Techrights Recent IRC Comments
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Sun 10:00:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "At first, I thought it was a mistake. I tried different browsers, devices and networks. I cleared the cache, reinstalled the app and even changed the settings back and forth. Nothing helped." ☛ https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-04064-7 | Source: Nature
Sun 10:01:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Blundering Husband Asks Claude AI to "Organize" Wife's PC, Accidentally Erases Her Cherished Family Photos" ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/claude-wife-photos | Source: Futurism
Sun 10:01:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "According to analyses by the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) institute, prices for these chips rose by 50% last year" ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/ai-chip-shortage-semiconductor-industry-smartphone-prices-apple-iphone-samsung/a-75925338 | Source: Deutsche Welle
Sun 10:02:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Lenovo has warned about mounting pressure on PC shipments as a worsening memory-chip shortage grips the industry." ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/chip-shortage-hits-pcs-as-ai-swallows-the-worlds-memory-supply/277618/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)
Sun 10:02:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "You might think making rules requires knowledge, even expertise, and checking the facts on the ground. But the heads of the DOT don’t have time for that nonsense: [...]" ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/13/lets-vibe-regulate-us-transport-with-gemini/ | Source: Pivot to AI
Sun 10:02:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "William Gibson is, again, right: The future is already here—it’s just not very evenly distributed." ☛ https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2026/02/14/1500 | Source: Rui Carmo
Sun 10:03:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The usual argument goes like this. Agents exercise discretion. They interpret ambiguous input. They pick tools. They sequence actions." ☛ https://unmitigatedrisk.com/?p=1129 | Source: Unmitigated Risk
Sun 10:03:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The alliance includes companies such as Anthropic, Amazon Web Services, Alphabet's Google, India's Reliance Jio Platforms" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/microsoft-ericsson-lead-global-tech-alliance-for-digital-trust/articleshow/128316750.cms | Source: India Times
Sun 10:04:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "criminalizing abortion as murder and drawing strong condemnation from human rights groups" ☛ https://www.telesurenglish.net/puerto-rico-criminalizes-abortion/ | Source: teleSUR
Sun 10:04:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Factorial experiments are very common in agriculture and they are usually laid down to test for the significance of interactions between experimental factors." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/02/testing-for-interactions-in-nonlinear-regression/ | Source: Rlang
Sun 10:04:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A deep dive into automating Cigna's claims portal with AI and browser automation, and how the technical struggles revealed accessibility failures that likely violate federal law." ☛ https://www.provos.org/p/had-to-write-a-script-to-submit-to-cigna/ | Source: Niels Provos
Sun 10:05:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "When Professor Farber started his career in the mid-1950s, at Bell Laboratories, computers were practically islands unto themselves." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/technology/david-farber-dead.html | Source: New York Times
Sun 10:05:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Just within the past year we’ve accomplished some major financial milestones that makes all of this possible." ☛ https://initialcharge.net/2026/02/all-in-family/ | Source: Mike Rockwell
Sun 10:06:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "One star, dubbed M31-2014-DS1, stood out like a sore thumb — brightening in 2015, fading roughly a year later, and eventually disappearing from view, even in optical light." ☛ https://futurism.com/space/star-disappear-black-hole | Source: Futurism
Sun 10:06:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "At work, I forked an old package that converts .tex files to WordPress-compatible HTML and updated it to generate modern Gutenberg markup for the WordPress block editor." ☛ https://cagrimmett.com/2026/02/13/latex-to-gutenberg-conversion/ | Source: Chuck Grimmett
Sun 10:06:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Now
Sun 10:06:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Now, a new mathematical study suggests that an unusual state of matter known as a time crystal could offer a more stable and potentially simpler way to measure time." ☛ https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/time-crystals-replace-quantum-clocks | Source: Interesting Engineering
Sun 10:07:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "world's foremost historians on Abraham Lincoln, while his knowledge of the American Civil War was among the most extensive in academia." ☛ https://telex.hu/english/2026/02/12/hungarian-born-historian-who-became-expert-on-lincoln-has-died | Source: Telex (Hungary)
Sun 10:07:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "most of the advice in Andrea's post is correct and reasonable, and we should do more of it" ☛ https://www.jmduke.com/posts/how-id-grow-buttondown.html | Source: Justin Duke
Sun 10:17:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "DNS queries seem like a more reliable indication of the popularity of your favorite Linux distro than Distrowatch’s infamous ranking." ☛ https://blog.paranoidpenguin.net/2026/02/a-look-at-the-traffic-originating-from-my-tor-exit-relays/ | Source: Roger Comply
Sun 10:17:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The below is transcribed from a 1991 talk by John Cleese titled Creativity in Management. I encourage you to watch the 30-minute recording on YouTube." ☛ https://timotijhof.net/posts/2026/john-cleese-on-creativity-transcript/ | Source: Timo Tijhof
Sun 10:18:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "One that keeps haunting me is “Honor thy error as a hidden intention”, which basically boils down to taking a “mistake” and seeing where it leads you if you had meant to do it." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/02/14/honor-thy-error/ | Source: Hackaday
Sun 10:23:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Links 15/02/2026: How Alexey Navalny Was Executed by Putin, Erdogan Helping Iran ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/15/Links_15_02_2026_How_Alexey_Navalny_Was_Executed_by_Putin_Erdog.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/15/Links_15_02_2026_How_Alexey_Navalny_Was_Executed_by_Putin_Erdog.gmi ∎
Sun 10:24:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It doesn’t dive deep into emojis but focuses more on text encoding. Some facts, for example, about Hangul encoding were new to me." ☛ https://victor.kropp.name/blog/2026/utf-8-explained/ | Source: Victor Kropp
Sun 10:24:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "When designing and producing Raspberry Pi devices, we consider as many potential use cases as possible" ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/certifying-third-party-antennas-for-use-with-raspberry-pi-compute-modules/ | Source: Raspberry Pi
Sun 10:25:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "There is an open issue asking to revert this change." ☛ https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2026-02-14-fish-shell-delete-behavior.html | Source: Data Swamp
Sun 10:26:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "RubyGems, PyPI, crates.io, Hex, Hackage, CRAN, and LuaRocks all use flat namespaces: one global pool of names, first-come-first-served. You pick a name, and if nobody has it, it’s yours." ☛ https://nesbitt.io/2026/02/14/package-management-namespaces.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt
Sun 10:26:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "As a maintainer of several OneBusAway projects, I regularly ask contributors to rebase their branches before merging. The response is often hesitation or outright fear." ☛ https://www.brethorsting.com/blog/2026/01/git-rebase-for-the-terrified/ |
Sun 10:26:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Pystd is an experiment on what a C++ standard library without any backwards compatibility requirements would look like. Its design goals are in order of decreasing priority: [...]" ☛ https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2026/02/whats-cooking-with-pystd-experimental-c.html | Source: Jussi Pakkanen
Sun 10:27:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "What do you think the output of the var_dump at the top of the code snippet will be? I'll give you a little bit to work this out in your head." ☛ https://svenluijten.com/articles/understanding-php-yield-and-yield-from-directives | Source: Sven Luijten
Sun 10:27:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Where do great research ideas come from in computer science education?" ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/embodied-machine-learning-from-research-ideas-to-classroom-activities/ | Source: Raspberry Pi
Sun 10:28:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I didn't have the guts to replace my main blog at baty.net yet. Too much work." ☛ https://baty.blog/the-all-new-batyblog | Source: Jack Baty
Sun 10:28:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Static blogs using Markdown files are great, but I like to post a lot of images, and SSGs make that more difficult." ☛ https://baty.blog/blog-management-fatigue | Source: Jack Baty
Sun 10:29:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Miniflux is a minimalist, open-source RSS feed reader that you can host yourself." ☛ https://christiano.dev/post/self_hosted_rss/ | Source: Christiano Anderson
Sun 10:29:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "As a practical thing, if you want people using blocked syndication feed readers to have a chance to see your explanation" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/FeedReaderErrorsProblem | Source: University of Toronto
Sun 10:29:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ com
Sun 10:30:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Logseq won me over by fixing the exact issues that started to frustrate me in Google Keep." ☛ https://www.androidpolice.com/i-thought-google-keep-enough-until-i-tried-open-source-app/ | Source: Android Police
Sun 10:31:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The first Mobile Progress Report of 2026 provides a high-level overview to our mobile plans and priorities for the coming year." ☛ https://blog.thunderbird.net/2026/02/mobile-progress-report-february-2026/ | Source: Thunderbird
Sun 10:32:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "In the 1980s, if you wanted your IBM PC to run faster, you could buy the Intel 8087 floating-point coprocessor chip." ☛ https://www.righto.com/2026/02/8087-instruction-decoding.html | Source: Ken Shirriff
Sun 10:32:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "ST’s VL53L5CX is a very small 8×8 grid ranging sensor that can perform distance measurements at a distance of up to 4 meters." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/02/14/real-time-3d-room-mapping-with-esp32-vl53l5cx-sensor-and-imu/ | Source: Hackaday
Sun 10:32:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "According to the Robotera website, the L7 features 55 degrees of freedom, the number of independent movements a robot can make. Its arm features seven degrees of freedom, while its hand alone is said to boast 12." ☛ https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/robot-sword-china | Source: Futurism
Sun 10:33:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This was purely an experiment for the lolz. Here’s what I did and why you shouldn’t." ☛ https://blog.hofstede.it/rhel-on-zfs-root-an-unholy-experiment/ | Source: Christian Hofstede-Kuhn
Sun 10:36:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I recently upgraded my servers to FreeBSD 15, and as part of it, I reinstalled all the packages." ☛ https://www.ncartron.org/fixing-baikal-not-working-anymore-after-upgrading-to-freebsd-15.html | Source: Nico Cartron
Sun 10:36:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Pentium III is i686. Debian is not doing 32 bit no more. The machine is low on resources, so looking at alternatives." ☛ https://darrengoossens.wordpress.com/2026/02/15/openbsd-on-a-very-old-laptop/ | Source: Darren Goossens
Sun 10:38:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Today I ran across another article that talked in passing about "retained mode"" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/RepaintModeGUI | Source: University of Toronto
Sun 10:39:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "For all the abilities of modern Linux, there are some apps – especially paid commercial ones – that still require Windows." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/14/winapps_and_winboat/ | Source: The Register UK
Sun 10:40:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The LMS7002M supports dual-channel transmit and receive paths with channel bandwidths from 0.5 MHz to 90 MHz." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/xsdr-packs-2x2-mimo-artix-7-fpga-and-3-8-ghz-tuning-into-m-2-2230-form-factor/ | Source: Linux Gizmos
Sun 10:41:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "On the compute side, RK3576 combines quad Cortex-A72 cores clocked up to 2.2GHz with quad Cortex-A53 cores up to 1.8GHz." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/bit-brick-k1-pro-adds-6-tops-npu-and-dual-nvme-to-compact-sbc/ | Source: Linux Gizmos
Sun 10:42:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Opinion poll: 47% want to ban X | "Opinionsundersökning: 47% vill förbjuda X" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/02/13/opinionsundersokning-47-vill-forbjuda-x/
Sun 10:44:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Fighting causes instead of prohibitions | "Social-Media-Debatte: Ursachenbekämpfung statt Verbote" https://netzpolitik.org/2026/social-media-debatte-ursachenbekaempfung-statt-verbote/
Sun 10:46:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ hindustantimes running spam and ads for child sex trafficking supporters, disgraceful to say the least https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/mumbai-news/bill-gates-to-visit-mumbai-to-sign-mou-and-review-malaria-eradication-efforts-101771010602922.html http://techrights.org/n/2026/01/30/The_Epstein_Files_Don_t_Say_the_Ages_of_Those_Russian_Girls_Bil.shtml
Sun 10:46:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Thomas Massie tried to defund kill switches in cars & Congress voted against him" https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/thomas-massie-tried-to-defund-kill:d
Sun 11:12:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ GNOME 49.4 Released with Improvements for Nautilus, GNOME Shell, and Mutter ☞ https://9to5linux.com/gnome-49-4-released-with-improvements-for-nautilus-gnome-shell-and-mutter
Sun 11:12:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ REMnux 8 GNU/Linux Toolkit for Malware Analysis Is Out to Celebrate 15th Anniversary ☞ https://9to5linux.com/remnux-8-linux-toolkit-for-malware-analysis-is-out-to-celebrate-15th-anniversary
Sun 11:12:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Vim 9.2 Is Out with Comprehensive Completion, Wayland Support, and More ☞ https://9to5linux.com/vim-9-2-is-out-with-comprehensive-completion-wayland-support-and-more
Sun 11:17:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Google Promoting Slop, Not Journalism ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/14/Google_Promoting_Slop_Not_Journalism.shtml
Sun 11:19:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Vim 9.2 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1058744/
Sun 11:21:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ FreeBSD 14.4-BETA2 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/freebsd
Sun 11:37:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Malaysia’s frontline cops now equipped with body-worn cameras ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysias-frontline-cops-now-equipped-with-body-worn-cameras
Sun 11:39:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ China top court says drivers responsible despite autonomous technology ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-top-court-says-drivers-responsible-despite-autonomous-technology
Sun 11:43:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ There's One Simple Method to Lower Alcohol Intake, And It Works ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/theres-one-simple-method-to-lower-alcohol-intake-and-it-works
Sun 11:46:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Intel fined $3 million by India’s antitrust regulator over discriminatory CPU warranty policy ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/intel-fined-usd3-million-by-indias-antitrust-regulator-over-discriminatory-cpu-warranty-policy-says-intel-abused-its-dominant-position-in-the-boxed-processor-market
Sun 11:46:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Meta Adding Facial Recognition to Its Smart Glasses That Identifies People in Real Time, Hoping the Public Is Too Distracted by Political Turmoil to Care ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-facial-recognition-glasses
Sun 11:47:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Another Proprietary Chaffbot Company Researcher Just Quit in Disgust ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-researcher-quit-ads
Sun 11:49:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Rights group finds 50 Morocco companies remain unpaid for Saudi renovation job since 2024 ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/02/rights-group-finds-50-morocco-companies-remain-unpaid-for-saudi-renovation-job-since-2024/
Sun 11:51:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Updates to My Commenting System ☞ https://kevquirk.com/updates-to-my-commenting-system
Sun 11:52:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ De-mystifying XMPP: Insights from a Mentorship Session ☞ https://shibe-bit.github.io/Learnings/XMPPandHTTP
Sun 11:53:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Bits from Debian: DebConf 26 Registration and Call for Proposals are open ☞ https://bits.debian.org/2026/02/debconf26-registration-opens.html
Sun 11:54:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Malaysia’s Bersatu files police reports over official Facebook (Farcebook) page hijacking ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysias-bersatu-files-police-reports-over-official-facebook-page-hijacking
Sun 11:57:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ X Is In Such Dire Straits That Its Head of Product Says It Can’t Afford to Display the Color Blue ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/twitter-x-color-blue
Sun 11:57:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Over 300 Malicious Chrome Extensions Caught Leaking or Stealing User Data ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/over-300-malicious-chrome-extensions-caught-leaking-or-stealing-user-data/
Sun 11:58:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ MICROSOFT SPAM disguised as "journalism" https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/technology/they-are-in-love-but-dont-speak-the-same-language.html
Sun 11:58:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Microsoft Added Hey Hi (AI) to Notepad and It Created a Security Failure Because the Hey Hi (AI) Was Stupidly Easy for Hackers to Trick ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-added-ai-notepad-security-flaw
Sun 12:03:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Explainer: How national security judges sentenced Jimmy Lai, from health records to foreign collusion ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/02/15/explainer-how-national-security-judges-sentenced-jimmy-lai-from-health-records-to-foreign-collusion/
Sun 12:04:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Python Mutable References with Caching ☞ https://soumyadghosh.github.io/website/blog/python-mutable-reference-caching/
Sun 12:06:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Deskflow | Seamless Multi-Computer Control ☞ https://cubiclenate.com/2026/02/14/deskflow-seamless-multi-computer-control/
Sun 12:11:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ iFixIt calls BMW’s new anti-consumer security screws 'a logo-shaped middle finger to right to repair,' ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/manufacturing/ifixit-calls-bmws-new-anti-consumer-security-screws-a-logo-shaped-middle-finger-to-right-to-repair-adafruit-3d-prints-a-solution-bmws-connector-reverse-engineered-using-patent-filing-as-a-design-blueprint
Sun 12:12:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Acer and Asus halt PC and laptop sales in Germany amid H.264 codec patent monopoly dispute — Nokia wins patent monopoly ruling, forcing tech giants to license HEVC codec ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/acer-and-asus-halt-pc-and-laptop-sales-in-germany-amid-h-264-codec-patent-dispute-nokia-wins-patent-ruling-forcing-tech-giants-to-license-hevc-codec
Sun 12:15:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Niko Matsakis: Sharing in Dada ☞ https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2026/02/14/sharing-in-dada/
Sun 12:16:53 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] hi, Goblin
Sun 12:18:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Android 17 Beta 1 released with H.266/VVC support, camera improvements, and more ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/02/14/android-17-beta-1-released-with-h-266-vvc-support-camera-improvements-and-more/
Sun 12:20:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Script convert limine.cfg to limine.conf ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202602/script-convert-liminecfg-to-limineconf.html
Sun 12:27:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Ubuntu 24.04.4 Released with Kernel 6.17, Mesa 25.2 & Numerous Fixes ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/02/ubuntu-24-04-4-released-with-kernel-6-17-mesa-25-2-numerous-fixes/
Sun 12:28:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ REMnux 8 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/remnux
Sun 12:28:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Anonymous Threats Against My Wife and Against Yours Truly ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/13/Anonymous_Threats_Against_My_Wife_and_Against_Yours_Truly.shtml
Sun 12:29:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Will Lockett's Newsletter: Abusive Monopolist Microsoft became Microslop and backdoored Windows users are "flocking" to GNU/Linux "to escape the mess" ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/14/Will_Lockett_s_Newsletter_Microsoft_became_Microslop_and_Window.shtml
Sun 12:29:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Proxmox VE Series Part 2: Installing Proxmox ☞ https://www.linux.org/threads/proxmox-ve-series-part-2-installing-proxmox.59024/
Sun 12:30:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Sidecar – development workflow in one shell ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/sidecar-development-workflow-one-shell/
Sun 12:30:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 10 Best Free and Open Source Perl Static Site Generators ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-perl-static-site-generators/
Sun 12:37:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Parallelizing Game HEY HI: A Deep Dive into Multi-Threading Libraries for Search Algorithms ☞ https://pavanportfolio.droptools.site/blog/research
Sun 12:45:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ envx – environment variable manager ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/envx-environment-variable-manager/
Sun 12:45:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 6 Best Free and Open Source Photo Geotagging Tools ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-photo-geotagging-tools/
Sun 12:45:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Raffi – application launcher ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/raffi-application-launcher/
Sun 12:45:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 5 Useful Free and Open Source TUI Notes Apps ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/useful-free-open-source-tui-notes-apps/
Sun 12:46:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Celebrating “I love Free Software day” ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02/14/celebrating-i-love-free-software-day/
Sun 12:47:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install OpenRGB on AlmaLinux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-openrgb-almalinux-10/
Sun 12:48:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install Dozzle on Linux Mint 22 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-dozzle-linux-mint-22/
Sun 12:50:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install qBittorrent on Debian 13 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-qbittorrent-debian-13/
Sun 12:51:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Microsoft is Lobbying Brussels via Opensource.org and OSI ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/14/Microsoft_is_Lobbying_Brussels_via_Opensource_org_and_OSI.shtml
Sun 12:51:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Rise of YouTube politicians tests South Korea’s democratic resilience ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/rise-of-youtube-politicians-tests-south-koreas-democratic-resilience
Sun 12:56:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Introducing geoboundaries ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/02/introducing-geoboundaries/
Sun 12:57:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Fitting time-to-event models with an environmental covariate ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/02/fitting-time-to-event-models-with-an-environmental-covariate/
Sun 12:57:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Default password for root is "woofwoof" ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202602/default-password-for-root-is-woofwoof.html
Sun 12:58:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Limine 10.7.0 patched to support ext4 ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202602/limine-1070-patched-to-support-ext4.html
Sun 12:58:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Wget Cheatsheet ☞ https://linuxize.com/cheatsheet/wget/
Sun 13:01:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ HackerOS is what a GNU/Linux enthusiast’s OS should be ☞ https://thenewstack.io/hackeros-is-what-a-linux-enthusiasts-os-should-be/
Sun 13:02:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Ly – display manager ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/ly-display-manager/
Sun 13:02:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Betula – self-hosted personal link collection manager ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/betula-self-hosted-personal-link-collection-manager/
Sun 13:05:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ OpenMeters – audio metering/visualization program ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/openmeters-audio-metering-visualization-program/
Sun 13:05:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Bloop – build server for the Scala programming language ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/bloop-build-server-scala/
Sun 13:05:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ zond – network mapping and discovery tool ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/zond-network-mapping-and-discovery-tool/
Sun 13:08:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ mintCast 478 – The Anti-Windows Cast ☞ https://mintcast.org/478-the-anti-windows-cast/
Sun 13:12:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Barry Kauler on Limine 10.7.0 and Default Password in EasyOS ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/Barry_Kauler_on_Limine_10_7_0_and_Default_Password_in_EasyOS.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/Barry_Kauler_on_Limine_10_7_0_and_Default_Password_in_EasyOS.gmi ∎
Sun 13:12:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today's 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 HowTos ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/today_s_howtos.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/today_s_howtos.gmi ∎
Sun 13:14:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): FreeBSD and OpenBSD Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/FreeBSD_and_OpenBSD_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/FreeBSD_and_OpenBSD_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Sun 13:14:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Open Hardware/Modding: Adafruit, ESP32, and More ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/Open_Hardware_Modding_Adafruit_ESP32_and_More.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/Open_Hardware_Modding_Adafruit_ESP32_and_More.gmi ∎
Sun 13:14:12 │ 〖psydroid3〗 │ the evil corpses are fighting among themselves
Sun 13:15:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 Programming Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/Programming_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Sun 13:17:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and “I love Free Software day” ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_and_I_love_Free_Software_da.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_and_I_love_Free_Software_da.gmi ∎
Sun 13:17:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Standards/Consortia: XMPP, UTF-8, and Antenna Kit ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/Standards_Consortia_XMPP_UTF_8_and_Antenna_Kit.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/Standards_Consortia_XMPP_UTF_8_and_Antenna_Kit.gmi ∎
Sun 13:19:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): GNU/Linux Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/GNU_Linux_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/GNU_Linux_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Sun 13:23:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Links 15/02/2026: Roy Medvedev Dead at 100, Rise of "YouTube Politicians" ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/15/Links_15_02_2026_Roy_Medvedev_Dead_at_100_Rise_of_YouTube_Polit.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/15/Links_15_02_2026_Roy_Medvedev_Dead_at_100_Rise_of_YouTube_Polit.gmi ∎
Sun 13:26:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Google Noise began linking to another slopfarm, https://www.mixvale.com.br
Sun 13:26:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ It says "Reference links researched: https://ubuntu.com/blog https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/ https://9to5linux.com/ " - that means plagiarised not, researched
Sun 13:27:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The GNOME Project released GNOME 49.4 today as the fourth point release of the latest GNOME 49 “Brescia” desktop environment series with more bug fixes and improvements." https://9to5linux.com/gnome-49-4-released-with-improvements-for-nautilus-gnome-shell-and-mutter
Sun 13:28:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Can't live without Adobe? Get on board WinBoat – or WinApps sails a similar course" https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/14/winapps_and_winboat/
Sun 13:29:20 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] <psydroid3> the evil corpses are fighting among themselves
Sun 13:29:26 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] BSDs you mean?
Sun 13:33:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Linux 7.0 may receive a self-repairing feature that automatically fixes your XFS filesystem https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-7-0-impressive-self-repairing-feature-fixes-your-filesystem/
Sun 13:34:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): I’m going back to the 2000s this weekend by installing this classic Linux distro ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/I_m_going_back_to_the_2000s_this_weekend_by_installing_this_cla.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/I_m_going_back_to_the_2000s_this_weekend_by_installing_this_cla.gmi ∎
Sun 13:34:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ $150 Steam Machine: Mining surplus becomes a Linux console with 60 FPS | igor´sLAB ⚓ https://www.igorslab.de/en/150-dollar-steam-machine-mining-clearance-item-becomes-a-linux-console-with-60-fps/
Sun 13:35:48 │ 〖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 ∎
Sun 13:36:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 5 powerful Python one-liners that will make you a better coder https://www.howtogeek.com/cool-one-liners-that-show-how-powerful-python-is/
Sun 13:37:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ AerynOS is the atomic Linux distro nobody is talking about https://www.xda-developers.com/aerynos-is-the-atomic-linux-distro-nobody-is-talking-about/
Sun 13:37:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Why my favorite Linux distro is slowing down - and I'm thrilled about it https://www.zdnet.com/article/whats-coming-next-for-linux-mint/
Sun 13:40:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Breaking the Spell of Vibe Coding - “People who go all in on AI agents now are guaranteeing their obsolescence." -- Jeremy Howard" gemini://tobykurien.com/microblog.gmi
Sun 13:53:16 │ 〖psydroid3〗 │ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrtJAw57Wkw
Sun 14:00:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ unemployment rate detached from facts on the ground https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/job-numbers-january-2026-9.7077050
Sun 14:03:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ international student https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/first-person-international-student-9.7076884
Sun 14:05:28 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] psydroid2: seems like slop video
Sun 14:05:32 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] lots of slop in it
Sun 14:05:35 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so I stopped
Sun 14:05:37 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but
Sun 14:05:47 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] can you get us/me url re 18% down for vista 11?
Sun 14:05:55 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] from a source that can be referenced?
Sun 14:08:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ geoengineering https://www.dw.com/en/why-scientists-warn-of-privately-funded-geoengineering/a-75716067
Sun 14:13:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Don't use Microsoft https://www.howtogeek.com/visual-studio-code-is-eating-up-hundreds-of-gigabytes-on-linux/
Sun 14:14:01 │ 〖psydroid3〗 │ schestowitz-pi, I don't think the voice is slop and I just found the video, so I started watching it. I think the important part is that there are a lot of GNU/Linux deployments happening right now and Microsoft is panicking
Sun 14:14:11 │ 〖psydroid3〗 │ schestowitz[TR2]: ^^
Sun 14:14:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Discover the all-in-one Linux toolbox that handles JSON, JWT, Cron, and image conversion in a single, private interface." https://www.howtogeek.com/this-linux-tool-boosted-my-developer-productivity/
Sun 14:14:31 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] yes
Sun 14:14:36 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but maybe you can find a url for this\
Sun 14:14:40 │ 〖psydroid3〗 │ TR contributors should be able to find more information about regions where they are located
Sun 14:14:41 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i would be very interested
Sun 14:14:47 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i saw none of those claims from SMFT
Sun 14:14:56 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] being enlightened would help coverage
Sun 14:14:59 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] as i was unaware
Sun 14:15:00 │ 〖psydroid3〗 │ I don't have the time for that now, but maybe later this week
Sun 14:15:02 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they call it "client"
Sun 14:15:05 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and lump topgether many things
Sun 14:15:08 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] not just windows
Sun 14:15:16 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so that it's hard tyo fugure out what goies up and what goes down
Sun 14:16:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Your workflow is begging for Linux Mint applets." https://www.howtogeek.com/must-have-linux-mint-applets-for-students-and-working-professionals/
Sun 14:17:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "LibreOffice is one of the best alternatives to Microsoft Office and Google Docs, and now it's rolling out a major update. LibreOffice 26.2 has arrived with some new features, compatibility improvements with Microsoft Office, and faster performance." https://www.howtogeek.com/libreoffices-first-big-update-for-2026-has-arrived/
Sun 14:18:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Nothing beats the command-line when it comes to searching files. Here are some handy commands you can learn to find your files 10X faster." https://www.howtogeek.com/the-fastest-ways-to-find-files-from-the-command-line-on-linux/
Sun 14:19:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): LibreOffice 26.2 Open-Source Office Suite Officially Released, This Is What’s New ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/04/LibreOffice_26_2_Open_Source_Office_Suite_Officially_Released_T.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/04/LibreOffice_26_2_Open_Source_Office_Suite_Officially_Released_T.gmi ∎
Sun 14:19:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Too many distros are solving the same solved problems, and it’s turning choice into confusion." https://www.howtogeek.com/if-linux-is-going-to-thrive-some-distros-must-go/
Sun 14:21:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "An operating system that's truly mine." https://www.howtogeek.com/tried-replacing-windows-with-linux-mint-heres-how-it-went/
Sun 14:21:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Linux doesn’t just look different, it ages better, keeps workflows stable, and teaches skills that carry across servers, containers, and VMs." https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-advantages-you-only-notice-after-you-switch/
Sun 14:22:37 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i will check jnow
Sun 14:23:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "windows 11 18% decline microsoft" nets nothing relevant in google
Sun 14:23:28 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it could be justy 'hallucinated ' disino in slop video
Sun 14:24:06 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] some slop says no evidence of it
Sun 14:24:09 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] that's why i avboid slop
Sun 14:24:12 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it introduces lies
Sun 14:24:16 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and then it can waste time
Sun 14:24:21 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] to check if they are true
Sun 14:24:24 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and they might not be
Sun 14:25:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Open source saves money, but it can cost time and energy. After enough broken automations and weird edge cases, I now chase reliability." https://www.howtogeek.com/i-used-to-chase-open-source-purity-but-now-i-chase-reliability/
Sun 14:25:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Learn the ABCs of BSD." https://www.howtogeek.com/difference-bsd-and-linux/
Sun 14:26:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A much better experience on modern Linux distributions." https://www.howtogeek.com/wayland-support-is-coming-to-intellij-idea-pycharm-and-other-ides/
Sun 14:29:45 │ 〖psydroid3〗 │ I think there should be more information on the ground from people who are located in Brazil, China, Japan and South Korea
Sun 14:29:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Make your ancient Mac feel new again." https://www.howtogeek.com/installed-ubuntu-on-my-old-macbook-air-and-i-wish-id-done-it-sooner/
Sun 14:30:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "You don't need to live in the Linux terminal." https://www.howtogeek.com/tips-for-using-linux-without-touching-the-command-line/
Sun 14:30:35 │ 〖psydroid3〗 │ as Microsoft may have done a good job of keeping reports of migrations to GNU/Linux out of the news outlets
Sun 14:30:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Switching between channels and servers should be a bit snappier now." https://www.howtogeek.com/discord-is-getting-a-speed-boost-on-desktop-platforms/
Sun 14:32:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "At last, a flagship Linux distro is supporting an RVA23-based SoC." https://www.howtogeek.com/ubuntu-coming-to-spacemit-k3-rva23-risc-v-soc/
Sun 14:32:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The coreutils tools include ls, cp, mv, chmod, and many more. Find out what this collection is, why it matters, and how to use it." https://www.howtogeek.com/what-are-the-gnu-core-utilities-and-why-should-i-care-about-them/
Sun 14:33:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Did you know you can check the maximum speed of a USB port with one command?" https://www.howtogeek.com/uses-for-the-lsusb-command-on-linux/
Sun 14:36:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Customizing the bootloader is much easier than you might think. You can download and install community themes with one-line commands." https://www.howtogeek.com/default-grub-looks-so-ugly-heres-how-to-give-it-a-makeover/
Sun 14:37:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "These small distros can have some surprisingly major uses." https://www.howtogeek.com/reasons-tiny-linux-distros-are-worth-keeping-on-a-usb-stick/
Sun 14:37:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Discover the true power of Emacs applications beyond mere text editing. From advanced email workflows to simplistic feed readers, Emacs does it all." https://www.howtogeek.com/emacs-packages-that-replace-everyday-apps-email-notes-to-dos-rss/
Sun 14:38:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Here's your ticket to make your own retro platform game, right on your Linux desktop." https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-apps-to-try-this-weekend-february-6/
Sun 14:38:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Pull fresh Unsplash wallpapers and rotate them on GNOME automatically with a Python script plus a systemd service and timer." https://www.howtogeek.com/build-a-wallpaper-changer-on-ubuntu-with-python-and-systemd/
Sun 14:39:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "How Linux Mint turns your mouse’s right-click button into the most productive tool." https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-mint-isnt-just-for-beginners-and-this-hidden-cinnamon-feature-proves-it/
Sun 14:39:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Linux Mint has a collection of powerful secret weapons that most people completely ignore." https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-mint-cinnamon-spices/
Sun 14:55:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Never Give Up ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/Never_Give_Up.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/Never_Give_Up.gmi ∎
Sun 15:04:04 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/15/if_microsoft_made_a_car/
Sun 15:07:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – "Mix Vale" is a Slopfarm ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/15/Mix_Vale_is_a_Slopfarm.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/15/Mix_Vale_is_a_Slopfarm.gmi ∎
Sun 15:12:52 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/15/gpt5_bests_human_judges_in/
Sun 15:26:17 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/vending-machine-ai-price-fixing
Sun 15:30:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – When It Comes tom Rust, Keep All the Eyes on the Ball (Technical and Legal Perils, Sustainability Questions) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/15/When_It_Comes_tom_Rust_Keep_All_the_Eyes_on_the_Ball_Technical_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/15/When_It_Comes_tom_Rust_Keep_All_the_Eyes_on_the_Ball_Technical_.gmi ∎
Sun 15:48:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – He Did Not Have Enough Souls ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/15/He_Did_Not_Have_Enough_Souls.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/15/He_Did_Not_Have_Enough_Souls.gmi ∎
Sun 15:59:12 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] <admfubar> https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/15/gpt5_bests_human_judges_in/
Sun 15:59:15 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] seems like marketing spam
Sun 15:59:20 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] for a site paid to promote slop
Sun 15:59:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): GNU/Linux and ChromeOS Hit 5% in Anguilla ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/GNU_Linux_and_ChromeOS_Hit_5_in_Anguilla.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/GNU_Linux_and_ChromeOS_Hit_5_in_Anguilla.gmi ∎
Sun 15:59:30 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they would measure wrong metrics
Sun 16:00:15 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Eric Posner and researcher Shivam Saran
Sun 16:00:53 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/radical-markets/
Sun 16:01:00 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Eric A. Posner
Sun 16:01:36 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] same guy
Sun 16:01:52 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "This 2018 book by Eric Posner, a Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, and Glen Weyl, senior principal researcher at Microsoft"
Sun 16:10:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – The Register MS is Promoting Slop, Promotion Connected to Microsoft (Trying to Replace Judges With Microsoft) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/15/The_Register_MS_is_Promoting_Slop_Promotion_Connected_to_Micros.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/15/The_Register_MS_is_Promoting_Slop_Promotion_Connected_to_Micros.gmi ∎
Sun 16:11:15 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] admfubar: ^
Sun 16:11:20 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] ty for the headsup
Sun 16:11:39 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights- futurism.com | AIs Controlling Vending Machines Start Cartel After Being Told to Maximize Profits At All Costs
Sun 16:11:46 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they refer to slop as a human
Sun 16:11:48 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "AIs"
Sun 16:11:51 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] like it's a person/s
Sun 16:11:56 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] That's pure BS
Sun 16:12:00 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and looks like infantile framing
Sun 16:12:23 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] ikt is not sentient
Sun 16:37:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Spread the Word About EPO Strikes and Patent Injustices in Europe ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/15/Spread_the_Word_About_EPO_Strikes_and_Patent_Injustices_in_Euro.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/15/Spread_the_Word_About_EPO_Strikes_and_Patent_Injustices_in_Euro.gmi ∎
Sun 16:50:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Free Software Foundation (FSF) Raised About 1.5 Million Dollars This Winter, Almost 50% More Than in All of 2024 Combined ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/15/Free_Software_Foundation_FSF_Raised_About_1_5_Million_Dollars_T.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/15/Free_Software_Foundation_FSF_Raised_About_1_5_Million_Dollars_T.gmi ∎
Sun 17:04:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Puff Pieces Won't Solve SRA Problems ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/Solicitors_Regulation_Authority_SRA_Puff_Pieces_Won_t_Solve_SRA.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/Solicitors_Regulation_Authority_SRA_Puff_Pieces_Won_t_Solve_SRA.gmi ∎
Sun 17:09:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Windows fell to third place in Macao https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/macao/#monthly-200902-202602 http://techrights.org/n/2025/03/18/Android_With_Linux_Rises_to_Record_Highs_in_Hong_Kong_and_in_Ma.shtml
Sun 17:26:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Microsoft Windows' Decline, as Seen From Maldives ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/Microsoft_Windows_Decline_as_Seen_From_Maldives.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/Microsoft_Windows_Decline_as_Seen_From_Maldives.gmi ∎
Sun 17:38:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Firefox measured around 10% in German, an anomaly https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/all/germany/#monthly-200902-202602 same in France
Sun 17:45:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Microsoft Has Fallen to New Lows in Hong Kong This Year ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/15/Microsoft_Has_Fallen_to_New_Lows_in_Hong_Kong_This_Year.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/15/Microsoft_Has_Fallen_to_New_Lows_in_Hong_Kong_This_Year.gmi ∎
Sun 17:57:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Small is Beautiful (in Cascading Style Sheets/Inheritance Rules) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/15/Small_is_Beautiful_in_Cascading_Style_Sheets_Inheritance_Rules.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/15/Small_is_Beautiful_in_Cascading_Style_Sheets_Inheritance_Rules.gmi ∎
Sun 18:01:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "We went to an art exhibition, had lunch, and went to the National Gallery for even more art. They have a whole room of Rembrandts!" gemini://freeshell.de/gemlog/2026-02-15_What_day_was_it_yesterday_.gmi
Sun 18:03:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ On entanglement gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/garden/entanglement
Sun 18:11:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Keeping the Site Fast in Spite of Annoying Bots ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/Keeping_the_Site_Fast_in_Spite_of_Annoying_Bots.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/Keeping_the_Site_Fast_in_Spite_of_Annoying_Bots.gmi ∎
Sun 18:18:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ bruce perens is active, but only in Microsoft's LinkedOut it seems, which is... kind of absurd.
Sun 18:21:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Also in MElon's bad site actually https://x.com/BrucePerens and his own site has been practically offline for weeks
Sun 18:23:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ without being in charge of his own platform, he will be subjected to manipulation
Sun 18:28:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Immutable Linux distros solve a problem most home users don't have https://www.xda-developers.com/immutable-linux-distros-solve-a-problem-most-home-users-dont-have/
Sun 18:29:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ I found a free tool that makes setting up NixOS instances incredibly simple https://www.xda-developers.com/free-tool-makes-easy-set-up-different-nixos-instances/
Sun 18:30:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Steam says a lot of games aren't compatible with Proton, but you can sometimes make them work anyway https://www.xda-developers.com/steam-says-many-games-arent-proton-compatible-but-you-can-make-them-work/
Sun 18:33:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Wayland might be the future of Linux, but I’m not leaving X11 yet ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/Wayland_might_be_the_future_of_Linux_but_I_m_not_leaving_X11_ye.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/Wayland_might_be_the_future_of_Linux_but_I_m_not_leaving_X11_ye.gmi ∎
Sun 18:33:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Because everything is better while it's running in your terminal." https://www.xda-developers.com/this-cool-linux-app-lets-you-play-youtube-music-from-your-terminal/
Sun 18:33:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It's still good, but not the best." https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-mint-isnt-the-answer-for-windows-refugees-anymore/
Sun 18:35:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Proxmox is overkill for your first server, and that's exactly why you should learn it https://www.xda-developers.com/proxmox-is-overkill-for-your-first-server-and-you-should-learn-it/
Sun 18:36:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ I switched from Arch to something boring, but I still want to switch back https://www.xda-developers.com/switched-from-arch-something-boring-still-want-switch-back/
Sun 18:37:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Proxmox's best feature isn't virtualization; it's the backup system https://www.xda-developers.com/proxmox-best-feature-backups/
Sun 18:38:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Proprietary + Microsoft = https://www.xda-developers.com/nasty-vs-code-snap-bug-devouring-gigabytes-of-storage-not-purging-deleted-files/
Sun 18:38:34 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ trash solidarity
Sun 18:39:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A lot of exciting developments happened in January alone." https://www.xda-developers.com/2026-will-be-the-year-of-gaming-on-linux/
Sun 18:39:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Vanilla OS 2 lets me run Ubuntu, Fedora, and Arch apps at the same time https://www.xda-developers.com/vanilla-os-2-lets-run-ubuntu-fedora-arch-and-android-apps-same-time/
Sun 18:40:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], Are we going to say anything about Dr. Oz's idea.
Sun 18:40:44 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Of replacing rural doctors with "AI"?
Sun 18:41:10 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Or "just have a machine scan the baby you're pregnant with and you don't even see the image and the machine just says whether the baby is fine"?
Sun 18:41:11 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ Lo tak meta satak Oz
Sun 18:41:29 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] great idea
Sun 18:41:31 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The whole point of going to those visits is to let the doctor tell you how the baby is developing.
Sun 18:41:36 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] what is this "AI" he speaks of?
Sun 18:41:37 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] chatbots?
Sun 18:41:50 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Yes.
Sun 18:42:01 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://www.npr.org/2026/02/14/nx-s1-5704189/dr-oz-ai-avatars-replace-rural-health-workers
Sun 18:42:24 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ His idea is get rid of medical assistants and increase the patient load for rural doctors by 5x.
Sun 18:43:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Before Valve brought Proton to light for the Steam Deck, Linux gaming was at the mercy of developers and tools like WINE" https://www.xda-developers.com/nvidia-razer-are-now-taking-linux-more-seriously/
Sun 18:44:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "No more guessing." https://www.xda-developers.com/keeping-an-eye-on-your-laptop-battery-on-cosmic-just-got-a-ton-easier/
Sun 18:44:21 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ isn't Proton a version of WINE?
Sun 18:44:37 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Yes, and I like it.
Sun 18:44:49 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ 15 194319 < 𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS> "Before Valve brought Proton to light for the Steam Deck, Linux gaming was at the mercy of developers and tools like WINE"
Sun 18:44:51 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Proton works on ChromeOS as part of Steam for ChromeIS.
Sun 18:44:54 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ *ChromeOS
Sun 18:45:14 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So you absolutely can play Windows games on your Chromebook, provided it's fast enough to run them.
Sun 18:45:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I decided it was time to put my Proxmox box to good use, and create a Linux VM that I could use for these utilities. The result was a cleaner workstation, and tools that work better for my use case." https://www.xda-developers.com/windows-tools-i-replaced-with-a-single-linux-vm/
Sun 18:45:46 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The Windows API is now complete enough on Linux that you really don't need Windows to run most Windows programs.
Sun 18:46:09 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ sounds like time to extend the API again
Sun 18:46:14 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They did.
Sun 18:46:24 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ There was an API called XAudio2.
Sun 18:46:40 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ maybe yet another GUI toolkit and yet another way to deliver applications
Sun 18:46:43 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ maybe even yet another language
Sun 18:46:44 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Microsoft changed all their Bethesda games to use that and the sound did not work until Wine implemented it.
Sun 18:46:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Linux distros are finally competing on design, and it shows https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-distros-finally-competing-design-shows/
Sun 18:46:50 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ just to keep people on their toes!
Sun 18:46:57 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Even though the original engines just opened DirectSound and played MP3s.
Sun 18:47:01 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And that worked fine.
Sun 18:47:12 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ i love it when a bethesda game looks at an optimus laptop and decides it has 0 GPU-s and refuses to start
Sun 18:47:14 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Then when Wine could play sound, Microsoft updated Windows 10 silently.
Sun 18:47:27 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ even after microslop bought them
Sun 18:47:28 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And it made subtle pointless changes that broke the API again.
Sun 18:47:53 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ For several years, Windows 10 supported the API both ways you would use it.
Sun 18:48:07 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Microsoft warned that some of that would be removed in a future version.
Sun 18:48:26 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But they never did say exactly when, and then you updated Windows 10, and the old API was gone.
Sun 18:48:34 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ 15 194648 < 𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS> Linux distros are finally competing on design, and it shows https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-distros-finally-competing-design-shows/
Sun 18:48:41 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ By that time, it affected Wine, but everything on Windows was updated.
Sun 18:48:44 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ sounds like it's time for microslop/dehomag to pull the reins again
Sun 18:49:00 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I think Microsoft gave a 10 year warning or something like that.
Sun 18:49:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ In oligarchic societies, money decides outcomes or outcomes lean towards money, gravitate towards what oligarchs demand
Sun 18:49:17 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But the changes were pointless.
Sun 18:49:33 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They did not free up any space or make the API work better.
Sun 18:49:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Not quite https://www.xda-developers.com/appimages-are-just-exe-files-for-linux-and-nobody-explains-it-that-simply/
Sun 18:49:59 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They were really just removing CLSIDs.
Sun 18:50:02 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ make the API work better?
Sun 18:50:03 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ https://66.media.tumblr.com/202e7b85f5340abcf0065e27543f57e4/tumblr_inline_pnf37qT5GR1t1k0l9_540.gif
Sun 18:50:28 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ > nobody explains it that simply
Sun 18:50:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 6 GNOME extensions that made me stop missing Windows entirely https://www.xda-developers.com/gnome-extensions-made-me-stop-missing-windows-entirely/
Sun 18:50:31 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ because they aren't
Sun 18:50:44 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Well, the main change between the DirectSound API and XAudio2, is that you have to use WMA with XAudio2.
Sun 18:50:55 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ You could use any codec Windows supported with DirectSound.
Sun 18:51:03 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Including MP3.
Sun 18:51:16 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ You could also shove an Ogg Vorbis codec in and use that if you wanted to.
Sun 18:51:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Promoting Microsoft much? https://www.xda-developers.com/i-let-ai-guide-my-entire-journey-through-switching-from-windows-to-linux/
Sun 18:52:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It's almost here, too." https://www.xda-developers.com/kde-plasma-660-will-fix-the-most-annoying-part-of-logging-in-with-biometrics/
Sun 18:53:14 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ On a technical level the WMA codecs are not *bad* they just don't do anything the average user would want that can't be accomplished by an open standard.
Sun 18:53:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Anon: "the US is no longer an oligarchy, though it was one for several decades. in January 2025 it pivoted to a kakistocracy and has been gutted to the point it is unlikely to survive long, The Kremlin has heavy business investments in each one of the insiders in the regime, both male and female, but the males are _*all*_ active participants in Epstein's activities."
Sun 18:53:38 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They were designed so that Microsoft could gain patents on them and the ASF container would use their proprietary DRM.
Sun 18:54:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "GOG is hitting the ground running with its FOSS support." https://www.xda-developers.com/gog-has-already-started-working-on-linux-gaming-as-it-says-theyre-a-big-fan-of-the-os/
Sun 18:54:28 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The codecs use most of the MPEG-LA patents on the corresponding AAC profiles.
Sun 18:54:33 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But some of Microsoft's as well.
Sun 18:54:54 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Out of the two, AAC was the more obvious choice.
Sun 18:54:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It also adds some nice tweaks for some handheld consoles." https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-619-is-out-now-and-it-gives-old-amd-gpus-a-30-speed-boost/
Sun 18:55:12 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ What held AAC back was that there was never a good open source encoder for it.
Sun 18:55:16 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ There still isn't.
Sun 18:55:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It's looking sleek so far." https://www.xda-developers.com/appmanager-is-a-gear-lever-alternative-with-a-macos-aesthetic-and-it-just-hit-version-300/
Sun 18:55:33 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ ffmpeg claims their AAC encoder is okay now, but it's really not.
Sun 18:55:59 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ If you look at the development logs, they adapted some code from the LAME MP3 encoder, but they never optimized it fully.
Sun 18:56:06 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It's just better than their older encoder.
Sun 18:57:23 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ LAME code doesn't apply cleanly to AAC because MP3 isn't really a pure frequency domain codec. It is also a time domain codec.
Sun 18:57:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Get these apps after booting Linux for first time." https://www.makeuseof.com/open-source-apps-i-install-immediately-after-installing-linux/
Sun 18:58:01 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And that's not a good thing. It gains some of the problems of both, and has to apply additional filtering to suppress undesirable artifacts, which themselves cause artifacts and lower compression efficiency.
Sun 18:58:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Sorry, but I moved on from Ubuntu, because it frankly doesn't fit me anymore." https://www.makeuseof.com/reasons-im-not-going-back-to-ubuntu/
Sun 18:58:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ There was a time domain codec based on MPEG-1 Layer II, called Musepack, which was quite good.
Sun 18:58:54 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It was incredibly fast to encode and decode and roughly comparable to Ogg Vorbis in compression efficiency.
Sun 18:59:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Repetition disguised as discipline exposed by a simple Linux command." https://www.makeuseof.com/automated-annoying-daily-linux-tasks-saved-hours-every-week/
Sun 18:59:22 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Its memory requirements were also very small even for embedded systems.
Sun 18:59:32 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But it hasn't been actively developed in years.
Sun 18:59:48 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Opus is a patent mess full of covenants not to sue.
Sun 19:00:04 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ All the patents that may have applied to Musepack are certainly expired by now.
Sun 19:00:19 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I think the main one of concern was a Philips patent on Clear Voice Detection.
Sun 19:00:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ This free app replaced my entire office suite without any learning curve https://www.makeuseof.com/using-libre-office-instead-of-microsoft-office/
Sun 19:00:53 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ You don't just get a license to use Opus Patents however you want.
Sun 19:01:05 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ You're only protected if you are making a conforming implementation of Opus.
Sun 19:01:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "In my search to replace most of the paid programs on my PC with open-source alternatives, LibreOffice checked all the boxes for things that I needed. It gives me a chance to write and create documents and export them in .docx, pdf, or other Microsoft-accessible file formats."
Sun 19:01:23 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ You can't do anything else. You can't even go on to extend Opus.
Sun 19:02:18 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And many of those patents will be in effect until nearly 2040.
Sun 19:02:55 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The guy behind Opus left Mozilla, he now works, I think, at Amazon Web Services.
Sun 19:04:51 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], A men's haircut now starts at $31 at Hair Cuttery.
Sun 19:04:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): This lightweight Linux distro made my 10-year-old laptop usable again ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/This_lightweight_Linux_distro_made_my_10_year_old_laptop_usable.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/This_lightweight_Linux_distro_made_my_10_year_old_laptop_usable.gmi ∎
Sun 19:04:57 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And they also want you to leave a tip.
Sun 19:05:06 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So you might as well say like $40 after tip and taxes.
Sun 19:05:56 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ https://apina.biz/212506.png?mode=sfw
Sun 19:06:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Games: 150 Steam Machine, Proton, Nvidia and Razer ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/Games_150_Steam_Machine_Proton_Nvidia_and_Razer.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/Games_150_Steam_Machine_Proton_Nvidia_and_Razer.gmi ∎
Sun 19:06:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): GNU/Linux Distributions and Operating Systems: Immutable Options, NixOS, Arch, Vanilla OS, and More ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/GNU_Linux_Distributions_and_Operating_Systems_Immutable_Options.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/GNU_Linux_Distributions_and_Operating_Systems_Immutable_Options.gmi ∎
Sun 19:08:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Recent Proxmox Coverage at Valnet ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/Recent_Proxmox_Coverage_at_Valnet.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/Recent_Proxmox_Coverage_at_Valnet.gmi ∎
Sun 19:09:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today's 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/today_s_leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/today_s_leftovers.gmi ∎
Sun 19:11:53 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The $15 haircut is gone pretty much unless you go to a beauty school and have it done by a student.
Sun 19:12:03 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ My God, everything is so expensive lately.
Sun 19:14:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Links 15/02/2026: Slop, Politics, and Gemini ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/15/Links_15_02_2026_Slop_Politics_and_Gemini.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/15/Links_15_02_2026_Slop_Politics_and_Gemini.gmi ∎
Sun 19:22:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ BrasIRC a new and steadily growing IRC network https://netsplit.de/networks/statistics.php?net=BrasIRC
Sun 19:25:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "IBM’s job 1 = lower costs no matter what how it impacts the company. So I believe your band 10 was most likely why the computer picked you. (You are expensive vs a new hire (especially if the new hire was in India))" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khcfn7v1
Sun 19:25:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ""Back in the day" (when I was still an employee), dismissals took place quarterly. January, April, July, October...over and over again." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khcfn7v1
Sun 19:26:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Top performing band 10 and got RA'd went to the office and actually worked on location 3 days a week. I am a white male ... Meanwhile people who go to the office once a month and are on teams meeting all day did not get RA'd. Guess the reason" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khcfn7v1
Sun 19:26:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Thanks for sending me the location of the device in NYC. Will be "out of town" for a few days." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khcfn7v1
Sun 20:40:38 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.firstpost.com/tech/as-electricity-costs-rise-everyone-wants-data-centers-to-pick-up-their-tab-but-how-13979499.html
Sun 20:45:14 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ definitely trained by rfk and wonderful wizard of oz.... https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/us-government-grok-nutrition
Sun 20:46:18 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ lol
Sun 20:46:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): KaOS Linux Drops KDE Plasma After 12 Years for Niri/Noctalia to Escape systemd ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/KaOS_Linux_Drops_KDE_Plasma_After_12_Years_for_Niri_Noctalia_to.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/KaOS_Linux_Drops_KDE_Plasma_After_12_Years_for_Niri_Noctalia_to.gmi ∎
Sun 20:47:09 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://futurism.com/future-society/justin-bieber-bored-ape-nft-worth
Sun 20:53:38 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ really i wasnt sorry.... laughed a lot though...
Sun 20:56:56 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ and you thought fracking was bad... will till your water glows in the dark... https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Nuclear-Power/How-Deep-Fission-is-Slashing-Nuclear-Costs-by-80-Percent.html
Sun 21:12:15 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://loriemerson.net/2024/08/31/a-brief-history-of-barbed-wire-fence-telephone-networks/
Sun 21:48:15 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ rock'em sock'em robots... https://restofworld.org/2026/chinese-robot-boxing-unitree-rek/
Sun 21:54:41 │ 〖lxo〗 │ schestowitz-pi, "when it comes tom rust", is "tom rust" supposed to be some wordplay I didn't get, or is it just a plain typo in the title?
Sun 22:01:16 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ prolly a typo
Sun 22:01:46 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/13/airbnb-says-a-third-of-its-customer-support-is-now-handled-by-ai-in-the-u-s-and-canada/
Sun 22:02:35 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://techcrunch.com/video/why-top-talent-is-walking-away-from-openai-and-xai/
Sun 22:03:16 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, Reminds me of Little Nicky.
Sun 22:03:27 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Every morning in Hell, Hitler gets a pineapple up the ass.
Sun 22:03:34 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And the devil makes him go back and get the biggest one.
Sun 22:04:11 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ doesnt that tickle your tenga... https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/13/sex-toys-maker-tenga-says-hacker-stole-customer-information/
Sun 22:04:26 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, I was talking to my boyfriend about the IRS. I mentioned Wesley Snipes.
Sun 22:04:36 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ He "forgot" to file his income taxes on $38 million dollars.
Sun 22:04:49 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Just slipped his mind somehow and he ended up in prison for three years over that.
Sun 22:05:08 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Now, I do understand why people hate paying taxes.
Sun 22:05:16 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The government doesn't take its own finances seriously.
Sun 22:05:36 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They add $1 trillion in debt every 90 days, usually with programs and things that hurt and kill people.
Sun 22:06:03 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They could close most of that gap by not under-taxing the rich, or just cutting the parts of the budget that hurt people.
Sun 22:06:05 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Or both.
Sun 22:06:28 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Then you forget to pay them $100 and they want an in-person audit that costs them $4,000.
Sun 22:06:54 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :)
Sun 22:07:34 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They spend a lot of their audit budget on people that are not worth auditing.
Sun 22:07:35 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ > doesnt that tickle your tenga...
Sun 22:07:39 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ it tickles my Tei Tenga
Sun 22:07:45 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ People who claim the earned income credit, which is for poor people.
Sun 22:07:46 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ also known as Butt End Of Space
Sun 22:07:54 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They get audited over a couple hundred bucks.
Sun 22:08:02 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Costs the government more than 20 times what they get back.
Sun 22:08:46 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ 15 230603 < IsambardPrince> They could close most of that gap by not under-taxing the rich, or just cutting the parts of the budget that hurt people.
Sun 22:08:49 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The government could just end the Earned Income Credit. They say that nearly 30% of the payments shouldn't go out.
Sun 22:09:05 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/13/copyright-kills-competition/
Sun 22:09:07 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ some nazi voters have already admitted that they voted for adolf diddler specifically because they thought he'd hurt the "right" people
Sun 22:09:09 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ If they ended the EITC and raised the standard deduction, then more people at the bottom wouldn't even have to file a tax return at all.
Sun 22:09:15 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ hurting people is the whole fucking point
Sun 22:09:21 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ that is what our society does.
Sun 22:09:28 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ that is what the state is all about.
Sun 22:09:58 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/13/cops-criticize-flock-safety-after-its-caught-handing-out-access-to-federal-agencies/
Sun 22:12:07 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.themarshallproject.org/2026/02/07/ai-texas-ice-mn-tech
Sun 22:12:59 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ For some reason, the government of Indiana passed some sort of commission that pretends it can just take the worst part of Illinois, and they want that for some reason so their state can be even poorer than it is now with more people that are a public charge than what they already have over there.
Sun 22:14:24 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://thenewstack.io/statistical-language-r-is-making-a-comeback-against-python/
Sun 22:15:26 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ cant wait to see what indiana's tourism ads will be like with that addition...
Sun 22:16:20 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It's like Putin setting up a commission to vote on expanding into Ukraine.
Sun 22:16:57 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The Indiana law claims that in order to actually do anything, Illinois has to appoint 4 members of the commission.
Sun 22:17:02 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Indiana gets 5 for some reason.
Sun 22:17:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So it appointed the 5 commission members, and they're having public hearings, but they don't have a quorum to vote on anything, because Illinois didn't appoint anyone.
Sun 22:17:56 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And even if it did, then both state legislatures would have to agree on it, and so would Congress.
Sun 22:18:23 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So they have these hearings, and Republican activists from downstate Illinois are attending them.
Sun 22:18:29 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And they're griping about Illinois.
Sun 22:20:05 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ <admfubar> cant wait to see what indiana's tourism ads will be like with that addition...
Sun 22:20:26 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ About a third of Illinois is places where almost nobody lives or even goes to.
Sun 22:20:50 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ We have elections and they color code the map and it looks like there's a lot of Republicans because a lot of the counties are "red".
Sun 22:21:06 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But then you look and there's millions of people in each of the counties up north.
Sun 22:21:16 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And some of those "red" colored counties have like 4,000 voters.
Sun 22:21:48 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ You can win all counties in Illinois except Cook County and still lose a statewide election.
Sun 22:21:55 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It has happened, recently.;
Sun 22:22:14 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ After Rod Blagojevich was impeached and convicted, Pat Quinn replaced him as Governor.
Sun 22:22:30 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ He faced a very tight election, losing every county except Cook County.
Sun 22:22:40 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And he just barely won that election.
Sun 22:23:06 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Since then, that's unlikely to happen again for a lot of reasons.
Sun 22:23:31 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Most of the collar counties have been moving towards the Democrats since then.
Sun 22:24:48 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ Better Dead Than Red
Sun 22:24:59 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, All the iPhone and Apple Card ads never use the word "the".
Sun 22:25:12 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It's never "the Apple Card" or "the iPhone".
Sun 22:25:19 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It says "Get iPhone 17."
Sun 22:25:26 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Or "Get Apple Card".
Sun 22:25:35 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ the crApple ads i get come from cultists 99% of the time, not the media
Sun 22:25:50 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ "Get iPhone 17." sounds like an infection
Sun 22:25:57 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ There's probably a reason here. Psychologically when you add the word "the", it reminds people it's just an inanimate object.
Sun 22:26:13 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ it's like "Get Cancer™."
Sun 22:26:46 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ i don't think people in gypsyland are rich enough to be worth translating crApple ads for
Sun 22:26:58 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ and most of them barely even understand hungarian, let alone other languages
Sun 22:51:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://www.ecoticias.com/en/all-u-s-social-security-numbers-may-need-to-be-changed-following-a-massive-breach-that-is-already-being-investigated-as-a-national-threat/27158/
Sun 22:51:43 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I prefer the Tyler Durden version.
Sun 22:51:49 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The entire data center is blown up.
Sun 22:51:55 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Everyone's credit reports are wiped.
Sun 22:52:00 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Nobody owes the banks anything.
Sun 22:52:21 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ <@MinceR> "Get iPhone 17." sounds like an infection
Sun 22:52:33 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Get gonorrhea. It's good for the environment and okay for you!
Sun 22:53:23 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, They claim that gonorrhea is now resistant to more antibiotics.
Sun 22:53:47 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But knowing the US healthcare system, that may be true, or they might be saying it is so that they can upcode the required treatment to get more money.
Sun 22:54:06 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Getting a shot of antibiotics in the doctor's office codes as "oh, about $2,000, plus the visit".
Sun 22:54:17 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ A bottle of Cipro costs about $20.
Sun 22:55:00 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The UK is immunizing people at high risk of contracting gonorrhea with the Meningitis B vaccine.
Sun 22:55:17 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The two are similar enough that the MenB series is about 40% effective against gonorrhea.
Sun 22:55:39 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Not enough to say you won't get it, but enough to get better numbers as far as total infections across an entire country.
Sun 22:56:12 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It's not bad advice to get vaccinated against anything that can spread sexually that does have a vaccine.
Sun 22:56:20 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Many have a vaccine, most don't.
Sun 22:56:39 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ HPV, Hepatitis A and B, Meningitis.
Sun 22:56:48 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Those make a lot of sense if you're sexually active.
Sun 22:57:09 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ One of the things that makes the various other STDs more dangerous is that where there's one, there's often more.
Sun 22:57:24 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ That's because they make you more susceptible to also contracting something else, like HIV.
Sun 23:05:50 │ 〖psydroid3〗 │ https://www.ownlife.dev/articles/the-great-escape-why-developers-are-finally-ditching-windows-for-linux
Sun 23:15:16 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Auto-Loans/Will-I-get-approved-for-130k-auto-loan/td-p/6843500
Sun 23:15:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, "I'm planning to finance a car that costs as much as I make in two years."
Sun 23:15:40 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "Will I be APPROVED?"
Sun 23:16:31 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "I already have a mortgage, a student loan, and credit cards with balances."
Sun 23:16:37 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "This is probably a good idea, right?"
Sun 23:17:51 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I have to get a Mercedes, gotta be a Mercedes! Mercedes Mercedes! SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE!!!!!!
Sun 23:18:21 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, My doctor in Chicago rode the city bus, didn't even have a car.
Sun 23:18:30 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Said it helped her pay her student loans back faster.
Sun 23:19:13 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ lol
Sun 23:21:52 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, The Chevy dealer said I was due for an oil change a few weeks ago.
Sun 23:21:55 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Asked how much.
Sun 23:22:00 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They said "$120".
Sun 23:22:14 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I said, "Why would I do that when Walmart is $26.88?"
Sun 23:23:59 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], Criterion releases Monty Python's Life of Brian in April.
Sun 23:24:01 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ https://apina.biz/212481.png?mode=sfw
Sun 23:24:03 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I preordered that.
Mon 00:03:26 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, After T-Mobile bought out Sprint they said come in for two free phones.
Mon 00:03:44 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So I upgraded both our phones since the credit applied immediately under that promotion.
Mon 00:03:53 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Then the carrier subsidy came off immediately.
Mon 00:04:01 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So I ported them both out to a prepaid carrier.
Mon 00:04:06 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And walked off with two brand new phones.
Mon 00:04:08 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :>
Mon 00:04:36 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I hate T-Mobile.
Mon 00:04:41 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ same
Mon 00:04:46 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I had to port out anyway because they noticed I wasn't 55.
Mon 00:04:56 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I had a 55+ plan that Sprint gave me as a retention offer.
Mon 00:05:10 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Brandon Lobster said he'd report me for committing some sort of crime.
Mon 00:05:29 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I said I told the agent I wasn't 55 yet and he said that he didn't care and he gave me the plan.
Mon 00:05:35 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :>
Mon 00:06:03 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So I had the plan for a couple years under T-Mobile, then in February one year they noticed and said if I didn't come in by April with some ID, they'd raise my bill.
Mon 00:06:09 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Then I got the email about the free phones.
Mon 00:06:19 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So I got two free phones and ported them out and canceled T-Mobile.
Mon 00:07:20 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ lol
Mon 00:07:32 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ they got what they deserved
Mon 00:07:40 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ well, a small part of what they deserve
Mon 00:07:43 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ You get what you fucking deserve! -Joker
Mon 00:07:48 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :>
Mon 01:20:03 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, T-Mobile was charging me $55 for two lines on the 55+ plan.
Mon 01:20:17 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, Mandy said he's moving out before the lease ends.
Mon 01:20:20 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Whatever.
Mon 01:20:22 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But...
Mon 01:20:34 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I can log in and take his phone number back.
Mon 01:20:43 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I can put it in the second SIM card slot for my phone.
Mon 01:20:52 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Then his iPhone won't work and he can't get his phone number back.
Mon 01:21:07 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :>
Mon 01:22:15 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, That ought to be a surprise.
Mon 01:26:41 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TBD8HTssRA
Mon 01:26:59 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, At this upscale restaurant, the average bill per person runs up to $20 per person, or more.
Mon 01:27:02 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ (1985)
Mon 01:27:30 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :>
Mon 01:27:58 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ At $150, it said that they had to call the bank.
Mon 01:28:15 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, You can barely eat at Outback Steakhouse for that for two people.
Mon 01:28:24 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ wasn't it per person?
Mon 01:28:47 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, The idea of an upscale restaurant costing $20 a person is ludicrous, in 2026.
Mon 01:28:58 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Try about $80-90 per person.
Mon 01:29:32 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Even a chain steakhouse can cost $50-60 per person. It just depends.
Mon 01:29:59 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I went to an Outback Steakhouse on a date Christmas Eve, and after tax and tip our bill was $106.
Mon 01:30:32 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Burger King is roughly $10-12 a person, and that's if you use your Walmart+ discount of 25%.
Mon 01:30:45 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Things have gotten out of control.
Mon 01:30:52 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ come on up to the lab, er, smell whats in the air... https://hackaday.com/2026/02/15/nobody-can-complain-when-you-fart-if-its-for-science/
Mon 01:31:01 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ In 2006 without any coupons, I could go to Burger King for about $7.
Mon 01:31:08 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And that wasn't even trying to save money.
Mon 01:31:25 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ "You think that’s air you’re breathing now...?"
Mon 01:31:26 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ If I got off work late at night and was REALLY hungry, $7 got a triple Whopper and fries and a drink.
Mon 01:31:50 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, Everything has doubled, except the paychecks.
Mon 01:32:16 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ since my transplant.. i've been conducting all sorts of science....
Mon 01:32:45 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The landlord's idea of affordable is that if you get a one bedroom apartment that was meant for recovering alcoholics in the 70s, you should be able to afford it if you find two roommates and you all work full time.
Mon 01:32:50 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Of course, there's the cockroaches.
Mon 01:33:03 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ You can eat those. Brandon Lobsta says they're a good source of protein.
Mon 01:33:09 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ free protein !!!
Mon 01:33:14 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And at the rate they reproduce you'll never be out of food.
Mon 01:33:22 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ O Lord, thank you for this wonderful bounty!
Mon 01:36:35 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ well isnt that special...... https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/15/exl3harris_exec_sold_8_zeroday/
Mon 01:38:13 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpyk4teeUhY
Mon 01:38:19 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ How Credit Cards Are Made – Inside Secret Factories
Mon 01:39:19 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.osnews.com/story/144405/why-do-i-not-use-ai-at-osnews/
Mon 01:47:38 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/02/13/1649236
Mon 01:57:01 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AKn-zJMIwY
Mon 01:57:11 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Why Owning Nothing Is So Expensive
Mon 01:58:49 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ being poor is expensive
Mon 02:01:38 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, The video is Spirited Away.
Mon 02:01:43 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The one he's playing on DVD.
Mon 02:01:48 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Recognized it immediately.
Mon 02:01:57 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Studio Ghibli, I think, still doesn't stream anything.
Mon 02:02:00 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Could be wrong.
Mon 02:03:14 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They mention HBO.
Mon 02:03:19 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Yes, at first it was good.
Mon 02:03:23 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It had first run movies.
Mon 02:03:29 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They got people subscribing to it.
Mon 02:03:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Then they enshittified it.
Mon 02:03:52 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ By the 2000s it was playing movies that were 20-30 years old and all the good ones were on Pay Per View.
Mon 02:04:25 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I mean streaming isn't new in concept, because we've had Pay Per View on cable since the decoder boxes.
Mon 02:04:46 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The cable companies found out that they could run all the latest movies, and even porn and sporting events, and only put them on Pay Per View.
Mon 02:04:51 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And you had to call and pay extra.
Mon 02:07:58 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, A mattress topper that costs $3000 and then you have to subscribe for $17 a month.
Mon 02:08:05 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ lol
Mon 02:19:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: February 15th, 2026 ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/9to5Linux_Weekly_Roundup_February_15th_2026.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/9to5Linux_Weekly_Roundup_February_15th_2026.gmi ∎
Mon 02:23:12 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, I don't subscrive to anything.
Mon 02:23:24 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ *subscribe
Mon 02:23:45 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/02/16/0139206/ars-technicas-ai-reporter-apologizes-for-mistakenly-publishing-fake-ai-generated-quotes
Mon 02:26:22 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, Is it just me or does Marc Andreeson look a lot like Beldar Conehead?
Mon 02:27:49 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBI_FLYfwmM
Mon 02:29:39 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ well, he does look like he's a conehead
Mon 02:30:13 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ his face doesn't resemble Beldar's (or Dan Aykroyd's) though
Mon 02:35:21 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], I think what's going on with software subscriptions and banks is that they've gotten so good at mindfucking the average person.
Mon 02:35:27 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It's just a total mindfuck.
Mon 02:35:43 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Because the deal is so bad that no sane or intelligent person would ever say yes to it.
Mon 02:35:43 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ maybe the average's person's mind has gotten easier to fuck
Mon 02:35:53 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I think so.
Mon 02:44:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "If Bitcoin prices do take a big fall so quickly after the last big drop then it may permanently tarnish the reputation of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies too. If new users become scared of buying Bitcoins then the existing users will find it harder to convert their coins back to cash when necessary." https://danielpocock.com/en/iran-conflict-bitcoin-gold-silver/
Mon 02:45:49 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, I did get a tax audit one year.
Mon 02:46:04 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It was the first year I filed. Mom said give my tax forms to Brian, her dumbass second husband.
Mon 02:46:14 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ He filled out the state form and took the out of state resident rate.
Mon 02:46:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🅸🆁🅲 techpol + social irc ■ Yesterday's #boycottnovell-social and #techpol IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-150226.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-150226.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-social-150226.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-social-150226.txt
Mon 02:46:24 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I got a letter from INDOR saying I owed them $46.
Mon 02:46:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – IRC Proceedings: Sunday, February 15, 2026 ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/IRC_Proceedings_Sunday_February_15_2026.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/IRC_Proceedings_Sunday_February_15_2026.gmi ∎
Mon 02:46:43 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They weren't like, super pissed or anything, it was obviously just a mistake on the form.
Mon 02:47:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🅸🆁🅲 techrights irc ■ Yesterday's #techrights IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-150226.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-150226.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techrights-150226.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techrights-150226.txt
Mon 02:47:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today in Techrights ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/Today_in_Techrights.gmi ∎
Mon 02:48:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Over at Tux Machines... ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi ∎
Mon 02:48:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🅸🆁🅲 boycottnovell irc ■ Yesterday's #boycottnovell IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-150226.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-150226.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-150226.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-150226.txt
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Mon 02:49:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ✩░▒▓▆▅▃▂▁𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍▁▂▃▅▆▓▒░✩ Yesterday's 𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 bulletin is now ready! 🅷🆃🆃🅿: http://techrights.org/txt-archives/techrights-2026-02-15.txt | 🅶🅴🅼🅸🅽🅸 gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/techrights-2026-02-15.txt (tentative address, to work an hour from now)
Mon 02:50:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ✩░▒▓▆▅▃▂▁Tux Machines 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍▁▂▃▅▆▓▒░✩ Yesterday's Tux Machines bulletin is now ready! 🅷🆃🆃🅿: http://news.tuxmachines.org/txt-archives/tuxmachines-2026-02-15.txt
Mon 02:50:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, That credit card guy I watch is explaining the tiers of American Express.
Mon 02:50:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I don't think Maricel is smart enough to Product Change her old Everyday card to the Blue Cash Everyday, not that the rewards program matters much. She owes the bank so much interest from revolving a balance that the rewards don't even matter.
Mon 02:50:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ She's at the American Express tier where as long as she pays them something, no lawsuit....this month.
Mon 02:52:12 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Banks start you out low and go slow. First a "minimum payment" of $40 doesn't seem oppressive, but it's all interest, then you keep spending.
Mon 02:52:13 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Eventually your minimum payment is like $600 a month and it's all interest and you can no longer spend because all your money is going to that.
Mon 02:52:32 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :>
Mon 02:53:05 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They're perfectly happy to facilitate your excess spending because they know in the end you won't be able to buy anything, just keep paying them not to sue you.
Mon 02:53:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This reminds me of the "New Collar" initiative under Ginni. "Turns out we do need some people onshore in the same time zone who can speak English." Sounds like this time they're hiring people with actual degrees though, since Band 6. Sadly, they will be treated as disposable, just a crutch for the main employees in India, discarded after a couple of years." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kha4h3ef
Mon 02:54:00 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, Maricel lacked the self-control to move to the highest tiers of American Express.
Mon 02:54:13 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They gave her an Everyday card and she maxed it out and made minimum payments.
Mon 02:54:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "the layoff in November 2024 was not a surprise to many. The Indian id1ot at the top and his cabal need more cuts than the 15/70/15 performance scheme and cook the books to stay in the grace of Wall Street. The AI and Quantum Computing charade does not fool anybody." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khcfn7v1
Mon 02:54:30 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ From their point of view, people who do that don't have any money and you can't trust them with anything else.
Mon 02:56:03 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Also, that pisses a lot of banks off so that anything you do pay off, they reduce your credit limit by the same amount so yo ucan't make any more charges. It's called "balance chasing". You make payments, they lower your credit limit to like $50 over what you owe them, every month.
Mon 02:56:45 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Someone on FICO Forums complained that Citibank was doing it to them.
Mon 02:57:26 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, About two months before I defaulted on all my credit cards, Citi put an email in my box saying they increased my credit line by $2500.
Mon 02:57:30 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ :)
Mon 03:06:57 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/13/colorado-river-crucial-deadline
Mon 03:12:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ tech companies by size: many are Japanese and Chinese
Mon 03:14:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "GAFAM" is in Wikipedia now :)
Mon 03:24:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2026-02-16.gmi
Mon 03:25:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1918.jpg
Mon 03:26:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I feel overly dramatic about this phase of my life. I am not sure why. It was a bit of a party weekend, so I am a bit drained." gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/begin
Mon 03:29:52 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://techxplore.com/news/2026-02-ai-threatens-business-software.html
Mon 03:33:47 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ and hilarity ensues... https://techxplore.com/news/2026-02-india-ai-city-staggering-scale.html
Mon 03:35:00 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://techxplore.com/news/2026-02-atom-thin-ferroelectric-transistor-polarization.html
Mon 03:35:40 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://techxplore.com/news/2026-02-smartphones-young-people-flip-cameras.html
Mon 03:48:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Debt of Broadcom Grew by More Than 50%, Broadcom is Deeper in Debt Than Google ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/Debt_of_Broadcom_Grew_by_More_Than_50_Broadcom_is_Deeper_in_Deb.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/Debt_of_Broadcom_Grew_by_More_Than_50_Broadcom_is_Deeper_in_Deb.gmi ∎
Mon 03:49:52 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] ieee propping up ponzi economics is... sad
Mon 03:49:58 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they should know better
Mon 03:50:15 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] this one seems interesting https://techxplore.com/news/2026-02-smartphones-young-people-flip-cameras.html
Mon 03:50:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Burned out by smartphones, young people are choosing flip phones, cameras and MP3 players instead https://techxplore.com/news/2026-02-smartphones-young-people-flip-cameras.html
Mon 03:51:21 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "v"
Mon 03:51:22 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "Alarm clocks, maps, books, flashlights, watches, radios, MP3 players, Palm Pilots, remote controls, cameras, handheld recorders and other devices have all been gradually absorbed into a single one: the smartphone."
Mon 03:51:26 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] a watch can work too
Mon 03:51:30 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] doesn't need charging every day
Mon 03:53:52 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ there probably were flip phones that were smartphones
Mon 03:54:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Cybershow's "Helen and Andy review recent episodes and plans for 2026 (with potty-mouth warning)" https://cybershow.uk/episodes.php?id=59
Mon 03:57:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Any space will do https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/place/
Mon 04:07:12 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] MinceR: yes, i thought the same
Mon 04:07:15 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but the trend matters
Mon 04:07:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they want less
Mon 04:18:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Dr. Andy Farnell on How Universities and Culture of Education Got Crushed by "Technofascist Nightmare" ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/Dr_Andy_Farnell_on_How_Universities_and_Culture_of_Education_Go.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/Dr_Andy_Farnell_on_How_Universities_and_Culture_of_Education_Go.gmi ∎
Mon 04:33:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – More People in Chad Move to GNU/Linux ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/More_People_in_Chad_Move_to_GNU_Linux.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/More_People_in_Chad_Move_to_GNU_Linux.gmi ∎
Mon 04:51:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Microsoft Amutable Already Reveals That Its Focus Is Not Linux, It'll Promote "Remote Attestation" ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/Microsoft_Amutable_Already_Reveals_That_Its_Focus_Is_Not_Linux_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/Microsoft_Amutable_Already_Reveals_That_Its_Focus_Is_Not_Linux_.gmi ∎
Mon 05:00:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "NPR’s David Greene is suing Google over its AI podcast voice." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/879610/nprs-david-greene-suing-google-ai-podcast | Source: The Verge
Mon 05:00:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Among other features, Google’s NotebookLM allows users to generate a podcast with AI hosts." ☛ https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/15/longtime-npr-host-david-greene-sues-google-over-notebooklm-voice/ | Source: TechCrunch
Mon 05:00:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "David Greene had never heard of NotebookLM, Google’s buzzy artificial intelligence tool that spins up podcasts on demand" ☛ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/15/david-greene-google-ai-podcast/ | Source: The Washington Post
Mon 05:01:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The Gemini protocol is an interesting way to try to carve out some corner of the Internet for non-commercial use" ☛ https://kevinboone.me/gemini_2026.html | Source: Kevin Boone
Mon 05:01:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "One of those letters came from 9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya from Colombia. Her letter was written on a piece of notebook paper" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-dilley-maria-antonia-guerra-story | Source: Pro Publica
Mon 05:02:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "During the same period, 25,845 civilian injuries have been recorded." ☛ https://www.en-hrana.org/day-50-of-the-protests-intensification-of-security-prosecutions-and-uncertainty-regarding-the-status-of-detainees/ | Source: Human rights Activists News Agency
Mon 05:05:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "While in Germany the provider of data linking and data analysis software for authorities with surveillance powers is successful with at least some state customers." ☛ https://www.heise.de/en/news/Palantir-vs-the-Republik-US-analytics-firm-takes-magazine-to-court-11176508.html | Source: Heise
Mon 05:05:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Of course, this has brought more international attention to Republik’s stories than they would otherwise have received: [...]" ☛ https://werd.io/palantir-vs-the-republik-us-analytics-firm-takes-magazine-to-court/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller
Mon 05:05:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "In 2016, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a resolution confirming the importance of internet access for human rights" ☛ https://netzpolitik.org/2026/internet-shutdowns-in-africa-a-human-rights-and-democratic-crisis/ | Source: Netzpolitik
Mon 05:06:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Is on-premise the new cloud? I’m beginning to think yes." ☛ https://unmitigatedrisk.com/?p=1135 | Source: Unmitigated Risk
Mon 05:06:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Peter Steinberger, the creator of the tantalizing-but-risky personal AI agent OpenClaw, is joining OpenAI." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/open_ai_grabs_openclaw/ | Source: The Register UK
Mon 05:07:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I pity my colleagues who are so desperate for heroes that they have to settle for a man who espoused sexist and racist views" ☛ https://kansasreflector.com/2026/02/15/tribute-to-late-charlie-kirk-illuminates-division-in-kansas-politics-on-meaning-of-free-speech/ | Source: Kansas Reflector
Mon 05:17:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Chinese Hackers Hijack Notepad++ Updates" https://odysee.com/@AlphaNerd:8/chinese-hackers-hijack-notepad++-updates:b
Mon 05:17:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Überwachungstechnologie: Wie hartnäckig Palantir die Schweiz umwarb – Republik" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=https://www.republik.ch/2025/12/08/wie-hartnaeckig-palantir-die-schweiz-umwarb
Mon 05:17:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Microsoft-bribed site "incorrectly presents Snyk as an authority rather than a passle of marketeers" https://thenewstack.io/deno-sandbox-security-secrets/
Mon 05:18:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "AI Fatigue" https://bjhess.com/posts/ai-fatigue
Mon 05:20:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ hindustantimes still helps to cover up for pedophiles' child trafficking https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/bill-gates-to-visit-andhra-pradesh-today-hold-talks-with-naidu-on-health-artificial-intelligence-101771210015764.html see http://techrights.org/n/2026/01/30/The_Epstein_Files_Don_t_Say_the_Ages_of_Those_Russian_Girls_Bil.shtml
Mon 05:20:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ debugger https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&u=https://www.version2.dk/holdning/naeste-gang-du-hader-din-debugger
Mon 05:49:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): The 'Bird Kitchen' ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/The_Bird_Kitchen.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/The_Bird_Kitchen.gmi ∎
Mon 06:07:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – They Will Call Smart People "Luddites" ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/They_Will_Call_Smart_People_Luddites.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/They_Will_Call_Smart_People_Luddites.gmi ∎
Mon 06:37:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Social Control Media is Just a Digital Weapon ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/Social_Control_Media_is_Just_a_Digital_Weapon.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/Social_Control_Media_is_Just_a_Digital_Weapon.gmi ∎
Mon 06:42:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ There's no "Free" platform for speech (free speech is expensive), and based upon collective thinking and experience, social control media is working against you, not FOR you http://techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/Social_Control_Media_is_Just_a_Digital_Weapon.shtml
Mon 06:52:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ More austerity? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpqwl10lvr2o
Mon 06:55:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Unsurprisingly, the questionable splurge turned out to be a hilariously bad investment." ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/justin-bieber-bored-ape-nft-worth | Source: Futurism
Mon 07:00:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Overpopulation ☛ https://futurism.com/science-energy/epstein-climate-change-population | Source: Futurism
Mon 07:04:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This was a power grab that could not be undone. Data is like a genie. It cannot be put back in the bottle." ☛ https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-us-coup-one-year-on | Source: Carole Cadwalladr
Mon 07:05:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "As Christophe notes" ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/02/16/ten-years-of-lets-encrypt/ | Source: APNIC
Mon 07:05:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "WAV and Republik’s findings have generated debate across Europe, especially in Germany." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/22/mps-question-uk-palantir-contracts-security-concerns-investigation | Source: The Guardian UK
Mon 07:07:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Microsoft's Vidal infiltrated OSI via Microsoft bribes. It's ever so revealing he is a Microsoft mole: https://github.com/agenda-tech-brasil/agenda-tech-brasil
Mon 07:08:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "My point is: These things are older than the recent UK, Australia and select few US states legal mandates of age verification." ☛ https://blog.avas.space/verification/ | Source: Ava
Mon 07:28:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – "AboutCode" is a Microsoft Proxy and Microsoft's Acquisition of the OSI Advances Via OSI Moles ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/AboutCode_is_a_Microsoft_Proxy_and_Microsoft_s_Acquisition_of_t.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/AboutCode_is_a_Microsoft_Proxy_and_Microsoft_s_Acquisition_of_t.gmi ∎
Mon 07:32:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The “K9-X” unit functions as a kind of first responder only." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/robot-dogs-are-on-going-on-patrol-at-the-2026-world-cup-in-mexico/ | Source: Wired
Mon 07:32:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Thiel’s venture capital firm, Founders Fund, led Persona’s $150 million Series C funding round and $200 million Series D funding round" ☛ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/roblox-reddit-and-discord-users-compelled-to-use-biometric-id-system-backed-by-palantir-co-founder-peter-thiel/ | Source: OpenRightsGroup
Mon 07:32:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The move is part of the authorities’ plan to expand an existing surveillance system, which will cost over HK$4 billion from taxpayers." ☛ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/02/16/hong-kong-police-eyes-adding-facial-recognition-to-cctv-cameras-by-year-end-as-part-of-hk4-billion-expansion-plan/ | Source: Hong Kong Free Press
Mon 07:33:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Low-Cost BeaglePlay SBC Gains Fully Upstream PowerVR Graphics with Vulkan 1.2 ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/Low_Cost_BeaglePlay_SBC_Gains_Fully_Upstream_PowerVR_Graphics_w.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/Low_Cost_BeaglePlay_SBC_Gains_Fully_Upstream_PowerVR_Graphics_w.gmi ∎
Mon 07:34:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Review: Noid Linux 20260120 and AgarimOS 2026.01.17 ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/Review_Noid_Linux_20260120_and_AgarimOS_2026_01_17.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/Review_Noid_Linux_20260120_and_AgarimOS_2026_01_17.gmi ∎
Mon 07:41:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Free and Open Source Software ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi ∎
Mon 07:43:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – The Techrights Community Never Needed Money, Only Goodwill ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/The_Techrights_Community_Never_Needed_Money_Only_Goodwill.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/The_Techrights_Community_Never_Needed_Money_Only_Goodwill.gmi ∎
Mon 07:45:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "If the open social web is an alternative social network — Twitter but without the corporate structure — then why will it succeed" ☛ https://werd.io/growing-the-open-social-web-2/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller
Mon 07:45:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code" ☛ https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-2/ | Source: Scott Shambaugh
Mon 07:46:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Everyone is talking about what LLMs will offer them. Unfortunately, there is little discussion on what they will take away." ☛ https://asindu.xyz/a-single-reason-to-not-vibe-code |
Mon 07:47:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "My passion has always been programming - one way or another, it always has been and all my life choices led me back to it." ☛ https://whynot.fail/human/ai-is-slowly-munching-away-my-passion/ |
Mon 07:47:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "But what if those people are an aberration?" ☛ https://ezhik.jp/ai-slop-terrifies-me/ |
Mon 07:47:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Late in 2022, some of us got access to a technical breakthrough: AI." ☛ https://lemire.me/blog/2026/02/15/ai-igniting-the-spark-to-end-stagnation/ | Source: Daniel Lemire
Mon 07:48:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "His current stance came after Stenberg called a stop to cURL’s bug bounty program." ☛ https://thenewstack.io/curls-daniel-stenberg-ai-is-ddosing-open-source-and-fixing-its-bugs/ | Source: The New Stack
Mon 07:48:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Official Ubuntu 26.04 ‘Resolute Raccoon’ mascot revealed ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/Official_Ubuntu_26_04_Resolute_Raccoon_mascot_revealed.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/Official_Ubuntu_26_04_Resolute_Raccoon_mascot_revealed.gmi ∎
Mon 07:48:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Machine Learning has transformed modern sports analytics." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/02/machine-learning-for-sports-analytics-in-r-a-complete-professional-guide/ | Source: Rlang
Mon 07:48:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "nothing for humans here." ☛ https://blog.zgp.org/welcome-bots/ | Source: Don Marti
Mon 07:51:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Is Linux a suitable platform for writers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/Is_Linux_a_suitable_platform_for_writers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/Is_Linux_a_suitable_platform_for_writers.gmi ∎
Mon 07:53:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "But who actually gets to keep that value?" ☛ https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-ai-vampire-eda6e4f07163 |
Mon 07:53:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Steve reports needing more sleep due to the cognitive burden involved in agentic engineering, and notes that four hours of agent work a day is a more realistic pace: [...]" ☛ https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/the-ai-vampire/#atom-everything | Source: Simon Willison
Mon 07:54:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I’ll just consider it one of my contributions to the social fabric." ☛ https://bix.blog/posts/2026-02-15-of-autistic-service/ | Source: Bix Frankonis
Mon 07:54:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "In Sweden, this crisis is not a sudden rupture but a slow political shift: welfare retrenchment, austerity-driven reforms, marketization, and an intensifying moralization of family life." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/02/mothers-nordic-welfare-state-social-reproduction/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine
Mon 07:56:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): All About Ubuntu ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/All_About_Ubuntu.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/All_About_Ubuntu.gmi ∎
Mon 07:59:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "For someone who’s rather particular about their keyboards and displays" ☛ https://rubenerd.com/the-lenovo-400-wireless-mouse/ | Source: Ruben Schade
Mon 07:59:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It’s been a while since my boss told me I needed to start hiring for my team. While I was at it" ☛ https://www.jampa.dev/p/lessons-learned-after-10-years-as |
Mon 08:00:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I sometimes assign open problems as extra credit problems. Some thoughts: [...]" ☛ https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/02/assigning-open-problems-in-class.html | Source: Computational Complexity
Mon 08:00:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "As a visiting professor I saw the change across a lot of institutions over 35 years." ☛ https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/place/ | Source: The Cyber Show
Mon 08:01:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I don't feel like breadcrumbs are the most accurate description of the UI element." ☛ https://thomasrigby.com/posts/breadcrumbs-is-completely-the-wrong-analogy/ | Source: Thomas Rigby
Mon 08:01:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "If I can make a suggestion on what to write about, a general breakdown of where your income comes from is not nearly as interesting as knowing what you did to form the business in the first place, and why" ☛ https://lmika.org/2026/02/16/what-to-talk-about-when.html | Source: Leon Mika
Mon 08:08:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Links 16/02/2026: cURL’s Daniel Stenberg Asserts That Slop is DDoSing Free Software, But Still Uses a Plagiarism and GPL-Violating Blender (Microsoft GitHub) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/Links_16_02_2026_cURL_s_Daniel_Stenberg_Asserts_That_Slop_is_DD.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/Links_16_02_2026_cURL_s_Daniel_Stenberg_Asserts_That_Slop_is_DD.gmi ∎
Mon 08:10:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): This is the advanced feature every new Linux user needs to know ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/This_is_the_advanced_feature_every_new_Linux_user_needs_to_know.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/This_is_the_advanced_feature_every_new_Linux_user_needs_to_know.gmi ∎
Mon 08:15:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): On The Inside: This writer's daily driver is a Linux laptop ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/On_The_Inside_This_writer_s_daily_driver_is_a_Linux_laptop.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/On_The_Inside_This_writer_s_daily_driver_is_a_Linux_laptop.gmi ∎
Mon 08:15:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Linux Foundation Continues Falling Off a Cliff in Geminispace ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/Linux_Foundation_Continues_Falling_Off_a_Cliff_in_Geminispace.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/Linux_Foundation_Continues_Falling_Off_a_Cliff_in_Geminispace.gmi ∎
Mon 08:16:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): I installed this Linux distro on my gaming PC, and it runs Windows games better than Windows ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/I_installed_this_Linux_distro_on_my_gaming_PC_and_it_runs_Windo.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/I_installed_this_Linux_distro_on_my_gaming_PC_and_it_runs_Windo.gmi ∎
Mon 08:25:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Let's set aside the visual design of the admin for a second, because arguing about visual design is not compelling prose." ☛ https://www.jmduke.com/posts/outgrowing-django-admin.html | Source: Justin Duke
Mon 08:25:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "To test this out, I wrote a Python function to create a classical linked list: [...]" ☛ https://lemire.me/blog/2026/02/15/how-bad-can-python-stop-the-world-pauses-get/ | Source: Daniel Lemire
Mon 08:29:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "HA! That's a good one: "Can you request deletion of your contributions if you leave?" YeahRIGHT. Best of luck with that. " https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khj73vkk
Mon 08:31:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴: Google Android Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/Android_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/Android_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Mon 08:50:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – IBM Reduces the Thresholds for Acceptance (and the Salaries) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/IBM_Reduces_the_Thresholds_for_Acceptance_and_the_Salaries.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/IBM_Reduces_the_Thresholds_for_Acceptance_and_the_Salaries.gmi ∎
Mon 08:56:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🗃️ Task Completed by Avoidance: "Today I avoided an important task." gemini://sava.rocks/blog/tasks-completed-by-avoidance/
Mon 08:57:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Avoidance is productive, just not in the intended direction. Energy is neither created nor destroyed - only redirected into lower risk activities. If I optimize enough peripheral systems, perhaps the central issue will resolve itself out of respect."
Mon 09:10:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Techrights' Architecture ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/Techrights_Architecture.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/Techrights_Architecture.gmi ∎
Mon 09:24:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Happy Birthday (or Anniversary) to SoylentNews ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/Happy_Birthday_or_Anniversary_to_SoylentNews.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/Happy_Birthday_or_Anniversary_to_SoylentNews.gmi ∎
Mon 09:26:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Windows near all-time low https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/cayman-islands/#monthly-200902-202602 https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/cayman-islands/#monthly-200902-202602
Mon 09:30:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [Old] "The challenge isn’t the technology. The challenge is that my team is almost entirely volunteers, scattered across time zones from Seattle to Europe to Asia." ☛ https://www.brethorsting.com/blog/2025/12/what-volunteer-open-source-taught-me-about-remote-teams/ | Source: Aaron Brethorst
Mon 09:30:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Even in 2026, with many new concurrency features available, std::shared_mutex is still a valuable and practical tool." ☛ https://www.cppstories.com/2026/shared_mutex/ |
Mon 09:30:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I try to keep an open but keen mind when reading these posts" ☛ https://www.jmduke.com/posts/harness-engineering.html | Source: Justin Duke
Mon 09:30:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "In applications today we represent "things" as rows in a table. A row for each book in a Goodreads dataset." ☛ https://theconsensus.dev/p/2026/02/15/generating-vector-embeddings-locally.html | Source: Consensus Labs LLC
Mon 09:31:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Most of my blog posts are lessons learned. I’m trying to achieve something, and I document the process I used to do it." ☛ https://blog.frankel.ch/migrating-jekyll-hugo/ | Source: Nicolas Fränkel
Mon 09:33:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Let’s take a tour of all the ways to paste in Vim, starting with Normal mode and then moving to Insert mode." ☛ https://batsov.com/articles/2026/02/15/how-to-vim-many-ways-to-paste/ | Source: Bozhidar Batsov
Mon 13:02:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): KDE Says Plasma Desktop Will Never Force Users to Use systemd ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/KDE_Says_Plasma_Desktop_Will_Never_Force_Users_to_Use_systemd.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/KDE_Says_Plasma_Desktop_Will_Never_Force_Users_to_Use_systemd.gmi ∎
Mon 13:34:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "And the reason for that is the iPhone SE, specifically its 2nd (2020) and 3rd (2022) generations." ☛ https://xn--ime-zza.eu/5/ | Source: Šime
Mon 13:35:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "We now have the RAM, a whopping 4 MiB of 70ns SIMM memory: [...]" ☛ https://rubenerd.com/more-childhood-melbourne-i486-progress/ | Source: Ruben Schade
Mon 13:35:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "We’ve been reviewing a bunch of SBC in the past couple of years, starting with a focus on the Risc-V architecture" ☛ https://boilingsteam.com/lattepanda-iota-sbc-review/index.html | Source: Boiling Steam
Mon 13:36:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Ubuntu just can’t be used for anything that matters." ☛ https://www.logikalsolutions.com/wordpress/information-technology/ubuntu-fed-networking/ | Source: Logikal Solutions
Mon 13:36:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "tag2upload allows authorised Debian contributors to upload to Debian simply by pushing a signed git tag to Debian’s gitlab instance, Salsa." ☛ https://diziet.dreamwidth.org/20851.html | Source: Diziet
Mon 13:37:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "ingress01 contains another jail, freshports – It is mainly used for isolation and a clean room in which make -V can be run to extract data from the ports tree." ☛ https://dan.langille.org/2026/02/15/upgrading-a-jail-by-replacing-it/ | Source: Dan Langille
Mon 13:37:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "[...] This week, in our News section, we talk about the KDE Linux distribution introducing delta updates to reduce bandwidth consumption" ☛ https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20260216 | Source: Distro Watch
Mon 13:38:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Hideki Sato has died" ☛ https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2026/02/hideki-sato-has-died.html | Source: Old VCR
Mon 13:38:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "So to recap, the things left to do before early access or alpha-testing are to balance the modules" ☛ https://www.positech.co.uk/cliffsblog/2026/02/15/ridiculous-space-battles-progress/ | Source: Positech Games
Mon 13:39:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The only thing I actually liked that could edit mobile videos was Canva. However, it could only get me so far" ☛ https://tedium.co/2026/02/14/text-based-design-mindset/ | Source: Tedium
Mon 13:41:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This page lists some CSS resources I find of interest, most notably minimalist layout frameworks." ☛ https://taoofmac.com/space/dev/css | Source: Rui Carmo
Mon 13:45:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Masm is also required to build the assembly language files." ☛ https://fabiensanglard.net/quake_asm_optimizations/index.html | Source: Fabian Sanglard
Mon 13:45:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Suppose that we have a CUDA application like llama.cpp outside Nix." ☛ https://danieldk.eu/Software/Nix/Nix-CUDA-on-non-NixOS-systems | Source: Daniël de Kok
Mon 13:47:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "He pointed out that over the past six years, food prices have risen around 25 percent" (from ""What is enough?" Rising food prices loom as Finland moves to curb supermarket private labels") https://yle.fi/a/74-20210535 Anon: The proposed legislation is harmful and even offensive, graft
Mon 13:47:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ old: "Luke: Number of farms in Finland declining rapidly" https://yle.fi/a/74-20040084 Anon: farmland is being destroyed permanently across the nation -- at an ever increasing rate
Mon 13:48:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Food security is a very basic form of national security
Mon 13:48:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Still, the bear dances! Maybe a higher-spec machine and the final 1.0 release of WinBoat will make it happen." ☛ https://baty.blog/testing-capture-one-on-linux-via-winboat | Source: Jack Baty
Mon 13:51:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Ezurio Carbon AM62 Targets Industrial GNU/Linux with TI Sitara AM62x ☞ https://linuxgizmos.com/ezurio-carbon-am62-targets-industrial-linux-with-ti-sitara-am62x/
Mon 13:52:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ BPI-R4 Pro Router Board Delivers MT7988A SoC with Tri-Band Wi-Fi 7 Capability ☞ https://linuxgizmos.com/bpi-r4-pro-router-board-delivers-mt7988a-soc-with-tri-band-wi-fi-7-capability/
Mon 13:52:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Low-Cost BeaglePlay SBC Gains Fully Upstream PowerVR Graphics with Vulkan 1.2 ☞ https://linuxgizmos.com/low-cost-beagleplay-sbc-gains-fully-upstream-powervr-graphics-with-vulkan-1-2/
Mon 13:58:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Hugvi – code note-taking desktop app ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/hugvi-code-note-taking-desktop-app/
Mon 13:59:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Official Ubuntu 26.04 ‘Resolute Raccoon’ mascot revealed ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/02/ubuntu-26-04-resolute-raccoon-mascot-download
Mon 13:59:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Mix Vale" is a Slopfarm ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/15/Mix_Vale_is_a_Slopfarm.shtml
Mon 13:59:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The Lenovo 400 Wireless Mouse ☞ https://rubenerd.com/the-lenovo-400-wireless-mouse/
Mon 14:00:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Keybox – GUI password manager ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/keybox-gui-password-manager/
Mon 14:00:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Oxicord – TUI Discord client ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/oxicord-tui-discord-client/
Mon 14:01:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ struct – smarter tree command ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/struct-smarter-tree-command/
Mon 14:02:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ batdoc – cat for Office documents and PDFs ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/batdoc-cat-office-documents-pdfs/
Mon 14:02:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Codon – extensible Python compiler ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/codon-extensible-python-compiler/
Mon 14:11:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 9 Best Free and Open Source Java Object-Relational Mapping Software ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-object-relational-mapping-software-java/
Mon 14:11:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 2 Useful Free and Open Source Make Static Site Generators ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/useful-free-open-source-make-static-site-generators/
Mon 14:13:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ suitable
Mon 14:13:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Is GNU/Linux a suitable platform for writers ☞ https://www.reallinuxuser.com/is-linux-a-suitable-platform-for-writers/
Mon 14:22:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): SparkyLinux 8.2 Released with Support for Linux Kernel 6.19, Updated Packages ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/SparkyLinux_8_2_Released_with_Support_for_Linux_Kernel_6_19_Upd.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/SparkyLinux_8_2_Released_with_Support_for_Linux_Kernel_6_19_Upd.gmi ∎
Mon 14:39:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Scientists Find Intense Psychological Differences in People Who Exercise ☞ https://futurism.com/health-medicine/exercise-cardio-stress-research
Mon 14:40:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Malaysia’s front-line cops now equipped with body-worn cameras ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysias-frontline-cops-now-equipped-with-body-worn-cameras
Mon 14:42:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Malaysia’s Bersatu reclaims social control media page after alleged sabotage by admins ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysias-bersatu-reclaims-social-media-page-after-alleged-sabotage-by-admins
Mon 14:48:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The Extraction Era: How Big Tech Leadership is Killing Innovation https://www.teamblind.com/post/the-extraction-era-how-big-tech-leadership-is-killing-innovation-trk6appg mentions RMS
Mon 14:49:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Hopefully my email to Richard Stallman makes it but I have no idea if I PGP signed my email correctly for him to actually read it." https://old.reddit.com/r/ShittySysadmin/comments/1r60efm/bill_gates_used_his_wealth_to_take_out_linux_in/
Mon 14:51:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Cites [Stallman and Sussman, 1977] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/chapter/edited-volume/abs/pii/B9781483214474500547
Mon 14:51:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ RMS is not the "tribe's elder" at FSF, Sussman is
Mon 14:53:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ GNU/Linux 8.34% https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/burkina-faso/#monthly-200902-202602
Mon 14:54:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ And nearby https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/mali/#monthly-200902-202602 https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/niger#monthly-200902-202602
Mon 14:55:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ DNA Mutations Discovered in The Children of Chernobyl Workers ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/dna-mutations-discovered-in-the-children-of-chernobyl-workers
Mon 14:57:03 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ (cat) https://imgur.com/gallery/meme-dump-740-purebread-cat-rDsfLgc
Mon 15:07:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Want a Degoogled Tablet? Murena’s Got You Covered ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/Want_a_Degoogled_Tablet_Murena_s_Got_You_Covered.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/Want_a_Degoogled_Tablet_Murena_s_Got_You_Covered.gmi ∎
Mon 15:08:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Scientists Spot Huge Cave on Venus ☞ https://futurism.com/space/huge-cave-venus
Mon 15:09:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ US Government Deploys MElon’s Grok as Nutrition Bot, Where It Immediately Gives Advice for Rectal Use of Vegetables ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/us-government-grok-nutrition
Mon 15:13:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ worm first night gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/wormFirstNight
Mon 15:14:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ National network needed to repel scam syndicates ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/national-network-needed-to-repel-scam-syndicates/
Mon 15:15:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Stable kernels: Linux 6.19.1, Linux 6.18.11, Linux 6.12.72, and Linux 6.6.125 ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/Stable_kernels_Linux_6_19_1_Linux_6_18_11_Linux_6_12_72_and_Lin.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/Stable_kernels_Linux_6_19_1_Linux_6_18_11_Linux_6_12_72_and_Lin.gmi ∎
Mon 15:16:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Notorious 'Archive Today' website allegedly leads bizarre DDoS campaign against security blogger ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/search-engines/archive-today-allegedly-leads-bizarre-ddos-campaign-against-security-blogger-wikipedia-considers-removing-all-links-to-the-archive
Mon 15:18:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ This fortnight in Bouncy Ball: custom images and sounds ☞ https://filipfila.wordpress.com/2026/02/15/this-fortnight-in-bouncy-ball-custom-images-and-sounds/
Mon 15:18:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Tellico 4.2 Released ☞ https://tellico-project.org/tellico-4-2-released/
Mon 15:20:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Call for Technical Members ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/call-for-technical-members-3233/
Mon 15:20:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ PostgreSQL JDBC 42.7.10 Released ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-jdbc-42710-released-3234/
Mon 15:24:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Free and Open Source Software ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.1.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.1.gmi ∎
Mon 15:27:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Sparky 8.2 ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/Sparky_8_2.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/Sparky_8_2.gmi ∎
Mon 15:28:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ New Steam Games Playable on the Steam Deck, with Mewgenics and Reanimal - 2026-02-14 Edition ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-playable-on-the-steam-deck-2026-02-14-edition/index.html
Mon 15:32:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Linux mint: Monthly News – January 2026 ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/12/Linux_mint_Monthly_News_January_2026.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/12/Linux_mint_Monthly_News_January_2026.gmi ∎
Mon 15:34:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): A Linux distro has dropped KDE Plasma after 12 years as it tries to escape Systemd ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/A_Linux_distro_has_dropped_KDE_Plasma_after_12_years_as_it_trie.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/A_Linux_distro_has_dropped_KDE_Plasma_after_12_years_as_it_trie.gmi ∎
Mon 15:36:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 5 easy ways to automatically change your wallpaper on Ubuntu ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/5_easy_ways_to_automatically_change_your_wallpaper_on_Ubuntu.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/5_easy_ways_to_automatically_change_your_wallpaper_on_Ubuntu.gmi ∎
Mon 15:37:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): You can now download a Fedora Atomic OS for your Android device ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/You_can_now_download_a_Fedora_Atomic_OS_for_your_Android_device.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/You_can_now_download_a_Fedora_Atomic_OS_for_your_Android_device.gmi ∎
Mon 15:38:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Several new EPO leaks to come out later today
Mon 15:38:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Plagiarised videos reposted with false subtitles to stoke anti-Japan sentiment in China ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/plagiarised-videos-reposted-with-false-subtitles-aimed-at-stoking-anti-japan-sentiment-in-china
Mon 15:39:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Hot Bench: Speaking Time and Opinion Writing at the Federal Circuit ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/02/speaking-opinion-writing.html
Mon 15:41:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ I Didn't Fail ☞ https://kevquirk.com/i-didnt-fail
Mon 15:41:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): These 3 Linux software names make a lot more sense once you know the full story ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/These_3_Linux_software_names_make_a_lot_more_sense_once_you_kno.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/These_3_Linux_software_names_make_a_lot_more_sense_once_you_kno.gmi ∎
Mon 15:42:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Why and How I am Using Emacs for Writing My Next Novel ☞ https://itsfoss.com/emacs-the-ux-ideal-part-deux/
Mon 15:42:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): If you dual-boot Linux, don't make these costly 4 mistakes ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/If_you_dual_boot_Linux_don_t_make_these_costly_4_mistakes.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/If_you_dual_boot_Linux_don_t_make_these_costly_4_mistakes.gmi ∎
Mon 15:42:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ LR2021 LoRa Plus board combines Semtech LR2021 and Nordic nRF54L15 for high-speed FLRC and LoRa connectivity ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/02/16/lr2021-lora-plus-board-combines-semtech-lr2021-and-nordic-nrf54l15-for-high-speed-flrc-and-lora-connectivity/
Mon 15:43:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Lazy Reading for 2026/02/15 ☞ https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2026/02/15/lazy-reading-for-2026-02-15/
Mon 15:44:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ IBM Fedora Keeps Promoting Slop, Red Bait Has Been Turned Into Chaff and Trash to Help IBM's Stock (With "AI" Storytelling) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/15/IBM_Fedora_Keeps_Promoting_Slop_Red_Hat_Has_Been_Turned_Into_Ch.shtml
Mon 15:44:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Debt of Broadcom Grew by More Than 50%, Broadcom is Deeper in Debt Than Surveillance Giant Google ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/Debt_of_Broadcom_Grew_by_More_Than_50_Broadcom_is_Deeper_in_Deb.shtml
Mon 15:45:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Spread the Word About EPO Strikes and Patent Injustices in Europe ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/15/Spread_the_Word_About_EPO_Strikes_and_Patent_Injustices_in_Euro.shtml
Mon 15:50:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Warner Bros. Is Said to Consider Reopening Talks With Paramount ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/business/netflix-warner-bros-discovery-paramount.html
Mon 15:50:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Why Paramount may soon pull ahead of DRM spreader Netflix in battle for Warner Bros. Discovery ☞ https://nypost.com/2026/02/15/business/why-paramount-may-soon-pull-ahead-of-netflix-in-battle-for-warner-bros-discovery/
Mon 15:51:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ KaOS GNU/Linux Drops KDE Plasma After 12 Years for Niri/Noctalia to Escape systemd ☞ https://9to5linux.com/kaos-linux-drops-kde-plasma-after-12-years-for-niri-noctalia-to-escape-systemd
Mon 15:51:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: February 15th, 2026 ☞ https://9to5linux.com/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-february-15th-2026
Mon 15:51:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year to ‘uncap ambition’ ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/02/linux-mint-plans-longer-development-cycle
Mon 15:51:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Linux Mint is adding post-install home encryption option ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/02/linux-mint-23-user-accounts-system-administration
Mon 15:52:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Ubuntu 26.04 splits firmware package to reduce update sizes ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/02/ubuntu-26-04-firmware-split
Mon 15:52:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ SparkyLinux 8.2 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/sparky
Mon 15:53:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ KaOS 2026.02 is out as well ☞ https://distrowatch.com/kaos
Mon 15:54:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Linux kernel 7.0 finally abandons the 28-year-old defective chip maker Intel 440BX chipset's EDAC driver — removal marks goodbye to the legendary motherboard chipset ☞ 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
Mon 15:54:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Weathr app turns the GNU/Linux terminal into a live weather display — background ASCII animated real-time weather show is powered by Open-Meteo ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/weathr-turns-the-linux-terminal-into-a-live-weather-app-background-ascii-animated-real-time-weather-show-is-powered-by-open-meteo
Mon 15:55:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ sled – simple text editor ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/sled-simple-text-editor/
Mon 15:56:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 3 Best Free and Open Source Nix Static Site Generators ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-nix-static-site-generators/
Mon 15:56:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 7 Best Free and Open Source Ruby Static Site Generators ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-ruby-static-site-generators/
Mon 15:57:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴: Google Android Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/Android_Leftovers.1.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/Android_Leftovers.1.gmi ∎
Mon 15:57:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 2 Easy Ways to Access Python from R ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/easy-ways-access-python-r/
Mon 15:58:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 8 Best Free and Open Source Dart Static Site Generators ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-dart-static-site-generators/
Mon 15:58:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Ember – minimal AUR helper ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/ember-minimal-aur-helper/
Mon 15:59:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Crontab Cheatsheet ☞ https://linuxize.com/cheatsheet/crontab/
Mon 16:03:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ EasyOS Excalibur-series version 7.1.5 released ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202602/easyos-excalibur-series-version-715-released.html
Mon 16:08:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Step Aside, Phone: Week 1 ☞ https://kevquirk.com/step-aside-phone-week-1
Mon 16:15:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install MediaWiki on Debian 13 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-mediawiki-debian-13/
Mon 16:18:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install Chkrootkit on Fedora 43 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-chkrootkit-fedora-43/
Mon 16:18:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Create SSH Proxy Tunnel on Debian 13 ☞ https://idroot.us/create-ssh-proxy-tunnel-debian-13/
Mon 16:18:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How to Install SuiteCRM on Debian 13 ☞ https://linuxhostsupport.com/blog/how-to-install-suitecrm-on-debian-13/
Mon 16:24:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Benjamin Mako Hill: Why do people participate in similar online communities? ☞ https://mako.cc/copyrighteous/why-do-people-participate-in-similar-online-communities
Mon 16:24:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ MakerWorld launches Copyright Protection Program to help 3D designers fight stolen files being resold online — stamping out knockoffs is priority number one ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/3d-printing/makerworld-launches-copyright-protection-program-to-help-3d-designers-tackle-knockoffs
Mon 16:25:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ OpenMandriva Rolling-20260213 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/openmandriva
Mon 16:25:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ NASA's crew-12 docks at International Space Station ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/nasa-s-crew-12-docks-at-international-space-station
Mon 16:28:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Creating Discord in the Matrix | LINUX Unplugged 654 ☞ https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/linux-unplugged/654/
Mon 16:33:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Linux Saloon 187 | Open Mic Night ☞ https://cubiclenate.com/2026/02/14/linux-saloon-187-open-mic-night/
Mon 16:34:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Reader Power: FOSS Force’s 2026 Independence Drive ☞ https://fossforce.com/2026/02/reader-power-foss-forces-2026-independence-drive/
Mon 16:35:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Deskflow | Seamless Multi-Computer Control ☞ https://cubiclenate.com/2026/02/13/deskflow-seamless-multi-computer-control/
Mon 16:38:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ If you only use Ubuntu, you’re missing out on what Linux is all about https://www.howtogeek.com/if-you-only-use-ubuntu-you-are-missing-out-on-what-linux-is-all-about/
Mon 16:40:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Linux 7.0 is adding mainline kernel support for... Rock Band 4 guitars https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-7-0-adding-mainline-kernel-support-rock-band-4-guitars/
Mon 16:40:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Carbon AM62 integrates up to a quad-core Arm Cortex-A53 processor clocked at up to 1.4GHz, alongside a Cortex-M4F and Cortex-R5F for real-time and management tasks, plus a dual-core programmable real-time unit subsystem for deterministic I/O workloads." https://linuxgizmos.com/ezurio-carbon-am62-targets-industrial-linux-with-ti-sitara-am62x/
Mon 16:42:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Tiny Core Linux 17.0 updates kernel and toolchain while remaining radically minimalistic https://www.igorslab.de/en/tiny-core-linux-17-0-updates-kernel-and-toolchain-while-remaining-radically-minimalistic/
Mon 16:43:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The issue here is weak passwords, not Linux or IRC https://www.techradar.com/pro/does-anyone-even-remember-irc-a-new-linux-botnet-uses-some-incredibly-old-school-methods-to-cut-costs
Mon 16:43:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ This lightweight Linux distro made my 10-year-old laptop usable again https://www.makeuseof.com/lightweight-linux-distro-made-10-year-old-laptop-usable-again/
Mon 16:43:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Fedora made me realize Windows was the problem with my workflow https://www.xda-developers.com/fedora-made-me-realize-windows-was-the-problem-with-my-workflow/
Mon 16:44:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This release adds support for slop malware analysis via a new REMnux MCP server that connects [slop] to the distro’s tools." https://9to5linux.com/remnux-8-linux-toolkit-for-malware-analysis-is-out-to-celebrate-15th-anniversary
Mon 16:51:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Development/𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 Programming Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/Development_Programming_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/Development_Programming_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Mon 16:53:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Mon 16:53:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today's 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 HowTos ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/today_s_howtos.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/today_s_howtos.gmi ∎
Mon 16:59:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Games: Steam on GNU/Linux, Hideki Sato Dies, and More ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/Games_Steam_on_GNU_Linux_Hideki_Sato_Dies_and_More.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/Games_Steam_on_GNU_Linux_Hideki_Sato_Dies_and_More.gmi ∎
Mon 16:59:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Kernel Space: Linux 7.0 and Graphics in Linux ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/Kernel_Space_Linux_7_0_and_Graphics_in_Linux.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/Kernel_Space_Linux_7_0_and_Graphics_in_Linux.gmi ∎
Mon 17:01:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Retro/Open Hardware/Modding: Lattepanda, Banana Pi, and More ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/Retro_Open_Hardware_Modding_Lattepanda_Banana_Pi_and_More.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/Retro_Open_Hardware_Modding_Lattepanda_Banana_Pi_and_More.gmi ∎
Mon 17:03:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Debian aUbuntu Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/Debian_aUbuntu_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/Debian_aUbuntu_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Mon 17:06:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Audiocasts/Shows: LINUX Unplugged and Linux Saloon ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/Audiocasts_Shows_LINUX_Unplugged_and_Linux_Saloon.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/Audiocasts_Shows_LINUX_Unplugged_and_Linux_Saloon.gmi ∎
Mon 17:06:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): KDE: Bouncy Ball and Tellico 4.2 Released ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/KDE_Bouncy_Ball_and_Tellico_4_2_Released.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/KDE_Bouncy_Ball_and_Tellico_4_2_Released.gmi ∎
Mon 17:08:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/GNU_Linux_and_BSD_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/GNU_Linux_and_BSD_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Mon 17:10:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "i tried updating it but, uhm, it's been a long time, and the dependency upgrades are not having it, so i'm gonna try rebuilding akkoma in a different folder and just copy the database to the new install (i'm writing this in realtime, right now ffmpeg is installing)." gemini://tilde.pink/~emily/log/26-02-akkoma.gmi
Mon 17:15:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Gemini Links 16/02/2026: Task Completed by Avoidance and "Playing Again With Akkoma" ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/Gemini_Links_16_02_2026_Task_Completed_by_Avoidance_and_Playing.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/Gemini_Links_16_02_2026_Task_Completed_by_Avoidance_and_Playing.gmi ∎
Mon 17:21:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Links 16/02/2026: Barack Obama Responds to Racist Cheeto and Benjamin Mako Hill Studies Online Communities ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/Links_16_02_2026_Barack_Obama_Responds_to_Racist_Cheeto_and_Ben.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/Links_16_02_2026_Barack_Obama_Responds_to_Racist_Cheeto_and_Ben.gmi ∎
Mon 17:42:43 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] hi, IsambardPrince
Mon 17:42:46 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] how are things?\
Mon 17:42:57 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] (we spoke about you today)
Mon 18:04:16 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ https://images.apina.biz/full/211751.jpeg
Mon 18:11:16 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Getting ready to go to physical therapy.
Mon 18:11:31 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The PT for my spine doesn't start until next month though.
Mon 18:11:53 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Not a lot going on other than that.
Mon 18:13:17 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://www.ft.com/content/929c5c6f-b98a-42ce-84d0-844f2e10df29
Mon 18:13:24 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "Marco Rubio says Viktor Orbán’s leadership is ‘essential’ to US interests"
Mon 18:13:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Another EPO Strike One Week From Now, Local Staff Committee Munich to Discuss It This Week ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/Another_EPO_Strike_One_Week_From_Now_Local_Staff_Committee_Muni.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/Another_EPO_Strike_One_Week_From_Now_Local_Staff_Committee_Muni.gmi ∎
Mon 18:13:29 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, ^
Mon 18:15:24 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] USSR
Mon 18:15:29 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] I think FT has a typo
Mon 18:16:42 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] joke: how many women peed on orban and marco rubio on tape?
Mon 18:17:30 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :>
Mon 18:17:54 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] #viktorgate
Mon 18:26:54 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ 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
Mon 18:28:07 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ If it hasn't actually worked since 2007, why was it still in the source code tree?
Mon 18:28:28 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ they love code that doesn't work
Mon 18:28:40 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ that's also why they merged that horrible hype-V code
Mon 18:29:10 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Hyper-V is just a module. It does not actually get loaded or do anything unless it's needed.
Mon 18:29:22 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It bloats the kernel image I suppose.
Mon 18:29:46 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Distribution kernels are pretty bloated because they have no idea what you'll use them for so they include nearly everything, even if it's just a module.
Mon 18:30:25 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ There's a configuration option that scans the hardware you have on your computer and de-selects everything else.
Mon 18:30:51 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The problem with this is that if that hardware is something you need, but not currently loaded, then you won't have it if you build that kernel.
Mon 18:31:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Distribution kernels just sort of have to assume you could want to use them any way you could possibly use them.
Mon 18:31:45 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So they're not the best fit for anything, but they can do almost everything.
Mon 18:32:01 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ That way they only have to build one kernel.
Mon 18:32:23 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ There used to be several kernels in some distributions, and they'd be like a fraction of a percent faster on specific processors or something.
Mon 18:32:30 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But they got rid of those a long time ago.
Mon 18:33:02 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It's not as much of a win now if you can eek 1% more performance from the system than it was with much slower single CPU setups.
Mon 18:33:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Every computer you can buy now is so fast you won't notice.
Mon 18:34:10 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Even the chip on your credit card is thousands of times more powerful than the Apollo Guidance Computer.
Mon 18:37:59 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ it stops being so fast as it fills up the RAM
Mon 18:39:13 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ and fill it up it will, because most "modern" software, including "modern" web sites, are absolute trash
Mon 18:40:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Rovaniemi chosen as site for Nato's Forward Land Forces HQ" https://yle.fi/a/74-20210621
Mon 18:40:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Putin calibrates his warhead-loaded missiles accordingly
Mon 18:41:03 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ and if there's something like 2GB of 8GB free, Linux damn near shits itself
Mon 18:41:37 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ because torvalds is not only no longer allowed to criticize the absolute shit microslop pours into the kernel, he also has stockholm syndrome and loves windows
Mon 18:41:59 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] seems so
Mon 18:42:00 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] like bsod
Mon 18:42:05 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] repeating ms excuses about it
Mon 18:42:07 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ this is what devil apes do to each other
Mon 18:42:08 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] to ms linus
Mon 18:42:12 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] sebatian
Mon 18:42:13 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ humanity can not go extinct soon enough
Mon 18:42:19 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] *stian
Mon 18:42:27 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i can relate to what tyou say
Mon 18:42:34 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] because of the buffered reserved ram
Mon 18:42:37 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and how it's wastes
Mon 18:42:42 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] or overallocated
Mon 18:42:51 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they refine kernel stuff based on false assumptions
Mon 18:43:01 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they don't take into account some older and lighter distros
Mon 18:43:13 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so even if you get more ram the pc might slow down as you upgrade linux
Mon 18:43:15 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ buffers could be freed
Mon 18:43:21 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] that implis poor design
Mon 18:43:31 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] afaik, rust might - dep. on impl - slow it down more
Mon 18:43:31 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ and i'm pretty sure it shouldn't take 20 minutes of the whole system being frozen to do so
Mon 18:43:33 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] or take more ram
Mon 18:43:42 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ yeah, rust will make it even more of a trash pile
Mon 18:46:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Microsoft to Focus on Name-Dropping Buzzwords to Distract From Declining Business, IBM RAs (Layoffs) With Staff Stack-Ranked ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/Microsoft_to_Focus_on_Name_Dropping_Buzzwords_to_Distract_From_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/Microsoft_to_Focus_on_Name_Dropping_Buzzwords_to_Distract_From_.gmi ∎
Mon 18:47:29 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] MinceR: i will say this..
Mon 18:47:32 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] c is bad
Mon 18:47:35 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] here is a program
Mon 18:47:37 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] made in c
Mon 18:47:45 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it'll have security holes
Mon 18:47:53 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but it'll make programs
Mon 18:47:58 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] with fewer security holes
Mon 18:48:06 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] (except the ones in the program)
Mon 18:48:11 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] rust is like matlab
Mon 18:48:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] except not interpreted
Mon 18:48:27 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] bloat as value proposition
Mon 18:48:32 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and throwing more errors
Mon 18:48:35 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] for sadists
Mon 18:48:59 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ rust is like java, at least the way it's presented: let's give really limited tools to the worlds worst programmers, and expect them to produce flawless code because they're working with limited tools
Mon 18:49:08 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ it didn't work back then, so let's try it again anyway
Mon 18:49:12 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ also like pascal
Mon 18:49:36 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ every single bondage-and-discipline language is about this, and it never works, and devil apes never understand that this doesn't work and just try again and again and again
Mon 18:50:02 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ apparently employing skilled people is not an option
Mon 18:50:15 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ this probably ties into CEOs wanting to eliminate skills
Mon 18:57:50 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I used to pay rent with money orders.
Mon 18:58:00 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But that was when Walmart charged 79 cents and you only needed one.
Mon 18:58:38 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ You can still only get up to $1,000 on a single money order, but rent has gone from $550 in 2016 to $850 by 2020 to over $1100 now.
Mon 18:59:04 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So you'd need a second money order at least, no matter where you rent, and Walmart has increased the price to $1.69 each.
Mon 19:00:04 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So paying your rent that way went up from 79 cents to $3.38. And you have to do that 12 times a year.
Mon 19:01:24 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So it went from $9.48 to $40.56 per year if you pay by money order.
Mon 19:01:52 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I don't like the idea of paying to pay.
Mon 19:02:07 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But when it goes up 400% in a few years, just the cost to pay, that's too much.
Mon 19:02:35 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ Sony Paystation
Mon 19:02:43 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] why not cash?
Mon 19:02:43 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ There's also a new sort of predatory loan that's going around.
Mon 19:02:51 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It's called Early Pay or something.
Mon 19:03:12 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ s/st/St/
Mon 19:03:14 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Most low wage employers partner with companies that say you can advance part of your next paycheck with no interest.
Mon 19:03:19 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But then they demand tips.
Mon 19:03:43 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ At least one of them shows a picture of a hungry child and the less you tip them, the hungrier and sadder the child gets.
Mon 19:03:55 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But only 10% of the "tip" goes to a charity that feeds children.
Mon 19:04:04 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So if you tip $10, that charity only gets $1.
Mon 19:04:07 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ lol
Mon 19:04:18 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But they know that when you see the slider and the child gets sad and hungry, you "tip".
Mon 19:04:30 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So then if you say no to the "tips" and make the cartoon child sad.
Mon 19:04:34 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ are the children AI generated?
Mon 19:04:43 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They say "If you want the money now there's a fee of $6."
Mon 19:04:53 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "If you want it within 3 days, you can have it for free."
Mon 19:05:07 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Well, the reason people want money from their next paycheck is they owe someone money now.
Mon 19:05:13 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So then you pay the fee.
Mon 19:05:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And between the tip and the fee, you just paid them more than you would have to get the same amount from a payday loan shop.
Mon 19:05:51 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And since it's not technically a loan, laws against payday loan stores some states have do not apply.
Mon 19:07:25 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ https://engrish.com/2024/07/it-always-was-an-absolute/
Mon 19:07:52 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, Then these executives testified to congress that it wasn't a loan.
Mon 19:08:18 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And one of the CEOs accidentally says "there's no interest because they're BORROWING from themselves, I mean not borrowing, I mean"
Mon 19:08:19 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ :D
Mon 19:08:47 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ You had one job! Lie to a toothless panel of foul bureaucrats who were never going to stop you anyway.
Mon 19:08:52 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And you couldn't even do that right!
Mon 19:08:58 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ :D
Mon 19:09:33 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ wat
Mon 19:09:42 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ He said it was not a loan.
Mon 19:09:47 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Then he said they were borrowing.
Mon 19:09:54 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Then he tried to correct himself and stammered.
Mon 19:09:59 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ how is it supposed to not be a loan?
Mon 19:10:09 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Because reasons.
Mon 19:11:00 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ well, i guess it works, as long as the corporation has enough money
Mon 19:11:14 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ laws only apply to poor people
Mon 19:11:30 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] u poor baby u!
Mon 19:25:44 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It's like they used to say.
Mon 19:25:54 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Freedom of the Press belongs to people who can afford a press.
Mon 19:26:00 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ :)
Mon 19:27:27 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The US government is having "social" media companies turn over the private data of anyone who criticizes ICE>
Mon 19:27:39 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They plan to take revenge, revenge that won't involve any court system,
Mon 19:28:20 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ To get the data, DHS is issuing administrative subpoenas which are just fake subpoenas that are not from a judge, just some asshole at DHS.
Mon 19:28:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The companies are under no legal obligation to hand the data over, but they do hand it over.
Mon 19:28:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Where Microsoft's Bing Cannot Even Reach 1% "Market Share" ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/Where_Microsoft_s_Bing_Cannot_Even_Reach_1_Market_Share.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/Where_Microsoft_s_Bing_Cannot_Even_Reach_1_Market_Share.gmi ∎
Mon 19:30:45 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] <IsambardPrince> Freedom of the Press belongs to people who can afford a press.
Mon 19:30:56 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] <𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS> There's no "Free" platform for speech (free speech is expensive), and based upon collective thinking and experience, social control media is working against you, not FOR you http://techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/Social_Control_Media_is_Just_a_Digital_Weapon.shtml
Mon 19:31:20 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Microsoft is testing how much we are willing to spend for free speech
Mon 19:31:36 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2025/10/22/cost-of-censorship/
Mon 19:32:26 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://www.youtube.com/shorts/X5lleo6at1M
Mon 19:33:46 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ In general, I always say to avoid credit cards that have an annual fee.
Mon 19:34:01 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Why would you pay an annual fee on a product the bank is hoping you'll misuse and get into debt with?
Mon 19:34:17 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The annual fee is billed to the card, so it's just money you owe and you didn't even buy anything.
Mon 19:35:01 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] does USA have this thing called "Debit"?
Mon 19:35:09 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] in us films they call everything "Credit"
Mon 19:35:21 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] debit cards have a different name?
Mon 19:35:29 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i never had a credit card
Mon 19:35:31 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] in my whole life
Mon 19:35:46 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] we got spammed a lot with credit card offers
Mon 19:35:49 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] dozens of times
Mon 19:35:53 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Yeah, but debit cards are stupid.
Mon 19:36:02 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ There's almost nobody that has a rewards debit card.
Mon 19:36:11 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ If there is, they might pay you half a percent.
Mon 19:36:19 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ You don't build a credit score with a debit card.
Mon 19:36:30 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] credit score is fopr lenders
Mon 19:36:33 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] like ramsay said
Mon 19:36:37 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] you don't need credit score
Mon 19:36:39 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ If someone steals or clones it, they take your money and you have to notice within 30 days and report it or it's all gone.
Mon 19:36:41 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] if you don't plan to borrow
Mon 19:36:51 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And it's all gone until the bank might give it back, so you can't pay your bills.
Mon 19:36:52 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ credit score is for people who live in nazi america
Mon 19:37:08 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i know
Mon 19:37:11 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So basically debit cards are risk without benefit.
Mon 19:37:16 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it's a cultural thing
Mon 19:37:20 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ If someone clones it you might have your bank accoutn drained.
Mon 19:37:23 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i wonder what % of usians have credit cards
Mon 19:37:28 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i know gulgboy had some
Mon 19:37:32 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] bercause he boasted about it
Mon 19:37:34 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And even if you get it back, it'll be 3 months after your bills can't be paid.
Mon 19:37:40 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And your landlord will evict you.
Mon 19:38:10 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] most people here use a debit card
Mon 19:38:13 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and it's what banks give
Mon 19:38:15 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ If someone steals your credit card, you report it to the bank, they delete the fraudulent charges, and your bank account was completely untouched.
Mon 19:38:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] us is deep in debt
Mon 19:38:31 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/government-debt
Mon 19:38:41 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Yeah, because the US is full of fools like my cousins who go to Disney three times a year on credit cards and Home Equity Loans.
Mon 19:38:55 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] right
Mon 19:38:59 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and then they go on prozac
Mon 19:39:01 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They get back and the water is shut off.
Mon 19:39:02 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ when i had a credit card, i had to do a bank transfer to pay my debt once a month
Mon 19:39:06 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ extra administration for nothing
Mon 19:39:13 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] better shut off water than brown water
Mon 19:39:27 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], Most people are not smart enough to beat the bank at their own game.
Mon 19:39:34 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] at least yto can resume paying for waster and get clean water
Mon 19:39:43 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It's possible, but the bank knows that it's a rare person who gets back more than they'll lose.
Mon 19:39:50 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Like less than 5% of their customers.
Mon 19:39:52 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ sounds like most people would be better off with a debit card, then
Mon 19:39:57 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So they consider those people a cost of doing business.
Mon 19:40:05 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Then they acquire the other 95% who max out the card.
Mon 19:40:19 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] MinceR: but they need to show off in FB
Mon 19:40:29 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] by buying things using borrowed money
Mon 19:40:32 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ lol
Mon 19:40:37 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] true story
Mon 19:40:39 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] not ajoke
Mon 19:40:48 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], If you were the bank and you could spam people with offers like $400 to open a checking account or $500 to open a credit card and spend a lot in the first several months.
Mon 19:41:03 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] likem i said
Mon 19:41:05 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But then 95 times out of 100 those people fell into a trap and owed you 27% interest....
Mon 19:41:07 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i never borrwed any money
Mon 19:41:09 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] nor did rianne
Mon 19:41:11 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] we don'
Mon 19:41:12 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Would you do that as the bank?
Mon 19:41:15 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] t plan to ever borrow money
Mon 19:41:32 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] banks take advantage of addicts
Mon 19:41:34 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Right, but for the bank, sinking the loss of the other 5 customers is fine.
Mon 19:41:37 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and self-destructive p[eople
Mon 19:41:40 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] who p[ay mortgages
Mon 19:41:43 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ If you can get those other 95 onboard and keep taking from them.
Mon 19:41:46 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] like 6% a month or year now?
Mon 19:41:53 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] maybe 1% a month
Mon 19:41:57 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] as inflation soars
Mon 19:42:11 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] by the time they turn 65 they paid for two homes
Mon 19:42:14 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The money they pay out in bonuses and cashback is money that other people are losing because they won't live within their means.
Mon 19:42:14 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but got only one
Mon 19:42:16 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] slow clap
Mon 19:42:29 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I agree, you shouldn't fund my bonuses and cashback.
Mon 19:42:41 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But as long as people do, you'd be crazy not to take it.
Mon 19:43:06 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I mean, those bonus churns can bring in $20,000 over the course of 10 years.
Mon 19:43:27 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Banks know that for every person who gets really good at churning, there will be like 1,000 that get in serious trouble.
Mon 19:43:49 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Banks don't even care that there are people on Youtube teaching churning.
Mon 19:43:53 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They pay them to do that.
Mon 19:44:02 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Why would they pay them to teach people to churn?
Mon 19:44:14 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Most of those people think they'll be churners and end up being in a lot of trouble.
Mon 19:45:19 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It plays on the Dunning-Kruger Effect. The less capable you are, the more likely you are to think you're very clever.
Mon 19:45:56 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ bbiab
Mon 19:56:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – The Southern California Linux Expo (“SCALE”) or SCALE 23x Becomes Microsoft ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/The_Southern_California_Linux_Expo_SCALE_or_SCALE_23x_Becomes_M.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/The_Southern_California_Linux_Expo_SCALE_or_SCALE_23x_Becomes_M.gmi ∎
Mon 20:03:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Industry regulators investigating potential fraud at collapsed Sheffield law firm https://www.itv.com/news/calendar/2026-02-16/regulator-investigates-potential-fraud-at-collapsed-law-firm
Mon 20:03:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ SRA investigating potential fraud at collapsed PM Law https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/sra-investigating-potential-fraud-at-collapsed-pm-law/5125910.article
Mon 20:04:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ And where was SRA until now? The victims will never get their money that was stolen.
Mon 20:04:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 'Potential fraud' investigated at closed law firm https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7958nq2l1no
Mon 20:04:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Collapsed law firm investigated on suspicion of stealing clients’ cash https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/02/16/collapsed-law-firm-investigated-suspicion-stealing-client/
Mon 20:05:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Slop charlatans and frauds of Microsoft invoking RMS: "Wishing you strength and clarity in this new chapter. With deep respect and hope. in the voice of Richard Matthew Stallman: Join us now and share the software;" https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/issues/18169
Mon 20:09:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Open source registries are in financial peril, a co-founder of an open source security foundation warned after inspecting their books. And it's not just the bandwidth costs that are killing them." https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/open_source_registries_fund_security/
Mon 20:48:04 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ https://www.oglaf.com/embers/
Mon 21:08:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Lutris 0.5.20 Game Manager Adds Support for Importing Commodore 64 ROMs ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/Lutris_0_5_20_Game_Manager_Adds_Support_for_Importing_Commodore.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/Lutris_0_5_20_Game_Manager_Adds_Support_for_Importing_Commodore.gmi ∎
Mon 21:50:09 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ (cat) (video) (no audio) https://imgur.com/gallery/cats-fell-asleep-mid-fight-x6QGy57
Mon 22:05:36 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3ejQ0O9nNM
Mon 22:09:39 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/02/dna-inspired-molecule-breaks-records-for-storing-solar-heat/
Mon 22:18:00 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ cooking the books?... https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/best-buy-worker-used-managers-code-to-get-99-off-macbooks-cops-say/
Mon 22:18:23 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ cooking the macbooks
Mon 22:18:27 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ wait, they do that to themselves
Mon 22:25:19 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/seven-billion-reasons-facebook-abandon-its-face-recognition-plans
Mon 22:37:08 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/aidr-meaning
Mon 22:37:41 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :>
Mon 22:41:19 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ Miguel 's response sums things up nicely... https://www.ghacks.net/2026/02/16/why-most-users-stay-on-windows-despite-linux-being-free/
Mon 22:49:44 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://hackaday.com/2026/02/16/retrotechtacular-mr-wizard-jams-with-ibm/
Mon 23:27:00 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0840.html
Mon 23:52:56 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/02/linux-mint-23-user-accounts-system-administration
Mon 23:53:02 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I've seen it benchmarked both ways.
Mon 23:53:16 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Normally full drive encryption performed better than just the home directory.
Mon 23:53:22 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Maybe something changed.
Mon 23:55:43 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://www.howtogeek.com/im-going-back-to-the-2000s-this-weekend-by-installing-this-linux-distro/
Mon 23:56:02 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Windows XP actually had a much uglier theme than the beta versions (Windows Whistler) did.
Mon 23:56:36 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ When I was using Windows XP, I patched the uxtheme.dll so it would skip the cryptographic check for Microsoft-signed themes.
Mon 23:56:44 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And then you could make it look like anything.
Mon 23:57:03 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Eventually someone released a theme that looked like Ubuntu 6.10 with GNOME.
Mon 23:57:13 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Mostly I used watercolor though.
Mon 23:57:34 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It got rid of the horrific oversized window bar and goofy icons.
Tue 00:02:32 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ from the whoopsie doodles dept... https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/who_me/
Tue 00:02:57 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ that improves most websites anyway
Tue 00:03:26 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/16/fractal-analytics-muted-ipo-debut-signals-persistent-ai-fears-in-india/
Tue 00:34:21 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I've been filling up my gas tank for under $2 a gallon, but it requires doing a few things.
Tue 00:34:47 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/02/16/188251/western-digital-is-sold-out-of-hard-drives-for-2026
Tue 00:35:15 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Using E15, making sure to use those spend $15 in the store, get 15 cents a gallon off coupons (going inside to buy car washes and groceries works), and then paying with a cashback card with a high rewards rate on gas.
Tue 00:35:55 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ also living in nazi america
Tue 00:36:28 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ gas is normally more expensive here, and the government is also trying various tricks to hike the price further
Tue 00:36:29 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They hate us because we have freedom, and guns, and cheap gas.
Tue 00:37:05 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They see me rollin', they hatin'.
Tue 00:37:11 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ except you don't have freedom
Tue 00:37:17 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Must be tough living in a concrete shitbox under Orban.
Tue 00:37:17 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ and you get shot in the head for having guns
Tue 00:37:27 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Shoot back.
Tue 00:37:31 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ but yeah, you have cheap gas
Tue 00:37:41 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ how many gestapo agents were shot down so far?
Tue 00:37:54 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I rarely go anywhere without doing conceal and carry.
Tue 00:38:12 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, A few.
Tue 00:38:15 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It does happen.
Tue 00:38:31 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ There was a CBP agent that was shot and killed the same week Trump took office, in Vermont I think.
Tue 00:38:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Good, fuck him.
Tue 00:38:51 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ so what's the score?
Tue 00:38:53 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I mean, I wouldn't have done it but I'm not sad that he's dead.
Tue 00:38:59 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Who knows.
Tue 00:39:03 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :>
Tue 00:39:46 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, The guy who shot and killed him was wanted for murder anyway.
Tue 00:40:15 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ He was already in about as much trouble as you can be in.
Tue 00:40:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ When I say I wouldn't do it, personally, it's because I'm not in trouble for anything.
Tue 00:40:50 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I'd rather it stay that way.
Tue 00:41:15 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The guy that was wanted for murder had nothing to lose.
Tue 00:41:22 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Now it's two murders.
Tue 00:42:05 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02/16/why-odf-and-not-ooxml/
Tue 00:43:36 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/02/14/0525257
Tue 00:44:29 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Used cooking oil can be processed into a substitute for diesel fuel.
Tue 00:44:55 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Europe, aside from all the other ways it's shitty, decadent, and overpriced, has notoriously high motor fuel prices.
Tue 00:45:46 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They seem to think that the way you jumpstart an economy that's taxed to death and having double digit unemployment, is to give it a good jolt of raising the retirement age.
Tue 00:45:48 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ (France)
Tue 00:46:23 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ soon they'll just invite the orcs in to run things
Tue 00:46:44 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ though i guess they'll have to send vehicles with drivers and fuel to bring them in, because you know, orcish logistics...
Tue 00:46:53 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "Free" health care, where they write in "government-owned news sites" that cancer patients aren't worth treating, then they give Brandon Lobster a million dollars worth of whatever the fuck happened to him.
Tue 00:46:55 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ (Canada)
Tue 00:47:02 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ canada is not in europe
Tue 00:47:07 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Close enough'
Tue 00:47:17 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "It's the thought that counts."
Tue 00:47:21 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ if canada is in europe, then nazi america is in europe
Tue 00:47:31 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ and as far as most devil apes are concerned, there are no thoughts
Tue 00:47:33 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They use the metric system and ration healthcare and tax the shit out of everything.
Tue 00:47:37 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It might as well be Europe.
Tue 00:47:44 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ officially, even nazi america uses the metric system
Tue 00:47:54 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ their imperial units are defined in terms of SI units
Tue 00:56:30 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.heise.de/en/news/Apple-Study-Users-Want-Transparent-AI-Agents-Instead-of-Black-Box-Systems-11176410.html
Tue 00:56:36 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Yes, because the units were poorly standardized before that.
Tue 00:56:38 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ lol
Tue 00:56:56 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ You'd get two rulers and a foot on one would be 11.5 inches on the other.
Tue 00:57:06 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ why would someone who wants transparency do business with the cupertino mafia in the first place?
Tue 00:57:33 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ apple user have no idea what they want
Tue 00:57:39 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ IsambardPrince: that's really worth being proud of...
Tue 01:09:28 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, Yeah, when I was remodeling the house mom lost to Dave....
Tue 01:09:40 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I was running into all sorts of odd measurements from like over 100 years ago.
Tue 01:09:45 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :>
Tue 01:09:58 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ One end of a doorframe would be like 3/8ths of an inch shorter than the other side.
Tue 01:10:04 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And then on one end there'd be a gap.
Tue 01:10:21 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, I fixed a lot of that.
Tue 01:10:28 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Including the downstairs bathroom door.
Tue 01:10:38 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ in the center it was about 5 feet 11 inches.
Tue 01:10:39 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ i suspect SI on its own can't really help with that
Tue 01:10:44 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And I'm 6' 3.5".
Tue 01:10:55 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ in this concrete hive, several doors just hang in some random direction on their own
Tue 01:11:01 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ probably because the frames aren't vertical
Tue 01:11:04 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So I banged my head on it a few times then cut it up to 6 feet 7 inches and put a new door on.
Tue 01:11:19 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ and the elements of this concrete hive were mass produced, afaik
Tue 01:11:28 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, Dave saw me come in cussing from having hit my head again.
Tue 01:11:40 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And I said "I need this." and walked off with his electric saw.
Tue 01:12:12 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ i bought some wedges to keep some of the doors open, but naturally, they were removed and discarded soon
Tue 01:12:34 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ so i still keep bumping into the nominally open doors when i try to go through them
Tue 01:13:55 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ and it's somehow always my fault.
Tue 01:16:09 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Did you think about getting a prybar and just ripping the doors out?
Tue 01:16:49 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ no
Tue 01:17:07 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ i'd rather just move out of the city
Tue 01:17:14 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ which is progressing... extremely slowly.
Tue 01:46:31 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0939.html
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