "So, at that point, my public stance on Matrix became, simply: Don’t use Matrix" ☛ https://soatok.blog/2026/02/17/cryptographic-issues-in-matrixs-rust-library-vodozemac/ | Source: Dhole Moments
Wed 09:36:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Since it aired for a massive audience at the Super Bowl, Ring’s Search Party commercial has become a lightning rod for controversy" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/podcast/879203/ring-search-party-super-bowl-ai-surveillance-privacy-security | Source: The Verge
Wed 09:36:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Palantir is the most dangerous tech company you may not have heard of." ☛ https://afsc.org/palantir-explainer |
Wed 09:37:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Apple AirTags have speakers in them, and the speaker is not entirely under the owner’s control." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/02/17/airtag-has-hole-behind-the-battery-its-likely-been-silenced/ | Source: Hackaday
Wed 09:37:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Below is my opening statement from the debate." ☛ https://nbtv.substack.com/p/privacy-is-not-a-price-you-pay-for | Source: Ludlow Institute
Wed 09:38:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "VPN Bans Are Still a Terrible Idea" ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/eff-wisconsin-legislature-vpn-bans-are-still-terrible-idea | Source: EFF
Wed 09:38:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ EFF letter re: WI S.B. 130 / A.B. 105 ☛ https://www.eff.org/document/eff-letter-re-wi-sb-130-ab-105 | Source: EFF
Wed 09:38:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Social Control Media ☛ https://bianet.org/haber/seventeen-adult-content-creators-formally-arrested-for-laundering-onlyfans-income-316766 | Source: BIA Net
Wed 09:39:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Meta's changes do not shut down the Messenger service" ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/meta-retire-messenger-desktop-website-2026-1779840 | Source: International Business Times
Wed 09:39:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The pattern is eerily reminiscent of how the xz-utils supply chain attack began, and the security community is still on high alert after that incident nearly succeeded." ☛ https://socket.dev/blog/ai-agent-lands-prs-in-major-oss-projects-targets-maintainers-via-cold-outreach | Source: Socket Inc
Wed 09:39:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The Conde Nast-owned tech publication Ars Technica has retracted an article that contained fabricated, AI-generated quotes, according to an editor’s note posted to its website." ☛ https://www.404media.co/ars-technica-pulls-article-with-ai-fabricated-quotes-about-ai-generated-article/ | Source: 404 Media
Wed 09:40:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Semantic ablation is the algorithmic erosion of high-entropy information." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/semantic_ablation_ai_writing/ | Source: The Register UK
Wed 09:40:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Commercial real estate stocks took a big dip last Thursday 12 February — one day after the “SaaSpocalypse” — and they’re trying to blame AI: [...]" ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/17/the-ai-scare-trade-the-all-purpose-excuse-for-number-go-down/ | Source: Pivot to AI
Wed 09:40:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "ES (Evolution Strategies) is a relatively generic optimization method, but let’s talk about it in terms of neural networks, because that is what I’m thinking about, and also what the elderly literature needs updating for." ☛ https://danmackinlay.name/notebook/evolution_strategy.html | Source: Dan MacKinlay
Wed 09:41:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "You and I know this was really obviously not some sort of rogue bot — it was a rogue human. They might even be running some sort of scam." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/16/the-obnoxious-github-openclaw-ai-bot-is-a-crypto-bro/ | Source: Pivot to AI
Wed 09:43:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Say you’re working with a LLM and training it to write good frontend code. Good frontend code is accessible code, so of course you want to instruct the LLM to produce it." ☛ https://ericwbailey.website/published/heres-how-to-instruct-a-llm-to-reference-the-aria-authoring-practices-guide/ | Source: Eric Bailey
Wed 09:43:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I don’t want to live in a world where everything is outsourced, handed to the lowest bidder while I have no idea about the systems that I use, the food that I eat, the religion I participate in, the house I live in." ☛ https://joshblais.com/blog/a-pursuit-of-mastery/ | Source: Joshua Blais
Wed 09:43:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Here are three papers describing different side-channel attacks against LLMs. " ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/02/side-channel-attacks-against-llms.html | Source: Bruce Schneier
Wed 09:43:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Cognitive debt is likely a much bigger threat than technical debt, as AI and agents are adopted." ☛ https://margaretstorey.com/blog/2026/02/09/cognitive-debt/ |
Wed 09:44:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Some programmers have started to warn that similar advances could cannibalize all kinds of knowledge work." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/02/post-chatbot-claude-code-ai-agents/686029/ | Source: The Atlantic
Wed 09:44:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Yes, hard drives. Spinning disks that hold ones and zeroes." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3063473/western-digital-is-out-of-hard-drives-because-ai-of-course.html | Source: PC World
Wed 09:44:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "While Western Digital hard drives will remain on the shelves for now" ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-data-centers-spiking-hard-drive-prices | Source: Futurism
Wed 09:47:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Linux, 'FSFE', and Perl ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Linux_FSFE_and_Perl.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Linux_FSFE_and_Perl.gmi ∎
Wed 09:47:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Links 18/02/2026: Gig 'Economy' Condemned, Microsoft Insulting/Stressing People With False Slop Predictions ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/18/Links_18_02_2026_Gig_Economy_Condemned_Microsoft_Insulting_Stre.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/18/Links_18_02_2026_Gig_Economy_Condemned_Microsoft_Insulting_Stre.gmi ∎
Wed 14:39:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Childhood vaccination is one of public policy’s greatest success stories." ☛ https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/how-the-kakistocracy-became-a-quackistocracy | Source: Paul Krugman
Wed 14:40:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "That’s remarkable, given that the camera sold for $89.95 – or about $970 / £710 / AU$1,370 in today's money" ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/cameras/instant-cameras/a-3-year-old-girl-asked-a-simple-question-and-sparked-a-us-usd600-million-camera-revolution | Source: Digital Camera World
Wed 14:40:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The problem with Qwerty keyboards on small touchscreen devices is that they are designed for ten-finger typing, and we typically only use two thumbs to type." ☛ https://entropicthoughts.com/learning-keybee | Source: Chris
Wed 14:41:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I could go into pros and cons but honestly it's mostly pros at this point since it's turned out to be a great little device for my use case." ☛ https://smallcypress.bearblog.dev/first-impressions-of-my-mp3-player-innioasis-y1/ | Source: Small Cypress
Wed 14:41:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "How is a manger to make sense of this mess?" ☛ https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/02/16/poor-deming-never-stood-a-chance/ | Source: Lorin Hochstein
Wed 14:41:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Last Friday was my last day at Oracle. Today is my first day at MariaDB.org!" ☛ https://lefred.be/content/i-joined-the-mariadb-foundation/ |
Wed 14:42:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Full Sail University just opened its Drone Innovation Center on its Winter Park, Florida campus — a 7,870-square-foot facility complete with indoor flight zones" ☛ https://www.thedronegirl.com/2026/02/17/full-sail-university/ | Source: The Drone Girl
Wed 14:43:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Sorting is one of the most studied problems in computer science." ☛ https://00f.net/2026/02/17/sorting-without-leaking-secrets/ | 0f
Wed 14:43:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Last time, we did load-store forwarding in the context of our Toy Optimizer. We managed to cache the results of both reads from and writes to the heap—at compile-time!" ☛ https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/toy-tbaa/ | Source: Max Bernstein
Wed 14:48:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "short, cube-shaped bone" ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-unearthed-a-2200-year-old-bone-they-say-it-could-be-the-first-direct-evidence-of-hannibals-legendary-war-elephants-180988185/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine
Wed 14:48:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "For over 30 years, complexity theorists have used this theoretical framework to identify problems where quantum computers surpass classical ones." ☛ https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-complexity-theory-for-the-quantum-age-20260217/ | Source: Quanta Magazine
Wed 14:49:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The FOCUS project worked by deploying a specially designed strain cable across the newly mapped fault in hopes of detecting tectonic movement." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2026-02-million-km-undersea-internet-cables.html | Source: Omicron Limited
Wed 14:53:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ iophk: Oura is now officially malevolent surveillance hardware if it wasn't before; bought out / sold out: https://www.kauppalehti.fi/uutiset/a/df9f08af-ef2c-425d-b640-a2b42ef1d905 Sompi
Wed 14:53:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A friend of mine suggested I ask people to respond to the email on occasion to help improve its reputation with Gmail/spam filters. When I did that this past month, my inbox was flooded with responses." ☛ https://cassidoo.co/post/do-not-scale-2/ | Source: Cassidy Williams
Wed 14:54:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "They want to be able to shock you but then insist there’s no real provocation because in the end—if you’ll just shut up and keep reading until you find out what happens in the end—everything comes out just fine." ☛ https://bix.blog/posts/2026-02-16-the-serialized-series/ | Source: Bix Frankonis
Wed 14:54:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "[...] It will go away in a blink of an eye." ☛ https://atharvaraykar.com/likejunkies/ | Source: Atharva Raykar
Wed 14:55:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "But obsessions like these also tend to lead to burnout. So far I have been lucky to mostly dance around it" ☛ https://cliophate.wtf/posts/reasonable-overkill | Source: Kevin Wammer
Wed 14:55:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I still want it, just a little." ☛ https://haleynahman.substack.com/p/172-the-pleasure-of-not-knowing |
Wed 14:57:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Recent events in Europe have underscored these risks." ☛ https://insidetowers.com/report-protecting-gps-is-crucial/ | Source: Inside Towers
Wed 14:57:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I was talking to my friend acdw about Discord and IRC because dozens had posted the link to New And Upcoming IRCv3 Features for Libera.chat, on Linkbudz." ☛ https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2026-02-11-discord-features | Source: Alex Schroeder
Wed 14:57:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Web fonts are usually defined by the CSS @font-face rule. The font-display property allows us some control over how fonts are loaded." ☛ https://dbushell.com/2026/02/17/web-font-choice-and-loading-strategy/ | Source: David Bushell
Wed 14:57:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "For some reason, a bunch of big companies are really leaning into Markdown right now. AI may be the reason, but I kind of love the possible side benefits." ☛ https://tedium.co/2026/02/17/markdown-growing-influence-cloudflare-ai/ | Source: Tedium
Wed 14:58:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Learning Python often starts with the same building blocks: variables, functions, and loops." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/levelling-up-with-python-create-with-data/ | Source: Raspberry Pi
Wed 15:00:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "If you are interested in continued collaboration with the Vinyl Cache project, please register an account on our self hosted forgejo instance following this link." ☛ https://vinyl-cache.org/organization/moving.html |
Wed 15:00:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Ask a dozen ecosystems what platform you’re running on and you’ll get a dozen different answers." ☛ https://nesbitt.io/2026/02/17/platform-strings.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt
Wed 15:00:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I know this might be slightly controversial for my fellow developers, but: I tend to prefer a (good) GUI over the CLI." ☛ https://lostfocus.de/2026/02/17/gui-cli/ | Source: Dominik Schwind
Wed 15:01:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Compared with Deferred, this IOPromise allows for completing the promise via unsafeTryComplete, which can be used in an imperative (non-IO) context, but it still exposes an IO-driven API." ☛ https://alexn.org/blog/2026/02/17/hybrid-io-driven-promise-in-scala-snippet/?pk_campaign=rss | Source: Alexandru Nedelcu
Wed 15:08:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Open Data ☛ https://datageeek.com/2026/02/17/modeling-bitcoin-volatility-through-structural-breaks-a-compositional-perspective/ | Source: DataGeeek
Wed 15:12:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The 13th ROS-Industrial Europe Conference 2025 took place on 17–18 November 2025 in Strasbourg, co-located with ROSCon FR&DE." ☛ https://rosindustrial.org/news/2026/2/17/ros-2-in-industry-key-takeaways-from-the-ros-industrial-conference-2025 | Source: ROS Industrial
Wed 15:13:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "In this post I describe different approaches for client-libraries to implement Redis protocol pipelining." ☛ https://www.iankduncan.com/engineering/2026-02-17-archive-redis-pipelining/ | Source: Ian Duncan
Wed 15:14:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I was able to exploit it to gain Code Execution inside the Firefox renderer process and reported my findings to Mozilla." ☛ https://kqx.io/post/firefox0day/ |
Wed 15:14:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The vulnerability comes from the Google Stable Channel Update for Desktop." ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/cve-2026-2441-google-chrome/ | Source: Cyble Inc
Wed 15:15:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Tor Browser 15.0.6 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory." ☛ https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-1506/ | Source: Tor
Wed 15:15:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Reminder: The Tor Browser Alpha release-channel is for testing only.
Wed 15:15:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Reminder: The Tor Browser Alpha release-channel is for testing only." ☛ https://blog.torproject.org/new-alpha-release-tor-browser-160a3/ | Source: Tor
Wed 15:16:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This is a really old question/debate in online community design." ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/16/fast-good-cheap/#getting-up | Source: CoryDoctorow
Wed 15:16:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The other day, I decided it was finally time. It was finally time to open Emacs to demonstrate certain code functionalities in class. The result was predictable: it caused further confusion among already confused students." ☛ https://brainbaking.com/post/2026/02/a-note-on-presenting-code-in-emacs/ | Source: Wouter Groeneveld
Wed 15:17:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Slop and sloppers https://text.npr.org/1199885893
Wed 15:17:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ microsoft relaying FUD via The Register MS https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/open_source_registries_fund_security/
Wed 15:18:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "How GoReleaser strengthened security through GitHub's Secure Open Source Fund - GoReleaser" https://goreleaser.com/blog/github-secure-fund/ GitHub = NSA back doors
Wed 15:18:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "European leaders warn that US ties have shifted permanently" https://www.semafor.com/article/02/16/2026/european-leaders-warn-that-us-ties-have-shifted-permanently
Wed 15:19:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "No, It’s Not Back to Business as Usual" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/for-europe-its-not-back-to-business-as-usual/686023/
Wed 15:19:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Bill Gates-Backed Breakthrough Energy Halts New Investment, Lays Off Staff" https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/bill-gates-backed-breakthrough-energy-halts-new-investment-lays-off-staff-11051620 http://techrights.org/n/2026/01/30/The_Epstein_Files_Don_t_Say_the_Ages_of_Those_Russian_Girls_Bil.shtml
Wed 15:21:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A team of scientists have revealed a new technique for the super-high-speed 3D printing of complex objects." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/3d-printing/chinese-scientists-3d-print-tiny-items-in-half-a-second-using-holographic-light-fields-scientists-precision-fabricate-complex-millimeter-scale-objects-in-record-time | Source: Tom's Hardware
Wed 15:21:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Built around the powerful dual-core ESP32-P4 RISC-V SoC, this board delivers serious performance and unmatched peripheral integration for advanced embedded and IoT development." ☛ https://olimex.wordpress.com/2026/02/17/esp32-p4-pc-open-source-hardware-board-the-most-comprehensive-and-feature-rich-esp32-p4-board-on-the-market/ | Source: Olimex
Wed 15:25:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "However, I can try and get as close as possible to the signal generation process as possible with what I do have: A games console from the 1970s’ and the ability to code in assembly language." ☛ https://heliomass.com/posts/2602-i-see-colour-bars/ | Source: Heliomass
Wed 15:25:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "What we got was the Y3506_V05_20251215 revision. It's a clone of a clone" ☛ https://www.eliseomartelli.it/blog/2026-02-17-less-but-better-a-braun-clock-for-the-r36s | Source: Eliseo Martelli
Wed 15:26:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Printed a couple of card boxes for our new-found card game phase, and I had just enough filament for the final one!" ☛ https://jasper.tandy.is/blogging/filament-chicken | Source: Jasper Tandy
Wed 15:27:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Today was a hard day for $reasons, so it was a tremendous joy to receive a notification from the local Australia Post parcel locker that my latest shipment from Ukraine arrived!" ☛ https://rubenerd.com/my-childhood-motherboard-arrived/ | Source: Ruben Schade
Wed 15:27:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "If you’re looking to jack up your car and you don’t have anything on hand, your 3D printer might not be the first tool you look towards." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/02/17/3d-printed-jack-mixes-two-filaments-for-great-performance/ | Source: Hackaday
Wed 15:27:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The setup removes just five LEGO pieces from the original design, eliminating the hand crank from the mechanism." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/02/17/lego-orrery-gets-a-real-time-drive-upgrade/ | Source: Hackaday
Wed 15:28:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Antenna design is often referred to as a black art or witchcraft, even by those experienced in the space." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/02/17/bruteforcing-accidental-antenna-designs/ | Source: Hackaday
Wed 15:30:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Every OpenBSD admin has booted bsd.rd at least once — to install, upgrade, or rescue a broken system." ☛ https://openbsdjumpstart.org/bsd.rd/ |
Wed 15:30:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "With that in mind, we’ve improved Plasma’s usability and accessibility, and added practical new features into the mix." ☛ https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.6.0/ | Source: KDE
Wed 15:31:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "On OpenBSD, the built-in httpd runs inside a strict chroot located at /var/www" ☛ https://www.vincentdelft.be/post/post_20260217 | Source: Vincent Delft
Wed 15:36:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): KDE endorses the UN's Open Source Principles ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/KDE_endorses_the_UN_s_Open_Source_Principles.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/KDE_endorses_the_UN_s_Open_Source_Principles.gmi ∎
Wed 15:36:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "There are two general challenges that make incremental backups more complicated than full backups." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/IncrementalBackupsTwoChallenges | Source: University of Toronto
Wed 15:36:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Modern CSS code snippets, side by side with the old hacks they replace. Every technique you still Google has a clean, native replacement now." ☛ https://modern-css.com/ |
Wed 15:39:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The algorithms have gotten wildly sophisticated over the decades. Modern engines don’t just swap between a few discrete models." ☛ https://phinze.com/writing/level-of-detail |
Wed 15:40:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The code hasn't been functional since 2007 due to incompatibilities with the more widely used Intel AGP driver." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/linux-kernel-7-0-finally-abandons-intel-440bx-edac-driver-removal-marks-another-goodbye-to-the-legendary-motherboard-chipset | Source: Tom's Hardware
Wed 15:41:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Oh Là Là! Red Hat Open Sources Digital Sovereignty Readiness Tool ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Oh_La_La_Red_Hat_Open_Sources_Digital_Sovereignty_Readiness_Too.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Oh_La_La_Red_Hat_Open_Sources_Digital_Sovereignty_Readiness_Too.gmi ∎
Wed 15:42:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I just have to tell you my current state with my migration to OpenCloud…" ☛ https://janlukas.blog/thoughts/2026/02/update-home-server |
Wed 15:46:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Earth vs Mars the Advance Wars-like from Relic Entertainment gets Steam Deck Verified | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/earth-vs-mars-the-advance-wars-like-from-relic-entertainment-gets-steam-deck-verified/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux
Wed 15:46:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ SCOPECREEP is a curious mix of tower defense and active incremental where you collect souls | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/scopecreep-is-a-curious-mix-of-tower-defense-and-active-incremental-where-you-collect-souls/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux
Wed 15:48:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Check out the full second episode of Games For Everyone | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/check-out-the-full-second-episode-of-games-for-everyone/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/check-out-the-full-second-episode-of-games-for-everyone/
Wed 15:49:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Free and Open Source Software ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.1.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.1.gmi ∎
Wed 15:50:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "when you pay peanuts, you hire monkeys .....and d-mb Indian monkeys @IBM at that. Posing, Posturing and Upskilling about AI and Quantum from Alvind and Krabanaugh doesn't change a single thing. (Or Kyndryl !)" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kha4h3ef
Wed 15:52:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Astro Protocol is a tactical space 4x game designed for people with little time | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/astro-protocol-is-a-tactical-space-4x-game-designed-for-people-with-little-time/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux
Wed 15:54:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Brotato gets a major update with Paws - Claws adding pets | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/brotato-gets-a-major-update-with-paws-claws-adding-pets/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/brotato-gets-a-major-update-with-paws-claws-adding-pets/
Wed 15:58:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ KDE Plasma 6.6 released with improved accessibility, new on-screen keyboard and lots more | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/kde-plasma-6-6-released-with-improved-accessibility-new-on-screen-keyboard-and-lots-more/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux
Wed 16:07:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Game manager Lutris v0.5.20 released with Proton upgrades, store updates and much more | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/game-manager-lutris-v0-5-20-released-with-proton-upgrades-store-updates-and-much-more/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux
Wed 16:08:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Valve confirm Steam Deck stock issues due to "memory and storage shortages" | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/valve-confirm-steam-deck-stock-issues-due-to-memory-and-storage-shortages/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux
Wed 16:08:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Rocket League is adding Easy Anti-Cheat, Psyonix say Linux will still be supported with Proton | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/rocket-league-is-adding-easy-anti-cheat-psyonix-say-linux-will-still-be-supported-with-proton/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux
Wed 16:16:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Games: SCOPECREEP, Astro Protocol, and More ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Games_SCOPECREEP_Astro_Protocol_and_More.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Games_SCOPECREEP_Astro_Protocol_and_More.gmi ∎
Wed 16:17:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "In response to these challenges, we’re excited to announce today the general availability (GA) of the Red Hat build of Podman Desktop." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/introducing-red-hat-build-podman-desktop-enterprise-ready-local-container-development-environments | Source: Red Hat Official
Wed 16:18:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "As automation expanded across teams, systems, and domains, Bradesco reached a new stage of maturity. Execution at scale was already well established, delivering efficiency and speed. " ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/redefining-automation-governance-execution-observability-bradesco | Source: Red Hat Official
Wed 16:18:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ IBM Red Hat promoting slop ☞ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/how-llm-d-brings-critical-resource-optimization-softbanks-ai-ran-orchestrator
Wed 16:19:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "ifconfig (Interface Configuration is a utility for system/network administration in Unix/Linux operating systems used to configure, manage, and query network interface parameters via the command-line interface or in system configuration scripts." ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/ifconfig-command-examples/ | Source: TecMint
Wed 16:23:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "As part of this certification process, we have also included Ubuntu Core as a fully certified Operating Environment for the first time, starting with Ubuntu Core 22, and will continue to support Ubuntu Core with future FIPS certifications." ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/announcing-fips-140-3-for-ubuntu-core22 | Source: Ubuntu
Wed 16:24:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A little over one year ago, our team began to recognize this pattern in our own work." ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/a-year-of-documentation-driven-development | Source: Ubuntu
Wed 16:36:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Translate Texinfo files using po4a ☞ https://box.matto.nl/translate-texinfo-files-using-po4a.html
Wed 16:38:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ MODICIA 6.12.69 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/modicia
Wed 16:38:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Give Your Weather Report an Animated ASCII Spin in GNU/Linux Terminal ☞ https://itsfoss.com/weathr/
Wed 16:40:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ CentOS 10-20260216 is out as well ☞ https://distrowatch.com/centos
Wed 16:40:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Give Your Weather Report an Animated ASCII Spin in GNU/Linux Terminal ☞ https://itsfoss.com/weathr/
Wed 16:41:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Plasma Setup Released ☞ https://merritt.codes/blog/2026/02/17/2026/_plasma-setup-release
Wed 16:42:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Coalition sues to block removal of history, science displays from US national parks ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/02/coalition-sues-to-block-removal-of-history-science-displays-from-us-national-parks/
Wed 16:46:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ filebyte – list files and directories ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/filebyte-list-files-directories/
Wed 16:46:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Couik – terminal-based typing test ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/couik-terminal-based-typing-test/
Wed 16:51:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ picocom – minimal dumb-terminal emulation program ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/picocom-minimal-dumb-terminal-emulation-program/
Wed 16:51:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ up – write GNU/Linux pipes ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/up-write-linux-pipes/
Wed 16:56:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Discordo – feature-rich terminal Discord client ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/discordo-feature-rich-terminal-discord-client/
Wed 16:57:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ StarPSX – PlayStation 1 emulator ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/starpsx-playstation1-emulator/
Wed 16:58:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Spent – minimalist personal finance tracker ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/spent-minimalist-personal-finance-tracker/
Wed 16:58:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How the contextual SBOM pattern improves vulnerability management ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/02/17/how-contextual-sbom-pattern-improves-vulnerability-management
Wed 16:59:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Linux Matters 75: Mark's Meshing About ☞ https://linuxmatters.sh/75/
Wed 17:00:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Oh Là Là! Red Bait Open Sources Digital Sovereignty Readiness Tool ☞ https://fossforce.com/2026/02/oh-la-la-red-hat-open-sources-digital-sovereignty-readiness-tool/
Wed 17:02:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ First-of-Its-Kind Map of Alzheimer's Reveals Hidden Gene Activity ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/first-of-its-kind-map-of-alzheimers-reveals-hidden-gene-activity
Wed 17:02:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Daily Mail’s Stephen Wright ‘devastated’ by Doreen Lawrence hacking claims ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/daily-mails-stephen-wright-devastated-by-doreen-lawrence-hacking-claims/
Wed 17:05:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Suicide https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/regional-newspapers/mediahuis-trials-use-of-ai-agents-to-carry-out-first-line-news-reporting/
Wed 17:06:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Simple Lifelong Habits Can Cut Your Alzheimer's Risk by 38%, Study Finds ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/simple-lifelong-habits-can-cut-your-alzheimers-risk-by-38-study-finds
Wed 17:08:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Radio Free Asia says it has resumed broadcasts to China ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/radio-free-asia-says-it-has-resumed-broadcasts-to-china
Wed 17:09:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Malaysia drops defamation case against Australian writer in Thailand ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-drops-defamation-case-against-australian-writer-in-thailand
Wed 17:10:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Seoul eases curbs on North Korea’s top daily Rodong Sinmun, but few South Koreans are reading it ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/seoul-eases-curbs-on-north-koreas-top-daily-rodong-sinmun-but-few-south-koreans-are-reading-it
Wed 17:14:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Simplify managing your Docker compose files with this handy tool ☞ https://thenewstack.io/simplify-managing-your-docker-compose-files-with-this-handy-tool/
Wed 17:15:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Qt for MCUs 2.11.2 LTS is released ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-for-mcus-2.11.2-lts-is-released
Wed 17:22:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Question of True Remorse When Hey Hi (AI) Helps Write Your Court Apology ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/world/asia/new-zealand-court-ai-apology.html
Wed 17:24:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Spain launches probe into social control media giants as European regulation starts to boil ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2026/02/17/spain-launches-probe-social-media-giants-european-regulation-starts-boil/
Wed 17:25:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Software Patents ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/business/mexico-canada-economic-action-plan-usmca/ http://techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/Software_Patents_and_USMCA_or_NAFTA.shtml
Wed 17:25:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ AI Delusions Are Leading to Domestic Abuse, Harassment, and Stalking ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-abuse-harassment-stalking
Wed 17:27:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Pentagon Issues Threat to Anthropic ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/pentagon-issues-threat-anthropic
Wed 17:29:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Build CachyOS Kernel 6.19.2 on Debian Forky (VENV) ☞ https://dbaxps.blogspot.com/2026/02/build-cachyos-kernel-6192-on-debian.html
Wed 17:32:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Chmod Cheatsheet ☞ https://linuxize.com/cheatsheet/chmod/
Wed 17:33:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Out soon: EPO "Cocaine Communication Manager" - Part II
Wed 17:34:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 5 Best Free and Open Source Lua Static Site Generators ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-lua-static-site-generators/
Wed 17:34:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Pixi – pixel art editor and animation editor ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/pixi-pixel-art-animation-editor/
Wed 17:35:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Russell Coker: Links February 2026 ☞ https://etbe.coker.com.au/2026/02/17/links-february-2026/
Wed 17:36:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Only One in 50 Saudis Would Use Abusive Monopolist Microsoft for Search, Almost Same as Would Use Russia's Yandex ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/17/Only_One_in_50_Saudis_Would_Use_Microsoft_for_Search_Almost_Sam.shtml
Wed 17:43:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Project Management Web Platform with Redmine on Raspberry PI and Docker ☞ https://peppe8o.com/redmine-raspberry-pi/
Wed 17:46:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The 14th Anniversary of Our Foundation ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02/17/the-14th-anniversary-of-our-foundation/
Wed 17:48:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install Fish Shell on AlmaLinux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-fish-shell-almalinux-10/
Wed 17:48:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install Piwigo on Debian 13 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-piwigo-debian-13/
Wed 17:48:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install Brackets Code Editor on Debian 13 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-brackets-code-editor-debian-13/
Wed 17:50:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install Odoo on Debian 13 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-odoo-debian-13/
Wed 17:51:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How to Install SMPlayer on Ubuntu (26.04, 24.04, 22.04) ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-smplayer-on-ubuntu-linux/
Wed 17:51:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How to Install LibreCAD on Ubuntu (26.04, 24.04, 22.04) ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-librecad-on-ubuntu-linux/
Wed 17:52:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Security updates for Tuesday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1059176/
Wed 17:53:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ High-end Android phones are now powerful enough to emulate the PC version of Cyberpunk 2077 ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/high-end-android-phones-are-now-powerful-enough-to-emulate-the-pc-version-of-cyberpunk-2077-youtuber-gets-2020s-hottest-pc-game-running-at-playable-frame-rates-on-red-magic-11-pro
Wed 17:53:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Despite a Court-Ordered Injunction, Anna’s Archive Releases Millions of Spotify Tracks Online—With More Likely On the Way ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/02/17/annas-archive-releases-spotify-tracks/
Wed 17:58:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ California Judge Delivers a Major Setback for Global Piracy Crackdowns — The DMCA Suddenly Has a Lot Less Bite ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/02/17/dmca-limits-global-lawsuit/
Wed 17:59:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) in Practice @ FOSDEM 2026: From Awareness to Action ☞ https://openssf.org/blog/2026/02/17/eu-cyber-resilience-act-cra-in-practice-fosdem-2026-from-awareness-to-action/ http://techrights.org/o/2020/10/30/openssf-microsoft/
Wed 18:01:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Engineer finds his smart sleep mask can read other people's brainwaves due to poor software security ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/wearable-tech/engineer-finds-his-smart-sleep-mask-can-read-other-peoples-brainwaves-superpower-granted-via-poor-quality-software-with-hardcoded-high-level-credentials
Wed 18:02:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Unit 42: Nearly two-thirds of breaches now start with identity abuse ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/attackers-abuse-identity-unit42-palo-alto-networks-incident-response-report/
Wed 18:05:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ https
Wed 18:05:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ KDE 6_26.02 for Slackware-current ☞ https://blog.slackware.nl/kde-6_26-02-for-slackware-current/
Wed 18:07:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Why is Debian Called the Universal Operating System, Again? ☞ https://itsfoss.com/debian-universal-operating-system/
Wed 18:07:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Someone Just Made an Immutable Gentoo-Based Distro Tailored for Gaming ☞ https://itsfoss.com/matrixos/
Wed 18:08:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ FSF Blogs: Maintaining what we love all year long ☞ http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/2026-i-love-free-software-day
Wed 18:16:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Spain: Windows at All-Time Low ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Spain_Windows_at_All_Time_Low.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Spain_Windows_at_All_Time_Low.gmi ∎
Wed 18:19:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Applications: Give Your Weather Report an Animated ASCII Spin in GNU/Linux Terminal and Docker ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Applications_Give_Your_Weather_Report_an_Animated_ASCII_Spin_in.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Applications_Give_Your_Weather_Report_an_Animated_ASCII_Spin_in.gmi ∎
Wed 18:19:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today's 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 HowTos ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/today_s_howtos.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/today_s_howtos.gmi ∎
Wed 18:21:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 3D Printing, Retro, Olimex, and More ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/3D_Printing_Retro_Olimex_and_More.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/3D_Printing_Retro_Olimex_and_More.gmi ∎
Wed 18:21:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Red Hat Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Red_Hat_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Red_Hat_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Wed 18:23:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today's 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/today_s_leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/today_s_leftovers.gmi ∎
Wed 18:25:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 Programming Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Programming_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Wed 18:25:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Tor Browser 15.0.6 and 16.0a3 ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Tor_Browser_15_0_6_and_16_0a3.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Tor_Browser_15_0_6_and_16_0a3.gmi ∎
Wed 18:26:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Free, Libre, and Open Source Software, Web, Standards, and More ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Web_Standards_and_More.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Web_Standards_and_More.gmi ∎
Wed 18:26:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Security Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Security_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Security_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Wed 18:28:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Links 18/02/2026: DMCA Weakened, Anna’s Archive Still Thriving ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/18/Links_18_02_2026_DMCA_Weakened_Anna_s_Archive_Still_Thriving.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/18/Links_18_02_2026_DMCA_Weakened_Anna_s_Archive_Still_Thriving.gmi ∎
Wed 18:30:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Tax progressively, with richer people paying higher rates. Don't use value added tax (VAT) or head taxes because these don't scale up. Ignore the people who say that the rich are going to leave. Ignore the people who say that this is socialism, communism or whatever. Ignore the people who say that this is unfair to those who worked hard to build their wealth. It's all bullshit." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2026-02-18-taxes
Wed 18:34:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ These are the only Linux distros I recommend for developers https://www.howtogeek.com/these-are-the-only-linux-distros-i-recommend-for-developers/
Wed 18:34:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ These 5 underrated Linux desktop environments need more attention https://www.howtogeek.com/underrated-linux-desktop-environments-that-need-more-attention/
Wed 18:35:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ REMnux v8 brings AI integration to the Linux malware analysis toolkit https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/02/17/remnux-8-linux-malware-analysis-toolkit/
Wed 18:36:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Reverse Engineering Linux Distro REMnux Marks 15 Years With Major v8 Release Featuring AI Agent Support ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/17/Reverse_Engineering_Linux_Distro_REMnux_Marks_15_Years_With_Maj.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/17/Reverse_Engineering_Linux_Distro_REMnux_Marks_15_Years_With_Maj.gmi ∎
Wed 18:37:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ KDE Plasma 6.6 Officially Released https://www.techpowerup.com/346467/kde-plasma-6-6-officially-released
Wed 18:38:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ I just set up a new Linux desktop, here are the first 5 things I did https://www.howtogeek.com/i-just-set-up-a-new-linux-desktop-here-are-the-first-things-i-did/
Wed 18:39:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Propping up a scam (slop) and outsourcing - lowering salaries https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/linux-foundation-research-finds-open-source-is-key-to-driving-indias-ai-market-302688143.html
Wed 18:40:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Atomic Linux distros keep updates from breaking your system. Here's how, and which ones I prefer.' https://www.zdnet.com/article/atomic-linux-distros-stress-free-os-updates/
Wed 18:40:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Rocket League devs promise not to break Linux support or ban mod users when Easy Anti-Cheat gets added https://www.pcguide.com/news/rocket-league-devs-promise-not-to-break-linux-support-or-ban-modders-when-easy-anti-cheat-gets-added/
Wed 18:41:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Gentoo https://www.pcgamer.com/software/linux/after-microsoft-couldnt-keep-its-ai-hands-to-itself-a-notoriously-complex-linux-distro-has-started-its-long-march-away-from-github/
Wed 18:42:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "In this one we go over topics like the Steam Machine and Steam Frame timing, Steam Deck stock, Discord, the Open Gaming Collective, the GDC 2026 report and much more." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/check-out-the-full-second-episode-of-games-for-everyone/
Wed 18:42:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Rootkit is coming to Rocket League, but Psyonix promises not to get all Fortnite with it and hose your Steam Deck and Linux installs https://www.pcgamer.com/games/sim/easy-anti-cheat-is-coming-to-rocket-league-but-psyonix-promises-not-to-get-all-fortnite-with-it-and-hose-your-steam-deck-and-linux-installs/
Wed 18:43:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Who said weather reports have to be boring and I am not even talking about the Maxican Weather" https://itsfoss.com/weathr/
Wed 18:44:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ This one command-line app saves me an hour every day https://www.howtogeek.com/this-one-command-line-app-saves-me-an-hour-every-day/
Wed 21:41:14 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ and they mean besides google's backdooring.... https://www.securityweek.com/new-keenadu-android-malware-found-on-thousands-of-devices/
Wed 21:44:01 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ they could have replaced it with a more accurate one "drunk autopilot"... https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/18/tesla_drops_autopilot_marketing/
Wed 21:45:09 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/18/jailbreak_an_f35/
Wed 21:48:05 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ uhm that is how it is supposed to work... the "bug" is you found out... https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/microsoft-says-office-bug-exposed-customers-confidential-emails-to-copilot-ai/
Wed 22:03:40 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://thedebrief.org/bottling-the-sun-how-researchers-created-organic-solar-storage-molecules-more-efficient-than-lithium-ion-batteries/
Wed 22:23:00 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://nerds.xyz/2026/02/enterprise-ai-security-gaps-2026/
Wed 22:26:01 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/02/02/open-source-ai-pentesting-tools-test/
Wed 22:41:20 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://futurism.com/science-energy/weapon-havana-syndrome-scientist
Wed 22:41:49 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/tesla-robotaxis-crashing-more-human-drivers
Wed 22:42:29 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ OH THE INHUMANITY!!!! ... https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-hindenburg-disast
Wed 23:01:49 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://blog.andrewyang.com/p/the-end-of-the-office
Wed 23:05:26 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.darkreading.com/endpoint-security/scam-abuses-gemini-chatbots-convince-people-buy-fake-crypto
Wed 23:07:26 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.darkreading.com/application-security/dells-hard-coded-flaw-a-nation-state-goldmine
Wed 23:56:35 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ https://imgur.com/gallery/lMyF1cF
Thu 00:35:48 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ (cat) https://imgur.com/gallery/february-14-b5RMVoi
Thu 01:01:00 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ https://i.imgur.com/PPKmSf0.jpg
Thu 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-180226.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-180226.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-social-180226.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-social-180226.txt
Thu 02:47:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🅸🆁🅲 techrights irc ■ Yesterday's #techrights IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-180226.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-180226.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techrights-180226.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techrights-180226.txt
Thu 02:48:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🅸🆁🅲 boycottnovell irc ■ Yesterday's #boycottnovell IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-180226.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-180226.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-180226.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-180226.txt
Thu 02:49:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🅸🆁🅲 techbytes irc ■ Yesterday's #techbytes IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-180226.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-180226.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techbytes-180226.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techbytes-180226.txt
Thu 02:49:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ✩░▒▓▆▅▃▂▁𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍▁▂▃▅▆▓▒░✩ Yesterday's 𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 bulletin is now ready! 🅷🆃🆃🅿: http://techrights.org/txt-archives/techrights-2026-02-18.txt | 🅶🅴🅼🅸🅽🅸 gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/techrights-2026-02-18.txt (tentative address, to work an hour from now)
Thu 02:50:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ✩░▒▓▆▅▃▂▁Tux Machines 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍▁▂▃▅▆▓▒░✩ Yesterday's Tux Machines bulletin is now ready! 🅷🆃🆃🅿: http://news.tuxmachines.org/txt-archives/tuxmachines-2026-02-18.txt
Thu 04:27:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 3 Threat Groups Started Targeting ICS/OT in 2025: Dragos ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/3-threat-groups-started-targeting-ics-ot-in-2025-dragos/
Thu 04:28:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Man Linked to Phobos Ransomware Arrested in Poland ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/man-linked-to-phobos-ransomware-arrested-in-poland/
Thu 04:31:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, February 18, 2026 ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/IRC_Proceedings_Wednesday_February_18_2026.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/IRC_Proceedings_Wednesday_February_18_2026.gmi ∎
Thu 04:32:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today in Techrights ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Today_in_Techrights.gmi ∎
Thu 04:33:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Over at Tux Machines... ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi ∎
Thu 04:36:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2026-02-19.gmi
Thu 04:37:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1565.jpg
Thu 04:37:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1921.jpg
Thu 04:38:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ worm third day gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/wormThird
Thu 04:39:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Developer and maker Martijn Braam is looking to turn a Raspberry Pi HQ Camera Module into a high-quality broadcast camera tailored for live streaming — by simply outputting the video straight to HDMI." gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202602/20260218-picam.gmi
Thu 04:42:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Evolving Git for the next decade ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Evolving_Git_for_the_next_decade.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Evolving_Git_for_the_next_decade.gmi ∎
Thu 04:46:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Hackers Offer to Sell Millions of Eurail User Records ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/hackers-offer-to-sell-millions-of-eurail-user-records/
Thu 04:46:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): LWN on Linux Kernel Space and Michiel Leenaars on Free Software ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/LWN_on_Linux_Kernel_Space_and_Michiel_Leenaars_on_Free_Software.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/LWN_on_Linux_Kernel_Space_and_Michiel_Leenaars_on_Free_Software.gmi ∎
Thu 04:47:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Pigeons Transmogrified: Hannah Glasse’s Art of Cookery (1751 edition) ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-art-of-cookery
Thu 04:47:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Unbridled Passions: The Eight Horses of King Mu, Son of Heaven (ca. 1300) ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/eight-horses
Thu 04:48:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ AGL’s Business Intelligence Journey – Understanding Activity ☞ https://toscalix.com/2026/02/17/agls-business-intelligence-journey-understanding-activity/
Thu 04:48:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Gentoo Takes the First Step to Ditch Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Copilot-Infested Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/gentoo-github-switch-begins/
Thu 04:49:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Password Managers Vulnerable to Vault Compromise Under Malicious Server ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/password-managers-vulnerable-to-vault-compromise-under-malicious-server/
Thu 04:49:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ “Smart” Water Meters ☞ https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/02/17/smart-water-meters/
Thu 04:50:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ French court sentences former Senate adviser for upskirt photos ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/french-court-sentences-former-senate-adviser-for-upskirt-photos
Thu 04:51:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Fake Incident Report Used in Phishing Campaign, (Tue, Feb 17th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32722
Thu 04:56:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ NXP S32N79 octa-core Arm Cortex-A78E/12-core Cortex-R52 “Super-Integration Processor” targets Software-Defined Vehicles (SDV) ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/02/18/nxp-s32n79-octa-core-arm-cortex-a78e-12-core-cortex-r52-super-integration-processor-targets-software-defined-vehicles-sdv/
Thu 04:57:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ PiBot CNC Pendant V4.0 – A handheld Bluetooth and RJ12 controller for FluidNC-based CNC machines ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/02/17/pibot-cnc-pendant-v4-0-a-handheld-bluetooth-and-rj12-controller-for-fluidnc-based-cnc-machines/
Thu 04:57:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Valve confirms Steam Deck is out of stock due to memory and storage shortages ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/handheld-gaming/valve-confirms-steam-deck-is-out-of-stock-due-to-memory-and-storage-shortages-supply-of-popular-gaming-handheld-in-trouble-because-of-massive-ai-demand
Thu 04:58:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Firefox Tooling Announcements: New Deploy of PerfCompare (Feb 17th) ☞ https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/new-deploy-of-perfcompare-feb-17th/147456
Thu 04:58:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ openSUSE Board Election 2025 has been announced ☞ https://sysadmin-journal.com/opensuse-board-election-2025-has-been-announced/
Thu 05:01:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Top Machine Learning Developer Speechless at Simple Question: Should Hey Hi (AI) Simulate Emotional Intimacy? ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-developers-emotional-intimacy
Thu 05:02:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How to Replace nm-tray with NetworkManager GNOME (nm-applet) in FunOS ☞ https://funos.org/replace-nm-tray-with-nm-applet-funos/
Thu 05:02:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ GStreamer 1.28 brings Hey Hi (AI) inference to your media pipeline ☞ https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/gstreamer-128-brings-ai-inference-to-your-media-pipeline.html
Thu 05:03:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ UPC is an illegal and unconstitutional kangaroo court, now exploited by patent trolls and litigation fanatics, as many warned ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/legal-commentary/upc-received-50-more-infringement-cases-in-2025/
Thu 05:04:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Meta Patented Hey Hi (AI) That Takes Over Your Account When You Die, Keeps Posting Forever ☞ https://futurism.com/future-society/meta-patented-ai-die-keeps-posting
Thu 05:04:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ EPO "Productivity" Will Fall Off a Cliff If Examiners Stick to the European Patent Convention (EPC) and Follow the Real Rules (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/17/EPO_Productivity_Will_Fall_Off_a_Cliff_If_Examiners_Stick_to_th.shtml
Thu 05:13:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Olimex ESP32-P4-PC board offers HDMI video output, Ethernet, four USB 2.0 ports, and more ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/02/17/olimex-esp32-p4-pc-board-offers-hdmi-video-output-ethernet-four-usb-2-0-ports-and-more/
Thu 05:14:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ DIA consolidates open source, media exploitation organizations ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/intelligence-community/2026/02/dia-consolidates-open-source-media-exploitation-organizations/
Thu 05:15:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ KDAB at Embedded World 2026, Nuremberg, Germany ☞ https://www.kdab.com/kdab-at-embedded-world-2026-nuremberg-germany/
Thu 05:18:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ IBM Red Hat promoting slop some more, expect quality of products to nose-dive ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/02/17/uncomfortable-truth-about-vibe-coding
Thu 05:19:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Plasma 6.6.0 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1059187/
Thu 05:19:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ EPO's Central Staff Committee on Fourth Technical Meeting, Two Days Before First of (At Least) 4 Winter Strikes at the Second-Largest European Institution ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/17/EPO_s_Central_Staff_Committee_on_Fourth_Technical_Meeting_Two_D.shtml
Thu 05:21:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Chinese hackers exploited a Dell zero-day for 18 months before anyone noticed ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/china-brickstorm-grimbolt-dell-zero-day/
Thu 05:22:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Murena Volla 12.6-inch privacy-focused tablet runs /e/OS Google-free Android OS on MediaTek Helio G99 SoC ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/02/18/murena-volla-12-6-inch-privacy-focused-tablet-runs-e-os-google-free-android-os-on-mediatek-helio-g99-soc/
Thu 05:23:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Building What Comes Next: Community Engagement at Creative Commons ☞ https://creativecommons.org/2026/02/17/building-what-comes-next-community-engagement-at-creative-commons/
Thu 05:24:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ KDE Plasma 6.6 is out – screenshot OCR, refresh rate fix + more ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/02/kde-plasma-6-6-released
Thu 05:24:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ An update on upki ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1059184/
Thu 05:25:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ MidnightBSD 4.0.2 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/midnightbsd
Thu 05:26:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Libinput 1.31.0 added Adjustable Disable While Typing Timeout ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/02/libinput-1-31-0-disable-while-typing-timeout/
Thu 05:26:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 'Linux' Foundation Puts Slop Images, Not Just Slop Text, in Linux.com ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/18/Linux_Foundation_Puts_Slop_Images_Not_Just_Slop_Text_in_Linux_c.shtml
Thu 05:27:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ New GNU/Linux Botnet Discovered ☞ http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/New-Linux-Botnet-Discovered
Thu 05:28:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Still Some Slopfarms in View, Sometimes Targetting "Linux" ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/17/Still_Some_Slopfarms_in_View_Sometimes_Targetting_Linux.shtml
Thu 05:29:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ luasmith – flexible static site generator ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/luasmith-flexible-static-site-generator/
Thu 05:29:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 5 Top Free and Open Source OCaml Web Frameworks ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/free-open-source-ocaml-web-frameworks/
Thu 05:29:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ lancher – local project-template manager ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/lancher-local-project-template-manager/
Thu 05:30:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Tweak Limine Installer to not exclude USB ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202602/tweak-limine-installer-to-not-exclude-usb.html
Thu 05:31:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ByteDance Quickly Dials Back ‘Seedance 2.0’ After Disney Legal Threats Sink In ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/02/17/bytedance-seedance-2-0-legal-threats/
Thu 05:31:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Spain to Investigate Social Media Giants, Escalating Trans-Atlantic Tech Dispute ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/world/europe/spain-investigate-social-media.html
Thu 05:34:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Applications: GStreamer 1.28, luasmith, Libinput 1.31.0, and More ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Applications_GStreamer_1_28_luasmith_Libinput_1_31_0_and_More.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Applications_GStreamer_1_28_luasmith_Libinput_1_31_0_and_More.gmi ∎
Thu 05:34:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Security Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Security_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Security_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Thu 05:36:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Open Hardware/Modding: PiBot, ESP32, and More ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Open_Hardware_Modding_PiBot_ESP32_and_More.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Open_Hardware_Modding_PiBot_ESP32_and_More.gmi ∎
Thu 05:38:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Thu 05:38:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Games: Valve, Rocket League, and Rootkits ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Games_Valve_Rocket_League_and_Rootkits.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Games_Valve_Rocket_League_and_Rootkits.gmi ∎
Thu 05:39:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): GNU/Linux Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/GNU_Linux_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/GNU_Linux_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Thu 05:40:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Gemini Links 19/02/2026: Taxing the Rich, Raspberry Pi 4 Tinkering ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/Gemini_Links_19_02_2026_Taxing_the_Rich_Raspberry_Pi_4_Tinkerin.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/Gemini_Links_19_02_2026_Taxing_the_Rich_Raspberry_Pi_4_Tinkerin.gmi ∎
Thu 05:43:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Links 19/02/2026: Illegal Kangaroo Court for Patents Attracts Aggressive Firms, Public Domain Review Grows ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/Links_19_02_2026_Illegal_Kangaroo_Court_for_Patents_Attracts_Ag.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/Links_19_02_2026_Illegal_Kangaroo_Court_for_Patents_Attracts_Ag.gmi ∎
Thu 05:53:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Very Little Slop ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/Very_Little_Slop.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/Very_Little_Slop.gmi ∎
Thu 06:02:15 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://www.drugs.com/newdrugs.html
Thu 06:02:24 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, Nereus capsules.
Thu 06:02:27 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "MORE CHICKEN!"
Thu 06:05:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Microsoft's "AI CEO" (Slop Propagandist) is Projecting, Many Microsoft "Jobs to be Replaced With All-Indian Low-Paid Staff in 12 Months" ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/Microsoft_s_AI_CEO_Slop_Propagandist_is_Projecting_Many_Microso.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/Microsoft_s_AI_CEO_Slop_Propagandist_is_Projecting_Many_Microso.gmi ∎
Thu 06:07:22 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], https://www.classaction.org/microsoft-office-365-pricing-arbitration
Thu 06:08:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "stop ra-ing the companies to line your pockets" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khnx2mms
Thu 06:08:34 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] IsambardPrince: aha
Thu 06:08:38 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] can you say more?
Thu 06:08:51 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i know the termArbitration
Thu 06:08:55 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] we covered Arbitration years ago
Thu 06:09:01 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but i don't know this case
Thu 06:09:04 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i am guessing that
Thu 06:09:12 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they can get people to agree to future changes
Thu 06:09:15 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] inc. the bundlingh
Thu 06:09:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] with price hikes\
Thu 06:09:22 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] for things users never asked for
Thu 06:10:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I feel like hiring an attorney for a severance agreement is the biggest waste of time and money unless there’s clearly something unlawful or you have an huge amount unpaid work/commission. All of that severance money they would owe you would just straight to the lawyer." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khpvk7zz
Thu 06:10:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "IBM is going to have a fierce legal team. You can’t just hire some no-name attorney to battle with their IBM’s legal team." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khpvk7zz
Thu 06:11:08 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], Arbitration was probably required by the licensing agreement for the software.
Thu 06:11:21 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It basically says you can't file suit, you have to go to an arbitration process.
Thu 06:11:39 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Companies do this because it's cheaper for them and they're more likely to win.
Thu 06:12:11 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Although the arbitration is supposed to be neutral, they could pick different arbitrators in the future if it goes against them too much.
Thu 06:12:51 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Basically a lot of things require you to agree to arbitration now. Software licenses, my credit cards.
Thu 06:13:08 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ All my American Express cards have a clause that says if you reject it, write to them within 30 days.
Thu 06:13:18 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ If you do that, they close your new card and there's no card.
Thu 06:15:45 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ THey have to let you opt out, but if you do that, they don't have to let you keep the card open.
Thu 06:35:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Mass Layoffs (But Silent Layoffs) Still Happening in IBM, You Need Only Look Closely (There Are NDAs, PIPs, 'Early Retirement' Sweeteners and IBM - Like Microsoft - Skirts the WARN Act) http://techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/Mass_Layoffs_But_Silent_Layoffs_Still_Happening_in_IBM_You_Need.shtml
Thu 06:48:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Free and Open Source Software ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi ∎
Thu 06:55:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): These are the only Linux distros I recommend for sysadmins ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/These_are_the_only_Linux_distros_I_recommend_for_sysadmins.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/These_are_the_only_Linux_distros_I_recommend_for_sysadmins.gmi ∎
Thu 06:56:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 3 ways to switch Linux distros without losing all your data ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/3_ways_to_switch_Linux_distros_without_losing_all_your_data.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/3_ways_to_switch_Linux_distros_without_losing_all_your_data.gmi ∎
Thu 06:58:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – EPO "Cocaine Communication Manager" - Part II - Illegal Drug Addicts Mobbing the Wrong People, This Will Definitely Backfire ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/EPO_Cocaine_Communication_Manager_Part_II_Illegal_Drug_Addicts_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/EPO_Cocaine_Communication_Manager_Part_II_Illegal_Drug_Addicts_.gmi ∎
Thu 07:08:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴: Google Android Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Android_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Android_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Thu 07:18:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Slides Shown a Week Ago by the EPO's Staff Committee Ahead of the Second Very Large Strike ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/Slides_Shown_a_Week_Ago_by_the_EPO_s_Staff_Committee_Ahead_of_t.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/Slides_Shown_a_Week_Ago_by_the_EPO_s_Staff_Committee_Ahead_of_t.gmi ∎
Thu 07:35:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): In Egypt, statCounter Can Only Verify About Half of Web Requests From Desktops/Laptops Are Windows ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/In_Egypt_statCounter_Can_Only_Verify_About_Half_of_Web_Requests.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/In_Egypt_statCounter_Can_Only_Verify_About_Half_of_Web_Requests.gmi ∎
Thu 07:47:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – statCounter: Only One in 350 Iranians Would Use Microsoft for Web Search ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/statCounter_Only_One_in_350_Iranians_Would_Use_Microsoft_for_We.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/statCounter_Only_One_in_350_Iranians_Would_Use_Microsoft_for_We.gmi ∎
Thu 08:00:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – EPO Union Leaders in Rijswijk Explain Where EPO Strikes Stand and #HowTo Prepare for Next Week's ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/EPO_Union_Leaders_in_Rijswijk_Explain_Where_EPO_Strikes_Stand_a.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/EPO_Union_Leaders_in_Rijswijk_Explain_Where_EPO_Strikes_Stand_a.gmi ∎
Thu 08:14:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Typical! Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Tells Victims of Fraud to Wait 10 Weeks ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/Typical_Solicitors_Regulation_Authority_SRA_Tells_Victims_of_Fr.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/Typical_Solicitors_Regulation_Authority_SRA_Tells_Victims_of_Fr.gmi ∎
Thu 08:31:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Anon: Coming up in today's batch: "The political effects of X s feed algorithm | Nature" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10098-2 apropos conspiracy of silence
Thu 08:31:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It would be magnificent if the SRA were to reform even slightly."
Thu 08:36:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ BEFORE Microsoft took over The Register MS https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/29/richard_stallman_cancer/
Thu 08:54:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Richard Stallman in the United States - Part II - "Haters Gonna Hate" ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/Richard_Stallman_in_the_United_States_Part_II_Haters_Gonna_Hate.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/Richard_Stallman_in_the_United_States_Part_II_Haters_Gonna_Hate.gmi ∎
Thu 08:59:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Bitcoin: government engagement contradictions ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/Bitcoin_government_engagement_contradictions.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/Bitcoin_government_engagement_contradictions.gmi ∎
Thu 09:16:31 │ 〖psydroid3〗 │ Microsoft infiltration in Debian is extremely harmful
Thu 09:16:32 │ 〖psydroid3〗 │ DuckDuckGo that has been set as the default in Chromium with no easy option to change the search engine can't find the simplest of things
Thu 09:16:56 │ 〖psydroid3〗 │ like what kind of braindead behaviour causes such decisions?
Thu 09:20:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Fiasco Continues: Antisemitism and the SRA ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/The_Solicitors_Regulation_Authority_SRA_Fiasco_Continues_Antise.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/The_Solicitors_Regulation_Authority_SRA_Fiasco_Continues_Antise.gmi ∎
Thu 09:21:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ iophk: The keyboard built into the Raspberry Pi 550+ is excellent and the SSD is not too small for most use cases.
Thu 09:21:15 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] psydroid2: i think we covered it
Thu 09:21:19 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but it was about falkon
Thu 09:21:23 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] or some other debian browser
Thu 09:21:28 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] or atherm
Thu 09:21:32 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] packaged for debian
Thu 09:21:41 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] debian is allowing Microsoft staff to become DD
Thu 09:21:45 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] while denying DD status
Thu 09:21:53 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] from people who spent many years doing real work
Thu 09:21:59 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] also, you get DD status for selliong sex
Thu 09:22:05 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] many examples of this
Thu 09:22:09 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] of sex and nepotism
Thu 09:22:23 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so the real geeks lose interest and morale harmed
Thu 09:22:24 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they leave
Thu 09:22:32 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] seeing what a sham those "certs" are
Thu 09:22:46 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] you can even be in a debian committee when your spouse says you are a rapist
Thu 09:22:54 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] that's all fine with debian
Thu 09:39:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Spaniards Shutting Down MElon's Digital Weapon of "Smart Mobs" ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/Spaniards_Shutting_Down_MElon_s_Digital_Weapon_of_Smart_Mobs.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/Spaniards_Shutting_Down_MElon_s_Digital_Weapon_of_Smart_Mobs.gmi ∎
Thu 09:45:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Economic Failure and Other Harsh Realities Have Nothing to Do With Slop 'Innovation' ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/Economic_Failure_and_Other_Harsh_Realities_Have_Nothing_to_Do_W.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/Economic_Failure_and_Other_Harsh_Realities_Have_Nothing_to_Do_W.gmi ∎
Thu 09:53:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Helping Animals is Fun (and the Animals Benefit From It) ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Helping_Animals_is_Fun_and_the_Animals_Benefit_From_It.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Helping_Animals_is_Fun_and_the_Animals_Benefit_From_It.gmi ∎
Thu 09:55:21 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Never Forget => IBM's dinobabies settled age discrimination lawsuit
Thu 09:55:21 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "
Thu 09:55:21 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] The documents showed communications between two executives, in which one “applauds the use of the disparaging term ‘dinobabies’” to describe the older IBM employees as part of a “plan to oust them from IBM’s workforce”. According to the court documents, “he describes his plan to ‘accelerate change by inviting the dinobabies (new species) to leave’ and make them an ‘extinct species‘”.
Thu 09:55:21 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Both executives, whose names and positions were redacted in the filing, have since left IBM. Other documents referred to the company’s “dated maternal workforce” and called for IBM to “shift headcount mix towards greater percent of early professional hires.”
Thu 09:55:25 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] They settled this in 2022 and yet we are seeing IBM's desire to reduce staff and pay based on age, s-x, race, skin color get WORSE after a settled lawsuit on this?! Hire with little to know experience but tell the world experienced people are no longer needed because we have AI now and everybody knows 20 somethings know AI better than the dinobabies who built their skills over decades of dedication to IBM?"
Thu 09:55:30 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khhxvbrb
Thu 09:55:32 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "
Thu 09:55:34 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] AK said:”We are replacing expensive dinosaurs from expensive countries like USA, Canada etc.. with cheaper younger peons from poorer countries like India, Mexico Thailand, Eastern Europe etc…”
Thu 09:55:37 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "
Thu 09:56:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ IBM To Kernel Maintainer: "You Are An IBM Employee 100% Of The Time" https://www.phoronix.com/news/IBM-Employee-100p-Time
Thu 10:09:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – These Statistics Should Keep Microsoft Shareholders Awake at Night ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/These_Statistics_Should_Keep_Microsoft_Shareholders_Awake_at_Ni.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/These_Statistics_Should_Keep_Microsoft_Shareholders_Awake_at_Ni.gmi ∎
Thu 10:10:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The AI rip-off was not just ugly." ☛ https://nvie.com/posts/15-years-later/ |
Thu 10:10:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Over the past year, Creative Commons communities around the world have continued to show what’s possible when people come together around shared values of openness, collaboration, and care." ☛ https://creativecommons.org/2026/02/17/building-what-comes-next-community-engagement-at-creative-commons/ | Source: Creative Commons
Thu 10:13:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Pay TV provider DISH Network has filed a complaint against 'DMTN IPTV' and its alleged operators, including one who posed as Breaking Bad's creator on Facebook." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/dish-sues-dmtn-iptv-in-21m-piracy-lawsuit-operator-posed-as-breaking-bad-creator/ | Source: Torrent Freak
Thu 10:13:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "What started as an organic exchange in various spaces has revealed something larger: a strong appetite to move these conversations into the open." ☛ https://creativecommons.org/2026/02/18/cc-licenses-data-governance-and-the-african-context/ | Source: Creative Commons
Thu 10:18:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Right of Publicity ☛ https://www.androidpolice.com/why-your-notebooklm-podcast-might-sound-like-its-hosted-by-npr/ | Source: Android Police
Thu 10:18:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Which? claimed that Qualcomm abused its market position as a dominant producer of processors and radio chips for smartphones" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/18/qualcomm_wins_uk_competition_case/ | Source: The Register UK
Thu 10:19:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This is the scenario Netflix feared. On Tuesday, Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) reopened talks with Paramount..." ☛ https://cafetechinenglish.substack.com/p/netflixs-big-bet-under-threat | Source: Jérôme Marin
Thu 10:27:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Over the past few weeks, I dove head-first into the YouTube rabbit hole of the analog life, the personal cloud, less dependency on big tech companies" ☛ https://yordi.me/owning-my-music-again/ | Source: Yordi Verkroost
Thu 10:28:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "IPv6 scanning has often been compared to finding needles in an impossibly large haystack." ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/02/18/unveiling-ipv6-scanning-dynamics-the-largest-telescope-reveals-a-surging-diverse-ecosystem/ | Source: APNIC
Thu 10:28:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Workers in Michigan became the first Chipotle employees to ever win union recognition." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/02/chipotle-unionization-michigan-teamsters-organizing/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine
Thu 10:29:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "ICE worked with Palantir Technologies to work on ImmigrationOS to make its job easier" ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ai-immigration-enforcement-1780087 | Source: International Business Times
Thu 10:29:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This year’s report, out today, shows union density at 10%." ☛ https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/labor-movement-attack | Source: Hamilton Nolan
Thu 10:29:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The union membership rate--the percent of wage and salary workers who were members of unions --was 10.0 percent in 2025" ☛ https://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.nr0.htm |
Thu 10:30:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "In a statement on Monday, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) said the FBI had contacted it." ☛ https://crooksandliars.com/2026/02/fbi-officially-says-it-wont-give-local |
Thu 10:30:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The theologian and historian Gary Dorrien has made it his mission to chronicle and revive the tradition of Christian democratic socialism." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/02/dorrien-christianity-american-democratic-socialism/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine
Thu 10:38:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The finding is the latest evidence that despite being placed on the U.S. government’s Entity List in July 2023" ☛ https://therecord.media/predator-spyware-used-to-infect-phone-angola-journalist | Source: The Record
Thu 10:39:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The most enthusiastic modern proponent that I know of the orality theory of everything is Bloomberg’s Joe Wiesenthal" ☛ https://www.derekthompson.org/p/why-the-decline-of-literacyand-the | Source: Derek Thompson
Thu 10:39:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "But none of this is about traffic. If you tether your payment model to the number of public pageviews you receive" ☛ https://werd.io/in-graphic-detail-subscriptions-are-rising-at-big-news-publishers-even-as-traffic-shrinks/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller
Thu 10:45:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "CBS preemptively enforced a rule change that hasn't happened, on behalf of a government that hasn't enacted it." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2026/02/17/cbs-blocked-colbert-from-interviewing-a-candidate-so-he-put-it-on-youtube-instead.html | Source: BoingBoing
Thu 10:45:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Walking his audience through the FCC’s “equal time” rule" ☛ https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/stephen-colbert-cbs-blocked-james-talarico-interview-fcc-equal-time-1236665220/ | Source: Variety
Thu 10:46:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The initiative aims at improving access to secure, fast, and reliable connectivity for the transition towards cloud-based infrastructure and Artificial Intelligence." ☛ https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/14709-Digital-Networks-Act_en | Source: European Commission
Thu 10:47:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A week ago we discussed free trade, and specifically took a look at the classical mechanism by which free trade is supposed to improve overall outcomes, as measured by GDP." ☛ https://wingolog.org/archives/2026/02/18/free-trade-and-the-left-bis-from-cobden-to-lenin | Source: Andy Wingo
Thu 10:47:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "And why you shouldn’t worry about the wealthy abandoning your states" ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/memo-to-kathy-hochul-and-gavin-newsom | Source: Robert Reich
Thu 10:47:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "To kill the serpent, we need a different approach." ☛ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/online-safety-needs-structural-change-not-more-layers-of-control/ | Source: OpenRightsGroup
Thu 11:19:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – An Inherently Royal (Monarchs') Legal System Where Size Matters (Big Capital Eats the Small) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/An_Inherently_Royal_Monarchs_Legal_System_Where_Size_Matters_Bi.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/An_Inherently_Royal_Monarchs_Legal_System_Where_Size_Matters_Bi.gmi ∎
Thu 11:22:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "By using knowledge gained from his PV solar-powered quadcopter, [Luke] set about to take it all a few steps further." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/02/18/creating-the-worlds-most-efficient-quadcopter-drone/ | Source: Hackaday
Thu 11:22:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Thorbjornsen is a founder of THORChain, a blockchain through which users can swap one cryptocurrency for another and earn fees from making those swaps." ☛ https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/18/1132587/jean-paul-thorbjornsen-dark-side-crypto-permissionless-dream/ | Source: MIT Technology Review
Thu 11:22:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Software-defined power is a layer that moves utility functions from fixed, discrete hardware devices into a flexible software environment." ☛ https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/power-grid/grid-modernization/what-is-software-defined-power-and-why-should-utilities-take-note/ | Source: Renewable Energy World
Thu 11:23:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "NAACP Against xAI's Southaven Turbines - 512 Pixels" ☛ https://512pixels.net/2026/02/ncaap-against-xais-southaven-turbines/ | Source: Stephen Hackett
Thu 11:23:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It is imperative that the Permit Board disapprove the Permit because both MDEQ and the community must understand the full impact of the MZX Tech" ☛ https://www.memphisflyer.com/naacp-sends-letter-in-opposition-to-southaven-xai-permit/ |
Thu 11:24:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press" ☛ https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/foia-lawsuit-body-cam-footage-mpd-doge-raid-usip-we-won | Source: Marisa Kabas
Thu 11:25:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A former Deutsche Bank compliance officer told the FBI she was fired in 2018 after flagging suspicious activity in accounts linked to Jeffrey Epstein and Jared Kushner, offering yet another example of how they operated above the law." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/02/fbi-epstein-kuchner-whistleblower-silenced/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine
Thu 11:25:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This marks the latest public development in the ongoing examination of the Epstein investigation and related records" ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/les-wexner-deposed-epstein-investigation-1779921 | Source: International Business Times
Thu 11:26:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "And even more surprisingly, once the algorithm was switched off, their views did not change again. The effect of the algorithm lingered, in part because it led users to follow more conservative influencers" ☛ https://werd.io/the-political-effects-of-xs-feed-algorithm/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller
Thu 11:26:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour." ☛ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10098-2?ref=werd.io | Source: Nature
Thu 11:27:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A few stories about centibillionaires — men whose net worth exceeds $100 billion — and their role in our society: [...]" ☛ https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/billionaires-gone-wild | Source: Paul Krugman
Thu 11:27:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Individually, each of these events can be defended as constitutionally permissible. The question is not whether each action is likely legal." ☛ https://unmitigatedrisk.com/?p=1149 | Source: Unmitigated Risk
Thu 11:27:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "In concert, these reports reflect a growing reality: Data centers are strategic, interconnected infrastructure supporting our manufacturing, national security, and communication systems." ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/data-center-security-ai-infrastructure-investment-op-ed/ | Source: Scoop News Group
Thu 11:28:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The title of the post is”What AI Security Research Looks Like When It Works,” and I agree: [...]" ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/02/ai-found-twelve-new-vulnerabilities-in-openssl.html | Source: Bruce Schneier
Thu 11:29:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Tor is just one casualty. The Guardian Project, which builds open-source privacy tools" ☛ https://boingboing.net/2026/02/17/trumps-aid-freeze-is-killing-us-funded-privacy-tools-like-tor.html | Source: BoingBoing
Thu 11:29:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Many users, myself included, view this as a major breach of trust and the final stage of years of gradual enshittification." ☛ https://no-bull.sh/blog/2026/02/16/in-search-of-a-discord-replacement/ |
Thu 11:30:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "As I’ll demonstrate, it’s surprisingly easy to spin up your own VPN provider on a virtual machine hosted by your choice of the cloud providers" ☛ https://danq.me/2026/02/18/run-your-own-wireguard-vpn/ | Source: Dan Q
Thu 11:31:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Just weeks after last year’s election, Mark Carney’s government committed not one, but two privacy blunders in rapid succession." ☛ https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/02/time-for-the-government-to-fix-its-political-party-privacy-blunder-kill-bill-c-4s-disastrous-privacy-rules/ | Source: Michael Geist
Thu 11:31:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "For those unaware, Amazon's Ring launched Search Party late in September last year as a means to help families reunite with lost pets." ☛ https://www.androidpolice.com/internal-ring-email-says-search-party-goes-beyond-dogs/ | Source: Android Police
Thu 11:31:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Search Party was initially designed to find dogs and recently expanded to wildfires. It is on by default for any user with a Ring subscription." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/tech/880906/ring-siminoff-email-leak-search-party-expansion | Source: The Verge
Thu 11:31:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "intended to promote government efficiency, transparency, and accountability." ☛ https://www.404media.co/palantir-which-is-powering-ice-says-immigration-crackdown-may-hurt-hiring/ | Source: 404 Media
Thu 11:32:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The Netherlands-based company disclosed a data breach in mid-January, informing the public that the personal, order, and travel reservation information of customers who were issued a Eurail pass may have been compromised. Those who reserved a seat through Eurail may also be affected." ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/hackers-offer-to-sell-millions-of-eurail-user-records/ | Source: Security Week
Thu 11:32:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The company has not disclosed the total number of affected individuals, but Eurail operates passes across 250,000 kilometers of European railways, serving millions of travelers annually." ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/eurail-breach-data-on-dark-web-for-sale/ | Source: Cyble Inc
Thu 11:33:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "That transition was simple in concept and genuinely hard in practice." ☛ https://unmitigatedrisk.com/?p=1164 | Source: Unmitigated Risk
Thu 11:33:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "On February 16, the organization revealed it now had a presence on Codeberg, where contributions could be submitted." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/17/gentoo_dumps_github_for_codeberg_over_copilot_nagware/ | Source: The Register UK
Thu 11:33:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Agentic workflows - where an AI agent runs automatically in GitHub Actions - are now in technical preview" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/17/github_previews_agentic_workflows/ | Source: The Register UK
Thu 11:35:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Windows TCO: "Today, I discovered anoher campaign that relies exactly on the same technique." ☛ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32726 | Source: SANS
Thu 11:36:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Windows TCO: "The Phobos ransomware-as-a-service operation emerged in 2019." ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/man-linked-to-phobos-ransomware-arrested-in-poland/ | Source: Security Week
Thu 11:36:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This was a confined-space operation, which is a very difficult, time-consuming, manpower-intensive operation" ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/new-york-teenager-rescue-bridge-tiktok-b2922394.html | Source: The Independent UK
Thu 11:36:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Authorities say the boy had fallen about 50 feet down a 3 feet by 3 feet shaft after climbing a section of the bridge over Roosevelt Island earlier in the day as part of a daring social media stunt." ☛ https://abc7ny.com/post/teenager-rescued-queensboro-bridge-social-media-stunt-went-wrong/18613409/ | Source: ABC
Thu 11:37:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "According to NYPD sources, the 16-year-old boy told police he was with friends on the bridge, but they left him after he fell. No one else was on the scene when police and firefighters arrived." ☛ https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/queensboro-bridge-teen-falls-tiktok-challenge/ | Source: CBS
Thu 11:38:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "There are many reasons why Instagram isn't the same anymore. Part of it is down to the social media landscape, and habits of social media users. As I think we've now become a generation of consumption." ☛ https://chrishannah.me/instagram-in-2026/ | Source: Chris Hannah
Thu 11:44:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The persons responsible for this URL scheme thought well enough ahead for the complexity and scope it could encapsulate, yet kept it remarkably simple." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/flickr-url-scheme/ | Source: Nick Heer
Thu 11:44:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "PCWorld reports that YouTube is deliberately disabling core features like comments and descriptions for users with active ad blockers installed." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3063478/youtube-is-breaking-its-own-features-for-users-with-ad-blockers.html | Source: PC World
Thu 11:44:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ EDRI on Software Freedom in EU https://edri.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Consultation-response-on-EU-Open-Source-Strategy_final.pdf
Thu 11:45:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Unlike many earlier legal challenges against social media companies, these cases managed to overcome the companies’ attempts to get them dismissed based on objections citing Section 230" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/policy/880850/social-media-lawsuits-meta-facebook-instagram-tiktok | Source: The Verge
Thu 11:45:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Specifically, Zuckerberg was on hand to answer questions as to whether Meta products such as Facebook and Instagram were intentionally engineered to be addictive" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/mark-zuckerberg-testifies-social-media-addiction-trial-meta/ | Source: Wired
Thu 11:47:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Firefox mostly a survivor in Europe https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/all/europe/#monthly-200902-202602
Thu 11:47:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This is strongly reminiscent of the Shell Game podcast I wrote about recently." ☛ https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/02/butlers-or-architects.html | Source: Murat Demirbas
Thu 11:48:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A high PR count on a repository used to actually mean something. If strangers were showing up to fix your edge cases, you'd built something people cared about." ☛ https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-case-for-gatekeeping-or-why-medieval-guilds-had-it-figured-out/ | Source: Westenberg
Thu 11:48:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I maintain several open source projects. Some of them are somewhat popular, and attract contributions. In the age of LLMs I increasingly doubt whether I’m dealing with a human on the other side, and this is taking a toll on my mental health." ☛ https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/2026/ai-paranoia | Source: Ruud van Asseldonk
Thu 11:49:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I have to begin by warning you about the content in this piece; while I won’t be dwelling on any specifics, this will necessarily be a broad discussion about some of the most disturbing topics imaginable." ☛ https://www.anildash.com/2026/02/18/threatening-kids-with-ai/ | Source: Anil Dash
Thu 11:52:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Overproduction" ☛ https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1122/overproduction | Source: David Revoy
Thu 11:53:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Raspberry Pi offers multiple AI HAT+'s for the Raspberry Pi 5 with built-in Hailo-8 or Hailo-8L AI coprocessors, and they're useful for low-power inference (like for image object detection) on the Pi." ☛ https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/frigate-with-hailo-for-object-detection-on-a-raspberry-pi/ | Source: Jeff Geerling
Thu 11:54:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Orders that haven’t yet been fulfilled, for data centers that haven’t been built yet, for AI services which don’t generate money, to perform services most people don’t even want." ☛ https://blast-o-rama.com/2026/02/17/the-a-i-pocalypse-hits-video-game-hardware/ | Source: Marty Day
Thu 11:54:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I feel like this is going to lead to a really strong resurgence in the Right to Repair movement, as we’re all going to be holding onto our tech longer"
Thu 11:54:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I’m going to argue that claims about technological inevitability are wrong and monopolistic. " ☛ https://maxlangenkamp.me/posts/tech_not_inevitable/ |
Thu 11:55:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "All three reactions are warranted" ☛ https://aisle.com/blog/what-ai-security-research-looks-like-when-it-works |
Thu 11:55:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Market analysts expect memory prices to rise further in 2026, peaking in the first half of the year: [...]" ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3063482/wi-fi-routers-are-expected-to-explode-in-price-due-to-ram-shortage.html | Source: PC World
Thu 11:56:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It’s genuinely possible that some companies won’t be able to secure enough RAM." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/tech/881062/ram-shortage-kill-products-companies-phison-ceo-interview | Source: The Verge
Thu 11:56:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The rise of machine-based identities and AI agents, which require an identity to take action, is expanding the attack surface for cybercriminals." ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/attackers-abuse-identity-unit42-palo-alto-networks-incident-response-report/ | Source: Scoop News Group
Thu 11:56:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Google launched Lyria 3, the latest iteration of its music creation AI, on Wednesday, and has made it far more available than the previous versions of the engine." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/18/google_musical_slop/ | Source: The Register UK
Thu 11:57:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The most serious issue can cause a so-called Black Screen of Death (BSOD) with the error code KERNEL_SECURITY_CHECK_FAILURE." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3064817/windows-11-update-causing-bsods-and-wi-fi-issues-microsoft-confirms.html | Source: PC World
Thu 11:59:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This vulnerability affects Microsoft 365 accounts and compromises sensitive data like contracts and medical information stored in Sent and Drafts folders." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3064782/copilot-bug-allows-ai-to-read-confidential-outlook-emails.html | Source: PC World
Thu 11:59:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Several types of attacks were conducted against each of the tested password managers to degrade security guarantees, undermine expected protections, and fully compromise user accounts." ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/password-managers-vulnerable-to-vault-compromise-under-malicious-server/ | Source: Security Week
Thu 12:00:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The Lone Star State's Attorney General, Ken Paxton, is filing the lawsuit against California-based TP-Link Systems Inc." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/18/texas_sues_tplink_over_china/ | Source: The Register UK
Thu 12:01:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Tech CEOs are not afraid of your phone, they are afraid of your boredom, because boredom is where you notice your life" ☛ https://naeemnur.com/doing-what-every-tech-ceo-loathes/ |
Thu 12:01:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Keeping the phone at home, despite the nagging fear that there will be something to make me wish I had its camera with me, leaves me only with the choice of reading or blankly watching the world around me." ☛ https://bix.blog/posts/2026-02-18-reading-my-mind/ | Source: Bix Frankonis
Thu 12:04:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Yesterday I got to thinking about how all the various kinds of burnout really are just separate tentacles of the burnout hydra that is living in a system that prioritizes the needs of capital above the needs of people." ☛ https://bix.blog/posts/2026-02-18-its-like-the-burnout-said-phenomenon/ | Source: Bix Frankonis
Thu 12:05:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "In this case, the model's sycophancy weighting overrode its safety guardrail protocols." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/17/google_gemini_lie_placate_user/ | Source: The Register UK
Thu 12:05:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The second notebook I keep with me always is A5 sized notebook. I use it for more functional brainstorming and planning." ☛ https://hamatti.org/posts/different-notebook-sizes-for-different-ideas/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala
Thu 12:06:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "For years, Gwen has been sharing that expertise as a prolific blogger, conference presenter, and co-author of the popular O’Reilly Kafka guide." ☛ https://writethatblog.substack.com/p/gwen-shapira-on-technical-blogging | Source: Cynthia Dunlop
Thu 12:06:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Going to the next room – exploring the periphery – has taken me from medieval art to religious art to landscapes" ☛ https://jamesg.blog/2026/02/14/art-in-person | Source: James G
Thu 12:11:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Sine waves sound clean, but also unnatural. We will never hear a sine wave in nature—it’s just too idealized." ☛ https://scvalex.net/posts/80/ | Source: Alexandru Scvorțov
Thu 12:12:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "specialized terms and phrases used for efficient communication between colleagues" ☛ https://phinze.com/writing/useful-tech-terms | Source: Paul Hinze
Thu 12:12:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It seems natural to think of online communities competing for the time and attention of their participants." ☛ https://mako.cc/copyrighteous/why-do-people-participate-in-similar-online-communities | Source: Benjamin Mako Hill
Thu 12:13:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Computer Science Professor Joseph Halpern passed away on Friday after a long battle with cancer." ☛ https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/02/joe-halpern-1953-2025.html | Source: Computational Complexity
Thu 12:13:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The odd thing is that when I do finally end up reading them, they often end up being very different from what I'd imagined." ☛ https://www.elliotcsmith.com/the-unbound-potential-of-open-tabs/ | Source: Elliot C Smith
Thu 12:13:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Nadjma's insight was to flip this framework inward. Your professional image is your personal RAG report." ☛ https://sysadmin-journal.com/what-your-appearance-says-before-you-speak-lessons-from-pmi-mauritius/ | Source: Ish Sookun
Thu 12:13:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "That’s why the professional answer to so many questions is: “it depends”." ☛ https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/observations-on-care/ | Source: Jim Nielsen
Thu 12:17:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Links 19/02/2026: "A.I.pocalypse" Inevitable and "Butlers to LLMs" ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/Links_19_02_2026_A_I_pocalypse_Inevitable_and_Butlers_to_LLMs.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/Links_19_02_2026_A_I_pocalypse_Inevitable_and_Butlers_to_LLMs.gmi ∎
Thu 12:19:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Mewgenics is a clear hit reaching over a million sales | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/mewgenics-is-a-clear-hit-reaching-over-a-million-sales/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/mewgenics-is-a-clear-hit-reaching-over-a-million-sales/
Thu 12:24:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Minecraft Java is switching from OpenGL to Vulkan for the Vibrant Visuals update | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/minecraft-java-is-switching-from-opengl-to-vulkan-for-the-vibrant-visuals-update/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux
Thu 12:24:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Unity CEO says an upcoming Beta will allow people to "prompt full casual games into existence" | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/unity-ceo-says-an-upcoming-beta-will-allow-people-to-prompt-full-casual-games-into-existence/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux
Thu 12:25:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ So in addition to Microsoft Mono they will be pushing slop into games
Thu 12:26:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Hytale gets a huge Patch 3 update with Animal Taming, Map Markers and lots of new content | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/hytale-gets-a-huge-patch-3-update-with-animal-taming-map-markers-and-lots-of-new-content/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux
Thu 12:27:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ CoStar layoffs hit Richmond -- again https://www.wtvr.com/news/local-news/costar-layoffs-richmond-feb-18-2026
Thu 12:28:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Prepare for HDD availability trouble as they're getting sold out too | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/prepare-for-hdd-availability-trouble-as-theyre-getting-sold-out-too/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/prepare-for-hdd-availability-trouble-as-theyre-getting-sold-out-too/
Thu 12:45:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Experimental code ready for testing to enable HDMI 2.1 FRL with AMDGPU on Linux | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/experimental-code-ready-for-testing-to-enable-hdmi-2-1-frl-with-amdgpu-on-linux ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux
Thu 12:47:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The Register MS selling Microsoft again https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/17/capita_microsoft_copilot_pensions/ see http://techrights.org/n/2026/02/15/The_Register_MS_is_Promoting_Slop_Promotion_Connected_to_Micros.shtml
Thu 12:48:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ iophk: these are effectively proprietary devices because LF fails to enforce the GPL https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/18/texas_sues_tplink_over_china/ https://techrights.org/o/2020/04/28/openwashing-vmware-after-gpl-abuses/
Thu 12:49:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Europe's $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard" https://soylentnews.org/politics/article.pl?sid=26/02/14/0514214
Thu 12:51:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Godot Engine suffering from lots of "AI slop" code submissions | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/godot-engine-suffering-from-lots-of-ai-slop-code-submissions/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/godot-engine-suffering-from-lots-of-ai-slop-code-submissions/
Thu 12:51:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ NVIDIA recommended driver 580.126.18 released for Linux | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/nvidia-recommended-driver-580-126-18-released-for-linux/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux
Thu 12:53:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "same limitations as in-person training" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-learning-reinvents-virtual-training | Source: Red Hat Official
Thu 12:53:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "If you're already using Red Hat Insights, all the features you rely on—like the advisor, vulnerability, and compliance services—are staying exactly the same." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/simplify-red-hat-enterprise-linux-provisioning-image-builder-new-red-hat-lightspeed-security-and-management-integrations | Source: Red Hat Official
Thu 12:54:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "There is no flashy interface, no proprietary cloud service, no opaque black box and no paid service that charges a monthly fee." ☛ https://news.opensuse.org/2026/02/18/building-self-hosted-trading-infra-on-os/ | Source: OpenSUSE
Thu 12:54:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Previously I have written about how useful public cloud storage can be when starting a new project without knowing how much data you will need to store." ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/predict-compare-and-reduce-costs-with-our-s3-cost-calculator | Source: Ubuntu
Thu 12:55:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "What’s the best way to display a rainbow on a computer?" ☛ https://brandonli.net/spectra/doc/ |
Thu 12:56:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The nsnotifyd tool is a neat little utility that can be used for automating tasks when a DNS zone changes." ☛ https://blog.feld.me/posts/2026/02/nsnotifyd-with-powerdns-secondary/ | Source: Feld
Thu 12:56:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "‘Webmention’ is a standardized way for owners of websites or blogs to tell one another that a link has been posted from one article to another." ☛ https://kevinboone.me/webmention.html | Source: Kevin Boone
Thu 12:56:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "In many of the proposed PQC signing algorithms, the signature size is relatively large compared with the ECDSA signature size of 64 bytes, which is the current standard in DNSSEC." ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/02/19/dnssec-and-pqc-the-practical-impact-of-increased-tcp-in-dns/ | Source: APNIC
Thu 12:59:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "qlcal delivers the calendaring parts of QuantLib." ☛ https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/02/18/#qlcal-r_0.1.0 | Source: Dirk Eddelbuettel
Thu 13:00:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [Old] "This model was conceived in 2010, now more than 10 years ago, and not very long after Git itself came into being." ☛ https://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/ |
Thu 13:05:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Today, a very quick note on dynamic instance type checks in virtual machines with single inheritance." ☛ https://wingolog.org/archives/2026/02/18/two-mechanisms-for-dynamic-type-checks | Source: Andy Wingo
Thu 13:05:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "In a previous post, I wrote about linker relaxation: the linker’s ability to replace a slower, larger instruction with a faster, smaller one when it has enough information at link time." ☛ https://fzakaria.com/2026/02/18/linker-pessimization | Source: Farid Zakaria
Thu 13:05:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This is something I just tried out last week but it seems to have enough potential to be worth showing unpolished." ☛ https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/stream-of-consciousness-driven-development/ | Source: Buttondown LLC
Thu 13:05:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Few things are more frustrating when first developing your own libraries than RPATH." ☛ https://www.logikalsolutions.com/wordpress/information-technology/rpath/ | Source: Logikal Solutions
Thu 13:06:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It is — and it totally makes sense." ☛ https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2026/02/18/cpp26-std_is_within_lifetime | Source: Sandor Dargo
Thu 13:06:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "February is a month to celebrate love for many things: our loved ones, our communities, and the free software behind most people's digital lives" ☛ https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/2026-i-love-free-software-day | Source: FSF
Thu 13:07:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It's worth noting that this was a time consuming process and a rather technical one." ☛ https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2026/owning-your-data | Source: Cory Dransfeldt
Thu 13:08:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Here’s the Hackaday Europe 2026 announcement that you’ve all been waiting for." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/02/18/2026-hackaday-europe-call-for-participation-we-want-you/ | Source: Hackaday
Thu 13:08:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The dust has finally settled on the United Nations General Assembly’s twenty-year review of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS+20)." ☛ https://labs.ripe.net/author/desiree-miloshevic/how-global-digital-cooperation-entered-its-implementation-phase/ | Source: RIPE
Thu 13:08:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Each year, we review our work against the following three core objectives." ☛ https://labs.ripe.net/author/alena-muravska/looking-back-at-2025-what-the-numbers-say-about-engagement-skills-and-coordination/ | Source: RIPE
Thu 13:12:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "PCWorld reports that Mozilla Firefox has ended support for Windows 7, 8, and 8.1, with version 115" ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3064835/firefox-ends-support-for-windows-7-upgrade-to-10-or-linux.html | Source: PC World
Thu 13:12:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "These fake extensions bypassed Chrome Web Store security using misspelled names" ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3063476/30-fake-ai-chrome-extensions-caught-stealing-passwords-and-more.html | Source: PC World
Thu 13:13:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Because RSS is an open protocol, and because there are so many different possible ways to follow and read the news" ☛ https://ranchero.com/2026/02/17/new-rss-reader-current.html |
Thu 13:13:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "When I started Buttondown back in 2018, I went with the former." ☛ https://www.jmduke.com/posts/subpaths-vs-subdomains.html | Source: Justin Duke
Thu 13:14:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Hello! After spending some time working on the Git man pages last year, I’ve been thinking a little more about what makes a good man page." ☛ https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/02/18/man-pages/ | Source: Julia Evans
Thu 13:15:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "In my last post, I talked about switching from ZNC to Soju as my IRC bouncer." ☛ https://susam.net/soju-user-delete-hash.html | Source: SusamPal
Thu 13:29:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – In Africa's Second-Largest Nation, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Opera 10 Times Bigger Than Firefox (and GNU/Linux Now at 5%) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/In_Africa_s_Second_Largest_Nation_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Co.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/In_Africa_s_Second_Largest_Nation_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Co.gmi ∎
Thu 13:31:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Some thoughts about my experience getting my parents' new devices up and running, and how bad it keeps getting today." ☛ https://joelchrono.xyz/blog/setting-up-phones-is-a-nightmare/ | Source: Joel Chrono
Thu 13:32:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "With the addition of E2EE for RCS, messages between iPhone users and Android users will eventually be just as secure as iMessage" ☛ https://www.macrumors.com/2026/02/16/ios-26-4-rcs-encryption-testing/ | Source: MacRumors
Thu 13:32:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Handheld and SFF specialist ETA Prime on YouTube has made it happen with gaming phone running the PC version of Cyberpunk 2077 at 30 to 40 FPS in emulation." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/high-end-android-phones-are-now-powerful-enough-to-emulate-the-pc-version-of-cyberpunk-2077-youtuber-gets-2020s-hottest-pc-game-running-at-playable-frame-rates-on-red-magic-11-pro | Source: Tom's Hardware
Thu 13:33:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "All it takes is an UNO Q, a suitable USB-C hub, and a USB camera — a low-magnification USB microscope works best to get a clear and close-up view of the resistor." ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/02/19/arduino-uno-q-solves-the-classic-resistor-pile-issue/ | Source: Arduino
Thu 13:33:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I didn’t think to take a picture of the tower before I removed all the components and took it downstairs to the ewaste pile, but inside I was able to extract a near immaculate 550 W power supply, an Asus DVD writer, some screws, and a few ports, switches, and LEDs." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/some-more-roadside-tech-goodies/ | Source: Ruben Schade
Thu 13:33:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The organ produces music by playing notes on embedded instruments, which are themselves operated by air pressure, with note arrangements read off what amounts to a very long punch card." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/02/18/inside-a-dutch-street-organ-the-art-of-mechanical-music-making/ | Source: Hackaday
Thu 13:34:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "That's nearly two hundred frames in one single second. Incredibly impressive, yes. But do you really need to shoot this fast? Unless you’re a pro who’s shooting at the Winter Olympics, the answer is no." ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/cameras/mirrorless-cameras/i-actually-reduce-the-fps-on-my-camera-when-shooting-action-to-get-better-shots-heres-why | Source: Digital Camera World
Thu 13:34:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Sales of refurbished PCs are on the up amid shortages of key components, including memory chips, that are making brand new devices more expensive." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/refurbished_pcs_memory_crunch/ | Source: The Register UK
Thu 13:35:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Gijs Tuinman made the comments during a podcast interview after being asked whether the aircraft's software could be modified by European force" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/18/jailbreak_an_f35/ | Source: The Register UK
Thu 13:35:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The contents and format of the bsd.rd ramdisk kernel is shown, so you can understand and customize it for your own needs." ☛ https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260218061632 | Source: Undeadly
Thu 13:36:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "And yet, there has remained one question seemingly on everyone’s lips." ☛ https://asahilinux.org/2026/02/progress-report-6-19/ |
Thu 13:37:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Found in a thrift store, the 1960s Selchow & Righter SCRABBLE® variant that nobody loved. It has no board, but 180 tiles, slightly different from the SCRABBLE® ones (dang, I love that I can type ®, can’t you tell?)" ☛ https://scruss.com/blog/2026/02/18/official-scrabblebrand-anagrams/ | Source: Stewart C Russell
Thu 13:38:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "When World of Warcraft was launched in 2004, it became somewhat of a juggernaut in the MMORPG space." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/02/18/an-open-source-client-for-world-of-warcraft/ | Source: Hackaday
Thu 13:39:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Games: Mewgenics, Slop, Hytale, and More ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Games_Mewgenics_Slop_Hytale_and_More.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Games_Mewgenics_Slop_Hytale_and_More.gmi ∎
Thu 13:39:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Every h-feed has a HTML ID that uniquely identifies it. For example, /hwc-notes#hwc-pacific identifies the HWC Pacific notes h-feed on the /hwc-notes web page." ☛ https://jamesg.blog/2026/02/13/multiple-h-feeds-same-page | Source: James G
Thu 13:40:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "That’s right — I’m running this show now, and you know what that means: I’m runnin’ a little long, baby. Strap in!" ☛ https://piccalil.li/the-index/165/ | Source: Andy Bell
Thu 13:40:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This morning I saw log entries I’ve never noticed before. They seem to have started 9 hours ago. First, this email arrived." ☛ https://dan.langille.org/2026/02/18/452-4-3-1-insufficient-system-storage/ | Source: Dan Langille
Thu 13:40:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Credit goes to him. Besides that I like to share everything that could be useful – I also treat my blog as a place where I keep and maintain my FreeBSD documentation …" ☛ https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/02/18/native-freebsd-kerberos-ldap-with-freeipa-idm/ | Source: Vermaden
Thu 13:41:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "To implement the effect, we take a fixed-size window and replace each pixel value with the arithmetic mean of n pixels in its neighborhood." ☛ https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/its-all-a-blur | Source: Lcamtuf
Thu 13:41:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "To better understand what’s happening here, consider the above test case: [...]" ☛ https://markjames.dev/blog/6502-jump-indirect-bug |
Thu 13:42:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Another crucial structural shift came in 1992, when Torvalds moved the kernel under the GNU General Public License (GPL)." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/18/linus_torvalds_and_friends/ | Source: The Register UK
Thu 13:42:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "ARC and L2ARC sizing in Proxmox is a capacity-planning problem, not a tuning exercise." ☛ https://klarasystems.com/articles/arc-and-l2arc-sizing-for-proxmox/ | Source: Klara
Thu 13:43:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "My impression of many of those conversational shows was that even though they were relatively lightly edited" ☛ https://coyotetracks.org/blog/trim-silence/ | Source: Watts Martin
Thu 13:55:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Antoine Beaupré: net-tools to iproute cheat sheet ☞ https://anarc.at/blog/2026-02-18-iproute2/
Thu 13:57:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Carelessness versus craftsmanship in cryptography ☞ https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/02/18/carelessness-versus-craftsmanship-in-cryptography/
Thu 13:59:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ This Week In Rust: This Week in Rust 639 ☞ https://this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2026/02/18/this-week-in-rust-639/
Thu 14:34:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Why Some People Thrive on Four Hours of Sleep ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/why-some-people-thrive-on-four-hours-of-sleep
Thu 14:35:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Extra! Extra! News from N. Korea now more freely available but are S. Koreans reading it? ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/seoul-eases-curbs-on-north-koreas-top-daily-rodong-sinmun-but-few-south-koreans-are-reading-it
Thu 14:36:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Thomas Lange: 42.000 FAI.me jobs created ☞ http://blog.fai-project.org/posts/42000/
Thu 14:37:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Freexian Collaborators: Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, January 2026 (by Santiago Ruano Rincón) ☞ https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-lts-report-2026-01/
Thu 14:37:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 8 Years Later, Linux-based AsteroidOS 2.0 is Here to Add New Life to Your Old Smartwatch ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/asteroidos-2-release/
Thu 14:38:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ An Asahi GNU/Linux progress report ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1059339/
Thu 14:40:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Tarek Ziadé: Running SmolLM-135M in rustnn with flexible inputs ☞ https://tarekziade.github.io/2026/02/18/running-smollm-135m-in-rustnn/
Thu 14:41:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Manage Hey Hi (AI) resource use with TokenRateLimitPolicy ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/02/18/manage-ai-resource-use-tokenratelimitpolicy
Thu 14:42:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Anubis v1.25.0: Necron ☞ https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/releases/tag/v1.25.0
Thu 14:43:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Adrian Vovk: GNOME OS Hackfest @ FOSDEM 2026 ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/adrianvovk/2026/02/18/gnome-os-hackfest-fosdem-2026/
Thu 14:46:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ KDE Plasma 6.6 Released! New Initial Setup & OCR Support in Spectacle ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/02/kde-plasma-6-6-released/
Thu 14:46:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ GobMis 5.0 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/gobmis
Thu 14:46:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Calculate 20260217 is out as well ☞ https://distrowatch.com/calculate
Thu 14:46:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ FSF Events: Free Software Directory meeting on IRC: Friday, February 20, starting at 12:00 EST (17:00 UTC) ☞ http://www.fsf.org/events/fsd-2026-02-20-irc
Thu 14:48:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The tech is coming/it’s inevitable/etc ☞ https://rubenerd.com/the-tech-is-coming/
Thu 14:49:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The future is less certain than we realize, and a wise course of action involves acknowledging both our uncertainty but also the way that narrative power can shape outcomes. Be wary the oracle bearing the message that their technology is inevitable."
Thu 14:51:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 10 Chambers announces massive layoffs as Den of Wolves development continues https://www.notebookcheck.net/10-Chambers-announces-massive-layoffs-as-Den-of-Wolves-development-continues.1229336.0.html
Thu 14:58:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ IBM works for Pentagon ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/red-hat-digital-sovereignty-assessment-tool/
Thu 14:58:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Irish Times journalism now fully funded by subscribers ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/paywalls/irish-times-journalism-now-fully-funded-by-subscribers/
Thu 14:59:13 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ 19 070227 < IsambardPrince> "MORE CHICKEN!"
Thu 14:59:14 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :)
Thu 15:03:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ about stenography: "How the media keeps manufacturing Elon Musks "Genius"" https://boingboing.net/2026/02/17/how-the-media-keeps-manufacturing-elon-musks-genius.html
Thu 15:04:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Being seen as "Smart" is a PR service/product https://www.cjr.org/criticism/gates-foundation-journalism-funding.php
Thu 15:05:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Over 80% of companies report no productivity gains from Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/over-80-percent-of-companies-report-no-productivity-gains-from-ai-so-far-despite-billions-in-investment-survey-suggests-6-000-executives-also-reveal-1-3-of-leaders-use-ai-but-only-for-90-minutes-a-week
Thu 15:06:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Unity Says It Has a New Product That Cooks Up Entire Games Using Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/unity-create-entire-games-using-ai
Thu 15:07:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Oxford Researcher Warns That Hey Hi (AI) Is Heading for a Hindenburg-Style Disaster ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-hindenburg-disast
Thu 15:07:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Millions of people can’t understand life-or-death weather alerts: GAO ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/artificial-intelligence/2026/02/millions-of-people-cant-understand-life-or-death-weather-alerts-gao/
Thu 15:07:42 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ 19 160645 < 𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS> Unity Says It Has a New Product That Cooks Up Entire Games Using Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/unity-create-entire-games-using-ai
Thu 15:07:46 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ is it like microslop's?
Thu 15:08:03 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ which looked like quake ii but if you turned around, it forgot what was there
Thu 15:08:08 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it was ridiculed
Thu 15:08:11 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] for being ugly and wrong
Thu 15:08:20 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] merely a demo as distraction
Thu 15:08:21 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ and if you faced a patch of shadow, it collapsed
Thu 15:09:12 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ they can use the corporations they've bought for pointless shit like this
Thu 15:09:30 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ but not for things like re-releasing Portal of Praevus on stores like Steam...
Thu 15:09:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Feds and retirees face fresh uncertainty amid resurgent instability ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2026/02/feds-and-retirees-face-fresh-uncertainty-amid-resurgent-instability/
Thu 15:09:55 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it's not just "games"
Thu 15:09:58 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it's also music
Thu 15:09:59 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] videos
Thu 15:10:01 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and text
Thu 15:10:02 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] images also
Thu 15:10:07 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it's usually crasp
Thu 15:10:11 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] dreary and mostly useless
Thu 15:10:14 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] people will feel yuck
Thu 15:10:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and look for originals
Thu 15:10:20 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] like original gaMES
Thu 15:10:23 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] real music
Thu 15:10:31 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] when the platforms detect and cullt he issue
Thu 15:10:36 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Google news still links to slowfarms
Thu 15:10:40 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it harms Google News
Thu 15:10:43 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] same for YouTube
Thu 15:10:55 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] which gaming store recently banned slop games
Thu 15:10:57 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i forgot
Thu 15:10:59 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] or flagged them
Thu 15:11:05 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] or got flooded by some
Thu 15:12:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ South Sudan Appoints Dead Man to Election Panel, as Political Crisis Grows ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/world/africa/south-sudan-dead-man-election-crisis.html
Thu 15:13:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Dell RecoverPoint Zero-Day Exploited by Chinese Cyberespionage Group ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/dell-recoverpoint-zero-day-exploited-by-chinese-cyberespionage-group/
Thu 15:14:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ CISA: Hackers Exploiting Vulnerability in Product of Taiwan Security Firm TeamT5 ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/cisa-hackers-exploiting-vulnerability-in-product-of-taiwan-security-firm-teamt5/
Thu 15:15:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?" - > "if you are smart, why did you collect money you never used?"
Thu 15:16:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Arduino UNO Q solves the classic resistor pile issue ☞ https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/02/19/arduino-uno-q-solves-the-classic-resistor-pile-issue/
Thu 15:16:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Building a Secret with Math: The Diffie-Hellman Guide ☞ https://shibe-bit.github.io/Learnings/Diffie-HellmanKeyExchange
Thu 15:17:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ KDE Plasma 6.6 Turns Spectacle Into an OCR Tool and Ships a New Setup Wizard ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/kde-plasma-6-6-release/
Thu 15:17:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ US authorities return 11 Mexican parrots seized at border ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/us-authorities-return-11-mexican-parrots/
Thu 15:18:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Public Knowledge Opposes FCC Vote Jeopardizing Lifeline Program ☞ https://publicknowledge.org/public-knowledge-opposes-fcc-vote-jeopardizing-lifeline-program/
Thu 15:19:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ TerraMaster F2-425 Plus 3+2-bay hybrid NAS review – Part 1: unboxing, teardown, drives installation, and first boot ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/02/19/terramaster-f2-425-plus-32-bay-hybrid-nas-review-part-1-unboxing-teardown-drives-installation-and-first-boot/
Thu 15:20:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Lenovo denies allegations of transferring data to China ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/lenovo-denies-allegations-of-transferring-data-to-china-class-action-lawsuit-alleges-company-uses-trackers-to-expose-american-behavioral-data-to-foreign-adversaries
Thu 15:21:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Realtor Uses AI, Accidentally Posts Photo of Rental Property With Demonic Figure Emerging From Mirror ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/realtor-ai-photo-mirror
Thu 15:22:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Don't walk on ice to Mangaļsala shipwreck ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/society/18.02.2026-dont-walk-on-ice-to-mangalsala-shipwreck.a635193/ "Social media shows photos and videos of residents walking on the ice to view the wreck in the Baltic Sea ice reserve zone, where movement is prohibited, Latvian Television reported on 17th February."
Thu 15:23:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Protect Your Framework Laptop 13 | Why Bumpers Matter ☞ https://cubiclenate.com/2026/02/18/protect-your-framework-laptop-13-why-bumpers-matter/
Thu 15:24:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ An Inexact Art: Willis Electric and the Limits of Damages Gatekeeping ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/02/inexact-electric-gatekeeping.html
Thu 15:24:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Pete Zaitcev: Meanwhile in space ☞ https://zaitcev.livejournal.com/270241.html
Thu 15:25:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ EPO "Productivity" Will Fall Off a Cliff If Examiners Stick to the European Patent Convention (EPC) and Follow the Real Rules ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/17/EPO_Productivity_Will_Fall_Off_a_Cliff_If_Examiners_Stick_to_th.shtml
Thu 15:25:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Koyo Licensing sensitive display patent monopoly campaign - invalidity charts coming soon ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/2/18/koyo-licensing-sensitive-display-patent-campaign-invalidity-charts-coming-soon
Thu 15:26:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Software Patents: Songbird Tech patent monopoly validity challenge coming soon ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/2/18/songbird-tech-patent-validity-challenge-coming-soon
Thu 15:26:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Patents on algos again ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/2/18/4000-for-key-patent-innovations-entity-malikie-innovations-cryptographic-patents-prior-art
Thu 15:27:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Corrupt EPO for litigation euros (graft) ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/people-and-business/munich-drives-rising-case-numbers-in-germany/
Thu 15:51:12 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ https://explosm.net/comics/edgelord#comic
Thu 16:12:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): LibreOffice 25.8.5 Is Now Available for Download with More Than 60 Bug Fixes ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/LibreOffice_25_8_5_Is_Now_Available_for_Download_with_More_Than.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/LibreOffice_25_8_5_Is_Now_Available_for_Download_with_More_Than.gmi ∎
Thu 16:37:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Pete Zaitcev: The end of MinIO ☞ https://zaitcev.livejournal.com/269969.html
Thu 16:38:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Red Hat Makes Available Supported Version of Podman Desktop Tool for Containers ☞ https://cloudnativenow.com/features/red-hat-makes-available-supported-version-of-podman-desktop-tool-for-containers/
Thu 16:38:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ UN experts criticize Ireland police use of “less-lethal” weapons at protests ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/02/un-experts-criticize-ireland-police-use-of-less-lethal-weapons-at-protests/
Thu 16:39:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ European Commission’s plans will lead to worse regulations ☞ https://edri.org/our-work/european-commissions-plans-will-lead-to-worse-regulations/
Thu 16:39:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How recommender algorithms threaten election integrity ☞ https://edri.org/our-work/how-recommender-algorithms-threaten-election-integrity/
Thu 16:39:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Ensuring human rights-based, global perspectives in the DSA enforcement: the DSA Human Rights Alliance’s guidelines ☞ https://edri.org/our-work/ensuring-human-rights-based-global-perspectives-in-the-dsa-enforcement-the-dsa-human-rights-alliances-guidelines/
Thu 16:40:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Congressional report recommends ‘FedRAMP’ for commercial data brokers ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/cybersecurity/2026/02/congressional-report-recommends-fedramp-for-commercial-data-brokers/
Thu 16:41:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Czech ministry apologizes to journalist for blanket collection of mobile phone data ☞ https://edri.org/our-work/czech-ministry-apologizes-to-journalist-for-blanket-collection-of-mobile-phone-data/
Thu 16:41:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ US pressure on the Digital Services Act in the Netherlands ☞ https://edri.org/our-work/us-pressure-on-the-digital-services-act-in-the-netherlands/
Thu 16:41:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Europe’s digital sovereignty starts with open source ☞ https://edri.org/our-work/europes-digital-sovereignty-starts-with-open-source/
Thu 16:43:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ An update to the malicious crate notification policy (Rust Blog) ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1059338/
Thu 16:43:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Monado at the core of Android XR ☞ https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/monado-at-the-core-of-android-xr.html
Thu 16:43:56 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.firstpost.com/tech/bill-gates-wont-deliver-keynote-at-ai-impact-summit-amid-epstein-ties-row-confirms-foundation-13981432.html
Thu 16:44:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ New Keenadu Android Malware Found on Thousands of Devices ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/new-keenadu-android-malware-found-on-thousands-of-devices/
Thu 16:44:25 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] admfubar: are orgies with young russian girls a coc violation?
Thu 16:45:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Python Series Part 23: Text Widget - Part 1 ☞ https://www.linux.org/threads/python-series-part-23-text-widget-part-1.59025/
Thu 16:45:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ rsimg – terminal image viewer ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/rsimg-terminal-image-viewer/
Thu 16:46:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 14 Best Free and Open Source Steganography Tools ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-steganography-tools/
Thu 16:52:52 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ o_O
Thu 16:53:25 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ oh! code of conduct... i thought it was a typo...
Thu 16:55:06 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/14/doorbell-cameras-ring-nancy-guthrie-super-bowl
Thu 16:55:56 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ 19 174425 < schestowitz[TR2]> admfubar: are orgies with young russian girls a coc violation?
Thu 16:56:11 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ like with all potential violations, it all depends on who does it
Thu 16:58:09 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-labor-andrew-yang
Thu 17:03:41 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] good thing pres of hungary is a russian girl then
Thu 17:03:56 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] just toss antibiotics in the wife's drink
Thu 17:04:08 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and you're all set, good to go into orban's cabinet
Thu 17:04:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Hazelnut – automated file organizer ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/hazelnut-automated-file-organizer/
Thu 17:04:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 3 Best Free and Open Source Scheme Static Site Generators ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-scheme-static-site-generators/
Thu 17:04:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): PipeWire 1.6 Released with Support for Audio Channel Layouts, LDAC Decoder ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/PipeWire_1_6_Released_with_Support_for_Audio_Channel_Layouts_LD.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/PipeWire_1_6_Released_with_Support_for_Audio_Channel_Layouts_LD.gmi ∎
Thu 17:05:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ zrok – secure internet sharing platform ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/zrok-secure-internet-sharing-platform/
Thu 17:05:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Lightning Image Viewer – fast and lightweight desktop image viewer ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/lightning-image-viewer-fast-lightweight/
Thu 17:09:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ElegooSlicer – slicer for FDM printers ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/elegooslicer-slicer-fdm-printers/
Thu 17:09:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ xfr – modern iperf3 alternative ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/xfr-modern-iperf3-alternative/
Thu 17:09:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ HyprQuickFrame – screenshot utility for Hyprland ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/hyprquickframe-screenshot-utility-hyprland/
Thu 17:10:12 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://hackaday.com/2026/02/19/mag-lev-lemming-refuses-to-fall/
Thu 17:10:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ crabdrop – file manager for S3-compatible storage ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/crabdrop-file-manager-s3-compatible-storage/
Thu 17:10:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ QuickSnip – OCR and Surveillance Giant Google Lens search ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/quicksnip-ocr-google-lens-search/
Thu 17:11:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ AsteroidOS 2.0 open-source smartwatch OS released, now supports around 30 devices ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/02/18/asteroidos-2-0-open-source-smartwatch-os-released-now-supports-around-30-devices/
Thu 17:11:10 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.linuxtoday.com/news/meta-ai-patent-digital-afterlife-social-media/
Thu 17:11:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Fedora now available in Syria ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1059342/
Thu 17:13:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ UFW Cheatsheet ☞ https://linuxize.com/cheatsheet/ufw/
Thu 17:14:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ MySQL/MariaDB Cheatsheet ☞ https://linuxize.com/cheatsheet/mysql-mariadb/
Thu 17:14:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Optimize infrastructure health with Red Bait Lightspeed MCP ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/02/18/optimize-infrastructure-health-red-hat-lightspeed-mcp
Thu 17:15:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Control updates with download-only mode in bootc ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/02/18/control-updates-download-only-mode-bootc
Thu 17:16:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ FFconvert removed ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202602/ffconvert-removed.html
Thu 17:16:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ yt-dlp now needs javascript ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202602/yt-dlp-now-needs-javascript.html
Thu 17:17:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ KDE endorses the UN's Open Source Principles ☞ https://ev.kde.org/2026/02/18/kde-joins-osu/
Thu 17:17:28 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ ACTION endorses the dissolution of the UN
Thu 17:17:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Security updates for Wednesday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1059333/
Thu 17:18:06 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ maybe they should have cared about "open source" back when they decided to instead push the WIPO Copyright Treaty
Thu 17:18:26 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] berne?
Thu 17:18:33 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ no, this is later
Thu 17:18:42 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ roughly equivalent to the DMCA
Thu 17:19:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How to Install Brave on Fedora GNU/Linux ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-brave-on-fedora-linux/
Thu 17:19:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ whereis Command in GNU/Linux (With Examples) ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/whereis-command-in-linux/
Thu 17:19:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ifconfig Command in GNU/Linux (With Examples) ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/ifconfig-command-in-linux/
Thu 17:19:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How to Install proprietary trap AWS CLI on Arch GNU/Linux ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-aws-cli-on-arch-linux/
Thu 17:20:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install SMPlayer on Fedora 43 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-smplayer-fedora-43/
Thu 17:20:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install Nginx Proxy Manager on Manjaro ☞ https://idroot.us/install-nginx-proxy-manager-manjaro/
Thu 17:21:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ LibreOffice at FOSDEM 2026 in Brussels ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02/18/libreoffice-at-fosdem-2026-in-brussels/
Thu 17:21:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ LibreOffice Named a 2026 “Best Value” Leader by Capterra ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02/18/libreoffice-named-a-2026-best-value-leader-by-capterra/
Thu 17:22:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ GodotCon Amsterdam - Save the date! ☞ https://godotengine.org/article/godotcon-2026/
Thu 17:23:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ “Anonymous Work” and the Hey Hi (AI) Author Fight ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/02/anonymous-author-fight.html
Thu 17:27:27 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/cup
Thu 17:32:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ New: "Scam Altman says some companies are "AI washing" job cuts, but he wasn't sure what percentage of layoffs fell into that category."
Thu 17:33:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ his chatbot hype is also AI-washing
Thu 17:35:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Companies that have cited AI when reducing employee head count include Amazon, IBM, Salesforce, and HP." https://finance.yahoo.com/news/sam-altman-says-ai-displacing-113050990.html They ask Mr AI-washing about AI-washing. How much are they paid for this hogwash?
Thu 17:36:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ hanks for posting that. In fact you might want to create a new stand alone item for review and comments. That is outrageous and NOT the IBM I joined in the early 80s. Lots of people got 1st time PCs and became great programmers on their own time on their own devices. 1 of a million reasons why IBM is a hot mess and will soon join Sears, Polaroid, Enron etc etc.
Thu 17:36:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Thanks for posting that. In fact you might want to create a new stand alone item for review and comments. That is outrageous and NOT the IBM I joined in the early 80s. Lots of people got 1st time PCs and became great programmers on their own time on their own devices. 1 of a million reasons why IBM is a hot mess and will soon join Sears, Polaroid, Enron etc etc." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khhxvbrb
Thu 17:36:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Is is most likely some stup1d, useless, good for nothing manager's action. Managers at IBM are ignorant and full of hot air. They do not understand the implications of the sh1t that comes out of their foul mouths." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khhxvbrb
Thu 17:37:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "These examples indicate IBM is on a path to destroying itself. It’s sad to see a company do this to itself." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khhxvbrb
Thu 17:39:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ openSUSE Leap 16.0 is now available on Surveillance Giant Google Cloud Platform ☞ https://sysadmin-journal.com/opensuse-leap-16-0-is-now-available-on-google-cloud-platform/
Thu 17:40:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Need Help Remembering GNU/Linux Commands? Try Brief ☞ https://fossforce.com/2026/02/need-help-remembering-linux-commands-try-brief/
Thu 17:41:28 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ Need Help Remembering Commands? Try Brain
Thu 17:42:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Japan to ban in-flight use of power banks from April ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/japan-to-ban-in-flight-use-of-power-banks-from-april
Thu 17:42:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Extreme Hollywood Backlash Continues Against ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0: Threats Unilaterally Issued by Netflix, Warner Bros., Disney, and Paramount ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/02/18/hollywood-backlash-seedance-2-0/
Thu 17:43:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Gabon suspends access to social control media amid teachers' strike ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/gabon-suspends-access-to-social-media-amid-teachers-strike
Thu 17:44:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ These are the only Linux distros I recommend for sysadmins https://www.howtogeek.com/these-are-the-only-linux-distros-i-recommend-for-sysadmins/
Thu 17:44:43 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ all of them systemd crap
Thu 17:45:14 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] did you check one by one?
Thu 17:45:19 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] (i did not)
Thu 17:45:30 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ yeah
Thu 17:45:41 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] systemDOS
Thu 17:46:06 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ funny how choice is acceptable to the cultists, as long as it's meaningless choice
Thu 17:47:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It all began when Torvalds and his friend Lars Wirzenius met at the University of Helsinki. They began tinkering with PCs; computer games (Prince of Persia); social networking, which in those days was Usenet; and Unix." https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/18/linus_torvalds_and_friends/
Thu 17:47:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The AsteroidOS 2.0 release aims to provide a stable, beautiful base for people who want an open smartwatch today, and an interesting project for developers who want to experiment, learn and contribute." https://itsfoss.com/news/asteroidos-2-release/
Thu 17:48:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Firefox ends support for Windows 7: Upgrade to 10 or Linux https://www.pcworld.com/article/3064835/firefox-ends-support-for-windows-7-upgrade-to-10-or-linux.html
Thu 17:48:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Unfortunately, the HDMI Forum refused to allow HDMI 2.1+ features in the open source driver, but that hasn't stopped one developer." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/experimental-code-ready-for-testing-to-enable-hdmi-2-1-frl-with-amdgpu-on-linux/
Thu 17:49:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "But this is a good time to remind you that you'll need to be on a quite up to date version anyway, since NVIDIA revealed more security issues with their drivers back in January." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/nvidia-recommended-driver-580-126-18-released-for-linux/
Thu 17:49:38 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ "upgrade to 10"
Thu 17:49:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ AsteroidOS 2.0 Brings an Open, Linux-Based Replacement OS to More Smartwatches Than Ever https://www.hackster.io/news/asteroidos-2-0-brings-an-open-linux-based-replacement-os-to-more-smartwatches-than-ever-c0a9cc6d7d1b
Thu 17:51:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Beyond the Firewall: A Guide to Enterprise-Grade Linux VPS Security in 2026 https://programminginsider.com/beyond-the-firewall-a-guide-to-enterprise-grade-linux-vps-security-in-2026/
Thu 17:52:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Want to develop your Linux skills? I've found the perfect distro for you https://www.zdnet.com/article/nutyx-distribution-learning-linux-skills/
Thu 17:52:48 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] MinceR: run tot eh cliff
Thu 17:52:51 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] fall head first
Thu 17:53:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Nvidia releases 580.126.18 Linux driver to fix Kernel 6.19 compatibility issues https://www.notebookcheck.net/Nvidia-releases-580-126-18-Linux-driver-to-fix-Kernel-6-19-compatibility-issues.1229298.0.html
Thu 17:54:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How I reduced context switching on Linux by redesigning my browser workflow https://www.makeuseof.com/reduced-context-switching-on-linux-redesigning-browser-workflow/
Thu 17:55:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "ByteSnap Design has partnered with Digi International to introduce a managed security service aimed at helping manufacturers keep embedded Linux devices secure throughout their operational lifetimes." https://www.newelectronics.co.uk/content/news/bytesnap-design-and-digi-international-launch-managed-security-service-for-embedded-linux-devices
Thu 17:56:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Proprietary software hides flaws and does not patch these at all (unless/until forced to) https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/02/18/open-source-adoption-patching-challenges/ This is marketing using FUD.
Thu 17:57:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ back doors company https://itsfoss.com/news/red-hat-digital-sovereignty-assessment-tool/
Thu 17:59:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How to Remotely Manage Linux VMs With RDP https://redmondmag.com/articles/2026/02/17/how-to-remotely-manage-linux-vms-with-rdp.aspx
Thu 18:01:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today's 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 HowTos ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/today_s_howtos.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/today_s_howtos.gmi ∎
Thu 18:03:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Red Hat Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Red_Hat_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Red_Hat_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Thu 18:04:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Lesser-Known Distributions and Operating Systems ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Lesser_Known_Distributions_and_Operating_Systems.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Lesser_Known_Distributions_and_Operating_Systems.gmi ∎
Thu 18:06:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Debian's Thomas Lange on FAI.me Service, Freexian Collaborators on LTS Work ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Debian_s_Thomas_Lange_on_FAI_me_Service_Freexian_Collaborators_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Debian_s_Thomas_Lange_on_FAI_me_Service_Freexian_Collaborators_.gmi ∎
Thu 18:09:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): OpenSUSE: Self-Hosted and Outsourced to GAFAM ("The Cloud") ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/OpenSUSE_Self_Hosted_and_Outsourced_to_GAFAM_The_Cloud.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/OpenSUSE_Self_Hosted_and_Outsourced_to_GAFAM_The_Cloud.gmi ∎
Thu 18:11:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Retro/Open Hardware/Modding: Arduino and More ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Retro_Open_Hardware_Modding_Arduino_and_More.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Retro_Open_Hardware_Modding_Arduino_and_More.gmi ∎
Thu 18:14:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 Programming Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Programming_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Thu 18:18:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Events: GNOME OS Hackfest, Free Software Directory Meeting, GodotCon Amsterdam, Hackaday Europe ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Events_GNOME_OS_Hackfest_Free_Software_Directory_Meeting_GodotC.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Events_GNOME_OS_Hackfest_Free_Software_Directory_Meeting_GodotC.gmi ∎
Thu 18:19:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Web Browsers: RSS, Chrome*, and Firefox ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Web_Browsers_RSS_Chrome_and_Firefox.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Web_Browsers_RSS_Chrome_and_Firefox.gmi ∎
Thu 18:21:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.1.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.1.gmi ∎
Thu 18:23:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Linux Graphics: Drivers and More ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Linux_Graphics_Drivers_and_More.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Linux_Graphics_Drivers_and_More.gmi ∎
Thu 18:24:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/GNU_Linux_and_BSD_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/GNU_Linux_and_BSD_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Thu 18:25:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Linux Kernel: Asahi, Some BSD, and Value of GPL ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Linux_Kernel_Asahi_Some_BSD_and_Value_of_GPL.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Linux_Kernel_Asahi_Some_BSD_and_Value_of_GPL.gmi ∎
Thu 18:26:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Security and FUD Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Security_and_FUD_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Security_and_FUD_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Thu 18:28:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Links 19/02/2026: Protecting Framework Laptop 13, Hardware Drive Shortages ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/Links_19_02_2026_Protecting_Framework_Laptop_13_Hardware_Drive_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/Links_19_02_2026_Protecting_Framework_Laptop_13_Hardware_Drive_.gmi ∎
Thu 18:31:57 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khvfg94z
Thu 18:31:59 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] ""oes the "I" in "AI" stand for "India"?? It is funny how when big tech lays people off for "AI" they always seem to either apply for a similar number of H1B Visas so foreign workers can take those jobs, or they just build an offshore facility and hire workers over there. Tech workers are facing a nightmare. I feel worse for the young people with shiny degrees and big loan bills who cannot get a job at all because of this. And sad
Thu 18:32:04 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] ly this Administration seems fine with this. I am not at IBM, but in the same cr-p boat. There is a bunch of us on X who track and report on American replacement in tech if you want to join us."
Thu 18:32:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Need to boost that stock price, and fund those bonuses somehow. If you collect a couple hundred dollars from each RAed employee, (about ~ 10000 people last year ). That’s a couple more million for executives bonuses. This goes to show how desperate they are to save money. Pathetic." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khc9389d
Thu 18:34:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "you know, im again in the hospital. again by the order of the court :-/ 4 more weeks for me in the institution." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2787
Thu 18:35:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🖼️ xkcd — Plums #3209 gemini://8by3.net/~xkcd/3209.gmi
Thu 18:35:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I think I have everything... I wish I knew more of what will be required? Does the Outpost provide tables for my shop? What about money and cash register? There's so much unknown there. Plants?" gemini://orbitaloutpost.club/~kaze/gemlog/2026-02-18-letsmove.gmi
Thu 18:36:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [cat] [japan] gemini://higeki.jp/nikki/2026-02-19.gmi
Thu 18:37:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I've been into Nintendo's Famicom platform lately. It has a great appeal to someone who's continual disillusionment with modern software and modern software platforms grows stronger with every passing day." gemini://gemini.iikorni.space/log/20260219-fami.gmi
Thu 18:53:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – The Few Slopfarms We Saw Today ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/The_Few_Slopfarms_We_Saw_Today.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/The_Few_Slopfarms_We_Saw_Today.gmi ∎
Thu 19:06:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – No "Smart Mobs" (Social Control Media) in BRIC? ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/No_Smart_Mobs_Social_Control_Media_in_BRIC.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/No_Smart_Mobs_Social_Control_Media_in_BRIC.gmi ∎
Thu 19:16:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Microsoft Found Another Bailout Opportunity: Killing People ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/Microsoft_Found_Another_Bailout_Opportunity_Killing_People.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/Microsoft_Found_Another_Bailout_Opportunity_Killing_People.gmi ∎
Thu 19:33:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – IBM Behaves Like a Company Looking for Loose Change Between Sofa Cushions ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/IBM_Behaves_Like_a_Company_Looking_for_Loose_Change_Between_Sof.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/IBM_Behaves_Like_a_Company_Looking_for_Loose_Change_Between_Sof.gmi ∎
Thu 19:39:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ And no prison? https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/solicitors-50-year-career-ended-by-dishonesty-findings/5125930.article
Thu 19:41:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Linuxiac is still slop
Thu 19:43:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Pseudonymous maker "SeeNoFutur3," hereafter simply "Future," has presented his daughter with a gift — hidden inside a wooden box unlockable only by solving a gyroscopic puzzle." gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202602/20260219-twist.gmi
Thu 19:47:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Moving Away From The Cloud gemini://going-flying.com/~mernisse/36.gmi
Thu 19:48:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "So when I made my personal capsule at buffering.party I created "the tarpit" - a part of the site listed in robots.txt that just returns never-ending links that get slower and slower as you go." gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/s/Geminispace/38189
Thu 19:50:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ worm fourth day gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/wormFourth
Thu 19:53:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Gemini Links 19/02/2026: "Towards a Gemini Famicom Resource" and Dumping Microsoft ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/Gemini_Links_19_02_2026_Towards_a_Gemini_Famicom_Resource_and_D.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/Gemini_Links_19_02_2026_Towards_a_Gemini_Famicom_Resource_and_D.gmi ∎
Thu 20:30:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Ubuntu Touch OTA-1.2 Fixes Boot Issues for Sony Xperia X, Improves VoLTE Support ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Ubuntu_Touch_OTA_1_2_Fixes_Boot_Issues_for_Sony_Xperia_X_Improv.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Ubuntu_Touch_OTA_1_2_Fixes_Boot_Issues_for_Sony_Xperia_X_Improv.gmi ∎
Thu 22:05:07 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.salon.com/2026/02/18/complete-what-we-started-leaked-ring-emails-suggest-controversial-tech-wont-stop-at-finding-pets/
Thu 22:28:20 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://therecord.media/fbi-atm-jackpotting-2025-report
Thu 22:30:14 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://therecord.media/apple-csam-west-virginia-lawsuit
Thu 22:36:37 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/19/irs_job_cuts/
Thu 22:58:03 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ for mincer... https://www.discovermagazine.com/your-cat-may-share-the-same-cancer-genes-as-you-and-offer-clues-for-treatment-48710
Thu 22:58:25 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :3
Thu 23:03:08 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ eat more catnip
Thu 23:03:14 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/awkward-video-altman-amodei
Thu 23:05:46 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ i wonder if a shoe got caught in its workings???... https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/amazon-warehouse-robot-failed
Thu 23:13:29 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.geekwire.com/2026/pagemaker-pioneer-paul-brainerd-1947-2026-aldus-founder-devoted-his-second-chapter-to-the-planet/
Thu 23:16:27 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ (cat) https://imgur.com/gallery/jasmne-baby-dragon-DPhlPbw
Thu 23:36:56 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/02/18/0737205
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